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ISDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Southern Bank of the Slate of
Georgia; Savanpah Lodge No. 183, B. P.
O. Elks.
Special Notices*—Notice to Water Tak
ers; Notice of Jewelers’ Early Closing;
Three Days More, James S. Silva; Cook
thk Class at 'Woman's Exchange; A Gen
tlemen's Handicap Tournament, June 2;
Lq van's Table d’Hote; Recital by Pupils
of Mr. Frank E. Rebarrer, May 29.
Business Notices—Coffees Roasted Dally,
Henry Solomon & Son; E. & W. Laundry;
Sterling Silver for June Weddings, Hun
ter & Van Keuren; The Sweetest Hams,
B. W. Branch Company.
Auction Sales—One Block of Eight Lots,
by John L. Archer, Auctioneer; Sale of
Two Lots, by John L. Archer, Auc
tioneer.
Stoves—Wlckless Blue Flame Stoves.
Cigars—Tom Keene’s Five Cents Cigar.
Drugs and Seeds—Donnelly’s Pharmacy.
Brooms—Antiseptic Brooms.
Hotels—Green Park Hotel, North Car
olina.
Financial—Stocks, Cotton, Grain and
Provisions, F. A. Rogers & Cos., Inc., New
York.
Lawn Mowers—Edward Lovell’s Sons.
Proposals—For New Toilet Rooms, Etc.,
J. P. Johnson, Acting Custodian.
Railroad Schedule—Central of Georgia
Railway.
Salt—The Favorite Table Salt.
Whisky—Hunter Baltimore Rye; Duffy
Pure Malt Whiskey.
Mineral Water—Apenta.
Medical—Lydia rinkham’s Vegetable
Pills; Castorla; S. S. S.; Pond’s Extract;
Dr. Hathaway Cos.; Ayer’s Sarsaparilla;
Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Coke Dandruff Cure;
Johryin Hoff's Malt Extract; For-Mal-de-
Hyde Inhaler; Woman’s Friend.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day are
for partly cloudy weather Tuesday, with
probably showers In western portion and
fresh southerly winds, becoming variable;
and for Eastern Florida partly cloudy
weather, with probably showers In south
ern portion, and with winds mostly being
easterly.
The Pingree potato plan has been aban
doned In Boston after five years. The
reason, it is said, is that so few people
feel the need of cultivating vegetables
for themselves under the Pingree plan
that the cost and labor of managing
the project Is not warranted. Boston’
points with pride to this matter as an
•vidence of her prosperity.
The ex-Spanish cruiser Relna Mercedes
Is still at the Norfolk navy yard, but the
residents of Norfolk are not particularly
proud to have her there. On the other
hand, they would much prefer that she
were not there, owing to the suspicion
that her hull may be a repository of dor
mant yellow fever germs, which might
become malignant in hot weather. There
was talk some months ago of sending the
chip to Portsmouth. N. H., and It Is possi
ble that she will be taken there before
the warm season begins.
It Is to be hoped that that Kansas
-‘paidologist’’ who does not believe In the
purity of man’s love read that Cleveland,
0., dispatch of a day or two ago, telling
of the courtship and engagement of Mr.
Croft and Miss Putnam. For seventy-one
y ats, the story says, Mr, Croft paid court
to Miss Putnam, b. ginning when he was
fifteen years if age and she seventeen.
But it was not uhtll last January, when
they wore aged elghty-slx and eighty
ei|h\ respectively, that they became for
mally engaged and fixed the day for the
wedding for May 28. 1909.
tr. Doty, health officer of the port of
Net* York, says there is no dnnger of an
epidemic of the bubonic plague tn any
American city where proper sanitary con
ditions exist, and where the importance of
cirvmilness und fresh air are fully recog
nized. Bubonic p'aguc, like typhus fever,
Is pi e-rminently a disease which thrives
in the presence of filth and overcrowding
aq.l other bad sanitary conditions. No
country can depend entirely upon quaran
tine regulations to prevent Ihe entrance of
Inf ctlous diseases Into their seat-oast
towns. But, should the plague by chance
make an entrance, Dr. Doty hus no hesi
tation In saying that It could and would
be handled so as to put it quickly under
control—provided, of course, the town was
clean.
A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.
The Indications are that the Investiga
tion into the fiscal affairs of Cuba. In ac
cordance with the resolution Introduced
Into the Senate by Senator Bacon, and
pushed through that body by h m, will be
a very thorough one. The fact that there
is to be an investigation gives great sat
isfaction. The senators who have been
appointed to make it have the confidence
of their colleagues. They are Senators
Platt of Connecticut, Aldrich, Cullom,
Davis, McMillan, Chandler and Spooner,
Republicans, and Senator Teller, Silver
Republican, acting with the Democrats,
and Senators Money and Talllaferro,
Democrats. They are Instruoted to thor
oughly fnqulre Into about everything per
taining to public matters that the Amer
icans have done since they occupied the
Island, and to find out whether there has
been fraud, peculation or inexcusable ex
travagance In the handling of the public
money.
If there is anything in the reports which
are reaching this country other scandals
than the Neely embezzlement will be
found. Evidence has been offered to show
that somebody made a pi e of money out
of the little six-mile railroad which the
government built for military purposes
to connect the Havana wharves with the
railway system of the island. It will be
found, probably, that millions of dollars
have been wasted In usel ss expenses,and
that there has been a vast amount of
plundering.
No doubt the administration would like
to cover up the wrongful acts of its Cu
ban agents, but It does not dare to do
so. To attempt to do so would give rise
to suspicions that the fraud and corrup
tion greatly exceed the wildest specula
tions in regard to them. Therefore Its
wisest course is to make the fullest in
vestigation possihle. It is said that Gerx.
Weyler, when he heard thal American
officials were charged with robbing the
Cubans, and that it was believed they
had pocketed more plunder than the
Spaniards ever succeeded in getting In
the same length of time, was gratified
beyond measure. He did not rejoice that
the Cubans had been plundered, but that
the Americans, who had condemned the
Spaniards for dishonesty, had not been
more honest than the Spaniards. It Is
humiliating to the American people that
the American administration of Cuban af
fairs should be marred by such scandals as
are now coming to light. Still, they were
to be expected under the system for mak
ing civil appointments In our Insular pos
sessions. The politicians who select the
appointees have only one object In view,
and that is the payment of their political
debts or In securing political follower#
who may be useful when needed.
AGAINST A THIRD CANDIDATE.
Mr. D. H. Chamberlain, formerly Gov
ernor of South Carolina, and now a citi
zen of Massachusetts, may properly be
colled a leading exponent of “Gold Democ
racy.” He does not believe in the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen
to one, and on other points he finds him
self out of consonance with Mr. Bryan.
Nevertheless, Mr. Chamberlain will sup
port Bryan In the ‘approaching campaign,
for reasons which he sets forth in a let
ter to the Springfield’ (Mass.) Republican;
reasons which should appeal to those other
Gold Democrats who are canvassing the
advisability of putting up a third candi
date.
Mr. Chamberlain points out clearly that
the real contest will be between the nom
inees of the Democratic and Republican
parties, or Mr. Srjtßn and Mr. McKinley,
and that no third candidate can possibly
change the result. From the point of view
of the Gold Democrats, it is a choice be
tween evils, and that choice Cannot be
evaded by putting up a third candidate,
since to vole for a third candidate would
be equivalent only to casting half a vote
against the greater evil of trusts, monop
olies and imperialism, as represented by
Mr. McKinley’s pafty. ’’However mu :n
we may disrate Bryan and his party,”
says Mr. Chamberlain, "It still remains
that Bryan and his party are opposed to
giving free swing to trusts and monopolies
and the tariff which largely supports
them, and to turning our republic Into an
empire.” This being true, and It cannot
be successfully questioned, "it should
seem that the election of Bryan, being the
utmost that can be done at the time to
ward off these mortal ills, It is ihe best
thing to do.”
How votes for a third candidate are
wasted was illustrated In the last elec
tion. Palmer and Buckner did not carry
a county. They cut no figure at all in
the determination of the result, except
In so for as by drawing votes away* from
the Democratic nominee, they aided in
the election of the Republican. If til!
Gold Democrats find themselves in a di
lemma In the coming election as between
voting for free coinage on the one hand,
or In favor of trusts and imperialism on
the other, the putting up of a third can
didate Is no solution of It.’ It is merely a
make-believe avoidance of it, which does
not at ail avoid. The votes that would
be cast for a third candidate would have
no effect In furthering those principles
for which the anti-Bryan Democrats con
tend, nor defeating those to which they
object. Asa matter of fact, therefore,
voters for a third candidate would be
participating, In a negative sort of way. In
a choice between Bryan and McKinley,
with the advantage on the side of the
latter. Under the circumstances, “who
ever insists on a third candidate who ion
not ’ possibly be elected, seems to be
chargeable with shrinking from duty, if
he seriously wishes to do his best to de
feat McKinley."
A Michigan man has got In his barn a
family of rats tha> h" wouldn’t have
harmed for any oonslderatlcn. They are
bringing him money every day, though
where they get It Is a mystery. They
have made several attempts to build a
nest out of $lO. $lO and S!CO bills, but the
owner of the barn has never permitted
them to sle p over night upon the labors
of the day. Most of the bills are torn,
but he has succ eded In patching up over
S2OO worth, while he has m. re than $3,000
more in fragments waiting for the other
pieces to show up. There Is.a story that
some years ago a rich doctor burled hts
money somewhere In the neighborhood,
and It Is the theory that the ra's have
discovered the horde and are using the
k doctor’s money lu their nest-bulldlng.
IMPORTANCE OF THE CENSUS.
We have no doubt that the supervisor
of the census for (this district under
stands fully the importance of making a
very careful enumeration of the Inhabi
tants of this city, and, in fact, of the
entire district. We are sure, however,
that everybody interested In Savannah
W'ould be especially grateful to him If he
would take extra pains to Impress upon
the enumerators the necessity for getting
on their lists the name of every person
living within the city’s limits. It is not
desired that the city shall appear to have
more Inhabitants than it really has, but
It is desired that it shall make Just as
good a showing as it Is possible for It
to make legitimately.
It Is certain that hundreds of citizens
will be missed In the enumeration un
less the enumerators pursue their In
quiries persistently and intelligently.
There are houses at which they will call
where they will find it difficult to get cor
rect Information, not perhaps because of
a desire to withhold the facts, but be
cause of a lack of knowledge of what is
actually required. They will come across
houses where there Is no one at home and
concerning the occupants of which the
neighbors probably know very little.
It is impossible to think of all of the
conditions likely to arise that would in
terfere with getting a correct enumera
tion. It is certain, however, that the
enumeration will show the population to
be much below what It actually Is un
less the enumerators undertake their
work with a determination to spare no
effort to get the name of every person
that lives within the limits of the city.
In other cities of the s:ate special ef
forts will be made to show that there
has been great growth w-ithln the last
ten years. It Is probable that their citi
zens will do what they can to assist the
enumerators. In this city the people
could assist the enumerators by calling
their attention to persons that, they have
some ground for thinking, have been
overlooked, and by giving information
respecting neighbors who may be absent
at the time of the visit of the enumera
tors. In fact, there are a number of
ways in which the people can assist the
enumerators. If they have no sugges
tions to make they can encourage the
enumerators to be thorough in their work.
Savannah has grown considerably since
the last census was taken, and the cen
sus this year should show a big Increase
In population.
THE COPPER KING’S AMBITION.
In the course of a conversation with a
neu-spaper man In New York, the other
dry, Mr. W. A. Clark, who recently occu
pied a seat In the United Slates Senate,
and who is repfitjed to be worth more than
$40,000,000, was asked why men struggled
to increase their wealth after they had ac
cumulated more than they could ever use.
In answer to the question he said:
"It Is not to possess more money that
men of wealth persevere in the pursuit of
more even after a fortune has been ac
quired. It is the desire to be instrumental
in managing the affairs of the world. I
know this Is the case nllh me. I want to
be able to help humanity.
,’T give employment to hundreds of men,
women and children. That is a satisfac
tion to me. Then, again, I have been, put
in the world as one of its factors. It Is
my duty to perform my part as best I
can-, to accomplish all I can with any tal
ents I may possess. If I alone appreciated
the results attained by this course the
pleasure from it would be great to me. I
believe that genuine happiness lies In the
successful carrying out of one’s ambi
tions."
It may be true in some cases that the
desire to play an important part in, the
world’s affairs leads men who have more
than they can ever use to continue to ac
cumulate wealth, but, judging from lives
of rich men, comparatively few of them
are influenced by that reason. It may be
that Mr. Clark finds pleasure- in, the
thought that he Is helping to take care of
a great number of people because he Is
furnishing them employment, and It may
be that he expects to get back Into the
Senate, and there play a large part in the
world’s affairs, but most rich men cannot
stop striving to increase their store of
wealth simply because it Is the only (Meas
ure they have in life. If they- were not
avaricious when they- began to accumulate
they became so. It is a great satisfaction
to them to sec their wealth increase from
year to year. They work harder to make
their second million than they did to make
their first. The loss of a few thousands
of dollars, when they are well able to lose
it, worries them a great deal more than a
similar loss would have worried them
when they were comparatively poor.
Asa rule, the more money a man has
the more he wants, and hts happiness
does not increase in. proportion as his
wealth Increases. Indeed, it Is doubtful
if riches contribute much to happiness.
In speaking of riches we and& not refer to
a competency- that Insures one against
poverty and is sufficient for all reasonable
needs. We refer to riches that are so
great os to be a burden to those who have
them., and which practically make slaves
of those who possess them. The rich men
who use their wealth for the benefit of
their fellowmen, no doubt, get much real
pleasure out of It, but those w-hose only
aim Is to gel richer have only the pleasure
of the miser.
Temperatures that are not extreme do
not make a lasting Impression upon the
average mind. Numbers of Snvannahians
have recently remarked upon the coolness
of the present May, and, contrasting it
with the one of last year, have said
that last May was much warmer. And
not a few of them have attempted to ac
count for the supposedly lower tempera
ture by surmising that the eclipse had
something to do with the matter; the
moon having robbed the earth of some of
Ihe sun’s warmth, or something of the
sort. The fact is, however, that this May
has been considerably- warmer than rhat
of last year. Last May, up to the 2Sth,
the average temperature had been one de
gree below- the normal, while up to the
2Sth this year the average had been
eight to ten degrees above the normal.
Corbett at least makes no pretentions
of desiring to go to Congress to reform
that body und the country at large. He
wants the mojjey and the advertising that
the job would give him.
THE MOUSING NEWS: TUESDAY, MAY 29. 1900.
No territories are to be admitted as
states by the present Congress. This de
termination, It is said, has been reached
by the majority party. The only terri
tory that Was seriously considered for
statehood was Oklahoma. There was no
assurance that Oklahoma would elect Re
publicans to Congress, so that terriiory
was turned down along with New Mexico
and Arizona. While there may have been
politics in the decision against Okla
homa, It Is, nevertheless, a correct de
cision. We have already too many in
significant stales In the West represented
In the Senate equally with New York and
Pennsylvania, notwithstanding their In
terests are tnflnttesstmal in comparison
with those of the states named. As soon
as one of the territories is admitted to
statehood it Is given as much voice in
the upper house of Congress as the old
est, richest or most populous state, and
It not infrequently occurs that some rich
man finds the legislators of Ihe new state
In a “receptive” mood and buys himself
a seat in the Senate, where he uses his
power for his own ends.
The squadron for our re-established Eu
ropean (naval) station Is to consist of
the Albany, the Lancaster, the Essex,
the Dixie, the Buffalo and the Seindia.
The first ship Is the new cruiser bought
from the Armstrongs at the outbreak of
the Spanish war. She has never been
tried and is an unknown quantity. The
Lancaster and the Essex are old wooden
training ships. The Dixie and the Buf
falo are converted merchantmen former
ly engaged in the coasting trade. The
Seindia was formerly a British tramp,
and is now a supply ship. To Judge from
this squadron one would not say that we
were placing our ships where they could
strike a blow in European waters In de
fense of the Monroe doctrine, or that we
were preparing to awe ihe Sultan with a
naval demonstration.
“Mr. Dooley,” the quaint philosopher of
Archey Road, Chicago. In his latest con
versation with his friend, "Hinnessey,"
deals with aristocracy In a manner that is
both truthful and fresh. Says he: "Th’
aristocracy lv th’ camp was Mrs. Cassidy,
th’ wlddy lady that kept th’ boordin’
house. Aristocracy, Hinnessey, Is like rale
estate, a matther lv location. I’m aris
tocracy to th’ poor O'Briens back In the
alley, th’ brewery agent ’s aristocracy to
me, his boss Is aristocracy to him, an’ so
it goes up to th’ Czar of Rooshia.”
There Is said to be In New York an In
cipient boom for Col. Daniel S. Lamont
for the governorship. With Roosevelt as
the candidate of the Republicans and La
mont as the candidate of the Democrats,
the campaign would be an interesting one.
Col. Lamont, It is said, couid unite the
Democrats of his state and probably win
the election.
So we are shortly lo have some more
"Daughters.” The House at Washington
the other day passed a bill to Incorporate
the "National Society of the United States
Daughters of the War of 1812."
PERSONAL.
—Frank W. Hackett, the new Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, is a graduate of
the Harvard class of ’4l, and Is president
of the Washington Harvard Alumni As
sociation.
—Charles H. Allen, the new Governor
of Porto Rico, was president of his class
at Amherst, and besides being one of the
best students in the place was also the
best billiard player.
—The people of Cleveland, 0., have add
ed another Cleveland name to those they
want to see placed In- the New York “Hall
of Fame.” This time it Is that of Amasa
Stone, the philanthropist, whose daughter
became Mrs. John Hay.
—Miss Mary Johnson, author of “To
Have and To Hold,” comes of an old Vir
ginia family, and Is very fond of that
state, but she does most of her writing
in New York, having concluded that all
kinds of work, can be done better in
cities.
BRIGHT BITS.
—•Wedding Guest—“ Now that the cere
mony’s over I’d like to ask you If you
know that your son-in-law la deep’.y In
debt?”
Mr. Stoekson Bonds*-"Heavens! No!”
"It’s a fact. I’m sure he simply marriel
your daughter so as to be able 10 pay his
dehis."
“Why didn’t you tell me of this before?”
"I’m one of his creditors.”—Philadelphia
Record.
—The Spy System.—The municipal cam
paign being now fairly open, they natur
ally spoke of local politics. “The fight,”
observed the Lay Figure, “seems to con
cern the employment of an officer in citi
zen’s clothes to detect vlloations of the
liquor law,”
"Sort of Spion Kop affair, as it were!”
exclaimed the Unconscious Imbecile, with,
glee.—Detroit Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
(Ind.) says: "The Chicago meat packers
are hard hit by the bill passed by the
German Reichstag, and they must find
new markets for about 60,000,000 pounds
of canned meats and sausage, or curtail
production. The fervor with which the
United Slates and Germany call for open
doors in China, and slam doors in each
other's faces when their home markets
are concerned, mighi properly furnish
material for the Chinese satirists of
Western civilization.'’
The New York Herald (Ind.) says;
"What do the opponents, clerical and lay,
of the army canteen really desire? Are
they striving to make Ihe soldier hap
pier, healthier and more efficient? If so,
let thim stop meddling with the decent
and proper garrison clubs of the enlisted
men. If these mischief makers wish to
Increase the number of desertions and
to ruin the health, decrease the savings
and make drunkards of the soldiers let
them persist and they will surely drive
their powerless victims Into the rum shops
and brothels that fringe the government
reservations.”
Writing of the forthcoming National
Democratic Convention at Kansas City,
the Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.)
says: “But should wt#er counsels pre
vail, as we have reason to hope they
will, and should a conservative and ra
tional course be pursued, there Is every
reason to believe that Bryan will tie sent
into the Whtie House by a landslide such
as has seldom been seen In this country.
In fine, if the platform adopted In Kan
sas City ts a Democrailc platform and
not a Populistic platform or a Socialistic
platform, success Is almost certain.”
Imagination and Disease.
In “A Journalist’s Note Book” Frank F.
Moore tells an amusing and significant
story of the Influence of imagination upon
health, says the Youth’s Companion. A
young civil servant In India, feeling fag
ged from the excessive heat and from
long hours of work, consulted the best
doctor within reach. The doctor looked
him over, sounded his heart and lungs,
and then said gravely: “I will write you
to-morrow.”
The next day the young man received a
letter telling him that his left lung was
gone end his heart seriously affected, and
advising him to lose no time in adjusting
his business affairs. “Of course you may
live for weeks," the letter said, “but you
had best not leave important matters un
decided.”
Naturally the young official was dismay
ed by- so dark a prognosis—nothing less
than a death warrant. Within twenty
four hours he was having difficulty with
his respiration and was seized with an
acute pain In the region of the heart. He
took to his bed with the feeling that he
should never arise from It. During the
night he became so much worse that his
servant sent for the doctor.
"What on earth have you been doing to
yourself?” demanded the doctor. "There
were no indications of this sor.t when I
saw you yesterday.”
"It is my heart. I suppose,” weakly an
swered the patient.
‘‘Your heart!” repeated the doctor.
“Your heart was all right yesterday.”
"My lungs, then."
"W’hat is the matter with you, man?
Y’ou don’t seem to have been drinking.”
Your letter!” gasped the patient. "You
said I had only a few weeks to live.”
"Are you crazy?” said the doctor. “I
wrote you to take a few weeks’ vacation
in the hills and you would be all right.”
For reply the patient drew the letter
from under the bedclothes and gave It
to the doctor.
"Heavens!” cried that gentleman, as ho
glanced at It. “This was meant for an
other man. My assistant misplaced the
letters,”
The young man at once sat up In bed
and made a rapid recovery.
And . what of the patient for whom the
direful prognosis was intended? Delighted
with the report that a sojourn In the hills
would set him right, he started at once,
and five years later was alive and in fair
health.
He Was Discovered.
A certain Judge from Louisiana, who Is
noted far and wide for his gravity and
Judicial bearing on the bench and for hts
great personal dignity at all times, visit
ed the capital the other day with the firm
determination of having a good time, says
the New York Tribune. In his own words:
"I decided to throw dull care, dignity
and all else that hampers a poor old judge
in the enjoyment of life lo the winds of
heaven, and have just one good time, a
fling, as we used to say at college. ’No
one In town knows me,’ I argued, ‘and
for once, just once, I’m going to have
some fun.’ But it was bo use; my at
tempts met with a dead failure. I start
ed out all right, however, with some gay
and newly-found friends at a celebrated
uptown cafe. We were In the midst of
the feast, good stories were going around,
and an occasional song made the rafters
ring, when one of the waiters halted at
my elbow and said sotto voce:
“ ‘ls that duck all right, Jedge?’
“ ‘Judge?’ said I, ‘Judge? What do you
mean by calling me judge?’
“ ’Oh, I knows yo’, Jedge, sho’ ’nuff.
Ain't I dun waited on yo’ fer two years
down at de X house, an’ I knows how
yo' like yo’ ducks. But yo’ is a heap mo’
lively up hyer, Jedge, dan yo’ is down
dere.’
“Another good resolution gone wrong,”
continued the Judge, sadly. "I never
smiled again during the whole of that
evening, and I shall never again try to
lay aside my fetters. I made the effort
In Paris, only to be confronted by my
stenographer. I essayed at the Cliff
House, at San Francisco, only to run
into my wife’s favorite cousin. The world
Is too small. There Is not much fun out
side of college walls, and I will never
make another attempt to have any.”
“Do You Eat Out or Inf”
The number and variety of knives and
forks that now gratia a well equipped and
formal dinner table may well dismay one
unused to such a variegated display of
cutlery and silver, says the New Y'ork
Tribune. There are forks for the oysters,
for the fish and for the roast, and forks
as well for anything else that may be
served. There are also knives to corre
spond to the forks that may be needed.
These implements that social convention
decrees to be necessary to convey food to
the mouth are usually laid out in formid
able rows on either side of the plate. The
other evening a simple Western maiden
at her first Eastern dinner surveyed her
supply of knives and forks with growing
trepidation. Her common sense told her
that they were laid out In the regular or
der in which It was Intended that they
should be used, but nothing in her experi
ence had taugjit her which was the right
end of the row to start In with. Finally,
in despair, she sought help from her next
door neighbor, a prominent physician,
“Say, Doc," she questioned anxiously, as
she pointed at the offending objects, “do
you eat out or In?"
A Story of Kroner.
A London paper says that many years
ago when President Kruger was in Eng
hand he was approached concerning some
concession, railway or otherwise, by a bus
iness man In London. The negotiations
lasted for some time. One evening the
Londoner, who was staying at the same
hotel, having spent many years with Mr.
Kruger and hts companion, went to bed
much exhausted and feeling he had not
got quite all he wanted. Next morning he
arose at 9 o’clock and went along the cor
ridor to Mr. Kruger's bedroom. To his
astonishment it was empty and all the
luggage was gone. "Oh, sir,” said the
chambermaid, "Mr. Kruger and his friend
left at 6 this morning.” Then with a gig
gle of amused reminiscence, the girl add
ed: "They was a queer couple, sir, and
no mistake. When 'c passed your door,
sir, Mr. Kruger 'e started dancin’ right
outside your door, sir; 'e and his friend.
They didn't know as any one saw (hem,
sir, but Bessie and I see them, unbe
known, from the top of the stairs. Then
they went downstairs, sir, fairly splittin'
their sides with iaughln’, though they
didn’t say a word.
It Didn't Concern Her.
An English clergsunan who thought his
parishioners were getting so wicked that
he must tell them what would become of
them if they dfd not mend their ways,
says Success, preached a sermon on the
eternal fate of the wicked, which he
sought to bring home to some of the
noted transgressors by personal admoni
tion. Meeting, one day, an old woman
who was well known In the parish for her
gossiping propensities, he said to her:
"I hope my sermon has borne fruit. You
heard what I said about that place where
there shall be walling and gnashing of
teeth?”
"Well, as to that," answered the dame,
"If I ’as anything to say. It be this—let
them gnash their teeth as has ’em—l
ain’t!”
—The Virtuous Clerk.—“ Sign your name
here," said the chief conspirator, "and the
money will be paid you nt once."
"Sooner than let my good right hand
sign that Iniquitous document," said the
virtuous government clerk, "I would cut
It off! But, fortunately, I am left-handed.”
Aud he signed It.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—ln Singapore, which is practically a
Chinese city with a papulation of 300.C00,
the game of golf has infected every
European. There are two golf clubs and
the members are very enthusiastic. It s
near the equator, and the climate is so hot
that it is almost impossible io keep ihe
golf balls In condition. So they keep Com
on ice like champagne and beer. Y’our
Chinese oadd.v, when he goes out with you,
carries a small ice bag, In which the balls
are kept, otherwise you -would knock
them egg-shape every time you hit them
—Quotations from an English medical
work published a century ago show how
marvelous is the advance which has bepi
made ini the knowledge of praedtione s
One sovereign remedy of olden times ai
that of "blood letting’’ iri cases of hemor
rhage of the lungs. Another plan was to
make consumptive patients live fer a few
months In a stable with cows, the supposi
tion being that the exhalations from the
animals would cure those afflicted with
pulmonary diseases. People of rank and
education submitted to such treatment.
Dr. John P. Wood, of Coffeyville, Km,
now In his ninety-ninth year, says lie is
the oldest, practicing physician in the Uni
ted Slates, if not In the world. He de
votes a part of every day to the duties
of his profession and takes a great in'erest
in current events. He walks easily w th
out a cane, reads readily without classes
his hearing is unimpaired,, he has an excel
lent appetite and good digestion. He corn s
of a family noted for longevity. His fath
er lived to the age of ninety-seven. Pis
mother lived to be ninety-five, one of his
brothers lacked but a few days of reaching
the century mark, and iwo of his slste #
died at the age of ninety-eight. Among
hts ! ."others were Maj. Gen. Wood of the
Union Army, and Brig. Gen. Wood of the
Confederate Army. He sums up the c iusei
of his long life as “temperance in all
things and a common sense observance:
of the laws of health.”
—While the night illuminations produced
wctrically at the Paris Exposition prom
ise to be of a high order of merit and
beauty, lighting experts seem to be agreed
that the charming electrical effects seen
at the World’s Fair, Chicago, In 1893 will
not be equalled. With the question of
electric fountain displays and electric
lighting prominently in mind, the engi
neers of the Pan-American Exposition,
which will be held at Buffalo, N. Y., in
1901, have adopted plans which, when car
ried out, will result in startlingly orig
inal effects. The areas of this exposition
have been laid out with special refer
ence to night effects and the horticul
tural and iandscape features have been
designed to harmonize with the fountain
displays and the Illumination. An Im
mense electric tower of unusual design
Is one novelty promised and the lighting
of the lakes and waterways by floating
incandescent lamps is another. The cen
tral electric station, which’ will supply
current to the entire exposition, has also
been designed to be a working exhibit,
as well as a source of power.
—Most people can see faces in the fire,
and some strange form in the moon, that
has given rise to the 9avlng about a man
in the moon, says the London News. Not
two people, however, in all probability see
alike, and this has suggested to M. Ca
mille Flammarion, the distinguished
French astronomer, a rather curious ex
periment. He has asked a number of
more or less well known men to tell him
what they can fancy they see In the out
lines on the moon's surface, and he has
received some odd replies. M. Saint-Saens
con see the outline of a kangaroo; M.
Aquilino Barba, a suppliant Madonna;
M. Zamboni, a man’s head kissing a wo
man’s head; M. Dragon, anything he
pleases; M. Deseilligny, only shapeless
spots; M. A. Pierot, a man with out
stretched arm; M. de Balassny, Cain bear
ing aloft on a pitchfork the bleeding body
of Abel, and M. Quenisset, the trunk and
legs of a man. Each person addressed
was asked to furnish a little sketch of
his fancy picture, and the drawings- thus
obtained have been formed into an album
and presented to the Astronomical So
ciety of France. In the reign of Charles
11, our own savants, according to Butler,
all saw the same thing In the moon—
namely, an elephant, and even then It was
only because there was a mouse In their
telescope. French scientific men of the
present day have more Imagination.
—One great advantage of the electromo
biie over automobiles propelled by gaso
line of steam power is its simplicity of
operation. Except for the matter of
steering, running an electromobile is ex
actly as simple as running a trolley car.
The "chauffeur” usually sits on the left
side of the seat, the controller handle In
his left hand the steering bar In his right
hand. The brake is operated by one foot
pressing a pin and the bell Is rung by
pressing a pin with either foot. Either
a steam or gasoline automobile requires
thei “chauffer” to be a pretty good steam
engineer, as water gauges, steam indica
tors and fuel tanks must be watched
while running the machine. A recent
lecturer on the subject, referring to the
above statement, observed that In the op
eration of an electromobile only 10 per
cent, of the skill required to run it was
expended on the vehicle while standing
in the stable. He further stated that
where the steam or gasoline automobile
is concerned these figures are reversed.
Considering its short radius of operation!
usually from twenty-five to forty miles,
the electromobile has come to be regard
ed as the ideal vehicle for city use. It
will be but a few years, It Is believed,
before electric charging stations will be
numerous all over the eountrv, and then
Ihe electromobile will take Its place with
the steam and gasoline vehicles as a tour
ing automobile.
—New England’s southern tier of
states has lately been visited by the
more or less frightful nocturnal appari
tion of a locomotive with two great glar
ing eyes rushing along the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad at the
head of one of the great express trains
he tween this city and Boston, says the
New York Times. It Is enough to ter
rify timid maids and set the children cry
ing. The engine has two headlights set
side by side about a yard apart in the
usual position just before the smokestack,
but the effect Is as though the modern
steel Polyphemus had grown another op
tie. Beings of flesh and blood rub their
eyes to make sure they are not deceiving
them, when the monster rushes by them
for the first time, and In towns where
prohibition does not obtain the spectacle
Is said to have driven some to take the
pledge against strong drink. The ap
pearance of the engine Is all the more
baleful because the blazing eyes are turn
ed slightly toward each other, and cer
tainly to a person of normal imagination
a cross-eyed locomotive could only seem
to be the product of a fevered dream
It Is, however, simply a Yankee device to
Increase the engine driver’s lateral range
of vision. The two headlights focus on
the rails a hundred yards or so ahead of
the engine at the point where the great
est Illumination Is desirable, and, contin
uing their X-shaped formation,diverge be
yond over the surrounding fields and
farm houses. The Idea Is to enable the
engine men to see for a little distance
along the many curves. When an en
gine comes to a turn In the track the
thin beam of Intense light thrown by
the ordinary single headlight runs off the
track and loses Itself In the darkness
ahead, and the locomotive crew can only
guess what may be on the rails, dtretch
lng away to the right or left nhead of
them, but with the new twin lanterns
one arm or the other of the X of light
reaches along Ihe branching tracks, keep
ing pace with the engine as It swerves.
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SUMMER RESORTS.
'T r HF7sHToiT^
93<1 Street and Madison Avenue,
NEW YORK CITY.
Up to Date, Strictly Fireproof, Family
Apartment Hotel.
Three minutes from and overlooking
Central Park, situated on the highest
point in the city. This hotel is specially
attractive to parties visiting New York
for the Bummer months.
Suites of from two to five rooms and
bath. Every room an outside one.
Electric trolley cars pass door.
Public telephone In every apartment.
European plan during June, July and
August. SPECIAL RATES FOR THOSE
MONTHS. Correspondence Invited.
F. ASHTON, Proprietor.
JILOAVING HOCK.
GREEN PARK HOTEL
Summit of Blue Ridge, 4,340 feet. Scen
ery and climate unsurpassed, so say globe
trotters. Hotel first-class in every respect.
Only house on mountain with plastered
walls; excellent livery; 45 miles turnpike
roads on top of ridge; large ball room,
band and other amusements. Postoffice
and telegraph in hotel. Opens July 1.
Write for leaflet and rates to
Green Park Hotel Cos., Green Pork, N. C.
IN THE GREAT NORTH WOODS.
HOTEL DEL MONTE,
S %ItAX AC LAKE, X. Y.
OPENS JUNE 25. under entirely new manage
ment; newly furnished and renovated through
out; table and service lirst-class; near lake
and Hotel Ampersand; golf, tennis, billiards,
boating, fishing, driving and bicycling; livery.
For booklet address J. HENKY OTIS, Sara
nac Lake, N. Y.
Hotel American-AdelDhi.
Finest Location In
SARATOGA SPRINGS.
Near Mineral Springs nn<l Baths,
OPEN JUNE TO NOVEMBER. ROOMS
EN SUITE, WITH BATHS.
GEO. A. FARNHAM, Prop.
SWEETWATER PARK
HOTEL AND BATHS,
LITHIA SPRINCS, CA.
This well-known and popular resort is now
open. All modern equipment. Cuisine ana
service unexcelled. Write for illustrated
pamphlet. JAS. K. HICKEY, Fropr.
Also Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga.
New Hotel Bellevue
European Plan, Central Location,
llencon St., Bouton.
HARVEY & WOOD, Rroprietors.
Greenbrier White Sulphur Spring*.
West Virginia.
Open June 15. to Sept. 15. The'greut cen
tral point of reunion for the best society
of the North, South, East and West. s4o,ft#
worth of Improvements for this seatoi.
New nine-hole golf course. Write for Il
lustrated booklet. HARRINGTON MILL*
Manager.
HOTEL FITZPATRICK,
WASHINGTON, GA.
The nicest hotel In the best town In th*
South. Fine Mineral Springs. Large ball
room. Cultivated society. An Meal spat
for the summer visitor, near the s re3t
Hillman electric shafts. Special rates ior
families. Address
W. G. THIGPEN, Proprietor.
WARM SPRINGS*
BATit LUtiVn, WKGINIA,
are now open for guests. For circular*
and terms address
EUBANK & GLOVER.
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