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4 gTfje iMofning fsfeto|. Morning Mtwt Building PmßDfth Ufi TUESDAY, jn.Y IT, inoo. Registered at the Fostoffice in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS Is published every day in the year. and is served tc subscribers in the city, or sent by mall, at 70c a month, $4.00 for six months, and $*••0 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail. *l* times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.60; six months $3 00; one year, $6 00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week. Monday ai.d Thursday, by mail, one year, *I.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance Re tail by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of senders. Transient advertisements, other ihan special column, local or reading notices, amusements nnd cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth— is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING NEWS to either residence 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. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Tark Row. New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. IKDEX 10 m ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Lafayette Me Lows* Camp 596, V. O. V.; German Friendly Society. Special Notices—Annual Picnic of Sa vannah Council No. 1. Order of American Firemen, at Hotel Tybee To-day! Notice to City Court Jurors; Just the Thing, A. M. & C. W. West; Notice to Water Takers; What Dr. Phillips of Gainesville, Fla., aays of Suwannee Springs; Notice to Superior Court Jurors; Ship Notice, Strachan & Cos., Consignees; Notice of Dissolution. Foye & Morrison; Lots for Sale, C. 11. Dorsett; Levan’s Table d'Hote. Business Notices— Harvard Beer, at Gildee’s New Alhambra; E. & W. Laun dry; Green Ginger, The S. W. Branch Company; Watches, Hunter & Van Keu ren. Whiskey—Old Crow Rye Whiskey. Grape-Nuts Food—Postum Cereal Com pany. Educational—Bethel Military Academy, Virglna. Safe and Painless Teething—Dr. Stcd man’s Teething Powders. The Big Bargain Sensation of the Times—Foye & Morrison. Cheroots—Old Virginia Cheroots. Salt—The Favorite Table Salt. Medical—Lydia Finkham’s Vegetable Pills; Hood's Sarsaparilla; Castoria; Mother's Friend; Horsford's Acid- Phos phate; Dr. Hathaway Company; Bar-Ben; World’s Dispensary Preparations; Coke Dandruff Cure; Tutt's Pills; Dr. Sledman's Teething Powders. • Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The Indications for Georgia to-day are for fair weather in southern portion, lo cal rains and cooler in northern portion, with fresh southerly winds, and for East ern Florida, local rains and thunderstorms; fair In northern portion, with fresh south easterly winds. Avery complete political platform might be made up of the planks that were left out of the Philadelphia and Kansas City platforms. William Jennings Bryan is the youngest man who wae ever nominated for the pres idency of the United States. Four years ago, when he was nominated at Chicago, he had passed the constitutional limit by only one year. The next youngest man to receive a presidential nomination was Henry Clay, and next to him, Ulysses 8. flant. Li Hung Chang's reputation for an in telligent discernment of his own best in terests is not suffering by hts actions at present. He does not go to Pekin, In obedience to Imperial orders, for the rea eon no doubt that he Is fully conscious that the chances would be against hie ever getting away again. LI prefers being a live Chinaman lo a dead demi-god. Judge Kohlsaat, of the United States District Court at Chicago, has decided that a person under twenty-one year* of age, who is regarded as an infant In law, cannot be adjudged a bankrupt under the new bankruptcy law. He holds that such an infant, upon reaching hie majority, can repudiate his debts, and that he has no creditors In the sense contemplated by the bankruptcy act. It is predicted that George Gould will be a candidate for representative in Con gress fiom the Second New Jersey Dis trict. Young Mr Gould seems to be a man of a good deal of common sense and public spirit, htnoe there Is no good rea eon apparent why he should not aspire to Congress, and muke a very good rep resentative, too. The only thing against him Is his politics. He is a Republican. Mrs. Conger, the wife of the United States minister to Pekin, is said to be a Christian Scientist. The other day the followers of the cult in Chicago resolved that they would "concentrate their thought upon Pekin, to the end of agist ing their sister In trouble out of her diffi culties.’' The Chicago Scientists are firm In the belief that their concentration of thought has been effective, and that the news will soon come that Mrs. Conger, at least, is safe. The monthly report of vital statistics for the province of Havana for June shows that there occurred 521 deaths, the rate being 25-80 per 1,000. The diseases claiming the greatest number of victims were enteritis and tuberculosis. During the month there were eight deaths from yellow fever and nineteen cases reported. The greatest mortality occurred among children under two years of age. There were 406 births during the month, making the apparent excess of deaths over births W. •' THE ALLIED FORCES REPULSED. ! The repulse suffered by the allied forces at Tien Tain will have a far reaching ef fect. It will strengthen the fanatical movement against foreigners. The anti foreign uprising will now show itself in provinces in which thus far there have been but few signs of it. In the prov inces in which it has gained headway it will grow In Intensity and strength. Lot the idea once get firmly lodged in the minds of the Chinese that they are In vincible —that they are capable of meet ing the troops of the Christian countries on something like equal terms—and it will take all the armies that Europe and America can send to China to make an impression on them. It is evident that they are better sol diers than (hey were when they fought the Japanese five years ago. They have been trained since then by some of the best drill masters of Europe, and they have been accumulating arms and am munition. The setback they gave the al lied forces at Tien Tsin will encourage them greatly. It will give them confi dence in themselves such os they have never before had. Being confident of their strength and fanatical in their hostility to foreigners, it may become a serious question whether foreign Powers will be able to maintain the foothold they have upon China’s soil. It is not clear yet that the Chinese government Is in sympathy with the anti-foreign movement. Some of the most powerfulfirf the viceroys and of the ministers to foreign countries say it is not. The fact that the imperial troops are fighting In the ranks of the in surgents does not prove that the govern ment is back of the anti-foreign move ment. If it be true that the government is trying to put down the insurreev tion it cannot be said that a state of war exists between China and the foreign Powers. The United Stages have main tained that there is nothing yet to show that they are at war with China. The British newspapers are disposed to crit icise tbe UnltPd States for taking this po sition, but it is the correct one. It will be time enough for the United States to acknowledge that they are at war with China when It appears that the Chinese government approves the outrages which have been committed against foreigners. And when it is admitted that a state of war exists there ought to be no delay on the part of the President in calling Con gress together. Indeed there is a probability that he will have to call it together before it is declared that the nation is at war with China. If the interests of the United States In that empire ore to be protected as they should be, there will be need of many more American soldiers there than the President is able to send there with out authority from Congress. If the up rising continues to spread there will be need In China for big armies from all of the Christian Powers. There does not appear to be any room for doubt that all of the members of the legations and all other foreigners in Pekin have been massacred. The dis patches from Chinese sources which we published yesterday gave such a detailed account of the attack on the legations.and of the brave and determined resistance that was made, together with the horri ble outrages to which members of the le gations were subjected, that there does not seem to be any reason for doubting further that a tragedy has been enacted in Pekin that will have far reaching con sequences. The Christian Powers will never be satisfied until there is such re paration as is possible for the awful crime The result of the anti-forelgn movement will not be the shutting out of all foreigners from China, as the Box ers hope, but the opening up of the whole empire to the freest Intercourse with other nations. POLITICS IS KENTUCKY. (Both Democrats and Republicans will meet 1n convention In Kentucky this week to nominate state tickets. Each party will nominate a candidate for Governor, There will be as great a struggle for the control of the state as there was a year ago when Mr. Goebel vtas the candidate of the Democrats for Governor, and Mr. Taylor led the Republicans. The great issue of the campaign last year was the Goebel election law. It is probable that that law will play an Important part In the election next fall, unless it shall be repealed before the campaign progresses very far. The Louisville Courier-Journal is the authority for the statement that the per sons who have been crying out the loud est against the Goebel law, do not want It repealed. They want to use It in the campaign against the Democrats. And it Is hinted that the Republicans are hoping that it will not be repealed because It may be useful If the presiden tial election should be so close tnat the electoral vote of Kentucky would deter mine It. IJ Is safe to say that the Republicans would not hesitate >o support a scheme to throw the electoral vote of Kentucky out of (he electoral college If It were nec essary to enable them to retain control of the government, provided thpy had an excuse of some sort for doing so. The Goebel law might furnish them with the excuse. If the Democrats of Kentucky ore wise they will modify that law be fore the election. By doing so they will greatly disappoint their political enemies. It is understood that Mr. Bryan has de termined to abandon the recently an nounced plan of making campaign speeches only from the porch of his house in Lincoln, and that he will make visits to and Speeches In the doubtful states. These states, according to a World cor respondent, Include New York, Ohio, In diana. West Virginia and Kentucky. It Is probable, however, that Ihe candidate will extend his itinerary to include sev eral other states. A report says, by the way, that Mr. Bryan does not regard any state in the Union as doubtful. He cannot see any reason why every one of them should not go Democratic In No vember, and declines to concede even Vermont to the Republicans. According to the testimony of a Tam many delegate to the Kansas City Con vention, Richard Croker was responsible to a greater degree than any other man, not excepting Mr. Bryan himself, for the specific declaration in favor of the six teen to one ratio. Ex-Senator Hill, It Is said, expressed his positive conviction that he could defeat a specific declaration wish the aid of Mr. Croker. But the big Tammany chieftain declined to assist him and threw the weight of his Influence In Xavor of a specific declaration. THE MOKMNG NEWS: TUESDAY,’ JULY 17, 1900. BRYAN AND THE TRBATTY. The Republican organs are trying to show that Mr. Bryan Is responsible for the possession of the Philippine* by the United States—that if he had not urged the ratification of the treaty with Bpain, United States soldiers would have been out of the Philippines long ago. It is true cf course, that if Mr. Bryan had rvot urged Democrats to vote for the ratifi cation of the treaty it would not have been ratified. It is the understanding that a dozen or more Democra'ic Sena tors voted for it because Mr. Bryan fa vored Its ratification. It required fifty six votes to secure ratification and there were fifty-seven in favor of it. A few days ago Mr. Bryan said that the whole country knew that he had fa vored ratification because he wanted the war to stop and oar soldiers brought home from the Philippines, and that it was also well understood that, in connec tion with the ratification of the treaty, he favored the passage of a resolution an nouncing it to be the purpose of the United States to give the Filipinos inde pendence as soon as there was a stable government in the islands. There is no doubt that Mr. Bryan has hern consistent throughout this Philip pine business. The attempt to make it appear that he is virtually responsible for the war that is being waged there will fail. If his plan of dealing with the Phil ippines had been adopted it would have been possible long ago for the United States to withdraw the greater part of their troops from the islands. The Filipinos would have been satisfied if they had been given assurances that they would be dealt with Just as it is proposed to deal with the Cubans. Mr. Bryan could not forsee of course that there would he a continuance of the war in the event of the ratification of the treaty. It is probable that if the treaty had been rejected there would have hren no further continuance of the war, because Spain was practically at the end of her resources. The chances are that the United States would have aban doned all thought of possessing the Phil ippines. They would have saved the $20,- 000,(00 paid to Spain and would have avoided the losses in men and money in curred in the effort to conquer the islands. That might have been the outcome of the war or something else might have happened. What would have taken place no man knows. Mr. Bryan advised a course which seemed to him at the time to be the best, and It would have been the beet had the ratification been ac companied by the Bacon resolution. It Is no reflection on his statesmanship that he did not forsee that the ratification of the treaty would be followed by a long and costly war againet the Filiplnoa. Asa matter of fact nobody in thi coun try doubted that the vast majority of the Filipinos would be glad to accept Ameri can rule. It should he kept clearly in mind that at no time did Mr. Bryan fa vor holding the Philippines as a perma nent possess'on. When he advised Dem ocratic Senators to vote for the ratifica tion of the treaty he was Just as strong ly opposed to making the islands colonies of the IThited States as he is now. THE LICK OF GOOD WATER IN CHINA. One of the great difficulties which the allied troops will have to overcome if they undertake to march from Tien Tsin to Pekin is that of getting good water. The water Is drawn from surface wells, and as the country is one vast grave yard and there Is no drainage of any kind, the water is but little better than poison. It is said that the Chinese never drink it except after they have boiled It. If drunk without boiling it produces dysentery and other diseases, and If the drinking of It is persisted In death results. It Is certain that the troops of the al lied armies would not hesitate to drink ihe water of the wells if they could not get water from any other source. And they will not boil It before drinking It. When our volunteer soldiers went to Cuba they were told that they must boil the water there before drinking it. It is prob able that a few obeyed this instruction The great niajorily paid no attention to It. The consequence was that sickness prevailed among them lo an alarming ex tent. The same thing will happen in China, where, from all accounts, the wa ter is far worse than that of Cuba—that is, the water that is to be had in the sec tion of the country between Tien Tsin and Pekin. That district Is mentioned particularly because it is the section through which the allied armies will pass If they ad vance on Pekin. No doubt in most parts of China the water is Just as bad as it is in the district mentioned, because there is no attempt at drainage anywhere and no sanitary regulations. The wells are the receptacles of the drainage, and, conse quently, the water is contaminated with ail sorts of disease germs. In the moun tain districts there are springs and streams probably In which the water Is fit for drinking purposes, but even there, from all accounts, the people are careful lo boil the water before drinking it. The soldiers of the allied armies will also have to be careful in using vegeta bles. It is said that they are a fruitful source of disease. The kind of fertilizer used on the land on which they are grown makes them so. Tlie vegetables must be washed carefully before being used In or der to rid them of the disease germs whlcJi (he fertilizer contains. With so many dif ficulties to overcome it is evident that a march to Pekin from Tien Tsin would not be an easy undertaking. Wyatt Earp, the notorious gun fighter of Arizono, the man whj robbed Fitzsim mons of the decision against Sharkey In San Francisco some years ago, has met more than his match at Cupe Nome, where he runs a bar and gambling house. Earp quarreled with one of his customers and reached for his revolver, but before he could draw it the other man had sent two bullets through his shooting arm, thus putting him out of th<; game. The man who can draw and shoot first is the big man at Nome, Just as was the case In the Black Hills in their boom days. The death of flenntor Gear of lowa will open the way for Representative Dolllver to get Into the Senate; provided the Gov ernor of the state thinks Dolllver Is as big a man as did some of those who were mentioning him ai Philadelphia for Ihe vice presidential nomination. The Legis lature of lowa will not meet until Jan uary, 1902. so that the ad Interim ap pointee will have a good, long time to i serve. The current frutt reason this fair t become memorable as one of the most bountiful In many years. Almost every seasonable fruit Is plentiful at present, and prices are so moderate as to make it possible for about everybody to Indulge the taste for fruit. The peaches that are coming to market now are particularly luscious, the flavor being al that could possibly be desired. Figs, too, are begin, nlng to make their appearance. There probably never was a season when the demand tor this fruit was fully supplied, nnd the present season will not prove an exception to the rule. Prices, therefore, are prptty strong. A remarkably large crop this year is that of huckleberries. For more than two weeks the supply has been very large and the price low, and they are still coming In quantities. Melons and cantaloupes are now at their best, with a plenty to select from. Maj. McKinley has taken pains to let it be known that, while he is a candidate for office, he has not forgotten that he is President of the whole country and therefore will do very little campaigning, giving his time to the consideration of public affairs at Washington. But how about Gov. Roosevelt? Has he forgotten that he is the Governor of New York, and that there are public affairs in that .state which need to be attended to? He has been campaiging pretty much ever since he was nominated, and Is off now for a political trip to Minnesota. PERSONAL. —David B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is spending the summer with Mrs. Henderson in the Adirondaeks. Later he will go to Paris to visit the exposition. —Prof. S. S. Woolwine has resigned the presidency of South Kentucky Col lege, in Hopkinsville, and Prof. A. C. Kuykendall, a professor in the school for years, hae been elecAtd to the vacant presidency. —A despatch from Colorado 'Springs, Col., saye that Capt. Coghlan, U. S. N. t Is there slightly ill, but not in a serious condition, as reported in the East. Tits man who commanded the Raleigh at the battle of Manila has had a slight attack of pneumonia, but is out of danger, and will soon recover all his accustomed vigor. —Col. John W. Geary, tha last Alcalde and the first Mayor of San Francisco, has been invited to take part in the semi-cen- N tennlal Admission Day celebration. San Francisco’s first city charter was adopted on May 1, 1850, and Alcalde Geary was elected Mayor under Us provisions. He refused re-election, and in 1852 left the Pacific coast for Pennsylvania, where he is now living. —The King of Sweden has a high opln* ion of Queen Victoria, as the following extracts which the Gem of London has secured from his note-book will show: “No wonder that the people of Great Britain love and deeply' respect their Queen! As the King of Sweden. I am a happy and honored man; but so highly and lovingly do I respect the sovereign of England, that T could come down from my’ position of King and serve happily, without any feeling of regret, the Queen of England as a British subject. Her Maj esty by chance became a Queen—but not by chance has she gained the love and respect of all llvng monarchs, of all her people!" BRIGHT BITS. —A Time-Saver—Parke— "Your wife tells me you have just bought her anew wheel.” Lane—" Yes. She can now run home from the goif links and see the chil dren occasionally.”—Detroit Free Press. —The View-Point—First Rabbit—" That town boy has been around here nearly a week and never once tried to kill us." Sec ond Kabhit—"Yes; be seems to be devoid of all human attributes.”—lndianapolis Press. —One of Them—"A Chicago man has gained the power of speech by trying to commit suicide," remarked Mrs. Beech wood. “That must be one of the kill-or eure remedies." added Mr. Beechwood.— Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. —Rare, Indeed.—Art Dealer—" Here’s something fine. It’s ‘The Battle of Wa terloo.’ by Van Dyke." Marklcy—“ls it, really? I thought Van Dyke died before the battle occurred." Art Dealer—"Er— so he did. But—er—you see, this is one of his posthumous paintings.”—Philadel phia Press. —An Artistic Debt—" The theater owes a great deal to the Shakesperian dramr” said ihe girl with the dark glasses and the pensive expression. "Yes,” answered the young man with wide ears; "some of the best burlesques I ever saw were' on Hamlet’ and ’Romeo and Juliet.’ ’’—Wash ington Star. —The trembling Boxer knelt before Li Hung Chang and strove to explain mat ters. “I must have lost my head. I see no other reason why I engaged in the up rising, Oh, Son of the Blue Sky,” he wall ed. "You are a trifle off in your gram mar," Interposed 1.1. "You should say; T will have lost my head.’ " And the ext ecutloner stepped forward at the proper signal.—Baltimore American. CURRENT COMMENT. • The Memphis Commercial Appeal (Dem.) says: "The average Democrat has had good reasons for belonging to his party, and he has good reasons for conlinuing to belong to it. It is not necessary for him lo surrenger his personal convictions as the fly-the-coop Yellows would have one believe. This was made plain at Kansas City, when Hill, a goldbug; Towns, a Populist, and Stevenson, the running mate of Cleveland, were nomi nated for vice president Samuel J. Ran dall was a Democrat all his life, though he believed in protection. The Commer cial Appeal Is merely a Democratic patter which Is content to support Democratic candidates and Demo ratlc doctrines, knowing full well, that whenever the party departs from its traditions or squints at untenable propositions, Ihe de parture Is only transient. Certain it is that this paper will never htlve aft apology to make for not joining th* party of Quay, Platt and Hanna and helping to pillage the people in the interest of the pluto crats." . The Kansas City Times (Dem.) says: “What lias become of that severe ami re lentless prosecution of the carpetbag ap pointees of Ihe Republican administration who Stole more than SIOO,OOO in cqsli and nearly SIOO,OOO worth of stamps from the Cuban postal funds, which Ihe President promised to push so vigorously when the huge embezzlement was firs! uncov. red? The hullabaloo made by the President by his organs, by hi* mouthpboes at both ends of the national capital, appear lo have merely been a case of thundering In the Index.’ " The Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.) says: "The.riehost thing that baa appear-* ed In print for sonic time is the Hon. Richard Croker’s expos tlon of economic problems. There has boon some mystery heretofore as to how Mr. Croker broke Ms leg. Hunly it Is a mystery no longer He broke Ills leg wh.p h went to work in dead • aruest to think out the economic A'roblems." tPIg Kill* a Python. On board the steamship St. Regulua, which arrived yesterday from Singapore and other Oriental ports, there were three big pythons and one pig, says the New York Press of July 12. The snakes were consigned to au animal dealer; the pig was unclaimed. He was shipped on board as a stowaway, so to speak. He was put in the cage of the fourth python. In case the snake should get hungry* The python did get hungry, but he failed to stow away the pig. That’s why there were only three pythons on arrival, and that’s why the pig found no one to meet him. He was not expected to live the voyage out. The snake catcher told Capt. McMullen when he put the four great coils on boaid that they were pretty well filled up, and probably would not wake up hungry be fore arriving in New York. Asa precau tion, however, he advised that a small pig be placed In the cage of the largest python, so that if bis snakeship found his appetite while at sea he could get pork chops and keep on living easy. The little pig was bought, but this particular little pig did not go to market. He stayed at home in the cage, and by the time the big python was ready for him he was no longer a small pofker, but a lusty, husky swines who had lost all respect for the companion of his cage. One day the big python uncoiled him self, thrust out a couple of feet of his length, opened his jaws and hissed. His little beady eyes were riveted on the pig. According to the books, the pig should have been fascinated, charmed. Instead of that the porker felt nothing but dis gust mixed with Indignation. The python propelled a couple of his links rigidly in the direction of the pig. The pig side stepped. This was not down In the books, and before the python had recovered from his surprise the pig dashed upon him, with his hair bristling and his month open, and when he receded he had a large chunk of snake between his jaws. He didn’t stop to chew it, but turned swiftly and planting both fore feet upon the coiled up body of the snake, plowed some furrows in his beautiful skin and took another bite. It wasn't according to the books at all, nnd the python was discouraged from the start. His nerve was gone. The pig, on the contrary, was having his first fun of the voyage, and he didn’t stop pawing and tearing and plunging and gouging and biting and chewing until there was merely a string of ribbons and some ‘‘in wards’’ where formerly there had been one of the finest specimens of the python of the jungle that ever started for this country. An Accommodating? Husband. "Paul,” said Mrs. Pondermore, accord ing to the Smart Set, as they rose from dinner, breaking the silence chat had pre vailed throughout the meal, "do you know that we were married just five years ago to-day?” "If I’d been there It woud never have happened,” answered Mr. Ponderman. who is rather absent-minded, pursuing his train of thought aloud. “Er—excuse me, my dear, you were saying ” “That this is the fifth anniversary of our wedding,” replied Mrs. Pondermore, who is used to her husband’s thinking out loud; “and It has set me to contrast ing the two times. Paul, do you know that you never kiss me mornings and evenings os you used to?” "Er—certainly not. I don’t think it a sensible move at all; it might put us in a very ridiculous light if it became pub lic,” murmured Mr. Pondermore. "I beg your pardon, my dear, I’m afraid I was slightly inattentive—that U. B. D. and D. deal is worrying me somewhat—what was it you said?” "That you neglect to kiss me as you used to when we were flrst married,” said Mrs. Pondermore, patiently. “I know it isn’t because you don’t love me any more. Paul, but—but don't you think you could remember to?" she asked wistfully. Mr. Pondermore contracted his brows tightly in an honest effort to corral his errant thoughts and fix them upon what his wife was saying. “Er—yes, my dear.” he said; “what Is it I have neglected?” “You don’t kiss me as often as you used to, Paul.’-’ repeated his wife softly. “Don’t I, my darling?” cried Mr. Pon dermore, all contrition. “It’s this wretc<h ed business that engrosses me so; but if you’ll forgive me, sweetest, I’ll never for get it again. Never. Er—that Is,” he added, the absent look creeping back into his eyes, “just make a note of it, will you? and I’ll have one of the clerks at tend to It the first thing in the morning,” Hoke Smith's Old Book. There has been here for a day or two with the National Educational Associa tion folks the wearer of one of the few badges of the "Legion of Honor” given by the Daughters of the Confederacy, ays the Charleston News and Courier. He is Mr. W. B. Burke, the well-known bookseller of Atlanta. Mr. Burke was a fine soldier, or he would not now be wear ing the badge of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Burke is. by the way, an authority on old and curious books. "Old book buyers,” said he, "are the most curious foiks In the world. They do not know what they want, but seem willing to pay any price for something freakish. Now I have met some people who would not give a snap for something they may already have, and others who only want something old. "Just let me tell you of an experience T once had with Hoke Smtih, the Secre tary of the Interior. He once had me to order out for him a copy of ‘Georgia Scenes.’ Weil. I got something nice, and when I took it to him he got mad and would not have it; said he wanted an old edition. Well. I look it to my store and waited awhile, tore off the cover and ti tle page, kicked it around on the floor for awhile, and (rented it, and then had it rebound and took it back to Mr. Hoke Smith and he paid me a fancy price for I his ‘old edition.' w hich was Just the ihlr.g he wanted.” Not Quite So Drunk. "See that party with the jag sitting In the corner of the car?” said a conductor who was riding to the car horns In a trol ley car, according to the Chicago Chron icle. "Yep! He’s got o heavy bundle,” was the answer. "Well, take this counterfeit half-dollar with you when you collect his fare. A passenger passed It on me a month ago. If he gives you a dollar you can shove 1 on him.” The conductor of the car took the lead half-dollar, entered the cur and the man with the Jag held out a sliver dollar and received the counterfeit half and 45 cents in change. "Worked like a charm,” said the con ductor ns he reached tljc platform. "Here he comes now. He wants.to get off.’’ The drunken man wabbled to the door and unsteadily descended from the ear. "Now, we'll split up,” remarked the conductor of the ear as he drew the dol lar from his pocket. And as both of the conductors gazed at the sliver dollar they gasped In unison: “We’re up ag'ln It! It's a counterfeit dollar!" War Ills Preference. When Charles Dudley Wainer was edi tor of the Hartford Press, back In the ’6os, arousing the patriotism of the states by his energetic appeals, says the Hart ford Cournot, one of Ihe typesetters came In from the composing room one day, and, facing Mr. Warner, said: "Mr. War ner, I’ve decided to enlist lu the army.” With mingled emotions of pride and re sponsibility Mr Waftner replied that it pleased him that the man feit the call lo duty. "Oh, It Isn't that,” said the truthful compositor, "but I'd rather be Ahot than set your copy.** ITEMS OF INTEREST. —J. C. Stevens, who was selling great auks' eggs and othei' rarities at his fa mous rooms in King street. Covent Gar den, London, recently refused to deal with forty-three lots of British birds’ eggs, objecting that their sale was contrary to law. This example Is a bright one, and If other dealers will follow the lead so honorably set, “British taken” examples of rare birds’ eggs will not fetch a price long enough to tempt poor men In the country to break the law. Mr. Jltevens had a most successful sale of his great auks’ eggs. One was ah unrecorded egg from a French collection, a fine specimen with a peculiar type of marking. It brought 11,575, the highest price yet given. Another fetched S9OO. As there are only seventy-five eggs known to exist, the egg may prove a good Investment. —lllustrations of the adage that there Is nothing new under the sun are never far to seek, and a singular Instance is sup plied In “The Art of Warre,” by Nlccoll Machiavelli, dated 1560, and translated by Peter Whitehorne. At the end of the book the translator has added some orig inal matter. In telling “How to Write and cause the same that is written to be read afar off without sending any mes sage” he says: “A captain besieged In any town or fortress unable to communi cate without by letter may. by night, so far as light may be seen, and by day as far as a burnished glass casting the sun on a hut, or suchlike, may he described— he having arranged with his friends the order of signal—one or two lights being flashed, hidden or diplayed again,” This is the principle of the modern helio graph. —The manner in which the big trunk lines out of New York supply the locomo tives of their fast express trains with water without stopping them seems sim ple enough in the summer. But some ingenuity had to he exercised to solve that problem for the winter time. During the cold season the long narrow ditches which at intervals run along the track for some distance between the rails, and which are filled with water, are likely to freeze over, making it impossible for the shovel which is let down from underneath the tender to scoop up the water as the train rushes along. In order to prevent this freezing over the water Is heated in big tanks and steam pipes are run along the sides of the ditches, keeping the water above the freezing temperature. In this man ner considerable time is saved, as other wise the train, would have to make stops at the different w-ater tanks along the line, and the expense of the device Is off set by the time saved. —The agricultural papers are sounding notes of warning about the Belgian hare fad, which has overtaken the Pacific coast and parts of the Middle West, and threatens to extend eastward. "Go slow with this graceful, long-eared rodent," advises the American Agriculturist. Pa pers in California, with an eye on the fu ture, are questioning the wisdom of the craze. The danger is in the wonderful productivity of the animals. An author ity says that with a pair for a start it is easily possible to close the first year with 300 young. This suggests the possi bility of untold millions in a few years, and the setting loose of many of them to prey upon the crops. Of course, the experience of Australia is cited. There the rabbits, originally introduced only thirty years ago for colonist sport, have overrun the sheep farms and made a very table desert of vast grain areas. At one time 100,000,000 acres was infested with them in Australia; the government has paid millions of dollars to eradicate the pest, and to this day is utterly unable to successfully cope with it. —The New York Evening Post says: In arguments for the adoption of the meter system in the domestic water ser vice in Buffalo it is shown that the daily per capita consumption in that city is nearly twice that of Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago, over five times as much as Milwaukee, three times as much as New York, and six times as much as London. During a recent period of three weeks the average amount of water pumped for Buffalo was 110,000,000 gallons a day, or 175 gallons per capita on a basis of 400,- 000 population. Last February and March the daily record was at no time 4ess than 130,000,000 gallons, and it ran up to 150,- 091,280 on Feb. 23. The waste in summer is due to the excessive sprinkling of iawns, and in winter to the practice of letting the water run continually to les sen the danger of freezing. It Is assert ed, with good show of reason, that all over 80 gallons per capita in Buffalo "A simply wasted." and the cohelusion is reached that $lOO,OOO could he saved an nually to the taxpayers of Buffalo by the adoption of the meter system. —An American gill writing to a London paper of the invasion of Europe by Unit ed States tourists describes their advent in England in this wise: We come by all ships that run, from the stately Oceanic to the dicky cattle carrier which lands us after 10 days of odoriferious passage. Some of us who have been "in it’’ in Wall street travel on the promenade deck for $5OO each; some go second class, and very good it is, too, and many of us come with one of those specially conducted lours which defy description. You pay your money and they give you no choice. You get packed into the ship, and like the man in state’s prison, you become a number. At Liverpool or Southampton they herd you into the railroad train, which Is per haps the most interesting item in the trip, because it is so funny. Then they rattle you through London in long brakes, souse you through Saint Paul’s Cathedral] and hardly give you time to scratch your name on the gravestone of Oliver Gold smith before you find youreelf at Kenil worth and Stratford and Canterbury and the Peak of Derbyshire and Edinburgh, and then you are hurled across the chan nel to France and through the exposi tion like a rush of mad, dogs, so that when you recover consciousness you find your self again In New Y'ork, with a police man grabbing you by the collar and tell ing you to "move on there; don't block up the sidewalk." —R- W. Ashcroft, in the Electrical World and Engineer, says that the elec tric desk-fan and the electric ceiling-fan have sealed the fate of the punkah; its oscillations are becoming feebler and feebler, and will soon entirely cease. And pullers are included In the bag and bag gage of every white man In India, tran sient or otherwise, the Indian labor ques tion assumes a very complex position, in view of the introduction of our Western methods of breeze-manufacturing. For a punkah-breeze, the established price is 12 annas per twenty-four hours. This sum, which is equivalent to 24 American cents, is divided among four coolies, so that each gets the munificent salary of 8 American Cents per day—and some of them support a family on this. The Calcutta Electric- Supply Corporatlon, a somewhat recently established institution. Is now supplying power at the rate of 4 annas per hour. The punkah coolies work In two shifts from six to six. The day shift does quite reliable work, if a vehement Injunction, such as "Tanna,” meaning "Pull,” is giv en them every five minutes. The night gang, however, are familiar with, "way* that are dark and tricks that ore vain." Their duty Is to pull the punkah over your bed, and thus save your anatomy from be ing perforated by mosquitos and other ver min without end; hut they are sadly han dicapped In the performance of their duty by their unceasing attempts to get as near to twelve hours' sleep ss possible during the interval between 6 p. m. and 6 a. m Thus it is that in India a boot-jack i used nooturnolly to create activity rather than to suppress It; ami, even If vour aim is good, the punkah coolie will he ofT to sleep again In the next fifteen minutes So. Is it not reasonable to suppose that the i nlcutta Electrlc L Bupply Corporation will iwy handsome dlvtdende, at least from that department or Its service appertsin t* supplying power for electric fans? Jos. A. Magnus & Cos. 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