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6 §Tf)c Iflofnitta scto§. Morning: >fw Building. Savannah, Go. SV3TDAY, JULY 8, 1?H)O. Registered at the Post office In EavaniSh. The MORNING XEIV9 Is published even' day in the year, and is erved to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month, $4.00 lor fix ruonlhs, and $••00 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday Issue), thr+e* months, $1.50; six months $3 00; one yeat, $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 Issue* a week Monday and Thursday, by mall, one year, 00. Subscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by postal orcFr, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of •enders. Transient advertisements, other than •pecial column, lo il or reading notices, amusements und ch* ap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depo ts the standard c( measurement. 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Joyce; Auction of Bicycle*, At Thomas’ Bicycle Emporium; Levan's Table d’Hote. Business Notices —For the edding, Hunter & Van Keuren; An Object Lesson, Theus Bros.; Savannah Steam Laundry; ©ome People Have e Good Deal of Money, K. L. Clancy & Cos. This la Seasonable Weather and Get Comfort—At the Metropolitan. The Waldorf-Astoria Coffee—At Mun ster’s. The Chance io Buy—Thor. West & Cos. Great and Good Are We—George W. Al len & Cos. A Special Show At a Special Sale—Ches. Marks. A Moments Thought—Lattlmore’e. Nothing Is Prettier—Cohen-Kulman Car riage and Wagon Company. Educational—Elizabeth Charlotte, N. C.; Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Ga. Financial—Report of the Condition of the Southern Bank of the State of Geor gia; The Yankee Consolidated Mining, Milling and Tunneling Company, Denver, Col. Everything In Summer Apparel—Walsh & Meyer. A Very Extensive Assortment—lyeopold Adler. Cigars—Tom Keene Cigars. 3,176 Pairs of Our Celebrated $8.50 Shoes —Bycll Bros. Fishing Tackle, Etc.—Edward Lovell’s Sons. Challenge Sale—A. S. Nichols. Excursions— Moonlight Excursion, Inde pendent Society. July 11. Sells It for Less—Knight’s Pharmacy. Auction Sales—Cedar Packing Chest, Etc., by C. H. Dorsett, Austioneer; City Lots, by C. H. Dorsett. Auctioneer. The Ribbon King—M. A. Stokes. Laundry—E. & W. laundry. Summer Horse Clothing— Frank. Money Saving Prices—At the Bee Hive. The Big Bargain Sensation of the Times —Foye & Morrison. Up Against Hot Weather—Daniel Ho gan. Postum Food Coffer—Post urn Cereal Cos. Beef—Liebig’s Extract of Beef. Medical—Munyon’s Blood Cure; S. S. 9.; Bar-Ben; Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy; R. R. R.; Hood's Sarsaparilla; Dr. Pierce’s Dispensary Preparations; Coke, Dandruff Oure; P. I*. P.; Infant's Friend Powder; Gray beard. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kept; Fore Sale; l^ost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Wentlior. The Indications for Georgia to-day are for lo<~al i-ains, and fresh to brisk south westerly winds; ar.d for Eastern Florida showers and thunderstorms with fresh •outhwesterly winds. A memorial to the "inventor” of "Boston baked been*” is proposed, In Boston, of course. The inventor was Capt. Ginty. But, cHjriously enough, the Captain was raver in Boston in his life. He was a na tive of Danbury, Conn. The Pope, it is said, has made himself quite ill by worrying and grit ving over the Boxer outrages. He has ordered special masse* for the repose of the souls of the murdered mls.sioimrlfs and prayers for the safety of possible survivors. Neither ticket has got n rich man on It. bb rich men go nowadays. Bryan and MoKlnley are both poor men. Stevenson 4s probably comfortably well-to-do, but be in not rich. Roosevelt- i worth more than either of the others, but his friends say that he is not a rich inan. One of the reasons why he objected to being nomi nated for Vice President was because ho could not well afford the drain that might fall upon his private fortune. It isn’t a very serious offense, in the opinion of the Belgian courts, to shoot at (he Princ* of Wales. The young chap Sipi do, who fired at the heir apparent to the throne of Great Britain in Brussels some lime ago, has been sent by the court to a reformatory until lie shall have attain ed his majority. Then, presumably, he will be released to shoot at seme other prominent person. The burlesque of Bipido’s punishrnrrit will encourage other would-t# aaaaasina. TTIE DEPENDENCE ON MR. BRYAN. The Democratic party does not depend j upon its platform. Its leaders or its or i gar.lz.ition for sniceeee in the presidential j campaign. It depend* on Mr. Bryan, lie is trusted and relied upon to a greater , extent probably than any other presiden tial candidate has been in the political hls -1 torv of the country. The people, without I regard to political affiliations, believe In his honesty and his sincerity, and admire his fidelity to his convictions. He is the one man who Is able to unite into an aggressive political army all of the various elements that are hostile to the Republi can party. Voter® who do not agree with his view® on the silver question, but who believe he is right in opposing the colo nial policy of the Republican party, and voters who believe in holding on to the Philippine Islands as permanent posses sion, but who approve his 16 to 1 idea, will le found marching under his leader ship in the campaign. His influence is so great that Democrats, Populists, Sil- ver Republicans, and even some straight out-Republicans, are willing to put aside their differences, for the time being, end assist him in the effort to drive the Re publican party from power. That tliis is true was conspicuously shown in the Kansas- City Convention. Had it not for the dominating per sonality of Mr. Bryan, the convention would not have accepted 4he report of the Platform Committee. In fai t, the, re port would have been different. More than three-quarters of the convention regarded the silver declaration as a mistake. Tho delegates who entertained this view were from states where votes must be gained if the Democratic party is to be victorious. The small minority of the convention that favored the silver declaration was com posed of delegates from states which are overwhelmingly Democratic, or in which the Democrats have no chance whatever of gaining an electoral vote, or from ter ritories which have no electoral vote. The great majority' of the convention, how e\er, yielded to what %vas known to bo Mr. Bryan’s wish. The action of the Platform Committee, In shaping which the vote, of the member from- Hawaii, which has no electoral vote, w’as permitted to offset the vote of the member from New York, which state will likely determine the presidential contest, was allowed by the convention to stand, simply because it was the Judgment of Mr. Bryan that it would s-trengthen the party. Such reli ance upon any one man was never before seen in any national political convention. And Mr. Bryan will manage the cam paign. Senator Jones has been re-elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but Mr. Bryan will dominate the committee a® completely as he did the convention. He will be consulted before any Important action la taken in any di rection, and his advice will be accepted. There is no doubt that he will perform wonders dirring the campaign. What he did in the campaign of 1896, astonished the country'. He Is ae strong physically now a* he was then, and he is a much abler man. intellectually. He has been a hard student during the last four years, and is well prepared to keep the country thinking, from now until the election, by his public utterances. WOMEN NOT MADE TO WORK. A Chicago jury has recently, very gal lantly, reached the conclusion that w °- mnn was not made to work; that her proper sphere in life is that of an orna ment, and by inference that it is the place of the man to work and keep her in luxury. Since woman was not Intended by nature to labor, the jury held that she was not amenable to the law against vagrancy and could not he held under it. The American Lawyer reports the case, and remarks that it is unique and inter esting. The woman in the cause, it seems, had been arrested for begging and taken be fore a magistrate. Mrs. Kate Rossi, a lawyer, appeared to defend her. Mrs. Rossi argued to the magistrate that the law did not apply to her client. She failed to convince him. Mrs. Rossi then demanded a jury trial. Twelve men were selected, and to them the woman lawyer repeated her argument, enlarging upon the point that woman was not made to work and, therefore, could not be a va grant. History, custom and tradition, she said, would all support her conten tion. All of the best literature—especial ly the poetry—tended to show that wo man was made for a life of ease and lux ury. Anatomy disclosed that her struc ture was not fashioned for the hewing of wood and drawing of water. Every true poet had Indited apostrophes to "Woman, lovely woman,” and how could a woman be loaely if she handled mortar or shov eled coal? There could not be produced from any authoritative source, declared Mrs. Rossi, one solitary argument going to show that It was a part of the divine plan that woman should work to earn her living. It W’as true, she said, that for the past 200 years many of them had been compelled to work for food and raiment, but that was because of the Inability of the men to support them. That proved nothing beyond man's shortcoming. Na ture and common sense, the attorney ar gued, were above statute law, therefore her client, being a woman, should not be held under the law against vagrancy. It has been said that anything one can make a Jury believe is law. This wo man attorney made the twelve men in the jury box believe that she was pre cisely right in her contention that wo man was rot made to work, and they found her client not guilty. The Ameri can Lawyer, by the way, fails to give the approximate ages and a description of tile personal appearance of the woman lawyer and her client, and the ages of the men in the jury box. It may be that these matters would have gone a long way toward accounting for the verdict. It is possibly as well to wait a month or two before expressing regret for the untoward fate of Kwang Bu, the unfortu nate young Emperor of China. It may be true that he has committed suicide, os reported; but it will be recalled that sim ilar reports have been sent out from China on en average of once or twice a month ever since the Dowager Empress cook the young man in hand for becoming too pro gressive. If all of his suicides were In good faith, Kwang 6u must have had more lives than the proverbial cat, end another one or two fatal doses of poison will not make a great deal of difference to him. We have heard of no regrets from mil lionaires that the income tax plank was inadvertently left out of the Democratic .platform. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY; JULY 8. 1900. CAI SR FOR HAVING TROUBLE- The New York Herald, commenting on the sending of troops to China, says: “The United States has trouble enough of its own. Mr. M Kinley must not go looking for more in China. “In spite of the traditional policy of the American republic, to ‘avoid entang - ling foreign alliances,* in spite of. the fact ! that the United States Is not at war with China, American soldiers will possibly go with the allied expeditionary force to Pekin, will tight shoulder to shoulder with the troops of France, England, Austria, Italy', Russia and Japan, and will help carry destruction and bloodshed into the of a country with which the United States is professedly' at peace." It is nearly always difficult to under stand the meaning and- purpose of the editorial articles in the New York Her ald. It is certain that the people of this country do not want to have trouble W’ith China if it can possibly be avoided, but would the Herald have this government make no effort to rescue its minister at Pekin and the members of its legation there? W l ould it have it Like no steps to save the lives of Americans in China? According to the consular reports, there were in the Chinese empire last year 2,335 American residents. The inference from the latest dispatches Is that It is the pol icy of Prince Tuan, the dictator at Pekin, to kill all foreigners, Americans as well as others. If we understand the position of the Herald, it is that our government should not lift a hand to save the lives of these Americans. Other foreign gov ernments are sending troops to China with the hope of saving their citizens. If our government should stand aloof and refuse to lend a helping hand In this effort to prevent what promises to be the most frightful crime of the nineteenth century, it is probable that the Herald would be one of the first papers to con demn it. It is certain that the American people would condemn it in tfie strongest terms, if it should be guilty of such in humanity'. The people object to the government meddling in the political affairs of Chinn or Joining the Powers of Europe in par titioning the empire, but they wdll not condemn it for undertaking to rescue American citizens who are threatened with assassination by fanatical Chinese mobs. STILL QUARRELING OVER THEIR PLATFORM. The Republicans are still quarreling over their platform. As it was written by the President and his friends it contained a plank to the effedt that the constitution did not extend to newly acquired territory until extended by Congress—that Congress had the right to rule suoh territory out side of the constitution. This was in ac cordance with the Porto Rican policy of the Republican party. The Platform Committee of the Repub lican convention exercised the right of suppressing this declaration. The fact that it was suppressed was not discovered until after the convention adjourned, and then there was a great outcry made about it. One Quigg, of New York, explained that the declaration had been suppressed because the question involved in it was before the Supreme Court, and that if the court should decide that the constitution followed the flag the Republican party would be placed in a very embarrassing position. The explanation was not satisfactory to the disgruntled ones of the party. And the matter has been given new life by. a declaration in the Democratic platform in these words: “We hold that the con stitution follows the flag, and denounce the doctrine that an executive or Congress, deriving their existence and their powers from the constitution, can exercise law ful authority beyond it, in violation of it.” This bold assertion of Democratic doc trine serves to make clearer the omission in the Republican platform of any refer ence to the Republican position on this question—a question, according to Gen. Grosvenor, that is the most important that has been before the country in years. It Is, in fact, a- part of the question of imperialism about which the country is to hear so much in the presidential cam paign. THE HILL DEMONSTRATION. There is a good deal of comment in the newspapers as to the real meaning of the extraordinary demonstration in favor of former Senator Hill In the Kansas City convention. Two explanations are offer ed. One is that the convention wished to show that it did not approve bringing forward’the silver question as one of the leading issues of the campaign, and the other is that ft wished to express its disapproval of the brutal conduct of Mr. Croker in humiliating Mr. Hill by refusing him New’ Y'ork's place on the Platform Committee, a place which Mr. Hill had a right to expect and which he wanted. Had he been a member of that committee, it is probable that the platform would have been different in one import ant particular. There would undoubtedly have been a minority report and a tight in the convention on the silver plank. A fight would, in oil probability, have re sulted in a victory for the conservative element. It was doubtless Mr. Croker’s desire to humiliate Mt. Hill that caused him to use his influence to keep Mr. Hill off the Platform Commiltee. The quarrel between Mr. Croker and Mr. Hill will, it is thought, be carried Into New York state politica, and unless some sort of peace la patched up betw&n them it will be a hard matter to get up sufficient enthusiasm among Democrats to elect the Democratic state ticket. It is asserted that the friends of the two leaders are already making threats against each other. It is the understanding that it would re quire the hardest kind of work on the part of the Democrats to elect their state ticket even if there were the utmost har mony among them. With n fight going on beween the leader of the country Demo crats and the leader of the olty Demo crats the outlook for the success of the New York Democrats Is far from promis ing. Ex-Senator Hill of New York seems to feel keenly his treatment b> Mr. Croker at Kansas City. The New Y'ork Times quotes Mr. Hill as saying; “Croker and Tammany Hall are not loyal to Bryan or to anybody else. They simply seek to get In with a winner at every opportunity. They have no principle. It has simply been a case here (Kansas City) of Croker and those he could ctomrol or purchase against the decent Democrats of tlie* state ol New Y’ork.” Meanwhile, Mr. Hill says that he will do what he ran for the buc ice* of Bryan and the party, When the naval station investigators get to Charleston they will find water, water 1 everywhere, but none to drink or to bathe in available for a naval station. Possibly rt is the inrention that the naval officers at the prospective stat on shall patronize the dispensary or the blind tigers and bathe in the harbor. The haste with which this removal fcheme Is being pushed, by the way, is strongly suggestive of a de sire to get the scheme nailed down before the next session of Congress. The South African war has now dropped to double-head importance in the news papers, along with the affair in the Phil ippines, while the trouble in China is tak ing first places and the "scare” heads. A shot exchanged between Japan and Rus sia, however, wou'd quickly relegate China to second place in the nows. \ Mr. Bryan's unofficial notification of his nomination was very democratic. He was reclining on a lounge in his parlor when State Senator Talbot shouted from the telegraph room above, "You re nominated, old man!” As the Senator handed him the bulletin, Mr. Bryan laughingly re marked, “Talbot, this Is terribly sudden.” There is a very striking difference be- Iween the man Mr. Stevenson ran w'ith before and the man he is running with now. PERSONAL. —Dr. T. De Witt Talmage is reported as having as great a success as a preacher in London as he ever had at the hight of his fame in this country'. —John Dwight has given Mt. Holyoke College, Mass , $60,000 for an art building, to oc -upy the site of The old Dwigh home stead, as a m morial to Nancy and Clara Leigh Dwight. —Ali Ferouh Bey, the Turkish minister to this counify, is a regular member cf the Washington Fencing Club, of which Count Cassini is president, end is one of its best swordsmen. —lra D. Sankey. the evangelist, is to visit England early in September next and has been asked by Rev. Thomas Spur geon to take part in the reopening of the Metropolitan Temple, London. —A personal friend of Senator Bever idge says that his lafe wife was always the greatest help to him, and was as in terested in his public life as he was him self, always aiding and advising him. —A Connecticut paper recalls the fact that at tiie Harvard Club dinner last spring Secretary’ laid his hand on Roosevelt’s shoulder and said; “Teddy, you’re the man who would rather be right than Vice President.” —The Sultan of Turkey' wdll this sum mar celebrate the twenty-flfth anniversary of hi 9 accession to the throne. The occa sion will be an official jubilee and the Eu ropean sovereigns are already being sounded on the subject. —MaJ. Eeterhazy is now living In Paris and is beginning to come out of that re tirement which he recently found advis able. Many people believe he is the re cipient of a pension from the French gov ernment, with the understanding that he shall do nothing to revive the Dreyfus ag itation. —The Archbishop of Rouen has greatly disturbed devout, but fashionable, Pari siennes by denouncing the divided skirt, which he refer® to as “unwomanly" in a communication addressed to the clergymen of his diocese. Women wearing these garments will not be admitted to the Ca thedral in Rouen. BRIGHT BITS. —“Woman ought to have administration —her touch w’ill claim and purify the turg id, muddy pool of politics.” "Now, go slow, Eliza; you’ve temporarily overlook ed the Empress of China.” —Chicago Re cord. —"Were you down South during the re cent solar eclipse?” “Yfes, and I saw something funny.” “What was that?” "Why men that had been smoking tobarto all their lives were smoking glass. ’—Chi cago News. —A Rash Observation— Cassidy (meeting Mr. and Mrs. Casey)—"Ah, Pat! Thot baby is a perfect picture av ye.” Casey—“ Shut up, ye fule! Somebody left It on our front steps and Oi’m taking it to the police sta tion.”—Judge. —His Symptoms—First Waiter—“l reck on Sam is gone crazy or got religion or somethin’.” Second Walter —"What am de matter wlf him?” First Waiter—" Why, he treats dem what tip an’ dem what doan’ tip jes’ alike.”—Puck. —The Parvenu Again—" That Wigglewee girl is telling around that her grandfather moved In the best society.” "Exactly. And he also moved out the best society. He had one of the best trucka in his na tive village."—lndianapolis Press. , —Where Creative Ability Balked—" You look worried, Stubbs; Isn’t your historical novel selling well?” ”Oh, yes; the book’s ail right, but I’ve got stuck on this maga zine article explaining how I came to write It."—Chicago Record. —A De?p Interest—Ho—That little broth er of yours is mighty inquisitive. Last night he had the nerve To ask me it I hadn’t proposed to you yet. She—Oh, you musn’t mind Willie. He has my interest so much at hjart.—Judge. CURRENT COMMENT. The Baltimore Sun (Dem.)’says: “If the Republican party controls both branches of Congress, with Mr. McKinley in the White House for another term, it will fas ten its dangerous policies upon the coun try for an indefinite period. Whatever may be Mr. Bryan's fate, the Democratic party should make a supreme effort to elect a majority of the House of Representatives, and thus curb the pernicious Influences which now dominate the government.” The Nashville American (Dem.) cays: "The hope of constitutional government, of liberty under the law, of the republic preserved in its simplicity and strength is with the Democratic party, the party of liberty, Independence and opportunity, and with it in power a government of tho people, for tho people, and by the people will not perish from the earth forever." The Atlanta Journal (Dem.) says: "On the platform thus laid down stands a leader of the party in whose honesty the people have absolute confidence and to whose support a majority of them, we be lieve. will rally with great enthusiasm. I On the part of the Democrats there is to be no dodging, nor will they permit any on the part of their adversaries.” The Charleston News and Courier (Dem.) says: "After many speeches and much enthusiasm and confusion, Mr. Stevenson was selected. He has been there before and filled the office acceptably. He is a good politician and a clean man, and ought to have considerable strength in the Middle West, and he will make a hard fight for the ticket.” The Columbia (S. C.) State fDcm.) says: "It is a magnificent platform. It will vtin respect. It will arouse enthusiasm. It will give the party, we believe, the tri mph U deserves.'' Naming the Apnatlea. After a dinner in one of (he msot hos pitable residences in Washington, says <he Chicago Record, a party of very' dis tinguished men—cabinet ministers, sena tors, diplomats, scientists and soldiers— -1 sat in the smoking-room, and the conver sation naturally' drifted from politics to the proposed revision of the creed of the Presbyterian Church. Much to the sur prise of each other, and to themselves per i hap®, no one of the party was able to no me the “Five Points of Calvinism” upon which the theological system of so large a community is based. Several under took rather brashly to explain for the i benefit of their less learned companions what Caivanism meant, and a justice of the Supreme Court was able to name four points of Calvinism to his own satisfac tion, although his accuracy woe question ed by others, and he could not remember the llfth. His four points were: 1. Original sin or total depravity. 2. The freedom of the will. 3. Predestination or election. 4 Tho perseverance of the saint®. Then somebody remarked that he once in the Union league Club at New York with Roseoe Corvkling. Chester A. Arthur and several other distinguished gentle men w ho had been carefully* educated In religious families, and that none of them was able to name the twelve apostles. “That’s easy,” said a senator, braehly. beginning “Matthew, Mark. Luke and John, bless the bed that I lie on, Paul, the two Jamese*. Jude, Barnabas ” And there he stopped, with some embarrass ment. • Timothy," suggested a major-general, who is a vestryman in an Episcopal Church. “Nonsense," answered a senator, “Tim othy was a disciple of Paul’s. He wasn’t cne of the twelve apostles." “Nicodemue," suggested one of the com pany. “Jeremiah," suggested the (hird. “Judas was one of the apostles," tneefc ly came from a voice in the corner. “I ll be blamed if be was. He was a disciple," was the curt reply. “Weren’t the disciples and the apostles the same thing?” inquired the meek voice, getting a little bolder. Bartholomew was suggested and ac cepted by several. “What’s the matter with Peter?" ex claimed n modest young member of the diplomatic corps who had hitherto been silent. “How many does that make?" some body asked. and they counted up (en for sure, with as many more doubtful. “Let’s look in the Bible," somebody* sug gested, and the good book was overhaul ed In vain. Then an encyclopedia was ap pealed to, but It was not entirely* satis factory, for it Included Thomas and An drew in the list, and the jus tice of the Supreme Court and two of the senators were positive that Andrew was not an apostle. All of which teaches the great usefulness and need of Sunday Schools. Hill’s Quick Wit. After Col. Bryan made his unfortunate speech In Madison Square Garden in New Y'ork in 1596, you will remember he made a tour of the state in charge of Elliott Danforth, the banker, and John Brisbin Walker, says W. E, Curtis in the Chicago Record. Among other places the Itin erary was Albany, where the cordiality of his reception was doubtful, and scouts were sent ahead to learn public sentiment and arrange for his entertainment. After much argument and persuasion, Senator Hill consented to invite Mr. and Mrs. Bryan and their party to dine with him at his beautiful country place, Wolforts Roost, but it was distinctly understood and made a condition precedent that poli tics should not be alluded to during the evening. It took a great deal of tele graphing back and forth before this was settled, but Mr. Hill, whose attitude to ward the nominee of his party was un certain, Issued the invitations, and Mr. Bryan acepted them for his party with that stipulation. Mrs. Bryan Is supposed to have been aware of the understand ing. At that time she was her husband’s most trusted confidant and adviser, and through her Influence he insisted that Senator Gorman should retire from the National Executive Committee. However, that may have been, as soon as the soup plates were taken she turned upon her host, at whose right she was sitting, and added in tones that were audible to every person at the table; “Senator Hill, why won’t you support my husband for Presi dent?” Mr. Hill has never been a ladles’ man; he avoids the society of the feminine gen der so consistently that he has gained the reputation of a woman hater, but he is apt at repartee and can frame a compli ment as well as any courtier. There was a painful silence at the table. Every guest knew that Mrs. Bryan had violat ed the understanding upon which the din ner was given and had introduced the one topic which Senator Hill had desired to avoid, but the host was equal to the emergency. Ha smiled pleasantly, lifted a glass of wine and gallantly, in a ban tering way, answered: “If you were the candidate, madam, it would not be neces sary to ask such a question. I propose your health and happiness.” Odd Letter From Morgan. The following letter from Senator Mor gan has been found, says the Birming ham News. It was written to a Mr. Bras sel, Sept. 28. 1852. while the Illustrious Alabamian was a young lawyer at Talla dega. and recently published in the Bir mingham News: "Dear Bill: Y'ou need not purchase an other cow for me. as I have bought one over here. I will send over after the one you bought for me In a day or two. "Bill, I am told that you are about to put up a stillhouse. It Is no business of mine, but you know I am your friend and would like to see you do well, and I hope you will change your purpose. You will never regret it, If you will Just stop and put your house to some other use. Turn it Into a stable or sheep fold, and It will do you more good. > have talked with some of our friends about It, and they say tell him, for his own sake, and that of his family and friends, npt to do It. “You mnst not think hard of this, for if you were to see me doing wrong and did not tell me of it, I should lose confi dence In you. You can make as much money at other things, and you should remember that money made in a wrong way never does a man any good. "Give my best regards to your old lady and ask her what she thinks about that stillhouse. I never knew a man to suffer from taking his wife's advice. Yours truly, John T. Morgan." He Remembered Them. "By the way, said the man who had stopped at a farmhouse to water his horse, "fifteen years ago a poor boy come this way and you took him in.” “Yes?” queried the farmer, somewhat surprised. "Y'ou were kind to him,” went on the stranger. "You fed him. gave him words of encouragement, an., old suit of clothes, put a dollar in his pocket, and sent him on his way rejoicing. He told you at the time that he never would forget your kindness to a poor, struggling lad." "Land's sakes!" exclaimed the farmer's wife, excitedly. "It sounds almost like a fairy tale, don't it? Why, you must have seen him.” "I have,” said the stranger, "and he sent a mesasge to you." "What Is It?" they both asked, expect antly. “He told me to tell you that he Is still poor.” A* the stranger drove away the farmer went out and kicked the pump viciously, while Ills wife threw a rolling pin at the chickens. —The wife of Gen. Fred D. Grant Is in St. Petersburg on a visit to the Princess ,4,’antacuzene-Speransky, her daughter, ITEMS OF INTEREST. —A Concord, N. H., judge has decided that soda water is one of the necessaries of life and may be sold on Sunday. —There are two well known families in Devonshire, England, the Carews and the Careys, and it is said that the members of the Carew family pronounce the name “Carey," while the Careys call themselves “Carew." —The acreage of sugar beets in Europe is 6hown by Consul Diederich's report to bi greater this year than in 1899. Ger many has 1,090,521 acres in sugar beets, Austria-Hungary 839,151 acres, Fiance, 685,:91 acres, Russia 1,353,975 acres, Bel gium 170,028 acres, Holland 112,878 acres. Sweden 71.271 acres and Denmark 31,534 acre®. Each power, with the exception of Denmark, shows an increased acreage. It will be noted that Russia has the largest area In beets. This circumstance is an unfortunate one for those who wish the bounty on beet sugar abolished. At the recent conference of the producing pow ers Germany, Austria-Hungary* and och er large producers were w ill ng to slop ths bounty, which no longer serves a use ful purpose, but Russia would not agree and her increased acreage will make her loss willing than ever to agree. —Utilizing the wind as a stump roller is an Oregon invention, says the Farm er’s Advocate. I was the Idea of The farmer at the state penitentiary, whose task w’as to clear six acres, and with the aid of the wind he cleared the whole trcct in six weeks, although the timber was a dense growth, the first measur ing from one to four feet in diameter. The winds in the quarter blew strong from the south at this season. The farmer put his men to work on the north side of the fir giove. They cut a log and dragged it close lo the north side of the bases of the fir trees that were to be felled. The preparations were made during the first day*, and then the men went home and slept while the wind did the rest. Dur ing the night a strong south wind blew the trees dow’n, and they, in falling across the logs, pulled up the taproots. The next day the saw sawed up the fallen trees, burned the brush, and laid their log for another lot of trees. They pro ceeded in this way until the W’hole grove had disappeared. —According to Messrs. T. M. Aldrich and L. A. Turley, two well-known European zoologists, man is not the only living be ing who delights to go skyward in a bal loon. There are certain flies, they say, which invariably go through the air, in balloons, whenever they* get tired of fly ing in the ordinary way. These airships are composed of small bubbles, which are exuded from the bodies of flies, and the air iq which suffices to support the in sects whenever their wings become weary, and the fancy takes them to ride through the air on their tiny gossamer bladders. They* can go, it is said, in any desired di rection by simply swaying their bodies to ward the goal which they expect to reach. In one of these curious airships the zoolo gists found the body of a very small in sect, and they are now* wondering whether the proprietor of the balloon thoughtfully placed it there with the object of feeding on it during its aerial journey. As an argument in favor of the latter hypothesis they point out that flies w’hile traveling in balloons dannot satisfy their hunger un less they return to the earth. —According to Prof. Hans Gross of Ber lin, valuable clues toward the detection of criminals may be obtained through an examination of cigar tips. Of course, this applies to those who smoke cigars, the tips of which they carelessly throw away in the street or elsewhere, “if y’ou.pick up any tip,” he says, “and examine it closely, the chances are that you will be able to learn something as to the person ality and social position of the man who threw it away*. In the case of criminals the first point to be considered is the man ner in which it was cut off from the cigar. If a knife or any other instrument was used for this purpose, then this instrument will doubtless be found on the criminal. If, on the other hand, it was bit off with the teeth, a thorough examination of the tip will show' what kind of teeth were used for this purpose. A man with a row of even teeth will bite off the end of his ci gar squarely’ and evenly’, whereas one with jagged, uneven teeth will bite it clumsily and in such a manner as to leave clearlv visible the marks of his incisors. By com paring the mark* on cigar tips with the teeth of supposed criminals, prosecuting officers and detectives will be able to ob tain much information which they could not possibly obtain any other way " The police do not thank Prof. Gross for this suggestion, since they* are afraid that a new duty may be imposed on thern-that of looking out carefully for cigar tips which may* be throwrn into the streets. -So much to see, if you have eyes to see ' there ls not a moment that some thing wonderful does not take place, says Forest and Stream. At this junction of the thoroughfare and Island lake on a dead pine more than ICO feet high sat a white-headed eagle. In the air a large fish-hawk was sailing over the water looking for h.s dinner 200 or 300 feet he low him. Wiiat p netrating orbs of vision nature has endowed this bird with’ There he gives his lightningiike shot to the wa ter, seems almost submerged, only to re appear with a four-pound pike in his talons. Slowly he rises, goinfi toward the woods, where he hopes to enjoy his we.il earned meal, but he has reckoned with out his host. The king of birds has been watching his every movement and if found successful is in readiness to exact that tribute which the stronger always demands and compels from ihe weak Al most quick as thought the eagle ie "p ir suing the hawk and for a little while a merry chase it is. But the eagie is the master and the hawk instinctively feels it, as after a sudden, violent swerve only just to evade the terrible claws of the now enraged eagle, he drops the prize and slowly flies to the other side of lake. There is no need for haste now a< the master wavs after liihute, not the hawk. Payment having be n made Ly re -1 nqu.siting valuable property, the eagle once more displays his wonderful a-tivlty by catching the pike before It strikes th' water and then as leisurely to cover to gormandize —There ore many fine epigrams and proverbs In Spanish. Many of them can not me translated so as to preserve the terseness und aptness of the original. Fol lowing are a few of a long list print ed by Modern Mexico which are frequent ly heard in the sister republic; "He who never ventures will never cross tho sea " "There’s no gain without pain;’’ "Flies cannot enter a closed mouth;" "Behind the cross is the devil;" "A cat in gloves will never catch rats;" t’To the hungry no bread is dry;" "A book that is shut mnkeh no scholar; I’ho good laundress washes the shirt liiit;" “No evil will en dure a hundred years;’’ "When the river ls passed the saint is forgotten." —A political protege of tlie late Count Muravieff, Prince Oukhtomsky, figures in an amusing story that was current on his presentation ns Russian envoy to the Chi nese Emperor. Among the many costly presents from the Czar of which he was the bearer was a group of statuary in silver, which had undergone strange vi cissitudes before finding a home In Pe kin. The original design was an alle. gorleal representation of the emanclpa-’ tlon of Bulgaria. But when the artist was at work history was being made and was completed more quickly than the work of art. By the time the latter was finished Prince Alexander of Battenherg had forfeited the Czar's favor, and thV gift never reached its destination The group is now, or was until recently in Pekin, a slight alteration of the a ones sorles having changed the emancipation of Bulgaria from the Turk Into the eman cipation of the Lao Tong Peninsula from th Japanese! SUMMER RLSOrtTS. ~ FOR~ Ml, Pleasure ana cum GO TO ill 18. Magnificent mountains 1,200 feet above sea. No malaria excellent mineral waters'- ball room, billiard and pooi tables; splendid music. Reached by Southern RV B. B. Abernethy, Prop' SARATOGA. THE GRAND UNION Open until Oct. I. Special Terms per Week or Season. For Illustrated Booklet address WOOLLEY & GERRANS, Proprietor? Saratoga Springs, New York. HOTEL NORMANDIE, BKUADWA * & 3STII STS.. NEW YORK ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. EUROPEAN PLAN. COOLEST HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY Located in the liveliest and most inter esting part of the city; twenty principal places of amusement within five minutes’ walk of the hotel CHARLES A. ATKINS & CO Summer Resort—Ocean Kate). Aehurr Park. N. J. GEO. L. ATKINS & SON'S. BLOWING ROCK. GREEN PARK HOTEL Summit of Blue Ridge, 4,540 feet. Scen ery and climate unsurpassed, so say globe trotters. Hotel first-class in every respect. Only house on mountain with plastered walls; excellent livery; 45 miles turnpike ' roads on top of ridge; large ball room. | band and other amusements. Postoffice and telegraph in hotel. Opens July 1. Write for leaflet and rates to Green Park Hotel Cos., Green Park, N C. Hotel American-Adelphi, Finest Locution in SAR ATOGA SPRINGS. Near Mineral Springs! and Rnthn, OPEN JUNE TO NOVEMBER. ROOM3 EN SUITE, WITH BATHS. GEO. A. FARNHAM, Prop. IN THE GREAT NORTH WOODS. HOTEL DEL MONTE, SARANAC LAKE, X. Y. OPENS JUNE 25. under entirely new manage merit; newly furnished and renovated through out; table and service first-class; near lake and Hotel Ampersand; golf, tennis, billiards, boating, fishing, driving and bicycling; livery For booklet address J. HENRY OTIS, Sara nac Lake, N. Y. HOTEL DALTON, DALTON, GA. Popular summer resort. One of the most popular sutnmor resorts in North Georgia; climate delightful, beautiful drives, brick hotel, hot and cold baths on each floor; elevator, electric bells, good tables. Special ates to families. Further Information given by D. L. Dettor, Prop. Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, \Vet Virginia. Representative resort of the South. Open June 15. $49,000 in improvements. New sewerage, plumbing, lights, private baths and toilets. Orchestra of 16 pieces Fam ous Sulphur baths. New 9-hole* golf course. 2,790 yards. Professional in charge Write for illustrated booklet. HARRING TON MILLS, Manager. CATSkILL MOUNTAIN"HOUSE. July dally rate $3. Unsurpassed scen ery. Railway fare reduced. Stations, Otis Summit and Kaaterekill. CHAS. & GEO. H. BEACH. Mgra., Catskill, N. Y. RO( K LEDGE, ASHEVILLE, N. C., T?i the Mountains. The pace to spend your vacation. New house, cool rooms, modern conven’ences; on Battery Park hill, near postoffice. Free from noise and dust; excellent table; moderate rate. MRS. L. COLE. MELROSE, NEW YORK.-78 Madison Avenue, corner 28th 6t. Rooms with or without board. Rooms with board $7 per week; $1.25 per day and upwards. Send for circular. Fishing Tackle, JAPANESE, WOOD AND STEEL JOINTED RODS, REELS, LINES . AND Hooks of All Kinds. IDHD Mi'S SB 113 BROUGHTON STREET. WEST SCHOOLS AXD IOI.LKOES. SUMMERSCHOOL. A Summer School, in which boy be prepared for High Schools, Colleges, or Universities, will be opened at Woodbury Forest High School on July 12, 1900 Thoaa who desire general instruction in the aca demic branches, or “coaching” In special subjects will And the school adopted to their wants. A completely fitted chemi al laboratory will be accessible lo the pupß*- The session will continue during *l* ed by the eourso pursued. Address oofiil municatlons to the Principal, Orange. a SODA WATER Soda Water, Ice Cream and Sherbets made of the beat fruit and cream by * professional dispenser. Sent to any of the city. Sunday orders solicit a. Cream and sherbets 5 cents. DON MELL 1 PHARMACY. Phone No. 678. No. 421 Liberty ft, f,,t ’ UNION HOTEL, Wt Broad and Haris street*, opposite Central Depot. Modern appointment. Convenient to *D etroet car lines. Rates H. 26 and JL5# * n “ $2.00 per day. Single meal 25c. M. .1. PATERSON, Manas’*. Empty Hoflshcads. limply Molnsic* IloKhcad* ,or •ale by • C. 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