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4 C|j|flcrMtigltos Homing hcffi Buildiug. omannubt Oa WEDNESDAY, Jl>3 , 1900. Registered at the Poatofflce In Savannah. The MORNING NEWS Is published every day In the year, and Is served to subscribers In the city, or sent by mall, at JOc a month. *4.00 for six months, and *6. lor one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mall, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, *1.50; six months *3.00; one year, *6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 Issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mall, one year, *I.OO. Subscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by postal orders, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mall at risk of senders. Transient advertlsments, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one Inch square In depth— Is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNINO NEWS to either residence or place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone No. 210. Any Irregular ity In delivery should be Immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEWS.” Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row. New York city, H. C. Faulkner. Manager. UiDEX 10 KEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Georgia Chapter, No. 3, R. iA. 01.; Georgia Bar Association 1 . Special Notices—A Card to the Indies, B. H. Levy & Bro.; Malt Mead, George Meyer; Auction To-day at Habershaffi Residence; If It’s Nice We' Have It, Hardee & Marshall; For the Yacht Races, Thursday, George C. Schwarz, John Funk; Levan's Table d'Hote; Notice, Bernstein’s Variety Store. Business Notices—Old Crow Whiskey. Henry Solomon & Son, Sole Agents; Har vard Beer at Helmken's. Auction Sale—Great Auction Sale, 24 tots, by Platshek & Cos. Cigars—Tom Keene Cigars. Its a Mistake—Munster’s. Beers—Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso ciation. Prices That Cannot Be Matched for lowness—The Bee Hive, N. Schutz, Pro prietor. . Legal Notices—Notice to Debtors and Creditors’ Estate, Izra Reeve, De ceased; Citations From the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary, of Chatham County; Benjamin Hill vs. Ella Hill, Suit for Di vorce. Railway Schedules—Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad; Southern Railway. The Gas Range—Mutual Gas Light Company. Official—City Ordinances. Summer Resorts—Chick Springs, Taylor Station, Greenville County, South Caro lina; Land of the Sky, Commercial House, Saluda. N. C. Mineral Water—Apolllndrls; Crab Or chard Water. Postum Food ColTee—Postum- Cereal Company. Medical—Bar-Ben; Hood’s Pills; Moth er’s Friend; Dr. Hathaway Company; Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets; Abbo's New- Hot Air Apparatus; Munyon’s Liver Cure; Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root; R. R. R. < Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; for Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The Indications for Georgia to-day are for fair weather, preceded by showers on the coast, and fresh southerly winds; and for Eastern Florida, fair weather, except local rains hear the coast,. with fresh southerly winds. Gen. Duller did not take his dinner last Christmas in Pretoria, but Lord Roberts has made it possible for him to dine there next Christmas if he chooses to do so. It has been found that in the city of Washington there is no law under which a person who starts off an unoccupied aulo mobile and permits It to run wild through the streets can be punished. In a town of less red tape, such a person would In oil probability be dealt with for malicious mischief or.criminal carelessness. Mr. Robert B. Roosevelt, who also be lieves in the strenuous life and spind* the most of his time in kicking, says that the Paris Exposition is an imixwition; that everything about it is a fake, and that Americans ought to keep away from It. The whole affair, he says, “is not ub lhtcrestilig as the most uninteree lng •how on the Bowery." Thfe Republican plurality in Oregon is •mailer than it was in the election of 1898, but considerably larger than it was In the last preceding presidentiai elec tion. In 1898 the plurality was 10,551, and in 1896 it was 2,117. The Republican* fought upon a gold standard platform two years ago, and this year upon a platform endorsing the national administration’s policies with respect to finance and ihe new island possessions. As compart'd with two year* ugo, it will be seen that the Republicans have suffered a loss of approximately 3,000 votes. Some of the Philadelphia newspapers have begun an agitation in favor of call trig upon the general government to re turn to the city the *1,500,000 which the government leaned to the Centennial Ex position, and which was nfterwards paid back, to the last penny. During the past twenty-four years, Congress has spent more than *11,000,000 on fairs, and Phil adelphia is the only city which has even Riven back a cent of the money. It Is claimed that, In view of the gifts to the other cities, Philadelphia should have her money refunded, otherwise It would •ppoar as though she had been fined *1,500.000 for holding the first American International exposition. THE nKITISH IX PRETORIA. The entrance of Lord Roberts Into Pre toria marks the end of the war In South Africa. There may be some more light ing of the guerilla sort, but It would be folly for the Boers to keep up a war of that kind. They would be the chief losers. They own about all of the prop erty In the country, outside of the towns and the mines, and by adopting the guerilla style of warfare they would sac rifice everything. The wisest thing for them to do Is to accept the situation and make the best of it. They have not lost everything. The British will, of course, deprive them of their Independence. Lord Salisbury said as much In a lucent speech, but they will have a large amount of local independence and legislative autonomy. They will still be In a position to manage their own af fairs pretty much as they please, In most matters. Those not closely connected with official life, will hardly feel the changes that will be made in the gov ernment. The Boers will prohably be put on a footing with other British colonists In the matter of the management of their public affairs. In other words, they will have as much liberty as have the Cana dians or the Australians. Of course, If there should be a large British Immigra tion, the immigrants might dominate the state, though that is hardly probable, be cause the Immigrants would settle in only one of the districts, nnmely, the mining district. Before the war began it was estimated that the number of foreigners In the Transvaal was 120,000 and the num ber of Boers 125.000. The line between the Boers and the Im migrants will, In all probability, be very clearly drawn. The great majority of the immigrants, or outlanders. are Brit ish, and between them and the Dutch there Is a strong race prejudice. One of the most difficult problems with which the British government will have- to deal Is this race prejudice. It will take years to get rid of it. It will show Itself in business and social matters, and will re tard the growth of the colony. Still, under the right sort of management Its bad effects can be neutralized to a very large extent. The five or six South African states will form a sort of Dutch empire in South Africa under British rule. A British vice roy will doubtless govern it, but the dif ferent states will have their own local governments. Cape Colony Is governed by the Dutch Inhabitants, and the Orange Free State will doubtless be. The Brit ish are In the majority in Natal and Rho desia. Of course, there will be talk about keeping up the fight, but what”ls the use of a people which cannot put Into the field more than about 30,000 soldiers talking about keeping up the fight against a Power like Great Britain? Keeping up the fight simply means a still greater loss of life and property for the people of the Transvaal. Unless there were a prospect of ultimately achieving Independence, the Boer leaders would be condemned by the civilized world If they should counsel their people to continue the war. And there does not seem to be any prospect of achieving independence. A DOI’BTFI L STATE. Senator Hanna and other Republican leaders are reported to be worried about New York. The political situation there does not please them. It ts evident that the Democrats of the state are getting to gether and will present a solid front to their opponents. It is expected that Gov. Roosevelt will be renominated, but there Is no reason to think that ho will poll as large a vote as he did two years ago. Then his military reputation, made in Cuba, helped him. He had also a reputa tion as a, reformer whtt could not be turned from his purpose by a political boss. Neither reputation, as a vote getter, is quite so valuable now as it was. And when he was eleteed Governor his major ity was not so large as to make him feel that he was invincible. In fact, if the Democrats had no’ made some stupid blunders he would have been beaten, probably. And this Is the lime for New York to give Its electoral vote to a Democrat. For many years Its electoral vote has gone alternately to the Republican and- Demo cratic parties. And the Republican lead ers think there ur<* slgfis that it will go to the Democratic ticket this year. It looks now as If Mr. Croker would direct the party during the campaign. He will spare no effort to win. If he had not felt reas onably certain that the Democrats would carry the state It Is doubtful if he would have come out so squarely and emphat ically for Mr. Bryan. He does not like some of Mr. Bryan s opinions, but he has put aside his objections to him and will do all that It is possible to do to give him the electoral vote of New York. The hope of the. Republicans Is that the great financial Interests of New York city are in sympathy with them. But that fact may do the Republicans more harm than good. It will be pointed out that the plutocrats.and the trusts are arrayed against the poor. That will help to give the vole of the tolling masses to the Dem ocrats. Even the money of the pTutocrats may not be sufficient to stem the tide, if it once begins to run strongly against the Republican party. The Republican lead ers have reason to feel anxious. The New Jersey summer resorts have now entered into a merry contest to see which can send out the most attractive story of novelties, calculated to induce the attendance of summer boarders. Atlantic City, the other day, reported the discovery of the fossilized remains of a mastodon. This was followed by another resort’s sto ry to the effect that fish big enough to drag men out of a boat were biting so fast that it was necessary to establish a life saving service to pull the anglers out of the water. After that ynrn there was noth ing left for Atlantlo City to do but to re vive the sea serpent story, so It appeared with fresh trimmings In the Monday pa pers of New York and Philadelphia. it Is believed in London that the newly discovered gold fields In the Ashantee re gion of Africa will prove to be richer than those of the Johannesburg reefs. The new fields are sixty miles from the equator, and In a civilized region. A number of American engineers, experienced In dia mond drill work, have been employed to sink deep drill holes in the deposits. Largo returns are expected. THE MOUMKG NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1900. Mil. nit VAX’S ISSUE. It makes no difference whether tbs Eastern Democrats succeed or not in keeping the money question In the back ground in the platform that will be adop'- ed by the Democratic National Conven tion, Mr. Bryan will give It, In all prob ability, the most prominent place in the campaign. He has no Intention of side tracking It. In an article In the June number of the North American RevFw. entitled, ’’The Issues of the Presidential Campaign,” he gives the money question the leading place. He not only gives it the leading place, but he insists upon the ratio of 16 ip 1 In the free and unlim'tel coinage of silver. On this point he says; “It is needless to discuss the ratio, sin:e there is no diversion of sent!ment among those who are actually trying io secure bimetallism. There Isa positive, earn s! and active force behind the present 1 gal ratio of 10 to 1; there Is no positive, earn est or active force behind any o'her ra tio. Neither Is It any longer neees n-y to discuss International bimetallism. The contest upon* this question must he be tween those who believe in the gold standard on the one side and on the other side, those who believe in a finanelU policy made by the American p ople for themselves.” At a meeting of prominent Democrats in New York city, a day or two ago, it was stated by one who pretended to speak for those who will likely shape the Demo cratic National platform, that the money question would not be given a great deal of prominence, and that it was probable that no mention would be made of a ra tio in connection with silver. It Is evi dent from Mr. Bryan’s article In the North American Review, that he is not a party to any agreement to give silver an obscure place in the platform. He is as determined to make silver a leading issue, If not the great Issue, of the cam paign, as he was In 1896. And he is wise in taking that posUion. If silver should be given the cold shoulder by the Democrats, the Populists would b offended. They would give Mr. Bryan only a lukewarm support, or they would sup port Mr. Barker, the Middle-of-the-Road Populist candidate for President. Mr. Barker is boasting that he will get 2,000,- 000 votes. He knows he will not get any thing like that number unless Ihe Demo crats make a mistake. It is clearly the Intention of Mr. Bryan that they shall not show any lack of app eciatioa for silver. He knows that the Demo cratic ticket would lose more votes by dropping silver than by making It the leading Issue of the campaign. He ts certain of being nominated, and his party has every reason to believe that he wll give mere prominence to silver than to any other Issue. If they ever had a doubt about It, the North American Re view article removes the doubt. A MATTER OF BRAINS. In an article In the Journal of New York, ex-Senator Ingalls take/* the posi tion that a poor mail’s chande for get ting ahead in the world Is just as good now as it was fifty years ago—ln fact. Is somewhat better, if he can adapt him self to the changed conditions of society. Mr. Ingalls calls attention to the fact that fifty years ago most of the very rich men who have since figured before the public and the men who have won fame In nny walk of life were poor boys or men without means and unknown. He says that he had the same chance that Jay Gould had, or Rockefeller or Hunt ingdon or Carnegie or a dozen others he might name, but Instead of seeking wealth, he went West to help build up the country. If he had had the brains, he thinks he might now be among the plutocrats. In his opinion, getting ahead in the world Is a mere matter of brains. Those who have the ability will succeed and those who have not will have to be the hewers of wood and drawers of water. Some men have ability to do one thing and some another. The great majority have ability to play only a small part In the world’s affairs, and hence their win nings, either of money or fame, are small. But men who are famous or rich are no happier than those who fill very modest places in life. Hence, the poor man has not so much reason to envy the rich one, after all. But the main point of the ex-Senator’s article Is that Ihe poor man’s chance for getting everything the world has to of fer Is Just as great now as it was fifty years ago. If a man fails to get ahead, It Is because he lacks brains. He has, therefore, no reason to find fault with anybody for his failure to become a plu tocrat, a noted Scientist or a great states man. * The Fitzgerald Citizen-Leader prints an Interesting little story, illustrative of the possibilities of South Georgia. Last fall a man bought In that section (Irwin coun ty). a peach orchard of 600 trees, paying at the rale of $2 per tree. The dwelling and other Improvements were “thrown in.” The purchase was made on credit, and the debt amounted to *1,200. Last week the purchaser began to gather his peaches, which he readily sold at *5 per crate, and the trees averaged a crate to the tree. “That,” says the Fitzgerald paper, “makes his trees pay for the farm and give a profit of *3 per tree besides.” It appears that the party who cleared the land and planted the orchard, got tired and sold out last year, and went North. He lacked stamina; a very lucky thing for Ihe enterprising purchaser, who knew a good thing when he saw It, and had the nerve to go In debt to got It. "White Caps'' are becoming about as common in the neighborhood of Bridge ton, N. J., as they ever were in the,moun tains of West Virginia. The other day, they tarred and feathered a man whose conduct did not please them, and since that time they have issued warnings to several other men and women that unless they get out of town or mend their ways Instanter, they will be dealt with summa rily. All of this, cf course, Indicates a low state of civilization in the section. The Increase In the circulation of na tional banknotes for the fiscal year which ended May 31, 1900, was *58,424,335. The money In circulation In this country at present is stated to be *26.58 per capita; ”At no lime tn the history of the coun try." says the Philadelphia Record, “has money been so plentiful.” Nikola Tesla, the magician of electrici ty, who sometimes has the most wonder ful dreams respecting the things which electricty may be made to do. fores es the time when men will no longer go to war. Not that war will be done away with at any time within the perceptible future, but Inventive genius will produce automa tons that will do the fighting. When It comes about that machine will fight ma chine, the battle will be turned “Into a mere spectacle, a play, a contest without loss of blood.” When nil of this comes about, men may be led to see the folly of war, and peace may reign. Mr. Tesla says he has evolved an art by means of which an Individualized automaton may be controlled absolutely. And there Is “virtually no restriction os to the amount of explosive it can carry, or as to the distance at which it can strike, and fail ure is almost impossible.” The fight against the tee trust in New York Is being waged by Democratic pa pers. The Republican papers are taking practically no part In It. When one con siders how many schemes for the rob bery of the people are shown up by the newspapers from time to time It becomes certain that but for the championship of the people by on incorruptible press, the crimes that would he perpetrated upon them by greedy individuals, corporations and officials, would be appalling. Representative Curtis of Kansas Intro duced In the House, the other day. a bill to settle by legal enactment the question of when the old century ends and the new one begins. Neatly tucked away in the bill was a proviso directing the several executive departments of the government to supply themselves with a certain man’s charts and tables and perpetual calendars. The passage of the bill would, of couse, have been a very fine thing for the maker of the charts, tables and calendars. The census law makes it a misdemean or, punishable by a fine not exceeding *IOO, for any person to stubbornly refuse to reply to the printed questions furnished to the census enumerator, and by him propounded to the person in question. Citizens would do well to bear this In mind. The enumerator does not ask the questions to gratify his own curios ity. but because he is required to do so. And he has to work hard to cam the pay he receives. in ■ • • The federal depariment of agriculture estimates that the loss of grain from rust amounts every year to not less than *40,- 000,000. To protect grain from rust It is recommended that the affected cereals be crossed with resistant varieties. The loss from smut, which is also very’ heavy, may be reduced by treating the seed with hot water, to kill the smut spores. PERSONAL. —Mrs. Dorothy Scribner, of Scribner’s Mills. Me., celebrated her one hundredth birthday anniversary last week. Her fath er lived to the age of ninety-seven, and her maternal grandfather was 102 years old when he died. He was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. u—The library of Dam Pedro of Brazil was recently sold at auction In Vienna, about thirty persons being present. There were 1.155 volumes, and the highest price (770 crowns) obtainable was for a minera loglcal year book extending from 1830 to 1892. Works of fiction were mostly uncut, whereas the scientific books had evidently been read carefully, and some of them had marginal notes. —John Glenn of Urbana, 0., died the oth er day after having a record for eccentr'c vows. Because his father bought what he thought was a better suit for his brother than for him. he vowed that he would not wear a coat for twenty years. Another time he took offense at some trifling thing and vowed he would not leave his house for twenty years, nnd for twenty years he was a voluntary prisoner. Except for a few eccentricities like these he was said to have been quite sane. —lt was observed at the first perform ance of Sousa’s band in the American sec tion of the Paris Exposition that the en thusiasm of the great audience of Ameri cans that gathered to hear it did not break ail bounds until the "Cakewalk” and other rag-time pieces were plained. Then the American colony become delirious. It danced and whooped and demanded en cores until the band was exhausted. The Frenchmen present couldn't understand It. CUIIRENT COMMENT. The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) says: "This country has learned, by long and sad experience, the Inevitable tendency of a partisan system In the. distribution of governmental patronage. That system is no less reprehensible under a state or a municipal than under a federal adminis tration. Where there Is only one party that can be said to exert any real power or Influence In politics, there are likely to be two or more factions, all claiming the name of the dominant party. In such a locality the majority faction controls ap pointments, in the city or in the state, as the case may be, and asserts its su perior claim to consideration where fed eral appointments are concerned. All this leads to conflicts and confusions which tend more and more to disgust honest and earnest men with the whole business of politics, and to relegate the direction of public interests and the maintenance of popular rights to a dangerous class.” The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) says: “Prosperity Is a good thing, but the Han nas and the Grosvenors and that style of superficial politicians will not be per mitted to run the presidential campaign of this year on the cry of prosperity alone. Every sensible person knows that he Is not Indebted to William McKinley for any measure of good times which the country is now enjoying; and he knows, further, that trusts, , Imperialism nnd fraud are dominant questions before the people." The Macon Telegraph (Dem.) says: “In 1864 ihe Democrat!o.party adopted a peace platform and then nominated a general for President. This year It is suggested that the ticket be Bryan and McClellan, the latter the son of the General. But Mr. Bryan Is opposed to a standing army, and Mr. McClellan, true to Ills name, ad voentes a large standing army, one of 150,000 if possible. The slate-makers insist on yoking the discordant dements.” The Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem.) says: “During the past eleven months of the present fiscal year he government has collected over *83,000,000 more in taxes than was necessary. But Congress Is adjourn ing without any effort to reduce the size of this burden. The surplus Is possibly being reserved for the additional boun ties and subsidies that are to come next for the pampered favorites of the admin istration.’’. Polite Conductors of Hie South. During a recent visit to a Southern city, where a bobtail car was under the charge of a driver, a Chicago young woman walked to the box, deposited her fare and asked the driver to stop at Prytania street, says the Chicago Chronicle. After a ten-minute ride the driver checked his horse, put on the brake, walked down the car until he stood In front of the stranger, and, lifting his hat. said: “Madam, this is Prytania street, where you wish to get off.” Some few days later a tremendous rain storm flooded the streets and gutiers. This same young woman, used to storms and blizzards, was not to be outdone, and went about her vlsiiing regardless. Be fore the hotel a system of boards enabled her to reach the car In safety, but, arriv ed at her destination, she beheld streams and puddles grouped together like a great chain of lakes. She pulled the strap, stopped the car, and on reaching the step at the rear found the driver ready to as sist her. Without any hesitancy he picked her up, carried her across, the puddle and, placing her on the sidewalk, bowed profoundly as he lifted his hat, Jumped in the car and was off. Thus he proved that chivalry was not yet extinct and that a man may be both a gentleman ahd a street car driver. And all ihis happened in New Orleans about a month agt>. Comparisons are not always odius, but they are sometimes amusing and often times show one the realization of an ideal. The kind of street car conductor found in Chicago Is well known to city people. Sometimes he pulls his passengers on board by the arm, with the mandatory “Step lively, there!” Somedmes he hur ries them off with a grumbling reply to one of the endless questions about loca tions and sireets that bore him unto ex asperation. Though rapid transit in an active and bustling city will not admit of the cour tesy and gallantry of slow-going New Or leans, It Is to be hoped there may yet be a marked improvement In the street car service. Some readers may recall ihe ac tion of the Long Island Railroad Com pany last season, when It obliged its em ployes to use “Madam" when addressing the passengers and prohibited all officials from hauling unfortunate victims in and out of the trains. Scene Flom Mncbetli. The performance at The Metropolitan Opera House for the benefit of the faml -1 es cf the volunteers who fe't In the war with Spain, In which many business men were interested, was a most creditable af fair. and netted not far from *2,500, says Ihe New York Commercial. An artistic performance was the aria and duo from ihe third act of "Alda,” bv William T. Stewart and Effle Stewart. The slight mis calculation at the close of this number, by which Miss Stewart fell outside the curtain added a little to the amusment of the occasion Miss Stewart got out of the accident gracefully, and enjoyed it with the rest. The incident stirred some of the. pro fessionals to relating Interesting reminis cences of o hrr stage mishaps. Miss Gra c e Beebe, who has made a hit with “Never Faint the Devil on the Wall.” told an Interesting story of a certain lady In Halifax, who was stage-struck, and who, by dint of perseverance, succeeded in obtaining the part cf the Ingenue in •he curtain-raiser, which preceded the drama. Beyond the fact that she was totally inaudlblt, and distressingly nerv ous, she was all right, but there was worse to folow. Asa bonne bouehe, it was announced that at the close of the ert'rlalnment she would recite the sleep walking scene from Macbeth. The stage was darkened and prfsntly a weird ftg tre clad In a shee*, arp-ared. It ap proached the footlights, and Its lips were observed to move hut no sound reached the hushed, expectant audience. Suddenly a hoarse, ghoulish cry rent air. ‘‘Out, damned spot!”—pause. “Out, damned soot!” prolonged patlse. “Out, damned spot!”—dead silence, broken only by the shuffling of feet and some tittering In the audience. “Ob, I’m so sorry I’ve forgot ten It," exclaimed the lady, “hut if you’ll come again to-morrow I’ll learn It up and see what becomes of the and and spot!” Miss Beebo said it Was the finest exam ple she ever saw rf wringing success out of failure, for the mighty roar of laugh trr that shook the building could be heard a mile away. Sergeant McKinley. On Decoration Day, for the first time. President McKinley revisited the battle field of Antietam. where, thirty-eight years before, a commissary sergeant of the Twenty-third Ohio, he served hot coffee to his comrades along the firing line when the fighting was In progress, says the Chicago Journal. Secretary Rooi referred briefly to this incident in his speech. But he did not tell ’the whole story. He could not have told it nil if he depended upon the President for the recollection. “Sergt.” McKinley has never had much to say about It. There were details which added to the eonspicu ousness of the act, end they are not ob tainable from the chief actor. In that part of the field where Burnside first pushed back the Confederate right and then swung around to meet Hill Is a tab let. It marks the location of the Kanawha Erigade. of which the Twenty-third Ohio was a part that day. From the early morning fiasco at the stone bridge to the advance upon the Confederate right, the brigade had marched and fought. Hun gry and faint, the troops were still in line confronting Hill's fresh arrivals, when suddenly a great shout went up. There, under fire, with a team of mules and wagon, was a boy commissary ser geant, dealing out hot coffee. Two miles In the rear he had pressed Into service some stragglers, had made cans of hot coffee and had cooked meat. He had loaded two wagons end started for the front to find and feed his regiment. Again and again he was ordered to the rear. One team was disabled'. The youth ful sergeant kept on, unheeding the bul lets, Intent only upon carrying that cof fee and meat and hard tack to the place where It would do the most good. The shout told of his arrival where his regi ment was still fighting. The serving of hot coffee to soldiers In the midst of bat tle is not recognized by the tactics. It was done at Antietam. When the Col onel of the regiment got back to Ohio and told the war Governor of the Incident, the comment was: “Give that young man a commission.” Thus William McKinley became a lieutenant. nilfns Choate’* nail Writing. George Ticknor, the historian of Span ish literature, was once called as a wit ness in a case In which Mr. Choate was engaged, and, being seated by the emi nent counselor, was attracted by the notes which he had made of the evidence, says Truth. After eyeing them with inter est he remarked that the writing remind ed him of two autograph letters In his possession—one of Manuel the Great of Portugal (dated 1512) and the other of Gonsalvo de Cordova, the great captain, Written a few yiars earlier. (Any one who has glanced over these remarkable specimens of chlrography will marvel that It was possible to make out a sylla ble of such illegible scrawls.) , "These letters," Mr. Ticknor assured Mr. Choate, "were written 350 years ago, and they strongly resemble your notes of the present trial." Choate Instantly re plied: “Remarkable men. no doubt; they seem to have been much In advance of their tlme.”- ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Venice has been selected as the spot for a modern shipbuilding plant. The works will be erected on the island of Sant Elena at the eastern end of the olty. —There Is to he constructed from Da mascus to Mecca a railway tn order that pilgrims may be saved from a sea voy age. It Is proposed that the line shall be built by soldiers. —London's fire brigade Is to have in stalled and maintained for two years wireless telegraphy Instruments to con nect the fire station at Streatham Green and a temporary sub-station in Streat ham. It seems a curious use for wireless telegraphy when ordinary fire alarms or telephones would answer the purpose. —The Norddeutscher Lloyd Company has recently ordered a steamer, which, It Is claimed, -will be the largest vessel afloat. It is to be built by the Stettin Vulcan Company, end will be 706 feet In length. The engines will be on the Schllck system and will be of 41.000 indicated horse-power, driving the vessel at a speed of twenty-four knots. It is expected that the steamer will be completed In 1902. —Some years ago a telegraph cable was laid in'the bed of the Amazon river to connect the various town- along that stream wiih Para. The driftwood, etc., brought down by the stream broke and interfered with the workings of the cable to such an extent that It, has been in use only a short time since it was laid. A land line is now being built and 18) miles have been completed. The difficulty of building a telegraph line through the Amazon forests Is enormous, and it would not be surprising if this proves to be the most expensive telegraph I'ne in the world. —Backwardness of the outhorities in London in adopting the mechanical inven tions of (he century is most extraordin ary. In London the men who clean the street are provided with shovels, pick axes. antiquated carts and inefficient brooms which have little effect upon an inch or so of melted snow. A short time ago a rude snowplow made of boards, weighed down by a tree-trunk, was to be seen in Battersea Park and a few open places. In Paris the heaviest fall of snow is got rid of in short order with the aid of tools, squeegees and revolving brushes which sweep the slush down splendid drains. —Uses of borax nre extending year by year. The meat purchasers of the coun try are the largest consumers, absorbing 6,000,000 pounds and over annually, says the Scientific American. For mechanical purposes the demand is constantly in creasing, but it is in the domestic con. sumption of borax that the expectation and hope of the industry is centered. For a hundred different demands of household economy, as an adjunct to the kitchen, laundry, nursery or toilet, as a sanitary agent of value, and even as a medicinal quantity, borax has been found of such positive value as to insure a constant and increasing element in the world's necessities. —The following tortoise story had its origin at Center Bridge, Bucks county, Pennsylvania: Edward Johnson was walking ovrr his farm the other day, when he picked up a land tortoise bearing the initials of his father, D. R. Johnson, and the date 1846, These initials were cut on the tortoise when Mr. Johnson's fa ther, who has been dead for several years was a boy of seventeen, showing the tor toise to he over 5i years old. It has been picked up on the farm several times by members of the family, but had been missing for a numb r cf years and was supposed to be lost or dead. The farm has been in the possession of the John son family for oVer a century. —According to the Chinese habit of do ing most things backward, a visitor in Shanghai says he fully expected to see the first Chinese cvcl st he came across pedal backward. "To our astonishment,” he wrote, "he rode forward in the proper manner. His attire was such as is not easily forgotten. The baggy trousers were haul-d up over the knee, disclosing a pair of shinny sticks swathed in dish rags or somethi r g. This was done to pre vent his trousers from tearing in the oha n. Bare feet on rubber pedals, a big, ye low ballo n shirt bulging out like the spinnaker on a racing yacht, and a flying pigtail urdfr a small tin can of a cap topped by a button. He was a wealthy merchant, we wre told, and looked as If wheeling agreed with him in spite of his clothes.” —Excavations of the Roman forum have excited much attention. Sig. Giacomo Boni describes a most Interesting scien tific discovery. This Is that (he sacra rtum of Mars was an actual and gen uine sacred seismic observatory. the shocks of earthquakes being registered by the oscillations of spears. The spears kept in the Regia were venerated as the weapons of the mythical father of the first king and founder of Rome. The spears were wooden rods with metal points, and l they were in themselves objects of wor ship. It is not known whether the spears were suspended so as to register the smallest osciUation, hut it is certain that their vibration was considered as a fore runner of disaster. The oscillations of the spears were registered in classical writings, as in Livy: “Hastae Mart’s motae.” the date is 570 A. U. C. Similar Instances occur for 635, 650, 654 and 657. —Not only is Havana one of Ihe queer est, quaintest cities to be seen in thous ands of miles of travel, but there are many customs and practices in vogue which mark it as a distinct metropolis combining many/ phases of European, South American land island life. The peo ple of Cuba are a much mixed people, largely of Spanish extraction, yet not all Spaniards. The Cuban himself has be come a distinct type, and has his own customs, habiis, superstitions and beliefs. The same is true of the Canary Island ers, San Domingans and people from various parts of South and Central Amer ica; they are all of Spanish antecedents, yet there is such an admlxiure of Indian and rngro In their makeup that they, too, form distinct types. Cuba has niore than 500,060 negroes who speak the Spanish tongue, and who are as benighted as when they or their ancestors arrived from Afriea, besides another 100,000 or 200,000 who are more advanced. —ln Hamburg there Is an Institute for the study of nautical and tropical dis eases, and it Is interesting to note that the introduction of steam, making the vaynges much shorter, and the substitu tion of iron for wood In the construction of vessels, have been Instrumental in changing completely the ailments and ac cidents occurring to members of the crews. Such diseases as scurvy, night blindness. the so-called ship's anaemia, chronic aliments of the digestive organs and canals, os well as lead-poisoning, are fast becoming exceedingly rare, and In iheir place the Institute, like other sim ilar hospitals. Is called upon to deal with malaria, bert-berl, water-fever, and other tropical disorders. 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