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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18
CHAIRLEss JAPAN.
An American WOman's Experience
with Furniture Made 10 Order.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune
zone Of the funniest experiences I had
in JAPAN" said woman recently, who
has been connected with missionary work
in that country was with chairs It had
never entered my mind that what is with
us such a common article of household
furniture should be an unknown quantity
TO any OF the subjects OF the Mikado, and
l. was with dismay that 1 discovered the
house / was TO occupy was quite chair
less.I Immediately summoned a native car
penter, and tried to explain 20 him what
wished him TO make for me. IL was an ex-
tremely difficult task for he was evident
~ unable TO comprehend why any one
should desire to sit otherwise than cross
legged upon the loor Unfortunately. my
talent for drawing is strictly limited.
realized that fact. but until ] had made
several Intellectual attempts to portray a
chair-about as easy a subject as / could
have had-I had never really appreciated
the extent OF my incapacity. The draw
ings which the poor carpenter finally car
ried on with him as models were such
that my heart misgavo me. That had good
reason for my fears was shown when the
chairs were sent home. with the proverbial
Oriental falthfulness, the man had made
precise copies OF his patterns. Where the
chairs Of my sketches had weakly bal
anced backs slanting seats and crooked
legs, so their wooden counterparts exhibit
ed the same peculiarities. Thoy were more
difficult TO sit on than ] should ever have
imagined chairs could possibly be- Some
OF them needed the mural support of "A
friendly wall 10 enable them 10 make any
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state. He was born William Angus Dro-
go. Lord Montague. of Kimboton, but
succeeded to the title when his father, a
dissipatcd nobeman, died.
The young duke IS a very bright. pleas
ing young man with no bad traits yet de-
veloped upon him.. He is poor, though,
wretchedly Impoverished IN purse and es-
tate, and his Castle Kimbolton IS a mere
wreck of what IL once was. lit is said
that the young duke does not possess
the original Kinbolton Castle, but only a
ruined lodge built previous TO the great
house erected by the first duke. who was
Secretary OF State under George ]. The
Old castle is rumored to have been dispos-
ca OF piece by piece. The estate. II II
were not cutaied. would pass away from
the duke, so heavy are the mortgages up
on H. But riches arc not a popularity OF
foreign titles, and "castles to let are
not warranted in the best OF repair any
why. SO n decent little duke goes with
the ruined castle il is really all young
woman ought to ask,
Lord Ro5ebcrry isn't a young duke nor
Is he or American ancestry, but this
spring his castles are fairly crying out
for "A mistress. Dalmeny, the Midlothian
country sea-, where his iordship spends
the spring months, is the pretucst place
in Scotland and the prettiest of all the
castles possessed by Lord Rosebery and
there are nine of them.
Lord Roscbery, with his castles, his
titles, his garter his money and his race
horses. Is the best catch IN England even
counting la The little daughters children
OF Hannah Rothschld. which are in the
keeping OF Lord Rosebery But he Is coy
looking for a royal alliance and the
American heircss who catches him must
prove that her motives are neither mer-
cennry nor hirh sounding bur good and
upright Never an American papa was as
critical OF applicants aH the knthschllds
OF their relative tho ChrlaIlnn lord
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A little catch. not yet old enough for
matrimonial intentions, but about whom
as in royalty, plans have begun to weave,
is the little hereditary Prince of Colonna,
step-grandson of John W. Mackay of Cal
ifornia. This young man was born Prince
Of Galatro Of the Kingdom of Naples.
Prince of Stigiiano, Prince of Paliano and
Prince of the Empire Besides this, he
succeeded to many under titles. His
prospective fortune on his mothers side
has made him such a shining mark that
his Italian relatives have never lost legal
rights TO him, having an eye upon his for
tune.
A present catch. mighty In a social
point OF view. is the young Marquis OF
Brancaccio. whose mother formerly Miss
Elizabeth Field, Is lady-in-Waitiug in the
marquis resides in Brancaccio palace
which he will inherit. or "A corner in it,
as the Duke Of York inherits corner OF
Sandringham. He will also have a very
nice country place in the suburbs.o Rome.
near whore the sculptor Story used to
live lie Is a splendid young fellow, but
unfortunately. not wife hunting, though
II "A wife should come 70 him, What
could a brave man do?' to quote Alfred
Austin.
The list might be prolonged to twenty
clgibles, now looking towards their coun-
try places. over which the summer vines
are already growing. They spend the
summer at these homes IN quiet, early
English style. and those In whose minds
runs the adage "as good fish in the sea
az ever were caught" should amend Il
10 read that they are in nowery Suffolk
greeu-growing Cranbrook romantic Wood
stock. soft-windod Donegal. Banbury
Durham Cambridgeshire. Huntington. Ex-
ctcr. Lancashire and Hampshire-and be
governed accordingly.
Mrs. Groy-Canaeld.
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future which neither she nor the girl win
be able to face with an upright counte-
nance. If that girl goes wrong within the
twelvemonth let the mother blame her
self and the bicycle-but not the girl"
am sorry TO hear that my friend Char
lotte Smith wants the bicycle taken off the
streets Easter Sunday She is a good wo-
man and a sincere woman. 1 met
her two weeks ago in the bus
mess Office of a friend. She is youngish,
middle-aged woman, who boasts OF being
fifty but looks forty. When she talks she
Is almost pretty. and when you hear the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

tive that / should not de Of grief over
doctor bills nor ruin my purse with apothe-
cares sundries.
People can remember when women
made up for Easter Sunday. They rose
an hour earlier in the morning TO get
on their war paint. Perhaps not the ac-
tual article. but some hing that looked
very much like it. If il rained there was
weeping, and in front of the church door
stood line Of carriage such as We're
never there other Sundays, though the
LORD attended service just the same all
the year round. The comic joke of that
day was of the woman. too i'll to 90 to
church, who Spent the morning with her
mead out of the window, her Easter hat
pinned carefully in place; and everybody
has read the threadbaro description of the
Easter thoughts that were bitter for hats
instead Of glorious for the Lord.
The bicycle has taken that out of the
hearts and lives Of women. 1t is the
grandest instrument for health of mind
and body that has been given since the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

will blaze for them,s once they get out
upon the tnOroughfaFes where there are
bicycle trousers and masculine sweaters
There is no declaring that there are not
such persons But / contend that they
stand much better chance of not going
the wrong way than the woman who goes
TO church without health in her body and
without contentment in her mind, ready
for whatever satan may put her up 20. II
/ had two girls 10 take care of and two
paths open-one to church, laced up and
dressed up, and to promenade afterwards
with o'clock tea TO follow and a music
ale in the evening; and the other to
church, with dinner afterwards, and a hi
cycle ride in the air l should say mount
the girl upon the wheel a p. m. and let
her ride to the country and 70 God, for
she stands a good chance OF seeing both
before she gets home. 1 should bank"
upon the second girl every time.
Now, there is nobody who can take all
the evil out of the world. And / don t
know anybody who is anxious to do so.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

Nice, Baden Baden, AK les Bans Cairo
or the mountains Of Switzerland. But
however she may meet her title and her
castle, she viii find am abundance in this
years pick.
A strange fact about the foreign castle
needing a mistress is that It belongs in
many cases this year TO a young lord Of
American blood. The mother of the lord
was an American. and the young man has
within him the same nationality as the
girl to whom his castle is offered.
II is claimed that in America il Is only
three generations from shirt sleeves to
shirt sleeves; that, as Jay Gould worked
and brought forth bread by the sweat of
his brow, so his reat-granchildreu
viii do. The fortune vanshes again IN
the three intervening generations.
In Spain and the other places whore the
castles are located Il Is said that the for
tune goes in less time than that. Il
goes as quickly ana easily as IL came
Two generations are enough 10 entirely
scatter II, and IN one generation q is woe
fully shattered. This rs not the fault Of
the young lord who now comes wlfe-seck-
ing Offering his title and a fresh
manly young heart as an equivalent His
father spent the money. But the fact re-
mains that the fortune Of the American
mother D. no longer there; and wha. can
be done but 20 allow history TO repeat It,
self in this generation, and send tho young
man out for another American wife.
one Of the clevercst young men OF an
the catches his season ia Winston
Leonard Jerome. son ~ Lady Randolph
Churchill and cousin OF ihc Duke OF Mari
borough Like his father. ho ~ lord by
special courtesy. Young Lord Churchill
bfarF The name Of his maternal grand
father, Larry Jerome Of New YORK,
well known In higher turf circles a gem
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They would feel so out of place, you see
But what you and l want and are will
ing to strive for, is the removal Of things
that make us worse than we are; and that
may make other people a great deal worse
than they ought to be. The bicycle, Mrs
Smith says, is the one instrument that
does all the harm. Take it away and we
Will go back again to the average amount
of badness, and not actually wallow in the
clough as we are now doing.
Mrs. Smith tells the story of women who
come to her and tell her that they were
thrown in harms way from riding the BIZ
cycle to Bicycle Retreats, where they
learned to drink whisky. Oh. dear. oh,
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en- ethereal kingdoms for them to gov
ern, l should so out and purchase twenty
seven ~ wheels. They should all have
the new easily cared for bearings and the
new high gears. Their guards should be
nickel plated and their saddles should
match their tool bags and the wheels be
painted any color the girls liked.
Then / should order twenty-seven new
bicycle costumes, to match the wheels,
and Easter Sunday afternoon. after the
church, the music. the good will and the
flowers | should turn out en- masse with
my girls. l shrewdly suspect that
should die of pride when / saw them go
pedalng UP the aYenue. But ! am posi-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

her bicycle skirt. and tells you to cheer
up. The woman who used to scold be
cause you forgot something is too busy
now, planning your trip with her, to ask
you if you forgot so and So And that is
what the bicycle does for the home. What
it does in enjoyment and spirituality is
something which each rider must answer
personally.
There IS another point to be scored for
the wheel, an Easter point. And that is
the chance it gives everybody. It used
to be a dreary old world for the grand
mothers. They took care of the babies,
overlooked the cook went to market and
darned stockings. Now they do up their
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

gray curis into neat Psyche. GET o,,.
par OF trim shoes, shorten a neal Sc
pus On oolero and start out to do ~
suburbs. Gray hairs are as common ne. olle
bicycle as ebon locks, and much r upoh
common CON, than the awful peroxide whieb
used to offend the sight everywhere. "'''en
MRS. smith claims that the wheel !.
pernieious to the boy. We'll. thew Us Is
that boys will be boys" anyway hay Say
ers TO the twenty-seven girls hefore -
terred to- should buy them s7 rain
that made them, would mount them ~
races pointed to the broadest, smootbast
way, and hope for the best. The how NJ sS
bicycle Is too busy finding a coasting
spot and becoming strong on biTs', 70
plan incendiaries or lay pipe for stat
prison. S'a'e
Take back those bicycle words. Cha
lotte Leave the bad people alone Cona
out and enjoy the sun of Easter ana ~
member that the Lords glorifed "a.
came up over the hills where the bicyoiss
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

An Easter in which new thoughts and new
hopes would rise above the evil tendencies
which have enslaved them for the past
year.
Danish the bicycle from the roads Eas--
ter Sunday. 1t breaks down the barrier
and makes it easier to go wrong. Take
away the bicycle for that one day, II for
no other day in the year. and we shall
have a great and glorious Easter. a bright
and triumphant day when right can fight
wrong without the tremendously popular
bicycle working against it.
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worlds began rolling around casters. This
morning the head bowed upon the hard
edge of the pew ia front is giving thanks
for happiness. That means health, con-
tentment-and good times to come. No
stlfled heart, no envy and no thoughts of
the Eat home" when friends Will drop in
as they used to in those casters when
they called to show their gowns, don't
you know
Now there may be women who are look
ing forward to this Easter afternoon as
a time when they can be very evil, an
elegant opportunity for going the way
they have always wanted to so, the way
of the transgressor. and which the bicycle
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

1T would indeed be Easter day for the
world" says Charlotte Smith, the woman
who is trying to have bicycles banished
by act of the Massachusetts, legislature.
'1f bicycles could be taken from the
streets and suburbs for twenty four hours.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

THE woman who rides bicycle Easter
Sunday is stepping, either knowingly or
unknowingy, a long way in the wrong di-
rection. The woman who sends her
daughter out to ride the wheel Easter af-
ternoon is willfully paving the way for
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

There were no public requests in the
will of William T. Adams C'Oliver Optic').
1t was very brief, and was written in the
authors own hand, under date Of April
p, 1885. las a simple token of my high
esteem and regard, TO my sons-in-law, Sol
Smith Russell and George W. White, 1
give $1,000 each" All the remainder of his
estate. including his copyrights and other
literary property, he bequeaths to his
daughter, Mrs. Alice Adams Russell, the
wife of Sol Smith Russell
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TWO VIEWS OF EASTER BICYCLISTS.
Constance Mortified Hits Back at Char
lOtte Smith.

I'M
Take the way
So
cd Has ade For Them
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How the Mix Up Began.-"It was tn''s,
way jedge. re see. doled de card' a''e
Jim Brown he had a pah OF aces and pa.
O. kings" What did you haveG' ~
aces. ledge. aud -" What did jim o0.
Jim, he drew" what did he draw
He drew a razzar. iedgeF-cle'e,'N
Plain Dealer
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will carry all who love the spot where
His face shone. Constance Mortified.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-03-11
Histort RetOld.

The Emperor Nero had good many faults, among them being that of van ity. He has gained the reputation of cruelty largely on account of the fact that he insisted upon appearing in pub lie as an amateur actor. His ambition, however, was to play the fiddle before a large popular audience, but for a time no suitable opportunity arose. At last, in the tenth year of his reign, Rome was almost entirely destroyed by fire, and the whole population was out in the streets. At last" he said, my chance has come." And he sallied forth with his fiddle in one hand and an original composition in the other. Having seated himself on the top of a pile of smoldering ruins, he struck up a noctnrne in F sharps and five flats. But the people did not seem to be pleased. Don't look vcXed," he called out. "I am not unfeeling, but l have always understood that when there has been fire the best thing that can be done is to play on the ruins. Judy.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-03-11
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

COL. JOHN HENDERSON, general cOGn- sel of the Florida Central & Peninsula railroad, was appointed by Gov. Blox- ham, of Florida, to the place in the United States senate left vacant by the expiration of Senator Calls term. The legislature ill choose a regular sue cessor next month.
 ALL the members of President Me- Kinley's cabinet, with the exception of Mir. Gage, secretary of the treasury, met the justices of the United States supreme court at the white house on the 9th and took the oath of office. Chief Justice Fuller afterwards went to the treasury building and admins tered the oath to MT. Gage.
 A TREMENDOUS rainfall in Alabama on the 9th did great damage. In the interior of the state hundreds of bridges were swept away and consid- erable havoc wrought to crops.
 PRESIDENT MCKINLEY on the 9th issued a proclamation calling the Fifty Fifth congress in extra session on March 15.
 Mas. NELLIE PRAYER, of Brainerd, Minn., on the 9th confessed to the mur- der of the nine-year-old son of David Maxwell, for whom she kept house, and was sentenced to prison for life. She said she tied the boy in the barn and then fired it, because the boy was troublesome.
 D. N. BoATEsI, acting minister and consul-general of Greece in New York. has called upon all Greeks in the United States in the name of their king to go back to their country. as their fatherland needs them to fight.
 Gov. LORD, of Oregon, has appointed ex-Senator Corbett United States sena- tor to fill the vacancy caused by the failure of the legislature to elect at it's recent session. Mir. Corbett represent ed Oregon in the United States senate from 1866 to 1872.
 A HEAVY snowslide started from a mountain peak near the Morgan mine at Park City, Utah, and struck bunk house in which nine miners were sleep ing. Only five of the men were rescued alive.
 iHThE were Wllu SceHes oi uI"Oi" "Si in the Oklahoma senate on the 9th and President Johnson and Senators Brown and Learned resigned, declar- ing that the body was too corrupt for honest men to be connected with it.
 EVERY union plastcrer and hod-car- Tier at Chicago went on strike on the 9th with the intention of remaining out until the bosses agreed to pay the old scale of prices of S3.5O day for plasterers and S2.20 for hod-carriers.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-03-11
GENERAL NEWS.

TIE Union elevator at Peoria, H.. was burned to the ground. It had fully 900, 900 bushels of wheat, corn and oats stored in it. The loss amounted to S500,000.
 Gov. BRADLEY, of Kentucky. on the 9th, appointed Maj. A. T. Wood, of Mount Sterling, United States senator to succeed Blackburn. The governor also issued proclamation calling an extra session of the legislature March Is to elect senator for the full term.
 A SPECIAL from Helena, Mont, on the 5th said that Representative Mar tin BriclSley. of Jefferson county, was expelled from the legislature for cor ruption in office.
 TIE Oklahoma house passed a bill exempting from taxation live stock brought into Oklahoma between No vember and June 1, to be fattened on grain.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-03-11
A HEROIC EXAMPLE.
How French Onacer Braved the Infection
 of Cholera.

HOW Q Frencn Omcer lSraveu the lnrectiOn
 of Cholera.
 Exposure to the fire of an enemy is not the only form of bravery which an officer or soldier may be called upon to show. Not long ago the French papers chronicled the death of Lieut. Col. Azan, of the army, of infectious pneumonia contracted while visiting a military hospital where there were cases of this disease, and encouraging the men. In connection with this case, the exploit of Col. Gardarens, of the sixth regiment of the line, also in the French army, is recalled.
 During one of the Algerian cam paigns, when the position of the French troops was somewhat precari- ous, some cases of cholera appeared in the regiment. They were all in one mess. A feeling of panic spread among the men, which it was necessary to al lay in some way, in order to prevent disaster.
 At that time the fact was not fully known that cholera is communicated wholly through the food and drink. and is in no other way ''contagious," But Col. Gardarens had reason to be- lievc that it was not infectious in the ordinary sense.
 One evening man had died of chol- era in the quarters and lay dead on his bed. The men had fled from the vicin- ity in constcrnation. The colonel or dered them to follow him to the pres ence of the victim of cholera and they obeyed.
 With his own hands he lifted the dead man from his bed and had the body removed. Now l will show you,' he said, that cholera is rot in- fectious. shall pass the night on this mans bed"
 He did so. Not only did he crawl into the dead soldiers bed, without any change of the clothing, but the wondering soldiers heard him snoring tranquilly through the hours of the night. In the morning he rose, dressed, gave the military salute and departed, having evidently rested well. Whatever the soldiers may have thought, they were debarred by this example from showing any further signs of panic. Youths Companion.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-03-11
WHAT A sruPENpoUs LIE,

We hear farmer say when he reads that John Breider, Mishicott, Wis, grew 173 bushels of Salzer's Silver King Barley per acre in 1896. Don't you believe it? Just write him! You see Salzer's seeds are bred up to big yields. And Oats 230 bushels, corn 26o, Wheat GO bushels, Potatoes 1,60O bush- els, Grasses G tons per acre, etc, etc.
 5000 FOR 10 CENTS.
 JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10 CENTS stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co.,, La Crosse, Wis, and get 12 farm seed sam- pies, worth S10, to get start. [Kl