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4 gtye ffeto#. Horsing >ew Building- Snranuib, Us, FRIDAY. JINB 22. 1900. Registered at the Postofflce in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS Is published every day in the year, and is served to subeeriters in the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month, $4.00 for six months, and ss.oo for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six time* a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.60; six months $3.00; one year. $i 00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week. Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, SI. 00. Subscriptions payable in advance Re mit by postal order, check or reflate ei letter. Currency sent by mail at r*sk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than special oslumn, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 20 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 NEWS to either residence or place of business nay I e made by postal card or through telephone No. 210. Any irregular ity in delivery should be immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row. New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. bDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Malt Mead at Conlda’s; Liquor Licences; Ship Notices, Strachan A Cos., Consignees; Dividend Notice, Sa vannah Bank and Trust Company; A Great Bargain in Laundry Soap, A. M. & C. W. West; Dividend No. 21, Germa nia Bank; Dividend Notice, Georgia In vestment Company; Levan's Table d'Hote; Notice to Superior Court Jurors. Official—City Ordinance. You Can Have Them At $1.25 —Byck Broe. Whiskey—Old Crow Rye, S. Guckcn heimer’s Sons, Distributors. Cfrgarp—Tom Keene Cigars, J. Pinkus sohn & Cos. The ClevelantV Chainlets Wheel*—At Latti more’s. Legal Notices—Notice to Debtors end Creditors, Estates James Ray, Deceased, or.d Mamie Stevenson, Deceased. Baking Powder—Royal Baking Powder. Mineral Water—Crab Orchard Water. Medical—Munyon’s Inhaler; Mother's Friend; Coke’s Dandruff Cure; Hood’s Pllfe; Dr. Hathaway Company; Castorln. Cheap Column Advertisement*—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia 10-clay are for showers and thunderstorm*, and brisk southerly winds, and for Eastern Florida showers, with brisk southeast to south winds. This is the morning that Father Penn will apply ice to his head and hot water to ITs feet. The Democrats may now have to look to New York. Who is there In that state that is more than a match for Roosevelt? Hill? The rainy season has now fairly set in in the Philippines. The American authori ties, however, are inclined to hope that the amnesty proclamation will induce Aguinaldo and his followers to come in out of ihe wet. A close observer noted tears in the eyes of Senator Platt of New York as Wolcott of Colorado was delivering hie speech to the Republican Convention. It was rot emotion, however, which made the New Yorker weep. He had a cold and had Just sneezed live times. Jacksonville and Charleston are both looking forwaid to a disappointment with respect to what the census will show, and both are assuming the kicking attitude. Two or three weeks from now, the posi tion of the iceman will be preferable to that of the census man. The New York Evening Post recalls that tt has been twenty-eight years since a Republican National Convention assem bled when there was no contest over the nomination for the presidency. Grant’s second nomination, in 1872, like his first In 1868, went to him without a struggle, but from that day io this there have been earnest contests every time. Silver Is said to be accumulating In the New Y'ork subtreasury so rapidly that the officials are puzzled to know what to do with It. The vaults are all packed al most as full as they can be crammed with the white metal, and still It flows in. It Is Impossible to keep it In circulation. Congress has appropriated 8125,000 for the construction of additional storage vaults, but tt will be several months before they can be provided. Meanwhile the growing pile of silver dollars is embarrassing the treasury people. One striking thing about the Republican Convention wus ite dullness. Except for the breeze created by the Rough Rider, the whole affair would have been stale, flat and unprofitable, especially from the point of view of the newspaper corre spondents, who at best were compelled to do a good deal of writing against space. The slowness of the meeting is not to be aooounted for by tho fact ihat k was held in Philadelphia, but by the fact that the bosses had everything out and dried. The Kansas City Convention will be dif ferent. There will be a plenty of ginger In that meeting. The Ninth Regiment, which is on Its way to China from Manl'-a, is one of the crack commands of the tegular service. It hks been under fire repeatedly during the paet two yeats. It was one of the reglm nt* that tcok part In the fighting around Fanliago, and had a prominent place in the storming of San Juan Hill. After peace wus declared It was sent to the Philippines, whe;e It took part in tho fighting at Angeles and other places The Ninth was a part of Gen. Joseph Wheeler’s brigade In the Island of Luzon M\tl he says li never failed to show con spicuous bravery and dash. The men are now seasoned campaign, rs. Should they fie called U|n to fight In China, they ou and no doubt give a good account of themselves. THR REPUBLICAN TICKET. The Republican party is no doubt well satisfied with its ticket. It could hardly have nominated stronger one. Mr. McKinley is a very clever politician, and while he has some enemies among the leaders of his party, he has managed to maintain harmonious relations with all of its factions. That this is true was shown by the fact that be was renominat ed unanimously. There was no movement to place any other man in nominat.on for President. He has In a remarkable de gree the ability to keep on good terms with his party. When he finds that he cannot lead he willingly follows. It Is the very general understanding that he was op posed to the war with Spain. He heartily favored It, however, when he discovered that bis party was for it. It is also said that he was against demanding the Phil ippine* from Spain, but the Republican leaders—at least the majority of them— insisted upon taking them, and he yield <d to their judgment. At the beginning of the present Congress, he boldly as serted in hi* message to that body, that, it was “our plain duty” to provide fo? free trade with Porto Rico. He. faced about when it became evident that his party would not follow' him. All through his politlrnl life he has en deavored to do what his party wanted done. He never takee a decided stand upon any Important question until he thinks he has found out what public sen timent w'ith regard to it is. While, there fore, he has maintained hi* popularity with his party he has no! made a reputa tion for originality in thought or action, or for strength of character. In other words, though at the head of hi* party, fie has not been its leader. And his popularity is not confined to his party. It is well un derstood that he is a kind-hearted man, ever ready to do a favor for a political opponent. That has made men of the opposite party say pleasant things about him, and even defend him when assailed. It Is probable that he would be much more popular in the South than he is. to his speech in the Georgia House of Rep resentatives respecting the graves of the (’onfederate dead, if he had not appointed negroes to Federal offices In tlie South. The nominee for Vice President, Theo dore Roosevelt, is n much more aggressive man. inclined to do what he thinks ought to be done. Although he has not measured up to the standard established by the reformers in New York, when he became Governor of that state, ho has done so many things against the advice of the party bosses* and against the wish ’3 of the capitalistic class, that the Republi can leaders In that state are very glad to get rid of him. It may be that one of the reasons why he finally decided to accept the nomination for Vice President was that the Republican leaders of New York threatened to op|*>se his renomina tion for Governor. He knew there was doubt about his being elected for another term. Still, Mr. Roosevelt is a strong man. and will bring some strength to the ticket. He is more popular in the West than in live East. It can be safely stated that, in the event of his election to the vice presidency, he will bend all of his ener gies during his term of office to getting the nomination of his party for President in 1904. The Republicans, being of the opinion that they have a strong ticket, are likely to depend greatly on that fact for success. Voters, however, will not be influenced, much, by the men who compose the tick ets. They wiil be controlled in casting their ballot* by the principles and ideas for which these ine* stand. Indications are cropping out that public sentiment In running strongly in the direction of the principles for w'hich the Democratic nom inee* for President and Vice President will stand. SCHOOL. 1-iXAMINATIO.NS. Do the semi-annual and annual exami nations of school children in their various studies serve any good purpose? Tills is a question which school superintendents and teachers are better qualified to an swer than one who has no connection with schools, but it may be. ihat few, if any, of them have given it consideration, being satisfied to move along in the beat en path, because there is less resistance to be overcome in that pallet ban in a new ona In the public schools In I his city, for in stance, a week is to be given to going over the studies of the year. The task will be a comparatively easy one for those pu pils who understood thoroughly as they went along the principles of the things they studied and for those who understood very little but who have ex traordinary memories. To the average pupil, however, the week of examinations means a good deal of hard work and wor ry, the worry being due to the fear that they will not be graduated, or be permit ted to advance to a higher grade. No doubt there will be cases of illness among the children due to the xaminations. And what do the examinations amount to? The pupils do not get any new ideas from the cramming process. They simply fit themselves to answer, parrot like, questions that will be asked them. What they get by cramming they forget before the beginning of the next school year. In deed, It is a question If it is not hurtful for them to fill their minds with a lot of matter which they do not clearly un derstand and which they have not the time to mentally digest. The question as to how tt ts to be de termined tvhether they are entitled to diplomas or to be advanced to higher grades, may be asked. Why not make their graduation or -dvancement depend upon the general avetage of their deport ment and scholarship during the year? That would be a much better test than the showing they make in their examina tions. It often happens that fairly well informed pupils, owing to diffidence or other causes, do not do themselves Justice at examinations, while comparatively poor scholars, because of their excellent mem or o* and some hard work for a few days, make an excellent showing. Would it not be better from every point of view to de vote the weeks that are taken up with examinations to the usual school duties" Such a course, there are reasons for thinking, would be more satisfactory to teacheis and more profitable to the chil dren. AeltHcks, the Delaware gas man, Is now a i>lg frog In the Republican puddle. He won out before tho convention, and is therefore in a position to boss the party In his stale. Addlcks still has Ills eye upon the senatorship, and if gas and brass and money have not lost their power, he is going to gst it before he stops. The New York Herald asks: “What s the nt. w.i.j Mr. Cleveland for our i President?" Nothing, further than he wouldn’t rue. ■>- t /v-L’rvi ,| e ~, e | THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1000. JAPAN'S AUBITKML Japan Is co-operating with the other foreign Powers in Chinn. But it is not because of sympathy with or affection for them. Japan is playing politics, and very shrewd politics at that. She has an eye to the main chance, and for the time her course lies parallel with that of the Powers, in order to hold off her natural enemy, Russia. Should the schemes of the Japanese statesmen work well, the time would come, and probably at no diFiant day, w f hen the policy of Japan would be changed and her slogan would be Asia for the Asiatics. It would then be the brown and yellow* races against the white, the former two un der the leadership of Japan. For the lit tle Island Power dreams of an empire embracing Korea and at least parts of China, and of exercising a predominating influence over ihe teeming millions of Manchurians and Mongolians. The Japanese contention for extended territory, as a matter of fact, is a fight for life. Japan canhot even now' pro duce enough food to feed her people, nor raw materials for their manufactories. She must expand, or go backward to an insignificant place among the notions. Korea is her gralnery and the source of supply for many raw materials. The Korean peninsula is as large as the whole of Japan, but k contains only about one fourth the population. By possessing herself of Korea, therefore, Japan W'Ould have room for her rapidly Increasing pop ulation, as well as a rich agricultural country' capable of high development. Keeping in mind the absolute necessity for extended territory, it can readily be com prehended why Japan is so strenuously opposing Russia’s encroachments upon Korea, and why she is opposed to the increasing European Influences in the East. Her ambition, however, goes beyond ex pansion into Korea for purposes of self preservation. She hopes and expects to become a great manufacturing and com mercial nation, and she wishes extended markets for her products. A number of great mills are already in operation In Japan, and others are in course of erec tion or In prospect. The Japanese, who have been called "the Yankees of the East,” nre quick to take advantage of Western ideas and machinery, even if they an- not adopt Western civilization. By way' of illustrating their progressive ness it may be noted that the govern ment has already adopted wireless te legraphy and is erecting a numl>er of sta tions on both shores of the Straits of Ko rea so that the government may have the earliest possible information respect ing the movements of ships through the straits. This is supposed to be in antici pation of trouble with Russia. Japan is a non-Christian and thorough ly Asiatic nation, and is imbued with that dislike for and suspicion of all white men which is common to all Asiatic races. Should she gain her desired foot hold upon the Chinese shores, she would play' upon that race prejudice to bring the Chinese under her influence. She would organize and drill the Chinese army and secure such differential duties in her favor that the doors of the Chinese mar kets would be practically closed to the commerce of other nations. A well in formed diplomat has declared it to be his belief that if Japan were to succeed in her plans, as they have become plain to Close observers of the trend of events in the Far East, she would be in a posi tion to control China, and that she would st< the face o# the East against all of the Western and Christian Powers and bid them defiance. If it is true that the Powers have invited Japan to send a force of troops into China to quell the uprising of the Boxers, it i* probable that they are playing into her hands. Once she has gained a predominating foothold in the Flow’ery Kingdom, she will be extremely reluctant to return to the formerly existing status. Japan and Russia, however, are the only Pow ers in a position at present to throw’ large bodies of troops quickly into China, and it is probably’ the case that the other Powers are more reluctant to trust Rus sia than Japan in China. HA\VA THE MANAGER. Senator Hanno is to manage the cam paign for the Republicans. A few weeks ago there was a great deal of talk to (he effect that his health would not permit him to take an active part in the cam paign this year. He is not only to take on active part, but he is to be the boss, just as he has been for the last four years. It is doubtful if there ever was a monvert when he thought of retiring from the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee of his own free will. It may be that he had some doubt whether he would be permitted to hold on to the ;io sition. If he had, it was the caus* of his reported willingness to retire from active political work. He likes power so well that there was never a probability at any time that he would give up his petition voluntarily. And it is probable that the great major ity of the Republican leaders want him to manage the campaign. It is a ques tion if they could get another man nho could do It so well. He has ability and a great deal of influence with rich men and corporations. He Is not backward In using his influence to collect campaign funds. It is undoubtedly the purpo eof the Republicans to use money freely in the camixilgn. The trusts will be . albd on to contribute liberally. There Is ahi I to destroy trusts pending ir Congress, end this, it Is safe to say, will be usel as a dub by Senator Hanna to compel trusts to furnish the money the Republicans need. And he will not be backward in using it It was said In 1896 that never before was there such a lavish use of money in a po litical campaign as there was by the Re publicans that year. I'nless r.ll -lens fall they will use u great deal more m ncy this year than they did four years ago. For the kind of a campaign they expert to conduct they have chosen the right man for manager. A silly rumor was started In Washing ton the other day that this government would arrest the Chinese minister thet* and hold him as a hostage for the safety t.f Minister Conger, lit Pekin. Any such mode of ptoc dute would suggest retali ation for anything that night occur to Minister Conger. Retaliation, however, Is an extreme measure which has about be come obsolete among civilized peoples,even during actual warfare and where the per son held was an active combatant. Min t-tor Wu is in no sense responsible for ■he outrages of the Boxers; and If Min ister Conger should be killed by them, we could not turn Minister Wu over to a mob to be deult with In kind, nor could we try and condemn him for the murder of Minister Congir. The Chinese Minister, as a matter of tact, is much safer In the United States than he would be In China. What many’ persons believ*- ro have been a miracle occurred in New Haven*. Conn., recently. Mr*. Flynn, a piffPror from chronic rheumatism, had b n ur able to walk for seven years. L--s w*ek her daughter, Catherine, lay d.-iug, and Mrs. Flynn sat by her bo : -d* The daughter was perfectly rational, ard to and her mother that something whi li she could not understand was r.ging her to tell her to cast aside her cru ches and get up and walk. Mrs. Flynn did so. ad to h<r own astonishment and the amanem nt of other members of the family, she walk ed almost as well as she ever did. Ihe girl on the bed saw her mother w. k. end died happy. The funeral occurred t o day following the death, and Mr.. Fiyrn was able to walk unassisted to an 1 . ro.n her carriage. A number of physicians who knew of her affliction are puzzl and by ihe wonderful cure, and the negabois all re gard it as a divine mira 1 • A cable from Paris says that Theodore Tilton is considering an offer to make a lecture tour in this countr> Should h*' return Ao the United Stales hi* coming would revive memories of one of the mos t famous scandals of the century. Mr. Tilton, by the way, is about the last sur vivor of the central figures in that sc ti dal. Mr. Beecher, Mrs. Til on. Mr. Moul ton. the judge who tried the famous case, most of the lawyers who were engaged as counsel, and nearly, if not quite all of the Jurymen, are dead. And Mr. Tilton has been practically.’ dead to his former associates for many years pust. Our navy took no put t in the capture of the Taku forts. At one time, however, the American navy hod a direct encounter W'ith the Chinese. That was in 1856, on the eve of the war between England and China. Capt. Foote, in the American ship Plymouth, was at Canton, lie en deavored to protect American property’, and was fired on by the forts below the city. Commodore Armstrong gave him permission to demand an apology, which was refused. Foote thereupon landed about 300 men. and attacked the forts from the land side as well as with his ship, and captured ali of them. With Roosevelt on the ticket, ih" Re publican sid of the c ampugn is likely to be libe:ally interspersed \viih dramatic situations,” as they say at the theater. PERSON AL. —The centenary of the birth of Lieut. Waghorn. the pioneer of the overland route to India, will be celebrated on June 20 by a dinner in London. —lt has been settled that the trial of the youthful anarchist, Sipido, for the attack on the Prince of Wales shall begin, at ihe Brabant Assizes, on July 2. —Lord I>even, governor of the. Bank of England, has been appointed Lord High Commissioner to the general assembly’ of the Church of Scotland for the fourth time. —Dr. Carl Buentz, the new German con sul general in New York, was stationed in Chicago before his promotion to the me tropolis. His successor in Chicago is Dr Walter Wever, who fer the Lise five yearn has represented his goveri.ment at Rio Janeiro. —The commanding officer of the Biitish National Antarctic Expedition is Lieut. Robert F. Scott, now torpedo lieutenant of the battleship Majestic. H< has been fif teen years in the British n vy, has a rec ord service of the highest class and wi 1 soon be promoted to the rank of com mander. —'Robert A. Friedrich, United Bates at torney for one of the three new districts of Alaska, has hitherto held that position for the whole territory'. He is a Ken tuckian by birth, and enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 13 in 1862, though his parents were slave owners end ardent Democrats. In 1872 he move 1 to Kansas and soon became prominent in Topeka, where he was lieutenant colonel, brigadier general and adjutant gmer.il in turn in the National Guard of ihat sta e. BRIGHT BITS. —The easiest man in the world to bun co is the man who has had enough suc cess to make him have confidence In his own judgment.—l-ife —"One gret trouble wid dis yearf," said Uncle Eben, "is dot so many folks hab seech high ambitions combined wid sech low principles."—Washington Star. —Willie—"Yes, I had quite a discussion with me barber, don’t you know, whether it was better to sfiave up or down.” Miss Gertrude —"I suppose in your case the only possible course was the latter.”—Harlem Life. —Bright Girl—Mrs. Browne—"ls Mrs. Gabble at home?*’ Bridget—’’Faith, she ts not, ma'am, be great good luck. But ye’d better l'ave yer card an’ skedaddle away, fur she’s like to be in mosht onny minute now.”— Philadelphia Press. —Vindicated at Last.—“My dear,” he said, ”1 forgot to mail that letter this morning.’’ "Oh, you dear!" she cried. “That was just what I wanted. Now- I can blame you when that supercilious Sadie com plains that I don't answer her notes.”— Philadelphia North American. —Neely and Aguinaldo.—Boer Sympa thizer: I think our country ought to back up that young and struggling South Afri can republic. Cautious Citizen: Oh, I don't know. Things in Cuba and the Philippines look as if our country needed some young and struggling republic to back her up. —Chicago Record. Cl HK 1-2 NT COMMENT. The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: "If this government is going to trike a hand in settling the Chinese problem, however, our ships and men should not be used In the interest of any European Power, neither should wo undertake to pull any other nation's chestnuts out of the fire that is raging in the Chinese Empire. We Should not go into the campaign os the ally of any country or undertake to pay off "debts of gratitude" to Great Britain or any other Power. If we are drawn into the Chinese muddle we should look out exclusively for out own Interests ond in sist that every tub shall stand upon Its own Itottom." The Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.) says: "There Is among fhe negroes a movement to break away from the Repub licans ond join tho Democrats. Many col ored leaders believe that it would be much better for the race to divide and dllTer politically as the whiles do. They realize that the Republicans care nothing for the negro excepting to secure his vote, and that if a division is made both Democrats and Republicans will be disposed to treat the colored man with more consideration.” Tite Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says: "When Republican governors refuse to give up Taylor, whin the representatives of the Republican party in national con vention re. eive him with ooen arms they Indorse political assassination in n prac tical way that sp „ks louder iVn any platform deliverance. They make politi cal assassination tin Issue. They do so de liberately. mid they leave for themselves no door of escape." StorJe* of the Convention. Theodor- Rocsevelt came to town last Saturday in a parlor car. sayw the Phil adelphia Press. He was driven to his ho tel in a coupe. He dined to the music cf a hidden Hu: gar.an orchestra, amid the white of spotless napery. the glow of June rcses and the adulation to whi’h the Governor of New York of right is enti tled. Weary of th? pomp and ceremonial of his welccme, The dore Rocsevelt slipp'd away from his hotel about bedtime and walked slowly down Broad street. In the shadow of an electric light he paused. Beside him stood another man This o her man was neither reassuring in ap pearahee nor savory of presence. If he needed a square meal as badly a§ he needed a shave he must have been raven ously’ hungry. T.hcodoi*f* Roosevelt eyed him with sus picion and inovfd toward the curb. The other man faced /him, straight and sol di rly in ail his shabbiness. He held out one hand, and with the otlvr touched his battered hat in military salute. "How do you do. Colonel?” he said. "You seem o have the advantage of me.” said Gov. Roosevelt. “I held your horse for y’ou down there by the Sunk* n Road when you got off to get ;i drink at the spring," said the tramp. I was a Rough Rider, sir ” "1 remember the incident.” said Theo • ore Roosevelt, "hut I can’t place y r our face. You don’t look wealthy. Is there any hing I can do ” "Colonel,” interrupted the tramp. “I helped you get a drink in Cuba. Can y'ou Ro sevelt’s hand slipped into his pocket. A bright half dollar lay in the other man’s palm. "Thank you, Colonel,” said the tramp. There hasn’t been much said about it. but there is a heap of kicking here among ihe colored brethren from some of the Southern states, says the New York Sun’s report. Seme of them who in times past lave be ii properly rounded up and have been sent on their way rejoicing find this a convention where the picking is mighty dry. One of them was asked yesterday by a reporter who was the choice of the colored delegates for Vice President, and he said: “G’way, man; huh, huh, who cares what do cullud man’s choice is. Chew never hear 'bout Majah Matson of Alabama, sah? Well, Majah Matson he owned a ngger. sah named Yaller Jim. Jim he was fond cf ’possum hunt in,’ but his dog was no good. Dr. Swanson was Majah Matson’s ricighbah, and he had two fine 1 '■gs. Well, when Yaller Jim started out by and light o’d moon t’catch ’possum, he’d sand round Doc Swanson’s place, ’n he’d blow a bugle. De Doc’s dogs dey’d come a-rushin’, and Jim ’ud go off after ’pos im. ’n he a’way got m. too, for de Pen'* was fine dogs; ’n Yaller Jim he'd sling de ’possums ’n start home, 'n before he got dere he’d jes turn on Doc’s dogs ’n he’d siy: ‘Go wan hom°, you darned black skulkin’ things. You ain’t no good, nohow. What fo’ you cum loafin’ round here. Clar off new, you doan knbw ruffin’ no how. sbo.’ Do you think we colored gentlemen like bein’ the Doc’s dogs? Well, we ain’t cotchin’ ’possum’s now.” They have kept the colored delegate out of the bedrooms but not out of the bars, says the New Y'ork Press special. They line up with the whites at the best cafes in the city, and call for rye and bourbon with large,and animated voices. Some of the delegates here are having a lot of fun with the device in use in some hotels called a telescene, says the Chicago Tribune's special. A man from North Dakota tackled one in the Walton last night, and after selling the pin on different spaces on the dial, proceeded to punch the annunciator most vigorously. He drew in rapid succession two gin rickeys, the house physician, ■ bottle of club soda, and the New York papers. \ man from Tennessee punched the but tons and got seven straight whiskies, while a man from South Carolina rang for a pint of beer and drew a quart of cham pagne. There is e standing joke In Philadel phia which runs something like, this: “Philadelphia has paid more money for stationey than any other city In the coun try.” "How’s that?” queries the coun tryman "Why.” responds- the Philadel phian “she paid $13,000,000 for n station for William Penn's monument. 1 ' Will iam Penn's statue is on the top of the new City Hall * A trephining instrument is necessary to see the joke, but 1t is uni versally liked here, qll the same. "It beats thunder how soon people are forgotten in this world,” exclaimed a husky lowa delegate in the corridor of the Walton to-night, says the Sun’s re port. "See that man over there. You don't know him, do you? Nobodoy else knows him either here, and tt was only a few months ago that his name was on the tongue of pretty nearly everybody from Maine to California and from Cana da to Mexico. Why. everybody was talk ing about him. Even the English news papers were printing stories about him. That’s the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon who ran the Topeka Capital the way he thought Christ would run it. I don’t know what in the blazes he Is here for. Maybe he wants to run this convention the way he thinks Christ would run it.” Senator Hanna pronounced "national" as if it were spelled "nay-tional,” and when he said "eye-ther” for “either" a Colorado delegate muttered: "He's - got money." The elevator in the Walton broke down on Sunday and fell five (lights. It was full at the time, but some automatic arrange ment caught it and the elevator slid down gently. "Never mind,” said a wag in the car. "this is a Philadelphia eleva tor. It will come down slow.” ‘‘Darn Fool, Smart Fellow.” A certain young congressman is going back to Tennessee with the reputation of having made himself quite conspicuous In the House with the help of a ready tongue, much persistence, and a series of brilliant neckties, says the St. Louts Globe-Demo crat. in the cloakroom the other day two or three of the older members were com menting on the career of the Tennesseean. One of them told a story. When a young man was nominated for Congress a hard headed old Democratic farmer, a lender of the party in his locality, comes to Nash ville to remonstrate. "Why,” said he, “you don't mean to say your are going to send that boy to Congress? He’s a darn fool." ’ Yes," was the answer, “we know ho Is a darn fool, Uncle John. But you see It is like this: “We’ve been sending sin.ut fellows to Congress from this dis trict, und they’ve come track regular darn fools. So we thought we'd send a darn fool to Congress, and see if it wouldn’t work the other way.” A Bishop's Predicament. I>r. Thornton, who has just resigned the bishopric of Ballarat, once told to a tem perance meeting a curious experience Which befell him during a visitation tour, says Household Words. He was landed on a, tempestuous night In a remote bush township. Not n light was to be seen save that which Issued from the office of a local newspaper. The bishop knocked, and a voice from an upstairs window tilled: "Who's there%” “I am the bishop of Ballarat. Could you kindly direct me to a hotel?" ”1 say. Itoys. guess who’s the cove down below—the bishop of Ballarat.’’ Then there was a burst of rlba'.d laughter from the composing room. Presently the head reappeared nt the window and the voice give this piece of friendly counsel: “Look here, old man, you've had quPe enough hotel for one night. Go home and go to bed O'Rnfferty's on the beut. and If you don't make tracks you'll be run In as sure as eggs.” —The whistle of a locomotive Is heard 3,300 yards through the air, the noise of the railway train 2,800, the report of n title and the bark of a itog 1,600 yards the croaking of frogs 000 yards, the chirp ing of crickets 800 yards. Distinct speak Ing Is heard ill the air above to a distance of t:00 yards; from above It has a range of only 100 yards downward, , ITEMS OF INTEREST. —lt is claimed that scienca has made less progress in the improvement of musi cal instruments during the past century than in any o.her branch of inventive in dustry. —Baron Von CohfT* the court banker of Emperor William I, died recently in Ber lin. leaving no will His fortune amounts to 46 OCO.OOO marks, or $11,500,000, and goes to h s only daughter, w’ho is a childless widow. —At the New York aquarium the water is maintained at different temperatures. West lt.dian seals require heaied water, oven in summer. Of twelve secured for the aquarium on the coast of Yucatan only one survives. —Department stores in St. Paul and M nneapolis provide bicycle stands, with a boy in attendance who checks wheels free, whether the rider intends to visit that particular store or not. Indeed a bi cycle may be so housed all day. —The ci y of Stockton. Cal., will receive on the Fourth of July the famous old guns used by Commodore Stockton in the cor quest of California. The guns are now at Mare Island, and Secretary Long last week signed an order for their transfer to the city named after the commodore. —Ontario’s government has completed arrangements for the formation of a for est res rve of almost 3 00) square miles ;n extent, embracing the district in which Lakes Tamagami and Lady Evelyn are situated. The bulk of the reserve is vir gin forest, with the finest white pine in Canada upon it. —The most prodigious fall of snow in the mountains recorded of late occurred at Ruby, a coal camp in Gunnison county, Colorado, during the winter of three years ago. In one month’s time 239 inches fell, and during the winter 780.5 inches, or six ty-five feet, were precipitated. This lat ter amount means 93.21 inches of water. —lt is said in London that Gen. Crcnj°. the Boer commander now a prisoner at St. Helena, is a recyrcant Scotchman; that his name was originally McCrone.but ihat after settling among the Dutch in Sou.h Africa he assimilated wi:h them so com pletely that he changed his name to Cronje and pretended to be of Dutch ori gin. —ln a Western court the other day a man asked for divorce on the ground that his wife would not get up ea'ly enough to get his breakfast. In her conn ter-petition the wife alleged tha* her hus band sn red so loud that in the early pari cf the night she cou.d not go to sleep. The court granted the divorce on general principles, without prejudice against eith er side. —M. P. Castle of London, has sold his collection of postage stamps for 8150,000, which is believed to be the larg.st lump sum ever paid for such a collection. Now that the Orange Free State has been tak en off the map as an Independent repub lic collectors are paying as much as $25 for a single stamp of that government and the price is rising. A full set of Transvaal stamps, it is said, would now cost about }s,(<K>. —According: to the recent studies of Sig nor de Sanctis, of Turin, ahildran begin to dream before their fourth year, but are unable to recall dreams before the age of five. This age, he concludes, is that at which a child first becomes instinct ively conscious of self. Aged people dream iess frequently and less vividly than the young. Women’s dreams are more fre quent, mere vivid and better remembered than these of men. —The town of Glvette, in the Ardennes, is taking steps to put an end to the de population of France. Hereafter for a 1 town offices fathers of more than three children will be picked first, and all mar ried men will be preferred to bachelors Prizes will be awarded yearly to those parents who have sent the largest num ber of children to echo ! regularly, an t scholarships in the national schools w.ll be given only to those children belonging to households of more than three in fam ily. Fathers of families will aso have the first chance of admission to alms houses and old people’s homes. —lt ts said the concession by the Chi nese government, allowing steamers of the river type to navigate the inland wa f tens of the empire, has proved worthless. A dispatch to the London Times from Shanghai states that the Shanghai cus toms Taotai have refused to permit a British vessel to trade between that city and the Chusan islands, only a few score miles distant from the mainland. This is only one of the many similar refusals, with the result that nearly ail the steam ers that were specially built and sent to China for coastwise and interior trade, either remain tied to their docks or have been sent back to England by their Brit ish owners. —The Cleveland Leader says the tnu'e as a motive power on the canals of Ohio has had his day. His retirement was an nounced to-day by the State B ard of Publio Works, when they - entered into a contract with Thomas N. Fordyce to in stall a power plant for the propulsion by electricity of canal boats between Daytrn and Cincinnati. The committee appjint ed some time ngo to investigate the prac ticability of the experiments which wele conducted by Mr. Fordyce, reported, ‘hat they had found them feasible in every way, and Mr. Fordyce is to have the cl c trlc system, complete and in working er der within two and a half years. The ca nals between- Dayton ar.d Toltdo are to bo equipped withjn the next fellr years. —When and where the first successful electric railway was built in this sountrv, says the Railway Review, Is a matter of considerable dispute, several cities claim ing the honor of having been the first to prove the mechanical and commerc a! feasibility of applying electric traeMoh, to street railway transportation problems. Prior to 1880 there is no record of an elec trio railway embodying the essential f-at tires as we know them to-day. Thomas A. Edison can probably c ainrv on good grounds to have constructed the first me chanically successful toad in America, al though his was purely an experimental line. This was built in 1880 nar his lab oratory in Menlo Park, N. J., and on it cars were run, drawn by a locomotive taking and returning the current through the rails. In 1882 Joseph R. Finney ex hibited in Allegheny, Pa., an electric car for which current was supplied by en overhead copper wire. A sma'l tr Hey fitted with grooved wheels running on the wire as on a track and connected wt h til car by a flexible conducting ccrd serv. and to convey the current to the motor. It was not. however, until 1887-88 that a road was actually built on Finney’s plan. -*Most people can sec faces in the fire and some strange form In the moon that has given rise to the saying aliout a man In the moon, says the London News. No, two people, however, In all probability, see alike, and this has suggested lo Ca mille Flammarion, the distinguished French astronomer, a rather curious ex periment. He has asked a number of more or lias well known men to tell him what they can fancy they see in the outlines on the moon's surface and he has received some edd replies. M. Salnt- Saens can see tho outline of a kangaroo; Aqullino Barba, a suppliant Madonna; M. Zamltonl. a man’s head kissing a woman’s head: M, Dragon, anything lie pleases; M. Deselligny, only' shapeless spo's; M. A. Piero!. a man with outstretched arm: M De Balassny, Cain bearing aloft on a pitchfork the bleeding body of Abel, and M. Quetiisset, the trunk and legs of a man. Each person addressed was asked to furnish a little sketch of his fancy pic ture. and the drawings thus obtained have been formed into on album and pie. sented to the Astronomical Society of France. In the reign of Charles ii OU r own savants, according to nutler. all saw the same thing tn the moon—namely, an elephant—and even then it was only' be cause there was mouse In their tele scope. French scientific men of the pres ent day have more Imagination. IF WE WERE ENTERTAINED by a friend we should J esteem it a stronger mark of his "genial hospitality” if he set be fore us a straight HAND MADE SOUR MASH WHISKEY, like .Old t OLD CROW 1 VI U W f® Rye Iti'i't/j'i' e’rL t than one of doubtful HLH-a.RirktCin llneage I r\ It's the best we have ever seen. U. B. KIRK & CO., Sole Bottlers, N. Y. S. 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