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INDEX 10 KEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Georgia Chapter No. 3, R.
A. M.
Special Notices—Closing of Ciy Offi
ces: “All’s Not Gold That Glitters,” C.
H. Dorsett, Auctioneer; Notice of Closing,
Jas. J. Joyce; Notice, H. M. Liofton Gen
eral Manager, ,S., T. & I. of H. Ry.; No
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pany; John Funk, City Market; The Na
tional Mattress and Renovating Cos.; Soda
Water, at Donnelly's Pharmacy; The
Real Estate Company of Savannah; Le
van’s Table d' Hole.
Business Notices—Harvard Pure Beer,
at Connery’s.
Why? Why? Why?—At Munster's.
Black and Tan—Anheuser-Busch Brew
ing Association.
Summer Resorts—Rock Ledge, Ashe
ville, N. C.
Railway Schedules—Tybee Schedule.
Auction Sales—Temporary Administra
tor’s Sale, by I. D. Laßoche, Auctioneer.
Cigars—Tom Keene Cigars, J. Pinkus-
Bohn & Cos., distributors.
And Still Another Shipment—Byck Bros.
Hides Wanted—R. Kirkland.
Steamship Schedule—Merchants and
Winers Transportation Cos.
Corsets—“ Thomson's Glove Fitting'"
Corsets.
Sauce—Lea & Perrins Worcestershire.
Mineral Water—Apollanarles.
Medical Radway's Pills; Bar-Ben:
Mother's Friend; Hood's Pills; Dr. Kil
mer’s Swamp Root; Castoria: Munyon's
Liver Cure.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mlscellanous.
The Weather.
The- Indications for Georgia and East
ern Florida to-day are local rains, with
fresh southeasterly winds.
Of all the New Yorkers In Kansas City,
the biggest man has the smallest chance
of being named for Vice President.
It Is hard to down a good man, worth
J50,r00,G00. Clark of Montana wins out at
Kansas City by a vote of four to one.
There may, or may not, be significant-*
in the report that many of the Nebraska
delegates to the convention are wearing
Bryan and Towne badges.
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There must be something In the wind
when Tillman of South Carolina says that
he does not consider it necessary to make
a specific declaration on the ratio when
declaring Cor silver.
!e 1 • 1
Were not the Republicans asserting the
other day that the Kansas City Conven
tion would he a cut-and-dried affair? That
it was not all arranged long beforehand, as
. the Philadelphia Convention was. Is now
apparent to even the most casual observer.
A report In a Philadelphia paper says
there is great excitement In New York
among the members of the West End Wo
men's Republican Club over the report
that Senator Platt snapped his fingers
when called upon by one of the lady poli
ticians, by way of Indicating how much
he thought of their help.
It Is understood that Ex-Senator Quay
contemplates writing a book of his ex
periences in politics and reminiscences of
public life. If Mr. Quay would get right
down to hard-pan and write the inside
facts of politics as he has known them
for the past twenty years, he could a
tale unfold that would harrow up the
eoul of every unsophisticated and con
scientious voter who Imagines that when
he goes to the polls and deposits his bal
lot he is taking a part in the govern
ment of his country.
The Prince of Wales is alleged to be re
sponsible for the trouble which Lady Ran
dolph Churchill and George Cornwallis-
West are having to get married. The
mother of the young man is a close friend
of the Prince. She Is opposed to the mar
riage of her son with a woman old enough
to be his mother, and has appealed to the
Prince to help her to prevent it. The
Prince."it is alleged, has Intimated to the
war office that if young West is not too
eick to get married he Is not too sick to
go a-soldlcring, hence the likelihood that
he will be ordered back on duly.
The German Emperor means business
with respect to China. The murder of
Minister von Kctteler has set the blood of
the Teuton to coursing quickly, and he is
determined to be avenged upon the Chi
nese. The Germans now have an incen
tive to fight, and It may tie relied upon
that they will do it- William’s speech to
his marines upon their departure for the
scene of action has but one meaning—a
sound drubbing tor China, to be adminis
tered by the allied I’owers, and the dicta
tion of the terms of peace In the city of
Pekin. If that Isn't war, what is UT
COUTROLLEU BY BRYAN.
It is clear that Mr. Bryan will domlnaie
| the convention. There Is no leader at
Kansas City. The delegates are constant
ly looking towards Lincoln. From pree
ent indications the convention will do just
what Mr. Bryan wants done.'
It seems to be The Judgment of many
of the delegates, jKirtloularly those from
the Eastern states, that there should be
no district dc laration in the platform of
the 16 to 1 idea—that the silver question
shouki receive no further attention than
a reaffirmation of the Chicago plot form.
The reports from Kansas City indicate
that Mr. Bryan insists that silver shill
b© brought prominently to the front in
the platform. And he is in a position to
have his way in the matter. More than
two-thirds of the delegates are Instructed
for him. The convention could not there
fore very well avoid nominating him.
even if it were disposed to do so. As o
matter of fact, however, it wants to nomi
nate him, but it is not yet clear that a
majority agrees with him as to what the
platform should contain.
It is doubtful if it makes much differ
ence whether there is anew declaration
in respect to silver or a simple reaffirma
tion of the Chicago platform. That plat
form makes silver the paramount Issue.
If it is reaffirmed silver will be as promi
nent an issue as if there were a ne-w dec
laration in respect to it.
And after all it may be that the view
taken of the matter by Mr. Bryen is the
right one. If no special mention were
made of silver in the platform, the Repub
licans would make that fact an excuse for
saying that the Democrats had practically
abandoned the free coinage of silver,
thereby admitting that they were wrong
in 1896.
As long a© silver is going to be in the
platform, It is better probably that it
should be there in a way that would leave
no room for the Republicans to say that
the Democrats had sidetracked it as a po
litical issue.
By giving silver prominence in the plat
form it is probable that the Democratic
ticket w'ould lose some Democratic votes,
but the number would be small in com
parison with what it would lose if it shou'.l
deal with the silver question in a way
that would create the impression that the
Democratic party had retreated from the
position. It occupied on the silver ques
tion four years ago.
If silver is given prominence in the plat
form it will not be advisable to nominate
for Vice President any man not known to
be in complete sympathy with the 16 to 1
idea. Mr. Towne or Mr. Sulzer, end not
Mr. Hill or Mr. Gorman, would be the
logical candidate.
AFTER TIIF, FIRE.
Chief among the echoes from the great
fire In Hoboken, in which the piers and
three ships of the North German Lloyd
Line were burned and probably two hun
dred lives were lost, is a loud complaint
respecting the actions of a number of tug
boat captains. Asa class, the captains of
tug boats are known to be men of brav
ery, daring and kindly feeling. The ma
jority of them are ever ready to make
sacrifices and take risks In order to render
aid to those in distress. The deeds of
heroism performed by tug boat captains
are literally legion. Rut, if one-half of
the stories that are told about some of
the New York tug captains in connection
with the Hoboken tire are true, they show
that even in ateamboating there are ex
ceptions to the general rule, and in this
case the exceptions are among the roost
despicable men alive.
It is charged, and in several Instances
information has been lodged with the le
gal authorities, that scores of deaths are
directly due to the refusal of tug captains
to render assistance to those in danger
until they had direct assurances of a
money reward. Where assurance of a
reward which was considered adequate
was not forthcoming the poor unfortu
nates would he left to burn or drown. Ac
cording to the story of Chief Engineer
Bahrends of the Kaiser Friedrich, forty
persons were suffocated and burned in the
hold of the Saale because the caplain of
a tug took away his hose and refused to
permit It to be used. Dr. Grahn, surgeon
of the Phoenicia, says he requested the
captain of a tug to go to the aid of a
number of people struggling in the water
in the dock. "What is there in ii for me?”
asked the tug man. The surgeon told him
he would be paid a good price, but by all
means to hurry. "Not unless I get iny
price,” returned the tug man, and leaving
the people in the water to sink or swim
he took his boat into the stream and went
to chasing bales of cotton that were float
ing about. The bales of cotton, worth
about HO, were more valuable in the opin
ion of this tug man that human lives.
Fireman Meyer of the Main with five com
panions Jumped into the water, after
they had been badly burned. A lug came
near them and they begged to be taken
aboard. "Have you got any money?" ask
ed the captain. 'They replied that they had
not, and the tug steamed away. Of the
six, Meyer alone was saved, by another
tug.
It Is also charged thal the tugs neglect
ed the smaller vessels of the company 60
that they might get hawsers upon the
great Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, and
thus be able to claim larger salvage. Sec
ond Officer Zander of the Saale says he,
with several men, was stationed at the
stern of that vessel with two lines ready
to be passed to tugs, when there was am
ple time for the Saale to he drawn out of
the slip and saved. He appealed to and
begged tugs to lake his hawsers, but they
paid no attention to him. Finally Zander
and his men were forced to jump over
board. and one or more of them sank.
Officer Wcdlg of the Bremen says that
ship also wos ready to he moved before
the Kaiser, but that the tugs would not
touch her hawsers. There was terrible
loss of live In both the Saale and the
Bremen. This loss. It is claimed, might
have been averted if the tug men had not
been In such a hard-hearted chase after
dollars. It is pleasant to know, by the
way, that all of tha mg men did- not be
long to this class. There w r ere many
deeds of heroism performed and many
lives saved by men of the lug fleet. It is
probable that the salvage claimed from
the company will amount in total to sev
eral hundred thousand dollars.
Ho far. how the lire originated, further
than that it started in a hale of cotton, has
not been developed; bill It bus been
shown in the most striking und shocking
manner that the tire apparatus on the
dock was not adequate u> the suppression
of an Incipient lire started among the
great mass of Inflammable material such
as usually tmkis up a trans-atlantlc
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY; JULY 4, 1900.
ship’s cargo. The dock on which the fire
began is used not only for freight but for
passenger service. Had the conflagra
tion occurred about the time of the ar
rival or the departure of one of the ships
with its great number of passengers, the
horror would have been multiplied. It
seems that there should be a separation of
the freight and passenger docks.
It was estimated at first that the prop
erty los would approximate $10,000,000.
This estimate is now being shaded consid
erably. The agent of the line doubts if
it will reach $6,000,000. Il is, however,
the Joss of life and not the loss of prop
erly which will make this fire stand out
as one of the most disastrous in many
years.
TUB OIICtiOM ACCIDENT.
When it w r as announced that the battle
ship Oregon had run upon a rock off the
- oast of China there was at once a ques
tion in the public mind as to whether or
not the accident was due to incompetency
or carelessness. There have been some
dispatches sene out from Washington in
which naval officers were quoted as say
ing that the principal officers, outside of
the captain, w-ere not qualified for their
respective positions. In one of the state
ments it was asserted that the officer
next in rank to the captain had been
twice court-martialed for drunkenness,
and that several of the other officers
were without experience.
Now' that it Is reasonably certain that
the Oregon will be saved there ought to
be the most rigid inquiry as to whether
the charges made in those dispatches are
weii founded. The Oregon is one of the
very best battleships in the navy, and
one of the most costly. There is, be
sides, a good deal of sentiment in respect
to her on account of her phenomenal run
from the Pacific coast to Cuba and the
part she took in the naval battle of San
tiago. The people want to know whether
or not the navy department is to blame
to any extent for the Oregon’s mishap.
The department is to blame if the ship
went to sea in charge of incompetent
officers. The department knows the
qualifications and the habits of each one
of the officers of the navy, and it would
find it difficult to excuse itself for send
ing so valuable a vessel as the Oregcfn
on a hazardous expedition in charge of
incompetent officers.
It would be unjust of course to assume
that Lhe department did anything of the
kind. The presumption is the other way.
Still, in view of the fact that charges
have been published, coming apparently
from a source worthy of attention, that
some of the principal officers of the Ore
gon were not qualified for their positions,
there ought to be an investigation not
only of the cause of the accident, but also
as to whether the department was care
less or displayed a lack of judgement in
selecting the officers.
THE X AVAR STATION MATTER.
Charleston, through the News and Cou
rier, is having an Interesting time with
the story sent out from Washington that
it is her purpose to "gouge the govern
ment” in the purchase of a site for the
proposed naavl station. That paper says
that the story has obtained a wide circula
tion, and is being industriously used by
the enemies of Charleston. But who gave
the story circulation? Who ever heard
of it until it appeared in the News and
Courier? Why did the News and Courier
publish it if it had no foundation? What
was its object in giving it circulation? Has
it any authority for saying that the story
would ever have appeared in print if it
had not printed it? It is amusing that
the News and Courier wastes so much
space in pointing out the Injury the cir
culation of this story is doing Chorles
ton, while it keeps in the background the
fact that the story would never have been
circulated, in all probability if It had not
picked it up in Washington and published
IT.
But perhaps the' News and Courier had
reasons for thinking that there was some
truth in it, and thought it advisable to
publish it, and thus head off any attempt
to “gouge the government.” It says: "We
feel sure that any attempt that shall be
made In Charleston to Impose upon the
government In the matter of a site for the
naval station will be defeated. We know
of at least of two sites that are
not in the hands of any speculative syndi
cate." We are glad to know that there
are two sites that are not in the hands
of persons who have no intention to
“gouge the government.” Does the News
and Courier wish to be understood that
there are other sites, and that they are
in the hands of persons who are prepared
to "gouge the government" If they get
a chance to do so? 1 It would be interesting
to have an answer to this question, be
cause it might disclose the fact that the
story about gouging the government,
which is causing the News and Courier
so much unrest, did not after all originate
in Savannah, but in Charleston.
The News and Courier says that its sug
gestion that the story originated in Sa
vannah appears lo be well founded, but it
gives no reason for thinking it well found
ed, except a statement from its Washing
ton correspondent that the opponents of
Charleston intends to throw every obstacle
in the way of Charleston's getting the sta
tion, and a statement from our Washing
ton correspondent, that Savannah has of
fered the government a site for the station
free of charge. We are unable to see that
either of these things Justifies its sugges
tion. The News and Courier, however, evi
dently wants to think it does, and It pro
ceeds to say, virtually, that It understands
Savannah's "little game." Savannah, ac
cording to the News and Courier, cannot
get the station under the present bill, but
she hopes to prevent Charleston from get
ting it, and then, in the course of time,
make an effort to get it herself.
It may be that the News and Courier
is "onto the little game” of Savannah,
but, if so, that paper is much better In
formed than the average dtlxcn of this
city. We know of no offer to the govern
ment of a free site for a naval station,
nor of any movement to get the naval sta
tion in the event that the naval board re
ports against Charleston, but we do know
that guvani.ah's advantages for the slat on
arc much superior to those ot Charleston
or any other place on the South Atlantic
coast. While It is true that Savannah
is several miles from the sea on a fresh
water river, the fresh water is Ihe very
thing to cleanse the bottoms of vessels
of barnacles. Charleston may have as
much water on her bar between the jetties
ns Savannah has on her liar, but how
about the depth of water on Charleston's
bar Just beyond her Jetties? And, It the
station should lie located at Charleston,
how docs that city propose to supply it
with water for drinking and bathing pur
poses? Is it nol a fact that the only water
that Charleston has 4or drinking purposes
is cistern water? And in tinrK-s of drought
that is bad and scarce. Here in Savannah
we have the best water in the world.
The recent hospital and ambulance
scandal in the British army in South
Africa has rabed a demand for a scape
goat upon whom to load the blame, and
some writers have apparently pitched
upon Lord Kitchener to play the part.
Kitchener, It is said, has always been
perfectly indifferent to human suffering,
and regards a man who is down as a
tool that is no longer of any use to him
in the work he has to do, and may, there
fore, be neglected. On the other hand.
Kitchener’s friends assert that such
charges are both unjust and untrue, and
declare that the break-down in the ser
vice for the sick and wounded wils due
to the interference of politicians in Eng
land with the Rian of campaign in
Africa. #
PERSON AL.
—Senator and Mrs. Cushman K. Davis
will sail for Norway about the first of
next month, and will spend the summer
there.
—Mr. Balfour recentl made a speech
at the opening of a charity bazaar at
Dundee, and devoted the whole of his re
marks to the praise of golf.
—Dr. Ernest Juch, who died recently In
London, was the founder, with Gottfried,
Of the Londoner Zeitung. the arm of
which was to bring a union of the
German States.
—Samuel Alschuler, of Aurora, 111., who
has been nominated for Governor of Illi
nois on the Democratic ticket, was born
in Chicago in 1859. He has served two
terms in he Illinois Legislature.
—lt is said in Boston that Prof. .Charles
Eliot Norton has declared his intention of
leaving to Harvard, at his death, his large
library, vaiyable archaeological collection
and priceless collection of manutscripts.
—Arnold Tompkins, who has been chosen
principal of the Chicago Manual School,
is one of the best known and most pop
ular educators in Illinois. To accent this
new* place at a salary of $5,000 a year lie
leaves the presidency of the Illinois State
Normal University, a highly important
position, in which he has served one year.
—The Gaunt family, of Australia, is ver
satile. The father is a Melbourne judge;
a daughter, Mary, is a colonial novelist,
who haw made a considerable reputation
in England; a son in the navy (Lieut.
Gaunt) distinguished bimaolf during the
fighting iik Samoa, and now comes news
that Capt. Cecil Gaunt, another son. at
tached to the Fourth Royal Irish Dragoon
Guards, was among the defenders of
Ladysmit h.
BRIGHT BITS.
—The Cornfed Philosopher.—"lt Is hard
for me to acknowledge that I do not know
it all,” said the Cornfed Philosopher,
“but I confess I cannot see why the
rock-the-boat idiot is allowed to live un
til he is strong enough to tip it over.”—
Indianapolis Press.
—Highly Recomemnded. Patent-Medi
cine Proprietor—Here’s a recommend for
our medicine from a life-insurance presi
dent. Junior Partner—Good! What does
he say? Proprietor—Says fewer of his pol
icy-holders die from taking our medicine
than any other.—Judge.
—Mrs. D’Avnoo (at front window)—Offi
cer! Policeman—Yes, ma’am. What’s
wrong, ma’am? Mrs. D’Avnoo—Nothing’s
wrong; hut I wish you’d step into the
kitchen and tell the cook not to burn the
meat, as she did last night. I’m afraid to.
—New' York Weekly.
—Corroborative—“l am inclined to think
there is some foundation for the rumor
that the X., Y. and Z. Railway is about
to be consolidated with the A., B. and O.”
“Has anything turned up to confirm it?”
“Yes. The presidents of both roads say
tfoere is absolutely nothing in the Ktory.—
Chicago Tribune.
—A Life of Excitement.—GMty Cousin—
But don’t you find it dreadfully dull?
Country Cousin—Dull? The idea! Why
there’s the Epworth League one evening;
and class meeting, another; and prayer
meeting always on Wednesdays; and the
Dorcas meeting, and the other means of
grace. There’s almost always something
exciting going on after supper.”—Brooklyn
Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Discussing the suggestion of National
Committeeman Campau of Michigan, that
the Democrats nominate Buffalo Bill as
an offset to Roosevelt, the Chicago Chron
icle (Dem.) says: "There can lie no com
parison between the sanguinary records of
the two heroes. 'Buffalo Bill' has actual
ly 'killed Injuns’—lots of them. He was
In the business long ago. and while Mr
Roosevelt may have slain two or three
grizzly bears. Col. Cody has hecatombs to
his credit. In the matter of riding buck
ing bronchors or in throwing, tying and
branding steers the odds in Col. Cody's
favor would he 10 to I—perhaps 16 to 1.
In every winy he. would have the advan
lage. The Kansas City Convention will
not nominate 'Buffalo Bill,' however. The
Democracy does not need to conduct the
campaign upon a Wild West basis, nor
would it be advisable to do so. A good
Democrat, who perhaps never shot a 'sil
ver tip’ or wrote a magazine article In
his life, will be put up to oppose Col.
Roosevelt and will beat that gentleman
so badly that, to use the picturesque ano
expressive simile of Mr. Briggs—himself
a Western man—'he won’t know himself
from a last year's corpse.’ ”
The Indianapolis Sentinel (Dem.) says:
"In the drafting of the Kansas City plat
form one fact should not be overlooked,
and that is that all the ills we suffer are
the results of the abandonment of fun
damental American principles—the princi
ples of the declaration of Independence
and of the constitution. This is true not
only of imperialism and militarism, but
also of trusts, for they owe their existence
to abandonment of the principle of 'equal
rights for all and special privileges to
none.' ’’
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.l
says: "The Chicago platform was good
enough for 1896. hut of course it could not
anticipate Algerism, the encouragement
or trusts, the application of the doctrine
of double taxation without representation,
the whitewashing of thieves in Cuba, tlie
invasion of Chinn, and the absurd man
agement of the w ar in the Philippine*. We
need a ringing, up-to-date platform, with
primarily a positive declaration for free*
silver To reaffirm the Chicago platform
Just as It is would Vie about us sensible
as adopting last year's almanac for this
year."
The Charleston Post (Dem.) says: "Tie
disturbances In Chlnu will, It Is feared,
have a very had effect on the cotton man
ufacturing; trade of some o( the big South
ern mills. The price of raw cotton, how
ever. sitms lo grow fat on wars and
rumors of wars, and the farmer is on the
rich side of Hie pasture. On Friday
July cotton,, both snot and future, sold
in New York for ill cents, the llrsf time
such a figure has been reached In ten
years.”
Contention Storied.
While Sulzer was receiving the plaudits
of the “peep” at the Savoy, says the Sun’s
Kansas City special, the Hon. Jim Ham
toddled more or less discontentedly around
the corridor of the Midland, frequently
running his fingers through his pink
whiskers, which hadn’t been trimmed for
a long time, and talking now and then
with numerous correspondents/ from in
and out of town, all of whom he said he
knew, whether he did or not. “What’s the
n-vvs?” they asked him. The Hon. Jim
Ham confided in them that he had ju£t
come from Lincoln.
“The fact is.” he said, “I have had a
private conference with Mr. Bryan. I
am not at liberty, of course, to give you
any information about it. but I will eay
this: That after recing Mr. Bryan it is
my opinion that Mr. Bryan will insist up
on a reaffirmation of the 1G to 1 plank in
the paltform, and, further, it is my opin
ion ihat Mr. Bryan believes that any fail
ure to specifically reiterate, perhaps not
in the same language, but the principle,
will 1b taken by the people as a backdown,
a dropping away from principle. Therefore
he will insist upon it.”
‘‘But what’s the news about yourself,”
was demanded.
‘‘Ah. myself,” said the Hon. Jim Ham.
patting his breast. "Myself, myself.
Well, there’s the rub. Well, in the morn
ing I shall have my whiskers trimmed and
shall put on a clean collar, do you
see?” pulling aside his whiskers to show
his need of one. "I shall also put on an
other suit of clothes, but the whiskers are
th* most important.” And again the Hon.
Jim Ham drew his fingers back and forth
through tiie ginger ale pampas * graze
through which the winds of the state of
Washington had whistled ever since Jim
Ham got into politics.
"But how about your own bobm—your
political boom?” asked one of the sturdier
questioners.
"Again myself,” said Jim Ham. "again
myself. Well, boys, I’m a candidate. I
believe I’m going to get it.”
"How n.any votes have you got?” asked
the coldblooded opes.
"Well,” said Jim Ham "I’ve Washing
ton,” and he held'up his hand and began
to count on his fingers, “I’ve Idaho, Ne
vada, Utah, a part of California. You
know' some of the, people of California in
sist on giving Mr. Phelan a complimenta
ry vote, but they will all go for me after
that. Then I’ve a part of Georgia, Ala
bama and other Southern states, from
which section, as you well known, I origi
nated. I should say that I will have al
together a hundred votes on the first bal
lot. We’ll make it fifty—l will have fifty
certain. Nor. boys.” said Jim Ham, in
conclusion, "when you want anything
come to me. Y’ou know I’m your friend.
Lord, what w’ould I have been if the news
papers. hadn’t taken me up. Some of you
gentlemen have been eomewhat facetious,
it is true. I don’t mitul that, though, only
keep me in the public eye. Please do not
let me sink into political oblivion. Just
keep me to the front. Say anything of
me. but do not forget to mention me.
Thank you, gentlemen, thank you.”
Mr. Sulzer had a long chat with Mr.
Croker and Mr. Murphy to-night. Mr. Sul
zer. when he left the two New' Yorkers,
umped about the corridors, telling how he
had already 200 votes in the convention
for the vice presidential nomination.
"Did you give Mr. Sulzer any encourage
ment?" Mr. Croker was asked.
The Taminny chieftain smiled grimly,
shrugged his shoulders and said: "Not a
word yet about this matter; not a word, if
you please.”
Referring to Kansas City hills, they are
an improvement on those of Rome. The
latter had seven, but Kansas City has
seyentjj. Everywhere you go you must
climb a hill, both going and coming. Dis
tances are measured by McDowell county,
West Virginia, standards. A "look” Is
the distance from one hill to another. A
"hoot" is the range of a voice raised
to yell. When you ask a citizen where
such and such a place Is and he replies:
"It’s about three looks and a hoot over
yonder direction,” you know just how
many hills you have to climb. But Kan
sas City is all right from the Demo
cratic standpoint.
All the augmented bars were open this
Sunday morning. If you didn't want to
go to church you could go under an elec
tric fan and drink cocktails. This after
noon two theaters are playing "Sapho,"
and a minstrel show under a terft Is in
progress. But the greatest scheme of all
is promised for July Fourth. This con
vention is the biggest thing Kansas City
ever had and she wants everybody to ad
mire it.
The plan is to arrange a wide aisle
through the Convention Hail and allow
all visitors and citizens to march through
the hall and witness the convention on
the afternoon of that day. The Commit
tee on Admission has placed a great many
complimentary tickets at the various ho
tels to be presented to visiting women and
the committee asks the people of Kansas
City who have women visitors to the con
vention to send in so that eomplimentary
tickets can be furnished to theee strang
ers in the city. This is anew and novel
innovation in convention procedure.
A ludicrous mix-up occurred in the
local arrangements. 2,500 buttons with the
words “I live in Kansas City, Ask Me,”
were distributed at 81 to Kansas City res
idents. They were designed to aid strang
ers. Yesterday the makers began gelling
imitation buttons at 10 cents each to all
comers. Every Jay from adjoining states
is buying and wearing them as souvenirs,
and when asked for the information by
other strangers, shows dense ignorance,
The Kansas City people are boiling with
rage, hut the damage has been done.
The influence of Bryan has pre-empted
the city, says the Tribune's special. The
Bryan cocktail is on hand, so is Rhine
wine and seltzer, whioh is now called
"Bryan and Suizer." Everywhere the mo
bile features of the orator of the Platte
look down upon the carousing multitude
in his sad. sweet way, and now come the
musid stories with- "anti-expansion
matches." It was customary until yester
day for hotels and barrooms to entertain
their guests with music boxes and. the like,
hut now, alas! the slot machine whirrs
in every available corner, and the jingle
of silver—or rather nickels—is pleasantly
heard. It Is curious to note the man from
the East, who comes here as a Democrat
howling for free silver, 16 to 1. and yet
kicks like a mule because he has silver
handed to him in change. Silver seems
to be a howling success In theory, but
when taken in the pocket it Is cumber
some and Inconvenient to the Eastern
Democrat.
Speaking of dreams, says the Philadel
phia Press' special, two of them have
struck town. They are labeled William
Suizer and James Hamilton Lewis. They
are vice presidential dreams, Outside of
the fluttering decorations on the facades
Mr. James Hamilton Lewis' whiskers arc
the most vivacious and fiambuoyant ex
hibits In Kansas City. His pink shirt is
the next.
Lewis does not bear the impression it)
his manner of a man who has been sat
upon by W. J, Bryan, the- popular im
pression Is that he has been. As for the
effervescent and irresistible Suizer, Bryan,
they say. simply let him talk and fizz for
three solemn hours till he hitd droned out
every Idea he had and then the great boss
said he was glad to see him and hear hitn
talk. Suizer's agents and hired men are
to-day pulling up lithographs of Bryan
(111 over town with Bryan’s name In hulf-
Inch letters below, ruder is the legend;
"For Vice President. W illiam Suizer," and !
the Suizer letters are an inch and a half
high. Everybody admits that Suizer is a
wonder, not winner by 500 miles. James J
Hamilton Jx wis of Washington came to!
the Kansas City hills to the hotels unher- |
aided. Candidate Suizer has a tally-ho
and a bad brass band to show him the !
way,
She was fair of face and—well, say 25,
says the Kansas City Star.
lirr clothes were neat and cool. Pinned '•
lo the bosom of her shirt waiat was one I
of the large buttons now being distributed
by the bureau otf information for the ac
commodation of strangers visiting this
city during the session of the Democratic
national convention. This large button
bore the tallamfinic words, “Ask me!”
When she tripped into the car and took
a seat the men stared at her. The women
did likewise. Opposite sat a middle-aged
woman with her ©even-year-old daughter.
The child stared at the large button on
the shirt waist, then, pointing to it, ask
ed, "What is that, mama?”
“It’s very rude to point, don’t you know,
my dear?” quoth mama.
"Well, what is It?” she again inquired.
The young woman heard the inquiry
and reprimand and smiled at the perverse
ness of the child; then, holding out her
hands, said. “Come here, little sweet
heart, and rn explain it to you.”
The child looked at her mother, who
nodded asseiit. She went over and was
lifted to a seat on the young woman’s
lap. 4 .
"Now', I’ll tell you all about It. These
buttons we*e designed for the purpose of
furnishing Information to the many visit
ors who will come to Kansas City next
week. If they are seeking a hotel or
street or store all they need do is ask the
wearer of a button like this. In other
words, the wearer of a button like this
will answer questions asked. Do you un
derstand now?” she asked. The child nod
ded her head.
"And are you going to answer© ques
tions?” queried the child.
"Just try me and see,” replied the young
woman.
The hitd fingered the button in silence
for a few moments, then she asked:
"How old are you?”
"I’m—”
"Are you aa old as my mama?” persisted
the child. Mama frowned. The young
woman smiled.
"Are you married?” was the next ques
tion.
"No, dear, I am not.”
"Why don’t you get married?”
The young woman showed signs of em
barrassment.
"I expect to—some time.” she replied.
A Chinaman came into the car. The
child took her eyes off the young woman
long enough to eee who was the new
passenger.
"Would you marry that Chinaman?”
she asked, pointing to where he sat. Mama
smiled. The men laughed and the young
woman blushed furiously. Putting the
child tjown she signalled the conductor to
stop and she stepped from the car.
Before the car was out of sight she
threw that “Ask me” button as far as
she could send it.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—There is a plan now before the Ital
ian parliament for providing the three
southeastern provinces of Foggia. Bari
and Lecce wi h water from Capasele in
the Apennines by buildirg an aqueluct
163 miles long with branches that will
bring up the to al length to Bto miles.
The land is productive, but suffers in
summer from drought and malaria. The
present water supply of the district is
drawn largely from swamps. The project
ed aqueduct would cost $3-\OOO.COO and
would supply 2SB towns and villages hav
ing a population of 1,800.000.
—Owing to the ephenv ral nature and to
the exceedingly 'small sze of bacteria,
it would seem well-n!gh impossible to
study the minute forms which assuredly
must have existed ages ago. Two French
investigators, B. Renault and C. E. Ber
trand. have, however, microscopically ex
amined several varieties of Anthracite
coal and partially carbonized wood, and
believe to have discovered petrified bacilli.
Renault has even designated several of
his species by name (Micrococcus Garbo.
Bacillus carbo. Bacillus colletus). He ad
vance the theory that these bacteria have
effected the transformation of wool ctllu
lose into coal—a theory which is decided
ly opposed io our conception of the car
bonization of wood. Bacteria, according to
Renault, would therefore be most power
ful factors in the geological deve’opment
of the world.
There are curious stories going around
about the members of the Campbell family,
whose head is the Duke of Argyll, their
relations to one another, and their inten
tions with regard to their ancestral seat,
Inverary Castle. The new duke, as every
body knows, is the one time Marquis of
Lome, the Queen's son-in-law, and the old
duke, who died a few weeks ago, married
for the third lime when art old man. Now
rumor has It that the Duchesn Dowager
has been left with some of the estates, a
big lot of money and a fine house, with
the result that the new- duke and duchess
have not income sufficient to live on in
the style necessary for children of the
Queen and the leading nobility of Scotland
The government is said to be willing that
the Duke should be first governor general
of the federated Australia. This would
help mattere, but the Duchess is not will
ing to go so far from home. Inverary
Castle, that has been occupied as the
family home of the Argylls from time
immememorial. ls to be let, and the new
tenant is Sir Thomas Lipton.
—At the Harvard physical laboratory,
says t,he Baltimore Sun, a storage bat
tery of 20,000 cells has been installed by
I rof. Trowbridge, who secures from it
some very striking results. A coil that
would produce a spark fortv-five inches
long has been considered a powerful one
but with his battery Prof. Trowbridge
gets sparks six and one-half feet long
sparks that "exhibit all the chief pecu
liarities of lightning. " "With suitable
condensers I can obtain." writes the pro
fessor to the Electrical Review. "6,000.000
volts, but I have discovered that voltages
of this extent cannot be studied In a
laboratory or in any confined space It
is necessary to place the apparatus in an
open field and at least thirty feet from
the ground, for the inductive action to
all surrounding objects at such high volt
ages is enormous and the air becomes
a fairly good conductor. One 0 f me
most interesting manifestations of this
large battery is the production of the
X-rays. The photographs taken by means
of it show unusual contrasts and exhibit
traces of the ligaments and muscles l
see no reason why. under proper ma
nipulation, one cannot obtain satisfactory
photographs of the tendons and muscles
for the battery current and voltn = e C ari
be regulated to any desired degree "
Among results Is "the highest instanta
neous temperature yet produced." The
spectrum of hydrogen can be photo
graphed by the heat of one discharge,
—A Washington dispatch says: Star
shells will herafter constitute a part of
the ammunition outfit of all the Vickers
mountain batteries in the United States
army Kxperlmen's mad* with the-;.,
illuminating projectiles have been so sat
isfactory that the probabilities are that
this form of ammunition will be menu
facturetl for the standard 3.2-Inch and
3-inch Held guns, and for the 3-inch and
7-lnch siege guns. The subject is now
under consideration hy the military au
thorities. According to present informa
tion, the star shells to be most effective
in giving off light must be burst ot
points nbout 100 feet over the enemy's
position. In the case of the 0-lnch moun
tain-gun shells, each projectile contains
ten stars of a highly Illuminating char
acter. The fuse action of the shell tint
only ignites the bursting charge G f the
projectile, and thereby releases the stars
through the fracturing of the shell-wall
but, also, fires the quick match of cncti
Illuminator. The shells will so light
the ground at distances of 2,000 yards that
hy the aid of glasses objects .•an readily
be made out on the darkest n!ghi The
fuse action Is regulated on the same prla
etple as If firing shrapnel—that Is know
ing the distance of the enemy and the
time required for a shell to travel that
distance, the fuae is cut to hurst the
projectile short of and over the desired
spot. In the ease of the star shells the
projectiles must he hurst well up In order
to admit of the stars gaining full ilium
mating power before reaching the ground
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