Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

16 SOLDIERS DID NOT PLAY. failure to Secure Ground* Resulted iu Game Being Called Off. The baseball game that was to have been played yesterday be tween the C. L. A.’s Jr., and the team from Fort Screven did not come off as scheduled. The matter of se curing the Bolton Street Park was left in the hands of the manager of the city team and was not attended to until it was too late, as two colored trams had closed e bargain for the grounds. The soldier players were exceedingly sore about tho matter end expressed them selves accordingly. They came all the way from Tybee expressly to play ball, and naturally feel that after the time and expenses u which they were put to be con sidered it was as little as the other team could do to arrange for a place In which to play. The members of the Battery team went out to the grounds early in the afternoon, but as soon as the state of things was learned the greater part of the team returned to Tybee. But despite the fact that this game was not played, there was another between two colored teams, the Chathams and the Savannahs, aid a rattling good game it was. Both teams have been playing for some time, and were In excellent practice The game abounded in good plays, and there were cheered as lustily by the white as well us colored spectators, as though they were watching a game between teams of the National League. One little negro in particular, who played left field for the Savannah*, and who was dubbed by the spectators “Golden Rule,” on account of that name appearing on his uniform, be came a special favorite, and was roundly applauded each time he came, to the bat. Everything that came across the plate was “pie" to him. and singles, and two baggers. were rapped out with a regular ity that gave the opposing pitcher the Hood's Sarsaparilla feeling. During the seventh inning the third baseman of the Savannahs was knocked out for half an hour by being struck with the kne® of a runner. A doctor who happened to be In the crowd was called to him, and revived him after some hard work. The game was won by the Savannahs by a score of 12 to 10. LOCAL PERSONAL. Mr. J. J. Foote of Atlanta Is at the Screven. ■Mr A. J. Street of Buford is the guest of the Pulaski. Mr. C. S. Roper of Macon Is registered at the Pulaski. Mr. M. G. Mayo of Oordele is the guest of the Pulaski. •Mrs. W. F. Gay of Albany is the guest of (he Pulaski. Mr. J. H. Shirah of Atlanta Is registered at (he Screven. Mr. John D. Moss of Athens Is registered at the De Soto. Mr. A. B. Simms of Covington is a guest of the De Soto. Mr. J. Lee Ensign of Cordele is register ed at the Pulaski. Mr. EX A. Weil left via the Central yes terday for Atlanta. Mrs. Charles F. Crisp of Americus is a guest of the De Soto. Mr. W. D. Moreland of Americus is the guest of the De Soto. Miss Gilbert of Worth Is among the guests of the Pulaski. Mr. J. H. Beacham of Dublin is the guest of the Pulaski. Mrs. D. Rothschild of Columbus is the guest of the Pulaski. Mr. John Brennan left via the Southern yestrday for Philadelphia. Mr. E. S. Bayne of Macon Is In the city the guest of the Screven. Rev W. T. Watkins will sail for Balti more Tuesday on the Itasca. Mrs. C. Kuck and Miss Martha Kuck are at Hendersonville, N. C. Mrs. F. A. Well will be a passenger on the Itasca Tuesday for Baltimore. Miss Ola Holt of Cordele was among the arrivals at the Pulaski yesterday. Miss Mollie Lane of Butts was among the guests of the Screven yesterday. Mr S. J. Hill and Miss Edna Hill of Oordele are the guests of the Pulaski. Mr. J. L. Ensign of Worth was among the arrivals at the Pulaski yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Dexter of Valdosta are among the guests of the Pulaski. Mr. T. R. Rusk of Augusta was among the arrivals at the Pulaski yesterday. Dr. A J. Paget of Augusta was in the cky yesterday the guest of the Pulaski. Mr. S. 9. Layton of Hinesville was among (he arrivals at the Screven yester day. Mrs. D. F. Davenport of Americus was in the city yesterday and stayed at the De Bo to. Mr. J. H. Thomas of Columbia was In the city yesterday and stayed at the Pu laski. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Putney of Putney were tvmong the guests of the Pulaski yes terday. Mr. C. H. Caldwell of Balnbridge was among the arrivals at the De Soto yes terday. Mr. and Mrs. Carr Glover and Miss Lillie Glover of Americus are the guests of the De Soto. Mr. and Mrsi J. G. Moore and Miss Maude Moore of Groveland are registered at the Screven. Mr H. C. Johnson was among the pas sengers of the Seaboard Air Line yester day for Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Merry will be among the pasesngere of the Nacoochee to-mor row for New York. Mrs. E Paul and Miss Lula Crowe re turned home yeeterday, after a pleasant visit to Mias Addle Sievers. Mr. and Mrs. R W. Buntx have gone to Jacksonville and St. Augustine to spend a month with relatives and friends. Miss Sal lie Joe PerklnF, Miss Alma T. Perkins and Mr John Perkins. Jr., of Hagan are registered at the SJreven. Mr*. G. L. Berry and little Miss Marian Berry of Atlanta are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Wimberly, No. 24 West Taylor street. Miss Fennie Brown and Mis* Albert.* Peeked of Montgomery. Ala., are visiting their aunt. Mtb. G. J. Scovel, 125 blast Überty street. Mrs. C. W. Joseph. Miss C. C. Jackson i and Mis. J. W. Skipper of Montgomery, Ala., who have been visiting Mrs. G. J. Ocove). 125 East Liberty etreet, returned home Friday. Miss Luclle Murphy of Augusta, who has been spending the last ttyree weeks with : Mrs. Margaret Mahoney, will return horn* in a few days, accompanied by Miss Nellie Mahoney, who will spend her vacation i with friends in Augusta. Mr. W. R Fulton, who had an operation ' performed at the Savannah Hospital three weeks ago for appendicitis by Dr. Harris and Dr. Waring, has recovered Mtflicientlv i to be removed home. Mr. Fulton was desperately ill, and hie friends will be j fclad to know he is now on the way to complelp recovery. Mr, Edwin H. Neill, business manager for his brother, Mr. James Neill, left Inst riight for Eos Angeles, Cal., afier upend ing a month In Savannah. Mr. James Nelli has been playing an engagement in Honolulu during the summer, and will return In a short time to open his next season's engagements. Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Chandler chap eroned a delightful buckboard party to White Bluff Friday evening In honor of Miss Sadie Miller of Augusta, and Miss Margaret Bonney of Norfolk, Va. Those present were Miss Alma Cummings, Miss i Mar/ iiavl*, Mr. Eavld Furst, Jlr. James , Reid Sweat. Mr. Sidney Chandler and Mr. Percival King. A pleasant party was given at Mr. and Mrs. McEUiott's Friday evening. Among those present, were Mr. Frank F. Marsh and Miss Hattie Sternberg, Mr. Jonn Schwartz and Miss Monroe, Mr. R. Mon roe, and Miss K. Mell, Mr. Caul Davis and Mis© M. Tante, Mr. L. Stapleton, and Miss A. Rowland, Mr. W. Buckwald, Miss G. Rowland, Miss Buckwald and Miss McEUiott and Miss Alice Crotty. ThT WEATHER. Forecast for Sunday and Monday: Georgia and South Carolina: Local rains and cooler Sunday; Monday general ly fair; light to fresh southwesterly shifting to northerly winds. Eastern Florida: Ix)cal rains Sunday and Monday; light to fresh southeasterly winds. Western Florida: Local rains Sunday. Monday fair; light to fresh southeasterly wdnds. Yesterday’s Weather at Savannah— Maximum temperature 1:30 p.nx .93 degrees -Minimum temperature 6:15 am.. 76 degrees Mean temperature 84 degrees Normal temperature 82degrees Excess of temperature 2 degrees Accumulated excess since July 1 6 degrees Accumulated deficiency since Jan. 1 180 degrees Rainfall Trace Normal 18 inch Deficiency since July 1 2.58 inches Deficiency since Jan. 1 2.10 inches River Report—The hlght of the Savan nah river at Augusta al 8 a. m. (75th me ridian time) yesterday was 7.8 feet, a fall of 0.2 foot during the preceding twenty four hours. Cotton Region Bulletin, Savannah. Ga , for the twenty-four hours at 8 a. m., 75th meridian time, July 21, 1900. Siaiionft of jMax.i Mln.jKain Bavann*h district. JTem.jTem.J falL Alapaha, Ga., clear | 92 | 70 ] .00 Albany, clear j 95 | 70 J .00 Americus, clear | 91 j 69 | T Bain bridge, clear | 90 | 70 j .00 Eastman, clear | 94 | 72 j .20 Fort Gaines, clear j 90 | 69 | .00 Gainesville, Fla., clear...| 93 i73 | T Millen, Ga., clear i 96 | 70 | .00 Quitman, clear [ 93 j 70 | .00 Savannah, clear i 93 | 75 | .00 Thomasville, clear j 92 j 71 | .00 Waycross, clear j 97 j 71 | .00 Special Texaa Rainfall Reports—Corsi cana, .10; Cucro, .08; Galveston, trace, Pal estine, trace; Henrietta, 1.74; Houston, .30; Huntsville, trace; Longview, .10; Ban Mar cos, .22; Sherman, trace. Heavy Rains—Henrietta, Tex., 1.74; Lake, Miss., 1.90; Bohe.tr, Tenn,, 1.78. j )LMh(. Avwmfis |No. | j 1 Sta-IMax.l Min.)Rain Centra! Stations. |tions;Tem.|Tera.| fall. Atlanta | 12 ] 92 | 70 | T Augusta I 11 | 94 | 72 | .01 Charleston | 5 | 94 | 74 | .00 Galveston j 29 | 92 | 72 | .06 IJttle Rook | 10 j 90 | 70 j .20 Memphis | 16 j 90 | 72 | .14 Mobile j 10 | 88 | 70 | .12 Montgomery | 8 | 90 | 68 I .10 fjfW Orleans j 12 ] 90 | 70 j .21 Savannah | 12 j 93 | 71 j .02 Vicksburg | 10 | 88 | 70 ) .64 Wilmington j 10 j 96 | 74 j .02 Remorke —Showers in all districts ex cept Charleston; temperatures unchanged. Observations taken at the same moment of tim,- at all stations, July 21, 1900, 8 p. m., 75th meridian time: Names of Stations. | T | *V 'Ham Norfolk, cloudy | 82 j 8 j T Hatteras, clear | 78 | 10 | .00 Wilmington, clear | 84 | 8 j .00 Charlotte, cloudy | 72 j 14 j .44 Raleigh, cloudy | 82 | L | .00 Charleston, clear | 81 | 10 | .00 Atlanta, clear | 81 | 8 | .00 Augusta, clear | 90 | 1., | .00 Savannah pt. cloudy | 80 j 8 | T Jacksonville, pt. cloudy ~| 82 | L | T Jupiter, clear | 80 | 6 | .00 Key West, clear | 82 | 8 | .00 Tampa, cloudy j 84 | 14 | .00 Mobile, pt. cloudy | 76 | L | .02 Montgomery, clear | 78 j L j .00 New Orleans, cloudy : 78 | 6 | .52 Galvesion. cloudy | 80 | b .58 Corpus Chrlsti, cloudy ..j 84 ] 16 .00 Palestine, raining j 78 | 8 | .02 T. for temperature; V for velocity. H. B. Boyer, Weather Bureau. EEL AND SHARK FIGHT. Former Finally Come Oat Victorious and Unhurt. Prom the Chicago Journal. San Francisco, July 17.—A report comes from Waikiki, near Honolulu, to the fol lowing effect: Early Saturday morning two fishermen In a native canoe were pur suing their calling in the shoal water of the coral reef near Diamond Head. They had tlshod long and caught nothing, and were on the point of returning home when a strange thing happened. The water near where they were moored suddenly became agitated—so much so. in fact, as to cause the fishermen's craft to roll unpleasantly. Peering Into the water to ascertain the cause of the disturbance, the two natives saw a elngular sight. A huge eel of the conger variety and n hammerhead shark, which had apparently by some strange mischance drifted Into the domains of the sinuous monster, were engaged In mortal combat. * * Which was the attacker and which the attacked it is impossible to say, but when observed the eel had coiled himself round the selachian * anatomy in an evident t f fort to squeeze the life out of him, while the hammer-headed one, by frenzied rushes back and forth among the eoral, was endeavoring to relieve himself from the incubus who was so pressing in his unwelcome attentions. At last the shark, mortally hurt, Rave up the fight, and the eel slowly unwound himself from the body of his fast-expiring antagonist. At this Juncture the two fishermen, tempted by the prospect of unlimited fresh meat, decided to make an effort to capture the big conger. Moving the canoe as near their Intend ed quarry ns was possible without fright ening It, one of the men delivered a well directed spear thrust which landed half a pound of Iron and several Inches of sea soned wood shaft right In the vitals of the mass of squirming gray flesh. The effect was magical and almost trag ical. To the great consternation of the fishermen, the eel on feeling the prick of the spear point made a lightning-like rush (o the surface, jumped a full ten feet Into the air. and fell back into the canoe, the ocoupantß of which were by this time thoroughly terrified. One? In the boat, which had by this lime drifted Into deep water, the infuriat ed monster kept the fishermen busy avoid ing his vicious attacks; time and time again did his bristling jaws close with fearsome snap in unpleasant proximity to their arms and legs, With eyes flashing angrily and mane erect, emitting the while a hoarse kind of bark, the denizen of the depth looked the Incarnation of all that la evil and unlovely. Just as things were looking at their worst for the two natives help arrived In the shape of a canoe containing another fisherman, who, scenting the battle from afar, had taken the precaution of arming himself with a meat ax. Arriving on the scene he made short work of the fighting conger, and, putting half the body In each canoe, the party made for the shore. The two pieces of the carcass, on being placed together, measured twenty-seven feet, and the circumference was In places as great as that of a grown man's thigh. Inside the belly of the fish were discov ered a small tin of opium, some shellfish, and the partly digested remains of a large cat. This Is the largest specimen of the eel genus known to have been met with in the history of the Islands. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1901). FOURTEEN MILLION SMITHS. SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS CONCERNING THIS FHODIGIOI S FAMILY. It sprang From Men Who Hal Brain nn Well at Brawn—The Name I* Constantly Adoptod an a Safe Mask Hehind W’hich to Con ceal Personal Identity—The Des perate Struggle Loving; Smith Par ents Make to Secure Distinction for Their Children by Vlennn of Extraordinary First Name*. New York, July 20.—Three thousand years ago the Hebrews were under the dominion of ihe Philistines. Th<n arose perhaps the strangest hardship ever im posed upon a subject nation by a con quering one. The Scriptures themselves tell the story in these graphic words: “Now there was no smith found through out all the land of Israel, for the Philis tines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears;’ but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen ■ very man his coulter, and his ax, and h:s mattox.” Thus the Hebrews were obliged to trav el fiom one to two hundred miles to find a Ftni'h, a hardship that is quite incon ceivable to-day when the country swarms with them If there had never been any artisan smiths there wou’d b no surname Smith 10-day. And what would it mean to us if there were no longer Smiths (by name), in our land? It would mean vacancies in the professors’ chairs and upon the judi cial bench; it would thin the ranks of the lawyers, ministers and doctors, of the merchants, brokers and manufacturers, and of the railroad, commercial and finan cial magnates; it would diminish the num b< r of scholars, reformers philoso phers. and deplete the ranks of sailors, soldiers, farmers, mechanics and all the rest of ihe great laboring world; the tramps, 1 eegars and jail birds would be less than often mot with and cranks, pol i i ians, drunkards and criminals fewer In number. In fact not a rank or gradation of our whole social system but what would be af f rof and. Some genius of computation has figured cut that if all che males of earth were enrolled, there would be nn army of seven million Smiths among them. Allowing the f mir.ine Smiths to be as numerous, the world has fourteen million living Smiths. Whether the num b< r be as prodigious as this or not, there is no question but that it runs into the millions. A family so numerous and so universally lnfllU-rcd through every caste and class commands at least the respect due magnitude and aggregated power. Literally smith means smiter, I. 0., one who smite**, or hammers. And in old days when every hit of metal, copper, iron, sil ver. gold or hr*s£. had to be pounded and hammered by mighty strokes into armor, tools, plate, utensils and implements, there were need of many smithers. These ‘smithers’ or smiths were not men of brawn alone. They had to possess the ready brain and skill to sharpen alike an implement, repair an armor, or shoe a horse. Their’s was an honest and lucra tive trade, and every road, street and: hamlet had its smiths. Not only were there many smiths, but different branches of smithery abounded, and thus numerous compounds and derivaties of Smith came into existence. Among these are Smither, Smithkins, Smithson. Arrasmith, Arrow'- smith, Goldsmith, Silversmith. Copper smith, TlocksmUh, Hockersmith. Drake mith. Forcesmitb, Hmitham Rexsmith, Oampsmitb. Bowersmith. Worksmith, Watchsmifh. Bakersmiih, Wildsmith, Wintersrnith, Hoffsmith. Klenismith, and Smithdeal. Strangest of all these per heps. is Fewsmilhs! Sometimes to distin guish several Smiths in one street or ham let, a Christian name was incorporated with the usual name. Thus came into usage Smithpeter, Billsmith, Helensmith and Aaronsmlth. ‘ Incidentally it may be mentioned that the other languages have their Smiths also. The Germans hove numberless Schmidts. Schmitz and Schmidtz; the French have Fevers, the Spaniards Gunsaulus. the Ruslans Smittowskies, and the Irish have Gaven and Gowtn, each meaning Smith, and McGaven and McGowan, meaning the son of a smith. Perhaps because they were originally “smithers,’’ the Smiths have ever taken to war. There have been Gen. Smiths in ev ery war that our nation has ever had. In the Civil War the Federals had no less than six Gen. Smiths, and one rear ad miral. If the Confederates had less they certainly had one ol' the grittiest of all Smiihs. He bore the absurd nickname of “Extra Billy Smith: His constituents can him for Governor while he was away fighting, and he has the unique distinction in the world's history, of having been elected the very day on which a battle was raging, and in which he was wound ed. He really did not like it that he was elected ami had to be almost forced by his friends to go home and assume the reins of office. Surely no one beside a Smith, and an “Extra" Smith at*that. ever was angry before at a governorship being conferred upon him. The richest man in all Mexico Is said to he a certain Huan Smidlo, or in plain English, John Smith. It was a Smith that discovered emery andcorundrum In the United States. It was a Smith that was sent against Concord and Lexington in the Initial battles of the Revolutionary War. It was Joseph Smith that was the founder of Mormonism, and that claimed to have found golden plates of the famous book of Mormon, where they had been hidden, as he believed, hundreds of years before by the prophet Mormon at God's command. It was a Smith that wrote "America," our most popular national hymn. It was a Slmth, afterwards Bishop of Gloucester, that was one of the principal translators of our common King James’s Bible, and that wrote the preface to it. It was a Smith that wrote the best known Bible dictionary. One of the foremost of all political economists was Adam Smith, and two of the greatest Egyptologists and Orientalists are George Smith and Piazza Smith or Smyth, as It is sometimes writ ten, Never before nor since have such inimitable parodies been produced as the poems written by the brothers James and Horace Smith. Canada Is proud of her erudite Goldwin Smith, always thoughtful, always scholarly. The only wotnon who has ever enjoyed the distinction of having been the wife of one President and the, mother of an other, was in her girlhood Abigail Smith. She has the distinction also of be ing among the very first of her sex to openly advocate suffrage for women. There Is an anecdote still related about Abigail Smith Adams thnt shows that her wit was as quick ns her acumen was deep. When the future President, John Adams, came courting her. he found no favor in the sight of her preacher father. Her sister Mary's sweetheart pleased the old gentleman well, however, and was ac cordingly often asked to tea—an old New England way of showing paternal appro bation. Never n word of commendation did the Rev. Smith ever have for John Adams with his radical notions, and never so much as once was he asked to lea .it the parsonage. When Mary married her father told her to pick out a text and he would preach her a wedding sermon. Accordingly she gave him this text: "And Mery has chosen the good tsart that shall not be taken away from her." It Is said that her fath er preached wlih great unction from It. In due time strong willed Abigail mar ried the man of her choice also. "Father," she said, "you preached Mary's wedding sermon, now 1 want you to preach mine," With none too good a grace he agreed to this. Whereupon the sly Abigail demure ly gave him this passage of Scripture: And John came neither eating not jrink- ing, end yet you say he hath a devil.” The sermon was preached, but history fails to record tnat it was delivered with unction also. In fact the name of Smith is as good as a mask any time to those who would si k out of the public sight. When Louis Phi ippe fl c d from France he and his good wife passed themselves off as plain Mr. Smith and wife, and had no Trouble elud ing their enemies and getting out of the country. When Charles II desiring to see for himself the Spanish princess that was being talked of as a proper wife for him, slipped off incognito to the Spanish court, he and the faithful “Steeple’’ that accom panied him posed as the two Mr. Smiths. There is a young man now serving a t rm in one of our Western penitentia rie* who was convicted of train robbery. He l ears the mark of an educated and well bred man. “I will never disgrace my family," he stoutly said. “Call me John Smith." And as Smith he wears the stripes to-day and no one knows who he really is. It is only by the greatest effort that a man can rise superior to this common est of all common names. Smith he is, and Smith, “just Smi'h,” he must remain. Right here comes in an effort of pa rents to secure a future hearing for their offspring by giving them such peculiar and distincive Christian names That they may he differentiated in the minds of men from all other Smiths. No other surname on earth is as oft*n compounded with pe culiar Christian names. There are Cotton Smith, Blood Smith, l)Ium Smith, Mange Smith. Vest Smith and Friend Smith; Honey Smith, Wine Smith. Pie Smith, Curd Smith, Pickles Smith. Canning Smith and Preserved Smith: High Smith, Link Smith,Biff Smith and Jooster Smith There are Asia Smith, Boston Smith, Slicker Smith and Fellas Smith, Merely Smith. Lies Smith. Ornamental Smith and Final Smith, and these are hut the b ginning. Some of tho other odd names that real and blood Smiths have borne are these: Alio, Amone, Bath urst, Belvidele, Colton. Chote-au, Udia, Mlnto, Sabry, Wyckham and Malusium; Southwood, Linden. Pancy. Sardus, Vilah, Suston and Golia. One fond mother named her son Finest Smith, and pnother called her son Best Smith. Half a dozen imaginative parent© gave these names: Okanagan. Voramandal, Ollenevea, Ricamamah, Philanties end L Keux. In their wav Mockery Smith. Red bud Smith, Sickle Smith, Rozandez Smith and Shemonick Smith are as odd. Mon tlUlon, Persifer, Permulin, Eminter, Elim ous and Zephiro are likewise curious. One good Mrs. Smith named her first hopeful Alexander Charles Henry Clarence; an other mother gave her boy the high sound ing name of Bracken burgh Fitzhugh, while a patriotic father bestowed upon another small Smith the astonishing name of Declaration of Independence. We are proud to state that the last was n Mis souri man and dared to do things in a breezy. Western way. But of all tho strange names ever given to a Smith youngster, the prize belongs to Pennsyl vania . We must first explain that In the olden days it was the custom to speak of an un usually long spell of one kind of weather after this paradoxical manner, “flve weeks-rain-in-J line," “Seven-weeks-frost in-August," etc. Of course it is an impos sible thing to compress more than four and a half weeks in o month. But the meaning was, so many weeks of such and such kind of weather beginning in such a month. And now after this long pream ble, to return to our oddest of all odd given names. Sonv-thing over n hundred years ago a snowstorm in Western Penn sylvania set in about the first of March. A long spell of sleighing followed. tradi tional for years for the length of time that It lasted this late in the season. What did these parents do but name the baby boy that came along with the snowstorm, but Seven Weeks Sleighing in March Smith! My grandfather when a child knew this Smith of a singular name—then an oldish man—and heard the story of how he received his queer name. Grandfather said the man went bv the name of Weeks usually, but if he chose to sign his name his initials were written S. W. S. I. M. Smith, in itself a unique distinction. Lora S. La Mance. THE DAX’PiG H4TTI.EH. Si Evans* Wny of Proving: That He "Was High, I.ow, Jack and the Game. lly EDWIN WEBSTER. “Si Evans really was a powerful hand with the fiddle,” said Deacon Todgers, reminiscently, “and In his own opinion he was. high. low jack at the music game. One day Si read in a history about on old cove named Orpheus, who lived in Greece and used to play in such a fashion that animals followed him, and even the stones tried to dance. Por once Si was stagger ed, and sort of doubtful about his own speed as a musician. " ‘lt seems a shameful thing,’ Si observ ed in his mournfullest tones, 'for the pride of like county to admit that he can't compete with some foreign dago. I will confess, though, that when it comes to moving stones I prefer a sledge hammer and a charge of dynamite even to the in fluence of my own dulctet playing. But if not only this Orpheus, but even Indian fakirs can persuade snakes to dance, the task ought to be on easy one for a skilled musician dealing with such Intelligent ani mals as Pike county rattlesnakes. It’s my opinion that the rattlesnake has a wealth of music in his soul which has never been appreciated by a hurrying world. “ 'The sight of a couple of rattlesnakes tripping the light fantastic toe while you played a (wo-step would be an interesting one,' I told SI In my bland, sarcastic way, for I thought he was talking foolishness, ‘but even if you can train them to do it, I don't see where you come In for any profit. Tour undoubted talents have made you popular at gatherings of the elite of Pike county, and have brought you In fame and the money. But how you are going to gather in coin of the realm by officiating as the orchestra at a social gathering of the first families of Ihe snake clan is a problem I’ll almit I can't solve.’ “Si looked mightily hurt at my biting words. “ ‘You're way oft the trail, deacon,’ he replied In a grieved way. ‘lt's no rattle snake cotillion I'm trying to get up. Now, do I look for my pay from the unassert ive rattlers themselves? My plan is to train the snakes to do some Individual dancing to the strains of sweet music. In dian cobras are taught to do it in a half hearted and imperfect manner. But. when your Uncle 81 Evans gets his band of trained rattlers to dancing the hornpipe, people will flock from far and near to see them. Exhilarating exercise for the snakes, and well deserved compensation for the worthy man who trains them are Included in my scheme.’ “li struck ine there was a good deal In what 81 said, if he could carry out his plun. “ 'Man and hoy, I’ve known Pike coun ty rattlesnakes for years,’ I told him en couragingly, 'and 1 never saw one lose himself In the whirling maze of Ihe cou chee-couchee, or boh gracefully around in an effort to execute a skirt dance. It would be a novel exhibition nnd one that I would be willing to pay liberally to witness.' "The next day 6i started out early, and snakes being plentiful, by noon he had on hand an interesting exhibit of young rat tlers. He shut them up in a big box with a glass door. The snakes put in their time, raitllng angrily nnd striking at SI every time he opened the door to pul In n new victim. It would have been hard to find a more unpromising looking collection of candidates for a dancing class. But SI wasn't a bit discouraged. “ 'Loving harmony and tender kindness could hardly be expected from a lot of un trained young rattlers, snatched from hap py homes and hurled promlsoutonsly into n box with a glass door,’ he said cheer ily. 'Walt until they have enjoyed my fostering care for a few weeks, and had some opportunity to listen to the strains that are the admiration and despair of every other musician in this part of the state." “S1 understood how to handle snakes, and he had natural talent for playing the fiddle. Whenever he fed the snakes he gave them a tune, and the rattier*, being intel ligent Pike county products, soon learned to associate feeding time and music and to enjoy both. Some of the snakes, like some men. had more of an appreciation for mu sic than the others. 6i picked these out and began giving them lessons. The snakes soon came to know him, so that he wasn’t afraid to handle them. Si would take a couple of musically inclined young rattlers out of the box, place them on the floor, and play a few’ bars In a slow, wav ery sort of a way. One of the snakes would sway his head in time with the music. There was always a piece of raw meat, or a field mouse coming to that snake. It wasn't long before the snakes understood what was wanted, and every snake would devote his energies to keeping time to the music in the sincere, earnest manner in which a rattlesnake oarriee out any job it tackles. Finally Si got his snakes so that they would follow the music, fast or elow. Just as; he happened to play, all keep ing perfect time. It -wasn't a sight that would be popular at a gold cure, but as a snakes’ dancing class exhibit it certainly w r as a success. Then Si judged that his pets’ education was complete. He was the proudest and happiest man in Pike county. “ ’Those Indian fakirs, who teach a few broken cobras to wave their heads in n nonchalant manner, may be all right for the effete East’, Si announced that evening to the crowd at the tavern, 'but when they try to compete with Amer ican snakes, trained by an American mu sical genius, they ore running away out of their class. The graduating exercises of the first class of the Pike County Rat tlesnakes’ Collegiate Institute will be held in my barn a W’eek from next Saturday evening. All present or© invited to at tend and bring their families and friends. A small admittance fee will be charged for the benefit of the worthy owner and trainer of these snakes. But I will guar antee that the *how win be worth more than the price.’ 11. “Si was a good-hearted old fellow, for all his conceit, and being always willing to play at Pike county social gatherings, he was mighty popular. Everybody but old Elder Allison promised to attend the exhibition. Elder Allison had always hated Si eince the time Si said that there wasn’t any more harm in dnneing after 12 o’clock Saturday night than there was in staying up planning to freeze some poor woman out of her farm, and then groaning ‘amen’ so herd in prayer meet ing that the plaster fell. The elder sort of sneered at Si’s promise of an interest ing exhibition. ‘lt’s mighty easy.' snarled "Elder Al lison. ‘to say you will have dancing snakes*, or dancing elephants. We will probably pay our good money and be goldbrieked by the eight of a few half starved rattlesnakes driven by ill-treat ment to do a lot of inane antics for the benefit of a collection of driveling idiots.' "Si flared up at this. " ‘1 11 bet von any amount you want. Elder Allison.’ he fairly shouted, ‘that my educated snakes will do all that I claim for them.’ ‘The e’der stood sort of doubtful for a minute. Then a cunning light showed up in his little eyes. Tm opposed to gambling In any form.’ he said in his pious way. ‘But. just to give you a lesson not to go around beguiling people with your fairy stories about educated snakes. I’ll b*t you S7OO against your farm that there will be more snake fighting than snake dancing on the occasion of your unsanctifled ex hibit.’ ‘‘Si’s farm was worth more than STX). and it was all he had in the world, but he hated to hack down on the elder's challenge, so he took the bet. The next day the elder put up the S7O and Si a deed to his farm with the stakeholder. I was mighfily worried when I heard of the affair. ‘The elder i a good roan, a pious man.’ I warned Si. ‘He’s a member of my church, and it’s not for me to say a word against him. But I never knew the elder to make a bet unless he had a steel ribbed cinrh He says there will be more fighting than dancing. I don’t know of any animals that are pining to fight edu cat'd rattlesnakes, but I think the elder will stand watching.’ “ ‘What animal is the natural enemy of the rattlesnake? Aiwa vs willing and .anx ious to have a mix-up? Si ask and me. ‘Why the blacksnake, to be sure. This morning I spied the elder down in the valley bus ily engaged in making a collection of h althy and pugnacious blacksnakes. It’s evidently his plan to come to my barn Saturday evening with his blacksnakes. release them when my educated snakes \ egin dancing, gloat over the subsequent fight, and finish up by winning my farm. It looks as easy to the elder as robbing a blind baby. But before your Uncle Si gets through with him Elder Allison will find that he cuts less ice than wooden money in the infernal regions.' “I reproved Si for his vehement lan guage. and asked him how he proposed to doublecross the pious elder. “ ‘Why,’ responded Si. sort of impatient like, ‘there’s a good deal of a family re semblance between blacksnakes of the same size. A loving blacksnake mother may be able to distinguish between them, but the average elder can’t. Blacksnakes have a better ear for music, and more gen eral intelligence than rattlesnakes. With the experience I’ve had It won’t be a difficult task to train a few blacksnakes so that by the time I have my exhibition they will dance blithely to the same tunes as my cherished rattlers. An the elder says, “I’m opposed to gambling.” But supposing on the evening of my show I purloin the elder’s blacksnakes and substi tute my own trained ones? I know where he keeps his pets and it won’t be a hard thing to do. I may be wrong, ffcit I think it is good betting that an admiring aud ience will see more things than they ex pected in the line of acrobatic reptiles. I will collect 700 much needed dollars and the elder will get a lesson on the evils of sure-thing-bettlng that will restrain him for the rest of his life from engaging in gambling and other pastimes of worldly men.’ And Si winked gleefully at the thought of the donwfall of the worthy el der. “When the day of the exhibition came Si had half a dozen good sized black snakes trained that they were about as active in what he called the terpsioho rean art’ as the rattlers themselves. There was one tune in particular that, when Si started playing, both the rattlers and the blacksnake® would lift up their heads and wave back and forth, and to the sides, and in circles, keeping time with the music. The ‘Snakes’ National Anthem’ was what Si called this tune. Early in the even ing Si slipped over to Elder Allison’s barn. Stowed away in a box in the corner were the blacksnakes with which the elder was planning to break up Si’s dancing school. Near the box was h basket with a tight cover, the one in which the elder intended to bring his snakes over to Sl’h barn. Si opened the box, let out the elder’s black snakes and slipped in his own trained ones. “ ‘l’ll leave you in the dark for the pres ent. my slippery but cherished pets,’ he said, talking to the snakes as if they could understand htm. ’But don’t worry. You will see the light again, and you will “make your debut with eclat.” a the dancing teacher® say. In fact, without wishing to spoil your pristine modesty, I may safely say you will make the hit of the evening. And S* marched off with the air of a man who has done n good job, and done It well. “When the ti ne came for the exhibition Si’s barn was packed. Elder Allison was standing in the crow'd with a sort of sneer on his face, anil a tightly closed basket on his atm. When Si’s show was at the most Interesting point, 8 playing on his fiddle, and the snakes gliding about and performing all aorta of maneuvers not included in the repertoire of the ordinary , The Beginning of the End —OF— THE GREAT Removal Sale! ii Swill Prudent people knowing that such chances occur but once in a long while, are now making the most ot this occasion. If you have not yet supplied your wants come surely this week. Another Great Price Plunge! Deeper Goes the Knife! Down Goes the Prices! In our eagerness to sell as much as possible and avoid the trouble and expense of moving to our new home, we have completely ignored VALUES and COST, and ev erything in summer goods now goes at an appalling sacrifice. LADIES’ WAISTS AND SKIRTS At Ons=TSi!rd and Qoe=Half Former Prices. P. T. FOYE SUCCESSOR TO FOYE & MORRISON. middle aged Pike county rattlesnake, the eider suddenly opened his basket and let out on the floor of the barn what he supposed were his own snakes. The worthy elder expected to see the exhibi tlon break up in a fight between the rattlers and the blacksnakes. But Si broke into the ‘Snakes’ National Anthem.’ The blacksnakes and rattlers ranged themselves in a row on the floor, and a second later were going through the dance with unlimited grace and brother ly love. The elder was mad clear througn. But lie was even more puzzled than an gry, for he didn’t yet understand that the snakes had been changed. ‘Talk about the sharpness of n ner pent’s tooth.’ snarled the elder, almost crying with rage at the loss of the s7‘V> and Sii’s triumph. ‘lt’s nothing to the hardness of heart and fickleness of that same reptile, when he happens to be a blackvsnake. My own snakes that I gath ered and fed with loving car© have turned and rent me and my pocketbook.’ “But Si just grinned as he collected the S7OO from the stakeholder and tucked it away in his own pocket. ‘I knew you were a pious man. elder.’ chuckled Si. ‘But I never appreciated before how generous you were. To think of your practically giving me S7OO, and then training a lot of vagrant blacksnakes so as to make my show more of a suc cess. The good henrtedness of some men is almost past believing.’ " Telepathic Messages From China. From the Chicago Times-Herald. If the welcome news should come of the safety of the United States legation at Pekin and the telepaihlc message which came to Mme. Payen, the mother of Mile. Cecile Payen, who is there with Minister Conger's family, should prove happily true, there would be more converts m ole to this phenomenal mental condition than would ever be secured by any process of investigation. As Mme. Payen and her daughter ha bitually converse in the French language —their native tongue—the consoling words "It is all right, mamma, I am in no dan ger,” Wire probably conveyed In that lan guage and translated for the public. The fact of such an Impression being authen ticated by one who was neither a student of the occu't science nor a believer in it makes it of greater value as establish ing the fact that thought can be project ed to a limitless dlsiance and put into words to make a distinct impression on the senses. Those who know the young French wiman know' also of her close and sympathetic association with her mother, her nearest and dearest living relative. A brief extract from a personal letter of Mile. Payen may be of interest here as show ing how pleasureably she looked for ward to that fatal journey to China. "Between Christmas and New Year's,” she writes, "I had the most tempting and unexpected Invitation to accompany Mrs. Edwin H. Conger and her daughters to China. I took three weeks to make up my mind, as I had all my plans made to go East, but I have finally decided to go to China. I will have a beautiful and inter esting trip stopping some time in Japan." All England was stirred thirty years ago when that daring feat of telepathy was described In “Jane Eyre.” where, walk ing in the fields at night, the heroine hears the beloved voice of Rochester in agonized tones, "Jane! Jane! Where are you?" and her instant reply, "Wait for me—l am coming!" Tills latest message of telepathy, and that almost the first of the new cult, have a strange likeness, but the first originated in the wish of the author's mind to test the possibilities of the waves of vibration, and the last Is the exceeding agony of love and longing overcoming the obstructions of distance and connecting two minds by an abnor mal system of wireless telegraphy. Some years ago a young woman, then living In Chicago, published a remarkable book called the "Automaton Ear." It was a weird story about a man who In vented a mechanical ear which was to gather all the words and sounds floating in the universe since the time when the morning stars sang together for joy. The automaton ear was successful in its pur pose, and the sounds were gathered, but the inventor had forgotten that all the sounds were not those of joy, but that with those came the groans of anguish, the cries of suffering, and they predomin ated so that he could not listen, but went mad from disappointment. So far tele pathy has been used in warning dreams which came too late to be of service, and in impressions of a clairvoyant or clairaudient nature. If the fact of the telepathic messages from China should be verified—as is de voutly wished and hoped—by the safe ty of the legations being assured, tha question will naturally be asked, “Why could not all who have friends in that jeopardized quarter have similar demon strations?’’ Why should one alone of the number be able to project her thoughts through space, not once but thrice, for the first message received by Mme. Paven in Milwaukee on June 17 was followed by another which said in clear, distinct tones —those of her daughter—“Do not worry, mamma, we are all well.’’ The first two messages might be con strued to mean consolation from another world—where indeed the sender “would be in no danger.’’ But the third one Is es sentially mortal in its meaning. It came on Friday, June 22, while the mother was visiting at the house of a friend. L*ft alone for a moment, she distinctly heard Cec-ile’s voice sjring: “A Chinese official is conferring wr?h Minister Conger. We ore safe. We are protected.” The suggestion is made that these two people are psychologically fitted for send isig or rtcehlng telepathic messages— that the fine chords of their mental vibration permit the phenomena, which they claim is not supernatural, between finely attun ed natures keyed up to a high pitch of ex alted perception. So far telepathy has not proved of value in discovery or in the interests of science. It has an air of misfortune and bring* more often the premonitions of death or disaster, and occasionally is the presagi of a dream. Should the fatal surmises of death and disaster at the Chinese capital be confirmed there will remain the con solatory thought—or belief—of superhu man intervention brought about by un known forces in the supreme moment of peril or release, aided by intense psychic endeavor, a telepathy of love— Who called thee strong as death oh lov* Stronger thou wast and art. HEAI'PRIE SUCCEEDS ANDERSON. Made Trainmaster of Fourth Bl vlsion of the Seaboard. Effective yesterday, Mr. W. R. Beau prie becomes trainmaster of the fourth division of the Seaboard Air Line, suc ceeding Mr, E. E. Anderson, who, in (ha language of the circular issued by Bupt. Cecil Gabbett, of the division, "is assign ed to other duties.” Mr. Beauprle has been roadmaster of the division up to the time of his pro motion. The position he formerly held is thus rendered vacant, and' there is some speculation among Seaboard men here as to Ills successor. Supt. Gabbett has not yet announced who this will be. The clerks In the office of the trainmas ter were busy yesterday in removing the books and records of the office from the Kelly building to the yards. The office of the trainmaster in the future will be at the old Florida Central and Peninsular yards, from w'hlch point he will direct the movements of trains over his division. To-morrow the S. A. I/, will run an ex cursion train to Gr 'veand where a unite! picnic of a number of colored churches wl 1 lie held. The train will leave Savan nah at 7:25 a m. It is expected that from this city and the points en roule six hun dred or more passengers will be taken.