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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
■Meetings—Solomon's Ixsige No. 1, F. anO
IA. M.; Savannah Lodge No. 52, K. of P.;
6avannah Confederate Veterans’ Associ
ation; First District Liberal Club.
Special Notices—Notice to Superior Court
Jurors; Ship Notice, Strachan & Cos., Con
signee's; Proposals for Feed, M. llanly.
Fire Chief; Notice in Regard to Licenses
and Badges, C. S. Hardee, City Treasurer;
New Store and New Stock, Murk Apple;
Notice to City Court Jurors; Notice, W.
P. Bailey, Clerk of Council; The Produce
Market, J. C. Slater; Miss Bennett's Re
ception; No Old Stock to Work Off, R. D.
& Wm. Lattimore; Closed To-day and To
morrow, Account Reducing Prices on En
tire Stock, Metropolitan Clothing Com
pany.
Business Notices—The Bendix Grand
Concert Company, Guards' Hall, Jan. 20.
Legal Notices—Notice to Debtors and
Creditors, Estate Barbara A. Koch, De
ceased,
Prices That Attract—C. A. Munster.
Free Book on Dressmaking and Diamond
Dyes—Wells, Richardson & Cos.
Khbo Corsets—ll. H. I.evy & Bro.
Does Your Horse—E. L. Neidlinger.
Steamship Schedule—Baltimore Steam
ship Company.
Why Not Buy—At Brown's.
Railroad Schedule —Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad.
Condensed Milk—Borden's Eagle Brand
Con.leased Milk.
Medical—Castorla; Erie Medical Com
pany; Hood's Sarsaparilla; Pe-ru-na; Mo
Elree's Wine of Cardui; Bradfleld's Fe
male Regulator; Ayer's Pills; Cuticura
Remedies; World's Disiiensary Prepara
tions; Warner's Safe Cure.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Gen. Eagan has perpetually shut him
self out from the military kissing bees.
Should the Spanish dynasty and Don
Carlos come to blows, Uncle Sam might
feel constrained to Interfere, in the inter
est of humanity.
Dewey said he wanted first class states
men sent to the Philippines. Will the
President cable his list of commissioners
to the admiral for approval or revision?
Of the 400 men of the new Havana police
force, 100 will be Spaniards. Thus there
Is still a chance for at least some Span
iards to get even with some Americans.
Pittsburg is to follow the example of
Poston in the matter of the consolidation
of a number of banking institutions into
one great bank. Eleven Pittsburg banks
ate to be brought into one organization.
A syndicate is to buy the slock of the
hanks, close up their business and carry
os much of it as possible over to the new
bank.
The young Emperor of China is now
engaged in an occupation hl h he no
doubt finds more enjoyable than govern
ing millions of heathens and at the sain.'
time defending himself against a wicked
old woman. He is said to be training some
goats and monkeys. When he gets out
of the Job of Emperor, therefore, he will
be in a position to go on the road with
a trick animal show if he wants to.
Following the death of a well-known
public man, it is customary for the news
papers to print anecdotes and funny
stories about him, by way of illustrating
his character. But there has been al
most a total absence of stories about the
Jate Representative Dingley. Probably Jt
is because there was nothing humorous
about him. He viewed life from the seri
ous side. To him men and affairs were
Beep and abstruse problems, to be studied
with patience and plodding care.
A Pennsylvania court has decided'that
the poiitienl laborer is worth -of his hire.
P.lilenmyer had worn out two pairs of
shoes canvassing a county in the interest
of Martin. Martin said ho would pay for
•he shoes. Htltenroyer said he wanted
more Ilian that, as he hud talkie] him . If
hoarse besides wearing out the shoes. Mar
tin demurred. Ritteumyer surd for com
pensation, and the court ordered that he
should be paid so much per day for every
day he had been electioneering for .Mar
tin.
THE SANITARY CONDITION OF H \-
\ ANA.
Surgeon General Sternberg lias taken a
i look at Havana. He is not pleased with
j it. There arj plenty of reasons why ho
! is not. Coi. Waring told us what the ac
! tual sanitory condition of that city is.
' The picture which he presented was an
‘ alarming one. The impression w hich Gen.
Sternberg got during his inspection of the
j city is about ibe same as that which Col.
I Waring hod.
But what is being done lo remedy the
condition of affairs which exist there?
That is the question which the American
people would lik- to have answered. The
dispatches 1. 1! us (hat a large force of men
is engaged in cleaning the streets, that
the vaults are being sealed up and the
people are being compelled lo remove all
filth and garbage from their houses.
These are excellent sanitary regulations.
But are they sufficient to warrant the be
lief that there will not be an epidemic
of yellow fever soon after the rainy season
begins? It is well understood, of course,
that no one knows with any degree of
certainty what the health conditions of
the city will be when the sickly season
begins, but there are good reasons for
thinking that what is being done to ward
off an epidemic will no. be effective.
Col. Waring said that the drainage of
the city and of certain adjacent low lands
w.,s necessary to prevent an epidtmie of
yellow fever next summer, and he said
that iht-re was time enough to do the nec
cessary drainage work before June 1, if
the improvement was begun at once. What
is being done now is mere surface work.
The seat of the trouble is not being reach
ed. Next June, if an epidemic breaks out,
the question, why was not Col. Waring's
advice acted upon? will be asked. The
whole country will be looking for some
body to hold responsible for neglect of
duly. If many liver are lost there will
be a deep feeling of indignation. The de
fense that there was not time to do the
sanitary work recommended by Col. War
ing will not be accepted, because he said
there was time.
If the United States is to make Havana
a healthy city there ought to be no delay
in beginning the work. There is no use in
waiting until thousands of our soldiers
and thousands more of our citizens have
become victims of the fever. What is be
ing done now gives Havana a better a|>
pea ranee, but it is not what the city needs
to save it from epidemics of yellow fever.
No doubt the authorities know that as well
as Col. Waring did, and as Gen. Sternberg
does.
THEIR lIEST FRIENDS.
Notwithstanding the recent senseless
speech in Washington by T. Thomas For
tune, and several conventions held in va
rious Northern cities by a class of negroes
who, as the Washington Post has express
ed it, "think they are gentlemen because
they wear patent leather shoes, and
statesmen because they read the newspa
pers or are able to write sophomorlc es
says,” which speech and conventions have
been well calculated to still further es
trange the black and the white races, the
outlook is good for a better understand
ing between white persons and black than
has existed for some time.
There has, indeed, always existed a
strong mutual feeling of good will between
the native whites of old families in the
South and the black people. This senti
ment was well set forth by a Southern
woman >vho resides on a plantation in
South Carolina, in a recent letter to the
New York Sun. She and her family are
entirely surrounded by blacks, but she
has never received from them anything
except the most respectful deference and
courtesy. She gives many illustrations of
the klnd'.y feeling which exists between
the races, and asserts that "the normal
work-a-day negro” is sure that “his old
white people are his best friends”—an as
sertion which is unquestionably true, as
the Morning News has had occasion to
say many, many times. The average ne
gro, if left to himself, may be lazy to a
degree, but lie is peaceable, inoffensive,
good natured, respectful and obliging. The
great difficulty is that he is easily led.
Thus he becomes the victim of the half
educated and wholly unreliable negro
"gentleman in patent leathers,” who
thinks he should have a public ofilce be
cause he* can read the newspapers and
write an essay, and the unprincipled,
demagogic white man who wishes to use
the black voter to his own advantage.
There have recently come to the front
several leaders of the black race who
are preaching to their people the right
sort of doctrine respecting their future.
They lake the ground that moral worth
and industrial effort must determine the
future of the race. They say that the ne
gro must work out his own salvation, and
not depend upon being legislated to a
higher plane, as Fortune and his followers
say should be done. The loader of this
new and better plan is Booker Washing
ton. Standing with him are Thomas E.
Miller, president of a South Carolina Col
lege for colored youth; Isaac H. Smith,
the only negro member of the North Car
oline House of Representatives, Rev. G.
D. Holden of Kansas and a few others.
These men say that instead of combat
ting the white people, the negroes should
get in line with them, learn from them,
assist them in their undertakings, and
prove to them that they wish to be
friends and helpers.
Representative Smith said in the-North
Carolina Legislature the other day that,
although he was elected as a Republican,
he recognized the fact that the white
Democrats were the best friends the ne
groes ever had, or would have, and there
fore he Intended to vote with them quite
often. The Rev. Holden of Kansas, who
has been prominent in politics in that
state, said the other day: "If Mr. Mc-
Kinley, who is a Northern man, could
shake hands with the Southern men and
allow them to pin a Confederate badge on
his coat, what ought we as a race to do?
The negro should on every possible occa
sion, whether |>olilical or otherwise
co-opcrate with the white man. As long
as the Southern negro continues to vole
against ihe interest of the Southern whit,
man, Just so long will there be strife be
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, .JANUARY 10. IS9O.
tween (hem. The negro is not a ward of
the nation. The government is under no
obligation to him. He must work for
himself.”
The leaders mentioned are on the right
line. They are preaching a doctrine which
will be fruitful of good to their people.
They deserve encouragement, and the a*,
sistance of other blacks who regard the
progress and peace of the race as of great
er consequence than the possibility of
themselves as individuals holding minor
political offices.
THE REASON FOR A COMMISSION,
The President, it -ea rns, has deci-leti to
appoinya commission to visit the Philip
pines not for the purpose of getting In
formation as to the kind of government
that would come nearest answering tile
need of the natives of those islands, h it
to assist in opening the way for the ratifi
cation of the treaty. It is said that not
wiihsiandlng the confident tone of the ad
ministration senators in a- claring lhat the
treaty will be ratifies] as soon as it is de
cided to take a vote on the question of
its ratification, there are grave doubts as
to whether a two-thirds’ vote can be ob
tained for it. Those senators who are
against it in its present sha|ie say they
are certain that the treaty wi.l not be
ratified unless it is amended, so as to
show beyond a doubt that this country is
hot committed to the position of retaining
permanent possession of the islands.
It may lie lhat a resolution declaring
that it is not our purpose to hold the isl
ands permanently will be accepted, because
of the delay that would be necessary if
an amendment to the treaty were insisted
upon. Not only would an amendment be
cosily, but it would be productive of great
dissatisfaction in Europe, where there is a
strong desire that the Philippine question
shall lie settled as soon as possible. A
delay would be costly, because, while the
question remains open, we shall have to
maintain a large force in the Philippines,
both military and naval, and also keep
up a larger military establishment at
home than would otherwise be necessary.
One senator is quoted as saying that our
army and navy are now costing us pretty
nearly a million dollars a day. It is im
portant, therefore, that the treaty shall
be ratified as soon as posibie, so that ex
penses can be reduced.
The appointment of the commission is
intended to show that the President is
deeply interested in Ihe Filipinos and
that fit is the purpose of his administra
tion) to help them prepare theqiselves for
se.f-government. One of the objects of
the commission will be to bring about as
kindly a feeling as possible between the
Americans and the Filipinos. It is ex
pected that the appointment, of this com
mission, when its purpose is fully under
stood, will be to lessen the opposition to
the treaty.
WAY'S BLUFF.
Does Senator Clay think he will be re
elected or Is he only bluffing, With the
view of eventually naming the winning
candidate? On Tuesday he lacked sixteen
votes of having enough to win the election
if the situation in the Pennsylvania Leg
islature wore the ordinary one in sena
torial elections he would stand a pretty
good chance of getting the votes that he
needs to win. But the situation is not an
ordinary one. All of the Republicans who
are against him have taken a pledge not
to vote for him until the charges pending
against him in the criminal courts of Phil
adelphia are shown to be without substan
tial foundation. If these Republicans are
true to their pledges Senator Quay can
not be re-elected before he stands his
trial.
But will those who Are pledged against
him remain faithful to their pledges? It
must he admitted lhat there are doubts
that they will. Pennsylvania is noted for
corrupt politics. If enough of those who
have pledged themselves to the opposition
to Senator Quay should find excuses for
voting for him the country would
not he surprised. But there would
be no doubt in the public mind that
bribery of some sort had been used. It is
said that one of the members of the legis
lature who was thought to be against
Senator Quay found out that if he did not
vote for the senator a bill which he had
against the state Republican committee
would not be paid very promptly. He vot
ed for the Senator. It may bo that six
teen others—the number needed by the
senator to secure his election—will dis
cover equally potent reasons for changing
their votes.
The senator shows his contempt for the
legislature when he Insists upon being re
elected while the charges against him are
pending. He virtually tells that body that
it has not such a reputation for virtue
as to prevent it from electing to the
United States Senate a man who is under
indictment for conspiring to unlawfully
use the money of the state. If the sena
tor should succeed in getting elected with
out disproving the charges against him
the legislature of Pennsylvania would be
regarded with feelings akhi to contempt
in all parts of the country.
. That Peoria man who applied to the
court Ihe other day for an injunction
against death is still alive. A iqca! prophet
had foretold that he would die on Jan. 15,
1899. The court couldn't issue the injunc
tion against the prediction, so the pros
pective victim had nothing to do but
clench his teeth and try to live it dpwn;
and he has done it successfully. Now
that the fateful date has been passed, the
man who didn't die is very angry with the
man who said he would die, and declares
that he means to give him a sound thrash
ing the first time he can catch him.
The opinion seems to be that Represen
tative Payne of New Y’ork, who stood
next to Representative Dlngley on the
ways and means committee, will succeed
to the chairmanship of that committee.
Mr. Payne is s* years old, and is now
serving his seventh term in (he House.
He was a candidate for the senatorefiip
to succeed Senator Murphy, but stood
aside in order that the nomination might
go to Dr. Depew. It would seem, by the
way, that New York had about got her
-hare of the plums under this administra
tion.
"The Toronto World is respectfully as
sured” by an able and conservative Phila
d- lphia newspaper "that the United States
have no wish to annex Canada, except
with Canada's consent.” Have recent
events indicated that the United Stales
are asking consent when they get ready
to annex? Hawaii’s consent was not
given, notwithstanding a carpet-bag gov
ernment of the islands instituted by Amer
ican force of arms, petitioned for admit
tance. Porto Rico's consent has never
bothered the United States. The consent
of the Filipinos cuts very little figure in
the Philippine question at present. It
might be that if the United States had
an opportunity to annex Canada, consent
would not "cut much ice” in that quarter;
that is, if the spirit of expansion and im
perialism is to dominate our government
hereafter.
Secretary Alger’s scheme for a great
railway line through Cuba may never be
carried out by the United States, but it
appears that, as a matter of fact, this
government is at the present time build
ing a railroad in Cuba. The road runs
from Trisconia around Ouanabacoa, giving
connection with all railroads entering Ha
vana. It will be about six miles in length.
A few days ago seventeen hundred m- r#
Were at work upon it. The road Is being
constructed by an American company un
der a contract with the United Stales gov
ernment.
It seems that there are fifty-five persons
in the South, exclusive of Senator Marion
Butler, out of several millions, who favor
the payment of federal pensions to ox-sol
uiers of the Confederacy. These fifty-five
are apparently residents of Muscogee
county, Georgia. Their names, many of
which we present this morning, will stand
alone in the Senate records, in ail prob
ability, as the only ex-Confederate survive
ors of the war who were willing to peti
tion for the pension privilege.
“Pecos Bill,” as Gen. Shaffer is famil
iarly known among his friends and admir
ers, seems to be coming to the'front some
what after the manner of Hobson. It is
stated that at El Paso the other day he
was captured by a bevy of pretty girls,
each one of whom insisted upon being
kissed by him. The general is credited
with having removed his cap and done his
best to make the performance come up to
the expectations of the giris.
The German Emperor is credited with
having paid a very striking tribute to Eng
land's power during his trip to the Holy
Land. Speaking to Dr. Fenner in Pales
tine about the probability of war between
England and France, the Emperor is re
ported to have said: “The struggle would
not last more than five or six days, as
in that time To-ulon, Brest and Cherbourg
would be in flames and the French fleet
would be exterminated."
There seems not to have been a great
deal of difficulty about the arranging of
a modus vivendi between the Maine Re
publicans and Senator Hale. While being
opposed to fome of bis, .opinions, they
voted for him because he was a party man,
and he, being a party man, the other day
promised that he would put his opinions
in his pocket if it was the will of the
parly.
It might be to Senator Quay's interest,
if those Republicans who have combined
against him persist in being unruly, to
seriously consider the plan alleged lo have
been adoptee! by the managers of Senator
Stewart's campaign in Nevada for secur
ing a majority; that is, to engage a few
gun fighters to take care of the obstreper
ous legislators.
PEHSOJfAL
—Col. George B. M. Harvey, who is at
the head of n syndicate which has bought
ihe street railway system of Havana for
$1,472,000, is an old journalist.
—George Julian Zolnay, the Hungarian
sculptor, whose bust of Edgar Allan Poe
for the library of the University of Vir
ginia is so favorably criticised,says that
his inspiration was found in these words
of Prof. Charles W. Kent of that univer
sity, who has cleared away so many of the
l’oe scandals: “Poe was no drunkard, but
was easily tempted and overcome by
liquor. His story is not one of vice, but
of pathetic struggle against it.”
—Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild,
the uncle and father-in-law of the late
Baron Ferdlnan de Rothschild, was a
.jnember of Parliament of the House of
Commons in several Parliaments before he'
was permitted to vote or even take a seat.
He refused to take the oath of office on
anything but the Old Testament. A special
act was passed in 1858, which omitted for
Jewish members the concluding words of
the oath "on the true faitli of a Chris
tian.” m
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Nashville American (Dem.) says:
"Dispatches from Paris state that French
sentiment is again being worked up
, against the United States and that the
French newspapers don't like the way
we are doing in the Philippines. The
French, it would seem, have troubles
enough of their own without trying to
butt into our affairs, but if they insist
on throwing dirt at us, we can stand it,
for their influence just at present is not
great.”
The President's several commissions
have not impressed the Valdosta (Ga.)
Times (Dem.) to any great extent. It says
of one of them: “It will soon be in order
to appoint another investigating commit
tee to investigate the work of the one
that has been operating since Sept. 24,
without learning anything of importance
to the country except the opinions which
some of the army officers have of each
other."
The Rome (Ga.) Tribune thus touches
upon a text from which there should be
preached a good many sermons in'Geor
gia during the next twelve months: “Bi
ennial sessions of the legislature would
cut down the great flood of useless laws
enacted at every session. We have too
many laws now. The people of Georgia
should rise up and demand biennial ses
sions of the Georgia Igeislature.”
The Springfield Republican (Ind.) says:
“Gen. Palmer of Illinois is in reduced cir
cumstances at a very advanced age, and
a pension Is to be asked of the govern
ment for him. His rare pubfic services
have never been turned to the account of
his own purse.”
A Pare an<l Simple Poker Story.
This is a poker story, pure and simple, !
says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It was a !
particularly naughty game, too, because
it was played by a young -woman of high
social standing against her own father,
and the cheating that went on—but that
comes later in the tale.
The thing reaiiy began last summer. As
soon as this particular girl stopped buying
summer clothes she began to tease her re
spected papa for anew sea.skin jacket.
Papa pleaded poverty, but the young wo
man kept on, until the other night the
thing was at last decided.
"I think It's mean,” she cried almost
tearfully. “You and Uncle Tom and ths
boys were playing poker last night, and
I know you won. You might give me
that coat. They're so cheap now.”
Papa laughed and said something about
penny ante, but one of the aforementioned
“boys” who happened to be present sud
denly looked up at the woe-begone maiden
with a sly wink.
"I toll you what. Uncle Ned.” he drawl -
ed, "suppose you play her for it. If you
win she’s never to mention it again un
der penalty of starvation, and if she wins
she can have it.”
Papa poo-hooed a bit, but Uncle Tom
came in and joined against him, the girl
herself was willing, and so, as her luck
on the few occasions when she had played
poker had been proverbially bad, at last
her stern parent relented, and the game
began.
Hut he had counted without his host.
There were throe, not one, against him,
and "the cards they were stacked in a
way that I grieve.”
He began to lose and he kept on losing.
He held fair hands, but his daughter's
were always a little better, and for such
a greenhorn ai the game she played them
with a skill (hat was remarkable.
Of course she won. The game was got
up with the express purpose that she
should win.
And equally, of course, she got the coat.
She has it now, and is sporting it about
these very streets. They meant to tell
papa the "little joke,” but they haven’t
>et, Itecause he is heard to use improper
language whenever the dainty garment
comes In view. Also, incidentally, he has
left off playing poker. Says he can't
afford it Whereat his wife is joyful.'So
wasn't that a case of one small wrong
making two rights?
An Active t ongreaxman.
When the antis had displayed such nu
merical strength against civil service on
Monday, joy entered the soul of Gen. Gros
venor of Ohio, says the Washington Post.-
For several years he has borne the shock
of oratorical encounter in the House, when
the date for the annual debate on civil ser
vice came. Gen. Grosvenor expected de
feat when the House reached a test vote,
but it made him twenty years younger
when the big Republican vote was an
nounced.
Yesterday the Ohioan pranced about the
House like a 2-year-old. There was a
firmer tone in his voice as he saluted the
civil service advocates. Finally he
pranced out Into the rear lobby, where the
young son of Representative Tha tdeus Ma
hon of Pennsylvania was playing.
"Can you run, my lad?” inquired the
white-haired veteran.
'Aes, sir,” replied the boy, rather sur
prised.
“I will enter a race with you for the
length of this lobby and back again,” pro
posed the general.
Down the long stretch of the lobby tore
the portly statesman in his Prince Albert,
and the youth in knee trousers. The con
gressional bystanders glanced in with
some alarm through the glass door, lost
Speaker Reed’s wrath might be brought
down upon the athletes. Turning for the
home stretch. Gen. Grosvenor's white
locks flew along behind his well-shaped
head. The boy dug the dust out of the
carpet and won the first heat by a full
yard.
"I will run you another,” panted the
general,” and away the two flew for an
other trial of speed. Gen, Grosvenor, like
a man who had got his second wind, fair
ly flew, and Master Mahon fell behind be
fore they returned to the starting point.
Several times again they ran, but the rac
ing was nip and tuck and neither is yet
satisfied that the other is the swifter.
A Clever Trick.
An ex-collector of customs relates this,
says the Detroit Fee Press, as among his
experiences: “Some years ago, and short
ly prior to the holidays, a man came into
the office and said that he wanted to talk
with me personally. He looked like an
unsophisticated fellow who had come In
from the country to try his hand at busi
ness, though he had sharp features and a
nasal twang.
” ‘Mister,’ he began when we were alone,-.
‘l'm in a kind of a snarl, and I've come
to you because I want to do the square
thing. I had a nice lot of Havaney cigars
shipped to Windsor, thinkin’ 1 could do a'
siroke sellin’ em here in Detroit fur the
Chris'mas trade. 1 had a man there to
take care of ’em till I came on, but he,
not knowin’ nothin’ about the law, packs
them cigars in a boat and brings ’em over
here without sayin’ no duty. I reckon it
was smugglin,’ but he's honest as the sun,
and I hurried right here soon's I heard
of what he'd done. Here’s a sample of
'them cigars,’ as he held out a box, and I
want to say right here that I never had
a more delicious smoke. He took me to
the little room he had rented and showed
me hundreds of boxes on which he paid
the duty, and I let the matter drop. It
got into the papers, even to my verdict
as to the quality of the cigars.
"Then my honest Y'ankee made a spe
cial Christmas sale, patronized chiefly by
women, who did not care so much about
price as they did about the credit for hav
ing once selected good goods. He was
closed out in no time, and disappeared.
There was a rank odor in the local atmos
phere that Christmas, The cigars were
cheap Connecticut fillers with cheaper
Pennsylvania wrappers. The cigar he
gave me was a ’ringer.’ Uncle Sam got
money that did not belong to him. but it
was an advertising scheme out of which
the Y'ankee made a fat thing.”
Morgan ns u “Dong” Talker.
Senator Morgan of Alabama can talk
longer and say less than any man in the
Senate, says the Washington correspond
ence of the New York World. His rapi
dity and range of ideas are phenomenal.
He can talk on every subject known to
mankind. When he makes a speech, how
ever, he drives every one from the cham
ber. His voice is soft and feeble, and it is
with difficulty that the stenographer, who
always sits at his right, catches his words.
Senators have great respect for the ven
erable statesman from Alabama, but they
sonrotlmes Joko with him on his speech
making proclivities. Not long ago Sena
tor Chandler of New Hampshire, whose
chief delight is to “stir up the animals”
occasionally, facetiously inquired of him:
"Senator, how long would it take you
to say all you would like to say on a
subject you knew nothing übout?”
The Alabama senator shot a savage
look at the New Hampshire fire-eater and
replied:
“Well, if it were a subject about which
I knew absolutely nothing, I think I
could say all I might have to say in two
days.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Some extraordinary bwld ng took place
on a doll auctioned off at a charity bazar
held at Witley, Surrey, the other day.
The puppet was only worth about 7 shill
ings. but the bids came rapidly, and a
Mr. Labouchere (not the Mr. Ixibouehere
of Truth) finally secured the prize for
£3llO.
—Tests with liquid fuel ere now being
carried on in the British navy, and the ex
periments appear to be very encouraging.
Trials are to be made with different kinds
of oils, and in the new torpedo destroyers
that are being built the question of adapt
ing the boilers for the use of liquid fuel
is being seriously considered. The trials
so far made have been in a torpedo boat,
and it has been found that there is but
little change of structural conditions nec
essary, in case the boat is to burn oil or
coal, and the few minor modifications es
sential can be made without laying the
boat up for any length of time.
—The Chinamen of Seattle have taken
up the cry of “equal rights” and opened
a war with the white gambling houses of
that city. The police have been “making
it warm" for John, and he declares there
has been no end of invidious distinction in
favor of his American fellow craftsmen.
Since the authorities have stopped his
gaming, have collected a barrel of “opium
outfits” and left every “joint” like “a ban
quet hall forsaken,” the downtrodden Cel
estials have begun a crusade against na
tive industries, and swear to have raided
every white gambling in the city.
They claim that the talk of a Highbinders'
Association in Seattle is but of the many
base canards originated by jeaktous Ameri
can professional rivals, and they threaten
to have prosecuted every proprietor of “a
little game” whose address they can by
any means procure.
—Fe.v of England's noble families have
been so honoied as have the Percys, and
the Percys have always held as their
dearest ri&ht that whereby they- can
bury dead in Westminster Abbey. The
space for interments in that old pile has
finally grown extremely limited and there
were not iacking those who broadly hint
ed that the Percys would gracefully add
another to their services to the state by
waiving their right to burial in the abbey
and thereby making room for the coun
try’s more il.ustrious dead. But, with
hereditary stubbornness, the Percys have
continued to “hold on.” The late Duka
of Northumberland was himself a Percy
in the female line, though in the male a
Smithson. “An idea has prevailed,” says
the London Chronicle, “that the latter
family were new people, of ignoble de
scent, but that Is not the case. Sir Hugh
Smithson, before he married the heiress of
historic Northumbrian family, was a bar
onet of ancient family, and large proper
ty at Stanwlck, in Yorkshire. The found
er of the famous Smithsonian Institution
at Washington was a natural son of a
Du|fe of Northumberland.”
—Sir James Sawyer of Birmingham,
England, has laid down some rules by
following which one may, says the medi
cal oompiler, reasonably hope to reach the
century mark. There may be people who
want to reach it—one has read of such—
so here they are: 1. Sleep eight hours a
day. 2. Sleep oil the right side. 3. Open
the windows of one’s bedroom at night.
4. Put a screen in front of the door. 5.
Place one’s bed away from the wall. 6.
Take a bath the temperature of the
body every morning, not a cold douche.
7. Take exercise before breakfast. 8.
Bat little meal and make sure it Is thor
oughly cooked. S (For adults). Do not
drink milk. 10. Eat much grain in order
to nourish cells which destroy the germs
of disease. 11. Avoid intoxicants which
destroy these cells. 12. Take daily exer
cise in the open air. 13. Keep no animals
in living rooms. They may have the
germs of disease. 14. Live as much as
possible in the country. 15. Drink water,
avoid humidity and the neighborhood of
sewage pipes. 16. Vary one's occupa
tions. 17. Take from time to time a short
holiday. 18. Limit one’s .ambitions. 19.
Restrain ore’s natural character. There
you are. Sounds simple, doesn’t It? A
child ooukl do it. Nobody else would.
Indeed, if they did, what would become
of Dr. Sawyer—of unhappy name—and
the rest of his profession?
—A sensation has been created In Ha
vana, says a cable from that (city to the
New York Sun, by the report received
there from Madrid stating that when the
casket containing the supposed remains of
Christopher Columbus was opened in Ma
drid it was discovered that the Spanish
coins of gold and silver, the gold cross and
other valuable relics which were interred
with his remans were found to be miss
ing. The remains, it will be remembered,
were taken from the cathedral in Havana
and shipped to Spain after the agreement
made by the Spaniards to surrender Cuba.
It is asserted that the record of the arti
cles placed in the casket containing the
body has been kept among the archives
of the cathedral in charge of the arch
bishop of Havana, and that they show
that the casket contained some of all the
gold and silver coins of Spain then exist
ing, as well as a cross of solid gold and
a number of other relics of great value.
Where they have disappeared to is now
a mystery, as, so far as can be discovered,
there is no evidence that the casket was
disturbed, yet on Ihe other hand it is ar
gued that they could not have been ex
tracted except by removing the lid in some
manner and then covering up all traces
of the work. It is charged that robbery
has been committed, and as the remains
were in charge of the priests they are
held responsible, but as nearly 400 years
have elapsed since the interment of the
body, it is impossible to accuse any one of
the theft. However, there is much disap
pointment over the fact that the valuabile
relics have been losl.
—The “green ray,” an optical phenome
non which has been made the foundation
of a story by Jules Verne, is a flash of
greenish light seen as the limb of the sun
rises or sets under certain conditions of
the atmosphere, says the New York
Times. The sea horizon is goixj for ob
serving it, but the effect occasionally s*en
in the Alps or other mountains, and, ac
cording to Biot Bey in a paper to the
Academic des Sciences, Paris, it Is often
to be observed in Egypt, from the point of
the delta to Alexandria or Suez, either at
rise or set of sun. The ray is distinctly
visible, and always of an emerald green,
which is brighter as a rule at sunrise than
sunset. At sunset, when the eye can fol
low the effect better, the ray sometimes
appears longer and ultimately takes a
blue tinge. This blue ray has also been
observed preceding the green ray at sun
rise, for example, by Mr. William Goff,
near the ruins of Memphis, not far from
the stepped pyramids of Saggarah. He
even thinks the ancient Egyptians were
familiar with it, because in monuments
of the fifth dynasty and others the sign
"Kha,” representing the rising sun, has
the outer streak of a blue color and the
two inner streaks are green. Their writ
ings also speak of the greenness of the sun
on rising, and they liken It to an emerald.
It is evident from all this that the "green
ray” Is an objective, not a subjective,
phenomenon, and thnt the horizon of the
sea has nothing to do with it. Neverthe
less. the state of the atmosphere, evident
ly, has to do with it, and that of Egypt,
ordinarily pure, seems to have much, for
the ray is seldonUseen elsewhere on land.
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