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UiDEX 10 KEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—Levan’s Table d’Hote
Bu sine as Notices—Harvard Beer; E. *
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Take Time by the Forelock—William &
H- H. Latimore.
Malt-Nn trine—Anheuser-Busch Browing
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The Weather,
The indications for Georgia to-day are
for fair weather, with light southerly
winds; and for Eastern Florida fair
weather in northern, showers in south
ern portion, and winds mostly fresh east
erly.
It Is estimated that not less than $500,-
000,000 of German money is invested in
the United States, or two-fifths of the to
tal German investment in the Western
Hemisphere. In view of this fact, why does
not some alarmist suggest that the Ger
man Emperor contemplates extending his
flag and his dominion to the United
States?
Recently a Chicago# Irishman of the
name of Roddy was elected chief of the
Winnebago Indians, in Wisconsin. The
other day Chief Roddy received a chal
lenge to mortal combat from Thunder, a
young buck of the tribe, who aspires to
the position of chief. Thunder suggests
that the two eet at the grave of old
Blaekhawk anciyjght to a finish with
tomahawks.
It Is to be hoped the report that South
ern railroads are taking steps to induce
Boer immigration from South Africa into
this section is well based. If the Boers
have any Intention of leaving South Af
rica they could not do better than to come
to the Southern States, and no agency
could do more to induce them to come here
than the railroads. The building up of the
West is largely the work of railroads, and
there is no good reason why the successes
of that section could not be duplicated, or
even improved upon, in the South.
There is in Philadelphia a large steel
firm which absolutely refuses to manufac
ture, or to furnish materials for the man
ufacture of implements of war, for the
reason that the. members of the firm are
Opposed to war from principle. Recently
the government desired to purchase a
large order of steel tubing to be used by
the war and navy departments. The firm
In question was asked to supply the tubes,
but it politely and firmly declined to sell
any of its products to be used for warlike
purposes.
President Morse of the New York Ship
building Company, which has large w orks
at Camden, N. J., Is in Great Britain in
specting the shipyards there. After In
specting the great yards at Belfast, Bar
row and on the Clyde, Mr. Morse sgys:
"America has nothing to fear from other
nations in the shipbuilding line. • • •
Tbe United States can more than hold Ps
own even In the infancy of its work." There
Is no suggestion of the need for ship sub
sidies in this expression; nevertheless the
subsidy beggars are crying, at the doors
of Congress for millions from the public
treasury. If the shipyards of the United
States can "more than hold their own"
at the present time, is there any valid rea-
Bon why we should not have free ships?
The members of the League of American
Sportsmen are rejoicing because rf the
passage of the Lacey bill through Con
grt.- bill enlarg.the riutits and
powers of the agricultural department to
lnelude the, preservation, distribution. ln
troductltfn and restoration of game birds
and other wild birds; prohibits the Impor
tation into'the United States o# any for
eign wild animal or birds except under
the peels I permit of the department of ag
riculture; prohibits common carriers from
transporting from one state or territory
Into another the dead bodlts of tiny wild
animals or birds killed In violation of the
laws of the stales or territories In which
they were killed, and otherwise provides
for the protection of birds and other game.
It Is claimed that the agricultural Inter
ests of the country, as well us the sports
men. will be greatly benefited by the oper
ations ol the law. \
AN I N SETTLED Ut EST I ON.
It is of course an unsettled question as
to what the Gold Democrats will do
in the presidential campaign, but if
is not such an important question as some
of the • Republican papers seem to think
it is. They appear to be much more In
terested in the talk of Gold Democrats
than the leaders of the Democratic l party
are. There has not been a great deal of
this talk yet. In Indiana some Gold Dem
ocrats have taken the position that a Gold
Democratic ticket ought to be nominated,
but if there have been sufficient responses
to their action to Justify the conclusion
that the Gold Democrats will put a presl
deritial ticket in the field the fact has es
caped the attention of the newspapers.
There will be a great deal of talk be
tween now and the meeting of the Demo
cratic National Convention as to what the
Gold Democrats will do, and the talk may
continue for a time even after the adjourn
ment of that convention, but there Is
nothing in the political situation at pres
ent that leads to the belief that there will
be any other Democratic ticket in the field
this year than the one that will be named
at Kansas City.
The number of Gold Democrats may be
as great now as in 1896, but the number
that will vote against the regular Dem
ocratic ticket Is not nearly so great. It Is
fair to assume therefore that there will be
no organization of Gold Democrats In the
campaign. It is undoubtedly a fact that
a great many Gold Democrats have vir
tually decided to vote for Mr. Bryan.
They know of course that he is just as
much a believer in the free coinage of sil
ver as he ever was, but they are satisfied
that It would not be in his power to dis
turb the gold standard if he were to be
elected President—that is, unless he should
be given a second term. They like him
in other respects, and, with the exception
of his views on the sliver question, ap
prove the position he takes on the lead
ing questions before the country.
Those Gold Democrats who are still
against Mr. Bryan will vote for Mr. Mc-
Kinley If they vote at all. While it Is im
possible to give, even approximately, an
estimate of their number it is safe to as
sume that it is not large enough to affect
the result of the election.
It looks now as if there would be a pret
ty square contest between the Democratic
and Republican parties. It Is the under
standing that the great majority of the
Silver Republicans have gone back to the
Republican party. Senator Wolcott, when
he returned from the Republican State
Convention of Colorado recently, stated
that more than half of the delegates were
men who had left the Republican party in
1896. The fact no doubt is that the Gold
Democrats and the Silver Republicans
have to a very great extent returned to
their respective parties. There Is not
therefore much reason for the Democratic
leaders bothering themselves about what
the Gold Democrats are likely to do.
And It will probably turn out that the
Populists are not by any means as strong
in numbers as they would like to have it
thought they are. Mr. War ton Barker, in
an Interview In Washington recently, said
that he expected to receive between 1,500,-
000 and 2,(00,000 votes. He will be fortun
ate if he receives 250,000. There are ex
treme Populists who Would vote for him
If they felt sure that he would not get
50,000 voles, but it Is pretty safe to say
that the majority of Populists have gone
back to the Democratic party and will be
found In this campaign In the ranks of
the great army of voters that will sup
port Mr. Bryan.
A PHILADELPHIA LINE.
The Trades League of Philadelphia sent
a delegation to the recent Industrial Con
vention at Chattanooga to sound the
Southern delegates with respect to the es
tablishing of a steamship line between
Philadelphia and some leading Southern
port. The Philadelphians were assured
that such an enterprise would be well re
ceived, that It would be given all of the
patronage possible, and that Southern
merchants would trade with Philadelphia
merchants and manufacturers to a much
greater extent if It were possible to se
cure prompt transportation at low rates.
Philadelphia manufactures are favorably
regarded In the South, but comparatively
little Southern trade now goes to that
city because of the lack of good, cheap
quick transportation facilities.
A steamship line to Savannah would
furnish the desired connecting link be
tween Philadelphia producers and South
ern consumers. The railroads of Savan
nah reach directly into South Carolina.
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and their
branches and connections gridiron the
South. As Savannah Is the great South
Atlantic outlet for cotton, so It should be
the great Inlet for merchandise to be dis
tributed In the cotton producing section.
The wharves and other terminal facilities
here are so much superior to everything
else of the kind in the South Atlantic sec
tion that they stand in a class by them
selves. No Southern city, not excepting
New Orleans and classing Baltimore as a
Southern city, has such perfect shipping
facilities as Savannah.
The merchants and manufacturers of
Philadelphia are said to be anxious to
have the proposed steamship line started.
If they are, and are ready to give it bus
iness, and the people of the South are pre
pared to give It business, why should not
the line be started at once? There must
Ik* a lot of idle money In Philadelphia
s“ekltig profitable investment. Isn’t this
a good chance to set some of It to earn
ing interest? It would certainly seem so.
We hope to have the pleasure of chronic
ling shortly that the enterprises has been
floated at Philadelphia and will quickly
make Us appearance at the port of Sa
vannah.
The Chinese government has been noti
fies! through Minister Conger that the Uni
ted Stales "expects It io promptly an 1
thoroughly stamp out" the society known
as the Boxers, which has lately been giv
ing so much trouble. The Chinese govern
ment is apt to find ihls "stamp ng on " a
rather fit flicu 1 r Job. sl-ce nccc-a r k
best Information available the Boxers
number probably a m l.jon in
have already beaten Chinese toldie s s nt
to discipline them, and are prohibly de
ter lighters than the government's troops,
since they are religious fanatl s while the
government troops are without inspiring
incentive.
A GAME OF POLITICS.
What an expert practical politician
would probably call a pietiy game is go!: g
on in Montana politics. The parties to It
are Thomas H. Carter and William A.
Clark. Carter is a senator from the state,
and Clark is trying hard to be. one. Car
ter will be remembered by the public at
large as chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee from 1892 to 1896, and for
his slick manipulation of (he affairs of
that organization. He Is the man who
looks like "Uncle Sam" and acts like the
slipperiest politician In the business. Of
Carter's adoption of Republlcansm there
is an Interesting story. He was born and
reared In Ohio, which may account for his
adroitness in politics. When he removed
to Montana in 1882 he formed a law part
nership with another young fellow <f
about his age. It was foupd that both
were of the same political belief. That
would never do. In order to catch the
clients "a-comin' and a-goin' ” It would be
necessary for one partner to b-a Demo
crat and the other a Republican. They
drew lots to see which 6hould change his
poll lies, and it fell to Carter to Ire the Re
publican; and a Republican he has been
ever since.
Carter and Clark have lately been hand
in-glove at Washington, notwithstanding
Clark is a Democrat. It has even been ru
mored that Carter has become Clark’s
right-hand man. They are seen together
often, and their conferences arc frequent.
Carter has lately been looking after
Clark’s interests on the floor of the Sen
ate. and Clark, according to reports, ha-*
been looking after Carter's interests In
Montana. Apparently Carter and Clark
are working together to control the nex.
Montana Legislature, which will elect two
senators, the ostensible purpose being
to have that body elect one Republican
and one Democrat—Carter and Clark.
But there are those who, rtading be
tween the lines, believe that the shrewd
Carter is really manipulating the wires to
as to trip Clark up; to secure the election
of two Republicans to the Senate, at the
same time making Clark pay the greater
part of the expenses of the Republican
campaign. Carter will, It is said, try to
Induce Clark to put up a candidate in ev
ery legislative district. This will call for
the putting up of a Daly ticket in each
district. Both Clark and Daly are Dem
ocrats. With two Democratic tickets out
and the vole divided, the chances would be
excellent for the Republicans to ccme in
between and elect a majority of the L g
islature.
This in no doubt a shrewd game, and
should It be successful would raise Carte
highly In the estimation of his party. But,
in view of Clark’s past, it is probably safe
enough to say that he is able io take care
of himself, even against the astute Car
ter. A man able to plan and carry out the
Spriggs coup is competent to “go up
against" about anything that the opposi
tion can show.
AMERICAN GOODS IN ENGLAND.
Mr. Osborne, our consul general it
London, says that if Americans were
aware of the extent to which American
manufactured goeds are sold in England
they would be surprised. It seems that
England is a very large market for Amer
ican manufactures. American manufac
turers who are placing their products in
England are keeping their business to
themselves. The reason probably is that
they sell their products at home at higher
prices than in foreign countries. They are
able to do this because of the protective
taiiff. They would be able to do this even
if there were no protective tariff, but they
w ould not get as high prices .in the home
market as they now get.
Mr. Osborne says that he had a talk
recently with one of the largest manu
facturers of Iron and steel in the United
States respecting the exportation of steel
rails to England. This manufacturer said:
"We have a'l we want to do with home
orders at present. When we want export
trade we can get it. We can bring raw
materials down to a point where we can
compete with the world."
We have no doubt that the statement of
the manufacturer quoted by Mr. Osborne
Is correct. Assuming that it Is, why is It
that the Republican party Insists upon
retaining (he protective principle in the
tariff? It has not been so very long since
the president of the sugar trust said that
the tariff was the mother of trusts. The
whole country is up In arms against
trus's, and yet there is no movement to
destroy trusts by repealing the protective
principle In the tariff. There are all sorts
cf propositions for destroying (rusts, but
for some unaccountable r* ason there Is no
movement to strike at trusts through the
tariff. Put the taiiff on a strictly revenue
hasis and there will be less reason for
complaining of tiust prices.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that the mat
ter of the formation of a tin can trust
has* been postponed for seven months, or
the reason that "ihe present is consld red
an unfavorable time to launch industrial
securities on the market.".ln otherwords,
the people, and particularly those who
have money to invest, are beginning to
look with suspicion upon trust securities.
It Is no longer a secret that trust capital
izations are generally more than hdf
water, and that many trusts hive been,
formed for the principal purpose, of un
loading questionable securities upon ihe
public. It Is pretty well understood that a
considerable proportion of the hundreds of
trusts organized since Mr. McKinley be
came President are “shaky,” and It Is
confidently expected that a number of
them will collapse with a crash as scon as
the industrial reaction sets in. Investors,
therefore, are fighting shy of new t lists.
The present season is net propitious for
them.
Senator Foraker of Ohio, it Is said, will
place Mr. McKinley in nomination. Not
withstanding Fotaker Is a Senator of the
United States, he Is a paid attorney for
trusts. Only the other day he appeared at
Columbus, 0.. as the attorney of the to
bacco trust, and made a defense of the
trust principle. Yet the Republican party
is g( Ing to try to fool the people by put
ting an anti-trust plank into Its platform!
President t'oogan of Manhattan borough
shows his faith In Mr. Bryan In a v< ry
substantial manner. If money talks. Coo
gun la literally shouting for Bryan,
THE MOHMKG NEWS: MONDAY, MAY 2*. ItUKI
In Baltimore one woman has sued an
other for damages in th*' sum of *IO,OOO for
being called “Falschg- iwovenne rubber
neck,” The admixture of German and
English certainly looks shocking enough
on paper to Justify a suit for damages.
The big word is the German equivalent
for "perjured.”
PERSON AI„
—Emperor William and the Empress
will go Oct. 18 to Konigsberg, where the
Emperor, In (he chapel of the castle, will
crown himself King of Prussia. A series
of brilliant festivities will be arranged
in honor of the coronation and the sov
ereign Kings of Germany, members of
the Imperial house and other distinguish
ed personages will Ire invited to attend
the ceremony. In the same chapel, which
was built In 1582, Frederick the Great was
crowned King of Prussia in 1701 and King
William I crowned himself Oct. 18, 1861.
—Old titles of (he Duke of Fife were
Duke of Fife and Marquis of Macduff.
His new titles, which alone he will leave
to his eldest daughter, Lady Alexandra
Duff, are Duke of Fife and Earl of Mac
duff. His being created a Marquis in
1889 occasioned surprise, as royal person
ages, or personages connected with the
royal family, are usually created Dukes,
Earls and Barons. Neither the Duke of
Y'ork, the Duke of Connaught, the Duke
of Albany, the Duke of Cumberland, the
Duke .of Cambridge nor any of the ducal
descendants of Charles II Is either a Mar
quis or a Viscount. One of the descend
ants of Charles 11. the Duke of Buc
eleuch, has, however, u marqulsate and
a viscountcy, but Inherits 'them from an
accidental ancestress of the house of
Queensberry.
—The birth of a son and heir to the
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort is an
event which will cause great rejoicing in
the West of England, where, as Marquis
of Worcester, the present head of the
House of Somerset was the most popular
landlord on both sides of the Severn, for
the late Duke handed over Badminton
and other estates to his eldest son sev
eral years before he died and retired to
another family seat. Stoke Gifford, near
Bristol. The Duchess, who was the
widow of Baron de Tuyll, has two little
daughters by her second marriage, but
the arrival of the new Lord Worcester
is an Important event, for it bars out
ihe presumptive succession to the duke
dom of Lord Hetfry Somerset and his
sons; the latter, however, will Inherit
great wealth from their mother, the well
known advocate of woman’s rights and
one of the co-helresses of the late Earl
Somers.
BRIGHT BITS.
—“De trouble in dls life,” said Uncle
Eben, "Is dat de voice o' duty can't do
no mo'n whisper, while de voice o' pleas
ure uses a megaphone.”—Washington
Star.
—"Well, I wouldn’t call that a pierless
combination,” remarked Northside.
"What?” demanded Shadyside. "The
Bridge Trust.”—Pittsburg Chronicle Tel
egraph.
—Expert Opinion.—“l'm so glad that the
poor fellows at Mafeking have been re
lieved." "Yes. Why so?" "Because now
we'll find out what they think of the star
vation cure."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
—“Have you read this sermon of the
Rev. Dr. Highflyer? It's rank heresy."
"Yes? Perhaps his press agent has rec
ommended heresy as the most effective
form of ecclesiastical advertising.”—
Brooklyn Life.
—Had Been .u Change.—Kansas Man
(visiting in die East)—“We have lots of
near neighbors now.” Friend—Why, I
thought your nearest neighbor was twenty
miles away,” "Yes, but we’ve had a cy
clone since then.”—Harlem Life.
—Neither Gets Them.—" You seem to
have a great taste for poetry,” remarked
the cop.vhook, observing the office goat
sniffing around the editor's waste-basket.
"Yes,” replied the goat, "but I like my
poems well done, and I seldom find that
sort here.” ‘‘Huh!” exclaimed the copy
hook, "the well-done poem that comes
to me is very rare."—Philadelphia Press.
—Poverty.—Here a frail woman in a tat
tered shawl entered and laid a penny on
the counter. "Give me two and one-half
pounds of Sunday newspaper,” she said.
In a ijollow voice. After she had gone
out the proprietor of the place told us
that she would make such n meagre supply
of this staple necessity suffice for a fam
ily of fourteen persons.—Detroit Journal.
—The Marks of Honor.—The Major had
rolled up his sleeves to bowl. "Major,”
inquired one of the players, “How did you
get all those little sears on your arms?”
"Duels.” responded the Major; "duels I
fought in France.” “And I suppose that
large sear was acquired in some partic
ularly fierce combat?" “No, sir; that Is
where I was vaccinated when a boy.”—
Chicago News.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Charleston (S. C.) Post (Dem.)
says: “The Presbyterians and the Meth
odists are not of the same mind, evident
ly, as regards the station of women. The
Southern assembly of Presbyterians at
Atlanta yesterday passed over contemptu
ously an appeal from Susan B. Anthony
that they indorse woman’s suffrage. The
Methodist Conference at Chicago, but a
few days previous, had authorized t’*e
admission of women delegates to Its fu
ture sessions. The differing view would
furnish text for an interesting discourse
by the Apostle Paul."
The Minneapolis Times (Dem.) says:
“The people are beginning to realize—
and will awaken their lawmakers to the
fact—that a great corporation doing busi
ness in every state and territory and in
foreign lands is something more than a
private business enterprise. They will
realize that a corporation whose stock Is
in the market inviting (he public to In
vest should he compelled fo take stock
holders and would-be Investors into its
confidence to the extent, at least, of giv
ing them an approximate knowledge of
Its methods and operations."
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says:
"The gold Democrats of Indiana should
get In line. They can call themselves
'gold' Democrats If they like, because this
year the term excites no feeling one way
or the other. But as Democrats without
the prefix their place Is In the ranks of
the grand army which Is moving against
McKlnleylsm and all Its works. No Dem
ocrat. gold or silver, or greenback, for
that matter, can be spared from his place
In the coming battle."
The New York Commercial find.) says:
"Maj. Rathbone bought over *6,000 worth
of safes for the government In Cuba. He
will doubtless point to these ns the best
possible evidence of good faith and in
tegrity of purpose."
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.)
says: "The Oerman-Airterlcan war Is re
spectfully referred to a committee com
posed of Messrs. Budwelser, Lrlungtr,
Sohlltz, Lemp and Rabat.
When Jefferson Was Hissed.
In a speech at a dinner an evening or
two ago, "Joe'’ Jefferson made light of
what he styled his amazing lack of the
martial spirit, says the New York Mail
and Express. "I don’t believe," said he,
“that there is a man living who is less
ml itarv than I am. Of course, I am
Fighting Bob in 'The Rivals,’ but really,
by nature, I am a man of peace. The only
lime I was ever hissed off the stage was
when I attempted to sing the “Star-Span
gled Banner.’ Now, 2 am fairly patriotic.
I love my country and I love my flag,
but on that occasion, for the first and last
time in my life, I cursed the flag and
eve yihlng It represented. It came about
in this way:
"When I was a lad, I had a fairly good
singing voice, and It was arranged that
I should add to our regular repertoire of
s andard plays by singing the Star-Span
gied Banner" between the acts. How I
studied It! I knew it forward, 1 knew it
backward— and to tell the truth, that was
about the way I sang it.
"After rehearsing the song pretty stead
ily lor a week, I said I was ready. As it
happened, we had a rather large and crit
ical audience on the night I selected for
my debut, but I managed to get out be
fore the footlights. While my good mother
stood In the wirgs hoping against hope.
Oh, say can you see—’ I sang, and
c:uld go no further. "Oh, say can you ser
—’ I sang again. My voice was husky and
the audience looked coldly curious. ‘Oh,
say can you see—’ I sang for the third
time, and to my surprise I found my voice
growing weaker. The audience was a bit
impatient but waited to give me a chance
to redeem myself. When I mustered up
sufficient courage to try again I discov
ered I couldn’t sing a note, and 1 stood
there wondering what to do. However, it
was decided fer me, for the whole house
Jol ed in a hiss so long drawn out and so
prthusiastic that I could stand It no long
er. and, rushing from the stage Into my
anxious mother's arms, we mingled our
tears.
"1 have never been hissed since, because
on that awful night I made a firm resolve
that the 'Star-Spangled Banner’ should be
forever barred frem my repertoire."
A Feat ire of Deaths.
"Did you ever see a man die?" asked W.
R, Sinclair, of Chicago, at the Gilsey
House, says the New York Tribune. "I
don't mean by that die a natural death in
his bed, but suddenly, as the result of
either accident or intent. It has been my
111 fortune to witness such an ending to
man’s estate in life! and the first time it
occurred was when I was a small boy.
I was coming down a street which ran
past one of our principal hotels. A man
on a step ladder was cleaning the old
fashioned electric light in front of the
entrance, and in some way he received the
current, and it killed him deader than a
door nail. 1 was quite a distance away at
the time, but owing to the man’s position
on the step ladder raising him above the
heads of the Intervening crowd I had a
perfectly plain view of the accident. The
second time I witnessed an accidental
death was that of a man jumping from a
runaway express wagon. He must have
been wild with fear, for he ran to the
tailboard and deliberatly jumped out fac
ing the direction opposite to that in which
the wagon was going at the time. He
went over, striking full on his head on the
hard roadway, and lived only a few mo
ments afterwards. I also saw a man shot
to death while I was at Manila. He at
tacked one of our sentries with a knife,
but the soldier was too quick for him and
killed him with his revolver. The one
thing that struck me, in all these sudden
deaths, was the way in which the victims
seemingly shrunk in size. One moment
there would be a man in the full tide of
life, with good or ill-fitting clothing, as
the case might be, but in any case filling
It oul, and the next moment there would
be a huddled pile of clothing, apparently
just as it might have been thrown to the
ground by some careless hand. The man
inside seemed to have little to do with ii;
he looked by comparison so much too
small for it that it might have simply
been thrown over him. I have seen a
number of men knocked senseless, and in
each and every case I have noticed the
same phenomenon.”
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The newest projectile, which penetrates
Krupp armor and plates of Harveyized
steel, reminds me of the old days when
men swore they could send a tallow candle
through a two-inch board at fifty yards
and skin a beef with a piece of fat meat
at ninety, says Victor Smith In the New
York Press. I have heard good, honest,
well-meaning fellows swear they had done
it, and numerous witnesses have taken
oath that they have seen it done. Nearly
any one will believe it when the modus
operand! Is explained, as It was expl tine 1
in the case of the Jackson shell w.th its
soft nose. The only case of fat meat shooi
ing I ever witnessed occurred shortly be
fore Emancipation Day. A big buck nig
ger had threatened his master with death.
The old man rammed a few chunks of -alt
pork In his shotgun and let fly at Mr.
Sambo just as the latter scaled a rail
fence thirty-five yards away. There was
an awful yelling, and when Sambo was
toted to the house he was minus his
breeches and about twelve pounds of
flesh. The charge had caught him on the
fly and skinned him from ham to shin,
taking his "pants” along with the meat.
Vvanted to Warn Him,
Sir Algernon Wells tells this story in his
‘‘Recollections:” One day the late Sir
George Campbell, who had a very aident,
loud, rasping voice, called on Sir Alger
non, who was then secretary to Mr. Glad
stone. to talk over the land question. Af
ter he had been in conversation about
three minutes the office-keeper appeared,
bearing the card of an M. P., who. he
said, was very anxious to see Sir Alger
non. The latter said he was sorry to be
engaged. In another minute he appeared
with the card of a well known p>eer, who
was most desirous to have a word with
him. Again the latter said he was too
busy to eee him Just then. In anclhar
minute the man again came in with a
huge card, saying the' Lord Mayor and
sheriffs of London wanted to speak Ux Sir
Algernon West very urgently In the next
room. Sir Algernon apologized to Sir
George and went out to such great digni
taries. When he got out of the room the
office-keeper startled him by saying:
“There ain't nobody here, sir; but } was
afraid n madman had been shown In to
you by mistake, and I wanted to warn
you, sir.”
A College Willow,
From the Somerville (Mass.) Journal.
When first we met she won my heart
Her simple ways, her gentle grace,
Her easy manners, free from art,
The childlike beauty of her face, ’
Her graceful figure, trim and nert.
The dainty taste she showed in dress,
All brought me quickly to her feet.
And life seemed full of happiness.
No love but mine had ever stirred
(That’s what she said) her maiden heirt
But one unlucky day I heard
Some news that pierced me like a dart
My uncle saw her passing by,
And with a sigh he said to me:
"That Smythe girl always took my eye'
We were engaged in ’73.”
—The name of the lalß Duke of Argyll
was George Douglas Campbell. The Camp,
bells have been leading Scotchmen si long
and the family title, Mac CUi m More, has
such a Celtic flavor, that It Is worth ex
plaining that they are of Norm in descent,
and their family name, contracted from
Campus Bellus, or Fairfield, Is one of the
oldest known to English heralds.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The telephonograph, which is a modi
fication of the phonograph, was recently
tested in Germany by the Postmaster Gen
eral and several engineers. The Inventor
has replaced the wax cylinder of the Edi
son phonograph by a steel band, and the
style by a magnet energized by a telep
hone. Currents transmitted by the tele
phone pass through the electro-magnet,
and create consequent poles of the steel
band, and more or less of the converse
operation Is employed for reproducing the
sound. It is suggested that the telephono
graph may be set by a telephone subscrib
er on leaving his office; to receive mess
ages during his absence, and that it will
probably do Its work better than the aver
age office boy.
—A Havana correspondent of the Con
gregationalist (Boston) writes: "Baptists,
Methodists, Presbyterians, Disciples, Epis
copalians and Congregationalisms are all
here, but none of these branches of the
evangelical church seem to have sufficient
men and means to meet the enormous
demands of the situation. I attended last
Sunday the Catholic, Baptist and Congre
gational Churches. I found the Catholic
Church almost empty, with scarcely a
man in the audience. I found the large
Baptist Church thronged With Cuban chil
dten in Sunday School. A teacher in one
of ihe best private schools in Havana, who
has a diploma from the Spanish govern
ment, when asked why she wanted to
unite with the evangelical church, said,
‘I wish to unite with it because there is
no hypocrisy about it.’ ”
—Sir John Murray, in his presidential
address before the geographical section of
the British association, brought out some
interesting facts as to the temperature of
the ocean at great depths. The data ob
tained up to th 4 present time shows that
at a depth of 180 meters the temperature
of the water remains nearly or quite in
variable at all seasons. It Is estimated
that 92 per cent, of Ihe mass of water is
at a temperature below 4.4 degrees C.
Nearly all the deep water of the Indian
ocean is below 1.7 degrees C., this temper
ature being about the same for a great
part of the South Atlantic and certain
parts of the Pacific, but in the North At
lantic and the greater part of the Pacific
the temperature is higher. For depths be
yond 3 600 meters the mean temperature
of the N:rth A'lantic is one degree great
er than that of the Indian ocean and a
part of the South Atlantic. The mean
temperature of the Pacific has an interme
diate value. As the depths of the sea con
stitute an obscure r gion where the solar
rays cannot penetrate. It follows that veg
etable life must be absent upon 93 per
cent, of the bottom.
—A soldier serving with the Third Cav
alry in the Philippines writes to his fam
ily in St. Joseph, Mo.: "I think we will
stay at Vigan during the rainy season.
The Insurgents don’t like the rainy sea
son any more than we do. We are living
fine here now. Sweet potatoes grow
abundantly. Oranges, bananas, limes,
lemons, cocoanuts and pineapples are
plentiful the year round. There are sev
eral kinds of oranges and bananas. Of
oranges there is one kind of which the
outside Is green, even when ripe. They
grow to be three and four inches in diam
eter. There are also the green banana,
the red banana, the yellow and the seed
banana. The latter has seeds like the
pawpaw In the states. Monkeys are very
numerous. Bino is the principal intoxi
cant. One drink makes a man feel good,
two ’loco’ and three will find him throw
ing rocks at his own funeral. The war,
so far as the so-called, insurgent army is
concerned. Is at an end. There are and
will be for some time to come roving
bands of Insurgents, whose aim is to equal
or surpass the record made by Jesse
James and his followers.”
—Capt. George Whitsett of Kansas, who
Is serving in the Philippines, writes home
to friends: "There is not an American
banker here. If we put our gold army
pay in one of these banks we con get onlv
its equivalent in silver; we never get it
in gold again. The soldiers do not like
the bankers here, either' native or for
eign, and an American banker could get
the patronage of every American soldier
and sailor connected with the Islands. I
figure that there are 70,000 American sol
diers here, 5,000 civil employes of the gov
ernment, and any number of sailors and
officers of the navy. Based on this and
the amount of American mercantile busi
ness going on, it is estimated that an
American bank would have very soon a
deposit of $50,000,000. It’s a fine opening
for someone in that line. However, it
has to be gone about slowly and investi
gated carefully, as it is very ticklish
business to handle funds and make loans
here. The customs of the country and
the nature of Us crops and the commod
ities in trade would have to be studied
before a safe venture could be made, but
some American will surely enter this field
soon.”
—Dr. Frank Baker, of the Smithsonian
Institution, has sent Elwood Hofer, a
guide and hunter of the Yellowstone Park,
to catch s.me of the monster bears on
Kadiak Island In the Gulf of Alaska, for
the National Zo'.rgica! Park. These bears
are of the polar breed, perfectly white,
with long, heavy fur, and at full growth
are twice as large as the ordinary black
bear of the Rocky mountains, weighing
from 2,100 to 3,0 0 pounds and standing as
I igh as an ordinary cow—lhe biggest car
nivorous anima s living. The tracks they
leave in the snow have often measured fif
teen inches long and ten inches wide.
They are very savage and fight desperate
ly when attacked. Several have been kill
> and and the skins have been brought to this
country, but no Kadiak bear was ever
captured alive. Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, the
fish exp rt, who is in charge of the de
partment of fisheries at the Paris expo
sition, while making an exploration of the
fishing resources of Kadiak Island last
Ye r saw a good many of these bears and
dezcrltes them in graph'c terms. He says
that while climbing a rocky hill one day
he saw a large drove of them near the
coast running about and playing like so
many lambs. There must have been a hun
dred and fifty or iwo hundred In the
bunch, he says, and some of them were
enormous.
—Treating of the subject of fossils, a
wr.ter in the London Chronicle says:
Every animal, like many human beings,
has had "a past ” To decipher ihis past
is the business of the pnleontologist The
ancients had vailou# views upon this mat
ter. They would not take the olain ex
planacions which are considered adequate
to-day. By some these similitudes of llv
ing beings were regarded as formed by "a
Plastic virtue" resident in the earth
which was even settled to be a fatty sub
-lanea—"a liquid pingue"—capable’ of a
kind of f* rin< nia'lon, and thus productive
of fossils Voltaire, seriously, as It ,n
pears, and not at all s-offingly, put dowm
the fossil shells upon the Alps to scallops
fallen from the hats of plgrlms! Other,
held that fossils were placed In the earth
by the devil to mislead mankind Into the
ditbtll f in the Mosa c theory of creation
We now know well enough for all practi
cal purposes what they are, but It Is not
everybody probably who could define the
meaning of the expression off-hand The
general Impression in all probability
would be of a dHI or other animal rem
nant turned to stone. Asa matter of fact
a fly In amber Is just as much a fossil
as the stoniest of corals or ammonites ' So
too Is, or rather was, the famous mam
moth carcass exhumed in the Siberian
I I ins, of which hair and other remains
are In the museum at St. Petersburg Anv
ctes'tire rr part of a creature whose re
mains have c me down to us imbedded In
the earth must be regarded as a fossil.
The Quakers Are
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It Is a medicine for weak women. It is a
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to its wonderful effects upon the human
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Sprains, Pain In Bowels; in fact, all pain
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medicated soap for the skin, scalp and
complexion. Price 10c a cake.
QUAKER HEALING SALVE, a vege
table ointment for the cure of tetter, ec
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10c a box.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRTJGGIST9
PETITION FOR INCORPORATION.
~STATE Of'"”g"eOßGla] CHATHAM
County—To the Superior Court of sail
county:
The petition of C. S. Richmond, E. L.
Richmond, Henry MoAlpin, C. J. Rich
ards and A. L. Stokes respectfully shews:
First. That they desire for themselves]
their associates, successors and assigns
to be constituted a body corporate under
the name of
THE RICHMOND BUSINESS COLLEGE
OF SAVANNAH,
and by that name to acquire, hold and
enjoy all the rights, powers and privi
leges incident to such body corporate or
conferred upon it by the statutes of said
state.
Second. The object of the corporation
Is to be the pecuniary gain and profit to
its stockholders, and the business to bo
carried on and conducted is that of a bus
iness college, teaching cf shorthand,
typewriting, bookkeeping, penmanship,
English branches, foreign languages,
scientific and classical studies, electrical
engineering, surveying, drafting, mechan
l al drawing, and all the branches of
study pertaining thereto; to buy, sell and
place machinery, or any other appliance
that will tend to increase the value of the
instructions; to print and publish text
bocks and to sell the same upon such
terms as will be to the best interest of
the association; to buy and sell real es
tate, and to borrow money on real estate
and personal propertyi and to execute
such mortgages, deeds and transfers
therefor as may be necessary, and to do
such other things as may be necessary
ard lawful in the prosecution of said bus
iness.
Third. The capital stock shall be twenty
thousand (*20.00000) dollars, divided into
one hundred (10)1 shares, of one hundrfd
t* 00) dollars each, and petitioners desire
the right to Increase said capital stock to
any amount not exceeding five hundred
thousand ($500,000.00) dollars, by a direct
vote of three-fourths of the stock, at a
special meetirg calltd for that purpose.
Fourth. The chief office and place of
business shall be in the said county and
state and in the city of Savannah, where
a majority of the Beard of Directors shall
reside; but petitioners desire tbe privilege
of transacting business anywhere within
the state of Georgia, or in any other state,
if it Is to their interest to do so. They de
sire to establish branch schools where
ever they think proper. Appoint local
boards, attorneys, agents and representa
tives, as occasion and business may re
quire to carry on the business of said as
sociation, and to confer authority on them
for that purpose.
Fifth. To make such by-laws, rules and
regulations for the government of said
corporation, not In conflict with the laws
of Georgia, which may be necessary and
proper, to have and to use a common seal,
io sue and be sued, to plead and be im
p’eaded, to contract and be contracted
with, and to have such powers and to do
such other things as are Usual and prop
er, in order to carry out the intention and
purpose of said association.
Your petitioners pray that they, their
associates and successors may he incor
porated under the said name and style,
"The Richmond Business College of Sa
vannah," for a term of twenty (20) years,
with privilege of renewal at the expira
tion of that time.
And your petitioners wifi ever pray. etc.
HENRY M’ALPIN,
Petitioners’ Attorney.
Petition for incorporation filed in office,
May 19, 1900.
JAMES K. P. CARR,
Clerk S. C„ C. C.. Ga.
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