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4 C|t|flffranglJcfos Morning News Building, savannah, On* THURSDAY, Jl'JiE 7, 11X10. Registered at the Poatofflce In Savannah. Tha MORNING NEWS la published avety day in tbs year, and Is served to aubscribera In the city, or Bent by mall, at 70c a month. *4.00 for aix month*, and (8.(0 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mall, si* times a week (without Sunday lasue), three montha, R.&Q. alx months *3.00; one year, *6 00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 3 lasues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mall, one year, (1.00. Subscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by postal orders, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mall at risk of aendera Transient advertlsments, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, ID cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one Inch square In depth— It the standard of meaeurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING 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 potted 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. MiDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Solomon’s Lodge, No. 1, F. ifc A. M.; Ocean City Lodge, B, Knights of the Royal Arch; Haupt Lodge, No. 68, I. O. O. F.. Special Notices—Ship Notice, J. F. Min is & Cos., Consignees; Sparklets, Solomons Company; Fine Lumber Cheap. T. J. IReese. Business Notices—E. & W. Laundry; Genuine Old Crow Whiskey, Henry Solo mon & Son, Sole Agents. Kodaks—Oppenhelmer, Sloat & Cos. Railroad Schedule—Central of Georgia Railway. Whrtskey—Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey, Hunter Baltimore Rye Whiskey. Legal Notices—Citation From the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary, of Chatham County. Stoves—Wlckless Blue Flame Oil Stoves. Postum Food Coffee—Postum Cereal Company. Salt—The Favorite Salt. Cheroots—Old Virginia Cheroots. Medical—McElree's Wine of Cardul; Horsford’s Acid Phosphate; S. S. S.; Hood's Sarsaparilla; Dr. Hathaway Com pany; Castorla; Johann Hoffs Genuine Malt Extract; Bar-Ben; Pond’s Extract. 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, and brisk southerly Winds; and for Eastern Florida, local rains, and fresh east to southeast winds. The prayer of the sallormen to-day will be for a wind that blows, a sheet that’s wet and a sea that follows fast. At least that will be Ihe wish of the Savannahlans. 1 A Chicago dispatch announces tho dis tribution in that city, of a number cf ‘Bryan and Harrison" knives. That 19 a rather queer campaign Implement. The knife in politics usually indicates that •omebody is In clanger of being Btabbed. Bishop Turner does not think the pro posed negro party will amount to any thing. We are Inclined to agree with him; though It is possible that colored politi cians might make a lot of trouble for themselves, and their misguided followers, by Instituting an incendiary agitation through the medium of such a party. It Is estimated that the strike In St. Louis has cost, In wages lost, revenue lost by the street railway, property destroyed, police cost, and other items, no less than $22.01)0.0t. Coupled with this loss Is the fact that several persons have been killed, and more than 160 Injured. Is there not a crying need for tpe perfection of some plan for avoiding or quickly ending strikes? Neely does no* relish the role of "horri ble example" that he is to be required to Hay; bat the probabilities are that he will lx- made to go back to Cuba and take whatever may be dealt out to him. If the campaign were further away. It might be .better for Neely, but from a political point of view, It would never do for the administration to let up on the irusecutton of the Cuoan postoffice rob bers, now that the matter has become nub ile. Spain, it seems, Is not so much of a bankrupt government, after all. Recently h<* had .-fane new bonds to offer (o the public. They were quickly subscribed for; and not only once, but eight times over. In other words, if the boijds are allotted among all of the subscribers each will gyt only one-eighth of the amount he wns ready to put up ihe money for. It may transpire that the recent war will have the effect of revivifying the Spanish peo ple. and that they will once more become a great nation. According to an estimate made by the Baltimore American from official records, the most expensive soldier In the world is ihe soldier of the United States. His cost per annum is *2.202.24 each. The sol dier who t <-omes next In the mailer of cost is the British, at *426.56. Thus the co. t of one United States soldier la nearly five 'lines that of one British soldier. France and Germany spend each per man upon their soldier* *213.28 a year. The Italian soldier Is the cheapest in the world, costing his government only *163,68. Thus the keep of one American soldier Is equal to that of more than a dozen Italians. THE A\TI-TIU'ST KILT/. There seems to be foundation for the charge made by Democrats in CongTe.s. that the Republicans had no Intention of enacting any anti-trust legislation at this session. They Introduced the resolution containing an amendment to the costitu tion, giving Congress authority to cotroi trusts, and the bill amending the Sher man antitrust law at the very end of the session* knowing that if the House passed either the resolution or the bill, or both, nothing would be done with either in the Senate. Asa matter of fact, the resolution containing the amendment was defeated, and the bill amending the Sher man act was passed by the House. It never had a chance of being even consid ered in the Senate. Senator Bacon said that Congress ought to remain in session until it disposed of the anti-trust bill, but his remarks fell on unwilling ears. Now the question Is, whet was the pur pose of the Republicans In putting the anti-trust bill through the House, know ing that it would not be passed by the Senate? Was it nor, as has been charged, so they might use it as a club to force the trusts to be liberal in making cam paign contributions? It certainly looks so. It Is very well known that the Republi cans are not by any means as confident as they were three months ago, of carrying the presidential election. They are very much in doubt about New York, and if they should lose that state they would, in all probability, lose the election. They are uncertain as to how the people feel in respect to retaining the Philippines, and they realize that the country is dis posed to charge responsibility for trusts on them. Unless ali signs fail they in tend to raise an enormous campaign fund, and use It freely in the doubtful states. This, probably, is the explanation of their action Ir* introducing anti-trust legisla tion at the tail end of the session, when there was no probability of its becoming law. The trusts will be told that if they contribute liberally the anti-trust bill will never get through the Senate, but that if they do not the bill will be passed as soon as Congress reassembles in De cember. The plutocrats and the trusts will find out very soon whether or not this la the explanation of the peculiar course of the Republicans in respect to antitrust measures. THAT CRAMP CONTRIBUTION. Senator Bacon could hardly have fore seen the sensational scene In the Senate on Tuesday, which his reference to the *400,000 contribution that Shipbuilder Cramp Is alleged to have made to the Re publican campaign fund in 1892, caused. He had, however, ample authority for the reference. If Senator Pettigrew is to be believed, Mr. Cramp Is authority for It, and Mr. Pettigrew insisted that Sen ator Carter confirmed the statement. Mr. Carter was the chairman of the Repub lican Campaign Committee In 1892. Of course Mr. Carter denied that he ever made such an admission, and also that Mr. Cramp made a *400,000 contribu tion, but It was to be expected that his memory would fall him When he attempt ed to recall amounts of contributions made to the fund of the campaign which he conducted. Mr. Carter undertook to defend himself by Intimating that Mr. Pettigrew had not acted nicely in disclosing things which had been told him in confidence. It may be that Mr. Pettigrew hasn’t a very fine sense of honor, as 11 is understood among managing politicians, but, admitting that he has not, it does not follow that he did not tell the trfith about the Cramp mat ter. On the contrary, the presumption is that he told the exact truth. It is not reasonable to suppose that he would have thought of connecting Mr. Cramp’s name have made a large contribution If not had the very best of reasons for do ing so. Mr. Cramp does not live very far away from Washington. A dispatch could have been, sent to him and an answer received in half an hour, and it is probable that Mr. Carter would have obtained from Mr. Cramp a denial of the statement, and read it in the Senate, if it could have been secured. Instead of getting a denial, however, he and Senator Hanna under took to belittle Mr. Pettigrew. It will probablV be admitted that any other sen ator would have hesitated a long time before making public what are alleged to be private conversations, assuming that they were such, but It must be remember ed that Mr. Pettigrew has been prodded a good deal sine© the beginning of the present Congress by the Republican sen ators, and that he has been so worried by them that he can hardly be held ac countable for all he says and does. Senator 'Bacon, however, was fully Jus tified in using the statement made by Mr. Pettigrew. In fact, he did but his duty In letting the country know how the Re publican party gets the vast sums with which It conducts its national campaigns. It t probable that Mr. Cramp would not have made such a large contribution It he had had assurances of some sort, or at least a hope, that he would receive valuable favors In return. The chances are that In the building of warships, his shipyard has not been overlooked. Considerable interest has been aroused In naval circles by the recent target prac tice of the British navy when the old armorclad turret ship Belle Isle was use 1 as a target. Valuable information. It Is said, was derived from that expor m nt. Now it Is proposed that one of the <ld civil war monitors be given to the Unit© I States navy for target practice. There doee not seem to be any Insuperable rea son why the whole fleet of the old cheese boxes should not be employed as targets. They are good for nothing else, unless It be to provide a Job for somebody as ship keeper. The old cruft will never again go into active service, even In the event of war. They are obsolete, and If not used as targets ought to go to the scrap heap and be sold for old Iron. It will probably require an act of Congress to permit them to be shot at by the modern ships. Lse than two weeks remain before the time of the meeting of the Republican Na tional Convention, and as yet there Is nothing definite known with respect to who the vice presidential candidate will be. It 'really begins lo look as If the bosses would permit the convention to name the candidate. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE 7. 1900. GRIGGS A BID THE \EW WOMAM. Judgo Griggs, representative in Con gress from Ahe S**cotw3 district, delivered the commencement address before the students of Shorter Col ege at Rome the other day. Shorter as is well known, is a college for young Ordinarily it might have been expect:d that when the orator of the day the galaxy of b auty assembled for the closing exer cises, his remarks would be of the most fervid and flowery type, and that he would have scattered bouquets every where. Judge Griggs, however, left the beaten path of commencement oratory, and gave his hearers something to think and talk about. Indeed, some of those who heard or read the sppech are dis posed to criticise the orator rather point edly. The kernel of the Judge’s speech was a warning to the young against the “new woman” and woman suffrage. He paid the highest and most affectionate tribute to womanhood; to the wives, mothers and daughters who pursue the womanly tenor of their ways, and to the woman who must, by force of circum stances, be the breadwinner. He was preud and happy to know that the time had come w’hen the doors of the schools were open alike to the boys and the girls, ar.d w’hen the trades and professions wel comed women as well as men. But it was with regret that he noted the advent of the "new woman,” the woman who affect ed all cf the rights and privileges of man, even tq the cut of his clothes. He declar ed himself unalterably opposed to the growth In this country of a race of man nish women, w’hich would be inevitably accompanied by womanish men. Towards the women who want to vote, and who are agitating in faver of the ballot for thfir sex, the Judge was severe. He lik ened them to the tempter of the Garden of Eden, endeavoring to persuade the wo man from happiness to misery. “When the visions of these mad-brained, moon blind dreamers become accomplished facts, which God forbid, then will the great sun of love, the ged of woman’s kingdom, and whose effulgence now lights her universe, refuse to shine longer for her. Ashes of bitterness will fill her life from blooming maidenhood to withered age. Home, where now ‘the heart can bloom’ will then be ‘only roof and room.’ ” This speech, according to the Washing ton correspondenc2 of the Baltimore Sun. has greatly stirred up the woman suf fragists. They think Judge Griggs is a horrid, horrid man, to talk about their pet hobby in such a manner, and they are spending a great deal of their time now in writing letters to him and telling him “Just what they think of him.” Mean time Judge Griggs has the satisfaction of knowing that a great many of the most prominent and charming women in Geor gia are heartily in accord with his views. They deplore the "new woman” who wants to vote quite as much as he does, believing that if women once left the womanly sphere of the heme for politics, office holding and the like, they would lose far more than it would be possible for them to gain. A number of communi cations to this effect have been received by the Judge. Meanwhile, the suffragists promise to do what they can to make it warm for him whenever the occasion arises. THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY. It was stated in the dispatches that ex- Senator Hill dominated the Democratic Convention of New York. If he did, he made concessions in order lo do so. It Is well known that he did not want the delegation to the National Convention in structed. It was Instructed lo voe for the nomination of Mr. Bryan and the convention pledged the party to support the ticket and the platform. It is prac tically certain, therefore, that whatever the platform may be, the Democratic or ganization of New York will accept it. The convention did not say anything about the Chicago platform, and there was no particular reason why It should. It declared in favor of both gold and sil ver as standard money, but Insisted that each must he maintained at a parity with the other in purchasing and debt-paying power. That is a proposition quite dif ferent from Ihe 16 to 1 idea, but it is this latter Idea that wlil protftbly be put Into the platform that will be adopted at Kansas City. It may be the’purpose of Mr. Hill and some others to make a fight against stat ing the party's position on the sliver question in the platform lo be adopted at Kansas Ctty Just as It Is sated in the Chicago platform. If ii Is, the chances are that they will he defeated. There Is no reason to doubt that It Is the purpose of Mr. Bryan apd those who are acting with htm, and who are really In control of the party, to reaffirm the sil ver plank of the Chicago platform. In fact. It is difficult to see how it Is pos sible to avoid taking Just as strong ground In favor of the 16 to 1 Idea at Kansas Ctty as was taken at Chicago. T# seem to recede in the slightest degree from the Chicago position would be re garded by the Populists as a backdown, and they would make trouble. Any ef fort to placate the Gold Democrats on the silver question would be cerialn to give offense to the Populists, and the Popu list vote Is a bigger factor in the presi dential campaign than that of the Gold Democrats. Mr. Hill Is particularly anxious for the Democrats to carry New York next fall, and he will no doubt attempt to have the national platform so modified os to bp ac ceptable to Gold Demo, ra s of that state, but there is no reason to think that he will be successful. "My vice president Is shy this morn ing," said President Mrs. Lowe of the Federation of Women’s Clubs nt Milwau kee the other day, "arid the reason is, she has been getting married.” Mrs. President Lowe did not state whether the ceremony hod been completed, but the vice president In question, Mrs. Becker, quickly arose and offend this explana tion: "I had to gel married to have some one to take care of my 14-year-old daugh ter while I went about the country’ to club meetings; and I advise each of you to do the some.” It would be Interest ing to hear the remarks of Representa tive Griggs, of the Second Georgia dis trict, upon this incident. That Wins ted (Conn.) “wild man" has been captured. It turns out that he is Robert Avery, a very respectable young man not in the least wild, but very angry. He went in swimming In the river nearby several days ago, leaving his clqthes on the bank. Some wise police men coming along and seeing the clothes, concluded that somebody had committed suicide, and carried them io the station Douse. When Avery came out from his swim he was In a quandary, naturally. He had to take to the woods. Every time he would emerge from his hiding the women of the houses he approached would scream and the men would shoot at him from the windows. For the bet ter part of two days he was compelled to stay In the woods, where he suffered from cold and hunger. Finally a benevolent wayfarer took him some clothes. Deep down In his heart, Avery says, there Is a desire to flog somebody. The sympathy of France was with Spain during our recent war. and many Ameri cans vowed they would not go to the Paris Exposition, by way of protesting. But there are thousands of Americans in Paris at this moment, scattering their dollars lavishly. The sympathy of France Is with the Boers In the South African war, and the French government has stopped the contemplated visit of the Prince of Wales to the exposition, by announcing that It declined to be responsible for his personal safety. Nevertheless, Paris is thonged with English men and women, who are giving up their pounds, shillings and pence freely. All of which probably goes to show that the Individual does not care a great deal for national predi lections when they Interfere with his pleasure. \ The promotion of Gen. Joseph Wheel er to a brigadier generalship in the regu lar army Is an act of appreciation of gal lantry end patriotism by the government that will have the warm approval of every section of the country. The little o’d ex- Confederate is as true a type of the American soldier as ever graced a uni form. It is a striking matter, of course, that thirty-five years after he held the rank of lieutenant general in an army at war with the United States he should be ■wearing the uniform of the regular army of the United States. The probabilities are that such a thing could happen in no coun try In the world, save ours. With us, however, everybody knows that not even President McKinley himself Is more pa triotic than Gen. Joe Wheeler. PERSONAL. —ln England. Richard Croker Is at tracting attention as an expert golf player. When last in this country he used to spend many of his mornings learn ing the game on the Lakewood, N. J., links. —Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister at Washington, prefers the bicycle to any other means of getting about. In going about Washington, except when going out of an evening, he generally rides one. —'Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, de nies that he ever satd he was not a Spaniard hdt an Austrian, a statement Which he was declared to have made In order to escape a civil suit brought against him In Madrid. —Patrick Sharkey, who died at the age of 83 in East Cambridge, Mass., the other day, was the last survivor of the four organizers of the Father Mathew Tem perance Society, the oldest association of its kind among the laity of the Roman Catholic Church. BRIGHT HITS. —Heard In London.—Smythe: Haven’t seen Diggs in an age. Woodfali: He’s on the race-track now. Smythe: Newmarket? Woodfali: No; Pretoria.—Chicago News. —Extreme Cases.—"Bredren,” said Par son Black, earnestly, “dere am some folks in which de still, small voice ob con science keeps a-getrln' stiller an' smaller, until at las' It’d hab ter l’arn de deef an’ dumb langwidge if it wants ter attrack dir attention!”—Puck. —Not an Archer.—“ Why don’t you ever bring yatir bow and arrow with you, Mr. Gazzam?” asked Benny Bloombumper. "My bow and arrow, Benny,” repeated Mr. Gazzam. “I’m no archer.” “But papa says you often draw the long bow. Won't you show It to me?”—De troit Free Press. —Explained.—"Where's your watch?" asked the observant man. "Why, here It Is,” replied the man whose prosperity had slipped a cog or two recently. “But that’s a silver one. The one you used to carry had a handsome gold case.” "Well—er—circumstances alter cases, you know.” —Philadelphia Press. CURRENT COMMENT. The Hartford (Conn.) Times (Dem.) says; “Gen. Gomez lias returned from San Domingo to Havana, and Is credited with a desire to combine the notional and republican parties and to become the first president of Guba. But his friends also say that If these parties refuse to com bine. he will establish a Cuba llbre party of hip own and endeavor to obtain a ple biscite of the entiie Island, expecting in that way to force the political leaders to adopt his proposal, if only in ihe hope of future office. It is ruomred that for such a purpose Gomez has been promised funds by a number of wealthy men. Including a United States senator, who Is said to have offered $500,000, on certain conditions, to which Gomez will undoubtedly agree. Who is this Un.ted States senator?” The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says; "Scarcely an act ot promotion in the Fed eral service could be dreamed of that would meet more instant ond unstinted popular approval than the elevation of "Fighting Joe" Wheeler to a brigadier generalship In the regular armw, to fill the prospective vacancy to be caused by the retirement of MaJ. Gen. Merritt and the cons quent promotion of Gen. Otis. The old Southern warrior Is a man after the people’s own heart.” The New Orleons Picayune (Dem.) says: i "Taken altogether, the record of the pres ent Congress has not been such as to com mend It to Ihe people, and It is generally believed that there will be an unusually large number of members allowed to stay at home as a result of the election In No vember next.” The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) says; "It seems rather queer that after so many years of Investigation nobody In Congress knows anything about the real value of armor plate, but muit rely on the statements of outsiders, which are Immedi ately contradicted.” , Naval Mattie of the Future. The Stranger—Excuse me, I am a stranger here. Will youtklndly Inform me why all these gayly dressed people are loitering on the shores of this bay? The Native—Eh? Don’t you know? Why, a great naval battle is being fought here, and the p ople for miles aro-nd have come to enjoy the event. The Stranger—l no new in this part of the country, but I’m not as fresh, per haps, as I look. You tell me that a great naval battle Is being fought here. And yet as far as the eye can reach I can dis cern no beat—no, not even a ripple on those placid waters. The Native—That’s all r'ght. It’s a sub marine battle fought by submarine boats. They are now at it too*h and nail some where about the mlddl“ of the bay. The Stranger—You astonish me. These people do not look as If they were at tending a battle. The women wear sum mer froeks. and the men are In afternoon clothes, with top hats. And, see, there is a band over there! The Native—Oh, yes; it’s quite a func tion. That’s the marine band, and those women and men about It are the special gueets of the Secretary of the Navy. You wait around a little while and we ll have some news. There, see! At that moment, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a black object like a mam moth strong cigar leaped upward from ihe waters and lay quivering on the sur face. Every Optra glass was leveled at It, and stranger slanted his hand above his eyes so he could see better. A grimy man crawled from the midst of the thing and raised a huge megaphone to his lips. The Native—Hooray! That’s old Com modore Bob Evans’ grandson! The man with the megaphone shouted In a stentorian voice: "We’ve licked the blankety-blank-blank socks off of ’em!” Whereat there arose a great cheer and a flutter of handkerchiefs, and Ihe marine band played, and the Secretary of the Navy held an Impromptu reception, and then everybody went home to dinner. Cruel Driver YVa.* Thratlied. When an old and lonely tnan revises his opinion of the rising generation, conced ing that tt will take proper car© of the world after he has gone, the hopeless cyn ics certainly get a hard setback, says the Detroll Free Press. “The horse was doing service on a deliv ery wagon," he deposes. "It got tired of waiting for the driver, who was visiting the servant girl, but had not got under full headway when it was swinging from Peterborough into the avenue. I was fairly trembling because It looked as though the brute was going to run amuck on the crowded thoroughfare. But a fine looking young woman, In what I took to be a golf suit, when she saw the horse com ing, started running in the same direction, and she ran, too. When it overtook her she was right alongside, grabbed the bit, hung right on, talked to the horse until he thought he had a friend, and stopped to visit her while she patted his neck ar.d kept on talking. "Then the driver, a big rough specimen, arrived on the scene. He flever stopped to thank her, but seized the whip and went to drubbing the horse unmercifully. Her eyes flamed, she clenched her fiscs, she told him to stop at once, and she threat ened to report him, but his whole attention was given to the horse. " ‘You great, big, cowardly brute,’ she shouted: ‘I-wish 1 were a man.’ " ’Beg pawdon,’ Interrupted a little slen der chap in a Prince Albert, boutonniere, and all the rest of it, ’perhaps I will oo.’ "She looked at him dpubtingly, and the driver told him to escape if he did not want to be pulverized. Then things oc curred fast enought to fool a kinetoscope, and when the dust raised the driver was sitting on the asphalt with his head be tween his hands, the athletic girl was smiling, and the slim youth was taking off a split glove while apologizing to her for not being in quite his usual condition." The Clergyman tVna Foolr-d. There is a pastor of a certain church on Capitol Hill who has old-fashioned Ideas about a great many subjects, and espe cially in the matter of church music, says the Washington Post. He doesn't like the "Cavalleria Rustlcana Intermez zo” as an “Ave Maria” solo, and he doesn’t care for “When the Swallows Homeward Fly” sung to the words of ‘‘Jusus, Lover of My Soul.” When it comes to Wagner's music he feels about it precisely as Dr. Nordau does, and he will have none of it in his church. "I have had a great deal of trouble, my dear lady," said he a little time ago to a woman I know. "I have had a great deal of trouble with my organist. He would play Wagner, he would play pagan, barbarous, secular music at services. I reasoned with him, but to no purpose. At last he resigned, and now in his place I have a young lady. Come to church next Sunday, my dear lady. You will hear no more Wagner, no more infidel, heathen music. Come to Church; you will hear only such music as belongs to the sa cred edifice.” So the woman I know went to church here the next Sunday morning, and while the collection was taken ihe organ play ed, and she marked how the clergyman’s benign face beamed with satisfaction and content. He nodded his head In time to the music. Ali was well with him. The young lady at tpe organ was playing, slowly and softly, ’lJtly Little Gypsy Sweetheart.” An Ini per tur liable Congressman. One of Congressman Cushman’s col leagues Is authority for the statement that this Jack-of-aJI-trades assumes to know everything there Is to know, and It is Im possible to surprise him with a bit of In formation or a scrap of news, says the Washington correspondent of Leslie's Weekly. If he should be told in the midst of a speech that the capitol was on fire he would look about nonchalantly and say, yes. he knew; he had expected a fire about the*. "He makes mo think,” says his accuser, "of an old lady In our town, who, for want of a better name, I will call Aunt Eliza. Now, Aunt Eliza has had few opportunities In her life, and Is ex tremely ignorant, but she has always kept up a pretense of superior wisdom, and no one ever betrayed her into an experaslon of astonishment. Sho Invariably knows what you tell her better than you know it yourself. Once upon a time Aunt Eliza appeared late at a church festival. “ ’Oh, Aunt E’lza!' called out one of the girls, ’wo’re going to have charades. Isn’t It fine?’ “ 'Yes, ye*, child,’ responded Aunt Eliza 'I smelled ’em as I come in.’ ’* Cneanr Wasn’t There, The man on the street car was talking to a friend about his trip through C recce and the tombs of the ancients he had met with, says the Washington Post, and af ter a while the old man opposite, who had been listening closely, leaned forward and remarked; "Sir. do I understand that you were in Greece?" "Yes, sir," was the reply. "And you saw tombs?” "Plenty of them.” < "Did you happen across the tomb of Julius Caesar?” "No, sir. Julius Caesar was not a Greek, you know." "That's so—that’s so. Now that you mention It, I remember that he wasn't. You see, I had kind of got Julius Caeear and Christopher Columbus and George Washington mixed up. and I’m glad you set me straight. Thankee, sir. Do as much for you some time. Go on ~*‘b your tombstones*” ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Shakespeare has been Introduced as a character in a play by the Hungarian dramatist. At pad Zigamy. The play takes Its name from the great English dramatist. It was produced recently at the National Theater In Buda-Pesth, and was pronounced "sheer nonsense" by the Vienna correspondent cf the London Standard. —An Improvement on the well-known Spanish Mauser rifle has recently been devised by Capt. Cel of the Third Regi ment of Italian Sharpshoo;ers, which en ables the speed of fir a of the gun to be Increased to 17 shots In one second and 300 shots In one minute. This Invention has been tested at Brescia In the presence of military officials, and Is reported to have given satisfaction. —The government of Greece is now more liberal with minirtg concessions, and as a result mines are being worked in the provinces of Attica, Thessaly, Milo and Boeotia. For fuel there Is lignite, which ie obtained from Attica and Carysto, while coal is mined in Corinth and Phthiotis. At the Piraeus there are nine large foundries and Iron works which manufacture stationary engines, locomo tives and steamships. —lt has been planned to establish a ser vice of traction engines and wagons across the desert of China to compete with the carrying business now done by’ means of camels, and it Is stated that wiihln a year there will be fifty and 3,000 wagons engaged in this work. Traction engines have recently been in troduced Into Siberia, and two of the largest machines of the kind ever con structed have been recently forwarded to the mining districts of that country from the United States. —The use of the oil engine Is Increasing in Palestne, and partcularly for Irrigat ing and pumpirg have these machines been found economical and effective, as a six horse power oil engine will raise double the quanti y of water in the same rime that a horse or mule would consume, while the cost of oil is about equal to that cf maintaining the mules. The owners of orange-gardens and the deep wells are the chief ustrs of these engages, and there is thought to be a considerable market for such machinery In Palestine. —An English company is reported to have secured a concession for an import ant water-power scheme on the Dnieper river, near Kherson, where the river takes a southwesterly direction, in order to empty into the Black Sea. There is here a series of rapids, and it Is the plan of the company to erect locks, In order to make the waterway navigable, and then use the power In the production of electricity. The concession is desired for eighty years, but the government Is to have the option of purchasing the under taking at the end of thirty years. — i ln discussing Russian red tape a Lon don paper says that a gentleman in Mos cow ordered a particular kind of horse from one of the government breeding <©- fablishments. After a delay of three weeks he received an official communica tion, spread over much paper, to the effect that as he had omitted to forward a stamp for a reply there could be no un swer to his request. The document was signed by several officials. The gentleman apologized and sent the stamp at once. In the course of the next week he re.-elv ed another communication from the breed ing establishment to say that a horse such as he required could not be supplied. —A new radio-active substance has re cently been found by M. A. Deblerne, to which he has given the name of actinium. The new substance is obtained by treat ing pitch-blende with the reagents used for the extraction of titanium and thor ium. and it is said to produce the same phenomena of fluorescence, photographic action, and ionization, as radium and polonium. Actinium has the general char acteristics of thorium, but does not fol low that meral through all Its reactions. If a barium or bismuth salt is added to a solution of thfe new substance, the salt may be e lminated by means cf ammonia or sulphuretted hvdrcg n without destroy ing the radio-activity. All the ZLtperlments of magnetic deflection tnay be repeated with actinium, and it also produces, to a slight extent, the permanent, induced ra dio-activity described by Curie. It Is known that the salts of thorium are fee bly radio-active, and it Is suggested by the author of this investigation that their radio-activity may be due to traces of ac tinium, and that the latter Is the active principle of thorium radial lons. I —About 460 Sac and Foy Indians are as sembled on their reservation in Oklahoma dancing the religious otterskln dance. This is a ceremony observed by these Indians every ten years. It Is a queer doctrine. The adherents trust all In the white otter. As they cannot get the ani mal alive in this countny, they take his skin. This Is placed on a high p>ole in the center of the excited Indians, and they go around it for hours at a time never removing their gaze. Then, wheii they ore so tired they can go no further, the medicine man tosses them the otter skin, and they bury their face In it. While thus situated they claim' to see ail their dead relations and get a glimpse of the happy hunting ground. The dance lasts a week. During tho first two days of the present dance only forty-six In dians had received the otter skin They are not given it until the great spirit so directs the medicine man, and hence there is weeping and walling at Ihe dance. Those who have prayed for the otter skin and not yet received It think-they are lost. They take this as an evil omen and think the great spirit ts angry with them. There are two white girls taking part in the otter dance this year, havln~ recently married Indians and become con verted to the faith. —Petroleum has recently been discover and on the Nile, and a syndicate of American, English and Egyptian capitalists has be ri formed as a result of the success of th“ recent borings. The discovery of oil Is admitted, but the extent and location of the wells have not as yet been announ ed —Silica is now being extensively used In many physical investigations, and since its manipulation in the oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe has been understood. Its value is the more appreciated. That quartz reuld be drawn out Into fibres was first noticed by M. Gaudtn in 1839. but the fact was not made use of until 1887. when T’rof. C. V. Hoys rediscovered the pro cess of making quartz threads and ap plied them to a number of uses. Since that time quartz tubes have been made and also bulbs suitable for, thermometers' The silica used for this’work Is rock crystal, which when perfectly clean and freed from outer Impurities, is heated in a vessel containing boiling water, and then suddenly immersed, in cold water This cracks the crystal and makes pos-i sible Its division Into small masses, which must be carefully examined to make sure (hat there is no foreign matter present The selected pieces are then heated in a platinum dish to a yellow heat and are quickly thrown into deep cylinder* con taining distilled water. This process Is repeated end the quartz Is found to have a semi-opaque appearance, similar to white enamel. It can now be used in the blow-pipe flume, and the manipula tion Is somewhat similar to that of glass It' Is possible to construct Gelssler tubes small distilling tubes, and thermometers of silica, hut as yet a way has not been found of soldering electrodes Into the tubes. 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