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IBDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENT
Meetings—Post A, T. P. A.; Myrtle Di
vision No. 256, B. of L. E.
Special Notice—Everybody Visits Beck
mann's Cafe; Cream of Wheat, C. A. Mun
ster.
Amusements—Olivette at the Matinee
and Mikado at Theater To-night.
600,000 Plants for Immediate Delivery.—
P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.
Legal Notice—Citation from the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County.
Apollo Light—The Apollo Incandescent
Gas Light Company, New York.
Mutual Admiration—Falk Clothing
Company.
„ Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company.
The Finishing Touches—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Saturday, April 3—The Metropolitan
Clothing Company.
Auction Sale—Savannah Crystal Ice
Company Stock, by J. McLaughlin & Son.
LYlilk—Borden’s Condensed Milk.
Boot Beer—Hire's Hoot Beer.
Medical—Swift’s Specific; Hood's Sarsa
parilla; Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills; Hobbs
Sparagus Liver Pills; l’aine's Celery Com
pound; Cuticura Remedies; Tarrant’s
Seltzer Aperient; Carlsbad Sprudel Salt.
• Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
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Mr. Gladstone’s son pronounces to be a
hoax the report that the Grand Old Man
has become a bicycle rider. If he nas
not yet learned to ride, he still has some
thing to look forward to.
The mayor of New York is the proud
Wearer of an ornate badge which marks
him as a member of the Midnight Band of
Mercy. The band was organized for the
purpose of killing stray cats by the least
painful method possible. The badge, how
ever, was not conferred In recognition of
the mayor's services in the recent struggle
with a somewhat renowned political tiger
cat.
“There isn't any iron piled up in the
yards of the plants at Birmingham,” said
Mr. T. O. Burwell of that city in Wash
ington the other day. “As fast as our
mills can turn it out It is exported, most
ly to South American countries, but quite
often to some European market." The
tiingley bill, with its Chinese wall and
retaliation features, is a measure well
calculated to stop these shipments of iron
to South America and Europe, and leave
It piled In the mill yards at Birmingham.
There are rumors afloat to the effect
that the south is to have before long a
great armor manufacturing plant. It
may be established in Virginia. An ord
inance factory may be set up In connection
with the armor plant. Five millions of
dollars is the sum which it is calculated
the enterprise will cost. The men who
are behind the schemo could raise that
sum in a few hours, or could take It out
of their own pockets. The south is now
building some of the finest warships
afloat, and may after a while armor and
arm them also.
.New Orleans has adopted civil service
reform In her municipal service, and the
rules have been promulgated. They are
very voluminous, providing examinations
for employes in all of the departments.
Candidates for appointment must apply
to the board of examinations, otherwise
they will not be eligible to any office which
comes under the rules, and nearly ail of
the offices are embraced In the scheme.
Hereafter, It is believed, political pulls
will not count in filling vacancies In the
city's servlet. New Orleans for years
lias been considerably annoyed by “pruc-
Je il politics” in city affairs, and a num
ber of sandals liaie grown out of the
patronage-mongering.
Huis Rivera is a philosopher, as well as
u soldier und patriot. In prison and
wounded, he said: “Religions perish when
they have no longer followers who will
die lor them. 1 expect to be shot. Well,
It may help the cause. Other conditions
nr- not Important.” Those arc brave
Words, noble words; and the man who ut
tered them should not be treated as un
Insurrectionist and shot to death, lie was
tuken In honorable uu(are, and civilisa
tion demands that high officers so taken
sih ill be treated with humanity, and ex
changed, exiles] or imprisoned. It Is
hardly to lie expected, however, that Ri
vera will lie dealt with according to the
rules of civilized warfare.
The Fort Meade Tobacco Farm.
The testimony of tobacco experts in re
spect to the tobacco farm at Fort Meade.
Fla., and the tobaceo grown thereon. Is
of the most encouraging character. It
justifies the conclusion that tobacco grow
ing is to be a great source of wealth In
that stale.
The tobacco grown at Fort Meade is
wholly different from the tobacco grown
in any other part of this country. YVe
infer from what the experts say that in
flavor, and in every other respect. It is
fully equal to the best quality of Cuban
tobacco. Of its flavor Senor Vincento
Guerra, of the Arm of Guerra,
Diaz & Cos., extensive cigar manufactur
ers at Tampa, says:
"This flavor* I mention is one not usually
found in domestic products and it would
not surprise me if it made a reputation
of its'own that will surpass any' article
ever offered to the smokers of America.
It is something that will certainly please
the most critical judge of tobacco flavors.”
With reference to the farm Mr. D. O.
Curry,, the manager of the Tampa Cigar
Company, says:
"It is the most superb tobacco farm I
ever saw and there Is nothing in the
Vuelto Abajo district that will compare
with it in any way, and it is more in
telligently conducted than any of those
farms. It Is a success beyond ail shadow
of a doubt, and has demonstrated to the
world that Florida can produce a tobacco
with a flavor that one cannot recognize
as domestic."
Mr. Charles Dittmar of the Baltimore
firm of Dittmar & Doneiff, dealers in leaf
tobacco, who was one of the experts who
visited the garm says: "The farm was a
revelation to me. I had not expected to
find a farm of such perfection or magni
tude. Those people certainly know the:r
business and will make it a success. Their
system of irrigation is a great piece of
work, and sprays the entire farm without
the omission of a single foot of space. This
makes their crop better and improves the
quality of it also."
Testimony like the foregoing justifies
the conclusion that tobacco as good as the
best Cuban tobacco can be grown in Flor
ida, and that sufficient can be grown to
supply the demand of the domestic mat
ket.
The question may be asked, why has
not Florida produced this fine tobacco
before? The answer is that those who
have cultivated tobacco did not know how
to cure it. The curing of fine tobacco re
quires special knowledge. Cuban tobacco
growers are employed at the Fort Meade
farm, and that is why the proprietors ot
that farm are meeting with such pro
nounced success. There is so much profit
In growing fine tobacco that it pays to
employ Cuban experts to oversee the
growing and curing of the crop. We shall
be greatly surprised if within ten years
the value of the tobacco crop of Florida
Is not greater than that of any other crop
of the state.
••Spare the Had,’)
Some days ago we called attention lo
an article written by State School Com
missioner Glenn, and published In the At
lanta Journal, on "Spare the Hod.” In
last Wednesday’s issue of the Journal he
has another article on the same subject.
The purpose of the second article Is to
show that corporal punishment in the
schools should be abolished. He pro
duces a great deal of testimony to sus
tain his jiosition. Among others whom
he quotes is Supt. Greeting of Indiana,
in which state corporal punishment in
the schools has been abolished. Sir.
Greeting says:
"In the school room that discipline
which Is born of sunbeams is better, Is
more effectual, is more commendable,
than that which is the result of brute
force, either of will or muscle. A little
more sunshine, few rules, much heart,
few clouds, is what we want in our school
rooms. There are teachers who can gov
ern with the full blaze of the noon sun
shine. Blessings attend their footsteps.
They are welcome when they come, ad
mired and respected while they stay, re
membered when they go. With them and
by them is continual sunshine, and teach
ing and studying alike become pleasures
that are long remembered.”
In the course of his article. Commis
sioner Glenn pays a handsome compliment
to Savannah. He says:
“But, sir, I need not go outside of Geor
gia to find what wo are looking for.
There are schools In Georgia that, have
for years past allowed no corporal pun
ishment. The schools in Savannah, from
the kindergurten school up through the
high school, have not had a case of cor
poral punishment in ten years, and the
superintendent reports there has not been
a single case of expulsion, either in the
white or colored schools in that time.
The boast of Savannah is, and I believe
the record sustains the claim, that there
are more cultured people among the white
population of Savannah than can be
found in any other city on the continent,
Boston not accepted.”
What the commissioner says about the
people of Savannah and the Savannah
public schools, coming as It does from a
capable and conscientious public official,
is highly appreciated in this city. The
aim of those who have control of Sa
vannah's public schools Is to keep the
standard of the schools high and to have
the greatest possible harmony between
teachers and pupils.
The preachers of Leavenworth, Kan.,
have started a crusade against social card
playing. l>r. Thomas of the Episcopal
church told a day of two ago of a society
young woman who had dropped *3OO in
a quiet little game at a friend's house. He
says that not only do the Leavenworth
society women gamble, but they cheat,
stack the cards, "hold out" cards under the
table, and resort to all sorts of dishonest
practices. It comes out, by the way, upon
the authority of another preacher, that
the young woman who lost the S3OO had
the satisfaction of seeing the woman who
won beaten at her own gume. The sister
of the victim, it teems, (fat In a game with
the expert, and not only won back the
1300, but a neat little sum besides. Really,
It would set in lh.it they have more fun in
society in Leavenworth than they do in
Atlanta.
West Livinu town t:i the Orange
mountains. Now York, is making a strong
bid for fame. One man there has a tail
less calf. Another has u calf with two
tails, Still another has a calf with two
heads. Neither Canton nur Carson, In all
of their glory, could boast of wonders
such as these.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1897.
Not a Collecting Agency,
The use of the machinery of the crimi
nal courts of New York for collecting
debts is not permitted. The sheriff and
na assistant prosecuting attorney of Len
awee county. Michigan, used It for tb.it
purqgise and they got themselves Into
trouble. They were indicted by a New
York grand jury for assisting a prisoner
to escape justice, and the prosecuting at
torney was arrested. The sheriff will be
arrested if he shows himself in New York.
The probabilities are that he will be ar
rested even if he does not go to New York
voluntarily, as the governor of New York
has sent an officer after him with requisi
tion papers.
The cause of the trouble was this: An
ton Christensen, a Dane, and a citizen of
Michigan, was arrested In New York on a
charge of embezzlement. The crime wai
committed in Michigan, and he wag in
dicted in that state. The sheriff of Lena
wee county, the county in which the In
dictment was found, and the assistant
district attorney of that county, went to
New Y’ork with requisition papers
the Michigan governor for the Dhne. The
New Y'ork authorities honored the requi
sition and delivered the Dane info their
custody. Instead of taking him back to
Michigan they settled the cuse with him.
He paid the sheriff the amount ha had
embezzled together with the expcn&qft grt
agreed to leave the country. Thfn they
released him. They claim that the laws
of Michigan permitted them to make the
settlement. The laws of New Y’ork do
not recognize such a settlement, however,
and the New York authorities, discover
ing that the Dane had been released, re
arrested him. They also arrested the as
sistant district attorney and they procur
ed indictments against him and the
sheriff.
The laws of New Y’ork do not permit of
the collection of a debt by criminal pro
cesses. Compromising an embezzlement
case is regarded as compounding a felony.
In most of the states it is so regarded.
The Michigan sheriff and the assistant
district attorney wdll be lucky if they es
cape a New York prison. If they do es
cape it they will have learned a lesson
they will not forget soon.
lr, Itaiison’n Belief.
The Philadelphia Press’ New Y’ork cor
respondent, Holland, says that Mr. Han
son of Macon has been giving republicans
in New York a good deal of encourage
ment In respect to Georgia. He says that
while in New York recently, Mr. Hanson
declared it to be his firm conviction that
it Is possible to take Georgia away from
the “Bourbon Democratic Association."
It Is Mr. Hanson's belief, says the Press'
correspondent, that under Mr. McKinley’s
administration Georgia will follow Mary
land and West Virginia into the republi
can party. He quotes Mr. Hanson as say
ing that the McKinley ticket "carried Sa
vannah and forty counties fairly." The
Press’ correspondent must have misunder
stood Mr. Hanson. The McKinley ticket
did not carry Savannah, though it did
poll a very large vote. But the McKinley
vote in Savannah was not for McKinley
and protection; it was for sound money.
To vote for McKinley was thought to be
the surest way of defeating the free sliver
proposition—it was a protest against the
Chicago platform. It would be a mistake
to conclude from the republican vote in
Georgia at the last election that the stale
is likely to be republican at the next na
tional election. If the silver question is
not in Issue in that election, or if the dem
ocratic party abandons free silver coin
age la'fore that election, the state will
be as strongly democratic, In all proba
bility, as it ever was. It certainly will
be if the Dtngley bill becomes a law in
its present shape.
In the Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science for March.
Mr. Christopher G. Tiedeman, law pro
fessor of the University of New York, has
a very valuable article on “Silver Free
Coinage and the Legal Tender Decisions.”
The effort of Prof. Tiedeman is to show
the difficulties which would have been en
countered in securing from the United
States supreme court a pronouncement of
the unconstitutionally of a free silver
coinage act of congress, which would have
been passed and made law If the demo
cratic party had been successful at the
polls at the last national election. Prof.
Tiedeman goes into the legal tender de
cisions very thoroughly, and points out
the Influences which were powerful In se
curing it. Tho conclusion he reaches is
that although the legal tender cases
would have been stumbling blocks in the
way of securing a decision to the effect
that a free silver coinage act was uncon
stitutional, so far as it applied to exist
ing contracts, still, the probabilities are
that the act would have been declared un
constitutional. The article is an interest
ing one, and Is evidently the product of
thorough investigation and careful
thought.
It appears that an alibi Is about to be
established for the late Jay Oould, In 'he
Angell case. Sarah Ann Angell, claim
ing to be the widow of the great finan
cier, is suing for the wife’s share of his
estate. Ex-Chief Justice Champlin of
the Michigan supreme court, was a friend
and co-worker with Jay Gould at the
time the woman alleges that he married
her. Judge Champlin testifies Jhat be
has good reasons to believe Jay Gould
was not at the place where the alleg'd
marriage is said to have taken place at
the time specified, but was then in Al
bany, trying to lobby through the legis
lature a bill to provide for the making
of certain county maps which he wished
to supply. The Judge submitted in erl
dence a number of letters to him from Mr.
Gould. None of them said a word about
getting married, or paying attentions to
any woman. They were all full of
schemes with regard to the maps, and
securing legislative aid therefor. From
this It uppears that Jny Gould even ut
an early age had his eye upon state eg
l .Matures.
King George of Greece probably finds
the situation somewhat upon the order
of that famous explanation of the I’res
bytertan creed: "You’ll be damned It you
do, and be lamned If you don’t." He
stands to lose which ever way things go.
from present appearances; hence he Is
disposed to do his utmost to get in a
heart blow upon Turkey.
Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York has
probably opened the way for another at
tack to be made upon him. In Philadel
phia the other night, lecturing upon the
Bible at Horticultural hall, he declared, in
effect, according to the Philadelphia Hec
otj. that the ten commandments were out
of-date. He did not deny their virtues,
but said the teachings of Christ were far
more valuable, since a man might keep all
of the ten commandments and still be an
unfit person for the assoc i ition of Chris
tians. In other words, a person may keep
aU of the commandments and still be very
wicked. It appears, in the light of this
declaration, that the Kansas legislature
was well up-to-date when it declined to
enact the commandments.
It will not be a great while now before
the heavy coast defense guns for the
southern works begin to come south. A
day or two ago forty of the monsters were
shipped from the Watervllet arsenal, on
the Hudson, to the proving grounds at
Sandy Hook. They will be tested there,
an <! .when the tests have been finished they
Wlrf be shipped south. There are proba
bly ho Savannah guns in this lot, however.
A remarkable test with a ter.-Inch rifle
was held at Sandy llook no: long ago.
The target was two miles from the muz
zle of the gun. After each shot the po
sition of the gun was shifted, tnd it was
realmed. In three consecutive shots the
projectile passed through the seme hole in
tho target.
Gen. Julio Sanguily, who was only re
cently released from a Spanish prison in
Cuba because of his Americ,n citizen
ship, is said to be on his way Lack to the
island, to Join the insurgents. His son,
aged 19, is accompanying him. Should
he agalnYall into the hands of the Span
iards, he would probably find his claims
upon the good offices of Uncle Sam to
be very small. His desire to see Cuba
free is laudable. But if he proposes to
remain an American citizen, and enjoy
the privileges and immunities guaranteed
to such, he will have to obey the Ameri
can laws. And they forbid American
citizens to make war upon a power with
which the United States are frhndly.
Two very sad sights, illustrating the
fact that fame is often ephemeral, espe
cially in the theatrical profession, were
witnessed in New Y’ork recently. One was
a former “Adonis” of the stage discharg
ed by a music hall manager for drunken
ness, and the other was a horse once
owned and driven by Lillian Russell draw
ing a clam cart.
President McKinley has been in office
now about a month. It seems, therefore,
as if a question which his partisans fre
quently put to President Cleveland might
with propriety be asked him, namely:
"Does It look yet as if a war were going
on In Cuba?’
It is an anomaly, brought about by mod
ern politics, that Quay and Penrose, sen
ators from peace-loving old Quaker Penn
sylvania, are against the peace treaty
with Great Britain.
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BRIGHT BITS.
—Crushed.—"This is the most cruel yet,"
wailed the rising young poet.
“What is?” asked a common-sense per
son, who had dropped in to smoke a few
of the poet's cigarettes.
“ 'The Babbock’ says I do not exhibit
a single stigma of degeneration.”—lndian
apolis Journal.
—The little personal mention of Judge
Roy Bean of Langtry, Tex., provoked a
kind subscriber to send ua this:
"The picture in your publication of
March 11 of Judge Roy Bean is all right,
except the collar and cravat. He was
once trying a Mexican for stealing a horse,
and his charge to the jury was one of
the shortest on record:
“ 'Gentlemen of the Jury— Thar’s a
Greaser in the box and a hoss missing;
you know your duty!'
"And they did.’’—Leslie's Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Dingle)’* April Fool Hill.
From the New York Herald (Ind.).
Mr. Dingley wants to have his tariff law
go into effect on April 1. That might oper
ate as an April Jool joke on the importers
this year, but has Mr. Dingley reflected
on what nay be the result next year to
himself and his party?
Give And Take In the Tariff.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
According to Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, the
principle of give-and-take must be embod
ied in all tariff bills. The trouble with
bills of the Dingley sort Is that the give is
all to the trusts, and the take is all from
the consumers.
The Back Date Bluff.
From the Hartford Times (Dem.).
What the action taken amounts to, there
fore, is a declaration to importers that
they must exited to pay next August or
September, on goods imported In April,
duties which may not be actually deter
mined before August or September. This is
the most übsurd proposition the business
men of the country ever heard of. It Is
probably merely "a bluff" on the part of
the House leaders. YVe do not believe it
will ever be put Into the form of law.
The **Do-Nothing" Policy.
From the New York Evening Post (Ind.).
• --
One thing Is certain, that a do-nothing
policy rushes the country upon unother
presidential campaign like the last one,
with the results even more doubtful: and
as we approach It tho business of the
country will be thrown into shadow as
by an approaching eclipse. Every man
who haH a dollar to lose feels the chill
even now, arut Is turning over in his mind
plans and methods for meeting the possi
ble catastrophe. It is idle to expect any
real prosperity with such an outlook for
investors of capital.
It'* Trouble N.ixv Begin*.
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.).
Now that the tariff bill Is In the hands
of tho Semite Its real troubles begin. If is
known that no attempt will be made to
rush it through the upiwr chamber, and
the senators gem rally, without regard to
mere party lines, are determined to Insist
upon the freest discussion and ample tune
for debate. The Donate finance committee
are prepared to thoroughly amend and
revise the bill, and. If all that Is rumored
prove true, the measure promises to
emerge from the committee In a shape so
entirely different from that 111 which It
passed the House yesterday that Its fram
er* will not recognise It
Hypnotized Appetite*.
“One of the oddest things I ever saw„”
remarked a physician In a small party of
Washington story tellers, according to the
Star, "I saw in a kind of a hotel or
rather feedery at the Chicago stock
yards.” v ■
"Men or cattle?" queried a listener.
"Men; arid good men. I wasn’t boarding
there, but I knew the proprietor of the
place, and had been his physician before
he went to Chicago, and after he got
there he made money enough to pay me
to come down and look over hl3 family
about twice a year. I lived only a Hun
dred miles away, and usually made rny
trips between daylight and dark, taking
my noonday meal with him. at which lime
his main dining room had from one to two
hundred diners in it. A great many of
these were transients, and very many
more were green and unsophisticated
young men from the country who had
come in with stock and were utterly un
used to city ways.
"On the day in question I sat with the
proprietor at his little look-out desk, from
which he kept an eye on the business, and
watched the people eat, which is not os
bad a show as you might think, if you
never witnessed such a performance. As
we sat there I noticed one waiter, a dark
skinned. Svengall-looking chap, who, in
stead of having a territory assigned him,
seemed to work ail over the dining room.
He was a worker, too, and first attracted
me by the way he handled his people.
"I spoke to the proprietor about him.
and he told me to watch him, and he
would tell me about him as soon as he
had time. I followed his advice, and saw
that the waiter would apparently spot a
manias he came in, and when he reached
a chair he would be there with a bow and
a smile ready to wait on him. The man
would seem to start, as if recognizing him,
anil would sit down and begin to look
nervous.
"The waiter, in the meantime, kept his
eye on him, and would take his order. Of
ten the order was extremely light, cover
ing only tr'cup of tea or a piece of meat
and bread, or possibly a glass of milk, or
a bowl of bread and milk. The waiter
would smile and seem to insist on the
guest taking more, but the guest shook
his head, and soon finished his frugal re
past. Asa physician, I wondered how
men who worked as these did could get
along with so little food.
"That afternoon the proprietor smiled
when I asked him about the peculiar
waiter. 'He’s a jewel,’ he said, ’and lie’s
worth more to me than any waiter I’ve
got, though I’m alw'ays a little afraid of
him, and to keep him in good humor I
pay him about 50 per cent, more than I
do any of the others. I don’t know what
he does, and I never speak of it to any
body, and only to you because you are
my family physician, but he has a way
of picking out the people he wants to
wait on as they come in, and when he
gets hold of them he makes them eat
what he wants them to.
“ ’Sometimes a big, hearty fellow will gag
and apparently get sick when he sits down
to the table, and after a bite or two he
pays his bill and goes out. That doesn’t
happen often, though. His way is to make
his people eat just a little of the cheapest
things—it’s a thirty-five-cent dinner, you
know—and many times a glass of milk
and bread or a piece of pie will be all they
want, and they will go out perfectly satis
fied to pay thirty-five cents for it. It
isn’t any of my business to ask about their
health or their appetite, and I don’t. I
leave my waiter to do that,’ and the pro
prietor smiled innocently rather than in
guile.
"I didn’t want to spoil a good thing, but
I thought I ought to.” concluded the phy
sician, "and 1 proceeded to tell my friend
that the waiter was a Svengali—by the
way, he had never heard of such a person
—and was defrauding the patrons of the
restaurant by hypnotizing them and send
ing them out filled only with suggestions,
and that while it might be extremely re
munerative, it was not right at all, and the
waiter should be sent away. Then think
ing my advice would be followed, of
course, I took my departure. Six months
later I came back, and the first man 1
saw in the dining room was Sevngali. I
fancy,” and the physician sighed, "the
Chicago climate or something must have
had an effect on my friends moral sensi
bilities.”
A Mascot in lliplomacy,
Gen. Sickles, the war veteran, is in
Washington, says the New York Tribune’s
correspondence. The general says he
could not keep away from the pageant at
the formation of anew government. “I
think.” he said last evening to a group of
friends, “that I am a mascot in diplomacy.
I was minister to Spain for some years
under Grant, and there were several gen
tlemen in my service. See what has be
come of them. Adee was my secretary of
legation. He is now permanent under
secretary of state and bosses ambassa
dors, making them uncomfortable or oth
erwise. John Hay was also a secretary of
my legation. Now he is an ambassador,
and will have Adee bossing him in a few
days. John Russell Young was with me
during the revolution, especially when
Amadeus went down and the republic
came in. He was made envoy to China.
Charlemange Tower was an attache of
my legation, and learning his Spanish at
Madrid. Now he is gazetted for Austria
as envoy extraordinary. So. you see, what
a school for diplomacy I kept. If McKin
ley does not make me governor of Cuba,
the only office for which I am filing any
papers, I shall ask his permission to open
a preparatory school of diplomacy and re
fer to my Madrid pupils as my record."
Married After All.
Alexander Bolles, one ot the early itiner
ant preachers, who preached in three
states among the Alleghany mountains,
was much tormented by the influence of
one John Rogers, a Jerseyman, who open
ly taught atheism and the abolishment of
marriage, says the Argonaut. On one oc
casion, while leading a meeting in the
woods in Virginia, a young man and
woman pushed their way up to the stump
which served as a pulpit. The man. inter
rupting the sermon, said, defiantly:
"I’d like you to know that we are Roger
lues.” The old man looked at him over
his spectueles and waited. "We don’t be
lieve in no God, Nor in marriage. This is
my wife, because 1 choose her to be: but
1 11 have no preacher nor .squire meddlin'
with ue.” •
“Do you mean to tell me," thundered
Father Bolles, "that you have taken this
girl home as your wife?"
“Yes, I do,” said tho follow, doggedly.
“And have you gone willingly to live
with him as your husband?"
"Yes,” said the frightened girl.
"Then 1 pronounce you man Bnd wife,
and whom God hath Joined together let no
man put asunder. Be off with you! You
are married now according to the law and
the Gospel."
Open the Door Sweet April.
Mary F. Butts, In the Independent.
Open the door, sweet April—
The call is low and clear
From the underground procession
All ready to appear.
Arbutus Is longing
Her woodsy home to find.
And violet, the darling,
Is crowding close behind.
Open the door, sweet April.
Gay tulip, with her cup,
I taffy anil narcissus
Are waiting to come up.
A mil.lon billion grasses,
Each with hi* little spear.
Are pricking at the portal.
Thou warder of the year.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—There were a great many people at the
dog show last week, says an exchange,
who would scarcely believe you if you
were to tell them that it was association
with man that first caused the dog to
bark. Originally the canine did nothing
else but howl or whine and.those are the
only kinds of noises made by wild dogs,
even at the present day. The shepherd
dogs In the wilds of Egypt do not bark,
neither do those of Australia, and Colum
bus found in his later voyages that dogs
he had previously carried to America,
had in the meanwhile lost the barking
faculty. It is believed dogs try to talk
and the nearest they can come to it is the
barking sound they make.
—The diamond mines of Brazil were dis
covered in a curious way. Negro slaves
in the province of Nimas Geroes had
been using certain bright stones which
they had found for counters In their card
games. One day a traveler, who had
9pent considerable time in India, happen
ed along. He immediately recognized the
bright little stones to be diamonds and
purchasing a lot of them for a few cents
each, took himself out of the country. A
year or two later he came back with a
strong party, and before the government
knew they were diamond hunters, or that
diamonds existed in the country, they had
taken away large quantities of the valua
ble gems. Save for their yellow color the
Brazilian diamonds are the equal of any
found in the world.
—Herr L. Frobeen of Berlin, Germany,
has invented and is making anew fire
proof paper. By his process ninety-five
parts of asbestos fiber of the best quality
are w'ashed in a solution of perman
ganate of calcium and then treated with
sulphuric acid, the fiber being thus
bleached. After treating the fiber in this
manner, five parts of ground wood pulp
are added, and the entire mass placed in
the agitating box, with an addition of
some lime water and borax. After be
ing thoroughly mixed the material is
pumped into a regulating box and al
lowed to flow out of a gate into an end
less wire cloth, where it' enters the usual
paper-making machinery. Paper pro
duced in this way, it is reported, will
resist even the direct influence of a flame,
and may be placed in a white heat with
impunity.
—Jan. 27. 1306, was the famous “Day
of the Red Terror,” described by medi
eval chroniclers. The dawn was clear and
beautiful, but shortly before the sun rose,
the heavens became obscured in a strange
red Maze. It hid the sun and the orimson
glare fell upon the earth like the reflec
tion of some great conflagration. Terror
filled the hearts of mankind everywhere.
The churches of Europe were filled the
whole day long. Anchorites and hermits
came from their retreats and cried aloud
that the Day of Judgment was at hand.
In the afternoon and evening some peo
ple declared they could see angels and
devils battling in the air and that the
blood of the conflict rained upon the earth
However, about midnight the red pall dis
appeared before a wind and the panic
stricken people recovered their senses.
—The climate of the Island of Corsica is
simply perfect. Travelers go into ecta
sies of praise about it, and yet singularly
enough, the Corsicans are comparatively
short-lived people. Take, for instance, the
Bonapartes, who were born and bred there.
All have died young, the victims of a fa
tal and incurable disease, which they orig
inally contracted in Corsica. The first
emperor died at 52 years, his father at 38
and his three sisters all under 60. The fol
lowing generations were even shorter liv
ed. The Duke of Relchstadt died at 21; and
the children of Louis at 8, 27 and 33. All the
members of the Bonaparte family were
afflicted with scrofula. In the case of
Napoleon I, it manifested itself finally in
a cancer, which caused his death. Lucien,
his brother; the beautiful Pauline Beau
harnais, and Caroline, queen of Naples, are
all said to have died of the same disease.
—Acting under orders from the authori
ties of tho town of Bradford, England, a
chemist has just made an analysis of a
testament which has been used in the Ri
pon court for sixty years and which is said
to have been kissed by -40,000 people, says
the New York Tribune. The analysis was
made with a view to ascertaining what
danger there is in the practice of "kissing
the book.” No germs of typhoid fever,
tuberculosis, or diphtheria were found. The
chemist reports that he identified seven
species of micro-organisms which in a
very interesting manner cover the three
divisions of the fungi order. The only
germ of a dubiou* character was one
which is usually found on wounded or sore
skin. Although this germ is not necessa
rily harmful, there are conditions in which
it might produce unpleasant complications,
and the chemist said he would not kiss any
surface upon which they were spread. If
salivary germs could be left in that man
ner other microbes of a more dangerous
character could be left, which was a strong
argument against "kissing the book."
—The inventor of the jinricksha, Izumi
Yosuka, has fallen on evil days, and a
project is on foot to obtain for him a
pension from the government of the mi
kado. Less fortunate than the geniuses
to whom we owe the motor car, he hap
pened to launch his invention upon a
Japan that as yet knew no patent laws.
There are some who say that the fructi
fying idea came from an American mis
sionary; but whether this be so or not,
is was Izumi, who, in conjunction with
two others, Kosuke and Takujiro, first
applied to the government to piy the
trade of the rickshaw man. Before very
long thousands of people throughout tho
east were earning a livelihood by means
of Izumi’s Ingenious device. When the
Japanese patent law was promulgated he
applied for protection by letters patent;
but the law could not be made retro
active, and he therefore gained nothing
but his bare wage as a licensed jinrick
sha drawer. Now that he is old, even this
means of livelihood is denied him, and
he is lifted to the ranks of the men who
have enriched the world and become
themselves impoverished.
—One of the little wars which England
knows how to carry on better than any
other European nation, has just been
brought to a successful termination on the
frontier of Assam, says the New Y'ork
Times. A tribe known as the Apatanangs
had raided a tea estate in North l.akhim
pur, murdering two native servants and
carrying away three others. Immediately
a force of IKK) military police under an
English captain was sent out to teach the
Apatanangs a lesson. It started on Feb.
1, and had to penetrate a region never
before entered by civilized men. The route
for three marches was over boulders along
the bed of tho Riinganadi, and the precl.
pices in the gorges had to be surmounted
by bamboo ladders. After this came the
crossing of a range of mountains 8,000 feet
high, then the descant to the Bang! river,
and tho crossing of another range of 7,000
feet. After some further difficulties the
plateau of the Apatanangs was reached.
It is ten miles In length. Is laid out in
terraces, artificially Irrigated, and mag
nificent paddy cro)is are raised. Prim
roses. paphne, wild strawlierrles, rasp
berries, ami currants abound, and every
small hill Is laid out with plantations of
pines and dwarf bamboos. The Apata
nangs, who possess about 1,000 houses, are
allied in race to the Abor Daphlas, but are
especially distinguished from the latter by
their eustom of wearing cane tails dyed
red. Tho captives wero recovered, the of
fending villages punished, and nix Daph
las prisoners were also released. One in
teresting discover)’ made waa tiiat the
Apatanangs have direct relations with the
Lamas of Thibet,
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