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INDEX 10 KEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notires—Heat Chaser? at Conl
da’s; Ship Notice, Strachan & Cos.; Ner
vous Dyspepsia and Prostration Cured by
Suwannee Spring:? Wateer; Dinner To-day
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Joyce's; Doors, Sash, Blinds, Andrew
Hanley Company; Planters’ and Masons'
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Marshall; Residence for Rent, Chatham
Real Estate and Improvement Company;
Fruit?, Vegetables, Groceries, Drayton
Grocery Company; Hot Weather Special
ties, John T. Evans & Cos.; Steamer Clif
ton, Around the Horn Sunday; John
Funk. City Market; Levan’s Table d’Hote.
Business Notices—Coffee Connoisseurs,
The S. W. Branch Company.
We Said See, Stop, Look—B. H. Levy
& Bro.
Salt—The Favorite Table Salt.
Time to Eat Fruit—Munster’a.
Down # Goes the Prices of Men s Fine
Shoes— At Byck Bros.
Grape Nuts Food—At the Groceries.
Educational—Shorter College, Rome,
Ga.: Pantofs Academy, Near Charlottes
ville, Va.
Corsets Thomson’s "Glove-Fitting”
Corsets.
Mineral Water—Appolinarls.
Medical—Lydia Pinkham Pills; Dr. Wil
liams* Pink Pills; Hood’s Sarsaparilla;
Tutt’s Pill?; Mother’s Friend; Hoeford s
Acid Phosphate; Bar-Ben.
Auction Sales—Elegant Property, by I.
D. LaJJoche, Auctioneer; Administrator*?
Sale, by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer.
Legal Notices—Notice to Debtors and
Creditors, Estate of John H. Smith.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted, For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The "Weather.
The Indication? for Georgia, to-day are.
for generally fair weather, and light to
freh southwesterly wind?; and for East
ern Florida, local rains in eouthern por
tion. fair In nothern portion, and fresh
southeasterly winds.
Theae are days in which man cats his
bread in the sweat of his face.
The param unt question in politic* now
i*, what is the paramount Issue?
Pennsylvania and Maryland have agreed
to share the expense of having the old
Mason and Dixon’s line between them re
aurveyed and marked with monuments.
The work is to be performed by the Coast
and Geodetic Survey, and will be begun
early in September.
When Li Hung Chang has disappeared
Into the Cimmerian darkness of Pekin, to
what Chinaman may we look for Informa
tion with any sort of confidence as to its
truthfulness? The American people would
believe Minister Wu Ting Fang, but un
fortunately he is not in a position to fur
nish information that he can unhesitating
ly vouch lor.
“You may fix his sentence,” said Judge
Davis of the Cortland, N. Y., court to
Mis. Cookingham, whose husband had
been convicted of assaulting and beating
her. "1 think thirty days in Jail would be
about the right thing,” said the woman.
"The sentence is confirmed," said the
Judge, and Cookingham went to jail to
serve the sentence imposed by his wile.
It is believed in Washington that Sec
retary Gage would not consent lo be a
member of the new cabinet in the event
of President McKinley's re-election de
siring to engage In private business.
Should it devolve upon Maj. McKinley to
select a successor to Mr. Gage it Is said
his choice would fall upon Charles (J.
Dawes, at present Controller of the Cur
rency.
Amos Musser. of Chambershutg, Ta , is
a follow* r of an w religion which teaches
that with faith one may accomplish any
thing desired. Amos thought he would try
how flying felt, so he went up to his sec
ond story window and Jumped out. The
thump with which he struck the giound
nearly broke his bones. He remarked
when he gat up that it was Just as he
had expected.
Five hundred years ago, according to
Dr. Haslep, a returned misstqnary. It was
prophesied that 50tt years thereafter five
yang <sheep) would come to divide Ch na,
but that a teoong (beat) would come forth
and devour them. "Sheep” also means
for.igners, and "bear" means s general.
The story inn rpreted means thatjive for
eign nations would seek to divida China,
but that a g*n, ral would arise and de
liver the country. The time for fulfilment
of the prophecy ha* now arrived, end Dr.
Hashp believe* that It is this legend or
superstition that is moving the ce S**se
to action.
A REJECTED ADDRESS.
It is nor surprising that the convention
I of the Southern Industrial League which
j met in Atlanta last Wednesday rejected the
I address to the public which had been pre
pared by a committee appointed by the
league at its convention last year. The
: ground on which it. was rejected was that
j it was, in effect, a Republican campaign
locurrsnt. The address was not rejected
: without debate, and it may be that if this
■ were not a presidential year the opposi
tion to it would not have been so pro
' nounced as it #as.
There is no doubt that the address, if
it had been adopted would have been
made a campaign document by the Repub
licans, though it is certain that ir> prepar
ing it the commlttee had no intention to
offer aid and comfort to the Republican*.
They simply set forth in the address the
things they thought essential to the busi
ness Interests and prosperity of the South.
The fact that the address was rejected,
and another committee appointed to pre
pare an address to the. public to be pre
sented to the convention next year, show?
that the committee that was discharged
did not express the views of Southern
business men as represented In the South
ern Industrial League.
The address favored the gold standard,
a ship subsidy, a tariff for protection and
the permanent possession of the Philip
pines, though the retention of the Phil
ippines tvas not expressly advised. The
establishment of trading stations in those I
islands was advised, and the inference
ffom the language used was that the lh- |
terests of the *South would be advanced
by the retention of the islands.
'There is no doubt a strong sentiment in
the .South in favor of holding on to the
Philippines. This sentiment has shown it- j
•self more than once in the meetings of
Southern cotton manufacturers. Southern
cotton mill men look to the Far East as
a great market for the products of their
mills. Indeed, for several years, much of
the products of the mills of North Caro
lina and South Carolina have been sent
to China, and the trade with that coun
try has been a growing one.
It is not a matter of wonder that the
address contained an approval of the gold
standard. Many Southern Democrats
favor that standard. Indeed, in the towns
the gold standard sentiment te quite
strong. The most surprising feature of the
address was the approval it gave the ship
subsidy scheme. Asa rule Democrat? are
stongly against all subsidy schemes.
There are many manufacturers among
the members of the League, and that fact
accounts no doubt for the approval given
the doctrine of tariff for proteotion. It is
not Improbable that Southern manufac
turers will support to some extent manu
facturers of the North In demanding pro
tection. The Southern |>eople, however,
stand by the Democratic doctrine of tariff
for revenue. And it is probable that the
sentiment for protection in the South will
never become as pronounced as it is in the
North, because, for various reasons, manu
facturing can be done cheaper in the
South than in the North.
No doubt the rejected address will be the
occasion of some comment in Republican
newspapers, but it will afford the Re
publican party very little comfort. There
is no immediate prospect that that party
will gain any stronger hold in the South
than it has at present. What little move
ment there was towards a white Republi
can party In the South was checked by
Mr. McKinley’s policy of filling many of
the principal offices with negroes.
THE I’IIBSIUIDTS REASON.
Speaking of the decision of the President
not to call an extra session of Congress
the Philadelphia Times says: “President
McKinley has erred seriously' in decid
ing. after a conference with his cabinet,
that Congress should not be summoned
to deal with the exceptionally grave prob
lems which confront the government. It
Is idle to resort to hair-splitting on the
question as to whether or not we are at
war with China. We are actually involv
ed in war, and the wise thing would be
to call it by its right name and look the
appaling fact in the face. The fact that
the President has declined to summon
Congress gives a bad flavor to his attl
♦ude before the country. It greatly
strengthens the accusations of his imper
ial purposes, and certainly impairs confi
dence among many who sincerely desire
to support the administration."
It may he that the real reason the Pres
ident decided not to call Congress togeth
er at this time is the difficulty there
would be in getting a quorum of Republi
cans. The Republican majority in the
House is a very narrow one. The Presi
dent would not like to have Congress in
session at this time with the Democrats
In the majority. They might take steps
that would result In some decidedly un
pleasant revelations.
The most of the rich men in Congress
are. Republicans. The Plutocrats are on
Ihe Republican side of Ihe House and Sen
ate, rot on the Democratic side. They can
afford to go abroad when Congress is not
in session, and it is the understanding
that many of them are now In Paris at
tending tlie exposition. It would take
quite a long time to get them to Washing
ton. It is certain that the President
would not call Congress together unless
he were assured of <he presence of a Re
publican majority, except there was an
emergency that admitted of no del*)'. He
is not going to give the Democrats a
chance to make campaign apeechcs in
Congress while a procidentia 1 campaign
Is in progress.
The Textile World publishes a sum
mary record of textile machinery now in
the United S ates oompated with wh at was
to be found here ten years ago. It shows
that the growth has been very large. The
per centtige# of igcrease are as follows:
Cotton spindles, 48.4; cotton looms, 50.5;
woolen sets of cards, 7.9; worsted combs,
76.6: woolen and worsted looms, 19; knit
ting machines, 107.6; silk spinning and
twisting spindles, 95.5; silk looms, 131.7.
Massachusetts still leads in the cotton
industry. While cotton spindles have In
creased in the Northern states only 19.8
per cent. In ten years, the Increase In
the Southern states has been 217 per cent.
"To Shanghai” is a verb that is known
to every deep sea sailor who speaks the
English language. It describes the process
of getting a sailor drunk, or knocking
him senseless, and carrying him off to
sea while In that condition. Will current
affairs In China give us other verbs to
describe the butchering of helpless for
eigners, and the sending of stupendous
and cruel falsehoods to the civilized world
a* authentic new*7
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900.
TIIIS MESSAGE FRO>l CONGBIt
There does not Appear to be any good
reason 4o doubt the genuineness of the
j message delivered to the Secretary of
State yesterday by the Chinese minister,
purporting to be signed by Mr. Conger,
our minister to Pekin. It was \p the
slate department cipher. That cipher is
not understood by anybody in Pekin ex
cept Mr. Conger or members of our lega
tion there. Still, there have been so many
reports respecting the foreign ministers
and their families at Pekin that there will
be hesitation in accepting the truth of
this message signed with Mr. Conger’s
name untli it Is confirmed.
According to the date of the message it
was sent on last Wednesday, and was in
response io the message sent by Minister
Wu, at Washington, at the request of Sec
retary Hay. The statements made in
the message, however, are similar to
statements made in messages relative to
the legations at Pekin received through
other sources. Some of the messages, it
is true, slated that the members of all of
the legations had been massacred, and be
fore being killed had been subjected to all
sorts of indignities. The most of them,
however, contained statements to the ef
fect that the foreign ministers and
their families were at the British lega
tion. which was being bombarded, and that
all of them would be massacred unless
there was quick relief.
Jt the message that came through Min
ister Wu is genuine, why is it that the
Chinese soldiers have not been able to
batter down the walls of the British lega
tion long before this? And why is it that
the occupants of the legation were not
starved out long ago? These are questions
to which there is no answer.
Again, it is remarkable that Mr. Conger
was not permitted to communicate with
Washington until Minister Wu requested
a message from him. And why was Mr.
Conger’s mes&age so short? The Chinese
government sent a mesasge to Washington
a few days ago that contained many hun
dreds of words. It would seem as if Min
ister Conger would have been permitted
to send as long a message as he pleased,
and that the ministers of other nations
would be permitted to send messages. The
power than enabled him to send a few
words ought to he sufficient to enable him
to send a full explanation of the situa
tion. There is a great deal of mystery
in th ? whole matter. If it were not that
the message received by the Secretary of
State was in the cipher of the state de
partment there would be excellent rea
sons for doubting its genuineness.
POINT NOT WELL TAKEN.
The N< w York Sun is trying to make a
point against Mr. Bryan by quoting from
a speech he made in Madison Square Gar
den in 1896, in response to the formal no
tification of his nomination for Presi
dent. In that speech he said that the
paramount issue was the money question,
and declared that “uniil that issue is set
tl'd, all other issues are insignificant.”
That issue is not yet settled, but the
paramount issue now is not the money
question but ami-imperialism. The Sun
wants to know how Mr. Bryan reconciles
his statement in 1896 relative to the money
question with his attitude now respecting
the issues of the pending campaign.
It does not stem to us that the point
is well taken. What Mr. Bryan meant by
his statement in 1896 was that silver was
the paramount question in the campaign
of that year. He could not foresee what
would happen before the next presiden
tial campaign; hence his remarks had
reference only to the campaign which was
then in progress. If Mr. Bryan could have
foreseen the Spanish-iAmerican war it Is
probable he would have taken care to
make his meaning so clear that there
could he no doubt about it. No doubt he
said a great many things in the last pres
idential campaign which the Republicans
w.ll undertake to use against him. There
is very little that he said, however, that
can be so twisted out of its true meaning
as to do him harm.
A CHANCE FOR DEWEY.
It begins to look as if Admiral Dewey
would be called on to accept a nomina
tion for President. Until within the last
few days it was not thought tha4 there
would be a Gold Democratic ticket. It
is the understanding, however, that it is
the purpose of Gold Democrats to put a
ticket in the field. If those who will meet
at Indianapolis on July 25 fail to make a
nomination Gold Democrats in New Y'ork
will do so.
It was the Gold Democrats who ap
proached Admiral Dewey sometime ago
on the question of accepting a presiden
tial nomination. At that time they were
quite sure they would make a nomlna
lion. Sometime afterwards, however, the
opinion prevailed that Gold Democrats
would be left to vote as they pleased—
either for Mr. McKinley or Mr. Bryan—
or not vote at all. For some reason or
other the determination has been reached
rather suddenly to nominate a presiden
tial candidate.
No doubt Admiral Dewejs would make
as good a run as any other man the
Gold Democrats could nominate, hut
there is uo probability that he would get
as many votes as were east for the Pal
mer-Buckner ticket. There is some hon
or. however, in being a presidential can
didate, and it is probable that Admiral
Dewey would he glad to have a chance
to be one of tho presidential candidates In
the contest of 1960.
The growth of the pineapple industry in
Florida has been little shor t of marvelous,
and It is quite certain that the limit of
its possibilileis has not yet been ap
proached. In our dispatches of yesterday
it was stated that pines grown from plants
raised at Orlando had been sold in Lon
don for fancy prices. It is within the
range of possibilities that a considerable
business In Florida pines In the English
market will be built up. Like the Florida
orange, the Florida pine is winning a rep
utation for ite excellence. How great the
money value of the crop of the season now
ending has been may be seen from the
statement that the production on the
Florida mainland has been about 130.000
crates, and that the growers have netted
for them about $2 per crate. There Is
money In raising the fruit at such figures.
The crop of the next season will no doubt
be considerably larger, but there is little
danger of glutting the market. The
Florida pines, being the best, practically
make a market for themselves.
The late Gov. Goebel was a native of
Pennsylvania, ns is also John W. Yerkes,
who has been nominated by the Kentucky
Republicans for Governor. What Is lhe
matter with Kentucky, that she has lo itn
port her gubernatorial timber!
The province of Chili, China,,which is
now in anarchy, is only about 8,000 square
miles larger than the state of Georgia;
nevertheless Chili has of prpula
tion to Georgia's 2,000,000. One is apt to
think New York a poFu:ous state, with its
6.10;,000 of inhabitant, until it is compar
ed with the province of Ngan Hwuy, of
about the same area, which has a popu- j
lat'on of 21.0X1.C00. The population of the
United States as a whole is about 20 per
sons to* the square mile. The population
of the Chinese empire is about 3)0 per ,
square mile.
Not only was it a woman who first gave
man apples to tat, but it is said on the
authority of the federal Department of
Agriculture that It was a woman who
gave the United States seedless oranges.
These oranges were first produced in
Brazil. An American woman traveling in
that country noticed them and wrote to
the Department of Agriculture about
them, suggesting that they be tried in this j
country. From that suggestion eventually j
came the gr*at seedUss orange industry
of California and Florida.
Police regulations in Philadelphia take
no note of temperature and humidity. It
Is the rule that the coats of policemen j
shall be buttoned, and from that rule •
there must be no departure. Several but- j
toned-up policemen have fallen on their |
beats from the heat during the past few
days, and one has died. Nevertheless the
policemen are still forced to wear waist
coats and keep their coats tightly but
toned. The authorities insist on a neat
appearance of the policemen, heat or no
heat.
PERSONAL.
—Morton Russell Cotes of Bourne
mouth, England, has presented to the
United States, through Ambassador
Choate, a bust of George Washington
made of black basalt wedgwood. Presi
dent McKinley has requested Secretary
Hay to write to Mr. Cotes thanking him
for the gift.
—EI wood Hofer, who has made a living
for many years as a guide and hunter in
Yellowstone Park, has gone to Kadiak
Island, in the Gulf of Alaska, on a diffi
cult errand. He has been commissioned by
the Smithsonian Institution to capture one
of the monster bears which live on the
above named island, none of which has
ever been taken alive. The animals are
of the polar variety, perfectly white, and
when full grown are twice as large as the
ordinary black bear of the Rocky moun
tains. The average Kadaik Island bear
weighs from 2,400 to 3,000 founds, and
stands as high as a cow.
—A great deal has been heard lately of
Mr. Gilbert’s autocratic 6tage manage
ment of his own plays. Ho has a caustic
method with actors and actresses who dif
fer from him. The New York Tribune re
lates that at a rehearsal of. “Trial by
Jury,” in which the plaintiff has to pro
duce from her pocket a stocking, which is
•npposed to form part of her trousseau,
the lady who represented the plaintiff ob
jected on the grounds of the impropriety
of the thing. “Very funny,” Mr. Gilbert
retorted; “whenever any one shows a
stocking on the siage it is considered im
proper unless it has a leg inside it.”
BRIGHT HITS.
—Fair Painter—“l hope you don’t mirul
my sketching in your field?’’ Farmer—
“lxml, no, missie! You keep the birds off
the peas better'll a’ ordinary eoarce
orow.”—Tit-Bits.
—“Grafter must have turned over anew
leaf. He tells me he’s working night and
day.” “Yes, that’s the firm he’ with
now.” “What?” “Knight & Day.”—
Philadelphia Press.
—At a Disadvantage.—“ David was a
good fighter,” said the professional pugi
list, “but he had some hard luck.” “You
mean the David who slew Goliath?” “Yes.
He could have made a mint o’ money out
o that fight if moving pictures had only
been invented then.”—Washington Star.'
—Preparatory.—Ethel—‘"Mamma, don’t
you think women should know how to
cook so that they may be able to look
after their husband s digestion when they
marry?” Mamma—“Certainly, dear.”
Ethel Mayn t Igo to the kitchen then
and practice making butter scotch?”—
Brooklyn Life.
-“Higgins, I’ve come to you for ad
vice. What ought ft man of my capnhi!-'
ities and opportunities to do in order to
achieve the greatest success in life?"
Gurnpy, I wish you had come to me with
tliai question about five years ago. I
could have told you all about it then. I
was just out of college.’W-Chicago Tri
bune.
CI RBKM' f'OSUIEXT.
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: "The
problem in China is not one to be settled
in a spirit of vindictiveness. It requires
the most careful deliberation and should
be approached in the spirit of exact jus
tice. To force this government into war
with China would be a crime as well as
a calamity. When the sober second
thought of the American people asserts
itself they will pay no heed ’to those who
would carry the sword and icrch imo
China in the spirit of hatred and*revenge
Mr. McKinley and his advisers should
adopt as their rule of conduct in lhe crisis
which has arisen in China the good old
maxim: ‘Make haste slowly.’ There is
no reason why this country should hurry
into trouble."
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) says:
“There is no question that the great
est development of the negroes can he
gained only by distributing them
among the higher races, so that they
may be Improved by association and
compeiltlon. To maintain great, compact
negro populations in the Southern Slates
of the Union must operate as an obstruc
tion to the progress and development of
the South and an injury to the superior
race in contact with them. Any great
movement that will distribute the nagroes
among the whites and other superior races
will tie all the better for them and for
the Southern States.”
The Philadelphia Times (Ind.) sast>:
"The hour that decided the President lo
send the army and navy to Invade China
for the defense of American citizens
should have tinted n call for Congress
to meet In extraordinary session, and so
far from relieving lhe President of com
plications In the campaign *he probabili
ties are that Imperialism will be given
new and additional consequence in the
contest greatly to his disadvantage It | H
always safe for a high official to do the
right thing and to do It In the right way.
and above all an American President
should mist the American people and
their representatives.”
The Hartford Times (Dem.) says: "The
thing that the United States is now call
ed upon to decide is not whether It will
go to war with China, but whether it
will adopt a policy which will require an
army of Untied Stales troops to lie pc r .
manently maintained In China. The who
j will haul down the flag?’ argument will
be a good deal more forceful when ap
plied to Chinn after we have begun to
I water the soil of China with American
I blood, thnn It has proved 111 regard to
ihe Philippines. "
\ I'ainfitijji at n Song.
“The pecret of true art.” said the sreat
French painter Millet, “is to paint what
one does not Bee.”
On one occasion, says one who knew’
him well, he put before a friend a canvas
he had just finished, says the Youth's
Companion. “What does that tell you?”
he asked.
It was only the edge of a country lane,
with a few dandelions and four-o'ck>cks
growing amid the gras?. The friends, vho
was also an artist, stood for some mo
ments silent before this simple scene.
Presently he said
“I don't know what I see, but I hear
the nightingale.”
And it was, in truth, the song of the
nightingale that Millet had painted.
\\ liut Troubled Him Most.
The young man and the maiden were
standing together in the gloaming, say?
London Answers.
He look her lily-white hand In his, and.
fitting on a rustic seat near by, drew
her gentiy toward him.
“My darling,” he said, “can you gue®?
what is in my mind?”
“X-no,” faltered the maiden, gazing at
her shoes. “W-what is it, Dick?’
"I’m eitrlng on wet paint!” he shriek-
springing madly into the air.
The maiden gazed at him in horror.
“Alas! now I understand what papa
meant when he said he would leave his
mark on you,” she faltered. “Oh, what
ever can I say to him, the wretched
man?”
Her companion answered not, but strode
into Gie night, murmuring:
Whatever shall I say to the wretched
dresssuit agency?”
A Specter Hand.
The ghosts which are said to frequent
the precincts of Hampton Court Palace
are more or less known by reputation,
but their ramblings have been promiscu
ous and uncertain, says the Golden Pen
ny. Great interest in their movements has,
however, been newly aroused by the
strange experience undergone by an ar
tist who. during the past few weeks, has
been visiting certain rooms of the palace
for the purpose of sketching the old Flem
ish tapestry on the walls.
W'title engaged in the guard watching
chamber in broad daylight this gentle
man, Mr. HJVynes of Surbiton, positively
asserts that a specter hand, white and
delicate and richly jeweled, has persist
ently intruded between him and the tapes-*
try. At first he imagined the disturbing
element must be one of the many hands
so beautifully inscribed on the tapestry,
but the limb, he says, moved slowly from
one stage to another, and pointed down
ward. Mr. Hayes was much agitated,
and told several friends of this curious
visitation. They, not unnaturally, per
haps, advised him to dismiss the subject
from his mind and return to the chamber
und his work.
Rut the hand reappeared before his
startled eyes; and on the last appearance
of the phantom the artist made a hurried
sketch of the outstretched hand, the
rough outline of which depicts a brilliant
marquise ring on the forefinger. The ef
fect of these continued visits of the su
pernatural on Mr. Hayes is very visible;
he is unnerved, and he has suspended his
sketching.
These are the plain facts, but there is,
j it would seem, a weird and historic con
| nection between this hand and the hand
| of the Queen Catherine Howard, one of
I the wives of King Henry VIII.
Forgot All About Hi* Horne*.
Congressman Littlefield of Maine, the
successor of the late Nelson Dingley in
the House, who has twice distinguished
himself by brilliantly taking a firm stand
against the “machine” majority of his
party there, was at the University Club
the other night, the guest of a party of
New York friends, Bays the New York
Commercial.
There was little doubt of his nomina
tion last summer by the special Repub
lican convention that had been called, but
Littlefield thought it best to Iqok very
closely after his fences. So he “shook”
his office and practice for about a month
in order to “nail” delegates. During this
period he was traveling over the district
a good deal, and his family didn’t see
much of him.
On the evening following the adjourn
ment of the nominating convention Little
field was besieged at his home by hosts
of callers, who came to congratulate him.
While the punch was going around at the
liveliest pace and the room was blue with
cigar smoko Mrs. Littlefield appeared at
the door. She shook hands cordially with
all h* r husband’s assembled friends and
neighbors, and then, turning to the hero
of the hour, paid:
“Well, Charlie, you got the nomination,
did you?” ,
"Yes. It was more than unanimous. It
was overwhelming. I really needn’t have
fretted over the thing at all.”
“You are quite sure that you are all
through with politics for the present?”
"Yes.”
"Then, please, before you settle your
self in the office again, go down to the
stable and water the horse. I’ve been do
ing it myself for a month back, whenever
I happened to think of it, and I’m tired
of it!”
It was necessary to explain to the club
men who heard the story that there are
i good many thrifty people in Maine
owning elegant private “turnouts” who
never dreamed of the luxury of a groom
or a coachman.
The Sword at the Gate.
Fr< m the Baltimore American.
Oh, red with fire,
And hot with ire
Is the sword at Pekin gate.
And it chants a song;
“1 will right the wrong.”
But the sword Is swung too late.
****•• •
Mon and Eagle and Bear stand by,
A-waech at the Dragon's cave.
Lion and Eagle and Bear all cry:
' Our children we’ve come to save.”
The Dragon writhes his awful rage.
And his side* with anger swell.
His fangs, all sharp for the. coming feast,
Are bright with the glint of hell.
4
I.lon and Kagle and Bear, and all.
A-halt at the cave’s dark mouth.
One claims the North to him must fall.
Another would have the South.
\
Another would bravely assail the Beast,
Could he have the treasures best.
And one would lor plunder control the
Uast,
And one would have all the West.
Another would none of the Dragon's land.
And none of ihe Dragon's gold.
Another would have what the first had
claimed
Or nothing at all he'd hold.
/*
And the children wept, and the children
called,
Till the Dragon stilled their cries.
Thtn Dion and Kagle and Bear, appalled,
heft off from thtlr talk of prize.
And out from the cave reared the Dra
gon's head.
And he roared with his burning breath:
”Lo! Under my claws lie your children
dead.
Come, battle me now to my death.”
•••••.
Oh. red with (lame.
And hot with shame.
Is the sword at Pekin gate.
And It chants the song
Of avenging wrong.
But the sword is swung too late.
—Josh Wink.
"My mother-in-law has gone to the
mountains.” "You look plrased.” "Yes;
she 11 have to admit she has found some
thing that she can’t walk over."—lndian
apolis Journal.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—"Pilgrim's Progress” was recently
translated into Chinese, with illustrations
by native artists. Before the Boxer out
breaks the volume was in great demand
in Pekife.
—The largest steamers in the world are
about to be built at Stettin, in Germany,
by the Vulcan shipbuilding firm for the
Norddcutsclie Bloyd'e service from Brem
en to New York. Their length will be 700
feet, horse power about 40.00 U, speed 23Vi
knots.
—The Kentucky Legislature evidently
does not believe in the "didn’t know it was
loaded” excuse, as it passed an act some
time ago which reads as follows: "It shall
be unlawful for any person to fire or dis
charge at random any deadly weapon,
whether said weapon be loaded or unload
ed." j
—Artificial stone steps are becoming
popular in Germany. A design imitating
a staircase carpet of any desired color
is pressed into the steps when the ma
terial of which they are made Is still
soft. The figures penetrating to a consid
erable depth, and last as long as the
steps.
—An ingenious Frenchman has invent
ed a tobacco pipe which has a whistle
in the stem in order to enable the smok
er to summon a cab without taking the
pipe from his mouth. The inventor thinks
that when his device shall be put upon
the market people will wonder how they
ever got along without it.
—Two well-knpwn and well-to-do men of
Washington city were arraigned in a po
lice court there the other day for swear
ing. Both of them were overheard by a
policeman on the streets. One confessed
he was a frequent sinner and was fined
$5. The other blamed it on the weather
and was released on his personal bond.
—ln the window of an old curiosity shop
not far from the British Museum in Lon
don may be seen an elaborately carved
ivory toothpick, with the following inti
mation attached: "Toothpick formerly
the property of Oliver Cromwell; supposed
to have been the one he picked his teeth
with before he signed the death warrant
of Charles I.”
—Among the few good results of the ter
rible fire at Hoboken is unwonted ac
tivity by the police authorities of Jersey
City, in connection with the precautions
against loss of life by fire. Factories,
theaters, halls. hotels, lodging-houses,
tenements and flats are all to be Inspect
ed, to make sure that the proper fire es
capes ore attached and are kept ready for
use.
—lt may not be generally known that
publicly to insult a Jew is punishable by
French law. In Paris recently M. Gus
tave Kahn, a well known writer and rel
ative of the chief rabbi, lodged complaint
against his concierge, whom he proved
to have assailed lime. Kahn with vile
epithets. The accused was fined 15 francs
and ordered to pay Mme. Kahn 25 francs
damages.
—The Paper-Hangers’ Union In Phila
delphia has passed a resolution warning
the public that health “is jeopardized by
allowing old wall paper to be covered with
new, thereby permitting all dirt and filth
to accumulate and remain, and with it
germs of disease.” Some ugly testimony
is presented in relation to the papering of
rooms in which contagious diseases had
occurred.
—A collie dog named Major was laid in
a hardwood casket covered with heavy
black cloth and liner) with white satin
and buried with great pomp and many
symptoms of grief in the new cemetery
for dogs at Tarrytown. The deceased ani
mal belonged to Mrs. John T. Stephens of
New York, who paid an undertaker's bill
of several hundred dollars and is now in
deep mourning.
—Mulhall, the statistician, says that dur
ing the year 1897 British shipping earned
$279,000,000, over a half of the total earned
by the world's shipping. Germany came
next, with $41,500,000; Norway. $25,000 000-
France. $21,000,000; Canada. $17,000,000; tho
United States. $16,000,000. The total earn
ings of the world’s shipping were $509,000,-
000, of which $467,000,0(0 is credited to Eu
ropean countries.
—About 150 prominent Chinese business
men met in the hall of the United Chi
nese Society at Honolulu recently and or
ganized a political good government club.
It was not decided which party the or
ganization would affiliate with. The main
purpose is to secure the rights of the mem
bers as American citizens. The present
members are either naturalized citizens of
Hawaii or native born.
—Vic'tor Hugo's great-grandchild is now
the subject of litigation. The boy, who
is now in his tenth year, is also the grand
son of Alphonse Daudet, by the marriage
of Leon Daudet with Jeanne Hugo, who,
after her divorce, married Jean Charcot,
the son and successor of the distinguished
professor. The ex-husband demands the
educational control of the child, al
lowing the mother free access.
—A pathetic sight was witnessed in the
Soldiers’ Orpheans’ Home at Atchison,
Kan., a few days ago. A poor mother
came to see her child, a boy 2 5-ears, old
She was allowed to put it to sleep with
the understanding that when the child was
asleep she was to go asvay. The child
soon went to sleep and-The mother wak
ened it, she was so anxious to be with it.
She did this half a dozen times.
—Cutting the sudd on the Upper Nile
has released a mass of long stagnant wa
ter which is working it ways down the
river, killing tho fish as it goes. At As
souan, where the great dam is being built,
the dead fish have been cast ashore iti
mllliona and the odor is unpleasant. Thu
Nile water Is all the workmen have to
drink, and though, when filtered, ft seems
to have no ill effect upon them, eels
plunged into the filtered water are suffo
cated in a few moments.
—A peculiar but very serious difficulty
besets the operation of telegraph lines in
the Argentine Republic. The small spider,
of the variety that spins a long cobweb
ami floats it in the air. is so plentiful
there that the floating webs settle on the
wires In enormous quantities. . As soon as
• lew falls or a shower of rain comes up
every microscopic thread becomes wet and
establishes a minute leak. The effect of
thousands and millions of such leaks is
practically to stop the operation of :he
lines, and the government telegraph de
partment. especially in Buenos Ayres, has
l-crn put to t va.-t inconvenience b5-' the
•• hi webs. A number of expedients have
been tried, but to no avail.
—A young officer of the United States
army, now in Manila, In a letter o a
friend in Washington speaks about the
amazement caused by our horses among
the Filipinos, says the New York Mail
and Express. The officer says: "I tb'nk
ihe horses we are getting here are having
as great an influence on the natives as
our bullets. The native horses do not
reach half as high as our average size
horse, and *ho natives stand aghast at
the sight of the Kentucky and Oregon
product." He adds that the horses arp
doing very well In the Island, and that
great Improvements have been made in
Ihe transporting of the animals across
the wafer. Two years ago ll was consid
ered almost Impossible that horses would
last an ocean voyage across the Pacific,
and only a few months ago It was
ed ns Impossible to transport any with
out unloading them. But within the last
few months the government has trans
ported the horses from the Pacific const
to Manila without unloading them nt Ha
waii or elsewhere, and the horses have
actually gained in weight on tha trip,
<4nd have iiunljd in the best o { tri®.
The Quakers Ire
Honest People,
SThe Quaker Her!
Tonic is not only a
blood purifier, but a
Blood maker tot
Pale, Weak and De
bilitated people who
have not strength
. nor blood It acts as
a tonic, it regulates
digestion, cures dyj.
strength and torero
the nervous system.
It Is a medicine for weak women. It U a
purely vegetable medicine and can be
-taken by the most delicate. Kidney Dis
eases, Rheumatism and all diseases of the
Blood, Stomach and nerves Boon succumb
to its wonderful effects upon the human
system. Thousands of peopie In Georgia
recommend It, Price SI.OO.
QUAKER PAIN BALM Is the medlclre
that the Quaker Doctor made all of his
wonderful quick cures with.- It's anew
and wonderful medicine for Neuralgia,
Toothache. Backache, Rheumatism,
Sprains, Pain in Bowels; in fact, all pain
can be relieved by it. Price 25c and 50c.
QUAKER WHITE WONDER SOAP, a
medicated soap for the skin, scaip aad
complexion. Price 10c a cake.
QUAKER HEALING SALVE, a vege
table ointment for tho cure of tetter, ec
zema and eruption* of the skin. Prlc*
10c a box.
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SUMMER RESORTS.
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COOLEST HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY
Located In the liveliest and most inv
esting part of the city; twenty principal
places of amusement within five minute?
walk of the hotel
CHARLES A. ATKINS & CO.
Summer Resort—Ocean Hotel, Asbury
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II LOWING ROCK.
GREEN PARK HOTEL
Summit of Blue Iwuge, iei. Scen
ery and climate unsurpassed, so say globe
trotters. Hotel first-class in every respect.
Only house on mountain with plastered
wall*; excellent livery; 45 miles turnpike
roads on top of ridge; large ball room,
band and other amusements. Postoffic*
and telegraph in hotel. Opens July 1.
Write for leaflet and rates to
Green Park Hotel Cos., Green Park, N. C.
White Sulphur Springs Hotel,
WAYNESYILLE, N. C.
50 acres beautifully shaded lawn, wonder
ful mountain views, cool nights, freesion*
iron and noted sulphur springs. Fine or
chestra daily. House remodeled and newly
furnished this season.
COL. F. A. LINCOLN, Proprietor.
IN THE COOL MOUNTAINS.
The Swannanoa Hotel. Asheville, N. C.
Under new management. A high class
family and commercial hotel, with table
of superior excellence. Casino, music and
dancing. Centrally located; good beds;
cool rooms; rate** moderate. Write to
BRANCH & YOUNG, Proprietors.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN HOUSE.
Location beautiful ami sanitary. Hotel
comfortable an<l homelike. Rates from
$7.00 to SIO.OO per week.
MRS. GEO. E. PURVIS.
Lookout Mountain, Tonn.
CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE.
July daily rate $3. Unsurpassed scen
ery. Railway fare reduced. Station*, Oti*
Summit and Kauterskill.
CHAS. & GEO. H. BEACH. Mgr*..
Cats kill, N. Y.
SEA GIRT, MEW JERSEY.
Beach House, right on the beach Al
ways cool. Fine accommodations. Dining
room service tirst-class. Ratus reason,*,
ble. Send for booklet. Sea Girt Is the
first stop made on the coast by express
trains from Philadelphia to Asbury lark
and Long Branch; COAST COMPANY.
AVONDALE SPRINGS.
On Knoxville and Bristol Railroad, five
miles west of Tate’s, at the base of Clinch
mountains; one of the most delightful re
sorts of Fast Tennessee. Lithia, sulphur
and chalybeate water. Reasonable rates.
Address Miss C. CROZIER, Lithia, Grain
ger county, Tennessee. ______
GRAND ATLANTIC HOTEL,
Virginia ave and Beach,Atlantic City.N.J.
sth year. Most central location; highest
elevation, overlooking ocean; 350 beautiful
rooms, many with baths. The terms are
reasonable. Write for booklet. Hotel coach
es meet all trains. CHARLES E. COPE.
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