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6 ff>c iHofning ffrto#. Moraine f Building Miumk, 8 SUNDAY, JULY 1, ISO®. Registered at the Postofflce in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS U published every day in the yeer. end is served to sutacribers In the city, or sent by moll, at 70c a month, SI.OO tor six months, end $*•00 tor one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mall, six times a week (without Sunday Issue), three months, sl.6g; six months $3.40; one year, $6 00. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 issues a week. Monday and Thursday, by mall, one year, $3.00. Subscription payable In advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Curreucy 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 ot agate type—equal to one inch square In depth— is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount mado known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of tha 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. 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. 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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. 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