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4 me Manning fseto£ Hornlug Nrw Building:. Samonah, Go. BSOBTDAY, Jl Ll 23, 1900. Reg sterfd at the Postoffice in Savannah The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and is s- rved to subscribers in the city, or 6ent by mail, at 70c a month. $4.00 for six rnomtfc, and SB.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by moil, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.60; six months $3.00; one year, $6 00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, 11.00. Subscriptions payable in advance R.e tnit by postal order, check or register© i letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than apecial column, local or reading notices, amusements end cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines oi agate typ e _ e q Ua l to one inch square in depffi— is the standard of me asurement. Contract rates and discount made known oc appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery cf the MORNING NEWS to either residence or place of business may be made by po^ 3l car< * or through telephone No. 2JO. Any irregular ity in delivery should be immediately re ported to the office of publication Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed ‘ MORNING NEWS,” Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE. 23 Park Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner. Manager. INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting—Magnolia Encampment, No. 1, r o. o. f. Special Notices- A Card as to Use ot Suwannee Springs Water; Ship Notice, Strachan & Cos., Consignees; City of Val dosta Bonds For Sale, C. R. Ashley, May or, Valdosta, Ga.; Paints, Oils. Varnish es Etc, Andrew Hanley Company; Wa 1 Paper, Etc., Savannah Btiilding Supply Company; Levan’s Table d'Hote. Business Notices—Le Panto Cigars; E. & W. Laundry. Steamship Schedule —Merchants and Miner’s 'Transport at ion Company. Educational—Shorter College, Rome. Ga Medical—Dr. Haha way Company, Bradficld’s Female Regulator; Hood’s Pills; Hostetter s Stomach Bitters; Hors tford’s Add Phosphate; Castoria. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; (For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia and Eastern Florida to-day are for partly cloudy weather, with light to fresh southwesterly winds. One of the heroes who swam that Phil ippine river with Funeton, under fire, was the other day killed by his wife in Penn sylvania. •The shirt-waist man is abroad in Wash ington. The Post of that city prints a pic ture of him. in contras* tilth that of the man who sticks to his coat. In the picture an <g:g has fallen to the pavement where It has quickly been fried by the heat of the asphalt. The shirt-waist young nvan, nevertheless, looks as cool as a cucumber / In an Ice house, while the young man in the coat looks like a medicine taster "be- Core taking." The Columbia river canneries have been tnaking experiments in the canning .of ohad. and have been so successful in thetr efforts that anew fishing industry *ny be developed in the Northwest. The flavor of the shad is universally recog nized as delicious, and the only objection to the fiph is the many small bones it contains. This objection, it is said, is entirely done away with in the canned product, as the extreme heat to which the can Is subjected disintegrates the bones and they are not noticed. A Mexican ox-soldier of the name of Leon, who died in a lunatic asylum in Tampico a few days ago, is said to have been the last survivor of the firing squad that shot the unfortunate Emperor Maxi milian on June 19. 1867. Leon, together with one or two others, protested against being selected for the duty, but the sol diers wore told that they would them selves be shot unless they obeyed orders. Leon served in the war with the United States in 1847 while quite a boy, and was wounded at the battle of Buena Vista. It is claimed that the opening of the Chicago drainage canal has had the ef fect of considerably lowering the death rate of that city. At all events, the rate Is mudh lower than it has ever been since the keeping of mortality records was be gun, in 1872. Although the city was in a torrid wave during the week which ended on July 14. the mortality record was only 12.6 per 1,000. while the rate for the corresponding weak in July, 1899, was 17.6 per 1,000. It is stated that the greatest reduction is in th death rate of children under 5 years of age. The campaign that is progressing fn L’orth Carolina is strongly reminiscent of the campaign of 1876, in Georgia and South Carolina. As in those days, the Demo crats are parading in red shirts, which never fail to stimulate the enthusiasm. The red shirt as u Southern Democratic campaign emblem, came into being as ■> protest against the Republican party’s waving of the “Woody shirt," n defiance of that party at the polls, and a "rod Dbdge of courage" to warn the Repub licans that the South would not longer submit to negro domination. The “bloody shirt" had its origin in kuklux days, and 1s supposed to have been worn by negroes shot by the kuklux klan. It was the custom of Republican campaign speak ers, both North end South, to figurative ly draw out end wave the bloody shirt before their audiences for the purpose of keeping sec tional feeling high and inflam ing the negroes against the white peoaffo of the South. The first Democratic I**<l shirts, indeed, were made of white cotton and splashed with red paint or dye, lu Imitation of the "bloody shirt." Later, however, the solid red took the place of the. red-splashed white cotton. The shirt, however, has not been seen of late years. Its reyival in North Carolina means "No negro domination/’ presuma bly, us it did years ago. GEN. GREENE'S INNOVATION. Gen. F. V. Greene, the new president of the Republican County Committee of New , York, is a business man. As the head j of a great corporation he has learned the value of keeping accounts; of requiring itemized statements of expenditures and vouchers for sums paid out. He proposes to introduce a system of bookkeeping into j his management of the Republican county i machine in the current campaign. He ' ihinks that contributors to the funds have a right to know how their money goes. This proposed innovation of Gen. Greene has caused discontent in the ranks of the party heelers. There are already ominous muttering? among them which may de velop into revolt. The idea of putting a check upon the handlers of campaign money is regarded by the heelers as something altogether preposterous. They feel that their “honor” has been assailed. Nothing of the kind has ever before been suggested under former representatives of the “Easy Boss,” Platt. Quigg never required statements of expenditures. The Ross himself has never insisted upon all money being accounted for. There is a shortage now 1n the treasury of the Re publican county machine of $20,000, car ried over from Quigg’s administration. But noborly has ever raised a fuss about that. Why. who ever heard of the* ac- ; counts of a Republican campaign com- j mitree being audited? Heretofore the ! workers have merely gone to the boss and told him that they could place a certain sum of money “where it; would do the most good.” If the boss approved, the money was forthcoming, and that was the end of the transaction. There was a mu tual understanding, tacit, of course, but nevertheless clear to each mind, that no questions were to he asked and no ac counts rendered. The strength of the big Republican machines, as a matter of fact, has depended upon this system of han dling large campaign funds. Does Gen. Greene imagine that he can with impunity humiliate the party heel ers by setting a. watch upon them to see goes with the money? What does he suppose they are in polities for. their health? If bookkeeping in politics is a good thing, the heelers would like to know why it is that Hanna does not In troduce it into the national campaign. Ah. there is a man after their own heart! He knows how to treat “patriots” who colon ize floaters and know how to play politi cal shell games. If Gen. Greene persists in his bookkeeping scheme, he will be mighty apt io find the patriotic devotion of many of his party workers oozing out at their fingers’ ends. SLANT WRITING AGAIN. Vertical writing, as taught in the pub lic schools, is losing in favor. It became popular only four or five years ago, but the growth of its popularity was aston ishing. All over the country schools dis carded the old slant style of writing and adopted the vertical. The chief points in favor of the latter are its legibility and the fact that the pupil sits in a natural position at the desk. It has been claim ed that the slant writing is responsible for curvature of the spine and affections of the eyes in children by reason of the unnatural position assumed by them at their desks in writing. The board of school superintendents of New* York city, however, has reached the conclusion that there are more disadvant ages than advantages in the vertical writ ing, hence it has passed a resolution rec ommending a complete change in the sys tem of penmanship taught in New York public schools. The vertical form is to he replaced by a slant form; hut the old slant, of thirty-eight degrees from the vertical line is not to be readopted. The new style is to be n compromise between the upright letters nnrl the old slant, re taining the broadness and the short stems of the vertical form. Among the chief objections to the verti cal writing are the lack of speed and of individuality. It has been demonstrat ed that a good writer using the inclined style can write almost twice as fast as an equally good writer using the upright style. This is a matter of much moment, since rapidity of penmanship is often es sentially necessary in life after school days. New York business men, it is said, will not employ young men and wo men who w r rite vertically if they can pos sibly get those who write after the old fashion. They say that, besides being too slow, the vertical writing all looks alike. It is not practicable to tell whether a piece of manuscript—a bill, an order, a book entry, a check, or other paper— was written hv one person or another, when that Myle is employed. It is easy to understand how annoying and possi bly serious complications might arise from this source. It is the individuality of handwriting that* is the greatest safe guard against forgery and fraud. The proposed new system, It is claimed, will permit of tfce development of individual ity and at the same time give speed and legibility. It is ,to he hoped the matter of making the change will be well digest ed before it is generally adopted. If vertical writing is a “fad,” as some of its opponents claim, it would be both ex pensive and annoying to change it fop another fad. The Philadelphia Record gives ournn cy to a queer story; one which, like news fiom Pekin, nerds to be officially con firm* and before it can be accepted gen erally. It is to the effect that Senator Stewart of Nevada, the “soaring cham pion of 16 to 1. has returned to the bosom of the Republican party.” It was not a matter of very great surprise when Sen ator Hoar announced that, notwithstand ing the wickedness of imperialism and the grave mistakes of the Republican party in its foreign policy, he would sup port that party. But when one is asked to believe that Stewart of Nevada, who has existed upon free ©liver and the crime of 1873 long enough for Infants in arms to become voters, has gone to the bcMom of the single gold standard party, it taxes one’s credulity. If young Mr. Moorum, who formerly represented this government at Pretoria, had been the minister of the United State© at Pekin, all of this uncertainty about the safety of our representative at that cap ital would bt*non-existont. Maerum would never have waited for the Boxers to get within gunshot of him. j It is alleged there has been found in London a letter written by the late Mr. Gladstone which leads to the belief that the only reason the Grand Old Man did not nccept a title was because he insisted upon becoming the Earl of Liverpool, which was successfully opposed by tin* Jcnkirisen family* N , THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 23. 1900. “LEARNING I VITED STATES.’* Fourteen hundred Cuban teachers, male and female, are at Harvard attending summer school. They are studying the English language, and the manne.s and customs of the people of this country. In short, as one of them expressed it, they are “learning United States.” What in formation they acquire will be made use of when they return to Cuba, through the medium of the public schools. The civil ization. the education, the manners of Cuba have heretofore been those of Spain transplanted. The literature has been that of the Latins, and the amusements those of Madrid and Paris. Notwith standing the nearness of Havana to the American coast, it has been virtually a South-of-Europe city in about all except geographical position. The visit of the Cuban teachers to the United States and their course of induc tion at Harvard may have far-reaching effect upon the future of the island. It is said they are displaying the utmost eagerness to master the English lan guage, and are taking great interest in the cusioms and costumes of the people of Cambridge and Boston. The women teachers are said to be especially quick to “catch on” to American ideas and to adopt them. When the party first ar rived in Massachusetts there was not a shirt waist in it. Now nearly all of the women of it are wearing shirt waists, dog-collar belts and sailor hats, the same as the Boston gills wear. Upon their ar rival (he Cuban women would as soon have thought of going upon the streets barefooted as of wearing hats without feather plumes. Now they are affecting the simplest, neatest, coolest hats that they can find. The men, too, are adopt ing the American dress. Before the teachers left home their ac quaintance with English IHeiature was exiremely limited. Now they are sitting up late at nights in parties enjoying and discussing the authors whose writings are in the English language The methods of teaching in this country are different from those heretofore employed in Cuba. These methods the Cubans are absorbing; and they have no hesitation in declaring them better than those they are familiar with. As the trainers of the youth of Cuba, there teachers must exert a large influ ence upon the future of the island. If (bey go home and inculcate American ideas through their schools, may it not transpire thai there wiil spring up in Cuba a spirit of Americanism so vigorous and strong that it will lead eventually to the annexation of the island to this union of states? There are ihoso who are in clined to take this view of the situation. El ROPE’S FOLICY RESPECTING CHIN %. Briefly s<ated Europe's policy respect ing China has been to make out of her all that it was possible to make a/id to keep her in ignorance of her possibilities for becoming a progressive and powerful nation. For years there has been a fear in all European countries that if China should realize her strength from a mili tary standpoint and her possibilities from n manufacturing and commercial stand point she w’ould become one of the dom inating I’owers of the world. With her wonderfully cheap labor Chi na could beat all other countries in many kinds of manufacturing. She has the material for vast armies— armies that would he truly formid able if properly armed. disciplined and led. Europe has been willing, how ever, China should remain asleep, but nt the fame time she has been try ing by every possible means to get some of her wealth. China did not want to come into contact with Western civiliza tion. She wanted to be let alone. Europe, however, not let her alone. She battered down her forts and compelled her to open some of her ports to the com merce of the world. She ha insisted upon building railroads across her territory and in opening her mines. Europe knew’ the danger of course of selling the Chinese modern guns, but Eu ropean manufacturers of guns and ammu nition wanted a new' market, and so the danger was pushed aside as something too remote to be worth considering. The Chinese are quick to learn, espe cially to imitate. They are now making excellent guns themselves and very soon they will be independent of the gun mak ers of Western countries. And It looks as If they were learning rapidly to use guns. Tf they develop into good soldiers, and'if they take to manufacturing, as they promise to do. Europe may have cause to regret that the barrier that separated China from civilization was ever cross ed. China is awakening from her sleep of centuries. It will take her years of course to get fully awake, but what a giant Power she will be when her 40f>.- 000,000 people are made homogeneous by modern means of transportation and com munication and realize the part they are capable of playing in the military and commercial affairs of the world. c ,% CONVICTS FOR ROAI) 111 ILDING. An interesting part of the report of the Congressional Industrial Commission is that which dealt* with prison labor. To the minds of the the most satisfactory manner in which convicts have yet been employed, is in the con struction of improved public roads. Road building is preferable to labor in factories Inside prison walls, because on the roads the prison labor does not come into com* petition with free labor to any apprecia ble extent. Many of the rondp that are built with convict labor would never be built et all if free labor and taxation were to be depended upon for their con struction. What the convict road builder does, practically, is to pay back to the community, in another form, the cost of his conviction, and of his board and lodging, without taking bread from the famtly of any low’-ahiding workingman. And the improve*) roads, when finished, are n Godsend to the community through which they pass, not only in comfort and convenience of travel, but in wear arid tear on vehicles and animals. It has been estimated that transportation over good roads coals 50 per cent, lesa than over the ordinary, i>oor country roads. From the stan<l|>oint of the convict, road building is better than labor in prison factories. On the road the convict works in open air and sunlight at a wholesome, muscle-making occupation. He acquires an appetite which mako his coarse food palatable and keeps his digestion good. The surroundings an cheerful and hope ful. The work teaches the convict how to handle a si*ade, hoe, shovei, pick or tamper—tools with which he may earn L*n. honest living afterward** lu tho prkou shop the convict is forced to stand in one place oil day and feed a with lea-her, or cotton, or some other mate rial, learning nothing .and ensuring a monotony of action that is entirely ab sent in the open air. This no doubt ac counts for the fact that those convicts who work in the open ere healthier, bet ter tempered, and more willing than those that are kept caged In the prison facto ries. Xetv York, North Carolina and Cal ifornia lead all ot the states in the em ployment of convicts cri their public highways. * The results that have been achieved tvith this labor are regarded as eminently satisfactory. A grew*some theft Is reported from Johnstown, Pa. A freight train ran into a crowd of exursionists. Mrs. Anna Beg ley was knocked down and her left leg was severed by the wheels. The limb was placed on the depot platform and the in jured woman was taken to the hospital. When she recovered consciousness she told her attendants that she had placed SIOO in the shocking of the severed leg. Investigation, however, showed that the leg had been robbed as it lay on the plat form. Later two young men were ar rested for the theft. The public will not have to remain in suspense a great while longer with re spect to whether Messrs. McKinley and Bryan will accept the nominations which have been tendered them. Maj. McKinley has intimated that he will accept, and many of Mr. Bryan’s friends are quite sure that he will be able to see his way clear to an acceptance. However, it will not be long now before the gentlemen take their pens In hand and write out what they are going to do and sign theiwnames to the statements. Then the matter will bo 'officially settled. PEHSOXAL. —William J. Moxley, who is spoken of as the next Republican machine candi date for Mayor of Chicago, is famous as a maker of imitation butter. —The will of Timothy B. Blackstone, formerly president of the Chicago and Al ton Railroad, who died on May 25, disposes of an estate amounting to nearly $6,000,000. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is given to public institutions, $375,000 to relatives, and the rest of the estate is bequeathed to the widow, Isabella F. Blackstone. —Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, who has just completed his eighty-sectond year, is fourth among Eu ropean rulers both as to age and to senior ity as sovereign. The Pope is his senior by eight years, and then follow the Grand Duke of Luxemburg and the King of Den mark. In length of reign Queen Victoria surpasses him by sixteen years, the Em peror of Austria by nearly five, and the Grand Duke of Baden by one year. —Joseph Plory, the Republican candi date for the governorship of Missouri, is conducting a most novel campaign among the railroad men. He has secured a rail way velocipede, on which he has been traveling all about the freight yards of St. Louis and other cities in Missouri get ting personally acquainted with the work ers. He is in his shirt sleeves most of the time, and is a most democratic and ap proachable man, making friends wherever he goes. BRIGHT BITS. —Retired.—"You seem to have dropped out of Bightl”"said the mosquito, not unde risivelv. “Oh, I Hobsonized myself. I guess!” was the kissing bug’s tart reply. —Detroit Journal. —On Sunday Afternoon.—She—Ned Bun kerly ought to have some respect for the Sabbath day." "What has he done now?" "Why, this morning he was half an hour late at the links.”—Life. —All That He Asked.—Miss Lulu Finnt gan—l will give yez me answer in a month. Pat." He—That’s right, me dar lint; tek plinty av time to think it over. But tell me wan thing now—will It be yes or no?—Judge. —"We ain’t goin’ t’ let our Alfred go t’ that school no more.” "What’s the rea son?” "It’s a wicked place. He came home last night ’n’ said the teacher’d be n makin’ ’em read profane hist’ry.”—Phila delphia Evening Bulletin. —A Pessimist. Deacon Straltlace—So many laymen are staying away from church and so many ministers are becom ing more und more secular! Deacon Brimstone—Exactly. I fear we will soon have to take up the problem, ‘How shill we make the churches attractive to the ministers?’ "—Puck. CTBHEIVT COMMENT. The Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem.) says: "The announcement that the Chinese have ordered the mobilization cf an army of 830,000 men. to the great surprise of the Powers, suggests the immortal lines of the poet of Ah Sin: “ In his sleeves, which were long, He hod twenty-four packs; Which Is putting it strong, Yet I state but the facts.’ “It is not a matter for humor, of course, and we do not apply it as such, but the manner in which, unknown to the west ern world, the Chinese have in four years supplied themselves with an immense armament and used European officers to dtill their troops to fight against Europe is in thorough keeping with the moral that— “ ‘For ways that are dark And forwricks that are vain, The Heathen Chinee is peculiar.* " The Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.! says: "It has long been a rule in China to avoid as far as possible vexatidhs and onerous taxation. Taxes are there at a minimum. In America they are at a maximum, appearing in every possible form except an Income tax which those who could most readily bear taxation have decided they will not submit to. It is very plain that China has methods that fit the case excellently for. for a govern ment that has outlasted Rome und Greece, and a long array of other govern ments plainly must have some points of excellence, and light taxation seems to be one of them.” The Pittsburg (Pa.) Post (Dem.) says: "The way the Sugar Trust has been goug ing the people the last few months is a caution to sinners. In five months the trust has Increased the price SK> cents per hundred pounds. This does not look like an extravagant rise, but when the ad vantage it gives to the refiners is consid ered, it becomes n magnitude to the con. sumer. In short, it adds to the profit of the refiners on consumption of one year Of $40,000,000. The sugar trust has been a great contributor to Mark Hanna’s cam paign fund, and this year it is counted on for a million of dollars. The New Orleans Picayune says: "The alms and purposes of recently or ganized notion glowers’ associations seem eminently reasonable and practicable, and. If the eontro! of the assoelaticns re mains in conservative hands, there Is t o doubt at all but that they might greatly aid the cotton growers to better their Condition. A , A New Memory System. My friend, Micah Miggles, writes C. B. Loomis in the Smart Set, has a system of ranemonies all his own. WJicn he wishes to remember one word he thinks of an other which may sound quite different, but that bears some relation of ideas to the word he seek? to retain. /Thus. if you told him to buy a pair of socks he would immediately think of the word “sockdol ager,” and. ten to one, when he arrived at the store the word would have turned Into doxology, and he would come back with a hymn-hook. So his system has its faults, but Miggles swears by it, and once In a while he evolves a triumph in hi? line, \ Last week his wife a?ked him to stop at Munnimaker’s and buy a few’ things for her. He immediately made a list :o that he should not forget. I was with him when he drew out this list at Munnl maker’s. “Jilello!” said he, “what’s all this royal family about? I can t think whether it was books or kitchen utensils that Mrs. Miggles asked me to get.” This after reading his list. “What’s on the list?” I asked. “Why, 1 made it ouf by my system, you know, ai;d I can’t think of the key to it. I’ve got to have a starter always. It says ‘King Henry V., one Prince of Wales, one Duke of York, Queen Victoria and Mar quis of Lome, too.” “Why, itls historical works or photo graphs.” said I, but 1 was really quite in the dark. “No,” said Miggles- “Just help me to think. I’m sure it wasn’t books or pic tures. 1 think it was dry goods.” Quite accidentally I put him on the track. If I hadn't, in spite of his system he would have gone home without a bundle, and as he is a commuter, that w’ould have been a little irregular. “What is King?” sakl 1, half to my self. “Ha!” said Miggles; “thanks. Cotton is king—old expression. Cotton—’King Hen fy V’ equals five yards of cotton.” “Good!” said I. “But what in thunder is ‘one Prince of Wales?’ ” “Prince—prince—prints—one yard of prints!” And Miggles laughed with joy. “There is more in that system than 1 thought," said I. “But what can you make out of ‘one Duke of York?’ ” “Duke—duke—duke. Duke dubhess. Ha! one yard duehesse lace.” “You’re a wonder!” said I. “But what can ’Queen Victoria and Marquis of lx>rne, too,’ mean?” Like a shot he answered: "Two yards of Victoria—law n! Hooray!” A Trifle Quizzical. The late Sir John E. Millais, one of the most popular of modern painters, had a fund of almost boisterous humor, which delighted his friends, but with which the public at large was little familiar, says the Youth’s Companion. Mrs. Jopling, n London lady of fashion, gives, the follow ing amusing reminiscences of this side of the artist’s disposition: The first time I ever saw John Everett Millais was at one of the private views of old masters at Burlington House. I was walking with a friend. “Here comes Millais,” he said. You ran imaaine my excitement. I stared with all my eyes. My friend turn ed to the artist: “Good show of old masters!” “Old masters be bothered! I prefer looking et the young mistresses!” said Millais, with a humorous glance as he walked off. My companion roared with laughter. “There is only Johnny Millais who would dare to make a remark like that.” I remember Millais, telling me of an in cident that happened to himself at a din ner. He was sitting next the hostess, and on his right was n charming society wo man who evidently had not caught hie name when he was introduced to her; for presently, during n pause, she. started the usual subject of conversation in May— the academy. “Isn’t Millais too dreaful this year?” she remarked, and then, seeing the ago nized contortions on her hostess’ counte nance, she added. “Oh, do tell me what I’ve done! Look nt Mrs. M ’s face. 1 must have said something 'terrible.” “Well, you really have, you know,” laughed Millais. “Oh. please tell me!” “Well, you had better nerve yourself up.” “Yes, yes, what is it?” For answer Millais said nothing, but looking at her pointed solemnly to him self. When it dawned on her who her neighbor was she was spared any confu sion by Millais’ hearty laughter. The Princess of Wales said to him once, while looking at several pictures in hi? studio, “I w'onder that you can bear to part with them.” “Oh. ma’am.” answered Millais, “when I finish a picture. I nm just like a hen having laid an egg. I cry, ‘Come and take it away! Come and take it away!’ Then I start upon another pictuce.” Beginning a Habit. “Buffalo Jones,” who caught and tamed great numbers of the wild animals of the plains, knew i erfe tl.v well how his life received its first 1 ent in that direction. He says, in hs “Forty Years of Adven ture:” When a lad of 12 I was sent to the woods wi h the hired man. to saw off logs. My father was to come with a sh and in the afttrroon and haul the logs to mill. As we were wo king I looked up int > the (r< e and saw a fox squirrel swinging on a limb. I dropp and the saw and climbed. Soon the beautiful little creature was high up in the branches and when I pur sued him to the end cf a limb he gave a spring and caught in the boughs of another tre\ So I descended and cl mbed tha r other tree, and a? the squ rrel re peated h s tactics I did mine until the greater part of the day was gone. At last the little fellow' took refuge in a hole in a larg' bur oak. T thrust in my hand seized him, and held on, even though 1.1? long .sharp teeth neary took off the ■■end of my finger. I kept a firm grip until I reachtd the ground. Then I put him into my pockets -a and pinned it together with fome honey-locust thorns. When my fa her returned and found no to load he demanded an explanation. That was duly given, and then a boy of my size received a good thrashing, mean while managing to keep his cap over the sciuirrel to protect it, preferring to receive the blows himself. I tnmrd that squirrel and loved him. but finally 1 sold him for $2 to a gentle man who had a crippled son. That trans action s. emo i to fix in me a ruling pas sion which has never deserted me. and I bc?an catching and laming wild animals. Midnight In tit© City. • From the Smart Set. Hark, the long strokes that tell the mid night hour! Midnight! and still the feverish city’s eyes Are widely wakeful, for the tumult dies Slowly, so slowly where the tall roof© tower. The devotees of Pleasure’s brilliant flower Not yet have cast aside their frolic guise; One well might dream, save for the pur pling skies, Twere day, distorted by some baleful power. But mark adown yon narrow thorough fare. Where quiet has crept in with soothing touch, Those shadow-shrouded figures! Who ure they? Rapine and Shame crept from heir evil lair. Wheedling of lip. insatiate of clutch, Lying in wait to fasten on their P>*! —Clinton Scoilard. The senior bachelor of arts of Dart mouth College is now Arthur Livermore of Manchester, England, of the class of ’29* ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Miss Fickle and Mr. Coy were married in Grundy county, Kansas, recently. Among the wedding guests was Vest Coates —The town of Brunswick, Me., owns 1,000 acres of land and proposes to turn it to account by planting it in white pine as a public inve^ment. —Some years ago one of the biggest rail road corporations of this country employ ed a confidential peacemaker, with the idea of preventing .suits, as far as possible, for personal damages. It has* proved a profitable innovation and is being taken up by other railroads. —The Empire State Sugar Company, which is building a large beet sugar plant at Lyons, N. Y., has ordered ten auto trucks of five tons capacity, which are to be used to cart sugar beets from farms to the refinery. The company has 5,500 acre? of land contracted for. Three electric omnibuses have also been ordered to run between Lyons and Sodus Point, on Lnkc Ontario, a summer resort, to compete with the steam railroad. —On the Jumna canal, at Delhi, mon keys swarm upon the banks and, being overcrowded and consequently unhealthy, they suffer considerably from various dis eases. When one monkey is obviously ill a few of the larger monkeys watch for a favorable opportunity and then push it into me canal. If the poor creature be not drowned at once, it is thrown into the paler again after it regains the trees, or else it is forced to keep aloof from the rest of the company. —Locomotives are fired by petroleum residue on 13 per cent, of the Russian railroads and its use is exclusive on the lines of the Volga and on the Trans- Caspian and Trans-Caucasian systems. The conditions for the naphtha used are complete purity, without sulphur, wafer or sand. It must be of a greenish co’.or, never black. In order to provide com bustible during the winter period, when the transportation becomes difficult or im possible, the lines of railroad using naphtha have, in certain places, a series of cisterns which contain up to 2.ftf)o tons. The locomotives carry their supplies un der the water tank of the tender and can thus place 5,000 kilograms. The filling of the reservoirs is carried out by a sys tem of pumps and piping, these being protected against cold ond also against the action of steam. A series of metallic filters are placed in the cisterns and res ervoirs to retain sand and foreign sub stances. —When and where the first successful electric railway was built in this country is a matter of considerable diepute, sev eral cities claiming the honor of having been the first to prove the mechanical and commercial feasibility of applying elec tric traction to street railway transpor tation problems. Prior to 1880 there is no record of an electric railway embody ing the essential features as we know them to-day—Thornes A. Edison can prob ably claim on good grounds to have con structed the first mechanically success ful road in America, although his was purely an experimental line. This was built in 1880 near his laboratory in Menlo Park, N. J., and on it cars were run, drawn by a locomotive taking and return ing the current through the rails. In 18S2 Joseph R. Finney exhibited in Allegheny, Pa., an electric car for which current was supplied by an overhead copper wire. A small trolley fitted with grooved -wheels running on the wire as on a track and connected with the car by a flexible con ducting cord served to convey the current to the motor. It was not, however, until 1887-8 that a road was actually built on Finney’s plan. —Apricots stand second to oranges as a money-making crop in California, and more of this fruit is grown on the Pacific fdope than in all other states and coun tries. Roughly estimated the present apricot yield is worth $2,250,000 to the state, and the same estimate has it that there are between 40,000,000 and 46,000.000 pounds of apricots in California this year. Small apricots are grown in a few sheltered places in the Eastern states, and there are small orchards of the fruit in the south of France, in Italy, and in Turkey, and larger ones In Japan, but nowhere in the world are apricots grown on the whole sale plan of California. The product of this fruit in California is more than treble that of all the rest of the world. In five or six years more,--when the thousands of young apricot trees now growing in the state come into full bearing, it is likely that the annual yield of apricots in Cal ifornia, will be upward of 100,000.000 pounds, and that the product of the rest of the world will be insignificant by the side of it. Apricot trees are “shy” bear ers. and with all that science and the arts of horticulture may do they cannot make the apricot a steady bearer, year after year, like the fig, the orange, lemon, or plum. —The use of horseflesh as food is a sub ject which has been brought into promi nence of late owing to the necessities to which the beleaguered garrisons in South Africa have been reduced. It Is, therefore, a matter of general interest that certain butchers in San Francisco have been de tected in using the flesh of the horse as a substitute for beef in the manufacture of sausages and other viands. There is noth ing unwholesome in using the flesh of such a clean feeding animal as the horse, but if is rightly considered that it should not be foisted upon consumers in place of more expensive meats. In many conti nentol countries the ©ale of horseflesh for human food is considerable; and the butchers are licensed; and the animals are killed under proper sanitary condit ions. The New York Medical Journal joints out that it Is comparatively easy to detect the presence of horse meat even in such small quantities as 5 per cent. The suspected meat is boiled for about an hour in a ©mall quantity of water, which is afterward reduced by evaporation, cooled and filtered. To this liquid a few drops of com ix)und iodine solution (one part iodine and twelve parts potasslc iodide, in one hundred parts of water) Is added, when a fugitive red violet color ation indicates the presence of horse meat. —The destruction of trees by the electric current is a matter of some moment just now. The question as to the right of tele phone companies to cut the branches of trees which interfere with the stringing of their wires has been taken into court, and the decisions vary In different states, in New York a recent decision was to the effect that the right of the companies to touch the trees must be justified by an existing necessity, and that no right exists to touch the trees unless extreme or ex traordinary means must be employed to avoid the trees. In Michigan, however, tbe Supreme Court held recently that as poles must be set near the sides of the street or road, and as they are generally outside of the ditch or curb line, they must of necessity interfere with the trees. Further, the court says that the right having been given ,o erect the poles and wires, the right must also be given to re move obstructions, as highway officers have such rights when engaged In high way work within their Jurisdiction. The experience with the wires with heavier currents, however, has been that the tree might as well be removed as to cut any of its branches to make room for the wires to be strung. In Brooklyn, for In stance, the trolley current Is destructive to the trees when It Is run near them. The feed-wires of the Third Avenue line below Sixty-fifth street have nearly ruin ed the big shade trees which lined that avenue nearly out to Fort Hamilton. Some years ago they were fine big trees, casting a delightful shade. Now they are dying fast, and but a few stumps with foliage at their roots mark the spot where the trees stood. Some others are standing, but they are nearly dead, and \*lU be gone In a short time. The Quakers Are Honest People, §The Quaker Hert Tonic is not only a blood purifier, but a Blood maker f ol . Pale, Weak and De bilitated people who have not strength cor blood It acts as a tonic, it regulates digestion, cures dys. pepsta and lend, strength and tone to the nervous system. It Is a medicine for weak women. It t, 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 eoon succumb to Its wonderful effects upon the human system. Thousands of people tn Georgia recommend tt. Price SI.OO. QUAKER PAIN BALM Is the medteire that the Quaker Doctor made all ot his wonderful quick cures with. It’s anew and wonderful medicine for Neuralgia, Toothache, Backache, Rheuirtatiem, Sprains, Pain tn Bowels; in fact, ell pain cau be relieved by It. Price 2oc and 50c. QUAKER WHITE WONDER SOAP, a medicated soap for the skin, scalp and complexion. Price 10c a cake. QUAKER HEALING SALVE, a vege •table ointment for the cure of tetter, ec zema and eruptions of the skin. Prise 10c a box. FOR SALE BY ALL. DRUGGISTS. OQCTOrIIIIII^ bills gafiaJßa Bar-Ben Is the greatest known nerve tonic and blood purifier. It gjl creates solid flash, muscle and 18 strength, clears the brain, mats* gw the blood pure and rich, anti causes ■ a general feeling of health, dowr $ and manly vigor. Within S days m after taking the first dose you no ■ tlce the return of the old vim, snap S9 and energy you have counted as ■ lost for#*er. while a continued, pt judicious use causes an improvo* S§§ ment both satisfactory and last- Ing. One box will work wonders. q| six Bhould perfect a ob cents H a box, 6 boxes for S2.be. For sale gal by all druggists everywhere or will H be mailed sealed upon receipt of R price. Address Drs. Barton and an ■ Benson, 105 Bar-Ben Block, Cleve §|j I “get IT TODAY! 1| LSI. Of* RY AND G. 8 S. R’Y. SCHEDILE For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder bolt, Cattle Park and West End. Daily except Sundays. Subject to change without notice. ISLE OF HOPE, for I. of H.| Lv. Isle of Hope. 630 am from Tenth | 600 am for Bui ton" 730 am from Tenth I 600 am for Tenth 830 am from Tenth I 7 00 am for Tenth 9 15 am from Bolton | 8 00 am for Tenth 10 30 am from Tenth |lO 00 am for Tenth 12 00 n'n from Tenth jll 00 am for Bolton 1 15 pm from Bolton |ll 30 am for Tenth 2 30 pm from Tenth | 2 00 pm for Tenth 330 pm from Tenth 240 pm for Bolton 430 pm from Tenth -3 (X) pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth 400 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth 6CO pm for Tenth 730 pm from Tenth I 7 00 pm for Tenth 830 pm from Tenth | 8 00 pm for Tenth 930 pm from Tenth | 9 00 pm for Tenth 10 30 pm from Tenth jlO 00 pm for Tenth ■ [ll 00 pm for Tenth MONTGOMERY. Lv city for Mong'ry. | Lv. Montgomery. 8 30 am from Tenth | 7 J 5 am for Tenth" 2 30 pm from Tenth | 1 15 pm for Tenth 6 30 pm from Tenth | 6 00 pm for Tenth CATTLE PARK. Lv city for Cat.Park| Lv. Cattle Park. 6 30 am from Bolton I 7 00 am for Bolton 7 30 am from Bolton } 8 00 am for Bolton 1 00 pm from Bolton t 1 30 pm for Bolton 2 30 pm from Bolton i 3 00 pm for Bolton 7 00 pm from Bolton j 7 30 pm for Bolton 800 pm frorq Bolton | 8 30 pm for Bolton THUNDERBOLT. Car leaves Bolton street junction 5:30 a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter until 11:30 p. m. Car leaves Thunderbolt at 6:00 a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter until 12:00 midnight, for Bolton street Junc tion. FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR This car carries trailer for passenger, on all trips and leaves west side of city market for Isle of Hope, Thunderbolt and all Intermediate points at 9:00 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 5:00 p. m. Leaves Isle of Hope for Thunderbolt, City Market and all intermediate points at 6:00 a. m., 11:00 a. m., 2:40 p. m. WEST END CAR. Car leaves west side of city market for West End 6:00 a. m. and every 40 minute, thereafter during the day until 11:30 p. m. Leaves West End at 6:20 a. m. and ev ery 40 minutes thereafter during the day until 12:00 o’clock midnight. H. M. LOFTON, Gen. Mgr. SUMMER RESORTS. TIOTEL NORMAN mi? WtOADWAV & 38TH STS., NEW YORK. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. EUROPEAN PLAN. COOLEST HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY Located In the liveliest and most inter 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 Park, N. J. GEO. L. ATKINS & SONS. LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN HOUSE. Location beautiful and sanitary. Hotel comfortable and homelike. Rates from 37.U0 to 310.00 per week. MRS. GEO. E. PURVIS. Lookout Mountain. Tenn. ‘ CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE. July dolly rate 33. Unsurpassed socn ery. Railway fare reduced. Station*, Otia Summit and Kaaterskill. CHAS. & GEO. H. BEACH, Mgrs., ' Cate kill, N. T. GRAND ATLANTIC HOTEL, Virginia ave and Beach,Atlantic Clty.N J. 6th year. Most central location; highest elevation, overlooking ocean; 350 beautiful room*, many with baths. The terms are reasonable. Write for booklet. Hotel coach es meet all trains. CHARLES E. COPE. SODA WATER. Soda Water, Ice Cream and Sherbet, made of Ihe best fruit and cream by a professional dispenser. Sent to any par, of the city. Sunday orders solicited. Cream and sherbets 5 cents. DONMELLY PHARMACY. Phone No. 678. No. 421 Liberty st. east. J. D. WEED ft CO IIVAMAU, UA. Leather Belting, Steam Packing & Hose. Agents for NEW YORK BUBBEH J3ELTING AND PACKING COMPANY.