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The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day are
rain on the coast, rain or snow in the
interior, followed by clearing and much
colder, and for Eastern Florida rain, fol
lowed by clearing and much colder.
During the week which ended Feb. 24
the daily average of exports form the port
of New York was above $2,000,000 in value,
the total being $14,521,568. This is said
to make the record for the port.
An electric wire is thought to have start
ed the fire which destroyed over $1,000,000
worth of property in Newark on Tuesday
right. Faulty Insulation is causing a large
number of fires these days, 4 seems.
A Kncipp cure disciple who walked
around in New York the other day bare
footed, while the mercury was hunting the
bulb and the winds were howling, is in
the hospital with both feet frozen. Mean
time he claims that the “cure” has aided
his digestion.
Ex-Secretary Alger is credited-with hav
ing expressed the luminous opinion that
technically and actually the United
States are not at war, but in
so far as the privileges of en
listed men in times of peace are con
cerned, they are at war. Thus we are at
war and we arc not.
Gen. Cronje’s alleged reply to Gen.
Kitchener's demand for his surrender—“l
have some men, some guns, some ammu
nition and am alive; wfcy should I sur
render?”— was brave and eloquent; but in
the light of subsequent events it was only
a fine bluff. Within a short time after
sending the message Gen. Cronje discov
ered the reason why he should surrender,
and crawled out of his burrow in the
river bank.
Victor Smith in tiie New York Press
suggests a pungent remedy for plays of
the ‘iSapho” class. He strongly advocates
the argument of eggs, hurled straight and
strong at the players; and calls atten
tion to the fact that there are large stocks
of “refrigerator” and “limed” eggs to he
had at low prices. Should the suggestion
be accepted, it would lx- a fine example
of the censorship of the mining camps ap
plied to Parisian iheatri ils.
Eord Roberts has not enhanced his rep
utation—at least out aide of England— by
forcing the defeated Cronje to present
himself at tlie door of the tent of the vic
tor and beg the privilege of surrendering
himself and his troops. The action was
not magnanimous, it was not chivalrous,
it was not Christian. It was a departure
from the customs of war between clvll
ized peoples. It must surety have escaped
Lord Roberts' mlind that he was fighting
m wij lte men and not eavuges.
AN ALLIANCE WITH GREAT
BRITAIN.
The charge has been frequently made
o' late that there Is a secret alliance be
tween this country and Great Britain.
Tn© administration has indignantly denied
Che charge. Secretary of State Hay de
nied it only a f*w days ago in a com*
munication to Congress.
In an interesting article in the Atlantic
Monthly for March, ex-Attorney General
Olney says that there is an alliance r>e-
Ivveer this country and Great Britain, that
i! is in entangling alliance, and that it
was not brought about by treaty, but
by the Philippine Islands. The position
taken by him is that if it had not been
for the attitude assumed by Great Britain
during our war with Spain it would not
have be* r> possible, in all probability, for
us to hive acquired the Phlllpipnes or
to have retained them after w© had ac
quired them.
Because of che position * she assumed
during that war, and because of our rec
ognition of that jKisition, “it follows. '
says Mr. Olney, “that we now find our
selves actually caught in an entangling
alliance, forced there not by any treaty
or compact of any sort, formal or in
formal, hut by 4he stress of the inexora
ble facts of the situation.”
Mr. Olney calls it an entangling alli
ance, because while we might i>e and
should be friends with all the world, we
are not likely to 'be because of our neces
sary intimacy and dependence on one na
lion—an intimacy that is likely to excite
4he suspicions and ill will of the others.
Mr. Olney finds some satisfaction in the
fact that Great Britain can. be of more
benefit to us than any other nation could,
and that if we retain the Philippines she
will, in all probability, be of very great
service in several ways. He thinks it
was a mistake to take the Philippines,
but having taken them we shall have to
keep them and make the best use of them
we can.
It is rather interesting to have, it stated
on such excellent author!tty as Mr. Olney
that, notwithstanding the indignation
shown at the suggestion of an alliance
between Great Britain and this country
there is 6uch a relation between them,
and, while he does not say so, the in
ference from what he says is that ore
political party is as much responsible for
it os the other. It -was one of the re
sults of the Spanish-American war, and
both parties are responsible for that war.
It is true the I>emoorats did rot take
kindly to that part of the treaty wiih
Spain which gave us the Philippines. Still,
they helped to ratify it. Until evidence
to the contrary is found it is probable
that this alliance which Mr. Olney has
found will be accepted os th© only one
that exists between this country and Great
Britain.
NOT riIOFIT Altl.B PHOPERTV.
No doubt there will be a strong 1 senti
ment in Congress and throughout the
country in favor of buying the West In
dia possessions of Denmark, just as soon
as the question of purchasing them is
properly presented. The agent of Den
mark is now in this country for the pur
pose of selling them.
He cannot hope to get a very good price
for them since he says that they are of
no benefit to Denmark—that, on the con
trary, they cost her $100,(100 a year.
Some time ago it was said that we could
get them for the small sum of $3,000,000.
But, if they are of no value to Denmark
would they be of any value to us? It may
be said we must buy them in order to
prevent them from !>eing sold to a Kuro
p.an country.
If they would likely be as troublesomo
to us as Porto Kieo is proving to be we
had better lot a European country have
them. We thought we were getting a rich
t>ossess!on when we took l’orto Kico from
Spain, but it turns out that the Porto
Ricans are so poor that we have to feed
them, and their island promises so little
in the way of trade and revenue that it
looks as if our profit from it would be
less than the amount it will cost us to
govern it satisfactorily. It has already
become the subject of a constitutional
discussion, and it promises to furnish a
very live issue in the presidential contest.
We paid $20,000,000 for the Philippines—at
least we gave Spain that sum as one of
the Inducements to cede them to us—and
we have spent many more millions in the
effort to get the Filipinos to accept our
rule. At present It is not clear that we
shall make them a permanent possession,
and It is still less clear that they would
be of any special benefit to us If we
should keep them.
We have got enough insular possessions.
Our experience with them has not thus
far been of a kind to create a desire for
more. The wiser course would he to say
to the agent of Denmark, when he ap
piars in Washington to dispose of the is
lands of his country, that our market is
overstocked and that we do not want
them and would not have them as a gift.
Pity the poor New Yorkers! They not
only get swindled at home by 320-per-cent.-
a-year schemes, but when Ihey go aAay,
even the untutored savages of the West
have fun with them. A few days ago two
men of the name of Davis and Fulton,
claiming to be Wali street brokers, visited
the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma for
Ihe purpose of Investigating some oil
lands. Two full-blooded Osage bucks took
them in hand and showed them two ponds
of oil. In which the Indians declared the
oil ceaselessly bubbled up. The eyes of
the innocent New- Yorkers grew wide with
pleasure, and they began to see visions of
steam yachts and marble palaces coming
lo them ns results of their future ope ra
tion in oil, So well cl id the Indians, guile
less sons of the forest, '‘string” the guile
less sons of Gotham that they gave up
$4,000 In cash and several valuable dia
monds for a ten-year lease of the proper
ty. The Indians disappeared, and the
New Yorkers learned upon further inves
tigation that a barrel or two of oil had
been poured into the ponds for their espec
ial benefit.
It is understood that ex-Senator David
IS. Hill will go lo the Democrat to Nation
al Convention as a delegate, and that he
will support the nominee of that conven
tion. Mr, Croker will also go lo the con
vention, it is said. Thus it appears that
there is a prospect for the reunion of the
factions of the New York Democracy,
which would moan a winning fight by the
Democrats of the state next fall.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, MARCH 1. 1900.
THE ADVANCE IN COTTON.
A couple of months ago it was thought
probable that the price of cotton would
go to 8 cents by the middle of February.
There ’were very few who believed that
it would go as high as 9 cents during the
season. At the CoAton Exchange yester
day it was freely predicted that the price
would go to 10 cents.
And it would noi be surprising if it
should. The English spinmrs are now’
thoroughly alarmed. Thtdr trade journals
ure telling them that there is danger that
English mil s will have to shut down for
want of cotton, and they are making haste
io replenish their stocks, which are said
to be very much below what they usually
are at this season ,o( the year. A great
deal of cotton will have to be bought for
shipment abroad within the next few
months, and the brisk demand will un
doubtedly send up the price. No doubt the
English spinners regret their folly in plac
ing so much cbn fide nee in the estimates
sent out by Mr. Henry Neill. They refus
ed to have their faith in him shaken by
the short crop reports of the department
of agriculture and of the different cotton
houses of established reputation. They
will have to pay dearly for their stubborn*,
ness. If they had bought when the ques
tion of the size of the crop began to be
discussed they could have obtained cotton
for at least $lO a bale less than they dan
get it for now. It is probable that they
will have to pay as much as sls a bale
more for it, before the next crop is ready
for market, than they could have obtained
it for when they were first told that the
crop was a short one. The price of mid
dling cotton advanced 1-16 yesterday, and
the outlook for a steady movement upward
is good.
I is doubtful If the cotton planters will
have Mr. Neill to contend with next year.
The confidence of the English spinners in
him has been shaken. But because Mr.
Neill has lost much of hi§ power to do
them injury by his estimates the cotton
planters should not make the mistake of
planting an increased acreage in cotton.
If they want to get a fair price for cotton
they must keep the crop at about what the
world can take at a price that will pay
them a profit.
One thing that is regrettable in connec
tion with the crop that is now being
marketed is, that so large a part of it pass
ed out of the hands of the producers be
fore the price was nearly so high as It
is at present. The planters were told very
early in the season, however, that the
prospect was that there would be a great
advance in the price of cotton.
GEN. OTIS’ SILENCE.
So little is heard from Gem Otis by the
war department that there is beginning
to be some speculation in Washington as
to what he is doing. It is understood of
course that the war in the Philippines is
over, or practically so, and that there is
nothing for the 60.000 troops there to do
but hunt down guerillas and: bands of
robbers. Still, the war department w'ould
like to l>e informed as to what he is ac
complishing in that respect.
Some time ago the President directed
him to open the ports so that the hemp
which is so badly needed in this country
and in Europe could be sent to market.
As far ns known, he has not complied
with this order. The department docs not
s*em to know what action he has taken
in respect to the matter.
It is difficult to understand, how'ever,
why the department should express sur
prise about his silence. If it is anxious
for* information ? to what he is doing
It has but to cable for it. It would
seem as if it could hear from him every
day if it so desired.
It may be. that Gen. Otis is trying to
comply with the Instructions given hint,
nnd, as yet, has nothing to report. Bu.t
he and- his army must be very inactive
or else there would be something occur
ing of which the department should be
informed. Unless the government and the
country are kept better informed as to
what Gen. Otis is doing a resolution will
be introduced into Congress, in all prob
ability. asking the President for Informa
tion respecting affairs in the Philippines.
HASTY ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION.
It is evblent that the war against trusts
will have to be conducted carefully and
systematically if a victory is to be won.
In several of the states laws against
trusts have been enacted. They were the
results of a feeling that the people were
being robbed. They were hastily enacted,
and hence were not carefully considered.
Asa consequence most of them have been
declared unconstitutional, on the ground
that they are class legislation, or for some
other reason.
One of the states that hastened to show
its hostility to trusts was Missouri. Its
legislature enacted a law' that department
stores should pay a license for each class
of its goods. That was to satisfy the
small storekeepers, who were bitterly hos
tile to the big department stores.
The Missouri courts have just decided
that this law is void, because it is class
legislation. It is said that there are oth
er laws of a similar character on the stat
ute books of Missouri that will be declared
by the courts to be unDonstitutlona).
Doubtless much of the anti-trust legisla
tion of the last year or two will amount
to nothing. A way will be found to reach
the trust evil, however, that will be rec
ognized by the courts as the right one.
Tlk skirmishing that has thus far taken
place between the trusts and the people
is only preliminary to the real battle.
What the grand jury says In its report
about the extension of our system of good
roads to the county limits, and Inviting
the counties of Bryan. Effingham and Lib
erty to co-operate with us and extend the
improved highways through their terri
tory, is full of sound sense and foresight.
Such a system of highways would vastly
improve the value of all lands adjacent
to the roads, would enable the farmers to
do their own hauling, to market at a
minimum cost, and thus t>e Independent
of the and attract trade to the
stores of the city. Furthermore, the time
Is coming, and it is not many years off,
when the automobile will be common in
the country as the vehicle for the trans
portation of truck, vegetables, poultry,
• ggs, and oth*r farm products to market.
With such vehicles, and with good roads,
a farm twenty-five miles away will be
easily within an hour and a half to two
hours of the market town.
The British are not getting unalloyed
joy out of their victory over Cronje.
Where are hf.a *big guns? Where is the
remainder of his army? It is inconceivable
that he had with him only the 4,000 men
surrendered, and the British know full
w'ell from bitter extperien v that he had
heavy artillery, rfut men and guns have
disappeared as If the earth had opened
and swallowed thorn In short Cronje
outwitted his adversary even in defeat.
•It took New York twelve years of con
stant agitation to advance her scheme of
underground rapid transit to the point of
getting a contract for the undertaking
signed. Atlanta should not despair. If
she will keep hurtling for anew depot
some years longer she may have the
pleasure of seeing a contract for its con
struction signed.
We have a fleet of more than thirty
ships in the Philippine?, with practically
nothing for them to do. In order to keep
the crews of some of them busy an order
has been sent from Washington for a sur
vey of the archipelago.
PERSON AL.
—Attar Singh is th only Indian artist
now in Europe, and has had a distinguish
ed career in his native land, where his
fine voi-cle and pleasant humor secured the
support of society.
—The death of Ru hard W. Thompson
has left ex-Senator James W. Bradbury,
of Maine, easily first in age among the
surviving members of Congress of ante
bellum days. Mr. Bradbury is 95.
—A German publication devoted to
sporting news quotes official figures which
show that the Kaiser has killed 40,957
beasts and birds since he first began to
take an interest in hunting, in 1872.
—Mrs. F. C. de Sumichrast, wife ol
Prof. F. C. de Sumichrast of the French
department of Ilarv ird, is organizing a
"Harvard relief fund" for the needy wid
ows and children of the English soldiers
killed in South Africa.
—Casimir Zalenski. whose death is re
ported in Warsaw journals, was the old
est lawyer in Poland, and is said to have
received the largest fee ever paid to a
member of his profession in that country
-150,0<)0 rubles, or $115,500.
—Senator Harris of Kansas bears the
reputation of being the most taciturn
member of Congress. He is one of the
Committee on Privileges and Elections,
which is now considering the charges of
bribery in connection with the senatorial
election in Montana, but takes almost no
oral part in the proceedings, sitting for
days at a time without uttering a word.
He is a native of Indoun county, West
Virginia.
—"John Ruskin was a fearless critic,
and made many enemies by his radical
views," says the Indianapolis News. "He
never considered the man or the friend in
his criticisms. It was the work itself that
concerned him. He once criticised, in his
fearless way, the work of a well known
painter, who was much grieved at the ef
fect. On hearing of the sorrow he had
caused he wrote to the artist that he re
gretted he could not speak more favorably
of the picture, but hoped it would make
no difference in their friendship. It is
said the artist wrote in reply: ‘Dear
Ruskin: Next time I meet you I shall
knock you down, but I hope it will make
no difference in our friendship.’ ”
BRIGHT HITS.
—A Theory.—Ada—"Who said ‘One man
is as good as another’ I don’t know; but
I suppose it was some advocate of Re
publicanism.’’ Clara—"Oh! I thought it
was some old maid!"—Puck.
—The Man and the Senator.—" The man
who is worth a milion may be a man for
a* that; and. if the stories are true, he
may be a United States Senator for less
than half that."—Detroit Journal.
—A Stipulation.—Sunday-School Teach
er—"ln order to be saved we must be
born again. Now, Robert, wouldn’t you
like to be born again?" Robert—"Yes’nm;
if I could be named after Dewey!"—Puck.
—ln the Kentucky Feud Belt.—Strang
er—"Have you lived long in this sect
ion?" Na^vr—“No, sah. I am a gentle
man. sah: And it is impossible for gentle
men to live long in this section, sah."—
Chicago Times-Herald.
—No Grounds for Dissension.—" Daugh
ter, if you marry Mr. Perkins are you sure
you won’t quarrel on politics or relig
ion?” "Oh, yes; I don’t know’ a thing
about politics and he doesen’t knows very
much about religion.’’—Chicago Record.
—Explanatory.—Guest—"You charge
more for *a porterhouse stake than you
used to. Why is it?" Proprietor of Re
staurant—"l have to pay more for it.
The price of beef has gone up." Guest—
" The stake is smaller than it used to be,
too.’’ Proprietor of Restaurant—" That, of
course, is on account of the scarcity of
beef.’’—Chicago Tribune.
—lrony.—"Did ye Ivor notice a mon
from St. Louis?" inquired the janitor
philosopher. "Well, If ye didn’t it’s worth
yer whoile. Up th’ boulevard he struts
wid hid ilevattd. Suddenly thor s a big
commotion an’ he’s lifted off his fate
by an automobile. He picks himself up,
goes homo an’ tills his friends th’ horse
liss carriages av Chicago are run by
jackasses; hut thot th’ jackasses are in
soide. Oh he’s a better lobster."—Chicago
Sews.
Ol RRENT COMMENT.
The Macon Telegraph (Dorn.) says:
"Gen. Luke E. Wright, the Tennesseean
who has been selected a member of the
Philippines commission, is a son-in-law of
Admiral Raphael Semin* s, and was a law
partner of the late Senator I sham G.
Harris and of the present Senator Thomas
i’. Turley* He is a Democrat of the most
conservative order, and though he voted
for Mr. Bryan in 1896. he is opposed to
free silver and is an annexationist re
garding our new colonies."
The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark (Dem.)
says: "The difference between expansion
and imperialism Is as great as that be
tween a republic and a monarchy. Expan
sion is the addition of territory with the
consent of the inhabitants; Imperialism
is the addition of territory by the use of
force or by threats of force. Few anti-im
periaiists object to expansion as a princi
ple."
The Canton (O.) News-Democrat (Dem.)
says: "If Porto Rico is not a part of the
United States what right has Congress
to relieve it of <&ny part of the Dingley
tariff? If it does belong to the United
States what right has Congress to violate
the constituth n by Imposing tariff duties
upon our own territory?"
The Washington Post (Ind.) says: "In
some quarters the.e Is a disposition to
suspect that, in jwissing the currency bill,
the Republicans have killed the goose that
laid the golden campaign contributions."
How Doctor* Earn Hlg F<*e*.
The doctor and some of the reporters
were talking in the little room opposite
the telephone office down at Bellevue Hos
pital, says the New York Sun.
"I see by the papers," said the doctor, i
mentioning the story of a large bill re
ported to have been sent in by a surgeon,
of the city, "that this doctor didn’t feel
satisfied with S4,MO. He thought he ought
to have $4,000. That’s a rather fine dis
tinction, perhups. but it all depends on the
sort of a case which the surgeon treated.
A man w’iih his skill and his standing can
charge almost anything he pleases.
"The way in which some physicians earn
large fees is curious. I recall one case of
the sort—or at least a story of a case, for
I won’t vouch for the truth of it all. A
man had been suffering for f?ome time
with gastritis and had been treated for
more than a year by several physicians.
The usual treatment Is to put the patient
on a milk diet. That usually does the
work, but this man kept growing worse.
He finally summoned Dr. 8., one %>f the
best known physicians of the city. When
Dr. B. learned the history of the case he
took one long look at the man’s face and
reached for his hat.
" ‘I need time to think it over.’ he said.
‘You meet me to-morrow at Delmonico’s
and I’ll prescribe treatment of some sort
for you.’
"The patient appeared at the time the
doctor had set.
“ ‘Come in and sit down.’ said the physi
cian, ‘I can talk to you while I am eating
my dinner.’
"Then the physician said something in
a low tone and when the w'aiter came
back he brought two- orders of oysters.
The patient looked surprised.
** ‘Now’,’ said the doctor, ‘you just fall
to and eat a good meal. That’s all you
w'ant."
"It turned out that the doctor was right.
The man who had been nearly dead was
soon in good health. Then the physician
sent in his hill. It was for $4,000. When
the man received it he hurried around to
the doctor’s office.
" ‘By thunder,’ said the man. ‘Do you
think I’m made of money. I can pay it
all right, but now. honestly, doctor, don’t
you think it’s pretty large?’
" ‘No,’ replied the physician. ‘Your life
is worth more than $4,000, isn’t it? Well,
I saved your life. I can’t see that I’m
a-sking too much.’
"The man sent around his check the
next day."
A Compliment That Wo* Short Lived
There is a delightfully human story
which Archibald Forbes, the famous war
correspondent, tells, rather at his own ex
pense, of his gratification at the appar
ent desire of the hjian and brother" for
higher intellectual culture, relates the
Philadelphia Call. On arriving at the sta
tion at West Chester, Pa., where he was
to lecture, a colored cabman, it is said,
offered his services to convey him to his
hotel. When he got there Mr. Forbes ask
ed the extent of remuneration expected
for the journey. The darky replied:
"Well, sah, if you’d jes’ gib me u ticket
to de lectur, sah, I should be right glad."
This unusual request from a cabman
struck him not only as singular and laud
able, but as quite complimentary to him.
so he said:
"Certainly. And haven’t you got a
missis?"
‘‘Oh. yes, sah—d’s go-t a missis."
"Well, you shall have one for her."
And he requested his agent to hand to
the knowledge-seeker the requisite passes
for the entertainment. On reaching the
lecture room he cast a glance over the
audience to see his colored friend, but he
had not arrived, nor did he put in an ap
pearance. Next morning, on getting into
the same man’s vehicle to go to the sta
tion, Mr. Forbes said:
"I didn’t see you at the lecture last
night."
"No. sah; I we’ not dar."
"But. you know, I gave you tickets for
yourself and wife."
"Yes. sah—l know dat, sah; but you
see, sah, I jes’ sold dem tickets for $1
sah, ’cause I don’t know much about lec
tures, and thought I’d rather hab de cash,
sah!" ,
How \Vlieelt‘r Wn* Located.
The running about the rooms and cor
ridors that Gen. Joe WheeieT does in the
course of a day when in Congress would
completely wear out a less indefatigable
man, writes a Washington correspondent
in the New' York Sun. There is consider
able method in that, however, as it enables
him to escape many importunate constit
uents—they are never able to catch up
with him. One day a stranger went to
the room of the Military Committee and
inquired, if Gen. Wheeler was in. The
affable attendant got into conversation
with him and found him to be someone
whom the General would like to see. The
stranger said he had been up to the House
two days hunting Wheeler, and every
one would tell him the Genera? was just
here, or there, or in the smoking room,
but he never could find him. Said the
attendant:
"Do you really want to see Gen. Wheel
er?"
"I certainly do," replied the visitor.
"Then take my odvice, sir. Pick out
any spot on this side of the Capitol—ie
doesn’t matter where, and just stand
there quietly for jten minutes, and I am
morally certain the General will come by
it, and thus you will have your opportun
ity to s<peak to him."
"I expect that’s good advice," returned
the visitor, "and I think I will stay right
here for a while."
In less than three minutes Gen. Wheeler
bounced into the room. and. seeing his
friend,, expressed the utmost delight in
the meeting, while the doorkeeper looked
on with an I-told-you-so-air.
♦ i
Why He Did -Not Co-operate.
To Mrs. Imogene C. Fales of Benwon
hurst, N. Y., belongs match of the credit
of establishing the co-operative movement
in the United States, says the Philadel
phia Post. She had been impressed with
the success of the system in Great Britain
while traveling there in the '7o’s, and on
tier return began on active campaign to
establish it in this country. Possessing
great wealth and marked literary and
forensic ability, she gradually built up
a large organization. Among those who
aided her in the beginning of the work
were Rev. Dr. Heber Newton. Rev. Dr.
de Costa. Charles Codmnn of Boston and
Prof. BJerregaard. The brunt of the work,
however, was sustained by Mrs. Fales.who
spoke in more than 200 cities, wrote and
distributed leaflets, circulars and books,
and published the Sociologic News.
Once there was a call from a man whose
hair and beard ran riotously about his
face. He asked anxiously: ‘ls thl? scheme
n new religion?" "Oh, no." said Mr?.
Fales. "Is it anew politics?" "Not in
the least." "Is it against the govern
ment?" "Not at all," answered Mrs.
Fales. "Then I don’t want nothing <o do
with it.”
One On the DrugglNt.
A Main street druggist tells this story
on himself, says the Salt Lake Herald.
Happening to be out at the house x>f a
friend, he noticed a boy busy with slate
and pencil. "See here, my son," he said.
I’ll give you a question in profit and
loss. I have a mixture down at my stor?
that is compounded as follows: A liquid
worth 50 cents an ounce, a powder worth
$1 per pound, a crystal worth 10 cents an
ounce, to which I add two gallons of
water, which I get for nothin*. 1 sell
the mixture <it 25 cents per ounce. What
Is my percentage of profit?”
The boy thought for a moment and then
replied: “it no use, sir; that Is out ->f
profit and loss, and ts Just plain swindle.”
ITEMS OF INTF.REST.
—A Klrksvllle (Mo.) preacher has mar- I
ried on an average one couple a day for i
twenty years, and In not a single instance i
has there been a divorce.
—A Washington correspondent chanced
to look up at directory of a private of
fice building in Washington the other day,
and there he saw the flames of no less
than nine ex-congressmen, not to mention
those of other ex-officials. The inclination
to finger about Washington is so strong
that men who have been poisoned with
the taste for official atmosphere cannot
be content to try their fortunes at home.
—Charcoal is almost the only fuel used
in Havana, which is a city of 280,030 in
habitants, and as the masses live from
hapd to mouth and buy only the smallest
possible amounts at a time there are
hundreds of great, unwieldy charcoal
carts cons'antly traversing the streets
says the Chicago Record. Charcoal has
an advantage as fuel, which shows in
Havana's cleanliness or freedom from
coal, soot or ashes. Few houses have
chimneys. Over the large stone and tile
ranges of the kitchens there is an ex
panded canopy terminating above in a
square or oblong funnel leading to a flue
which ends flush with the roof.
—The Paris exposition will be brilliant
ly illuminated at night. There will be 3.116
Incandescent lamps at the great entrance
gate, in addition to 12 very large arc
lights; on the cupola and minarets there
will be eight searchlights and 16 simple
reflector lights upon the pylons. The Al
exander 111 bridge will he lighted by 503
incandescent lames of 11? candle-power.
The electricity building will he lighted by
5,000 incandescent lamps, eight search
lights and four plain arc projectors. On
the wate.r palace there will be 1.093 incan
descent lamps. In all. says the Electrical
Review, there will be 12,354 lights. These
will only light the buildings as far as
the exposition authorities are concerned.
Private individuals, corporations, etc., will
of course, require many thousand lamps
for lighting their exhibits. There will be
174 arc lights on the Champs Elysees.
—The former official estimate of the
wooded area of the United States, placed
at 26 per cent, has been reised to 37 per
cent, by the latest computations of the
Division of Geography and Forestry of
the 11. S. Geological Survey. That office
has issued a bulletin containing new fig
ures on American forests, some of which
tend to prove the national timber re
sources greater than is supposed. The
two latest States to be examined are
Oregon and Washington. The former is
estimated to contain 234,653 million feet.
R. M., in standing timber; the latter,
114,778 million feet. Destruction by fire
has been exceedingly serious in Washing
ton. On the assumption that the burned
areas contained on an average as much
timber as the untouched portion. 40,000
million feet have been destroyed since
lumbering began. This amount would
supply all the sawmills of the United
States for two years, and at a value of
only 75 cents a thousand, means a dead
loss to the State of $30,000,000. The amount
actually logged in the same period has
been 36.000 million feet, making the esti
mate by the same oomparision of areas.
Oregon has suffered less from both tire
and lumbering, owing to the smaler
facilities for marketing the product.
—A German critic publishes in the
Frankfutor Zeitung a letter on the geogra
phy of “Hamlet” which, if the statements
made therein are reliable—and there
seems to be no reason for doubting them—
will have a particular interest for Shakes
pearean students. The correspondent
writes: “The question has often been ask
ed why Shakespeare removed Homier,
who was born in Jutland, to the Castle
of Kronborg, near Heisingoer, or Elsi
nore, on the Island of Seeland, and how
the English bard came to have such a
curiously exact knowledge of the local
conditions of the little Danish seaport.
Those questions are now answered by an
old document found a sort time ago ir,
the archives of Helsinger. In this record
we are informed that the burgomaster of
the town had a wooden fence or shed
erected in the year 1585, and that this was
destroyed by a troupe of English actors.
The names of the latter arc. mentioned,
and among them are found some of whom
it is known that they were members of
Shakespeare's company. From this,
therefore, it may be concluded that this
troupe, or several members thereof, had
given representations in the year nomrd
in Helsinger or Elsinore and that Shakes
peare had obtained from them a descrip
tion of the Castie of Kronborg and its
surroundings.”
—During the terrible struggle in Russia
in 1854-6 our troops were clad in costly
furs to preserve them from the rigours
of a Russian winter, says the London
Daily Mail. The coats of the officers
were made of a line brown fur, cut in
the well-known military shape of the
time. The coats and cloaks for the men
were not of so fine a quality, but were,
nevertheless, of a good substantial make,
and were, furthermore, supplied with
waterproof shoulder-covering. Both of
ficers and men alike wore very strong
overalls of cowhide, and it is on record
that one city firm alone secured a con
tract to supply 50,000 suits of this ma
terial for the men, and 10,000 more for
officers. A noted furrier made no fewer
than 50,000 pairs of large fur gloves to
complete a single order. Those regiments
that did not wear bearskins, as did the
Guards, were supplied with a sealskin
head-dress, an exact copy of that worn
by Arctic explorers. This cap was pro
nounced to be both warm and easy to
wear, and was a boon to many poor fel
lows who otherwise must have suffered
terribly from frost-bite. Whatever may
have been the mistakes of that war thera
was no stinginess on the part of the gov
ernment in providing the soldiers with
warm clothing, as is evidenced by the
fact that one consignment of stores in
cluded 259.000 pairs of gloves, 200.030 pairs
of lambs’ wool stockings, some 50,000
flannel gowns for the hospitals, and 60,000
greatcoats for wear over the others.
—Women have taken no active part in
the profession of arms for many ages, but
abroad the woman colonel Is established.
However, she is nothing more than orna
mental. During the last few dec
ades the fashion of naming roy
al women as colonels of regi
ments has increased rapidly, and to-day
twenty-eight princesses hold these posi
tions. When the German Emperor wants
to pay a foreign princess the highest cbm
pllment possible he gives her one of his
favorite regiments. In Prussia alone there
are thirteen of 4he twenty-eight women
colonels. The custom originated In the
middle of this century, when the widow
of Czar Nicholas 1., born Princess Char
lotte of Prussia, was appointed honorary
OOlonel of the Sixth Cuirassier Regiment
of Germany in 1856 Tim present German
Emperor instituted the custom of appoint
ing foreign royal women colonels of Ger
man regiments.He named his grandmoth
er, Queen Victoria, oob-nel of the First
Prussian Dragoon Guards,and since then a
largo number of sovereign women have
been similarly honored. The young queen
of the Netherlands was delighted when he
gave her a regiment, and when a deputa
tion of officers from the regiment called on
her at The Hague she entertained them
right royally. Asa rule the royal princess
nominated us colonel of the regiment vlsle
her officers at mess, and after Inspecting
the regiment lakes some refreshments'
there. When the royal women colonels art
young they wear (he uniform of their
regiments when they appear on the field—
of course in modified skirt and waist style.
Enough
No more, No less
When taken in moderation
as a tonical stimulant
® HUNTER
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HENRY SOLOMON & SON,
Sole Agents, Savannah, Ga.
Cored of Consump
y§ tion, Piles, Lost Man
|srJl|hood, Gleet, Stricture
W?''' 4 and Blood Disease.
To the Public:
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 27, 1900.—A few
month? ago I noticed the advertisements
of Prof. A. J. Dexter. At first I paid very
little attention to same, as I classed the
Professor with other advertising frauds
whose ad-s appear daily in our city' paper?.
Time after time I read the signed state
ments of some of our business men the
Professor had cured, and at last 1 came
to the conclusion that there must be
something in jhis man’s method* of curing
disease different from the general run of
the advertising doctors and other physi
cians who for the past twenty year? have
been treating my troubles, a? oil failed to
cure me or even give me relief. When I
went under the treatment of Prof. A. J.
Dexter I was almost a living skeleton,
having lost forty-seven pounds. I was
running into quick consumption—at least
the doctors said so, and that I would nor
live six months. J was suffering from a
most horrible blood disease, having con
tracted a bad disease many years ago.
When Prof. Dexter began his treatment
of my case I had the gleet, which has
been with me for many years, also strict
ure and a had case of old chronic catarrh,
and waa also a great sufferlr from lost
manhood or seminel weakness. T am now
an old man, but I must say in justice to
Prof. Dexter that he has cured me of all
my diseases, and I feel like a young man
in perfect health. Surely there is some
thing wonderful in this great man’s treat
ment. I have gained in weight 39 pounds
since I went under the Professor’s care,
and believe that in a few weeks I wiil
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which has caused me many sleepless
nights. Is now in perfect order, and I can
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me of the piles, from which I have been
a great sufferer foe many years. In con
clusion I wish to say, God bless Prof.
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This gentleman’s name and address earn
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then* may Ito seme who have been in the
habit of having their Shirts, Collars an 1
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