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4 ibc learning ffeto#. tlcrolug w BaUdl. c , Sanunsh, Uiv TBIBSD.IY, JUKE 2, 191 K. Registered at the Postofflce in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and Is served to eubsoribers in tho city, or sent by mall, at 70c a month. $4.00 tor aix months, and $8 Ob (or one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, Si* timee a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1 60; six months $3.00; one year, JSOCi. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mall, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by posts! order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mall at risk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusejnents and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square In depth— is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING NBIVS to either residence or place of business may be 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 Tark Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. I>DEX TO m ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Savannah Lodge No, IS3, B. P. O. Elks; Isle of Hope Yacht Club. Special Notloea—Dividend, the Chatham Rank; Dividend. Notice, The CitUens Rank of Savannah; Eight Beautiful Lots. C. H. Dorsett; National Mattress and Ren ovating Company; Levan's Table d‘ Hole, Business Notices—Harvard Pure Beer, Ale and Porter; E. & W. Laundry; Dia mond B. Hants, The S, W. Branch Com pany; The Pretty Little Clocks, Hunter ft Tan Keuren; Hot Weather Menu at the Big Store—B. H. Levy & Bro. Legal Notice*—Notice to Debtors end Creditors Estate Herman J. Lentz, de ceased. Tom Keene a Satisfying Cigar—J Plnkussotm ft Cos., distributor*. No Let-Up on Slaughtering Prices—Foye ft Morrison. Stoves—Wickless Blue Flame Oil Stoves. Black Velvet Ribbons —At the Bee-Hive. A Waist Exciter—B. 11. Levy & Bro. Whlakey—Hunter Baltimore Rye Whis key. Grape Nuts—Postum Cereal Company. Medical—Lydia Plnkhatn's Vegetable nils; World’s Dispensary Preparations; Castorla; Dr. Hathaway Company; Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Tutt’s Pills; S. S. S.; Bar- Bet.. Cheep Column Advertise men ts Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; ITa Sale; Lost; Personal; MAecellanoua The Weather. The Indications for Georgia to-day ere tor showers, with warmer weather In northwest portion, and brisk southerly winds; and for h>astern Florida, ahowers, with brisk south to southeast winds. With wars to tha right and to the left, Volleying and thundering, and with poll tiolans everywhere making tha welkin ring, tha Charleston News and Courier contlnuea plaotdly to talk of tire Weather. The coloring matte! in the Philadelphia convention was chiefly black. In the Xausas City convention the black will be conspicuous tor Its absence; but there Will be a touch of color, however, Blnce Indians and Hawaiian* will be in attend ance. There will be a good deal of red paint used, too, by others then the In dians. Many of New York’s best trees along tbe streets that will be traversed by the underground rapid transit system will have to be sacrificed. It was hoped that they could be saved by transplanting, but the landscape gardener of the depart ment of parks says there will not be soil enough between .the pavement and the top of the tunnel to sustain tha trees. The offer of thts government of thirty pesos each for rifles turned !n by the Filipino Insurgents ought to Start a brisk trade in smuggling obsolete pieces Into the Islands. Thirty psos are equal to about sls of American money—a very good price for rifles that have been dis carded by the great Powers and sold to dealers In second-hand arms for a song. Hx-Oov. Taylor of Kentucky is acting very queerty for an innocent man. He has shaved off his moustache and Is running from place to place accompanied by a bodyguard. Why doesn't he go home and fac* his accusers and secure vindica tion. if he had nothlnr to do with the Goebel plot? The suggestion that he could Dot gvi Juatk-s is a slander upon the courts of Kentucky. The moat disgusted men in New York are Torn Sharkey and those who backed him in his light with Rulilln. So great • favorite was Sharkey that money was bet on him at odds of two o one. Never theless the sailor was hammered Into un consciousness by his underestimated com petitor. There is some Hmusement In see ing the betting "talent" get the short end of the rope sometimes. Mr. Ileneker, a member of the British palliament. advances anew argument in favor of government ownership of cable lines between Great Britain and the Unit ed States. He says that If talk were cheeper between the two countries there wotihl be fewer International misunder standings. He thinks a tariff of about ! cents per word would facilitate conversa tion and strengthen friendship between England nod America. Last Sunday morning tha ClUcago Tlmes-Heruld printed on its first page a Washington dispatch In which It waa al leged. on he authority of a "well-known New York man," that Mr. Qulgg of the Republican platform committee, received a fee of $6,000 for substituting the word "Isthmian" for "Nicaraguan" In the plank of the platform relating to the tnterocean lc canal. Mr. Qulgg baa brought suit again—! the paper tor libel, placing bla 'fclhagv* at Jiuo.wo. WHY THE JOI TH ASD WEST WA NT HILL. It is somewhat remarkable that the de mand for the nomination of former Sen ator HU! for View President on the ticket with Mr. Bryan, should coma from the South end West, particularly the South. Not only is there a strong sentiment In the South for Mr. Hill, but also for fser tner Senator Gorman. In an interview the other day. Senator Money of Mississippi, said that be favored the nomination of Mr. Gorman for Vice President, and he declared that many others in the South favored him. Mr. Hill and Mr. Gorman are against the 16 to 1 idea. Why Is it then that these two men have a strong following In the South for the nomination for the vice presidency? There are probably two reasons. One, that the South is particularly anxious to be victorious in the election, arid it be lieves that the Democracy must carry New York In order to elect its ticket. It thinks that either Mr. Hill or Mr. Gor man would help the ticket greatly in both New York and Maryland. Another reason probably is, that the sentiment in favor of the 16 to 1 idea, is not as strong now as it was four years ago. Silver has lost ground to such an extent that the proposition to nominate an opponent of it for Vice President meets with littie opposition. Besides, it is well understood that there is sinail chance of disturbing the gold standard legislation during the next four years. The South therefore may consider it poor politics to cling to on issue that keeps the Democrats from uniting, when that issue cannot be made effective even if the Democratic party is successful. The fact lhat Mr. Hill and Mr. Gorman hove both said that they would not ac cept the nomination for Vice President under any circumstances, is not regarded as a positive refusal. Gov, Roosevelt, several months before the meeting of the Republican National Convention, declared that i) would not accept the nomination for Vice President, and yet he Is the nom inee of hie party for that position. If the Democratic party shows beyond a doubt that it wants Mr. HIM on the ticket, the chances are that he will accept the nomi nation for Vice President if it is made with anything like unanimity. The fact that Mr. Croker is understood to be against Mr. Hill, does not count for much. Mr. Croker Is not strong anywhere outside of New York City. Mr. Hill has friends in about every state. From pres ent Indications he will rind a movement in hi favor on his arrival In Kansas City that Is much beyond his expectations. CO 1,. MUTKR RENOMINATED. The renomlnallon of Col. Lester to rep resent the First district in Congress means, of course, his re-election. He has served the district well and faithfully for a long time. He will have served it twelve years when he shall have complet ed his present term. Col. Lester’s hold on his constituents consists in the fact that he looks care fully after their interests. In a general way he knows what they want, and to special matters they call his attention with a feeling that nothing will be left undone to comply with their requests. Col. Lester has made a place for him self in Congress which gives him great Influence. He is placed on the meet im portant committees, and he can always depend upon getting what he wonts for his district because of his popularity with members. In h! acceptance of the nomination yesterday he struck the keynote of the presidential campaign when he said that he believed that this government should preserve what liberty we have and not try to take away the liberties of others. There Is no doubt that the great issue In the presidential campaign will be im perialism. The Democratic party Is against waisting the blood and treasure of the nation In bringing about a condi tion of affairs which means empire. Mr. Cleveland, a few days ago in an inter view, said: “I believe that the United States cannot afford to be a baby empire, and that it Is high time to wake up and pull out of the imperial business.” There la every to think that the dominant forces in the Republican party are ready to develop the "baby empire" that has been brought into existence by the Philippine policy of that party. The “baby empire" will be nursed into lVisty greatness as the infant Industries have been fostered Into the mighty trusts if that party has Its way. Now is the time to give the empire business a blow from which It will not recover. Col. Lester, from his place In Congress, Is ready and willing to help deliver the blow. They have "Boxers" in Boston also; Boston, the Athens of America, where they profess to be devoted to the doctrine of the equality of all men, without regard (o race or previous condition. A Chlnn mun died ii Boston the other day, and hts fellowcountrymen turned out to honor him at his funeral. The Chinese were or derly. They formed a procession and started to march to the grave, when they were set upon and stoned and beaten by a mob of Boston men and boys. The out rage was without the slightest excuse, and no doubt grew out of race prejudice pure and simple. "Foreign devils” are quite as unpopular in Bcston as they are In Tien TMn. In view of the course of event*, it seems that it would be no more than right for the Chinese govern ment to send a warship or two 10 Boston and land marines to put down the "Box ers" and protect Chinese lives and ptop eri y. Judge McAuley of Denver Is In favor of regulating the length of women's skirls by law. He says that long skirts gather disease germs from the streets and disseminate them in households. The Judge Is no doubt right, except with re spect to the need of a regulating law. There Is no common sense In having skirts to sweep the streets, as they do at present. Nevertheless, whatever "fash ion” dictates, that will the women do. without any regard for hygiene or com mon sense. The evolutions of "fashion" and woman’s devotion to the mode are Inscrutable. There were some fifty-flve lives lost In railway wrecks in this country last Sat urday and Sunday. The wreck near Mc- Donough was the most aerious that has occurred In many years. Yet the Pitts burg Dispatch says that, numerous as the deaths were, mors than four times as many prauiis ware killed last year while tr<*ma*ln,T on tracks in Allegheny count., alone.. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY; JUNE 28. 1900. THEY WILL TRY AGAI.V The Prohibitionists are not dlthearienej by tho small vote they polled liv the last presidential election, and in previous pres idential elections. They will meet in na tional convention to-day for the purpose of making a platform and a ticket. It is doubtful If either of the great par ties is as genuinely in earnest as the Pro hibitionist party. It Is so certain that it is right that its members are willing to make all soils of sacrifices for its princi ples. It is strange that they do not be come convinced that, owing to the fact that their party does not grow, there must be something wrong with the prohibition doctrine. Otherwise the party ought to be able to poll thousands of votes where it polls only hundreds. The truth is probably that the people are convinced that no good could bo ac complished by a general prohibition law until the people become educated against the free use of intoxicants. There are vastly more opponents of the liquor traffic than there are Prohibitionists. The great majority of them will be Prohibitionists just os soon as they are satisfied that prohibitory laws would be a good thing for society and the country. A wonderful change has taken place in the drinking habits of the people. There is not near so much drinking of strong liquors as there was a half a century ago. Whiskey and wines are not kept on the sideboard to anywhere near as great an extent now as then. Indeed, it is the ex ception rather than the rule that intoxi cants are offered to guests In the homes of any class of the people. Tho Prohibitionists, therefore, while they are not making any progress towards electing a President of the United States, are doubtless doing good work in educa ting the people against the drink habit. Among tiiose mentioned, for the presi dential nomination are John G. Woolley and Hale Johnson of Illinois; Rev. Dr. S. C. Swallow of Pennsylvania, and Walter B. Hill of Georgia. The list of candidates for the vice presidency is larger than lhat for (he presidency. The inierest in the convention is very slight. THE CHINESE MINISTER'S PROPOSI TION. I is probable that the Chinese minister at Washington was very much disappoint ed when the President refused to agree to his proposition that American troops Should cease operations on Chinese soli until LI Hung Chang could reach Pekin and bring about a cessation of the dis orders. The reason the proposition could not be agreed to was evident. There was no assurance that Li Hung Chang could put a slop to the disorders after he had reached the Chinese capital. Our troops had been landed upon Chinese soil for one purpose only, and that was to protect the lives and property of American citizens. It was Important that there should be no more delay of our military forces in reach ing the points of danger than was abso lutely necessary. A delay of a day might result in the loss of many lives of Ameri can residents. Wilt- I her a similar proposition was mad to other foreign governments was not stated in the dispatches. It is probable that the Chinese leaders thought that if the United States government agreed to the proposed armistice the other govern ments would follow its example. Li Hung Chang has apparently implicit confidence In our government. In fact, he said as much a day or two ago. He has placed himself under the protection of the Ameri can troops in the province in which he is at present. The fact that the Americans are not seeking Chinese teriitoiy makes the Chinese disposed io trust the United States. They are afraid that the Euro pean Powers are influenced wholly by sel fish motives. They believe their purpose is to break up the Chinese empire. The Chinese Minister expected probably that his proposition would be refused. If he could have given assurance that Li Hung Chang had sufficient power to re store order as soon as he reached Pekin it is probable that his proposition for what was really an armistice, would have been viewed with mere favor. The fact that it was refused will not be regarded by leading men of China as an act of hostility. They understand that what was asked was practically impossible. TROUBLE AMONG THE ALLIED FORCES. Already there Is ill feeling among the allied forces in China. The English troops do not like being commanded by Russian oUlcers and Russian troops object to be ing commanded by English officers. No doubt the German, American and French troops will protest if they have not done so already, against being under the com mand of any but officers belonging to their respective services. If the effort to rescue foreigners in China is a prolonged one it is almost cer tain that Jealousies will crop out be tween the soldiers of the different na tions, and that the efficiency of the allied army will thus be greatly lessened. Ac cording to the dispatches the Russian soldiers have been acting with great cruelty. They have been shooting down unarmed natives without any apparent cause. The result of such action has been to greatly inflame the people, not only against the Russians, but also against the soldiers of the other Powers whose troops are engaged In the rescue work. Thus far there have been no Indica tions of any other purpose on the part of the allied armies than to rescue the Im perilled foreigners. It will not be sur prising, however, If It soon appears that one or more of the Powers of Europe In tend to enter upon a policy that will not have the approval of the others. In that event troublous times in China may be looked for. No doubt the policy of our government thus far is generally approved, though the claim is made that the President has exceeded his constitutional authority. It could hardly do otherwise, however, than take prompt steps for the protection of the lives and property of American resi dents In China, but after that work has been accomplished It would be severely condemned by the peopte if it should join the other Powers In an effort to over throw the Chinese empire with the view of grabbing a portion of Chinese terri tory. In fact. It would have difficulty In defending itself if It should employ (he army or navy In assisting the Chinese to preserve the Integrity of the empire. The people do not want the government to be come Involved In any way in political matters In China. The Sulzcr boom Is the first to arrive upon the ground at Kansas City. It will be remembered that the Woodruff boom was the first to put in an appearance at Phil -adalphla. Whether Gov, Roosevelt should or should not resign the governorship of New York depends entirely upon how ho conduces himself with respect to that office and his candidacy for the vice presidency. If he devotes his attention to the guber natorial office as Mr. Cleveland did in there is no good reason why lie should not follow the precedent made by that gentleman. Air. Cleveland left Al bany only three or four times duiing the campaign, and then only for a day or two at a lime. Hut should Gov. Roose velt go campaigning over (he country 10 the neglect of his duties at Albany, man ifestly it would be proper for him to resign. In the constitution of the of Ore gon there is a section which forbids “any free negro or mulatto to come, reside or be within the state, or to hold any real estate, or to make any contract, or main tain any suit therein.” An amendment to repeal that section was voted upon in the recent election. The Republican party carried the state by 10,000 majority. And the repealing amendment was defeated! the negro continues to be ostra cised in Oregon, by the grace of the vot ers of the Republican party. President Hill of the Great Northern Railroad, looking at the matter from the dcllars-and-eents point of view, says the war in China will prove a “great bless ing,” as it will result in opening up the Oriental markets much more quickly and thoroughly than could be done by “nat ural processes,” and therefore creating a demand for American manufactures. Mr. Hill’s railroad and steamship com panies would, of course, share In the pros perity to follow such opening up. Harvard is somewhat handicapped for the race to-day, in the fact that a sub stitute will row in the place of Capt. Hig ginson, who suffered an accident the oth er day. The forecast is that Yale will win, though the “sub” is said to be a good, strong man. personal. —At the Italian elections there will be some strange parliamentaiy. candidates. Mascagni, the composer, is going to xun at Pesaro, and thinks he will be elected. He intends- to join D’Annunzio in forming a group of “Intellectuals” in the Legisla ture. At Fermo it is proposed to put up EJrmete Novell!, the actor. —An amusing story is told of Gen. de Cttfllifet. One day in the corridors of the Chamber of Deputies he was talking to a friend, when he suddenly heard cries from (he chamber of “Assassin! Assas sin!” With a laugh he said, to his friend, “They are calling for me,” and with per fect calm he entered and called at the top of his voice, “Voila! Voila!” —The present Lord Chancellor of Eng land has come in for a rare piece of good luck. According to historical us age, anew great seal is minted when anew sovereign comes to the throne, the old one becoming the property of the Lord Chancellor of the day. It has, how ever, come 10 pass among other results of the Queen’s long reign that the great seal is so worn out as to necessitate a now one. The order for it was given some time ago. and the wo-k is now com pleted. Thus, for the first time in more than three-score years a great seal, with all the historical associations connected with U, reverts to tho ownership of a private individual. BRIGHT BITS. —Not a Free Agent.—“ Charlie, do you think of marrying a little woman or a big woman?” “Well, Dave, you don’t know a thing •bout human nature! How can I tell? It depends entirely on what kind of a woman takes a fancy to me.”—De troit Free Press. —H!s Little Joke.—ln wandering near the sea rocks at St. Helena Gen. Cronje picked up a piece of broken glass. “What is this?” inquired the General. “It looks like a piece of lamp shade,” responded his wife. “H’m! perhaps it is the shade of Napoleon!” One hour later the English guards saw the joke and grinned.—Chi cago News. —“This is a terrible oversight of yours,” growled the city editor to the new re porter. “How’s that?” asked the new’ re porter, in tones that indicated a glad ness over having committed his terrible oversight for that day. “In your story of the speech of the Hon. Win D. Jam mer at (he convention, you do not say tint he sounded the keynote of the cam paign.”—Baltimore American. CIHItENT COMMENT. The New York Commercial (Ind.) says: “His Excellency Wu Ting- Fang, Chinese Minister at Washington,, has made a good many public addresses in the United States, more, perhaps, than any other for eign minister. The one topic that he never failed to touch upon was the unfriendly al titude of the United Slates government toward the Chinese. It came to be recog nised us a fad of the Chinaman. The Minister’s contention was that China was friendly toward all peoples, welcomed them, and all that, to Its great country, end therefore the United States was re turning evil for good. Since the Chinese began killing all the foreigners they could lay their hands on, according to report, the Hon. Wu has said nothing on this favorite topic.” The Richmond Dispatch (Dem.) says: "We guess that Mr. Bryan would like to see our National Committee guided by a younger and a livelier man than Mr. Jones. Our chairman is a fine old gentle man. and In some respects, may be a lit tle more progressive than Mr. Bryan him self, but he can hardly be called a hustler. \\ hether there is to be a change In the chairmanship or not we do not know, but we dure say Mr. Jones will not stand in the way when it Is apparent to the party that'a better man for the position can be secured." The Charleston Post (Dem.) says: "The Democrats of Kentucky have verj" wisely determined to modify the infamous Goebel election law that has brought such shame and suffering to Kentucky and caused the death of Its author. The Re publicans, had they played their part properly, oould have accomplished this reform and scored a lasting triumph, hut they rushed into outlawry and gave the some to their opiwnents. who have played every turn of It since with a masterful hand.” The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) flays: "Should the republic become involved deeply in the trouble In China the antici pated JTiUWO.OOU surplus revenue for the current fiscal year would be subjected to a shrinkage process severe enough to ren der It practically Invisible. Nations with Imperial longings accumulate debts, not surplus revenue.” The Norfolk (Vs.) Landmark (Dem.) says: "We In the United States cannot afford to lough very heartily at the witti cism about Great Britain’s being unable to show her teeih in China beciuse they arc In South Africa. Our teeth are in the Philippines and Congress failed to make Utrovlsiou tor a new sat.’* Hill Mye and Herrmann. When Bill Nye, in collaboration with James Whitcomb Riley, was touring the country as a lecturer, says Success, he stopped at a well-known Chicago hostelry, one evening, and was escorted to a place in the big dining room directly across the (able from a dark gentleman, with heavy black mustachios and a Mephistophelian goatee. Nye recognized his vis-a-vis as Herrman, the magician, but. beyond a quizzical stare, gave no sign that he knew the eminent prestidigitator. Herrmann was very well aware that the bald man opposite to him was Bill Nye, but did not indicate his recognition by word or manner. Herrmann had, in fact, prepared a little surprise for the humorist, and several.others seated at (he table were in the secret. Nye was about to lance a leaf from his sa!3d when he espied, lying beneath it, a superb and seintiliant diamond, set in a very fine gold ring. Without showing the least surprise, he lifted the ring from the salad bowl, slipped it on his finger, con scious all the while that every eye was upon him. and, turning to Riley, who sat next to him, remarked, with his dry, ini mitable drawl: “Strange how careless I am getting to be in my old age, James. I am forever leaving my jewels in unlikely places.” Herrmann was dumfounded at the sud den manner in which his trick had mis carried, but he was destined for a still greater shock, for, when the darky waiter who presided over the table brought on the next course, Nye turned to him and, soberly handing him the gem-set ring, said: “You are a very good waiter, Joe.” “Yes, sah. I guess I Is, sah.” “And you always will be a real good waiter, Joe?” “Yes, sah. I’m bound ter do ma best, sah.” “I believe you. Joe, I believe you; and, as an evidence of my faith in you I want you to accept this little trifle. Wear it, and always remember the man who most appreciated your services.” The darkey’s eyes bulged. Herrmann's fork fell to the floor, and he tugged at his great mustachios, but was far too clever to cut in w r ith an explanation at suc h an inopportune moment. There-were half-suppressed titters all around the beard during the rest of the meal, which the professor of occult art did not appear to enjoy. At a late hour that night Herr mann was heard in loud argument with the dusky recipient of the diamond ring, trying, in two languages, to convince him that it was all a joke on the part of Air. Nye. Finally, after disbursing a (ip of morel than customary liberality, Herr mann got back his ring. He afterward vowed the stone alone was worth $2 000, and that Bill Nye’s nonchalant presenta tion of it to a grinning menial had spoil ed a whole evening's performance in legerdemain. Grand mother’ll Difficulty. She is a rich and dressy grandmother who came over from Chicago to attend a social function given by her daughter re dding in Detroit, says the Detroit Free Prest?. There was quite a house party, and she declined to appear at dinner on the night of her arrival.. “Are you ill, mamma?” inquired the daughter. “No, never better in my life.” Then she said something in strict confidence. "Now, don’t try to argue me out of it. I’m just as proud as I was forty years*ago. Can’t littie Charles slip down to the telegraph office with the message? I’ll not telephone it or trust to a messenger boy.” “Certainly,” and Charles was sent, af ter having entered a noisy protest. When dark came the old lady ventured down on the veranda and soon asked Charles if he had attended to that little errand. “Course I did. Missis; a game of ball, too, upon the Commons.” "I hope you didn’t read what grandma wrote?” from the mother. “Yep. I read it. 'Twasn’t sealed up. I laughed till I fell off my wheel.” “Charles!” “That’s what I did. Went flat on the pavement. But I can. remember every word of it.” “Look!” almost shrieked the grand mother, and the boy saw' a half dollar sparkling in in the electric light from across the Way. “I’ll take you,” he whooped, with his inherited sporting proclivities, mistaking her meaning. “It said: 'Send teeth. Upper bureau drawer, left-hand corner.’ ” Two of them led giandma up stairs. No Wonder Jim Went. An excited middle-aged lady bounced In to a suburban police station the other day and accosted the Inspector on duty, says Tit Bits. "Where’s my Jim?" she demanded. "Beg your pardon, madam—dog, pre sume?” said the officer. "Don’t you dare to presume nothing of the kind.” snapped the lady. "Dog, in deed! No, sir, husband—my husband. He’s missing, disappeared, decamped " "You don’t say so?” "Rut I’ll have you to understand that I do say so. young man. How dare you sit there and flatly contradict a rate payer?—leastways the lawful wife of one. I ll report you, sir. Do you hear that? I ll report you! Where’s my husband.?" "My dear madam " "How dare you call me your dear madam? Do you think that I came here to bo insulted? I tell my hueband has decamped, and you si* there like a dummy. What do you think of that?” "Well, madam,” responded the polite In spector, "I haven’t the pleasure of your husband's acquaintance, but I should Bay he Is a very wise man. Constable Blower, show this lady out!” Cook’s Lost Opportunity. Miss Maude Adame, whose real home. Sandy-garth, is set in the midst of the woods in an exceedingly rural part of Long Island, tells this story of herself and a somewhat distant neighbor, one bill Cook, of whom she buys cattle, and to whom the goes for all sorts of advice per taining to the management of her modest stock farm, says the Philadelphia Post. Oil the occasion of her first visit to Bill Cook, Bill knew no more of Miss Ad ams than her name, and when she ex pressed a desire tot a second-hand wagon that she happened to see in the yard, he lei her have it tor the price he would have charged any one else. A day or two after, when he was standing in the door of the blacksmith's shop. Miss Adams drove by in that identical wagon, and the blacksmith, who is a reader of the dally news, looked up from his anvil and re marked: "There goes a woman who made 1100.000 In six weeks Just by play-acting.’’ “And 1 let her have that good wagon for s3s!’’ groaned Pill Cook. Not Altogether Wrong. A mother was aseisting her little boy the other evening in the mastery of Ills geography lesson, says Tlt-Blts, and, com ing to the description of a desert, which formed pert of the lesson to be remember eel, she quoted the words of the text book to the effect that tt was a "barren tract." The little fellow repeated the descrip tive phrase after her, hut his air of m.vt tlflcalion showed that he hadn’t the slightest id< of the meaning conveyed by the group of words, and, the better to reach his youthful understanding, sho endeavored to simplify the description by defining it ns "a place where nothing would grow." The boy’s fare brightened with the light of awakened intelligence, and the mother, proud and expectant, put the question: "Now. Johnny, what Is a desert?" Pu s bold head," waa the prompt re sponse . —"How much did you pay for that horse?" asked the ice man. "Seventy five dollars a front foot,” answered the *eal cMate man.—lndianapolis Press. ITEMS OF INTEREST. —The house at Hull. Mass., which was once occupied by John Boyle O’Reilly, the poet, is to be purchased by a society or ganized for that purpose in Boston. A portion of the cottage is to be converted into a free library. —For the extraction of rubber from the rubber tree anew process consists in cut ting up the bark and roots and soaking in dilute sulphuric acid. This decomposes the woody portions without affecting the India rubber. In this way the rubber and bark and roots are separated. —ln Strasburg an engineer has invented a substitute for gutta percha. In ordinary temperatures the mass is hard like pitch, and while not being brittle is firm against pressure. It does not break when ham mered, even at the freezing point. Thin plates were subjected to the action of sea water with good results. —An extensive building has recently been opened in Leeds (England) to be de voted to the development of clorhworkerg* research. dyeing, etc. It is th£ intention of the Cloth workers’ company of London, that this college should become the loid ing and most complete example of a tex tile and dyeing school in the world. —New mines of lignite have been dis covered In Germany which are of consid erable importance; they are located at Quadrat, in the neighborhood of Cologne. A aeries of soundings has shown the pres ence of a compact mass of lignite from forty to fifty feet below the soil; the bed extends over several hundred acres. The extraction has commenced and at the present time about 600 tons of briquettes are made per day, these being used to ieplace coal. —The first section of the great Russian pipe line has been completed. The pipe runs parallel to tho Trans-Caucasian Rus sian state railway. The section just com pleted is 143 miles long. The pipe is of wrought iron, lap-welded, and the internal diameter is eight inches. It was made in Russia from native materials. There are three pumping stations with two pumps in each, only one being u.sed regularly, the other being kept a a reserve. It is expected that 416,275,200 gallons cf oil will be pumped per annum. —“Superstition exists among dogs. I am convinced,” says a woman who is par ticularly fond of animals, according to the New York Tribune, “for we once own ed a dog that was a cross between a re triever and a Gordon setter, and he a* ways ran away if he saw a box of matches. He simply could not endure to see the match ignited against the box. He seemed to think it uncanny. In the same way this dog always sneezed when he saw' tobacco smoke. I have ueen him with hie nose up against the closed win dow*. and if my brother, who was smoking in*dde, came near the glass and blew* out the smoke from hi% mouth to tease the dog, Bounder would sneeze at once sev eral times. It must have been an hys terical affection, as the smoke could not reach him.” —A Western paper is conducting a sym posium on the best way for mothers-in law to gain the affections of sons-In-law and daughters-in-law*. In point of fact, half the misery of life for mothers-in law* and stepmothers has been made by the weak minded humorist of the funny column, and the ocher half does not exist. Which may be an Hibernicism, but is certainly a truth. For every case in which the daughter-in-law* is not attach* ed to her husband’s moih r when they be come thoroughly acquainted, there are twenty where “grandma” or “Jack’s mother” is called on for sympathy and service as freely as her own mother, and with equal certainty of receiving both. Frequently it is the mother-in-law who suggests to her son that his wife is look ing t!red and needs a mon h in the coun try. As for sons-in-law, many a dear old woman has said of hers, “He has be n a son to me!” If the funny man can be suppressed there will be little trouble- In-law. —A new and very ingenious apparatus for testing some of the disputed points in the well-known production of micro scopic diamonds has be.n devised by Majorana. The old synthetic process con sists of embedding <he carbon In a mass of molten Iron, and then suddenly cooling the latter s> as to obtain an enormous internal pressure. Majorana places a charge of gunpowder in a very thick walled, strong steel cylinder, the lower end of which contains a piston, on which out side the cylinder is a piece of carbon, so placed that it lies in the path of an arc between two carbon poles. Beneath this piece of carbon is a heavy block of steel, with a small hole just the size of the piston rod, under which the carbon is fastened. An arc is formed between the carbons, until the small piece of carbon becomes white hoi. The gunpowder in thy cylinder above Is then exploded: the pis ton is driven down with great force, and pushes the white hot piece of carbon into the hole in the heavy block of steel. The carbon is thus put under enormous pres sure at a very high heat. On taking the system to pieces the carbon is found to be partially converted into microscopic diamonds. —There are many differences of tempera ment between colonial and home-bred horses, says an African letter in the Lon don Mail. The practical virtues undoubt edly lie with the horses of the African country. They will stand for days, as they did at Pieter's Heights, behind their masters, asking and receiving nothing. They will hobble grotesquely round the laager, snatching their subsistence where a locust would be foiled of a meal, and they carry their owners consistently out of danger whenever the demand is made of them. For veldt work they are mar velous, tripping thirty miles a day for da vs at a streich. But their appearance belles them. They look like animated birdcages, with ingeniously designed cor nerplecea from which to hang things. As Gen. De la Key explained the other day, “A Boer consists of four parts—the man, the horse, the Mauser end the bandolier of cartridges. All are essential to tha composition of one Boer, and the absence of any constituent is fatal to the whole. In the face of the enemy the man occn sionally looks behind him to his horse. So long as thot remains steadfast he goes on stolidly shooting; but should it re treat, the burgher, without apology, Im mediately departs. The whole virtue of a Boer’s steadiness under tire rests with his horse." —They say the Mormon Church is grow ing like the traditional weed; that it has more than two thousand mission tries working for it in nil parts of the world writes B. S. Martin In Harper’s Weekly.’ There are two or three hundred in Can ada, many more In the East and the South, many more in Europe, and they are great missionaries, too. They work hard and draw very little pay. They seem, .oo to believe in Mormonlsm. o nd In tov places where they go they are abundant ly stimulated by persecution, if ,ho stories about ihetn are true, they arc in k Ir.g excellent progress In di-s. minalittg the doctrines of their church aid making converts. The enthusiastic modern Mo - mons are quoted * saying (hat polygamy has really gone out of their religion an] that when the plural wives now living have died there won’t be any more Maybe not. Polygamy can hardly stand against the rise of American civilization bin the Mormon Church in Its o.her par ticulars may last and flourish. It acenitt a curious heresy, but on Us practical sld at least. It Is strong, and It seems to ex'. cite Just as much zeal as any other re ligion. It Is worth knowing more ebon than most of us know. Polygamy aside very few of u. know how far „and In wh a ,' A„ A' llfr T fr ° m ,h Christian religion. An American church which haa wo hundred and fifty thousand member 4* worth some study, Jos. A. Magnus & Co M C INCINNATI, O. SUMMER RESORTS. Hotel Gerard, 44tli St., Near Broadway, New York. AJISOJLI TELV FIKK-t’HOOF. Mod* eru and IciiindoiiN in all Its appoint inents. Centrall** located. Cool cu4l comfortable in nnmmer. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. (Under New Management), j. P. HAMBLEN’S SONS, Proprietors. ALSO Avon Inn and Cottages, AVON, N. J. Most select report on New Jersey coast. Bend for particulars. HOTEL NORMANDIE, BROADWAY & WTIi STS., NEW YORK. 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