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4 gfjje Jfiofninfl Morning >'ew Building, Sttanoah, Go, THURSDAY, JULY IS. 1900. Reg.stered at the Fosct ff.ce in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS Is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, or eent by mail, at 70c a month. SI.OO for six months, and ss•o© for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six turns a week (without Sunday is*ue). three months, $1.0; six months $3.00; one year, $6 00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issue* a week Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, u.oo. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mall at r.sk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than Special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cent 9 a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in dep:h— is the standard cf measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation a. business olhee. 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 irregular ity in delivery should be immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga iE ASTERN OFFICE. 23 Park Row. New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. L\DLX 10 KEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting**—Zerubbahel Lodge No. 15, F. & A. M. Special Notices—Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Wall Tape*-, Andrew Hanley Company; Faints and House Painting. Savannah Building Hu-pply Com pony; Temperature at Suwannee Springs, Suwannee, Fla., July 10; Special Notice, Youmsns & Decnmond, Auctioneers; Notice to City Court Jurors; Notice to Contractors, John E. Maguire, Superintendent; Ship Notice, Strachan & Cos., Consignees; Levan’s Table d’Hote, Business Notices— LePanto Cigars; E. & V*’. Laundry; The Most Popular Ham, the S. W. Branch Cos.; Don't for a Moment, Hunter & Van Keuren. Cigars—Humboldt Cigars. Summer Resorts—Hotel Lafayette, Saratoga Springs; The Bristol, New York. For Sale Cheap—Cohen-Kulman Carriage end Wagon Company. Legal Notices—ln the Matter of Joseph W. 'Williamson of Bulloch County, Bank rupt. Official—Liquor Licenses, Second Quar terly Statement. Financial—Report of the Condition- of the Merchant** National Bank of Savan nah. Cheroots—Old Virginia Cheroot*. Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food—Postum Cereal Company. Steamship Schedule—Compagnie Gener ate Transatlantlque. Salt—The Favorite Table Salt. Medical—S. S. S.; Rar-Ben; Hood’s Sar saparilla; World’s Dispensary Prepara tions; Dr. Hathaway Company; Castoria; Pond’s Extract; Lydia Pinkham’s Vege table Pills. Cheap Column Advertisements-Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia to-day are for partly cloudy weather, with fresh southerly winds; and for Eastern Florida, fair in eastern, local rains in western por tion, and fresh southerly winds. There appear to be some persons in At lanta who think it is sportsmanlike to wrlnk at fraud if not actually to con done it, and to go up against a bunco game every time an opportunity to do so is offered. Please to observe that KO editors of Georgia country newspapers are going to banquet to-night at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. These ere the reople who are always making jokes and rhymes B-bout taking pay for the paper in collards and cord-wood. The bronze statue of the late 55. B. Vanoe of Horth Carolina, which is being erected in the capitol square at Raleigh, will be unveiled with appropriate ceremonies on Aug. 22. The fund for the memorial was raised by popular subscriptions taken among North Carolinians. The tribute is a worthy one, worthily bestowed. The Chinese minister at Washington, In defiance of diplomatic custom, has never failed to talk, and talk interestingly, about the troubles In his country when called upon by the newspaper men. It is true that he has not added a greet deal to the sum of our knowledge respecting affairs in Pekin, but by his frankness he has enhanced his own reputation with the American public. In the electoral college it will require 234 votes to elect. Gay. Poynter of Ne braska, a cioae personal friend of Mr. Bryan, calculates that the Democratic candidate is already sure of 210 votes to 3SI for McKinley, with 106 doubtful. Among the Bryan states are included Indiana, Maryland, Kentucky and South Dakota. Among the doubtful states are classed Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, New York and Minnesota. Before the settlement of the war he tween the Arbuckles nnd the Sugar Trust, sugar sold at a little above 41; cents a pound. By the advance <sf 10 points, which was announced on Mon day, the price goes to 6 cents wholesale— the highest price that has been asked for sugar In a number of years. The mag nates of the business ate now going to make consumers recoup them for the money they spent while lighting each other. Mr. Bryan is a lawyer, Mr. Stevenson is a lawyer, Mr. McKinley is a lawyer and Mr. Roosevelt 1* a lawyer. It is prob able, 100, that the majority of the candi dates on the other eight national tickets are law'yers, and not one of them ever achieved any distinction in hie profes ttion. The young graduate who has Just hung out his bright, new shingle und is Awaiting for clients and retainers his at ■ least the possibility of a presidential nom ' inatioa to look forward to. THE CHIEF ISSIB OF THE CAM PAIGN. The speech which Mr. Bryan delivered at Lincoln on Tuesday makes it c car that it is his purpose to spare no effort to make imperialism the chief issue of the campaign. In the course of hi 9 remarks he said: "Remember when you go to the polls to vote that you are an Amer ican citizen. Remember that your vote may determine this nation’s po**ltk>n. and that this nation will, in a large measure, determine the public opinion of the world on the doctrine that governments come up from the people. For 124 years this nation has held before the world the light of lib erty. For more than a century it has been an example to the Old World. You tell me that we can now bo In and Iff rent to what is going on? You tell mo that the man who lifts his voice Against the doc trine of imperialism is pleading the < auso of the Filipino? T toll you he is pleading the cause of 70.000,000 American citizens; aye, he is championing the rights cf the struggling masses of the world who look to America for example." The foregoing indicates vere clearly whnt Mr. Bryan will talk about during the campaign which he inaugurated at Lincoln. He will, of course, have some thing to say about other planks In the platform. It is probable that he will have more to say about silver than any other one of the minor planks, because it is al ready evident that it is the purpose of the Republicans to make silver the mo.st prominent issue of the campaign. Their newspapers are already saying that there was no discussion of any question in the Democratic National Convention except silver, and that the basis of the fusion of the Democrats, Populists and .Silver Re publicans being silver, it will, of neces sity, be the one great issue of the cam paign. They will, however, find them selves mistaken. While it is true that neither platforms nor politicians can de termine which issue shall be the leading one, it is not difficult to eve what the chief issue In the present campaign will be. The people are pretty well satisfied that there Is no probability of silver legisla tion during the next four yeaYs, and even if they thought otherwise they would re gard the question of the preservation of the republic of far greater importance than any question relating to money. They are beginning lo realize that the warning*! which Mr. Bryan has been ut tering ever since it became clear what the policy of the Republican party was in re spect to the Philippines are not for the purpose of advancing the interests of his party. They are beginning to see that there Is a great struggle going on between those who would change the character ot the government and those who would keep it as genuinely republican as it was when it came from the hands of its found ers. If the government goes into the colonial business, in accordance with the policy of the Republican party, its charac ter is certain to undergo n change. In the exercise of imperial power it will take on the character of Imperialism. The effort, therefore, to defeat the- policy of the Republicans is not intended to benefit the Filipinos so much as it is, as Mr. Bryan says, to preserve the liberties of 70,000,000 Americans. PROTESTING AGAINST Till ST 1,1 iXi- ISLATION. It is not an easy matter to legislate against trusts in such a way as not to hurt various interests in the communi ties in which trusts, are established. The anti-trust legislation in Texas and Ar kansas has not been wholly successful. Indeed, it has been very far from it. Now Louisiana is having some experience with anti-trust legislation. A bill has Just been passed by the Legislature of that state in which the tax on corporations Is changed from % of 1 per cent, on all busi ness done up to $1,000,000 to 1 per cent, on all business done. It can be readily seen that this bill, If it should become a law, would play havoc with manufac turing corporations, particularly those which do a very large business. One of these that do business in New Or leans is the American Sugar Refining Company, better known as the Sugar Trust. Its annual tax under the present law is about $2,500. Under the proposed law it would be $20,000, since it, does a business of about $30,000,000 at its New Orleans refineries. There are other fac tories that would be hit hard by the new law, so hard, In fact, that a very vig orous protest against it has been made by the New Orleans Board of Trade and by merchants and citizens generally. It seems that if the proposed bill should become a law, and the indications are that it will, It having been passed by the Legislature and the Governor having de clared it to be iiis purpose to sign it, some of the largest of the corporations in New Orleans and other Louisiana cities would leave the state. These cities would suffer a very considerable loss. The Sugar Trust, for instance, employs in New Orleans about 1,000 men, and was preparing to enlarge its plant. If It leaves the cltj' all of these men will he thrown out of employment, and will have to seek employment elsewhere, if new avenues of employment are not opened up in New Orleans. In Its argument to the Governor, ask ing him not to sign the bill, the Board of Trade says that it is better to let Con gress deal with the trust question. Con gress says that it is better to let the states deal with it. It is evident (hat it is a difflcvflt question to deal with, it Is easy enough to say •‘crush the trusts," but it is not so easy to point out a way to crush them without crushing other vast interests, and without ealling forth protest from the very people who are loudest in demanding the destruction of trusts. The problem the statesman has to deal with Is to find a way to comply with the demand for the destruction of trusts without Injurying anybody's Inter ests. About everybody wants somebody else’s trust destroyed, but wants his own protected. There was a shor crop of French peas this season, and, according to reports, the French packers are trouble to curry out their contracts for supplying Ameri can dealers. There Isn't any good reason why Georgia and Florida do not raise as fine peas as France, and they ought to be In a position at this time to take ad vantage of the French shortage and se cure high prices. It is Inexplicable why Suvannah should import peas from France, tvhlle there are hundreds of acres of idle land In Chatham county capable of producing as good peas as any one peed care to eat. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY,’ JULY 12. 190a HHITISH LOSJifcS IN SOI TH AFRICA. According to the figure, published yester • day in a cablegram irom London, the I British losses thus far in South Africa have been pretty nearly a? great, probably. I as the total number of men the Bouth.Af ■ rican republics have had in their armies. It is true, of course, that there are no re i liable figures as to the number of jnen the ' Boers have had in the field sine* the out break of hostilities, but it is doubtful, judging from the estimates which have been made from time to time by Brit Jeh and American correspondents, if they have ever had as many as 50,090 men. They could muster more than that number, of course, but there has never been a time when the full strength of the Boers was under arms. The fact must not be over looked that the population of the Trana vaal Is under a quarter of a million and flint that of the Orange Free State is very much smaller. An army of 50.000 men therefore would be a big one for the two republics. It is stated in the cablegram in ques tion that the total British casualties since the beginning of the war are 48.185 officers and men. And tho war i* not over yet. In tact the fighting is quite as fierce as it has been at any time since the war began. Jt is true there have been no big buttles recently, but fighting on a small scale has been almost continuous, .and has been very disastrous to the British. For the week ending July 7 the British casualty list was quite large. There were killed, wounded and captured 15 officers and 180 men; there died of disease 4 offi cers and men; there were invalided home 72 officers* and 1,309 men, and there were two accidental deaths. If the losses continue at this rate, how long will it be before Gen. Roberts will need reinforcements? And even if he does not lose many men irt theguerilla war fare which tho Boers are now carrying on, he is certain to lose many from typhoid fever nnd other diseases. Typhoid fever is a very common and very virulent dis ease in South Africa. It has been stated a number of times that the British are but illy prepared to combat it or any oth er disease. If. therefore, the Boer* should be able to hold out for six months or a year, the losses of the British would, in all probability, be appalling, simply from disease. The British are paying a big price for South Africa. There is not much reason to doubt that they will finally force the Boers to surrender or to leave the coun try. Owing to their enormous expenditure of life they will not be In a forgiving spirit when the time comes* for -fixing term* of surrender. It is probable that harder terms will be Imposed on the Boers than the Boers imposed on the Outlanders. There is just one chance for the Boers, and that is the possibility of Great Britain becoming involved in war in other parts of the. world. In that event she may need all of her fighting force at the new scene of trouble, and may be liberal In making terms with the Boers. The trouble in China is causing her uneasiness and thsre is a report of an outbreak in India. The chance for getting better terms than the British are now disposed to offer seems to be worth taking, and the Boers have, ap parently, decided to take it. 4 GOLD DEMOCRATIC TICKET IM PROBABLE. It seems to be the opinion of Gold Demo crats that there will not be a Gold Demo cratic ticket nominated this year. The National Committee of the Gold Democrats will meet In Indianapolis on July 25. Those of its members who have been asked as to the probability of a candidate for Pres ident being nominated have been Inclined to bo reticent, no! because they had not made up their minds as to the course the Gold Democrats ought to pursue but be cause they thought it inadvisable to dis cuss the question of a convention until the committee had met and conferred. From what these members have said, however, the impression has got abroad that the Gold Democrats will not nominate a ticket. And there is no reason why they should. Very many, perhaps the majority, have made up their minds to support Mr. Bryan. Others have concluded the wisest thing for them to do, so far as the election is concerned, is to vote for Mr. McKinley. Therefore, even if a ticket should be nomi nated by the Gold Democrats, it would get very few votes. The Gold Democratic ticket polled only 132,871 in 1896, and the opinion of well informed Democrats is that a like ticket would not poll anywhere near so many votes this year. There are very many Gold Democrats who are going to vote for Mr. Bryan who do not like his platform, but they are against imperialism. They are saiisfled that the Philippine policy of the Republi can party would, if successful, change the character of the government. They have very little fear that Mr. Bryan, could up set the gold standard law, but they are very much afraid that if a colonial system shall be grafted on the government a long step will have been taken towards im perialism. Therefore their votes will be cast for Mr. Bryan. The Gold Democrats who have no fear of imperialism, and who are still of the opinion that the election of Mr. Bryan would mean the adoption of the silver standard, will, of course, vote for Mr. McKinley. It is probable that the majority of the Gold Democrats have al ready made up their minds as to the can didate they will vote for. It would be a waste of time, under the circumstances, to bother with a Gold Democratic ticket. President Harper of the University of Chicago is quoted as Baying: "It would be a good thing for young men to take up politics as a business, and it would be a good thing for politics." We have no doubt that if Dr. Harper would look about him he would find a groat many young men in politics as a matter of business. The Mayor of his own city iB a young man, the Republican nominee for Governor of Illinois Is a young man, the Demo cratic nominee for the same office la a young roan, the Democratic nominee (or President of the United Btatee'is a young mat), and the Republican nominee for Vlee President is a young mail. Asa matter of fact, this seems to be an age of young men in politics. The percentage ot them Is probably greater now than at any other time. Two grandsons of LI Hung Chang are in this country. They will enter college at Nashville In the fail. The elder, aged 21, has determined to be a civil engineer. The younger, aged 19, says he has been so busy looking at the beautiful American women ever since he has been in the coun try that he has not had time to decide what special lino he will choose lor his ,life's work. Consul General Guenther, at Frankfort. Germafly, says that the proposition to form a tariff union between Great Britain and her colonies is looked upon with alarm by portions of the people and press of Sw Hzer land. England is now the best customer of many of the industries of Switzerland. A tariff alliance between the countries of the British empire would prove a hard blow to Switzerland. One proposition for bridging the difficulty that has been sug gested by a leading Swiss publication is a political alliance with the United States. In short, the plan is lo Switzerland become a state of the American union. "Switzerland," it is pointed out, "would loose none of her liberties. It is a well known fact that the several states of the American union are much more independent than the several cantons of Switzerland." This suggestion ought lo commend itself to the consider ation of the Republican party. If it is anxious that this country should become an empire and secure a foothold in Eu rope, it could hardly do better than to ab s*orb Switzerland. But it should be borne in mind that the Swiss would hardly tol erate carpetbaggers in their offices. The excellence of the Chinese gam prac tice is astonishing the allied forces at Tien Tsln. For the past ftv9 years or more, it Is said, the Chinese have been drilling steadHy and acquainting themselves with modern artillery. During that time they have purchased in England 71 guns of |k> sition, 123 field guns, and 291 machine guns, with an abundance of ammunition for each class of weapons, meanwhile pur chasing from Germany 4t5),000 Mauser rifles and 3,000.000 rounds of ammunition. The prolfabilities are tho Powers will find China somewhat in the position that Eng land found the Transvaal—better prepared for fighting than anybody suspected. The shirt waist man—that is, the man who has the courage of his de>peration, and is determined to take off his coat and keep cool even at the expense of shocking Mme. Prude—has made his ap pearance, not only in Athens, Ga., but in Baltimore, Md. Is it not possible for the ma n-modiste a and the woman-tailors to evolve some sort of a shirt-waist for men that would be comfortable for the one sex and acceptable to the other? The waist ought, of course, to have five or six pockets in it. It would be interesting to know wheth er the message of the Emperor Kw ing Hsu to the viceroy of Nankin, dated July' 2, was written before or after hi* latest reported successful attempt to suicide. PERSONAL. -Ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas has been in vited to deliver an address on "The Ideal Commonwealth" before the students of the University of California next au tumn. —The Rockefellers might be considered large patrons of life insurance, but are not. The brothers, John D. and Wil liam. carry’ moderate sums. Frank Rockefeller, who lacks many millions of being as rich as his New’ York brothers, carries more life insurance than either of them. —lt is stated upon authority that there are only’ ten Japanese women in New York city, and one of these Is Miss Shid zu Naruse of Kobe, w f ho will shortly re turn to her native town and establish a hospital there. Miss Naruse was one of twenty young women nurses who receiv ed diplomas recently at the New York Hospital. —When Trinity’ College, Dublin, confers the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon Rt. Rev. William Crossw’ell Doane, according to its announceed intention, it will make the third time the Bishop of the diocese of Albany has been honored by educa tional institutions in Great Britain. He now holds a similar degree from Oxford, while Cambridge has dubbed him Doctor of Laws. Bishop Doane is a son of Bos ton, having been born there in 1832. BRIGHT BITS. —The two men had talked for a time in the train. “Are you going to hear Barktns lecture to-night?” said one. "Yes,” re turned the other. "Take my advice and don't. I hear that he Is an awful bore." “I must go." eaid the other. “I'm Bar kins.”—’Tit-Bi is. —Double Entry—Prof. Browne—“l have anew system of mnemonics, and now 1 never forget even what my wife asks me to purchase for her down town; I just jot it down in m.v little memorandum book, and as soon as I see the first word it all comes back to me." Student—“ Yes, sir; but why have you got that string tied around your finger?" "Professor—"Oh, that's to remind me to look in the book!”—Brooklyn Life. —As to the Divorcee—"Mamma,” said little. Ethel, "Mrs. Gayley's husband isn't dead, is he?” "No, dear.” "Then, what's she going to he married again for?” "Never mind, dear, you can't understand such things." "Oh, I know," exclaimed the litt> girl; "it's Juot like getting vaccinated. It didn't take the first time."—Philadelphia Press. CURRENT COMMENT. The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says; “Our exports of cotton cloth to China last year amounted to $10,273,487 out of a total of $19,698,475 worth of exports of piece goods. A large part of the cotton goods sold in the Chinese market was supplied by the cotton mills of the South, and any interruption of the trade will have a crippling effect upon tills growing' branch of Southern Industry. China Is the best customer of the United States for cotton cloth, and of late year Ameri can goods have been steadily advancing In favor with Chinese importers.” The Mobile Register (Dem.) says; "Tell er Is the only one who gets a full sup ply of grief out of every situation. He wept salty tears in Chicago four years ago; and now In Kansas City ‘tears streamed from Teller's eyes' when he told how bis friend. Towns, had been turned down in the Democratic Convention. Teller is destined to be the unhappiest man in politics.” The Memphis Commercial -Appeal (Dem.) says; "Gen. Joe Wheeler Is champing the bit of Impatience and other wise manifesting a desire to go to China nnd whip the children of the sun to a standstill. Whatever may be thought of the little Georgia cyclone no one can doubt his courage or his willingness to fight. If Gen. Wheeler goes to China he should carry whatever trees he needs for climbing purposes wlih him.” The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) says: “The news comes from Manila lhat the Philippine Commission Ms determined that every precaution shall be taken to Insure honest, efficient civil service among Filipinos and Americans.' it is to be hoped that this Is not the sort of civil service promise made four years ago in *-th Republican national platform.’' Ike Haniou'i Soul. After covering my assignment in a Maine country vil age off the railroad, on my way heme I stopped to take dinner and rest my livery plug In Martin’s Cor ner, says a wilier in the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Five men were sitting on the long bench under the porch of the tavern. Two were whittling, the re chewing to s '- ba< co and enjoying life. "Here comes cld ike Hanson," said one of the men suddenly. "Let’s get him on a string." Ike Hansen wa a little man with a pinched face and with tufts of wYiiskers cn rach cheek—little starved, undergrown whiskers, looking like wire grass in a runout pasture. "Ike’s meaner n’ a farrar cow in a hot summer," cne of the men cofl tided to me. "Bet ye a dollar when he comes over here he'll stand up so's to save wearing out the aeflbt of his pants." Well, when Ike came over he* stood up, but I can’t say thri he and and so on account of the ingenious reason advanced by my new friend. % "Stirkin’ out fur’s usual. Ike. I sup pose?" asked one of the loungers. "I be for all I know," replied Ike in non committal fashion. "Anything special goin’ on up in your neighborhood?" asked one of the men. "Nothin' much, only lral Dunbar has had to call on the town for help." "Sho! Is that so. Why, the report got all around down here that after lral was took sick you went over and told him you’d see him through till spring.’’ The crowd laughed at the look of aston ishment that came over Ikes face "Furi. I ever heard of it," said he. "You'd be likely to hear of it, wou’.dn’t you?’’ asked one of the five. "No. Ike will never hear of anything like that," said anther gravely. "If he does he’ll drop dead. Ills heart is weak, so I’ve heard." "Heart? Ike ain’t got no heart. When they built, him they put heart and gizzard in together, so as to save trouble and ex pense. The things bein’ combined, it don’t cost as much to run ’em." I*looked to see if this new’ arrival wasn’t going to be offended by this broad humor, but he only grinned grimly. "You fellers out here to the Corner think you’re sharp," said he. "You want to look out that you don’t fall down and cut yourselves." "Wal, there’d be some blood run out of us if we should," drawled one of tho men. "There’d be about enough come onut of you to moisten a postage stamp." "Huh!" sneered Ike. "Sal. fellers," remarked a tall man who had been whittling a bit of shingle, "I had a dream about Ike here the other night, and, bein’ he's here. I’ll jest go ahead and tell it. Perhaps he’ll be interested. "I dreamed I died and went to heaven the other I got in all right enough, funny os that may seem to you fellers. Well, while 1 was strolling round I run up ag'inst a fust class angel. He un dertook to show’ me ’round a little. He t< me on© mighty curious thing. He sa. that as long as a man was on earth they kept his soul for him in* heaven. When it come time for him to die his spir it come to heaven and got the soul. “ ‘How’d you like to see the storeroom where we keep the souls?’ the angel asked. ‘Furst rate,’ says I, and we went down that way. "It was a great place, now, I can tell you. Some of the boxes were mighty big concerns. > “ ‘The value of a man is regulated by the size of his soul,’ said the angel. "The more good he does on earth the better he is to his fellow’ man, the bigger is his soul. We have to keep changing some of them to bigger boxes. Beats all how some of them do grow. Let’s see," continued the angel, ‘where did I understand you to say you came from?" " 'Martin’s Corner, in Maine,’ says I. " ‘Well, by gracious,’ said the angel, ‘wo’ve got a curiosity here that will inter est you, seeing you are from that section.’ "He went up to a big directory, turned the pages and then said to the angel in charge. ‘Hand me down box seventy tril lion, two hundred and thirty-two million, six hundred and eighty thousand, nine hundred and seventy-nine.’ "That box was about as big as a wo man's watch case. " ‘Open it.’ says the angel handing it to me. I did so, and there was another box Inside. I opened that. Inside that was still another box—and, by thunder. I open ed forty of ’em before I got down to the last, and that was the tiniest box I ever saw. " ‘Now, here Is a microscope,’ said the angel. ‘I want you to look, and look in there sharp,’ "It was a big microscope. I looked a long while before I could see anything. Then at last I did see a little speck. " ‘ls that a soul?.’ I asked. " ‘No.’ says the angel. ‘That isn’t a soul. That is something that has been put in there merely for the purpose of compari son. That is the one-millionth part of a moskeeter’s eyebrow’. Can’t you see an other loetle, teeny mite of a speck there?’ "I looked hard, but blame me if I could see a thing. I told the angel I couldn’t., “ 'Well, I don’t know as ye c&n,’ says he. ‘But it’s there. It is one-thousandth part as big as the one-millionth part of a moskeeter’s eyebrow’, and It is the soul of that Ike Hanson down In your place.’ " Col. Marshall's Circus Horse. Col. Charles Marshall, one of the lead ing lawyers of Maryland, was aide-de camp to General Robert E. Lee and went through the battles of the war with his chief. Col. Marshall has many Interesting stories of his military life, and one of the most amusing was an experience with a new hor.se. His old horso had been shot from under him in the fight of the pre vious day. and he Bad taken possession of an animal that sewmed to suit his work. In the battle of a few hours later he was riding across a field in which there were numerous stumps. Suddenly the perform ance opened. The guns roared and the air was filled with smoke and noise. Before Colonel Marshall knew what was happen ing the horse had his four feet on one of the stumps and was gayly dancing in a circle. In the mean time the firing was in creasing and the horse kept on as If ho was enjoying it. “It was not until after ward,” said Colonel Marshall, "thnt I found the horse had belonged to a circus and had been trained to do this act amid the firing of cannon.” Served Him Right. He carefully prepared the small garden plot, while his wife, deeply Interested In hia labor, stood watching him, says Col lier's Weekly. After he had put In the seeds and smoothed over the bed, his wife took his arm to accompany him to the house, and on the way she asked: "When will the seeds come up, John?" Laying his hand caressingly on her shoulder, the smart man said: "I don't expect them to come up at all, my dear.” “You don't!” she exclaimed. "Then why have you gone to all that trouble?" With a smile that springs from superior knowledge, he answered: "The seeds won't come up, but the plants and flowers will, by and by.” Yet he was wrong; for hla neighbor's hens got into his garden, and the seeds did come up. a e .... The Knot In the Hu ml kerchief. Speaking of the queer doings of absent minded people, the following anecdote la related by the London Globe: "A very' Ir ritable man left his house one morning to attend a race meeting some distance off. In order that he might have enough money to pay hie hotel bill he tied n sov ereign In the corner of hts handkerchief. In the train he drew his handkerchief from his pocket, and noticed the knot in the corner. "Now," he said to himself "what was it I wished to remember?' Much thought failed to enlighten him upon the point, and at last. In a fit of passion, he hurled the handkerchief out f the window. Then h* remembered.** ITEMS OF INTEREST. —A large number of women. Myi the London Lancet, sweep* the streets with skirts of their gowns and other garments and bear with them wherever they go abominable filth. Attempt* are indeed of ten made by women to keep their dresees from dragging. The management of a long gown is too difficult a matter for the majority of women. Th* habit has arisen of seizing the upper part of the skirt and holding it in a bunch at a place called by women "the broad part of the back below the waist" and among anatomists by the leB cumbrous term "gluteal region.” This practice can be commended neither from a physiological nor from an artistic point of view. We etrongly protest from a sanitary point of view against the impor tation into private houses of skirts reek ing with ordure, urine and pathogenic mi crobes. For walking in the street a short skirt should be worn, and we com mend ihe sensible walking gown now adopted by the best-dressed women to those whose business it is to write on the fashions in dress. —The eastern and western shores of the Atlantic ocean afford a very striking illustration of the variations of tempera ture from the line which theoretically should prevail. On the American conti nent the effects of isolation and radia tion have free play, and as a result great diversities of climate are experienced within a comparatively short length of country”, places only a few hundred miles opart exhibiting great difference between their mean annual temperatures. No such diversity exists on the eastern side of the Atlantic, there being only about one-half the variety’ of mean annual tem peratures in an equal line of coast line that exists on the opposite side of the ocean. The Gulf strenm is responsible for the stability of the climate of the British Isle, but there are other instances where an ocean reduces the temperature in accordance with its latitude, the de crease of temperature from the equator to the poles being more rapid than under existing conditions. Not only’ does the heat equator not include the geographical equator, but the heat equator changes its position and migrates from one place to another. —A statement which was made at the World’s* Women’s Christian Temperance Union Meeting at Edinburgh that there was much need for temperance work among the women of France has aroused much hostility’ among the leaders of women in France. They retort that there is not nearly so much need of reform among French women a* there is ir* England. Quite a considerable number of prominent French women interviewed on the subject indignantly’ repudiate the suggestions made by their English-speaking sisters at Edinburgh. Mme. Marguerite Durand, the directress of La Fronde, the Parisian wo man’s Journal, said. "It w’ould be a great exaggeration to say’ that French women, generally drink to excess, but unfortu nately it must be admitted that alcoholism has commenced to make program among women in France. Ir> Paris Itself there is very little alcoholic excess among women. On the other hand, in Normandy and Brittany’ drink is causing considerable in jury to the female population." Another well-known French lady’ said: "My’ own experience is in accordance with the state ment of Mme. Durand. A drunken wo man is no uncommon sight in the great towns of England, but T have never seen a drunken woman in Paris." —A correspondent of the London Spec tator thinks that with regard to color both ca's and dogs have little aesthetic perception. Cats seem to show a definite perception of texture-aesthetic*; for it Is not ordinary bodily comfort which prompts them to prefer cne texture to an other. They may like to sleep on velvet, but they revel, w’aking, in the feeling of crackling raprr or of stiff silk, and there is a well-authenticated case of a cat w’hich goes into the garden to lick the under sides of foxglove leaves, and can not be kept from trying with her tongue the texture of flannelette. But the keenest aesthetic pleasure for a cat lies in the region of smell. The deg uses smell mere ly as a medium of information, hut th? cat levels in it. She will linger near a tree trunk, smelling each separate aro matic baf, for the pure pleasure of it— not. like a dog, to trace friend, foe or prey. If the window of a close room is op ned the cat leans out. smelling the air; new dresses are smelled, partly’, perhaps, f■!• future recognition, but also apparent ly for pleasure. A strong smell, above all a spirituous smell, is not only’ disagree able, but absolutely painful. Lavender water may pi a c e a tiger, but it will put a cat to fright. The writer also refers to the case of a dog who prefers scarlet to blue color. —The remarkable success of American jockeys in recent English races has caused no little jealousy among their British col leagues. The Field, to explain matters and as a word of solace for the wounded feel ings of the latter, gives room to the ob servation that upon a number of occasions the Americans had the pick of Ihe mounts because of their preceding winnings. "We still think,” it adds, “that in a close finish the best of our English horsemen are bet ter than the best of the Americans, but in their judgment with regard to pace the latter are far ahead of otir Jockeys, and they ride with a determination and vigor which, until quite lately, was unknown among even the top rank of our horsemen. Occasionally they lose their heads, and then everything goes by the hoard, but on the whole Sloan, the two Reiffs and Rigby seldom ride a bad race, and this is proved by the fact thai they have fully secured the confidence of owners, trainers and of the vast general public who take a pecuni ary interest in the snort. The younger Rciff. barely 15 years old, ts a veritable wonder, end whether he makes running or waits he can he relied upon to do more with his mount than any English light weight of the day. A noticeable circum stance, too, Is lhat several English Jockeys have copied the American seat on the horse's withers, and now in some races it is quite possible to see more horsemen in the 'scorching' attitude than sitting tip straight in the old style, with their toes stuck out and their horses hard held." —A striking phenomenon of our time Is the Increasing ure of iron and steel, says the Baltimore Sun, In ship-building and bridgebuilding the large use of steel has been familiar for years, but its large use in the construction of public buildings and private dwellings Is comparatively recent. Steel cars begin now to consume a large amount of the metal, and armor for warships and modern guns are called for in Increased quantities. Electricity in its \arlous uses has created new demands for steel, while the large movement of cities and towns for improved water sup plies has helped to swell the demand for lion In Its varlobs forms. To a very great extent Iron ands e 1 are displac'ng wo and ard even brick and stone. The building of new railways In Siberia, Egypt, Africa India. Australia, Canada. Mexico and the United States require-* large supplies of the useful metal, but (he demand from new roads Is less than the demand from o'el roads that are replacing light rails with heavy rails and bringing their equip lntne up to the best standard. Every sort of engineering enterprise now utilizes steel In ways not contemplated a few years ago. The change from Inferior to better materials results, of course, to a great extent, from the abundance of capital, which is to be had at low rates of in terest. The architect, the engineer and the shipbuilder of to-day have the spend ing of amounts of money that would have seemed fabulous 50 years ago. Where dews this abundance of capital come from? The enlarged production of the gold mines woulel account for but little of It It is the long peace of the world—our fr*e dom from great wars for 30 years—that has given civilized mankind opportunity to multiply wealth by Its Industry to an forefathers ® f by ou f bell.coie Jos. A. Magnus & Cos., CINCINNATI, O. SUMMER RESORTS. 7tbTELWOR^iANDIE7 BKOALWAi & 3STH STS., NEW YORK. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. EUROPEAN PLAN. COOLEST HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY Located in the liveliest and most lnt.r estlng part of the city; twenty principal places of amusement within five minute# walk of the hotel CHARLES A. ATKINS & CO. Summer Resort—Ocean Hotel, Asburr Park. N. J. GEO. L. ATKINS & SONS. BLOWING ROCK. GREEN PARK HOTEL Summit of Blue Ridge, 4,340 feel. Scen ery and climate unsurpassed, so say globe trotters. Hotel first-class in every respect. Only house on mountain with plastered walls; excellent livery; 43 miles turnpike roads on top of ridge; large ball room, band and other amusements. Postofflce and telegrdph in hotel. Opens July 1. Write for leaflet and rates to Green Park Hotel Cos., Green Park, N. C. SARATOGA SPRINGS HOTEL LAFAYETTE. NOTED FOR CHOICE LOCATION. LIBERAL TABLE AND EXCEPTION. ALLY' LOW RATES. Address JAS. M. CASE, Proprietor. THE BRISTOL, - 13 AND 15 EAST 11th St., NEW YORK. SELECT FAMILY HOTEL MODERATE RATES. White Sulphur Springs Hotel, WA YNESVILLE, N. C. 50 acres beautifully shaded lawn, wonder ful mountain views, cool night*, frees ton* iron and noted sulphur springs. Fine or chestra daily. House remodeled and newly furnished this reason. COL. F. A. LINCOLN, Proprietor. Greenbrier White Snlphur Springs, U>t Virginia. Representative **esort of the South. Open June 15. $40,000 in improvements. New sewerage, plumbing, lights, private bath* and toilets. Orchestra of 16 piece*. Fam ous Sulphur baths. New 9-hole golf course, 2,700 yards. Professional in charge. Write for illustrated booklet. HARRING TON MILLS, Manager. ROCKY RIVER SPRINGS, Stanly County, N. C., Open June 1. Finest mineral water. Table supplied with the best. Band of music. Daily mail. ’Phone connections with all adjoin* ing towns. Climate unsurpassed. Tourist rate 9 Southern Railway and its branches, and Atlantic Coast Line. Write for cir cular. Address H. B. Beckwith, M. D., Silver, Stanly county, North Carolina. IN THE GREAT NORTH WOODS. HOTEL DEL MONTE, SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. OPENS JUNE 27. under entirely new manage ment; newly furnished and renovated through out; table and service tirst-clas9; near lake and Hotel Ampersand; golf, tennis, billiard*, boating, fishing, driving and bicycling, livery. For booklet address J. HENRY OTIS, Sara nac Lake. N. Y. SWEETWATER PARK HOTEL m BATHS, LITHIA SPHINCS. OA. This well*known and popular resort lfl opfn. All modern equipment. Cuisine end service unexcelled. Write for illustrated pamphlet. JAS. E. HICKEY, Fropr. Also Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga. CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE. July daily rate $2. Unsurpassed scen ery. Railway fare reduced. Station*, Otis Summit and Kaaterskill. CIiAS. & GEO. H. BEACH. Mgre.. Catsklll, N. Y^ SEA GIRT, NEW JERSEY. Beach House, right on the beach. Al ways cool. Fine accommodations. Dining room service first-class. Rates reasons, blc. Send for booklet. Sea Girt is the first stop made on the coast by express trains from Philadelphia to Asbury Perk and Long Branch. COAST COMPANY^ AVONDALE SPRINGS. On Knoxville and Bristol Railroad, fi'* miles west of Tate’s, at the base of Clinch moumains; one of the most delightful re sorts of Bast Tennessee. Ltthia, sulphur and chalvbeate water. Reasonable rates. Address Miss C. CRO-SIER, Lithla, Grain ger county, Tennessee. GRAND ATLANTIC HOTEL, Virginia avc and Beach,Atlantic Clty.N.J. sth year. Most central location; highest elevation, overlooking ocean; 359 beautiful rooms, many with baths. The terms ara reasonable. Write for booklet. Hotel coach es meet all tralna. CHARLEB E. COPE; Ml I,HOSE, NEW YORK.-78 Madison Avenue, corner 28th at. Rooms with or without board. Rooms with board $T per week; $1.25 per day and upwards. Send for circular. LEGAL NOTICES. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND TORS. GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY.— Notice Is hereby given to all persons hav ing demands against Betsy HabershanN late of said county, deceased, to present them to me, properly made out, within the time prescribed by law, so as to show their character and amount; and all P* r * son* Indebted to said deceased fire in quired to make Immediate payment to me. Savannah, Ga., July 3, 1900. FRED T. SAUSSY. Admlnetrator, office Bull and Congres* streets, upstairs, NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDIT ORS. GEORGIA. CHATHAM COUNTY Notlce Is hereby given <o all persons having demands agHinst Herman Lentz, late of said county, deceased, to present them to me, properly made out. within the time prescribed by law. so ** to show their character and amount; and all persons indebted to said deceased are required to make Immediate payment to roe. F. S. LATHROP, Executor, tiavacant), Ua., June, 1900.