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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia to-day are
for showers arid thunderstorms, with
cooler weather in western portion.
Marion Butler Is as much of a fusionist
as he ever was. Asa matter of fact he
has to be a fusionist; his political exist
ence depends upon It. At Sioux Falls he
advocated fusion with the Democrats, and
In North Carolina he advocates fusion
with the Republicans.
On Tuesday, while the people of New
York, Boston, New Haven and other cit
ies in the Northern part of this country
were sweltering, sweating and swearing,
and some of them were getting sunstruck,
the people of London were wearing heavy
overcoats, and there was snow at Leipstc
and Chemnim,
Senator Clark of Montana still retains
his establishment of twenty-two bedrooms
In a Washington hotel. He probably need
ed them all while the fight over his seat
was going on, but hts witnesses have now
gone home. However, since he is able to
pay for the twenty-two bedrooms whether
he has any particular use for them or not,
It Is nobody's business how long he retains
them.
Senator Frye has been requested to In
troduce a bill in Congress to compel every
American merchant vessel to employ and
carry a chaplain. The request was made
by a Rev. Silliman Blagden, and the let
ter transmitting It was dated from a hotel
In Washington. The Rev. Mr. Blagden
probably thinks It Is the duty of the gov
ernment to provide livings for the army of
Bndiocre preachers who cannot obtain pul
pits.
Whethe-r Mafeklng will be "relieved"
when the relief column gets there stems
to be an open question. It Is feared that
the arrival of the rescuing troops will
but add to the hungry mouths In the
9lace, since the understanding Is that the
■oldiers took only travel rations with
them, and but enough of those to last to
Mafeklng. Should that prove correct,
there might have to be sent another re
lief expedition to relieve the first relief
expedition and those whom tt relieved.
A Colorado man the other day had the
pleasure of refusing 140.000,000 for a piece
of property of which he Is the chief own
er. John Hayes Hammond, the American
mining engineer who narrowly escaped be
ing hanged by President Kruger of the
Transvaal for taking part In the Jameson
raid, was the man who made the offer,
on behalf of a British syndicate, and
James F. Burns was the man who re
fused it. The property was the Portland
gold mine, at Cripple Creek, Col. At pres
en the mine Is capitalized at 111,000,000.
It Is possible that New York may again
send a prize fighter to Congress. Corbett
Is the man being talked nlntut. He lives
In the Twelfth congressional district,
which Is now represented by George B.
McClellan, son of the late General of that
name. Mr. McClellan Is not a candidate
for re-election. Corbett says he knows
nothing about the great questions of the
day. but he Is willing to go Into training
for them Just hs earnestly as he has
trained for other contests. And, further
more, despite his ignorance of those ques
tions. he is "as good a Democrat as ever
breathed," he says, .
THE CA\TEE.I Ql ESTKW.
The question of prohibiting: the sale of
beer and other intoxicating drinks upon
tany military prom'ses. has again become a
very llvo one in administration ami mili
tary circle*. The General Conference of
the Methodist Church, now In session in
Chicago, criticised the President severely
a day or two ago for permitting the estab
lishment of canteens at military poet*.
The last Congress enacted a law against
the. sale of in toxicants on military prem
ises, but it seems there was a loophole
ir It which the Attorney General found,
and so the sale of Intoxicants in army
canteens goes on Just as if no such law
had ever been enacted. Naturally
the opponents of the can-teen have not a
very kindly feeling for the Attorney Gen
eral, and they are disposed to blame the
President for not overruling the decision
of that official.
Another a ivt 1-can teen bill has been In
troduced into Congress, ond Is now pend
ing before the Military Committee of the
House. In our dispatches yesterday, Mr.
Root, the Secretary of War. and Adjutant
General Corbin were quoted In respect
to this bill. They are both against It.
Secretary Root said that he thought the
effect of the bill, If It should become a
law, would be injurious to the temperance,
morals and discipline of the enlisted men
of the army. G?n. Corbin said that if
the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating
drinks at military posts could be made
effective, he would favor the pending bill,
but he declared that it could not be made
effective. Just as soon as the canteen
Is closed at an army post “blind tiger’*
saloons spring up all around the post and
encourage the soldiers to drink. Asa
result, there is far more drunkenness
among the soldiers where there Is no can
teen than where there is.
The canteen is kept under the supervis
ion of the officers of the post, and drink
ing to excess by the soldier is not per
mitted. In fact, the soldiers, knowing
they can get liquor when they want It, do
not seem to have such a thirst for It.
They take an occasional drink and are
satisfied. Where there Is no canteen,
however, the soldiers patronize the drink
ing places In the vicinity of the posts,
and it not infrequently happens that they
drink to intoxication. The keepers of
these “blind tigers” use all sorts of means
to entice them to enter their places, and
squander the r money for drink.
It does seem strange that the advocates
of prohibition cannot see that the closing
of the army canteen would be an injury
to the soldiers rather than protection. Tne
testimony of army officers Is that the en
listed men a e very much better off with
the canteen than without It. The extreme
anti-liquor people refuse to look at the
question in a practical manner. They
do not seem to care for the interests of
the soldiers; they simply want to force the
army to accept their method of dealing
with the liquor ques 1 n
It would not he surprising if the anti
canteen bill should pass. The people who
are urging its passage are influential with
congressmen and the President does not
like to be criticised by the church to which
he belongs. If the evidence of experi
enced army officers is worth anything,
however, the suppression of the canteen
would not tend to promote temperance
among the enlisted men.
THE DEWEY BOOM.
What has become of the movement to
nominate Admiral Dewey for President?
He returned to Washington on Wednes
day, but there was no crowd at the depot
to welcome him. His arrival after a most
successful trip through a part of the West
and the South did not attract the least
atttentlon. At the National Capitol there
fore it Is evident that the opinion prevails
that ho Is not In the public mind as a
presidential candidate. There Is no doubt
about the warmth of his welcome at every
place he visited during hts trip, but the
demonstrations w ere in nciior of the mar.
who destroyed the Spanish fleet In Manila
bay. It 1s possible therefore that the Ad
miral has abandon! and hts presidential as
pirations. It Is certain that nothing has
been said lately In tho newspapers about
the statement which he promised to give
the public rasp cling his political plans
and his position on public questions.
If the Democratic leaders at anytime
had an Idea of nominating him for Vice
President on the ticket with Mr. Bryan
they appear to have abandoned It. Or If
they have not they are keeping remark
ably quiet about it. It Is said that some
of Mr. Bryan's Nebraska friends think It
■would help him to have Rear Admiral
Schley on the ticket with him. An Omaha
dispatch says that Admiral Schley'a name
for the second place Is being very freely
discussed by some of Mr. Bryan s closest
friends.
It seems to be the understanding, how
ever, that Admirai Schley would not ac
cept the place. Those who are authorized
to speak for him say that his purpose is
to remain In the navy. He Is close to the
retiring age, and on his retirement he will
have n Income about as large as the
salary of the Vie<* President. It will be
for life, and he will have the assurance
that hts wife will be taken care of If she
should survive him. Under no circum
stances therefore is he likely to accept a
vice presidential nomination. It does seem
as if each of the great political parties
was having a hard time to find an accept
able candidate for Vice President.
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Senator Wolcott of Colorado Is not to he
temporary chairman of the Philadelphia
Convention. Wolcott was a friend to Quay
during the latter’s case before the Senate,
and worked and voted lor him. Quay's
defeat has made Wolcott sore on Senator
Hanna and others who are held by him to
iponstbie for It, and Wol ti has i .*
ly evinced a disposition to antagonize
about everything supported by Hanna and
others. This being true, the administra
tion leaders have concluded that the Col
orado man is not the pioper sort of person
to place In a position of honor and power
In the convention, hence his name has
been taken off the slate.
Ex-President Cleveland Is expected to
arrive at Jekvl Island within a day or two.
He Is on the yacht Oneida the guest of
Mr. E. C. Benedict, her owner, and the
two gentlemen, accompanied by several
friends, ore on a cruise of Southern wa
ters which Is to extend to Cuba and possi
bly to Porto Rico. A short stop will be
made at Jekyl. The yacht left New York
.on Tuesday,
TIIE ItEPI HU<’A\S %M> THE BOBS M
In our dispatches yesterday there were
accounts of four Republican state conven
tions and or.o Democratic state conven
tion. In no one of the accounts of the
Republican conventions was there men
tion made of any resolution of sympathy
for the Boers. Mr. Webster Davis, It
seems, was at the Republican State Con
vention of Missouri and expected to make
a speech, urging the adoption of a strong
pro-Boer resolution, but he was not ad
mitted to the floor of the convention. The
account given of the proceedings leaves
the impression that the convention refused
to hear him or to take any action in re
spect to the Boers.
It looks a little as If the Republicans
had decided not to give any encourage
ment to the Boer agitation, which, if it
should reach large proportions, would be
very embarrassing to the administration
and very troublesome to the Republican
party. It may be that in one or more of
the Republican conventions that were held
Wednesday some action was taken favor
able to the Boer?, but if there was it is
rather remarkable that no mention was
made of it.
The Democratic Convention—it was held
In South Carolina—adopted a remarkably
strong pro-Boer resolution. It denounced
the administration for not “extending an
offer of its good offices to terminate the
unholy war of subjugation.”
It is probable that most of the Demo
cratic state conventions will adopt sim
ilar resolutions. If they should, and the
Republicans should fail to lake any notice
of the Boers, would not the Democrats
gain a tremendous advantage? It looks
very much ns if they would. A portion
of the foreign population, particularly
that portion which is bitterly hostile to
England, would most likely give Us whole
support to the Democrats.
It is safe to say that in the resolutions
<sf sympathy for the Boers which are be
ing passed in different parts of the coun
try there is mixed a good deal of hatred
of England. The hatred of England and
sympathy for a struggling people may re
sult in an agitation of formidable propor
tions. It is doubtful if, outside of those
who are influenced by their feelings
against England, there is a wish on the
part of any great number of people to see
this country become involved in a war
with Great Britain.
AGAIXST PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
There are many peop'.e outside of the
Populist parties who believe in, public
ownership of municipal utilities. ..They
think that people in cities woujd fare bet
ter if the public owned the street railroads
as well as the water and gas plants.
In the current number of the Independ
ent Mr. H. H. Vreeland, president of the
Metropolitan Street Roilrotd of New
York, has an article in which he under
takes to show that municipal ownership
of street railroads is a failure. In Glas
gow the street railway Is owned and oper
ated by the city, and, It seems, very
successfully. According to Mr. Vreeland,
however, the people of that city do not
get so much for their money out of their
street railroad as the people of New York
get out of the street railroads of that city.
He says that while it is true that a person
can ride for half a mile on the street cars
of Glasgow for a halfpenny, yet, for longer
distances, street car fare is cheaper in
New' York. The service in New York is
much superior to' that in Glasgow—that
is, the cars are run more rapidly. One can
walk in Glasgow pretty nearly as fast as
the cars are run. In Glasgow the wages
of the street car employes are one-third
less than in New York.
Mr. Vreeland mentions several other par
ticulars in which private ownership is bet
ter than public ownership, and It must be
admitted that after reading his article
there seems to be very little to be said on
the other side.
EUROPE’S COAL FA Ml YE.
How are England nnd Germany to com
pete with this country at the present
time in manufacturing when they have
to depend on it for so much of the ma
terials? In the manufacture of cotton
goods, for Instance, they have to get the
greater part of the cotton they n eel
from this country, and they are now im
porting coal from our mines. A London
dispatch says: "If Is high time that
American coal mine owners took advan
tage of coal famine prices in this eoun
try. American coal is finding a good
market in Germany, but the English
prices are still higher.”
The railways, the mills, In fact all busi
nesses which have need of coal in
large amounts are feeling the very high
price of that article. It Is said that the
railways have been compelled to put up
the prices of excursion tickets, and rates
of all sorts that are in the least degree
dependent on coal have been advanced.
A contract has Just been made in 4hls
country for 80,000 tons of coal to be deliv
ered In Belgium and Germany, and this
amount is to be shipped every month for
several months. It Is said that the scarci
ty of coal ill Europe Is due to labor trou
bles. The truth probably Is that the
mines have been worked so nearly out
that coal can be obtained from this coun
try for less than It can be mined in Eu
ropean countries.
"The hottest thirteenth of May In
twenty-eight years was marked with a
sudden and startling increase of crime
in Chicago,” says the Chronicle of that
city. During late years heat waves and
crime waves have been coincidences fre
quently noted. May It not be that crim
inally Inclined persons take advantage of
the recently promulgated Idea that heat
Induces moral lapses, and give freer vent
to their passions during a hot wave, know
ing they can make a reasonable plea of
temporary aberration from the heat? In
this part of the country it has not been
noted that there Is an Increase of crimi
nality In the summer. Such Increase has
apparently been observed only In a few
of the great cities, where there arc shrewd
criminals ever ready to cbmmit robbery
or otherwise fracture the statutes when
there Is an cpportunlty or a plausible ex
cuse.
Philadelphia has at last succeeded In
raising that SIOO,OOO for the Republican
National Convention, and the convention
hall Is practically ready for the gathering
of the clans. Thus the rather slow but
altogether reliable Quaker has discharged
l Ills obligation In ample urns.
THE MOKJNIiSG JNEWS: EKIUAi, MAI 18. 1900.
New York and New England cotton
goods men have a rod in pickle for the ad
ministration in the matter of the revised
tariff for Cuba. They say that the tariff
tew it stands, pp !■ Ameri
can cotton goods from the island. Repre
sentations touching the tariff on cotton
cloths had been made to the Secretary of
the Treasury in advance of the revision
of the Cuba tariff, and it was thought
that the changes requested would be em
bodied In the revision. The merchants
nnd manufacturers were much surprised
therefore when they found that no at
tention had been paid to their request.
Mr. Eames, of the CLflirv establishment,
says that the tariff as it stands will de
prive merchants in this country of the
sale of millions of dollars’ worth of Amer
ican made goods every year.
Stephen Crane, the novelist. Is said to
be rapidly nearing his end from con-sump
tion in London. The physicians have no
tified his wife that he cannot live more
than a month longer. His troubles had
their beginning in Cuba during the late
war with Spain. Mr. Crane went to tne
island as a correspondent. While there
tie contracted fever, from the effects of
twhich he has never recovered. Being
weakened by the fever, the germs of con
sumption found him an easy victim.
PERSON A.L
—Richard Yates, the Republican nomi
nee for Governor of Illinois, Is a man of
considerable literary tastes, and for sev
eral years has been collecting a library of
rare books, until now he owns one of the
best in that state.
—President Eliot of Harvard is a good
horseman, and frequently spends a part
of his vacations in riding through New'
England. When at sucto times, he passes
a country school house, he never fails to
dismount and visit it if the school is In
session.
—The Tulane University of Louisiana,
which has been without a pres
ident since the death of Col.
William Preston Johnson in July
last, has chosen Dr. Edwin Ander
son Alderman to fill the vacancy. Dr. Al
derman is known as one of the most pro
gressive teachers* of the South, and has
been president of the University of North
Carolina since 18%.
—Senator Coronado, owner of the
Cuban newspaper El Discission, published
in Havana, and the most influential Jour
nal there, is in New York, buying presses
for an enlarged circulation.” says the New'
York Press. “He sells now betw'een 24,000
and 25,000 papers a day at 5 cents a copy.
Mr. Coronado is a man of some 38 years,
of medium size and weight, with coal black
hair, brows and mustache, and that mar
velous terracotta complexion occasionally
seen in the hot countries and nowrhere else
on earth. The vivacity of the eye reflects
an active brain. He is a gentlemen of the
most enthusiastic disposition and is train
ing catch-as-catch-can with the English
language, whidh takes frequent falls out
of him,”
—Daniel A. Ray of Illinois, who is to be
appointed United States marshal for the
Hawaiian Islands, was formerly a news
paper correspondent and served in that ca
pacity at Springfield for many years. He
h£*s held various places under the Legis
lature. He has been secretary of the Re
publican State Committee, and did good
work as special agent of the postoffice de
partment. For the last two years he has
been serving as Senator Cullom’s private
secretary, and he has looked after the lat
ter’s political interests with great effi
ciency. He was clerk of the Congress
Committee that prepared the bill for the
admission of the Hawaiian Islands and
wrote an elaborate report to sustain it.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Charity.—"l ask you for bread,”
moaned the Indigent Person, reproach
fully, "and you found me a free library:"
y-Detroit Journal.
—ln the Nursery.—Edith—"l have nomel
roy dolly ‘Dotty Dimples.' ” Ethel—“But
what a name for her to carry through life
when she grows up and has six or eight
children! Parents should think of these
things!”—Puck.
—Evil Communications.—Alice—l do wish
Edgai wouldn't associate with doctors."
Mamma—Why, daughter? Alice—Oh, some
doctor he knows has told him where his
appendix Is; and now he thinks he's got
a pain in it.—Life.
—The Cheerful Idiot—" There's no use In
a stingy man trying to run for office,"
said the shoe-clerk boarder. “Seems to
me,” said the Cheerful Idiot, "lie would
he the very man to save the country.
Indianapolis Press.
—What He Was Doing.—" What, mind
ing the baby!” said Northside, as he en
tered Manchester's home and found his
friend agitating the cradle. "Yes," replied
Manchester, "I’ve got down to bedrock."
—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
—That's iMllyuns* daughter,” said the
Cl,ttman pointing to a young girl in an ex
tremely decollete gown; "she's just com
ing out." "Gosh! I should say she's out
far enough already," exclaimed the vis
itor from the country."—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
CHIBUXT COMMENT.
The Nashville American (Dem.) says:
"The latfst story Is that the 80->r p?ace
envoys, who are now In New York, come
authorized to ask the United States to an
nex th Transvaal and the Free State.
How will this preposition suit the anti
expansionists who are Boer sympathiz
ers?"
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says:
‘ "Trusts are n menace,' shouts a Repub
lican newspaper, and then It says that
the Republicans In Congress have been
‘trying all winter' to devise a law to con
t ol trusts. The McKinley administration
has U-en In power three years. Why
didn't they beg n three years ago to try
to control trusts?’
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) savs:
"It would be idle to dlsgutse or deny tho
fact that there exists strong sympathy
with the Boots in this country, which Is
not, afnr all. so very surprising. This
sympathy makes the presence of the Boer
envoys danger, us. as some Ul-advlsei ex
hibition of sympathy might easily cause
a rupture of friendly relations wt h Great
Britain, which would, of course, be high
ly regrettable.”
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: "And
as long as Mr. McKinley continues to fill
the offices In Cuba with 'slick politicians’
there will be scandals In the island—ex
travagance. downright theft and sharp
pra tiers. The 'slick politician' does not
go to Cuba simply for the salary that Is
promised him. but to make full use of
the opportunities which abound for get
ting rich at the expense of the Cubans.
While Mr. McKinley and the heads of de
partments In Washington continue to
make appointments tvs rewards for party
service tho Americas reputation for hon
. esty will suffer."
The Only Antliori*ed Version.
Linsay Flavel Mines, the poet, started
his career, like many other versifiers, as
a reporter upon a newspaper which paid
its writers according to the apace their
work made and not by regular salary,
nays the Philadelphia Post. One day he
was assigned to report the ceremony of
the laying of the ebrner ion of one of
the new public buiklings In downtown
Now York. Dreams of a long column ar
ticle, and possibly two columns, flashed
through his mental vision as he went from
the office to the function. When he arrived
there he found to his consternation that
the business methods of Wall street had
affected the affair, and that it was to be
exceedingly brief. Bishop Potter lent dig
nity to the occasion, and after a few re
marks began reading from the Episcopal
liturgy. When the audience was dismissed
Mr. Mines approached the Bishop as he
was getting into his carriage, and asked
him where his prayer was taken from.
“From our prayer book,” replied the
bishop.
“I wi-h you would lend it to me so that
I can copy it. because I’m certain there Is
not one in our office.”
Those who know' the bishop and his deal
ings with reporters, and the fact that he
never gives an interview' to any of them,
can imagine the look of surprise that he
concentrated upon the young man, but it
was only for a moment, and he silently
handed the hook to him.
The reporter had taken it, *snd was turn
ing away when the bishop called him back,
and in his solemn way, said: “You know
the charge that is made against most book
borrowers? Y’ou will return it to me, will
you not?”
“Sure.” said Mr. Mines.
And his paper the next day w r as the only
one that had that prayer precisely as it
was prayed.
A Second Solomon.
“Th* Billins twins wuz a queer pair,”
said the old settler reflectively as he poised
himself with many hitches on the rear
legs of his chair, says the Cleveland Piain
Dealer. “There never wuz two sich hag
glers in th’ hull dern county. When their
ma died she divided- up everything Jest as
nearly ekai between ’em as she could--
all ’ceptin* th* planner. It wuz a superan
nyated ol’ rattle box thet their pa hed
traded a runt of a colt fer more’n thirty
years afore. Th’ ol’ lady couldn’t very well
divide thet, an’ so she jest sighed an’ gave
it up.
“Well, sir, both them boys claimed that
planner like it W’uz a stoc‘k farm or a cop
per mine. You never did see sich graspin’
fellers. They’d have gone to law ’bout it,
too, ef it hadn’t been for the parson. He
says to ’em: ‘Why don’t you boys leave it
to a referee?'' says he. ‘Ol Eb Snow* is the
very man to decide this here knotty p’int
o' ownership, an’ it won’t cost you a red
cent.’ So the upshot of it wuz that Eb
came over to the Billins homestead one
day an’ heard both sides an’ seen th’ plan
ner. an’ then stood back an’ coggytated.
“Pritty soon he says: ‘Bring me a hand
saw.’ Somebody brung him a saw, an’ ol’
Eb kind o’ guessed at the middle, an’ then
derned ef he didn’t saw that planner clean
in two! That’s right! ‘There,’ he says, with
a pleasin’ smile an’ the 6weat rollin’ down
his face, ‘that half’s yourn, Ji. an’ this
half’s Cy’s. But say, by gum—l’ll be
blamed ef I haven’t gone an’ give Ji three
extra keys, an’ th’ biggest bunch o’ wires!
That entitles you to the stool, Cy.’ And
there it wuz all settled as neat as you
please.
“I tell you, ol’ Eb Snow wuz a mighty
cute sort o’ feller, ef he wuz a Pop’list.”
A Misnamed Train.
He had driven from a backwoods ham
let to the station, and after making an
inquiry of the conductor, boarded the
train for Philadelphia, says the Philadel
phia Inquirer.
When well on the way he stopped the
blue-coated official and asked in all seri
ousness:
"I’m sorter hungry. Will ye tell me
jest where the eatin’ car Is?”
“There' is none on this train.” was the
answer. "Its short run does not require
it.”
"Huh!” grunted the questioner. “W’tch
of yer keers Is the one that ye jest 101 l
around in an’ turn and twist yer cheer
any way ye please? Don’t Imagine that,
because I've never went railroadin’ nfore
I don't know all about these things.”
“You probably mean tho Pullman. We
havn’t any attached.”
“Well, bu’stin' squashes! W’ere’s yer
cigar stand, so’s I kin be buyin’ a weed
an' lightin’ up?”
"We don't have such a thing, man."
“An' ye've no place fer me ter git my
shoes shined, ter be sure?”
“No. sir."
“Course, I'd be crazy ter think ye
might have a barber lad aboard?"
"We haven't any.”
The rural gentleman subjected the con
ductor to a menacing scrutiny from head
to foot and back again. Then he drawl
ed out In an angry, disappointed tone of
voice:
“Well, sufferin’ commeal! I though ye
said this wuz an accommodation train!"
A Hot Wave Rubaiyat.
From the Baltimore American.
One does not mind the Heat so very
much—
The torrid Air, the stifling Warmth,
“and such"—
Until at the Thermometer he looks,
And sees the hight the Mercury doth
touch.
One can forget the sizzling, baking Street,
That makes him, like a blind Horse,
lift his Feet.
Until some Bunch of Wisdom prateth
thus:
“ 'Tis the Humidity, and not the Heat.”
It would not make one wish to mildly
swear,
Nay, verily, he would not greatly care,
But for the Thought that by some one’s
Advice
He still had on his Wiriter Underwear.
i
It Is not Heat that fills one so with
Guile,
And causeth him to talk In Swearful
Style.
The madd'ning Impulse eometh when he
sees
Te joyful Glee that's In the Iceman's
Smile.
Thermometer and Flannels make one
stew;
Humidity and Iceman’s Smile do. too;
But. ah. we grow the Hottest at the man
Who asks us: "Is It Hot Enough For
You?"
Fergiiton Hail Learned.
Mr. Ferguson, back from Europe, told
his adventures at the Porphyry, says the
Boston Journal. He had been warned
against the eoptain of the Bulgonta, who
was a fine example of the traditional old
sea dog. whose brutality and profanity
were considered as the efflorescence of
seamanship. Ferguson was at first death
ly sick, but he managed to stay on deck.
He saw the captain coming and ho hailed
him: "Good morning, sir. Isn't It pretty
rough?" To which the captain answered:
“Rough? Why In h—l shouldn't It he
rough the first day out, you. blankety
blank,” etc. Ferguson went below. Tho
next day. again on deck, he saw the cap
tain winching him. Ferguson had learned
Ms lesson. The captain broke the silence.
"Well sir, you are looking better to-day."
Ferguson roared out: "Why in h—l
shoundn’t I be better th# second day
out, you blanketysblank,” etc. The cap
tain put out his hand: "Come Into the
cabin and have a drink, and won't you
six at my table?'*-
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Since 1858 the corn production of this
country has increased more than 122 per
cent., while the production of wheat has
increased nearly 350 per cent.
—A dock capable of accommodating
steamers 50 per cent, longer and broader
than tho Oceanic is to be built at Liv
erpool. It will cost nearly $2,000,000.
—The largest hospital In Europe is. at
Moscow, and has 7,000 beds. Its staff
consi6ta of ninety-six physicians and 900
nurses and about 15,000 patients and cared
for every year.
—The Canadian government has sent
a representative of Its census department
to New York to study the methods which
will be employed in counting the popu
lation of the metropolis.
There is a large cat “farm”—“ranch”
would hardly be the proper term—in Lin
coln county, Oregon, and the residents
in the vicinity have obtained the consent
of the postoffice department to the chris
tening of their postoffice by the name of
Angora. The first postmaster of Angora,
singularly enough, is Thomas Tom.
—The education of women must play
an important part in the development of
the South, according to Dr. C. D. Mc-
Iver, the principal of the Normal School
at Greensboro, N. C. “Educate a man
and you do well,” he says. “Educate a
woman and you do better; for your i#ive
not only educated her. but have made
sure of the education of four or five of
the next generation.”
—Lobsters are so scarce along the New
England coast that the imports of the
live shellfivsh from the Canadian maritime
provinces promise to be larger than ever
for this fiscal year, and in value will prob
ably constitute at least a sixth of ail the
go* Js shipped from Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick to the American market. The
imported lobsters enter duty free, but
nevertheless command high prices.
—Probably the greatest profit ever en
joyed by the government as a resu.. of
the destruction of money was in connec
tion with the fractional currency or shin
plasters issued during the Civil War,
says the Chicago Record. The total
amount issued w'as $358,724,079, of w'hich
$6,880,558 has never been presented for
redemption. A large amount has been
preserved as curios by collectors, and oc
casionally even now it is offered for re
demption. This was especially the cdse
during the recent hard times. People who
had the old shinplasters of -war times in
their cabinets and scrapbooks got hard
up and sent them in for redemption.
—“The world is alive with modest In
dustries that never are thought of by the
millions not connected therewith,” says
the New York Press. “Here, for example,
we are toting home day after day innum
erable parcels, each by means of a small
handle hooked into the strings with wires.
Millions of these handles are made an
nually. Every merchant is obliged to
have them. Their cost is small, yet they
must be reckoned in the profit and loss
account. Miles and miles of copper and
iron wire are used in their manufacture,
and enough wood is employed to make
whole forests of birch and maple. There
is a company in this city with a capital
of only $12,000 which turns out many tons
of these useful articles and realizes a
handsome profit thereon.”
—When "Tommy” comes marching homo
again, says an exchange, he may astonish
his adoring wife by calling for some of
the strange dishes he has tasted or heard
of In South Africa. It is scarcely prob
able that a meal of caterpillars will ap
peal to him, however. The Kaffirs eat the
repulsive creatures with relish, collecting
them in the same way as people in some
parts eat uncooked shrimps. Ostrich eggs
and ostrich steaks not even the most will
ing housewife can procure in England,
though in South Africa both are consider
ed, and with justice, nice and dainty dish
es. If his sojourn down South teaches
"Tommy" the value of good coffee, he will
be a lucky man. In his British home he
rarely finds any encouragement to drink
it; the weak, tasteless liquid that is set
before him is coffee only In name. In
South Africa coffee is the universal bever
age. It is made without the addition of
chicory, and is so vitalizing that no other
drink, and most certainly no alcoholic one,
can touch its beneficial qualities.
—The man who kills a female mosquito
Is a public benefactor, according to Prof.
A.yCelll, as quoted In the Philadelphia
Medical Journal. The best time to destroy
these carriers of malaria Is In the spring.
“For every mosquito killed,” says the ma
laria expert, "there will be 200,000,000 less
In the following year, 1/ eggs are laid four
times, and 20,000,000,000,000 less when eggs
are laid five times.” Petroleum thrown
upon the pools of stagnant water where
they lay their eggs destroy the young as
soon as hatched, the oil getting Into their
breathing apparatus when they come to
the surface for air. The expert warns per
sons susceptible to malaria not to sleep
in the open air, but to remain indoors at
night and In the early hours of the morn
ing. If the windows are open no light#
should be lit—to prevent the Ingress of
mosquitoes. Windows and doors should be
covered with netting. If one Is obliged
to be out at night in a mosquito malarious
country, the face and neck should be cov
ered with a veil and the hands with
gloves. Turpentine, turpentine soap, lodo
form, menthol and a paste of valerianic
acid are good chemical protedtlves. Senor
Cell! makes the novel observation that
"In a malarial country a patient sick with
malaria Is a danger to others and should
be Isolated." He is a source of Infection,
to th© mosquitoes that bite him and
through these mosquitoes he Infect# hts
fellow men. Quinine disinfects the blood,
but It Is of little use against "certain par
asitic forms that produce relapses and of
no use against the amoeba which com
pletes the sexual cycle in the mosquito.”
—Returns of the Suez canal’s traffic In
1899 Ehow continued Increase of business
and profits. The number of steamers trav
ersing the canal was 3.450, aggregating
9.893,022 tons, and paying th* company
$17,510,142 in tolls. This was an increase
of sixteen in number of ships, 50,000 in ton
nage and $1.25.',0r0 in receipts. In ten
years the tonnage has increased by 2,-
3)0,OC0 tons, and receipts by $3,430,000. The
users of the runal rspres-nt all civilized
flattens. England lending with G.G2‘.7i>7 tons
and Germany following far In the rear
with 1,(51,149 tons. Other nations are sim
ply "not In it" as rr-specls tonnage. The
United States had 04,801 tons, Japan, 210.-
179 tons; France. 591,142 tons;Russia. 167,-
917 tons; Italy, 132,711 tons. The success of
the Suez canal Is supposed by some per
sons to prove that the Nicaragua canal
will be similarly useful, says the Balti
more Sun. But the circumstance® are as
unlike as possible. The Surz canal Is In
the shot test trade route between t&p hun
dreds of millions of Asia and the hun
dreds of millions of Egypt, Europe and
Western Asa, whereas the Nicaragua
canal connects merely two wide oceans
It Is a shorter distance from New York
to India or China via the Stuz canal than
via the Nicaragua rcute. The Suez canal
has at present no railroads to compete
with, whereas chore ate thirteen railroads
to compete with the Nicaragua canal. It
Is Eurip : that makes the Suez canal pav
and Europe will continue to find |t the
shortest water route to the East. An Im
ported fact Is. the sea-level character of
the St ez canal as comunred with the brok
en and dangerous character of the navi
gation of a canal having many locks.
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