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INDEX 10 SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Savannah Volunteer Guards;
German Friendly Society; Magnolia En
campment No. 1, I. O. O. F.
Special Notices-Ship Notice, Strachan
& Cos., Consignees.
Business Notice —E. & W. Laundry.
Legal NoMcea—Application to Sell Real
Estate Annie Lloyd, Deceased; Applica
tion to Sell Real Estate, Mary Play ter,
Deceased.
Beer, Etc'.—Harvard Pure Beer, Ale and
Porter, Henry Solomon & Son.
Steamship Schedule—Merchants* and
Miners’ Transportation Company.
Medical—Hostetter's Stomach Bitters;
Bar-Ben; Hood’s Pills; Mother’s Friend;
Castoria; Dr. Hathaway Cos.; Horsford’e
Acid Phosphate.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day are
generally fair weather; warmer in north
ern portion, with fresh northerly winds;
end for Eastern Florida, local rains, with
light, variable winds.
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Republican newspapers are already la
boring industriously to create the impres
sion that sixteen to one. and not impe
rialism. is the paramount issue of the
campaign.
The National Committee of the Gold
Democracy will meet in Indianapolis on
Wednesday, July 26, to consider what
arfion shall be taken by the party with
respect to the campaign.
It seems, really, that the logical thing
for the Silver Republicans to do is to
drop hair splitting and become full-fledged
Democrats; and by the same token, the
right thing for the Gold Democrats to do
Is to quit fooling end become full-fledged
Republicans.
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The Chinese Dowager Empress has
never been photographed, and only one
white man, and he was not an artist, has
ever looked upon her face. That prob
ably accounts for the great variety of
true-to-life portraits of the old woman
that are appearing in various publica
tions.
Has the bucking broncho of New York,
San Juan Hill, New Mexico and else
where, been tamed already? Senator
Hanna Is quoted as having said with re
spect to flow Roosevelt: "He has placed
himself unreservedly in my hands, and we
will send him ail over the country. After
his three-weeks’ tour of New York I will
take him in hand. He is as strong as n
bull-moose, and we will make him work.
•He hits got a good deal to learn.” That Is
rather ati ominous beginning for a young
man who takes especial pride In his in
dependence.
The Chicago Tribune makes a specialty
of keeping track of the crimes and cas
ualties througiiout the country. Accord
ing to its calculations there were thirty
jive deaths and 1.32fi injuries from fire
arms ami lireworks on the Fourth of July,
In 123 cities. The returns are not yet com
plete from the country districts, where
old gun-harrels and stumps are liHed with
powder and touched off by reckless
youngsters. In a number of Instances,
the Tribune says, persona were killed in
runaway accident due directly to fire
works.
The great Hoboken fire furnishes the
strongest kind of an argument in favor
of an improvement in cotton packing.
The fire, it will he recalled, originated In
a bale of cotton. This bale and others
lying close to it are said to have been
of the old-fashioned, loose style of pack
ing, with lint protruding and bagging
ragged. They were like tinder just wait
ing Jor a spark to touch them off. A sol
idly compressed and carefully covered
package would probably not have taken
fire, or if It had caught It would have
burned so slowly that the flames could
have been extinguished before serious
damage was done.
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There are now nine national tickets In
the field, as follows: People's party. Bar
ker and Donnelly; Socialist Labor party,
Harriman and Hayea: Socialist Demo
cratic party, Debs and Harriman; United
Christian party, Swallow und Woolley;
Populist party, Bryan and Towns; De-
Leon Socialist parly, Maloney and Re
mll; Republican party, McKinley and
Roosevelt; Prohibition party, Woolley and
Metcalfe; Democratic party, Bryan and
Stevenson. That Is all up to date. There
are still possibilities of others, however.
The Silver Republican party Is yet to
complete Its ticket, and there Is besides
the Geld Democratic party to be heard
from. Out of all these tickets, only two
Will cut any figure in the election.
THE GERMAN A OTE.
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There has been, and will continue to be,
a great deal of speculation respecting the
German vote in connection with the pres
idential election. It is a very important
vote in the Middle West. Will it be cast
for the Republican ticket as heretofore, or
will the greater part of it go to the Dem
ocratic ticket, on account of the anti-im
perialistic policy of the Democratic party?
That is a question that cannot now be an
swered.
It is well understood that the Germans
favor the gold standard. That is the chief
reason why the great majority of them
act with the Republican party. Mayor
Rose of Milwaukee was to have been tem
temporary <hairman of the Kansas City
convention, but it is suspected that he was
dropped at the eleventh hour because he
was against a specific declaration for sil
! ver in the platform. He was chairman of
the Wisconsin delegation, and when a
member of the Platform Committee fropi
that delegation was about to* be chosen
he declared that a declaration in the plat
form for the 16 to 1 ratio would deprive
the Democrats of Wisconsin of any chance
to carry that stare.
Wisconsin has a very large German vote, j
It would seem from this that Mayor Rose
i? far from certain that the Germans* of
the West will abandon the Republican
party on account of the imperialistic pol
icy of that party now that the Democratic
party has mode an out and out declaration
for silver.
Still, predictions as to what the Germans
will do when the time for action c-omes
are worthless. It is a fact that they ere
bitterly hostile to militarism. They know
what its burdens are. Some of the most
prominent Germans in the country are
wilting end speaking against imperialism.
It cannot be otherwise than that they will
have a great deal of Influence with their
German fellow citizens.
If the German voters of the Middle West
could be drawn to the Democrartic party
Mr. Bryan would get several states whidh
cast their electoral vote© for Mr. McKin
ley in 1896. It may be that the fact that
there Is very little probability of financial
legislation during the next four years will
so allay their fears in respect to silver
that they will feel free to cast their bal
lots against the Republican party and im
perialism. One thing is certain, and that
is there is going to be a big fight for the
German vote.
GREAT WARS IN CYCLES.
Seldom, if ever, comes that happy time
when all the world Is at peace. It seems
that there must always be wars and
rumors of wars. It is of common occur
rence that great governments find it nec
essary to discipline their dependencies,
to avenge outrages upon their citizens
residing in semi-civilized lands, to send
troops against hostile tribes, or to main
tain an "open door" policy in some quar
ter of the globe. Thus, for instance, it
may be said that Great Britain has virtu
ally not been without a war of some sort
on her hands in a hundred years. The
wars may have been small ones, never
theless they were wars. And pretty much
the same has been true of every other
country of Europe. On this hemisphere,
too. the small fighting has been quite
constant, sandwiched in between some
very great wars.
The wars of great Powers, by the way,
seem to come in cycles of about a hun
dred years, closing the old century and
inaugurating the new. The closing of
the seventeenth century and the open
ing of the eighteenth found the Turks
advancing into Europe. Germany (Aus
tria was then Germany), France and Eng
land later fought under Prince Eugene,
De Villars and Marlborough. The clos
ing years of the eighteenth century and
the opening of the nineteenth found all
Europe in arms for or against France
and Napoleon. And now, when the nine
teenth century is ending and we are upon
the eve of th© twentieth, we find our own
country and Great Britain prosecuting
wars, while there is an incipient war in
China which threatens to fire the powder
under the whole of Europe and a con
siderable part of Asia before the end has
been readied.
Two centuries ago it was dark-skin
ned, Moslem races who were the aggres
sors. The followers of the Crescent were
endeavoring to push themselves into and
capture the territory of the Cross. Now
it is the white-skinned, the Christian,
races -that are asserting themselves in
Asia and Africa.
In the war with the Turks two hun
dred years ago, it was a conflict of re
ligions. Later, when the Austrians and
French fought on account of the Span
ish succession, it was a. fight of kings
by the people for the benefit of kings.
A hundred years ago the fighting was by
the republicans or the people against the
kings and the aristocracy; and in those
wars the people of Europe secured the
small measure of liberty and self-govern
ment which they have since enjoyed. The
wars of the present day, it Is claimed, are
in the interest of civilization and im
proved government; for greater freedom,
safety and prosperity. It is worthy of
note that some of these present civilizers
In China were not far demoved from
barbarism two hundred years ago, and
that our own country at that time was
almost wholly a howling wilderness peo
pled by red savages. Nevertheless, the
advancement of the Christian Powers has
been steady and firmly based, until to
day they represent the best civilization
of the world. It is only under the gov
ernments of these Powers that personal
liberty and the equal protection of law
are to Ire found.
Politics In Hrazil Is in rather a turbu
lent state. Close observers say it would
take only a spark to start a revolution.
The President of the republic realizes the
fact, hence his failure to pay a visit of
courtesy which lie owes to the President
of the Argentine. He fears there would
be an uprising in his absence. In order
to give a plausible reason for his failure
10 visit Buenos Ayres, the Brazilian Pres
ident has caused stories of bubonic plague
at P.lo to be circulated. That, at least.
Is what Senhor Olendorlt of Buenos Ayres
says of the matter.
Should the Democratic ticket be elected
In November, Mr. Hteverson would dupli
cate In the vine presidency the record
made by Mr. Cleveland as President. He
would be the first to ,he re-elected Vice
President after having trvrd one term
and rctlrtd from otfice. Mr. Cleveland's
terms were separated by the tarm of O n
Harrison. Mr Stevenson's two terms
would be separated by the term of the
date Mr. Hobart.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 9. 1900.
\ HAND-BOOK OF GEORGIA.
The Agricultur.il Department of the
Slate of Georgia is engaged in the prepa
ration of a work that will prove of great
benefit to the state. For the past two
years or more there has been a quiet agi
tation by progressive Georgians in favor
of the publication under official auspices
of a hand-book which should give ex
haustive and reliable data respecting the
! developed and undeveloped resources of
Georgia, to be circulated among home
seekers and others desiring information
with a view to becoming citizens or in
vestors among us. The Legislature, at
its recent session, authorized the compi
lation and publication of the hand-book
by the Department of Agriculture, which
work is now going forward under the
supervision of Commissioner Stevens and
Assistant Commissioner Wright.
It is proposed b> the compilers that the
book shall give a complete and up-to
date account of Georgia and its recources,
including brief sketches of its countie**,
towns, cities, scenery and places of re
sort, as well as reliable facts with respect
o agriculture, dairying, stock raising,
horticulture, game and fish, forests, min
erals, water powers, navigable streams,
transportation, manufactures, religions,
education, and other matters.
Commissioner Stevens has prepared a
folder of thirty-four leading questions un
der <he various heads, which he is send
ing to prominent citizens in each of the
counties with the request that they fill
out the blanks as accurately as may be
possible and return to him. thus aiding
the good work. The questions and their
sub-divisions cover a very wide scope,
and the answers to them ought to put
inquirers into possession of pretty nearly
the facts that they want.
It is to be hoped that Commissioner
Stevens’ folder-circulars will receive the
prompt and careful attention of those to
whom they have been addressed. If the
addressees have not immediately at hand
the information asked for, they ought to
put themselves to the trouble of getting
it from the best authority available and
including it in their reports. This work,
it should be borne in mind, is for the
benefit of no person or section especially,
but of the whole state. Its purpose is
to induce desirable immigration and the
investment of capital. These things will
inevitably be to th© interest of every
Georgian, since as the state grows In pop
ulation and wealth, the tax rate can be
lowered.
t oil POR THE WORLD.
The question of coal supply is forcing
itself upon the peoples of Europe. Large
navies are being built, manufactories are
growing, railway engines are being In
creased in size and number, and mer
chant steam fleets arc being added to.
Meanwhile European coal outputs are de
creasing, and the exhaustion of some of
the mines is alrgost within sight. That
it is believed to be possible to cal
culate to within an approximation of
when the coal mines of Europe will
be empty has recently been shown in a
very pointed manner by the advance in
prices and the reluctance of coal owners
to enter into contracts for large sup
plies except at pretty stiff figures. In
England, indeed, there has been some
agitation looking to the curtailment of
foreign shipments of coal, the argu
ment being that by supplying fuel for
power to her manufacturing and naval
rivals, and at the same time depleting
her own store of coal, England is weak
ening herself in a manner that may be
seriously felt at a day not so very far
distant.
The coal question, however, does not
affect England more than, and possibly
not quite so much as, the rest of Europe,
Russia excepted. Russia alone has large
coal fields yet to be developed. Mean
time the commercial nations of Europe
are beginning to feel the pinch of the coal
scarcity, and many businesses are being
affected.
If Europe cannot supply itself with
coal, where will it turn for its needs?
Manifestly to the United States. Indeed,
the turning to this country has already
begun. Baltimore, Newport New r s and
Norfolk are already making large ship
ments to the Continent, and the Balti
more and Ohio Railway is constructing
an immense pier and coal depot at Curtis
bay ,011 the Chesapeake, for the accom
modation of a great export business in
steam coal. Our coal production Is al
ready enormous, but It Is believed that it
will be vastly Increased within the next
few years. In 1X99 it was 54,000,000 tons
larger than it was in 1897. At the Paris
Exposition there are charts illustrating
the coal production of the United States,
one of which sets forth that the produc
tion of the twenty principal coal states
equals a paralleloplped of 3,5(18,000 000 cubic
feet. The Eiffel tower, compared with
such a huge figure, would be a mere
plaything.
As to our resources, our ability to con
tinue to produce large quantities of coal
for domestic consumption and export, the
editor of the Coal Trade Journal, writing
in the New York Tribune, says that in
the mountain country lying between
Pennsylvania and Northern Georgia and
Alabama there la twenty times the coal
that Great Britain originally possessed,
and lying in such a way that it can be
brought to the surface with from one
fourth to one-half of the expenditure of
energy required in Great Britain. Paral
leling the roal field for some 700 miles
there is an incalculable quantity of iron
ore* of all kinds, from the Clinton ores
which lfe under and along the coal to
the brown ores and high grade mag
netites. And this represents but one part
of our coal reserve. We could supply
the whole world for many years to come
without making serious Inroads Into our
stock.
It is apparent, therefore, that the
United States occupy a commanding po
sition with respect to that prime essential
for both war and commerce, cool. The
world must have coal, and we shall short
ly be about, the only country In a posi
tion to furnish it.
t’apt. Wismar has Maned from Spits
bergen to look for the Duke de Arbruzzl,
who some time ago went to look for An
drew the halloonatic. After a wtlille there
will be somebody to go to look for Capt.
Wismar; and then somebody to look for
the man who 1s looking for Capt. Wis
tnar. It seeems that there must be an
endless chain of these Arctic explorers.
L'p to the end of June the conversion of
old government bonds Into the new 2 per
cent, issue s had reached taix,9l.ia). Treas
urer Roberts believes that during the cur
rent calendar year the total will foot up
not less than f400,000.000v
The vice presidential nominee is on le 1
"Gen." Stevenson, but as a matter of
fact the title is rather one of courtesy
than anything else. It is not of military
origin, it seems that when he was Firm
Assistant Postmaster General ft became
the custom to abbreviate his tide down
to the laet word, and thus he became
Gen. Stevenson, just as Gen. Sam Hard
wick derives his title from being an as
ei.-tant general passenger agent.
PERSON AL.
—A. J Balfour, the well-known English
politician, recently made a speech at the
opening of a charity bazaar at Dundee
and devoted the whole of his remarks to
the praise of golf of which he is so earn
est a devotee.
—Senator Chandler of New Hampshire,
while at his home in Concord, is an en
thusiastic mountain-climber and may be
met almost any fine afternoon on one or
tlie other of the many peaks within ten
or fifteen mi’es cf the town.
—Si-r Herbert Max w* 11, a member of the
Ho se of Common©, is a direct descendant
of the Sir Herbert Maxwell who sat in
the Parliament of Scone in 1284, and is
the only member of the Commons who can
claim any distinction of that nature.
—Frederick Winkelman, who has been
blind all his life, was last week selected
by the New York city Board of Educa
tion to deliver Irctures on music in the
schools, and he will begin next fall. He
is 24 years old and an excellent musican,
his skill as a plan st te.ng especially rec
ognized.
—Among the graduates from Ya'e this
year was Miss Selichi Yamuguchi of To
kio, Japan, w ho won the degree cf bache
lor of arts. The dark little woman re
ceived her diplcma larch aded and in her
native costum . her black hair lying
smooth and shiny, fastened by a colossal
stickpin, while her shawl and bread sash,
rtung gracefully about her plump little fig
ure, made her look like some smali "Yum
Yum" just out of school.
—Viscount Doneraile, grand senior war
den of the English Free Masons, is the
lineal descendant of the only lady who
was ever made <* Free Mason. His ances
tress. Elizabeth Si. Leger, the wife of
Col. Richard Aldworth and the mother of
the first Viscount Doneraile, who assumed
the name of St. Leger, hid in a recess in
a room in Doneraile court. County Cork,
during the holding in that room of a
meeting 1 of a Masonic lodge. She was and s
< overt*d and immediately initiated into
the Masonic mysteries.
—Abbas 11, the Khedive of Egypt, who
is visiting in England, is a splendid lin
guist, speaking English, French, German
and Italian, in addition to Turkish and
Arabic. The Khedive is a hard worker,
and his day usually begins at 5:30 in the
mornlrg. A story is told w'hich illustrates
this of his character. His brother,
Mehemet Ali, and himself had the same
tutor in their childhood, but Prince Me
hemet was very indolent. A task was set
them, but the younger brother shirked it.
"Come, Prince,’* sail ths teacher; "it
must be done."
"Prince, indeed!” exclaimed AbbaS. "My
l rot her is no Prince when idle; he is only
a Fellah!"
BRIGHT BITS.
—Just So.—" Jack Huggins’s heart is in
the right place.” "What makes you think
so, dear?” "Why, he gave it to me lest
night."—Harper's Bazar.
—ln the Nature of an Obstacle.—Guide:
This is Bunker Hill.
Visiting Briton (also a golfist): Ah, that
was a bunker, to be sure!—Puck.
*
—“My wife,” boasted the happy young
Benedick, “i$ an open book to me.”
“Mine, too.” declared the old married
man. “I can't shut her up.”—Philadel
phia Press.
—Not His Fault.—“ You married me tor
my money!" tshe exclaimed angrily. “Oh,
well," he replied soothingly, “don't blame
me. I couldn't get it any other way, you
know.”—Chicago Evening Post.
—Pressure Removed.—“ Emeline, didn't it
vex you to have to give the census man
your age?” “No,indeed; I’ve kept it a (lead
secret so long that it was a blessed relief
to get a chance to tell it.”—lndianapolis
Journal.
—Trained.—“l might as well tell ye be
fore we go any fu’ther,” said the witness,
who had been getting rather the better of
the lawyer, “that ye needn’t expect to rat
tle me by askin’ fool question*.” “No?”
retorted the lawyer. “Na\y. I’ve raised
three boys, an’ got two grandsons that’s
keepin’ me trained ail the time.’’—lndian
apolis Press.
—The rural editor smarted violently.
“How dors it happen,” he asked, strug
gling to be calm, “that you are paying
your subscription in money and not in
cord wood?”
“Oh, I’ve got money to burn this year,”
said the farmer, with the naivette so
characteristic of his kind.—Detroit Jour
nal.
—“Papa,” said the hoy, “when yon say
in your advertisement that your goods
are acknowledged by connoisseurs to be
the best, who do you mean by connois
seurs?"
“A connoisseur, my boy,” answered the
great manufacturer, “is an eminent au
thority—an authority, in short, w T ho ad
mits that our goods are the best.”—Tll
lihs.
ri RTtKvr nnniuvr.
The Nashville American (Dem.) says;
"Mr. Stevenson will be a force in uniting
the party. The Democrats who left the
party in 1890 will hardly bring themselves
to speak sharply of it with Stevenson on
ihe ticket, and by the time November rolls
around will, if we mistake not. be found
working and voting for its success. .Mr.
Stevenson is a contrast to Roosevelt, and
the contrast between ihe civilian and the
theatrl.lal Rough Rider results advantag
eously to the civilian."
The Philadelphia Times find.) says:
“Gov. Roosevelt said in a speech to the
people of Topeka, Kan., the other day:
'Who made these great crops? You did.
not laws.’ Such forgetfulness on the part
of the Rough Rider of the Philadelphia
platform, in which all the prosperity in
the land is attributed to the beneficent
rule of Mr. McKinley, is ima>■counts >le.
Perhaps that Is why the President has
sent for the colonel to come and talk with
him at Canton." ,
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says:
"The nomination of Hon. Adlai E. Steven
son for the vice presidency gives geograpn.
leal strength to the ticket without other
wise affecting it. Mr. Stevenson is of the
usual calibre of vice presidential nomi
nees for the post half century—a respec
table figurehead from a debatable state."
The Washington Post (Ind.) says:
"From a partisan point of view Mr. Stev
enson's nomination must lie considered a
good one. because he is a Democrat. It
Is a sign, like the subordination of silver
in the platform, that the party is getting
back to Democracy and away from Pop
ullsm ”
The Richmond Dispatch <Dm.) says:
"Stevenson can get more votes in New
York state than any New York Demo
crat could. He will be acceptable to all
I Auctions, we believe."
A New Rooaevelt Story.
"How much of ‘Oliver Cromwell* did
Gov. Roosevelt actually write?" answered
the magazine man, in aswer to my query,
says a writer in the New York Home
Journal. "Every line of it. That is. he
dictated it, and he has time for so much
writing because he finds it between times
under pressure. I remember I once got an
article frocn him during the busies* time
of his life. It w’as when he had just
c-Oiiß- back from Cuba.
"While still at Montauk Point I wrote
him several letters.and finally got a prom
ise from him for an article, but. as he was
immediately after nominated for Governor,
I despaired of ever securing it. One day,
however, I went up to the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, found his secretary, and learned
from him that Coi. Roosevelt was to take
a certain train for Boston the following
day. I went immediately to the Grand
Central station, found out the car he was
to take, engaged seats for myself and
stenographer, and when on the following
morning the train staried he was on board
and so were we.
‘The first thing 1 did was to go into fhe
dining car and arrange for three seats for
luncheon. I went back to the parlor car,
and. having met Col. Roosevelt once be
fore. greeted him like an old friend, enter
ed into conversation and invited him to
luncheon. After a very jolly meal to
gether, I brought up for the first time the
subject of the article, and he promised to
give my stenographer half an hour of his
time on the following Monday on his re
turn to town. As soon as possible I 'eft
the train and took the next one back.
"The following Sunday turned out to be
one of the worst days of the winter, and
I was afraid Col. Roosevelt would not be
able to get home frem Boston. However.
1 got up early Monday morning, took a
few weather observations, and decided to
risk i. So. wiih my stenographer. I went
to the station and took a train to meet
him at Bridgeport. We got through all
right, and found the future Governor
there. The snow was heavy and while
waking for the track to be cleared. Col.
Roosevelt dictated to his own stenogra
pher, letter after letter of his own. At
last when we reached the Grand Central,
Col. Roosevelt said that he was then ready
lo give mo the article I desired if my
stenographer could accompany him to his
hotel. So I returned In triumph to my
office, and an hour later the story that I
had at last secured was well worth the
pairs taken, for it was a rattling good
one.”
Story Paused Him Tronble.
H. Rider Haggard tells, according to
Success, how his early writing got him
into trouble and nearly caused war in
South Africa:
“I was then serving on the staff of Sir
Theophilus Shepstone and the article,
signed with my initials, reached South
Africa in its printed form shortly after
the annexation of the Transvaal. Young
men with pens in their hands are pro
verbially indiscreet, and in this insance
I was no exception. In the cotirse of my
article I had described the Transvaal
Boer at home with a fidelity that should
be avoided by members of a diplomatic
mission, and had even gone the length of
saying that most of the Dutch women
were ‘fat.’ Needless to say, my remarks
wefe translated into the Afrikander pa
pers, and somewhat extensively read, es
pecially’ by the ladies in question and
their male relatives; nor did the editors
of those -papers forbear to comment on
them in leading articles. Shortly after
ward there was a great and stormy meet
ing of Boers at Pretoria, As matters be
gan to look serious, somebody ventured
among them to ascertain the exciting
cause, and returned with the pleasing in
telligence that they were all talking about
what the Englishman had written about
the physical proportions of their woman
kind, and domestic habits and threaten
ing to take up arms to avenge it.
“Of my feelings on learning this news
I will not discourse, but they were un
comfortable, to say the least. Happily,
in the end, the gathering broke up with
out war being declared, but when the
late Sir Bartle Frore came to Pretoria
some months afterward he administered
to me a sound and well-deservpd lecture
on my indiscretion. I excused myself by
saying that I had set down nothing which
was not strictly trite, and he replied to
the effect that herein lay my fault. T
quite agree with him; indeed, there is lit
tle doubt that the bald statements of fact
as to the stoutness of the Transvaal
‘fraus’ and the lack of cleanliness in their
homes, came near precipitating a result
that, as it chanced, was postponed for
several weeks. Well, it is all done with
now, and I take this opportunity of apol
ogizing to such of the ladies in question
as may still be living.”
A (dioMt on Shipboard.
The rjble English ship Forrest Hail.
Capt. Scott, from San Francisco, which
has arrived at Devoe’s Yard, Long Island
City, had a black and woolly ghost which
manifested its presence by the refusal of
the ship’s hell to strike.
Second Mate Todd, the son of a ship’s
husband (watchman), in the service of the
White Star Line, at San Francisco, was
disposed to he superstitious. In the crew
of the Forrest Hall are eight apprentice
hoys and sixteen sailors, including old
"Bill” .Williams, a White-haired Irishman
of 65, so tough and well preserved that no
man or hoy can heat hem to the foot rope
of the main skysail yard.
Off Cape Horn the young second mate
approached the bell which hung at the
break of the poop to strike eight hells of
the middle watch. It was a dark night.
The lookout wouid then have sung from
the fo’c’sle head. “The lights are burn
ing bright-and ail i* well, sir,” while one
of the hands would have called the watch
below.
The second mate pulled the lanyard, but
the hell did not strike. Again he gave
the clapper a more vigorous yank. There
was nothing but silence. The young man.
inclined to believe in various forms of
witchcraft, retreated in horror, and, com
municating his failure and feats to the
able seaman at the wheel, requested that
courageous man to ring the hell. The
musical sound of the clapper was then
heard plainly.
That h**!! refused to ring whenever Todd
pulled the lanyard t night. A seaman
always struck the hell in Todd’* place.
The second mate said he believed tnc For
rest Hall to he haunted, because on the
previous voyage* the wheel had kick'd
a sailor over the spokes and killed him
upon the quarterdeck.
From the Horn to this side of the line
the bell never rang for Todd. At length
Todd caught one of the apprentices tiring
some dark object to the clapper. It was
a muffler of black woo’, which had been
cleverly and quickly attached and detach
ed by someone of the hoys or “White*
headed Bill” whenever Mr. Todd waa in
charge of the deck.
\\li> George Doesn't Pln.v the Cornet
He had been working ail winter to get
a place in the brass band as a cornet
player, and Just as his hopes seemed to be
on the verge of fulfilment she met him oti
his way home from the Postofllce, and.
Hi king her nrm lovingly in his, walked
on in silence until they reached the pop
lar walk, says the Philadelphia Times.
There she stopped in the long shadows
and said: "George. I wish yon wouldn't
play the cornet Ip the new hand."
"Why not?” said he, In surprise. "It
is the place of honor, and I get a great
deal of attention by It. dear.”
"Yes, I know." she said, eouxlngly. "It
Is so nice to have von noticed by every
one. and all that. d< ar. but—"
She paused and hung her curly head a
little lower.
"But what?" said he, sharply.
"Blowing a cornet makes-makes—'" Her
voice sank to a pouting whisper: "Makes
the lips mo stiff and hard!"
George his decided not to b the cornet
player In the band.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A great scheme of sanitation is on trial
at Simla, which, if successful, is likely to
have far-reaching results In connection
with the sanitation of Indian cities. In
stead of constructing large sewers and
carrying the sewage to the stream it has
been decided to apply the bacterial treat
ment to the sewage.
—Experiments have for some time been
made in England with smokeless coal.
This peculiar fuel may be burned either
in an ordinary grate or in a basin in the
middle of the room without developing
any perceptible odor or smoke at any time.
The fire looks like the finest coal fire, and
the flame is white and blue.
—There are few' beard'd men in China.
M*n who have grandchildren may w r ear
a mustache, and many take advantage of
the p ivilfgc and are called ‘od hair
men ’ The fzreigners with mu a taches,
when they came to China, excited much
curiosity, and the unusual sight Justified
them in asking the ages of the bearded
men.
—President & B Stillwell of the Penn
sylvania Fish Commission says the out
put of Pennsylvania's fish hatcheries this
year w’ill be abrut 30.000/00 above the av
erage. The reason only 4.000,000 fish were
grown in 1899 was because the Legisla
ture of the previous year forgot to make
ihe usual appropriation and the commis
si n was only able to keep the trout sta
tions in operation through subscriptions
of private citizens, amounting to atout $6,-
000.
—A good deal has been heard lately of
Mr. Gilbert’s autocratic stage management
of his own plays. He has a caustic
method with actors and actresses who
differ from him. It is related that at a
rehearsal of "Trial by Jury," in which the
plaintiff has to produce from her pocket a
stocking, which* is supposed to form part
of her trousseau, the lady who represent
ed the plaintiff objected on the grounds
of the Impropriety of the thing. "Very
funny,” Mr. Gilbert retorted; "whenever
any one shows a stocking on the stage ii
Is considered improper, unless it has a leg
inside it."
—A recent writer on insanity says that
the general belief that persons of great
intellect are more liable than others to
become insane is erroneous, says the
Louisville Courier-Journal. ( n the contra
ry, "a large number, actually and rela
tively of the insane consists of the more
ignorant classes of farm laborers, arti
sans. sailors, soldiers and person without
employment. Hard working farmers of
the poorer class and especially their wives
living remote from towns, having little
variety In life, reading little, conversing
and thinking in the same ruts, furnish a
large proportion of such cases." On the
whole it is probable that madness is not
a question of whether a man has a big
brain or a little brain, but of how he
takfs care of his brain, along with his
body.
—The popes have three special rings for
their use. The first is generally rather a
plain gold one with an intaglio or cameo
ornament; this is called the papal ring.
The second one, called the pontifical ring,
because used only w r hen the Pope pontifi
cates or officiates at grand ceremonies, is
an exceedingly precious one. The one
worn on these occasions by Pius IX. was
made during the reign of Pius VII., whose
name is cut on the inside. Tt is of the
purest gold, of remarkably fine workman
ship. set with a very large oblong dia
mond. It cost 30,0)0 francs (£1.250). and
has a contrivance on the inside by which
it can be made larger or smaller to fit
the wearer’s finger. The Fisherman’s
ring, so called because it has a figure of
Sr. Peter in a bark throwing his net into
the sea, is a plain gold ring with an oval
face, bearing the name of the reigning
Pope engraved round and above the figure
of the apostle. The ring weighs an ounce
and a half. It was first a private and
not an official ring, though it has been
used in the.latter way since the fifteenth
century, and is now the official seal of
the popes and the first among the rings.
—With a market basket filled with
pieces of l ank ani treasury notes, an old
woman, who said she lived in Camden,
appealed at the sub-treasury last week
and stated that she wanted the hits of
money redeemed, says the Philadelphia
It. cord. It required only a hasty examina
tion for the officials to determine that the
pieces of notes were all from the edges
and corners of bills of various denomina
tions. The woman was asked how she be
dim? possessed of th© pieces, which in
formation she failed to give. Then she
was bluntly told that the government
would allow her nothing for the rem
nants of mcn°y, because it was plainly
evident that the pieces were all clipped
from whole notes. This the woman de
nied, yet she was obliged to go away
without receiving passable cash for her
offering. The offic!as found that though
there were corners and edges from twen
ty, ten, five, two and one dollar notes,
there was not a p:e:e of a center in the
entire collection, so that it would lv im
possible to make even one bill by pasting
pieces together. There were enough bits,
however, to equal a hundred notes in
s ze. Judging from the paper and style
of notes, it had required about twenty
years to eollfct the pieces.
—The latest telephone Invention is call
ed the telephonograph, the invention <'
a native of Sweden, named Paulsen, says
the New York Journal of Commerce. Its
object is to make a permanent record of
the telephone message, which can be re
pented to Ihe receiver any length of time
after it is sent. The difficulty In adapt
ing the Edison phonograph to this use
has been in making a satisfactory record
upon the wax cylinder. The Paulsen pho
nograph docs not have the wax cylinder.
It passes a steel tape from one spool to
another over a magnet, something after
the manner of the Inked tape of the type
writer. When the tape is passed over
the magnet agnin It repeats the message.
The use of this recording telephone has
thus far been confined to Germany. No
doubt it will soon be Introduced here. In
the war of the rival telephone concerns
the iiosscssion of the new device should
be of considerable value as an inducement
to subscribers. Its highest perfection,
however, will be attained when l is com
bined with a megaphone arangement to
make the tone audible while the receiver
Is on the hook. The telephone was H
wonder twenty-five years ago. It is a
necessity now. Rut many improvements
are needed to make it a perfect instru
ment.
—Baron Adolphe de Rothchlld spent
more than £IOO.OOO a year for many years
in relieving distress and alleviating suf
fering. says l.ondot! Truth. Our humble
four-footed brethren were within Ihe
sphere of his relieving influence. He was
extremely sensitive of sufferings of the
ill-used, ill-fed draught horsp, and avoid
ed those streets In which wretched Jades
reinforce omnibus horses in uphill work:
td.ooo figures as a legacy to the Society
for the Protection of Animals, for the
defense of sitch horses. The Baron leaves
a life annuity of £IOO (o each of his own
horses. '20,000 goes to serve as n kind of
Queen Anne's bounty for priests, pastors
and rabhts without preference for ant
Should the RothzchlU family wish to get
rid of the Rothschild farm at Bottlogne
sur-Seine, his trustees are to take it over
and to spend yearly on It (.400. A sum of
£BO.OOO is to be devoted to an eye hospital
in Paris, similar to that the Baron found
ed at Geneva He had a fellow-feeling
for those who had diseased eyes, h|* *
having lopg been a source of suffering to
him. Notices of the philanthropic legacies
were served last week on the ,liferent !
legates. They show as niueh thoughtful
consideration as kind feeling. p tn ,n v h " i
begged that his funeral might lake ph.er
early In the morning. e 0 a. not to b In I
•be way of the public. c ln |
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For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder,
bolt, Cattle Park and West End
Daily except Sundays. Subject to c:.;n
without notice.
ISLE OF HOPE! ~
Lv. City for 1. u: 11. l.vTTsle ot Hope.
630 am froiq Tenth 00 am foi bo on*
7 30 am from Tenth . ti 00 am for T -n>h
830 am from Tenth |7OO am for Tenth
9 13 am from Bolton | 8 00 am for Tenth
10 30 am from Tenth jlO uO am for Tenth
12 00 n’n from Tenth |U 00 am for Bolton
1 15 pm from Bolton |ll 30 am for Tenth
230 pm from Tenth | 2uO pm for Tenth
330 pm from Tenth | 240 pru for Bolton
430 pm from Tenth | 300 pm for Tenth
530 pm from Tenth | 400 pm for Tenth
630 pm from Tenth | tl CO pm for Tenth
730 pm from Tenth ; 700 pm for T nth
830 pm from Tenth | 800 pm for Tenth
930 pm front Tenth j 000 pm for Tei j,
10 30 pm from Tenth jlO Oh pm for Tenth
MONTGOMERY ,~
Lv city for Mong’ry. | Lv7Montgomery!
830 am from Tenth | t ir> am for Tenth"
230 pm from Tenth [ 1 15 pm for Tenth
630 pm from Tenth | 600 pm for Tenth
CATTLE PARK. -
Lv city for Cat.Park| Lv. Cattle Park."
6 30 am from Bolton | 7-00 am for Bolton
730 am from Bolton | 800 am for Bolton
100 pm from Bolton | 1 30 pm for Bolton
230 pm from- Bolton | 3 00 pm for Bolton
7 ft) pm from Bolton j 730 pm for Rolton
800 pm from Bolton | 8 30 pm for Bolton
THUNDERBOLT.
Car leaves Bolton street junction 330
a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter
until 11:30 p. m.
Car loaves Thunderbolt at 6:00 a. m and
every thirty minutes thereafter until
12:00 midnight, for Bolton street junc
tion.
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR ~~
This car carries trailer for passenger*
on all trips and leaves west side of city
market for Isle of Hope, Thunderbolt
and all Intermediate points at 9:00 a. m,
1:00 p. m., 5:00 p. m.
Leaves Isle of Hope for Thunderbolt,
City Market and all Intermediate points
at 6:00 a. m., 11:00 a. m., 2:40 p. m.
WEST “END CAR.
Car leaves west side of city market for
West End 6:00 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter during the day until 11:30 p. m.
Leaves West End at 6:20 a. rn. and ev
ery 40 minutes thereafter during the day
until 12:00 o’clock midnight.
H. M. LOFTON, Gen. Mgr.
SUMMER RESORTS.
HOTEL NORWaNdTeT
BROADWAY & 38TH STS., NEW YORK,
ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
COOLEST HOTEL IN 'JEW YORK CITY
Located In the liveliest and most inier
estliig f>art of the city; twenty principal
places of amusement within five minutes’
walk of the hotel
CHARLES A, ATKINS & CO.
Summer Resort—Ocean Hotel Asbnry
Park, N. J. GEO. L. ATKINS & SON'S.
CAT SKILL MOUNTAIN IoCSET
July daily rate $2. Unsurpassed scen
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Summit and Kaeterskill.
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Catskill. N. T.
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Virginia ave and Beach,Atlantic Clry.N.J*
sth year. Most central location; highest
elevation, overlooking ocean; 350 beautiful
rooms, many with baths. Th© terms are
reasonable. Write for booklet. Hotel roach
es meet all train'--. CHARLES E ('OPE.
MELROSE, NEW YORK —7B Madteoa
Avenue, corner 28th st. Rooms with or
without board. Rooms with hoard 57 per
week; $1.25 pci day and upwards. Send for
circular.
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JOINTED RODS,
REELS, LINES
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113 BROUGHTON STREET, WEST.
LIPPMAN BROS.. Proprietors.
>iig9lg3, Llpitman’a Block. SAVANNA". _
SODA WATER.
Soda Water. Ico Cream and Sherbet*
made of the beat fruit and mam_
professional dispenser. Sent to nnv P
of ihe city. 8 unlay orders soli
Cream and sherbets £ r>nts.
DONNELLY PHARMACY.
Phone No. 678. No. l.’l Libelly
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