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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Anci nt Landmark Lodge No.
*3l. F. and A. M.
Special of Copartnership,
J. M. Lang & Cos .; Notice to the Public, L.
P. Masters, Clerk of the Market; Interest
Notice, The Citizens Bank of Savannah;
Ship Notice, Barnard & Cos., Agents, No
tice to City Tax Payers.
Business Notices—Harvard Beer, J. A.
Galina; E. & W. Laundry.
Amusements—“ Children of the Ghetto”
Ht Theater Tuesday.
Proposals—For Fuel, Etc., Jos. F. Doyle,
Custodian. ,
Steamship Schedules—Merchants* an 1
Miners’ Trans|>oriation Company.
Malt-Nut fine—Anheuser-Busch Brewing
Association.
Just the Thing, One of a Dozen Pat
terns—Lindsay & Morgan.
Eatwell—ls All Right.
Legal Notices—Lavina 11. Malphus vs. E.
D. Malphus, Libel for Divorce; Citations
for the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County; Application to Sell Real Estate of
Hettie Elmore, Deceased.
Medical—Hostetlers Stomach Bitters;
Hood’s Pills; Ayer’s Pills; I)r. Hathaway
Company; Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rem;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
To-tiii.t .*> Weather,
The indications for Georgia and Eastern
Florida to-day are fair and warmer
weather, and fresh southerly winds.
Gen. Wheeler is credited with having
learned to speaK several of the Philippine
dialects while he was in the islands. He
is a very wonderful little old gentleman.
He was in the Islands only a few months.
Senator Proctor of Vermont has aligned
himself with those Senate Republicans
vrho are designated by Speaker Henderson
of the House as “cowards” because they
insist upon following what the President
called “plain duty” with respect to Porto
Rico.
Anew ordinance in Philadelphia pro
hibits the placing of loose circulars in
vestibules, under doors, on front stoops,
firound door knobs, etc. The enforcement
of a regulation of the kind would be a
good thing in this city. Our streets are
probably above the average in cleanli
ness, nevertheless there is too much w aste
paper scattered about.
The name of the town of North Hol
land, Mich., has been changed by its citi
zens to Cronje. By the time they have
Quarreled over the pronunciation of the
name, whether it is properly Croonzhay,
or Crownjay, or Crunjy, or Crooney as tho
London News say it is. and before they
have settled the question, they will prob
ably change back to New Holland.
The Baltimore Sun takes the unfair ad
vantage of printing in parallel columns
a part of the speech which Senator Be v
eridge delivered the oth- r day and the
corresponding part which he would have
delivered had it not been blue-penciled
by the censor of the Republican machine.
And the difference between the expressed
and the unexpressed sentiments is very
marked.
Senator Kyle, who has been South with
the Congressional Industrial Commis ion,
was surprised to find conditions, in ihi*
eeetions as bright and good as they are.
'*l predict,” said he. “that within the next
ten years the South will boa rival to Now
England In manufacturing.” Nor did l.e
limit the rivalry to cotton goods. We nr
forging steadily to the front in cottons,
and as certainly are wo getting ahead in
iron and steel. Already Alabama and
Tennessee pig iron is virtually making: th '
market, and the time is not far distant
when they will be leading factors in the
refined and manufactured iron and steel
markets also.
B-enator Piatt of New York is said to
be opposed to the nomination of Corne
lius N. Bliss as the vice presidential can
didate of the Republican party, for tbe
reason that *he is not a vote-getter.”
That dtpends upon the exact meaning %nf
Senator Platt’s criticism. Mr. Bliss is the
owner of a large barrel, the contents of
which may be used as arguments in sec
tions where the '‘floaters** are numerous.
Mr. Bliss would probably put up as much
money for the nomination as any other
man. And In that sense he might possi
bly be called a vote-gutter, sine, money
can get some votes put it is probably
true that he is not a popular man with
the masses.
S \ \ \ \ N \lf I > SI M >IER.
There is an idea abroad, no doubt un
wittingly contributed to in greater or less
degree by some of our own people, tha
as soon us summer comes Savannahlans
flee to the mountains or to the seashore
resorts for the benefit of their health. This
was to some extent true many years ago,
but it is not the cuse to-day. Twenty-five
or thirty years ago the drainage in and
about the city was very defective, and
the water supply was far from the best.
In those days. too. the city's trade de
pended almost entirely upon cotton, mak
j ing a dull season In the summer, at the
time when the ill effects of poor drainage
and bad water were most in evidence; and
thn it was that Savannahians went away
from home during summer for the bene
fit of their health.
But the conditions are now radically
changed. TJhe city's sanitary cofidition is
excellent. It ir y he doubted that there Is
Ia city in the country, if in the world, that
is in better sanitary condition and is more
> arefullv look- 1 after in this respect. And
| the ample water supply is as pure and
healthful as if from a mountain spring.
Savannah, therefore, is one of the health
iest of cities. There Is no “sickly sea
son” here, a fa < which can bo shown by
the mortality reports, and which will be
affirmed by the testimony of thousands
of residents who remain in the city from
year’s end to year’s end, not from neces
sity. but from choice.
There ar§, of course, a number of resi
dents of Savannah who go away for a va
cation during the summer months, and
many of them have fallen into the habit
of saying it is “for their health.” But
ihe fact is they go away from home for
the same reason that residents of New
York, Boston, Saratoga, Hot Springs and
other places go away—for rest, recreation
or pleasure; and suc'h vacation trips are
good things. There is not a word to lx*
said against them, for those who have the
time and the means to take them. But it
is wrong 4o give “health” as the reason
in place of pleasure and recreation when
such Is life case.
The simple fact is that there is no more
healthful and delightful spot anywhere in
sumiher than Savannah. Occasionally a
warm wave passes over the section, but it
lasts only a day or two, just as the cold
waves do in winter; and the warm wave
is no more harmful to health than is the
cold wave. The <lty is shaded by a lux
urious forest growth, and is fanned by
the refreshing breezes from the ocean.
The nights are invariably pleasant, not
withstanding a warm wave may have sent
the mercury high during the day. There
is, therefore, no reason why anyone should
go away for reasons of health, unless the
health depends upon rest and change of
scene.
MOKO—XMERICAXS.
Dntto Mundi considers himself an Amer
ican. Of the (lotto we have heard before.
He is the Moro chief in the island of
Mindanao, who some time ago made com
mon cause with the Americans, and went
on a raid and slaughtered a number ot
the natives. The information that ho,
considers himself a good American is
conveyed by Theodore W. Noyes, in edi
torial correspondence to the Washington
Star from Joio, in the Sulu archipelago.
Mr. Noyes has been interviewing a num
ber of the leaders of the Moros and Su
lus, and he finds that several of the dat
tos regard themselves as Americans. They
have not given up either slavery or polyg
anjy, nevertheless they are looking for
ward imiAtlently to Ihe time when they
shall enjoy whatever blessings the Amer
ican government may have to confer,
meahtitne sticking to those of their own
customs In which they find pleasure.
Next to Mlindi probably the most power
ful datto that Mr. Noyes has met, is Cal
vi. This chief is already kicking about
the tariff. His people, he says, are bur
dened by the duties, both import and
exiiort, which have been laid upon them
by Ihe Americans. The import duties,
ho pointed oat, have increased prices of j
things the people were forced to buy, from •
two to four times the former figures. In j
tiie list of these articles are Included
sugar, sarongs, rice, tobacco, gambler,
m aches, etc., all articles of necessity to
the natives. Meanwhile ihe export duties
have-, feduced the prices received by the
nutlves for their copra, hemp, pearls,
coconnuts and fruit, utnil “it is almost
impossible for a poor man to live." Maj.
Sweet, who is in charge' of the district
in which Calvt holds sway, has recom
mended that the rice duties be remitted.
Meanwhile, however, the duties are being
levied and collected and the natives are
becoming discontented. It is likely tijat
Congress will hardly have gotten ihe Porto
Rico tariff question off its hands before
it will have upon them another tariff
question from the Philippines.
Mr. Noyes finds that the character of
the slavery practiced in the Suiu archi
pelago is not so horrible as one might
supimse. It is of the “mild, feudal type,’’
ho says; “there is no cruelty based on
the existence of the relation, no humil
iating race or caste discrimination, and
no severe labor required.” In short, to
judge from Mr. Noyes’ observations and
the information given him by Maj. Sweet,
one might think that Sulu ‘slavery was
a rother doice-fiir-niente state in which
the chattel Avus relieved of all care and
anxiety, while the master and owner had
to hustle for the food and clothing for
the whole establishment. In the treaty
wilh the Sultan of Sulu, it is stipulated
that ihe freedom of slaves may be pur
chased at the market price, but if Mr.
Noyes reflects conditions correctly, it may
be dimbted If the slaves would thank any
body to purchase their freedom for them.
At all events, says the Washington news
paper man, the matter of abolishing slav
ery and polygamy in Ihe islands must !>e
gone about very slowly and carefully,
else we moy bring on a “holy war" in
the islands. We shall, of course, do this.
The record of our government within K
own territory goes to show how carefully,
slowly, gently and considerately it goes
about such matters as freeing slaves, and
assigning them to a fitting place In the
body politic. Still, i< is quite possible
that Ihe government at Washington will
show more consideration for the Malays
ten thousand miles across the seas tlinn It
did for the white people within the south
ern iiurt of its own territory thirty-odd
> I in s ugo.
The salient feature of Mr. Noyes’ com
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1900.
munlcatlon, however, is that the Moros
and other Filipino® who are friendly to
us are beginning to consider themselves
Americans. Having thui opinion, wr.lt
they not demand the rights of citizens of
the I'nited States? There is no doubt
trouble for the administration brewing in
the Far East.
“Tin; HK.lll.lt .lOIItWIJSM,” *
In an editorial under the headline quoted
the Galveston News says: "Formerly the
trouble makers an<l ambitious politicians
of certain portions of the country actually
pitted editor against editor, after the man
ner of merciless sjvorrs, who fight cocks
for their own pleasure and profit. Nobody
will find it difficult to recall the name of
some devoted Journalist who has long
since gone to the death over his ticket and
his man. In some instances the wary
fellow over whom the killing pecurred is
now irr Congress or in some other safe
and pleasant place. It is gratifying to.
observe that the old habit of fury aqjf
folly has been abandoned by a large ma*
jority of the editors and publishers of the
present day.”
The representative journalism of the
present is pitched upon a higher plane
then ever before. It has outgrown the
old feudal idea that intense partisanship
and bitter fights for individuals were the
soul of existence fo-r the newspaper. The
editor no longer keeps a “gun” oai his*
desk in anticipation of the appearance
of the editor of the rival paper, or of the
person whose, political aspirations have
been opposed; and heated controversies
between newspapers published in the same
town are less frequent, and less viUMoli:*
than they used to be. Thfre are. of
course, designing persons In politics who
would be glad to induce editors to fight
their battles for them, and perchance get
shot for the ardor of their partisanship,
and there tare other persons with an ab
normal liking for sensational reading who
enjoy a wordy war between newspapers;
but these persons are so few in number
and so Wanting in real value to'the news
papers that they have ceased to he re
garded ns of any importance. The vast
majority of the people do not care a rfcp
for the differences of opinion on academe
questions held by two or more editors, nor
do they regard the animosities which con
troversies erigender except to laugh at
them. What they do appreciate are fear
less and conscientious expressions of opin
ion on public matters and painstaking ef
forts to spread the news of the day be
fore subscribers in such manner that it
moy be readily digested. *
The purpose of the higher journalism of
modern days, therefore, is to give pub
licity to legitimate nows, and to discuss
candidly and fairly matters of public in
terest. The day is past when men could
take the journalist by the nose and leal
him; ho now devotes himself to measures j
and principles and public interests, and 1
requires men to measure up to them. I
Journalism is less persona! now* than in
former years. The influential newspaper
of the day is not so much a reflection
of the personality of one man, but a com
bination of. the brains and Intelligence of
a number of men, centered upon the deter
mination to accomplish the greatest good
for the municipality, the state and the 1
nation. The newspaper is no longer tied
to a string which is held by the. politi
cian. nor does the editor of the period bend
his back to turn the grindstone for the
self-seeker with an ax to be sharpened.
The press is more of an educating force
than the pulpit, and more of a construc
tive force (ban the promoter. It stands
for the independence of the citizen, the
upbuilding of the community, and the per
petuity of law and order.
R %MAPO.
During the past six or seven months the
newspapers of New \ l ork have been lo a
greater or le<*s extent filled wdih “Rim
apo,” meaning thereby the Ramapo Water
Company, and having reference to the ;
strenuous efforts that have been and are’ i
■ being made to force the elty cf New York
|to sign a contract with that company
| which would give-it a prodigious and fib
uiously valuable monopoly. Thus Ramapo
is primarily a local matter. The question
at issue is whether tho city shall own the
water supply, or whether a monopoly cf,
that supply shall be given over to a pri- I
vate corporation which has been able, by I
devious and secret methods, to obtain a !
charter granting extraordinary powers. ’
To that extent the matter is of lecal in
terest; but it becomes of general inten at
when it Is understood that the deal Is a
lioiitical one, in which the opposing p->-
l lltlcal parlies arc suppiosed to lie in com
j blnaUon for the purpose of pushing the
I contract and monopoly through to consum
mation. and defeating the clearly ex
pressed will of Ihe people in opposition. If
the bosses of Ihe two machines should be
able to fasten upon the unwilling people
of New York such a monopoly as th>
Ramapo water contract, why could not the
same' sort of thing be done elsewhere?
That-public sentiment Is oppos, and to ihc>
Rantopo deal can not be doubted. Ever/
newspaper in New York Is against th ■
. scheme, and various meetings in oppos -
I tion to it have been held.
The salient facts with respect to tho
Kama!>o controversy are these: The two
praeldents and the active attorneys of tho
corporation have been leading Republi
cans. standing close to the recognized s a o
Republican machine. The remarkable
charter, granting extraordinary powers to
she corporation, was given to it by a Re
publican legislature. Some of the princi
pal stockholders—those in on the ground
floor— said to be leading Republican
politicians. When the time came to sign
the contract with the elty of New York,
which would give the water company a
monopoly worth millions of dollars, the
Tammany Roard of Public Improvements
Was more than willing to sign. But the
(■losing of the deal was prevented by th>
exposures In the newspapers and by the
opposition of Controller Coler and Presi
dent Grout of Brooklyn borough. Since
that time the people have been < nd-avot
ing to secure legislation which will pre
vent the consummation of the contract
and monopoly. Bills for that purpose are
now pending In the New York Legislature,
but whether the Republican bosses will
permit them to liecome law Is a question.
What Is known as the Morgan hill is be
ing urged as the remedy m<ded for the
ltuinu|io evil. Should this lil.l fall of pas.
sage, the responsibility Would rest upon
the Republican party, and the inference
that would be draft n by the people would
be that the Republicans in the Legislature,
at the order of their bowses who are finan
cially interested in Ramapo, were deter
mined to exhaust every means to fasten
the monopoly upon ihe city.
“A hint comes thiotigh a war corre
spondent in South Africa,” says the Chi
cago Times-Herhld, “that when Pretoria
has fallen and the Transvaal government
is no more, the strongest and wealthiest
of the Boers will seek an asylum in the
United States. They are said to have so
arranged their worldly affairs that with
drawal from the Transvaal and English
rule will be comparatively easy.” To what
pari of the United States would the Boers
emigrate? There is no indication. The
transportation companies would no doubt
try to impress them with the richness ami
fertility of the great West. There would
be a longer haul In it for the companies if
they went West. Should the Beers inves
tigate. for themselves, they would proba
bly select the South, forJme reason that
the opportunities here a M better and thi*
people are more devoted to liberty and
self-government than are those of any
other section of the country.
According to the Boston Globe, one
American commercial traveler in South
Afri a during the past six months has sjld
thire three ship loads of American goods,
and has written valuable letters to mer
chants and manufacturers, tell ng them
what they need to do to secure and hold
the trade of that country. Another has
sold SICO.IO) worth of American manufac
ture! in Japan within a month or two,
and has sent back valuable letters of ad
vice respecting the trade. Is it not men of
the stamp of these commercial travelers
who are needed in our consular service?
Knowing the kind tof information
fiat the merchants and manufac
ytrers desire and need they would
take the paints to secure and
transmit it. The average smali-bore poli
tician who is given a consulate neither
knows nor cares anything about com
merce.
In Pittsburg they are severe sticklers
for the rights of the black race under the
law. A negro lawyer and a negro con
gressman some time ago went into a first
class restaurant in Pittsburg and asked
tc be served. Their request was declined
and they were asked to get cut. The negro
lawyer brought suit for damages, alleging
that he had been injured to the extent of
$•5,000. The jury returned a verdict of six
and one-quarter cents. Thus equality in
Pittsburg restaurants has been vindicat
ed by the law*; but the next time a negro
enters one of them that is set apart for
white persons, he will be refused and put
out, just as if the six cents verdict had
not been fondered.
Archibald Forbes, whose death was re
ported in the dispatches a day or two ago,
was probably the most famous war cor
respondent of his day. He went through
every war of importance from the Fran
co-Prussian war up to about 18S0, when he
left ti e field and went on the lecture ros
trum. He was the author of a dozen books
dealing with wars and the great men "who
wfre conspicuous in them. Mr. Forbes
visited the United States several times,
and his wife was an American woman.
PER SOY \ L.
—ln 1890 2,000,W0 tons of logs were im
ported into Germany. In 1898 2,609,C00 tons
were imported, an increase of 30 per cent.
During inis same period sawed lumber
increased from 1,200,000 to 2,200.000 tons, or
an increase of about 100 per cent.
—Japanese clerks are row employed in
a considerable number of London stores,
and give satisfaction, whereas menufac
iuirers who have tried them complain that
they are wasteful of material, and hive
no klea of the value of machinery. They
seem to spend all their spare time study
ing the English language.
—ln the recent discussion as to the mer
its. respectively and relatively, of while
and brown bread, there appears to be a
weighty leaning, on the pari of profes
sionals, in favor of the former. They are
firm in their belief, after having mad?
elaborate investigations that while bread
is more nutritious- than the brown vatiety.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Thespis—Faistaff is seldom put on tho
stage nowadays. Ranter—l wonder why
not. Thespis—l gueiss it must be be ans;
the part requires an all-round actor.—Har
lem Life.
—“Pa., said little Willie, pausing in his
reading, “what is ‘food for the gods?’ ”
“Well,” replied pa, who is a patron of the
dranyh “perhaps it means peamnuis and
plug tobacco.”—Philadelphia Press.
—Biggs—They say Morton is a somnam
bulist-walks in his sleep, you know. Lit
tle-Nonsense! The report probably comes
from the fact hat he often walks in his
baby's sleep.—Boston Transcript.
—Calling the Bluff.—" Mary,” said the
great man, swelling out, “this paper
speaks of me as a presidential possibil
ity.” •
■•John." said his wife, anxiously, “how
much did that cost you."—Puck.
Cl RHBXT COMMENT.
The Boston Post (D m ) says: "Congress
Has, Indeed, the constitutional power to
make all needful rules and regulations
respecting the territory belonging to the
; Upiled Slates,’ blit in making such regu
lations it is restrained by the other con
stitutional provision that 'all duties, im
posts and excises shall be uniform
throughout the United States.' Has it
come to the point where we are to regard
Alaska and with it Arizona, New Mexico
and Oklahoma, as well as Porto Rico and
Guam, outside the United States?”
The Chicago Titnes-Herald (Rep.) says:
"if Porto Rico is not a part of the Unit
ed States, what right has Congress to
legislate about It at all?
”If Porto Ricans are not citizens of the
United States, what right has Congress
to legislate respecting them at all?"
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.)
says: “For downright, desperate cour
age, just watch Senutor Beveridge. He
makts a speech for fro# trade with Porto
Rico and announces that he will vote for
the 15 per cent, tariff.’’
The Hl'Wilighvo Age-Herald (Dorn.)
says: "If tin Porto Rico tariff plan is
pool, let It lie extended to all the res*
if Ameili on tcnltory. Alabama wdl need
anew safe, but Hint -is a small objec
tion.”
A Singular Hill.
That bill which a clergyman introduced
into our State Senate as a check to the
growing industry which provides students
with ready-made orations and esaiys and
compositions is attracting some unpleas
ant attention in the East, where they don’t
understand us, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. The little bid is all right as far
as it goes, but it isn’t elastic enough. The
clergyman meant well. He thought he
was doing a service for literary a-pirams.
But, strange to say, he blindly overlooked
the clergy. No doubt some of them need
protection from these bureau cormorants
and from these syndicated sharks. Thirk
of the temptation it is for an enervated
parson to step into one of ihese hand-me
down” sermon shops and say:
“What have you in about twenty-minute
lengths?”
"Ornate?”
“No, just simple and soothing.”
“Lemme see. We got in a fresh lot of as
sorted harangues yesterday. Jimmie.hand
me the proofs of that matter on the G
hook. You want it conservatively!ortho
dox?”
“Yes; mildly progressive.”*
"I know*. Here, how’s this? Hold on.
that’s a thirty-minute talk. Tell you what
I’ll do. I’ll saw out this long p iragrajh
here on the ‘the duty of the state* and
credit you with the weight.”
"The weight?”
"Yes. We sell ’em all by the weight of
the metal. that’s eleven pounds an 1
seven ounces. Two-dollars-sevemy-three
cents, please. So many parsons lik“ to
strike off the printed slips to distribute
among their hearers that we find ihe
metal plan the best one.”
“But isn’t that a little high?”
“Not for that grade. We’ve got some po
boilers here, regular insomnia chasers,
that I could let you have for half the m n
ey. But they ain’t what you want. You ve
been fishing a pretty good article our of
the bar’l. I’ve no doubt, and they’d be
too much of h come-down. Of cou.se. you
understand that this is not to be released
until March 11, and that only one sermon
bearing this number is to be preached in
what we call a theological section.”
"Very well. Wrap it up. please.”
“Thank you. Your address on this
card. We will send it up by oyr 1 o'clock
delivery. Anything else?”
“I’d like a little talk on the duty of the
hour, or some kindred subject, for our Fri
day evening gathering.”
“Certainly. Take this catalogue homo
with you and look it over. There are
twenty-three ‘Duties of the Hour’ ih re
you will notice. Good day. Call again.”
The Man With the Hoe.
“Grumply used to think that the finest
thing in the world was to dress like a
tramp, neglect to shave, and dig around
upon a farm that he owns not far from
the city,” said Smith with a reminiscent
grin, according to the Washington Pott.
“He wap out there one. day last summer
on a vacation, and he invited me to pay
him a visit. I accepted, and hardly ar
rived when I was asked to put on a pair
of overalls and help him hoe a field of
cabbage? that was near the house. I de
clined w’ith thanks, but told him not to
let me inteifere with his labors. So he
seized a hoe and started in, while I se
lected a shady spot where I could smoke
and watch him swing his hoe. He had
only been at w'ork a few minutes when a
coupje of women drove along the
country rood and stopped where he was
at work.
“‘Oh, look!’ exclaimed one, ‘there is
the man with the hoe! How romantic!’
“ ’A brother to the ox,’ quoted the sec
ond.
“ Who loosened and let down this bru
tal jaw?’ murmured the first.
“ ’Whose was the hand that slanted
back this brow?’ said the second.
“ ‘Whose breath blew out the light w*ith
in. his brain?’ continued the first.
“ ‘There is no shape more terrible than
this!’ cried the second.
“ ‘With the emptiness of ages in his
face!’ exclaimed the first.
"That was the last straw. With a grunt
of rage Grumpley threw down the hoe
and fled to the house, while I was careful
to have my laugh out before I faced him.
He came back to the city with me, and I
understand that the farm is on the mar
ket, his agent having orders to accept the
first offer received.”
IpNniarek'ii Cigar,
The fate Prince Blcmarck was not given
1o the telling of stories, says Collier’s
Weekly, but once, at a banquet in Berlin,
he told one cf Gen. Moltke, who was din
ing at the same table. “Do you remem
ber, General.” he raid, turning to the
great strategist, “the last time you accept
ed a cigar from me ?”' Moltke could not
recall the occasion. “Well,” rejoined Bis
marck. “I myself shall never forget the
circumstances. It was on the day of Kon
iggratz. during the anxious time when
the battle stood still and we could neither
go backward nor forward—when one aide
de camp after another gall ped off without
ever„returning, and we could get no news
of the Crown Prince’s coming.
“I was frightfully uneasy, and my eyes
wandered round in search of you. I saw*
you standing not far off. You were gazing
on the course of the battle with a look
of mosts. rene fndiff rence, and the stump
of a cigar in your mouth. ‘Well,* said I
to myself. ‘lf Moltke can go on smoking
so calmly as that it can’t be so very bad
with us after all.’ So, riding up, I offered
you my case, which contained tw'o cigars,
a good aid a bad one. With the unerring
glance cf a true commander, you selected
the good one I smoked the other myself
after the battle, and I never enjoyed a
smoke better in my life.”
Prayer in Pliilatlelphin.
#A Philadelphia woman relates the fol
lowing instance of an answer to prayer:
“One day I was walking on the street
when I sow a runaway horse galloping to
ward me. The driver had lost all control
over the animal, and as tlje wagon was
swaying from side to side the driver
seemed in great danger of being thrown
out and severely injured, if not killed. I
stepped into the street and prayed for
•the horse with all my might. it gave
one look at me. stopped, end hung its
head abashed. But that isn’t all. The
driver, seeing the horse wps submissive,
was about to seize the whip, with the
intention of lashing the beast, when I
directed my prayers toward him. He at
once gave up his cruel design. Jumped
from his seat nnd )>egan patting she
horse's head. Then I went on my way
rejoicing.”
A Hnutiy Undertaker.
“One of the pleasantest sights we have
had in this town in a long time,” says
the Yinland (Kan.) Weekly Vine, "was
the artistic manner In which John Griffin,
of Lawrence, burled Bill Kruger, who died
since our last issue. Mr. Griffin bail his
trade at his fingers' ends, and he handled
our dead citizen with an agility that was
startling In its originality. He Was every
where all the time, weeping with the ar
tlicted widow, discussing weather pros
pects with the farmers and soliciting bus
iness from the other attendants at the
funeral. He will doubtless be able to get
ail the business in these ports. Before
ieavlng for home he subscribed for this
great family weekly, paying a year In ad
vance, hence this puff ”
—Mias Helen Gould has undertaken a
work for the beneilt of the employes of
the Missouri Pacific systl-m in the West
which will cost a large amount of money,
it Is planned to establish and suptxirt rail
road young men’s Christian associations
at dlfferen* points along the road and to
equip associations already organized with
libraries.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Prospectors are boring for zinc in four
counties in Northern Arkansas, and with
in th-e last year several changes in the
ownership of land there have resulted in
consequence. One syndicate is said to
have purchased 13,000. acres of land.
—An invitation to dinner in Manila is al
ways accompanied by an invitation to
spend the night, owing to the military law
which provides for the arrest of all per
sons found on the streets after 8:30 o’clock
at night unless they have passes.
—The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Company has purchased 1,500,00
yellow willow* cuttings, and will pi t
them on both sides of an embankment west
of Stockton, Cal., for a distance of eUht
miles, to protect the road from washouts.
—The present seems to be a dull season
for artists in London. In the want adver
tisement columns of the London Daily
News, for instance, the following node?
appeared the other day: “Wanted—Posi
tion on yacht by artist having served ap
prenticeship at sea. Well educated. Would
take purser’s work, wait in saloon, or oth
er duties. Exhibitor Royal Academy.”
—A picture by Sisley—“The Flood”
which was sold by the artist in 1876 for SB,
and resold at a public sale at Bordeaux,
in 1880. for $lB. brought $8,600 at auction in
Paris last week. It is needless to add that
Sisley Is dead.
—The following lei ter from Mark Twain
to his publishers is in the possession of a
British collector: “Please charge £2 against
me. and for the same sell me sCWtral of
my books, making a discount to me tha:
will make the £2 go as far as possible, for
the cause is a pious one. Don’t send the
books to me. Send them to Mrs. ,
Birmingham. I don’t know the lady, but
she has applied to me on behalf of her
husband’s church. Going to hold a church
fair there, and wants some of my books
to sell to th> godly. 1 have assured her
that the same shall be none. 1 being rather
down on the godly, though I did not tell
her that.”
—A marked increase in the number pf
left-handed persons is noted by a Wash
ington physician, quoted in the Star of
that city. The only reliable statistics on
the subject known to the Washington doc
tor are to the effect that in America up
to twenty-five years ago only 2 per cent,
of the people were left-handed. This
statement has been allowed to run along
without question, but the Washington ob
server thinks that it is now far from
correct. His estimate its 6 per cent. In
the manual training school in Washing
ton that per cent, of the boys is left
handed, and a like proportion was found
among the girls in a sewing school. Left
handed members of baseball teams are
so many that they attract little attention
and left-hand users of the billiard cue
are on the inefease, an expert in that line
reports. “It is curious,” the doctor con
cludes, “that left-handedness rarely oc
curs among the colored race, and
nese laundryman tells me that the Chi
nese are not allowed to be left-handed.”
—Lompoc, in Santa Barbara county,
California, grows mustard for the whole
nation* according to the San Francisco
Chronicle. In that region 2,000 acres are
cultivated to the seed, the industry em
ploying about 200 farmers. No one em
ploys himself exclusively In cultivating
the plant, because of its refusal to yield
two successive crop® upon the same land.
Accordingly, the mustard raiser can only
devote a part of his farm to it each sea
son. The land from which he harvested
his crop this year must next year be
planted to beans or barley corn, pump
kins or beets. Indeed, results show that
it pays to skip two years in planting
mustard, and only turn the soil to its
use every third season. What active
principle there is in the sol! that is with
drawn by this exacting plant to the land’s
impoverishment has not yet been deter
mined. When it has been learned how to
feed the soil, in order to replace what the
growing mustard withdraws, the indus
try is expected to assume larger propor
tions.
—The first discovery of gold in Burke
county, North Carolina, was made in 1828
in the bed of Brindle creek, one of the
pmall tributaries of Silver creek, which
has its source in the South mountains,
says the Pinehursc Outlook. Soon every
stream in the neighborhood was pros
pected and panned with golden success.
Large slave owners found a new.* and prof
itable use for their slaves, and many
thousands of them were put to work in
this new* field. Placer mines were opened
and operated on a large scale, though by
primitive methods, the pan, rocker, long
tom, and sluice box being the only im
plements at that time—and, indeed, these
are still used In portions of this region
; to-day. Mining was at first confined ;o
j the stream gravels, which were generally
| rich. Later on the upper decomposed
i layer of the country rock and the more
| ancient placers, formed by secular disin
tegration and drift, were worked. A large
' amount of gold was produced in this way,
! but it is impossible to even approximate
| the amount, as absolutely no records were
kept. The best authorities place ihe
1 amount at between two and three million
dollars.
—The famine in India, says Paris Nou
velles, extends over a ten Rory of 500,000
square miles; in other words, an area
four times greater than’that of Ihe Brit
ish Isles. To give one an idea of ihe ex
tent of the scourge, some figures are sub
mitted herewith of the total population
of the famished provinces and of the per
sons aided. It will bo, besides, very evi
dent that all the starving people have not
been helped, and that those relieved re
ceived only insufficient aid. Following is
a table which will indicate the distress
ing conditions prevailing in India:
Persons
Provinces*— Population. aided.
Bombay and Sindh 20,000,000 950.000
Punjab 9,000,000 178,C00
Central provinces 12,000,000 1,441.000
Banar 3,900,090 286.C0D
Agonere-Werwara 1.000,000 107.000
Rajput ana 12,000,000 337.000
Central India States 8.000,000 83,000
Bombay native states .... 6,000,000 333,000
Haroria 2,500,000 63,000
Punjab native states 600.000 3,000
Northwest provinces 600,000 * 3,000
Totals 75,400,000 3,781,000
—The Russian empire has of late years
witnessed great developments in metal
lurgical industries, and active progress is
being made with the plans to supply the
iron works of Southern Russia with ore
from the Ural mountains. Anew company
has for some time been anxious <o secure
concessions to work ihe crown deposits
of ore in the •Ural, which is for the most
part magnetic iron ore, and convey the
same to its works at Insowka, in the gov
ernment of Yekaterinoslav. The ores of
Southern Ural do no contain less than 60
per cent, iron, and with proper transporta
tion facilities could bo used with advan
tage by the iron works of the Donetz
Basin. New works are also being built
at Novo-Powlowka. With the recent ad
vances whereby Siberian coke can be de
livered in ci. center of the Ural mining
districts at small cost, there seems to be
a bright future for the industry in these
localities as well as in the Donetz district.
The coal mines in Poviodar in Siberia
seem to bo the most available for supply
ing fuel for the Ural mines, being con
nected by railway with tho Irtish river,
from which there is a water route nearly
all tho way to tho Ural. The coke will
Wo distributed by rail from the town of
, TJumen. • *
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