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4 Sljt fttarning fjeto£ Morning ¥1 Building taritnaab, Ow. WEBXBSDAy, JULY 11, 11)00. Registered at the Post-.ffice in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers In the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month, SI.OO for six months, and 18.00 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday Issue), three months, 81.60; six months $3.00; one year, $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 Issues a week. Monday and Thursday, by mall, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable In advance Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at nsk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements end cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth— is the standard cf measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING NEWS to either residence or place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone No. 210. Any lrreg'Uar ity in delivery should be Immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Tark Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. 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. Legal Notices —Citations from the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary. Proposals Wanted—For Forage and Straw, James M. Moore, A. Q. M. G., Governor's Island. Mineral Water—Apollinaris. Medical—Radway’s Pills; Castoria; Hood’s Pills; Munyon’s Kidney Cure; Hosford’s Acid Phosphate; Dr. Ketmer’s Swamp Root; Dr. Hathaway Company; Mother’s Friend; Peruna. Cheap Coiumn Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous. 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. ————— 4 • ♦ > ■ • 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 - 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 Honest People, §Th Quaker Hen Tonic' is not only , blood purifier, but a Blood maker m. Pale, Weak and Dc bllitated people awh„ have not strength nor blood It acteVt a tonic, it regulates digestion, cures dys strength and the nervous system. It la a medicine for week women. It b s purely vegetable medicine and can taken by the most delicate. Kidney Dis eases, Rheumatism and all diseases of the Blood, Stomach and nerves aoon succumb to its wonderful effects upon the human system. Thousands of people in Georgia recommend It. Price SI.OO. QUAKER PAIN BALM Is the medtclee that the Quaker Doctor made all of his wonderful quick cures with. 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