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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-30
scKNE or TnR coNFERENcE.
A GovRRNoR.HLEOr DYING.

Tennessee's Newly elected Chief
Magistrate May Never Tako ONCE.
MEMPHIS, TENN, Dec. 29.-Nsws Of q
most reliable nature comes from Winches-
ter. the home Of Gov.-elect Turney, that
the venerable chief justice is nearing his
end from a complication of diseases. He
has been sick long time and is reported
gradually sinking, and, in the opinion OF
those informed, he will not live TO be In
augurated, and preparing message for the
legislature. that meets Jan. 3. is out of the
question. In the event of his death, the
speaker of the Senate would be acting gov
ernor, and lively tnssle is going on for
the place.
THE REPORT ExAGGERATED.
NASHVILLE, TENN, Dec. 29.-The dis
patch sent out from Memphis regarding
Gov. .-eleot Turney being critically III is ex-
aggerated and incorrect. Judge Turney.
while siok. lie not in the preoarious condi-
tion described. His son. who was in Nash-
vile to-day. says he Is sitting up and getting
stronger.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-30
EOB SLAVIN DEAD.
Two Years of Bad Luck Breaks tn,
Mtnstrel's Heart.

haAn5trelS 6eart.
TOLEDO, O., Dec. 20.-Bob Slavin, the
comedian. died suddenly in this city this
morning. He was one Of the most popular
minstrel men in the country and was at one
time one OF the proprietor of the McNish.
Slavin q johnson minstrels. For two wears
be has had nothing but hard luck, and the
cause OF his sad death was principally a
broken heart.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
The Guillotine and Its Inventor.

One Of the most widely disseminated
of popular errors is that DR.. Guillotin
invented the grim machine which still
bears his name. The real inventor of
this sinister continuance was DR.. Louis,
a well known medical man and perma-
nent secretary of the Partisan School of
Medicine, or Academic de Medicine.
DR.. Guillotin, who died in 1914, ener-
getically but vainly protested against
the use of his name in connection with
this disagreesble subject-an evidence.
if one were wanted, of the great diff
Guilty there is of correcting a popular
error. Needless to say that the legend
that DR.. Guillotin was among the vic
tins of his friends ingenious and merci-
full instrument of destruction is wholly
apocryphal. He died at a good old age,
and in his bed, surrounded by his chill
dren who, however, obtained permission
to change their name.-London Satur-
day Review.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
The NEW UMBRELLA.
1t Has a Gutter and Drain to Carry of
the Water.

1t Has Gutter and Drain to Carry OF
the Water.
"The chappies Of New York used to
roll up their trousers when the cable an
nounced that it was raining in London.
but they can soon discard their custom. .
said John M. Hughey, Of New York. 81
saw something on Broadway the other
day that induced this belief. The rain
was coming down in torrents, and the
flood of humanity always surging ON
that street night and day had been
driven into doorways and under awnings
for protection. For half hour not a
pedestrian was seen ON the street.
'My attention was attracted by wells
and looked out big plate glass win
dow to see what was causing the excite
ment. My curiosity was soon satisfied.
In the middle of Broadway one of the
slim necked and consumptive legged
chappies was striding along under curl
GUS looking umbrella, as if not drop of
rain was falling. l noticed that the
umbrella had an unusually long handle,
with prodigious hook on the end that
almost scraped the ground as the dude
proudly cantered along. Through this
hook stream of water was gushing out
and left rivulet in the dudes wake.
''The chappie was so overwhelmed by
the flattering remarks that were show
cred upon him by the rain frightened
pedestrians, who had lost confidence in
their umbrellas and had taken refuge in
the stores, that he condescended to step
into the room where l was standing.
This gave me an opportunity to examine
his funny looking umbrella. l found
that 1t was so constructed as to curl up
around the rim when opened, forming a
complete gutter, like those around the
caves of houses. This gutter, of course.
caught the rain as it ran down the man
sard roof of the umbrella, and kept il
from dripping down to the ground and
splashing the chappie's ice cream trou-
sers. By slight tilt of the umbrella
the water thus caught was thrown to a
common center, which was the entrance
to the sewer that runs down through the
umbrellas handle and out to the ground.
There, you see, is the radiance of the
umbrellas defect as protection from
rain. The dude proudly told me that it
was the latest thing in Lunnun;' that
all the fellahs' over there were using
them; that he had just come from Lun-
num- and had brought the umbrella over
in the ship with him. He hadn't said
anything to the chsppies about it, be-
cause he wanted to knock 'em all out by
being the first seen on Broadway with
the newest English invention. He knew
they would all go wild about it and he
was glad of it. Well, when 1 get back
to New York don't expect to see any
other kind of umbrella carried by the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
A Devil Fish with 1880 Suckers.

Mr.. Edwards, the taxidermist. has
just received large octopus, or devil
fish, which was captured off Old Town
by some fishermen. The creature
weighed over sixty pounds and had
arms three feet eight inches in length.
On each of its eight tentacles or arms
there were 800 suckers, making a grand
total of 1850. The octopus had attached
itseH TO fish hooked on trawl and
was drawn up with it. The same firm
has also received young albino deer, a
buck, shot on Windy island. It has
two-pronged horns and is supposed TO be
about two years old.
The natural color for fawn is brown.
with white spots, but the color of this
one is white, with brown spots. A doe
was shot ON the island some time ago.
30 that it is thought there must be al
bino blood in the deer ON the island
The doe was secured by Mr.. Edwards
some time ago, and now the pair are to
be exhibited in some of the shop win
dows down town. The deerskins are
comparatively easy to preserve, but no
better means of preserving the devil fish
has been found as yet than keeping
them in alcohol. This is on account of
their having no bones, and because of
their shrinking and shriveling, as most
forms of deep water marine life do
Tacoma Ledger.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
THEN LET IT GO AT THAT.


The st. Paul Globe states editorially
that Gen. Harrison has a better show
Of carrying New York than Indiana.
But ex-senator Voorhees,, the Demo-
cratic sycamore of the Wabash, says
that Cleveland is not in it with Harri-
son in Indiana, and Ex-Governor Gray,
who so narrowly missed the Democratic
nomination for vice-president, says
that Cleveland will drop 10000 votes to
the rear of Benjamin in the Hoosier
state. On the Globes theory, there
fore, Harrison's victory in New York
will surpass even the 1900 plurality of
1888. The Globes view is undoubtly
correct. 1t is corroborated, moreover,
by the testimony of the entire New
York Democratic delegation, by editors
Dana and Watterson, by Brice and
Springer, and by the sentiments of
New York laborers and veterans.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
A Wonderful Rather.

II once knew an old unreconstructed
Confederate in Arkansas who had a
colony of rattlesnakes that were trained
to play Dixie with their rattles to his
intense edifcation," said Colonel J. S.
Evans, of Meridian, Miss.
'The man belonged to my regiment
during the war, and he had a rattle
snake that followed him all through the
Louisiana campaign like faithful dog.
He didn't join the army until near the
close of the trouble, and he brought his
snake with him. When the reptile got
tired on the march her master would
coil her around his neck and trudpe
along with his pet until camp was
struck. AT night he put the snake in a
circle formed with a hair rope, so as to
keep her from crawling around to the
dread of other soldiers. During battle
that snake would dart in and out be-
tween the ranks of the fighting men I'M
til she found her master, when she
would stick her tail straight into the air
and rattle off the first few bars of Dixie
with pronounced distinctness and the
most ecstatic delight. Her master had
of course taught her to do it.
AFTER the war he took his snake back
to the Arkansas farm, and in a little
while her progeny was wonderful. When
l went to see him fifteen years ago his
barnyard was given over to rattlesnakes.
and on signal from him, by ringing a
bell, the reptiles would dash to the CEN
ter of the yard, and the clang of Dixie
that the swift movements of their tails
produced was as deafening as it was in
spring. st. Louis Globe Democrat,
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
Myths of Ancient Mariners.

Sailors yarns have always been cele-
brated for their imaginative character.
Those of today, however, have no oppor-
tunity for favorable comparison with the
stories told by mariners of antiquity.
The latter were able to count upon an
inexhaustible public credulity, nothing
which they could possibly invent being
too monstrous or unusual for belief.
Their tales presumably did much to
augment the fears of the sea which were
commonly entertained in those DAYS.
giving birth to many of the myths of
ocean. They told about the strange land
inhabitated by lotos eaters, who fed upon
the fruit of forgetfulness and lost all
memory of country and friends. Hey
ond was the terrible land of the one eyed
giants, called Cyclops, they said, while
elsewhere were to be found the strange
islands where the enchantresses Gree
and Calypso lived. These islands were
in the narrow western Mediterranean,
and beyond was the Cimmerian land,
where the people lived in darkness al
ways, inhabiting gloomy caves.
There were the Sirens also, whose song
was death. They were condemned to
die when a man should pass them with
out stopping. Ulysses accomplished this
by putting wax in his ears. So they
were changed into rocks of Sorrento,
where they still exist terror to mari
ners. The Sirens typify the surf, whose
harmonious murmurs are often the death
music of the sailor. In like manner the
Cyclops represent the Storm Fiend, as
their names show. Brontes is the roll.
Steropes the flash and Argis the white
ness of lightning.
Likewise the snaky Gordons are
thought to be fgurative representations
Of the white capped and angry waves.
Not less to be feared were the dreadful
5ymplegades-huge moving rocks which
were tabled to crush ships passing be-
tween them. 1t has been surmised that
the tradition respecting these rocks was
derived from the floating icebergs, which
Turing the glacial period must have
ssued from the Black sea; but this seems
hardly Observation-Disclosures Star.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
The DimcuIty with Chinese,

The difficulty of foreigner learning
the Chinese language may be inferred
from the statement of an English trav-
eler. He and his companion, previous
to starting for China, had supplied them
selves with a Chinese grammar. In a
day or two the discovery was made that
the single letter had las ways of being
pronounced, and that each pronuncia-
ton had an entirely different meaning.
Then it dawned upon them that there
was no poetry about the Chinese Ian
guage, that it was not worth learning
and their grammar was secretly con-
signed to the river mud by being drop
ped overboard.-Yankee Blade.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
Walters Who Do Very Wen.

Walters in some of the more expen
sive restaurants, where they work ali
day, get as much as forty dollars month,
1t is a very old statement that their in.
comes much exceeds those of the best
paid clerks and bookkeepers, but they
earn them. That is, most Of them do.
Girls who work as walters in the cheap
luncheon places get six dollars a week
and their meals. They fare better than
typewriters, school teachers or seam
stresses.-New York Herald.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
Is Good City Government possible2


Mr.. Moorfeld Storey has his say il
The New England Magazine on this
topic. He finds that American cities
are badly governed because bad and in
competent men are chosen to govern
them. There needs no voice from heaven
TO tell us this. But Mr.. Storey looks
further, and finds that bad and incompe.
tent men are chosen to be municipal of.
ticers m the first place because the aver
age American citizen takes little interest
IN the government of his city. If he
took the same pains in selecting a mayor
that he does in selecting a foreman to
manage his private business we should
hear no more hue and cry about rotten
municipal administration. In the next
place, Mr.. Storey finds we have poor city
government because national and party
politics enter into the selection of of.
ticers. Because a man has upheld the
party and voted early and often for il
for twenty-five years, his fellow towns.
men see in him a man qualified to be
chief of the street cleaning department.
When these two ancient foes to good
city government-the apathy of the
average citizen and party politics-are
blown up in the explosion of popular
opinion, then and then only shall oui
public affairs be as well administered as
mems private business now is, in the
writer's judgment. The way to begin
the thing is for decent citizens to inter.
est themselves in municipal economies.
Mr.. Storey mentions plan:
The tendency in this country is to concen.
trate municipal authority in few hands. In
Glasgow and Birmingham the best results are
achieved by enlisting large number of able
citizens and dividing the work among them,
some taking charge of sewers, others of lights,
others of water, etc. II makes little difference
which system prevails, If only good men are
induced TO do the work. Make it in popular
estimation as great a tribute to a mans bust. |
ness ability to make him an alderman as It is |
TO make him director of a bank or railroad, |
and men will be glad to take positions in the |
city government.
Once persuade the people that the govern. |
ment or city is mere matter Of business |
and induce them to treat IL as such. and |
municipal reform is assured.
The experiment is worth trying. Let even |
twenty OF the men in any city who are its bust. |
ness leaders meet and really consider what |
steps should be taken to secure economical |
municipal govern ment. Let them each agree |
to give say two hours week to the work. Let |
them take measures TO organize their fellow |
citizens of all classes in support of their move |
ment' and let them show the same intelligence
and energy that they exhibit in dealing with
the ai1airs OF business corporations In which |
they are directors. Let them select their can.
didates and agree to pay them what their time
is fairly worth, to stand by them and to keer
them In office as long as they do their work
well. Can any one doubt that such intelli.
gent and organized effort would succeed?
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
The Best.

Ii we had only the larger vision that
can see all around we would perceive
that everything which happens to us is
the best that can happen. If it is some.
thing very bad, then we learn from it to
avoid the mistakes and pitfalls that
tumbled us into the ditch the other time.
Many a time, looking back in after
years to an unfulfilled hearts desire of
long ago, we know beyond doubling
that it would have been our ruin if we
had obtained it. What we most wish
for is often the worst thing for us.
1t is absolutely certain that in the Iona
run the good and i'll of life are eyened
up exactly. We always get precisely
what we earn, no more and no less. II
you stay poor it is because you have not
the executive ability to get rich. It was
Emerson who said that the highest test
OF success was not wealth gaining, how.
ever, but character building. This lofty
result everybody can secure. When all
seems to have failed you and the world
appears to be falling in fragments around
your head, do not rave or whine or de.
spair. Gather up your pluck and try
again, serene in the sure knowledge that
the best will come to you at last. II
surely will. Whatever is best for us
fate sends to us. The failures we make
arise from the fact that we do not know
how to use the best when we get it. Rub
open your eyes, summon all your cour.
age and shrewdness and look for the gold
in the rock that has just hurled you
down. 1t is always there, dead sure.
Do your best; be honest and kindly TO
all men. When you get down and, are
inclined to despair. recall this from John
Serene l folo my hands and wait.
Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea:
/ rave No more 'gsinst time nor fate.
For lol my own will come to me.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
1t was very near Memorial Day that

1t was very near Memorial Day that
General A. D. Streight passed over to the
comrades to whose memory he had aided
" doing honor for quarter of a century.
His escape from Libby prison by burrow-
ing through the earth in tunnel is one of
the two or three most thrilling and dra-
matte incidents of the war. The tunnel
was designed BY another Union prisoner,
q soldier named Rose. Colonel Streight,
in spite of a prison diet of corn bread
and water, was still rather stout, and
the difficulty he experienced in squeez-
ing himself through the narrow tunnel
has been told many time. The tunnel
escape is a story that viii bear telling
as long as the American flag waves. The
boys and girls of each generation will
enjoy hearing it as they enjoy the story
of Putnam's ride down the stone steps
at Horseneck.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President,
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
For Vice-President,
WHITELAW REID.
THE DEMOCRATIC DISCOVERY

1.-THE Cincinnati Enquirer is the great
Democratic paper of Ohio. 1t supports
Cleveland, of course, though it didn't
want to, and tried to prevent his nomi-
nation. The day before he was nomi-
mated it prefaced its news from Chicago,
which announced that his nomination
was practically certain, with these
quaint and curious head lines, in heavy
type, viz:
THAT WHICH
Washington Could Not Consistently Take;
That Which Grant Tried to Obtain, But
Had to Submit to Cold Refusal;
That Which the Father of His Country
Thought Never Should Be Bestowed;
That Which the Savior OF His Country
Was Denied, Namely, Third
Nomination.;
Is Now Sought-Aye, Demanded-In This
Generation-and by Whom?
By a Man Who Has Already Been
WIN udb hItdln
Which the Sainted Tilden Lost Through
Dabolical Thievery;
Which the Immortal Hancock and Sey-
mour the Great Were Deprived OF,
And Which Did Not Even Adorn the
Brow Of the Learned and
Scholastic Greeley
Thou Mayst Call This Sentiment, Dearly
Beloved Brethren-Perhaps 1t Is,
But Does the Text SAVIOR Of Policy?-No,
No, Clarence-0r Of Politics.
Nay, Nay, Pauline.
Neither Does the Inspiration Reveal a
Solitary Tinge of Democracy-Yet II,
After Fruitless Search for Ages,
Man Has Been Discovered
Who Is Greater Than
His Party
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01

Everybody who has ever visited New
York city knows that the most delight
full part of it is the Battery and Battery
park, where Jenny Lind sang at Castle
Garden a generation ago, and where
New York'a social Four Hundred of a
century gone by used to take the air Of
summer evenings. For twenty years.
until quite recently, this pleasant spot
has been given up to steerage emigrants
and snoozing loafers. The emigrants
have been removed to Ellis island. The
malodorous loafers still snooze upon the
benches of the park and will continue
to do SO as long as the place is public
park. But Castle Garden itself is to be-
redeemed to nobler uses. 1t is to be
turned into an aquarium, belonging to
the city, and will again become one of
the chief points Of attraction of New
York. Both fresh and salt water fish
will be exhibited in it's clear glass tanks
and marine plants will grow as they do
in their native habitat. A real whale
and a real shark will ornament the col
lection. There are few aquariums of
any kind in America, and the interest
and the value this one at Castle Garden
win have, especially for the inland in
habitants Of our great country, are i'm
measurable. The eyes of the boy and
girl from Kansas and Kentucky will
grow wide with wonder looking upon
the monster octopus, whose pictures they
have seen as he overturns ships boat
and swallows the sailors bodily.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01

Talk of women not having as much
business shrewdness as meni Thersnre
yet living nineteen widows of Revoiu-
tionary soldiers regularly drawing gov
eminent pensions. The oldest Of them
is hundred, the youngest seventy-four
years old. Some of them must have
been only sixteen and the veterans who
were the fathers Of this country must
have been past eighty when they were
welded, yet these shrewd bits of girls
knew enough to go in for the pensions
which were a sure thing all the rest Of
their lives. They know also how to ex-
emplify the truth Of the saying that PEN
sioners live long. =
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01

Assistant have here an article
twisting the British Lions tail. It is a
corker, but 1t is unsigned.
Editor-Sign 1t q. whittiker Jones.
What would have been the moral effect
Of the Declaration Of Independence
dgned Prominent CitizenT-Life.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01

10 ana rom all points in America. EngIand
ONCE of this company. AioAe'
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
Fast Train arrives at ST. Paul the Third Dsy

Full information concerning ra,os IT,.
Trans, routes and other details furnished on an
application 10 n. ID. CHETHAM, Agent.
New WhatcoIn
Ass,s,ou. A. ID. CHARLTON,
assistant General Passenger Agent, Ioi F,rs,
street, Portland eSn'' III rlrst
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01

racine cast steau ship Co. steamers ar
Eve TON and depart every five days for san
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
Great Northern Railway Line
Time Schedule taking effect March q. $50

Through cars connecting at New West
minister with electric railway for Vancouver.
Through tourist cars to st. Paul Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays; to Toronto,
every Wednesday, TO Boston every Sunday
For further information apply to S. F. Neff,
Supt., Seattle, Wash.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
STEAMBOATS, AND RAILROADS
B. B. & B. G.. r. r.


Schedule No. taking effect March 10, 1892
at O'Clock.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
THROUGH TICKETS

fuilman sleeper reservations can be secnred
III advance through any agent of the road
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
for Infants and Children.

"Castoriais so wen adapted to children that
recommend itas superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, M. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, ny.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01
Elegant Day Coaches.

. "A a conllnuous line connecting with All lines
anording direct and uninterrupted service. 's
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-01

"The use Of 'Castoria is so universal and
It's merits SO well known that it seems a work
OF supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
Intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach"
CARLOS MARTIN, d. D.,
N5w York City.
Late Pastor Bloomingdsle Reformed Church.