The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-20
JOHN HARVEY,
Underderker.
You kick the BUCKET, and we do the rest.

and that some of the monkeys aboard ESCAPED
70 the Everglades, where they have thrived for
| haIf century Mr.. Hugh O'Neill of New York
| offered Robson 500 for the monkey TO send as
a present, but Jack refused to sell his pet How
ever, he agreed to loan it for the season, and R.
| T. Patton brought it up with him. intending to
eave II in the great oak tree that stands east of
| the Tampa Bay hotel Coming I'D on the
steamer the monkey hit boy who leased it,
ana Mr. Patton TOOK it to bis home in Sanford,
where he VIII keep it until it is perfectly tame;
then he VIII bring it down to amuse the hotel
guests. Some Of the boys talk of organizing a
monkey hunt down in the Everglades.
On THE FARM of Mr. Sumner Oaks, at New
bury, opposite Parkersburg, W. Va, is a re-
markable apple tree. In the fall the tree hangs
full OF dead ripe, half grown and very small
| apples, blossoms and buds all at the same time
In tree has borne this curious crop for many
years; in fact, since the memory of it's owner
IL Is probably one of the oldest, If not the Oldest
| apple tree in Ohio, as ii was planted with sew.
eral others, long since dead, by an old trapper
and hunter, who squatted on the land in times
winch tried mems souls and tested the tenacity
OF their scalps. The old fellow crossed the Al
| leghenles with several others and set
tied along the river when the Indians
were still roaming the country. He was killed
somewhere near the spot where the tree now
| STANDS. Another most rem arkable tree is an
apple tree growing on the farm of Capt. Will
hanson, near Friendly. The tree, which is
prollfc bearer, never blossoms. In the spring
| instead of blossoms the fruit-bearing twips
produce little bulb-Iike protuberanc IS, which
are perfect, but minute apples, and the fruit
sWeLls and grows until dead ripe.
WILLIAM S. PARKERsoN, the leader of the New
Orleans regulatory who Iynched the Malta
Italians, has offices in Commercial Place a
nagged alley for pedestrians only, with an IRON
covered gutter In the middle and dingy, tall
houses on either side. He occupies two rooms
up one flight of stairs, plainly but comfortably
FURNISHED, with small CRATE fires. Parkerson is
only 81 years old, is exactly six feet high
dreSSaS N a
with plain black necktie. His head is large
aud round, his forehead broad, his hair brown
and parted on one side. He has heavy brown
mustache and double chin. His eyes are iu-
tensely black, quiet enough in repose, but snap
ping fire in moments of excitement and look
at you from behind gold-rimmed spec
Parkerson is his voice. which ia
deep but SOFT almost caressing His manner is
emlnently quiet, without a trace of swagger
Altogether he inpre one as a man of great
natural magnetism and immense reserve force
A pattern OF domesticity and a great favor
| lite with those who know him we'll, he lives with
SICK wife and three children in a modern
mouse near the swamp at the edge of the city.
| his popularity was attested in 1885 when he
was made the leader of a body of young men
VINO overthrow the ring democracy that con-
| ticket. He holds no public office himself He
was elected city attorney by the reformers but
| refused to serve.
| The following beautiful letter was written
| several years ago by an Alabama gentleman to
bride on receiving her wedding cards. 1t is
exqusitely fresh and orr inal and full of
poetry II am holding some pasteboard in my
| hands. Three stately pluckings from the bush
OF ceremony. am gazing upon card and a
| name-a name with which your throbbing heart
| was loSI am gazing, too upon a card where
Ihe nearer parent tells the world she will be at
| nome one day, and that is nothing new. But
there Is another card whose mingling there puts
a merry tongue into this speeches. pasteboard,
enamehng fate on commonplace. 1t tells us
! that feeling is maturing into destiny and that
| these cards are but the pale heralds of a com
| ing crisis, when hand that has pressed friends
d danas and piucked flowers, shall close
friend and flower forever And now can Won,
| who have queened il over so many Bonded
| forms, can you come down at last to the frugal
oieI OF single heart? Hitherto you have been
a CLOCK, giving your time to all the world Now
you are a watch, buried in one particular
bosom, watching only his breast, marking only
ms hours, and ticking only to the beat of his
heart-where time and feeling shall be in uni
| son. until these lower ties are lost in that
| higher wedlock. where all hearts are united
around that great central heart of all. Hoping
| that calm sunshine may halow your cIasped
| hands, sink silently into signature"
MORE MEN have died and are buried on the
Isthmus of Panama, along the line OF the pro-
posed canal, than on any equal amount of ter
| ritory in the world. 1t was in 1887. the year
| before the final collapse of the canal scheme
| came, that chance took me to the Isthmus."
as It Is more usually described. How many
| people are buried out in Monkey HIP Certainly
| 5000 or 1900; probably 1900 or Is 0O0 but it's
all matter of guesswork as to the exact num-
per; But the ground about Aspinwall only
| holds small percentage of the men VINO have
| died on the isthmus. The city of Panama, of
course, lays claims to the largest number of
ourlals, but l can say without exaggeration
tnat the entire line of the railroad and canal
| from the Atlantic to the Pacific is a Continuous
| graveyard. At Matochin alone over 8, 500 China
men met their death in one day. That was
t sSen' banana or thirty years ago while
| and long before work on the
canal was begun. Ten thousand Cinnamon had
oeen brought from China to work on the canal
| over one half OF them were camped at what is
now Matochin. Smallpox broke out among
them and the mortality became so great that the
Cinnamon, always easily excited became panic
| stricken and. preferring to die by drowning ran
down the steep sides of the hills near their camp
| and threw themselves into the Chagres river
As have said, 1850 of them drowned II was
because Of this fact that the name
| of the camp was changed to Muertecbino,
| muerte meaning dead, in Spanish and Chino
| signifying Chinaman. The name has since be-
saying, believed by many on the isthmus. that
every tie on the Panama railroad represents a
| dead man.
Now that modern kind of interest is at
tached to the name of Talleyraud by the publ
cation of his memoirs, much literature dealing
Win tne eplScopal d1plomatlst Is being launched
IN Paris. The time has been well chosen by M
1 Pallain. whose "Ambassade de Tallevrand a
| bondres, lS30-'34," issued from the pres .es of
the Llbrairie Plon, is by far the most inporta Mt
| contribution to Talleyrand literature after the
| memoirs which the Due de Broglie has given to
| publicity. These pages-some Of which are fuil
| of keen observation and sparkling satire as well
/ as OF political astutenesS-explain clearly the
| ground taken up by the celebrated French
| statesman when in London. According to
| Pallain, Talleyrand was the guardian of
| the policy of the non-interyention IF
| France in the internal affairs of foreign ma
| tions-a course which was the legacy of Mira
| beau and Danton. How well, however the willy
| French ambassador looked after the affairs ~
| his own government may be gathered from
| Lord Londonderry's speech in August, 1891
| when he said that France was dominating
everybody and directing European AFFAIRS
| which. until then, had been managed bv the
| wisdom and genius of England. All this Lord
! Londonderry attributed to the eminent dinIo
matist who had been the minister of NanoIaor
| Louis XVIII. and Charles x. and was then II,
the service Of Louis Philippe. In France Tai
| leyrand s policy was also warmly eulogized nv
| NJ. Theirs, who ascribed to it the fact that RAJ
| GUM, instead of being fortified tete-oie. nort
| for England, Holland Prussia and Cermanv
was made neutral state, friendly to France
and likely, IN time of peril. to be with the
french nation instead Of against it, The work
oeglns with rather amusing account of Tallev
| leyrand's arrival at Dover in September. 1S3O