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Branch; W’hatever There Is in Correct Jewelry, at Hunter & Von Kue ren's. Auction Sale—Elegant Property, by I. D. Laßoohe, Auctioneer. Insurance—The Pacific Mutual Insurance Company of San Francisco. Proposals—To Build a Disinfecting Shed for Marine Hospital Service at Savannah. Amusements—‘‘East Lynne" at Matinee and ‘‘A Celebrated Case" at Theater To night. Laundry—Georgia Steam Laundry'. .Legal Notices —Citations From the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham County; Notice to Debtors and Creditors, Estate George S. Frierson. Jr. Whisky—Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey; Hunter Baltimore Rye Whisky. Steamship Schedule—Ocfcan Steamship Company. Medical—tPeruna; Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Horsford’s Acid phosphate; S. S. S.; Ayer’g Cherry Pectoral; Hyomei; McElree’s Wine of Cardui; Johann Hoff’s Genuine Malt Ex tract; Dr. Hathaway Company; Castoria; Prof. Dexter. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. 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 Sold at all first-class Cafes. 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 be back to my old weight. My stomach, which has caused me many sleepless nights. Is now in perfect order, and I can eat any’ kind of food. He ha? also cured 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. Dexter for what he ha? done for me and others. Yours truly. This gentleman’s name and address earn be obtained at our office, as he has given us permission to do so. We never pub , lish letters from patient? without their consent. We have on exhibition at our office the largest book of its kind in the world filled with over 0.000 testimonials from patients we have cured, hundreds *f them from the most noted men and wo men in this country. We treat and cure all diseases. The professor has on file at hi? office thousands of testimonials. many of them from the most noted people In this country, that have been restored to per fect health, and Indorse the professor. These testimonial? fill the largest book In the world. A few are given: The late Gen. U. 9. Granr. ex-President Arthur, Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, Gen. F. T. Dent, brother-in-law to the late Gen. 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