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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to-day
are clearing and colder weather, and in
creasing easterly winds; and for Eastern
Florida fair weather in southern and
showers in northern portions.
A Massachusetts mon who elop and
other day cleverly prevented his wife from
pursuing him. He took her fals*? teeih
along tilth him. and she couldn’t leave the
house without them.
The demand for the repeal of .some of
the war taxes, if not all of ihem. that will
be made at Kansas City on July 4 w ill be
so loud and strong that it will be heard in
every chy, village and hamlet in the
country.
Alabama has shown her good sense in
her determinalion to ke* p Senator John T.
Morgan at his post in Washington. He is
one of the ablest mi n in the Senate, and it
would have been a serious* error to dis
place him merely for the gratification • f
tho ambition of Gov. Johnston. The Gov
ernor is toung enough to wait awhile.
Senator Mason of Illinois who always
champion? the under deg in the fight, >■ay3
that Senator Clark of Montana is not
whipped yet. and that he still has a chance
for remaining in the Senate. Senator M
son will lead a fight on the floor in h s
behalf; and will insist that a vote of two
thirds is necessary to the ousting of the
Montana man.
A London cable says that a diamond tie
posit has been found along the banks < f
she Maaerer.a river in British Guiana.
Some 300 stones of brilliancy and value
have been taken out, tested and found ?o
be gems of the L) tnarara variety. It was
near the scene of the present find that
Fir Walter Rakish unsuccessfully tried to
discover the Eldorado.
The operatic season, now about closing,
teems to have been nn exceptionally suc
cessful one. Mm . Scmbrich, the prima
donna, has appeared in seventy perform
ances during the season, and it is s;ti<i she
Will take home with her when she goes
litxt month $9.">,000 as the tangible evidence
of the American public's recognition of
her art.
A Washington story has it that Senator
Clark of Montana is about to be married
•gain, and that the lady in the case is
the wife of nn . x-congr< -man and is on
the point of gening a divorce. Whether
the marriage will take place or not. how
ever, may depend upon what Marcus Daly
may think of the matter. He may prevent
the divorce.
“Why treat Hawaii as a territory and
Porto Rico as a colony?’’ asks the Chi
cago Ttmes-Herald. “There is absolutely
no good reason for according a territorial
government to Hawaii that does not apply
with equal force to Porto Rico,” it adds.
Nevertheless the Times-Herald will blow
•nd spout for the party which is capable
of this double dealing, Instead of aiding
in th<* fight for Justice and equality whten
the Democracy is making.
There is some displeasure, some amuse
ment and a good deal of comment in the
congregation of th Fifth Avenu< Presby
terian Church, New York, respecting the
inscription on the memorial t ablet to the
IV*v. Dr. John Hall, for many years pas
tor of the church, recently ere ; and In tin*
Vestibule of the edifice. The inscription
gives the date* <>f the birth and and ith of
]>r. Hal., slates ihitt for forty-nine years
he was a Presbyterian minister, and con
cludes “Then remain* th i <*refor i n>t
to the people of God Many i oriM
think the scriptutai text quoted is 100 in
dual vo.
THE RACE PH OBI.E M CONFKREX E.
The conference on raoe problems which
is to take place at Montgomery, Ala., on
May 8, 9 and 10, promises to be of unusual
interest. The conference is to be held un
der tho auspices! of “A Southern Society
for the promotion of the study of race con
ditions and problem* in the South.’’ Tho
members of the society aro influenced by
the most commendable spirit. They real
ize that the negro is in this country to
stay, and they desire to find out the way
for dealing with the ra ial difficulties
which are continually cropping out that
will be best for both the whites and the
blatks.
Some very eminent speakers wiil ad
dress the conference on appropriare sub
jects. Among them are Gov. Johnston and
ex-sSeoretary of the Navy Herbert, Bourke
Cochran, Clifton R. Brrckenridge, Gov.
McCorkle and Dr. Curry. In inviting
speakers care has been taken to select
those who are known to have given the
race question a good deal of careful
thought.
No immediate results of a beneficial
character are likely to flow from this con
ference. but tie thoughts thrown out
there will set the whole country thinking
on the race problem, and much thinking
by many minds will eventually find the
solution of the problem. The addresses
that will be made at the conference will
be the text for many newspaper and mag
azine articles, so that what is said at the
conference will eventually reach the peo
ple of the entire country.
While the conference will be controlled >
by Southern men, the frees* expression of .
opinion will be Invited. The desire is to
have the race question discussed from
every possible point of view. It is a ques
tion which has hindered, un i continues to
hinder, the progress of the South. The
Southern people would like to have a per
manent settlement of it.
The importance of having it settled is
made evident by racial difficulties which
are cropping out all the time. These diffi
culties will increase as the negro popula
tion increases unless a way is found to
prevent them.
Arrangements have been made for the
discussion of the question, “Is Lynching
Advisable?” The negative side will be
presented by Hon. Clifton R. Brecken
ridge of Arkansas, ex-Minister to Russia.
This is only one, however, of the many
phases of the race question which will
be presented. The conference will be on
Interesting one, and is certain to set the
people thinking about one of the most
troublesome questions that disturb <h?
peace and harmony of the American peo
ple.
\ DM ST I \ tit IS SI ED GEORGIAN.
•Nature abhors a vacuum. Probably
that is why she has raised up in Geor
gia a man who reads everything there is
in every issue of the Congressional Rec
ord. Except for him our esteemed con
temporary’s list of constant and thorough
readers might be represented by a big
There are. of course, various and sundry
persons who read the Congressional Rec
ord-some. The most faithful and per
sistent of them are employed in the gov
ernment printing office, where they are
supposed to put in an eight-hour day at
reeding the Congressional Record for the
purpose of detecting typographical errors.
But probably there is no one even of these
that reads everything there is in- everv
issue; and then their reading is a matter
of duty, for hire. To require* a certain
proofreader to read all the matter in the
Congressional Record for even a few days
in succession might properly be classed
as “cruel and unusual punishment.” which
the constitution forbids.
However, there Is a man in Georgia
who. however improbable It may seem,
reads every issue of the Congressional
Record through, from first to last. And
he says that he does It. not from any
sense of duty, nor as a penance for anv
post transgression, but because he wants
to. More than that, and most wonderful
♦ o relate, he says he enjoys It! No speech,
either of the sort that is spoken on the
floor or that gets into the Record under
“leave to print.” Is ever too long, prosy
or mediocre to receive the most distin
guished consideration from this extraor
dinary Georgian. He revels in the sta
tistical statements which break the mo
notony of the pages, and delights in the
abstract disquisitions upon constitutional
points which fill column after column,
with few commas and no paragraphs.
The remarkable Georgian whose fam*'
we herald, is Mr. M. L. Palmer of Floy 1 i
county. His fondness for th Conere*-
sfonal Record is not of recent acquisition.
For years he has been that periodical’s
“cons-tont render.” probably th** only on •
of his class, and one room of his resi
dence. ir is said, is pretty well filled with
the carefully preserved copies of his fav
orite publication. One of the Rome news
papers, in appreciation of Mr. Palmer’s
peculiar literary taste, lays aside the
Record for him. nnd once each two weeks,
he takes the accumulated copies to his
home* and begins anew fortnight’s revel
in Congressional Record wit. wisdom and
i ioquenro.
A peculiar fact in connection with Mr.
Palmer’s constant rcadiner of the Congres
sional Record for many years Is that he
lias been convinced—presumably by the
congressional proceedings nnd speeches—
that boh of tho great |v>litical parties
are wrong, and that Populism is the cor
rect thing. Whether this political ad
herence is a tribute to Senator Allen
Populist, of Nebraska, who contributes
more than any other man to make the
Congressional Record a fat and unetious
journal, may be doubted, but It is human
| nature for the devoted reader to have a
i kindly feeling for the most Indefatigable
I contributor to h!s favorite periodical.
However till of that may be, and although
we are no in political fellowship with Mr
Palmer, who Is the chairman of the Pop
ulist party of Floyd county, we have no
| hesitation in saying that in recognition
! of his distinction in being the only man
in 4lie United States who reads everything
in every Issue of 4he Congressional Record,
the publisher of that sprightly publica
tion ought to put him ”D II ” on the
sulMicriptlon fist for life, and send him
a hound volume after . h session of Con
gress.
An K.is er day ina i to ord< i < u'.l not
have l* • n finer than yc.-icrday. ii wa
typical tfuvmmah spring w at her.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1900.
\ MONSTER OF \\ \R.
Plans for th.* battleship Georgia have
been completed. It is promised that she
will be as much of an advance over the
earlier steel sh'ps of our “new” navy as
those craft were over the old wooden
frigates of forty years ago. The Geor
gia is to he able to whip any craft now
afloat or projeixed, In the Frfited States
or abroad, bar none except her own sifter
-hips, the Pennsylvania nnd the New' J r
soy, which will be her counterparts. She
will not only be able to whip the Oregon,
but to run all around her if necessary dur
ing tho operation. That statement ought
at once to arouse American interest in
and create American respect for the forth
coming Ge -rgia,* for tlie people of this
country are firmly grounded in the opin
ion—and rightly, too—that the Oregon is
one of the finest anl fittest craft that
ever came off the stocks.
And since the people are so W’ell ac
quainted with the Oregon, it may be well
to m ike use of her in illustrating wha
the Georgia and her two sisters are to be.
Whatever is said of the Georgia applies,
of course, to the others as well.
In the first place the Georgia will he
over 1,000 tons' heavier than the Oregon,
and more (than 100 feet loYiger than that
great fighter. When the new' craft goes
in'o commission she will displace 15.000
tons of water, nnd her length on the
waiter line will be 460 feet. The speed
and endurance of the Oregon w r ere mar
veled at by everybody, and her sprinting
off Santiago during the fight aroused the
enthusiasm of all English speaking peo
ple. The trial speed of the Oregon was
sixteen knots. The Georgia, however,
notwithstanding her much greater bulk
and w’oighf, is to have a speed of twenty
knots, and she must, he able to sustain
that speed for a considerable time. There
are few cruisers in the world that are
so fast. And as to bunker capacity, a
mnpt important consideration in fighting
craft, the Georgia will be able to steam
from San Francisco to Manila without
having to stop once for fuel.
The big guns of the Oregon are of 13-
inch caliber; those of the Georgia are to
be 12-inch, but the guns of the Georgia
are to have a muzzle energy of more than
13,0®0 foot tons in excess of those of the
Oregon. That means they wfill shoot fur
ther and hit harder. At a distance of
2.W0 yards from the muzzle a project!!©
from one of the Oregon's big guns would
be traveling 1,805 feet a second, while a
shot from one of the big guns of the
Georgia w’ould be able to whizz by it,
traveling at the ra<e of 2,450 feet a second.
And then, too, the Georgia wfill be able to
discharge her big guns about three timo9
where the Oregon can now discharge hers
once. Ninety seconds between shots for
the 12-inch guns and fifty seconds be
tween shots for the 8-inch guns wfill be
all the time needed on the Georgia, while
the 6-inch barkers of the secondary bat
tery will throw three shots a minute, and
the 14-, 6- and 3-pounders wfill keep the
air filled with a hail of metal.
The armor of the Oregon is good, but
the armor of the Georgia wfill be better
as well as lighter; and the saving in
weight will enable the use of a great
quantity of , it. That part of the super
structure containing the secondary bat
tery will be a veritable fort of steel hard
ened by the Krupp process. When the
ship is manned with her full complement
she wfill contain the population of a con
siderable village. She will require not
less than fifty officers and 500 men. And
when the flag is first hoisted upon her and
she goes into commission she will repre
sent a cold cash value of $7.250,(XX). The hull
! and machinery will cost $3,600,000, the
armor $1,750,000, the guns $1,500,000 and am
munition and store SIOO,OOO. That Is a
great deal of money to put into one ves
sel; but in the Georgia Uncle Sam wfill
have a representative fit to carry his flag
and uphold it wherever he may desire.
S4HTHFR* IKON \\D STEEL.
The activity which characterizes the
Southern iron and steel industries is not
only unprecedented, but promises to con
tinue for an idefinite length of time-at
least a year, and probably longer. There
is not a mill nor a mine but in making
money nnd working to its full capacity,
where die necessary labor can be secured.
In the Tennessee district there are five
furnaces at present idle because of the
lack of skilled lahpr to handle them. So
great is 4he demand for that class of
labor that the supply has been exhausted
before all of tho places have been filled.
However, arrangements have been made
by which these furnaces wfill shortly go
lido blast.
The present profits on Southern iron
are said to approximate $lO per ton, and
there is a sight demahd for not less than
2.0CC.C00 t:ns from the Pouthern foundries
(his year; that ii=, orders to that amount
have already been booked, and If not an
other order were a*.-cent*d during 'he year
iho mills and furnaces would all be keAt
busy on their contracts until next Janu
ary. It is not in the least un ommon for
orders to hr received from Europe for
delivering twelve ninths hence, at $lB to
sl9 per ton. Recently an order came from
England for 100,000 tons of iron within a
limited time, and >o far not a factory or
combination has bht. able to accept it.
How well Southern iron is liked on the
other side of the ocean, and how in com
petßion with the product of other sec
tions it dom.nn'es the market, may be
gathered from the. fact that of the 240 000
tons of American pig iron sold in Eu
rope last year nearly 20),000 tons were
from the Alabama and Tennessee dis
tricts.
Working people, as well ns capitalists,
are sharing in the benefits of the great
Iron boom. It is said that in the coal and
iron industries of Alabama and Tennessee
fully 20,000 more m n are a4 work than
were employed a yvar ago. .<nd not only
are more men employed, but their rates
of pay have been increased. The pre
vailing rates are approximately 30 per
< nt. higher than were the rales of i
year or two ago, and if in stated upon
good authority that another advance will
Ik* given he men on June 1, when the
present contracts expir •. It Is cany to
sec, therefore, that this great industry,
eoinparativ* ly new In the South, has forg
*d to 11 . front and Is making and din-'
trlbutlng million- of dollars In Alabama
and T< nic *. * Wl4h our Iron, co/ii and
cot ton We shall within a short time la
conic a very rich people.
There Is talk of still another Populist
candidate for President. Senator William
Vincent Allen of Nebraska, i the man
mentioned. Whether he is to be nomi
nated at Sioux Fulls, or elsewhere does
not appear to be quite plain; and, indeed.
K does not mako a gr at deal of differ
ence. One branch of the Populist party
is to nominate Mr. Bryan, and another
has already nominated Mr. Barker.
Should Senator Allen also be put into the
field, fhb consistent Populist voter w'ould
be able to exercisr* a good deal of personal
choice in. the selection of his candMate
without sacrificing his party allegiance.
- ■ ■— • ♦ * t
The official of the sa aried
employes of the city of New York city
shows that there are on the rolls 47.1C0
persons. The New York Commercial says
ihat only one-third of the counties of the
state have a population that equals that
grand army of officeholders. If the New*
York municipality were to pass under con
irol of a private corporation and be ad
ministered as a business enterprise the
probabilities are its affairs would be
managed with one-third the number of
employes. This observation, by the way,
is probably applicable to about every city
in the country.
The messenger boy? * f Philadelphia are
righteously indignant lx*cause the Boer
sympathisers of that city the other day
sent to New* York for a messenger to take
their letter of sympathy to President Kru
ger at Pretoria. ‘ \V. t\, No. 106” writes
to he Times protesting that home indus
tries ought to be encouraged, and adds:
"Anybody that says the messenger boy
business ain’t an industry is saying what
ain’t so, and I can lick him. The New
York boys are the laziest in the country.
Everybody knows that. That’s where
j ihose fool jokes started about messenger
! boys loafing.”
An appointment by President McKinley
<>{ notable mvrit is that of Mr. A. C.
Kaufman of Charleston, to be a member
of the Board of Visitors of the United
States Military Academy at West Point.
Than Mr. Kaufman there is no more en
ergetic, tireless and intelligent worker for
great and broad institutions or enterprises
in the country, and- as an organizer for
good, he has few equals. It is risking
nothing to predict that he will become one
of the most useful and valuable members
of the boa nr}.
Some member of the House ought to In
troduce and urge a resolution providing
that the proceedings of last Friday bo
liberally sprinkled with chlorble of lime;
especially that part of it containing the
controversy between Representative Tal
bert of South Carolina, and Representa
tive Fordney of Michigan. If those gen
tlemen will insist upon bringing the at
mosphere of tho horse lot into Congress
with them, it ought not to be permitted
to foul the records.
PERSONAL.
—George Alexander Cooper, who inherit
ed over $20,000,000 from the late “Chicago”
Smith of London, has insured for SSOO the
life of ewch member of a Morayshire com
pany in the Seaforth highlanders, now
fighting in Africa.
—Lieutenant Commander J. C. Gillmore
is said to have received an offer from a
magazine of SI,OOO for 5.000 words describ
ing his capture by the Philippine insurg
ents. This is at the rate of five words for
a dollar, which is nearly up to the highest
Kipling rate, and it ought to be easy for
the sailor to make that many words out
of his thrilling experience with plenty to
spare for further efforts.
—There are times and places when and
where even Senator Hanna is denied what
he perhaps regards as the right to have
his own way. A few’ days ago he asked
unanimous consent in the Senate to the
consideration of a bill incorporating the
National Association of Manufacturers, a
concern in which he has considerable in
terest. Afier putting his request Mr. Han
na sat down and resumed consideration
of his mail, when Mr. Berry of Arkansas
objected in rather loud voice. The Ohio
man looked- his indignation, but did not
put it into words.
—The attempt upon the life of the Prince
of Wales suggests that few people ore
aware that Maj. Gordon Wilson, who is
now shut up in Mafeklng, with his wife,
Lady Sarah Wilson, and their relative,
Col. Baden-Poweil, was ihe plucky Eton
boy who so promptly “downed" the luna
tic who made a mad attempt to assassinate
the Queen at Windsor railway station
many years ago. Maj. Wilson is the son
of a millionaire squatter who lived at
Ercildoune, near Ballarat, Australia, the
antipodean Johannesburg of bygone days.
After the Windsor episode the Queen nat
urally took some interest in young Wil
son. with the result that she invited his
father up to ihe castle.
( IRRENT COM>I ENT.
The Nashville American (Dem.) says:“ls
that territorial, or colonial, or dependency
government of Porto Rico to be a carpet
bagger’s affair? The ink of President’s
McKinley’s signature to the bill is hardly
dry. and Gov. Allen has but accepted the
appointment, yet the rush by office-seek
ers is great. If the President and his ap
pointee parcel out these office** after the
usual me*hod of noi considering fitness,
but for the purpose of playing politics,
Porto Rico und its inhabitants will be
despoiled as well as misgoverned. Porto
Rico should not be made a field for ex
ploitation and a dumping ground for office
seekers who are now out in the cold, but
the bill paseed by Congress makes both
extremely probable, unless the President
and Gov. Allen can resist (he influence of
congressmen and others who have friends
ro take care of.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal says:
"Prof. I. C. McGlffert of the Union Theo
logical Seminary, who recently withdrew
from the Presbyterian Church rather than
stand trial for heresy, is going on the
lecmre platform. This is the route taken
by all those who leave their churches, but
it doe*? not lead to success. They may
have a very important message to tell the
world; but, sorpehow, the world will not
pay to h* ar It and cares nothing for 14."
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says:
"Hilll another commission! The latest Is
a commission (to consist of three mem
-1 rs) to revise and codify the laws of
Porto Rico. Rut what does Porto Rico
n< ed of a < ode of laws when she has been
o graciously endowed with the Foraker
nil and a splendid carpetbag govern
ment.”
The New York Commercial (Ind.) says:
“There mm no doubt that unless Con
gress It It: present session 111o'Ishthe
war i.tx*s, or at least the bulk of thorn,
lie .* t!*dition mi I form a strong plank
| In the Derrtu. i;n‘.. platform which is to be
[ framed at Kama* City In July.”
Flays Frank? With Words.
Kalamazoo, Mich., has a Mrs. Malnprop
who parallels Sheridan's famous creation.*
Referring to the absence of a friend, sho
explained that she was a daughter of
the “revelation” and was altering the
“convertlon” at Washington, says the
Chicago News. The lively proceedings
of the convention came 4o her notice and
sho commented that women were getting
more “stamina tion” nowadays nnd
couldn’t “get clrcusvented easy like they
used to.”
In all innocence one night she duplicated
a time-worn Joke, how a Mr. So-and so
was cremated in his own private “cream
ery.” She added that she "abominashed
intermerment” as a method of disposing
of remains, and for herself “proferred a
p!aln, simply f u-meral.” “No funereal
cascade for me,” she concluded. and her
listeners figured it out that she meant
“cavalcade.”
"Ammonia” for "pneumonia" and “dese
crat'd" for “desiccated” are of course or
thodox with her, as they are with many
others who do not aspire to such fi'ghts of
language as she dr**s. But as she has the
faculty of selecting polysyllables almost
exclusively for her conversation she often
makes laughable mistakes.
“I do think Prof. Smith is so accompU
outed." said she one day, referring to the
accomplishments of a visiting savant.
“H’.s explanotlons are so convcnshing. I
hadn’t talked with him a minute before
I discovered his indelity. He has georagy.
minerorgy. chemistorgy nnd a lot of other
orgies at his fingers’ ends. He’s really
th* most disqulrmished science I ever
met. He’s jx>sitively eie vat filing."
Another time she was discussing the
merits of various foeds. “I always aim
for nutrution.” she explained, “Starch
iferous foods should be avuded except you
mosticulate them completely. They fer
merment in the stomach and give you
gastrikus, from the gas you know'. Fruits
are easy digested, so I recollect (recom
mend) them for convesoen's. The nlbu
tcroid9 in meat make it especierly nutri
tious. but it should be well cooked to ster
berlize it and kill the germans.”
llnnker vs. Lawyer.
The cashier of an eastern bank ha 1
taken a lit tie me re money than belonged to
him, then a little more, ajid so on, until
he found himself SIS.(VX) behind in his ac
counts. says the Detroit Free Pre-s. He
worried about it greatly. Finally he went
to a clever law r yer and told him the whole
thing. The lawyer paced up and down the
room for a few minutes*, and then said:
“You go back to the bank and sav noth
ing to anyone about this. When the bqnk
closes to-morrow go into the vault and
take all the money you can lay yoiir
hands on. Bring it to me.”
The man did so, and put $25,(00 into the
hands of the lawyer. That evening the
lawyer had the directors of the bank in
his office.
“Gentlemen,” he said, “I am sonv to
have to tell you that an employe of your
bank is behind in his accounts."
The directors were startled and. uneasy.
“The friends of this man." went on (he
lawyer, “have been trying to raise some
money among them. The amount of the
defalcation is $40,000. Now I think I can
promise you that his friends will offer you
$20,000 if you will keep the matter a pro
found secret and allow him. to go without
prosecution.”
The directors consulted for a while, and
finally one of them voiced the opinion
the board that it would be wiser to accept
the offer than to attempt an Investigation
and get nothing of the money back. So
the cashier was let go and the lawyer
pocketed the $5,000 as his fee. This story
is vouched for by a Detroit merchant, who
said, however, that he wouldn’t advise
cashiers to rely on the efficacy of such a
scheme in every instance.
How He Got Even.
Some people are philosophical enough to
accept defeat gracefully; others nurse
their wrath and waste much time in a
mistaken effort to “get even," says the
Youth's Companion. Of one of these lat
ter a Chicago paper tells an amusing
story.
A man came to a Chicago hotel one
day, and took his dinner outside with a
friend. When he came to pay his bill he
found himself charged with a day s
beard, dinner and all. He protested. The
clerk tried to explain that th© American
plan was based strictly upon time, and
that if he chose to eat elsewhere it was
his own lookout, but the man would not
lTe pacified.
He paid his hill under protest. Then he
asked if dinner was still on, and was in
formed that it lasted until 9 in the even
ing.
•Then I’ll go and tackel it!" he ex
claimed. “I’ve eaten one dinner, but I’m
going to get my money’s worth out of this
house, or perish in the attempt.”
He rushed into one of (he dining-rooms,
seized a bill of fare, and ordered every
thing he could think of. When he finally
got to the end of his tether the waiter
handed him a check for sl.lO.
“What’s that for?” he asked in sur
prise.
“Your dinner, sir.”
“But I have already paid for my dinner
in my bill,” he protested. “I’m staying
here on the American plan.”
"Th* n you should have gone to the oth
er dining-room,” said the waiter. “This
is the European plan cafe.”
The man paid the bill and walked out.
His feelings must have been heavy, both
in body and mind.
Good Story About l-’orrenl.
Gen. N. B. Forrest and the few troopers
he had with him were once hotly pursued
by the Federate, arci the general was gal
loping along at top sp ed, says the New
England Home Magazine. A v tiery south
ern dame happened to be standing by the
roadside, and when she saw the flying
Confederate officer her indignation boiled
over. Shaking her fist in scorn, she
sct ea pied;
• Why don’t you iurn and fizht, you
cowardly rascal? If old Forrest were here
he’d make you fight!”
Foriunateiy the General's horse soon
carried him cut cf tange.
Forrest’s biography relates that once at
a dinner party, where he had been invited
as the guest of honor, there was a loqua
cious wid w. with hair of raven black,
who rudely Interrupted the conversation
by asking Gen. Forrest why ir was that
his b< ard was still black, whi e his hair
was turning gray.
With great politeness Forreat turned to
htr.
“1 fear I cannot give you a satisfactory
answer," sad he, “unless, possibly, the
reason is that I have used my brain a
little more than I have my Jaw.”
< liiHMlficntion.
In this household the true and only Ver
mont maple syrup has never lost Its
sweetness, and several times a week from
the head of the table paterfamilias pours
out Judiciously m.-asur* <1 quantities of if
on the plates of hie children, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser. To
give piquun y to the ceremony, he al
ways explains that this time he Is going
in give Bob an ostrich and Mazle an an
ielo|M . with something else from the nurs
ery books for Teddy, One day the latter
small philosopher was seen to regard the
various plates for a considerable space of
time In alien* “What is it, Edward?”
his mother asked.
"Nurtln,” replied the hopeful. “I was
Just finkin' that me an' Bob an’ Mazle
alius s< ins to g* t birds an' snakes an*
flngs wlv skinny legs, but pop he gener
ally getji u cl pfiiint or a Jiipperpoiainu*.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Berlin now has a school for women
lltJrarians. One of its two courses of in
struction lasts six months, and is for the
training of librarians for the ordinary'
public libraries, while the other, of three
years, prepares the students to take their
places at the heads of scientific libraries.
—“The octopus,” says a Populist editor
quoted by' the New York Tribune, “is be
coming alarmed nnd desperate. It has
burned its bridges behind ir, and. having
placed its hand to the plow', will not
pause until it has either bound its chains
around us or been forced to shed its i
sheep’s clothing and retire into Us hole.”
—A new r style of tire pump has been
made necessary' by the use of the large
sized pneumatic (Ires on moto cycles and
automobiles. At first these tires were in
flated hv means of stored jars of com
pressed air that w f ere filled by the use of
machinery, but devices are now appear
ing that enable a man to fill the big
tires by hand without unreasonable work.
One maker has constructed a pump
which gives a pressure of 600 pounds to
the square Inch, and will fill an auto
mobile tire with a few strokes of the
lever.
—Total arrivals of immigrants for the
year ended June 30, 1899, were 311.715, an
increase of 82,416, or 36 per cent. Of the
total arrivals Europe furnished 297,349,
Asia 8.972. Africa, 51. all other countries
5,343. There were 195.277 men and 116,435
worn- n. According to age. 43,983 were un
der 14 years. 245,157 were from 14 to 45 and
19,545 were 45 years or older. As to ilit
eraey, CA446 could neither read nor write,
and 1,022 could read, but were*, unable to
write. The totol amount of money which
they exhibited o the officers was $5,411,-
4G2; 171.613 had less than S3O each.
—There is a sharp debate going on in
Australia just now' over abuses of the
free pass system. Every member of the
ministry gets a little gold pendant to wear
on his watch chain, which entitles him
to a free ride over any railroad. The
special beauty' of the arrangement is that
it lasls for life, and while the office
holder’s family’ are not supposed to share
in the privilege, the railway officials are
very lenient. One of the humors of the
recent deivate lay in the fact (hat a Dr.
McKay, who was rejected by his constit
uents for opposing the free passage of
troops bound for South Africa, has the
free use of the state railways for life, be
cause he was once minister of education
for ten days.
—To do its w’ork fast and well, n file
should be kept free from its cuttings, says
the Arcade File Works. If the metal is
of a non-fibrous nature, as with cast
iron or brass, the cuttings pack solid be
tween the teeth, thus holding the teeth
out of the work and preventing the file
from biting freely. A sharp blow of the
file’s edge against the vise back after
every few strokes will remove most of
these cuttings; if, how’ever, too many
strokes are taken before cleaning, they
lodge so firmly' that a file brush must be
used to remove them. These brushes are
usually made of fine wire mounted In
leather, and tacked to a light w'ooden
back. A stiff bristle brush serves this
purpose well, and for very fine-cut file j
is preferable to the w’ire.
—The Railroad Commission of Louisiana
has taken steps to prevent the telephone
companies from raising their rates as they
had announced, their intention of doing.
Tw'o rules w r ere re-enacted and; amended
as follows: There shall be no increase
In the rates now' charged for rent of in
struments for coil versa tion, or for th©
use of public station instruments for
conversation without the consent
of this commission; nor shall any
rates be put in force at now exchanges,
or on new toil lines, or elsewhere, before
said rates shall have been authorized by
this commission. No subscriber shall he
hindered in the enjoyment of telephone
communication, nor shall instruments be
removed from tho premises of such sub
scribers* except for failure to pay toriff
rates by this commission.
Where no tariff has been authorized, the
commission will consider the rates to be
the amounts w'hich the patrons are pay
ing for rent of and toll-line
service in their respective localities.
—lndianapolis telephono subscriber?
have made arrangements with the central
office to have their telephone-bell act as
an alarm clock. Orders have been left
there for the purpose, and the manager
has a regular schedule of calls from 4:30
to 7:30 a. m. Persons who wish to take
early trains out of town leave orders with
the manager and there is no danger of
missing their trains. It has also fre
quently happened that a subscriber has
left word to be called at one-hour or
tw'o-hour lntervels during the night when
he has had to take medicine, und much
worry hes been saved thereby.
—The description of a wonderful elec- !
trical gun has been going the rounds of
the daily press. The gun consists of a
series of colls of wire about a tube made
of brass, or other metal not capable of
V>eing magnetized. A projectile of Iron
is placed In the tube, and is magnetized
as electricity is passed -through the coils
in succession, beginning wdth the breech,
and ending with the coil near the muzzle, j
The projectile is supposed to move faster
and faster as it approaches the muzzle
of the gun, and to leave it at an enormous
rate of speed, and with no noise or other
evidence of the existence of the gun. it
is suggested, how.-ver. by practical elec
tricians. that to have the estimated range
of twenty’ miles, the gun w’ould have to be
1,500 feet long, and Ik* operated by an en
gine having 25.380 horse-power. For the
time consumed In shooting the gun once,
(he cost would be thirty-five cents, hut
at the. usual price of electrical apparatus,
'he gun and its powr-nlant would cost
$21,619,000—3 ra-ther expensive gun.
—An umbrella that Is useless to any one
except its rightful owner may well be con
sider'd valuable. The New Orleans Times-
Democrat says that a lawyer in that city
possesses such an article, which he de
scribes as fallows: “I bought it in Ger
many year before last, and nobody can
coph it ♦ xcept myself. Do you notice that
little keyhole In the side? Here Is the key
on the end of my watch chain, and until
it is inserted and turned, the thing Is ab
solutely' immovable. Anybody cist* would
find it harder to raise than a mortgage.
On a( least a dozen occasions the umbrella
has been stolen, or taken away by acci
dent, If you prefer that term, but it has
always found Its way home. You see, my
name is cut on the handle, and the um
brella itself Is well known to all the at
taches of the building. When they see a
stranger struggling with it in the door on
a rainy day. they promptly confiscate it
and bring it back. I wonder that such
umbrellas are not made in this country.”
—lt is not generally known that the dum
dum bullet, of whose, use the Boors are
making complaint, was th* invention of
an English g< neral named Tweedie, who
first began their manufacture near Cal
eutta some years ago. The bullet has a
lead core within a copper and nickel <*n
volope, usually slightly open at its front
* nd. and, when It strike?, it forms into
the shap*' of a mushroom and scatters the
lead Into tin* wound—sometimes making a
boh* eight Inches a-udr-s. Again th I* ar
ful lyddite Hindi used by the English kills
most of it? victims without hitting them
Lyddite is a chemical consisting mostly
of pW ric acid, tho < xploalve la lng named
after a small town In Kent. A four-inch
shell bursting In a group of eight or ten
men will kill them all a few* of them Is
ing hit by tlx living fi ivitv to*, white the
remainder miv# only tho blow of sud
denly cotnprt ssed air.
The Quakers Are
Honest People,
The Quaker Herb
Tonic Is not or ,
Wood purltier. :
V/- Jv Blood maker f or
Pale ’ Weak and i.,„
X.vV bilitated people who
4 cdSSC Y have not strength
•ferref t, } *‘ or blood. It a a ;
■ > 'JtSST a tonic, it regulates
digestion, cures
/■ ‘ pep ’ la u 8,1,1 >• ni
| WIP/ ; strength and tone , 0
the nervous sy>t,. m
It is a medicine for weak women. It t a
purely vegetable piedicine and can be
taken by the most delicate. Kidney Dis
eases, Rheumatism and all diseases of the
Blood, Stomach and nerves soon 6uc mb
to its wonderfuT effects upon the human
system. Thousands of people in Georgia
recommend It. Price SI.OO.
QUAKER PAIN BALM is the m l: ir, e
that the Quaker Doctor made all of his
wonderful quick cures with. It s anew
and wonderful medicine for Neuralgia
Toothache, Backache, Rheumatism
Sprains, Pain in Bowels; in fact, all pain .
can be relieved by It. Price 25c an i oc
QUAKER WHITE WONDER SOAP, j
medicated soap for the skin, scalp and
complexion. Price 10c a cake
QUAKER HEALING SALVE, a vege
table ointment for the cure of tetter, ec
zema and eruptions of the skin. Prl c9
10c a box.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
LEGAL NOTICES.
IN the Superior Court of Chatham < „ ~
ty, March term, 1900.—George w. Allen
vs John T. Rowland. Foreclorui.- ~t
mortgage. It being represented to the
court by the petition of George
W. Allen, that on the second day of Juin
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, John
T. Rowland executed and delivered to the
said petitioner a mortgage on c rtain
real estate lying in said county. ■ j
as follows; "All that certain lot or par
cel of land, situate, lying and being' h
said county and state and known and
designated as lot letter "A" on a map „r
plan of the subdivision of the flve-n, i, ) 0 t
No. 3 of the estate of Barrington King
made by J. deßruyn Kops, Jr., on May
5, 1888. Said lot letter "A" being bounded
as follows: North by Pearl street, tag by
lot number 14, south by lot letter i; ■
and west by .lot number 11, and ■ ntain
ing a front of fifty feet on Pearl great
and a depth of eighty-three and on. half
feet, for the purpose of securing th. p.,y.
ment of a certain promissory note
for two hundred ($200) ex
ecuted and delivered by the said John T.
Rowland to the said George W Alien
on the second day of January, 1804, due
“on or before one year after date,” and
stipulating for the interest from date at
the rate of eight (8) per cent, per an
num and 10 per cent attorney's fees.
It is ordered, that the said defendant do
pay into this court, by the first day of
the next term the principal, including at
torney’s fees, interests and costs, due on
said note, or show cause why he should
not pay the same, or that in default there
of the aforesaid mortgage be foreclosed
and the equity of redemption of the said
defendant therein forever barred; ar.d that
service of this rule be perfected on said
defendant according to law.
In open court February, 1900.
R. FALI.IGANT.
Judge E. J. C. of Ga.
JAMES K. P. CARR,
Clerk S. C. C. C.
W. P. LaROCH,
Petitioners Attorney.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED
ITORS.
Notice is hereby given to creditors of
the estate of Simon Guckenheimer to ren
der in an account of their demands, and
to all persons indebted to said estate to
make payment to the undersigned.
SARAH GUCKENHEIMER. Executrix.
ABRAHAM S. GUCKENHEIMER,
MOSES S. GUCKENHEIMER.
LEOPOLD ADLER, Executors.
Savannah, Ga., March 24, 190 j.
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY.-
Notice is hereby given that I have made
application to the Court or Ordinary for
Chatham county, for leave to sell lot num
ber five (5), Marshall ward, in the city of
Savannah. Also lots number 3in block L
and 4 and 5 in block I of Louis Witte's sub
division of North Kensington tract In
Chatham county, belonging to estate of
Hettie Elmore, deceased, for the payment
of debts nnd distribution, and that said
order will be granted at May term, 1900, of
said court, unless objections are tiled
thereto.
JANIE ELMORE, Administratrix.
GEORGIA. CHATHAM COUNT Y.-
Yv'hereas, Annie Hailigan has applied to
Court of Ordinary for letters of adminis
tration, on the estate of Thomas Hailigan.
deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admon
ish all whom it may concern to be and
appear before said court to make objec
tion (if any (hey have), on or before tie
first Monday in May, next, otherwise said
letters will be granted.
Witness, the Hon. Hampton L. Fern!,
Ordinary for Chatham county, this tb*
31st day of March, 1900.
FRANK E. KEILBACH,
Clerk C. 0.. C.
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY-
Whereas, David Beard has applied t®
Court of Ordinary for letters dismissory
as guardian of tho property of -MaT
Ella Heath, minor.
These are, therefore, to cite and admon
ish all whom it may concern to b. and
appear before said court to make objec
tion (if any they have), on or before i"‘
first Monday in May, next, otherwise sjiJ
letters wfill be granted.
Witness, the Hon. Hampton L. F>-frill.
Ordinary for Chatham county, this tin
31st day of March, 1900.
FRANK E. KEILBACH,
Clerk C. 0., C.
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY.-
Whereas, Margaret Ray has appii and J
Court of Ordinary for letters of admin—*
tratiorj on the estate of James Ray, de
ceased.
These are,therefore, to cite and admonish
ail whom It may concern to be and a"peV
before said court to make objection (If an)
they have) on or before the first Monas)'
in May next, otherwise said letters nil l
be granted.
Witness, the Honorable Hampton b-
Ferriil, Ordinary for Chatham County, this
the 31t day of March, 19(0,
FRANK E. KEILB.VH.
Clerk Ct. Ord'y, C. ' o.^
GEORGIA, CHATHAM '
Notice is hereby given that I ha\*
application to the Court of Ordinal y
Chatham County, for leave to aell •
real and prrftonul proparty, cont*i-*4 H '
i<.l * Noa <and (10) in <' J. 1 1
division of lota, numbered <7 ar.d ■ 1
(9), in Screven ward, Savannah. G
an inieretK In a bond for title fo i* '
ham Rt .i j i;.i*- and Impi i 1 ' \
puny to Dora Price, to lantern p ’
lot No. 9. section 7, of Cuthbsrt v ! •
Havannah, Georgia; belongh k to •
Mr*. Dora Brie#*, d*ca>ed, for th' I 1
VTK-fit of debts and distribution, 11
said order will le* granted at M ' ,f
ISW, of said court, unU-#* object!'*
filed thereto. GKOHGIS Pi 1
AdiiilniMtniior Ifisuiu Uvt* *
April 7, JJM*.