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4 Moraine hew. Uolldlui; mianu.li, Go. SUNDAY, Jl Mi 25, 18D9. Registered at the poslottice In Savannah. The MORNING NEWS D pub.lsiied every day In the year, and la served to subscribers In the city, or sent by mail, at JI.OO a month. 16.00 lor six months, and JIO.OO lor one year. Tbe MORNING NEWS, by mall, six Utnee a week (without Sunday Issue), three months, 6600; six months, $4.00; one year. $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 Issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mad. one year, L.OO. Subscriptions payable In advance. Remit by postal orders, check or registered let ter. Currency sent by mall at risk ol senders Transient adve-tisements. other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements sod cheap or want column, 10 centa a line. Fourteen lines ot agate type—equal to one inch square In depth— is the standard of measurement. Con tract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. Orders lor delivery of the MORNING NEWS to either residence or place of busi ness may be made by postal card oi through telephone No. 210. Any Irregular ity In delivery should be Immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York city, C. P. Faulkner, Manager. ThjlS ISSUE CONTAINS TWENTY PACES 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 ler. Ice Cream Freezers, Water Coolers, Etc-—Thos. West & Cos. 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. 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