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INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Military Orders—Orders No. 44, Georgia
Hu=sars.
Special Notices—We Have (he Best
Fruit in Town. C. A. Drayton Company,
Malt-Mead, Geo. Meyer; If It's Nice We
Have It, Hardee & Marshall; John Funk.
City Market; Fruits and A’egetahles, Jaa.
J. Joyce; At Gardner’s; At Chang's San
Francisco Restaurant; Government Sale
Goods, at Aernstein's; Levan’s Table
d’Hote.
Busin:ss Notices—Havard Beer, J. A.
Sawyer; Cut Glass, Hunter & Van Keu
ren.
‘‘ln—Er Seal”—At Munster’s.
Salt—The Favorite Salt.
A Quality Cigar—Tom Keene Cigar.
Corsets—Thomsons’ Corsets.
Hardware-Palmer Hardware Cos.
Whisky—Hunter Baltimore Rye Whis
ky; Old Crow Whisky.
Food Cure—Grape Fruits.
To-day's Matchless Opportunity—Foye
& Morrison.
The Best Flour—The S. W. Branch Cos.
Bona Fide 25 Per Cent. Sale—The Metro
politan.
Always Offering Something New—At the
Bee-Hive.
Railroad Schedules— Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad; Georgia and Ala
bama Railway.
Stoves—Wickless Blue Flame Oil Stove*.
Beers—Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso
ciation.
Cotton Gin—Cheesman Cotton Gin.
Medical—Lydia Pinkham’s A’egetable
Pills; Dr. Williams Pink Pills; Mothers'
Friend; Hood's Sarsaparilla; Bar-Ben.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Heather.
The indications for Georgia and Eastern
Florida to-day are for local rains, with
light to fresh southeasterly winds.
As yet there has been no movement
among the Chinese In ihe United States
to go home and fight for their country.
There are said to be not less than ten
vice presidential candidates from the state
of New Y'ork, with their eyes glued on
Philadelphia.
If Census Supervisor Blun fails to show
that this city has a population of 66,000,
he will stand no chance of ever getting
another office.
If “Gas'' Addtcks of Delaware does not
get what ho wants from the Republican
Convention, he will organize a “poxer"
movement of his own when he gets home.
The Seaboard Air Line does things on a
Urge scale, as appears by the mortgage
which it Is now having recorded In the
counties through which Us lines run. It
is a 275,000,000 document.
The Boer envoys in this country have
apparently ceased to attract ottention.
They are being courteously received In
the cities visited by them, but they are
making no impression upon public opin
ion.
When Mr. Whitney was Secretary of
the Navy, a revolution in Colombia led
this government to send a large force of
marines to the Isthmus of Panama to
protect the railroad. That force was com
manded by Capt. McCalla, the man who
Is now at the head of our marines in
China.
The recent session of Congress author
ized two now battleships. Secretary Long
will have the naming of them. It is said
that he will probably give one of them
the name of Virginia, while the other may
be called Washington, in compliment to
the Father of his Country, os well as
to the state of that name.
The Rev. Sam Jones seems to have had
a very poor opinion of the members of
the Democratic State Convention that as
sembled in Atlanta on Thursday. It may
he that If ihe members of the convention
had expressed their opinions of Ihe Rev.
Sam Jones he would not have felt more
complimented than they did by his opin
ion.
So far as the ronslitutlon of the I'nlted
Sfhtes is concerned, Porto Rico is a for
rign country; nevertheless other coun
tries must regard It as a part of the Unit.
. <d State- according to the opinion of
K Judge Townsend of the federal
" conn for tlie Southern District of Now
Yfrk. The federal court for the Southern
District of New Y’ork is acquiring a repu
tation for Its decisions and opinions.
August Belmont and Cornelius Y’ander-
Wlt are sailing seventy-foot yachts in the
regattas of the New Y’ork Yacht Club this
Beason with English captains and crews.
It Is to be hoped they will lose every race
they enter. When there ts so much good
sailor material In this country, that
might I>e utilized on these fancy craft,
reason for going to Bng-
THE REPIRLIC A\ PARTY AM) THE
SOI TIL
There are indications that the Notional
Republican party has determined to adopt
a different policy in the South. Ever
since the negro became a voter, it has
depended upon him to get control of one
or more of the Southern states. It Is be
ginning to understand, if it does not al
ready, that the negro can never be of any
assistance to it. The white people will
control the Southern state*, and they are
solidly Democratic, and will likely remain
so as long as there is any danger of negro
domination in local affairs.
It is worthy of notice that the Republi
cans of the North appear to take little
or no interest in the efforts which are
being made In Southern states to dis
franchise the negro. Now and then some
thing 1h said in Congress about the dis
franchisement of negroes in Louisiana,
South Carolina and Mississippi, and the
proposition to disfranchise them in Norm
Carolina awl Virginia, but the Republican
party does not seem disposed to object
to the disfranchisement of ihem. If such
suffrage law's as have been passed in
three of the Southern stales had been
enacted twenty years ago, the Republican
party would have attempted all sorts of
retaliatory legislation. Its silence there
fore must mean that it Is not so mu h
concerned now about the negro vote, as it
once was. It may also mean that it has
come to the conclusion that 1t would
stand a much better chance of getting <
firm foothold in the South without the
negro vote than with it.
One thing that bears out (his view, is
the action of the Republican National
Committee on Thursday, in deciding in
favor of the Warmoth contesting delega
tion to the National Convention from
Louisiana. There are three delegations
from that state seeking seats in the Na
tional Convention. Besides the Warmoth
delegation-, there are the Wimberly and
Herwig delegations. The Warmoth dele
gation represents (he white Republican
clement. The Wimberly delegation is com
posed largely of officeholders, and has
behind it the negro voters. The Hervvig
delegation does not represent anything
except e few dissatisfied place hunters.
There Is no doubt (hot the Wimberly
delegation represents the great bulk of
the Republican voters of Louisiana—that
is, the negro voters. But there is no pos
sibility of (hat faction being able to as
sist the National Republican party in any
way. It cannot elect a congressman or
a presidential elector. On the other hand
the Warmoth faction has the support
of a big element of white sugar planters.
It may be able to elect one or more Re
publicans to Congress from the sugar par
ishes. It may, in fact, be able to build
up, in the course of time, a strong white
Republican party in Louisiana. It looks
therefore as if the Republican National
Committee had deliberately turned down
the delegation representing the negro
voters, and given encouragement to the
white Republicans of the state
because of a determination of the Nation
al Republican party to change the
policy it has heretofore pursued in the
South—that it has come to the conclusion
that the wisest course to pursue is to try
to build up a white Republican party* In
the South.
Some of the negro leaders appear to have
the idea that they cannot depend any
longer upon tho Republican party to fight
their battles for them. This is shown by
the proposition made a week or so ago by
negro leaders at the North* to start a
negro party.
Thie Interpretation of the course that
ha© been pursued by the Republican party
within tho last year or two, with regard
to the negro, may not be correct, but
there ore some very good reasons for
thinking it is. It is certain that the Re
publican party is not nearly so solic
itous respecting welfare of the negro
voter as it once was.
CHOKER NEEDED.
It looks very' much as if there were need
for Mr. Croker in Newr York lo keep his
Tammany* following in order. According to
tho dispatches he will leave Liverpool for
that city to-day. Gov*. Roosevelt has been
asked to remove three of the leading Tam
many official©, namely,(he mayor, the dis
trict attorney and the comptroller. The
request for the removal of Comptroller
Coler was made on Wednesday, and was
the occasion of a great deal of surprise.
It was thought that he was the one man
in official life in the metropolis against
whose reputation for honesty nothing could
be. said. A man has been found, how
ever, who insists that the comptroller sold
many millions of city bonds a couple of
years ago to a syndicate, in which his
family wer© interested, at a price below*
what was offered by other responsible par
ties—so much below* that his relatives were
able to make about $1,000,000 at the ex
pense of the city*.
It is not believed that there is any solid
foundation to this charge against the
comptroller. It is somewhat remarkable
that just at the time the charge
against him was lodged with the Governor
he was delivering an address at an Illinois
university on the necessity* of honesty in
public affairs.
When the comptroller sold the bonds in
question there was a good deal of a stir
In regard to the matter, and the question
ns to whether he was justified in accept
ing (he bid which he did was carried into
the courts. The decision was in his favor.
It will turn out probably that the pend
ing charge against him was made for spite
and political purposes. The f • t that the
charge was made, however, together with
the fact that charges ar<- pending i Un-t
two other very prominent officials iff New
York indicates that the political situation
in the Tammany camp is getting into a
decidedly muddied condition. if Ross
Croker can do anything to straighten
things out he ought to get ha k to that
city at an early a day ns possible.
The argument that the friends of Jon
athan P. Dolliver offer in his behalf as a
candidate for Y’ice President on the ticket
with Mr. McKinley is that he would fol
low Mr. Bryan around on his speech
making tours and would he speaking with
a loud voice and unimpaired vigor after
Mr. Bryan had become exhausted and
gone to bed to recuperate. It may he
that Mr. Dolliver can out-iaik Mr. Ijryan,
hut could he Interest the pernple as Mr.
Bryan does? If he could not, the ability
to tnlk loud and long would be of no
benefit to his party.
It Is evident from the spirit shown in
the State Convention tliai South Georgia’s
only chance for getting any of the honors
and offices which the Democratic party
has to bestow is to organize and make a
fight for whst It wants. North and Mid
dle Georgia have everythin* in sight and
they are planning to hold on to
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JUNE 16. 1000.
READY FOR ADOPTION.
It is said in some of the Republican pa
pers that the platform to he submitted
to the Republican National Convention
i has been prepared by some of the ablest
i of tha Republican senators, and is now
I in the hands of the President for his ap
proval. If what is being said of it in the
1 dispa ches is correct, it has been framed
with the view of reconci ing all cliff* r nces
among Republicans respecting our insular
i j oss ess lons and trusts.
It .seems that the Republican leaders
l ave become somewhat alarmed respect
ing the r. pp si in that is cropping out l )
what is called imperialism. Theretore in j
the Republican platform the position will j
1* taken that it is thr* policy of the Re- j
publican party to prepare the Filipinos i
for self government, awl, a© .scon as they ,
are able to take care of (heir own public j
affairs, to have the United States with- ,
j draw from the Philippines, retaining only
a protectorate over them.
This is a very different thing from re- j
taJning p< rn anent poi-session of the is- j
lards, and yet kt would be possible to re- j
tain permanent possession of them under
a dt?duration like that proposed. It would
take a half a century to prepare the Fili
pinos for s lf-governmont. It might take
♦ ven longer than that If the question as
t * when they were ready for sdf-govem
m nt were left to this country. The R -
publican party is perfectly safe there
fore in taking the position that the Fili
i inos shall have control of their own pub
lic affairs as io: n as they are prepared to
carry on a government of their own.
If tlie Republicans take the possition
indicated, the Democrats will probably
take the position that tho United States
should withdraw from the islands as soon
as peace is restore I—that the Filipinos
should be dealt with Just about as it is
proposed to deal with the Cubans. Asa
matter of fact, if reports from AYashing
ton are to be relied upon, the Repub
licans are in some doubt whether it w*ould
not be more popular to take the position
(hat the Philippines are to be retained as
a permanent ixxssession, than to take the
middle ground that has been finally de
cided upon. It is a fact that on the Pa
cific coast the policy of expanding in the
direction of the Far East is popular. The
popularity of such a policy in the Middle
West, however, is questionable.
In respect to trusts, it is* understood
that it is the purpose of the Republicans
to adopt a straddle plank. They will make
a distinction betweeen corporations which
aro required by expanding trade and
changed business conditions and those
formed to restrain trade and to put up
the prices of the necessaries of life.
It can he stated that tho Republican
platform will he framed with .the view of
catching votes and not with the purpose
of making the people acquainted with the
purposes and plants of the Republican
party. It Is we’.l understood that the party
has noit kept closely in mind the St. Louis
platform. Indeed it seems ‘to have forgot
ten the existence of that declaration of
principles.
A VERY SMALL BOOM.
The vice presidential nomination is giv
ing tho Republican leaders a good deal
of trouble. The man who wants it very
much stands hut little chance, apparent
ly, of getting it. That man is Mr. Wood
ruff, lieutenant governor of New York.
His friends are saying spiteful things
about Senator Hanna because the latter
does not think Mr. Woodruff is big enough
for the place. The Senator is quoted as
saying that Woodruff s boom is so smail
that it would fit comfortably in a small
sized hand satchel.
The Republican leaders are willing that
New York shall have the vice presiden
tial nomination, provided that state offers
a satisfactory candidate. They would ac
cept Roosevelt or Bliss, but th*y draw
the line against Woodruff and Ode’l. Sen
ator Hanna says that Mr. McKinley is
stronger than his party, and that a can
didate for vice president that would
strengthen the ticket is not needed. What
is wanted is a man lit to he President in
the event of a vacancy occurring In the
presidential office.
Notwithstanding this sort of talk the
fact remains that the Republicans are
very uneasy respecting the outlook for
their party in New York. They s:y fney
have no doubt that McKinley will carry
that state, hut as a matter of fact they
have a doubt. That is why they want
Roosevelt to accept the nomination for
Vice President. Mr. Bliss is also a popular
man in New Yoik, and they would accept
him, hut they know that Mr. Woodruff
or Mr. Odell would be a dead weight on
the ticket and would help to turn the
state over to the Democrats. Therefore
it is hardly probable that ihe small boom
of Mr. Woodruff will cut any figure at the
national convention, and the chances aro
that Mr. Odell's admirers will not have
;yi opportunity to cast their votes for
him.
The Class of 1900 of the City College of
Baltimore, after much thought, evolved
for itself the following, which is called
a class yell;
Ha-ha-ha!
Tin can, Dutchman,
Chicken neck, rubber neck,
Whale, whale, anti-fat,
A’ip. yop, zip.
Wink, winker, 100-100.
Rah for the gold and blue.
Hottest class in all the zoo,
Nineteen hundred!
Concealed somewhere in this extraor
dinary production, it appears, there is a
cryptogram which, when properly applied,
discloses a scandalous reference to one of
the dignified members of the faculty; at
h ast that is what one or more of the dig
nified members of the faculty believe, and
so ctrong is the belief that the diplomas
of the class have been held up.
It Isn’t always l>est for a deputy sheriff
to indulge himself in the pleasing pastime
of cultivating a luxuriant crop of whis
kers, for hl pets may prove his undoing.
A case in point occurred In New Jersey
die other day. Deputy Betnhouse was tak
ing a prisoner to the lock-up. They had
to pass through a clump of woods. Watch
ing his opportunity the prisoner made a
break for liberty and clashed through the
thick underbrush. Bernhouse tried to fol
low him, but his whiskers caught upon and
became entangled with the twigs and
branches, and before he could untangle
them the prisoner had made good Ids es
cape.
According to the Insurance Press, whEti
has gathered the statistics, Ihe enormous
sum of 2185,821,169 was paid out by the life
Insurance companies of Ihe United States
during the year 1899 to policy holders or
their heirs. This amount Is equal lo
about one-fourth of the national debt.
Twenty cities received in life Insurance
during the year from 11,000,000 to 214.000,.
000 each. The largest sum paidjon a sin.
An illustration of what the trust does
for the individual dealer is to be seen in
Somerville. Mass., in the person of (’. H.
North. A few years ago he was a wealthy
man, at the head of a pork packing estab
lishment which did a business estimated
to bt- about $8,000,000 a year. To-day he is
ragged and penniless, and peddles vegeta
bles from a cart. When he had money
he was very liberal and charitable, and
was the largest contributor to the build
ing of two fine churches. Ten years ago
he had 1,300 men in his employ. He at
tributes the loss of his fortune and his
business (o the operations of the
meat trust.
Fitzharris and Mul ett the two Irish
“Invincihles,” are still and tained in New
York under the immigration laws. They
were ordered deported, two or three
weeks ago, hut an appeal was taken, and
the matter is now awaiting an opinion of
the solicitor cf the treasury department.
Commissioner 1 owderly, wo Iras the
linal say, will not deoide the case until
after this opinion has he n rendered. It
is understood that nator Platt has in
terested himself in b half of the men,
and has s; nt a letter to Commissioner
Powderly.
In Indon a fund ‘is being raised for
the relief of the Ottawa fire sufferers. The
Canadian Gazette, with some show of
warmth, informs the people of London
that Canada is able to look after her own
homeless people, that she does not need
charity, and suggests that ‘‘the really
starving and plague stricken people of
India ere more fitting object© of British
charity than are the prosperous people of
Canada.” The Canadians are spunky
enough to be Americans.
Just as people had begun to congratu
late themselves upon the prospect cf get
ting rid of the "kopjes," “spruits,” anJ
‘‘font©ins” in the news dispatches, along
comes this trouble in China and fills the
paper with a lot of heathen gibberish an
swering for the names of towns and riv
ers. which is worse than the South Afri
< an stuff. It’s a hard summer we have be
fore us. After lalyfhy? with Dutch for six
month*, we have to tackle the
Chinese language.
Mr. Coffin of Flat*! and Mr. Thompson
of Alabama, who have taken such strong
grounds against organized labor before
tile Industrial Commission, must certain
ly have given up all idea of ever entering
politics.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Vand-erlip executed a cake walk in Phil
adelphia the other night. That ought to
give him a following for the vice presi
dential nomination among the Southern
delegates.
Mr. Atkinson'of Boston and Mr. Stead
of London are remarkably dilatory in the
matter of issuing manifestoes of sympa
thy with the Boxers.
PERSON AL.
—President McKinley’s liking for the
red carnation seem© to be unfailing. He
has a dozen sent him from the AA’hite
House greenhouses every day, and nearly
always wear© one when out for his dally
drive.
—Secretary Hay figures ns a leading
American man of letters in a recently
published London interview with the Eng
lish poet Swinburne, in which (Mr. Swin
burne speaks of him as having great
originality in his verse and u distinctive
American note.
—The brother of Gen, Baden-Powell,
who was one of the officers of the reliev
ing force that entered Mafeking, Is the
author of “in Savage Isles and Settled
Lands." It is a vivacious record of Maj.
Baden-Powell’s sojourn in Australia as
aid-de-camp to the Governor of Queens
land. and of- his visits to various isles of
the Pacific.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Killed His Man.—-Cowboy: Guess you
never killed a man, did ye?
Tenderfoot: Huh, I helped to kill half
a dozen of them.
“Here?”
“No; at college.”
“Fightin* with ’em?”
“No; initiating them.”—New* York
Weekly.
—Not Quite Ready.—“ Are you ready for
your summer outing?” asked her dearest
friend.
“Not quite,” replied the sweet young
thing. “Of course, I have my bathing
suit, my bicycle suit, my golf suit, my
tennis suit, my yachting suit and my rid
ing auk. but, as we are going to one of
these quiet places merely fur rest and re
laxation, I will, of course, have to have
a few evening gowns, and possibly half
a dozen suitable for lawn, parties and all
that sort of thing.”
Thus she demonstrated that she had
been there before and knew* what “quiet
country life" meant in a summer resort
advertisement.—Chicago Evening Post.
( I BRENT COMMENT.
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) dis
cussing the proposed negro party, says:
“Whatever may have been the relative
positions of the races of men iu the pre
historic times, it is certain that, insofar
as any records exist, the white or Aryan
races were always dominant. They em
braced the Hindoos, the Assyrians, <he
Arabs, the Jews, the Egyptians and the
Greeks. They at some periods were more
or less amalgamated with the darker
races, but they always preserved their
characteristics of superiority in all the
qualities tha< make them masters, and
they have never ceased to hold that su
premacy. If the entire testimony of re
corded history is to be taken as a prom
ise for the future, there is no reason to
suppose that <he white races will ever
cease, to be the masters of the world.”
Mr. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minis
ter at Washington, says: “If I read cor
rectly your newspapers, in the city of
St. Louis there are Boxers who refuse to
permit people to tide upon tho street cars
and who even go so far us to attack wo
men passengers and strip them in the
public streets. is if not dreadful? The
! government at St. Louis appears to be
encouraging the Boxers, too; at least. It
j does not suppress them. The Boxers must
be voters. Then I remember reading a
few years ago of the Boxers you had in
the city of Chicngt). They destroyed much
pro|>erty and lives were lost."
The Chicago News (Ind.) says: “As
matters now' stand it looks as if the
Boers might maintain the unequal strug
gle for n long time, and this considera
tion, In connecilon with the grave events
occurring In China, has brought the Eng
lish people to a more serious mood than
it has known since the earlier and darker
days of the war."
The Nashville American (Dem.) says:
” ’Tariff for revenue only,’ declare the
Democrats of Wisconsin In State Conven
tion, knowing that their pronounced op
position to trusts can ho made effective
if special tariff protection can be done
away with.”
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
Gen. Grosvcnor and the Duhy.
A timid litrle woman, carrying a baby,
was about to enter one of the public gal
leries of the He use of Representatives on
Wednesday, when she was stopped by the
doorkeeper, says the Washington corre
sp ntfent of the Philadelphia North
American.
‘ Its against the rules, madam,” he
said, “to allow* infants in there.”
"But this is my first visit to Washing
ton.' she mildly plea'ed. "and 1 am so
anxious to s e Congress in session.”
"I am sorry, but that’s the rule,” re
plied the inflexible Cerberus.
At this moment a patriarchal-look'ng
genilen at), w ith a w ealth of white hair
and whiskers, who was passing and hid
ove: heard the conversation, apparently
attracted ly the disapp intinent in th?
voice of the woman, stopped.
"Let me hold the little one a moment,
m.idam.” he said, “while you go in and
look over th** great men.”
The mother was visibly embarrassed,
hut yielded. For two or three minutes the
baby, w’ho seemed to he entirely content
with the new guardian, ran its chubby lit
t e hands through the elderly gentleman’s
whiskers and gave vent to a series of de
lighied • goo-goos.” Then the mother re
al pared and thanked the unknown for
his k ndness.
The next day, when she again visited
the house, the patriarchal-looking gentle
man who had held her baby was sum
mon'd by Speaker Renders n to the chair
to preside in Committee of the Whole.
"Who in the world is-that white-haired
man?" she asked, in great surprise.
"That," r plied her neighbor, "who hap
pen, and o he a Washington woman, in a
tone of pity at the other’s ignorance, "is
Gen. Gro vcnor of Ohio.”
State tlie Acoustic©.
George O’Donnell, who plays In “Ariz
ona" as the stout surgeon w’ho declines
to wear suspenders, tells a queer story
about one of his earliest experiences in
the profession when he was a member of
Ilallen & Hart’s Vaudeville Company,
says the Chicago Chronicle. A1 Wilson,
who has since risen to fame as a German
dialect comedian, but seems then to have
been a v< ry innocent youth, was a member
of ihis organization and when the company
opened for the first time in New York.
Wilson, who on this occasion made his
metropolitan debut, was naturally anxious.
"For some reason or other,” says Mr.
O’Donnell, ‘‘Wilson’s turn foiled to amuse
the audience as he had hoped. John Me-
Wade and I were standing in the wings
when he came off, and his face was blank
with disappointment and chagrin. “What’s
the mailer with them? What’s the mat
ter with myself? What’s the matter with
the house? Why. they didn’t even seem
to hear me! I ttifnk there must be some
thing the matter with the house.” McWade
replied facetiously: ‘Why, I’ll tell you
what the trouble is. The property man
has stolen the acoustic properties.’
“Of course, this was one of McWade’©
jokes, blit Wilson took him seriously.
‘Lieber himmelT he exclaimed, ‘I will find
dot proberty man.’ And he set off in a
rage to find the individual who had stolen
the ‘acoustic properties' and ‘queered his
turn.* Of course he never found him, and
if he had I doubt if he could have recov
ered the missing goods. I never met Wil
son on Broadway without asking him if
he ever met the man who had stolen the
acoustic properties. As for McWade, he
and Wilson do not exchange the greeting©
of the season when they pass each other
on the Rialto.”
Johnny Went to the Circus.
“Pa, can I have some money to go to
the circus?”
This was the modest and reasonable re
quest of little Johnny Whittaker, one
evening last week, sent at what he con
sidered an auspicious time in the direc
tion of his sire, says Tit-Bits.
“Hey?” said Mr. Whittaker.
Johnny preferred his request for the sec
ond time with faltering voice and ind'ea
tions of rain cn his part. Johnny and the
cir< us were zones a! art at that moment.
"Want to go to the circus, hey? And
vou going to Sunday School every week!
Don't you know that circuses are wicked?
I never wanted to go to the circus when
I was and hoy.”
While this was not a deliberate “fib" on
Mr. Whit aker’s part, it was certainly a
perversion of the truth.
"And what do you want to see at the
circus?”
"I—l—w—want to see the w—wild a—an
imals,” said Johnny, beginning to blubber
in earnest.
"Want to see the wild animals, hey?
Don’t you twist (he cat’s tail often
enough? Where did you get your love for
wild animas? 1 never cared for them.”
"I—l—-I inherited it.”
"Inherited it! Well, I never. And who
from?”
"F—fr m N—Noah,” sobbed the despair
ing hopeful.
The promt tness of Johnny’s rep’y, com
hin. and with the evidence that his religious
ii struction had not been wasted on the
desert air. was too much for the old gen
tleman, and he came down at once with
the necessary coin.
A Samaritan In Dlngnlnc.
“Never felt so mean In my life, Bill,”
said Bunco Pete 10 his side partner, as
they were Shacking up the hard-earned
savings of their last ‘come-on,* says the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"What’s the matter with you, old man?”
asked Bill. “Are you getting religious all
of a sudden?”
“No, it ain’t that,” returned Pete. “You
know I was brought up on a form my
self. and that old jay we did reminded me
1 ~ood deal of my father. I<’s given me
quite a turn, and 1 think I’ll hunt him
up and give him hack his hank roll.”
“Oh, come off!” exclaimed Bill. "There
v.as nothing mean about it. He was le
git ima-te prey for us. Only tor fellows
like him we‘d he out of business. Be
sides. by working the sawdust game on
him we probably saved his life.”
"If I could only feel that way my mind
would he easy," replied Pete, rather du
biously. “How do you figure it out?”
"This way.” returned Bill, with great
confidence. “If we hadn’t separated him
from his little pile and sent him home
on the first train he’d have stayed in
town to see the sights."
“Hut that doesn't mean he'd have prob
ably lost his life.”
“Sure It does. He'd hnve Rone to some
hotel, Rnd when he went to bed he’d
have blown out the gas." '
A I.onK-ltniiK). Dnrl.
Hen. Botha, the famous Beer eomman
dcr, onee fought something like a du. 1 with
Wools Sampson, who will be rememb' re I
ns a reform prisoner, says Collier's Week
ly- During the Hoer war of 1881 Mr. Samp
son, on (he British side, and Botha rn
tiic Dutch, during an outpost skirmish*
potted at one another front Itehlnd stone*
Sampson thought ho hit Bothn, and ,ii<-
O I ills head above his stone, only to fin l
himself lilt in the neck. That was , no to
Botha, who jumped up, elated. Samp on
tit once dropped him. “Hot him" sa'd
Sampson, and raitfcd himself to look. “G< t
him!" said Botha, as he put a bullet into
his adversary's side; but ho showed him
self too soon, for Sampson brought it.o
score to evens. In later years they yarn
ed about the occurrence over drinks in
Johannesburg.
A Story of Wales.
The Gem tells a story cf the Prin~e of
Wales playfully declining lo write In a
lady's album: “A Utile while ogo I spent
nearly an hour one evening writing verses
in several albums. I even made ip H
verse so badly put together that only a
royal prince or duke at the bed could
have hod tho shame to write such stuff.
Now, madam, whai do you think happen
ed to my verves? Well, tiny were all sold
a( a good stiff price a week later to nro
vide funds to support the Society for the
Restoration of the Stuarts. Perhaps Lvdy
arid the Prince laughed heartily
“if I write in your album you wl 1 ndl
JtoJjßßiLltt-UievMeJunds f or thc abo i ul . „
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—An American who is now visiting
Shanghai thus describes the appearance
of a Chinaman on a bicycle: “His attire
was such es is not easily forgotten. The
baggy trot vers were hauled up over the
knees, disclosing a pair of shinny sticks
swathed in dish rags or something. This
was done to HPevent his trousers from
tearing in the chain. Bare feet on rubber
pedals, a big, yellow' Walloon shirt bulging
out like the spinnaker on a racing yacht,
and a flying pigtail under a small tin can
of a cap'Topped by a button. He was a
wealthy merchant, we were told, and look
ed as if wheeling agreed with him in spite
of his clothes."
—The State Department has exhausted
every effort to obtain legal redress on ac
count of the killing of five Italians at
Talulah, La., last year and the negotia
tions between Italy and the United States
are now in a condition apparently em
barrassing to this government. Italy Is
pressing for the punishment of the men
concerned in the lynching and evidently
will not be satisfied with the payment
of an indemnity. The grand jury of the
parish in which Talulah is situated has
met three times, but each time failed to
return any indictments against the lynch
ers. No settlement of the matter that
will be satisfactory to Italy is in sight.
—A story from Kingston, Jamaica, says
the inhabitants of the British West In
dies have been laughing very heartily
over a recent article in the Paris news
paper, “Le Monde Illilstre." The article
says that in the near future, after the
Boers have driven the British army into
the sea, the Queen’s empire will be dis
membered. The probabie fate of each
colony is stated. Jamaica apparently ts
to become thd appanage of Cuba. British
Guiana is to be annexed by Venezuela.
The Daily Chronicle of Georgetown ac
cepts the fate Nvith comparative resigna
tion, remarking: “It is something to be
thankful for that w r e are to have nothing
to do with maladorotis Cayenne, where
the toffy men come from."
—The supply of machinists and engin
eers for the navies of this and other coun
tries, says ithe Age of Steel, is not in
keeping with the demand. The modern
war ship is as full of machines as a cot
ton mill. Many of them are complicated
and crowded, and the conditions of work
ing require skill and discipline. The old
salt of other days was both fighter and
seaman. He could splice ropes, mend sails,
take a trick at the wheel, handle a board
ing pike, and do his own laundry work.
The crew of a modern ship is not com
plete nowadays without its squads of el c
trieians, engineers and machinists. For
some reason he prefrrs shore life to that
of a boxed-up nomad, though steady em
ployment and fair pay are guaranteed.
The recruitment of such men will proba
bly be a never-ending difficulty with all
the naval authorities of ail countries. The
navy department at Washington is in a
quandary as h-ow to supply experienced
mrn of this class for the Asiatic squad
ron.
—An economical method of making
searchlight mirrors has been devised by
Oowper Coles, an Englishman. Ho begins
with a mold of glass possessing a care
fully prepared convex surface, whose
curves are parabolic. Upon this he de
liosits a layer of mrtallc silver, which is
polished before further s’eps are taken.
Then he immerses the mold in an electro
plating bath and ccats the silver witli
copper. The latter metal forms the back
ing of the future mirror, and tho silver
the front. While the last-mentioned oper
ation is in progress Mr. Coles rotates the
mirror slowly in the fluid. An average of
13 turns to the minute is sufficient. The
copper adheres firmly to the silver, but
the latter can easily be separated from
the glass mold. The incomplete mirror is
first immersed in cold water. The tem
perature of the fluid Is then raised gently
to about 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Owing
to the unequal expansion of glass and
metal, the one pulls away from the oth
er. The only remaining detail of import
ance is to deposit a thin film of paladium
of the silver, to prevent tarnishing.
Concerning the revolution in boiler-mak
ing. a writer in Cassier’s magazine says:
There are many points in common betwreen
the machine 6hop of to-day and that of
twenty or thirty years ogo, but there are
scarcely any between the boiler shops < f
ihe two periods. Twenty or twenty-five
years ago few firms were making steel
I filers; to-day the construction of new
Iron boilers is becoming exceptional.
With the new materia] nearly every de
tail of the work has been altered or mod
ified In a greater or less degree Hand
work, too, is practically extinguished in
the most modern shops. Formerly there
was a good deal of flanging, bending, ham
mering, chipping, welding, riveting, drift
ing and tapping done by hand, as there is
still in small establishments; but good
boiler work is now almost entirely o mat
ter for machine tools, and the importance
of these, therefore, has grown to an im
mense extent. A high class modern boiltr
is now machine-made almost entirely from
beginning to finish. Since the error* of
hand work are thus eliminated, two bail
ors made to the same standard are ex
actly alike and afford a striking illustra
tion of (he excellence of the machine work
now done in the boiler-shop.
The field of invention, says the Scien
tific American, is ceasing to be regarded
as a kind of idealized Klondike or Cape
Nome, where the happy adventurer turns
up the miner’s nugget without the hard
ship and heartbreak of the miner's life.
This mistaken view was, and for that
matter is yet, answerable for a number
of half-finished but inherently valuable
Inventions, which, for want of a little
persistence, have nothing to show but a
pigeonholed patent and a machine that
lies neglected in the cellar. In thousands
of such cases, the Inventor has thrown
down his tools, if not at its very thres
hold, at least within measurable distance
of success. The records of the patent
office contain thousands of half-finished
inventions which are so far valuable that,
if the owners would only develop them
with a fraction of Ihe zeal and intelli
gence with which they conduct the ordi
nary affairs of life, they would richly
benefit both themselves and thc general
public. This is proved by the fact that
there are not a few inventors who find it
exceedingly profitable to take up (he prin
ciples of discarded Inventions, and by de
veloping n practical embodiment of the
same, give them that rommercial value,
which, by a little patience and industry
might have been secured by the original
• inventor.
—Tho combination of gae and steam* in
one motor is thc novel scheme of prof.
V. H. Emeraon of Ottawa. As reported
In the New York Tribune, he says: I
cannot go Into the structural details con
cerning thc motor, as I have not yet so.
cured patents. I have designed the m i-*
chine for operating my carbonizing mn
chlnery, of which I exirort to install
Plants throughout the country. The mre
tor may he used for many other purjHVre
such as operating street cars, boats, sine
plying electric light or pumping water for
private residences, and as a motive power
for vehicles: in fact. In any place where
a powerful motor of light weight is re
quired, A 10-horse-powor motor, ns con
structed for a carriage or boa, would not
exceed 125 pounds in weight, and the two- ■
horse-power machine I now have in op- I
eration weighs 46 pounds, but In this ‘ I
have not attempted to reduce the weight '
The motor operate* at a moment’s notice !
by connecting a lever with a key |
which puts an electric bnttery ir circuit
and It is as easily controlled as a steam 1
engine; in fact, when once started it re- i
quires no further attention. The prlncN I
pie ii|ior> Which my motor operates is
equivalent to building a tire directly | n i
vessel of water; the water, t aking up h‘.. I
entire heat, becomes exiwnded Into steam !
pud produces meehnnlea] energy by so
doing. The hot gases escaping from the
smoke staek of n stenm boiler or the high
temperature of the exhaust of a gis en I
gkie Is entirely obviated by my system!
or motor, and it will exceed In point of !
tn a n 50 t >er cent, of tils j
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the prices are within reach of al
most everybody.
For sale by
B. H. LEVY & BRO.
The Singer Piano
of Chicago, 111.
This SINGER PIANO Is sold by many
of the leading dealers In the United
States, such as \Vm. Steinert Sons Cos.,
who have the largest establishments in
Boston. New Haven and Providence. Also
ihe SINGER PIANO is sold by Win.
Knabe Cos., having the leading houses in
Boston, Baltimore, Washington and New
York city. There are a large number of
leading houses handling SINGER PIANO,
too numerous to mention.
The SINGER PIANO is evidently one of
the best pianos In the market, or it would
not be sold by these leading houses.
It has an elegant singing tone, much
finer than most pianos, and about one-half
the price of other instruments.
Call and see, and examine the SINGER
PIANO and save a good deal of money on
your purchase. Same guarantee Is ex
tended for the STNGER PIANO as any of
the leading pianos of the day, and a sat
isfactory price will be given to all on ap
plication.
LIPPMAN BROTHERS.
Wholesale Agents, Wholesale Druggists,
Barnard and' Congress Streets,
Savannah, Ga.
SIMMER RESOItTS.
BLOWING ROCK.
GREEN PARK HOTEL.
Summit of Blue Ridge, 4,340 feet. Scen
ery and climate unsurpassed, so say globe
trotters. Hotel first-class in every respect
Only house on mountain with plastered
walls; excellent livery; 45 miles turnpike
roads on top of ridge; large ball room,
band and other amusements. Postoffice
and telegraph in hotel. Opens July 1.
Write for leaflet and rates to
Green Park Hotel Cos., Green Park, N. C.
Hotel Americon-AdelDht,
Finest Location in
SARATOGA SPRINGS.
Near Mineral Springa and liatha,
OPEN JUNE TO NOVEMBER. ROOMS
EN SUITE. WITH BATHS.
GEO. A. F Alt \ HAM, Prop.
White Sulphur Springs Hotel,
AV \ I XKSYILLE, \. C.
50 acres beautifully shaded lawn, wonder
ful mountain views, cool nights, freestone
iron and noted sulphur springs. PHn© or
chestra daily. House remodeled and newly
furnished this season.
COL. F. A. LINCOLN, Proprietor.
HOTEL NORMANDIE,
I BROADWAY & 38TH STS., NEW YORK.
ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
COOLEST HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY
Located in the liveliest and most inter
esting part of 'the city; twenty principal
Places of amusement within five minutes’
walk of the hotel.
CHARLES A. ATKINS & 00.
Summer Resort—Ocean Hotel. Asbury
Park. N. J. GEO. L. ATKINS & SONS.
IX THE CHEAT NORTH WOODS.
HOTEL DEL MONTE,
SAHA \AC LAKE, K. Y.
OPENS JUNE 25. under entirely new manag©
ment; newly furnished and renovated through
out: table and service first-class; near lake
and Hotel Ampersand; golf, tennis, billiards,
boating, fishing, driving and bicycling; livery.
For booklet address J. HENRY OTIS, Sara
nac Lake. N. Y. /
SWEETWATER PARK
HOTEL AND BATHS,
LITHIA SPRINGS, CA.
This well-known and popular resort is not
open. All modern equipment. Cuisine and
service unexcelled. Write for illustrated
pamphlet. JAS. K. RICKEY, Fropr.
Also Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga.
New Hotel Bellevue
European Plan, Central Location,
Hcacon St., Ronton.
HARVEY V: WOOL), I'roprietors.
MOTEL FITZPATRICK,
WASHINGTON, GA.
Tlie nicest ;olel in the best town in Ih.
South. Fine Mineral Springs. Large ball
rooin. Cultivated socii-ty. An ideal spot
for the summc! visitor, near the great
Hillman electric shafts. Special ratea for
families. Address
W. G. THIGPEN, Proprietor.
UNO OF THE SKY.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE, Saluda, N. C.
Delightful climate, reasonable rates.
MRS. FLEMING TARVER.
LONG BRANCH.
AVest Eml Hotel und C'oltngea,
Situated on bluff faring ocean. Cottages
now open, lie,'*: opens '1 hursday, June 21.
New Yolk uffii'r, 115 Broadway (Room
?,. W. E. HILDRETH. Mgr.
si: \ GIRT, row JERSEY.
Beach House, right on the beach. Al
wu\s cool. Fine n commoOatlona Dining
room service llrsl-ciaas Rates reasoni.
ble. Send for Ijooklet. Girt 1-, thr
first stop made ear the .oast by expte i
trains from Phliniflphia to Asbury Park
,| I !' e I. CHART COMPANY,
MEtnOSE. NEW YORK.
78 MADISON AVENUE, corner 28th si.
Rooms with or without board. Rooms
with board. 27 per we k: 21.25 per day
and upward*. Send for circular.
All Interested in Winchester, Va.. either
as a summer rcsori, as a point of histori
cal interest or in a business wuy, <an hare
pamphlet free. Address, J. E. Corrcll,