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The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day are
for fair and warm weather, and fresh
•outh to east winds; and for Eastern Flor
ida cloudy weather, with showers, and
fresh to brisk easterly winds.
The postal appropriation bill for the year
Isol calls for $114,053,538. The bill for 3891
carried $71,226,698. In ten years the cost of
carrying the malls has been increased
pearly 60 per cent That Is pretty good
expansion.
We learn from the Philadelphia Times
that Webster Davis, the pro-Boer orator,
la a candidate for the presidency of the
tfcfited States, afid haa been for some days,
tiis running mate ought to be Mason of
Illinois or W. T. Stead of London, and
\h*ry Ought to have a *vholo back yard to
run in.
jNeely, of the Havana postoffice affair,
Wbukl like to have hia case taken into the
United Siatea District Court for the South
ern district of New York. It begins to
look as if that court would become popu
lar with those charged with having gotten
money from the government by illegal
methods.
The Republicans are making fine head
way at wiping out the surplus piled up
by the war tax. With a few more appro
priations of the size that they have been
making recently, there will be no surplus
left, and the war tax will have to be re*
coined for years to come to meet the run
fcifig expenses of the* government.
Of course Arkansas, Missouri and Kan
sas would like to have the Boers of South
Africa come and settle within their bor
ders; and so would Georgia, 'South Caro
lina and Florida. The whole South, Indeed,
would welcome the sturdy Dutch farmers
and cattle raisers, and would treat them
more liberally than they have treated the
TJltlanders In their country. We should
permit them to vote and hold office after
five years, meantime giving them all of
4he freedom and protection enjoyed jy our
own people.
Mr. Charles A. Towne, the Populist
nominee for Vice President, will not handl
cap Mr. Bryan by Insisting upon retaining
the nomination if he finds that he Is not
aoceplable to the Democrats. If the Kan
sas City Convention nominates some other
man for Vice President it Is pretty safe
to soy that Mr. Towne will withdraw.
He would be gratified of course, If the
Democrats were to accept him. The
chances are, however, that they will nom
inate a mun who has always been a Dem
ocrat.
The ship subsidy bill seems o have more
friends in the House than It was thought
H had. It appears that thus far It has
been found impossible to get a majority
of the Democrats of the Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries—the com
mittee which has charge of the bill—to
•lgn the minority report against the bill.
The bill, however, will hardly get before
the House at this session. The impres
sion throughout the country has been that
the Democrats were almost solidly again*:
tho bill. Indeed. It has been asserted
that opposition to the bill would be a
Blank In the Democratic national platform
THE FUTURE OF KRCGEK.
“What shall be done with Kruger?*’ is
a question which the British people are
discussing. There wan a rumor some time
ago that it has been decided he should be
sent to St. Helena and kept there during
hia lifetime. It seeme, however, that the
matter is still open. The common belief
is that Cronje will be released as soon os
the war is over, and there Is some doubt
that Kruger will ever see St. Helena. But
would it not be advisable for the British
to defer discussing what they will do with
him until they have captured him?
At the time of the breaking out of the
war there was a strong sentiment in
London in favor of hanging Com Paul as
soon as ever hand’s could be laid upon him.
He was looked upon as an arch rebel
against the government of Great Britain,
the suzerain of the South African Repub
lic, and it was declared that such rebels
deserve nothing short of death. Now,
however, public opinion has been softened,
and the hard-headed old Boer is conceded
to be a patriotic and gallant man. Still,
the British think he is misguided, and de
serves punishment of some sort. But
what shall be done with him? Hanging is
not to be thought of for a moment, and
lifetime banishment to St, Helena would
make of him in Hhe eyes of all burgher
South Africans a hero and martyr whose
fame would be undying.
It will be the British policy to wipe out
the bitterness of the war as rapidly as
possible, upon the conclusion of a peace,
in order that prosperity may speedily re
turn to the country. The British, there
fore, will do nothing harsh in the treat
ment of the Boer leaders. There is a
growing sentiment in London in favor of a
policy of kindness and liberality towards
President Kruger, even to the extent of
permitting him to return to the Tran veal
after the country has been pacified, and
providing him with an estate and an
income.
Tile bitterness of the Southern Slates
against the North In consequence of the
War of Secession was Intensified by the
treatment of President Jefferson Davis by
the Northern military authorities. Mr.
Davis was as fine a specimen of American
patriotism and statesmanship as ever
lived. Nevertheless, the victors put him
in irons and imprisoned him in a fort.
Suppose Jefferson Davis had been treated
with the consideration which it is being
proposed in London shall be shown to
Paul Kruger, can it be doubted that the
effect upon the people of the South would
have been moc*t salutary?
THE COST OF BAD ROADS.
It Is estimated that the state of Mary
land has spent on an average SBOO,OOO a year
for the past ten years on her common
roads, and that the greater part of this
money has been wasted In making tempor
ary repairs. Had the total for ten years
been put Into improved, permanently hard
ened highways, the amount would have
been sufficient to give the state a very
satisfactory. If not complete, system of
good roads. And what is true of Mary
land in this matter is also true of Geor
gia. Year In and year out we waste
money and labor in "working the publio
roads” by throwing a few spadesful of
earth In holes and ruts, only to be washed
out by the next rainfall. Permanence of
repairs, or building upon scientific princi
ples roads that will last for years, Is sel
dom thought of outside of the cities and
their Immediate surroundings. The peo
ple seem to fear that the cost of good
roads would be too great to be borne con
veniently. Asa matter of fact a system
of good roads is one of the best Invest
ments that a county or a community can
make.
The Maryland Geological Survey esti
mates that, while It has cost the state
$600,000 per annum to maintain its system
of poor roads, it has cost the people of that
state not less than $3,009,009 a year more
to do their hauling over poor roads than it
would have cost to move the same tonnage
of freight over good ioade. The farmers
of England, Germany and France are able
to do their hauling for about one-third
what similar transportation costs the
American farmer, for the reason that they
have good roads upon which to travel. In
France one horse will carry to market
with ease a load that would stall three to
four horses on the average unimproved
American highway.
It Is an Interesting fact, by the way, that
while the United States as a whole are
noted for having the worst roads In the
world, some of the slates are coming to
the front rapidly and constructing the
best roads In the world. Indeed several of
the states have sent exhibits to the Paris
Exposition for the purpose of showing
good-roaded France and Europe generally
how to construct first-class roads cheaply.
Notwithstanding they have been road
builders for hundreds of years, and we
have only lately paid any attention what
ever tp the matter. It Is claimed that with
our Improved machinery and advanced
ideas we are able to construct at reasona
ble cost a highway that is an Improvement
upon the highways of Europe, which cost
Infinite, labor and large sums.
-a-. \
Gov. Roosevelt Is credited with enter
taining anew ambition. The story Is
that ho desires to be the first American
civil Governor of the Philippines; that he
would prefer that place to the presidency
of the United States, and would resign
the governorship of New York, after hav
ing been elected for a second term, to take
It. Whether there is more than specula
tion in the story Is not known. Hereto
fore It has been understood that the Gov
ernor was looking forward to going from
the executive mansion in Albany to the
executive mansion In Washington.
Some Maryland Republicans think they
have discovered the right man to go on
(he ticket with President MclKuley. They
would write the ticket: "McKinley and
Mudd.” Such a combination, however,
would be Impossible. The nation could
never be induced to take the second gen
tleman seriously, because of the misfor
tune of his name.
A New Jersey mail has Invented anew
kind of Illuminating gas that ought to
have great vogue In Atlanta. Birmingham
and other new towns. It is a non-as
phyxiating gas, and no matter If the flame
be blown out and the cock left wide open,
no harm will result to the occupant of the
room
THE NEGRO AND CHIME.
One manner in which the problem
is growing upon the North was indicated
In the address of Bishop Rennick of Bal
timore before the Race Conference at
Montgomery. The Bishop declared that
from five to eight negroes in the North,
under Northern conditions, committed
crimes to oe in the South. This dpee not
mean that in the South the race is com
paratively harmless. The ratio of crimi
nals in the South is more than three blacks
to one white, notwithstanding the great
preponderance of white population. It
does mean, however, that the South un
derstands and manages the negro better,
thus holding his criminality down below
the percentage which he reaches when
he goes to the North.
In the North there has heretofore been
some adherence to the theory of the equal
ity of the negro with the white man. The
laws and the customs of that section were
made to suit the white race. When the
negro has gone North he has presumed
upon the equality theory, feeling himself
“as good” as his white neighbors, and
believing himself possessed of an
indefinite but to him practically
unlimited number of “rights” which he
thought would enable him to do pretty
much as he might choose. And being
among “the Yankees,” who had freed him
and conferred citizenship upon him, the
negro has felt that the moral code rested
more lightly upon him in the North than
in the South. The result is no doubt to
be seen in the fade that the ratio of crim
inality in the North Atlantic states has
increased since 1870 from 76.8 per 100,000
to 83.2. During the same period there has
been an Increase in the ratio of criminality
in the South Atlantic states, but it is not
nearly so large.
The fact that the criminal population
of the North is being constantly and con
siderably increased by the black race may
be expected soon to force itself upon the
attention of the lawmakers and moulders
of public opinion in that section; and then
the people of the North will awaken to
the fac*t that they sowed dragon’s teeth
when they forced the negro as a citizen
upon the unwilling South.
Notwithstanding the millions of dollars
that have been poured out for the educa
tion of the negro during the last thirty
years—Bourke Cock ran pointed out in his
Montgomery speech that the South had
given $100,000,000 for the purpose—the crim
inality of the race has shown an alarm
ing rate of increase. According to tables
compiled from official statistics by the
chaplain of the California state prison,
the ratio of negro criminals in the United
States in 1870 was 16.21 per 100,000 of negro
population. Twenty years later, or in 1890,
the ratio had increased to 32.75, or slightly
more than 100 per cent. In two decades. Is
education the solution of the problem?
ENORMOUS FIRE LOSSES.
During the year 1899 mills and factories
were more than ordinarily busy, mer
chants transacted Increased business, and
prices were generally advancing. Com
modities then In stock had been purchas
ed at figures which could not be dupli
cated. In many Instances new supplies
of manufactured articles could not be ob
tained except after a wait of weeks or
even months. Under such circumstances,
when profits were assured, the "moral
risk” of insurance underwriters must
have been low just as the "moral
risk” might reasonably be expected to be
high under falling prices and stagnating
business conditions. Nevertheless, with
prosperity booming, the fire losses in the
United States last year reached the enor
mous total of $153,597,830. “These figures,"
said President Irvin of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters at the annual meet
ing of the board in New York the other
day, “are so striking as to lead to their
mention In advance of all other matters.
If we may Judge from such records as
are accessible, property In the United
States Is burning In greater proportion to
values than in any other country.” Not
for ten years have the losses been nearly
so large; and, according to President Ir
vin’s view, there is no immediate pros
pect of betterment, unless the causes of
the fires can be detected and remedied.
Taking Into account all taxqs and other
necessary charges, he says that the fire
Insurance business of the past ten years
has been done at a loss; meanwhile the
tendency of legislation has been to “pyra
mid taxation upon the insurance com
panies and thereby make more costly to
the merchant, tho manufacturer and the
householder the policy upon which in case
of loss they rely for Indemnification.”
Reports submitted to the meeting show
ed that 41ie number of fires resulting
from electric wires has Increased stead
ily for the past ten years, the number
for the first three months of the cur
rent year Indicating an average of about
750 for tho year.
A sensation has been created In Phila
delphia by the publication of an alleged
attempt to blackmail John Wanamaker,
made by Abraham L English, director of
public safely, on behalf of Mayor Ash
bridge. Mr. Wanamaker has given out a
signed statement in which he tells that
he was visited at his office by English,
who is chief of the police and detective
departments, and informed that unless
criticisms of the city administration In the
North American were stopped, affidavits
against Mr. Wanamaker’s private char
acter would be made public. The North
American is owned by Mr. Wanamaker’s
son, who directs Its policy. Mr. Wana
maker defied English and those represent
ed by him, and ordered him out of hts
office. The attempt of city officials to
use their power to throttle the press be
cause It had dared to criticise their public
acts Is denounced by the Philadelphia
newspapers.
♦
Oregon will hold a state election next
month. Four years ago McKinley carrie 1
the state by the close figure of 2,117. Two
years ago, however, the Republican candi
date for Governor piled up a plurality ot
10,551. The Legislature, which Will be
elected next month, will in turn elect a
United States senator lo succecl Sen.u.r
Mcßride.
There is some talk In New York of the
manager of "Sapho" running for Congress.
If he would take his show to the capital
and give all of tho M. C.'s free tickets
for the front rows, he would no doubt be
warmly welcomed among the lawmakers.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY; MAY 14, 1900.
A Colorado Sprites. Col., dispatch says
that a vln of mineral has been struck In
the mine of the Portland Gold Mining
Company at the 700-foot level which la
the largest all mineral vein ever opened
in any mine In this country. It Is 57
feet wide. There la a streak of fair size
In it which runs 300 ounces to the ton, and
four feet of It runs from 15 to 20 ounces
to the ton. Every foot of the vein, how
ever, la ore. With such strikes olj goid
ore in this country, the falling off in the
output of gold In South Africa, on ac
count of the war there, will hardly be no
ticed.
The government has its own shipbuild
ing yards, but It Is not building Its war
ships In them. It finds It cheaper to con
tract with private concerns for their con
struction. It may be said that the gov
ernment yards act as a check upon the
contractors, but even that Is open to
question since it Is conceded that the cost
of building a ship In a government yard
Is much greater than In a private yard.
Should the government Invest several mill
ions of dollars in an armor plant, would
that not soon be in the same category
with the government shipyards?
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PERSONAL.
—Ex-Gov. Kellogg of Louisiana, who
was prominent In Federal politics, during
the reconstruction period, Is at work on
a volume of memoirs of that time.
—San Diego county, California, voted to
support the candidacy of V. S. Grant,
Jr., one of Its citizens, as a delegate to
the Philadelphia Convention, but refused
to consider a resolution indorsing him for
Vice President.
—Mrs. Bafly Baker, w T ho died at Marsh
field, Mass., on Wednesday last, at the
age of 101 years, was the only pensioner
of the war of 1812 in the Bay state. She
and her husband lived for many years on
a farm adjoining the estate of Daniel
Webster. She left a number of children
and grandchildren.
—Mrs. Leland Stanford has given the
old Stanford home in Sacramento, Cal.,
to Bishop Mora of the Catholic Church,
together with a $75,000 endowment with
which to maintain it as an orphanage.
This is the house where Senator Stanford
lived for twenty years and where his son,
In whose memory the Stanford Univers
ity was founded, was born.
—John D. Rockefeller said In an address
before a New York Bible class the other
evening: "The pursuit of riches Is not
a wrong thing. On the contrary, gold
Is one of the mightiest agents for the
doing of good, and though there are bad
rich men just as there are bad poor ones,
I believe that most wealthy persons look
upon their money as a sacred trust which
they hold for the good of their fellows.”
—Two persons of the name of William
McKinley are on Uncle Sam's pay roll.
One draws a salary of $4,136 a month as
President, and the other SIOO a month as
engineer In the Louisville Custom House.
There are forty-eight Bryans, and three
of them were christened William. There
used to be two Grover Clevelands in the
public service, hut there is only one now.
He Is assistant farmer at the Fort Peck
Indian agency, and receives a salary of
S3BO a month.
BRIGHT BITS
—A Great Difference—“ Jerry Pontoon,
tell us something about Oliver Cromwell."
“Which version, ma’am?” “I don't under
stand.” “Magazine or history?”—Chicago
News.
—Declining Utility—lnterviewen-Do you
believe our missionaries db much good In
the East?
Herr Landgrab (European statesman—
Not so much as they used. The natives
are getting afraid to kill them.—Puck.
—Short Stop—" How long does the train
stop here?” the old lady asked the brake
man. "Stop here?” answered the func
tionary, "Four minutes. From two to two
to two-two.” "I wonder,” mused the old
lady, “If that man thinks he Is the whis
tle?”—lndianapolis Press.
—“lt’s funny our minister never mar
ried," remarkej the young husband, who
had just refused his wife an Easter bon
net, in his endeavor to change the sub
ject- “I think he’d make a good husband.”
“Well,” replied the wife warmly, "he
didn’t seem to make a very good one
when he married us.”—Yonkers States
man.
—An Extensive Vagary—“ Why, who
half-killed you, old man?” “Oh, it's just
some more of my luck. My mobe got away
from me, and took mo through a plate
glass window yesterday.”. "That Is hard
luck, sure.” "Oh, I'm not kicking about
that particularly. But It was a milliner's
window, full of spring bonnets. Now,'why
couldn’t It have picked out a jeweller’s,
or goldsmith's, or same cheap window like
that to destroy things?”—Life.
—Her Revengeful Nature—“ Yes,” she
said determinedly, ”1 am going on the
stage.” The humanitarian looked startled.
“While It Is true,” he said, “that the
public was most unkind in its attitude
towards you during your divorce trial,yet
remember It is possible to carry vengeance
too far.” But she only laughed sardonic
ally and proceeded with her search for a
play of sufficient raciness to suit her pur
pose.—Detroit Free Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Times (Ind.) says
“Gov. Roosevelt having stepped aside,
Secretary Long now comes to the front as
President McKinley’s second choice for a
running mate. This has been expected
for some time. The Secretary of the Navy
has confidently entertained the hope that
lightning would strike him, and It serious
ly looks at the present moment that if the
ticket to be named here next month were
as good as made.”
The Houston (Tex.) Post (Debt.) says:
“It is probably too late to talk of the re
peal of the fifteenth amendment to the
national constitution, but an amendment
to the amendment limiting In some way,
by educational or other qualifications, the
right of suffrage In all these United States
would doubtless receive the approval of
the required number of states. The in
telligence, patriotism an<Vmorallty of the
country ought to govern It.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says:
“Admiral Dewey narrowly escaped a col
lision with politics at Nashville on Thurs
day last. The Democratic State Conven
tion was assembled In that city on that
day, and when Dewey’s name was men
tioned the delegates tore the welkin. But
the Admiral did not go near the conven
tion.”
The Chattanooga Times (Dem.) says:
“The serious discussion of the race prob
lem, at Montgomery, is a significant sign
of the times. Thtu conference was led by
some of the best thinkers in the Couth,
and have |>egun a movement that must
prove to be of great Importance to the
.country and the world.'*
Richardson Recalls Butler.
"In the debate on the Porto Rican bill
In the House recently, Richardson had
the Republican* In u rage,” eaid Franklin
P. Morgan at the Fifth Avenue Hotel the
other night, according to the New York
Telegraph. "He Is always ready, and It
i£ Impossible to ruffle his temper. On the
other hand, he prodded the Republican
leaders until they were gulky of some very
Indiscreet and some very harsh language.
. “There was Dplzell—one of the smart
est men—not one of the greatest—one of
ttie smartest men you ever saw, unless
it be Bill Chandler—who so far forgot
himself as to denounce the Republican
journals—and their name is legion and
their Influence Immeasurable —as the ‘sub
sidized Republican press.’ At. once there
was consternation on the Republican side,
and Dafeell was made to understand that
he had blundered. In his revised remarks
the word ’misguided’ Is substituted for
’subsidized.’ The little man from Pitts
burg had simply lost his head under the
cool and deliberate prodding of the Demo
cratic leader.
“But Butler was the only congressional
leader who openely defied all newspaper
dom. Shaking his clenched hand at the
reporters’ gallery, he exclaimed: 'I de
nounce you as hirelings of the professional
liars and slanderers of the land,’ or words
to that effect.
"He never swallowed his words. He de
nounced the American press ever and
often, and yet he was the last man news
paper men—a very different animal from,
a journalist—wanted to see go out of Con
gress. A Washington ’Grub-streeter’
could always make meat and bread writ
ing about old Ben. In that respect he was
greater than Blaine, greater than Randall,
greater than Reed himself. But Hon.
Dalzell 1s not in Butler’s class.”
Ranting for Heroes.
A stranger from the country rushed
around the hotels all afternoon to catch
a glimpse at the Admiral and his staff,
says the Chicago Tribune. He ran Into the
Leland, and going up to the cierk, asked;
"Say, where are the big guns?”
“Over there," replied the clerk, pointing
to a group of men In Immaculate dress
and silk hats. The stranger gazed.
“Nice looking crowd,” he said to the
clerk.
"Yep,” answered the clerk.
The stranger sidled up to the distin
guished visitors and made a remark about
the weather. The man nearest him an
swered pleasantly. The man from, the
country swelled with pride. “Have a
drink?” he asked. The gentleman In
broadcloth declined. The man from the
country sidled back to the clerk.
“Kind of a chilly crowd,” he said.
"Yep," replied the clerk.
“Don't drink,” said the man from the
country.
“Nope,” said the clerk.
"Funny gang of naval fellows.” said the
man.
“They ain’t naval fellows,” said the
olerk, ‘ they're Methodists.
"Great Scott!” said the man from the
country. "And I asked that fellow to
have a drink, and I’ll bet he’s a bishop.
Say. here’s where I sneak.” and he did.
“It’s pretty hard,” said the clerk, "to
be In a city where there’s a strike, a Meth
odist Conference and a reception to a
greet nun, A fellow can’t tell whether
he’s bumping Into a crowd of walking del
egate*, a lot of ministers, or a gang of
haroea.”
Sir Charles Warren's Bath.
There Is something extremely English In
the story of Sir Charles Wraren “doing
trimblcs,” as Bouncer expressed It, in the
open air on the battlefield of Vaal Kranz,
says the London News. Sir Charlee. It
appears, is a strong believer in hydro
pathy, and un<res,jio circumstances inter
mits his morning bath. On the occasion of
Buller’s last effort to relieve Ladysmith
(according to “M. A. P."), Sir Charlea
found it impossible to leave his post, so
when day broke on the battlefield, he or
dered his servant to bring his bath with
sponge and towel, and there and then, in
the open air, Sir Charles Warren, com
mandlng the Fifth division, proceeded to
take his bath, sublimely Indifferent to tho
fire of the enemy". The enemy were, per
haps, too much astonished at the British
eccentricity of bathing at all, much more
of bathing in this extremely public fash
ion, to attempt any violent interruption. A
humorous addition to the incident relates
how Sir Redvers Buller, wishing to con
sult with Sir Charles, sent his orderly to
summon him. But not even an order from
the commander-in-chief could interrupt
matutinal function, and Sir Redvers was
obliged to ride to the bather, and then ah
Important conversation was held' between
the two generals—the one on horseback
and the other in his tub. Diogenes him
self never performed a feat of cooler in
difference lb the wnvtAliiOiiaiitieS (hail Sh
Charles on this occasion.
Unexpected Results.
“Say,” said the man with the worried
look, according to the Baltimore Ameri
can, "do you remember giving me a lot
of advice on how to conduct my love af
fairs about 3wo months ago?"
"Yes,” replied the man with the wise
expression.
"Told me if 1 wanted to win the girl I
should make love to her mother!"
"Uh-huh.”
"Said if I could get *he old lady on my
side all I had to do was to toddle around
with a ring and say. ‘When?’ to the
girl.
The wise man nooded.
"Said for me to compliment the mother
on her youthful appearance,” continued
the worried man, "and give her a Jolly
about how sad it was that the young
ladles of the present were not to be com
pared with those of the past?”
"Yes. Yes. You won the girl, I sup
pose?”
"Yes, I did—not. The old lady has sued
her husband for divorce, and me for
breach of promise.”
Battle for Bargains.
He wondered when he heard them talk
ing if something In the war news of that
daV had escaped him, says London An
swers.
“It was a terrible slaughter,’ said one of
the ladies.
“Yes, lnded,” returned the other; “such
a sacrifice probably has never been known
before.”
“They must have slashed right and left,
Just n? described in the papers,” went on
the first.
"Yes; the adjective ‘terrific,’ so freely"
used, wns certainly Justified,” added the
second,
“Pardon me," said the man who had
overheard; “has another battle been
fought in South Africa? I saw nothing
about It.’
“Battle?" repeated the one nearest to
him. “What do we know about battles?
We were discussing the advertisement of
a spring bargain sale we have Just been
attending.
An Impossible Charge.
"Gentlemen of the Jury,” said the attor
ney for the defense, according to the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, "we will now In
troduce our star witness. After hearing
her testimony you will never have the
heart to convict my unfortunate client of
burning his barn. Speak up, madam.”
“For forty-three years," said the wit
ness. “I've lived with the defendant, an’
commencin’ with the day after we wuz
married I’ve built the fires reg'lar every
morning.’ Start a fire! Why, that man
couldn’t start a fire in a powder maga
zine!"
Whereupon the jury acquitted him with
out leaving their scats.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A woman was arrested in Louisville,
Ky., the other day for smoking cigarettes
on the street. The magistrate before whom
she was given a hearing said he was sorry
that there was no law under which he
could hold her, and that some such meas
ure ought to be enacted.
—“Next week,” announces a Missouri
editor, who has the Sheldon episode still
fresh In his mind, “we will be running this
paper as Jtesse James would have run It.
Delinquent subscribers may expect a call
from us with their accounts stuck In the
muzzzle of a six-shooter* Otherwise this
paper will have to be run as the sheriff
would run it.”
—ln a recent number of the Manila Amer
ican the Zorllla Grand Opera Houso ad
vertised as the event of the season, “ ‘The
Geisha,’ with all the original scenery,
dresses and effects from Daly’s Theater,
London.” The scale of prices was given
as follows: Boxes, to hold four, sl2; or
chestra stalls, $3; upper circle, behind
boxes, $2, and gallery, sl, all Mexican
money. "Doors open at 6, overture at 7,
carriages at 9:30.”
—lt Is reported from Malta that Ad
miral Lord Charles Beresford Is virtually
revolutionizing the Meritterranean squad
ron, esepcially as regards its gunnery. He
is Insisting on the utmost attention being
paid as to accuracy of fire, both with large
guns and rifles, and Is manifesting the ut
most ingenuity In devising targets of a
novel character. He Is likewise Initiating
and taking part in gun-room debates on
all matters likely to quicken the intelli
gence of officers and men under his orders.
—ln a note recently presented to the
French Academy of Sciences, M. E. Doll
mer describes some curious facts which
seemed to him to demonstrate an Improve
ment In the condition of tuberculous pa
tients subjected to high-frequency elect! 1c
currents. Night sweats have been stopped
In about fifteen applications, and after
long treatment the appetito is said to re
turn and the weight of the body increa e.
Experiments made upon twenty-seven per
sons by the author of the note led him to
believe that the constancy and clearness of
the observed results showed that ihe meth
od was a feasible one.
—The London Financial News estimates
that the fame which attaches to Strat
ford-on-Avon because of the fact that
Shakespeare was born there is worth $5,-
000,0000 to that town. The charges for
admission to the poet’s house, to Anne
Hathaway’s cottage, to the church, to the
memorial and to the grammar school net
$150,000 yearly—a sum which Is equivalent
to an Income of 3 per cent, on the $5,000,-
000 capital. This calculation does not take
Into account the Income to the railways
from the pilgrims to the Warwickshire
mecca, and there Is no estimate of the
profits of the Stratford tradesmen, who do
a good business In photographs, pamphlets
and trinkets relating to the town and the
great bard.
—The Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Record says: “President
Roca of the Argentine Republic, Presi
dent Erazurlz of Chile, President Campos-
Salles of "Brazil and President Diaz of
Mexico have all given promises, more or
less definite, that they will attend the Pan-
American Exposition at Buffalo In 1901,
and if the plan can be carried out it will
be a great advantage to their countries as
well as to ours; but If they come they will
expect to have thetr visit returned. Of
course, it would be impossible for the
President to go to Brazil or Chile or the
Argentine Republic, although he might,
without any difficulty, make a short trip
through Mexico. It would be perfectly
legitimate, however, for him to designate
_a substitute, and that would offer an op
portunity for a vide president to make
himself useful.”
—Prince Louis Napoleon has Just been
promoted by the Czar from the rank of
a brigadier to that of a major general
of cavalry in the Russian army, and
while this promotion has given an Im
mense amount of satisfaction, not merely
to the Bonapartists, but to monarchists
of every description in France, it has an
noyed <he present French government,
whose recognized organs of the press ex
press both displeasure and concern. It
is certainly strange to find the Czar, who
is supposed to be the closest ally of the
French republic, , showering marks of
favor and adding to the prestige and im
portance of the one French prince who is
popular in France, and whose past and
present record Is sufficiently clean to
render him the most likely pretender, and
as such a dangerous foe to the republic,
says a correspondent.
—Consul Hughes of Coburg on March 7
quotes from a trade journal the statement
that the length of electric lines In Ger
many shows an Increase of 45 per cent,
over last year, the available power has
gone up 37 per cent., and the growth "of
accumulators now aggregate almost exact
ly a fourth of the dynamo power of the
power stations; yet there are very few
pure accumulator lines. Overhead conduc
tors continue to predominate. Apart from
the two pioneer lines at Berlin and Frank
fort, of the years 1881 and 1884, all the elec
tric roads have been built within the last
nine years. The total length is 1.274 miles.
Most lines have only a single track, which
Is made feasible by the almost universal
practice of stopping at certain points only.
The gas-tram line at Dessau, which was
considered so successful, will adopt elec
tricity the coming summer.
—The new lowa school library law pro
vides that every school district must an
nually set aside from 5 to 15 cents for each
child of school age, the money to go to
ward tho purchase of books for the li
brary. miring the academic year /the
books are to be kept in the schoolhouse,
but during vacation time they are to be
kept for the use of the pupils In the house
of someone selected by the board. As the
books may be loaned to persons not pupils
it is suggested that the country stores be
used as vacation quarters for the library,
and the proprietors of those places, in
view of the additional trade which the
presence of the books would bring, are
eager to comply. The books to lie pur
chased are limited to a list which the state
board of education Is to make out. At
present nearly all the lowa cities and
towns are availing themselves of the law
permitting school directors to spend $25
a year on books; women's clubs are hid
ing largely in the work, and in the rural
districts the new regulations will probably
do as much.
—ln a recent number of the bulletin of
ihe Electrical Society of Belgium, M. E.
Plerard contributes a paper containing
the results of some curious experiments
in telephoning without a battery or other
source of electricity. In these experiments
a vibrating diaphragm, carrying on ihe
back a small platinum disc, was so arrang
ed as to touch, when vibrating, the plati
num point of a screw at the back of the
diaphragm. When the telephone was con
nected to the screw and the diaphragm
respectively, the apparatus was found to
transmit musical sounds with distinctness
The effect In the receiving telephone could
also be increased by the ud of an induc
tion coll. Experiments were tried with
diaphragms of different motals, and also
with the whole apparatus kept at one
temperature, and after many experiments
M, Pierard concluded that the action was
due to contact electricity and to the small
currents resulting thereform when tho
connection between thb two platinum
points wos made and broken. This is only
another instance of the exceedingly mil
currents which en ordinary telephone is
able to detect.
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PETITION FORT INCORPORATION.
GEORGIA CHATHAM
COUNTY.—To the Superior Court of said
county: The petition of Mills B. Lane.
Henry D. Stevens, John Heard Hunter,
Lawrence McNeill, Thomas H. McMillan.
John R. Young, of said county; Edward
W. Lane, Benjamin F. Strickland, of
Lowndes ctounty, and W. S. Wltham of
Fulton county, respectfully shows:
First. That* they desire for themselves,
♦heir associates and successors, to be in
corporated for a period of twenty (20)
years with the privilege of renewal at the
end of such time, under the name and
style of
"SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS AND
COMMISSION COMPANY.”
Second. That the principal office and
place of doing business of said
corporation will be in Savannah,
Chatham county, Georgia, but they
desire that it shall have the right
to establish branch offices and other
places of business elsewhere In this state
and In other states and territories as the
extensions and exigencies of Its business
may make necessary or convenient.
Third. That the principal business of
said corporation will be generally that of
factors and Commission merchants, and
the leading or principal articles to be
handled and dealt in by It will be the pro
ducts of cotton mills, and materials, ma
chinery and equipment for such mills.
And to this end said company will desire
the power to art as financial agent, and
buying and selling agent for suJh mills;
and to aid in the erection and operation
thereof by subscribing to or purchasing
the whole or a portion of the capital
stock of such mills, or by advancing
money therto, with or without security,
or by indorsing or guaranteeing the ob
ligations of such mills. Petitioners desire
that said corporation shall have the fur
ther right to operate stores and ware
houses at all points they may deem neces
sary or convenient; to borrow money,
without security, or with security, by way
of personal Indorsements, pledge or trans
fer of personal property, or by deed, mort
gage or other lien; to own, rent, lease, im
prove, sell and otherwise dispose of and
encumber real property, and to own, buy
and sell personal property of all kinds,
stocks, securities and choses in action; and
to deal in all such articles and things at
wholesale and retail and real and personal
property as may be thought necessary and
proper for the pecuniary Interests of said
company.
Fourth. The capital stock of said com
pany will be one hundred thousand (100,-
000) dollars, divided Into shares of one
hundred (ICO) dollars each, and Into pre
ferred and common stock, or all common
stock, as the Board of Directors may
elect, and if divided into preferred and
common stock the proportion of each shall
be as the board of directors may elect.
But petitioners desire that said company
shall have the right and power to in
crease said capital stock by Issuing pre
ferred and common stock, or common
stock only, In the discretion of its board
of directors, from time to time to any
amount not to exceed one million dollars
($1,000,000) and In like manner from time
to time, to reduce said Increased capital
stock to any amount not less than said
original amount of one hundred thousand
(100.000) dollars.
Fifth. Bald corporation will not begin
business until ten (10) per cent, of said
capital stock, or ten thousand (10,000) dol
lars has been actually paid In. And stock
holders who have paid up their stock sub
scriptions In full shall be in no wise re
sponsible for the debts and liabilities of
said corporation.
Sixth. Petitioners desire for said cor
poration, in addition to the rights, pow
ers, privileges and authority 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 suc
cessors, under the name aforesaid for the
term aforesaid, and with the rights, pow
ers, 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.
DENMARK, ADAMS & FREEMAN,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
Filed in the office of the clerk of the
Superior Court of Chatham county thW
March 23, 1900.
JAMES K. P. CARR,
Clerk Superior Court of Chatham County,
Georgia.
LEMONS.
Black Eye, Pigeon and Cow Peaa
Potatoes, Onions, Peanuts, and all fruit*
and vegetables in season.
Hay, Grain, Flour, Feed.
Rice Straw, Magic Poultry and Stock
Food.
Our Own Cow Feed, etc.
213 and 215 BAY. WEST.
W. D. SIMKINS & CO.
J. D. WEED* CO
SAVANNAH, 04.
Leather Belting, Steam Packing & Hose.
Agents tot NEW lOHK HUBHh'.q
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