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Mix TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Clinton Lodge No. 54, F. & A.
M.; DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.;
German Friendly Society.
(Special Notices—Le Panto Cigars; "Old
Fashioned Rye Whiskey, Henry Solomon
& Son; Notice to City Court Jurors.
Amusements—Mr. James O'Neill, at the
TJheater, Dec. 10 and 1L
Half the Time You Buy Christmas
Presents—Falk Clothing Company.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Bicycles, Bicycles—Lindsay * Morgan.
Do You Want a Buckboard?—Appel &
Behaul.
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nal; “Comfort.”
Railroad Schedule—Central of Georgia
Railway.
The Better the Equipment, the Better
the Work—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Medical—Duffy's Malt Whiskey.
Auction Sales—Household Furniture,
j6tc„ by J. H. Oppenheim & Son.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Charleston will begin this morning the
celebration of her fall festival. Arrange
ments have been completed for one of
the greatest festivals that the city lias
ever held, anil she has held a good many.
It is expected that the city will be
thronged with visitors throughout the
week. There will be open air entertain
ments each day.
It is announced that Lord Dunraven
will sail from England for New Y'ork on
next Thursday, to resume an Inquiry into
the degree of immersion of the Defender
In the first race of the series for the
America's cup last September. His lord
ship will be more than apt to find Father
Knickerbocker a rather chilly sort of per
son during his forthcoming visit.
The report is that the Cuban insurgent
leaders have consolidated their forces.
Heretofore they have operated as sepa
rate bands, Harrying on guerilla war
fare. If the report of consolidation Is
correct, it probably means that the In
surgent leaders have concluded that it
Is time to commence operations upon a
larger scale, and to make assaults upon
the more important posts of the Span
iards. The information two weeks ago
Was that the insurgents were not very
far away from Havana. It is possible,
that they may attempt to capture the
capital.
"Fire flashed from her eyes," "He
hurled burning words,” "The rebuke was
scorching,” etc., are figures of speech that
are heard or read every day. But they
are not figures of speech merely. The
flashing eye and the burning words are
facts, according to Dr. S. Millington Mill
er of New Y’ork. In a lecture in Phila
delphia the other evening, Dr. Miller as
serted that the "human brain is a burn
ing fire, whose luminous effluvium es
capes through the eyes, ears, nose and
mouth into the surrounding atmosphere,
filling the air for a circle of some fifteen
or twenty feet with a mild, hazy light.”
The state Senate has passed a bill to al
low confederate soldiers to peddle with
out a lh-ense, provided they do not ped
dle lightning rods. What can be the pur
pose of the discrimination against light
ning rods? Are the lawmakers afraid
that some of the old boys might erect a
rod upon themselves and get struck by
political lightning, or is It feared that if
they are permitted to handle lightning
rods they may escape harm from dis
charges of the electric fluid, and thus
live to draw pensions? It cannot bo that
lightning rods are considered in them
selves to be more reprehensible than
books, or possibly gold bricks.
Senator Chandler continues to amuse
himself by writing letters to the Presi
dent. Not long ago, it will lie rctm in
hered, he wrote one. upon the subject
of the railway pool. In whlrh h* used
such expressions as “your banker friend,”
"your fresh attorney generul,” and oth
ers as silly and insulting. He has now
written another, in which lie apologizes for
using such expressions. But Chandler
put himself to unnecessary trouble in
wilting this last letter. The President
has paid no attention whatever to his let
ters. He has treated them with the con
tempt they merit. Even chandler's
•POlogy for his boorlHhness will not In
duce the President to hvpur him by not It--
9w film
Campaign Fund*.
Th:> amount of money collected In this
country for campaign funds is enormous.
Such funds are collected by all the politi
cal parties, for use in municipal, county,
state and national elections.
It is not usual to keep an account book
showing how much money is collected or
how it is distributed. Those who have
the distribution of it are supposed to be
honest, and whatever report is made by
them is generally accepted without ques
tion.
But are they honest in the majority of
cases? That is a question to which no
satisfactory answer can be given. It would
be a difficult matter to prove they are
not, and those who contribute the money
are not sufficiently interested, a? a rule,
to demand a detailed statement. It is
pretty safe to say, however, that the cam
paign fund is not In all cases put to the
use for which it was intended by those
who provided it.
A large-sized scandal growing out of a
campaign fund. Is at present an interest
ing topic in Chicago. At a meeting last
Monday night of the executive commit
tee of the democratic party of the county
in which Chicago is situated Mr. M. C.
McDonald, a prominent democrat; declar
ed that during the last two years aiiout
$700,000, collected fiom various sources
for a campaign fund, to be used by the
democratic party to advance its inter
ests, had not all been used for party pur
poses, but that mu h of it had been spent
in trips to pleasure resorts, European tourc
and in building expensive houses by the
men who had the handling of the money.
Nobody, os far as we have seen, has risen
up and denied Mr. McDonald’s charge;
from which fact it is fair to infer that
it is true.
It is not a violent assumption that the
Chicago politicians who, it is alleged,
put something more than half a million
dollurs in their pockets witlfin two years,
are not the only ones who have appropria
ted campaign funds. It is highly probable
that there are plenty of such men in all
parts of the country. They are in no
danger of being prosecuted, because it
would be about impossible to prove their
guilt, and prosecution would only make a
scandal, something that no party leader
wants. The charge that McDonald makes,
however, will have a tendency to make
campaign contributions more difficult tb
get. Party men will not go down Into
their pockets to assist their respective
parties if they have reason to think their
money w ill go to enrich a lot of small fry
politicians.
Georgia Genius.
The information comes through our es
teemed contemporary, the Hartwell (Ga.)
Sun, that a woman of Hartwell has in
vented an apparatus which may set all
the world agog, and add Immensely to the
pleasures of life. The apparatus, to de
scribe it in language divested of all
technicalities, is a snore diverter. It is
constructed of a sort of hood and various
sections of flexible pipe. In action, the
hood Is lowered over the head of the
snorer, and the pipes conduct the sound
and the vibrations to the cellar. So far
the inventor has made use of the diverted
snore only for the purpose of ridding
her house of rats. It is asserted by the
Hartwell Sun that there hasn’t been a
rat in the house since the diverter was
put into operation, the husband of the
inventor furnishing the snore to be di
verted.
Edison, Nikola Tesla and Keeley of mo
tor fame all tell us that the secret of power
is vibration or oscillation. Tesla is build
ing a wonderful oscillator which is to
oscillate at the rate of some millions of
beats per minute and furnish all the power
that may be demanded of it, at a low
rate of cost. Mr. Edison has demonstrat
ed in his various inventions what an im
portant principal in mechanics the vibra
tion is. Mr. Keeley of Philadelphia has
been for twenty years or more chasing
a series of vibrations and oscillations, for
the purpose of fitting his wonderful motor
to their requirements. It is apparent,
therefore, that vibrations and oscillations,
no matter what their source, are not to
be sneezed at, but to be conserved and
utilized whenever possible. And, as every
body knows without being told, there is
nothing that produces more vibrations—
good, sharp, rasping vibrations—per sec
ond than a healthy snore, especially if
the snorer is a well-fed man.
IJ goes without saying, then, that
the Hartwell woman has taken the lies;
step toward giving the mechanical world
anew power, and the domestic world
anew- labor-saving apparatus. A shore
motor, charged with energy from vibra
tions stored in the cellar with the aid of
the snore diverter, could be made.to grind
the coffee, run the fly fans and rock the
cradle. Indeed, the field of usefulness
of a snore motor would be well-nigh limit
less. It is to be hoped that the Hartw-ell
woman will pursue the thread of her
genius, and bring the snore diverter up
to its highest state of perfection. Fright
ening rats is merely a beginning. It is
a good one, however.
Allen of Nebraska wants to fight Franco
because of the Waller incident. Morgan of
Alabama wants to fight England because
of the Bering sea incident, and on general
principles. Livingston of Georgia wants to
fight England because of the Venezuelan
incident, lloar of Massachusetts wants
to fight Turkey because of the Armenian
outrages. Call of Florida wants to fight
Spain because of the Cuban affair. Lodge
and Chandler of New England want to
fight anybody and everybody because we
are bully boys; have got the ships, have
got the men, and have got the money, too.
If they all had their wish, what a merry
Christmas we should have!
Winston Churchill, a son of Lord Ran
dolph Churchill and a cousin of Miss Con
suelo Vanderbilt's husband, who is in
Cuba w.tii the Spanish army, says the in
surgents know nothing about marksman
ship. and waste ton* of lead tiring over
the heads of th*> enemy. Young Churchill
Is a lieutenant in her majesty's service,
which he may think qualities him to give
an opinion with regard to the relative
fighting qualities of the contestant* In
Cub*.
THE MORN
\ Jndge On Trial.
Recorder Ocff of New York is on trial
at the bar of public opinion in that city.
He has been the city's chief criminal
judge only a little while, being the pro
duct of the reform movement that stirred
up New York a year or so ago. He was
the prosecutor before the Lexow com
mittee, and for his sefviees in that capac
ity he was given the position he now
hclds. •
It looks a If he had already been con
victed by public opinion of being wholly
unfit for that responsible place. The
Laneerman-Anb case gave him the first
opportunity to show the sort of man he
is. That he is an honest man there is
no good ground for doubting, but because
a man is honest it doesn't follow that he
it fitted to be a judge.
Judge Goff appears to be a man who is
controlled by his prejudices. Evidence
has little weight with him in cases in
which he has already made up his mind,
and he is likely to make up his mind be
fore he hears the evidence. He is, there
fore, a very dangerous man to have on
the bench.
There is no doubt that he convicted
Langerman. In his charge he ignored the
evidence submitted for the accused and
virtually told the Jury to bring in a ver
dict of guilty. The general sentiment cf
the public, from all accounts, was that the
accused was not guilty, and yet the jury
yielded to the judge and Langerman
would have been sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary if Miss Aub, his
accuser, had not confessed.
And the story is that the judge did his
utmost to prevent the girl from confess
ing. He seemed to be so satisfied that
Langerman was guilty that he would
have sent him to the penitentiary if he
had the least excuse for doing so. It is
probable that Langerman is a bad man,
but he was not tried on the general
charge of being a bod man. He was tried
on a specific charge, and of that it is quite
evident now he was not guilty.
Reformers are not always the best
agents to carry into effect reforms, es
pecial moral reforms. The qualities that
make them valuable in pushing forward
reform movements make them tyrants
in positions of power that require good
sense anl good judgment. Judge Goff
made a reputation as a prosecutor, hut as
a Judge ho promises to achieve unenvia
ble notoriety.
A Poet of the Reformation.
South Carolina is a literary as well as
an Intensely political state. Its litera
ture and its politics run somewhat in co
incident eras. Thus, the regime of the
Bourbons raised up such poets as Paul H.
Hayne, Henry Timrod and Y'ates Snow
den. But the Bourbons have gone their
way, and the politics of South Carolina is
now undergoing a period of "reforma
tion,” under the auspices of the Tillman
ites. The acquisition of dominant power
by the Tillmanites marks fin era in the
state's history; and that era has already
produced its poet. He is a young man of
the name of Coogler, and the poets of the
Bourbon era named above are “not in it’’
with him. He occupies a class all by
himself.
Tho poet resides at the state capital,
in which the very air is redolent of the
reformation. Natdrally he also is a reform
er, but not of polities. He swipes the
English language, and incidentally his
critics, thus:
Challenge me to fight on the open field,
And hurl at my head the fiery dart,
Rathqr than belittle the gentle muse
That ushers from this lonely heart.
Y'oung man—to you who never aspired
To soar no higher than where you are;
As no ambition burns within you.
Try not to extinguish another’s star.
Being in a place where politicians do
most congregate, he can see and appre
ciate the value of a character—good char
acter is meant, though the poet thinks it
unnecessary to distinguish between good
and bad:
Oh, character! thou ever art
An holy and an honor’d thing;
More valuable than life itself.
More costly than a diamond ring.
Some other poet, an old back-number, has
said that a good name is rather to be
chosen than great riches. How much
more striking is Mr. Coogler’s iliustra
-9
tion! Diamond rings may be bought now
for $3.97 each. But that isn't the kind
of a diamond ring Mr. Coogler is talking
about.
Being a poet, the girls bother the young
man. One of them inveigled him into an
acquaintance and then snubbed him—the
conceited thing! But he got even, and his
revenge was sweet. Here is the way he
did it:
Fair lady, your remarks have caused me
to believe,
Y’our heart is all vanity, and beats to de
ceive;
But owing to your summers being ex
ceedingly few.
I'll forgive you. but inform you those re
marks are untrue.
Fair one, your acquaintance has never
been sought
By me—not in action, or even in tnoueht;
And if ever of me you should haughtily
speak.
Let It be at your home and not on the
street.
Note the delicacy with which he nails the
false statement to the counter, and the
fine scorn with which he dismisses her
as being a young chit unworthy of a poet’s
contemplation.
The sad fate of another young maid,
however, touched his heart of hearts. Her
name was Eula, and she had a sister
Kunita. It took genius to think up those
names. They lived in a cottage by- the
sea. They were in easy circumstances
for a time, but adverse fate drained the
bank account. An ordinary poet would
have relieved the girls of their poverty
liy either marriage or death. Not so
Mr. Coogier. Her. !s the way lie did it:
Tim--! on whose relentless wings life's
Joys are often borne.
Soon I >ore all their wealth away, save
tllelr cottage home;
Here they lived a wtiile. but life became
so lone ami drear,
They moved away and rented out the
home they loved so dear.
That Is a practical, common sense solu
tion. Tin girls beiame old maids amt
lived on the rent.
Mr. Coogler says hi* Ideas and style are
strictly original, and all his own. Beyond
' a doubt liia claim is well founded.
G NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1805,
The small farmers of Georgia find them
selves at tho end of the agricultural
year with a neat balance to their credit,
as the result of the year's work. To il
lustrate: A Dooley county "one-horse”
farmer reports that he has made this
year, with a single plow, five bales of
cotton. 600 bushels of corn. 200 bushels of
peas, 100 bushels of potatoes. 3,500 pounds
of fodder, 3.000 pounds of hay and pea
vines that can be used for forage for
his stock, 800 pounds of pork. 100 chickens,
and probably 100 dozen eggs, besides other
“side lines.” These things are worth prob
ably- not less than SI,OOO. and they were
produced without geing into debt for ad
vances. There arv tome people, how
ever, who insist that farming is not a
paying business. Asa matter of fact, it
depends entirely upon the farmer.
Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, the artist,
traveler and lecturer, says he has never
met, in all his travels, "a more civilized,
humane, intelligent, cleanly, pious and
chaste man than the ty-pical Turk.” The
probabilities are that few persons except
Mr. Smith has ever been able to dis
cover the typical Turk, of whom he
speaks. It will be borne in mind that it is
a very di-fficult—almost hopeless—task
among our own people to discover a typi
cal American.
Both branches of congress now have
blind chaplains. Congressman Crowley
of Texas is of the opinion that congress
wishes its sins prayed for, but unseen,
and suggests that if the chaplains had
not naturally been blind, it might have
been necessary for them to put on
"blinkers.”
PERSONAL.
—Aila Relian's salary is said to be $969
a week.
—Mascagni is about to start a musical
newspaper in Milan.
—Max O'Roll says he, saw very- few stu
pid faces in America.
—Sir Alex. Macki nzie is writing for
Paderewski anew S -oteh fantasy?
—Grand Duke Alexis is a full admiral
i. 'W ami the head of the Russian navy.
—Sir Walter Besant predicts that the
coming novel will be written in dialogue
form.
—At his last recital in London this year
Paderewski was paid $5,435 as his share
of the receipts.
giving profile view, and, though some
what sornlire in expression, is remars iole
clear and lifelike.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whoso Sa)th
birthday was recently celebrated, is learn
ing to play on the piano.
—Lady Aberdeen advocates official in
spection of the teeth of school children
with a view to better care.
—Sandow, the strong man, has just in
vented a combination trunk and bath-tui)
for tho convenience of travelers.
—The Earl of Derby, who made a suc
cessful governor general in Canada, has
accepted the mayoralty of Liverpool.
- Prof. Dy-che, the distinguished natur
alist. is entirely self-taught. When 13
years old he had not yet learned the al
phabet.
BRIGHT lIITS.
—Leopard—Have you packed your trunk
Mister Elephant? Elephant—lf you don't
stop twitting me about my trunk, I'll
knock the spots off you!"—Detroit Free
Press.
—ln her impotent rage her grace could
only scowl at the duke, her husband.
"This.” she bitterly exclaimed, "is what
a woman gets by buying what she
doesn't want just because it’s cheap.—
Detroit Tribune.
—“Crash!" All the hopes of the bright,
promising youth fell. While at the sea
shore he had represented himself as be
ing the son of a bank president, and now
she recognized him. ‘’Crash.’" With a
pale face he turned and took the towel
ing from the shelf.—Detroit Tribune.
—Felicity.—"Happy,” murmured the
bride. "Ah, yes. 1 have a good, noble
husband, and just think of the number of
people 1 got even with by not inviting
them to my wedding!” And there shone
in her eyes the strange, terrible light that
revealed the Woman Who Dkl Somebody.
—Detroit Tribune.
—“The coming session of congress,” said
the man who is always thinking about the
nation’s destiny, “will represent a very
remarkable period In the history of the
country." "Yes,” replied the newly-elect
ed member from Squash Center, “only you
just notice what I’m a-tellln' you now and
save it for future reference. 'Twon't be
any period. It’ll be a full-size, extrv-blaek
exclamation point.”—Washington Star.
cut It EXT comment!
Sugar Trust Employes.
From the Kansas City Star (Dem.)
The Sugar Trust, one of the especial ben
eficiaries of the United States Senate,
has closed all of its Philadelphia refine
ries, throwing 2,000 men out of work. Will
McKinley or some other high-tariff cham
pion explain why it is that the especially
protected industries often have less
steady work for their men than others
which are not similarly favored?
The Republican Idea.
From the Nashville American (Dem.)
Entanglements with foreign nations
means more appropriations, more appro
priations mean more faxes, and the re
publican party is always for mere taxes.
The more taxes there are levied the more
money there is to spend, and this party
is and has always been bent on spend’-
ing money. Their policy is, tax the (am
ple to make them happy and contented.
I.ittlo Danger of a Fight.
From the Chicago Record (Ind.)
Fortunately there is not much present
likelihood that the dispute will take this
serious phase. Neither nation is at all
disposed to go to war upon the matters
at stake, and no careful observer of Brit
ish methods and interests will doubt for
a minute that Great Britain would back
down with celerity if threatened with an
open rupture of relations. Salisbury is
not going to engage in any trouble which
would pave the way' for his antagonists
in the east to play havoc with the British
empire.
An Unwelcome Visitor.
From the Washington Post (Ind.)
Ilerr Ahlwardt, the German anti-Sem
itic leader, has arrived in this country and
proposes to remain here for several
months. There could be no objection to
his spending months, or even years.in the
Fnited States if he Intended to devote his
time to a study of American institutions,
to sightseeing, or to any other harmless
pursuit. But there are objections to the
carrying out of the plan which he has an
nounced, that of an anti-Jew crusade, and
although he must be permitted, under
our laws, to deliver lectures intended to
create a sentiment unfriendly to Jewish
citizens, we hope that public sentiment
will neutralize his efforts.
Snllabury’* Reply.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
Those who expect that Lord Salisbury's
reply to Secretary Olney's dispatch upon
the Venezueia-Guiana lioundary contro
versy will be more that a tentative note
catling for a further exchange of view* be
-1 ween the two governments may be very
much disappointed. The question has not
arrived at the stage where the hurling
of defiance and of ultimatums 1* in or
der, and our belligerent spirits, there
fore. will have to curb their imj>atteii< e.
There may he slaughter among the
ducks and a commotion among the fishes
of Albemarle Sound, where the President
lias gone to shoot and fish, but otherwise
Hie peace of I Ini country Is In no Jiuuie
diata danger of being disturbed.
Guns Loaded With Food.
Maj. Thomas Q. Farquhar of Anniston.
on a visit to Buffalo recently, to!J
an Express reporter a humorous story of
the war. During the siege of Vicksburg
h“ was in command of a confederate reg
iment outside of Gen. Grant's lines. "We
had plenty of food." he said, "it was a
fertile territory that we had to draw
from, and there was no difficulty in get
ting tnough to eat. We intercept* Ia
l* <x ' r i>''guardod supply train of tlio yanks
anil had enough to feed a regiment for a
month stored right in our little camp Jn
spite of- yankee vigilance spies would
now and then steal out of the city, and
we saw and talked with several of" them.
Each had a pitiful story to tell of bow
the inhabitants of Vicksburg suffered for
food, and we racked our brains ,o devise
some means cf sending them a portion
of our plenty.
"An old negro who was acting ns a
gunner under me was the one to suggest
what looked at first like a feasible plan,
ilis idea was to load supplies into the
four cannon which we had, and lire them
bodily over the heads of the yankees
Into the city itself. It was a great idea,
and after some study we decided that it
was worth while making the experiment.
The supplies which we had rapt .bid con
sisted of hard-taok in tins, that would
go into the guns like grape-shot and
we calculated that by giving them plenty
of elevation we could send the foo i di
rectly into the city, where even such
morsels would lie welcome. I was in com
mand of the detachment, and gave my
consent to what an older and more ex
perienced officer would probably have
frowned upon as being contrary to all
the rules of war.
"Next morning at sunrise we loaded the
guns. We put a plentiful charge of pow
der in each and then rammed hone as
many cans of hard-tack as would equal
in weight an ordinary cannon ball, and
that was not a great many, I assure Vou.
In one of the guns we put four cans of
tomatoes. This we considered an experi
ment. as we had little hone that such
fluid stuff would survive the imp in of
falling in the cltv, hut it was wont tvv
>"*■ "iiointid the guns, and just before
the lanyard of the first one was pulled
our old negro gunner ran a few rods down
the hill, where he would be below the lino
o. smoke and able to see where our novel
shot struck.
"The first gun to be fired happened to
be the one we had loaded with tomatoes.
1 he gunner pulled the lanyard, there was
a roar and a puff of smoke that obscured
our sight for an instant, then it blew away
and we saw running up the hill towards
us, covered from head to foot with what
looked like blood, while ho waved his
arms . wIMIy and shrieked; "I’m killed!
1 kord have massy on my
soul \\ e were alarmed and ran down to
ward him He still screamed and shriek
eil and fell down in a faint as he saw us.
e rushed up to him. and then every man
, .T* i in, V a lal!h that would have
waked the dead. It roused old Tom, who
opened his eyes and shrieked the louder
w., n saw our apparent inhuman lev
ity. As soon as we were able to speak or
move, we picked the old negro up. stood
IVm “I 1 s fc^ 1 to assure him that he was
still alive, and ihen ordered him to scrape
the tomatoes off himself. He was the
most thoroughly bedaubed specimen I
ever saw You see, the heat of the dis
charge of the cannon had melted the sol
der in the tomatoe cans and they had
simply dropped to pieces on leaving 1 the
their contents had been pro
pelled just far enough down the hill to
spatter all over the old negro. The major
paused and chuckled again.
“How did the hard-tack work?” asked
the reporter.
.. " We ? ldn ’fjd a chance to try it,” was
the reply. "Thu yanks, thinking we were
about to bombard them from the rear
started up the hill after us. and as there
would have been no use making any re
sistance against such a superior force
we spiked the guns and retreated. What
they thought when they found the hard
tack in them I never learned, but I sup
pose it only confirmed their idea that we
were going to attack them.”
c*l 1 tier non a* a Joker.
The story of the Alabama law suit, in
volving a jack, in which Congressman
Tom Williams of Alabama and Judge Cul
berson of Texas appeared upon opposite
sides, and the use the former made of it in
a campaign lias been published, but the
Star 0 ’ " eVer WaS ‘ Says the ' Vas hington
Congressman Williams and Robert G.
Ingersoll resemble pach other very closelv
the only point of very noticeable dissimi
larity being a slight scar upon Col. Inger
*?° i ß .£ ac ?' Wh ? n Congressman Williams
*° ld i! h r a r BU, i story. Judge Culberson
concluded to get even. Brooming two
dozen lithographs of Ingersoll, used by
him in his lecture tours, the Judge cut off
-?it? aw< i and ,*, lKned ‘hem in imitation of
iv,n! a i mS tvi)ti r t:lng. “X ery truly yours,
" illlams. These he sent to men
In different parts of the Alabama district
being careful to leave out the most influ
entitil friends of Williams. In a short time
the scheme began to work. Williams re
ceived letters asking for one of his big
picturefl. These lie answered graciously
saying that he had none. Then would
come back replies in the most indignant
style, teliing lilm that they had seen them
and if he wanted to lie about it he could
the L r su PP°rt. These letters
Mr. W illlams referred to his friend. Judge
Culberson, who advised him to go home
and straighten it out. This the perplexed
member did, obtaining a ten days' leave
og absence. When he returned he said to
the judge:
1 ftl an,i Y th ? m , th °re, framed and hung
up. They* looked like me, and there wuh
my signature. Finally. I noticed the seal
on the face, and that saved me. 1 got it
fixed up, but I had to go to every county
in the district ’ Finally, it leaked out whb
had played the joke, and a compact was
made that Williams should never again
mention the law suit and Judge Culberson
should play no more jokes.
Cox! Him n Dollar.
A young man who seemed to be boiling
over to do something smart was a pas
senger on a Michigan avenue car the
other day, says the Detroit Free Press
A ? r racking ills massive brain for a
while he took out a silver dollar and laid
and on the seat and took a seat opposite
The car soon stopped at a crossing to
let on an old woman with a market
basket. She saw the empty seat and the
dollar, and it didn t take her over thirtv
ot, C a 0n . d s tC ! ,1 rop herself into the place
and the dollar into her pocket
.o!‘ K . x f. use . me ' ma ' am -” said the joker
but Ive lost a dollar. 1 think I left it
on that seat." 11
"I don't!” she bluntly replied
a ‘dollar?™ SUrC ° f D,d you I** ”P
“None o’ your business, sir!”
"Hut ail of us saw you pick it up
ma'am, and I can prove it was mine ” ’
“I.ook a here, young chap,” she said
as she put down her basket, "if it's a
row you want you'll find me ready’ i'al
low no one to walk on me!”
"But, ma'am, I left "
“Come on. then!” she said as she stood
up and doubled up her fists. "I am a
peaceful woman, and I want to get along
the easiest way, but if I must fight I
will!"
Everybody began to clap and laugh and
the smart Alec took a drop off the ’plat
form without asking what it was all
about.
Senator Jones,
I met United States Senator Jones of
Arkansas at the Fifth Avenue hotel ves
terday, looking as big as the side of 'a
house, says a writer in the New York
Press. He is one of the largest men in
congress, and is famous for his head He
is well along in y ears, but there is’ not
a youngster in the country who has more
elasticity and energy-. When Jones want
ed to come to the Senate he really had
very' little chance of election. He was
always lucky, however, and on this oc
casion won out as usual where other men
would have failed. One of the leaders
of the opposition had never seen Jones
in his life, hut had heard things against
him and swore he would defeat him So
the tight went on. One day this leader
happened to be In the gallery of the House
as Jones passed tinder, and his eye fell
upon that enormous head.
"Whose head is that?" he asked of his
companion. "It s the finest head I ever
saw. It looks Just like the pot I used
to boil 'tutors in down home ••
"Why. that's Jones, J-our enemy.” was
the reply.
"Jones? Is that the head I'm liglitln"’
Any man with a head like that ought to
lie in the Senate. I'm for Jones, y, JU co
and tell him I'll eleet him this vi ry night
There isn't he anything litile or dlrv
about a man with a head like that ” '
Ho, the story cues, Jobes went through
with a rush aud has been in ij, B j c nai e ,
svw alma..
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Rain is an accumulation of the tiny
particles of the vapor of the atmosphere
into drops. These drops, first small of
size, attract others of their kind and be
come drops of such magnitude that they
fall to the earth because of their weight.
There is a limit to the quantity of water
which the air is capable of absorbing and
retaining as invisible vapor. Warm air is
able to hold more than cold air. Hence,
when the air which is saturated with
moisture becomes cold for any reason
whatever, it can no longer retain its mois
ture. A portion must, under such condi
tion. accumulate into drops. These fall
to the earth in the shape of rain.
—The exchange in the city of Copenha
gen, says Tit-Bits, with its curiously
fashioned tower and spire, is deemed one
of the sights of Denmark's capita). It is
one of the most remarkable examples
of eccentric architecture, although the ar
chitect. in his desire for originality, has
not sacrificed the grace of form. The
lower part is octagonal in shape, but the
upper part consists of four carved drag
ons, whose tails, gracefully entwined,
gradually taper away and form the spire
of the exchange. The tower is 163 feet
high and was erected about 1815. The
most eccentric church spire is that of the
parish churcn (All Saints') of Chester
field. with its curious spire, 22S feet
high, and six feet off the perpendicular.
Whichever way the observer looks at
this curious spire it appears to bulge out
in that direction.
—Japan, with territory not quite equal
in area to that of California, has a popu
lation of 41.iXK'.f<X) people, with wages
averaging 10 to 20 cents a dav. California
has a population of only 1.200.000, with
wages for unskilled labor averaging from
$1.50 to $2 a day. In California the cli
mate is similar to that of Japan and it
costs a Japanese only S2O to change his
residence. These facts lead the San
Francisco Bulletin to anticipate an un
welcome addition to the population of
California, with results disastrous to the
interests of wage-earners, unless immi
gration is restricted. Labor Commission
er Fitzgerald of California reports that
Japanese laborers can now be hired in
that state from 40 to 50 cents a day. On
the other hand, a Fresno grape-raiser re
ports that hi will pay such laborers $1.50
a day, but cannot secure them.
—The habit of carrying matches loose in
a pocket is always condemned by sensible
people, hut many smokers carry matches
thus and never dream of danger, says the
Philadelphia Record. A young man of this
nature lazily walked through the doorway
of the controller's office one day last week
and the door, swinging back, closed on
his coat. With a smothered imprecation
he released his garment and proceeded
down the corridor. He met some friends at
the eastern end and chatted for a few mo
ments before one of the party noticed
smoke curling about the man's collar. He
called his attention to it. and as th man
threw open his coat it burst into flames.
He had it off in a second, and the flames
were extinguished before the outside of
the coat was injured, aithougn the lining
was entirely destroyed. The slam of the
door had ignited the matches and the fire
had smouldered on the inside, bursting into
flames as soon as air was admitted. It is
safe to say that this particular voting man
will carry a matchbox after this.
—Electric locomotive No. 2, the latest
electric giant put on the Belt railroad,
added new laurels on Monday night to the
noteworthy performances of locomotive
No. 1, says the Baltimore Sun. No. 2 haul
ed 28 loaded ears, two "dead" engines and
a caboose, a total weight of about 1,400
tons, through the tunnel at the rate of
23 miles an hour. The train entered the
tunnel at the speed of 20 miles an hour.
A stop was made in the tunnel, and with
all draw liars stretched the start was
again made without a slip of the wheel.
In doing this and accelerating the train
up to the speed of 23 miles an hour a
drawbar pull of 58,630 pounds was exert
ed. With this tremendous strain the
engineer say the least jerk would have
snapped a coupling pin and broken the
train apart. From one of the locomotives
on the rear end of the train, where a
jerky motion would he felt the greatest,
an entire absence of such a jar was
noted. During the work an imput of 4,100
amperes at a pressure of 600 volts was
measured. The test Is regarded as the
severest yet attemptd by such a locomot
ive.
—A communication was lately present
ed to the Statistical Society of Paris in
which the budget of a well to do private
family was carefully analyzed. The fam
ily consisted of a father and mother,
three sons, aged from 19 to 14, two daugh
ters, of 16 anil 11 and two female servants.
The total expenditure of this family in
1894 was $4,140. The particulars were set
forward with the greatest fullness and
the taxes on each item of expenditure
computed. The expense of the family
hahitation was $622 and the taxes were
29.45 per cent of this. On food the taxes
were 20.65 per cent, on heat and light 27
per cent., on transportation 23 per cent.,
on clothing 11 per cent., on entertain
ments 63 per cent. Fpon $2,779 expendi
ture the average tax was 23 per cent.
Upon expenditure for repairs, domestic
service, doctors, education anil wages,
which amounted to $1,311, no attempt to
compute the rate of taxation was made,
anil it seems quite proper to regard these
items as belonging to the budgets of other
families, so far as the incident of taxa
tion is concerned. It would seem, there
fore, that not far from one-quarter of
the income of the well-to-do bourgeois
French family goes to meet the exactions
of the government.
—Mr. F. G. Jackson has marvelous tales
to tell of the reindeer, their speed and
endurance as animals of draft—so mar
velous, indeed, that he must forgive us
for suggesting that he has made a mistae
in his figures. "I have myseif," he writes
in the London Spectator, "driven three
reindeer a distance of 120 versts within
twelve hours without feeding them, and 1
heard of a ease where a Zirian deer from
Ishma. on the Pechora river, to Obdorsk,
on the Obi, a distance of 309 versts, with
in twenty-four hours. * • • A reindeer
or Samoyed verst, by the way. is equal to
four Russian versts.” In other words,
Mr. Jackson, says he has driven three
deer for twelve hours at the rate of forty
Russian versts, or twenty-seven Englisa
miles, an hour. And the Zirian, with a
similar team, covered 710 miles in twentv
four hours. The latter, by the way, must
have crossed the Ural mountains, and
one or two rivers in the bargain, Surelv
there must be some mistake. There exists'
it is true a well-known tradition of a
reindeer which once—about 1700, we believe
—carried important dispatches for the
King of Sweden 800 miles in fortv-eight
hours, and, dying in the service of the
king, is still preserved—in skeleton form—
in a northern museum. But that, after
all, is only a tradition. Better authenti
cated records do not give a higher rate
than 150 miles to nineteen hours
which is considerably higher than what
is attained by any other animal.
—When a tumbler or other g>a.ss vessel
is broken, says the New Tork Times do
you think its usefulness Is gone’ It is not
by any means It is tossed into the ah
barrel, indeed, but it is prettv sure to re
appear in another form on the table tn
making glass it is usual to melt the ma
terials together with a quarter or half
their weight of "culiet "-that is, broken
glass of the same kind. This uses un great
quantities of broken glass which the
pickers carefully sort out from the barrels
and dumps. Some of the coarsest glass =
melted and colored in the paste. When it
is cold it is broken into irregular piece,
and sold for cheap mosaics in the decora
tions .of shops, while the broken bottles
are ground up to make sand or glass , a
per. Bones have a long career of useful
ness after they are discarded from the
kitchen. Ground to dust they mae v-7t
liable fertilizers, while, at som? E
dyeing establishments bones are boiled ~,
get the gelatine. C r size, for stiff.
goods Sometimes bones are boiled and
bleached and then sent to the turners to
made into knife handles, toothbrushes
nailbrushes, and buttons, while ground un
and mixed with other things they are used
as bonemeal to feed cattle. Where does the
ivory black of the artist come frorn- hv„„
burning old bones In closed retorts l srJd
the same substance is used i, ,n .i.1 and
blacking. Bone charcoal is used |n r us
ng sugar because it | a HO absoibanr ,h. :
it will remove ail trace of indigo
gar colored with it. This charcoal
used over and over again bv w a nl , n ,
beating, and when finally worn out f^r"/ 1
fining purposes It Is used for maki.i
phorou*. 01,1 tins are cut into striirs non**'
•and, blackened and varnished m i ' h *
strengthen cheap trunks and' u * , 'l lo
old iron is remeited and treJh"
Hew form. It is raid that Enatoei e. •
as ballast much of her worn out eri n h p “
boilers, shovels and the like , * rl
melted over Even such lQ U
corks are collected and recut '** •
that are too rough for cork’
ued for float* for UsLerauta
Dug Rorsv collar* 1
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DISEASES OF THE LIVER;
Biliousness,
Dyspepsia.
Constipation,
Headache.
These disorders can be conquered at on, *
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lator."-Lewis G. Wonder, Assistant PoJl*^
ter, Philadelphia 0 tm **
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An attractive sale this week ot
LINENS.
Pure Linens—Linens for
the Table and the Bath.
Linens for every Home
rr J
se.
A Special Linen Sale
At very Special Prices.
Table Damask. Napkins. Doilies ana
Towels. A Linen chance worth none
ins.
LINEN CHEAP.
DAMASKS.
Bleached Tatile, hcjivy make Air
linen, 49c the yard, worth 65c.
One lot Cream Loom. ALL pure linen
43c the yard, value 6Uc.
Bleached Double, 69c a yard value
75 cents.
Bleached Satin finished. 72 inches
wide. 97c, former price 11.25.
Fine Double Face Bleached full
2 yards wide, J 1.25 a yard, worth j U
$1.65.
NAPKINS.
50 dozen Dinner Napkins, 11.99, value
$2 25.
so Dozen v Napkins, reduced from a
and $3.25 to $2.50.
TOWELS.
100 Dozen Huck Towels $1.15, reduced
from $1.50.
100 Dozen Hemmed Huck Towels 15c
each, would be cheap at 20e.■
100 Dozen Damask Towels, knotted
fringes, fancy borders, 25c each, worth
35 cents.
50 Dozen Hemstitched Huck Towel*
reduced from 89c each to2sc.J
Carpets and Matting
At 00-to-you-quick prices. A nice as
sortment. and made and laid as quick
as you want them.
COAT RUGS.
A largo lot cheaper than they cost.
DANIEL HOCAN
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