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Tlie "Weather.
The indications for Georgia to-day are
for generally fair weather, with winds be
coming (resh westerly; and for Eastern
Florida generally fair weather, w-lth fresh
Winds, mostly westerly.
Gen. Otts has sent word to his friends
In Rochester, N. Y., that he expects to
arrive In that city about' June 15, and one
Of the papers of the city proposes that the
6ay of his arrival be made a holiday.
Gov. Plngree of Michigan denies that he
eaid the other day that “the hope of the
people In this year’s general election Is
in the Democratic party.” Nevertheless
it Is Just as true as If Gov. Plngree had
Bald It, and the people are fast becoming
convinced of Its truth.
The Cotton Growers' Convention, which
is to he held at Macon on- May 12, gives
promise of being a largely attended and
Interesting meeting. The purpose of the
fathering (s to take steps to prevent the
Humping of cotton upon a crowded market
next harvest. Farmers will be advised
to hold back a part of their crop, and the
best means for holding It back will lie
Mscussed. Speeches will probably be made
by Gov. Candler, Hon. Pope Brown and
•there. It Is expected that not less than
1,000 farmers will be present.
Work on the construction of what will
be one of the greatest bridges In the world
will shortly be begun at Quebec. The
brldige will span the St. Lawrence. In
cluding -its approaches, it will be 4,000 feet
long. The main span will be 1.800 feet
in length, throwing Into the shade the
famous Tay bridge in Scotland. The hight
of the main span above the river will
be 150 feet. The cost will approximate
H. 000.000. It will bo built by an- American
company, of course. Three years will be
required for the eompletion of the Job.
Mr. Labouchere, the English editor with
a French name, thinkc It Is quite possible
that the United States will one day ap
point a woman ambassador to a foreign
court. A writer in the Washington Post
points out that such an appointment
would not be unprecedented, recalling thai
“the wife of Marshal Guebrlant was ac
credited as a minister plenipotentiary of
France at the court of Ladislas IV, King
of Poland, In 1646, while the noted Cheva
lier d’Eon, well known to be a woman
in spite of her masculine garb, was for
several years full-fledged ambassador of
France In, London.”
The Washington correspondents of both
the New York Herald and the Philadel
phia Record say that the state depart
ment has received a number of communi
cation* from ministers of the gospel urg
ing that warships be sent to Turkish
ports o enforce the payment of the claim
of the missionaries against the Sublime
Porle. One would hardly suppose that
ministers, men of peace and brotherly
love, would be so anxious to see this gov
ernment take a step which might result
In bloodshed and possibly In a great war.
Our government would probably better
give the missionaries thetr 190,000 and take
the chances of gtffling the sum back from
the Turk.
COTTON TRADE EXPANSION.
One of the most interesting paper* read
before the recent convention of the New
England Cotton Manufacturer*’ Associa
tion in Boston, was by Dr. Williams of the
Philadelphia Commercial Museum The
paper treated the cotton manufacturing
industry from a world-fwlde point of view,
and indicated where, in future, cotton
manufacturers In this country must look
for an extension of thei* markets. The
domestic productive capacity has been in
creased more than 28 per cent, in ten
years, without e corresponding Increase
in the capacity of domestic consumption.
And new mills are being constantly added
to the American equipment. The situa
tion, however, is far from being one to
discourage the mill owners of the United
States. This country Is the greatest cot
ton producer In the world, and having the
additional advantage of possessing th*
very best mechanical genius, permitting
the perfecting and introducing of the
most advanced labor saving machinery,
there is no insuperable reason why It
should not be able to compete successful
ly with the other manufacturing coun
tries. Indeed, we ought to he able at no
very distant day to dominate the cotton
goods markets of the world.
The room that we have for expansion
in the foreign field is indicated by the rel
ative position occupied by us at present.
Notwithstanding our mills now consume
several thousand bales of cotton per an
num more than the mills of Great Britain
that country exports cotton manufactures
of twelve times the value of our similar
exports. Even the small republic of
Switzerland is ahead of us as an ex
porter of manufactured cottons, notwith
standing that she, like Great Britain,
must first import her raw material. Ger
many and France, too, have a long lead
of us in the exportation of manufactures
of that staple which wo produce more
largely than any other country. Indeed,
there are only five countries of moment
that are below u. In cotton exports, name
ly, Japan, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Bel
gium and Russia; and Japan Is only about
$7,000,000 behind us.
The kernel of the argument of Dr. Wil
son—^which argument he supported with
statistics—is that the export trade of the
United States in manufactured cottons is
comparatively small, and that there Is
not only the possibility, but the oppor
tunity for enlarging it, so that our mills
may be constantly employed. He says our
manufacturers can produce aa cheaply,
our merchant* can distribute ns quickly
and our hankers are able to finance as
freely, or those of any other country*.
With characteristic American energy,
therefore, there ought to be no difficulty
In our gaining a fair share of the export
trade In manufactured cotton. We need
and must have, foreign markets.
ONLY ONE CANDIDATE.
There Is only one candidate for the pres
'dentlal nomination of the Democratic
party and that one Is Mr. Bryan. He will
be nominated by acclamation, or praeii
cally without opposition. The efforts that
are being made to find another candidate
will be unsuccessful. The states, as they
are choosing their delegations to the Dem
ocratic National Convention, are instrucl
ing them for Mr. Bryan.
A tittle while ago the Dewey boom was
launched. It was hoped by those W’ho
were responsible for it, that the Admiral’s
appearance in the political arena would
cause an immense amount of enthusiasm.
It did not cause a ripple of excitement.
The Admiral i now the subject of a great
deal of attention in the West, and the
people of that section are doing what
they can to show their admiration and re
spect for Mtrt, nol ns a presidential can
didate, however, but as the hero of Ma
nila.
The New York Herald of Tuesday has
an article In which It Is stated that efforts
are being made to bring out ex-PresUlent
Cleveland as a candidate for the nomina
tion. If what the Herald states is correct
the Democrats who ore talking about Mr.
Cleveland ns a candidate, are gold Dem
ocrats of Brooklyn.
There is not the remotest probability
of Mr. Cleveland's name being presented
to the Kansas City Convention. He would
not permit it to be presented. He is out
of politics. He has strong friends in near
ly all parts of the country, but he knows
that he has no following among those who
wilt control the Democratic National Con
vention.
No doubt these efforts to find someone
to contest with Mr. Bryan for the nomi
nation will be continued up to the day of
the meeting of the Nominating Conven
tion, but they will not amount to any
thing. Mr. W. L. Wilson, who was Post
masler General in Mr. Cleveland's cabi
net, and who would know If there were
any movement worth noticing to bring
Mr, Cleveland forward as a candhlate,
said a day or two ago, that the Democratic
party was practically solid for Mr. Bry
an. That means that Mr Bryan will he
nominated, and that he will have the solid
support of his party.
It is said that ex-Senator Quay really
desires to get out of politics. He is 66
years old, and being comfortably well
off In this world's goods, would like to
settle down and spend the remainder of
his days in rest and quiet. But his lieu
tenants, the third-rate politicians with
whom he surrounded himself in his politi
cal machine, have served notice on him
that he must continue In the race for the
senatorshlp and at the head of the ma
chine, If not for his own sake then for
theirs. It is pretty well understood that
If Mr. Quay were to withdraw from poli
tics the maohlne which he has construct
ed and run so long would go to pieces,
since there is not a man in it with the
ability to take the leadership and hold the
faction together. On the other hand the
"Insurgents,” as the Republican oppo
nents of Mr. Quay are called, are plenti
fully supplied with able men who would
take advantage of every weakness in the
machine.
■'Fellow citizens of Porto Rico,” said
Civil Governor Allen In his Inaugural ad
dress. Has Mr. Allen cut loose from the
United States? Or Is R permissible, un
der our new governmentol system, for a
man lo suspend his American citizenship
wilhoul prejudice, while ho assumes cit
izenship of another country for office
holding purposes?
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 3. 1900.
STRIKES AND THE EUXTION.
There were a great many announce
ments of strikes In our dispatches yester
day. Most of them, however, were of a
minor character. In some cases the de
mand was for an increase in wages and
in others for shorter hours of labor. If
the strikes should increase in number and
a large percentage of wage earners should
be out of employment during this sum
mer, it is a question whether such a con
dition of affairs would not have a notice
able effect on the result of the presidential
election. The disposition of those out of
employment is to vote for a change. As
long as workmen are employed at fair
wages they are inclined to be satisfied with
the party In power, but when out of work
it 1* but natural that they should be dis
satisfied with the government.
It Is true that there is no stagnation
in industries at present, and that strikes
are not the result of an effort to reduce
wages. There is a good demand for labor,
and working men think the time propi
tious for demanding an increase of wages
and fewer working hour* per day. But
if workmen are out of employment,
whatever may be the cause, will they not
vote against the party in power ra.ther
than for it?
It seems to us that the effect of the
strikes, if they should become general and
should affect the great industries of the
country, would be helpful to the Demo
cratic party rather than otherwise, for the
reason that that party is out of power.
The Republicans have been thinking that
because the mills are running on full time
and the railroads have all they can do the
conditions were in favor of their party,
so far as the labor vote was concerned.
Strikes, however, may bring about a state
of affairs that will be as bad for them
as if there were general stagnation in busi
ness. Anything calculated to make labor
discontented is likely to be favorable to
the party out of power.
TAMPA'S GOOD PORTI NG.
Tampa is to have a $1,000,000 sugar re
finery. The raw* sugar is to be brought
from Porto Rico and Cuba until a suffi
cient amount of it can be produced In
Florida It seems that steps are to be
taken at once to grow sugar cane on a
large scale in that state. We have no
doubt that in a couple of years there
wiil be produced in the vicinity of Tampa
dll the sugar that will be required to keep
this refinery employed all the year
around.
If the Tampa refinery should be success
ful, and there is no good reason why it
should not be, other refineries will
erected at other places in Florida, and the
state will have another great source of
wealth. We said some time ago, when
the announcement was made that there
was a movement to erect a sugar refin
ery of Tampa, that there were no advant
rges in that city for such an enterprise
not possessed by this city. It will be re
called also that for weeks and months we
urged business men of this city to con
sider seriously the advisability of under
taking to establish a sugar refinery h'ire.
There was such a strong belief, however,
that the sugar trust would be hoF f ile to
such an enterprise and would endeavor to
destroy it, that the refinery movement
met with little or no encouragement. It
seems that those who are proposing to
put $1,<1)0,000 in a refinery at Tampa have
no of the sugar trust. Asa mat
ter of fact, that cruet has about all It
can do to meet the competition which it
has close at home.
A refinery in this city would have plenty
raw* material from the little farms scat
tered all over South Georgia. The cane
acreage, which is now quite large, would
be increased many fold. Within a year
or two there would be enough raw sugar
and syrup to supply the demands of a
refinery fully as large as the one that
it is about to be built at Tampa. And
what a boon a good market for syrup
would be to the cane growers of South
Georgia!
That the South may yet raise rice for
Japan Is a suggestion which most per
sons will be apt to say Is an absurdity.
Nevertheless that is what Dr. E. Murray-
Aaron, who is quoted by the New York
Commercial, says may transpire. Ac
cording to the doctor, the so-called cheap
labor of Japan is really much more ex
pensive that Che better-paid labor of the
United States. He says that the rice
growers of the Southern states, paying
fifteen times the wages, can produce rice
at less than one-tenth the cost per acre
of raising an acre of rice in the Orlen*.
It appears that the laborer,
with his primitive methods and imple
ments, takes care of but one acre of rice
a year, whereas “one laborer in the South,
with improved machinery, cultivates
eighty acres and raises more per acre
than his miserably paid Oriental competi
tor, If it is fair to call him a competitor
at all.”
The rush io the Cape Nome gold fields,
which will be begun this month, will
probably be one of the biggest movements
of the kind on record. Twenty-five steam
ers, with 6,000 passengers and 25,000 tons
of freight, have already been booked to
sail from Seattle within four weeks. The
passage will require from eleven to four
teen days, when the vessels will all re
turn for another trip. If the stories of
the richness of the gold-bearing sands of
Cape Nome have not been very greatly
overdrawn It may be expected that the
world’s stock of gold will be Increased by
many millions of dollars as a result of
the activity of the Cape Nome pjiners
during the coming summer.
One sees funny things about American
politics In the English newspapers some
times. The London Spectator, for in
stance, says the "American party are in
Consternation" because Admiral Dewey
has announced his candidacy for the pres
idency, Mr. Hanna and Mr. Platt espe
cially being "wild with rage and doubt.”
The Democratic Convention of While
county, Tennessee, the other day Indorsed
Judge Snodgrass, who Is a strong expan
sionist, for the Senate, and adopted reso
lutions demanding the permanent reten
tion of the Philippines. Democratic sen
timent respecting our new foreign policy
is nol all one way.
The Dowager Empress of China has
ordered the Chinese minister lo France lo
have 500 large photograph* of the Paris
Exposition buildings taken for her.
, PEIISONAJi.
—Francis Murphy, the temperance
worked, celebrated his sixty flfth birth
day April 24, while conducting the last
of a serie of meetings in Indianapolis.
—Richard Crbker, the Tammany bore,
has a vast collection of the caricatures
made of him during his political career
and occasionally spends a more or less
enjoyable hour looking over the late ad
ditions.
—Loren F. Wolcott of Sparra.iWis., has
Just celebrated his one hundredth birth
day. He is in good health and has re
sided in Wisconsin since 1855. His fath
er and mother both lived to be cente
narians.
—Residents of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Minn., are raising a fund to pay off a
mortgage on the home of Mrs. M. Q. Wilk
inson. whose husfoand*, MaJ. Wilkinson
was killed in the Indian outbreak at Leech
Lake, Minn., In October, 1898.
—The venerable Baroness Burdett-
Couttß has Just been celebrating anoth
er birthday—her eighty-sixth, and there
is no apparent reason why she should not
live another ten, ns did her sister, who
died a couple of months ago.
—Otto Doerderleln of Chicago has been
selected to take charge of the German-
American bureau of the National Demo
cratic Committee. Mr. Doerderlein wtts
United States consul at Lelpeic in Presi
dent Cleveland’s last administration.
—Senator Jones of Nevada is a strong
believer in a diet which he has himself
devised. His breakfast never varies. It
ie always eaten at 8 o’clock, and in
variably consists only of one cup of black
coffee and a large piece of cinnamon bun.
—Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago re
cently received a ietetr containing a two
cent stamp and a request that a copy of
the city directory be. sent to the writer by
return mail. The missive was signed by
a resident of Waterloo, N. D. He sail
that he intended to visit Chicago during
the summer, and wanted, to know the
names of some of the people.
nrtIGHT BITS.
—Askins —“ls Miss Fairleigh’s portrait
a good likeness?" Miss Cleverton—“Yee;
it looks Just as she would like to look."
Puck.
—“I suppose you have quit© forgotten.
Mr. Jones, that you owe me a fiver?"
"No, I haven’t yet. Give me time, and T
will."—Punch.
—ln Danger.—Mrs. Brooks—“ John, do
you think Mr. Joblotz is going to marry
our daughter?" Mr. Brooks—“ Yes; if he
doesn’t iook sharp.’’—Puck.
—Novelist—“Those confounded critics
slated my new novel most unmercifully."
Friend—“ Well, you have your revenge.
They had to read the book.—Tit-Bits.
—Sympathy.—Watts—“l think I feel as
bad as Mudge does over losing his job."
potts-‘ I feel worse. He has already
touched me for ten."—lndianapolis Press.
—Bacon—“Men are always looking for
an exalted lineage." Egbert—“ Unless they
are traveling on the railroad; then they
are after a lower berth."—Yonkers States
man.
—“What is his attitude on the Porto
Rico question?" said the curious man.
“An expectant pose, with both hands in
his pockets," answered the artistic friend.
—Washington Star.
—“Marie, after w© are married, what
course shall you pursue to retain my
love?" “Oh, Harry, I shall spend an aw
ful lot of money on fine clothes and look
Just as pretty as I can."—Chicago Record.
—Women in Politics—He—“You seem to
sympathize with the President." She—
“lndeed, I do; he can’t please anybody.
If I were in his place I’d go to bed and
stay until the country elected another
one."—lndianapolis Journal.
—Proof at Hand.—First Politician—“l
read an article not long ago that said If
Cuba was annexed It would take ton
thousand office-holders to govern it."
Second Politician—“ Yes, sir! 1 tell you,
prosperity follows the flag!"—Puck.
—At a Disadvantage.—“l suppose you
have learned some valuable lessons from
the United States recently." said the
stranger. "Yes," answered the Porto
Rican, "the only trouble is that wo can’t
find any islands littler than ours to play
the same trick on.’’—Washington Star.
—One of the signs in the grocery store
announced—“ Raspberry Jam. 26c, the Jar."
“Ah;" said Mrs. Newllwed, “Isn’t that
dam Jear?" “Beg pardon!" exclaimed- the
grocer. She tried it again. “I said isn’t
isn’t that dam dear?" Then she blushed
vividly and retired in confusion.—Philadel
phia Record.
—More Sentiment Than Ambition—“lt’s
this kind of work.” said Tommy Atkins,
as the Mauser bullets whistled overhead,
"that has fixed things so we can say that
the sun never sets on our empire." "Yes,"
replied his companion; “and it’s this kind
of w*ork that makes a fellow want to see
a good old-fashioned sunset again!’’—
Puck.
—Easing His Conscience—The protest,
so earnestly made to the statesman, was
this: "But you know you are not doing
as your constituents would wish when you
ally yourself was the grasping monopo
lies!" Unto which the statesman saw fit
to make reply: "I do not gauge my con
duct so much by the wishes of a majority
of my dear constituents as I do by a
knowledge of what they would do were
they in my place."—lndianapolis Press.
Cl RRENT COMMENT.
The New* York Mall and Bxpress (Rep.)
■ays: Lew Wallace contends that
the Sultan of Turkey is a thoroughly hon
est man. If this is the case it mav be
that he refuses to pay that American in
demnity merely because he fears that Un
cle Sam would spend the money foolishly
aftT getting it."
The Pi Record (Dem.) says:
“In Tennessee, Alabama and other South
ern states lively factional fight* are go
ing on among the Republican* over the
spoils of the government. The spoil* ap
parently constitute the only political ques
tion capable of arousing the interest of
the f-w Republicans of that region.”
The Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem.) says:
“Mexico’s customs tempts showed an un
expectedly large increase last month—and
Mexico is not depending on a war tariff
for revenue, either. It is a little humiliat
ing for this big boss government of the
Western Hemisphere to be set an exam :
pie in gi od government management by
a Latin-Ameiican republic.”
The Macon Telegraph (Dem.) says:
“Pcrhaj s the solution of the trust ques
tion may come from France. There the
socialists prot>osn to challenge the rich
people to fight duels, one after the other,
until tley have wiped all millionaires
from t e face of the narlon. The duels will
have to he of another variety than the
usual modern French one, or the scheme
will fail."
The Wrong Cards.
Rome people have a bad habit of mak
ing notes on the bock of visiting cards
and then putting them into their pocket
books or cardoasee, ays the Washington
letter of the Chicago Record. The*conse
quenocs of such carelessness have been
realized by people I know. On the last
Wednesday before Lent the ladles of the
Cabinet held their first reception for the
season, and had an unusually large num
ber of eallere. Among the cards that were
left upon the tray in her hal*\>no of them
found two that bore interesting and im
portant memoranda. The names upon
the other side were well known to the
Indy. One of them is that of a gentleman
who stands for statesmanship, patriotism,
oratory and almost everything that is good
and great. He is a happy husband and
d*n-oted father, and his interest in his own
domestic affaire w*as demonstrated on the
back of the card by this shopping list:
“Nursing bottle for baby;’’ “2 bots. beef,
iron and wine;" “tooth brush,’’ “tooth
powder.” "digestive tablets," "soap."
The other card was that of a congress
man s wife, and it bore the following note:
‘The last cook you sent us got drunk
and insolent, fiend a white woman if you
can get a good one; If not, the best col
ored woman you have on your llat. This
Is the last time I shall patronize you."
Evidently this card should have gone to
some intelligence office Instead of being
left on the rray at the residence of the
cabinet minister. There was quite a con
troversy that overling- between the latter
Gii.l his wife as lo whether she ought to
serul these cards to the persons most In
terested. He thought it was her <lutv to
do so. She said that it would only mor
tify them.
A .Yarrow Escape.
“A nervous man recently called on me,”
says a New Orleans physician, “and ask
ed. In what part of the abdomen are
the premonitory pains of appendicitis
felt?' 'On the left side, exactly, here,’ I
replied, indicating a spot a little above
the point of the hipbone. He went out,
and next afternoon I w-as summoned In
hot haste to the St. Charles Hotel. I
found the planter writhing on his bed, his
forehead beaded with sweat and his
whole appearance indicating intense suf
fering. ‘I have an attack of appendi
citis,’ he groaned, ‘and I'm a dead man:
I'll never survive an operation!’ 'Where,
do you feel pain?’ I asked. ’Oh, right
here,’ he replied, putting his finger on the
spot I had located at the office; ’I feel
as if somebody had a knife in me there
ond was turning it around!’ ’Well, then,
it isn’t appendicitis, at any rate,’ I said!
cheerfully; ’because that is the wrong
side.’ ’The wrong side!’ he exclaimed,
glaring at me, indignantly. ’Whv, you
told me yourself It was on the left!’ ‘Then
I must have been abstracted,’ I replied,
calmly. ‘I should have said the right.’ I
prescribed something that wouldn’t hurt
him, and learned afterward that he ate
his dinner In the dining room the same
evening. Oh! yes; he was no doubt 1n
real pain when I called,” said the doctor,
in reply to a question, "but you can make
your finger ache merely by concentrat
ing your attention on it for a few mo
ments."
The Sultan as a Bebior.
We ore following with no small amuse
ment your bout with the gentleman known
here as "the devil’s shadow,” otherwise
the Sultan of Turkey, and many of us
would be disposed to bet odds that he will
heat you, says the London, letter of the
New York Times. An eel In a mill race Is
almost a sluggard compared with this
Individual, who Is capable of making a
fresh proposition to your minister half a
dozen times a day, and of denying the
next hour the terms he Just offered.
I see the Sultan suggests a deal, or 1s
reported to have done so, which !s thor
oughly characteristic In Its way. He
would order a cruiser from a United
Stoles shipbuilder, and allow the Indem
nity demanded to be wrapped up in the
price of the ship. If you take that or
der It will Increase the Sultan’s debt to
you. but not the chance of payment.
Assume that the cruiser Is built, and His
Majesiy would be sure to And that it was
not according to specifications, or that
certain alterations were required, such,
perhaps, as engines of newer pattern. Un
til this was done It would prevent him
taking the vessel over, and the end of it
would be that neither the money for the
cruiser nor the Indemnity would be forth
coming. As I told you, the Sultan has
plenty of money, If it can be reached, but
he is a perfect miser over his private
hoards, and studies always to maka the
foreigner somehow pay for whatever he
may order abroad.
Her Novel Experience.
The servant girl entered the room with
noticeable hauteur and awaited the pleas
ure of her mistress, says the Buffalo
Times.
A bright, cheery fire burned in the
grate, a fact which has no direct bearing
upon the events to be related, but which
Is worthy of notice as a concurrent cir
cumstance.
"Mary!”
The voice of the mistress was softly
modulated, as Is usual' with mistresses
slmlarly situated.
“I wish to raise your salary.”
The girl clung to the lace curtains for
support.
“Yes. Mary,” the lady continued, "I
don't know what we should do without
you. Of course, you have broken dhhei,
and all that. Mary, but the police pro
tection we've had since you've been with
us is something Immense. You are a go'd
girl. Mary.”
It was anew experience for the domes
tic, and she had no course but to leave the
room In silence.
Stories of Lord Roberts.
According to the stories reaching Lon
don, Lord Roberts' great kindliness and
sympathy have been finding many outlets,
savs the London, letter of the New York
Tribune. During the watt at Bloemfon
tein he has visited every man In the hos
pital, carrying with him many little com
forts. Going up to one of the wounded
he asked cheerily. "Can I do anything for
you?” receiving the reply: "Yes; I’d like
you to keep my name out of the casualty
list.” The man’s name did not appear
and his anxiety that his relatives should
not be alarmed was appeased. Another, a
dying officer, Lord Roberts comforted by
promising to watch over the future of
hie only child. With such incidents cur
rent It Is scarcely surprising that the
nation adores its little general, and, as a
whole, abstains from criticisms of any
thin* he may do. If Gen. Buller had
waited Inactive as long as Lord Roberts
has at Bloemfontein, the storm of public
criticism and Impatience would well nigh
have forced his recall.
Abstentions Public Men.
Not long ago Don M. Dickinson of De
troit made a rather startling statement In
a public speech concerning wine-drinking
among public men, says the Chicago
Record’s Washington letter. He declared
that not fifty out of 10,000 were total ab
stainers. This is a decided exaggeration,
although it would be difficult to give ex ict
information without a personal canvas*.
It may be said, however, that there are
some very conspicuous examples of total
abstinence among public men. Both Presi
dent McKinley and Senator Frye are In
veterate smokers, but they never drink
wine; Senator Platt of New York. ex-Sena
tor Gorman of Maryland. Secretary Ling
David B. Hill, Richard Croker and mtny
others that I could mention neither smoke
nor drink intoxicating liquors. 1 *uppo>
that fifty men might he found In the
House of Representatives who neither
smoko nor drink.
ITEMS OF IXTEREXT.
—Ten years ago the St. Louis directory
contained 155,429 names. This year the
number is 229,265—an increase of nearly
50 per oent.
—Among the interesting mementoes in
the literary section of the Paris Exposition
are the four inkstands used in completing
four great French masterpieces—the most
notable works of George Sand, La martin®,
Victor Hugo and Dumas the elder. These
inkstands were given to Madame Hugo to
be disposed of at a charity sale, and were
bought up by Victor Hugo. Each of the
inkstands is accompanied by an autograph
letter, testifying to its authenticity, and
bearing the date.
—The profits of the gambling establish
ment at Monte Carlo were not as large
as usual last season, owing to the payment
of the $2,000,000 which the company had to
hand over to the Prince of Monaco for the
renewal of its concession. The season’s re
ceipts amounied to a little over $4,000,000,
as against nearly $5,000X00 for the preced
ing year. After the deduction of its run
ning expenses the company was able to
pay a dividend of only S4O per share.
—The Illinois Audubon Society, now
three years old, is the youngest but the
largest state association of the kind. It
has nearly 10,000 enrolled members. Near
ly all are children, there being about 800
adults, most of whom are residents of Chi
cago. Anew Illinois statute makes it a
misdemeanor, punishable by fine or im
prisonment, for any person to have in his
possession the hotly, living or dead, of any
wild bird—the English sparrow, the ctow
and the chicken hawk excepted.
—A farmer named Van Ryn, in St.
Croix ctounty, Wisconsin, says that he re
cently unearthed a coin which lay beneath
a ledge of rock twenty feet in thickness,
on Sand creek. It is of bronze, about the
size of a silver dollar. One side bears an
Image and superscription. The other side
is much worn, so that little remains but
the letters “S. P. Q. R.” The theory Is
broached that the early French mission
aries and explorers would have been un
likely to bring with them old Roman coins,
and that the discovery indicates that Ro
man sailors of the time when the coins
were In circulation as money found their
way to this continent, wandered far inland
nnd perished. There have been stories of
similar finds in Indiana and other places
in the United States.
—The government owns many thousands
of acres of land In New Mexico,"
says a citizen of that territory who Is
quoted by the New York Tribune. “This
land has never been taken up. It is the
finest eountry in the world for stock rais
ing. The land can be secured for almost
nothing. A young man going In there
with a few hundred dollars to Invest would
make a fortune in a very short time. He
need not confine himself strictly to the
stock business. There are a great many
good openings In mining. Many of the
mines have never been developed. Thei
wealth has never been estimated. There
are deposits of gold, coal and iron to be
found. A little energy and the expendi
ture of Eome money would develop these
properties. New Mexico is the place for
the young man of brains and persever
ance who wants to make money.”
—Chicago has long cherished the dream
of through steamships to Liverpool, and,
according to dispatches just published,
there is now a serious prospect that the
dream will at length become a reality,
says the New York Journal of Commerce.
Even before the enlargement of the St.
Lawrence canals two steamers did go
from Liverpool to Chicago, but it has been
almost uniformly believe that It would not
be profitable to employ ocean steamers on
the lakes or lake steamers on the ocean,
or either in a canal. The projectors of this
Chicago and Liverpool route are evidently
not quite sure that the impression is
wrong, for they are said to t- 1 also nego
tiating with an ocean steamship line to
transfer the cargoes at Montreal. With
the improvements fifteen years have ef
fected in transferring coarse cargoes the
disadvantages of breaking builk is very
much less than It used to be.
—"The. bronco,” sal's the Rev. Cyrus
Townsend Brady, in the Ladies’ Home
Journal, "is an ugly, ill tempered, vicious,
croelvgrained,, undepsteed,, half start'd,
flea bitten, abandoned little beast, and he
gives tha missionary abundant opportu
nity to practice the sublime virtue of self
restraint. Asa horrible example of total
depravity he beats anything that I know
of. Ho Is apt to do anything—excepit a
good thing—at any moment. When he
appears most serenely unconscious, look
out for him, for that is the hour in which
he meditates some diabolical action. He
bucks when he is ridden and hoiks when
he is driven, but once get him going an l
he shows his mettle. He can, go, and go
like the wind, and go all clay, and live on
one blade of grass and one drop of dew
and keep awake all night—and keep you
awake, too—and go again all day. and
keep It up until he tires out everything
and everybody' in competition with him;
for when you get him started you can de
pend upon him. He never gets sick or
breaks down, and I do not believe he ever
dies, but It Is awfully hard getting him
started sometimes.”
—The Paris correspondent of the Boston
Transcript, say's: "I repeat the words of
a shrewd and Informed diplomatist when
I say that there Is not a continerttal gov
ernment except that of Holland which has
any real sympathy for the Boers or for
their cause. Under similar circumstances
they would have acted as the English gov
ernment has done, and probably less for
bearlngly. More than one of them would
regret any .serious diminution of the pow
er qpd influence of England in conse
quence of the war. But they and the
others are not averse to any small and in
cidental profit that may accrue to them
out of passing English preoccupations.
There has never been any prospect of in
terventions Joint or Individual, in behalf
of ihe P.oers. The newly arrived envoys
ore likely to accomplish even less than
has the estute and diligent Leyds. The
continental cabinets were simply seeking
a w ay to disappoint the republic and irri
tate England os little as possible when the
United States rather unexpectedly re
lieved them by asking the question that
they were reluctant to put and receiving
the answer that they did not care to
hear.”
—A Chicago dispatch says: John Gels
ler, a Chicago broker. Is probably the only
man In the world who ever let a bee get
in actual touch with the Inside of his
head. Until a few days ago a bee had been
Imbedded In his left ear for over twenty
eight years, and when It was removed
by Dr. C. Hubbard Lovewell the highly
colored Insect was found to be perfectly
preserved, though dead. While Mr. Gels
ler was a young man working on a farm
near Baldwin City, Kan., he accidentally
disturbed a nest of bees. Maddened at
the invasion of their home, the Insects
swarmed around the Intruder, who ran for
his life across a field. One bee got Into
hts ear. Hurrying to a doctor’s office he
expjatned what had happened. The doc
tor worked at the ear for some time. Af
ter several days the pain left and Mr.
Gelsler reached the conclusion that the
bee must have worked Itself out. Several
weeks ago he began to have trouble with
his left ear. He called on Dr. Lovewell,
who washed the ear and probed It for an
hour or more, when suddenly he pulled
out a shining thin* that had the appear
ance of an insect. "What’s this," said
the doctor in astonishment. "Why, It’s a
bee,” he continued. "Where In the world
did you get that In your ear?" Then Mr.
Deleter remembered the incident on the
farm twenty-eight years ago. He is hap
py now.
AVOID
SPRING
FEVER.
The sickest man Is not always in bed
The meanest kind of sickness Is Just to b
able to attend to duties and yet not fe*|
equal to the task. The eternal grind
keeps many In the traces who ought t
be In bed. A thorough course of JOHN
SON’S CHILL ANL FEVER TONIC
would give anew lease on life to such
people. It tones up the whole dlgestlv*
aparatus; puts the liver In the best condi.
tlon possible; gives a splendid appetite;
renews strength and restores vitality.
Conway, Ark.
I would not give one bottle of Johnson's
Chill and Fever Tonic ki the treatment of
malarial fever for the advice and skill of
all the doctors In America. Yours very
truly, J. F. KINCHELOE, M. D.
BAR
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PETITION FOR INCORPORATION. ~
STATE OF GEORGIA, CHATHAM
COUNTY.—To the Superior Court of said
county: The petition of William Kehoe,
John H. Estill, B. H. Levy, John G. But
ler, E. I. Okarma, Charles Marks, Charles
F. Fulton and U." H. McLaws. all of said
county of Chatham, respectfully shows:
First. That they desire for themselves,
their associates and successors, to be in
corporated for a period of twenty years,
with the privilege of renewal at the end
of that time, under the name and style of
THE OKARMA SHOE MANUFACTUR
ING COMPANY.
Second. That its principal place of bus
iness will be in the county of Chatham,
state of Oeorgla, but that they desire that
it shall have the right to do business any
where in this state or in the United
States, and the right to have offices and
agencies at any point in this state or in
the United States.
Third. The objects of your petitioners’
association and the principal business they
propose to carry on under said corporate
name, are as follows: To manufacture
and sell shoes, boots and other articles
made from leather or other suitable ma
terial; to operate stores or warehouses or
both, and such commissaries, at such
places as may be necessary or convenient
for the purposes of said business; to bor
row money with or without security, by
way of personal Indorsement, pledge or
transfer of personal property, or by deed,
mortgage or other lien; to own, rent, lease.
Improve, sell or otherwise dispose of real
property; to own, operate or control a
tannery for the purpose of tanning hides
and skins, and to own, buy and sell leath
er, hides, shoes and personal property of
all kinds, stocks, securities and choees in
action; to build such *enant houses and
rent or lease the same, as may be thought
advisable or necessary; to rent or lease
power and space or either, as may be ad
visable, and generally to manufacture and
deal in all such articles as may be thought
necessary and proper for the pecuniary
interest of said corporation.
Fourth. The capital stock of said cor
poration will be fifty thousand dollars, di
vided Into shares of one hundred dollars
each, but petitioners desire that said com
pany shall have the right and power to
Increase said capital stock, from time to
time, to a sum not more than five hun
dred thousand dollars, In the discretion
of its board of directors and a two-thirds
vote of all stockholders.
Fifth. That said company shall have the
right to decrease its capital stock from
time to time, to a sum not less than fifty
thousand dollars, as its board of directors
rnay determine.
Sixth. That said corporation will not be
gin business until 10 per cent, of said cap
ital stock, or five thousand dollars, has
been actually paid in, and stockholders
who have paid up their stock subscriptions
in full shall not be responsible for the
debts and liabilities of said corporation.
Seventh. Petitioners desire for said cor
poration. in addition to the rights, powers
and privileges above set out, all other
rights, powers, privileges and authority
incident, under the laws of Georgia, to
corporations of like character.
Wherefore, petitioners pray an order in
corporating them, their associates and
successors under the name aforesaid, for
the term aforesaid, and with the rights,
powers, privileges and authority above set
out, and all such others as may be inci
dent, under the laws of Georgia, to cor
porations of like character.
U. H. M’LAWS, Attorney for Petition
ers.
Filed in the office of the clerk of the
Superior Court of Chatham county, Geor
gia, this 4th day of April, 1900.
JAMES K. P. CARR,
Clerk S. C.. C. C.. Ga.
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