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6 iHofnituj |£eto£ Morning Vewa Building Sarannah, (id SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1900. Registered at the Postoffice in Savannah The MORNING NEWS is published every day In the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mall, at 70c a month. 11.00 for six months, and SB.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six limes a week (without Sunday issue), three months. $1.60, six months $2.00; one year, $€ 00. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 issues a week Monday and Thursday, by mall, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at r.sk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements end cheap or want column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth— Is the standard of measurem- nL Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery’ ef 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 NEW'S,” Savannah. Ga. EASTERN OFFICE. 23 Park Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. TWENTY PACES INDEX 10 SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Zerubbabel Lodge No. 16. F. & A. M. Special Notice*—Victory of Suwannee Spring* Over That Intolerable Disease, Ecsem&; Te Wreck of the Burned House Boat for Sale, Malt Mead, George Meyer; Estimates Wanted, Henry Urban, Archi tect; Paints and House Painting, Savan nah Building Supply Company; Ship No tice, J. F, Minis & Cos.; Grand Picnic by the A. O. H. at Tybee Tuesday, July 24; Greene & Cos.; a Few Desirable Flats and Houses to Rent, Estate Salomon Cohen; Desirable Flats and Houses to Rent, Es tate Salomon Cohen; Retail Clerks’ As sociation Picnic Thursday, July 27; At Joyce’s; Auction of Bicycles, at Thomas' Bicycle Emporium; Levan's Table d'Hote. Business Notices —Savannah Steam Laundry; Gems, Jewelry, etc.. Hunter & Van Keuren. Mineral Water—Whits Clift Mineral Water, White Cliff, Tenn. Financial—The Yankee Consolidated Mining and Tunnelling Company, Denver, Col.; F. A. Rogers & Cos., New York. Anti-Rusting Tinware—Geo. W. Allen & Cos. Mid-Summer Reduction Sale—W. E. Wimpy. You Are Only Half Dressed Without a Pair of Hanan's or Stacey Adams’ Shoes— Byck Bros. Th Dollar Argument—The Globe Shoe Store. Educational—Morton’s School for Boys. $3.75 a Pair, Beginning To-morrow—Chas. (Marks. At Last, Waldorf-Astoria Coffee—At Munster's. Muelln and Knit Underwear, _ Etc.— At the Bee Hive. Fine Clothing at Reduced Prices—At the Metropolitan. The Beginning of the End, the Great Re moval Sale—P. T. Foye. The Ribbon King—M. S. Stoke*. Laundry—E. &W. Laundry. Special Low Prices —Leo Frank- Solid Gold Cuff Buttons, Etc.—A. L. Desbouillon’s. $8.90 Ladies' Suits—B. H. Levy & Bro. $12.00 to $15,00 Men’s Suits $8.90-B. H. Levy & Bro. A Cyclone of Bargains—Eckstein & Cos. You Will Find It—At Gutman’s. Brisk Business Brlngera—Leopold Adler. A Nursery Refrigerator—Thos. West & Cos. Mid-Summer Figures Prevail—At Ho gan’s. Best and Largest—Cloth Top Clgarros. Special Clearing Out Sale—Cohen-Kul man Carriage and W’agon Company. Postum Flood Coffee—Postum Cereal Cos. Whiskey—Old Cron' Whiskey. Medical—S. S. S.; World’s Dispensary Preparations; Bar-Ben; Munyon’s Blood Cure; R. R. R.; Tyner’s Dyspepsia Rem edy; Dr. Hathaway Company; Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Coke Dandruff Cure; Pe runa. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscel laneous. The Weather. The Indications (or Georgia to-day are for local rains and cooler weather, with light to fresh southwesterly shifting to northerly winds; and for Eastern Florid*, local rains with light to fresh southeasterly winds. Germany has ordered more than $2,000,- 000 worth of supplies in Philadelphia for use in the event of a general Invasion of China. Large orders have been placed with American packing and provision houses by Great Britain and Germany, and Japan has ordered boots and cloth ing from this country. Taking a cold blooded, commercial view of the matter, such as the great trusts will take, It can easily be seen that a great war In China would be worth millions of dollars to cer tain Interests in this country, since the United States would in a large measure become the gralnery of the European bel ligerents. , g f If a tale that Is told by a New Tork newspaper as Ooming from Manila Is true, the little brown Filipino is not such a slow chap, after all. Indeed, It may be said that he Is quite rapid, and for shrewdness may be compared with his neighbor the heathen Chinee. The story is that the Fil ipinos are recoining Mexican silver dol lars into American dollars. The Mexican dollars are worth about fifty cents each In American money. By the transforma tion the former llfty-cent dollar becomes worth 100 cents. Thus the Filipino coin ers arc able to double their money with out the slightest trouble. The coiners are, of course, guilty of a crime against the United States, A DISTURBING INCIDENT. Th* only thing that in the least disturb ed the very pleasant reunion at Atlanta, of the veterans of the Northern and Southern armies which took part in the battles around that city during the Civil War, was that part of the speech of Gen. Shaw, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he eaid that “the keeping alive of teachings as to the justice and right of the of the South in the hearts of the children of the South” was all cut of order, “unwise and unjust and utterly opposed to the bond by which the great Chieftain Lee solemnly bound the South in his final surrender.” Naturally, . Gen. Gordon would not listen quietly to euch a senti ment. He and all other Confederate Veter ans believe that the caue for which they fought was just and right, and entertaining that belief why' should they not teach their children that the cause of the South was right? Gen. Shaw, since he has been at the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, has shown himself to be, in most respects, generous and consider ate, but rather narrow in his views le spectlng matters i#erta'ining to the Civil War. He is thoroughly convinced that the North was right In that war, but that conviction does not entirely satisfy him. He wants the Southern people to be lieve that the North was right. He is not willing for them to have the satisfac tion of thinking that the cause for which they contended was right. And there are a great many Northern people who are disturbed in pretty much the same manner that Gen. Shaw is. They will never be happy as long as the South persists in maintaining tliat her cause In the Civil War was a righteous one. They are in a perpetual state of unrest in regard to it. They are the ones that keep alive whatever sectional feeling there is. The Southern people are not teaching their children their view of the issue be tween live North ©.nci South for the pur pose of keeping alive sectional animosities or with the expectation that the questions which were settled by the war will ever become live questions again. They simply wish their children to understand that they fought for what they believed to be right And why should they not teach their children this? The Northern people teach their children that what the North contended for was right. Why should not the Southern people exercise the same right? What would Gen. Shaw and the Grand Army of the Republic think if Gen. Gordon, in an address at the North, should say that he greatly deplored tb* fact that the Northern people were teach ing their children that the things for which the North contended in the Civil War were right? The greater part of the war literature cornea from Northern sources. It has come from those sources ever since the close of the Civil War. If the Southern people should cease teaching their chil dren that the cause of the South was a just one, while the Northern, people con tinued to teach that the North was in the right, how long would it be before the Northern view of the war would prevail throughout the South? The youth of the South w'duld get the idea that their fa thers fought in a bad cause, and they would fall to understand why they made such sacrifices for that cause. The Southern people are not contentious as to which side was right. They are willing that the Northern people shall have their views on that question. But they want their children to know that they believed that the views they enter tained respecting the constitution were right. Gen. Gordon took a much broader view of the subject than Gen. Shaw when, in response to the latter, he said: “Let us settle it on a basis of that immaculate truth that both sides were fighting for the constitution of their forefathers.” BRYAN AND THfcl CHINESE THOtBLE One reason that Mr. Hryan is so gener ally respected Is that he is sincere. He says what he thinks, and what he thinks Is generally right. And he does not keep quiet on any subject from fear that his views might injure his political prospects. There was no reason why he should have advocated the ratification of the Paris treaty. He expected to be the Democratic candidate for President, and he might have remained silent respecting the treaty for the purpose of taking advantage of any mistake the Republicans might make. Instead of remaining silent, how ever, he spoke out boldly in favor of rati fication. Some of the Democratic papers have been condemning the President for send ing troops to China and joining Eiunopean Powers in attacks upon the Chinese. In an Interview' published yesterday Mr. Bryan comes out squarely In favor of do ing all that It is possible to do to rescue our minister and the members of his of ficial household at Pekin and American missionaries in China. He does not criti cise the administration for what it has done nor does he attempt 10 make politi cal capital out of any mistakes the ad ministration has mode in the Chinese business. He realizes that the government has a very difficult problem to solve In China, and he is disposed to assist in solving it rather than to Join others in throwing obstacles in its way. When the trouble is over he will feel free to criti cise the administration if he finds any thing in its acts that deserves criilcism. It is because Mr. Bryan takes the posi tion of a statesman and a patriot rather than that of a scheming politician in re spect to public matters that he has such a remarkable hold on the people. The peo ple like a sincere man and they are quick to recognize him when he appears in pub lic life. Is Tillman going to prove the Burchard of his faction? At Cheraw the other day, speaking of the Prohibition movement In Souih Carolina, he raid, “Th< re Is an un holy alliance of preachers and barkeepers, led by Col. Hoyt " The matter has bfen brought to the attention of the Methodist Conference at Greenville by Bishop Dun can. The Bishop denounced the slur upon the ministers of the gospel In strong terms. A committee was instructed to present resolutions with rspect to the matter. It is understood that the Baptiss will also take cognizance of the speech. Col. Hoyt is ihe Prohibitionist candidate for Governor. The report of the Auditor of the state of Virginia shows that the negroes of that state are making rapid progress in the ownership of property. They now own one-twenty-sixth of all the land in the state. This docs not include lands on which only partial payments have been made, but only lands that have been fully paid for. In several counties the blacks own one-sixth of th real estate. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1900. THE CHINESE NAVY. Most persons in this country probably think that China's navy amounts to nothing; that it was practically wiped out by Japan some few years ago, and has never been rebuilt. That is an error. It is true that Japan sunk or captured the flower and pride of the Chinese navy; but there was a considerable South China fleet (hat was never In the fighting at all, and therefore came out of the war un scathed and uncaptured. In this fleet there were several effective cruisers be sides a number of gunboats and torpedo boats. With the Southern fleet as a nucleus to build upon, China has since the end of h< r war w iih Japan steadily added to her navy, but in a quiet way, until at the present time she has about forty effec tive figh ing vessels, probably one-third of them new and practically all of them armed with modem guns. The old SDUth ern fleet included seven cruisers, six of which were built in Germany b tween 18S4 and 1889. The other is a Chinese copy of the German model. These ships approx imate 3,000 tons each, and are armor-belt <d. and armed with 8-inch rifles and 4.7 rapid-fire guns. There are also two I.COO ton ships, protected, and armed with rapici-fiie gui s. All of these verses have fair speed. Of the new there are two heavy armored cruisers of 5 00) tons, built in England; three of 3 000 tons, built In Ger many, and a fleet of fifteen or more tor pedo boats and destroyers, built in Eng land and Germany. The new cruisers are said to be among the finest and best ves sels of (heir class'afloat. The heavier ones arp capable of steaming tw’enty-four knots an hour, and the lighter ones nine teen. It is said the a lied Powers have no ships of their class in Asiatic wa*ers that are faster or would be more efficient if the Chinese craft were properly han dled. Their armament is strictly modern, and their crews have been drilled by Eu ropean officers. Of the torpedo boats and destroyers, some fifteen or more are of latest and best models, of high speed. Four of these craft, however, were seized by the Pow ers at the Taku forts. Besides the vessels mentioned there are a considerable num ! ber of shallow gunboats which, w’hile they ! might not be of much force at fighting the ships of the allies, could no doubt be made extremely annoying on the rivers. It thus aj>i* ars ibat China has some thing of a navy, after all. If It should transpire that the Chines© government had taken part in the Boxers’ movement against foreigners, the navy W’ould be apt to b< corrte involved in the fighting. It is not probable, however, that it could stand a great while against the fleets of the allies. HOT WEATHER DRESS REFORM. Some weeks ago the Morning; News threw a pebble into the pool of social cus tom. It was in the interest of hot weath er dress reform for the benefit of the men. The ripple from the pebble has moved in widening circle until it has reached pretty nearly the utmost con fines of thi# broad land. Indeed, a sim ilar movement has been noticed on the other side of the Atlantic. A pica was made for rational dress for men in hot weather, and tiie suggestion was thrown out that rationalism would taboo the coat in a temperature of mid summer torridity. It was pointed out that women had solved the problem of keeping cool in summer by discarding coats and wearing the thinnest fabrics made into shirt-waists. Meanwhile men, enthralled by custom, had been obliged to swelter and sweat in coats, no matter how high in the tube the mecury might climb. Why should sex draw a line be tween comfort and misery? That there is a crying demand for hot weather dress reform for men is not only realized by every wearer of coats and trousers, but has been officially recognized by judges of courts In this country and in the lower house of the Eng lish Parliament, during the past few days. In the Common Pleas Court In Cincinnati the other day the presiding judge announced, “Gentlemen, no one be lieves in maintaining the dignity of the court more than I do. but in this weather I think some liberties should be permitted. Those of you who wish may take your coats off. This applies to Judge, jury, at torneys, jurymen, witnesses and specta tors.” Whereupon His Honor "peeled” his coab in which act he was followed by the whole assemblage. It is a sacredly observed custom of judgeson the bench in England to wear wigs in court. But the other day in London, when the tempera ture was at 95, the judges bid defiance to custom and took their wigs off. On the same day members of the House of Com mons violated the traditional proprieties of the chamber by appearing in their seats with duck trousers and straw hats. They kept their coats on, but they had taken a step in the direction of rationalism in mi 1- summer dress. In Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago and elsewhere the cry is, "Coats off!” In Baltimore there is a coterie of coatless young gentlemen who aver that they will break down ihe prejudice against shirt sleeves for men, or suffer the conse quences. And the movement is taking hold in New York. The Sun, of that city, says the suggestion is a good one; but it advises caution in putting the idea into practice.. The shirt-waist of (he woman, it points out, is in no wise negligee. It Is com plete in itself, with nearness its leading quality. "Its Junction with the skirt, that is the belt, the indication of the waist that wears it, is a veritable delight. • * Whoever adopts that style must see to it that the Junction of his shirt and trousers, or whatever be the form of the upper and nether clothes, Is as smooth as that con necting the shirt-wulst and the skirt, and is as little suggestive of imperfection In the costume." The Sun does not suggest a solution of the problem of ahirt-walsts for men, but leaves the matter to "whom it may concern." Thus it evades respon sibility. The question concerns the Sun, and everybody in New York. Only on Wednesday there were seventy deaths from heal in that city. During a num ber of days the mortality from heat has been high. Is it not, therefore, the con cern of the whole community to devise means by which the people may keep cool? The prosecution seems to be making a strong case against Caleb Powers, at Georgetown, Ky. 11 is now with him lit erally a fight for life. There remains, however, his side of ihe story to be heard. Those who were Inclined to think the case was one of politics only are now begin ning to regard it in a different light. A CONSTITUTION FOR <*lll%. The President has planned, it seems, to have the proposed Cuban constitutional convention meet about the middle of Oc tober. He may not succeed in having it meet as soon as that, but it i© the un derstanding that Gen. Wood is to hurry it forward as rapidly as poss.ble. The de fyre is to get United States troop:; out of Cuba within a year. If report are to be credited May 1 next has been fixed upon as the time for turning Cuba over to the Cuban people. There is a chance that the Constitutional Convention will make trouble. The United States government will doubtless have something to say as to the provisions whic'h the constitution shall contain. There may be a disagreement between the con vention and the United Stoles authorities respecting matters that will be dealt with by the convention. For instance, it is said to be the purpose of the President to insist that provision shall be mad© against burdening the island with a big debt—that, in fact, Cuba shall have no power to cre ate a debt without the approval of the United States. It is pretty certain that any attempt to limit the authority of the Cubans to cre ate a debt will be the cause of irritation and trouble. Unless all signs fail it is the purpose of quite a large element in Cuba lo issue bonds for a iarge amount and dis tribute the proceeds among the patriots who composed the army that attempted, and signally failed, to drive the Spaniards from the island. If the Cuban people are wise they will take care that very few of these patriots get into the constitutional convention. There are other troublesome questions that will come before the convention. The United States will be fortunate if they succeed in getting out of Cuba without any trouble with the Cubans, at the s*ame time retaining their good will. China does not now dominate the tea market to the extent she once did. India and Ceylon hnve during recent years !n --cieased their trade in tea largely, push ing ;he Chinese tea practically out of the British market, and making good progress in Russia and other countries. The United States have lately been Chine s best tea customer. Should the Boxer troubles last for any considerable time, India and Cey lon might succeed in capturing this mat ket, which has been China's so long. PERSONAL. —Dr. James M. Safford, who for many years has been professor of geology- in Vanderbilt Univer 1 y, has just retired a', the age of 70. For half a century he has been state geologist of Tennessee. —J. G. Schmidlapp, the Cincinnati mil lionaire and philanthropist, has made an offer to the trustees of the Cincinnati art museum of $ 00,COO to build a wing lo the museum as a memorial of his wife and daughter. —Among the fit y-seven archeologists who contributed articles to a book which Is to be Issued to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Prof. W. Helbig, the eminent authority on Roman archeology, are three women—Ersllla Cartani-Lovatelli, Henri etta Hertz and Eugenia Strong. —Last week the house once owned and occupied by Washington Irving at Irving ten. N. Y., was sold to Henry Graves, Jr. The place has changed little in appear ance since Irving occupied it, except that a three-story bri k house has been built on the premises. The grounds consist of nine acres, running along the east side of the Croton aqueduct. The purchas price Is said to be {125 000. Mr. Graves will occupy the place as a summer home. BRIGHT BITS. —"They say Miss Singleton is a transmi gratlonlst.” "Yes! She thinks she must once have been the wicked flea whom no man pursueth!”—Lie. —"You look very bored, Bobby. Can’t you think of anything to do?” "No. 1 wish I could. If I could think of some thing I ought to do, and wasn't doing it, I should feel much better!”—Punch. —Even in Days of Yore—" Where is the electrician?" yelled Noah, as he groped his way towards the engine-room. Thus, even in the days of yore, was thece much commotion when the arc lights went out. —Brooklyn Life. —Something Worse —Jonson—"What do you know about the horrors of war?" Bronson—"l know a lot.” Jonson—" You don’t know a thing; you stayed at home." Bronson—"! know I did, but I had to read the yellow journals every day.”— Detroit Free Cress. —Strength of Character.—"He Is a man of great strength of character and self control.” "How do you know?” "He stopped smoking for two weeks once without referring to the fact oftener than eighteen or twenty times a day."—Chi cago Evening Post. —The First Step.—" What we want to do,” said one of the benighted nation's wise old men, "is to get civilized.” “I know,” answered the chief, “but how shall we go about it?" “Well, 1 suppose the first step is to quit killing people by hand and learn to use machinery.’’— Washington Star. CURRENT COMMENT. The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) says: "What a lot of circumlocution there is about a presidential campaign! Why should there he so much fuss about noti fying a nominee for President of that which he knows already? Is it merely to give tiresome speakers a chance to talk some more? Have not the national conven tions given to the country enough of taw dry “spell-binding'’ and declamatory van ity? It is rapidly coming to this, that the man with the gift of oratory is an afflic tion to society.” The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says: "The highly protected Tin Plate Trust has closed its mills for an Indefinite pe ried, and has thereby thrown many thou sands of workingmen out of employment. It is intimated that the reason for this movement Is because production at pres ent is not profitable. But there is no doubt that the trust w'lll have something left In tis coffers to contribute handsomely to the Republican campaign fund, though the dinner pails of Its workingmen may lie empty.” The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) says: "China may have to be whipped, but these is one Power in (he world which is even more responsible for the present troubles in China than China is herself—Russia. Until Russia is well whipped by somebody and made to curb her Inordinate lust, she will always be a most dangerous menace of the peace of mankind." The Nashville American (Dem.) says: "It is a pleasant occupation, figuring how the election Is going, and it is plain that if the Republican forces which have so long dominated the Middle West, yield at all this year, and it is claimed that a large part of the German vote will go Demo cratic, the Democrats have an excellent ulmnee to carry the country.’* Him Dn y at Home. Men of leisure got into the habit of call ing on him at his den whenever it suited their convenience and quite regardless of his. says the New York Press. Some would “sit him out.” He never had the heart to tell them to go home. Finally in self defence he Issued this card: "Mr. Cruger Chriatofer Chraig—Not at home Mondays. Tuesdays. Wednesdays. Thursdays. Fridays or Saturdays. At home Sundays—3 to 11. Cigars, cocktails, cigarettes, rye and bourbon, gin, rum and bitters, dinner and cards.” Did Not Like the Royal Road. If Alphonso XIII of Spain is to get some pleasure as King at the palace he cer tainly has not as prince royal in the schoolroom, says an exchange. More than once he winced at the heavy curriculum assigned him and intimated to his instruc tors that he would willingly abandon a glory and have his studies lightened. Not long ago he was taking a promenade with his tutor when they came across some heavy ordnance. His highness be came very much interested in its mechan ism, and croos-questloned the professor about its manipulation at long distances. The explanation was most explicit, and by way of recapitulation the professor add ed: ‘ All good artillery officers find it easy enough; it is merely a question of know ing mathematics, trigonometry, and’ ” But the lad did not give him time to fin ish, and hastily interrupted: “And shall I learn trigonometry and all those other things?” "Of course; there is no royal road to science.” “Ah, I thought there might be.” “What, a royal road? What does your majesty mean?” “Kings and princes,” exclaimed Alphon so. petulantly, “have always to do things in the most disagreeable fashion they can be done, and so I thought there might also be some royal, roundabout method of learning gunnery. And if there were I am proily sure I should have to learn in that way. So I am pleased that you tell me there is no royal road to science.” Only Thing; He Could Pay. Conspicuous and commanding in his per sonal appearance In whatever group of men he may chance to be placed is Col. Thomas F. Lowery of Minnesota, a rail way promoter and operator of national reputation, now prominent in the manage ment of the great “Soo” lines, says the New York Commercial. His character, training and reputation ere such that his opinions command the respect alike of business men, lawyers, politicians and clergymen; he is at home with all sorts and conditions of men—good company for pirates or longshoremen; and would shine among academicians; he was never known to lose his temper; he has the con fidence of capitalists everywhere. But Jove nods, good Homer sometimes dozes, and ever a paragon like Tom Low ery has played in hard luck. He has “gone broke” more than once, but has always “bobbed up serenely" again like a rubber ball. J. Pierpont Morgan tells of him that one day when a loan of some millions, for which Lowery was responsible, was to fall due at noon, the Minnesotan sent in his card at 11 o'clock. “Show him in.” was the order of the great financier. Low ery was as serene and bland as if a cer tified check for numerous millions w'ere reposing in his vest pocket. “I have called promptly this> morning, Mr. Morgan,” he said, “in order to pay my respects I can’t pay anything else.” But his paper was renewed In short or der. Stephen Crane Won Them All. I remember Stephen Crane's first ap pearance at Syracuse University, says a writer in the Buffalo Express. He had previously been a student at Lafayette, where he had been initiated into the Delta Epsilon Fraternity, and upon his arrival in Syracuse he came immediately to the D. U. House In a cab and a cloud oil to bacco smoke. He was entirely unknown, and, of course, he had to go through a searching cross-examination, which he did calmly, puffing the while at a very black pipe that looked as if it had gone through several campaigns. The head coach of the university was the examiner. “What can you do?” he asked. "Not much,” replied Crane. “Cane you row?” “Nop.” “Jump?” “Nop." "Swim?” “Nop." “Throw the hammer?"' “Nop.” “Play football?” “A little.” “Humph! A little. That won’t do here. Can you play baseball?” The future novelist smiled. "Betcher life,” he replied, with assur ance. “What can you play best?” “Catcher.” “Put on your togs, then, and we’ll have a scrub game, so that you can show off your ability.” A few r minutes later Crane w'as engag ed in his favorite pastime. He was a slender, wfiry youth, under the average bight, with a complexion almost yellow, and very large and expressive eyes. That day he wore a crimson sweater, buff colored trousers, and a pair of broken patent leather shoes. His odd looks were a source of good-natured chaff, but his playing won the admiration of even the seniors. He was gritty as a grizzly cub and stood close up to the plate like a professional. The star pitcher was in the box. He was a large fellow, who threw a very swift ball, and Crane was so light that he seemed to bound back at every catch. He was by all odds the best play er on the nine, and to this day he Is con sidered one of the best catchers the uni versity ever had. Empire or Vampire? The following written by Mr. C. A. Mac catee, Jr., of Washington, D. C., a son of Mr. C. A. Maccatee, special agent of the treasury for this district, was printed in the Baltimore Sun a few days ago: List to the tale of the nations, as old as the oldest hill! Hark to the sound of the trumpet that tells of the Good and Ul! It spenks from Ihe dawn of creation to the uttermost stretch of time. Proclaiming the wisdom of ages, dividing the Right from Crime, Slowly the nations grow mighty, each In its cycle of years, Spreading the bounds of their confines, brushing aside their seers, Founded on Right as a adamant rock, they reach for the sand called Might. Drinking Ihe ted wine of conquest, rolling in swagger and fight. Then comes the draft on the young man for ware in the East and West, Treasures poured out In endeavor to buy the worst for Ihe best; Sapped is the strength of the city, weak ened the strength of the plain, Manhood surrendered for empire, liberty sold for gain. After a while comes the harvest, black with the drought and the Are; Nations must pay for their folly, taete of Nemesis's Ire; Far down the stretch of the centuries sttll comes the message of old, Vampires feed on the conquest, rottenness comes with gold! Land of the Pilgrims’ uplifting; star of the serf of all lands! Guiding the hope of all nations, preach ing the freeing of bands! Fasten thine eyes on the landmarks, remember the days of thy youth; Hold fast to the vows of thy young days, prise now and forever the Truth. ' Aienry Hudson Henderson. ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Recent observation has revealed the fact that the dragon fly, known as the “snake doctor,” feeds on mosquitoes and experiments are under way for breeding dragon flies in great numbers and turning them loose in localities where mosquitoes abound. —A young man in Auburn, Me., to play a Joke on his barber, paid him 35 old-fash ioned cents. Later, when he found that the barber had sold one of the coins for $35. he did not feel so well satisfied with his joke, or at least thought it had become misplaced. —The Livery Stable, a weekly paper printed in New York, charges the tight check rein and the docked horse to “heart less woman,” and adds that if “ladies will refuse to drive behind docked horses and tight check reins” both abominations will soon disappear. —Australia has had a controversy over the right of members of Parliament to take service in the army, which recalls the case of Gen. Wheeler. In the Austra lian case the seat of a member who went to South Africa as a corporal was prompt ly declared vacant. —Robert Johnson, a street news vendor, died in Washington as the result of pros tration during the recent hot spell. Two years ego he was terribly frostbitten in the same city, and it became necessary to amputate both his feet. The operation was performed in the same hospital w'here he died. —A Kansas editor wrote that “Mr. Brewer is about to start for a fishing re sort. and says: ‘I am going to a place where I tshall feel at liberty to wear one gnhus, go without a collar and roll up my pants.’ ” The item made it Mrs. Brewer, and some little talk was aroused by the paragraph. —Lord Stratheona’s cavalrymen took with them from Canada four Indians, nominally as s< rvants, in reality to test their qualities as scouts in Bouth Africa. The Kaffir reads the veldt like an open bock and the Canadians hold that the sight und hearing of their Indians are even keener. —Many regiments in the British army have nicknames of which they are ex ceedingly proud. This is not the case with the Eighteenth Hussars, now on .service in South Africa, which has been nicknam ed “Kruger’s Own” because such a large number of its men were captured by the Boers. —A despondtri New Yorker spent his last cent in paying his fare to Coney Is land, intending to jump off the pier and drown himself. He was so cheered by the sights of gay Coney that he walked all the way back, spent the night in one of the parks, got a job next day and is now happy. —The Japanese government through an agent has just made very large purchases of shoes, cloth and iron for the Japanese army in St. Louis. Mo. Sai i the agent: * Our men will wear American shoes and boots into China and when they roach Pekin will hang American shirts on the walls to dry.” —ln the new' regulations for the navi gation of the Suez canal, which have just been promulgated, is a provision that no vessel shall pass through the canal unless it has an electric searchlight capable of lighting the channel 1,400 yards ahead an 1 also electric lights capable of illuminating an area of 240 yards around the vessel. —A company is preparing to build a road across the great Salt lake. The route will be over the water. Two trestles will be built, one eighteen miles long and the other seven miles long, the promontory dividing the stretch. The company has completed all its surveys and workmen are distributing material and fitting out pile drivers and boats. —An Atchison. Kan., man points with pride to the honesty of inhabitants of that city as exemplified in the fact that a wo man left a well-filled pocketbook on a chair in front of a hotel there and found it safe and unrifled on returning several hours later. A Jealous contemprorary in a rival tow’n comments on this circum stance as follows: “Asa rule people pass along the streets of the place oftener than this. It really isn’t so bad as the story would indicate.” —The notorious “Barebones parliament’ of Cromwell’s time took its name from one Praise God Barebones. According to Hume, the following names were found in a single jury drawn in the county of Sussex: Weip Not Billings, God Reward Smart, Kill Sin Pimple, Fly Debate Join er, More Fruit Fowler, Steadfast on High Stringer and Fight the Good Fight of Faith White. Barebones had a brother named If Christ Had Not Died for You Ye Had Been Damned Barebones. —A faimc-r in Clay county, lowa, has a bin containing about 800 bushels of wheat. About a month ago he propo ed to market the grain, but on going to the b n he dis covered that a hen had esiabllshed her nest on the wheat, was setting there and that to remove the grain would "break her up.” He decided not to disturb her. but wait until she came off with the chicks. In the meantime the price of wheat advanced until the farmer discov ered he had gained over $lOO by allowing the hen to sit it out. —The beautiful forest known as the Wild Park, the property of the Kaiser, at Potsdam, will probably be closed to the public* in a short time forever. For this the rowdy Berliners have only themselves to thank. Against the regulations the woods are made hideous with paper in which provisions have been wrapped arm the deer are continually being frightened by the catcalls of the holiday crowds. The respectable few' who love the forest for its rare beauty will have to suffer for the rough doings of the mass. —Some unknown residents of Denver have undertaken to abate the billboard nuisance. The Mayor has steadfastly re fused to enforce the ordinance regulating them, so the other night one of the of fending boards was torn down and burned. The demolition was complete with the ex ception of five scantlings that been the main support of the structure. They rest ed deep in the ground and it appeared that efforts to take them out had failed and only fear of the noise attracting attention had prevented those who did the job from chopping them oil at the surface of the ground. —Business is booming in Severance, Kan., to judge from an announcement in the News of ihat place. The editor, after gleefully calling attention !o "the vast press of advertising In our columns." adds the following: "No room for pollticls this week Will simply announce that Bryan and Stevenson were nonilnated by the Democrats for President and Vice Presi dent.” Another Kansas editor, serene In the Impregnability of his own rectitude, prints this paragraph: “Our readers can safely turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to what our damnable contemporaries say of us,” —George W. Raughley, a farmer of Car oline county, Maryland, has been so often a victim of chltiken thieves that he de termined on drastic preventive measures. He purchased a number of dynamite cart ridges and at night buries them, having them attached to surface wires so that anything coming in contact with the wires set off the explosive. The result up to date is that the tail of one of Mr. Raugh ley’s calvcM has been blown off and the dog of a neighbor has also disappeared. 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Student* from thle school e> ter the State University on Principal * certificate without entrance examination special instruction for those wiflhir to enter the U. S. Academies. For catalogues or other information ad dress, J. R. MORTON, M. A. % principal. SODA WATER. Soda Water, Ice Cream and Sherbet* made of the best fruit and cream by • professional dispenser. Sent to any P*J of the city. Bun lay order* solicited. Cream and sherbets 5 cents. DONNELLY PHARMACY, No. 678. No. 421 Liberty ft. ■*•