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Meeting—Zerubbabel Lodge No. 15. F.
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Special Notice—Soft Shell Crab*, eta,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Most select retort on New Jersey coat.
Send for particulars.
HOTEL HORN!ANDIE,
BROADWAY A: :;srFl STS., NEW YOKE
ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
COOLEST HOTEL IN -TEW YORK CITY
Located in the liveliest and most inter.
| eslir.g part of the city; twenty principal
places of amusement within five minutrs'
walk of the hotel
CHARLES A. ATKINS & CO.
Summer Resort—Ocean Hotel, Asbury
Park, N. J. GEO. L. ATKINS & SONS.
HOTEL FITZPATRICK,
WASHINGTON, GA.
The nicest hotel in the best town in the
South. Fine Mineral Springs. Large ball
room. Cultivated society. An ideal spot
for the summer visitor, near the great
Hillman electric shafts. Special rates tor
families. Address
W. G. THIGPEN, Proprietor.
Greenbrier White Sulphur Spring*,
West Virgin::!.
Representative r* sort of ihe South. Open
June D. S4O,< ’0 i.i improvements. New
sewerage, plumbing, lights, private baths
and toi’.< 's. Or in stra of 18 pieces. Fam
ous Sulphur baths. New 9-hole golf
course. -.Two yards. Professional in charge.
Wr'.io fur ihusuTitod booklet. HARRING
TON MILLS, Manager.
BLOWING ROCK.
GREEK PARK HOTEL.
Summit ol Blue Ridge, 4,540 feet. Scen
ery and climate unsurpassed, so say globe
trotter.-. Head first-class in every respect.
Only house on mountain with plastered
walls; r\ . nt livvry; 45 miles turnpike
roads on top of ridge; large ball room,
band and on:-. ;* amusements. Postoffice
and telegraph in hotel. Opens July 1.
Write for leaflet and rates to
Green Park Hotel Cos., Green Park, N. C.
Hotel American-AdelDhi,
I’in v*: t Location isi
SAIiATC)GA SPRINGS.
Near Mineral - prln*. ;iml nnfliv
OTEN JUNE TO NOVEMBER. ROOMS
EN SUITE, WITH BATHS.
GEO. \. F.tItMI.VM, Prop.
SWEETWATER PARK ~
HOTEL AND BATHS,
LITHIA SPRINGS, CA,
This well-known and popular resort Is now
open. All modern equipment. Cuisine and
seiviee unexcelled. Write for illustrated
pamphlet. JAS. K. HICKEY, Bropr.
Also Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga.
White Sulphur Springs Hotel,
W A 7 M>: YSLLI3, X.
50 acres be bifni.y shaded lawn, wonder
ful mountain * iews. cool nights, freesion®
iron and noted sulphur springs. Fine or
cb.eslla daib House remodeled and newly
furnished this season.
COL. F. A. LINCOLN. Proprietor.
IN THE CHEAT NORTH WOODS.
HOTfiL DEL AtONTE,
StHAXAC LAKE, N. Y.
OPENS JUNK 2\ under enth'eiy new manage
ment: newly furnished und renovated through
out: table und service first-class; near lake
and Hotel Ampersand; golf, tennis, billiards,
boating, fishing driving and bicycling; livery.
or booklet address J. HBNRY OTIS, Sara
nac Lake. N. Y.
New Hotel Bellevue
Euroix'itn l inn. Outrnl Location,
Reaeon St., Ho.ton.
HARVEY & WOOD, Proprietors.
LAND OF THE SKY.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE, Soluda, N. C.
Delightful climate, reasonable rates.
8 FLEMING TARVER.
Si: \ GIRT, MAY JERSEY.
Beach i! u- . right? on the beach. ,Al
ways (col. Fine accommodations. Dining
room : ‘ vi■. 11 r.*-*-elasv Raug reunoni.
hie. Send for booklet. Sea Girt l- the
first stop made lii the coast by * xp;e •
trains from <Phi ;i b Ipid.i to Asbuiy l ark
and Long Bianch. COAST COMPANY.
nu r: lum.u moi \tai\,
Tryon, N. unsurpassed for its health
giving climate, and beautiful mountain
scenery. At Beulah, excellent, varied
table, pleasant rooms, beautiful location,
moderate run \ Circulars sent.
K. FERRIS.
MEI.ROME, M2W YORK.
7S MADISON AVENUE, coiner 23rti st.
Rooms with or without board. Rooms
with board V per k; $1.23 per day
and upwaids. Her and for circular.
All interesif’d in Wlnche-ter, Va.. either
as a Minn ii- ;i. as a joint of hLtoil
cal Interest or in a burin . s way, tan have
pamphlet free. Aidless, J. E. Correll,
Winchester, Va.
S< iiOOLN VXD COLLEGES.
CHEiYGWETH
1342 Vonn- n: uvo. an I lowa Circle,
Washington, I). C.
Boarding School for young ladles. Send
for cntulogUi'. Miss Mary Davenport
Chcnowcth. Mrs. Elizabeth C. Sloan.