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4 (Tljr iSmfning HetnA Nomine Mew* Bonding Savannah, M, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1900. Registered at the Foatofflce in BarannatL The MORNING NEWS U published even - day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mall, at 70c a month, *4.00 for six months, and *S 00 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, Six tlrr.ee a week (without Sunday issue), three months. *1.60; six months *3.00; on* year, *6 00. The WEEKLY NEWS, S issues a week. Monday and Thursday, by mall, one year, *IOO. Subscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mall at risk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one Inch square In depth— Is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING NEWS 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 Park Row. New Tork city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meeting—Georgia Medical Society. Special Notices—Dividend No. 89, South ern Bank of the State of Georgia; Har dee & Marshall; Fine Fruits, C. A. Dray ton Company; Dividend No. 63. the Mer chants' National Bank of Savannah. Malt Mead, Henry Stelljes; John Funk, City Market; Levans’ Table d'llote; At Gard ner’s; at Joyce's. Business Notices—On* Hundred Eggs for 100 Cents, the S. W. Branch Cos. Official—Proceedings of Council. Grape-Nuts—Postum Cereal Company. Whisky—Hunter Baltimore Rye Whisky. Cigars—Tcm Keene Cigars. For Your Sunday Dinner—At Munster’s. Grand Military Excursion to Macon, Ga.—Via the Georgia and Alabama Rail way. Cherooto—Old Virginia Cheroots. Salt—The Favorite Table Salt. Mineral Water—Apollinarls. Corsets—Thomson’s "Glove-Fitting" Corsets. Beers—Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso ciation. mu 6tove—Wickless Blue Flame Oil StoVes. Medical-Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills; Lydia Plnkham’s Vegetable Pills; Hood’s Pills; Bradfleld's Female Regulator; Bar-Ben; Tutt'a Pills; Dr. Hathaway Company. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The Indications for Georgia and Eastern Florida to-day are fair weather, with showers near the coast, and fresh south erly winds. The new $5 silver certificates have as their chief design an Indian bead. The aborigine who Is thus Immortalized was a Sioux of the name of One pa pa. If he had lived till the present, he could have had lots of fun spending one ef his pic tures. Alabama Is now shipping oeal to Ger many. A Birmingham agent a short time ago secured an order for 300,000 tons from a German firm, and it is assured that other large orders will follow. That beats sending coal to Newcastle. Germany la beyond Newcastle. Mr. W. D. Oldham, who Is to place Mr. Bryan In nomination at Kansas City, Is assistant attorney general of Nebraska. He is 41 years of age, and was bom in West Virginia. It Is said that he was converted to the doctrine of free silver by the late Richard P. Bland of Missouri. Mr. Oldham is described as looking more like a farmer than a lawyer and orator. An observer (unofficial) who has been taking note of the weather says that more rain has fallen along the path of totality of the recent eclipse during the past month than any other section of the country. He does not know that the ce lestial phenomenon had anything to do with the precipitation, but merely states what he has observed and what he says the official records will show. Samuel Alschuler of Aurora, who was nominated the other day for Governor by the Democrats of Illinois, Is spoken of as a young man of sterling worth, well til ted to hold the high office to which he has been named. He Is a hard-headed busi ness man, without anything like cant or demagogy about him. That being the case, the voters of Illinois, who have of recent years been surfeited with Altgelds and Tanners In their politics, ought to turn with a sigh of relief to Mr. Alschu ler. The funeral of Stephen Crane, the nov elist and correspondent, took place yes terday In the Metropolitan Temple, New York. The Interment will be at Elizabeth, N. J. Shortly before his death Mr. Crane Is said to have remarked to a friend: "When you come to the hedge that we mutt all go over, It Isn't bad. You feel eleepy, and next you don't care. Just a liule dreamy curiosity as to which world you’re really In—that's all." If Crane could only write for us what he found on the other side of the hedge! ‘ The Prohibitionists will make the key note of their campaign oppoeltlon to the army canteen. But they will not tell their hearers that If the canteens were abolish ed there would Immediately spring up around military encampments, posts and reservations numerous low groggeries which would do the soldiers ten time# the harm done by the canteens. That ha* been the experience In the past, and It would unquestionably be repeated. The govern ment can. of course, keep the groggeries off the premises occupied by the troops, but k cannot keep them oft private premiers within reaching distance of the soldiers. All of the expert testimony goes to show that there Is less drunkenness un der the canteen system than there ever was without it. THE VICE PRESIDENCY AT KANSAS CITY. There Is a report that the Democratic leaders have agreed upon a candidate for Vice President, and that he Is a resi dent of New York and a man of wealth. There may he some foundation for this re port. but the chances are that there isn’t. As far as can be gathered from the pub lic prints, the Populists and Silver Re publicans intended to Insist upon the nomination of Mr. Towne, the Populist nominee for Vice President. It ts no ticeable that his friends are very active in his behalf. Leading Populists are de claring that his nomination Is essential to complete harmony among the three parties. They are not making any threats, and It is probable that if the sense of the Kansas City Convention should be against the nomination of Mr. Towne, they would acquiesce in Its decision, and give the ticket Just as hearty a sup port as If they had succeeded in having their candidate nominated. But that they are going to make a strong fight for Mr. Towne's nomination there Is no doubt. The movement in behalf of former Sen ator Hill of New York has lost none of Its force. In fact, It appears to be gain ing strength, notwithstanding the an nouncement of Mr. Hill that he Is not a candidate, and would not accept the nom ination if It were offered to him. It is believed, however, that he would accept It If It were made clear to him that he Is the choice of the entire party. The platform and the question of the nomination for the vice presidency will not be settled as quickly at Kansas City as they were at Philadelphia. While the Democrats in state convention, In a majority of the states, have declared for the Chicago platform, it Is evident that the Platform Committee will have much more to do than did the Platform Com mittee of the Republican National Con vention. There is going to be a fight over the question of the position to be given silver. New York, Maryland, Illinois and Indiana will perhaps ask that sliver be practically side-tracked. The states named are very important ones— so important that there will be a strong disposition to make concessions to them. The question that will take time to set tle Is. how great shall concessions be? These states will not only object to making silver prominent In the platform, but they will oppose for Vice President any candidate who is not a thorough-go ing Democrat. They will not consent to the nomination of a Populist or a Silver Republican. If they find that they can bring about the nomination of Mr. Hill, they will Insist upon a platform that will not give prominence to those features of the Chicago platform to which gold Democrats objected in 1896. The Kansas City Convention, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Bryan Is to be renominated, will be a much livelier one than was the Philadelphia Convention. TUB PROHIBITION TICKET. The most striking feature of the Prohi bition National Convention was the out burst of approval with which the attack on the President in the platform was re ceived. The Prohibitionists feel particu larly bitter towards the President because he permits wine on the White House ta ble when guests are present, and the can tern to be retained in the army. They do not take Into account the fact that he can not always do just as he wants to In re gard to the White House table .and that In permitting the canteen In the army he Is but obeying the law as Interpreted by the Attorney General. The President is a member of the Meth odist Church, and. it is probable, Is pretty nearly a Prohibitionist. That Is, perhaps, the main reason why the Prohibitionists feel so bitterly towards him. They seem to think he Is acting for political reasons against his convictions. It is doubtful if the Prohibitionists were ever so bitterly hostile to Mr. Cleveland, when he was President, as they are to President McKinley. Mr. Cleveland's in difference to what they said about him had the effect apparently of causing them to deal with him gently. They know' that President McKinley is very sensitive to their criticisms, and it therefore gives them profound satisfaction to make him squirm, as It were. There is no reason for thinking that the vo‘e for the Prohibition ticket this year will be larger than it was last. There does not seem to be any increase in the Prohi biiion sentiment. The ticket that the Pro hibitionists have nominated is no doubt about as good as It was possible to nomi nate. Probably If Dr. Swallow *f Penn sylvania had been nominated for Presi dent, the ticket would be more popular. Dr. Swallow came near getting the nomi nation, but the West appeared to be against him. He Is a very popular man in Pennsylvania, and is a first class cam paigner. Still, the "round up” for the Prohibition ticket will hardly be more than a corporal’s guard, in comparison with the entire vote that will be cast. Therefore It Is not a matter of much con sequence who the candidate for Presi dent Is. Chicago bicycle riders are now suffering anew pest. The Ichneumon fly, according to th# unimpeachable testimony of a news paper writer, has found that bicycle tires are much better incubators for their young than the dead hark of old trees; therefore the files are systematically puncturing the tires in order that they may deposit their eggs within the resilient tubes. It tnkes a smart fly, however, to complete the op eration without meeting retributive' jus tice, since the compressed air In the tire has been known on various occasions to make a balloon of the foolish Insect and then explode It with a sharp snap. Sev eral Chicago rider* ere said to have re ported the depredations of the flies to the police, but since Chicago has no fly cops, no arrests have been made. There Is a suspicion In some quarters that the tire manufacturers and repair shop* are secret ly propagating Ichneumon files and turn ing them loose In the neighborhood of the most frequented bicycle paths. Nearly all of the telegraph poles along the 6avannah and Statesboro Railway, from Dover to Sialesboro, are growing. They are tall, ilender cypresses, and were either planted with the roots or took root afterwards. It Is a novel sight to see telegraph poles with green boughs at the lop. There will be no necessity for re placing these po es during the next hun dred years or more. It mightn't be a bad Idea to adopt the growing telegraph pole In the city, and replace the present ugly po.'ee with shapely trees THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY; JUNE 30. 1900. THE HOUR ENVOI’S. According to or dispatches yesterday the Boer envoys left New York for Europe on their way to South Africa on Thursday. They did not get what they came for. They roust have known they would not get material aid from this country. While there is a disposition on the part of soms persons to crielse the administration for not being more active in the interest of the Boers, it is safe to say that no con siderable part of the. people wanted the government to engage In a war with Great Britain in order to aid the South African republics. The President offered the services of the United States as a me diator between the British and the Boers, end the offer was rejected by Grept Brit ain. There was nothing more for the government to do unless it was prepared to Invite trouble w-lth Great Britain. That the people did not want trouble with that Power Is shown by the fact that the demonstrations in behalf of the Boer delegates were confined to compara tively few people, and were kept within reasonable limits. The newspapers bad very little to say of the movements of the envoys. There was no effort to bring a strong sentiment to bear on the govern ment in favor of granting the sort of help to the South African republics that the envoys came for. The envoys discovered Boon after they arrived that while the sympathy of the people was with the Boers there was no sentiment in favor of giving them mate rial aid. That is the reason probably that they made no attempt to stir up a popular feeling in favor of giving the Boers something more than sympathy. The envoys acted very discreetly and made an excellent impression. They gained the good will of all with whom they came In contact. If the people of the United States could have extended to the cause they represented a helping hand without making too great a sacrifice, it is probable that they would have done so, but they were not ready to sever their re lations with a friendly Power in order to help the Boers to maintain their inde pendence. DREAMING TO THE POINT. The future must hold something good for Frank Maltby of the town of Syra cuse, ’N. Y. He is an alderman, and Is therefore in politics. If he fails to ex tract plums from the political pie, It will be a matter of surprise. For he is a man of brains, and his brains never take a rest or a holiday. They work as hard at night while Maltby Is asleep as they do in the daytime while he is awake and hustling. And, what is better, their night work is good and straight to the point. A case In Illustration came before the court In Syracuse the other day. The grand Jury was investigating a cause of some public interest. Before the investigation had been completed a newspaper an nounced that indictments had been found against certain persons, and gave Malt by as the source of information. It ap peared to the court immediately that there was a leak in the grand jury room some where. Maltby was sent for to explain how and when he had obtained his infor mation, which was correct. If Maltby had belonged to an all too common class of politicians, he would have repudiated the newspaper's statement. He wofild have told the court that the re porter Bed; that newspapers and newspa per men were habitual falsifiers, and that the truth was not In them. We’ve all had experience with men of that stamp. But Maltby of Syracuse is not one of them. ‘‘Why, your Honor," said he earn estly as he faced the frowning court, “I dreamed that. It was such a vivid and Impressive dream that I felt quite sure it was the truth, so I told It to my friend, the reporter as a fact.” Obviously one cannot be punished for dreaming; nor i| It crime or misdemeanor to tell one!■ dream to a friend. Therefore the learnrei court told Mr. Maltby that his explana tion was sufficient, and that he might go. Mr. Maltby had established the utility of the dream, as a mean* of getting one out of a tight place. If his powers as a dreamer do not bring him profitable re turns hereafter, we shall miss our guess. Meantime it is not out of place to sug gest to other politicians the employment of the Maltby system during he approach ing campaign. It would rest less heavily upon their coneciences to blame dreams raiher than reporters, for the making pub lio of political secrets. GOLD STANDARD LEGISLATION IV DANGER. Either the Republicans are getting alarmed about the outcome of the Novem ber elections, or else they are trying to arouse their party to the importance of getting out its voters. The chairman of their Congressional Committee, Mr. BafTx cork, has sent out a circular in which he points out that It is within the bounds of probability for the gold standard legisla tion of the present Congress to be re scaled by the next Congress. According to what Mr. Babcock says, the Democrats will likely get control of bolh House* of Congress If Mr. Bryan is elected. It will not cost them a very great effort to get possession of the House, and they may get possession of the Senate, on March 4, 1901, and, if not then, by March 4. 1903. The terms of a great marry Republican senators expire within the next three years. If the Democrats should be fortunate enough to capture a majority of these place* they would have control of the Senate. The idea has been steadily held out that it was not possible for the sliver men to get possession of the Senate during the next four years. This Idea, according to Chairman Babcock, erroneous. The po litical forecasters, who have been mak ing figures on the political complexion of coming Congresses for political writer* and statesmen, ought to go over their figures again, and let the country know whether Chairman Babcock or they are mistaken. The cotton crop seems likely lo have a haid time this year. Commissioner of Ag riculture Stevens says the plants In parts of this state have "black root,” which is a fatal disease; the army worn has ap peared In portions of Texas and Arkansas, and damaging rains have fallen In parts of the cotton belt. With auch unfavorable incidents crowding each other. It is pos sible that high estimate* for the coming crop will have to be considerably shaded. It is rumored In political clreffcs In Penn sylvania that Col. Quay has abandoned hla purpose of running for the Senate again, and will become a candidate for Governor. No authority for the rumor, however, baa been found. Secretary Long has appointed the board which, under the terms of the new navy bill, will inquire into the advisability of removing the naval station from Port Royal to some point at or near the city of Char eston. The board consists of Rear Admiral Rogers, president: Rear Admi rals Sumner and Barker. Capt. Converse. Civil Engineer Ass rson* Naval Construc tor Llnnard and Lisutenant Commander Staunton, rtcqjder. The beard. It is be lieved, will first visit Port Royal, three or four weeks hence, and then will go to Charleston to Inspect the sites and sit uation. It will then be decided whether or not the station should he removed. A Washington dispatch to the News and Courier says: “It is said that a syndicate has already been formed to control one cf the silts in Chariest n and It is pro posed to put a fancy price upon the prop erty." It further appears that Senator Tillman 1s pushing the removal s.heme at high pressure. There are probably 35.000 negroes In Charleston, nevertheless the cotton mill in that city which is being operated with ne gro labor finds it extremely difficult to se cure the hundred or so of hands that it needs. Of the colored population, proba bly one in every three may be called an idler, while only one of the other* two works steadily the year around. All that the mill requires is that the employe shall take an Interest in the work and put In full time, but it stems that the Charleston darky cannot, or will not, com ply with these simple and reasonable con ditions. PERSONAL. —lt is said in Boston that Prof. Charles Eliot Norton has declared his intention of leaving to Harvard, al his death, his large library, valuable arche-cgicai collection and priceless collection cf manuscripts. —Senator and Mrs. Cushman K. Davis will sail for Norway about the first of next month, and will spend the summer there, accompanied by Miss Nessch. who is a Norwegian by birth, and who will act as interpreter. —Ali Ferrough Bey, the Turkish minis ter to this country, is fast adopting American customs. He now wears a straw hat when out of doors, and has Joined the Chinese minister in the use of the bicycle. —The German Emperor has sent Herr Etzdcrf, Landrath of Elbir.g, to Windsor on a private mission to Queen Victoria. It Is believed that Herr Etzdorf has been ordered to acquaint himself with the Queen’s model farm at Windsor and oth er farms in England. —Charles V. Cusachs. of New Orleans, the instructor in the French and Span ish departments cf Harvard University, who has Just been appointed to the chair of Spanish at the United States Naval Academy, is only 25 years old. Mr. cusachs was graduated from the University of Barcelona in 1892. BRIGHT BITS. —His Daily Duty—“And they say you drove that rich man to drink?" "Yes. sir, but I couldn't help it." "Couldn't hip it! What do you mean?” ‘‘He made me, sir. I was his coachman."—Harlem Life. —Barber—"Does de razzer pull, boss?" Victim—' Yes; but one of the spiral springs In the chair seems to be screwed so deep into my back that I don't think the razor can drag me out on to the floor."—Judge. —Getting His Properties—" Gimme a pair of long, yellow chin whiskers,” said the man with the sun-burned face and slight ly rural air. "Detective, eh?” asked the ebstumer. "Naw. Summer boarders are coining next week, and Ive got to git on make-up for ’my p^rt."—lndianapolis Press. —The Irony of Fate—Lounger—"Jerry, who is that dried-up, consumptive little fellow who requires so much attention and seems to have so much money to spend?" Athletic Attendant (at sanitarium)—"Don't talk so loud. He’ll hear ye. He's a rich mannyfacturer of health foods."—Chicago Tribune. —A gentleman, while walking along a road not far from the side of which ran a railway, encountered a number of In sane people out for exercise. With a nod towards the railway lines, he said to one of the lunatics: "Where does this railway go to?" The lunatic looked at him scorn fully for a moment, and then replied: “It doesn't go anywhere. We keep’it here to run trains on.”—Tit-Bits. CTHRKVF COMMENT. The Philadelphia Times (Ind.) says: "Croker's definition of anti-imperialism Is fresh and forceful. It is ‘opposition to th“fashion of shooting down everybody who doesn't speak English.’ This is more than a smart epigram. It is really a com prehensive expression of what has been going on in the world of late. In Asia, in Africa, wherever it may be, it is the vogue, 'when a people do not speak the English tongue, to organize an army and shoot them down.' This Is called Anglo- Saxon progress. China Is the freshes: case In point, where the English deter mined. for purposes of their own, to go in and shoot Chinamen, anel the United States joined la to help them, for the sake of Anglo-Saxon progress. The trouble about this fashion is that It Is likely to lead 4o the shooting of some people wio may not speak English but can shoot back.” The Mobile Regisler (Dem.) sayr: “Bishop W. B. Derrick of the African Methodist Church, Is incensed at the use of his name as a promoter of the negro party. He says that it was a scheme of some short-sighted negro politicians for effect at th<* Phlimlelphla Convention, and that his advice to men of his race Is to act as any other class of American voters in the exercise of the franchise, end no. array themselves as they did in the days of reconstruction against the material Interests of the communities In which they live. 'Disregard of Southern inter ests by negro voters.’ he (elds, *is respon sible for negro disfranchisement in the South.' ” Of the Imperialistic policy of the Repub lican party, the Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.) says: “The position of the party was made plain in the speeches of Sena tors Wolcott and Lodge, and It s'ands out lit the Porto Rtco bill In a form that de fies denial. The country understands the real position of the Republican party, ond it will vote down or up In November lt entire colonial and imperial programme." The Louisville Courier-Journal sayw: "Who says the Chinese ferment has not already seriously affected the Internal af fairs of this country? Hark to Kdltoi Joel Chandler Harris, down In Atlanta: ‘The Chinese laundryman who was sus pected of being a Boxer was warned to leave town, but, unfortunately, he took our shirt with him, and se our celluloid cuffs on out of revenge.' " The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) says; •’Mr. Hanna is not the wide-sweeping boss that he was. He was compelled to take Teddy Roosevelt off Mr. Platt's hands, and bow he has a candidate for Vice President whose chief qualities are eccentricity and obstinacy." Net the Mat*. "Didn’t I hear you speak the name of Jr.mee Adams?" he asked as he leaned forward and addressed two men who were in earnest conversation on a Chtcago street car. says the St. Paul Dispatch. "Yes, I was speaking of him,” replied one. • "Was it James Adame, second mate of the New York brig -Morning Star?" ’’No, sir; he lives here in Chicago." "Oh. thai’s it Then please excuse me. I thought it might be he James Adams I mentioned, and I was going to say that I was wrecked with him m the Indian ocean and had io eat him after the provisions gave out!" Quaint Old Culberson. Every member of Congress who knew him has a story to tell of the quaint old Texan. Judge Culberson, who died recent ly after twenty years in Congress, says the New York World. Or,e day ho was making a speech in tho House. Pausing dramatically he pointed to the press gal lery, and said: "You can’t do this without getting found out. Look at them primers up there. They'll take this all down and print it, them printers will.” Another time he was at Atlantic City and met a friend. '’Hello, Charley," he said, "I'm glad to see you. I have Jtst been a-standin' down by the edge of the ocean watchin’ them women goin' In wash ln'." A Story About Bryan. Alfred Henry Lewis, editor of Belmont’s Verdict, told anew story on Bryan yes terday at the Hoffman House, apropos of platforms, says the New York letter of the Baltimore Sun. Bryan recently had anew and extensive veranda erected about his Lincoln home and, having in mind a “cot tage campaign" ala Canton, he made the veranda large and strong. Showing it to a friend one day, Bryan pointed out the six-inch Joists, which were laid on the ground and-on which the platform was built. ’ What was your object in building a veranda this way?” inquired the friend. "Weil,” said Bryan, "when I am bunld ing a platform myself I Intend to take care it is well and strongly constructed." As Bryan will have much more to do with the Kansas City platform than he had with the Chicago platform it may be "well and strongly constructed" in com parison with the ill-fated one on which he stood in 1896. Two Suita of n Kind. "Hang these Jokes about bachelors get ting married solely because they want some woman to sew on buttons!” exclaim ed the bachelor tailor, according to the Indianapolis Sun. •'What was the trouble?” asked the book keeper. "Trouble enough!” came the growl. "I advertised for a Woman who could do that work and an old maid answered the ad. She thought it was a matrimonial advertisement, and threatens to sue me for breach of promise." “That’s the second suit against you,” chirped the clerk. "You remember that fat fellow who had the suit made lest week, don’t you? You made him a prom ise that the clothes would not rip for a year. Well, he was here to-day while you were out. There was a big rip in the trousers, and also a breach in the coat, and. of course, that makes it ’’ "A breach 6f promise suit!" interrupted the bookkeeper, as he dodged a paper weight the merchant hurled In his direc tion. Why They Latin. "Well," said a prominent druggist, in answer to a querying customer, according to the Philadelphia Record. “I'll tell you one reason why a doctor always writes hla prescription in Latin. It's not entirely In order, as most laymen suppose, to prevent the patient from knowing what drugs are called for, although this may sometimes be the case, as in the prescription you have Just handed me. which reads: ‘Sodil chloridum,’ etc. Now, bend your ear— that’s but common salL But the real rea son why prescriptions are so written is to help the druggist. Only one day last week a Russian handed me a precription given to him by a St. Petersburg physician. He had been In this country for some time, and his medicine had given out It was almost Imperative that he have an imme diate supply, and in broken English he explained the difficulty and handed me the prescription. Of course, it was in Latin and I had no difficulty In filling it. Should all doctors write their prescrip tions in their native tongue it would cause a deal of trouble, especially when we take into consideration the host of foreign phy sicians practicing In this country. Mind you, that’s but one reason, but it's an Im portant one. How much do you owe me for your prescription? Thirty-five cents. High for salt? But it's the regular charge, you know." Since 'Willie's Going Barefoot. E A. Brtnmsloo! In Rochester Herald. There's mud upon the carpet, and there's mud upon the stairs. And there’s mud inside the porch and kitchen, too; There are streaks of muddy footprints everywhere that Willie goes. For he tracks mud In the house the whole day through. He keeps hla mother busy cleaning mud from every room. And the .hired girl klcke up an awful row. Warm weather’s here and boyhood days are brimming o’er with fun. For little Willie's going barefoot now. It does no good to scold him. Though fifty times you’ve told him To stop and clean his feet, but yet, somehow. He files In through the door, Leaving footprints on the floor. For little Willie’s going barefoot now. There are silvers evening that his meth*r has to find. And stone bruises that she has to doc. tor. too; There are toes that have collided with a rock which she must bind. And with arnica and liniment make new; There are scratches by the dozen where the thorns and briars took hold. When he scooted throug the paeture for the cow. And there's music In the gloaming when his mother pulls them out. For lit le Willie's going barefoot now. His mother says she’ll whip him; The hired girl won't skip him; Th< re’s bound to be an everlasting row. The devil Is to pay; There'll he trouble, so they say, •Cause little Willie a going barefoot now He musses up the clean white she ts upon his little bed, With his dusty, grimy, mud-becovercd feet. And everywhere he chases, from the cel lar to the roof, Ills little muddy footprints you will meet; He m ver stops to w ipe his feet—the saucy little minx— He sate hla daddy never learned him how, And tlitre's Jawing in the kitchen when the mop Is brought In play. For little Willie's go.ng barefoot now. His father says he’ll bless him; The hired girl will "dress Mm;'* His mother says she never will allow Huch footprints on th* floor— Oh, there's trouble sure In store For Willie, since he's going barefoot now! —Reward of Bravery—"Ho Bell* |s en gaged to a one-armed man?" "Tes, she says she admires him for the way In which h* wem to work to win hta way single handed. '—Philadelphia Bulletin. ITERS OF INTiSREST. —Palace cars are to be used on (he Yu kon and White Pass Railway from Skag way to Lake Bennett. They are only forty feet long and weigh fifteen tons. The railway company Is building 200 freight cars. —Minor C, Keith, the banana king of Costa Rica, constitutes what Is called the “Kitchen Cabinet” of the administration. The term is not used in an offensive sense, for Mr. Keith married tho sister of President Igleslas. and that gentleman has undoubtedly been glad several times to avail himself of his American broth er-in-law’s undeniable talent for affairs. Several months ago, when Costa Rica was struggling to get on a gold basis, considerable trouble was experienced In getting together enough yellow metai to make a start. When almost every re soured had been exhausted, there was still a deficit of about *IOO,<X. "There's a little gold over at my office I can let you have.” said Mr. Keith, who happened to be in San Jose, and he departed to get h. Precently he returned with *94,000 in good American ten-dollsr coins, and a lit tle later he brought in *25,000 more. —President Draper of the University of Illinois devoted part of his baccalaureate sermon to the remarkable advancement of education In this century. In this move ment, and particularly in the line of uni versal education, the United States had taken the lead, he said, but statistics of fered by him showed a wide distance be tween the best school systems in this country and the average. Thus. In the United States at large, the average school period is 4.3 years, while in Massachusetts it is 7 years. The proportion between the period in that slate and the period in the United States is 70 to 43. The proportion between the productive capacity of each individual in Massachusetts and in the United States at large is 66 to 37. This, he says, means that each individual in Massachusetts has a productive capacity of *88.75, more than the average of the United States as a whole, and the excess of production In Massachusetts is twenty times the cost of maintaining its excellent school system. —A remarkable case of death by light ning occurred during a football match in England. When the rain poured down many of the spectators took refuge In the grandstand. Suddenly the building was struck by lightning and the electric fluid splintered the flagstaff from top to bottom In Its progress. One young man was killed instantly, and some thirty others were severely injured. The hat of the young man who was killed was partially burned, the crown was torn off and the lining wrenched out. His hair was burned off, and the metal collar stud he was wearing at the time was com pletely melted, making a superficial wound In his neck. He was badly scorched about the body and down his right leg, khe trouser of which was torn, and the right boot split and burned. He had several coins in his right trousers pocket, all of which were fused into one solid lump of metal. Curiously enough the man standing beside him experienced no effects of the shock. —The kind of livery best suited to the New York automobile is still undecided. Automobile fashions came first from the French. English use of the automobile followed, and the English makers set out to Invent a fashion of their own. They did this with such complete success that the two styles are quite different. The English liveries are noticeable chiefly for the elaborate frogglng added by the Lon don tailors. Both styles of liveries are used Indifferently in this country, with the advantage in numbers rather on the side of the French. Late purchasers of automobiles have on the other hand shown a preference for the English style, so the question Is now complicated .to a degree unpleasant to owners of automobiles, of which every detail from the color of the vehicle to the driver’s hot Is a matter of Importance. This confusion is not likely to last much longer, however. An effort Is now being made by a number of automobile owners to come to some agree ment as to the correct styles. —By the death of Jonas Gilman Clark, which occurred recently at Worcester, Mass., America has lost one of her typi cal founders of colleges. Born in 1845, the son of a farmer In Eastern Massachu setts, he was the lineal descendant of John Clark, a member of the first pro vincial Congress held In Boston In 1774. and of Hugo Clark, an immigrant by the Mayflower upon one of its voyages. In 1853 he went to California, when the gold craze was at its hight. He soon'became prominent in public affairs, taking a part in the promotion of the union sentiment when the Civil War broke out in 1861. At the close of that conflict he returned to the East, and became a banker in New York, retiring twenty years ago to take up his residence In Worcester. He had long had a desire to found a university “to increase human knowledge and trans mit the perfect culture of one generation to the ablest youth of the next; to afford the highest education and opportunity for research." and he secured a charter for Clark University at Worcester in 1887, endowing it with *1,000,000, to which he added a like amount later on. —Scientific men assert that the globe wg now Inhabit is growing heavier at the av erage rate of 500 tons a year, says the Chicago Chronicle. The meteors or shoot ing or falling stars (of which now and against such brilliant displays rejoice the careful watchers) in passing through the earth's atmosphere are burned up and fall on lo the earth's surface, occasionally in a heavy mass, but most usually in small meteroic dust. Prof. Nordenskjold, from his great experience, estimated that, from the cause named, 500 tons fall, uniformly and steadily over the whole globe in each year, and the observations of Russian scientists yield a similar result. These me teoric streams, says another astronomer, are really small planetary bodies, revolv ing around the sun is fixed orbits by the force of gravity. The earth revolves on Us axis at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour, and speeds through apace in its orbit around the sun at the rate of 1,000 miles every minute, and In August and Novem ber plunges into the very midst of the me teoric stream going In the opposite direc tion. The rapidity with which they en ter our atmosphere and the friction thus generated are so enormous that they are set fire to, the smaller ones being consum ed and falling In dust, while the larger ones occasionally reach the earth in the shape of meteoric stone or Iron. —“The countryman who expressed his surprise and admiration at the sight of a lifting crane taking hold of a wagon load of Iron beams and swinging them through the air for the convenience of the builders of skyscrapers,” remarked Ludwig Ma.ver of the Hamburg-American Steamship Line, according to the New York Com mercial, "should see the operation of a lifting crane for use In loading and un loading vessels at Hamburg. It picks up a loaded freight car and hoists it Into the air with as much ease as a skyscraper crane will swing a little Iron beam. It is said to be the largest lifting crane in the world, and 1 guess it is. It | 8 a ponder ous piece of machinery, and the engine that manipulates It Is almost big enough to drive a steamship. One of the chief functions of this monster crane Is to hoist freight cars loaded with live stock. Whether the car is empty or filled with horses or cattle, it Is all on# to the crane. Circuses landing or embarking at Ham burg have their cars of wild animals handled In this way." Mr. Mayer said that a year ago he took a snap-shot at a freight car as It was being hoisted by this giant arm. It happened to be a circus car filled with wild animals, with the name of the circus prominently pulnted on the Me. The circus people saw the photo graph and It Is now being used extenelvely in their advertising matter, I.XI. OF HOPE R'Y mC. 8 l Rif. SCHEDULE For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder bolt, Cattle Park and West End. Daily except Sundays. Subject to changa without notice. * isleFoFhopk Lv. City for I. of H.; Lv. Isle of Hope. 6 30 am from Tenth ] 600 am for Bolton 730 am from Tenth j 000 am for Tenth 830 am from Tenth | 700 am for Tenth 9 15 am from Bolton | 8 00 am for Tenth 10 30 am from Tenth |lO 00 am for Tenth 12 00 n’n from Tenth |ll 0) am for Bolton 1 15 pm from BoHon jll 30 am for Tenth 230 pm from Tenth | 2CO pm for Tenth 330 pm from Tenth | 240 pm for Bolton 430 pm from Tenth | 300 pm for Tenth 530 pm from Tenth | 400 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth [ 600 pm for Tenth 730 pm from Tenth | 700 pm for Tenth 830 pm from Tenth |BOO pm for Tenth 930 pm from Tenth | 9CO pm for Tenth 10 30 pm from Tenth jlO 00 pm for Tenth jll 00 pm for Tenth " ~ MONTGOMERY. ' * Lv city for Mong’ry. | Lv. Montgomery. 830 am from Tenth |715 am for Tenth" 230 pm from Tenth | 1 15 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth j 600 pm for Tenth ~ 7 CATTLE'PARK. ~“ Lv city for Cat.Park] Lv. Cattle Park. 6 30 am from Bolton | 7 00 am for Bolton 7 30 am from Bolton ! 8 00 am for Bolton 1 00 pm from Bolton | 1 30 pm for Bolton 2 30 pm from Bolton ! 3 (X) pm for Bolton 7 00-pm from Bolton j 7 30 pm for Bolton 800 pm from Bolton J 8 30 pm for Bolton THUNDERBOLT Car leaves BoKon street Junction S:SO a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter until 11:30 p. m. Car leaves Thunderbolt at 6:00 a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter until 12:00 midnight, for Bolton street junc tion. FREIGHT ANI> PARCEL CAR. ” This car carries trailer for passengers on all trips anil leaves west side of city market for Isle of Hope, Thunderbolt and all intermediate points al 9:00 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 5:00 p. m. Leaves Isle of Hope for Thunderbolt, City Market and all intermediate points at 6:00 a. m., 11:00 a. m., 2:40 p. m. ‘ WEST END - CATL “ Car leaves west side of city market for West End 6:00 a. m. and every 40 minutes thereafter during the day until 11:30 p. m. Leaves West End at 6:20 a. m. and ev ery 40 minutes thereafter during the day until 12:00 o'clock gpidnight. 11. M. LOFTON, Gen. Mgr. SUMMER RESORTS. BLOWING ROCK. GREEN PARK HOTEL Summit of Blue Ridge, 4,340 feet. Scen ery and climate unsurpassed, so say globe trotters. Hotel first-class in every respect. Only house on mountain with plastered walls; excellent livery; 45 miles turnpike roads on top of ridge; large room, band and ocher amusements' Postoffioe and telegraph in hotel. Opens July 1. Write for leaflet and rates to Green Park Hotel Cos., Green Park, N. C. Hotel American-AdelDht. Finest I.oration in SARATOGA SPRINGS. Near Mineral Spriug* and Dacha, OPEN JUNE TO NOVEMBER. ROOMS EN SUITE. WITH BATHS. GEO. A. FAUNIIAM, Prop. White Sulphur Springs Hotel, WAYXESVILLE, X. C. 50 acres beautifully shaded lawn, wonder ful mountain views, cool nights, freestone iron and noted, sulphur springs. Fine or chestra daily. House remodeled and newly furnished this season. COL. F. A. LINCOLN, Proprietor. ROCKY RIVER SPRINGS, Stanly County, N. C., Open June 1. Finest mineral water. Table supplied with the best. Band of music. Dally mail. ’Phono connections with all adjoin ing towns. Climate unsurpassed. Tourist rates Southern Railway and its branches, and Atlantic Coast Line. Write for cir cular. Address R. I}. Beckwith, M. D., Silver, Stanly county, North Carolina. HOTEL NORMANDIE, BROADWAY & 38TH STS., NEW YORK. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. EUROPEAN PLAN. COOLEST HOTEL IN 'TEW YORK CITY Located in the liveliest and most Inter esting part of the city; twenty principal places of amusement within five minute# walk of the hotel, CHARLES A. ATKINS & CO. Summer Resort—Ocean Hotel, Asbury Park, N. J. GEO. L. ATKINS & SONS. SWEETWATER PARK HOTEL AND BATHS, uthia springs, ok This well-known and popular resort is now open. All modern equipment. Cuisine *n€ service unexcelled. Write for illustrated pamphlet. JAS. E. HICKEY, Propr. Also Kimball House, Atlanta, G&. IS THE CHEAT NORTH WOODS. HOTEL DEL MONTE, SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. OPENS JUNE 25. under entirely new manage ment; newly furnished and renovated through out; table and service first-class: near lake and Hotel Ampersand; golf, tennis, billiards, boating, fishing, driving and bicycling; livery. For booklet address J. HENRY OTIS, Sara nac Lake, N. Y. CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE. July daily rate $3. Unsurpassed, scen ery. Railway fare reduced. Stations, Oils Summit and Kaaterskill. CHAS. & OEO. H. BEACH. Mgrs.. Catskill, N. T. LONG BRANCH. Wet End Hotel mid Uottagei, Situated on bluff facing ocean. Cottage* and Hotel now open. New York office, 11S Broadway (Room 76). W. E. HILDRETH. Mgr. AVONDALE SPRINGS. " * On Knoxville and Bristol Railroad, flve miles west of Tate's, at the base of Clinch mountains; one of the most de ightful re sorts of L ist Tennessee. Llthia, sulphur and chalybeate water. Reasonable rates. Address Miss C. CROZIER, Lithia, Grain ger county, Tennessee. SEA GIRT, NEW JERSEY. * Beach House, right on the beach. Al ways cool. Fine accommodations. Dining room service first-class. Rates reason*, ble. Send for booklet. Sea Girt is ths first stop made on the coast by express trains from Philadelphia lo Asbury Perk end Long Branch. COAST COMPANY. GRAND ATLANTIC HOTEL, Virginia ave and Beach,Atlantic Clty.N.J. sth year. Most central location; highest elcvufion, overlooking ocean; 350 beautiful rooms, many with baths. The terms are reasonable.Writ# for booklet. Hotel coach es meet all trains. CHARLES E. COPE. MELROSE. NEW YORK.-78 MndlMß Avenue, corner 28th st. Rooms with or without board. Rooms with board $7 per week; *1.25 per day and upwards. Send for circular. Empty Hogsheads. Empty Molnußca lloaalieitds for •ale by C. M. GILBERT & CO. , M Morphine ,„<! Whiskey h,b it. treated without pair or confinement. Cure gu*ro. ft®™ Barium. Box 3. AuattU, Oa.