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4 §Hjc iEornine Horning News Building. Mnnth, Ua. WEDNESDAY, JLLY 4. 1000. Registered at the Poatoffice in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and is served to eubacribers in the city, or sent by mail. *t 70c a month, *4.00 for six months, and 58.00 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.50; s:x months $3.00; one year, $6 00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week. Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, SLOO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registeiai letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than !• i 1 column, local or reading notices, or.-, ments end cheap or want column, is a line. 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Ry.; No tice of Closing, Southern Express Com 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. >' * 1 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. 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