The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-26
RoYA1Tx's sEALsKINs.
Since Alaska Has Abolished the Free
List, Thibet Goats Are Being Levied
From the New York Herald.


London, May NEGOTIATIONS between
the United States aud other countries on
the question of the seals isn't worrying
fashionable Englishwomen very much,
but viii confide to you something about
seals that is annoying the crowned heads.
When the Alaska Commercial Company
owned the seal privileges in Alaska they
used to send peace offerings to the kings,
queens and popular tenors of Europe in
the shape of sealskin sacques and over
coats made of the finest furs they could
select.
These were presents free of all charge,
including even the freight. In some cases
the company would have paid the kings
and queens salaries to wear the furs.
The sole Oh. ect of the enterprise was to
make seals fashionable, and it succeeded.
When woman receives such a presen
the least she can do is to wear it.
But now the seal monopoly is in differ
ent hands, those of the North American
Commercial Company, l believe, and the
free list is entirely suspended. Whether
this is a shrewd move is not quite certain.
bat the fact remains for some reason that
sealskin is going out of fashion, gradually,
but surely.
Not a single complimentary jacket was
received at the Court of st. James last
year Ladies of fashion waited in vain
for their annual tip and not getting il
went out in revenge and arrayed them
selves in Thibet goat skins.
STORY FROM ALASKA.
An aboriginal Alaskan whom met in
the Burlington Arcade the other day told
me OF the great things that Lyman j..
Knapp. of Vermont, did for Alaska when
he was governor. Mr.. Knapp comes
from part of his state where people eat
only one meal a week 10 save food.
This Alaskan argued that the only
thing that viii build up his territory is
the lavish use of snrewd frugality
Alaska is suffering from want of Mr..
Knapp and awaits his speedy return.
He is the most careful man in the ad
ministration of finance that ] ever met. -
said the Alaskan admirinPly. II will tell
you one or two things that will illustrate
this. A tourist 10 Sitka gave the gov
ernor y bottle Of preserved
peaches After the tourist had gone Mr.
Knapp went down to the grocery store
and got the man to change it for two bot
ties at 81 each.
every three months Gov. Knapp used
to hold an auction on the front steps OF
the executive mansion of all the old boo S,
socks, sauce pans with holes Ia them and
other thiugs that had served their APP
premiership in the kitchen or upon the
person of the Knapp family This was a
lesson ia frugaiity that the Indians sadly
needed, for most of them would have
thrown away the things that the cover
nor taught them 10 preserve and cheri h.
"Cne day an Indian brought an old pair
of trousers that Mr. Knapp had enthusi-
astically praised in his opening address.
That Indian cot so excited al the fowcry
language OF the auctioneer that he was
fool emo Ugh tothink Tn e trousers would It
anybody. Well, they didn't and the
Indian came back to the executive man.
sion and raised a fuss, and the goyerno r
had TO kick him out personally That
Indian has been drunk ever since, and he
swears that when Alaska is a state he
will vote the republican ticket straight
through until the Democratic party
change those trousers. He claims that
the slave was a government affair, as IL
occurred on Gthe steps Of the executive
mansion.
But frugality and economy are what
the indians need 10 learn and some more
gratitude toward their ocnefactors.
For sore ard infamed eye-lids. the best
cure is Ayers Sarsaparilla. --ad.