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4 gfjE HWning Jsfcto#. Morales bewt Botldlnc SM.unßah, Oa TUESDAY, JULY 24, lflOO. Re*.stored at the Postcfflce 1b Savannah The MORNING NEWS is published every day la the year, and is served to ttutsencers in the city, or sunt by mall, at 70c a month, 54.00 for sU months, and $6 00 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mall, six times a week (without Sunday Issue), three months, $1.60; six months 52.00, one year, $0 00. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 issues a week Monday and Tnursuay. by mail, one year, SI .00. Subscriptions payable in advance Re mit by postal order, check or iefi*t*rei letter. Currency tent by mail at r.ft* of tenders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate j type—equal to one inch square,in dep ti ls the standard of measurement. 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H.; Ship Notice, Strachan ft Cos.. Consignees; Another Grateful Man as to Suwannee Springs Water; Levans Viable d’Hota. Business Notices—Obelisk Fiour, Henry Solomon & Son.; E. &W. Laundry; Green Ginger, S. W. Branch Company; Gems, Jewelry, etc.. Hunter (k Van Keuren; Grape Nuts—Broinford. Whtekey—Old Crow Rye Whiskey. Auction Suits—Household Furniture, by I. D. Laßoche, auctioneer. Han an ft Sons and Stacy Adams' Finest Russia Calf end Brown Vick Kid Shoes, Byck Bros. Ladies, Stop Here—B. H. Levy ft Bro. Do Not Wonder How It Is Done—B. H. Levy & Bro. Auction Sates—Sundries, by A. K. Wil ton, auctioneer. Cheroots—Old Virginia Cheroot*. Salt—The Favorite Table Salt. Medical—Hood's Sarsaparilla; Coke dandruff Cure; S. S. S.; Hereford's Acid Phosphate; Dr. Hathaway Company; Caa toria; Worlds Dispensary Preparations; Tutt's Pills; Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable mis. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; for Sale; Loci, Personal; Miscellaneous. The \V rather. The indications for Georgia to-day are for generally fair weather, with light, variable wind*; and for Eastern Florida, generally fair weather, except local rains In southern portion, and light to fresh southerly winds. The Churchill-Comwallis-West ante nuptial controversy continues to be a tid bit of London gossip. Lady Randolph Churchill declares that she will marry young Cornwallis-West at the appointed time. the twenty-eighth day of this month, notwithflanding his Illness and the objec tions at his family. The Prince of Wales, It is said, has told Mrs. West, mother of the young man, that she would be justi fied in having her son kidnapped end car ried away until he had time to reflect upon the folly of marrying a woman twice his age. Behator Pettigrew seems to be extreme ly anxious to prove Admiral Dewey a fal sifier, in the matter of alleged promises of independence to the FHlplnor. Dewey has said, in the moat positive terma, that tie made no such promises. So far as the people of the United States are concern ed, that settles the matter, Pettigrew and bis Filipino fronds to the contrary not withstanding. Americans are quite will ing to take the word of the Admiral in preference to the charges of a shifty northwestern politician backed by state ments of equally shifty Asiatics. It is probable that Brazil will once more come Into prominence as a dlainond pro ducing country. The great South African diamond companies, which control the market, have advanced the prices of gems to such an extent that U Is believed the abandoned Brazilian Helds can be worked at a profit. A stock company of Ameri cans is about to be formed to acquire and work Brazilian mines. The demand for diamonds has increased steadily since 1809, and wtth the increased demand the prices have gone up. The annual importations of diamonds, rough and cut, Into this country, now approximate In value 111,- COO,OOO. The New York Journal has a story from London to the effect thst there is a love affair behind the ejectment of Capt. Sir Berkeley Milne from Mr. W. W. Sstors house recently which has caused such a stir In London social circles. According to the story the parties to the love affair ate Mr. Astor's daughter Pauline and Capt. Mllns. The Captain, It Is said, attended the musicale at Mr. Astor's house upon the Invitation of Miss Pauline, which, by the way, was tendered without the knowl edge or consent of her father. The encoun ter between the Captain and Mr. Aator is said to have oocurred after a tete-a-tete between the lovers ill a senluded comer of the winter garden which wee suddenly In terrupted by the irate father. Now, ac cording lo the Journal, there is talk of either a marriage, an abject apology ea tlie part of Mr. Astor, or a duel. CHINA’S APPFIAI, TO THE PRESI DENT. j The appeal which the Chines* govern ! menf has mad* to President McKinley to ! ufe his good offices to aid it in getting • oof of the difficulties !n which it finds it i self he a use of the Boxer disorders. de se-ves v-ry careful consideration. Na ur a.iy the Pres dent does not want this country to become involved in any rom i n ation* with Eurcp an nations on ac count of China’.- troubles, and he will take care that it docs not become so in volved. At the same ime if he can do anything towards hastening a settlemen' of the troubles and restoring crd r i’i China it seems as if he ought to do it. An appeal Whs first made to France to act as mediator, hut the condition* la-d down ty the French government w re o hard that the Chinese government and übr ed its ability to comply with them. It therefore turned to this country. It Is somewhat remarkable chat it did not appeal to President McKinley in tpe first Instance. This government has shown itself to be more friendly to China than any’ one of the European govern ments has. American warship© took no part in the attack on the Taku forts. The position of the American Admiral was that the United Stares were not ct war with China and had no r.ght to hat ter down her forts Besides, possession of the forts was not absolutely necessary for a movement on Pekin. It is true that American soldiers took part in the attack on Tien Tsin, but pos session of that city was and *emrd neces-aiy to the effort to rescue the official repre sentatives of the foreign nations at Pe kin. Tien Tsin will be the base of the movement on Pekin. If the Chinese gov ernment had given satisfactory assur ances that no barm should come to the foreign ministers, no effort would have been made to capture Tien Tsin. No blame can ’attach to foreign govern ments for the fighting and loss of life that occurred there. The blame rests upon the Chinese government. It failed to make known the condition of affairs at Pekin—to guarantee the safety of the foreign ministers. If President McKinley shouid respond favorably to Chinas app. al the prepar ations for the movement on Pekin would not be interrupted. Neither would the United States lose any of their rights for indemnity for lcssfß they have suffered They would prej-s their claim just as vigorouely as it they had not undertaken to extricate her from her difficulties. There is a suspicion, particularly in Europe, that the Chinese government is not acting in good faith—that it is trying to gain time, ami also to get the foreign Powers entangled with each other. The Chinese wne better diplomatists than sol diers. They are more expert in juggling with the truth than they are in handling a rifle. There is no apparent reason, however, for assuming that the Chinese government is not sincere in the appeal it has made to the President. No doubt the President will be sure that it Is sin cere before he decides upon his response to the appeal. It may be 4hat one of the tests he will apply will be a demand for evidence that Minister Conger Is alive that cannot be questioned. A BREAK IX POPULIST LIKES. According to the dispatches there Is a prospect that the Middle-of-the-Road Pop ulists will poll a big vote In Nebraska in both the state and the presidential elec tions. Many of the fusion Populists were very murh disappointed at the refusal of the Democrats to nominate Mr. Towne for Vice President and have determined to act with the Middle-of-the-Road Popu lists in the campaign this year. Some of the strongest Populists of the state—Pop ulists who were supposed to be In full sympathy with the wing of the Populist party that has fused with the Democrats —were present as delegates at the Middle of-the-Road Populist Convention at Grand Rapids. Neb., last Saturday, and they there pledged themselves to work and vote for Wharton Barker for President. It is difficult to understand why Popu lists should be so dissatisfied because Mr. Towne was not nominated at the Kansas City convention for Vice President. He does not claim to be a Populist. He says that he is a Silver Republican. If he is a Populist he has not dealt fairly with those who have been supporting him. Be sides, It would seem as if those Populists who are so disappointed at his failure lo get the nomination, would find no difficulty In supporting the Demo cratic ticket. In view of the fact that Mr. Towne gives it his hearty support. Asa matter of fact, however, many of the fu sion Populists of Nebraska feel much more at home In the camp of the Middle of-the-Road Populists than In the camp of the Democrats. They were willing to act with the Democrats just as long as they thought they were controlling the Democratic party, and when they found that the Democrats had a few views of their own they looked longingly towards the camp of the Middle-of-the-Road Pop ulists. It !• doubtful, however. If any consid erable number of the fusion Populists will deeert the fusion ticket—certainly not enough to endanger Mr. Bryan's chances for carrying Nebraska. He Is very popu lar In his home state, and can depend on getting practically all of the Independent vote. No doubt the defection of the fu sion Popultsta will be the occasion of con siderable talk, but all signs are that Mr. Bryan will carry Nebraska by a larger vote than that by which he carried it In 1896. The Chinese embassy in Berlin finds it self in a peculiar position. It has no German "Boxers” surrounding it, nor is there any apparent feeling trv the city against the members of the embassy; nev ertheless the provisions of the minister and his attaches are becoming low and they do not known where they are going to get more. The minister has not receiv ed remittances from his government for some time. Th German tradesmen have been supplying provisions on account, but they have concluded that they have ex tended credit long enough, and are de manding a settlement of accounts. Mrs. Frances A. Meyer wants to be Gov ernor of Illinois. Sho Bays (the Is a Democrat- Republican- Populist- Prohibi tionist, and knows nothing whatever about politics. Her platform Is, "The honor and glory of God and the true benefit and prosperity of all the people." She thinks everybody ought to be willing to vote for tier upon that platform, which ehe says embraces every correct principle of poli tics. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1900. IS ENGLAND GUILTY f An Englishman, Mr. H. M. Hyndroan. makes broad charge that England is responsible for the terrible famine which is now prevailing in British India. The facts which he present* in support of his charge are convincing. British India Is a poor country, so poor that a very large portion of the people are all the white on the verge of starva tion. It 1* estimated that the average per capita earnings annually of the 250.- 000,000 people are not over s7—that is, the verage yearly earnings of a family of five are not over $35. But England ex acts tax's to the amount of 5130 000.000 a year. The bulk of the taxes is on land, though about everything is taxed from which a rupee can be raised. The result of this excessive taxation is that the peasantry never have enough to cat, because they are compelled to sell pretty nearly all they raise to pay their (axes. They are able to save nothing for improvements of tbeir land or for stor ing grain ‘to tide them over famine peri ods For c nturies Hlndoslan has been visited by famines of greater or less ex tent and severity, but it is very seldom that there Is a famine #o extensive as the one this year. In the olden time, be fore British rule began, great reservoirs for the storage of water were built and kep* in repair, and grain Was stored in years of plenty to meet the. demands of years of famine. Now, owing to the de mands of the British tax gatherer the great reservoirs are becoming ruins and no grain is ever stored against the com ing of a famine. The people have not the money with which to keep Che reser voirs in repair and they have no grain to store after they have paid their taxes. And it is asserted that the land is stead ily deteriorating. The outlook for British India Ls certainly a gloomy one. Other famines are certain to com® and the peo ple will be Jess able to contend against them than they are to contend against the present one. It is said that even this year, when food and clothing is being sent from this country to aid the starving millions of India, England has drawn from the coun try over $80,000,000, and it must not be forgotten that of the 40.000 officeholders in India more than two-<birds are Eng lishmen who draw for their services $75,- 000,000 annually, while the native officials are paid only about $15,0u0.000. If it be true, as stated, that England is largely responsible for the terrible con dition of affairs in India, she ought to take care of the people in <ime of famine. She ought not to expect this and other countries which derive no benefit what ever from India to furnish food and cloth ing for the starving people. The state ment has been made that the government of India has been doing a great deal for the starving people. It is evident that it has not done, and is not doing, all that it could do. The millions of dollars that England has drawn out of the country this year ought to have been used in pur chasing supplies for the starving people. EXCUSING HIS GOVERNMENT. The Chinese minister at Washington, Wu Ting Fang, Is doing his best to excuse his government for the outrages which have been committed in the Chinese em pire. He Is not, of course, in a position lo know all that has happened in China, since the troubles there began, but he says he is certain that the government Is not to blame The situation as he sees It is this: The Boxer movement was regard ed by the government as of little conse quence when It first began to attract at tention. The government felt Itself strong enough to put il down if It should assume proportions sufficiently large to cause alarm. Asa matter of fact, the move ment was far greater than the govern ment supposed It was. And it was so popular that many soldiers of the Impe rial army joined It. When it was too late the government saw that It had made a mistake—that the anti-foreign sentiment was general and strong—and that the re bellion was more powerful than the gov ernment. According to Minister Wu's view, therefore, the government is prac tically in the hands of the leaders of the Boxer movement. He is confident, how ever, that it will come out on and that law and order will soon be restored. He may be right in holding this view. The leaders of the Boxers are -evidently becoming frightened. The success of the allied forces at Tien Tain has alarmed them. They see that the time Is not far distant when the Boxers will have to face a large and thorougly disciplined army, and that punishment will be meted out lo somebody for the outrages supposed to have been committed at Pekin. There fore they want to make peace as soon as possible. It Is probable that Ll Hung Chang Is depended upon to bring about peace between the foreign Powers and China. Minister Wu seems to think that some consideration ought to be shown to the Chinese government because of the diffi culty it has in maintaining order among so vast a population. Some parts of the Chinese empire are so thickly populated he says, that It is practically Impossible for the people to get enough to eat. That is why the country Is full of roving bands of robbers. The people get hungry and they go about In bands robbing their more prosperous neighbors. Many of these des. perate characters are supposed to be in the Boxer movement. Because of their presence among the rioters the govern ment's difficulties In restoring order are increased. Minister Wu Is making out as good a case for hie government as It is possible to make. What he> says may be correct, but whether it ts or not. it Is pretty cer tadn that China will have a big bill of damages to pay for the outrages already committed. It must have been rather startling to the court attendants at Windsor Castle the other day to see the Queen attired In a white dress and while hat. For thirty nine yearq, or ever elnee the death of her husband, the Prince Consort, Queen Vic toria has worn nothing but black. The heat of the day in question, however, was more than she could endure In black, so she departed from her custom in order to secure comfort. The Queen Is said to be practically ’’frost proof," but heat rreatly distresses her. Former Governor Stone of Missouri says: "The campaign this year on the Demo cratic side will not be as effervescent as was that of four years ago. There will not be so much talking, but more practical political work.” That would seem to be the sensible plan to puraue. Less fizz and more solidity may bs depended upon to bring better results. — — It would almost impossible to pro duce anew snake story. From time im memorial men have found snakes in their boots, seen, snakes of red. white and blue where none existed, and dreamed of snakes. And on their part the snakes have milked cows, lashed boys around the legs, and given men an excuse to go home with their breaih heavy with snake-bite cure. But this season Jersey has produced really a novelty in snake sto ries. At Kearney, in that state, there was a nest of snakes that got into a way of calling out the fire department. Whether or not the reptiles enjoyed the discomfort of the firemen, who raced sometimes a dozen blocks under a fierce aun in response to the false alarm, can not he said; but the alarms kept coming in to the despair of the laddies, who could never find eiiher fire or sender of alarm. At length it was discovered that a number of snakes had made a nest in a switch board box in the cellar of the central station. Whenever they twisted and squirmed among the apparatus, their movements would be faithfully announced by the alarm bell. Ex-Senator Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire is quoted in a New York dis patch bs having said a day or two ago: “This government ought to send at least 23,000 troops to China at once, and as many as 80,000 if they can be spared. While it would have been highly ngreea ble to have become the schoolmaster of China rathei* than one of her chastisers, still we cannot tolerate the spectacle of the Boxers murdering our minister and missionaries.” This voice is like one from the tomb. When Harrison was President, it will bo remembered, he wished to send this same Blair to Pekin as American minister, but the Chinese wouldn’t have him. Blair has neither forgotten nor for given the incident, hence, probably, his desire to see China speedily and badly whipped. It Is not yet known that either our minister or our missionaries have been killed by Boxers. The silver service which the people of Maryland will present to Rear Admiral Schley will be one of more than ordinary artistic and sentimental value. The ser vice will consist of about twenty-seven pieces, and will weigh altogether quite 2,000 ounces. The coet, when completed, will be about SO,OOO. The silver to be used will be that of Spanish coins cap tured on the defeated cruiser Cristobal Colon, which surrendered to Admiral Schley at the conclusion of the famous engagement. There has been Incorporated in New' York a society for the prevention of pre mature burials. The president of the con cern is a Mr. Chopin, who asserts that many persons are buried alive each year. In support of his claim he jrecalls a re cent instance, that of Baron Corvo, in Italy, “who was placed in his coffin and heard the burial service read, but was unable to utter a sound or move a muscle until the vault was about to be sealed.” Col. A. S. Daggett, commander of the Fourteenth Infantry, now en route to the scenes of trouble in China, is said to be a model soldier, especially in the matter of personal conduct. He is a pious Chris tian, and has never been known to smoke, drink, chew, swear or gamble. He went through every battle of the Army of the Potomac, and was with the Twenty-fifth Infantry as lieutenant colonel at the bat tle of Santiago. China was a participant in the Interna tional Peace Conference at The Hague, which readopted the Geneva agreement respecting the employment of humane methods in warfare. It may be said, -how ever, that the Chinese government i© not responsible for the brutalities and cruel ties of the Boxers, and therefore has no: violated the terms of the Geneva agree ment. PERSONAL. —Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, who has just completed his eighty-second year, is fourth among Euro pean rulers both as to age and to seniority 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 ears, the Em peror of Austria by nearly five, and the Grand Duke of Baden by one year. CURRENT COMMENT. The Washington Post (Dem.) says: "Leaders of the dominant party are play ing with edged tools In their carefully con certed effort to work up a scare over the free silver question and make the fight of 1960 a second battre of the standards. If the organs and spellbinders of the Re publican party insist on and persist In keeping up their loud vociferation on the imaginary peril of 16 to 1 they may have cause to regret the adoption of such tac tics. Capital Is easily- frightened. It hunts its hole sometimes in the presence of purely Imaginary danger. And If even a email panic were to reinforce the Inev itable summer dullness in business the re sults might be just the reverse of those on which the exploiters of the 16 to 1 ghost are calculating. It is extremely danger ous to run a prosperity campaign on panic principles. The two Ideas do not begin to consist." The Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.) says: "It Is inevitable in the natural order of things- that China will In time be de veloped both In capacity for self-defense against foreign aggression and in indus trial efficiency through the substitution of machine for hand labor. But her mili tary development is of small importance for the western nations compared with her Industrial development. The former can have only local and defensive effect; the latter must have wlde-'reachlng and disturbingly offensive influence against the stilted industrialism of the great com mercial powers. The whirlwind we reap by sowing the wind of modern military In struction In China can amount to little compared with that which must arise from the starting of China in modern in dustrialism.” The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says: "In the appointment of Mr. Roekhlll as spe cial commissioner to China, the President has for once chosen wisely. Mr. Rockhill is about the only trained diplomat in the service. He Is likewise a Democrat—or If he isn’t his apostasy is so recent that he still retains a leaven of saving grace. If diplomacy could accomplish anything in China Mr, Rockhill might well be trusted with the task. The present necessity, however. Is for artillery rather than smooth words.” The Clnclnatt Enquirer (Dem.) says: "If there Is sincerity in the profession of an , Intention to turn Cuba over to 11s owners at an early date provision should be im mediately made for paying over to Cuba the money of which she has been robbed by United Slates officials. There Is. how ever. no probable tniemiou of doing either.’’ A quick Dlaguoilß. One of the anecdotes related by Dr. Weir Mitchell in the July installment of his Century serial, “Dr. North and His Friends,” might well be a personal expe rience of the author’s: I once went to Harrisburg, and had to return during the night The train was crowded. At last, in the stifling, dimly lighted smoking-car, I found a man asleep acrose two seats. I awakened him, and. saying I was sorry to disturb him, sat down. After a little he said, “Do you know Dr. Owen North?” Rather astonished. I said. “Yes.” “What kind of a man is he?” “Oh, a very good fellow’.” “He is like all them high-up doctor©. I guess. He gets big fees. I want to know.” "No." said I. “That is always exagger ated. Why do you ask?” “Well, I’ve had a lot of doctors, and I ain't no bener, and now I haven’t much money left.” Upon this my friend confided to me all his physical woes In detail. We parted be fore daybreak. It was too dark in the car for either of us to see plainly the face of the other. About 10 o’clock next day the man enter ed my consulting room. As I should not have known him, except for a rather pe culiar voice, I, too, remained unidentified. I could not resist eo comic an opportunity. I said, looking at him, “Sit down. You have a pain in your back.” Thai s queer. I have.” “And you are blind in the left eye, and your digestion is very bad,” and so I went on. At last he said: “I never saw a doctor like you. It scares a man, ’most. Can you cure me?” I said. “Yes," and wrote out my direc tions. It was really a simple case. When he produced a well-worn wallet I declined to take a fee, and said: “I owe you for the seat, and the good 6leep I dis turbed last night.” “Thunder! 1 see. You were the man. Rut law*! why did you give it away? I'd have sent you the whole township.” TnlJ Corn in Kansas. “I went out to milk the cows the other morning,” said Fanner Jonas Jones of Wichita, Ktin., to a Chicago Inter Ocean man, “and they were not in the lot as usual. 1 called and called, and at last I heard a faint bawling in the direction from where we get our rain. I looked up and could see nothing. I rail into the house and got a spy glass, and then 1 discovered that those two cows of mine had straddled a cornstalk in the night, and it had grown so fast that they were unable to get off the perch, until it was so high they were afraid to jump. Not until a cyclone came along and bent the stalk near the earth could they slide oT without breaking any ribs. In the mean time I had to climb those ©talks every day to do the milking.” Farmer Silas Culberry Smith came in just then and confirmed the story. “It’s the gospel truth,” said Culberry; “and these here big crops will be the ruination of Kansas yet. Why, I got lost on my wheat field yesterday, and nearly starved before I could get my bear ing. Things have come to a terrible pass, I’ll tell you, when a man can’t wander ten feet from his own door in a peaceful neighborhood without gettin’ lost. Republican rule wdll cause all hon est men o leavje the state yet.” “While I am talkin’,” continued Farm er Jones, “I might as well tell you about my crops out on the farm. The wheat is actually so thick that it runs down into the valleys and makes it dangerous for a man to ride in a valley on an able bodied horse, for fear he’ll be smothered <o death. The water is all over my bot tom land now r , caused by this wheat field of mine. You know, wheat being heavier than water, and the wind being stronger than the blades of wheat, it just shells out my wheat, and the ground is so thick ly covered that U runs down the valley and into the river, forcing the water out of the creek beds on to my watermelons. "My wife and I were going to a sum mer report this summer, being as w’e have had a pretty fair crop, but the other day when I returned from milkin’ the cow I had a different notion in my head. I concluded it was just as well to ©r*nd that money at home and have a sum mer resort of our own. So I planted some corn in the back yard, and went Xo town and bought enough lumber to build a good two-room house with a porch on all sides. Then I pu4 it together on a good founda tion. right over that corn patch. Every day the house goes up a few feet. “Firewood is going to be mighty cheap in Kansas this fall, but the price of axes will advance. You see. we will have to cut down the cornstalks before we can shuck the corn. The stalks will make fine firewood." Onr Biggest Fish. When In the halcyon days of old I was a little tyke, T used lo fish in pickerel ponds for min nows and the like; And oh, the bitter sadness with which my soul was fraught When I rambled home at nightfall with the puny string I'd caught; And. oh, the indignation and the valor S I'd display When I claimed that all the biggest fish I'd caught had got away. Sometimes It was the rusty hooks, some times the fragile lines. And many times the treacherous weeds would foil my just designs, But whether hooks or lines or reeds were actually to blame, I kept right on at losing all the monsters just the same. I never lost a little fish—yes, I am free to say It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away. And so It was. when later oh, I felt am bition pass From callow minnows joys to nobler greed for pike and bass; I found It quite convenient when the beau ties wouldn’t bite And I returned all bootless from the watery chase at night, To feign a cheery aspect and recount In accents gay How the biggest fish that I had caught had somehow got away. t And really, fish look bigger than they are before they’re caught— When the pole is bent into a bow and the slender line is taut, When a fellow feels his heart rise up like a doughnut in his throat And he lunges in a frenzy up and down the leaky boat. Oh, you who've been a-flshing will Indorse me when I say That it always is the biggest flsh you catch that gets away. 'Tls even so In other things—yes, In our greedy eyes The biggest boon is some elusive, never captured prize; We angle for the honors and the sweets of human life— Like fishermen we brave the seas that roll In endless strife; And then at last, when all Is done and wc are spent and gray, We own the biggest flsh tve’ve caught are those that got away. I would not have It otherwise; 'tls better there should be Much bigger flsh than I have caught a swimming In the sea; For now. some worthier one than I may angle for that game, May lx- his aria entice, entrap, and com prehend the same. Which, having done, perchance he’ll bless the man who’s proud to say That the biggest flsh he ever caught were those that got away. —Eugene Field. —lt Is reported that the chair of poetry In the University of Chicago has been of fered to Thomas Bailey Aldrich. i ITEMS OF INTEREST. / —For a year or eo Germany haa been able to restrain the tide of emigration much more than formerly. In 1896 only 23,700 persons left that country to seek home, elsewhere and of these but 19,016 came to the United States, a majority of the remainder going to Brasil. In 1894 there were 120,089 German emigrants, of which nearly ail came to this country, but even that Is a great falling of as compar ed with many former years. The average for the ten years from 18*1 to 1890,inclusive, was more than 145,000 a year. —Exportation of American coal has grown steadily in recent years and at present is increasing at a very rapid rate. During the last ten years the total ex port* have increased more than threefold. In 1860 less than 2,000,000 tons were sent abroad; in the eleven months ending May 30, 1900, nearly 6,5Ct),000 tons were exported. The bulk of this coal goes lo British North America, which in 1899 took 3.220,251 tons. Mexico came next with 410,709 tons and Cuba was third with 320.509 tons. The ex ports to Europe amounted to only 40,101 tons. —For telegrams between Washington and Manila the American government is at present paying about 3400.000 annually. Communication is by a roundabout way 44.000 miles, as follows; To New York by land; to Valentia. Ireland, by cable; to Brighton. England, by cable and land; to Havre, France, by cable; to Marseilles by land; to Alexandria, Egypt, by cable; to Suez, Egypt, by land; to Aden, Arabia, by cable; to Bombay, India, by cable; to Madras by land; to Singapore, Malayan pcnisula, by cable; to Saigon, Cochin China, by cable; to Hong Kong, by cable; lo Manila, Philippine Islands, by cable. —Charles E. Wat son, Republican Mayor of Findlay, 0., has discovered that .the way of the tax-dodger is hard. The other day he bought anew piano from a Toledo firm, at the same time giving a testimonial about a piano he had purchased from the same firm and had used eight years. This testimonial was used as an advertisement and the city assessor of Findlay, on look ing into the matter, failed to find Mr. Wat son credited with owning a piano during that time. The Mayor has therefore been called upon to pay back taxes on ihc piano for eight years, as the testimonial said the instrument "was as good the eighth year as the first.” —United States Consul Hill, at Amster dam, reports that the new Elbe and Trave canal, which has been budding five years and has been completed at a cost of 24,- 5C0.0C0 marks ($5,831,000) was formerly opened by the German Emperor on June 16. The length of the new canal—which is the second to Join the North sea and the Baltic, following the Kaiser Wilhelm ship canal, or Kiel canal, which was finished five years ago at a cost of 156.C00.0K) marks (317.125.0;0>—is about forty-one miles. The available breadth of the new canal is 72 feet; breadth of the lock gates, 46 feet; length of the locks, 87 yards; depth of the locks, 8 feet 2 inches. It is crossed by twenty-nine bridges, erected at a cost of 31.100,0 0. —Consumption has often been called the scourge of .New England, so terrible have been the ravages of the disease in that part of the country. It Is, therefore, a fact of great importance when It Is shown that the mortality from consumption In this section is steadily diminishing. The latest report of the state registrar of Vi tal Statistics for Maine demonstrates that such a diminution has been in progress for a number of years, the deaths from the disease having been 1,352 In 1892, and in succeeding years, 1,299, 1,262, 1,195, 1,172, 1,128, and 1,021. The principal reason for this remarkable falling off is undoubted ly the fact that during this period the people have been steadily coming to un derstand more and more clearly that pul monary tuberculosis is a preventable dis ease. Eleven years ago the State Board of Health issued Its circular on the pre venting of consumption and since then it has repeatedly been published in large editions, which have been distributed In every town. The press has co-operated In this campaign of education, and many hundreds of people have been saved who if left In ignorance, would have died of tbe disease which they have now fought —Briar root pipes are not made of briar root at all, as the majority of smokers believe, but from the root of the large heath known in botany as the erica ar borea. Our "briar” is only a corruption of the French "bruyere." Begun in the 1 yreneese, sixty years ago, the briar root industry traveled along the French Riviera to the Tuscan Maremma, until it3 most flourishing centre is now Calabra. Leg horn has always been the center of the export of Tuscan briar root, but as the South Italian briar is of superior quality a large quantity of the Calabran root is also imported Into Leghorn for selection and subsequent export. Roots, which In some cases are of a circumference of two feet, are cut into blocks and then boiled The blocks will split if there ore any de fects iu the roots which hove not been discovered before the boiling process. Tin. blocks come to the manufacturers of pipe: In three shapes—the Marsellatse, "releve” and Belgian. From the first are cut the bulldog pipes and from the second the longing pipes. Belgian blocks, for which thue is little demand, are fashioned into Pdes which have bowl and stem at an obtuse angle. —A newspaper of Mayence, Germany, having recently declared that American cloverseed is full of pernicious weed seeds, the department of agriculture makes the following reply; "The charte that American cloverseed is impure Is very rarely made by European dealers or ex periment station workers of repute. On the contrary, the fact that American clov erseed is very pure and of excellent ger minating quality has been recognized even by those who oppose its use by Eu ropean farmers. Among the seed control workers in Europe. Nobbe, Eldam and Klrohner have given testimony to the high purity of American cloverseed, although the two latter have been hostile to live American seed. Very lltt'e European clov ers-d finds its way to America, and it is thus imposslb'e to make a definite state ment of its purity as the result of our own investlgaiions. However, the depart ment of agriculture secured this sp;ing twenty samples of European cloverseed for expfrimental purposes, The average purity of these was 93.49 per cent. The average purity of 160 samples of American cloverseed of all grades sold on the Amer ican market during the last winter was 96 5 per cent.” —The return of so many wounded sol diers from South Africa to Great Britain has taxed the local hospitals to the ut most, so that all sorts of emergency homes must be provided for the Rick. The oddest of all Is "a paper hospital” in the suburbs. Not far from London, at Netley, Is to be found a whole paper city Wilh a population of 600 men—all in a pa per wrapping. This paper city is the con valescent branch of the .Netley hosital, and the material of which It Is built is papier mache. It Is anew Idea for a hospital hut. There are forty-five of these hula be hind the red brick hospital building, and in each of them are ten men, who, as a rule, spend a fortnight in the paper city. The houses of this city are glistening, white, lean, long and business-like. At the end, and so that there may be a curtain at the doorway and no draft. Is a bulging porch. Fluttering from each of the win dows is a scarlet curtain to glvs a touch of color to the white landscape. Inside the papier mache buildings It Is all quietude and comfort. Each building Is *6 feet long. Ranged along the length are ten beds with easy spring mattresses that can allow for the toesing of a man still In pain, even ir he ta convalescent. Beside each bed |s room for the necessary kit, and at one aide of the hut ts the wooden meet table. Jos. A. Magnus & Cos., CINCINNATI, O. 8.. T. 81. Of HOPE in AND C 8 S. n SCHEDULE For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder bolt, Cattle Park aiiri West End Daily except Sundays. Subject to change without notice. ISLEOF HOPE. Lv. City for I. of H.| Lv. isle of Hope. 6HO am from Tenth | 600 am for Bolton" 730 am from Tenth j 600 am for Tenth 839 am from Tenth 700 am for Tenth 9 15 am from Bolton j 8 00 am for Tenth 10 30 am from Tenth jlO 00 am for Tenth 12 00 n'n front Tenth |ll in am for Bolton 1 lo pm from Holton ill 30 am for Tenth 230 pm from Tenth j 200 pm for Tenth 330 pm front Tenth | 240 pm for Bolton 4 30 pm from Tenth 4 3 00 pm for Tenth SSO pm from Tenth j I 00 pm for Tenth S3O pm from Tenth j 600 pm for Tenth 730 pm from Tenth | 700 pm for Tenth 530 pm from Tenth | 8 CO pm for Tenth 930 pm from Tenth | 900 pm for Tenth 10 30 pm from Tenth iIOOO pm for Tenth |ll 00 pm for Tenth _ MONTGOMERY. - Lv city for Mong'ry. | Lv, Montgomery 830 am from Tenth | 7 15 am for Tenth’ 2 30 pm from Tenth | 1 15 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth | 600 pm for Tenth CATTLE PARK. Lv city for Cat.Park] Lv. Cat tie~Park~ 6 30 dm from Bolton | 7 00 am for Bolton 7 30 am from Bolton j 8 00 am for Bolton 100 pm from Bolton | 1 30 pm for Bolton 2 30 pm from Bolton | 3 00 pm for Bolton 7 00 pm from Bolton | 7 30 pm for Bolton S 00 pm from Bolton | 8 30 pm for Bolton THUNDERBOLT. Car leaves Bolton street junction 530 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 passengers 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 minutes 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. 11. M. LOFTON. Gen. Mgr. SUMMER RESORTS. TIOTEL NORRstANDIeT BKOADUAi & 38TH STS., NEW PORK. 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. BLOWING ROCK. GREEN PARK HOTEL Summu of liiue Kitlge, leei. Scen ery and climate unsurpassed, so say globe trotters. Hotel first-class in every respect. Only house on mountain with plastered walls; excellent livery; 45 miles turnpike roads on top of ridge; large ball room, band and other amusements. Postofflce and telegraph in hotel. Opens July 1. Write for leaflet and rates to Green Park Hotel Cos., Green Park, N. C. White Sulphur Springs Hotel, WAYNESVILLE, X. C. 50 acres beautifully shaded lawn, wonder ful mountain views, cool nights, freestone iron and noted sulphur springs. Fine or chestra daily. House remodeled and newly furnished this season. COL. F. A. LINCOLN, Proprietor. Greenbrier White Sulphur Spring*, Went Virginia. Representative resort of the South. Open June 15. $40,000 in improvements. New sewerage, plumbing, lights, private baths and toilets. Orchestra of 16 pieces. Fam ous Sulphur baths. New 9-hole golf course, 2,700 yards. Professional in charge. Write for illustrated booklet. HARRING TON MILLS, Manager. Hotel American-Adelphi. Fluent Location in SARATOGA SPRINGS. Near Mineral Spring, and Bath., OPEN JUNE TO NOVEMBER. ROOMS EN SUITE, WITH BATHS. GEO. A. FAKMIAM, Prop. IN THE COOL MOUNTAINS., The Swannanoa iioiei. Asnevil.e, N. C. Under new management. A high class family and commercial hotel, with table of superior excellence. Casino, music and dancing. Centrally located; good beda; cool rooms; rates moderate. Write to BRANCH & YOUNG, Proprietors. LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN HOUSE. Location beautiful und sanitary. Hotel comfortable and homelike. Rates from $7.00 to SIO.OO per week. MRS. GEO. E. PURVIS. Lookout Mountain, Tnn. CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE. July dally rate Vi- Unsurpassed scen ery. Railway fare reduced. Stations, Otis Summit and Kaaterskill. CHAS. & GEO. H. BEACH Mgrs., Cataklll, N. Y. SEA GIRT, NEXV JERSEY'. Beach House, right on the beach. Al ways cool. Fine accommodations. Dining room service first-class. Rates reasons, ble. Send for booklet. Sea Girt is the first stop made on the coast by exp:eeS trains from Philadelphia to Asbury l ark and Long Branch. COAST COMPANY. GRAND ATLANTIC HOTEL, Virginia ave and Beach,Atlantic Clty.N.J. Sth year. Most central location; highest elevation, overlooking ocean; 350 beautiful rooms, many with baths. The terms are reasonable. Write for booklet. Hotel coach es meet all trains. CHARLES E. COPE. M Morphine and Whiskey hab its treated without pair or confinement. Cure guaran teed or qp pay. B. H. VEAL, Man'gr Lithla Springs San itarium. Box 8. Austell, Gs.