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4 gtyc Morning fjeto£ Horning News Building, Savannah. (*a MONDAY, .11 LY 9. IfMK). Registered at the Postcffice in Savannah The MORNING NEWS I? published every day in ihe year, and is served to eu'oscriber? in the city, or sent by mall, at 70c a month. $4.00 lor six months, and SB.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), lhree months, $1.50; six months $3.00; one year, $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or register©! letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than Special column. local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in dep ti ls th© standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING NEWS to either residence cr place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone No. _‘lo. Any irregular ity in delivery should be immediately re ported to the office of publication Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed ‘MORNING NEW'S," Savannah. Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. 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. ■ ■ > ... 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. i , ©. 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. ♦ ■ i 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. i 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 | MHIH saves mmu BILLS Ppglll Bmr-Ben Is '.he E greatest known nerve tonic anti blood purifier H creates solid muscle Uni •trength. clears the Dra:n. mans, toe blood pure and rich, and causae a general feeling of health, power and mealy vigor. Within 3 dev, after taking the first dose you no tice the return of the old vim. snep and energy you have counted as lost forever, while a continue! Judicious use causes an Improve ment Doth satisfactory and last. Ins. One box will work wonders six should perrect a cu>-e; at cent," a box. 6 boxes for Stan. For s ile by all druggists everywhere or will be mailed sealed upon receipt ot price. Address Drs. Barton and Benson, kjj Bar-Ben Block, (.leva land, O. CET IT TODAYI S., 1.81. OF HOPt RY IS] C. 8i RI SIIIMDII.E 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 ery. Railway tare reduced. Station*. Otis Summit and Kaeterskill. CHAS. & GEO. H. BEACH. Mgrs.. Catskill. N. T. GRAND ATLANTIC’ HOTEL* 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. Falling Tackle, JAPANESE, WOOD AND STEEI. JOINTED RODS, REELS, LINES AND Hooks of All Kinds. mi Ill's s*. 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 srssnsss^ mm