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IS DEI ID KEW ADYERTISEMESIS.
Meeting—Clinton Lodge No. 54, F. &
A. M.
Special Notice—John Funk, Butcher.
Removal Notice—Lindsay & Morgan.
Legal Notices—Notice to Debtors and
Creditors, Estate William G. Cairo, De
ceased.
Corsets Thomson's "Glove-Fitting"
Corsets.
Legal Sales—The Cuban brig Pablo, In
port of Brunswick, Ga.
Good Coffee, Low Price—At Munster's.
A Lot of Common Sense Talk—Byck
Bros.
Hot Weather Bargains—William A H.
H. Lattimore.
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The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day ore
for partly cloudy weather, and light to
fresh southerly" winds, and for Eastern
Florida local rains and thunderstorms, and
fresh southerly winds.
•‘Golden Rule" Jones of Toledo, 0., is
going to support the silver ticket.
If the thermometer is reliable. Charles
ton is giving the visiting educators a
very warm reception.
These are the days In which we hear
that John Doe has bolted Bryan and Rich
ard Roe has bolted McKinley.
The general election, occurring on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem
ber, falls upon the sixth day of the
month.
Possibly the Chinese Dowager Empress
commits suicide and goes crazy by proxy,
Just as Chinese murderers sometimes suf
fer death by substitute.
The Hon. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia
could no doubt give the Hon. Mr. Towne
some valuable and intersting information
with respect to two-tailed tickets.
It Is reported that a number of ex-ln
surgjent Filipino officers have offered to
raise a regiment of their countrymen to
fight with the Americans in China. Uncle
Sam, however, is not raising and arm
ing Filtpdno regiments just at this time.
Russia is willing that Japan shall as
sist In suppressing the trouble In China,
but ahe wishes it distinctly understood
that when the time for a settlement with
China comes she intends to be as close
to the pie counter as Japan or any other
nation.
The spark of hope that the foreigners
in Pekin have escaped death Is very
faint, nevertheless it is eagerly nursed
in the hope that it may yet burn bright
ly. If the foreigners have been spared,
or rather protected, China may be pre
served, but if they have perished it is
impossible to predict with confidence what
will be the fate to the old empire.
Boss Hanna has given "Teddy” his first
lesson. “Teddy" has much to learn, the
Boss says, hence he has got him buckled
down to studying, notwithstanding the
hot weather. The other day Hanna sent
“Teddy" a volume of speeches by Wil
liam McKinley with the request that he
make himself familiar with it; and like
a dutiful youngster “Teddy" spent Sun
day conning the book.
Assistant Secretary of War Melkel
john makes a happy suggestion with re
spect to China. The present dynasty
should be overthrown, he says, and Wu
Ting Fang, the Chinese minister at Wash
ington, should be made Emperor and sup
ported by toe Powers. If it depended upon
the vqters of the United States to elect
him, Mr. Wu would be the next Emperor
of China, without opposition.
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The St. Louis strike is on again, because
it is claimed the agreement through
which it was declared off July 2 was not
lived up to by the corporation. The re
sult would no doubt have been the name
if the settlement had been made by arbi
tration instead of by agreement between
the strikers and the corporation. It is a
very difficult matter to force an employer
to give work to men he does not desire in
his service, and it is practically impossi
ble, to make a man work where he does
not want to.
A TOP-HEAVY SYSTEM.
The National Educational Association,
now In session at Charleston, might do the
country a service by considering the ques
tion whether, for the public) good, too
much attention is not given to high schools
In the public school system. The idea is
finding lodgement in the minds of people in
all parts of the country that the interests
of children who never get beyond the ele
mentary schools are being sacrificed to ad
vance those who get the benefits of the
high schools. In a paper read by Pro!.
Schoenrich, of Baltimore, before the Na
tional German Teachers’ Association in
Philadelphia last Saturday the following
statement was made:
"A grave danger threatening the public
school systems of our country is the ten
dency of making them top-heavy. Only
too frequently the main energy Is direct
ed to the development of the high schools;
by their results the school systems of the
different cities are frequently judged, and
consequently the schedule of the lower
schools points up to the high schools and
not out into actual life.”
Not only are the highest salaries paid
the high school teachers and the best ac
comodations given to these schools, but the
studies in the elementary schools are se
lected with the view of preparing pupils
for the high schools. This does not appear
to be just. Not a tenth part of the pupils
In the elementary schools enter the high
school. The United States Commissioner
of Education, In his last report, presented
soma figures as to the attendance in the
elementary grades and in the high schools
of twenty-four typical American cities.
According to these figures there Is a steady
falling off in the number of pupils from
the lowest to the highest grade. Leaving
out th Kindergartens, the ninth gram
mar and the normal schools, the first
year’s attendance In the twenty-four cities
In question, was 211,070, in the eighth
year’s work the number had fallen to 38,-
943. The total enrolled in the eight ele
mentary grades was 874,773, and the num
ber enrolled in the high schools was only
47,251.
One of these typical cities was Philadel
phia, and the Ledger of that city says
that the number of pupils enrolled there
on Dec. 31, 1899, was 143,381. Of this num
ber only 4,343 were in the high schools. On
that date in, Chidago there were in the
elementary schools 182,165 and in the high
schools 7,847.
It would bo Interesting to know what
proportion of the school fluid in each of
thos* cities was spent on. the high schools.
It is safe to say that far more was spent
on them in proportion to the number of
pupils attending them than on the ele
mentary schools. And what is true of
Chicago and Philadelphia and the other
cities of the twenty-four mentioned by the
United States Commissioner of Education,
is doubtless true of pretty neatly every
other city in the country. Is It right that
it should be so? In many cities there are
lacking school accomodations, but the suf
ferers are not pupils of the high schools
but of the elementary sc'hools. In about
every instance, when there is a shortage
in the school funds, the need of school
room Is felt in the lower grades and not
in the high schools. Somehow or other
the high schools are always taken care
of by the school boards and superintend
ents. This is not as It should be. The
public school system was established for
the purpose of giving instruction in the
fundamental branches, not for the pur
pose of preparing boys and girls for col
lege. The system appears to have been
twisted from its original purpose. Now
the aim seems to be to use the elementary
schools to prepare a comparatively few
pupils for the high schools. In other
words, everything is being done for the
high schools. The public school system is
becoming top-heavy.
KVOI'GII HOSPITALS TO Stf'POltT.
The Mayor seems to question the advis
ability of making the government an offer
for its hospital buildings In the southern
part of the city. There are good reasons
for questioning it. At present the city has
all the hospital accommodations it needs,
and certainly all it can afford to pay for.
If the city is not actually in need of addi
tional hospital accommodations It would
be a waste of money to purchase the gov
ernment buildings, however low the price
might be for which they could be obtain
ed.
BUt the cost of the buildings would not
be the only outlay to which the purchase
of them would subject the city. Land
would have to be purchased or rented as
a hospital site, and the buildings would
have to be moved. Then there would be
the cost of maintaining the hospital. The
purchase would involve a cash outlay of
a good many thousands of dollars and a
large annual expenditure.
It might be said that the money that is
now given to hospitals would be applied
to the support of tho ctiy's hospital. It
would not be enough to support it, and,
besides, somebody would have to support
the hospitals that are now receiving city
aid, or they would have to be closed. The
people that would have to support them
are the ones that would be taxed to sup
port the city's hospital.
And what would the city have tt It should
purchase the government hospital build
ings? It would have nothing that would
be permanent The buildings are mere
shells. They would have to be painted
every year to make them look tidy, and
that would cost enough to run an ordinary
hospital. The goverment hospital was
never intended for anything more than a
temporary Institution and tho city could
not make anything more, than that out of
it. If the city is to spend money for a
hospital it should do so in accordance
svhh plans based upon what is required
for a permanent hospital. To buy the
government's buildings would be to simply
throw money away.
Why shouldn't "Teddy” have his rough
rider Hat if he wants it? Does Boss Hanna
fear that It will hide (he Napoleon hat
of McKinley from view? "Teddy” uses
his hat Just as Senator Call of Florida
used to US3 his snagged trousers, for
campaign purposes solely. Everyb dy un
derstands that. But there Is another hat
that Is looming upon the scene. It is a
tdg fdt, of ordinary shape, such as Is
worn, not by military heroes or rough
riders, but by millions of American citi
zens. Its size Is about No. 7% or 8. It Is
the hat around which the antl-Republl
can vote will rally In November.
The amateur cabinet makers are al
ready beginning their self-imposed task
of constructing cabinets for both of the
candidates. Whether Mr. Bryan or Mr.
McKinley Ist *ucc- ssfol, he will find a cabi
net at his hand, ton !y made—lf he choose
to accept it.
THE MOBNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY; JULY 11. 1900.
THE SALARY OF THE VICK PRKSI
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Some of the Republican papers are al
ready beginning to say that the salary of
the Vice President ie too email. They
! make the point that Gov. Roosevelt will
not be able to live upon It. It Is SB,OOO a
! year. As Governor of New York, Mr.
Roosevelt gets SIO,OOO a year. He has a
small private fortune which yields him
less than $5,000 a year. That, together
witn what the vice presidency would yield
him, ought lo enable him to live In com
fort In Washington. In the estimation
ol the great majority of the people of the
country, $12,000 or $13,000 a year is a big
income.
Eut Gov. Roosevelt has not yet been
elected, and it is by no means certain that
he will be. Gen. Stevenson stands Just
as good a chance of being elected ae he
does. Gen. Stevenson’s friends are not
complaining about the salary of the office.
It Is doubtful if he has as large a private
Income os Gov. Roosevelt has. He has
not, however, six children to provide for
as Gov. Roosevelt has, and, beside, it is
probable that if he should bo elected he
would not want to live quite 60 expensive
ly os Gov. Roosevelt would. When he was
Vice President he was able to make a
very good appearance on the salary he re
ceived.
Here In Georgia, where the Governor
gets only' $3,000 a year, Supreme Court
judges the same amount and Superior
court Judges only $2,000, the salary paid
the Vice President seems large.
A3 a matter of fact there are getting
to be so many millionaires In the coun
try, who think nothing of spending $50,000,
or even SIOO,OOO a year that officials are
getting discontented with the salaries they
receive. Mr. Justice Barrett, of the Su
preme Court of New York, in an inter
view in London the other day, complained
that the judges of that court were Justified
In speculating once In a while because
they were not able to put by anything for
old age from their salaries. They receive
$17,000 a year. He thought the New York
judges ought to have pensions like the
English judges. If the judges here in
Georgia were elected for fourteen years,
os they are in New York, and were paid
$17,000 a year, they would think they had
struck a gold mine.
There is no doubt that in many parts of
the country the judges ore not paid as lib
erally ae they should be, but the New York
judges have no reason to complain. It is
probably true that the solary of the Vice
President is too small. If he were better
fraid he would be nble to make the office of
more real importance ihan it is consider
ed to be. The late Vice President Hobart
was quite prominent in Washington, but
it was mainly on account of the entertain
ments he gave. His large private fortune
enabled him to play a prominent part in
the social world, and being able to enter
tain lavishly, he had more political im
portance than he would have had other
wise.
THE IXCOMB TAX PLANK,
Congressman Sutler Is given as author
ity for the statement that the income tax
plank was left out of the Democratic
platform by design. It is well known that
Mr. Bryan was very anxious that there
should be a declaration in favor of such
a tax. It is understood that the draft of
tho platform which was submitted to him
contained, such a declaration.
In his public speeches during the last
four years lie has insisted that there
should be an income tax. It is known
that he sent w'ord to Senator Jones, chair
man of the Democratic National Commit
tee, to have an income tax resolution
passed by the convention when he found
that the income plank had been omitted
from the platform, and It was said at the
ttmo that Senator Jones promised that
such a resolution should be passed. It
was thought that the reason he did not
keep his promise was that in the press of
other business he overlooked the matter.
If what Congressman Sulzer says, how
ever, Is correct, there were powerful in
fluences In the convention against an In
come tax declaration that could not be
overcome. It is a question whether the
Democratic party is In favor of an Income
tax. There Is no doubt that the Popul’sts
are in favor of it. There are a great
many wealthy Democrats who are against
Bitch a tax. It was doubtless their In
fluence that caused a declaration In favor
of an income tax to be left out of the
platform.
CHICAGO’S 810 CLAIM.
Chicago is getting ready to deny the cor
rectness of the figures of the census man.
She has been having anew directory
made, and this directory seems to indicate
that she has a population of more than
2,000,000. On the strength of the figures
of the directory man the Chicago papers
are saying that that city has a greater
population that the state of Georgia, or
Minnesota, or Virginia, or New Jersey or
some other stales. The wonder is where
these Cilicogo papers get their figures
about the population of Georgia and the
other states they name. They don’t know
anything about the population of Georgia.
And it is safe to say that the Chicago di
rectory’ man is not within half a million
of the correct number of people within
the corporate limits of Chicago.
A directory man wants to please the
people who buy his directory. The bet
ter he Can please them the greater his
sales. It is a notorious fact that the Chi
cagoans have for these many years been
claiming about twice as many people as
their city contained. They arc never sat
isfied with the census figures, and they
will not bo satisfied with them this year.
As already stated they are getting* ready
to show they are away out of the way.
They will stand by the directory, which
t roves to their satisfaction that their city
Ijas a population of 2,000,000.
It has not been so very long since some
of the Chicago papers were afraid that
the census enumeration would Indicate
that the city’ had not had a very great
growth during the last ten years. They
explained that the labor strike had caused
many thousands to find homes elsewhere.
Now it seems that, notwithstanding the
loss of so many, the directory man has
discovered that the city Is so full of people
that they are literally being crowded over
the city limits. Chicago can take the fig
ures of her directory man it she wants to,
but it is probable that the rest of the
world will accept those of the census
enumerator.
On (lie breast of the Chinese soldier's,
tunic is a blank circle of white material.
That may he found a very convenient
bullseye for Ihe long-distance sharpshoot
ers of the allied forces.
A London dispatch of a few days ago
quoted Lord Wolaeley as saying that the
Chinese could overrun the world, and that
they wers more powerful and dangerous
than they have been credited with being.
Admiral Dewey does not agree with the
great British soldier. Ae to the value of
the Chinese as soldiers, the Admiral points
out that Admiral Seymour with 2,300 men
more than held his own against great
hordes of Chinese and could have gone on
through to Fekfn if he had had sufficient
ammunition und provisions. Admiral
Dewey believes that 25.000 men, adequately
furnished with ammunition and stores,
could march to Pekin and capture the city.
The Chinese are strong In numbers, the
Admiral says, and in no other particular
whatever.
The Philadelphia Record is much en
couraged at the prospect for the early
establishment of a line of steamships
between Philadelphia and the South. It
says; “A quarter of a million dollars will
start the enterprise. Seventy-five shippers
having declared their readiness to sub
scribe to the capital stock in amounts
ranging from SIO,OOO to S3OO, we may hope
to see the line in full operation within a
reasonable time. Asa simple investment
it is worth the attention of capital, and
as an aid to the growth of Philadelphia
business it should and will have the sup
port of our most Important men of af
fairs-”
An incident illustrating the absolute
asininlty of some of the faith curists oc
curred at Webster, Mass., a few days ago.
A 4-year-old child set Itself afire with a
box of matches. Its screams attracted
it grandfather from an adjoining room.
The grandfather believes in the faith cure.
Seeing the child wrapped in flames, In
stead of trying to put .them out the old
fool dropped on his knees and began to
pray. Neighbors broke into the house and
extinguished the fire, but too late to save
the little innocent's life.
It does not appear that the Filipino In
surgents are treading upon each other's
heels in their eagerness to accept the
President’s amnesty. The number of
them who have thus far taken the oath
is quite small, and so far as the corre
spondents are able to see there is no
prospect of the movement of the Filipi
nos towards the pardon-furnishing of
ficers being accelerated. Meantime the
work of killing goes on, participated in
by both sides.
PERSONAL.
—Funds are being collected in Bavaria
for a monument to King Ludwig 11, in
addition to the chapel which the Prince
Kegent recently had erected on the shore
of Lake Starnberg, where Ludwig was
drowned fourteen years ago.
—Under the terms of the will of the late
Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Haskins, who for
fifty-five years was rector of St. Marks'
Episcopal Church in Williamsburg, N. Y.,
all his manuscripts of sermons, except
those which the members of his family
especially desire to preserve, are to be
consumed In the furnace of the church.
—Dr. John Charles Rye, Bishop of Liv
erpool, who died recently, was twice se
lect preacher at Oxford and once at Cam
bridge. His father was a banker, and
the late Bishop for a short time took a
part in the business. Then financial diffi
culties came in his way, and, leaving com
merce, he exchanged his business career
for that of a clergyman.
—Princess Louise, now Duchess of
Argyll, undertook about eighteen months
ago to execute a statue of Queen Victoria
for the western porch of the Manchester
Cathedral. The work has been delayed,
owing to unavoidable circumstances; but
the Cathedral authorities have lately been
given to understand that they will not
now have long to wait for the statue.
Cl BRENT COMMENT.
The Boston Poet (Ifid.) says: "Suppose
Bryan were elected President what would
happen? What sort of a President would
we have iu him.
“In the first place, wc should have a
thoroughly honest man in the White
House. This is a fact conceded by Air.
Bryan's political foes as well by his polit
ical friends. And it is more than the
Republicans can say of every candidate
for President put up by their party.
"We should have a President of unques
tioned ability. Air. Bryan has shown him
self a man of parts. He is not only a bril
liant orator, he has demonstrated his pos
session of the qualities of statesmanship.
"We should have a President who is per
sonally unselfish. Mr. Bryan is devoted
to principles rather than to the advance
ment of his individual interests. He is a
broad-minded man.
“We should have for President a man of
tact and good humor. Mr. Bryan W’ould
enter the White House without enemies
to punish or grudges to satisfy. He car
ries no knife.
"And touching the policies and issues on
which this election turns, we should have
a President devoted to the republican as
against the imperial theory of govern
ment; to the protection of the interests
of the great body of the people as against
monopolistic cabals.
“We should have a President who has
pledged himself to what tve at the East
regard as a mistaken theory of finance,
but who would be unable in the four years
of his term to put hie theory in practice
in any form.
"All in all, even from the Republican
point of view, there have been many can
didates, both Republican and Democratic,
whose election to the presidency woul i
be properly regarded with greater appre
hension than that of William Jennings
Bryan.”
The Birmingham Age-Herald (Dom )
says: f\t present our exports of cotton
goods are very small—not much over 5
per cent, of the exports of Europe. The
South must seek a Pacific outlet for its
Increasing productions! of cotton goods.
The building of cotton mills, as well as
the trade of the gulf ports are nil tied up
In the building of the Nicaragua canal,
which the Democracy have Indorsed and
the Republican* have evaded it the dila
tion of the transcontinental railroad own
ers. In this respect (lie Kansas City plat
form stands, in other words, for South
ern Interests, while the Philadelphia plat
form represents the plans for delay and
obstruction presented by the opposition
schemers.’’
The Chicago Chronicle (Dom.) says:
“ 'Dictator!' shouts a Republican organ.
‘William J. Bryan is a dictator before the
election; he would be a dictator in the
Whito House.* And that may be true.
We may, however, console ourselves with
the thought that h dictator who docs his
own dictating is considerably lo be pre
ferred over one who dletates nt the dic
tation of someone else—<n the dictation of
Mr. Hanna, for Instance.”
The New Orleans Times-Dcmocrnt
(Dom.) says; "Enthusiasm will not win
mi election, although it cun help very
materially In the tight. The chief lesson
from the, Philadelphia and Kunsas City
Conventions is that one was a convention
of the people, the other a convention of
the bosecz."
The a They Kelt Sad.
It was the Scottish express, and as it
was not due to stop for another six hours
the other nine occupants of the smoker
began to gel nervous. The tenth passen
ger, who was sitting in a window corner
with a cap pulled over his face, groaned
again. The kind-hearted old gentleman
snoozing opposite unscrewed a flask of
cold tea and passed it to his afflicted
neighbor. He drank long and eagerly.
"Do you feel better?" asked the giver.
"I do,” said he who had groaned.
"What ailed you, anyway?”
“Ailed me?”
“Yes; what made you groan so?"
“Groan! Great Scott, roan, I was sing
ing!"
Then a great silence fell on that third
class smoker.
Do Not Delay.
"I have been reading about the falls of
Niagara," remarked Mr. Linger to Mias
Frocks, says Harper's Weekly.
“That is where a great many bridal cou
ples go on their wedding journey, isn't it?”
she cooed.
"Why, yes, I believe so," replied Mr.
Linger.
“I should so like to see Niagara Falls,”
the girl said, in a low, thoughful voice.
“Yes, they are a wonderful spectacle.
But what I was about to say was that the
annual report of the United States geo
logical survey says that la 3,500 years the
falls will be no more, the bed of the river
will be dry. and the great lakes will be
emptying into the Mississippi river.”
“In how many years'?”
“Thirty-five hundred.’’
"So soon as that?” exclaimed Mi6s
Frocks. “Let us go and see them at
once.”
"We will,” said Mr. Linger, "and we
will go on our bridal tour."
And they were very happy ever after.
Gfntleineu, tile Queen.
Hie Glasgow Weekly Mail publishes the
following verbatim report of the chair
man’s speech in giving the toast of "The
Queen” at a recent agricultural
dinner in Scotland; "Noo, gentlemen, dill
ye a’ fill your glasses, for I’m about to
bring forrit ’The Queen.' Oor Queen, gen
tlemen, is really a wonderful woman, if I
may say It; she's ane o' the guid auld
sort. Nae Whigmaleeries or falderials
about her, but a douce dacent lady. She’s
respectable beyound a' doot. She has
broeht up a grand family o' weel-faured
lads and lasses—her auldest son being a
credit to ony mlther—and theyre’s a' weel
married. Ana daughter is nae less than
married to the Duke o’ Argyll's son and
heir. Gentlemen, ye’ll maybe no’ believe
it, but I once saw the Queen. I did.
It was when I took my auld brooa
coo to Perth show. I remember her wee;
—such color—such hair! (Interruption and
cries of ‘ls it the coo or the Queen ye're
proposing?’) The Queen, gentlemen. I
beg your pardon, but I was talking about
the coo. However, as to the Queen, some
body pointed her oot to me at Perth sta
tion, and there she was, smart and tidy
like; and says I to mysel’: 'Gin my auld
woman at hame slips awa’, ye needa re
main a "widow anither hour longer.* Noo,
gentlemen, the whusky’s guid, the night
is lang, the weather is wet, and the roads
are saft, and will harm naebody that
comes to grief. So aff wi’ yer drink to
the bottom! ’The Queen!’’’
FUU Jones Did Not Cash.
"Inhere is a small boy that I know who
is going to be a millionaire some day,”
declared Jones, according to the Detroit
dree Press. "At present he has only an
innocent face splashed with sunspots, over
w hich ht never even allows the ghost of a
smile to flicker. I am fond of fishing, so
fond, in faclt, that I don’t mind now and
then coming back from a fishing trip with
out even having enjoyed the sight of a
fish. But ttiere is one thing I cannot
stand, and that is the guying of my friends,
who cannot understand that the pleasures
ol a fisherman are not solely confined to
a big catch.
"1 went fishing the other day for trout
in a small country stream which I have
always held; sacred even from my closest
friends of the rod. I had no luck, and was
on my way home when I met this small
boy with a long string of fine trout. His
outfit would have caused a horse to laugh;
but he had the fish and I had none, so 1
did not feel like laughing myself. With
my guying friends in mind 1 struck a bar
gain with the urchin, paying him three
prices, and went on my way rejoicing.
Two days later I visited the same stream
and had the same luck, not even hook
ing the big one that always gets away.
Coming out I met the boy again, carrying
another string of trout, and we struck an
other bargain.
'See here,’ said I, somewhat exasper
ated at his luck, "I’ll give you 50 cents
if you will tell me how you manege to geL
such a string of trout every day.’
"The boy held out for a dollar and got It.
“ ’lt’s jest this way,’ said he. ‘all the
kids around here fish more or leas and
sometimes they catch one or two, and I
go around and buy ’em up; then I sell
'em to some greeny that ain’t had no luck.
I ain’t caught a fish myself this year. I
oin t had time,’ be added, with a grin.
"It’s a great scheme and I don't be
grudge him the money that he made out
of me."
The Lost Heart.
James W. Foley, Jr., in Bismarck Tri
bune.
Back among the trees and trellises along
the leaf-strewn lane,
Sitting on the bank of the mill stream
and dreaming dreams again,
Drinking water, sweet as nectar, from the
bucket at the well.
In the orchard’s leaf and silence, watch
ing windfalls as they fell.
Trying, here at five and thirty, just to be
the boy of ten,
To recall the joys of boyhood and forget
the cares of men.
But I listen to a lesson in the twitter of
the wren;
When the boy's heart turns to man’s it
never throbs the same agbln.
Once the sun marks noon of lifetime,
once the morning steals away,
Once the shadows growing shorter, and
then fall the other way,
Once the playtime qpds at manhood, once
the frollicking is done,
When the face is turned from dawning
to the setting of the sun,
You may sit among the flowers that you
plucked and threw away,
Turn the leaves of Time all backward,
try to read them as you may,
You may kindle tires of Memory, you
may sit and watch the flame,
But there’s something changed within you
that can never be the same.
You may lay aside the burden of jfour
troubles, as you will,
But your bent and sunken shoulders tell
the story to you still.
The story of the struggles and the trials
that are sealed
From the simple hearts of children, and
(o men only revealed.
The sorrow dulls, the sigh is stilled, the
sore hearts soothed are,
The smarting wound Is healed again, but
always leaves a scar,
The fire of youth burns only once, and
dies in Its dead flame
The simple heart of boyhood that can
never be the same.
So I sit among the trellises and trees and
wonder why,
Pure the air as in my boyhood, anil as
blue the unflecked sky,
Full the leaves as ever blowing, sweet
the bird songs and as free,
But the lioy's heart that thrilled to them
is untuned and dead in me,
There's a longing, longing, longing,
speaking In a deep-drawn sigh,
For the heart that throbbed In boyhood,
cloudless as the azure sky.
For Ihe heart that was the sunlight and
ihe air—that tongue nor pen
Gan ever paint or picture—that I cannot
know again.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—What might fairly be called "a quiet
home wedding” took place last week at
Hagerstown, Md. The bride, groom, best
man and officiating clergyman were all
deaf and dumb. The bride. Miss Alto
May Louman, was graduated from Gal
laudet College, Washington. D. C., in
1892, with the degree of B. Ph., being the
first deaf woman In America to receive
a college degree..
—ln London the other day very high
prices were given for some pieces of
Nankin Chinese pottery, the purchasers
beiug probably moved to unusual prodi
gality by a suspicion that after the pres
ent Chinese troubles shall have been set
tled such pottery will be more than ever
difficult of procurement. Three vases,
each ten inches high, brought $1,155 and
a pair of long-neckeil bodies sold for
$1,050.
—There has been the usual summer
drop of two and one-half feet In the level
of the Brooklyn bridge span, due to the
heat, which has, as usual every summer,
expanded the cables. The level of the
center of the span in the coldest day In
winter is taken as *he standard from
which the measurement Is made. Last
summer some of the bridge trusses
buckled because of the expansion of the
cables.
—The Knights of Pythias of Kansas
gathered at Abilene recently for a gener
al reunion of the organization through
out the state, iind irt the course of their
obedience to the programme for the occa
sion attended a local church in a body.
About half way through the services the
choir, to the worshippers, temporary
consternation and subsequent amusement,
sang the anthem, "There Will Be No
Night There.”
—Wesleyan University of Middletown,
Conn., has decided that not more than 20
per cent, of the whole body of students
may be women. They are bartbd from re
ceiving degrees with male students; bar
red from holding class exercises in con
junction with male students and limited
to a separate place in the catalogue. The
action of the trustees seems to have been
the result of representations made by cer
tain of the alumni that many graduates
of preparatory schools refused to enter
Wesleyan as long as women are accorded
the same rights and privileges as men.
—Judge Finn of the First Municipal
Court, New York, Is one of the coolest
poker players on Manhattan Island. A
case was before him the other day in
which the defendant refused to pay a
poker debt of $92. The judge asked what
poker was, and five lawyers, with all of
whom he has often played, diffidently
opined that it was played with cards. ”Ig It
a gameot chance?” inquired the count.
"That depends altogether on how good
a player the other fellow is,” answered
one of the lawyers, mildly. After much
consultation the court gave a verdict for
plaintiff.
—When Lord Charles Beresford was in
China one of the best servants It was hts
lot to have was a certain Chinaman
named Tom Fat. Unfortunately, Tom Fat
did not always devote his undoubted in
tellect to worthy objects; he learned to
imitate his master's handwriting so clever
ly that he forged checks amounting to
over 12,000 in two years. And on one oc
casion, when Lord Charles was professing
a spirit of broad toleration towards the
heathen of all denominations, one of his
friends ventured to Inquire what he
thought would be the ultimate fate of his
Chinese servant, whereupon Lord Charles
Instantly replied, "That fat will certainly
be in the fire!"
—For years the male residents of
Healdsburg, Cal., talked of certain im
provements which the town needed. Noth
ing came of the talk, and then the women
fork the matter up and formed a Ladies'
Improvement Club. This organization has
transformed Ihe place, having by their
active influence aml organized labors
procured for the town a municipal water
system, a municipal electric light plant,
comfortable seats in the plaza, an intelli
gible name system for the streets, sign
boards with street names at ail corners,
a drinking fountain costing S6OO. These
improvements were brought about with
out increasing taxes, except for the two
purposes first named.
—A beginning has been made with for
estry in the United States. New York
has adopted measures to protect the head
waters of the Hudson. In the Adiron
dack Park 2,500,000 acres are reserved, of
which 1,000,000 Is owned by the stale,
as much more is in private game pre
serves and the remainder in the hands of
those who will sell to the state when
they can get their price. Cornell and
A’ale conduct practical schools of fores
try. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
says the cotton crop of 1899 and the
wheat crop of the present year were dam
aged hy drouths that would not have
occurred if the forests had not been
wastefully slashed away.
—ln Utica, N. Y., a block of new’ apart
ment houses has just been furnished with
complete lostalation of electric cooking
utensils in each flat. The electrical kitch
en furniture consists of three round plat
ters or "stoves,' ’an oven and a broiler.
It is declared, apparently with reason,
that meats broiled on the electric gridiron
are much more palatable than those char
red and scorched ire the ordinary way
over hot coals. The most remarkable fea
ture of these electrical kitchens is that
the stoves, etc., are simply placed on an
ordinary kitchen table, and when the
cooking Is complet'd can be stowe 1 away
in a convenient closet, leaving the kiteh
> n free cf even a trace of cookery. Space
is thus saved.
—Expert Nicola Tesla, in a recent paper,
predicted the immediate advent of tl.e
aluminum agth” thus some
timid holders of copper slocks. For the
assurance of the latter the New York En
gineering and Mining Journal declares
that both iron and copper have long lives
of usefulness ahead of them. It will not
even concede that aluminum will supersede
yopper in electrical work, where it might
ho expected to make itself felt, if any
where. N* is true,” says the Journal,
“that aluminum has been tried for elec
trical work in some places, arid has been
found to answer very well. But the sup
ply will have to be much larger than it is
at present to affect the consumption of
copper In any appreciable degree. The
price of aluminum has been reduced from
time to time, and it is now—allowing for
the very much lower specific gravity of
aluminum—actually cheaper for a given
bulk than copper. The manufacture re
mains a limited one, however, and in
creases very slowly, not even responding
in any degree to the opportunity offered
by tha high price and great demand for
metal for electrical work.’’
—The cutting of the sudd on the Upper
Nile and the consequent release of large
volumes of stagnant water has had an
unexpected effect on the river at Assuan,
by the first cataract. From reports re
ceived from the engineering staff, it seems
that the absence of free oxygen in the
water has caused wholesale' destruction
of the fish. Within a hundred yards of
the resident engineer’s office there were
at least' u million dead llsh, ranging In
size from a few inches to six feet in
length, and, although the season was rel
atively cool, the odor was terrible, and,
moreover, no other drinking water was
available, but after nitration no evils re
sulted from Its use. This is suid to con
firm London experience at a time when
it. was usual to pour crude sewage Into
the Thames. The filtered water, clear and
odorless, was drunk with impunity, but
eels plunged into it would struggle vio
lently and finally die of suffocation be
euuse it contained no free oxygen. This
Is presumed to have been the case with
the fish in the Nile under the special
circumstance* resulting from Lite long-de
ferred cutting of the sudd.
The Quakers Are
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blood purifier, but a
Blood maker m.
Pale, Weak and Dc
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strength and
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It la a medicine for week women. It b s
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Blood, Stomach and nerves aoon succumb
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and wonderful medicine for Neuralgia,
Toothache, Backache, Rheumatism.
Sprains, Pain In Bowels; in fact, all pain
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complexion. Price 10c a cake.
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10c a box.
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ill 18.
Magnificent mountains 1,200
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tables; splendid music.
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_ B. B. Abernethy, Prop.
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THE GRAND UNION
Open until Oct. I.
Special Terms per Week or Season.
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Saratoga Spriugs, New York.
HOTEL NORMANDIE,
BROADWAY & 38TH STS.. NEW YORK.
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COOLEST HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY
Located in the liveliest and most ln’er
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places of amusement within five mlnutrtf
walk of the hotel
CHARLES A. ATKINS & CO.
Summer Resort—Ocean Hotel, Asbury
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HOTEL DALTON,
DALTON, GA.
Popular summer resort. One of the
most popular summer resorts in North
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drives, brick hotel, hot and cold baths oo
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CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE.
July daily rate sa. Unsurpassed scen
ery. Railway fare reduced. Station*, Otis
Summit and Kaaterakill.
CHAS. & GEO. H. BEACH. Mgrs.,
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HOCK LEDGE,
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In the Alountains. The pace to spend
your vacation. New’ house, cool rooms,
modern conveniences; on Battery Park
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GRAND ATLANTIC HOTEL,
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sth year. Most central location; highest
elevation, overlooking ocean; 35u beautiful
rooms, many with baths. The terms are
reasonable. Write for booklet. Hotel coach
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without board. Rooms with board 17 per
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circular.
The Singer Piano
of Chicago, 111.
This SINGER PIANO is sold by many
of the leading dealers in the United
States, such as Wm. Steinert Sons Ox.
who haye the largest establishments In
Boston, New Haven and Providence. Also
the SINGER PIANO is sold by Win.
Knabe Cos., having the leading houses in
Boston, Baltimore, Washington and N’ w
York city. There are a large numbet e*
leading houses handling SINGER PIANO,
too numerous to mention.
The SINGER PIANO is evidently one of
the best pianos in the market, or it would
not be sold by these leading houses.
It has an elegant singing tone, much
liner than most pianos, and about one-half
the price of other Instruments.
Call and see, and examine the SINGER
PIANO and save a good deal of money ot
your purchase. Same guarantee is **
tended for the SINGER PIANO as any ol
the leading pianos of the day, and a sat
isfactory price will be given to all on ap
plication.
LIPPMAN BROTHERS.
Wholesale Agents, Wholesale Druggist*,
Barnard and Congresa Streets,
Savannah, Ga.
OPIUM
Morphine and Cocaine habits cured pain*
lessly In 10 to 20 days.. Tha only guaran
teed painless cure. No cure no pay.
Address, DR. J. H. HEFLIN.
Locust Grove, G*
SODA WATER.
Soda Water, Ice Cream and Sherbet*
made of the best fruit and erfam by ®
professional dispenser. Sent to any l' 8 ”
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Cream and sherbets 1> cents.
DON M ELLY PHARMACY.
Phone No. 678. No. ill Liberty st, e* u