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May 26.
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May 18.
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Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Probably Dewey wishes to give us a
plenty of time to get used to the fact that
he is coming home.
Mrs. George Is going to sue, as the com
mon law wife of George I). Saxton, for a
dower Interest in his estate. There ought
to be some way of choking this woman
off, for the sake of those who are inno
cently but inevitably involved in whatever
notoriety she succeeds In stirring up.
The American cruiser Reina Mercedes,
formerly the loyal ship of his majesty of
Spain, may never again be a first-class
fighting machine, but she can be made a
great success as the representative of the
r.avy department at festivals and flower
shows from the Rio Grande to the St.
Ljwrenee.
Ten Filipinos brought to this country
for show purposes have been denied ad
mission at San Francisco, on the ground
that they are foreign contract laborers.
At the same time, we have an army in
the Philippines engaged in teaching the
natives that their islands are, as a matter
of fact, American territory.
The losses by lire in the United States
and Canada during the month of April
were less than in any month this year;
but, as In the previous months, there is
an increase when compared with 1838. The
total loss was $9,200,000, and $1,000,000 more
than in April of 1898. The loss of the four
months exceed those of the first four
months of 1898 by nearly $12,000,000.
Gomez is a fox. There is no accounting
for the shrewd and devious tricks he may
have in his mind. His actions since he
came Into Havana and had a meeting of
exuberant friendliness with the Ameri
cans has been such as to cause suspicion
of him. It may yet transpire that this
gov, rnment will have to invite Gomez to
return to his home in San Domingo before
there can be a solution of the Cuban prob
lem.
The anti-Quay Republicans of Pennsyl
vania have challenged the ex-senator to
test his hold upon the party of the state
by running for the office of state treasurer.
It is not likely, however, that Mr. Quay
.will accept the challenge. He will be too
busy during the next few months elect
ing a legislature favorable to himself to
bother about running for the treasurer
ship by way of securing a vindication. Be
anies, it is not a vindication that he
wants, but the seat in the federal Senate.
A sensational poisoning affair occurred
in Philadelphia the other day. It Is be
lieved to have been caused by Jealousy:
Home Philadelphians regard it as quite as
dastardly a cram as anything Nw YoM<
lias produced lately. The victim was a
Ii.COU orchid plant, in the conservatory of
Mrs. Wilson, where $900,000 worth of or
:hids have their habitation. Some new
tnd "priceless” additions had recently
icon made to the collection, and it is be
loved Jealousy instigated the poisoning of
he "Laelia'' orchid in question
MR. REED AYD THE CANAL.
It Is generally accepted that the oppo
sition of Speaker Reed defeated the Nic
aragua canal bill before the Fifty-fifth
Congress; and the speaker has been more
or less severely crltiqised for having
blocked the progress of the great national
enterprise. What was the basis of his
opposition? Mr. Reed gives good reasons
for his conduct in an article in the North
American Review. Instead of being hosti'e
to the canal, he shows that he is really
favorably disposed towards it. He earn
estly desires to see the two oceans con
nected by a ship canal across the Isthmus.
But, unlike many of the friends of the
project, he has been asking "how" and
"why." He has not permitted enthusiasm
to get the better of Judgment. He has
carefully studied the data in the posses
sion of the government, and has reached
the conclusion that we do not yet know
enough about what we propose to do to
permit of an accurate, intelligent plan
of how It can best be done, and what
the cost will be. "When the canal has
been pronounced 'feasible,' ” says the
speaker, "it simply means that with time
and money it can be built,” But how
much time, and how much money will be
necessary? That is the question to which
there has been no satisfactory answer
vouchsafed. The several boards of ex
perts sent by the government to inquire
Into the matter have submitted differing
estimates. The cost has been placed as
low as $65,(8)0,000 and as high as $150,000,000;
and there have been almost as wide dis
crepancies respecting the time required
for the work.
Meantime there are several important
questions bearing upon the cost, which
have not yet been examined into at all.
The whole of ihe route proposed has not
yet been explored. The various levels
of the proposed sections of the canals
have not been determined; and upon this
matter depends how much dredging and
blasting will have to be done—things bear
ing directly and heavily upon the question
of cost. "The level of Like Nicaragua
must be maintained at 110 or 112 feet,
or at some level at all seasons within
very narrow limits. That level Is the
basis of the whole work. Between that
level and the bottom of the canal must
be space enough for the ship to move at
reasonable speed. The lower the top, the
lower must be the bottom. If the bot
tom must be lowered there must be more
exeavatton and more cost. Flood waters
must be discharged, evaporation at the
rate of 16,000 cubic feet per second in dry
seasons must lie provided for. This Is
more than the whole discharge of the
San Juan. The solution of this problem
will help fix the bottom of the canal and
that will help very materially to fix the
price ’•
There has been a disposition on the part
of some of the friends of the canal in Con
gress to rush through a big appropriation,
and let everything else lookout for itself.
Their plan seems to be to get the thing
started, and then push it, no matter what
the cost may be. Mr. Reed does not look
at it that way. He wants to know what
we are going to get for our money before
we go into the business. Indeed, he is not
sure—lt has not been made conclusively
plain—that the government needs to go
into the canal digging business at all. “The
Panama people say they are at work now
asking help from no one, employing 3,000
men and able to continue; whether they
arc or not will be determined, for we
have taken steps to find out. The Grace
syndicate, representing many large cap
italists, declare that they will in October
have the right to build the Nicaragua
canal, and by their counsel, Mr. McClure,
who says he is duly authorized, declare
that they are ready without any govern
ment aid to build and complete the pro
ject, treating the government Just as It
desires to be treated.” If private capital
is ready to build two canals, or even one,
the neutrality of one being guaranteed by
treaty, Is there need for the government
to go into the work of canal building?
There are several knotty problems con
nected with the canal matter, both me
chanical and political, which must be
cleared up before intelligent and satis
factory action can be taken In the prem
ises. Congress has appropriated a fund
of $1,000,000 to be expended In clearihg
them up. The problem, Mr. Reed says,
"is too difficult to be mastered by- en
thusiasm alone. Sound sense and discre
tion must also be called into action.
There ought not to be any intolerance in
regard to opinions on this great and irrv
portant enterprise. The final outcome no
one can doubt. The commerce of the
world In due time will eliminate Cape
Horn to as complete a degree as It has
eliminated the Cape of Good Hope. The
uneasy dream of 400 years will soon be
a waking reality, and, across the rock
bound rklge which for all these years
has defied the Ingenuity of man, the great
ships will go, freighted with rich cargoes
and the civilization of commerce and
peace.’’
It is by no means certain that Now
York, or any other city, will get a chance
right away to have a big blow-out with
Admiral Dewey as the center of attrac
tion. He has not accepted the invitation
to attend that SIOO-a-plate dinner concern
ing which so much has been said in the
papers of late. He has cabled that the
condition of his health requires tljat he
have rest and quiet. It is sincerely to be
hoped that this expression is merely one
of diplomacy, to avoid distasteful npto
riety, and that the admiral's health is not
impaired. The American people would
think none (he less of him if he should
find it inconvenieift to eat the hundred
dollar dinner.
Elijah G. Harvey, colored, of Boston, is
a graduate of an educational institution
at Andover, Mass. It is said that he
speaks several languages, dresses fault
lessly, reads and admires Browning and
Emerson, occasionally drops Into poetry
and Is ever ready to discuss theology,
having been educated for the ministry.
But Elijah is in Jail in New York on the
charge of burglary; and when he was ar
rested he tried to slash the policeman with
a razor
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, 31AY 15. 189a
AMERICANS AS FIGHTERS.
Our two wars of 1898-99, with Spain and
with the Filipinos, have proved wonderful
educators. We have learned more of our
own power and resources than we ever
knew before, and Europe has learned that
we are a people to be feared and respect
ed. One consequence will be that we shall
hereafter be treated with more deference
by the other Powers, because those Powers
have now witnessed a demonstration of
the capacity of the American as a fighting
man in foreign lands and on foreign wa
ters, and they now know that he fights
anywhere with about as much dash and
daring and intrepid courage as he does
on his own soil. The great civil war
gave the world an illustration of American
valor and endurance that will never be
forgotten; but in that conflict the contest
ants were on home ground, and it was
only natural to suppose that American?
would fight more desperately at home than
abroad.
That seems to have been about the gen
eral idea entertained in foreign countries.
In some parts of Europe there was a dis
position to make light of the United States
as a military power, because we kept such
a very small standing army. It was
thought that the fighting spirit would
die out; that the nation would become
effeminate; that volunteer troops could
not he depended upon to fight successful
battles, if called on short notice to the
defense of the national policy. All such
Ideas have been abundantly disproved.
The battles of Manila bay and'Santiago
proved that the American navy is manned
by sailors who keep cool and shoot
straight; In short, that it is one of the
finest and most efficient organizations of
its kind In the world. And in the land
battles in Cuba last year, and In the
Philippines thWyear, the soldiers, regular
and volunteer, have proved that for cour
age, fortitude and accurate marksman
ship. they are the peers of any that ever
went into the field, anti the superiors of
many of the crack troops of the European
nations. A number of
mans and Spaniards who have recently
witnessed the fighting about Manila and
Caloocan are quoted in a letter to the
New- York Evening Post as expressing
"unbounded astonishment, not only at the
bravery of the men In battle, but the
fortitude and cheerfulness of the wound
ed.” "It was a revelation to them." con
tinues ihe correspondent, “these two
traits of the American soldier, which won
their admiration and made them respect
more fully the military potentiality of 70,-
000.000 of such people as these.” We are
a peace-loving people; but when it be
comes necessary to fight, we can strike
quickly and as hard and often as may be
required to achieve our desired ends.
A RIVAL FOR ICE TRUSTS.
The liquefaction of air is no longer the
dream of scientists; it is an accomplished
fact, and gallons of the tiquld are being
produced in the laboratory of Mr. Triplet-,
in New York, every day. Up to this time,
however, the demonstration has beetr
more of a laboratory triumph than any
thing else. No method of producing the
liquid at a cost which would make It avail
able for commercial purposes has yet been
perfected, though it is promised that a
plant now in process of construction in
New York will be in operation probably
by the later part of this month, when, if
the aims of Ihe inventor are reached, li
quid air will be. produced more cheaply
than and as easily as Ice is made. And
it is the purpose of the inventor in ques
tion, a young man of the name of Ostra
ger, to bring liquid air into the market in
competition with Ice.
Mr. Tripler, concerning whose inventions
and wobderful experiments with liquid air
we have printed several articles, uses an
apparatus in which an initial pressure of
2,000 pounds lo the square inch is neces
sary to the liquefaction of the air. Os
trager, who is said to be an Inventor of
abilty, has invented an apparatus of dif
ferent pattern which, it is claimed, will
perform the same functions with an initial
pressure of 600 pounds to the square inch.
It will readily appear from this statement
that the latter apparatus can be operated
much more cheaply- than the former. Mr.
Ostrager has been able to convince several
capitalists of the correctness of his ex
periments and deductions, and they have
furnished him with money lo build a $30,-
000 plant, which will he finished during the
latter part of this month, when a number
of scientific experts will inspect and study
ft.
It is the purpose of Mr. Ostrager and his
friends, if ihe apparatus performs what
is expected of it, to go at once into the
market with liquid air as a refrigerating
agent. Its temperature, it will be recal
ed, is 312 degrees below zero. It Is to be
placed In Jars covered partially with a
fine film from which a tube will extend,
permitting a slow and safe evaporation
of the liquid air. The jars are to be de
livered to hotels, residences and elsewhere
that a cooling agent is desired, and they
may be placed inside refrigerators or ice
boxes, Just as a lump of ice is. The cost,
it is believed, will be less than
the cost of a quantity of ice
necessary to perform similar ser
vice. The liquid air, meantime, would be
not only cooling but a purifying agent in
the refrigerator. All impurities are re
moved from the air in the process of
liquefaction, hence the pure oxygen, hydro
gen and ozone that would be liberated in
the refrigerator in the process of evapora
tion would absorb the impurities In the
chamber.
There is, to be sure, an element of doubt
about the perfect success of Ostrager's ap
paratus, and the ice trusts may not be
threatened with serious competition on
the part of liquid air makers this year; but
it seems altogether probable that the time
is not far distant when the newly discov
ered liquid will be made availabfe for gen
eral use as a cooling agent, and probably
also as a motor power.
One of the newest trusts announced is
to be international in character. A group
of American and English literary agents
have formed a syndicate for the purpose
of controlling the future productions of
Rudyard Kipling.
There are at leasl two Mayors who are
supposed to be incubating presidential
booms. They are the Mayors of Chicago
and Toledo. A Chicago newspaper has
Ken running over ilie list of Presidents,
and finds that the number of those who
went up to the White House from the
chair * xtn mely limited.
Cleveland, it pays, was the onfy- one. Both
Mayors Harrison and Jones may be very
good men as one- ay executives, but it
is an open question if either would not be
something like the New Hampshire Dem
ocrat said about Franklin Pierce, “rather
thin when you come to spread him over
the whole United States.''
There is in Brooklyn a hoy who plays
the fiddle ail day an 1 a greater part of the
night. The? ' neighbors are undecided
whether he is a ntn met or a genius, hence
steps iiave been taken to hold an Inquiry.
Upon the report of the commission de
pends whether the boy shall be suppressed
or encouraged.
Senator McMillan .-ays that he will not
step aside in or i. r that Michigan may
send Secretary Alger to the Senate; he
will be a Candida', for re-election. Should
Gov. Tingree also ! a candidate, the
three-cornered flghi that would result
would probably conn; pretty near to being
a scramble.
PERSON \L.
—The Venezuelan government desires to
decorate Admiral Sampson and the com
manding officers of the North Atlantic
squadron that recently visited La Guayra,
and also Command- r C. C. Todd of the
Wilmington, with the Order of the Bust
of Bolivar.
—Lord Charks Beresford has finished
his report ou his journey to the Far East.
II will take the form or a portly volume,
to lie published in a few weeks simultane
ously in England and America. It is the
labor of forty-five days, during which
Lord Charles worked steadily eleven hours
a day.
—Following the example of the minister
of education of Russia, the minister of
education of Saxony has issued a decree
that girls and young ladies attending the
public schools shall not wear corsets or
stays. In Dresden and otner large cities,
girls of 12, the doctors say, have become
addicted to tight lacing.
—Gen. Felix Agnus, the editor 'of the
Baltimore American, has been appointed
by President McKinley a member of the
board of visitors to the military academy
at West Point, this being the second time
that he has been so honored. He was
chairman of the board of visitors appoint
ed Hy President Harrison In 1892.
—That politics and even the New York
brand of society will not mix, or else that
the social warfare of New Y'ork is pene
trating the realm of local politics, is
clearly indicated by the resignation of
Harry Payne Whitney and Thornton N.
Motley from the bureau or municipal sta
tistics because Ernest HarVier, another
member of the bureau, told too much
when a witness in the sui. brought ten
years ago by Marie Prescott against a
news company for circulating alleged
libelous statements about her. The young
men who retire from the bureau do not
want to 1 associate ‘with a man who "re
fused to perjure himself like a gentle
man'’ to shield a woman.
BRIGHT BITS.
—“Oh, yes,” replied the husband of the
advanced person, bitterly. "I go home to
my meals. 1 have managed to retain a
coaling station in my home.—Detroit Jour
nal.
—Bicycle Admonition.—“ Brethren,” said
the bicycle parson, “guide youah spiritual
bikes in dis ye re wo’ld so dat you all
won’t scorch in de nex'.”—Philadelphia
North American.
—Brawley (given to boasting)—Do you
know, I suppose I've the best eyesight of
any person going?
Lltesum—Oh, there’s no doubt of that.
That book you praised so highly you were
able to read without stopping to cut the
leaves. Don't believe any other person in
town could do it.—Boston Transcript.
■ —She W anted to Know.—Tie had done
his best to explain to her all about the
Apia difficulties.
“So, you see,” he concluded, “it's the
old story of too many cooks. That’s the
history of the whole Samoan trouble.”
“Yes, Charley, dear, it’s all as
day, except one thing; who Is this Sam
Owen?”—Washington Star.
—lie and Human Nature.—“l have been
trying for nearly a year,” he said, “to
get a chance to ask you to be my wife.”
"Ah, Francis,” she replied, “I am glad
to know that you are persevering, and 1
shall not let your constancy of purpose
go unrewarded. I will.be yours.”
“Oh. but I suppose I ought to have ex
plained firs*,” he made haste to answer,
"that now the chance is offered, I haven't
any desire to accept it. What a queer
thing human nature is, isn't it? People
are always longing for that which they
do not possess, and when they finally get
it, or have a chancel to get it, they don't
wan’t it.”
She was too busy looking hard at noth
ing to reply.—Chicago News.
Cl RREXT COM WENT.
Discussing the question of the care of
Confederate graves by the national govern
ment, the Nashville American (Dem.)
says: “The idea that the federal gov
ernment is the "Yankees’ ” government,
and that It is in some way hostile to us,
should not be entertained. The federal
government represents the whole country.
The South has as much interest in it as
the North, and the East as the West.
Southern men have had more to do with
shaping the policy and destiny of the
country since the beginning of the gov
ernment than those from any other por
tion of It. Why, then, any hostility to
the federal government? It is ours as
much or more than anyone else’s. We
are taxed to support it and pay the taxes.
So when the federal government takes
care of Confederate graves it is the work
of the whole country, not any particular
section of it."
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says;
“Let us not cavil nor make faces at the
agrarians in Germany, who insist on tax
ing our meat in order that they may sell
their own at greater advantage. These
stalwart protectionists are proselytes of
our own making. They are doing to us
as they have been done by. Why should
we reproach them?
The Birmingham News (Dem.) says:
“Andrew Carnegie has given away to col
leges, libraries and like institutions $17,-
OOO.COO within the past twenty-five years.
And yet some people profess to see no
good in millionaires.’'
At the Cat Show.
Ono of the principal attractions at the
show given by the Cat Club in Chicago,
says an exchange, was the “tame wildcat,"
an animal that had been caught in the
forests of Minnesota er Wisconsin when a
little kitten, and having fallen in good
hands, had grown up to be a gentle, affec
tionate creature, fond of being petted, and
giving no evidence of its original wildn. ss
except in its po ; nted ears and its size,
which was about that of four ordlnarv
cats.
An interesting visitor having reached a
finger through the wires of the wildcat’s
cage and stroked the animal's forehead,
strolling along. and presently repeated the
performance at the cage of a particular
ly handsome Angora, receiving a savage
scratch as he did so.
“Wow! Ow!” he exclaim'd, wrapping his
handkerchief hastily ar. red the torn fin
ger. “A tame wildcat t.-.u’t half as dan
gerous as a wild tame cat!"
An agriculturist from lowa, who had
brought some live stock to the city, and
had heard of the cat show, dropped in to
see what it was like. He had a half
formed idea of buying one oi the handsom
est of the animals, if he count be assured
that he could transport it to his home
without too much trouble.
With this point in mind he made the
rounds of the cages, and then, stopping in
front of a splendid black eat bearing the
name of Peter Jackson, asked somebody
who happened to be standing by:
"What do you suppose they’d sell that
cat lor?”
"The lady Who owns that cat,” was the
reply, “values him at $500."
"Great Scott!” gasped the visitor.
"That’s ai) I got for a whole carload of
fat hogs.”
He didn't buy any cats at that show.
I.likcoln and Vnllandiglizn.
Apropos of the> utterances of Edward
Atkinson and other anti-expansionists, a
Washington correspondent of the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat writes that Abraham Lin
coln finally came to doubt the wisdom of
Stanton's vigorous policy regarding the
speech of secessionist sympathizers.
"Gradually,” says the writer, “he came
to doubt if imprisonment for speech in
opposition to the government during time
of war was good policy. He doubted if
Secretory Stanton’s policy of repression
really repressed it; it seemed to encourage
martyrdom. Toward the close of the war
Mr. Lincoln’s policy of leniency toward
the secession sympathizers became more
clearly defined. Free speech that was not
commendable was tolerated. Utterances
of seditious character were ignored.
Valiandigham was one of the Northern
sympathizers with the South. He was
imprisoned and banished to the South in
the earlier efforts to suppress him. Later,
when Lincoln’s policy of ignoring this ele
ment of the North was in the ascendant,
Valiandigham, defying the order of exile,
returned to Ohio. The Information was
telegraphed to Washington. Nothing was
done. One loyal congressman went to the
White House to see about it.
“Mr. President,” he asked, “have you
been informed that Valiandigham has re
turned to the North?"
"Not officially," replied Mr. Lincoln.
After a brief pause, the President ad
ded:
"And I’m taking darn good care not to
be.”
This fairly illustrated the policy which
Mr. Lincoln found to be most satisfac
tory toward enemies in the rear who used
no weapons worse than speech.
A Day's Work.
He was seated on the steps of the Gris
wold street side of the city hall, says the
Detroit Free Press. Tramp? Yes.
His face was rough and red and bleary
and beer}'. One shoe was a boot—pardon
that—and the other boot was a shoe.
The man’s hat was brimless and all
crushed in on top and around his neck in
lieu of a collar he had twisted an old fray
ed and greasy string tie. His coat wus
torn and green brown on the shoulders,
his trousers ragged around his feet. He
wore no vest and the cheap negligee shirt
may have been blue—once. Apparently
Ih man was dozing. His eyes were clos
ed. But he may have held them that way
because he was too lazy to wink. He
breathed hard. By and by he opened one
eye half-way arid squinted at the passers
by in the street. Finding it nol at all
inconvenient to keep that eye open, he
os>ened the other. It was easy, and the
man emitted a self-satisfied grunt.
Looking down just then he observed a
bit of raveling on the left leg of his dusty,
torn trousers. He eyed that raveling crit
ically. He held his head to one side and
squinted at it. Then he held his head to
the other side and squinted at it again.
Taking a long breath, fie slipped his hand
down his trouser leg. His arm wasn't
long enough for tpe hand to reach the rav
eling. The man sighed. For fully five
minutes he gazed at that bit of thread.
Then with a superhuman effort he inclined
his body and reaching down picked oft the
raveling. It dropped from his fingers to
the stones, and settling back the man
rested his head against the pillar and
closed his eyes.
A Modern Mnltliirop.
An interesting volume, “With a Palette
’in Eastern Palaces," by E. M. Merrick,
tells amusing stories of many climes. Of
the Western wJf.d was <j modern Mrs.
Malaprop, pretty, amiable and rich, who
sat to the author for her portrait. "She
told me," she says, “that her husband
'hobnobbed' With everybody and told such
‘cotton wool’ (cock and bull) stories: that
a girl she knew was training to be an
arch-deacon’ (deaconess); that she was
obliged to part with her coachman be
cause he was such a ’gay Othello;’ that
she had Indian robber ’tiles' put on the
wheels of her carriage; that a man she
knew was a regular ’marmoset (marli
nes) in his own h9Use; and a certain title
always descended from uncle to nephew,
as they Invariably died ‘childish.’ Among
the numerous celebrities whom Miss Mer
rick met in India was Lord Roberts, whose
antipathy to cats gave rise to a little story
of metempsychosis. On one of his home
ward voyages Lord Roberts ‘asked to have
the cat removed when he came on board
ship.’ and a stranger, not knowing who
he was, said to Lady Roberts: ‘Don’t you
think that little gentleman over there
must have been a. mouse in a former
stale?’ ” f.
Had Observed It.
There had been a brilliant company at
the home of a society leader, a woman
whose husband, while a very worthy man,
was noted rather for his wealth than for
his mental attainments, relates the
Youth's Companion.
“Well. Abner.” she said, after the last
visitor had gone and they had sat down
to talk It over, "It was a complete suc
cess, wasn’t It?”
"Sure," replied the husband.
"Did you notice Prof. Much man?”
"He was the man with the bandage
around his neck, wasn’t he?"
“Yes. You heard him talk, didn't you?"
"Oh, yes. I heard him."
"What on astonishing vocabulary ne
has."
“Well, that may be what it is." said
Abner, doubtfully, "but from the way he
held his head I should judge it was a car
buncle.’
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A New Mexico correspondent of the
Chicago Record says: “The famous tur
quoise mine at Cerrillos, about thirty miles
south of Santa Fe, is now the property of
the Tiffanys, the New York Jewelers, who
are working it on scientific methods, and
last year took out about twice as many
jew'els as it ever yielded before. There
are about sjxty turquoise mines in the ter
rPory, the product of which amounted to
1525.000 last year, and is entirely controlled
in the United Slates. The largest piece
of turquoise ever discovered here was
taken from the Tiffany mine and was val
ued at $6,000. The high prices of copper
and zinc during [he last year have led to
a revival of interest in those minerals in
New Mexiso, and several important dis
covery's have been made. Copper is now
more sought after than gold, and a great
deal of money is being invested in the de
velopment of old mines that were aban
doned years ago."
—An egg forger has been recently ex
posed in Paris, says the Scientific Ameri
can. Eggs are about the last thing that
one would expect to be forged, but it
should be remembered that there are many
collectors of birds’ eggs who are willing
to pay a high price for rare birds’ eggs.
A visitor saw .this clever forger make
a penguin egg which could not be distin
guished from the real one that served
him for a model. He made the egg of
plaster of paris of parts which he burnt
and glazed. The egg was intended for a
man who furnished eggs for a foreign sci
entific collection. It is not very difficult
to impose on even experienced scientists,
for among the real eggs of most species
there are so many varieties that even
the most practical expert could not read
ily distinguish all of them. The eggs of
the common fly catcher are very cheap,
and by chemical treatment they acquire
a bluish, green, shiny color, and are then
sold at high price, as the eggs of the silk
tail. From common ducks’ eggs are fabri
cated eggs of a falcon, being given a silver
green color for the purpose. The pigeon
and wood pigeon eggs are also transform
ed into rarer products of birds. Nightin
gales’ eggs are difficult to procure and are
therefore rare. They are successfully im
itated by coloring larks’ eggs brown. For
a long time the egg forger was an assist
ant in a natural history musuem in the
provinces. There have been other cases
of forgery of very rare birds’ eggs, but
these were only made of excessively rare
eggs, and their manufacture did not con
stitute a permanent means of livelihood.
—Korea has little timber, but excellent
deposits of bituminous and anthracite
coal, especially the later. So far all re
quests for concessions to mine these coal
deposits have been positively refused 'by
the Korean government, says the scien
tific American. Natives dig out the sur
face coal in the crudest and most expen
sive manner, Allowing the debris and wa
ter from the heavy rains to fill up the
shaft or hole and damage the coal to be
got out the following year. The result is
that the coal finally offered for sale is so
rotten from exposure to wet and cold that,
after it has been frequently handled and
packed on pony back, it arrives in Seoul
mostly in the condition of fine dust, which
has to be mixed with wet, red clay and
made into balls by hand. These balls,
when dry, are used by the foreigners in
their stoves. This poor stuff is exceeding
ly expensive, costing, this year 18 yen ($9)
per ton, from which must be taken the
included weight of some fourteen or six
teen heavy straw bags in which the coal
arrives. The few hundred foreigners in
Korea (Americans and Europeans) use
stoves, as the paper floors used by the
natives with warmed flues beneath do not
answer for foreign use, owing to the fact
that the rooms are too large and shoes and
furniture soon ruin the floors. Stoves at
one time were quite in favor, and a few
Koreans have begun to employ them
steadily now. Owing to the high price of
coal, numbers of kerosene stoves are now
being used, and these seem to appeal to
the Koreans, as they are neat and handy,
and furnish light as well as heat.
—To be quite fair, says the New York
Times, the papers that have made so much
of soldier letters bewailing the hardships
of war and sighing for the comforts of
home, should select passages from sol
dier letters of another kind—letters from
men. There are such and many of them
appearing in print all over the country,
and they make good reading. For in
stance, the St. Paul Globe finds space for
a long communication in which John F.
Pevu TS. a private of Company G, Thir
teenth Minnesota Regiment, tells about
the taking of Malabon, and how after
fighting all day he worked all night help
ing bullocks to drag through the jungle
to the front heavy carts loaded with
"grub and cartridges.” And for all this
he found sufficient reward in the thought
of duty done and a few words of commend
ation from his colonel. Best of the let
ter is its close, which runs thus: "Don't
worry about me. lam well, and if I
should be among the wounded or I
dropped for my country as thousands have
done before. Every one must die, and if
it's God's will that I die in battle, so he
it. I notice all kinds of stories about us
in the papers from home, and half of
them are lies. We are all right and Will
go home when this war is over and cot
before. At least I won’t go home until I
go with my regiment. We are veterans
now, and can stand anything that comes
along. I have written a different kind of
a letter in tone to mother, at least not so
much war news in it. so don’t show her
this.” This is one of the tools of despot
ism that are. it is said, murdering prison
ers and robbing houses.
—The Aztecs worshipped fire, and Mon
tezuma’s principal occupation when he
grew to manhood was to keep the flames
alive on the altar of an ancient estufa,
or temple, which stood in his native vil
lage of Pecos, a few miles south of a clus
ter of shanties that now surround a wa
ter tank and a railroad house that bears
the Israelitish name of Levy, writes W.
E. Curtis from New Mexico to the Chi
cago Record. One day n great while
eagle came, and carried Montezuma away
on its back. Everywhere the bird alight
ed on its journey southward a pueblo
arose, and the end of the flight was the
base of Popocatapetl, where Montezuma
founded an empire and a dynasty, which
reigned for centuries, until it was over
thrown by the Spaniards, who killed the
king, stripped the temples and palaces
and enslaved the people. Before he left
Pecos on the aerial journey Montezuma
to!d the people that some time he would
come back again to redeem them, and
every morning the devout and confiding
Ax tec goes to his housfe top at sunrise,
and, shading his eyes with his dusky
hand, scans the horizon in the hope that
his messiah will appear. He told them
they must keep the fire on the altar burn
ing until he came, and this injunction
was obeyed until travel became so fre
quent along the Santa Fe trail that the
priests feared the vandals would extin
guish it and prevent thq return of their
redeemer: so they took it one day with
great ceremony over the mountains to the
pueblo of Taos, where, according to tra
dition, Montezuma’s eagle first alighted
in its flight from Pecos. There it Is sup
posed to burn to-day in a secluded estufa
piously guarded from the touch or sight
of unbelievers and safe from the sacri
legious hand of the cowbov, whom ihe
Pueblos fear as much as they reverence
their mythical messiah.
INSTANT relief
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ITCHING HUfVSOBs
Tobturi.no, Disfiguring Eczev ,
species of itching, burning, ble.vt re” 1 < ‘ vcr ?
crusted,and pimply skin an( , -ai ? ,
with dry, thin, and falling hair a,* ‘ n ' rs
relieved and speedily cured bv
with CcncußA Soar, gentle anoi.n ™ ba,hs
Cuticura, purest of emollient
and mild doses of Cuticura Ire Cut “’.
greatest of humor cures, when all |,g f ’
Hot Weather Is Here
of Silks at special money
Prices. Note the
31-inch Figured India Silks 59c w,
of 85c. ' a<
36-in oh Black China Silks 69c
of SI.OO. nst<!a(
27-inch Black China Silk 59c initial ,
85 cents. - 01
24-ineh Black China Silk 48c, in-i ~ a
65 cents.
40-inch All Wool Black Serges 2,0
stead of 50e.
46-inch All Wool Serges 45c, initn.i a
65 cents. u 01
40-inoh All Wool Batiste 45c, inst ou l
65 cents.
24-inch Silk Grenadine 69e inn, ~t .
$1.25. ‘ 01
24-inch Silk Grenadine 79c, in--.ii ,
$1.35.
We add to these SPECIAL OFFPb
INGS
A SUPERB LINE OF GINGHAMS
Imported Gingham, 32 inches wi-l
worth 25c.
French Silk Stripe 30c; worth 501-
Variety of French Novelties in Ging
hams 29c; worth 40e.
A decided bargain in Ginghams at
worth 10c.
Another lot at 10c; worth 12t£e
LINENS,
Too, share the same flte and go at t*.
duced figures.
Our Linens are known everywhere a,
the best. They are not to be duplicate
in the city for the same money. A gla-s*
at the prices will show the savings:
Linen Cambrics, 32-inch wide, at 25c. St
50c. 60c, 75c and sl. Just about 20 percent’
in your pocketbook.
Good Table Damask at 25c.
60-inch Linen Table Damask 42'jc.
72-inch Linen Table Damask 69c; wort)
85 cents.
72-inch Linen Table Damask 99c; worth
$1.35.
WHITE INDIA LINENS.
Our usual India Linen, 12>4c, rejuwl
to 10c.
Our usual India L4nen, 15c, reduced to
12t£ cents.
Our usual India Linen, 20c, reduced to
15 cents.
Our usual India Linen, 25c, reduced tt
20 cents.
Our entire line of Figured Moussel!*
de Foie at 65c; reduced from Ssc.
LACES AND EMBROIDERIES
During the week go at the reduced fig.
ures.
Mattings at 20c, 25c, 30c and 35c yard;
Just what you need to make the rooms
look cool and inviting.
DANIEL HOGAN.
The corner Broughton and Barnard 9a.
HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS,
PULASKI HOUSE.
Rates, $2.50 Per Day.
Chas. F. Graham,
Proprietor.
iPLOTTERS HOKL*
CENTRALLY LOCATED.
Street cars from all depota to hotel
Rates $1.50 and $2 per day. Hot aw
cold water on each floor. Electric light*
throughout the house. Clean rooms, good
cooking, and polite attention to all gue
Meal tickets reduced.
GEO. W. LYON3, Manage!.
The Wigwam
INDIAN SPRING, GA.
Season 1599 Opens May 15.
“The famous health resort of lha
South.” This season everything will t#
done to insure perfect comfort and pleas*
ure.
ISAAC BASHINSKI.
Owner and Proprietor.
H. A. DANIELS, General Manager^
'CLARENDON HOTEL.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, V Y.
Thoroughly renovated. Cuisine seni - *
unsurpassed. Best family hotel and line* 1
location in Saratoga. Famous Washington
Springs situated In Claredon’s privat
park.
New York Office, HOTEL VENDOME.
J. A. Nutter. M. P. Robinson. W.J. A Idea
Warm springs,
HATH COUNTY, VIRGINIA,
are now open for guests. For circular*
and terms address
EUBANK & GLOVER.
Warm Springs, Bath county, Vlrglna.
SEED PEAS.
Unknown Clay, Black, White aol
Mixed Peas.
Lemons, Oranges,
Peanuts, Vegetables, Etc.
Hay, Grain, Flour and Feed.
YY.jL), SiJUKUN'S&CO.
OLD NEWSPAPERS, 200 for 25 cents,
Business Office Morning News.