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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-10-09

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
BRIGHT BITS.

IT IS SAID that a monkey will smoke cigars
and pipes, hut cannot be induced to touch
cigarettes. The monkey knows more than
good many young men.
A PREcocIous NEW YORK BOY accompanied
his mother to the theatre. The seat check was
marked X 9, and the boy refused to sit there
insisting that it was reserved for dog.-Shoe
and Leather Reporter.
AT TABLE in a New York restaurant some
one remarked: He had no father and he had
no mother
"Self.made man, said wit sitting near by.
Shoe and Leather Reporter.
VIsTToR-Don't you miss your little nephew
very much, Freddie?
Freddie twhose nephew died the week before)
Yes ] miss him very much, but | like to be
the uncle to an angel-L0e.
CoNvERsATioN between a traveller and a lad of
or Your grandfather there seems very old.
Do you know what his age is?
NO. sir; couldn't exactly say, sir; but | M
sure he can't be very young. He's always been
about the house as long as can remember. -
Judge.
CARPISG YANKEE CRITIC-Your German Ian
guage is devilish long winded, you know.
Now, here's word have just struck, 'Schwan-
entiuegel." 1t twists me all up
Quiet and Commemorative German Listener
Yaas; vos affectded der same way ven read
der Soon dis morniE unit game across "Guber-
Materially, PUCK.
FIRST Bread-or-Blood Patriot-We'll be late
to the starvation maSsmeetng if we don't hurry.
Second Bread Blood-or Patriot-Can't help it;
must stop at drung store. I've run out of
medicine.
First Bread or Blood What sort of
medicine are you taking?
Second Bread or Blood Patriot-Anti-fat.-
Puck.
MERCHANT TO CoLLEcToR-John are the Slim
kinseS going to receive to-day?
Collector saw their card in the papers to
that effect
Merchant-Well, take our bill for September
and go up. You havnt been able to get in the
last twenty five or thirty times you have called,
but you can get there to-day. tell you, John,
society is great blessing if you only look at it
right. Washington Critic.
BAGLEY--Ha, Gagley, squaring up accounts
for the year?
Gagley (gloomily)-Yes.
Bagey-Hope you come out well.
Gagley-Well, I've put ten thousand in the
bank.
Bagey-That isn't so bad. don't see why
you look so glum.
Gagley-Dou't, eh? Why, confound It, I've
drawn out over thirteen thousand,-LJe.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
Senator Brown and the Moonshiners.

Senator Brown and the Moonshiners.
Senator Browns speech in the Senate on
Monday on the ACCESSIBILITY of repeating the
Internal revenue taxes differed very little
in its general outline from the written
speech which Maj. Bacon, of Macon. deliv-
cred through the newspapers Of this State
few days ago, at the request of some of his
Atlanta friends. Senator Browns views on
revenue matters are so well known that 1t
Is about impossible for him to say anything
fresh on those subjects. In his Mondays
speech be argued for the repeal
of the internal revenue taxes mainly be-
cause some of the mountaineers in Northern
Georgia, who object to paying the whisky
tax, have been prosecuted for violating the
internal revenue laws. Senator Beck, who
has good many constituents who live on
the mountains, and who would like TO have
the privilege Of making whisky without
paying any tax upon it, proposes to say
something in reply to Mr., Browns sympa-
thetic talk in behalf Of the "moonshiners. "
1t seems strange that Senator Brown and
few other protectionists in this State seem
70 be so much more interested in the few
who want the tax removed from whisky
than they are in the many who want the
tax taken off cotton ties, agricultural i'm
plementS and the neceSsaries of life. One Is
almost forced to the conclusion that their
advocacy of the repeal of the whisky tax is
not due so much with their sympathy with
the moonshiners as it is to a purpose to pre-
vent reductian Of the tariff taxes. They
know that if the whisky tax is repealed the
necessities of the government will not per
init any reduction in the tariff taxes.
1t is amusing TO read Senator Browns
statement that the amount collected on
whisky manufactured in Georgia is almost
sufficient to meet the expenses Of the State
government The people who manufacture
the whisky don't pay it. Those who con-
sumo the whisky pay it. and they would pay
just as much if there were not gallon man
ufactured i'll Georgia. The Senator seems
10 have overlooked this little, but rather
important, fact.
But how much does the protective tariff
take out of the pockets of Georgians every
years Would it not be within bounds to
say twice rs much as the whisky tax does!
And why would it not be better to reduce
these tariff taxes and thus benefit every
person in Georgia than to repeal the whisky
tax and benefit only the whisky drinkers
and make the moonshiners happy? Georgia
would like to hear from Mr.. Brown on this
point
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
Mark Twain Loses an Honor.
From, Clara Bellies Ne'o York Letter

From Clara Bellies Ne1G YORK LetteT
Mark Twain will never be hanged for modesty
and yet he owes il to a retiring disposition that
he is not real knight at this blessed minute.
1t is generally known that the humorist is
mighty shrewd business man, and that, by
being his own publisher he has made dollars
out of his works while other writer's of equal
merit have made cents. But be chooses to
keep his name out of the commercial end OF his
enterprises saving it for the authorship apex
of them. Thus in the firm Of Charles l.. Web
ster & Co. he is the unmentloned partner
although the principal one Well from the
issuance of Twain's books the concern went
into Grants autobiography, clearing nigh $780,
600 from it; and their latest venture
was a volume about the Pope at Rome.
Twain went himself to Italy TO arrange
the matter, and while there had
audiences with the Pontiff; but he figured there
only as Charles l.. Webster Co. because he
was at the time engaged in business rather than
literature. So it happened that the Pope re
parchment from Rome setting forth that
Charles l.. Webster has been created a Knight
of the Order of Plus, because 1T is the custom
and practice of the Roman Pontiffs to bestow
titles of high honor on those gentlemen whose
eminent gifts of mind, and whose excellent
qualities, seem to us worthy of being crowned
with rewards With this document of en-
noblemept is a decoration of blue silk, orna-
mented with two stripes of red at the edges,
and the directions are that il be worn on the
left breast, according TO knightly custom
But it cannot properly adorn the front of Mark
Twain, although really meant for him, and his
lesser partner thus scoops the glory which be-
longs to the greater.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
ASLEEP FOR SEVEN YEARS.
A Farmers Curious Affection winch
Followed an Attack of Fever
From Me NeW York Herald,

From the NeW York Herald,
UTICA, MINI, Jan. Herman Haines has
slept almost continually for seven years. he has
been treated in dozen different ways but no
one has been able to break his protracted sum-
Der Powerful electric batteries have been APP
piled TO his body the only effect being aicontrac-
ton Of the muscles. Haines is now ~ years
old, and ten years ago was prosperous farmer
in St. Clair county, Ill. At that time ne was
hale and hearty, his weight being $50 pounds.
In 1877 he was stricken with fever ana aRue,
and in the spring of 1880 moved to 81. Charles,
Winona county. whence be was brought 10
Utica. A few months after his arrival IN this
State he fell asleep, and he has lived In thls
strange condition for more than seven years.
In the summer of 1884 he awoke one morning,
arose from bis bed, put on his clothes and went
about his work. When told that he had sum,
bered four years he grew indignant ana would
not believe that he had slept more than nlght
until led before mirror and shown MS long
black hair and beard and sunken cheeks ana
eyes. For month his health and habits seemed
perfect. He went to bed at the usual hour
slept through the night, and arose with the
lark.
In August 1884, his wife became very i'll, and
Haines was obliged to deprive himself OF needed
rest One night, while taking her cup OF Tea
he suddenly fell asleep, dropped the cup sank
to the floor and had TO he taken to his bed, from
which he has never since risen. lie lies on MS
back, breathes naturally, and suffers little pam,
but is wasting away. His weight is now less
than ninety pounds and he is no longer able 10
move himself in bed.
About II O'Clock every evening he awakes for
five or six minutes, during which time he is hur-
riedly given a soft boiled egg, little soup ana
a swallow or two of coffee, his only daily nour-
tshment. He is extremely nervous during ms
brief waking intervals, but his conversation
indicates that his mind is not beclouded NO
medicine has passed his lips for two years HIS
children are bright and healthy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
Averill's Narrow Escape.
From the Ne,g York SIM.


There's no more earnest Democrat in New
York than Gen Averiil, the dashing trooper who
raided up the valley with Sheridan and endeared
himself to two generations of NirginlanS by
the homesteads he saved from the torch. AS he
swings down Broadway to his Office on frosty
morning he is soldier every inch of him, bar
ring gray hairs. Gen, Averill was introduced to
young man named Rudd day or two ago,
and it reminded him of a curious incident IN his
military career. He was at West Point with
Jack Rudd, who afterward became ma Or in
the Confederate army. On raid into Nest
Virginia some cavalrymen We're about to pillage
farm which proved to be no other than
Jack Rudd's. 1t was a tight little patch
of arabic land light under the mountains. AS
soon as Averill heard the name of his old
classmate, he set a guard over the place and
not a straw was touched. That was in August,
1858 just year afterward, at a noted noun
tain pass called Galatians just twelve miles
from the White Sulphur Springs, Confederate
prisoner was brought into Gen. Averill's head
quarters, which were in the ambulance, where
he slept and read dispatches. Captor and cap
tive looked long and hard at each other, and
knew each other once more as "Rudd" and
"Averil" And afterward, when friendly
nip had thawed out twelve years of absence
and Averill had told Rudd how he saved his
farm from being pillaged, Rudd exclaimed:
My, man why, came within an ace of
shooting you deadl / was in ambush on the
mountain side and drew bead on the officer
who rode into my front gate as thought, to
fire the house. | soon saw bis kindly intentions,
though, and am now doubly thankful for what
we both escaped"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
Sympathy.

Like the sweet melody which family fingers
Upon the wind harp's strings at close of day,
When, gently touched by evenings dewy
fingers,
1t breathes a low and melancholy lay.
So the calm voice of sympathy meseemeth;
And while its magic spell is round me cast,
Ny spirit in its cloistered silence dreameth,
And vaguely blends the future with the past.
But vain such dreams while pain my bosom
thrilleth,
And mournful memories around me move;
Zen friendships alchemy no balm distilleth,
To soothe tn immedicabe wound of love-
Alas alas, passion too soon exhaeth
The dewy freshness of the hearts young
flowers;
We water them with tears, but naught
availeth-
They wther on through all LIES later hours
Emma &. FMBURY
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
Bigger Than the Secretary
From the Baltimore Sun.


A government official occasionally finds
himself in the hands of an impertinent suboTdi-
nate who cannot he brought 10 terms or got rid
of His head slides from under the ak as it de-
scends and he hobs up serenely from the block
more offensive than ever. Secretary Fairchd
had some experience with one of these ire
preSSiblPs not long since. The subordinate was
a man of.all-work about the Secretary's office,
but his close proximity to greatness gave him
what is sometimes termed ''the big head" 1t
was me aud the Secretary with him To in
quiries from bureau officials about their mail,
his answer always had we in it. In fact, he
was on very good terms with himself as we'll as
the Secretary. His greatness nipped
in the bud by an untoward act
which has made his name
department by-word. II happened on a dreary
day not long ago. The hours were more than
sixty minutes long, and it seemed that four
would never come, The Secretary's desk was
covered with mail of an important character 1t
was necessary that it should be signed that day.
The Secretary was scratching off his name at a
rapid rate. His man was welding the blotter.
and ever and anon glancing at the clock. At
last the bands indicated the long -wishedfor
hour. Without a word the wielder of the blot
ter gathered up the mail from in front of the
Secretary. and laid it aside. He then got the
Secretary's hat and coat. and said, We have
worked enough to-day; let's GO" The best of
the story is that the man still draws govern
ment salary for work performed in the ecre-
tarys Office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11

When Senator Blackburn got back to the
Senate the other day, looking, if possible,
better than ever, one Senator after another
gravely walked up to him, shook him
solemnly by the hand and earnestly asked
him how that cancer was coming on. He
smiled as long as he could, but finally the
smile got to be a sad and weary one, and
then an expression came over his face sug-
costing that he was inwardly vowing V II
geance on the man who started the cancer
story. He should lose no time in looking
up Representative Martin, of Texas The
two could condole with each other, and at
the same time invent some plan OF unearth-
ing the men who have so ruthlessly mis-
represented them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
INDEX TO new ADVERTISEMENTS

MEETINGs--G Golden Rule Lodge No. u, l. q. O.
r; Pulaski Loan Association; Stockholders
Southwestern Railroad; The Merchants and
Mechanics Association; Oglethorpe Light In
fantry; Jasper Festival.
SPECIAL NorIcEs-Tbe Morning News ct
Fstill's Depot; AS to Crew of British Steamship
Deer Hill.
AMusEMENTs-Effie Elsle- at the Theatre
Annual Charity Ball.
RAuRoAp ScHEpuL Charleston and Savan-
nah Railway.
STEAMSHIP ScHEpuLEs-Oce Steamship Co 4;
Plant Steamship Line.
LEGAL Nor1cE-Dcmands against Martin w.
Adams Estate.
CHEAP COLUMN ADvERTIsEMENTs-H Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted For Rent; For Sale;
Miscellaneous.
HorEI-Windsor Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla.
WRITING PAPER, ETc.-L. & b. S. NJ. II.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
The Cause of Crews Fall.

Mr.. Hooper in the Philadelphia Telegraph.
But the oldest detail of the late crisis is the
thing that actual y brought il about. 1t is hard
to believe that it was fragment of the skin of
the murderer Pranzini that set in motion the
wheels Of the whole complicated machine. Yet
such is the simple literal fact A pocketbook
covered with piece of the skin of the assassin,
tanned and colored Secundltn drtem, was offered
to NJ. Gragon, and the acceptance by that func-
tiOnary of this peculiar present caused so much
talk and created such a sensation that, to turn
the attention of the Partisan press and public
to something else, he started the prosecution of
Gen. Caffarel, never dreaming of the train of
consequences that his action would draw after
IL. SO If Prauzini had never murdered Marie
Regnault and her two companions, NJ. Grevy
would still be President Of France, and nobody
would have had word to say against the SON
in-law,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11

The President, it is said, has selected
Charles James Armistead as successor to
ex-Minster Taylor in Liberia. Armistead
is described as being "a very dark colored
man." who figured conspicuously during the
reconstruction period in Mississippi, being
at that time q Democratic member of the
Legislature. His name was presented to
the President by the Mississippi Congress
sional delegation. If ex-Minister Taylor's
descriptions of Liberia and its people are
correct, it is not easy to imagine why any
one wishes to be sent there, unless it is be-
cause there is a charm about an Office that
cannot be resisted
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
Under the PARTY Yoke.

When Mr.. Lamar's nomination was sent
to the Senate in December the Philadelphia
Press, the leading Republican paper of
Pennsylvania, and one of the chief organs
of the Republican party, said; President
Cleveland could hardly have found typical
and representative Democrat less objection
able to the North than Mr. Lamar" When
TIE Press expressed this opinion it was free
to speak its true sentiments. 1t doubt
less entertains the same opinion of
Mr.. lamar now that it did
then, but it expresses an altogether different
one. What has brought about the change'
Mr.. Lamar has done nothing since his NOM
nation with which the Press finds fault
and it was thoroughly acquainted with his
record before it commended his nomination
The truth Is that the party yoke has been
put upon its neck, and it is no longer free to
say what it thinks. Ought such a paper
have the respect of the honest, thinking
men of its own party!
Some of one Republican Senators who
intended, when Mr.. Lamar's nomination
was sent TO the Senate, to vote for its CON
firmation because they thought it one emil
defeat it, and whyl Because the party yoke
has been put about their necks and they are
no longer free men. Are they true to their
oath of office, and are they fit TO be trusted
with the great interests committed TO their
carel
There is the Republican Senator who has
the manliness and strength Of character to
act in accordance with his convictions He
is Mr.. Stewart, of Nevada. He has stated
in straightforward way, in letter which
has beon published, the reasons which he
thinks justifies him in voting to confirm
Mr.. Lamar's nomination, and they are cred
table to his intelligence and patriotism. He
will not permit the party yoke to be placed
| upon his neck As long as
he is Senator he proposes to
act upon his own Judgment in deal
! ing with the questions which come before
him. He does not intend that narrow, VIC
| lent and partisan arguments shall lead him
into doing what he knows to be unjust and
unpatriotic. His letter makes it clear that
no other man III the South has done more,
North and South into harmony than Mr.
| Lamar, and that no other man in the South
has accepted more completely the results of
the war. The Republican party cannot use
| Senator Stewart to accomplish its partisan
ends, and it will probably appear that there
are several other Republican Senators it
cannot use in that way.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11

No one seems to doubt that Mr. Riddle
berger will vote for Mr.. Lamar's confrma-
ton. One Republican vote in addition to
Mr.. Riddlebergers is all that is required to
confirm the appointment, and there is every
reason to believe that it will be forthcom-
ing. Messrs. Stewart, Sawyer and Jones
have virtually said within the past few
days that they would vote to confirm, and
when the fact that Mr.. Lamar will be made
Judge comes to be regarded as settled,
probably other Senators will vote according
10 their convictions rather than party
prejudices. The Republican press has sue
ceeded to marked degree in working up
opposition 70 Mr. Lamar, but it will prob
ably not defeat him,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Lamar.

From tie Nel0 York Herald Und)
To have inspired so high feeling in the heart
OF man as resolute and perhaps as severe as
Mr. Cleveland shows the possession by Mr..
Lamar OF rare personal traits of loyalty which
land in his tenderness and sincerity shows the
same qualities II tx this capacity for strong,
sincere friendship which gives the President so
firm held upon the public heart. The people
like man who can feel like q man.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
In Honor of Columbus.
F.om me Mem YORK SIN (DemO

From the Mem York SIN (Denl.)
Senator Hoar has got in his bill for monster
celebration of the first discovery of America by
Christopher Columbus. Is Mr., Hoar sure he is
celebrating the right man? Has he forgotten
about the year 1901 founded the Massachusetts
Historical Society and the Salisbury Institute at
Worcester, and. if we are not mistaken, left
his card upon Mr. G.. Frsbie Hoar himself, then
cOmparatively Young gentleman?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11

One of the department officials in Wash
ington sought to discover the date of the es-
Establishment of the American flag as it now
is Congressman and Army and Navy Off
GERS were approached for information, but
could give none that was clearly satisfac-
tory The official at last stumbled across a
gentleman who has passed through the Civil
Service examination, and who told him that
the act establishing the flag was passed in
1918, during Monroes administration. The
official in question is an avowed enemy of
Civil Service reform, but he was forced to
admit that the required examination was
sometimes productive of good results
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11

As a reminder that this is leap year, the
Philadelphia Record prints list of $40, 600,
600 worth Of eligible bachelors in that city
These young men will probably require
some cCaxing before they yield to leap year
proposals They are rich enough to support
themselves