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The morning news., 1894-05-10
Mr. Jimsmith Repulses an Arent,

Mr. Jlmsmith, the lawyer. says the Chicago
Tribune, whose name is a household word in
Chicago, recently moved into a beautiful
suburban home He is highly pleased with it
In general way, but so many agents call
upon him that he finds it rather a bore The
before the afternoon was half over. and when
he was summoned to the door for the thir-
teenth time he was mad enough to fight a
herd of porcupines. A tall, sad-eyed man,
dressed in black, confronted him, and started
to say something, but Mr.. Jimsmith inter
rupted him:
~ on don't need to tell me what you have
TO sell, because don't want it; 1 don't need a
burglar-proof clock, nor bootiack wi b a
opener: don't"
My dear sir you are mis-
''Oh. you don't need to dear sir me; it
won't work. | tell you don't want gate
that may be taken from its hinges and used
as folding bed; Ihave no use for COM
hlned CurrycomO and mustache cup: l have a
fuIl supply OF furniture polish, cough medl-
cine, and hair restorer, and, what's more, my
wife doesn't need a recipe for preserving
Goldfish or frying billiard balls.
Really, sir, this is most extraordinary"
'Oh. of course it's extraordinary, but
don't want it. l suppose it can he used to
CRATE horseradish and tune the piano, but
tell you that l don't need it. Perhaps 1t will
take the grease spots out of clothing, pare
apples and chase dogs out of the yard. but
you'll have to 20 somewhere else tO'sel it.
am surprised that man of your age and re-
spectacle appearance should go around try
ing to sell pocket cornshellers when the
whole neighborhood is full OF wood that
ought to be sawed. What's the use Of trying
to sell man fire escape when you can
make 81 day baling hay?"
I'm not an agent
Then what are yoU?'' .....
I'm the pastor Of the Orthodox Brethren
church, and came over to get acquainted,
not knowing that you were running a private
mad house. Good day"
The morning news., 1894-05-10
Oddities of Old world Etiouetts.

In Sweden if you address the poorest per-
son on the street, you must lift your hat, SAYS
the Philadelphia Press. The same courtesy
is insisted upon if you pass a lady on the
stairway To enter a reading-room or a bank
with ones hat on is regarded as bad breach
OF manners To place your hand on the arm
of lady is grave and Objectionable famiE-
arity.
In Holland lady is expected to retire pre-
cipitately If she should enter a store or a
restaurant where men are congregated. She
waits until they have transacted their bust
ness and departed.
Ladies seldom rise in Spain to receive a
male visitor and they rarely accompany him
TO the door. For a Spaniard to give lady
even his wife-his arm when out walking is
looked upon as a decided violation of pro
priety.
In Persia, among the aristocracy. visitor
sends notice an hour or two before calling
and gives days notice if the visit is one Of
fore he reaches the house, and other consid-
erationS are shown him according to relative
rank. The left and not the right is consid-
cred the position of honor.
No Turk will enter a sitting room with
dirty shoes. he upper classes wear tight
fitting shoes, with galoches over them. The
latter which receive all the dirt and dust
are left outside the door. The Turk never
washes in dirty water. Water is poured over
his HANDS, so that when polluted it runs
away.
In Syria the people never take off their caps
or turOans when entering the house or visit
ing friend, but they always leave their shoes
at the door. There are no mats or scrapers
outside, and the floors inside are covered
with expensive rugs, kept very clean IN Mos
lem houses and used to kneel upon while say
ing prayers.
The morning news., 1894-05-10
PERSONAL.

A London suburban street which once bore
the name Of the great admiral Nelson, has
been renamed after Rudyard Kipling.
Lord Roseberry is said to be greatly
troubled by insomnia. He frequently walks
abroad late at night when he is too restless
TO lie abed.
Prince Bismarck is the possessor Of 4s2
crosses and decorations. These, placed side
by side cover space Of twenty-one feet by
several inches deep.
The first woman to be elected a member of
the Yacht Racing Association Of Great Brit
ian was Miss Mabel Cox Of Southampton,
VINO owns the cutter Fiera
Mrs. John Matthews, Of Anderson, Ind,
has been driven insane by the. march of the
commonWealers. In her hallucinatlon she
neleves that Coxey will march to her home
ana DESTROY her and her children
Major Halford-formerly Harrtsons pri-
vate secretary-is becoming a leading citizen
Of Omaha. Neo., where In addition to his
not no.! 700 onerous military duties, he manages
the biggest Bible class in the city and helps
10 get out a religious weekly paper.
Twin brothers, named Lowndes, from Cum
berland' Nd. who are students at Yale, look
so much alike that when one of them was ar
ralgneo IN New Haven few days ago for at
tending prize-hght none OF the o11cers
would venture to say, under oath. which
The Empress Frederick has induced two
Berlin societies of amateur photographers to
cooperate in bringing aboutan international
eXnlbltlon of photographs by amateurs in
1870. her majesty has undertaken to be
patroness' ana has requested Princess Henry
10 act as her substitute on the committee.
1t is related of Miss Trella oltz-Toland, an
actress in San Francisco, that she persist
emily unchecks horses that she finds stand
ing with their heads strained back, according
TO the present ungraceful and indefensible
custom. She says she did this for over a
hundred horses IN Kansas City and Denver.
Wee Hun Peunk once a millionaire Chi
nese miner in Arizona, who was last heard
from in South Africa, whittier be went with
mis- pretty American wife to make another
fortune, has succeeded in buying an interest
IN the kaarali diamond mine. 1t is said that
| Barney Barnato, the diamond king, is his
partner.
Boston is mildly agitated over the discov-
cry in that city of two pictures alleged to
have been painted by St. Luke whom tradi-
tlon assumes to have been an artist. The
subjects are resneetiYely the Saviour and His
| pigment on sort of mummy cloth. Rev. G.
| n. Field formerly of St. Clements, in this
| city, Is impressed with a sense of their gen
uineneSs,
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is reported to
| have said in recent conversation, apropos
of his autobiography: Il work at the memoirs
| an hour or two each day, and am making sat
| lsfactory progress. That IS, l have about
| one half completed of all shall write. Then
| shall place the manuscript In the hands Of
| my publishers, and they will keep it IN their
| safe until shall have passed away. My be-
| lief has always been that a man memoirs
| should be distinctly posthumOus. and l shall
| carry out that belief in my one case. -
The morning news., 1894-05-10

There are a good many disquieting ru-
mors in Hawaii, but to none of them is
there attached so much significance as to
the one that Great Britain is planning to
esta blish protectorate over the islands
The British minister at Honolulu is
shrewd diplomat, and some things he has
done recently seem to justify the conclu-
sion that Great Britain is not averse to
obtaining a much stronger influence in
Hawaii.
Great Britain's plan is said to be this:
The provisional government is TO be in
duced to accept loan from Englishmen
and to mortgage the customs duties as
security for it. When the interest
comes due the Hawaiian government is to
make default. The English government
is then to send a commission to Honolulu,
ostensibly to collect the customs duties,
but, in fact, to administer the affairs of
the island In that way Great Britain
could exercise protectorate over the
islands without any formal announce
ment of the existence of such a condition
of affairs.
In the meantime the work preliminary
! to the adoption of new constitution is
| going on. The registration of those en-
titled to vote is nearly completed, and
convention to form a constitution
will soon be convened. The constitution
will, doubtless, be modelled after that of
! this country.
The royalists have not yet given up all
hope of the restoration of the deposed
queen. Only few of them have regis
tered. Their newspaper organ says not
one IN ten of them are taking any part
in the movement to form new govern
ment and the most that have registered
have been bulldozed into doing so. 1t is
evident that the political affairs of the
islands are still long way from being
settled.
Our government is not bothering itself
apparently with what is being done in
Honolulu. 1t has taken steps, however,
to make sure of its right to Pearl Harbor,
which is needed as a coaling station. The
work of improving the harbor has begun
This improvement will give our govern
ment an advantage, should complications
arise, that would so a long way towards
establishing its right to the harbor.
The morning news., 1894-05-10
Still Moving Toward Washington


1t is evident that the commissioners of
the District of Columbia will have to
adopt other means than those they have
yet tried if Washington is to be pre-
vented from being overrun with tramps.
The "hobos" are reaching the city all the
time in little squads of three or four
Last week when Coxey reached Wash
ington he had about 300 men. On last
Monday there were in his camp $50, and
recruits were being received all the time
Our dispatches yesterday stated that
Kelley's army" 800 strong, had left
Des Moines on fat boats, and were max
ing good time. Galvin's "army" of go
men started from McKeesport, Pa, yes
terday to walk TO Washington, and Ran
dall's veterans are in Indiana, hungry and
weary, but still determined to reach the
''armies, and if all of them reach Wash
ington there will be several thousand
shiftless men for the people of that city
to feed for an indefinite time.
The commissioners of the District of
Columbia do not know what course to
pursue to rid the city of the "hobos'
already there and to prevent others from
coming. They talk about breaking up
Coxey's camp and of refusing to allow
another camp to be formed in the
district. 1t is certainly time that
something was done to check the
movement of idle and destitute people TO
Washington. Those who are trying to
get there believe they will be provided for
in some way, and all they care for is suf-
ficient food to satisfy hunger
Congress, instead of listening to Coxey's
talk about good roads, should be consider
ing some way of stopping the movement
that Coxey inaugurated BY dealing with
it promptly and energetically good deal
| of trouble may be prevented.
The morning news., 1894-05-10
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The morning news., 1894-05-10
The Rice DUTY.

The protest which the board Of trade
of this city sent to our congressman yes
terday against further reduction in the
duty on rice will have the effect of call
ing the attention of the Senate TO the fact
that the reduction of that duty
/ already made in the Wilson bill is as
/ great as the rice interests can stand.
/ The rice planters accepted the reduction
/ which is made by the Wilson bill be-
/ cause they expected some compensation
| in the way of reductions on the other
articles which they purchase, and also
/ because they are willing to stand fair
share of the general reduction necessary
to be made order to reach a tariff reform
basis, but they are not willing to be sin
gled out for attack and made to bear
great deal more than their share Of the
| reduction.
There is no member of the finance com
mittee who knows anything about rice
culture, or has any interest in it. Why,
then, did that committee without notice
to the rice planting interest, arbitrarily
make a great reduction in the duty that
had been fixed by the ways and means
committee and adopted by the House :;
and also by the finance committee when
the bill was before that committed Was
it because some importer of rice or some
brewing association asked the finance com
mittee to make still lower duty for rice,
or was it the purpose of the committee to
strike at southern interest in order
to ward off the criticisms of those who
! have been asserting that the Wilson bill
is a sectional one-a bill friendly to the
south and hostile TO the north2 Surely
there are men on the finance committee
who are capable of doing what is just and
| right, regardless of what interested par
ties may say to the contrary. Is it right
that further reduction in the rice duty
should be made without inquiring
whether or not such reduction would de-
stroy the rice growing INTEREST," The
finance committee appears to have acted
without knowing what it was doing or if
it did know it was Indifferent as to the
| effect it's action would have.
During the last few years herice plant
ers have barely made expenses. They
haven't bonanza in their rice planta-
tions. In fact, great deal of rice land
| III bhAo AONdllbS 10 uOb plduLtu bulS year.
The reason is the unprofta bleness of the
| rice crop. And yet, in the face of this
condition of affairs, the finance commit
tee has recommended legislation that
would still further reduce the price of
rice.
The finance committee does not appear
to have displayed great deal of intelli-
gence in its handling of the Wilson bill
1t has slashed around wildly, reducing
the duty in some cases and increasing it
in others, without knowing what it was
doing With such committee in charge
of the tariff bill it is not to be wondered
at that the changes proposed cause
such general dissatisfaction. If the com
mittee knows nothing of the tariff it
ought to rely for guidance upon those
who do.
The morning news., 1894-05-10

they were wrung from the people
in the shape of heavy fees for
privileges not permitted by law. There
are other things said Of Mr.. Croker that
are not pleasant to him, and he has prob
ably come to the conclusion that, as he
gets no credit for any service he may rem
der the public, he might as well retire
from public life and enjoy his wealth.
He has been contemplating retiring for
year or more. It cannot be truthfully
said, therefore, that he mas been driven
from the leadership Of Tammany, by the
attacks of DIR. Parkhurst and other re-
form workers. or by the fear that Tam
many has won its last great victory. If
Tammany should want another boss it
would not find it an easy matter to get
one having Mr.. Croker's ability. The
Tammany organization has been ex-
tremely prosperous under his manage
ment
The morning news., 1894-05-10
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEETINGs.-Savannah Cottage and I'm
provement Company; Savannah Rife Asso-
cstion; Tammany Club Zerubbabel Lodge
No. Is, F. and A. NJ.
SPECIAL NoTICEs.-Lovely LePanto Ci-
gars, Fred Vessels; Holland Gin, Henry
Bohn; Bicycle Races Tomorrow; AS to Crews
Of Norwegian Barks Sondre. Rifondo, Inver-
druie, and Swedish Bark Maria Margretha;
Wide Awake People, W. X. Wilkinson; Re
ward. w. J. Wnn, City Engineer; Those Lots
Which Am Advertising, G, H Dorsett; AS
to Bills Against Norwegian Bark Zanrak
For Sale, c. p Rossignol, Kennebeck River
Ice, Georgia Brewing Association The Tug
OF War at Tivoli Park May 12 and A. Herman
Winter: Excursion to Warsaw by Steamer
Bellevue, Sunday, May 49,
SHoEs-Leopold Adler
CUT AGAIE-Appel & Schaul.
WANT YOUR HIDEs-Randolph kirkland.
THE TAILOR SrARvEs-B. II. Levy & Bro.
PRoPosALs-Supplies for Revenue Yes
sells
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULE-Baltimore Steam
ship Company.
CHEAP COLUMN ADvERTIsEMENTs-Help clip
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news., 1894-05-10

The state campaign in South Carolina
has grown so tame that few people know
that the woods are full of candidates over
there. But things will change with the
beginning of next month. The state demo-
cratic committee win meet on June Z, and
about one week thereafter Gov. Tillman
and Senator Butler will take the stump
for the senatorshiII The candidates who
are doing the talking now are small l-bores ;
Tillman and Butler will be the big guns.
They come from the same township of
the same county, are candidates for the
same office and win speak from the same
platform. Each is master of oratory of
the peculiar kind that fires the South
Carolina heart, and each will be on his
mettle to give the other the worst po-
litical licking he ever had in his life.
Already the two have been shying bricks
at each other, and before the Joint debate
has been going on week it will develop
into one of the hottest fights the state ever
saw; and it has seen some pretty warm
ones. The governor will appeal to the
farmers alliance element and the senator
to the old conservative element, and both
to the free silver element. The News and
Courier suggests that when the people
come to decide they might do well to
shelve both. ..
The morning news., 1894-05-10
Kisnnet.
From the New York Sun


I tossed her picture on the Goals
Against the ba k-log growing red,
And snaky flames, Medusa-like,
Cotled and uncoiled about her head,
And 10 the inSenate cardboard lived
The IRE had set its spirit free.
And lovingly her fair, white arms
Rose up to clasp and cling to me.
And when the picture blackened lay,
Upon its film profile true
Unrolled in haZy silhouette.
Then darted up the chimneys flue;
And where, aoove the ashes gray,
A blue fame bubble seemed to float,
/ straightway saw her face again,
a bunch OF violets at her throat.
Oh, neVermOre may | be freed
From this her presence; It's too late,
"Blsmillah.' so the Moslem cries,
And l. the Christian, echo: "Fa o."
l raze her image from my heart
! put away her voice: and She
Comes back to where our PATHWAYS met
And walks the journeys enc with me
Ernest McGafey.
The morning news., 1894-05-10

"Son RUSSELL Harrison promises. after
q season of innocuous desuetude, to bob
into notoriety once more. 1t is said that
shortly before ex-Oonsul John G. New,
Gen. Harrison's friend, left New York
the other day, he was told of letter Rus
sell Harrison had written to a friend in the
west saying that his father was really
and earnestly candidate for renomi-
nation" and that, while he would not
ask for it, he expected to be the choice of
his party in thenext presidential canvass.
Mr.. New, it is said, was more enraged on
hearing this than he was when he read
the alleged expression Of his own son re-
garding Mr.. Harrison's candidacy, which
he denied, and was so thoroughly dis
gusted that he left town at once. prince
Russ probably has such a longing for a
return of the notoriety he enjoyed for
iour years that his wish that his father
would run is parent to the thought that
1e viii run.
The morning news., 1894-05-10
Tha Referendum in Massachusetts.

TIuW inc NOV ork Evening Post lIndl }.
There seems to ne an inclination in Massa.
chusetls TO make a trial of the referendum
principle The supreme court decided not
long ago thai no experiment could be made
without an amendment OF the constitution,
and the lower branch of the legislature last
week, by the one sided vote OF I56 TO 3 de-
tlon TO the people. No doubt rs felt that the
senate Will concur j his action mt 81 be in
dorsed by another legislature before the ques-
tlon reaches the voters, but as both parties
practically committed themselves to 1t last
year, IL seems reasonable to suppose that the
People VIII be called upon for decision.
W hen the matter reaches this stage there
principles involved than has yet been had
Other states are likely TO wait for a trial Of
the system in Massachusetts before lending
IL much favor.
The morning news., 1894-05-10
The South and Mr.. Cleveland.

From Springfield (Mass.) Republican Gnd)
There is a great deal OF populism. a great
deal of the cheap money delusion. and great
deal OF dislike Of the financial policy of Cleye.
land and the administration. which has been
tOStered by politicians and newspapers for
their own ends; but this is not the prevalent
temper. Rather the drift seems to he the
other way, and while the situation may not
be quite as the Newton County Progress puts
it, that these politicians are the only ones
AGAINST the administration, that is nearer the
truth than to say that the people of the south
are antagomstlc to Cleveland and sound
money.
The morning news., 1894-05-10
The 'Compromiss' Humbug. -
From the baltimore sun Dem1

FIOW INC BaIJlmore sun lDem.l.
The changes made in the tariff bill in the
amendments secured by compromise SEN
ators are very numerous and for the most
part increases of duty. Rates on woolea and
cotton goods and other necessaries of life are
advanced from to Is per cent Specific
rates are inserted in true protectlonist style
to hide excessive duties and conceal tricks on
the consumer. he duties of the House bill
are restored IN many cases where they were
higher than in the Senate bill There were
objectionable features in the House bill.
They are now added to, and in a discred-
ltAhle mnnner.
The morning news., 1894-05-10

II it is a fact that the police cannot
afford the residents in the southern part
of the city safeguard against burglars,
the question arises, what are the police
for orramentationl If the citizens south
Of the park must depend upon their own
vigilance and firearms for the security Of
their property, why should they not be
exempted from paying taxation for police
purposes9,
The morning news., 1894-05-10
CURRENT COMMENT.
For the Good of the Country.

T TVTII VIIV NIIIVd5V T TIIIUo VItIIIsJ,
Let such senators as desire to express
themselves upon any subject compile their
opinions, dress them in neat typewriter
phrases ana forward them to the public
printing office forthwith. Such a course will
save time, trouble, money and senatorial pa
tience. Senatorial speech making is vain
and useless and expensive.
The morning news., 1894-05-10

The versatile young emperor of Ger
many has added another item to the list
of handicrafts, professions and arts in
which he has engaged since he assembled
his throne He is fireman AT Gatow,
near Spandau the other day, when the
village was afre, he organized the crew
of his yacht into bucket brigade and set
them to work, rushed about among the
houses and cleared out the inmates.
seized an AK and broke down doors, and
directed pipemen where to play the
streams of water. The emperor acquitted
himself heroically, it is told, and was the
means of saving many lives and consider
able property.
The morning news., 1894-05-10

The Rev. Johnston Myers, Baptist
preacher of Cincinnati told his hearers
the other night that monarchy would
be better than the government we are
living under. An old lady in the congre-
CATION asked, "What?" Upon being as
sured that she had heard Alright, she re-
joined: WELL no American can stand
that! WON'T" and walked out, to the
accompaniment of hand-clapping.
The morning news., 1894-05-10

Paul Neuman, the confidential adviser
to the deposedqueen of Hawaii, is pointing
toward Washington, probably on an err
rand as vain as Coxey's.
The morning news., 1894-05-10

That's an uncommonly pretty girl over
there pouring tea"
Yes; she is one of the reigning bellies
this season"
Ali These bellies never reign but they
pour.''-Life.
The morning news., 1894-05-10

"Now you see it, and now you don't"
refers, to the South Carolina whisky
saloon, as well as to the pea under the
walnut shell.