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4 §H)c iHafnirtg Morning Building baTannah, Uo. 1H ID W. .M \ K Ir, 1 000. Registered at the Postoffice in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month, $4 00 for six months, and 00 for on■ year. The MORNING NEWS, bv mail, six tlm*'F a week (without Sunday issue), Thre- months. sl.s<>: six months $.'1.00; one year. s♦.; o°- The WKKKI.Y NEWS. 2 issues a week. Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, S’. 00. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by post <1 order, ( heck or register® i letter Currency sent by mail at risk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than social column local or reading notices, amusements ond cheap or want column. 30 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type-equal to one inch square in dep.ti ls the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. OrdfTS for delivery of the MORNING NEWS to either residence or place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone No. 2b’. Any irregular ity in delivery should be immediately re port'd to the office of publication. Fetters and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEWS,” Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE. 23 Park Row. New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. mil 10 SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting—Landrum Lodge, No. 48. F. & A. M. Special Noti< s Snw.inee Springs Hot*! Buwnnee, Fla.; Annual Bachelors’ Moon light Excursion; Harvard Beer on Ice at Beckmann''; Soft Shell Crabs Today, H. Logan, Interstate Cake Walk Contest at C. L. A. Hall To-night; Extra ts. A. M. & c. W. West; Notice of Redemption of Chatham County Court House Bonds; Notice to Members of the Bar; Levan's Table d'Hote. Fbtsb ss Notices—Fancy Fresh Fruits, Jchn T. Evans A Cos. Cut Prices on Water,Coolers—At Balti more's. Remnant Sale—A* Byck’s Shoe Store. Empty Hogsheads—C. M. Gilbert A' Cos. Cotton Gins—Cheesman Cotton Gin Com pany. Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship Cos. Mineral Waters—Crab Orchard Water. Medical—Bar-Ben; Castoria; Hors ford’s Acid Phosphate; Hood’s Tills; Dr. Hath away Company; Coke Dandruff Cure; Munvon’s Dyspepsia Cure. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. I’li** Weather. The Indication* for Georgia and East ern Florida to-day are for showers, with fresh east to northeast winds. Rathbone and Neely will be missed from about the convention hall in Philadelphia. Ttye Emperor of China Intimates that he would like to tell his troubles io the marines. If "figures can’t lie," it must be that some of those figures from the Havana postoffiee are the exception which proved the rule. The commerce of the Unite*l States with China during the last fiscal year amounted to 133,056,790, of which $14,537,432 were ex torts and $18,610,268 imports. a • , A queer strike is on in Milwaukee, where, the men have quit work in order to com pel their employers to join an employers’ benevolent association, which, it seems, has an insurance feature attache**! to it. Ten years ago there were over 500 pau pers in Wichita county, Kansas. Now there is one solitary iauper in the county, who is taken care of by public subscrip tion. The poorhouse has been abolished. When the farmers and the bankers of the cotton belt gel together on a plan for warehousing the cotton crop, as it seems they will do. the speculators and manipulators will find their own row harder to hoe. Oorn Taul says the British do not know where his treasures are. If he means by that that they are laid up In heaven, the Courier-Journal wants to know if the old gentleman is not putting a lot of unnec essary reliance on a railway locomotive. Gov. Mount of Indiana, has placed him self before the court of public opinion to be tried upon the matter of his refusal to honor the requisition of the Governor of Kentucky. And there can he little it any doubt that Gov. Mount will be con demned. That is a nice bluff which the Repub lican National Committee is making about investigating the "pernicious activity of office holders in the campaign." If all of the Republican office holders who have been or may be perniciously active dur ing the campaign were to be deprived of their Jobs, there would speedily be a big lot of vacancies in the service. Senator Hoar—lie of the cherubic face can use vigorous language when be gets worked up. When asked about the state ment of Secretary Buencamino, of the Filipino government that he had written letters t<> the Filipinos, Senator Hoar said: "It is n li**; an infernal 11°. and you can put as many ‘damns’ in my quo tation a- your conscience will permit." , - ... A crusade against cigarette smoking by school boys i being waged by an anti cigarette league in Chicago. The league also sells badges for 10, 25 and f0 cents each, and publishes a little magazine at j 50 cents a year. If it can su<heed in selling j badges to half the school boys In ChWtigo, and to 10 per cent, of those in other cities, it will rake in quite a neat little sum of money. W The platform adopted by the Democracy of Georgia i our upon which all Demo crat- of the st .t* .an stand. The Chicago platform 1-, of course, indorsed, but at tention Is given chiefly to new* Bines. Imperialism and trusts are denounced and the repeal of the piesebt tariff law is de manded. The people arc eongiatulnte,] on the state school system, ms maintained under Democratic administration. The platform is a good one, and will have the approval of the party. THE GOVERNOR DEFINES THE P- St ES. In his speech before the Democratic State Conventon yesterday Gov. handler pointed out what he considered the issuer of the national campaign. In his opinion the questions of tariff, silver and legisla tive policy were Insignificant in comp r -i.-on with the question of imperialism. On this point he said: “The question that con fronts us Is whether this shall continue to Ik* a republic or be changed into in empire. I am no alarmist, but I declare, and I want to go on record as declaring, that the issues of 1800. out of which grew the most desolating civil war of modern limes, were not so fraught with danger to the principles for which our ancestors fought in 1776, as are the issue* in the pending election. In IW>O h)1 pirties ad hered to the Monroe doctrine, the doctrines of independence and of the constituti n. The Republican ndminisiration has aban doned the Monroe doctrine. the sheet anchor of the republics of the Western hemisphere, it has spit upon the doctrine that all governments derive their just powers from the consent cf the governed, and has, in a thousand ways, defied an 1 ignored the constitution of the fathers. It has waged a war of conquest against a people whom it has found struggling against a Spanish tyrant tor the right of self-government.” Further along in his address the Gov ernor pointed out that the Republican par ty had imposed heavy taxes in order to carry out the policy of imperialism, and that by means of these taxes there ha 1 been built up monopolies and trusts which had closed every avenue to successful in dividual enterprise. The Governor ex pressed the opinion that our government was no longer the government of the people, but was an oligarchy. The next step, lie said, is into empire. The Governor is right in thinking that the great issue in the presulential cam paign is that of imperialism. The atten tion of the people is being concentrated upon it. They are of course Interested in all of the political questions which are being discussed, but not to the extent that they are in the question as to whether the principles on which the republic H founded shall be adhered to. Imperialism means militarism and trusts. Most of the large fortunes- ate owned by Republicans. The Republ can party wants a large standing army. It means to protect trusts, because great fortunes are made out of trust# quickly and are invested in trusts. As trusts in crease in wealth and number a big army may t>e necessary to protect them from the attacks of an indignant people. The mission of the Democratic pa ty i* plain. It must defeat the policy of imper ialism, destroy trusts and bring the repub lic back to its ancient moorings*. It is prouble that it would stand a greater chance for success if it should concen trate all of its efforts against imperlilism. That seems to be the idea of the Governor. The silver question, and other question* concerning which there is a difference of opinion in the Democratic party, can wall until the Democracy gets control of the government, and the opportunity, when effective action can be taken, comes. THE C EMETERY qt ESTIOV. It is evident from the action of Council on the report of the Special Cemetery Committee, that there is great deal of opposition to inventing s much money in a cemetery site as the adoption of that report would require. Alder man Tledeman placed the amount nt $250,000, and it is probable that his esti mate was not very far out of the wav. The refusal to approve the report wa3 somewhat of a surprise, since the impres sion was that seven of the aldermen fav ored it. The aldermen had doubtless found out during the last two weeks, however, that the sentiment of the community was against the site which the committee had recommended, and against such a large outlay as the selection of that site in volved. As to whether any further effort will be made to get the city to accept the Gar rard tract, is a question that cannot now be answered. It is hardly probable, how ever, that any one of the aldermen will care to take the responsibility of making another effort to have the city accept it. The objection** to it ere very strong ones. As they were stated by Aldermen Tlede man end Wells recently, and again by Alderman Tiedeman on Wednesday night at the Council meeting, they satisfy the greater part of the community that the city would make a regrettable mistake if it should purchase the Garrard land for a cemetery Fite. Sometime ago we suggested that there was no good reason why the city should own a cemetery. it lie understood that the city does not intend to purchase another site, and it Is probable that a private corporation would undertake to provide a cemetery that would meet all requirements, and would be in every other respect satisfactory. Senator Frye of Maine, who was presi dent pro tem. of the fienate during the session recently ended, directs attention to one good thing, of the negative sort, which the session did. There were 18,191 bills and joint resolutions introduced during the session. Of these only 225 were sent to the President for his sig nature. “It is no small part of the duties of Congress,” says Senator Frye, “to contrive how not to legislate—to prevent great numbers of ill-considered, selfishly promoted and vicious measures from becoming law.” There Is much truth in his comment. Every stale suffers from too much legislation. If ii were possible to reduce the number of acta passed by state legislatures and Congress, it would be better for the country. The Chicago Journal contends that the reason the strike in that city has not been pett ed 1s chiefly because interested persona do not wish it to be settled. The strikers, it says, nre represented by busi ness agents who see menace to their own positions In any talk of settlement, and the contractors by officers who let self pride and arrogance sway them. It in -Ists that, If the difficulty had been dis cussed amicably, by sensible men. it might have been dis|osed of in a day, long ago. The probabilities are that the Journal is correct in Its statement of the case. It looks as if the Chinese mean fight. It Is a great pity that civilization will be called upon to witness a conflict between <he. best soldiers In the world armed with the best weapons, and the poorest sol diers in the world armed with obsolete weapons. The Governor of Missouri says It is the fault of the Mayor of St. ly>uis that there has been rioting and bloodshed during the strike, and the Mayor saya it ip the fault of the Governor. Possibly each is in a measure right. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JUNE 15. 1900. T % Y LOR PROTECTED BY GOV. MO! NT. Will public sentiment sustain Gov. Mount An refusing to deliver Mr. W. S. Taylor to the regularly constituted author ity sof Kentucky? It is doubtful. Mr Taylor is under indictment in Kentucky .is an accessory to the assassination of <; v+GoebeL When It vs is announced hat an indictment had been fo ind against him he stated tha be would return at once and fa< e his accusers. Instead of doing that hr lias taken refuge in Indiana, and the Governor of that state refuses to give him up on the requisition of the Governor of Kentucky. It tn iy be, as Gov. Mount says, that it Is Impossible for Mr. Taylor to get an im partial trial in Kentucky at the prepent time, owing to the excited condition of public feeling there, but is it for him to say whether a fair trial can be had or not? There are courts in Kentucky to de cide that question. Besides, Mr. Taylor has plenty of friends in that state. The understanding is that fully half of the I>eople voted for him. and it is reasonable to suppose that they would insist upon his having a fair trial. There is no doubt a very bitter feeling against Mr. Taylor in Kentucky, and it might be in the power of the dominant party to bring about his conviction even though the evidence did not warrant a verdict of guilty, but it is doubtful if the dominant party would use its power to convict him. In fact, it is safe to say that Democratic sentiment in Kentucky would not permit his conviction on either per jured or insufficient evidence. The people of that state, without regard to party, be lieve in fair play. A mistake was made probably in offer ing so large a reward for evidence that would lead to the conviction of the parties guilty of assassinating Gov. Goebel. Gov. Mount thinks it amounts to a pre mium on perjury, and that Mr. Taylor would be convicted on false evidence If he should be tried at the present time. But is he justified by anything there is in the law in refusing to surrender Mr. Taylor to the Kentucky authorities? The course that Mr. Taylor is pursuing is calculated to give the impression that he knows more about the assassination of Gov. Goebel than has yet appeared in the public prints. The impression may not. of course, be correct. In fact, it probably is not. Mr. Taylor, occupying the position he did, could hardly have made the mis take of countenancing In any way the terrible crime that shocked the entire country. If he Is ever brought to trial it will appear probably that there is no evi dence against him that would influence an unprejudiced person. RESPONSIBILITY FOR fIBAN FRAUDS. Republican senators and representatives and leading Republican politicians are re sponsible for the frauds which have been committed in Cuba. No doubt some of the senators and representatives who have been loudest in condemning the postoffice thieves and the thieves in other depart ments of the Cuban service were among the most persistent that their relatives and political heelers should be given good places under the government in Cuba. The heads of the war ond postoffice depart ments were pressed so strongly by men prominent in the Republican party for places in Cuba for friends, that they had not the time nor, in fact, the Inclination to inquire whether the persons to whom they gave appointments were fit to serve the government or not. It is estimated that there are about twice as many per sons holding government places in Cuba as there is any use for, and It is a fact, doubt leas, that many of them are paid three or four times what they are worth. It was stated in one of the dispatches from Paris, a day or two ago. that United States Commissioner Peck, of the Paris Exfwsition. was paying clerks SSO a week who would not be able to earn sls a w’eek at home. And why does Commissioner Peck thus squander the public money? Simply because these young men, who are paid four or five times what they are worth, are proteges of senators or mem bers of the House. He knows that if he refused to grant favors to these legislators his approriations would likely cease. Asa matter of fact public officials can not protect the government if they had the inclination to do so. * The members of Congress of the dominant party will not permit them to do so. They insist upon having their friends taken care of at the expense of the public. The blame for most of the extravagances, and even for the frauds, from which the treasury suf fers, rests upon senators and representa tive* of the dominant party. If the truth could be got at It would doubtless nppoar that all of the officials in Cuba found guilty of wrong-doing were appointed on the recommendations of Republican sen i tors or representatives. The Leech Lake (Minn.) Indians, who have given mote trouble lately than any of the others, nre beginning to get restless and ugly again. A “messiah” lias appear ed among them and is preaching that the anger of the great spirit will fall upon and smite all Indians who live in houses like those of white men, or otherwise, fol low the customs of white men. It occurs that there are no troops at t!te agency, hence n outbreak might be attended with bloody butchery. At last Mr. Bynum lands! The Presi dent has paid his political debt, due for services rendered by Mr. Bynum as man ager of the Gold Democracy in the last campaign. Membership on the code com mission is not at* good a thing as mem bership on the board of appraisers at New York; still it pays a comfortable sal ary, and may pave the way for other good things. Nearly 6,000.000 persons In India are now receiving relief from the government and the various famine funds. The relief work, it is said, will have to be continued at least until next December, which is the earliest time that the harvests will become available. It is calculated that the British government will have expend ed $46,000,000 by December in the Indian relief work. Col. John F. Gay nor made a Joke the other day. It was at the expense of the Mayor of New' York. As the Mayor met the Colonel he greeted him thus: ”Ah, Colonel, how do you do? I see you and I are getting our names In the paper a good deal of late,” to which the quick Colonel replied: "Yes, so I-C-E.” The Mayor, it is said, did not even smile. The Ohio Democrats have made a good fighting platform. It evades nothing, and adds much that will appeal powerfully to those voters who believe in a govern ment of the people, for the people and by the people. I*>rd Roberts is, no doubt, beginning to Hhlnk that "Botha” spells bother. PERSON 41.. —M. Edouard do Re.-zk*-* has lost his youngest child. Marie, a bright little girl of 6. The body has been sent to Warsaw from London for burial in Polish soli. —Walter J. Swingle, agricultural ex plorer for the United States Department of Agriculture. 1s Ir> Algeria buying 209 i date palms, which are to be shipped to Arizona. —William J. Brvan. Congressman Will iams?. of Illinois, and Richard Yates, w hom the Republicans of Illinois have nominated for iiovornor, were ail in the same class at the oid Illinois College. —Judge Eugene S. Elliott of Milwaukee, well known the originator of the Amer ican Whist Club, will play no more exoent for an occasional social game. "He has deckled that his days for match games are over. ljord Halsbury, the present Lord Chancellor of England, will probably re tire when his life-long friend. Lord Salis bury. leaves office, and it is said his suc cessor will )>e Sir Francis Jeune, Presi dent of the Divorce Division. —While the QueenFbury family is gen erally associated in the public mind with prize fighting and personal eocenericities. there are members of it who have achieved distinction in other and more conventional directions. One is the Hon. John Douglas. C M. G . who has re cently published in Brisbane a very in teresting history of Thursday Island. th* eentinel guarding the northern approach to Australia, where he has been govern ment resident for the last fifteen years —“The Queen's eyesight is becoming more and more a matter of grave concern to those about her," says the London Chronicle. “Even the blue spectacle.*, with which Dublin and lx?ndon are alik familiar, ere failing of their old effect. All dispatches and. all letters, except the most private, are read to Her Majesty, who now writes little more than her sig nature with her own hand. A famous foreign eye doctor has been lately con sulted. but without any very encourag ing result." BRIGHT BITS. —Fatal to Art—“ What an artistic pipe you hav.e,” sold Miss Hicks to Barber. Artistic,” returned Barber. “Nor a bit of it. You can't make it draw.”—Harlem Life. —Courtesies of the Code-’'That.’' observ ed the duellist, after pinking his adversary in a carefully bloodless manner, “that l the pink of politjness.”—Baltimore Ameri can. —“There’s only one thing the Armless Wonder can’t do with his feet." said the showman “What’s that?” - asked a spec tator. “Put on his gloves.” answered the showman.—Tit-Bits. Honor—“Remmy.”asked a wee Kentucky maiden, “what is honor?” “Huh!” replied her older brother, little Remington Con right, "why, it’s an excuse for shootin’ somebody, of course!”—Puck. —Hedging—The Caller: “So your ca nary's name is Joe, is it? Does that stand for Joseph or Josephine?” Small Girl—" We—we don’t know. That's why we call it Joe Indianapo is Fress % —“Did that critic write any favorable comment on your novel. Belinda?” “Oh, yes; he said my father had once met the Prince of Wales, ond that we had always moved in the best society.”—lndianapolis Journal. —Old Gentleman—“ Here, boy! You don’t suppose I'm going to take that rickety old framework in place of my good silk um brella, do you?" Bell Boy—"Dat’s wot de gemman said wot got yohs, suh.”—Brook lyn Life. —Conundrum (by the printer's devil)— "la there any rule of English composition that Mr. ex-President Steyn Invariably observes?” “Yes. He never comes to a full stop without beginning with a fresh capital.”— Punch. —Retort Courteous—“l see the villain In your face,’’ said the gruff lawyer who was trying to intimidate a witness. “Very likely.” was the calm reply, “the face of a bright person, like a mirror. Is apt to cast personal reflections.’’—Chicago News. —School Teacher—" What little boy can tell me where is the home of the swal low?” Bobby—“l kin, please.” School Teacher—“ Well, Bobby?” Bobby—“ The home of the swallow is the stummick."—Tit-Bits. —Ferryinine Hntulttoiy.HMlstress—‘‘Jane. you may clear away the breakfast dishes and put the house in order. I am going to my dressmaker's to have anew gown fit ted." Jane—“ Yes. ma’am. Are you going to take your latchkey, or shall I sit up for you?”.—-Chicago News. —Extravagance— “Your extravagance in dress,” he exclaimed, “will ruin me!” “It is not for you.” she retorted with warmth, “to taunt tne with extravagance! You, who every year pay taxes upon all your property!” At tills he winced and said no more—De troit Journal. —Solicittide—"What is father’s attitude in the political right?” asked the grave lit tle girl’s uncle. “I don't know, exactly, bur the last I heard about it they said that first he got on his ear and next he was standing on nip? head. I’m a great deal worried about father.”—Washington Star. 4’IRRHVr COMMENT. The Chicago Chronicle (Dem ) says: “As the assembling of the Republican National Convention draws nearer it is to be observed that the protests of Mr Hanna against accepting the chairman ship of the National Committee become feebler and feebler It is quite safe to predict that the savory odor of sizzling fat will mark Mr Hanna’s progress this summer as it did four years ago. There is no one worthy to succeed him in man ipulating the sacred skillet. The Ne w Oilcans Picayune (I)em ) says; “It would be a great Messing to the Re public if ail conservative, Democratic and other elements could get together to res ! cue it from the radicals of every school, but it se*ms 4 hat radicalism in politics is in vogue, and it must run its course.” The New York 'Times says: "If (4rover Cleveland w( re President of these United States we rather think he wou and find some way ol preventing the disgrace of St. V.ouis by mob rule, in spite of Sre phens and Zlegcnhein. as he did prevent a like disgrace to Chicago, in spite of Alt geld and Hopkins. And he would not he deterred by the circumstance that the campaign was about to begin.” The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: ”Tt is n remarkable circumstance that the South African Republics have already held out against England longer than France did against Prussia in the war of 1870-71. War was declared by Nai*>leon on July 15. 1870, and the preliminaries of p ace were s gn el setvfn months and eleven days luter. namely, on Feb. 26. 1871. Already the Boer war has lasted eight months and the end is not yet in sight. The war between Spain and the United States began April 21, 1898. and ended by the signing of the peace protocol on A?g. 12 of the same year Spain was abl to matnta'n a show f resistance to the United Ftates f. r only three mrivihsand twenty-two days When the British forces embarked in the war 1 It was supposed ihere was to be an ox- I cursion to Pretoria and that once there resistance would cease in this expecta t’on they have been sadly dlsappo nted by ythe Yout little repubtice.” - €■ iig gen he liner’s Little Joke. Randolph Guggenheimer. president of the Council of the city of New’ York, is not a joker, although he allows himself once in many days the privilege* of a jesr, says the New York World. A friend was telling him one day last week about James J. Coogun’s contribution to Wil -lam Jennings Bryan’s campaign fund. Incidentally, Mr. Coogan's campaign for Mayor of New Ycrk will always be re no mbe red with gratitude by thou ands of “workers’ who found him overwhelming ly generous Mr. eimer Is noted for hi conservatism, and he is proud of it “Se ■ w hat Coogan has done," said Pr s ident Guggenheimer’s friend. "He has subscribed SIOO 000 toward Bryan’s cam paign fund. Why don’t you give $100OK), too ?” “Because." replied he president of the t’ouncil. with a cold smile, "be-ause I’m Guggenheimer—not Coogan-Leimer.” When* Ignorance Ik Rlino, John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnante. usually travels between Cleve land. his former home, and New York in a private car. says the Philadelphia Sat urday Evening Post. On a recent ttip from the former ciy one of Mr. Rocke feller’s parly found in the seeping car two men from Cleveland whom he knew very well. After ci few minutes chat le invited them into the private car to meet Mr. Rockefeller. They found the Oil man deeply interested in a game played with colored cards, which he was piling up into stacks according to the.r color. He explained the pastime to the young men. and then went on with the game. "Did you ever play it?” asked Mr. Rockefeller. "A great many times. But never with colored cards. It is generally played with playing cards, and it called solitaire.” Solitaire?” repeated the oil man. ”1 never played with playing cards in my life. You must be mistaken.’ As the visitors left the car they saw the multi-millionaire deep in his game in spite of the warning. Menxt‘l'* Idea of Rent. The German artist, Adolf Menzel, is a great favorite, and his vagaries afford endless amusement to the Berlin art fra ternity. says the Youth’s Companion. It seems that Menzel was engaged on a mural decoration. He had rigged up a scaffolding in his studio, on which his model was requested to stand. F< r two long hours the poor “poseur” stood up aloft in a most fatiguing posture. Menzel, meanwhile, worked at his sketch, heed less of the fact that his model was grow' ing tired. At length the model found it necessary to speak. "Herr Professor.” said he. “how about a recess?” Menzel apologized profusely for his for get fulness. “Certainly, certainly, my dear sir,” sail he. “Come down and rest yourself a bit." The model had clambered from he scaffolding 10 the ladder which ifd down from it to the studio floor. “Stop!" cried the- artist, suddenly. “That pose is fine! Don’t move a mUfcle!” And once more the model was- forced in to strained rigidity, while the enthusia tic draughtsman sei about sketching him. At the end of half an hour Menzel look ed up from his work. “There,” said he, "that will do nicely! Get back on the scaffold. We have had our rest. Johnson’* Turkey Tnlk. “Darned if a turkey ain't a sort of pe culiar critter,” said Horatio Johnson the other day. according to the Lewiston Journal. “There’s a good deal of human nature mixed in with lots that is just plain turkey. “The other day while 1 was siftin' in j the barn door one of my turkeys come verkin’ along and prekin’ right and left, and finally spied a rag on the ground that every turkey had been travelin’ over since snow went off. Turkey picked it up and slatted it out. That minute every turkey in the yard started for him. He run. It evidently struck him all of a sudden that he had got hold of guttlin' that was mighty valuable. He run and he dodged and he ducked and he run some more. Every f*wr mi/iutes someone of them turkeys would get after him by the wing lor by the wattles or else by the rag, and there would be a tug of war. And at last I another turkey got the rag away and <hen there was another chase. Guess them darn fool turkeys would have b: en runn n' the : fat off themselves the next day if I hadn't | set the dog on ’em and drove ’< m up on the woodpile. “That's Just the way with a turkey. Let any other one in the flock get hold of suthin and every one of the blamed fools I will start for him or her and run till they | fairly drop. “And, as I have said, there is a good I deal of human nature right there.” To the Girl Graduate of Nineteen 1111 ml red. From the New York Sun. Hello! Girl Graduate, You sweet thing, you! With your head brimful of dictionary talk And “isms” and “ologies” and things, And your cap and gown. You are the latest, greatest, up-to-date Girl Of all the garden with girls rosebudded! The broo-k and the river ebb About your sby. reluctant tootsies, But your boots are wide and w’aterproof And your skirt plaid and reversible Just ankle length; For you’ve learned a store of knowledge not in books. Just good, old common sense. You met the world Clear-eyed and strong and sweet Above all. womanly; Not the wasp waisfed, lackadaisical, lap dog petting girl Of times gone by; But just a girl Gladsome and happy smiled. Seeking no voice or vote in puddled poli tics Nor bifurcated rights in rostrum’s glare. No. in the century’s new dawn you stand, rose crowned, A golf stick for a sceptre and your throne A rock, three-canopied Your page a caddie, and your king— Ah. well, You’ve yet to choose. Let him be manful, brave And lender of the flower your girl’s heart is To keep it safe; A star to light a home? j Through the summertime You’ll frivol much And get engaged no doubt. One or two times To summer boys by sen and shore, And they will tell you fairy tales About your being the only girl they ever loved, And things like that But heed ihem not These gay hat-banded ones, Keep the Ideal Man In sight For that’s as near As you will ever get to him Despite the fact that he runs everything. Quite so, Just let him keep on thinking that we think so. • It pleases him And doesn’t injure us! But well you know, Girl Grad. Your tears and smiles are powers more potent for Than empty crownshlp. In your little palm You hold the mngie larttp That makes this old world beautiful! All t your feet, Girl Grad, Goddess of rarest June! Be Good! Let those who will be great! Look up' Lead on—and smile, The world Is yours! —•Kate Masterson. F'rofesslonal Backing Invoked.—“lf you don't believe- in doctors why did you call me in?” ”1 can guess at what ails me. doctor, but I want you to shoulder the responsibility for the drugs I take ’’—Chi cago Record* ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Out of 17.000,000 pieces of registered mail handled annually in the United States, the loss has averaged but one thousnndth of 1 per cent., and in the transmission of ordinary letters the lose is but seven-thousandths of one per cent. —■Small families are hardly the rule among the English upper ten. The aver age is six or seven. The Queen is the mother of nine, and the Princess of Wales of six children; Lord Abergavenny is the father of ten; the Duke of Argyle of twelve, the Dowager Countess of Dudley is the mother of seven children, the Earl of Eilesmere boasts of eleven, the Earl of Inchiquin of fourteen and the Earl of Leicester of eighteen. —Among the employes in the Treasury Department at Washington are three or four blind women typewriters, and so satisfactory has their work been that it is proposed to engage more next year. Their work is as good as the best of the operators with full sight, it is said, and has forced their superiors to expect as much from them in dictation and copy ing as if they were in complete posses sion of their faculties. —Boston’s park commissioners are urg ent on the need of more playgrounds for the children. The city has six tracts of ground provided for this purpose, with a total ana of about forty acr s, but the nerd of more land fer sim lar use becomes every year more evident, ard is the opin ion of the commission that it would be wise municipal economy to expend sl,- 009.000 within the next four y.ars in secur ing additional playgrounds of from one to six acres each. Russia’s Academy of Sciences ha** a prize of 1 500,000 rubles to begtow. In 1833 Gen. Arakszeijew bequeathed to it 50 00) rubles, which were to accumulate till 1925 when three-fourths cf (he sum should he given to the best history in Russ an of Alexander Us reign. The other quarter was to be spent in printing the work, in having it translated into French and Ger man. and for a prize to the second best work. Th-* accumulations will amount to nearly 2,0'0,C00 rubles. —A protest is entered by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, against the use of the word “lobster” as an epithet, implying a lack of activity or courage. A naturalist asserts that he has seen lobsters in Novo Scotia draw up in lines and fight furious pitched battles, gr the end of w r hich the shore was covered with claws and other evidence® of dismemberment. The blows are aimed exclusively at heads and claws, so that the thoroughbred rules are ob served much more carefully than by the bipeds who slander a brave tribe by call ing each other lobsters. —M. Letorey. a French architect, has applied the captive balloon to the cleaning or decorating of cupolas, high roofs, tow ers and monuments. The balloon can be raised or lowered from a wagon by a windlass, and ii can b? steadied by stays from the side of the envelope. It has tw> platforms, or “nacelles.” one on the top, the o her underneath, and these communi cate by a ladder up n central tube. The “balloon scaffold,” as it is called, might be useful and safe in many operations, such as now require steeple jacks; for ex ample, the wreathing of Nelson’s column, and also in wireless telegraphy as an aerial station. —A dispatch from Greencastle. Ind., says: One of the attractions at the Paris Exposition will be an immense wine cask, which will be of special interest to the In dianians from the fact that staves of which it is built are furnished by Alfred Hlrt of this city. The white oak timbers used in it were procured In Mississippi,and dressed especially for this cask. One hun dred and sixty-eight staves are required, each being thirty feet long, ten inches thick and weighing from 1.300 to 1,900 pounds. The total weight of the structure, not including the heads and the hoops, is 197,000 pounds. The cask is twenty-five feet in diameter at each end and thirty feet high. It hol<y> 4.000 barrels of wine. —A Buffalo woman is suing her husband for n judgment of separation on the ground of desertion, and she has applied for alimony nnd counsel fees. In oppos ing the motion for alimony the defendant, whose name is Markle. submits the fol lowing letter, which, he says, he received through the mail from his wife: “This is to certify that I, Louise Mjarkle, the legally wedded wife of John G. Markle, do hereby permit my husband to go where he pleases, drink what he pleases and when he please®; and I furthermore per mit him to keep and enjoy the company of any lady or ladies he sees fit. as I know he is a good judge. I want him to enjoy life, as he will be a long time dead.” —A machine has been provided, rotes the Scientific American, for automn ically cleaning shoes. The foot is insetDd into a properly arranged op nirg ard the rail ing of the machine is firmly grasped. A small motor actuates rotary brushes that remove the mud. The foot is next placed in the blacking arrangement proper, whi h acts es the dauber, and the third set ef brushes is devoted to polishing. One ahoe having been sufficiently polished, the oth er foot is then inserted in the first iper ture, etc. A needle on a machine indicates the various stages in the operation. The only precaution to be observed is to turn up the bottoms of the trousers sufficient y so that they will not be caught in the ro tating brushes. —The model of th*' future ocean mail steamer, in the opinion of a contributor to Cassier’s Magazine, will probably be that of a very much enlarged “destroyer” of great breadth and length and small draft of water forward. Further, lighter and stronger material will compose the struc ture, which may b-* moved by multiple propnllers. possibly working in a tunnel, so that a number of wheels could be worked by separate shafts, actuated bv rotary motors, as the sizes of screw shafts and eng.nes even now under condructlnn nre perilously large, or the motive power may be produced by compressed air or £a* s —then, the form of least resistance probably being discovered, the hull, broad and light In comparison with the aug mented dlmmsions. will rise on top of the wave®, rather than through them Th rolling and pitching may be more severe than at present, but with improved cab ins and a shortened voyage, the difference may not he noticed. —No satisfactory determination has been made of the reason we wink, says Apple ton’s Popular Science Monthly. Some sup pose that the descent and return of th“ lid over ihe eye selves to sweep or wash it off. other* that covering of the t yo rives it a rest from the labor of vision, if only for an Inappreciable instant. This view borrows some force from the fa>t that the record of winking is considerably used by experimental physiologists to h* In measure the fatigue which the -ye suf fer* In another line of invostigaticn Herr H. Garten has attempted to m nsure the length of lime occupied by the different phases of a wink. He used a specially ar ranged photographic apparatus, and af fixed a piece of white paper to the ,dge of the eyelid for a mirk. He found ihat the lid descends quickly, and rests a lit tle at the bottom of its movement, after which it rises, hut more slowly than It fell. The mean duration of the dowiiw.i and movement was from seventy-five to nlne tv-one thousandths of n second; the irst with the eye shut lasted variously the shortest durations being fifteen ‘ hun dredths of a second with one uhje< i and seventeen hundredths with another; nnd the third phase of the wink. *he ris ing of the lid, took seventeen hundredths of a second more, making the entire dura tion of the wink about forty hundredths, or four-tenths ff a second. The Interrup tion is not long enough to Interfere with distinct vision. M. V Henri says. In L’Anne Fayrhologique, that different jer sons wink differently—some often, others rarely; some in groups of ten or *t a time, when they rest n while; and othe.s regularly, once only nt time. The move ment Is modified by the degree of atten tion. Periods of close Interest, when W’e wink hardly at all. may be followed by a ep*edy making up for loat time bv rapid win kin* when the tenelon le relieved. 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