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ISDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—Postum Cereal at 15c a
Package, Etc., John T. Evans & Cos.; No
tice of Being Associated With the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York, A.
L. Shellman; Open Your Eyes and See
Things As They Are, C. H. Dorsett;
Optlmlrm Rampant, C. H. Dorsett; Steam
er Doretla for Bluffton on Tuesday; Men's
Crash Suits, Leopold Adjer; Men's Fine
White Duck Trousers, Leopold Adler; A
Short Statement as to Columbia and
Crawford Bicycles, T. A. Bryson; Notice
to Bondholders, Brush Electric Light and
Power Company; Ryan's Business College;
L. B. Greer, the Grocer; Savannah Steam
Laundry; Silva’s Closing Out Sale; Special
Notice to Executors, Etc., Hampton L.
Ferrlll, Ordinary Chatham County,
Georgia; The Chinese Restaurant; Is
There Any One? Falk Clothing Company;
Glance at Our Samples of Mouldings, Etc.,
Ladeveze's Picture Frame Factory; Resi
dence For Sale, Walthour & Rivers; Spe
cial Notice., Mr. C. P. Rossignol; Pui
Yourself In My Place, C. A. Munster; No
tice of Opening of South End Hotel Res
taurant, W. M. Bohan; Old Ocean House
Site on Tybee For Sale, Charles F. Gra
ham.
Business Notices—E. &W. Laundry.
Originator of Low Prices—Leopold Ad
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Ice Cream Freezers, Water Coolers,
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Tents, Tents—Crawford & Cos., Augusta,
Ga.
Wool Shipments— Lee Roy Myers & Cos.
Patents—O'Meara & Cos., Patent Attor
neys, Washington, D. C.
Our Recognized Standard, "The Stude
baker—H. H. Cohen & Cos.
Great Cut Price Sale—At the Hub.
June, Poetic, Practical, Prosaic—The
Metropolitan Clothing Company.
July Ist Midsummer—Daniel Ho
gan.
Garden Hose, Etc.—Leo Frank.
A Cleun Sweep—Foye & Morrison.
Legal Sale—Public Sale of Personal
Property of Martin P. Warren. Bankrupt.
Auction Sales—Walnut Bookcase, Bi
cycle. Furniture, Etc., by C. H. Dorset!,
Auctioneer; Big Sale of Lots on Ninth
Street, by C. H. Dorsett.
Wrong End Up—Byck Bros.
Closing Out Sale of Belt Buckles, Etc.—
At Gardner’s.
Perfumes—Murray & Lanman's Florida
Water.
Beef—Liebig’s Extract.
•'Cucumber” Coolness Confronts You—
At Levy's.
Liberal Quantities and Liberal Reduc
tion—Jackson, Metzger & Cos.
Last Week of Our Building Sale—At
Gutman’s.
A Bonanza for Shoppers—Gustave Eck
stein & Cos.
Two Reasons Why You Should Use a
Gas Range—Mutual Gas Light Company.
Low Prices on Desirable Goods—Walsh
& Meyer.
Postum Cereal Coffee—Postum Cereal
Company.
Medical—Johann Hoff's Genlune Mult
Extract: Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy;
Munyon's Guarantee; Cuticura Remedy;
Sulphume; P. P. P.; World's Dispensary
Preparations; S. S. S.; Dr. Sawyer's Rem
edies; Seven Sutherland Sisters' Hoir
Grower.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Warned; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Aguinaldo does not seem to be a wholly
abandoned wretch. He has not- yet asked
Otis, “Is this hot enough for you?”
The News and Courier is using up col
umn after column of its editorial space in
an apparently vain effort to convince ihe
Charlestonians that they live in a cool
city. Having once stated that it was a
green hay horse sixteen feet high, the
News and Courier evidently means to
stick to It.
The report that Capt. Dreyfus, if ac
quitted, will resign from the army and
take up hie residence in Belgium, is prob
ably some journalist's guess. Dreyfus has
nnt he-:n ,in a position for the Inst fen
years lo express opinions for publication,
and it may be doubted that he has formed
any conclusion respecting what he- would
< in the event of an acquittal.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR OTIS.
It looks now as if the President had An
ally determined upon a more vigorous
prosecution of the Philippine war. It is
Slated that he. has decided to call for vol
unteers as soon as he returns from his
New England trip. The reason he has not
done so before probably la that he was
afraid of the criticisms of the members of
his own party who have been persistent
and even bitter critics of his Philippine
policy. The President can't stand adverse
criticism. He likes to be praised, to be
patted on the back and told that he Is do
ing the right thing. He has found oul, how
ever, that If he doesn't prosecute the war
In the Philippines more vigorously, and
bring It to a successful conclusion quickly,
he will be not only severely condemned,
but will lose a great deal of the popularity
which he gained from the successful war
with Spain.
Theie is no doubt that the great ma
jority of the people want the war prosecut
ed with vigor. But it doesn't follow on that
account that they approve the President's
Philippine policy. They are concerned now
in having the Philippine trouble settled as
quickly as possible with honor lo the coun
try. When that Is accomplished they will
turn their attention to the President, and
will tell him what they think of him for
paying $20,000,000 for a lot of Islands and a
war which threatens to cost us several
hundred million dollars more.
When the President found he had a re
bellious population to deal with in the
Philippines he ought to have grappled with
the situation with a vigor that would have
brought submission to our authority
quickly. Instead of doing that, however,
he became timid undhr the criticisms of
men of hifljajvn party like Hoar, Atkinson
and flout weil.He undertook to coax Agtii
naldo and other Filipino leaders to accept
our terms of peace. He is beginning to un
derstand that he made a great mistake.
Prompt and vigorous action would have
brought him success probably. Timidity
has increased his difficulties.
If he thought he could carry on a war or
adopt on Important policy without any op
position and any hostile criticism
from those to whom he looked
for support he hasn’t read history
with profit. Asa matter of fact he seldom
takes a stand upon any great public ques
tion until he thinks he has discovered what
public sentiment In respect to It is. He
didn’t take a stand In favor of the war for
the freedom of Cuba until both political
parties declared In favor of It. He didn't
demand the Philippines until he had taken
a trip through the country and thought he
discovered the people wanted the islands.
He was greatly surprised and worried
therefore when he was bitterly attacked
by members of his own political party for
his course in respect to the Philippines.
What the people are now concerned
about is the settlement of the Philippine
trouble quickly and creditably to the na
tion. They understand that the war has
got to besought to a finish, and they are
ready to stand the cost in men and money,
but they reserve the right to deal with
the President and his party, and the whole
Philippine matter as they think best when
the war Is concluded and peace Is restored.
A NEW SPOOK PRIESTESS.
From time Immemorial man has been
trying to lift the veil which hides the fu
ture from the present. Witches, clair
voyants and mediums claiming to possess
the power of divination have flourished for
centuries under one professional title or
another, and have found many followers.
From the days of the Witch of Endor up
to date, history and literature have been
liberally spiced with the doings of sooth
sayers and second-sight specialists. From
time to time there appears in some quar
ter of the world some person, usually a
woman, whose reach of vision into the
unknown realms of futurity, or whose fa
miliarity with the spirits of the departed,
Is declared to be marvelous; and that per
son becomes for the time quite the rage.
The recent case of Mile. Couedon, the
Paris seeress of a year or two ago, Is a
case in point. It will be remembered that
she had, or claimed to have, communica
tions with the Angel Gabriel, Napoleon
Bonaparte, Jeanne d’Are and many other
dwellers In the spirit land. Zola and other
French celebrities, including. It has been
asserted, several prominent officials,
visited the young woman, and many of
them were convinced of the truth and sin
cerity of her representations. Now, how
ever, the Paris seeress has passed from
the public mind.
But there has arisen a successor to her,
in the United States. The new spook
priestess is a Mrs. Piper, a resident of
Arlington Hights, near Boston. She has
been called a human telephone between
the living and the spirits of the dead.
Her "sittings"—she ts a professional
"trance medium"—are said to have been
attended with most wonderful results, and
she has attracted to her train of believers
some of the most learned and heretofore
cold-blooded of scientific men, among
them being Prof. James H. Hys
lop, of the chair of psychology, ethics and
logic in Columbia University. New York,
and Dr. Richard Hodgson, of Cambridge
University, England. These eminent gen
tlemen have been present at a number
of the "sittings.’’ For years they had
been students of so-called occult phenom
ena, and each had exposed various fraud
ulent manifestations of spiritualism, mlnd
reading, slate-writing, cabinet tricks, etc.
It was Prof. Hyslop who, In 1894, climbed
uppn the stage of Hosier & Bial's, In
New York city, and gave what he called
an exposure of the fraudulent pretenses
of Annie Abbott, the "Georgia magnetic
girl.” These scientific men, it is said,
went to see Mrs. Piper ns skeptics, ex
pecting to be able to trap and expose her.
But she, instead, trapped them. From
skeptics they have become firm believers.
Together they have compiled a book giving
a description of the woman’s powers. This
book is to be published n year hence. Un
til that time It cannot be known Just what
conclusive proofs have been given Prof.
Hyslop and Dr. Hodgson, causing them to
become converts; but the former named
gentleman, who seems to have become an
enthusiast, says the publication will cause
a profound sensation.
Meantime, the professor has vouchsafed
to the impatient world a few scraps upon
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 23, IS9D.
which It may feed until the spiritualistic
! feast shall be served. He says that Mrs.
| Piper has demonstrated absolutely the Im
mortality of the soul, and that the spirits
of the departed are watchful of and take
an interest in the affairs of men. The
spirit world, according to the revelations
j of Mrs. Piper's spirits, is very different
from that which is commonly accepted as
being correct. The future state is not
that of dogmatic Christianity. There is
neither a heaven nor a hell, as we have
conceived those places to be; nor is there
a purgatory. The spirits do not see God
face to face, and know actually very little
more about him than we do. They have
their debates and discussions respecting
theology and other matters pretty much
as do the residents of this mundane
sphere. There is no dividing of the goats
from the sheep, and caste because of race,
color or previous condition is altogether
unknown.
This peep through the veil Into the
great beyond only whets the for
more. But the inquisitive ones who can
not possess their souls with patience have
only the alternative of shuffling off and
making a personal investigation. Mean
while, having in mind the shallow fakes
of former spook priests and priestesses, it
Is difficult to understand the acceptance
by Prof. Hyslop and Dr. Hodgson of all
of this visionary stuff about the spirit
world, except upon the theory that the
woman in the case Is an adept In hypnot
ism.
WAS THE MINISTER DUPEDT
Avery Interesting question was raised
when the general assembly of the Con
gregational ministers of Connecticut prac
tically censured the Rev. Dr. Barrow of
Greenwich, Conn., a few days ago, for
marrying Mr. Perry Belmont to Mrs.
Sloane. It will be recalled by newspaper
readers that Mr. Belmont and Mrs. Sloane
were married on the day that Mrs. Sloane
was divorced on the petition of her hus
band. The question raised was this: Was
the minister who performed the marriage
ceremony duped?
In his own defense Dr. Barrow said that
he was misled by the Belmont-Sloane
crowd, but he didn’t say, so far as we
have seen, In what respect he was mis
led. His plea -seems to have been accept
ed, however, by the assembled ministers.
But, as a matter of fact, was he mis
led? The lawyers who managed the mat
ter for Mr. Belmont say that he was not
In any respect—that they dealt fairly and
openly with him. In fact, it Is difficult
to see how he could have been misled,
unless they told him that Mr. Sloane had
lxen shown to be the offending party, and
that the divorce had been granted to Mrs.
Sloane. But he doesn’t say that they told
him anything of the sort.
What the lawyers say Is this: Dr. Bar
row agreed the day before the divorce
was granted, to perform the ceremony.
He was to have a fee of $250. On the day
set for the ceremony he told one of the
attorneys for the contracting parties that
he was so troubled about the matter—
about the notoriety It would bring him—
that he had about decided not to tie the
marriage knot. The lawyer, as a persuad
er, offered to double the fee—to make It
SSOO. It appears that that argument was
effective, and Dr. Barrow performed his
part of the contract. But Dr. Barrow's
conscience got to work again and bother
ed him so that he relurned the money to
Mr. Belmont.
'But in all of this It doesn’t appear
wherein Dr. Barrow was misled. As far
as the published reports go he wasn't
the dupe of anybody. Ought not the
Congregational ministers of Connecticut
ask Dr. Barrow for an explanation of his
statement that he wouldn't have per
formed the ceremony If he hadn't been
mlsiedl Doesn't it really seem as if it
were the SSOO fee that misled him?
THE VACATION SEASON.
The vacation season, which is at hand,
takes city and town people to the moun
tains, the seashore and the country for a
brief period of rest and recreation. The
respite from daily labor is indulged in for
the good of the health. But how many
persons suffer their first and often only ill
ness during the year in the vacation sea
son? How many go away for rest, and
return home more tired and broken-up
than when they left? The number of such
persons is undoubtedly large. Instead of
benefiting from their outings, they suffer
from them. Instead of resting, they phys
ically overtax themselves, often with se
rious results.
The average city person who goes away
for a vacation in the summer leads at
home a somewhat sedentary life. Com
paratively little exercise Is taken, and a
regular routine is gone through with day
after day. But on the vacation the rou
tine Is broken. The temptation to Indulge
in excessive exercise without preparation
for it is very strong, and many yield to It.
Asa consequence, In numerous Instances,
as the Medical News points out, complica
tions that are serious ore brought on. The
kidneys may be started along a dangerous
path by the strain of sudden and violent
exercise, or the heart may not be strong
enough to perform the extra work placed
upon it. Possibly every person who has
hud much experience In holidays will re
call having suffered in greater or less de
gree from the upsetting of the normal bal
ance of the system by excess of exercise;
and many will be able to recall Instances
in which serious illness, or even death It
self, has followed activity and fatigue to
which the body was unaccustomed. Dr.
Williams, an eminent practitioner of Bos
ton, soys that the safest plan for thoss
who are contemplating a vacation where
there may be rowing, hunting, riding or
considerable wulking, is for them to go In
to training for the occasion, Just as If it
were an athletic contest In which they
hoped to take a prize, beginning gradually
and working up to approximately the
amount of exercise expected to be accom
plished.
Dr. Williams' rule Is no doubt a safe
one, but it will not be followed lo any
great extent. The people haven't the time,
or else ' they haven't the inclina
tion to follow it. There Is, how
ever, another rule which is very
good, and which those who hope for bene
ficial results from their summer trips
should observe. It is this, to make mod
eration the watchword of the va
cation. Take things quietly. A walk
that Is too long for one's strength
is os bad for the nerves as a
hard day's labor at the desk. Don’t
be In.a hurry. If you think you ought
to be able to row a boat a certain dis
tance in half an hour, give yourself an
hour’s time, or, better still, postpone the
trial indefinitely. Take a plenty of sleep;
the sleeping at a summer resort is gener
ally much better than Ihe dancing. Rest
os much as possible. Be lazy, no matter
what anybody says about It. Come as
near as you can to doing nothing, and at
the end of the vacation you will have ac
cumulated pretty nearly your money’s
worth of new energy to carry back to the
city.
A mysterious bug is reported to he get
ting in its Work In Washington. Nobody
has yet been able to catch one of the spe
cies, though several persons have suffer
ed from its depredations. It comes in the
night and attacks sleepers, the majority of
whom are bitten on the upper lip. Pain
ful swelling follows the bite. In several
instances the bitten persons had to be sent
to the hospital. At first it was thought
that the marauder was the "olmex lectu
larius,” which has no wings at all, but
gets there Just the same, but the poison
ous character of the bite has upset that
theory. So many persons have been bitten
that the government's professional bug
hunters have been called upon to aid in
the search for the insect.
The secretary of the Women’s Home
Missionary Society of Pittsburg is author
ity for the statement that more cigarettes
are sold to women than lo men, and she
says she has statistics to prove it. She
does not claim that women smoke the
more cigarettes, but says young women
buy the little "coffin nails" for Ihe benefit
of their male friends and Society
women aAe alleged to be great consumers
of cigarettes, and the smoking habit is
said to be largely on the Increase among
them.
The Philadelphia Times Is advocating
shirt waists for men, and a Boston paper
says that one reason women are such
good church attendants ts that they lean
admire each other's bonnets and ribbons
there. Suppose we give the men shirt
waists and ostrich plumed hats, and see
If that will make them better church
goers?
One of the newest and most unique of
trusts is a combination of bootblacks in
New York lo keep the price of “shines"
up and prevent the cutting of rates among
members of the profession. The boot
blacks' trust will also make w-ar upon the
custom of shoe stores to polish the shoes
of their customers free f charge.
The next congressional campaign, may
witness a novelty in Chicago. A priest.
Father Heklmann, lias announced his
candidacy as a Democrat, in the district
now represented by William R. Lorimer,
a Republican boss of Cook county. Some
thing like sixty years ago there was a
priest in the House from Michigan.
PERSONAL.
—Mre. George Gould's children have a
head nurse, two assistants, two govern
esses, two grooms anti two footboys to
minister to their wants.
—L. L. Matthews, an operator In the em
ploy of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Rail
road, has worked 1,523 days without a
break, and says he sees no good reason
why he should not continue steadily at
the key for another period of equal length.
—A Mississippi paper announced that at
the commencement exercises of the local
high school the annual address was deliv
ered by "Rev. E. P. Jones, the velvet
lipped orator of the Delta,” and that the
musical exercises were In charge of "Prof.
George F. Brown, the black Beethoven.”
—Apropos of Congressman Bland’s death
It Is Interesting to recall what he said to
a Washington friend when Mr. Dingley
was attacked by his last illness. Despite
later pol.tical differences these two men
were the warmest of friends, and when he
heard Mr. Dingley's condition was seri
ous, Mr. Bland remarked: "I feel all right
now myself, but I somehow think I won't
survive Dingley a year."
CURRENT COMMENT.
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) says:
“The sooner that President McKinley calls
Into being the provisional army author
ized by Congress the better. The task be
fore us ts not a pleasant nor a profitable
one; but the national honor demands that
it be faced. The people are extremely dis
gusted at the way the war is dragging
along, and they demand that an end be
made as speedily os possible. The admin
istration's hesitation, “backing and filling"
are becoming ridiculous, and will soon
bring the country into contempt abroad.
If the McKinley administration is not
better able to rise to the demands of a
true imperialist policy than it now appears
to be, it made a serious mistake in ever
essaying the task. If a British ministry
were guilty of the vacillation and weak
ness that have characterized our govern
ment of late, it would not last twenty
four hours.”
The Charleston News and Courier (Dem.)
says: “In the death of Mr. H. B. Plant
the South has lost one of its best friends.
His whole life was devoted to the devel
opment of the South, and there has been
no more powerful factor In the upbuilding
and uplifting of this part of the country
than the great system of railways which
was organized by him. We do not know
what will be done with the valuable prop
erties which he brought together, but he
was a very wise man, and It is almost
certain that he made provision for the
prosecution of his work when he should
rest from his labors. Mr. Plant’s history
reads almost like a romance. He was a
great man."
The Nashville American (Dem.) says:
"Republican papers are now claiming that
Havemeyer Is a Democrat, a free trade
Democrat, and that his telling criticism
of trusts and trust methods are, therefore,
of little moment. We do not know Have
meyer s political creed. He may be like
Jay Gould testified ho was—‘Democrat
when the legislature was Democratic; Re
publican when It was Republican.' What
ever Havemcyer's political leanings may
be, he has evidently hit the trusts and the
advocates of trusts the hardast licks they
have received in a long time."
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says;
"When all la said and done, the American
people remember that the fleet under
Schley's command achieved a glorious vic
tory at Santiago, and they do not care
a picayune whether the Brooklyn turned
to port or starboard at the point In con
troversy. Seeing that the maneuver,
whatever it was, led to complete success,
they are willing to believe that it was the
right one.” • ,
The Only Tiling Left.
A grandfather, well known in the Eng
lish House of Commons, was chatting
amicably with bis little granddaughter,
who was snugly ensconced on his knee,
soys an exchange.
“What makes your hair so white?” the
little miss queried.
“I am very old, my dear; I was In the
ark,” replied his lordship, with a painful
disregard for the truth.
"Oh, are you Noah?”
"No.”
“Are you Shrm. then?”
“No. I am not Sheen.”
“Are you Ham?”
"No.”
“Then," said the little one, who was
fast reaching the limit of her biblical
knowledge, “you must be Japhet.”
A negative reply was given to this
query also, for the old gentleman Inward
ly wondered what the outcome would be.
“But, grandpa, If you are not Noah, or
Shem, or Ham, or Japhet, you must be
a beast.”
lie Jndgetl Him by Ills Garb,
“When I was in Mexico last year,” said
the consulting engineer, according to the
New York Tribune, "X was one of a party
of foreigners invited to take a trip at the
company's expense over a certain rail
road. The first day of the Journey I waa
sitting smoking on the rear platform of
the observation car, while we stopped to
take water at a loneiy station. Just as
the train was pulling out, a disreputable
individual swung on the bumper and start
ed to climb over the railing. In costume
he resembled one of Buffa.o Bill's 'Greas
er' cow-punchers, only he looked dirtier
and was ragged. I sized him up for a
Mexican tramp, and I blocked his way.
He hung on to the railing, swearing in
Spanish at me, and though I couldn't get
the drift of his remarks I used the worst
Spanish words I knew in addressing him.
The train kept gathering speed, and I
don't know what would have happened if
another man of the party hadn’t come out
on the platform and asked what was the
trouble.
" ‘l'm keeping this tramp from stealing
a ride,’ I explained.
“ 'Stealing nothing!’ eaid he. ‘You're
fighting with the brakeman.'
“Nowadays I don’t judge a man by his
uniform.”
Not n Competent Opinion.
“It's a case of whitewash from begin
ning to end,” exclaimed the man with
fuzzy whiskers and shoes which had large
round holes cut in their sides, accord
ing Jo the Washington Star.
“What's a case of whitewash?” asked
his wife, who was wiping her hands on an
apron as she stood in the door.
“The whole business,” he answered,
turning to his paper. “But of course I
wouldn’t expect you to know anything
about it.”
“Anyhow,” she remarked, decidedly. “I
don’t think it’s a case of whitewash.”
“C?i, you don’t.”
“No, I don’t."
“Maybe you've read some facts on the
situation that haven't been brought to my
attention.”
“Not a word.”
"And, of course, being your husband, I
shouldn't expect you to to take my say so
for it. You couldn't think of relying on
my opinion in the matter.”
"Well, ordinarily, I don’t know but what
it's my duty to take what you say about
things as being all that need be said. I
suppose it's my business to take care that
the house is run right and look after all
the marketing and gee that we have
enough saved up to meet our debts while
you sit by and think up the opinions for
the family.”
“But this case Is an exception—to it?
My opinion isn’t enough for you this
time?” •
"No, I’m afraid it isn’t. You remember
yesterday afternoon you got Industrious
and said you were going to clean things
up. And you got some lime and some glue
and some water and a suit of old clbthes.
That cellar wall looks like a marine land
scape done in layers, with great rifts of
white against a background of grimy
black. It resembles a picture of a rain
storm in collision with a starch factory.
I’ll take your judgment in a great many
things, William, but you cannot speak for
me on the subject you have Just men
tioned. You are not a good judge of
whitewash.”
The Man With the Load.
(Mr. Markham’s consideration Is solicited.)
S. E. Kiser In Chicago Times-Herald.
Bowed by a weight of fiery stuff, he leans
Against the hitching post and gazes
’round!
Besotted emptiness Is in his face.
He bears a load that still may get him
down.
Who made him dull to shame and dead to
pride,
A thing that cares not and that never
thinks,
Filthy, profane, a consort for the pig?
Who loosened and let down that stubbly
jaw?
Whence came the scum adhering to those
lips?
What was It clogged and burned away his
brain?
Is this the thing the Lord God made and
gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To love and to be loved; to propagate
And feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped
the suns
And pillared the blue firmament with
light?
Down all the stretch to Hell to Its last
gulf
There is no shape more hideous that this—
More tongued with proof that Darwin
didn’t know—
For where in all the world of brutish
beasts
Is one from which this monster might
have come?
His blood flows in the frail, disfigured
babe
O’er which the pale, heartbroken mother
bends.
But what to him are those hot tear* she
sheds,
What cares he for the taunts his children
bear,
The hungry cries their raise; their twisted
limbs?
Through this dread shape the devil boldly
looks.
And In that reeling presence mocks the
world 1
Through this dread shape humanity (s
shamed,
Profaned, outraged, dragged down and
brought to scorn—
Made to inhale fumes from the slime he
spews
And hear him Jest at Virtue and at God.
O, masters, lords and rulers in our land '
Must this foul solecism still
Be tolerated in an age when men
C-nsp power through the circumambient
air
And speak through space across the roar
Jng gulfs?
Must this vile thing be left to wed at
will
And propagate his Miotic spawn.
A shame upon the age in which we live
A curse on generatione to be born?
O. masters, lords and rulers in our land
How may ye hope to reckon with th!
"man?”
'How get along without the vote he casts
When there are public offices to fill’’
How will It be with eandidotes when he
No longer hangs upon the reeking bar
Prepared to light, to stab, to murder and
To vote for him who furnishes his drinks’
ITEMS OF IXTEIIEST.
—Frof. Winchell, state geologist of Min
nesota, holds that the so-called greenstones
of that state are the eldest known rock,
older than the Canadian Laurentian, there
fore held to be the dean of the facuhy of
rocks. He considers the greenstones to be
the bottom rocks of the geological series
and the representative of the original crust
of the earth formed from the molten mass
by the earliest sol.dlfieation.
—A Cincinnati physician has beet) mak
ing practical tests in cigar factories on
the eye of the employes. The test Is to
discover the effect upon the eyes of per
sons addicted to excessive smoking, also to
see what effect the fumes of tobacco in
factories have on the sight. He also in
tends to examine the eyes of letter-carriers
and olhi rs with reference to the effect of
smoking on the eyes.
—The crop of wonder stories that follow
up big tornadoes is now being harvested
in the New Richmond region, says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. It Is claimed
that rails were found driven into trees and
posts by the awful wind hammer. Still
more marvelous is the story that straws
were inserted in the same way. A hoe
blade was driven into a tree two inches,
and people were filled with splinters as
a cushion is filled with pins. Chickens
were as cleanly picked as if by hand. And
all these remarkable effects are vouched
for by eye witnesses. It almost seems as
if the wind demon was possessed of a sort
of ferocious sense of humor.
—Prof. Moritz has investigated the con
ditions necessary for the absorption of
drugs and finds that medicaments are ab
sorbed most speedily when taken with
plain water while fasting. Soup, milk,
wine, etc., retard absorption, even when
the medicine is taken fasting, but absorp
tion is still more slow when the medica
ment Is taken with liquid after food in the
absence of liquid. To secure the most
speedy absorption of any drug, therefore,
it should be administeied with water on an
empty stomach and in many cases it wifi
be found that a definite effect will thus be
produced, though no effect would be per
ceptible if the same dose were administer
ed shortly after food.
—Of late years much attention has been
paid to the subject of color blindness
among railway employes, but acuteness of
hearing has not been equally well observ
ed. Tlie New York Medical Journal quotes
Dr. Stein, who has examined forty-four
firemen and thirty-eight engine drivers,and
finds only three out cf the whole number to
possess perfectly normal hearing power.
He finds, however, by frequent excursions
on locomotives that these employes hear
sound signals under favorable circum
stances, except those of the whistle. Nev
ertheless. he thinks that there should be
an established or minimum standard of
requirements as to hearing. These views
are the resuit of continental experiments,
and It would be Interesting to know what
the figures would be as regards the hearing
of railway employes in the United States.
—Most commentators on the downfall of
Spain have ascribed It to certain, often
mentioned peculiarities of the Spanish
temperament and character, but Prof.
Maerker, a German snvant, quoted by
the Geographical Journal, declares that
the Spaniards have been the innocent and
helpless victims of geographic and climat
ic misfortunes. Spain, he argues, stands
apart from the rest of Europe, and its
position, though apparently favorable, is
really that of a land shut off from the life
of the world. In the age of discovery
Spain was again unlucky, according to his
authority. The wealth of her new ac
quisitions was great enough to reduce the
home population materially and to dis
courage habits of industry In those who
were left, while the trade winds and the
equatorial current brought the conquer
ing explorers Into touch only with the en
ervating regions of the tropics, and so
even in the New World Spain was at an
enormous disadvantage, especially as com
pared wilh England. The absence of fer
tile lowlands and navigable rivers is a
feature of the peninsula upon which Prof.
Maerker dwells with sad emphasis. The
theory outlined is a pretty one, and, of
course, there Is something in it, but still
the mind returns to the Spanishness of
the Spanish, ns, after all, the best expian-
Qtion of Spain.
-A scheme of a Girard avenue boot
hlaek to boom business has been interfer
ed with by the police, though it was not
d a° Ut i. Un,i L atter the originator had
r hirß q ? 3 harveat ’ sa >'9 the Philadel-
Phm Record. The bootblack has a dog
“i 1 * Z ' he ordinar > r board-yard beasts!
which is very susceptible to training, and
the shiner, one day while business was
slow, bethought him of a good plan to
make it brisk. Asa went to
r.?n k 38 a tI ‘ alner ' and soon had his dog
vn . learned to spring the new irw
venllon. Several weeks went by before it
was o severed that the bootblack was not
only in the shoe-cleaning business, but
hlso made a practice of dirtying the shoes
stand Who "ear his
f an 9v To" n S Shine-them-up” had
taught the dog to walk In the muddv gut
ters and then jump up in a playful way
at men who passed by, with the result that
the animal made the legs of pedestrians’
“"t UK ‘ ir shoes anything bufp?e-
In " ne cases out of ten the
bootblack was called upon to clean the
shoes and clothes, at so much per Job The
dog had been trained not to loiter about
Ij''* 11 "' 1, a " d thus the fact that the boot
b.ack owned the animal was not found
out Finally the bootblack told the
cret of his brisk business to a storekeeper
-Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., | s building
a squash court at Newport, sa ys lhe
cago Times-Herald. It is quUe the Mn .
sation of tne hour in that city by the ses
a long hall, oblong in shape 2 ,?!
wooden floors, celling and Wh . 80 ,1
the room runs agaVry
The game is usually rS ‘ <>n '
sons, who are separated on. °T'
by a line marked on the fl£rs
these, the server, strikes rh* k u ne
the wall, within a certain
fo on the walls ne al
lt on the bound' with
turn throws it against the wa Is *"
on, until the ball falls ?’ * nd >
of the building are little windows ‘ h * '° P
with netting, if the ball .JX 8 covered
these that play to
a band of sheetiron that n,'i° * B,rlk '^
building. The garne ts nA, “, and ,he
but exhilarating* not ""'y simple,
—A young woman in London v,
some years been t 1,18 10r
Of index making, savs an evrl he bualneß
ing that period She has Dur
fiee forty women index m i?'* 1 in h<?r of *
has indexed such
"Farthest North," “Science of Jansen’s
tlonal Law.” ISJ volumes of h,*nterna
numerous papers and r.rtL." tory nnd
cording this enterori.iSt l^ 1^18 ’ Ac
lng affords a field for wonfep
xis as .vet unoccupied It u s kf rs 'hat
the feminine intelligence I. b * ltef tha '
successful in this line ana ~ par Mcularly
found her pupils patient ! hat she has
ate and conscientious Morr q " rinsr ' accur
well known tendency to w j Wom °"'s
ions here becomes ‘a legitim P *° c<>ncla
as a Tdck intuition hase —!®. *rclse,
successful Index-making. valu
FAOESHEAD
COVERED WITH SCALES
Shed 8 Tablespoonful at Niqhf
Hair Full of White Scabs. Offer
SlOOforCure. Friend Suaqests
CUTICURA REMEDIES. Tries
Them and is Cured.
Last summer I hod company,—a man and his
wife. The man’s hands gud face had dry, scaly
sores on them, and bis head was covered w ith
tho same, his hair being full of those white scales
or scabs. Ills wife said, “Some mornings she
would find a tablespoonful or more of them in
the bed.” I asked him what ailed him, and h
replied ‘‘that he did not know.” ” Why don’t
you cure yourself?” ■< I would give a hundred
dollars to be cured. I have paid out a lot of
money, but don't get cured,” he said. Well I
told him “ I woulcl cure him for less than that ”
and told him to get the Cuticura remedies
he would be cured. Aa he was living in liristol
Vt., I did not see him for some time after and
then he fairly shouted to me: ” I am cured 1
Ctrrici-RA has dono it. The Lord hlets vou ~and
Cuticura.” Mrs. SAKAII E. MINER *
Feb. 27, 1898. Lincoln, Addison Cos Vt.
TETTER CURED RY CUTICURA
I had Tetter on my hands for two years. My
hands were all cracked to pieces, and bled so
that I could not decently dress myself, and they
Itched terribly. I tried everything, but nothing
seemed to do me any good. I tried the Cent i p?
remedies and they no longer bother me at all
BALLIE E. COPELAND, Woodland N ft
Sept. 17, 1888. _____ '
CUTICURA
Begins with the Blood and Ends with
The Skin and Scalp.
That is to say, Cuticcba. Hksolvkht zreatpat
Of blood pnrifl'-rs and humor expi-llcrs nurifW
the. blood and circulating fluids of Humor Germs
and thus removes the came, while warm batin’
•with Cuticura Soap, and gentle anointings wiih
Ccticuua (oiutment).greatest of emollient skin
cures, cleanse the akin and scalp of cruns and
scales, allay itching, burning, and inflammation
soothe and heal. Thus are speedily, pmnftnent'v’
and economically cured the most torturing dig.’
figuring humors of theskin.scalp, and blood w .rn
Joss of hair, when all other remedies fail. *
Bold throughout the world. PottzrD. ahi>C Corw
Bol® Prop#., Boston. 48 How to Cure AU Humors " free*
FACE HUMORS Uhe Cured by CutK'ika Solri
Cut Prices
in Everything.
10-picce Decorated Toilet Sets, 15-
inch basins, decorated inside and out
side, pitcher 10-inch, sale price $1.89;
our price complete $1.79.
10-inch Cake Plates, nicely deco
rated, worth 25c; our price 10c.
3-hnrner Oil Stores, worth $1.75;
our price sl.lO.
Large size Fly Traps, worth 15c;
our price 10c.
Ice Cream Saucers only each lc.
Pearl Hutton* worth 5c to 10c pep
dozen, 3c, two dozen sc.
2-lb. Batter Jars, vrorth 10c, 3 e.
6-qt. Milk Pam, wrorth 15c, sc.
Manon'd Fruit Jars, complete, with
robbers, 3c.
Everythin* else cheaper than else
where. You snrely save money by
trading; here.
S.BERNSTEIN,
113 Barnard Street.
Under Odd Fellows Hall
atfrlliH fen. Bier
In all the artistic period styles in Antique
Oak, Mahogany finish, and fine Bedroom
Furniture is one of ~nr specialties, and
there is a profusion 71? handsome designs
in Chiffoniers, Dressers, Toilet Tables
and Bedroom Suits that will please those
who are seeking either the quaint, tha
artistic or the beautiful. The prices are
small, the values weighty.
J. W. TEEPLE,
315-319 Broughton, West.
Fone 183.
GARDNER’S BAZAAR,
12 Broughton Street. East.
Closing out sale of Belt Buckles at 54
price.
Collar Buckles, worth 25c, 23c.
Beauty Pins, 2 for sc.
Sterling Silver Shirt Waist Seta, -*•
Pearl Shirt Waist Sets, 19c.
Gents’ Cuff Buttons, very pretty,
Ladies’ Leather Belts, 25c, 15c, 9c.
Scissors, every pair guaranteed, 25c.
Pocket Knives, 50c, 35c, 25c.
Razors, no honing required, every on*
guaranteed, $2.
Hones, Strops, Brushes, Soap.
Cuticle Soap, 3 cakes 25c.
Witch Hazel, 54 pint bottle, 12c.
Vaseline, perfumed, 1-pound can, 150.
Cuspidors, 10c.
Jardlniers, bargains, 25c. 15c, 10c.
Flower Pots, Plant Food, Garden Tro*’
els.
Parrot, Mocking and Canary Cages.
Mocking-bird Food, pound, 25c.
Canary Seed, plain or mixed. 3-pounaS,
25c.
Parrot Seed, 2-pound, 25c.
250 Envelopes, 22e.
120 sheets Extra Fine Note Paper. 10c.
Lead Pencils, rubber tips, dozen. sc.
We want your school and miscollaneoul
books.
New and second hand books bomb l,
"old and exchanged.
Just received, and receiving, Gunter k
Albert Ross, Jestin Cook. May Savflg*
and other authors, paper covered novel ,
which we sell at cut prices.
Large line standard authors, good typo
paper novels, 10c.
A lot of Indian Clubs and Dumb Bell*,
selling; at less than >4 price. ,
Toy*. Games, Dolls, Fisn, Globes a “*
Croquet Sets.