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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. _
\mi TO KE\¥ ADVERTISEMENTS.
■Meetings—-Savannah Council No. 1, Or
der American Firemen; Savannah Lodge
No. 521, K. of P.
Special Notices—Malt Mead, George
Meyer; Notice as to Laundry Rates; Div
idend No. 27, the National Bank of Sa
vannah; Interest Notice, Thji Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company; Malt Mead,
at Contda's; Notire, Schedule .Seaboard Air
Line Railway Ferry; Notlcei to City Tax
Payers; Interest Notice, The Germania
Bank; Interest Notice, Southern Bank of
the State ot Georgia; Notice to Bondhold
ers, Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, I. O. O. F.;
Dividend Notice, Augusta end Savannah
Railroad; Interest Notice, People’* Sav
ings and Loan Company; Splendid Store
Building for Rent, W. M. A W. E. Coney;
A First-Rato Rule, R. Ia Clancy A Cos.;
Greene A Cos., Auction Sale of Bicycles,
Thomas’ Bicycle Emporium; Hack Ser
vice, John Kelly, Proprietor; Knights'
Pharmacy; Levan’s Table d'Hote; Money
on Easy Terms, People’s Savings and Loan
Company; Kodaks and Spectacles, H. H.
Livingston.
Business Notices Shimmer Engage
ments, Hunter A Van Keuren; Mid-Sum
mer Weddings, Theua Bros.
Laundry—E. AW. Laundry.
Goods Lower Than Ever—At Eckstein’s.
All Kinds of Seasonable Goods—Jack-
Son, Metzger A Cos.
Wear Metropolitan Clothing and Keep
Cool in the Sun—Metropolitan Clothing
Company.
Challenge Sale—A. S. Nichole.
Watch Ua Grow—M. Dryfus.
Hotels—Hotel Dalton, Dalton, Ga.
"Is This Hot Enough for You?”—C. A.
Munster.
Builders' Hardware—H. H. Peeples A
Sons.
Burt A Packard Shore Globe Shoe Com
pany.
Beef—Liebig’s Extract of Beef.
Auction 9a lea—A Fine Corner Residence
by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer; Monday’s
Auction Sale by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer;
Store and Dwelling, by I. D. L&Roche,
Auctioneer; an Attractive Investment In
Realty, by E. G. Black, Auctioneer.
A Really Money-Saving Sale—At Gut
man’s.
Special Price For Men’s Shore Chaa.
Marks.
It’s Refreshing—B. H. Levy A Pro.
To July Wedding Gift Seekers—Geo. W.
Alien & Cos.
A Great Midsummer Carnival—Leopold
Adler.
Luxury—At B. H. Levy A Bro.
The Talk of the Town—Cohen-Kulman
Carriage and Wagon Cos.
Just Finished Stock Taking—Walsh £
Mever.
The Bee-Hive—Jf. Schultx.
Gas Range—Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
Hot Day Bargains—Daniel Hogan.
Pocketknlves by the Lot—Thomas West
& Cos.
Educational—Elizabeth College, North
Carolina.
The Only Event of Importance—Foya &
Morrison.
Look Ahead a Little—Lattlmoreaf, West
Congress Street.
Machinery for Sale—Stratton Brick
Company, Maxion, Ga.
Postum Cereal Coffee—Postum Cereal
Company.
The Best. Yet, a Lot for a Home or for
a "Spec”—C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer.
Steamship Schedule—French Line,
Coropagnie Generate Transatlantic.
Medical—Munyon's Guarantee; Hood's
Sarsaparilla; Stuart's Dyspepsia Cure;
World's Dispensary Preparations; R. R.
R.; Dr. Hathaway Company; Peruna;
Soma.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Weather,
The Indications for Georgia to-day are
for warmer weather In northern portion,
with variable winds; and for Eastern
Florida fair weather, with variable winds.
There will be no effort at "Qulggtng"
the Democratic platform because there Is
no person Just like Quigg In the Demo
cratic party.
There are said to be more than 4,000 law
yers In Chicago, and the law schools of
that city, more numerous than thorough,
are steadily grinding out their grist of
neophytes to still further burden the
overcrowded profession. What the West
needs la fewer poor lawyers and mora good
hand*
MR. BRYAN AND THE PLATFORM.
In some of the Democratic papers there
appears to be a disposition to criticise
Mr. Bryan tor insisting that there shall
be a declaration In the Kansas City plat
form, in favor of the 15 to 1 idea. It Is
probable that be would say nothing as to
what the party should do In respect to its
platform if hia advice were not sought.
He has done nothing more than exercise
the right possessed by every Democrat,
namely, to say what he thinks the plat
form should contain.
And is he not right In Insisting that
there shall tie In the platform a distinct
declaration in favor of the free and un
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
1* to 17 Those who object to such a
declaration think that silver should be
sidetracked, and that the principal issues
of the campaign should be anti-lmperlallsm
and anti-monopoly. They say that they
are willing that the Chicago platform shall
be reaffirmed, and that that Is all that
should be done m respect to the Issues
It contains.
But, as a matter of fact, would not the
reaffirmation of the Chicago platform
vitalize all the issues which that plat
form contains? And what does It soy In
respect to rhe silver question? Does It
not say that that question Is the para
mount one? There con he but cne
paramount question, and if the Chicago
platform Is reaffirmed, will not the silver
question be the paratnount one of the
campaign, so far as the Democratic party
can make it so?
By reaffirming the Chicago platform,
therefore, silver will he given a position
of the greatest possible prominence in
stead of being pushed Into the background.
It would be much the wiser plan to handle
the silver question aa Mr. Bryan sug
gests, namely, to make a distinct decla
ration In respect to It, in the Kansas
City platform, and then declare that the
great Issue of the campaign are anti-im
perialism and anti-monopoly.
If It Is the wish of a majority of the
Democratic National Convention to keep
the sliver question out of the campaign,
it will have to adopt some other plan of
dealing with it than by reaffirming the
Chicago platform. It will, in fact, have
to ignore silver altogether. It is not pos
sible for it to do that, and bold the
Democrats, Populists and Sliver Republi
cans together. Sliver will have to appear
In the platform as a separate declaration,
or as one of the reaffirmed Issues of the
Chicago platform, and it looks now os if
the way In which It shall appear will give
the Platform Committee, and perhaps the
convention, gome trouble.
THE COTTOS OfJTI/OOK.
It Is pretty certain that cotton farm
ers are going to get a good price for
their cotton next fall. No doubt the crop
will recover from, much of (he damage it
suffered from (ho we weather of last
mouth, but it will not be as large as It
was expected It would be on account of
the Increase li the acreage. The world's
supply of oo4ton is much smaller now
than it usually is at this season of the
year. It Is slated to be only a little
more than 1,500,000 bales. Asa rule,
In midsummer, it is twice that amount.
Tha supply on hand being short, and
the outlook for a big crop not being the
best. It would not be surprising If the
price of cotton at the opening of the new
cotton season should be somewhere near
19 cents.
No doubt great efforts will be made
between now and Oct. 1 to create the Im
pression that the condition of the crop
is excellent, and that the yield all through
the cotton belt will be large. These ef
forts will be mode In the Interest of the
spinners. It is hardly probable that they
will be successful, unless they are sus
tained by the facts The cotton farmers will
see to it that the truth respecting the
crop Is freely circulated. This they will
be able to do by means of the Cotton
Growers’ Protective Association.
In some parts of the section which suf
fered from the rains last month only a
half a crop will be made, In all prob
ability. The farmers, however, whose
cotton has been practically ruined should
endeavor to make some cotton. The price
promises to be so much higher than It
would be If there were a big crop that
they will likely do about as well with a
small yield as they would with a big one.
assuming, of course, that if they had a
big yield the crop would be a large one.
The indications are that good times are
ahead for cotton farmers who are so
fortunate as to have fine crops.
AS AMERICAS QUEEN.
Miss Helen Gould is deserving of the
title of ”An American Queen” that was
given her at Three Oaks. Mich., last
Thursday, where she unveiled the Dewey
cannon in the presence of 10,000 people.
The people seemed more pleased at hav
ing her with them than they would have
been had Admiral Dewey accepted their
Invitation. •
Helen Gould is now about the best
known woman In the United States. And
what must be very gratifying to her is the
fact that she is admired and honored
wherever her name is known. And she
deserves all the love and admiration
which the people have for her. Ever since
she came into possession of her fortune
she has been trying to do good with it.
How well she has succeeded is pretty gen
erally known. Still, there are no doubt
many charities which are wholly or partly
supported by her ot which the public
knows absolutely nothing. Every once in
a while the fact gets into the public prints
that she ha* been doing some good work
quietly and with the hope that nothing
would be known of It outside of her bene
ficiaries.
In the Spanish-American War she do
nated $106,000 to the government, fitted
out a hospital ship and spent vast sums
in providing for wounded and sick sol
diers. Since that war she has beer, con
tinually engaged In charitable work of
various kinds. Hundreds of poor children
in New York are recipients of her bounty.
She has a very large income and it is be
lieved that she spends the greater part of
it in good works. No one will question
her right to the title of "An American
Queen.”
Admiral Seymour, the commander of the
allied forces in China, ought by this time
to be fairly well acquainted with the best
method* of fighting the almond-eyed ce
lestials. This is his third scrap with
them. He was a lieutenant at the time of
the storming of the Taku forts in 7858,
when Capt. Tattnall of the American navy
went to the aid of the British. Again in
1860 England was at war with China, and
Seymour was in the fighting at Sing 800
ant Kidding.
THE NAVAL STATION (lUESTION.
There are two things In the Charleston
News and Courier's article in its Satur
day's edition entitled "The Naval Station
Matter," to which we desire to call atten
tion. One is the insinuation that the .story
to the effect that an attempt would be
made probably to "gouge the government”
when it undertook to secure a site for
the Port Royal naval station at Charles
ton, provided it was decided to remove
the station to that city, originated with
Savnnnahians. We do not of course know
where the story originated. We do know,
however, that it made its appearance, as
far as we know, for the first time in the
columns of the News arid Courier. It
appeared under a Washington date line.
We doubt very much if anybody In Sa
vannah ever heard the story until after
it had been given currency by that paper.
Wo think we are justified in saying, how
ever, that it Is much more likely that
the story originated in Charleston than
in Savannah. There is southing known
there about the sites which it is proposed
to offer to the government in the event
of a decision to remove the naval station
to that city. It is very doubtful if there
is anything known about them here. It
is a question whether the story would ever
have ten beard of outbid* t a few persons
In Washington if the News and Courier
had not published it. It is unjust to 6a
vannahians, to say the least of it, to at
tempt to create the impression that they
originated it.
The News and Courier wants to know
why Savannahians should be willing to
aid Port Royal in retaining the station.
It seems to think that they are influenced
wholly by hostility to Charleston. What
nonsense! The News and Courier must
know better than that. Beaufort, Port
Royal and the naval station are good cus
tomers of Savannah. Even If Savannah
did not sympathize with Beaufort and
Port Royal in their fight to retain the
naval station it would be greatly to her
material Interest to have the station re
main where it is, provided she could not
get It herself. Charleston. If public senti
ment In that city is correctly reflected by
the News and Courier, seems to think Sa
vannah is Influenced by hostility to her
whenever she opposes what Charleston
wants. That Is a very narrow view. Sa
vannah has no feeling of hostility against
Charleston. There Is no reason why she
should have. She never opposes what
Charleston wants except when It is neces
sary to .do so to protect her own Inter
ests.
CASHIERS AND CUPID AWHEEL.
Go;ham received a Jolly Jolt from Geor
gia last week. Now York had never ex
perienced anything like, a 'Witham ex
cursion, hence it was a seven-days’ sen
sation. The newspapers of the big city
printed columns and columns about it, and
lhe newspapers of other cities, as far
West as Chicago and Kansas City, have
devoted editorial space to a discussion
of it.
The Witham excursion was made up of
some forty animated Georgia peaches of
the most luscious variety, an equal num
ber of young gentlemen employed as cash
iers In Mr. Wltham’s hanks and mills, a
proper number of chaperones, a preach
er, and Mr. W. S, Witham, president of
thirty-three banks and seven cotton mills
In Georgia. Mr. Witham was, of course,
the presiding genius of the event. But,
over and above all hovered Cupid. For
Mr. Witham gave it to be understood at
the commencement of the excursion that
he would hang up three prizes to be com
peted for by the young people of the
party. To the first young cashier who suc
ceeded In winning en route one of the
peaches for his very own would be given
a check for $500; to the second a check
fer $l5O and to the third a check for $1.50.
Mr. Witham believes in marriage—early
marriage. He says that a married man Is
less apt to go wrong than a single man,
therefore he wculd like to have all of
his excellent young men made fast lo the
sheet anchor of matrimony. To facilitate
courtship he gathered together for the
party a bevy of Georgia beauties for the
excursion, and took along a minister who
would respond to any calls for profes
sional services that might be made upon
him. So far as the information goes the
P’.iz s have not yet been awarded, but
the story is not yet complete.
The party traveled by special train,
stopped at points of lnierest, patronized
the best hotels, saw all of the sights—ln
cluding Coney Island and the New York
Stock Exchange—and had a whole lot of
fun every day. Tha excursionists wore
large and handsome badges, which at
tracted notice and caused them to be
shown atentlons which they .might other
wise have missed. After the first day in
New York, lhe city belonged to the
Wlthamltes. Their motto, "Tote Fair,” be
came as widely known as any popular
campaign slogan, and wherever they
went they were greeted with that cordial
ity which denotes real friendship.
The excursion, which lasted two weeks,
seems to have been an eminent success
from every point of view, unless per
chance Mr. Witham would have been
better pleased had several marriages oc
curred. These, however, may occur later
as a result of the trip. At all events. It
has served to make the originator of it
one of the best known men in the state,
and to acquaint the people of other states
with the fact that there ts prosperity in
Georgia, and opportunities here for men
with brains and pluck to win success. Mr.
Witham began life working for a salary
of $4 per wefk. Now he is a “captain of
industry,” who is building mills and
banks and otherwise aiding in developing
what will one of these days be the rich
est part of the United States.
A familiar headline lq the Georgia
country papers during the week Just end
ed was, “No Paper Next Week,” followed
by the explanation that, according to the
time-honored custom, the editor and his
whole force would take a week off to cel
ebrate the Fourth of July. The proba
bilities are that the Fourth Is celebrated
in Georgia with more genuine patriotism
than it Is In more Northern states where
the tenets of the faith of the founder* of
the government are being discarded when
It Is found that they run counter to polit
ical expediency.
Sir. Woolley, who has been nominated
by the Prohibitionists for President, was
at one time a very heavy drinker. Realiz
ing in, time that he could not master his
appetite for drink if he indulged it at all.
he resolved to become a teetotaler and to
work for the temperance cause. He la a
lawyer by profession, and an orator of
note. It has been said of him that he
can “spin sunshine into golden streaks of
■Are.’’ *
THE MOKNING NEWS: SUNDAY; JULY 1. 1900.
Mr. Hearst is to begin the publication
of a newspaper in Chicago this week.
It is to be modeled upon the plan of the
New York Journal, which is equivalent
to saying it will be ultra-sensational.
What the effect will be upon the press
of the cky, whether the established news
papers will go on the even tenor of their
way or whether they will become demor
alized and try to follow the style and
pace set by the new journal, is a ques
tion which is giving some concern to
thoughtful Chicago people both in and
out of the newspaper business. At pres
ent the big newspapers of Chicago are
very excellent representatives of a high
class of daily Journalism. Sometimes they
run a little y> headlines the size and
blackness of which are n&t warranted by
the matter under them; but the news is
all clean and wholesome, and two or
three of the papers are excellently well
written for high-pressure work. It would,
indeed, be a great pity for the Chicago
press to become aflected with the wild-,
eyed insanity which has characterized a
considerable portion of the New York
press for the past few years.
Two misfortunes have befallen the navy.
We refer, of course, to its loss by death
of the gallant Rear Admiral John W. Phil
ip, who as Capt. Philip, comandcd the
Texas In the Sanitago light when ship and
men won glory for themselves and their
flag, and to the possible loss of the mag
nificent Oregon on the rocks of far off
China. Admiral Philip’s death was a mat
ter in the course of nature, and can only
be lamented. The grounding of the Ore
gon on the rocks, however, appears now
to have been the result of poor seaman
ship. Capt. Wilde gives the name of the
rock on which his ship has been impaled,
showing that it was not an unknown dan
ger that he ran afoul of. The whole peo
ple of the United States would sincerely
regret the loss of the Oregon. Her bril
liant record has made her one of the fav
orite and most famous ships of the navy.
She represents, too, a money value of
probably not less than J6.0C0.C00, and pos
sibly more than that. Her cost from the
builders was more than $3,000,000, in ad
dition to which must be counted in the to
tal the cost of armament and supplies of
all kinds.
A story current is to the effect that
Senator Clark of Montana is going to con
tribute $1,000,000 to the Democratic na
tional campaign fund. According to the
story. Senator Clark feels very bitterly
towards the Republicans because of his
treatment in the Senate, and he is willing
to give the sura named to aid in defeating
them.
BRIGHT niTS.
—Never Undone—" Hot weather doesn't
seem to make any difference to some peo
ple.” “In what way?” “About keeping
wrapped up in 1h mselves.”—Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin.
—ln Darkest ‘Africa—First Chief—That’s
a dandy new war club you have.
Second Chief—lsn’t it a beaut? If I
could soak seme white man with that,
his burden wouldn't bather him!-—Puck.
—Aunt Mehitabel (reading the police
eourt news)—Will, well! there’s one thing
I'd never do. If I had fifty children I’d
never name one of tlum Alias. Seems as
if they’re sure to go wrong.—Judge.
—"They do. not run for office in my
country,” said the man with the fierce
British accent. “They stand for it." "And
here,” said the proud American, “they
run for it and the people have to stand
for it.”—lndianapolis Press.
—A Singular Error—" Haw-haw!" laugh
ed the Chicago man, as he read the bill
of fare. ”Y"ou Easterners make some
queer mistakes. Y’ou’ve got croquettes un
der the head of entries. Out West cro
quette is a game."—Harlem Life.
—Profanity—Young Wife—When I asked
Harry if ho couldn’t take me to the Paris
Exposition this year, he talked dreadful
ly. He almost swore.
Elderly Aunt —What did he say?
Young Wife—He said he'd see me in St.
Louis first. —Chicago Tribune.
—“Uneasy Lies the Head.’’—"Gee, whiz!
What’s (he matter with you?” exclaim
ed the trainer. “You certainly don’t look
fit to compete in to-day’s games.” “No,”
sadly replied the champion athlete. “I
absenimindedly w'ore my laurels to bed
with me last night.’-Philadelphia Press.
—Civic Enthusiasm—Uncle Jedediah—“l
Jest got anolher letter from some fellers
In Nt w Yoik tellln’ m; that if I would
come lo the city they’d give me five thou
sand dollars of good paper money fer
only five hundred dollars of my old cash.
Uncle Hezeklah—H’mpl Beats the dick
ens how hard they’re working’ ter make
New Y’ork the financial center of the
world.—Brooklyn Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says;
’’Campaigning ini China will be a more
arduous and a longer struggle than of old,
when the wiry and elusive celestial had
no generals, knew no discipline, was with
out artillery, could not construct tele
graphs and was afraid to destroy them.
"It Is erroneous to suppose thJt there
are no schols now in China, but the an
cient settees devoted to contemplation of
the maxims of Confucius. There are many
modern schools in the Chinese centers,
teaching modern things, and the students
are quick, pertinacious and fanatical. If
there Is to be prolonged contest many
provinces will remain quiet, while others
win welcome the foreigners to slow but
sure destruction.
“Should the war become general tt is
doubtful that the combined forces of Eu
rope can suppress it in ten years on ac
count of the physical and moral conditions
of the Chinese empire. Such a war would
have to exhaust the teeming millions be
fore a conclusion could be forced.”
Of the Kaneas City convention the
Now Orleans Picayutfe (Dem.) says;
"The talk about putting a military or na
val hero on the ticket will come to naught.
The politicians do not want one. unless he
be a New Y'orker. A Southern man Is
out of the question. The South will give
the votes. Mr. Bryan is certain of the
Southern stiles. The doubtful Northern
states must be courted. The South will
do the hewing of wood and drawing of
water for the Bryan ticket, and will be
willing to accept a pittance or nothing.
President Cleveland appointed more
Southerners to high office than ever did
any other chiesf magistrate, and no man
alive Is more cordially hated by them.
That Is one of the peculiarities of politics.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
(Inti.) says: "The selection of Gen. Chaf
fee to command In China meets universal
approval. He was an important and he
roic figure in. the fighting around Santia
go, and the government's failure to send
him to the Philippines has seemed hard lo
explain. His appointment now. however,
shows that it was for no lack of capacity’,
In the government's opinion, that he was
kept in Cuba and Ihis country, (Jen.
Chaffee Is another of the successful sol
diers, who were not educated at West
Point, but who learned tint military art
In the Civil War.’* .
Maxim and Wale*.
"A Wall broker has a cabinet
photograph of the Prince of Wales end
Hiram Maxim, of Maxim gun fame, the
inventor being in the act of firing a "Max
im," while the Prince looks on at a re
spectful distance, says the New York
Commercial.
"There’s a funny slory connected with
that picture.” said the broker, "and Inci
dentally It illustrates the wtde difference
between Hiram Maxim and bis brother
Hudson, who lives in Brooklyn and is the
Inventor of smokeless powder. The smoke
less powder man is one of the most demo
cratic of men and would not walk across
the street to get Into a photograph with
the Prince or the Queen herself; but not
so with Hiram.
"This leads up to the history of this
photograph. When the Maxim gun was a
new thing and the English government
was beginning to show an interest fn It.
Mr. Maxim and some of the gentlemen
associated with him gave an exhibition
of its wonderful shooting capacity, and
there was a number of English officials
present. Including the Prince. When the
test was over it was found that a photog
rapher had been conveniently near the
scene nnd had secured a good picture of
the crowd. And Mr. Maxim and the Prince
were in the very center of it.
"This present photograph of air. Maxim
and Wales is all that is left of the orig
inal group. Maxim being an inventor
brought his intellect to bear on the situa
tion and saw where the picture could be
transmografied. and an artist was engaged
to wipe out nil the mere cabinet officers,
generals, leaving only these two—Maxim
and the dear Prince.
"Looking at the picture as you see it
now, you cannot escape the Impression
that the inventor and his Royal Highness
took a sociable stroll to the suburbs with
a Maxim gun on their backs and had this
photograph especially taken for their mu
tual pleasure and the benefit of poster
ity.
"But It happened os I relate It. and
the ingenuity of the thing does credit
even to the inventive genius of the man
from Maine who invented the Maxim
gun.”
His Nerve* Gone.
A big fat man, panting like a steam
forge, entered the editorial-rooms without
asking permission to interrupt inspira
tions, says the Detroit Free Pres*.
“Where is the (rower of the press?” he
shouted, in a voice like a steamboat in
distress.
"Downstairs in the pressroom; that’s
where they usually keep it,” responded
the sunny weather reporter.
“Well, young feller, you know what I
mean—the force that controls destinies,
that unmasks villainy, that calls atten
tion to public nuisances, that—that sup
presses evil, that—that well, I want it to
rise in i;s power and suppress the phono
graphs and megaphones and klll-sleepo
graphs that give ajl night concerts over
in my neighborheod. New, 1 can stand the
street cars and ordinary night disturb
ances, but those blamed machines have
a peculiar insomnia-producing effect that
Is simply maddening. There Is a mega
phone as big as a barrel-trained right in
my chamber window and a phonograph
with a funnel like a war boat projectile
rends the midnight air with its wheezy,
as-lunatic notes. It played ’’Just One Girl"
for a month straight until I had the plag
ued thing by heart against my will, and
now it’s on “The Green Fields of Vir
ginia.” the notes of which 1 And in
chunks around my room. There is a law
against selling beer in places of amuse
ment, and why shouldn't there be one
against playing music in saloons? Street
cars, dogs and cats don't bother me In
the. least, but I simply can’t get used to
ihe musical machines that work over
time. Again. I say, where is the power of
the press, that we poor mortals must suf
fer on without relief. Please say a word
about the midnight megaphone for the
sake of a nerve-shattered man.”
The reporter promised, and he went
away droning “The Green Fields of Vir
ginia.”
Her Various Language.
George Edward Day in Zion’s Herald.
I heard the mountains calling,
The west wind brought their voice.
With invitation thralling
That left me none of choice.
I followed where they drew me
Up from the husky sea;
“Be free!” they sang to woo me,
“For life is large. Be free!”
I saw the river beckon
With fingers crystal clear;
I could not stop to reckon
The distance far or near.
But followed where it led tne
Hound many a rocky curve;
It rippled as 1 sped me:
“Serve! Life was made to serve!”_
I heard the ocean singing
Her siren song of old.
The witchery of it ringing
Along the sands of gold.
I hastened on to hear her
With steps I could not stay;
Her song as I drew nearer—
" Pleasure is life to-day."
I heard a sighing tender,
The forest’s leafy lips,
Whose music I remember
With sweets like honey drips;
And holy calm came o’er me
As listening I stood
With green-arched aisles before me—
“ Seek peace!” whispered the wood.
Then night in Jeweled beauty
Climbed up She eastern sky,
"Which one has sung of duty,”
I asked, “for such as I?”
And through the fragrant weather,
As birds in Junetime call.
Her sweet stars sang togetner:
"Duty must blend them all!”
Another Umbrella Story.
Here, says the Boston Transcript, Is a
queer true story about some umbrellas:
A Indy who keeps summer boarding
house at the seashore near Boston went
down the other day to look the house over
und find out what must be renewed. Iht
found numerous umbrellas left by former
boarders, and tying them together, she
took the bundle to Boston to have them
repaired. She stopped In at Tlovey's and
laid the bundle on the floor at her feet
at the counter. When she has made her
purchases she forgot her umbrellas, and
absentmlndedly picked up an umbrella
lying on the counter, thinking it was hers,
or not thinking at all, und started oft.
Then the owner of the umbrella, a wo
man standing next her, seized he.r and
said very sharply, "You have taken my
umbrella!” Of course she apologized,
feeling very much cut up about tt, and
went on, forgetting in her fluster her own
bundle of umbrellas. The next day. on her
way to Cambridge, she went to Hovey's
and readily recovered her lost package of
umbrellas, which had been kept for her.
On the car for Cambridge she noticed a
lady eyeing her very cloeely. Presently
this lady leaned forward and aatd to her
with elegant emphasis;
“You seem to have been more fortunate
to-day!"
It was the lady whose umbrella she had
taken the day before.
_ *
Kipling May* Ba,
A little girl made her first appearance
In an infants’ school last week, aaya Lon
don Spare Moments. Her new friends
made up to her, and, childlike, questioned
her as to her name, parentage, etc.
“My daila's a gentleman. He keeps a
shop. What yours?" said one mite.
"He’s a beggar." replied the new schol
ar, shyly.
"Oh, I’d be ashamed to own it," cried
the other Utile girl* In chorus.
The new girl flushed red— not with
shame, but with pride.
“But 1 ain’t!” she retorted, ”’cos he's n,
absent-minded beggar. And," she added,
triumphantly, "he’s a gentleman, too! ii
gentleman In khaki! Mr. Kipling says to!”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
-Ex-Gov. Taylor of Kentucky will en
gage In the insurance busffiess In Indian
apolis. which he will make hi* heme for
the future.
—There is a servant famine In St. Louis.
Tne state employment Bureau, which is
poked on as a last rtscrl ty mo*t house
keepers. is more than 208 application* be
hind with this kind of (help.
—‘Prof. William Lyon Phelps, of Yale
University, who is writes a "History of
the in England in the Eighteenth
Century,” will spend the summer in the
Br tlsh museum, collecting material for
the took.
—Gen. Lloyd Wbeatag is the only Illin
ois man In the regular) army bolding the
grade of general. Gen. NVhsaton was born
in Michigan, but spent hi* early days in
Illinois, and enlisted hi the Union Army
from that state.
—Dr. Max Nordau, who i to visit Eng
land in August, has intimated frankly to
■bis literary friends that he will only be
concerned during hjs visit with the ques
tion which now constitutes the chief prob
lem in Judulsm—the Zionist question.
—ln the harvest of 1899 there were
1,265,601,664 gallons qf win* produced in
France; 7*6.107,590 gallons produced In
Italy, 591.3R1.750 gnfioos produced in Spain,
and 158,506,000 gallons produced In Rou
manla. The total production of the world
Is estimated at 3,324101,704 gallons.
—The richest Chinaman In San Francis
co and leader of his race on the Pacific
coast, is Chin Tan Sun, who Is a mil
lionaire several times over. He owns part
of a gold mine, nuns two or three fac
tories and conducts several fruit can
neries, besides belbg proprietor of an ex
tensive lottery.
—Sir William 'Cbookes in a recent ad
dress before the Royal Society describes
an Interesting new substance, which he
has succeeded fn- separating from uran
ium, and which, he calls Ur x; that is,_
the unknown substance x in Ur. which"
is the chemical jsymbol for uranium. He
found that the supposed fluorescence of
uranium was due to the presence of Ur
x, and that after the separation of the
latter uranium , entirely lost ihis power.
The new substance resembles In many
ways the two Recently discovered rad.o
actlve bodies radium and ac tin turn.
—A physician connected with the health
department ini Chicago has provided for
himself and family a noise-proof house as
a protection against the street dins, which
persist despite the recently announced In
tention to enforce the anti-noise ordi
nance. The doctor’s problem was to ex
clude the noi*es, while admitting the air,
and he solved It. he says, by stuffing all
the cracks about the doors and windows
with strips Of rubber, perforated with
zigzag hcles. this the air is ad
mitted, while’the noise, ti Is said, la soft
ened or completely deadened, the sound
waves dying out in repeated reflection* in
the crooked passages.
—Among the exhibits by American man
ufacturers at the Paris Exposition one of
tiie most curious is that of artificial flies.
About fifty girls have been employed in
making thorn. All are distinctly young, as
the manufacturers *ay that the work is
so trying <si the eyes end requires such
deftness n.| flexibility of fingers that oniy
youth Is adaptedi to It. Girls Just out of
school are selected for the trade and their
wages on beginning ar# $2 a week. The
employers estimate that the training of
a novice costs them about $4 a week in
wasted muteilal. ae only the expensive can
be used, practice on tying knots in linen
threads would not teach a girl to knot
silkworm gut, of which the leaders are
made. Only the brightest ever beeome
really expert in tying the finest files, and
an apprenticeship of three or four years
is required to attain that degree of pro
ficiency. Of the simpler kinds a woTker
can make from a gross to a gross and a
half a day. but in the more difficult, thirty
are considered a good day’s work. Fine
files are made In England and Scotland,
but American manufacturers claim that
those made in this country are more uni
formly good. The reason, they assign is
that htr* the work 19 done in a factory
with spatially trained workwomen, where
as In Eutope, flymaking Is largely a home
Industry, engaged In by the women for
pin money, and therefore variable in qual
ity.
—There is one time of the year when
every hoy would not object to becom
ing a subject of* the Chinese Empire for
Just one day. Thi* time is the ninth dev
of the Bifith month, according to the Chi
nese calendar. On thia day a kite-flying
festival is held. Then every Chinaman
who has any regard for his spiritual nnd
physknl welfare and can afford a kite—
and there are few, indeed, who can not
afford such an inexpensive trifle—goes to
a lilll and flies his kite the whole day long.
This fustom prevail* more generally, of
courser In the rural districts, for were the
inhabitants of a great city like Canton
or Tcjtln each to send up a kite the
stringy would become entangled and the
very Ijeavens would be darkened with such
a codectlon of paper and string as never
was e*n. This custom was originated
by a man -who had a strangely realistic
dream. In which It was revealed to him
that *ome calamity would befall his house
on a certain day. "Wishing to avoid this
unknown but Inevitable disaster, he took
hie fhmlly to a neighboring hilltop and
amused the children by flying a kite. When
he returned home that night he found that
his house had literally fallen to the
ground, thus killing all the dogs and pigs
that had been left at home to keep house.
Thao set the fashion, and since then when
ever; the annlvereary of that <lay comes
rourd other famine*, remembering the
pr*vfdential escape of their countryman,
fly their kites from the hills in the be
lief that as the paper toys ascend they
will carry *ff the evil spirits that might
othefwlle demolish their own houses and
bunt them in th* ruins should they stay
at heme.
-tnder th* title of "Septic Skirts,” the
Lnjce again makes a plea for the aboli
tlen of the unsanitary and unsightly long
skirt, which ladies, fastidious to extremes
In other matters, thoughtlessly trail along
behind them like a drag-net through the
Innumerable kinds of nastiness with
which our city pavements are always cov
ered. The result of a shopping trip with
this appendage cannot fail to be the col
lection of a numerous assortment of dis
ease germs. Which are taken Into the
ho|ne, and, w;hen the skirt is brushed,
ar* spread about the house, as dust on
book* and furniture, or breathed Into the
lungs of every one about. The freedom
with which expectoration is allowed In
our streets (it ought to be as rare, and
1s Just as dangerous, as the voiding of
any other of the body’s secretions) fur
nishes an important source of disease
yfrmg, and indeed the sources are so
numerous and obvious that they need no
tilling. Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden of Co
tumbla University some years ago made
1 very striking experiment for showing
the number of germs usually floating In
the air of our city afreets. He exposed
to the street air for a few minutes a
moist surface suitable for catching bac
teria and upon cultivation found that he
had captured over 1,000 hncterra
in speaking of the futility of
"keeping the dresses from dragging,”
the Lancet says: “The habit has arisen
of seizing th* upper part of the skirt nnd
holding tt in a bunch at a place called
by women ‘the broad pnrt of th* back
below the waist,’ and among anatomists
by the less cumbrous term ’gluteal re
gion.’ Thi* practice can be commended
neither from physiological nor from an
artistic point of view. • • • j t (g not
our purpos* to descant on the absurdity
or ugliness of the hnblt of walking In
long skirts. • • • hut we strongly pro
test, from a sanitary point of view,
against th* importation Into prlvato
houses of skirls reeking with ordur*
urine and pathogenic microbes.”
SUMMER HBilOilTS.
~ FOR
Ml Pleasure nnd Mon
GO TO
HUT ML
Magnificent mountains 1,200
feet above sea. No malaria;
excellent mineral waters;
ball room, billiard and pool
tables; splendid music.
Reached by Southern R’y.
B. B. Abeesethy, Prop.
Hotel Gerard,
441 b St., Near Broadway, New York.
AttSOLl'TKlalf FIKE-FHOOF. Mod
ern and luxurious in all Its appoint,
in eats. Centrally located. Cool aa4
eomfortnhlc In summer.
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN.
(Under New Management).
J. P. HAMBLEN’S SONS, Proprietors.
ALSO
Avon Inn and Cottages,
AVON, N. J.
Most select resort on New Jersey coast.
Send for'-particulars.
SARATOGA.
THE GRAND UNION
Open until Oct. I.
Special Terms per Week or Season.
For Illustrated Booklet address
WOOLLEY & GERRANS, Proprietor*.
Saratoga Springs, New York.
BLOWING HOCK.
GREEN PARK HOTEL
Summit of Biue Ridge, 4,310 feet. Scen
ery and climate unsurpassed, so say glot>*
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 .ball room,
band and other amusements. Postofflc*
and telegraph in hotel. Opens July L
Write for leaflet and rates to
Green Park Hotel Cos., Green Park, N. C.
HOTEL NORMAN D IE,
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 ot the city; twenty principal
places of amusement within five mlnuteF
walk ot the hotel
CHARLES A. ATKINS & CO.
Summer Resort—Ocean Hotel, Asbury
Park, N. J. GEO. L. ATKINS & SONS.
HOTEL DALTON,
DALTON, GA.
Popular summer resort. On* of th*
most popular summer resorts In North
Georgia; climate delightful, beputlful
drives, brick hotel, hot and cold baths oo
each floor; elevator, electric bells, good
tables. Special rates to families. Further
information given by D. L. Dettor, Prop.
IN THE GREAT NORTH WOODS.
HOTEL DEL MONTE,
SARANAC LAKE, N. Y.
OPENS JUNE 25. under entirely new msnsfs
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. HENKY OTIS, Sara
nac Lake. N. V. __
Greenbrier White Sulphur Spring*,
Weat Virginia.
Representative resort of the South. Open
June 15. $40,000 in Improvements. New
sewerage, plumbing, lights, private bathe
and toilets. Orchestra of 16 pieces. Fam
ous Sulphur baths. New 9-hol* golf
course, 2,700 yards. Professional In charge.
Write for Illustrated booklet. HARRING
TON MILLS, Manager.
CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE.
July daily rate $3. Unsurpassed scen
ery- Railway fare reduced. Stations, Otis
Summit and Kaaterskill.
CHAS. & GEO. H. BEACH, Mgrs.,
CatsklU, N. Y.
LONG BRANCH.
West End Hotel und Cottages,
Situated on bluff facing ocean. Cottages
and Hotel now open. New York office. 111
Broadway (Room 76).
W. E. HILDRETH, Mgr.
MELROSE, NEW YORK.-?* Madison
Avenue, corner 28th st. Rooms with or
without board. Rooms with board $7 per
week; $1.25 per day and upwards. Send for
circular.
1 . RHUS 1 81
125 Congress ft. West.
We handle the Yale
& Towne Manufactur
ing Company’s line of
Builders’ HardwaVe.
See these goods and
get prices before plac
ing yOur order else
where.
JOHN C. BUTLER,
—LLALn.it x.v—
Paints, Oils and Glass, rash. Doors, Bllndg,
and Builder*’ Supplies, Plain and Decora
tive Well Paper, Foreign and Domes***
Cements. Lime. Plaster end Hair. Soto
Agent for Attestin'* Cold Water Paint.
20 Congress street, west, and 19 Bt Julian
struet. west.
Empty Hogsheads.
Knapty Slolnatiit'a Hogahcadi far
na|p by
C. M. GILBERT & CO.
WHEN IN CHARLESTON,
If you want the best service and every
thing in keeping therewith, glop at
Charleston's Leading Restaurant
. THE PALACE CAFE,
VS King street.