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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14

vote.
Preparations for the event are well
under way. Rev. DR. William A. Bartlett.
pastor of the historic New York Avenue
church, is chairman of the committee on
arrangements, as well as of the executive
committee. John B. Wight and John
w. Thompson are secretary and
treasurer, respectively, of the latter COM
mittee
The assembly being 'open to all Gods
children like the light of day" as DR..
Wylie says, the spectators, if the demand
for slttings be any indication, are to tax
the church's capacity. President Cleve-
land is expected. Vice President Steven
son, a Presbyterian now, will, it
Is said, be among the delegates
as visitor, together with
United States Senator Calvin S. Brice of
Ohio Four of the cabinet have promised
to assist. Members of the supreme court
Judiciary, as is well known, usually at
tend, in individual capacity of course.
The building i'll which the body will
deliberate has long been of national inter
est. In 1t Lincoln wOrshiped and Stan
ton met the Acting Vice President Of the
United States in the stormy days of re
construction. There, too. the chief JUS
tice of the republics highest court and
his associates came when bred Scott S
case was firing the hearts of slavery
haters, to pray for aid and wisdom. And
going back to when Washington was but
the beginning of city of magnificent dis
lance, on the site of this old church Presi-
dent jefferson tied one faded horse and
bestrode another on his famous inaugural
Journey
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14

was waking faint echoes in his little home,
and that the anxiety he was bearing for
another was sharper with pain than any
physical torture he had experienced.
Ned looked up at the smooth white oval
of the vegetable seed in his hand and
made resolve,
When he looked up Harvey was just
raising his hand. Ned noticed how it
trembled.
When the fingers were withdrawn
there was something black outlined
against their bloodless tips.
The change in his face was that of
death.
With a quick movement toward his
friend, Foster made a sudden thrust and
gesture, and-how it was done no one
could explain-but after the slight con-
fusion and peremptory orders to fall in
line Harvey was seen standing in his old
place staring with bewildered gaze at a
white object in his open palm, and Ned,
erect and calm, with brow of more than
mortal beauty, awaiting the signal of
death.
AS soon as Harvey regained control of
his confused faculties he made frantic,
pitiable efforts to communicate with his
friend, but was silenced Mt the point of
musket and compelled to throw himself
face downward with the rest, while the
seventeen doomed men were led forth,
bound together with cords, their eyes
bandaged, and shot repeatedly until life
was extinct. They asked the privilege of
being shot front, but was refused and
made to sit upon log near the wall, with
their backs to the executiOners.
Six were taken out first, then six more
and then five.
Darkness fell like a great funeral pail
as the last shots were fired, and stars
shed their holy candle rays above the
dead: the dishonored dead, lying in one
great heap, body piled atop of body.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14

There is a nutritive ele-
ment in ale and beer, but it
is small-there is the intoxi-
eating effect, too. That is
a strong objection. Yet ale
and beer are used and benefit
health at times. There is
another liquid, the active
principle of malt. Johann
Hoff's Malt Extract. One
dozen bottles of it has the
same nutritive effect as a
large cask of ale or beer.
That's an advantageous
other it has not the intoxi-
eating effect of either. 1t
helps digest and assimilate
food, creates appetite, makes
the weak strong and healthy.
Be sure to obtain the
GENUINE.
See that signature JOHANN HOFF" is on
neck label OF bottle.
Eisner & Mendeson Co, Sole Agents, l52
and 1871 Franklin street, New York
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14
SHE WAS BOSS
And Managed the Wedding Without
the Help Of the Groom.
From the Lewiston Journal.

From the Lewiston Journal
There was creaking of boots upon the
stairs and IA shutting at the door Then
the door yawned and a woman blew into
the room. She brought something with
her. Twas man, stubby little chap,
with light hair and innocent blue eyes
He was a Swede, and she-she was a great
strapping woman, who could have logged
the man under her arm like rolling pin.
She may have lugged him upstairs, but
she merely showed him into the room
ahead of her and closed the door. Then
wait, let's understand where we are.
The scene occurred in a brokers' office in
Portland, a day or two ago, and this ac-
count is absolutely veraclOuS
This broker has been clergyman, but
he now attends to nothing in a profess
siOnal way except occasional matrimonial
transactions.
Now, the woman again Said she, after
she had tucked the little man away in the
shelter of her amplitude:
We want to get married, Can you fix
u.s."
IN try it." responded the broker.
just excuse me until | run out and get
certificate"
Set down. why don't you." and the
woman snapped the little man in chair,
making a handle of his arm, The three
men who were seated about tho Office com
menced to take a vast amount of interest
in this meek little man and this grim, big
woman.
The silence was unbroken until the
brokers' return.
Now, please step forward said he
Stand up and the big woman act
ually yanked the little man to his feet by
a twist of the arm,
Take hold of hands, please, suggested
the presiding officer. 1t became evident
that the Swede could not understand En-
glish, but the woman had enough bust
ness in her to supply all deficiencies. The
man stood stock still, his face wreathed
in a vacuous smile.
Let's have your hand, y said the bride,
reaching for the limpy pendant arm. The
groom stuck forward, hesitatingly, the
wrong hand. 90
Nav, not that one" snarled the
woman, impatiently, and she snatched
the hand farthest from her, twisting the
little chap about.
will you have this woman etc
Say yes" snapped the woman in a
stage prompter's whisper
The groom's vacuous eyes rolled up to-
ward his companions frizzes, and he
huskily suffered:
"E-E-'essir"
The brides reply was unmistakable.
Yes, l will" quoth she, and the knot
was tied. Then there was a little prayer,
the brokers standing about, and, mingiing
with the fervent Amen" came a ques-
ton from the business end of the new
partnership She asked:
Nov, what's the damage?''
20, about So"
Too much" very decisively You
amt earnt it,
We'll, give me what you've a mind
to
Here's SO, and it's enough 1t didn't
take you five minutes.
She walked toward the door, but the
little man stood still in the center of the
room. The woman took two strides back
and seized her newly-acquired property
by the hand.
Come along" she snapped, and she
whirled the little chap on his heel with a
vehemence that startled the witnesses.
The echo of footsteps had died away upon
the stairs before word was said in
the brokers' office Then the man with
the gray mustache said with long
draw sigh:
80, Lord, what woman"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14

papers his collection comprises, but he
thinks there are over 1000 AS they are
variegated in color and different in size
and appearance, the collection is a re-
markablc one.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14

Rudynrd Kipling is reported 10 have ahan.
deucd shortstOry writing ~ devote his tlfae
90 LONGER works OF nctlOu.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14
SHOES.

In every case. It's a foot race, and we're in
1t from start to finish. Our footwear Is a win
ner every time, and at all distances. Whether
you're a Splinter or q slayer, our shoes viii
stay by you every time. We make a dash
when it comes to footwear, and it's dash
that carries everything before II. We always
have the largest variety OF the best shoes for
men women and children's wear in Savan-
nah, and buyers take as kindly to our prices
as their feet do to our shoes Our spring stock
has arrived and presents an assortment that
invites an early inspection.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
About Thunder storms.

Thunder storms are more frequent in
Java than in any other part of the
world, there being an average of 81
days in each year upon which they
occur. Next to Java comes Sumatra,
which never has less than sc thunder
days" per year Then comes Hindoo-
stan with So, Borneo with 81, the Afri-
can gold coast with SO, and the region
around Rio de Janeire, Brazil, with 81.
The European list is headed by Italy,
with IS thunder days cut of the 365 on
an average. Austria has %; Baden,
Wurtemburg and hungary each aver
age 90; Silcsia. Bavaria and Belgium
have 2l; Holland and SaXony, Is;
France, Austria and South Russia, IL;
Great Britain and Switzerland only =.
At Cairo, Egypt, and in North Russia
and in Sweden and Norway the aver
age is only per year. In Finland and
East Turkestan thunder storms are
wholly unknown.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
Meeting of Governors.

Gov. Fishback of Arkansas has is
sued a call for n convention of all the
Governors of Southern States, TO be
held in Richmond, Va, two months
hence. The call has been addressed to
every Governor in the South, and It's
object is stated as being to attract
homeseekers and capital to that section
of the country. His EXcellency of
Arkansas suggests there should be
adopted some short, simple, but en-
phatic, method of calling the attention
of the world to the magnificent in
ducements of the South" And his eX-
cellency very properly argues that if
these inducements were known, "there
ought to be no difficulty in turning to-
ward our favored region the vast tide
of investments and of immigrants
which will follow the wake of the
Columbian Exposition"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
Chaperons of College Girls.

A serious drawback to the cause of
higher education for women in the
English universities is reported from
Oxford. The cost of 'chaperonage"
has risen. The older women, who are
considered Indispensable escorts to the
girl students who attend examinations
and lectures, are demanding and re-
ceiving higher pay than ever before.
In many cases the students cannot af-
ford to meet this increased expense,
and daring reforrner has suggested
that chaperons be dispensed with.
While this has horrified the conse.va-
tives, it has pleased the independent
young women, who are beginning to
realize that there is no lurking peril in
the streets of Oxford.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
The Scimitar Snake.

There is little reptile belonging ia
Madagascar known as the scimita
snake, that is, the curling sword. Run
ming along the back from head to tail
is a blackish, horny substance, which
bends with the convolutions of the
snakes body as readily as would a
well-tempered steel spring; and
throughout its entire length it bears an
edge as hard as flint and sharp as a
razor. They are not poisonous, but
when one of them springs on a man,
which he likes very well to do, he will
soon have leg off unless cracked on
the pate. Some snake specialists claim
that the presence of this reptile on the
island is the reason there are no large
quadrupeds TO be found there at pres
ent, the curling sword in back ages
having taken off legs faster than they
could be created.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
HawaIi,s Standing Army.

The standing army" of Hawaii in
time of peace consists of seventy men.
When the dogs of war are let loose it
is swelled as high as 200 men some
times. The Hawaiian army rarely
Stands" however. It prefers to sit
down when it is not on the dead run
for cover. Every man in the army has
different kind of uniform. The
equipment consists of almosts every
sort of noise producer, from bulldog
revolvers with bark like the bull of
Bashan to the matchbox that Capt.
Miles Standish used to kill Indians
with. If the rank and file take a
notion" to obey the order of their
superior officers well and good. If
they choose not to obey, also well and
good. It's all the same to the officers,
and more so to the rank and file.-.
Syracuse Herald.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
Small Men.

A mill owner not long ago issued the
order that the girls in his employ
should not wear laced shoes. The
reason he gave was that each ones
boots became united at least five times
a day, and took at least five seconds
to retie. When these twenty-five sec
onds were multiplied by 3OO-the num-
Der of girls in his employ-the loss of
time was, he said, too serious to SUBJ
NIT to. Another mill owner, talking
over this case, said he had forbidden
visitors because each of his "hands''
turned her head to look at them. Com
putting twenty visitors a day and two
seconds for the heads turning to each
of his GOO employees, made over six
hours daily wasted in that gesture.
Statistics are memorable things.
York Times.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

OF 1874, 3s4 recruits received into the
German army and navy recently only
s24 could not read or write.
Seven American presidents have died
IN the month of July and in that
month Garfield received his fatal
wound.
A snow white opossum, a rare speci-
sented to the Central park New York;
menagerie.
A new shoe for men which will short
ly be introduced has flap top like an
arctic" and fastens with one single
snap buckle.
New Zealand streams were stocked
with trout and salmon twenty years
ago. Now one day 8 ordinary work Of
an angler is 100 pounds of trout
The sultan has ordered competi-
tive trial of Krupp and Gail cannon.
The latter are used by the French
army, and the Ottoman army has been
using the former.
The Catholics of Mexico are prepar-
ing to raise funds for the erection of a
magnificent cathedral on the banks Of
the Grigelga river on the spot where
the first mass was said In America.
The first almanac printed in Europe
is be ieved to have been the "Kalen-
darium Novum," by Regimontanus,
calculated for the three years, 1873,
l494 and 1913. 1t was published a.
Buda, in Hungary.
The most valuable bit of orc ever
melted in the world. so far as known,
was q lot containing 200 pounds Of
quartz-holaing gold at the rate of
$50, 900 per ton, and was found in
mine at Ishpeming, Mich.
1t is said that fully 100,o 200 complete
sets of the new Columbian stamps,
costing $40 each, will be taken by coll
lectors. Mr.. Wanamaker estimates
that the stamps Sold this year to coll
lectors will net the government over
81, 500, 600, as this money will not have
to be earned by mail service. The
value Of the stamp exhibit at Chicago
is estimated at $4,000
A lady at Ashford, Eng lard has just
TcCcNcu ~ ucqucSb VI SioO,OOO IrOin an
old gentleman, an entire stranger, for
a small act of kindness rendered to
him five years ago. He was in the
crowd outside Buckingham palace
watch ng the arrivals at one Of tho
queens drawing rooms when he be-
came faint and staggered helplessly.
The crowd jeered him. shouting thai
he was druLk, and commenced to jostle
him rudely. The lady saw that he was
i'll, and helped him through the crowd
TO seat in a park close by. He soon
recovered, asked her name, and they
parted and she did not hear Of him
again until two weeks ago, when his
soli itors informed her of his death and
that he had bequeathed her the sum
named
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
Tobacco and Tea in EngIand.

Tobacco consumption is increasing
in Great Britain. For the past year
it averaged one and six-tenths pounds
per head Of the population. In
France IL averages nearly two pounds.
In England the consumption Of tea is
rapidly increasing and coffee dimin'
ishing. Cocoa has increased 81 per
cent in Ave years.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

A student of comparative politics
points out the fact that the government
of the United States is among the old
est of civilized governments now exist
ing in the world. since most European
countries have been to considerable
degree revolutionized since the frs.
election of George Washington to the
Presidency. The French Republic. the
present German Empire and the Italian
Kingdom, considered as political enth
ties, are but youngsters beside tho cen
tury-old American Republic.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
Lost n Sale.

was visiting some friends in a min
ing town in Upper Michigan, and had
called one evening at a fancy dry goods
store to make some small purchases.
While standing chatting with the
woman proprietor, man opened the
door, and walked or rather stumbled
in. He was a typical woodsman in red
shirt, plaid pantaloons and outside
boots. He spoke very brol1enly, and
had, as was evident from the aromatic
Ddor which permeated the room, been
slipping too frequently from the cup
that cheers, and also inebriates. APP
preaching the. counter he leaned
heavily upon it, and asked in broken
tones:
"Wud We tap boot, mom?"
What do you mean?" inquired the
astonished woman.
Tap ee boot?"
He held up dilapidated foot, and
nearly lost his balance as he again
asked brokenly:
TAP er-er-boot?'
mo, l don't tap boots. But / can
sell you a pair of baby's boots" and
the little woman industriously pro-
ceeded to make sale, for she knew
her customer had plenty of money and
baby into the bargain.
But at that moment the door opened
and tall big form in long overcoat
appeared, the strong arm of the law
reached in, grabbed the red shirt by
the collar, and yanked its wearer out
of doors 1t was the depot policeman
after the bibulous lumberman.
The little woman behind the counter
looked hurt.
"Well," she said in grieved tone,
''they say the law protects folks, but it
spoiled fifty-cent sale for me that
time
And she restored the little boots to
the showcase with vigorous hand.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
CHAPTER VIII
Singular Instance OF the Utility of
Pass-Keys..

Where he ran at first, John never
very clearly knew; nor yet how long
a time elapsed ere he found himself
in the by-road near the lodge of Raw
elston, propped against the wall, his
lungs heaving like bellows, his legs
leaden-heavy, his mind possessed by
one sole desire-to lie down and be
unseen. He remembered the thick
coverts round the quarry-hole pond,
an untrodden corner of the world
where he might surely find conceal
ment till the night should fall.
Thither he passed down the lane; and
when he came there, behold! he had
forgotten the frost, and the pond was
alivo with young people skating, and
the pond-side coverts were thick with
lookers-on. He looked on awhile him
self. There was one tall, graceful
maiden, skating hand in hand with .
youth, on whom she bestowed her
bright eyes perhaps too patiently; and
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
On PictaIrn Island.

Pitcairn island, where the descend
ants of the mutineers of the Bounty
live in seclusion and primitive content
ment, boasts of being absolutely free
from the vice of drinking. The prohi-
bition laws there touch not only
liquors, but tobacco. A shipwreclxed
sailor named Coffin, who was cast
ashore there a few months ago, had
managed to save his dearly cherished
pipe and pouch of tobacco. The chief
magistrate of the colony promptly in&
formed him that he must give up
smoking il he wanted to enjoy their
hospitality, and when he refused he
was so effectually boycotted that he
fed this ocean paradise by the first
pessing ship. Capt. Bailey OF the
American merchantmen vigilant from
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24

Japan h-tngs this story. He stopped
at the island and traded trinkets for
food with the natives, and found them
happy and prosperous, though not n
drop of rain had fallen there for two
years, and the volcano over which their
island lies has been giving ominous in
dications of activity.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
A Famous Letter.

The Philadelphia Record says that
the original draft Of Rev. Jacob
Duche's famous letter to General
Washington, dated October Is, 1777.
has come to light in a local collec-
tion of valuable documents. DR..
Duche was an old time rector OF
Christ church, Philadelphia. At the
beginning Of the revolutionary war
he figured as an ardent patriot, but
when the British redcoats marched
into Philadelphia and took possession
Of the city the alarmed rector sud-
denly found himself to be most de-
voted Royalist. General Washington
was then encamped in headquarters
in Worcester township, Philadelphia,
now Montgomery county. and to him
DR.. Duche dispatched letter. which
now in printing takes up nearly eight
quarto pages, urging him to return
to the bosom of good King George.
Washington Immediately directed the
epissis to congress as "a letter of a
very curious and extraordinary ma
ture."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
A Good soul.

Wool-Bronson's dead wife was a
good soul. Did he show you that
memorandum she wrote when she
could not speak?
Van Pelt-No; what was itp
Wool-It ran this way: "Dear
Jack, your collar button is in the
bureau drawer, back left-hand corner.
Don't look for that horrid red and
green neck tie; / burned it up."-
Truth.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
COLUMBUS AT COURT.

The wars are ended and soft-brooding peace
Distends her pinions DER the ravaged land
Hard won by Isabel and Ferdinand
From Moorish clutches. AT this glad release
or siege and sally, IL is no caprice
But in thanksgiving, that the royal hand
Hastens a general fete-day TO command,
And bids the mourning in the realm to cease
While the mad mirth goes forward, and al
Spain
Unites the ready cup OF JOY TO quaff,
Columbus, mute and hopeless, worn with pain
Leans in detection on his faithful stan,
Bearing potential empires in his brain,
And fools around him only look and laugh.
Huntington Smith, in the Independent