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4 fgljc lEofning Morning Kewii Building, Savannah, Ox SATURDAY, JOG 10, 1900. 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. SI.OO for six months, and SB.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday isfue), three months, $1.50; six months $3.00; one year, SB.OO. The WEEKLY NEVA’S, 2 issues a week Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or register# 1 letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth— is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING NEW’S to either residence or place of business may be made by postal capd or through telephone No. 210. Any irregular ity in delivery should be immediately re ported to tho office of publication. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEWS,” Savannah, (la. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Fark Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. 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 SAERTEXI VS-J ' C ARMtSf S * "AERTEX” Cellular Underwear ’ is ideal for summer wear because of its extremely light weight and construction which provides a ready means of escape for perspiration and the vapors arising from the heated body, These properties make “Aertex” Cellular Under ------ wear the most comfortable and healthful. Illustrated catalogue with prices supplied on application. “ AERTEX " BELLI LAR UNDER. WEAR wears much better than any other line now on the market, ami 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. 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