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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
BANKER CLEwss' VIEWS.
The Financial Outlook as Seen From
Wall Street,

New York, Aug. 26.-During the past
week, the stock market has fairly held
the firmneSs of undertone exhibited the
previous week. The market however is
so narrow and so entirely in the hands of
the professional traders that itIeasily re-
fleets any change of attitude among oper-
ators and at the samo time affords special
inducements to the creation of iuctua-
tions. The stubborn frmness of prices
has induced a reduction of the short" in
terest. An unfavorable influence how
ever, has come from Boston in the shape
of large realRings upon General Electric,
with a resulting decline in that stock
Large sales of Northern Pacific issues
also tended to weaken prices momentarily
The sensitiveness about time loans still
continues. These various influences
though comp aratively unimportant both
in detail and in aggregate, have proved
sufficient to affect a highly sensitive mar
6et and to ca lse realizings upon the raj
lies. Even The good effect of a gain of
4,500,000 in the reserve averages OF the
banks only male the occasion more favor
able for the tai ing OF profits.
The course OF the silver discussion in
congress does not, at the moment, prove
to be an important influence in the stock
nihcance isuntk nrraJed but because. in its
present stage, the issue is not calculated
to affect immediate values. Wall street
perhaps esttma les the probabilities as to
live to one in favor of the uncondi-
tional repeal Of the silver purchase
clause; and thaf5 calculation undoubtedly
gives backbone 40 the market. But there
is much diversi T. of opinion as to what
may prove to be. the first effect of the re-
peal upon the hlE lncial markets. That il
will result in 81 eat and general revival
OF confidence Thea G can be and there is
little question. l5ut the present crisis is
so extraordinary in its nature and its
workings that m en- are cautious in esti-
mating how niue h effect may be expected
from such a radi, al relief as this would
be; and moreover. in the present public
mood, such pre- MUM is put upon doubts
that the solitary chance of an unfavor-
able decision by Congress has much more
influence than it SElyht. In other words,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
THE soFT-sHELL LOBSTER.
A Delightful Fellow Who Seldom
Finds His Way to Market.
From the Washington Star

AbAA4 INC " tto4A4lLH TN s7beAA+
'Never seen a soft-shell lobster2 Well
that's not surprisin'. You see they never
get to market They're so good that they
always get ate first"
The grizzled old Fisherman wrung the
salt water out of his whiskers as he
talked, having just landed through the
surf in his boat with fine cargo of fresh
caught Holsters.
"A soft-shelled lobster does not turn up
every day, even at this season, :" he went
on. "When I catch one my wife cooks it
for our own dinner Good Well, you can
bet. Fried in boiling lard, just like a
newly-shed crab, it's the finest thing on
earth in the way of provender. Some
thing like a crab, you know, but a great
deal more delicious. Delmonico would
give $40 dozen for 'em, only that they
can't be got for any price.
You see, when the Holsters are she'd
ding they hunt for holes among the rocks
to hide in. Until they get their new coats
they don't usually walk abroad, but stay
quietly in dark crannies where no enemy
is likely to find them. At such lines
they are not apt to be looking for food
and they don't get into the pots on that
account. There isn't any animal that is
Drawer than a lobster when he is in fight
ing trim, but without his armor he is
pected that he should take any extra
risk. It's only foolish one now and then
that strays into one of the traps.
Suppose you had to take off your skin
every now and then and wait for q new
one to grow. P'r'aps you'd feel a trihe
sensitive and retirin'. That's Just the
way it is with lobster. His coat is of
plate mail. 1t doesn't expand as he de-
velOps. So the time comes when he must
swell or bust. He bu'sts, and when he
comes out of his shell, he is bigger by a
considerable than he was before The
process is a great strain on his health and
sometimes he dies in getting through
with it, He has to do the same thing a
good many times before he gets his full
growth, but after that he doesn't shed
any more.
This is the season when Holsters shed,
Most of those we catch are busters.
That is what we call those that are on
the point of changing their coats To do
it, they go way out to sea, so that Just
now we have to go twenty miles from
land to catch them. 1t doesn't take
much skill, you see, we find them wher-
ever there is rocky bottom. Out where
we go to look for them there are great
reefs of BOc1s outcropping, at a depth of
nearly 100 feet There the Holsters make
their home in summer, shedding their
coats as people shed their clothes to 90 in
bathing along this shore in the hot
months"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
a POSTAL CARD LETTER.
Something About the scheme Pro-
posed by Senator Colquitt.
From the New York Pos

From the New York Post.
Washington, Aug. pa novelty in the
way of printed bill has made its appear
ance in the document rooms of congress.
1t is Senate bill introduced by Mr.. Col
quit of Georgia, by request, and provides
for the issue by the postof1ce department
of a postal card letter" This is pat
ented device, the patentee being Franklin
w. Brooks of New York CITY, and the
novelty of the printed bin consists in the
fact that it has specimen of the card of
full size, weight, etc, attached to the
sheet by paste.s
Mr.. Brooks card is about twice the
size of an ordinary postal card, and creas-
ed through the middle in such a way that
1t will fold over upon itself, making q
folder with about the same surface as
No. envelope. Around three sides it is
perforated at a distance of a quarter of
an inch on the edges, and the space be-
tween the perforation and the edge is
covered on one side with adhesive gum,
so that the folded card can be closed like
a sealed letter but can be opened by tear
ing away the perforated strips.
This device has been before the post
office department good while on it's own
merits, but has received no encourage
ment. The self-sealing letter-sheet, which
has been the subject Of practical expert
ment Tor several years, has never proved
popular, and, so far as the self-sealing
feature is concerned, this card is substan-
TALLY only another form of the letter
sheet. The card, moreover, has the dis
advantage of being much heavier than
ordinary paper, and the government is
asked to carry for one cent about double
the weight and bulk which it carries for
the same price in the present postal-card.
The original design of the postal-card,
which was simply to enable a person to
dash off message and send it for cent in
consideration of his being willing to makeit
very short and leave the writing exposed,
is done away with in the case of this
folding card. Until congress gets ready
to bring down the unit of letter postage
to one cent, it is not at all likely that
schemes of this sort will succeed. When
once-cent postage comes, if it ever does, it
will probably come in ACKNOWLEDGING
form, so that person can write an ordi-
nary letter, seal it in an envelope, and
inclose anything he chooses in it, at one
half the price he now pays for the same
privilege; but it will be remembered that
1t was the Harrison, and not the Cleve-
land, administration that committed
itself to this reform-before election.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
TWIN BorHERATIoN.
Twin Sisters Are Wooed BY Twin
Brothers and Complications Arise.


Twin Sisters Are Wooed BY Twin
Brothers and Complications Arise.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
William and Edward Sites are broth
ers and wealthy real estate men of
Wichita. They are twins, and in addi-
ton are so much alike that people who
have known them intimately for years
constantly mistake one for the other. in
the same town lived two school-tea cheers
who were sisters and twins. The author
ity for the story, A. M, Burton, Of Kan
sas, who is at the Great Northern, says
it is difficult to tell them apart The
four twins met. fell in love and married
Each twin married the twin with whom
he or she was in love, though little mix
ing made discrimination impossible
Many stories, too long to be retold
here, are related OF them during the
courtship, but suffice it for the present
narrative to say that in order to avoid
mistakes William aud the young lady to
whom he was engaged, assigned Monday,
Wednesday and Friday nights as their
nights for counting, and Ed called on the
remaining nights of the week, so there
would be no mistake They were mar
ried by the same preacher at the same
time. The gentlemen were dressed alike
and so were the ladies' The preachC r
got little mixed and had to refer to his
notes, but the high contracting parties
are satisfied that they got the one they
wanted. The father of the boys present.
ed them both colts that were twins, and
Mr.. Burton says any day these gentle
men, looking exactly alike and driving
horses and buggies where no difference
can be detected, may be seen in the
streets of Wichita, where they are known
to nearly everybody in town.
Well, twins have come into those two
households, and it is gravely asserted
that each set of twins cannot be deter
mined from the other They have all
four been in one house, and the visiting
mother has taken two babies home with
her, and if they become mixed they conn
fort themselves by saying: cts all in
the family, anyhow" The children are
satisfied with either of the ladies as a
mother. When either one of the gentle
men meets any one of the four on the
street and it calls Hello, papa" he
doesn't know whether it's his or not.
Eight of these twins, for, of course, the
horses are to be left in Wichita, are com
ing to see the fair. At the hotel are two
negro boys, twins, who are to be assigned
especially to wait on them. Complica-
tons are looked for, as one of these bows
once had broom at the door when a gen
tleman ordered a brougham, and the
other brought a sick man Bible when
he asked for barber.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
ABOUT FLYING MACHINES.
Inventor Edison Says They Are Sure
to Come, Sooner or Later.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean
Mr. Edison laughed heartily when in
formed yesterday that Chicago was the
hotbed of the world for airship inventors.
Il know it," he said. They haven't
found the secret yet, but they will some
day. 1t viii come"
Have you ever entered the airship field
yourself"
Yes, indeed, I have. I have tried a
number of devices, but they haven't
worked. Once placed an aerial motor on
pair of Fairbanks scales and set it 60
ing. 1t lightened the scales, but it didn't
fly" And the wizard laughed at the
recollection.
Another time rugged up an umbrella
like disc of shutters, and connected it
with a rapid piston in perpendicular
cylinder. These shutters would open and
shut. If could have gotten sufficient
speed, say mile second, the inertia or
resistance of the air would have been as
great as steel, and the quick operation of
these shutters would have driven the
machine upward. But l couldn't get the
speed. L believe that before the airship
men succeed they will have to do away
with the buOyancy chamber. But the
secret will come out some day l am sure. -
Like the world at large which ridiculed
the first locomotive, the first telephone
and almost every great innovation, Edi-
son takes humorous view OF all his ex'
periments, and seemingly enjoys failure
Il have tried all kinds of plans to ex-
plain psychical force" he said with a
smile. 1--WE experimental on hypnotism
by placing a mans head in an immense
magnetic plane, but it didn't work We
tried telepathy, too, but without success. {"
Have you any more wonders like the
photograph IN the experimental stage?n
mo, nothing but the kinograph, which
is now almost perfect. 1t reproduces, by
a rapid succession of small photographs
every motion OF an object. 1t was very
hard to get the exact grimaces Of the
face, or the clear workings of a mans
fingers playing the piano, but we per
sected it at last. l am very ANXIOUS to
have one on exhibition at the fair, but we
will not have it finished in time"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
The Best in the World.

Senator Henry c. Nelson, of New York,
writes ION the 27th of February, 1888,
l was taken with violent pain in the re-
gion of the kidneys. Isuffered such agony
that.I could hardly stand up. AS soon as
possible l applied two ALLCoCK's Porous
PLAsTERs, one over each kidney, and laid
down. In an hour to my surprise and
delight, the pain had vanished and was
well. l wore the plasters for a day or
two as precaution, and then removed
them. l have been using ALLcoCK's
PoRoUs PLAsTERs in my family for the last
ten years, and have always found them
the quickest and best remedy for colds,
strains and rheumatic affections From
my experience l believe they are the best
plasters in the world. I'D
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
RAIL AND CRossrIE.

Owing to the discovery of statutes OF
North Carolina which cast doubt upon
the legality of the issue of negotiable
notes by a corporation, the Wilmington
Messenger says, the Atlantic Coast Line
has abandoned the plan OF issuing circu-
lating notes TO its employees. The usual
pay day with the Coast Line is the 10th
OF the month, but in order to accumulate
enough currency to pay of the employees
without drawing money from the banks
the pay roll viii be SUSPENDED for ten
days.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
TROLLEY ACROSS THE OCEAN.
Something Of That Kind May Give In
creased Speed in the Future.

Iii pretty well understood that the
limit OF speed in ocean steamers is about
reached If the present methods are ad-
hered to, and if there is 70 be any gain in
swiftuess it must be by the trial OF new
form. The difficulty is 10 devise vessel
Of which the structural strength snail be
great enough TO carry the massive engines
requisite for increased speed and at the
same time 10 resist the force OF the ocean
storms. If the sea were calm there
would be no difficulty in increasing the
speed of the ocean greyhOUnds,' but
with the tremendous force of waves and
storms il is not possible 70
do this with the present models
of the problem lies in the submarine
ship and the passenger steamer OF the fu-
ture viii 20 under water instead Of across
its surface The advance made in the
planning and working of the submarine
boats in the last ten years makes this
seem not wholly impossible, as it must
have looked once; and there is no doubt
that the freedom from the effects Of sur
face storms would allow a swiftnes which
could hardly be arrived at on the surface.
1t might also solve the question of sea
sickness. as IL is probable that submarine
locomotion would be much smoother and
less disturbing to the stomach than the
present method Of travelling. All that
one can say, however, is that we shall see
what we shall see.
Perhaps the steamer of the future will
be operated on Il trolley by means of a
submarine cable The advantages Of this
plan would be great, as il would prevent
the necessity of carrying immense guam
titles of fuel ana of keeping the vessel
loaded down with enormous engines All
the delay and difficulty and expense Of
managing furnaces and engines on board
ship would be done away with by the
oceanic trolley system, and the ships
could be made so much lighter that they
could go whizzing across the ocean in
couple of days Danger Of accident could
be brought to be no greater than il is at
present by having a sufficient
number of repair steamers on
the route, which could keep
the cables in repair, and in case Of any
accident to the trolley could bring the
passenger boat into port, or put il again
in connection with the cable. There can
be no question that the proper means of
crossing the Atlantic quickly is by some
system which will allow the motive
power TO be applied from the shore,
either by trolley or cable The limit
o. speed for ships that carry engines and
fuel is certainly practically reached on
the surface, and there are difficulties in
the way of submarine navigation which
il would be hard to conquer. The trolley
system is capable Of great extension, and
we may yet live TO get to Europe by its
means
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
Scientists NAV Differ

As to the causes Of rheumatism, but there is
no difference Of opinion among them as to
the danger which attends it, the symptoms
by which it manifests itself, and the dificulty
of dlslodging it in its chronic stage. Several
mineral and vegetable poisons are prescribed
for 1t, but none OF these has been shown by
experience 10 possess the same efficacy as
Hostetter's stomach Bitters. This benign
specific depurates the blood by promoting
vigorous action Of the kidneys. which strain
from the blood as it passes through them the
rheumatic virus when it exists in the system
Physicians Of eminence testify to the value of
the Bitters in rheumatism, and the pro-
fessional opinions regarding it are borne out
and corroborated by ample popular evidence.
The Bitters remedy chills and fever. liver
complaint, dyspepsia and eonstipation.--ad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
RUIN AvERTED By A CAT.
Plot to Destroy a Mandatory Re
vealed By Her Fright.

FROM the New Ofk Herald.
What is thought to have been a das-
tardly attempt 10 destroy the extensive
works of the Celluloid Manufacturing
Company in Newark, n. j.. was made
yesterday afternoon. That it did not sue
coed is due to the fright experienced by
cat in a strange place.
The attempt was made in the scrap
room on the Ashbridge side where the
celluloid shavings and scraps are sent to
be worked over and some goods in course
of manufacture are kept. In this room
about eight men are generally employed
but owing to trade dulness only one was
in the scrap room yesterday. He heard
something fall from shelf about o'clock
in the afternoon. Turning quickly he
saw cat spring from the shelf and sour
~ through an open window into Ash
bridge street.
He started to restore a pasteboard box
which had been knocked from the shelf
by the feline stranger, and on
picking 1t up found that it
contained a candle and a quantity of in
fammable cotton material The candle
had apparently been burning about an
hour. II was still lighted, and, strange as
II may seem, had not ignited the other
contents OF the box. The workman extin-
guished the fame
Had the stuff in the box begun to blaze
and single spark escaped into the scrap
room nothing could have averted an ex-
plosion and great disaster TO life and
property.
1t is believed that during the noon din
ner hour some one enterted the scrap
room and placed the dangerous box on
the shelf, but just where the cat came
from Is unknown. 1t had never been
seen there before and may have vol
unfairly gone through the window and by
some remarkable coincidence upset that
particular box. or it may have been put
there for some purpose by those who in
stlgated the plot which failed almost at
the eleventh hour.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
eguaranteedcu cure for all sick headaches
Neuralgia or nervous headaches,
Is BrOmo-Seltzer-
PREJUDICE AeA1NsrRATLRoADs
Queer Arguments Against Their In
PRODUCTION by Oldtimers.

avn tAAE a tlA0huiE LIS lIlGu.
The prejudice against what is regarded
as the new tangled electric railroad still
fingers i'll many remote districts, and in
reviewing various quaint and amusing
objections that have been raised from
time to time while the introduction of an
electric line was under discussion, Athol
AlayheW draws attention to the similar
lty of views that exists between the be-
nighted few of today and the public Of
~ years ago. IN regard TO innovations on
methods of travel. When railroads were
first proposed in England the country
gentlemen were told that the smoke
would kill the birds as they passed over
the locomotive.
The public was informed that the
weight OF the engine would prevent its
moving. Foxes and pheasants were TO
cease TO exist in the neighborhood of a
railway, and the race of horses would be-
come extinct. Farmers were possessed
With the idea that oats and hay would be
no more marketable produce; horses
would start and throw their riders. Even
cows, II was said, would cease 20 yield
their milk IL the neighborhood of those
Internal machines. WHAT asked Sir
Isaac Coffin in the House of Commons
"was to be done with all those who had
advanced money for making and repair
ing the turnpike roads, What was to be-
come of coachmakers and harnessmakers,
coachmasters and coachmen, innkeepers,
horse breeders and horse dealers? Was
the House aware Of the smoke and the
noise, of the hiss and the whirl, which
locomotive engines passing at the rate Of
~ on y miles an hour would occasion?
Neither the cattle ploughing in the fields
nor grazing in the meadows could behold
them without dismay. Iron would be
raised IN price 100 per cent, or, more
PROBABLY, altogether exhausted. 1t would
De the greatest nuisance, the most COM
plete disturbance of quiet and comfort in
all pcrts Of the kingdom. that the ingen-
uigl on man could invent"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
DEVILS Lake Traditions.
From the Minneapolis Tribune

Tangago, the Tppewas, came from the
north and pitched their tepees on the
north shore of the lake. They had reason
to believe that the Sioux were encaIuped
on the southern shore, and they planned
10 cross to the south before daylight and
surprise their traditional enemies. The
Sioux had similar thought and design,
and each tribe proceeded to exterminate
the other
They met in about the middle of the
lake and fought, and all were lost. The
time is not fixed except that the incident
marks an epoch in the history of both
tribes. Another battle was fought after
wards on the south shore between other
contingeuts of these respective tribes
The Chippewas came IL the canoes from
the north as before. This was in 1867
The Chippewa warriors were all slain
but one man, who returned badly wounded
and riddled. The fatalities connected
with the lake and the apparitions gave
rise to the name Minnewauken, or spirit
water, mysterious water, fated water,
and finally DEVILS lake, as the only
English equivalent for the Indians idea
as expressed in Minnewauken.
The Chippewas came here in canoes.
The Sioux also used canoes. With but
few portaPes the former could easily at
that time, while the lake was so far
above its present level, come from Lake
Superior to Devils lake Since the fatal
ities related, those Indians have a super
stitious dread of canoes. Young people
are getting over the dread, but old In
dams will wade to their waist fishing
while boats are within their reach, but
won't dare enter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
THE BEST NERVE TONIC.
Horsfard,e Acid Phoanhata

DR.. A. MoNTEmo, Richmond, Va, says:
81 have used it in many cases Of nerve de-
preston and have always found it benef.
cal The exhaustion Of debility so preva-
cent IN chronic alcoholism, has been
benefited in every case. 1 consider it one
o. the best tonics we have, where nerve
tone is needed. "-ad.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28

II wonder" thought Frank as he
awakened in the country early in the
morning, whether that rooster tells the
sun when to get up or the sun tells the
roosterf wish they'd both wait until
was ready" -Harper's Young People.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28

''You quite devoted yourself to that
notwithstanding Van Stick on the train
the other day, Edith what on earth made
you do that3" well, il was absolutely
necessary to pay some attention to him.
You don't suppose l wanted people to
think he was my husband !"-Brooklyn
Life.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28

A Base spicion.-Guest Gin cheap
restaurant - That's queer. l ordered
three dishes and you are out of all.
Waiter-It's very late, sab Guest (sus-
piciously)-Not saving 'em for yourself,
eh2 Waiter (haughtily)-I don't eat
heah, sah.-New York Weekly.