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6 CONTRACT NOT AUTHORIZED. CENTRAL REPUDIATES LIARIUTI TO ISAAC JOSEPH IRON COMPANY. Aiumdnl Answer of tlie t'ornpnny .\PRHlivo Its Alleged Indebtedness of s>>2,ooo to the Plaintiff— Says Tliut I'urehnsinK Agont J. AY. Comer, if He Made an Agreement to Sell the Plnintiff All the Scrap Iron Accruing From Improvements and Itepairs, Had No Authority to Make It unl Hind the Company. The Court's Alive With Ilusiness nod Much Transacted. The Central of Georgia Railway Com pany filed an amended answer in the Su perior Court yesterday to the suit for damans brought by the Isaac Joseph Iron Company against the Central. The 3am ages claimed by the plainliff in the action amount to more than $82,000. The action for damages filed was based on a contract alleged to have been enter ed into between the plaintiff and the Central. Mr. J. W. Comer, the purchas ing agent of the Central, acting for it In the matter. This contract was for the sale to the Isaac Joseph Iron Company of all the scrap iron and steel accumulated in the company’s various shops and in the course of Tepairs to the tracks and roll ing stock during the year ending Jan. 14, 390 u. Each grade of scrap iron was to oe sold by the Central and bought in by the plaintiff at a specified price per ton. It is alleged in the original petition that after carrying out. this contract for some months the Central, without cause or provocation given by the plaintiff, refused longer to deliver the scrap iron as it had contracted and agreed to do, and although the plaintiff was at all times ready and willing to accept and pay for it. It waa further alleged that during this period the price of scrap iron had greatly increased, that it was worth much more than the price at which the Isaac Joseph Iron Com pany had purchased it from the defend ant, and that had the iron company had delivered to it the scrap iron which the Central had agreed to deliver and which it had in its shops and along its lines dur ing this time, the purchaser could have sold it at a profit of more than $82,000. The answer of the Central absolutely re pudiates and denies any and all liability whatever. It is charged that the agree ment entered into between Mr. Comer, its purchasing agent, and the Isaac Joseph iron Company, could not bind the defend ant, for the reason that Mr. Comer was never authorized to make such an agree ment. It is further alleged that, even conceding the legality of the contract, the amount of damages recoverable does not compare with the amount claimed by the , plaintiff, for the reason that the scrap iron that is the subject matter of dispute was not worth at the time of the alleged breach of contract anything like the price at which it is quoted in the petition. The answer of the defendant admire that for some time after the agreement with the Isaac Joseph Iron Company was en tered Into by Mr. Comer, the scrap iron accumulated by the railway was sold to the plaintiff, but it denies that this affords any ground for the judicial determina tion that it sanctioned, authorized or ap proved the agreement or lent to it the force of Us corporate action. AY OFF I>\\ FOH THE STATE. Six Dr fen dn n(m Tried In Superior Court nnd Six Acquitted. In the Superior Court yesterday six prisoners were placed on trial for crimes, ranging: in gravity from forgery to oyster stealing, and every one of them was ac quitted promptly I>J' the jury that tried his case. It was an off-day for the state in the matter of convictions. Charles Jones was tried on an indict ment. charging him with raising an order upon Aleck Mendel, signed by J. B. Scott, a foreman In Mendel’s employ, from 50c to $2.50. There was conflicting evidence, as to the guilt of the accused, and the jury chose to believe the statement of the defendant, to the .effect that he was absolutely guiltless of any criminal ac tion. and had never raised the order which he was charged with raising, or any other. At any rate, it presented Charley with a verdict of acquittal and his liberty. Lea rider Bonaparte had been twice in dicted, once for simple larceny, and once fof larceny after trust. t The larceny after trus* charge was based on Bonaparte’s a])eg % l defalcations in the management of the financial affairs of the Pooler Lodge of colored Odd Fellows, the specific offense alleged being his wrongful appropriation of the sum of $5. To this indictment Mr. G. E. Bevans, who represented the accus ed, tiled a demurrer, alleging that it was fatally defective in that It failed to aet out that the money had ever been en trusted to the defendant by anybody. Judge Falligant sustained the demurrer, and the ease w as disposed of in this way. The second indictment was found at the Instance of Wesley Herring, who appeared in the role of prosecutor. Wesley swore that he had stood up in his field of corn and watched Bonaparte steal 160 ears, up on which he placed a value of $lO. The defendant denied this story with much virtuous indignation, saying it was but one step in a long' train of persecution to which he had been subjected. The jury found him not guilty. Four negro oystermen, George Howard. Isaiah Wright and Ned and Robert Har graves. were found not guilty of the of fense of stealing oysters from the private beds of Mr. Wimberley J. Deßenne. FAMILY ROWS REVEALED. Trial of ( dno in City Coart Resalted in Small A'eriliet. In the City Court yesterday was tried the case of Ellison & Harvey, a business lirm of Richmond, Va., against Eliza beth Gaffney. The verdict of the jury, returned at 6:30 o’clock, found that the defendant was Indebted to the plaintiffs in less than one-fifth of the amount for which suit had been brought. The defendant was sued on ten notes, aggregating in amount $524.62. It was shown on behalf of the defense that the Nutrient T*%'| A perfect tonlcal stlmu- Jml i lant is found in TRALtMAPj NuU’tWIJ m HUNTER ■I BALTIMORE RYE f'-auss It is purs, sircntrtheninif and wjW fKB 'Sm nutrient quali It peclallyreo on* aded lor the ue of women who "quire a stlmu lant. Bold at all first-elaas Cafes. HENRY SOLOMON & SON, Bole Agents, Savannah, Ga. Did You Ever Know any one who smoked the same kind of Five Cent cigar any length of time? Five Cent cigar smokers are always dissatisfied—always trying something new—or something differ ent, as there always seems to be some thing wrong about the cigars they have been smoking. Ask your dealer for OldVirg mia Cheroots They are always good. Three hundred million smoked this year. Price, 3 for 5 cents. defendant was unable to read or write, and that her signature had always to be affixed by another. It was contended that eight of these notes had never been signed by her authority, and that the proceeds of the two others had been used by her husband, Frank Gaffney, from whom she has since secured a di vorce, In the business which he con ducted. A daughter of Gaffney by a former mar riage testified that a certain letter, writ ten by her to the plaintiffs, had been written at the dictation of the defendant. The letter acknowledged indebtedness of the amount represented by the notes upon which suit had been brought and made various excuses for the non-pay ment of the money and arguments in f&vor of the extension of time that was asked. When Mrs. Gaffney was placed on the stand in rebuttal, she testified that the jeter had never been written at her dic tation, and that the statements of fact, It contained, mode up a tissue of false hoods, with but one single redeeming truthful assertion. The Jury evidently gave entire credence to the testimony of the defendant, for upon matters of fact, it found entirely for her. There was some question as to whom the business belonged, and under the charge of the court, the Jury found that It was sufficiently Mrs. Gaffney's, -o make her liable for money (spent in ex tending or improving It. The verdict, therefore, wns for }IOO, the amount of the two notes the defendant acknowledged having executed, with Interest from Octo ber, 1895. The trial of the ease brought out nil the elements of a well ordered family row, resulting in divorce, and was not without other elements of Interest. There was a legal spat and difference of opinion on more than one occasion, between Mr. W. H. Wade, representing the plaintiffs, and Mr. R. R. Richards, representing the de fendant. but these, of course, w'ere kept within bounds entirely parliamentary’. VALVE OE NEWTON’S ESTATE. Hln Adnilnlatrntrlx Granted nn Or der to Sell Stoelx of Goods. Thera was considerable business trans acted yesterday in the Court of Ordinary, among the matters passed upon being the appraisement of the estate of Samuel L. Newton, the unfortunate grocer who. in a fit of despondency and temporary aber ration, shot himself in the head. The appraisers' report showed that Newton's estate was worth Z 1.212.55. An order was granted permitting Mrs. Laura A. New’ton, administratrix, to sell the stock of groceries that forms part of the estate of the dead man. The lasi wills and testaments of Mar garet Spencer and Whipple Aldrich were filed and probated in common form. In the first case letters of administration w'ere granted to Albert Spencer, while in the s cond, no executor being named, the letters will be issued to County Admin i trator Jordan F. Brooks. LOCAL PERSONAL. Mr. Walter Coney has gone to New York. Mr. G. C. Jones of Augusta is registered at the Pulaski. Dr. J. H. Roberts of Charlotte is the guest of the Pulaski. Mr. John Compton of Chatmcey is reg istered at the Pulaski. Mr. 9. G. Dang of Bandersvllle is regis tered at the Screven. Mr. W. W. Allen of Fitzgerald is reg istered at the Pulaski. Mr. 9. B. Fowler of Milledgeville is reg istered at the Screven. Miss Annie Tennent of Carterevllle, is regtslered at the Pulaski. Mrs. F. Flexson of Atlanta was a guest of the De Soto yesterday. Mr. William McCormick of Fitzgerald is the guest of the Pulaski. Miss Julia Fecklin of Washington, Ga., is the guest of the Pulaski. Mrs. F. Anderson left for Philadelphia yesterday via the Southern. Mr. Dee Heymon of West Point regis tered at the Pulaski yesterday. Miss Nona Belie of Washington, Ga., is the guest of the Pulaski. Mrs. Joseph Hull and family left via the Central last night for Atlanta. Mr. M. C. Tobias left via the Plant System yesterday for Philadelphia. Mr. W. G. Lynch of Tampa was among the arrivals at the Screven yesterday. Mr. J. L. Sweat of Waycross was in tho city yesterday a guest of the De Soto. Mr. J. C. Crichlow' of SI. Augustine waa among yesterday’s arrivals at the Screven. Mr. W. A. Thaggart of Claxton was among yesterday's orrlvals at ihe Screven. Mr. W. C. Jackson of Altoona was among the arrivals at the Pulaski yester day. Mr. Thomas N. Baker of Higgstcn was in the city yesterday a guest of the Screven. Mr. W. M. Hill and Miss Margaret Hill of Washlngcon, Ga., ore registered at the Pulaski. Mr. W. V. Almand of Conyers was in the city yesterday, and etayed at the Pulaski. Mr. R. Elliott and family left via tho Southern yesterday for White Sulphur Springs. Rev. Harry Casoil and family passed through the city yesterday en route to New York. Mrs. A. 8. Cohen was n tvassenger on the Nacoochee which sailed for New York last night. Miss Clara M. Chandler of New Bruns wick, N. J., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Van Wagenen. Mr. 8. Melnhard. wife and son wer* among the |>assengers of the Plant Sys tem yesterday for New York. Mr. J. G. Nelson left via the Plant System yesterday for Philadelphia. Be fore returning he will visit New York and Chicago. Mrs. Joseph Hull, Miss Hull and Mrs, Hull's little daughters left last night for Bew&nee. Tenn., where her son, Mr. Dan Hull, is in attendance upon the Universi ty of the South. They will be gone for the summer. Col. and Mrs. P. W. Meldrim, Mr. anti Mrs. B. A. Denmark and Mr. Ben Yancey are in Athens attending the commence ment of the University of Georgia. Col. Meldrim and Mr. Denmark are members of the board of trustees of the instltu* tlon. ... THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1900. *lO FOR USING SHORT !IEASI RES. Two HnckKtcr* I'lnnl With an Al ternative of 20 Day*. In the Recorder’s Court yesterday Wil liam Wright and Ed Williams, two colored hucksters, who were reported by Clerk of the Market l a*o Masters to be using false measures, were lined $lO each, with the option of twenty days apiece in the lock up. William Nixon, colored, who was ar rested Saturday night on a charge of beating his better half. Henrietta, failed to put in an appearance when his name was called, and his bond, signed by James Mcßride, was estreated. The same dis position was made of the bond of Henri etta Marshall, who likewise was absent from court. Her bond was signed by W. B. Brown. James Sweeny, the drunken hack driver, who ran over Fritz Bormann Sunday night at the corner of Liberty and Hab ersham streets, was fined $25. with the alternative of thirty days in jail, but the Recorder afterwards reduced the fine to sifj, which was paid. Mr. Bormann, whose most serious bruises were on the face and head, is getting better. Nine negroes, who were arrested for gambling in a house on Huntingdon street, near West Broad, were given sen tences of S2O or thirty days each. The game that they were engaged in at the time of their arrest, couldn’t have been a very remunerative one, for each of them was forced to accept the latter al ternative. t. Tom Young, who is better known to the police as “the king of chicken thieves,** wasarrested early yesterday morning, near the water works. Young was sent up for a good long term about two months ago. for playing his favorite occupation, but served only two days gang, when he made his escape, since which time he has cleverly kept out of reach of the jk>- lice. He is now held subject to the or der of the county authorities. CITY BREVITIES. The -Sunday School of the Ca thedral of St. John the Baptist held its annual picnic yesterday at Tybee. The rain kept the children indoors a good deal, but otherwise the outing was greatly en joyed. Many wont down, and the day was another of the many very busy ones the Tybee railroad has experienced this sea son. Iliineball Games. At Chicago—Chicago, 4; Milwaukee 1. Ar Indianapolis—Buffalo, 8; Indiana pe ls 7. At Minneapolis—Minneapolis 5; Kansas City 4. IMRE AT HIGH SPRING*. Second Dlnn*trona Con flnurn tlon Visits That Place. Gainesville, Fla., June 19.—Almost be fore. the debris from the last .serious con flagration at High Springs had been clear ed away, another disastrous fire has visit ed the place, with the result that what was Sunday night a row of prosperous business houses, was on Monday a heap of ruins. Sunday night about 9 o’clock, fire was discovered in the rear of the store, occu pied as a general merchandise establish ment by E. K. Anderson. The alarm was immediately given, but, as was the result on the former occasion, on account of the inadequate facilities for fighting the flames, it was not a great while before the fire began to spread. In less than two hours the stores of E. K. Anderson, Whatley & Townsend and De- Bros,, with their enormous .--f.-.-ks, were in ashee. The High Springs Senti nel, owned and edited by I. M. Putnam, ond Richardson’s barber shop, were also consumed, very little or virtually nothing being saved. The origin of the lire has not yet been determined, but it is the opinion of many that ii might have been incendiary. The burned district includes an entire block, about the only business houses saved from the ravages of the first fire. It has been impossible to determine with any degree of accuracy the amount of losses, but the. loss on stock has been placed at about SIO,OOO, buildings about $3,(>00, with about 50 per cent, insurance. Of this amount, DeLugal Bros, carried /$4,U00 stock, with $2,000 insurance, ami E. K. Anderson about the same amount, with $2,500 insurance, the remainder be ing divided among the other losers. There was no insurance upon the Senti nel outfit, but Ediior Putnam succeeded in saving all his stationery and some ma terial. The people of Gainesville deeply sym pathize with their neighbor? in this seri ous loss. Wuyerutiti Novm Note*. Way cross, Ga., June 18.—An abundance* of sugar cane will be raised by Ware county farmers this year. The most terrinc downpour of rain fell Saturday and yesterday in the city, that has been experienced here this summer. Several washout. 1 - in i'u st\vr divlus were reported, -and lanterns had to be hung out to warn teams of danger. The electric, light plant suffered fiom the ef fect of the lightning, as did also the tele phone company. Some sneak thi* f entered the residence of Dr. F. C\ Falks and stole a pair of pants, three shirts, a lot of collars, socks, gold collar and cuff buttons nnd $5.60 In money belonging to Grover Geiger. Twenty-eight accessions to the church are reported from the meeting Jus* closed it Atkinson. <*. C. Buchanan and J. O. Clough returned from there this morn ing. A child of R. F. Wainwright of Charl ton county was bitten by a rattlesnake while picking berries. The snake was only about two and a half feet long. Hopes are eniertalnvd for the little girl’s recovery. While fishing in Satilla river the other -lay, James Rowell caught two trout on a bob at ihe same time. Mr. H. li. Burnett, one of the proprie tors of the New South* rn Hotel of this oUy, was married yesterday afternoon in the city of Charleston to Miss Lovena North of that place. The newly wedded 'couple reached Waycrosß this afternoon. WILL COMPLIMENT BRADLEY. Continued from First Page. ; ures of the Kentucky delegation, which lias quarters at the Continental. The del ! egation Is augmented by the McKinley I (*lul of Louisville, with a big band which keeps things lively. Delegate W. P. ! Ross summed up the feeling thus: “Kentucky wants to compliment Gov. Bradley by having his name considered ! for the vice presidency. After that the sentiment seems strongest for Roosevelt 1 If he will accept, with no definite choice among the’other candidates.” Gov. Taylor is accompanied by his wife, and the two keep to their rooms much of the time. Members of the party say the Kentucky authorities, who hold a war rant for Mr. Taylor, are following ids movements from state to slate, but no fear is expressed that the matter will be brought up while he is here. The Gov ernor, himself, told his friends he had not been annoyed on the trip here, and did not expect to have any trouble. When the matter was referred to at the Kentucky headquarters, it evoked heated denunciation of the “conspiracy” against Taylor, and expressions of sturdy loyalty <° him * * . 4UL Aii . ALABAMIANS MAY SETTLE IT. North Carolina Will Try to Boom Senator Pritchard. Philadelphia, June 18.—Alabama—The contesting delegations from Alabama have spent most of the day in an effort to bring about a reconciliation between the Vaughn and Bingham delegates, whose names were not placed on the temporary roll. The National Committee failed to seat four delegates nt large, and four district delegates, referring the contest to the con vention. Of the fourteen seated the Bing ham faction, has a majority of two. To day the last of the delegation arrived. J. H. Bingham stated that an amicable settlement of the difficulty would be ef fected. North Carolina—With the arrival of the North Carolina delegation to-day. the vice presidential boom of Senator Pritchard was set in motion. All of the delegates, who are headed by National Committee man James E. Boyd, are enthusiastic over their candidate, and express great confidence in Senator Pritchard’s ability to command a large number of votes. Tennessee held a ten-minute caucus to night, nnd placed all of its committee men and adjourned within that space of time. The vote for Brownlow as mem ber of the National Committee was 19 to 3, the three votes being merely compli mentary to other delegates, there being no real contest against Brownlow. H. C. Turley was to-night elected na tional committeeman from Mississippi to succeed James Hill, who held ihe place for twelve years, by the delegation from that state. The delegation took no action on the vice presidency, but it Is under stcod the Miseissiplans are solidly for Roosevelt. WHERE FLORIDA STANDS. Delegation Will Obey Wish eft of Ad ministration Leaders. Philadelphia, June 18.—A statement thai Florida’s delegates had been instructed for Lieut. Gov. Woodruff was emphatic ally denied to-day by H. S. Chubb, vice president of the delegation. "We are uninstructed,” said he, “and we feel it our duty to ascertain the wish es of ihe administration leaders whose opinions we shall indorse.” Joseph K. Lee was elected chairman of the delegation and Judge John G. Long was chosen for the National Com mittee. TENNESSEE FOR PRITCHARD. \fter Tlint There In No Telling to Whom Its Vote AN 111 Go. Philadelphia, June 18.—Tennessee has a vice presidential candidate, Senator Pritchard of North Carolina. Congress man Bromwell said: “Senator Pritchard will have the Ten nessee delegation if his name is pre sented, which I think will be done. We were brought up together and Pritchard used to be a printer in my town. After that things are too mixed to say where Tennessee will go, but definite action may be taken later.” SCOTT TO HE COMPLIMENTED. Virginia Will Support tlic Senator From West Virginia. Philadelphia, June 18.—The latent candi date for Vice President is Senator D. B. Sco.t of West Virginia. Senator Scott was brought out by the Virginia and l'gation which decided to-day to give’ him the support of her twenty votes in the convention. His name will be presented by Hon. J. Hampton Hoge, of Rcanoke. The understanding is that West Virginia also will throw her twelve votes to Sen ator Scott, notwithstanding the fact that personally Mr. Scott has declared for his colleague, Senator Stephen B. Elkins. IT WILL NOT HE TOWNE. Kern Sny* He Favor* Clianler for A lee President. Indianapolis, Ind., June 18.—John W. Kern, Democratic candidate for Govern or, was asked to-night who the Demo crats would nominate for Vice President at Kansas City, and replied: “I do know it will be a Democrat, and not Towne. J have heard a number of persons mentioned, but of all I have heard spoken of, my choice at present would be William Astor Chanler of New York. lid is very popular, and was elected to Congress from a district that was 10,(MX) Republican. Ho has a clean record, and raised and equipped a regi ment in the last war. He has the means, he is popular, and he would add great strength to the* ticket. I do not believe any man will be nominated who has oc cupied such an advanced position on sil ver as A. J. Warner of Ohio.” Franco-American Pintnl Match. Paris, June 19.—The grand total of the French marksmen in the Franco-American revolver match, for two distances, is 4828 points. The short range score was 2357, the long range 2441. American Team** Score. New York. Juno 18.—With a grant! total score of 4.889 i>oints out of a possible 6,000 to their credit, the ten men composing the American team of revolver shots, com pleted their work at both distances*—s2*4 feet and 50 yards to-day. Their total score at the short range was 2,410, and ut the long 2.479 points. Off for M. Simon**. Waycross, Gn . June 18 —Judge Warren Lott and fami y. Mrs. B. F. William* and ; Miss Mattie Williams of Waycross, and the Misses Miller, of Gainesville, Fljl, ! have tomorrow mornlrg for an. outing on 8t Simons, where Judge Lott owns a I eatniful summer home. Mr. Lott sent his hors s down this morning in charge cf a trusty man. Waycross will be wHI re resente 1 at St. .Simons th s rummer. If You arc Tired take Horsford 3 Acid Phosphate It afTords immediate relief in mental and physical exhaustion and insomnia. Genuine bean name HoasroaD'f on wrapper. CHARGED ON A PACK TRAIN. GRIZZLY BEAN CAINES CONSTER NATION A4IO\G PROSPECTOHS. Lea, of Her Cob, Madf the Animal Immodrratel, Fprwlona Tb,r, Waa a Hurried Sporryin* for Any Sort of Cover—Treed All Jilfbt In n Snowstorm AJ'hlle- thr Terrible lleaat Lav Dead, i From the Los Angeles Times. "You don’t know anything about fun if you never saw a grizzly charge a pack train," said Bill Ellis one night as he lit his pipe at the camp fire. "We were gain' over a little flat in the tnountalns one d*y toward dark, with about fifty animals, all heavily packed. There were about twen ty of us goin' to the mines, each man with a rifle or pistol and most of us with both. All at oncte two mules that were in the lead wheeled and come a-sallin' back with coffee pots and fryln’ pans a-elatter in' to kmxk the hind sights of a Chin ese concert. Everything in the line wheel ed as they came on and in a minute Jacks, mules and horses were waltzln’ through the manzanita with sacks and beddin’ a rippin’ at every Jump, and JSO flour and N2 bacon ornamentin’ the bushes as if they cost nothin’, while most every pack that held was under the horse’s belly and the horse a-buckin' downhill among the rocks like a kangaroo runnln’ for first money. ’ "The boys that had common bridles on their horses couldn't hold 'em a second. They came a-flyin’ past me and Tennes see was wiped off his horse by the limb of a big oak alongside of me. Jersey bust ed the bridle tryln’ to hold to his plug and threw himseif off to save himself, while Grizzle Jake, who was always braggln' that he wa'n’t afraid of nobody’s bear, landed square in the track behind his horse, that flew out from under when the cinch busted. At the Bear’s Merry. "Just then my horses reared because I was holdtn' him so tight with a big Span ish bit, and I slid off Just as he went over backward and smashed the stock of my rifle that was hung on the horn of the bridle.- Just as I gathered myself I saw the dogs of the outfit radiatin’ like no many spokes in a wheel, and close behind ’em, with blood-red mouth wide open, ears laid back and froth awhirlin’ around her head from her big, white teeth, came the durndest old hag of a grizzly I ever see. A brace of cubs come tumblin’ along away behind her, stoppin’ once In a while to take a look at the circus, but she didn't stop for nothin', and was strictly business in every move. . "It suddenly struck me that a tree would come handy, but there was nothin’ near me less than four feet through and fifty feet to the first limb. You might as well climb the bear as tackle such a tree. It's bad enough when the tree fits your legs. Shinnin’ up a tree with a bear after your Ags is quite different from shinnin’ after persimmons. I dodged around behind It and saw Grizzle Jake making about a foot a minute up another tree about a foot in diameter and twenty odd feet to the first limb, with mules, Jackasses and dogs shootin’ past him at Ihe rate of near a mile a minute, with the bear gainin' on most of ’em. He was a-workin' arms and shins and rakin’ down bark enough to run a tannery. His pants was worked up above his knees. hiß pistol belt was under his shoulder, the pistol had tumbled out on the ground and the seat of his pants were Just 4 feet 4 Inches above the pistol when the bear, 5 feet high when stretched out in full run, came tearing past, hug ging the ground like a racer on the home stretch. Diverted by a Donkey. "She was so blind with rage and so close to one of the donkeys that she didn t see Jake. Somehow I’ve elwaya felt mad at that donkey ever since for drawln' her fire. There’s as little mean ness in me as in any man In the acrid and I hadn't a thing agin' Jake, but f have somehow always felt that the fun niest thing in the world was spoiled ty the donkey takin’ the bear’s attention He got w-ell paid for it, though, for in a m'n ute she overhauled him and the two went rollin' over in a whirlwind of rattlin’ pant and kettles, flyln' beans and scatterin’ crackers and when the bear got up the donkey didn't. “The clatter of hoofs and the rattle, of coffee pots was dyln’ away in all dilu tions and not a man of trie outfit was H sight except Jake, and he had his legs all bare up to his knees, with the p int of his britches, where Ihey was bagged in the seat, nearer the ground than before. But the bear didn't see him, for ehe was lock in' ahead all the time ’for more game, end when she didn’t see anythin’ she turned to and bit the jackass again. "Just then came the crack of a r(le from the top of a big rock about fifty yards away. The bear gave a Jump and a tremendous kow], bit herself in the side, flew at the jackass again and Mt it. when bang went the rifle again and she gave another Jump and started for the smoke that showed plain through the leaves. She went past Jake so fast she didn't see him and a minute after he struck the ground with a bump that muet have made a dent 1n it and rolled around the other side of the tree as fast as he could, while a rhan without rifle or hat come a-flyin' away from the rock holler in, 'Shoot, shoot—somebody shoot! For God’s sake, shoot! I ain't got no time to load.' dinned Ip n Tree. “You bet somebody shot. I shot for a live oak up the hillside about 100 yards, (he only one 1n sight that anyone could climb, while the man she was after whipped through'an opening in a pile cf rocks and dodged her for a mlnuie. This minute was just enough to tet her catch sight of me and up she came a-pa in’ after me faster than you ever saw a horse pace in harness. "As I reached the edge of the tree I heard her close behind, and I couldn’t he p turnin’ my head a bit around. I we* green on bear then, but such an educa tion as I got in that one giance you can’t imagine. It was like a storm at sea seen by a flash of llghtnln’. The lowest bg limb was about seven feet from Ihe ground. I grabbed it with a Jump, swung myself up and hod both feet on the limb and was Just goin’ to swing over It, when there was a sudden Jerk In the slack of my buckskins that felt as if a (on of lead had suddenly dropped into ’em. “But I was mighty strong In those days and my hand-hold stayed. But my feet gave way Just as the top button of the britches broke, and the rest followed like a row of bricks. As my legs swung down I did some lively kickin’, and oIY came the pants. By the way, you never want to wear suspenders when bear Is after you. If I’d a-been puttin’ on city style I’d a-been called In sure. Before the old hellion could get her claws-free from the buckskins I had whirled over on the limb and in a second was on the next one. "She tore bark off the tree a while,(iry in’ to get up. but couldn't make it. Then she flew at the britches and chawed them a bit. and then flew at the tree and bit at that until -the splinters sounded as If the whole business was a-eomin’ down. Then she took another turn at the pants. I could see she was bleedln’, though It was getting dark, hut she made strings out of the buckskins Jus* about as fast as if nothin' was the matter. The Bear Was Dead. "As it got dark she began to quiet down some, but I could still see her out line and she vibrated between the trunk of the tree and the pants for a while. Then she sat down and tried to sit me out, a* I supposed, for It got dark so fast t couldn't see well through the thick leaves. It was late in the season and mighty cold, and for a while there .was quite a flurry of snow, nnd then It clear ed some and began to get awful cold, nnd by that time It was so dark I couldn't see the hear except in Ihe dimmest out line, and she looked ns If she was lyin' down for an all-night's Job of herdin' me. "It got colder by tl.c minute end Inerc "as no us® of goin' upstairs, while down Ponds rttraol A Utrd over half a century, u -M S Refreshing and Invigorat- Ji leg, for the toilet or after £4 shaving. Immediate relief to eyes irritated by xvind or dusi. As * Remedy, ft controls pain, bleeding and inflammation. jjg-JWn—siy ~ Used Internally and Externally CAUTION. — Witch !Ijs.d is NOTPena’s Extract, and Cannot be used for it. Ordinary Y/iicn Hazel is sold in bulk, diluted, easily turns sour, and generally contains “ •wood alcohol, " which is ar. irritant externally and, taken "VT fflfcrnaffy, is a deadly poison. ’Pond’s extract is cold ONL Y jyfct-* tn SEALED bottles enclosed in buff nvrapper. _ • Pond’s Extract Cos., 76, Fifth Ave., New York. POND’S EXTRACT OINTMENT -ares Itching or Bleeding Piles, however severe. It ia a specific in ail skin diseases. IBRD'S EXTRAS? stairs It was entirely too h~t for com ;oft. and I had to spend ihe night there witchln’ the great bear it* iho sky and tho hig bear under the tree without git tin any comfort out of either. You’d a-kept warm swearin’, but I was pious brought up and can’t swear no more than I can lie. I decided, though, that there was a big mistake made in the buildin’ of hell. Perch a rich sinner on a night as cold as that was up a tree without hi* pants or supper and he'd soon squeal for Lazarus to bring him a red-hot brim stone cocktail. “Mornin’ come About the end of a cen tury and Just as I had rubbed about the last tflt of hide off my shins tryin* to keep warm by pollshin’ ’em on the bark of the tree. There was the bear, stone dead, with a skein of buckskin strings big enough to keep a camp in moccasin •trings for a season. And, by gum, sir, would you believe it, the snow that was on her and around her from that little flurry of snow showed she was dead then, and I’d been seitin’ up garret all night toastin’ my shins by the oak bark stove for nothin’.” TOBOGGAN Cl RE FOR THE NERVES • rrodnefi a Spleutltd Appetite and I* Follorrel by Dreaiule** Sleep. From the Philadelphia Press. “There are many cures nowadays that do not cure,” said an American who re turned the day from Europ?. “Who among us does not know of a woman really In need of good hard work nnd bi cycle riding putting her faith end m >n y in rest cures? And, in the same breath, some overtired, overworked, overworried creature masnaging away and performing the meet nerve-racking gymnastic feats to get rid of 'that dreadful nervous fuel ing/ “The world is full of otherwise sensible men and women being violently manipu lated by machinery, mas-aged by knobs, expanded by wheels and pulleys, straight ened by revolving pillows or pumred u > and down by saddles that never touched a horse. In fact, many seem to spend their live* in the pursuit of fresh cures. “Yet they still complain. “Among all the ’cures’ of which one hear* the praises sung there has been no mention of the toboggan cure. I have been trying it this January in Sweden atd I have learned to believe in it mote than in electricity, baths, massage, hot water and minced raw beef, the mechanical boat or four weeks of undiluted feather bed. Nobody in Stockholm calls it the tobog ganing cure; that name is given to i by one who ha* realized its benefits and who think* it a delightful remedy for dyspep sia, a splendid builder-up of nerve fore*. “When the miow comes ands ays in thit northern latitude the world toboggans, and as the snow comes early and stays foe many weeks the world has plenty of tim* in which to revel in this most exhilarati ig sport. The innumerable infants of St ck holm content themselves with the dimin utive slide behind the library in the Hum legard. The schoolboy* rush down the curving ice elope that surrounds the skat ing park. The King and the royal prin o.i and princesses frolic at Saltsjobaden, be yond the great hotel that is a paradise in •ummer. But the romantically indie el— those who love a touch of wildness in scenery, and those, more practical, wi o adone a really splendid ice hill (stop, smooth, straight and long)—go out into the wood* to DJursholm, a village that lies among the pine trees and the firs up on the edge of the frozen deep. And the DJursholm slide is the best within reach cf Stockholm. Abont 1,000 feet in length, it Is swept daily, and is daily visited by those who love to undergo the cure, and they are many, and Include young m n and maidens, an occasional <ld man, a very persistent girls' school,and,of course, any number of pink-cheeked, s.irill-voi ed children. “It is an amazing sight to behold a sol emn mite of 8 or 9 launching fo th a loti • on the flying Journey, calmly resting sld - ways—like an ancient Roman at the feast —upon a diminutive toboggan. It is, per haps, even more wonderful to so* som j boy of 12 or 14 lying face downward, Ms hand* grasping the runners of one 6 e ig , his feet tucked through the runners of another, pioneering a crowd of twche companions at breakneck speed thr ugh the keen, frosty air, keeping a straight course by almost imperceptible wriggles of hi* body, and shooting clear of his bur den when the level ice is reached. Tlur • are indeed a good many ‘spills,’ a g od many plunges made into the soft snow that lies heaped on each side of the t a k. But nobody seems much the worse and as for me, I look upon an occasional Bhcc<t as part of the cure, like the douche trat puts*the finishing touen to a Turkish bath. the toboganning cure, wheth er undergone in Switzerland or in Sweden, is a superb tonic, the very b I know. It puts gayety into the heart.tfcelor into the cheeks, light into the eyes, stieng h Into the nerves. It gives the pati nt an appetite that is ainrmir.g. a long sue fu sion of nights passed in dreamless sleep. It banishe* pessimism and drives aw.ty dyspepsia. The toil up the hill, drug ging the sleigh, is lightened by the thought of the exekiment of the rush down, the flying vision of the hurtping trees, the leap at the litt'e ledge cf ice that forms a ‘bunker.’ the music o 'lie runners over the sparkling surface • ( the slide, the whirlwind of snow in which the patient reaches the goal.” Bryan I* Flailing. MlnQcqua, Wis., June 18.—Col. W illiam Jennings Bryan and party spent to-day on Kawagusaga lake fishing. Ex-Congress man Towne left this afternoon for his home at Duluth. Railroads will run ex cursion* for to-morrow night’s big meet ing, at which Mr. Bryan will speak. —The early accounts of the destruction of the old English iron-clad Belleisle, by the modern llne-of-battleship Majestic, all agreed in declaring that the hulk wns in flames from end to end within a minute or two of the beginning of the bombard ment. It now appears, to the apparent as tonishment of everybody, that this was not the case. In answer to a question In the House of Commons the other evening, Mr. Goschen, the Secretary of the Navy, declared that “the Belleisle did not take Are at all, to the extreme surprise of oil concerned. Spertators were misled into th* supposition of fire by seeing cloud* of steam arising through a steam spout be ing cut, and lyddite shell*, as they burst, in the water, emitted cloud* of smoko, again giving the impression of the ship be ing on Are; hut she was not on Are, there was only a smouldering Are In one of the cabins among some clothes. The wood work was shattered in nil directions, but did not lake Are. While Ihe ship was be- | Ing battered the Are pump* were uninjur ed. and for a long time continued to work flooding the deck.” He added thut one of the chief object* of the experiment was to see if the woodwork would be set on Are. a* wa* reported to have been the case In the engagement* between American I and Spanish warahip* HEARING WITH THE EYES. REMARKABLE PROGRESS MADE IN SCIENCE OF SPEECH HEADING. Deaf Person*. Guided by Eyenight, Able to Converse Freely— Only a Small Minority of the People Hear Perfectly—A Southern Matron Who Had No Trouble Concealing Her Affliction. From the Chicago Chronicle. It is estimated that more than 300,000 per sons in the United States under 35 years of age have grown deaf since their teens. A large proportion of these have sustain ed almost complete loss of aural power. How to benefit this constantly increasing ; class of sufferers is a matter af far-reaeh t ing interest and is engaging the attention 1 end most earnest investigation of numer ous scientists. Many educators, too, are engaged in efforts to ameliorate the condi tion of such as are called upon to bear with this affliction. The Volta bureau of j Washington, D. C., under the supervision 1 of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who him self conversed with his profoundly deaf mother by placing his lips on one of her closed eyes, and the laboratory experi ments at Clark University bear witness to the progress made in this important sub- JeJt. Aside from the almost totally deaf adults, growing is the number who have one defective ear and are forced to take a front seat in church or public hall, while never will be known the army who are , conscious of gradual failing of the hearing sense .and are wondering how soon their friends will find it out. Curious i?; the authenticated fact that only a small minor ity of people hear well. It is much hard er to bear deafness which has come after once knowing the pleasures possible through the sense of hearing. The mem- I ory of it is prone to make hard-of-hearing j adults suspicious. They are painfully sen sitive to the publicity given by talking to them in a loud voicte. They shrink in stinctively from the use of artificial aid* to hearing. Why conversational tubes or ear trumpets should not be as commonly employes! as are eye glasses and specta cles—the need is scarcely less great—only the pride of the hard-of-hearing can ex plain. It is less than thirty years since the flrst effort was made to teach the deaf to speak. Such progress has been made in the interval with deaf children that they are now being largely taught to substitute the eve for the ear. Out of twenty year* of varied experience in teaching children of defective speech and hearing a clever woman evolved some six or seven years ago a unique method, which is working miracles for the hard-of-hearing adults, no less than the totally deaf. Kept Her Secret Well. The remarkable progress made by those who study what may be called the science of “speech reading” is illustrated in the ! case of a charming matron from the South, whose story was recently told to a writer for tlie New # York Tribune. She was among the guests last winter at a house party in a well-known country seat on Long Island sound. Winsome in her beauty, possessed of a sprightly wit and gracious in manner, she was the belts of the party. She was compelled to re turn to her Sou 1 hern home before the Party broke up, and many were the ex pressions of regret at her reluctant de parture. “And to think, she is deaf—totally deaf!” sighed the hostess, as the car riage turned -toward the station, leaving the group on the veranda disconsolate. . “Deaf?” they repeated in chorus, “Deaf? What do you mean?” “Lucretia Throckmorton is as deaf as j a post. She has never heard a word , spoken to her while in this house. It’s years since the sound of a human voice I has reached her clever brain.” Incredulity was on every face; protest in every voice. “Nonsense!” said one, “I have talked'’ with her by the hour, and I am sure sho heard every word.” ‘‘She never failed to answer me,” said another. “Indeed, so quick was the re j * s l>onse that she seemed almost to divine my thoughts.” “1 made love to her as industriously rs is my wont,” confessed a gallant from the neighboring military post, “and I ; swear not a word of it was lost.” DiMcloNiire ( nine With Darkness. “I am not surprised,” smiltd the hos tess, “that you doubt my word. I I ved n week with Mrs. Throckmorton b- fV>re I discovered her affliction. In all probabil ity I would never have suspected it had not circumstances forced ia* one night to share the same bedroom. Not until (he lights were out and there was 10 response to my repeated remarks did it dawn upon me that my companion was as deaf a* the bedpost. Next day I learned her story and, believe me, the day cf mira cles has not passed. She had hern s ead ily growing deaf since girlhood, but ii was not. until after her mirriage that it be came a source of such * mbarrass r.e.it that she was forced to retire from soc.a ty. Her mothqr had throat trouble, uni it was such an exertion for her to make her daughter hear that often a week passed without a word being exehang and between them. Aurists declared her e-rs beyond medical skill. Artificial aids— trumpet, fun, conversation tubes—only added to her embarrassment without re lieving her trouble. “Cut off from all her Umprraip nt, youth and beauty craved, she was border ing upon melancholia when a friend sim ilarly afflicted summoned her to New York. For some time she was absent from home, to return to it literally reb rn. The strained, worried expression, 1 riser* ruble from ihe faces of the deaf, gradually appeared and to the surprise of her fam ily and friends sho was not only able to carry on conversation, hut soon took up her old place in the social world.” “How does she hear?” “With her eyes. It’s called 'spaech reading.’ ” , Hardly one of the astonished listeners had ever heard of speech reud ing until then and several knew • f charm ing people to whom it w 11 perhaps eio long prove a blessing. Mi'll t to t lie An) lum. Douglas, Ga., June 18.—A lunacy J l * r Y In Ordinary Thomas Young’s court tnl* morning, declared Mr. E. L. Plckreni in sane. and he was at once sent to tn* State Sanitarium at Milledgeville, charge of Special Officers T. P. Wilcox and William Denton, Jr. Mleliitel lien ten by Pierce. Cambridge, Mass., June 18.— Jimmy Michael was easily beaten by Burns Pierce in a twenty-mile mo tor- paced race at Charles River Park this afternoon, in th* slow time of 84:29 3-5. A strong w’ud made record time Impossible*