The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, June 14, 1900, Page 4, Image 4

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4 §£&e ilofning |Jeto£ Morning Mown Building Karnnnab, Un. TH l USD AV, JIMS 14, HtgLtered at tba Fojtofflc, In Savannah. The MORNING NEWS la published every day in the year, and la served to subscribers In the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month, 41.00 (or six months, and M tO lor one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mall, sis limes a week (without Sunday Issue), three months, 41.00. six months 43 00; one year, SC.OO. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 issues a week, Monday ana Thursday, by mail, one year, (100. Subscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by metal order*. check or r'*lstered letter. Currency sent by mall at risk ef 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 lotes and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of ths MORNING NEWS to either residence or place of business may be made by postal card or ihrough telephone No 210. Any Irregular ity In delivery should be Immediately re ported to the office of publication. 1-ettere and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ca. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New *‘ork city. H. C. Faulkner. Manager. IMX TO MW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting—Zerubbabel Lodge No. 15. F. and A. M. Special Notice—Soft Shell Crab*, eta, H Lcgan; Annual Contest. Havar.nah Rifle Association; Ship Notice, Btrachan & Cos., Consignees; Levan’s Table d’- Hote; Note? to Stockholders of the Bcuthwes’ern Heilnad Company. Business Notices—Harvard Beer on Ice, at Union Hotel; E. & W. Laundry; Beau tiful Jewels, <te.. for the Bride, at Hun ter & Van Keurcn. Buy a Wheel and Camera—Oppcn h'inter. Bloat & Cos Bummer R* sorts—Beu ah. Tryon. N. C.. K. Ferris. Proprietcr; Ore nbiicr White Sulphur Springs West Yi.gn a. A “Change” Breakfast—Grape Nuta. Au tlon Bal •—Administrator s Bile. Hour h: and Goods, bv C. H. Dor*?tt, Auctioneer. Ciga rs—Tc m Keene Cigra-s. J. Plnk usschn & Cos., New York. Stoves—Wickless Blue Flame Oil Stoves. Whiskey—Hunter Baltimore Rye Wh s key; Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey. Salt—Favor.te Table Salt Cheroots—Old Virginia Cheroots. •Medical—Lvdla Plnkham Vegetable Pills; S S. S.; Mother s Ftlend; Castoria; Hcou’s Sarsaparilla; Pond’s Extract; Dr. Hathaway Cos ; Wine of Cardul. Che ip Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale: L s<; Personal; Miscel laneous. The Weather. The indications for Georg a and East ern Florida to-day arc showers, with varlablo wind-, meetly from south to southeast. Within a week the police of Chicago have received from householders more than fifty complaints of pilfering and robl>ery by newly employed servants. The chief or police says that the pra Hlce of hiring out as domestic servants oniy to remain a few days for purposes of theft has become notably prevalent in that city. Admiral Schley’s letter petting himself straight with respect to politics is charm ing: in its honesty and directness. He does not desire any political office, and would not have one under any circumstances. Thai is whet lie means and says, with a sailor-'.ikc bluntness that will make him all the more liked by the masses. * 1 t Lord Roberts, it seems, foresees the end of the war. It is said that he has made several engagements for himself in London during September, and has order ed Ills town house to be ready for him on the first day of that month. Thus it appears that he expects 10 have every thing cleaned up within three months. * • i The Federal Ccurt of Claims decides, not only that Admiral Sampson was In comma and at the naval battle of Santia go. but that his sh'p, the New York, was in the fight. Admiral Sam] a-n, therefore, i entitled to the big slice of the prize money pie. The decision is likely to pul the Bchley parly into a belligerent mood again. Sofia waler may hereafter he dispense ! in New Hampshire on Sundays, despite the blue laws. Judge Badger, of the court in Concord, ruled the other day that “a drink of cold soda water on a hot day is just as much a necessity of life as tea coffee or milk,” and thereupon < 1 charged a drug clerk who had been brought befoie him for dealing out cold soda cn Sunday. No w.'tf standing ihe session of Con gross ended a wo k ago, the Congressional Record continues to make its regular dully app?arar.c<\ It I s * burdened now with speeches of member* delivered (In part) weeks and even months and carefully edited. It 1m pretty well un derstood by ♦ verylody, of eours rt , that the Record is now getting out a cum* palcn <d tion, to he circulated under th postal franks of the members. Almost daily since the beginning of the Boxer troubles in Chinn the authorities at Washington have sent out by the Aseo cla ted Press a statement of the attitude j of the United States with respect to the i matter. And each statement is merely a rehash of the one w hich preceded it. pos sibly they are so pleased that there is i one Asiatic question on which they have 11 policy they are not afraid to make pub lic, that they cannot get enough of see ing It in print. I Eighteen of the leading society girls of P* 1 " • 1 havi formed t hemielvt hto a brass band. The hand began prac tice a year ago under the direction of an accomplished Instructor, and recently p -pcared in a concert w hich was pronounced eminently successful from every i>oln of view*. In ihe North o brass hand of women la no novely. They even have baseball dubs of women In that section. But in the South such things ai decidedly out of the ordinary. GEY. OTIS* HKI’OHT. According to the report of Gen. Otia respecting the situation In the Philip pines the Insurrection Is dead, and there is no longer any organised resistance there to American rule. In his talk to correspondents In Washington last Mon day he said that our army now had only guerilla® and robbers to fight. He ad mitted, however, that as large an army as we now have in the Philippines would be needed there for a long time, perhaps for years. The Filipinos cannot be very kindly disposed to our rule If an army of 60,00') men will be necessary for a long time to keep them in subjection. It scorns to us that the spirit of resistance must be pretty strong if *o largf* an army an army that Is costing us $50,000,000 a year— is necessary to maintain our authority. In our dispatches yesterday it was stated that Gen. Cr.rnt had just capture 1 an insurgent stronghold in <hc mountains offer four hours of hard lighting. T i • is patch seems to be out of harmony v. th the report of the situation made by Gen. Otis. Were the insurgents which Gen. Grant routed guerillas or robbers? The inference from the dispatch is that they were a regularly organised body of troops. It begins to look as if Gen. Otis did not fully understand the situation in the Philippines. There has been a great deal of fighting ever since h- left Manila. There Are very few Indications that the insurrection is, as he says if is, deal. On the contrary, it Is showing a great deal of vitality. It may be true that mo.-t of the generals of the Insurgents have been captured, but others have apparently taken their places, and the war Is going on pretty much as It did months ago. Gen. Otis is no douix sincere in the statements he makes, but it is within the bounds of probability that he is mistaken. If there were only roving bands of rob bers and guerillas It hardly seems as If Gen. Grant would be fighting battles las< Ing four hours. No doubt Gen. Otis is trying to give ns good an impression of tlv* situation in the Philippines as possible. The Republican party, and particularly the President, has been very good to hint but it is doubtful if he will he able to convince the people thnt the Republican policy In respect to the islands is wise and for the best inter ests of this country. I; is certain hat it has already cost a vast amount of money nnd many valuable lives, and it promises to cost many morp lives and many more millions of dollars. As to 'he trade cf the Philippines, it does not yet amount to a great deal, and it will be years before it will be sufficiently profitable to pay the expenses of the army that we shall have to keep there. It would be interesting <o know what sort of an explanation Gen. Otis has for the hfml fighting that the army In the Philippines is now' bring forced to do by the activity of the Fili pinos. THE LIMIT MILE 1 DEAD LETTER. A rather interesting fact has been brought out In New York City in the in vestigation of Mayor Van Wyck’s con nection with the ice trust of that city. The mayor said, in his testimony before Judge Gaynor. that lie purchased his ice stock for $250.000.and that he paid $50,009 in cash and gave hie notes for $200,000 It was ateo understood thst he said that Ihe president of the Ice company got the mon ey on these notes from the Garfield Na tional Bank. There Is a law that a notional bonk ehall not lend to any one person- on amount greater than ten per cent, cf Its capi tal stork. The capital of the Gar field National Bank is $200,000. Therefore, it could not lawfully loan to any one per son more than 520.0 W). It has. however, a surplus of $500,000, and $210,000 of undi vided profits. But under the law the sur plus and undivided profits do not count. It is not clear how much the Garfield National Bank loaned on the Mayor’s notes. It seems certain, however, that it loaned n great deal more than the ten per cent, limit. This matter being called to the atten tion of members of the Clearing House As sociation. it was discovered that no atten tion was paid by New York banks to this un per cent, limit. One member of the Association, a bank president, sad that the bonks could not afford to comply with It, because the business community would not submit to it. The way he put the mat ter was as follows: “Suppose a bank with $500,000 capital and $6,000,000 surplus should restrict its- loan*, in individual transactions, to 550.0C0; how long could it accommodate Its customers? Certainly Us surplus is as good aw its cap ital, and to cut it down to literal observ ance of the law would be too great a hard ship for a business community to stand. That section of the law was put in by stupid legislator* Ignorant qf business of fairs.” It seems that smart business men re gard the average legislator ns stupid. No doubt some legislators are stupid, ut if the laws they help to make were com plied with strictly there would be fewer bonk scandals. President Mercer of the school b*ord l eminently correct with rcs;>ect to the mat ters of petting aside additional holidays, and permitting elections to le taktn in the schools. There are. u< he says, al ready too many holidays f r the best in terests of the school work. . If the birth day of Stephens weie to bo made a holi day, there might shortly come demands for similar recognition of the birthday of Oglethorpe, and Tomochichi. and Toombs, and Tattnall, and numbers of others, un til there would be left few study days. Collections In the schools should not bo permitted under any cir umsi nu s. There are many children In the schools whose parents find U difficult to supply them with book* ar.d pap€r and j encils. To t -k< up collections would be to put such chil dren !n an embarrassing and humiliating position, since they would not he able to contribute. The Congressional Industrial Commis sion has decided to enter upon an Inquiry into the domestic servant problem. After an extended investigation the commission will probably come o the conclusion that there is a domestic servant problem, ami that the solution of it is for people to employ in’.e l'.pent servants, p-y th m good wages ar.d treat them fairly, while on their part the servants should be faith ful, honest, courteous and oblignu. That would be about as instructive as any tc port the commission haw yet mndc. ard would contain Just about as much m w matter. When Gen. Miles went to war in P< ro Uloo he shaved off his beautiful muv-uche, but Gen. Ctls return* fiom the Philippines with hi* hirst*to adornments us luxuriant and an.bnrdu as if they had never hud the *>wnt of burnt powder In them. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1900. CROW > COLOSIES. It seems that Mr. Chamberlain, the 1 British Colonial Secretary, spoke without < onsulting with oth°r members of the j government when he announced, romo weeks ago, that the p?ople of the Trans vaal and the Orange Free State would be given the rame measure of liberty a9 other 1 colonies of Gieai Britain had. He de | that after the war was over—he assumed of course that the British would be victorious—the people of the South Af rican republics would have as great a de gree of control of their local affairs as have the Canadians or Australians. It is apparent that the British govern ment is afraid to let the Boers have eon trol of their own public affairs. It seem.- probable that there wo: 11 at once be in nigurated a struggle between the Ro rs p.d the Out landers. which would kc P rh< country in a constant state of unrest. li was thought., until quite recently.‘that many of the British soldi rs would remain m South Africa after the war. and that si., h an addition to the populition would give the Outlanders a majority of the votes, but it seems that it requires a very considerable amount of money to begin farming in South Africa, much more. In fact, than the average British soldier has. and that therefore very few of them are . likely to make their permanent homes In j either the Transvaal or the Orange Free State. That bring the case, if the Boers ware to be given as great control of thrir* public affairs ns the Canadians have they might make :he situation very unpleasant for the Outlanders. The British government is of the opin ion that it will have to maintain an army of considerable size in South Africa for a number of years. The country will have io bear the expense of supporting this rr try. The fat revenues from the gold mines wi 1 therefore go into the* British tri.usury, instead of the pockets of Boer ■ official*, as heretofore. The announce ment that the two republics will be made ciown colonies means that the British intend to take from the Poers about ev erything that can be made to yield rsve nue. EFFECT OF < HOP REPORT*. The ffie t that crop reports have upon the grain, cotton, fruit and other mar kets is shown in the rise that has taken p ace in the price of wheat since June 1. The rise amounts to more than 6 cents a bushel. The government's report for May s'iow ed that, s; r ng wheat was in a very bad condition in many sections of the West. It Indicated a considerable shortage in •he wheat crop. At cnee the pri e cf wheat began to advance. One of the commercial papers a couple cf weeks ago put out a statement that the increase in the acreage of cotton was very mu h larger than it was generally thought to be. Immediately the price cf cotton fell several points. The growers of early peaches have not bet n getting very good prices for this fruit—not as good as they had reason to expect. It is true that early peaohes are rot as des rable as late peaches, but be ing early they ought to command a high price. Inquiry' developed the fact that very few were buying i>eaches because of the reports that the late peach crop woul 1 be enormous, and that therefore the price of peaches would be low' Just as soon as the late crop began coming io market. The fact that crop reports have such an immense influence on prices of farm products ought to cause the greatest tare to be taken in collecting information re specting -crop condition*. -Misleading ie ports are certain to injure the in terests of either producer or consumer. At the beginning of the present cotton season the pike of rotten was low', mainly for the reason that reports w'er.- sent broadcast over this country and Europe that the crop would be a large one. It was not until a great deal cf .cotton had been sc Id that i* began to b 1 * nderslood that the crop would likely prove to be n t-hort ctio. When it began to be believed t?*at the croj> wcu'd le i hort the price advanced rapidly. We arf not m a position to know whether the crop reporters L r th- gov rrnment are qualified lor the duties they ! undertake to ands -barge or not. but it Is l retty safe to say that many. If rot the I majority, of them make verj little effort to get at the truth. It will be inleresc- ng to compare ihe government reports on the cottcn crop with thes? which will be made by the .Cotton Growers Assoda ion The rejorts of the association ought to le p etty close to the truth, because as a rule, their reporters will be men who ought to be well informed in respect to ihe ciop in their respective localities. In some ports of Tennessee the cotton fields are said to be overrun with grass hoppers. To meet tlie emergency the farm ers arc buying all of the turkeys they can get and turning them loose upon the farms. The turkey has a ravenous appe tite. and nothing seems to ti kle hi) pal ate better than a grasshopper. One tur key, it is sold, will eat upwards of a pint of grnsfthoppers every day. The turkey, however, is not the only fowl that farm ers find useful In their cotton fields. The goose in some sections occupies ihe tosi ion cf a regular farm worker, pu ling and eating the grass from among the growing co ton. It has betn estimated that five geese in a cotton field will destroy as much fcrase as one full grown hoe hand. James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad, does not believe that ihe current year will be as good for the railroads of this country as Inst year was. This yenr. he says, Is apt to prove a little "ro ky,” In view of the cTop outlook and ilie political disturbances which threaten. He was speaking, no doubt, with especial reference to the Northwestern railroads. 3o far as our informal lon goes (he out look for the railroads in the South is very encouraging. There has been an Increase the cotton acreugte, and the probabili ties arc ‘hat ail fruit and vegetable crops will be large. - - 1 - 1 - i Thp N<k York Pre<s <lrnouncei the World'* t'crv Ihnt Jnmcs R. Keene hat let I’S.fCO that !lr>an would he elected, ar a fake. The oil.leal stoiy whh that I’htl J. Dwyer had just returned from Kurope, where Mr. Keene is. bringing th ■ ir.fonrutin with him. It trans pisos that Mr. Dwyer hr* n t hern io Europe and has no* seen Mr. Krone for a month H olies of the doings of Wall street nun s ouli Tlwa>* be taken with a pinch of s ? 11. The newspoorrsof New Ycrk have won <n* vi* tory over the Jc • trust. They have ccm e el it to lower the prl e of he. I* has b- • n reduerd ft*, m s'xiy ‘•ns |er PM pour.da to forty cents, the price ihit oVarnd la t you . Wdnt # w!U W (he outcome or the legal fiyht upo i the tru*t rrir.a'.ns to le seen. The Democrats of th: First Congres sional district of Nebraska have dis covered that the Republ cars are using tie census cnunvraior- (f th t district for political vurpeses. The enumeiators. it Is claimed, were supplied with a politi cal poll book arid instructed td indicate in the book the politics of every voter, whether sure or doubtful, religion, na tions ity, wh ther mani and or single, and vocation. One of the b:oks has been se cured by the Lerr.o ra i District Com mittee. Champion Jim Jeffries is going on the s:ago. A melodrama has boen written for him. The fear is l ing expressed in Nrw York that he will and grade the sta?e. If the stage can stand ‘Sappho’ and simi lar plays, it is n>t like y that Jeffries and th • whole push of pugilists could hurt it. rivHSGY W.. —Congressman John Allen of Missis sippi. has informed some, of his intima;<- friends that at the end of his present term he will retire. He has served fourteen consecutive terms. —Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, is most interested in the discussion as to the verity of the legend concerning the Wash ington elm in Cambridge, iledieiieves thnt our first President, contrary to the latest iconoclastic criticism, actually took com mand of the Revolutioiuury army un it r this tree in full accordance with the old story. —The King of Sweden and Norway is well versed in several languages. When the oriental Congress met at Stockholm a few years ago, ho addressed the assem bled scholars in the languages of the na tionalities to which they respectively be longed, and seemed to speak with equal fluency in English, German, Italian, Rus sian and Spanish. —The late Dr. Isaac M. Wise published a series of letters Home years ngo on th" subject of his early experiences in the United States, which reached compara tively few readers because they appeared in the German supplement of his paper. These reminiscences have been translated, and are now being published in “The American Israelite,” and are interesting to students of the subject of Judaism in America. —Emile Zola has announced to a Rus sian newspaper representative that so far as he is concerned the Dreyfus case is finished. He worked for the accuse! offi cer’s liberation, and that was obtained. At the name lime, the novelist said, h? and h\s friends are still at the disposal of the liberated man in case the latter should want their help, bun they do not see the necessity for the re-establishment of Dreyfus’ innocence. —lf Richard Yates, the Republican can didate for Governor of Illinois, is elected, ho will be Governor of his state before he Is forty years old. But he will not oe as young as some others of Illinois’ Gov ernors. for Nirlian Edwards, the first Governor, when Illinois was a territory, was only thirty-four when appointed; Gov. Ccles was only thirty-six at his inaugura tion, Gov. French was thirty-eight, and Gov. Hamilton was thirty-six. —Herbert Putnam, librarian of the Li brary of 'Congress, who has just salted for Europe, will have a busy'trip. He will be purchasing books for the library all the time, w'ill attend several congresses of professional interest to him in widely sep arated parts of Europe, and hopes to be present at the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Guttc 9-erg, to be celebrated at Mainz. To this occasion he will go as a delegate from the United Spates. BRIGHT BITS! —Taglelgh: I see there is a melodra ma. coming out with real water and a real iceberg, with real polar bears. Wagleigh: I know of one that will be more realistic still. Tagleigh: Whal are they going to have in that? Wagleigh: Real actors.—'Tit-Bits. —Fully Explained.—“ Yes, Uncle Jim Is going to take me to Paris.” “But I thought you said your Uncle Jim was a poor man.” “My Uncle Jim L a Kansas City hotel keeper. toid we are jnot go ng until after the Democratic Gdnverutlon.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. / / —The Soft Answer.—“l don’t think you will find that the angels ever smoke,” said she, with mild reproach in her voice. “I guess no*,” said he. “1 am sure you never do. Run and get me a match, will you?” And the foolish woman went for the match. —Indianapolis Journal. —The Price cf Success. —The final elec tion returns had been received. The Hon. Joshua Hayrick wore an expression of great sadness. “What's the matter?” they said to him. “Your election is conceded.” "That’s true, boys,” he replied, gloom ily, “and nothing under heaven will keep the village band from serenading me.”— Philadelphia Press. —“This is our lost booHeg!” whimpered the cook, as he served breakfast. “What?” cried the Arctic explorer, paling. “It is scarcely the middle of August, and the lec ture season can't possibly open until after election this year!” Sopio one had blun dered. It was with a heavy heart, indeed, that the explorer colled a messenger boy nnd sent word out to the rescuing party that they might come and rescue him any time now.—Detroit Journal. tilth M\T < OMY.ENT. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal CD. m ) soys: “The Si. Louis Globe-Duno ra’ speaks of the Republican pirty . ite par.y that does things. Let us see abo t that. The Republican party pled-od o take no step backward In civil service n form, and in three and iff emit plv.form* it was pledged to carry out the Nice n canal project. Ten thousand places which were under (he civil rervi.o rubs l.av been made the spoils of offLe; and -he Nicaragua canal has 1> en killed by a R - publican Senate. Under the circumstances it "Should bed scribed a* the puiy ha* undoes things or that doesn't do ( ing-.’’ The New York World (Dcm.) says: ‘The great ‘commercial value’ of tie Philip pines is Illustrated by the official figures of the expon* to those isl nls ler he ten months ending with April. The ;• n value was $2.i;:2.yi4. Tnis is -about whir one big sh: > take* from New Ycrk o Europe every week. Of th s 11 tie lotil $441,550 was ia horses and nvub sf r u * own army. a In fodder f r them $l7O - 009 In bqer and 597.0t.-0 In whiskey—ill o our soldiers. Is not this a wonderful trad\ when the cos* of maintaining ( e u.’my there alone is sso,in 0,090 o year?” Ths Richmond Dispatch (I> m.) soys: “Congress has met and adjourned, and how did it treat the Philippine qu •* ioi? It Ignored i(. Ncr is that all. Not o ly did tiie Presiden. fail to make any ffor to unload the cUphant ou Congress, but administration set.at rs supp css. <1 th only measure that was tntioducrd la Con gress looking to president Iml 11 lief in t v* matter. However, we exp ct notnh.g dv. As we said at th- time, th* i\ . ura ce e*f *be President and Se*retasy 1, ngW r simply sops to New England atitl-lirpe - ialistic sentiment.’' The Hartford Times {(Dcm.) says: “Wa it really ne *. ssiry to/cad unoth r hin (l red -Ihousnud-dollar-a-y< h r com i is !o j i© the Phlli|i>!n* s to find cut tha: it was necessary t > send m re to ie a over *re o Of course that was what die commlj lo l was sent for, but couldn’t th * result h v* been arrived at In a leas expensive way? The Orator Wan Delayed. “John Temple Graves, who addressed •he Montgomery Race Conference the other day, is one of the most eloquent speakers In the United States,” said a visitor from Birmingham to the New Or leans Times-Democrat, “and he fails to usionish those who hear him for the first time, because of the great rarity between his size and his powers. He is less than five feet high, very frail, and his thin, smooth-shaven face gives him an appearance of extreme youth. In that connection an amusing story is told. Some time ago. according eo a yarn, Mr. Graves was booked to deliver a lecture at a certain Southern city where he had never appeared. At the appointed hour a large audience had gathered in the Opera House, and (he Reception Committee was assembled in the wings of the s<age, but, strange to say. there was no sign of the speaker. Half an hour slipped by, and ev'Tyhody began to get very nervous. Mealtime an old negro janitor, who had been posted at the stage door to show up the orator the moment he arrived, was heard, his voice raised in vociferous pro tests Hon. ‘Go ’long, 1 tell y‘!’ he shout ed, ’an’ stop raisin’ all dot ’sturbance er I’ll come out an’ bust y’ wide open!’ One of the committee went dowm to investi gate. \Vhat s the matter, uncle?’ he ask ed. ‘Oh, miffin', sah,’ said the old darkey, ‘ ’cept er mighty sassy white boy, tryin’ ter sneak In an’ see de show.’ The com mitteeman opened the doer and was con fronted by a small and highly indignant gentleman. ‘My name Is Mr. Graves, sir,* said the stranger; ‘mny I ask what brand of h lunatic you use here as a janitor?’ Explanations ensued’, and the old door keeper was greatly chagrined. After the lecture was over he came back with eyes round as saucers. ‘Dat lktle white gem man shore has de gif’ er gab,’ he said. ‘While he was talkin’ laike he was nine feet high!’ ” Coy to ffepcuil Ipou. Jeremiah Jones is even meaner than the man who splits up his wife’s tomb stone to repair his doorstep, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Jones w;.s an in veterate tobacco smoker, but, as his wi e detested the practice and made home tempestuous and stormy for him when he indulged in the habit there, he filw.tyj smoked when away during the day, ail 1 declared to bis better half that he had stopped permanently. But one evening, upon entering the front door and drawing out his handkerchief, he accidently pu’led ou his pouch of tobacco, and. w.thout noticing it. left it lying on the floor. When Jones sat down to his supper his wife walked in with the tobacco In her hand, and, looking Jones firmly in the eye, said: “Do you know who this belongs to?” With great presence of mind Jore* turn ed scow ling to his eldest son ands tid. with a severe voice: “Immortal Mars! is it possible that you have begun to smoke.* You young reprobate! Where’d you pet nasty stuff? What d’ye mean bv such conduct, you young villain? liiveti’t I told you often, enough to let tobicco alone? Come here to me or I’ll tear the coat off you.” As he spoke the stern father made a grab at the boy nnd dragged him out int> the hallway, where he chastised him w.tli a cane. Then Jones threw the tobacco over the fence, where he went out und get It the next morning and enjoyed it during the day. “Merciful heavens!” he exclaimed, when he told us about it. “What should I have done if my children had b en all girls? It makes an old father’s heart glad when he foe Is that he has a boy he can depend upon in such emergencies.” The Limit Unused. “Please, mamma, please!" “Papa, I beg of you. do not refuse!” Cordelia Pasdetout ciung wildly about her fond but obdurate mother’s neck, and rallied kLs s upon heb cheeks, while An ti- : isi i. her sister, did likewise to her father, says Harper’s Baawr. But their pleadings seemed of no avail; the elder Pasdetout* shook their gray heads firmly in negation, though it was evident that the necessity of refusing their daughters’ request pained them beyond measure. Gently, but with decision, as one shakes a hard-shelled crab from out a scoop-net, the parents disentangled their daughter*’- arms from their shoulders. Then master ing his emotions the father said: No. Anastasia and Cordelia, what you ask of us Is too much! Never befote have we refused a request of yours. .We have moved from city to city, from state to state, to the injury of my business nnd the destruction of your mother’s health, in order to deceive people as to your ages. For the past ten years it has been noth ing but move cn for us. every time the people of one place would begin to sus p et your true ages, you have insisted on us packing; up and going elsewhere, that you might start anew at twenty-two and twenty-threes respectively. We have sub mi ted to the nomadic life for our love of you. but your rr.ost recent demand is too much. We absolutely refuse!” The daughters sobbed like anything. In fact they sobbed like everything. But their firm parent remained firm. "No," continued Mr. Pasdetout, “we will not. 'absolutely wi 1 not, celebrate our sil ver wedding again In order to p.rove to people that you two cannot be over 24 at the outside. The idea!” Mn re ii* Dnly’* Waiter*. I see that Marcus Daly has leased a house in Fifth avenue from our voluntary exile, William Waldorf Astor, for ten years fti $16,0r a year, says a writer iq the New York Press. Rather a handsome rental, but money is no object to Mr. Daly. I met him at the Hoffman House the night after his colt Tammany defeated th* gallant Lamplighter in a match at Gut tenburg. His winnings were exactly $27.- 090. and he carried the toll in his inside pocket all night. When a friend expostu lated. warning him of the dangers of New York in the small hours of the morning, the Montana millionaire re tort eel with no little warmth: “Whin Oi nade a guardeen Di li fcire wan by the wake. Mar-r-cus Daly was bar-r-n in Jolrsay City in a waggin’, and wurruked for two dollar a wake, an' no one ever done him yet.” He is extremely proud of his humble origin, and it is a fact that he was born in a wac ■a: just opposite Taylor’s Hotel. I osked if he in'ended traveling all the way back to Anaconda with that roil of note* in his pocket, and he replied: “Whin Oi arrive Oi* 11 have nary a cent of It in me clothes. It Is ih* winnings of the boys all along the line between me mines an’ the Gut. an’ Oi'll be distributing it all the way back at every station on the road. Mur-r-cus Daly bei nary a cent of his own." The (.’- !>•,cr King drops into a rich half brogue when not under guard. Tlic Flit of ill R ue* (I on. From the Catholic Standard and Times. She saw that he was going to put The question long expected. Site tapped the carpet with her foot, Aral trie:! to look collected. And as she waited for the man TV ask the fateful question, A wo* s he r aging features ran Sanguineous congestion. The rose, her cheek. Incardlned, Was followed by the Illy; So grra wo* her distress of mind She really felt quite silly. At length, to her Intense relief, lie asked the same old story, Of nil important things the chief In woman’s category. A.i'l ih n he said: “Beg pardon, miss.”— Hi* voice was quite unsteady— “l f Imply had to ask you this.’’ She hod her answer ready “Why should you not sir,” she began, “I’m glad to give my answer. Tis twenty >rars. kind Census-man, Slice first my life began, sir!” T. A. D There D a horse in Havana which is nv ...1 with having saved the lives of - w ’ parsons. It is kept in Havana s bac lerlolog: • il la hoi a tory, and educe 18% has furnished 74.00) cubic centimeter* of th* serum used In fighting diphtheria. Tho scrum has effected l,Bou cures. ITEMS OF INTEREST. —The City Council of Sandusky, 0., has resolved to appropriate the old Indian burying grounds In the suburbs for park purposes. Some of the bodies have been interred for ninety years. The w r ork of removing the bones will be begun im mediately. —A woman in one of <he Western states recently bore three different names in one day. In the morning she was Mary Fuller. In the afternooh she obtained a decree of divorce nnd resumed her maid en name, Mary Town. In the evening she was married again and became Me.rv Fox. —Japan now has about 150 daily papers, besides nearly 600 other periodicals, wheie a little more than twenty years ago there xvas not a single regular daily pub lication to w hich the name of newspar * c could be properly applied. It was on y about 1874 that printing from regular me tallic types became common in Japan. —On the threshold of the twentieth cen tury *he British war office has rrsorted to armor for the protection of its soldier*. Orders have been given for the purchase of a number of small steel shields to cover the vital ports about the heart. The shields weigh about seven pounds and In tests have turned bullets at 70J yards. —The government is to build h i >f.- road system of its own in the Charles town navy yard. Congress having appro priated $40,000 for the rails and ties and the labor of laying them, nnd $10,00.7 for a locomotive and care?. Four hundred tonH of steel rails are now being delivered at the yard to be used in laying the tracks. —During the nine months ending with March Mexico purchased nb ut $10,003 worth of boots and shoes in the Unit and States. In the City of Mexico and in many other large cities of the republic American boots and shoes are preferred to any oth r makes, but, in spite of this fact. Import? from France and Germany continue to be considerable. —St. Joseph county, Indiana, which f r many years was far behind the demand of borrowers upon Its school fund, Ia; now on hand $20,000 with no and maud. This means a loss to the school fund, and it s suggested that a law ought to b‘ fram and. permitting school funds to be loaned at loss than 6 > per cent., rather than have the money bearing no Interest. —The Chinese consul at New York. Chew Txz Chi, does not agree with the majority of his countrymen in the United St’.t s in their condemnation of the dress o American women, but, he says, nrej -rs that dress to the costumes of his native country. He thinks that Chinese worn- n wear too short skirts, for he likes the long skirts—those that the women have to hold up. —Some curious expedients are necessary at times in the medical applications of electricity. It is not uncommon now for the electric cabs in New’ York to be pressed into service as perambulating sources of electric power by physicians who are called upon suddenly to make x-ray examinations of patients who are in localities where electricity from street circuits is not on tap. —A ghastly relic of the late Spanish- American war is on exhibition behind *he bar of a saloon cn Front street. Phila delphia. It is o mass cf sliver B;ani-h dollars, numbering some sro.5 r O. which ha e been melted In fantastic shape. The sil ver was found on the loly of a h lr roasted sailor of the Spanish w r hip -Ma ria Theresa just after the battle of S n tiago, when Cerevera’s fieri was anni hilated. —The erection by the .State of Maryland of a monument on the battlefield of An tietam to commemorate the valor of the Union and Confederate soldiery alike has a precedent in the monument which the people of Canada some years ago erected In the public garden at Quebec to the memory of Wolfe and Montcalm, enemies in the strife on the Plains of Abraham, which destroyed the power of France in the New World. —Many interesting papers make regu lar appearance on board great liners, some being triumphs of artistic produc tion. Many of those journals are printed and cleverly illustrated; others, loss am bitious, are reproduced by copying ma chines, but all are interesting epitomes of the life spept on board and record tlie* daily cricket scores, sweepstakes and per sonal gossip, while ignoring such triviali ties as Europeon complications. —Very few people are aware that in the last twenty years the number of fb-h in .the great lakes has been decreasing rapid ly. It is a fact that as compared with G-n years ogo it requires practically double the number of men. boats and nets to catch the same number of fish. Tho gov ernment has for twenty years maintained a large number of stations along the lakes where fish have been propagated in en<9- *mous numbers, -in spite of all this the supply 1b steadily decreasing. —British statisticians are reckoning up what Great Britain owes to the scourge of influenza. There hove been two serious epidemics of influenza there in the past ten years, one in the winter of IS9I-M. when the amount of property paying deaei duties advanced $150,006,000 above the aver age. and again in the past winter, when the incrcose was about $140,C00.000 over the previous yenr. The fact that influenza was almost the sole cause of the increase is aKown in elaborate statistical tables. —lt came out in the New York courts ihe other day, where the will of the,late Robert Bonner is being contested, on the allegation that he was mentally incompe tent to make a will on the day the docu mcm ap?>eors to have been drawn up, that on the same day as that on whk'n the will is dated Mr. Bonner drove one of his fav orite trotters at less than a three-minute galr. The point was made that no man could do that whose mental faculties were unbalanced, and it was not seriously dis puted. —The little town of Macy, Ind., is in a state of excitement because a man named Andrew Oliver has secured a license to open a saloon there. For thirty years the place has l>e€n without a saloon, though hundreds of attempts have been made to start such places. Recently Oliver ad vertised in the usual way, but put his no tice in a paper published sixty miles away in the most remote part of the countv. It escaped the observation of Mocy people and the County Commissioners, finding no opposition, granted his application. —There will be no commemoration at Oxford University, England, this month on account of the war. but there will be an “American day,” on which a series of honorary degrees will be conferred nt a special meeting of the convocation. The list will include the presentation.of a de gree of doctor of civil law to Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard, doctor of divinity to Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix nnd doctor of science to Prof. Mark Baldwin of Princeton. The last degree is remarkable, since psychol ogy has never before hod n scientific recognition of (his kind in an English uni versity. —An interenting exhibit prepared for the Paris Exposition is a complete net of bed hangings manufactured In Madagascar from silk procured from the halabe, an enormous spider found In certain dis trict* of the Island. This exhibit seems to indicate that there is a future for silk manufactured from Folder’s web. The mutter has received the attention of Mr. Noffue, head of the Antananarivo Techni cal >3chool. who has already achieved won derful results. Each spider yields from 309 to 400 yard* of silk, which can be tak en from the animal every ten days, it be ing set free in tho Interval. The silk Of these spider* is stated to bo finer than that of the silkworm and of an extraordi nary golden color. It I* extremely tcni ylous and can be woven without the slight est difficulty. Triumph of Worth. : A The very hearty re- ' ception accorded to ] Murray Hill Club Pare Rye Whiskey i Is indisputable in- ' dorsement of Its' excellent quality. J Murray Hill Club ' Js Luxurious ’tal'SL*?:'i'-iIS (hoods sold at area- J f-ona;..:? p, • —a pre-eminent whiskey < without a lival. It is listed by all thr- J leading Clubs, and served at the . most excUr vo functions. Sold by 11 first-class dealers everywhere. , JOS.A.MA6NUS&CQ.! CINCINNATI. OHIO. J SUMMER HE SO ATS. Hotel Gerard, eeii St , Near Eroadway, New York. AitSOLt TKLY i'iKL-J*HOOF. Moil, ern nmf luxurious in ell it* appoint ments. Centrally located. Cool and comfortable in summer. AMERICAN AND KfiIOPEAN PLAN. (Under New Munaseaient). J. P. 11A.ML)LEX'S SONS, Proprietors. ALSO Avon Son and Cottages, AVON. N. J. 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