The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, June 27, 1900, Page 4, Image 4

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Dorsett, Auctioneer. ■wi Medical—Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets; Acid Phosphate; Hood's Pills; jjMunyon’s Kidney Cure; Castoria; Bar itu'lcn; Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, of Cheap Column Advertisementes— Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. te>— - =z tie The Weather. The indications for Georgia to-day are weather, except showers In mountain and for Eastern Florida fair eitweather, with light to fresh westerly vawlnds. pu * >e Mr. Bryan's Lincoln Interview, pub lished yesterday, throws a douche of ice is srater upon the David B. Hill boom for to Flee President. lie ■ an The probabilities are that Sheng. the dl a -ector of Chinese telegraphs, will give us | n u i new verb for our language. He is be j,er!oming famous as the premier dlsseml j | .ator of false war news. 4lv England's great aquatic sporting event, ‘‘ The Henley regatta, will take place on on luly 4, 6 and 6. It is being said, however, j ec hat the occasion will not be as brilliant eatlHS year as In former years, for the rea- that owners of many of the house v<x>oats and launches, which have given OIK to the scene, are In South Africa, lietome lighting and some under the veldt. Jur —— 000 A Boston paper tells of an Episcopal pljChurch that Is being sued because it is tot sufficiently "high church." It seems one. the"®* a certain person left by will cer ein-ajn money to the church, with the pro eidvision that the services should come up a certain standard of churchmanshlp. de) The pastor has failed, it Is claimed, to puget as much ritualism into the service a and the responses of his flock as the be- PV< 3uest calls for. no _ of tjo Congressman Joseph Bailey of Texas cnfcbould congratulate himself upon his Qriends—two of them, at least. They are Francis of Missouri and Con- Sibley of Pennsylvania. Both tgipre very rich men, and they desire to see thcMr. Bailey rich also. Recently, It Is they purchased for Mr. Bailey Texas ranch worth $250,009, allowing re jhira thirty years in which to pay for It. Mr. Bailey says he expects to pay the Amount within twelve years. Pp< Admiral Dewey tells the Herald that he thanks God lhat the American people OappareMly do not want him for Presl oondent. "When I see the troubles and re wllsponslbllities the President has to deal cflthvlth at this moment I thank God they tßOtre not on my shoulders." Only a short ago the Admiral was quoted as say* tiiat, upon an Inquiry Into the duties erect the President he was satisfied they Jf-were not very onerous, or words to that vio effoc *' be seen, therefore, that ftuPewey Is the same, delightful, impulsive Jjetold sea-dog that he has alwayß been, ever • O'Cady No change his mind to suit exist ing conditions as he understands them, snd so honest as to be perfectly frank with respect to his own desires. THE MOVEMENT TO DROP SILVER. The fact that, several times within the last two or three weeks Mr. Bryan has taken occasicn to say that under no cir cumstances will the 16 to 1 idea be drop ped from the platform that will be adopt ed at Kansas City justifies the belief that he thinks that a strong effort will be made at the Kansas City Convention to make no reference whatever In the plat form to financial matters. In our dis patches yesterday he was quoted as say ing that the Issues set forth In the Chi cago platform would be reaffirmed. By that he meant lhat the silver question would occupy a place In the platform that would be adopted this year. It Is the understanding that some of the strongest of the supporters of Mr. Bryan are doing what they can to have no reference to the money question made In the platform. It is said that Senator Daniel of Virginia, former Senator Gor man of Maryland and former Senator Hill of New York will lead the movement to keep silver out of the platform. It can be safely stated that they will not be successful. They may succeed, how ever. In keeping the financial question In the background—that Is, in making It one of the minor issues. That the sentiment In favor of the 16 to 1 Idea Is not as strong as It was four years ago is evident from the way In which the suggestion that former Senator Hill be nominated for Vice President is being received in Democratic states. Even In Arkansas, the home of Senator Jones, chairman of the Dcmocralic National Committee, Mr. Hill appears to be a favorite for the vice presidential nomina tion. It is well known, of course, that he is not in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and if the silver senti ment were as strong as it was in the last presidential campaign he would not have any support In the South for the second place on the presidential ticket. There Is not much if any probability of Mr. Hill’s nomination. He says he would not accept the second place, and if Mr. Bryan controls the convention, and the Indications are that he will, the nomina tion will not be offered him. Mr. Bryan declares that silver must be pre sented as an Issue in the platform and that no man should be nominated for Vice President who is not in sympathy with the platform. That statement practically rules Mr. Hill out of the list of vice pres idential candidates. Senator Daniel and other supporters of Mr. Bryan are just as strongly in favor of the free coinage of silver as they evrr were, but they think that in the campaign ihis year the silver issue would lessen the chances of the Democratic party for electing its ticket. They want the Dem ocratic party to concentrate its w’hole strength against imperialism and trusts. If it should do that, they believe it would elect the next Presidertt. A\ EARI/V CANDIDATE. From the amount of talking that the friends of Senator Foraker aie doing it might be supposed that the question was practically settled that be would be the Republican nominee for President 1904. The fact that he is an Ohio man accounts for this. The Republican politicians of that state have the idea firmly fixed in their minds that they have a lien on all of the office* in the gift of the people. It is aafe to say that there are more natives of Ohio living on the government at this time than there are of any other state. It seems now that Foraker’s friends were particularly anxious to have Roosevelt ac cept the nomination for Vice President in order to get him out of the way of For aker. But will the nomination put him out of Foraker’s w r ay? It is doubtful. In the first place it is by no means certain that Roosevelt will be elected Vice Presi dent. ifr he should be he would aim to be something more than mere figurehead for the Senate. He is a jresoureeful man, and he -W'ould likely find ways to keep himself before the public. If he should fail in doing that, it would not be because of any lack of effort on his part. It is true the Vice President has no patronage to distribute and he has no opportunity to express his views on public ex cept through the public prints, but before this campaign is over the Republican leader may consider it advisable to enter into an arrangement with Roosevelt by w hich he would have a certain amount of influence in distributing patronage. The President could help him immensely in keeping himself in touch with the party workers if he were bo disposed, and it may be that he will find it to his interest to help him. It is within the bounds of probability that the friends of Foraker have begun shouting for their favorite too soon. cojvvkntiox Pimm Since Chairman Jones visited Kansas City and inquired as to the hotel and boarding house priJes that would prevail during the meeting of the Democratic convention, there has been no more talk about extortionate rates. He found out that the prices wou-id be reasonable, but that at the hotels there might be a little crowding. There does not appear to have been any complaint about prices at Phila delphia during tho Republican conven tion. It is probable, however, lhat at the hotels in the Quaker City, there were charge# for extra service wherever it was possible to make such a charge. It la well known that there is no lack of thrtftlness In that city. It Is related that just before the convention met the city council passed an ordinance prohibiting use of sleeping cars as living apartments. No doubt many who went to the conven tion in private cars, hired in some instances for a specified time, were forced to go to the hotels. The Quakers proved them selves shrewder than they were thought to be. The chances are that they more than got back the SIOO,OOO they gave to get th# convention. Before they agreed to give that amount, however, they in sisted upon a contract that the conven tion should last three days. As the con vention was a cut and dried affair, its entire business could have been done in one day. Three days, however, were given to it in order that the Philadelphians might get back the money they contribu ted to the campaign fund. Jt is safe to say that the Democratic managers made no such contract with the Kansas City people. Tha Democrats will rush business and depart, when they have finished it. We ore not “at war” with China; never theless American troops are going forward from Manila, to that country, and Gen. Chaffee will shortly sail from Ban Fran cisco with more troops for the scene, of the disturbance. The situation presents a striking imitation of war, ai all events. THE MOBNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY; JUNE 27, 1900. OVERLOOKING FORTINES. The New York Commercial says that the farmers of the South are “overlooking for tunes.” And there is no question that the Commercial is right. It had asparagus in mind at the time of making the observa tion, and was commenting on the oppor tunities for profits offered by that hlgh prired vegetaole. "An asparagus bed," It says, "will last a life-time, and will yield a proflt after the second year of from S3OO to SI,OOO an acre. The former lo cated out of reach of the large cities thinks he Is prohibited from raising this remuner ative vegetable, as he has no market. This difficulty is easily overcome, if he will In terest himself and neighbors In a canning factory. The process of canning asparagus is very simple, and so with all other veg etables end fruits. The market for canned asparagus has never been fully supplied, consequently it brings a very high price." There isn’t any doubt that this section of the South is well adapted to the grow ing of fine asparagus. One,of the largest asparagus farms in the world is in Berke ely county, South Carolina, near the coast. That farm has produced two or three for tunes within the past dozen years. Its success might be duplicated almost any where in the Georgia coast counties. It would seem that the rich lands of Chat ham county, reclaimed by the public drainage system, ought to make especial ly good and productive asparagus farm? Asparagus, however, is but one source of wealth lhat We overlook. Celery is an other high-priced vegetable to which we give practically no attention. It seems that we prefer to pay Michigan a fancy price for the stuff than to raise it for our selves. We ought, as a - matter of fact, to be able to compete with Kalamazoo in supplying the markets of New York, Bos ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore with cel ery, since we have cheaper transportation to those cities than is enjoyed by the Michigan town. Florida, by the way, has lately given some attention to celery, and she Is producing a very nicte and tender quality of it. There are, as a matter of fact, dozens of kinds of vegetables which might be grown around Savannah, and marketed in the natural state or In cans at a good profit. The canning of tomatoes, peas, beans, corn, etc., ought to be a big indus try here. We can raise such things at less cost than they can be grown in the North or the West. Nevertheless the peo ple of Savannah consume annually tons of canned vegetables that are grown and packed where labor Is dearer and the soil is less fertile than In Chatham county. A BURNING POLITICAL QUESTION. In his address to the graduating class of the Yale Law School on last Monday afternoon Mr. Bourke Cockran, among other things, said: "It is not impossible that twelve months hence the annexation of a part of the wall of China may be a burning political question.” It is hardly probable that there will be a question in this country of annexing a part of the territory of China in the near future. It is to the Interest of this country that the Chinese empire shall not be broken up. The ablest men in China are looking to the United States to prevent it from being broken up. Mr. John Barrett, former minister to Slam, In an Interview published on Monday last, said: "In re storing peace In China the United States should be the principal influence to de termine the future and fate of China. It is their influence only that can keep China from an impending break up. They must stand for the integrity of the Chinese empire. They have everything to lose and nothing to gain by its parti tion among the European Powers." No doubt our government will use all of its influence to have the integrity of the Chinese empire preserved. If it should be broken up, and its fragments taken possession of by European Powers, our commerce with China would be de pendent upon their policies. The United States are not seeking the commerce of only a part of China; they want the op portunity to get what they can of the commerce of the whole empire. It is well understood in China and Europe that the United States are not seeking Chinese territory. It is admitted that they desire nothing more than an equal chance with other nations to get a share of China’s commerce. Owing to their disinterested attitude they may be the most Important factor, after the present trouble is over, In bringing about a readjustment of the relations be tween China and the foreign governments whose treaty rights have been disre garded. The Georgia Teachers' Association be gan yesterday on Cumberland Island what will no doubt prove to be an interesting and instructive annual session of four days’ duration. These annual meetings are in reality summer normal schools, and the attendants upon them are always much benefited. Teachers from all parts of the state come together on the Island and exchange views respecting the best methods to be adopted in the school room; how to Increase their own efficiency and advance the morale of their charges. Meanwhile the change of air, scene and associations refreshes both mind and body, so that at the conclusion of the an nual meeting the teachers feel stronger and belter equipped for the duties ahead of them at the beginning of the next school term. The current Quigg controversy anent that omitted plank of the Republican platform recalls a soulful poem dashed off a year or two ago by the Hon White law Reid, editor of the New York Tri bune and former Minister to France, as follows: If I were Lemuel Ell Quigg, Ell Quigg, Eli Quigg; If 1 were Lemuel Ell Quigg I'll tell you what I'd do l’d crawl into a little hole, little hole, little hole; I'd crawl Into a little hole and pull the hole in, too! It seems, however, that Mr. Reid’s fac tion in New York politics is having some difficulty In putting Quigg Into a hole. Paris customs officials are regaling themselves with Havana cigars worth sixty cent* apiece in good American money; and the cigars did not cost the Frenchies a cent. The way of it Is this: A Chicago millionaire of the name of Leeds took a whole trunkful of the deli cious weeds over with him. He wanted to see the exposition, and he also wanted his own especial brand of cigars. Know ing lhat Frenchmen do not smoke or sell really choice cigars, he took several thou sand with him. But he forgot to declare them at the custonv house, and they wera seized and confiscated. Springfield (Mass.) Republican re calls that same years ago an eccentric English novelist, M. P. Shiel, wrote a bo>k called “The Yellow Danger.” In which he told how a great Chinese statr sman b - gun by embroiling the Western nations over the partition of the ancient empire. After England, France, Germany and Russia had exhausted themselves In war, the Chinese hordes swept from the East, and nearly annihilated the population of the Western world. The Chinese begin by cutting off cable communications; then they pelzed ail the foreigners in the coun try, embassadors included, and distributed them among the villages for tortuie and death in order to kindle the war spirit. “Fortunately,’* says the Republican, “China is not yet armed and organized, bin the time may come when the gha ily dream of the romancer may 1> too possi ble to be pleasant. The Chinese is com monly held to have neither conscience nor nerves nor mercy; familiarity with cruelty has made him callous, and human life he values no more than dirt. It will he an unfortunate day when the 4 of China follow ttife Japane.-e i r .to Mili tant civilization of the Western world.'* The Chicago Record, discussing Home body’s proposition to foster the • migra tion of negroes from the United States to the Hawaiian Islands, says: “Unfortu nately for the plan which contemplates transferring many negroes in a mass from the states to Hawaii, the native Hawaiians have an ineradicable dislike for them. Any attempt to unite natives and negroes in political or social life would meet with failure, and It is possible that the peace and prosperity of the islands would then really suffer.’’ It is a pity that this regard for race prejudice was not considered in Illinois and elsewhere in the North thirty odd years ago, when the ignorant blacks were forced as political equars upon the white men of the South. If the people of the North had been as considerate of their own countrymen—men of their own blood and bone—as this Chicago is of the Kanakas of the Sandwich Islands, much bad feeling and bloodshed would have bten averted. The most enthusiastic of the National Prohibitionists only claim that they will poll 300,000 votes in the national election. Their ticket will not carry a solitary precinct in the United States. Their canvass will be absolutely hopeless, nevertheless they will fight it out. They are in polities because of principle, and nothing else. One cannot help admiring their pluck, whatever one may think of their judgment. PERSON A 1,. —Among the letters advertised in a re cent catalogue of a Berlin bookseller are several written by Emperor Friedrich during the ninety-nine days of his reign. One of them gives expression to his aver sion to courtly ceremonies, and refers to various reasons why he should not be ex pected to attend the receptions given by ambassadors. The Countess Louise Erdody, death is reported from Vienna, was more generally known as the “Latin Lady.” Her great aim in life was to see Latin again the international medium of inter course and correspondence. In her own writings she always used this language, ivhich she had mastered to a wonderful degree. Her hobby brought her indeed to destitution, and she died in extreme poverty in a miserable hovel. For its sake she neglected the management of her estates, and became involved in a lawsuit w'hich lasted thirty years, and brought about her ruin. BRIGHT HITS. —His Luck.—She—“Two weeks seems such a short vacation.” He—“ That de pends on where you spend it. I struck a place where it seemed long.”—Puck. —Jack.—“Well, whatever the summer girl may be, there Is one thing she is not.” Will.—“ What’s that?” Jack—" She is not contagious.” Will—“How* do you mean?” Jack—“ You can’t catch her.” —Detroit Free Press. —lt Has Various Seats.—“ What’s the new from the seat of war?” she asked at the breakfast table. He looked up from his paper in surprise. “Please specify,” he said. “Do you refer to China, St. Louis, South Africa, Philadelphia or the Philippines?’’—Chicago Evening Post. —Drawing tho Line —“I suppose you feel sure of your ground in the coming cam paign?” “I should say so,” artswered Senator Sorghum. “I think I may say without boasting that I have enough laid by to hold my own without mortgaging any real estate.”—Washington Star. CURRENT COMMENT. The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)* soys: "The making of the Republican platform was so bungled by the bosses that a quar rel has arisen among them as to which particular boss or sub-boss shall be sad dled with the blame. Tho reading of the platform and its adoption by the conven tion without debate, criticism or demur was, like the naming of the candidate, a merely formal function. The convention was in no wise a deliberative body, and is therefore not accountable for any hitch or omission. Ii is suggested that In his letter of acceptance the President shall so amplify the scope of the piatform as to rectify the blunders of its makers, partic ularly in respect of the question whether or not the con.-tltution goes along with the flag and the sovereignty of the,United States in our newly acquired territory. The Chattanooga Times (Dem.) says: “We think the. phio man is ‘off’ n trifle, when he attributes the ‘swiping’ out of the resolution to justify colonialism, to Guigg. The Hon. Cushman K. Davis, chairman of the Senate Foreign Commit tee. was there or thereabout, when the final touches wet e being put on the string of juggles called the platform, and the senator is a little weak on the imperial question. He plainly showed that he did not approve, of the Porto Rican taxa tion clauses put into the scheme of gov ernment for that Island, and he has sharply qucstione4l the irie<r*>nsible power of Congress over territory acquired by treaty annexation, by purchase or by con quest.” The Baltimore Bun (Dem.) says: “Iron and steel prices fell considerably during the past month, yet the American Tin plate Company still keeps its prices at the highest notch permitted by the Ding ley tariff. Its raw material is cheaper, but the consuming public does iot get any benefit from that fact. At the same time the company refuse# to concede the higher rates of wages asked by tinplate workers. This i* the kind of tariff-fos tered trust that deserves all the. odium It gets. Its monopoly Is worked for all it is worth, at the cost of the canning inter ests of this and other states, to sny noth ing of the users of tinware all over the United States.” The Nashville American (Dem.) says: “The candidate for Vice President should be selected with a regard to the platform, and until that 1# drafted all booms should bt held in check.” Women nt the Poker Table. “Come up to the house, Ja k. to-night,” said the first man, according to the New Ygrk Tribune. “We are going to have a little j>ok?r r>arty—and be sure to bring your wife. My wife plays, and we ll have a gcod time.” t “Thanks awfully, old man, but you will have to excuse me.” “Why, what’s tne maiter?” "To be frank with you. I have played my last game of poker with a woman.” ‘ That's It, <h? You ate one of those fel lows whose gallantry won’t permit a wo man in the game to lose. Weil, I have passed that stage. 1 have played wdth them too often. And then, do you know, the women as a rule are far better losers than the men?’’ “it isn't that at all. It’s the fear, ground ed on costly experience, that I would go fiat broke if I played against the dear creatures.” “Oh, you are joking.” ‘Wot at all. I won’t play any more with women, int xicafed individuals or novices. You cannot form the s ightest idea of what any of them is going to do next, and you can get no line on their play. They are all bad enough, but the women are the worst of all. I got in>o a game in which there was a woman playing the o'hcr night, and after it was over I vow ed that it would be my last. She was one of those women who keep up an in cessant flow cf small talk all through the game. Her game went something like this: “ I love to play poker with friends, don’t you, dear?—is the pot opened?—as I was saying R.’s bonnets were just too lovely— cards, please—for anything, but the flowers were—l raise—too horrid —you raistj it again?—for anything—l could never undersiand why' Mr. Gillette, in Sherlock—what, raised again?—Ho’mes —why, this is getting to bo a—should get caught in such a cellar trap—plot—it will take all my chips to raise it again, but I will have to do it’—•— “I had b en sitting quiefly all this t me with three aces in my hand. In the draw* 1 caught a pair of fours, so you can im agine I theught I had the. pot won. es pecially* as my fair friend had drawn three cards and all the other players had dropped. So 1 continued to see her play, and go her one better until 1 thought that it had gone far enough, and then I called, and she laid down four deuces. “There was anoiher jackpot soon after ward, and as I held a pat king high flush. 1 thought to myself. ‘lf she comes in I svi;l get s; me of my chips back.’ Well she came In quick enough—in fact, promptly raised me when I opened the pot. She continued her small talk and her play of the Jackpot. When I called her, she said: “ ‘Ace flush. What have you got?” “ ‘Me? I blurted out. ‘Why, I’ve got a king high flush. But how did you get a flush? You raised me before the draw and then drew' two cards.’ “ ‘Yes, I had a puir of aces,* she re plied, ‘but when you stood pat I broke them and drew to a three-card flush, drawing the six and ten spot of clubs. Wasn’t it beautiful?” “ ‘lt certainly was.’ I replied, but in wardly* I was kicking myself all over for playing with irresponsible creatures who draw to three-card flushes. I got out of the game as soon as I could, and that ends my pektr wdth women.” Took Him for nil Insane Man. It is a difficult job to suppress the the atrical pass fiend, says the Utica Ob server. Tim Murphy, the comedian, says it can’t be done. Last spring, when Mr. Murphy was playing “The Carpetbagger” in an interior town, a hotel waiter asked him for two “complimentaries,” and as the actor’s generosity towards waiters, boot blacks an<l hotel employes is proverbial, he received them. The recipient lost no time in selling the passes to a drummer and pocketed $1 for his enterprise. A few weeks ago “The Carpetbagger” revisited ihe town, and the same waiter again ask ed for a ticket. This time he said one would do. “Do you want to see the play yourself?” inquired the elongated comedian. “Yes. fir, if you please.” “If I give you a pass will you use it yourself?” “You bet I will!” was the emphatic re ply. “Come here, then,” said the actor. Drawr ing a pencil from his pocket he wrote across the polished shirt of the waiter, ’Pass this man to-night—if he is sober,’ and dated the line. ‘Show that at the box office window,” he added, “and they will give you a seat coupon.” At 8 o’clock the waiter presented him self at the box office window, and point ing'toward nis wishbone inquired, “Is this ticket good?” “Certainly,” replied the ticket seller. “Give me a ebupon, please.” “All right, but lii have to punch tha< ticket it it is a ‘complimentary.’ ” “What, punch a whole through my shirt?” “Yes, sir, or else I must stamp it. Those my instructions.” For a moment the pass fiend hesitated; then he returned to the attack. “Go ahead,” he said. “But I’m afraid it will spoil your shirt,” This is purple ink and is indelible.” “I don’t care, I want to see the show.” A rubber stamp was pressed against the linen and the waiter approached the door, holding up the coupon for inspection. "Ticket, please; I can’t let you In on that,” politely remarked the doorkeeper. “Weil, here is my ticket,” replied the deadhead. “I’m wearirtg it to-night.” “I’m sorry, sir, but all tickets must go into the box so that we can count up the house.” “Thunderation!” ejaculated the pass fiend. “Do you really mean it?” “Y’es, sir.” There was only a moment of wavering. The orchestra was playing the overture. He pulled off a "dicky,” handed it over and went in. “It was a darned good show,” he said as he came out. “but,” he added, sadly, “it cost me 15 cents after all.” He Went on Hlx Pax*. North American Indians always treated wkh great kindness the insane and the feeble-minded, believing that they would be punished for any injury to persons so unfortunate, says the Youth's Companion. Oen. Strong tells how this belief of the Indians enabled Prof. Hayden of the Unit ed States Geological Survey to escape from a dangerous predicament. One day. after having filled his saddle-hags and pockets with pieces of various kinds cf rock, the professor found that he had wandered far from his party and started in search of them. Seeing some men on horseback and supinrslng that they were his friends,' he rode toward them, but, to his horror, discovered that they were Indians. Knowing' that he was in the country ®f hostlles ho turned his horse and attempt ed to escape. lint his saddle-bags and every pocket were full to overflowing, as was also the tin box containing bugs and Insects which hung at his side. Thus h.mdlcajiped he made but poor headway. The Indians soon overtook him, and iti sign language ordered him to dismount They proceeded at once to take an in spection of his possessions. He had noth ing with which to defend himself, his out fit being a pocket-knife, hammer, chisel and watch. These they took, and then began to plunge their hands into his po-k --bringing them out filled with the rock fpeoim^na. Again and again they did this, until pockets, pouch and saddle-bags were all emptied. As the pile of stones Increased upon (he ground beside him the Indians burst Into loud laughter. Finally they oitened the tin box, and when they saw nothing in that but bugs and other insec'x they rjulckly closed It. and. lo.k'ng at one another, ami then very closely at Prof Hayden they touched their ‘ and made the sign signifying crazy. Then hey gave back all his things, even pick ing up the specimens and. replacing th-m carefully In his pookets.pcuch and saddle hags, and In the sign language told him to mount his horse and go on. ITEMS OF INTEREST. —An association of Chic gj l a-helois ns been formed to establish a home of this description: “Home should mean a nice, neat and comfortably furnished flat or house, which a man can cell his own, at least for the time being, where he can make a racket if he desires without being afraid of disturbing anybody else, and where he can throw* ofT collars, cuffs and shoes, end stick his feet on the parlor table without shocking a lot of 6illy prudes.” —An interesting engineering problem is being discussed in Pittsburg, Pa., wher# it is proposed to move the Carnegie Li brary, a structure weighing about 58,000 tons, a distance of 1,000 feet. The li brary is a steel and cne building, 392 feet in length by 148 feet In width, and three stories high. The director of pub lic works of the city of Pttsburg believes that H could be raised on jacks and plac ed on car trucks which would run on rails. In the trip to the new site a ravine 100 feet in depth and JOO feet in width must be crossed, and this would either have to be filled or a timber crossw’ork erected. Improvements being made about the v present location, at the entrance of- Sehenley Pftrk, will take away from the appearance of the building, so its remo val to anew location is being considered. —“Are women’s necks growing longer?” asks the Philadelphia Record. “A well known Philadelphia artist says they are, and he doesn’t attribute it to the custom vulgarly known as rubbernecking, either. He says the high collar is responsible for it. All the life studies and portraits of women seen at students’ exhibits demon strate this. ‘I know a man,’ he said yes terday, ‘who took a tape measure to the last exhibit at the Academy of Fine Arts and succeeded in getting data for a com parison cf women’s necks painted tea years ago, five years ago and at the present time. He claims that the average feminine neck has become elongated to the extent of nearly an Inch during the last five years. Remember, this is his claim, not mine, although it doesn’t seem altogether unreasonable when you come to think of it.” —When gold is ui-ed for the purpose of beating, other metals are mixed with it to give it the desired color. The propor tions for the shades most frequently used are as follows: Red, 18 grains of copper to each ounce of gold; pale gold, 5 penny weights of silver; deep or medium, 12 grains of silver and 12 grains of copper; the gold Is melted with the requisite amount of alloy in a clay crucible, the temperature being raised about the fusing point in order to make the resuPing metal more malleable. The alloy, after being cast and cooled, is rolled and an nealed, rolling and annealing taking place for six successive times. Asa result of the continued roiling the piece of metal increases In length, and at the conclusion of this process the original Ingot has be come about twenty yards in length and os thick as a sheet of note paper. It then is cut Into small pieces and goes through the beating process. —An engineering novelty is an armored tradtion train for use in South Africa. The train consists of traction engine, three armored trucks, and two howitzers. The engine has all its working parts boxed in w ith protective plates which are made one foiirth of an inch thick of a special nickel steel containing a little chromium and hardened by a secret process. The engi neer has a slit through which he looks out, and the plates are proof to Mauser bullets. The train is designed- to carry the howitzers and their ammunition into the interior of the country, and each wag on will hold about 12,000 pounds of the latter. In the engine itself all the im proved features discovered in an extensive experience in South Africa have been in corporated. The cars or w*agons can carry the howitzers, and are provided with skids on which they can be rolled inside, though the guns will usually be attached to the rear wugon and dragged tandem. —Some important photographs of the planet Eros w*ere made in- April at the Arequipa station of the Harvard College observatory by Dr. Dellsh Stewart, with the Bruce telescope. An adjacent star was followed In an eyepiece, and by means of a micrometer screw the- pho tographic plate was moved with regard to it by an amount and in a direction equal to the morion of Eros, giving a negative where the planet appeared as a point and the stars as trails. The ap proximate positions were then computed, and the negative sent to Cambridge for further study. These are said to be the first observations of Eros since its con junction with the sun. and a month or so later a second series ew eramJurer N..t later a second series were made. At Denver Prof. H. A. Howe, with the 20- inch refractor of the Chamberlain obser vatory, was able to make visual observa tions on the evening of May 27. and these are believed to be the first visual obser vations of the planet since its conjunction with the sun. Efforts were made by the Harvard astronomers at Cambridge. Mass., to observe Eros both visually and photographically, but they were not suc cessful, owing to the twilight. —At Rio Janeiro. Brazil, remarkable operations have been performed on Rosa lia and Maria, two sisters, who were born Joined together. The sisters are doing well. Their case resembles that of the fa mous Siamese twins, but modern surgery will give them separate life. Rosalia and Maria, the two little Brazilian children who. but for the interposition of modern science, would have hpd to live joined to each other, were about 10 years old. Their parents last winter determined to reek the aid of surgeons, and to that end took the twine to the Hospital Mircoacordia, Rio Janeiro, where they were put in the care of Dr. Alvara Romos. The two were joined In manner similar to the Siam se twins, only still more closely. Use of the X-ray developed the fact that the seventh ribs were, united by a solid osseous forma tion, and that there was but one liver lor the two. It was not difficult to sever the flesh and bone, but, when it came to di viding the liver, Dr. Romos hesitated. Nevertheless, there have been cases where part of a diseased liver has been removed, so the physician was encourage 1 to make the attempt. The first part of the operation was completed tarly in the winter, when the ribs were cut apart. The shock was so great to the patients that it was deemed necessary to wait for a tltn.- before completing the separation. -The crowning piece of good fortune in the excavations which have for years bee.i carried on at Cornlth, Greece, by the American School of Archaeology has been attained. The only fountain in the Agora (market place), mentioned by Pausanlat, wax found absolutely intaci, with the bronze lions' heads, from which water once flowed, still In their places in the wall. In pushing Into the Agora to the west of the Propylaea there nppeared in great confusion parts of a large building a massive architrave, blocks with facet rkhly carved with various ornamentation, cornice blocks to match, and along with them a series of colossal statues, male an i fernnls, fortunately—and the fact Is excep tloanl—with their heads. These were fol lowed by some line reliefs, both Greeß on I Roman, particularly a fine head of Ari adne, in a state of perfect preservation, as If it had Just come from the sculptor’s hands. Other buildings adjacent (o the Agora have been partially or wholly laid bare, and the work Is still In progiees but the crowning result of this year's work will doubtless be this fountain, the top of which is the base on which once stood a bronze Poseidon, with a dolphin a' his feet, spouting out water. The probabi lty is growing that the massive architectural blocks and colossal statues fell from the Propylaea, a reconstruction of which will probably be possible. The Quakers Are Honest People. tThe Quaker Herl Tonic is not only a blood purifier, but a Blood maker (or Pale, Weak and De bilitated paopie who . have not strength nor blood It acts as a tonic, it regulates digestion, cures dys pepsia and lends strength and ton* to NiA 'ilV.t ,he nervous system. It Is a medicine for weak women. 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