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JAGS THAT MAKE MANIACS. OOD ALCOHOL A DRINK POPFLAR IN PENNSYLVANIA WOODS. It Is Meaner in Its Effect* Thnn Con necticut Hard Cider—Chinese Said Slrong and Maddening—Palqae and Bay Rnm Drunks— A Cinnamon Drunk Said to Be the Worst. From the New York Sun. The difference between civilized and uncivilised man,” said the Major; looking lovingly into his glass, ”is seen nowhere more clearly than in the matter of drinks. The follower of civilization drinks for the flavor, as an offering to his refined sense of taste, and the effect is a side issue, a very undesirable side is e, I may say, occasionally. The man V ho is beyond the confines of civilization (Finks for the effect purely and drinks savagely until he gets it.” How does that distinction work in the case of the confirmed inebriate?" asked the lawyer. “He isn’t likely to care much what he swallows provided he can get properly drunk on it.” Proves my point,” replied the Major. •'A confirmed inebriate isn't within the pale of civilization; hardly within the pale of humanity, in fact. The noble red man of the plains, with whom I have had some experience,” here the Major rubbed an arm which has never been quite so good as new since a Sioux arrow broke against the bone, "is a confirmed inebri ate by nature and also in practice when ever he can get hold of the material to confirm himself. Like an ex-civilized dip somaniac in the last stages, he would pre fer a pint of cheap, raw new whisky to the choicest vintages to be found in the cellars of this club.” And he would probably make less trou ble end fuss by the quicker process of his Cheap whisky.” suggested the doctor, who has had opportunities to study the liquor habit, “Well, he misses the intermediate stages, of course,” said (he Major. "Still, a big buck with hie skin full of alco holic poison isn’t as pleasant a man to meet as a friend who is looking for you to pay up his last night's losses.” “I agree with the doctor's general proposition," put in the railroad man. "The longer it takes a man to accumulate I a hard case of jag, the worse it is for those around him. The meanest jags I have over seen, are those acquired on hard cider, and I’ve seen plenty of them up in Connecticut, where they don’t drink much nf anything else. You never can tell Just what notion a hard cider case is going to take into his head, but on general prin- I ciples it’s safe to assume that he’s go ing to try to murder somebody before he’s through. It’s a slow jag and a mean one.” “If it’s any meaner than a cheap alcohol performance I don’t want to see it,” seid a young broker who had strolled into the circle. "I ran into that experience last fall up In the wilds of Canada where I fell in with a camp of Frenchmen who were getting logs down the river. One of them came back from the nearest town with a bottle of raw alcohol, and he and his pal diluted i! with water and filled up on it. They were both lit tie men, but they cleaned out the camp in a shake end for five minutes they did a devil’s dance around the place I wouldn't care to see repeated.. Then both of them col lapsed in o heap and it was a job to save their lives." Must be something like wood alcohol,” remarked the lawyer. "That'S the great drink in the Pennsylvania woodland dis tricts where they have the acid factories. One good-sized drink of wood alcohol would, I suppose, lay out any of us cold.” The doctor nodded. "Those fellows down there go on regular bats on that poison, and they get so that regular whisk isn't atrong enough for them. A wood alcohol drunk Is a pretty dubious proposition. He's likely to be weeping on your neck ar.d telling you his troubles one minute, snd the next he'll have a knife between vonr ribs. It's rather a slow process for those felolws who are pickled in the stuff, and you can always tell a man who has the habit by a curious shiny appearance of the skin about the eyes and a drawn expression of the face as if his ektn were too tight for him.” It kills in time." said the doctor. "Methyl alcohol isn't good for the -human Interior. I've seen much the same symp toms In my practice here, though from a different variety of stimulant. That's bay rum.” “Come, come,” exclaimed the Major, "you don’t mean to tell us that any sane person drinks bay rum?” "I wouldn’t swear to the sane part of It,” answered the doctor. ”It depends what your definition of sanity is; but I've had more patients than I can stop to reckon up here, who had the hay rum habii. All women, and all refin-d wo men. It isn’t a pleasant feature of my practice,” added the physician with a wry face. "I saw a man go under one from this Chinese staff, saki,” said the man-about town. “He had a curiosity to try it, and as he had a copper-lined stomach and a bre-proof head, he was sure that he could keep pace with the Chinamen who were hitting it up in the Mott street restaurant where he went. After about three whacks at it my friend decided that he was Joss and tried to do a ceremonial dance with one of the big dragons paint ed on the wall. The Chinamen, who had drunk three to his one, very kindly help ed me to get him out of the place, and strongly advised me against running him up against that variety of rum again. 'No plitty good for Mellcan man,’ they said, and I guess they were right.’’ Foreign concoctions are the deuce and til for a white man.” agreed the globe trotter. "I tackled pulque once down in •Mexico, and though I didn’t take as much as the average Greaser would consider a fair starter for a day's work, it put me out of business for nearly a week. Asa friend ihat eticketh faster than a brother, 'hut stuff heats anything I know of. But after all, for pure frenzy there's nothing like the religious drunk of the Mohamme -1 'an In India. I don’t know what liquor they mix their religion with, but it seems to he something mighty powerful and when a batch of them breaks loose and heads for paradise, any stranger within their gates wants to climb a tree and Veil for the police. In the course of my wanderings I’ve seen pretty much • verything in that line, but the fanatical l a S Is by far the worst I’ve seen yet, and 1 guess I’ve encountered at least one case of every kind there is going, except the doctor's hay rum.” "Did any one of you ever happrn to run a ‘ i ?s a cinnamon drunk?" asked a young 'nil engineer who had been listening to ■he talk. p tn't say I ever did.” replied the globe mwet, suspiciously. "Must be something ',* * orgy, isn’t It?” Not just exactly," said the civil engl ser. "It's „ ot mild as it sounds, it has this peculiarity, that a man ' er gets drunk on cinnamon more than one®,** Ms ta*t* f (>r itr* askel the Major. yes. In .1 replied the oth ' and for *i*e. There’s al vavs a funeral after a JnnAinon drunk. J J* s n mild drunk only iv* celebrartors a,v hurled; quite often, howevtw om* of r "tr friend* aro planted with tIK-n.” Somebody ha* been putting up a K-mo 0,1 you,” ald the doctor. “A man can l P*t drunk on cinnamon.” he?” said the civil engineer qulet . you call h drunk if you f|,,r ‘ t want to. Perhaps It’s *i form of ma * ’: hut the elnar.mon is the agency. No .'"‘ v but up a game on me. because T 'bpened to see a case of it myself laet summer and it wasn’t by any means an fx?r aordlnery case either. I was doing * u keying down In the forest region Virginia and had gx>t out of my reckoning when I ran across a bridle path that took me to a lumber camp. It was the Fourth of July and nobody was work ing, but I could eee the minute I got there that something was wrong and everybody was worried. The superintendent of the camp told me I was very welcome if I wanted to stay, but that there was likely to be trouble before the day was over, be cause the camp store had been broken in to the night before and the supply of cin namon extract had ben stolen. Nothing else had been taken* so they knew that some of the hoys were out for a cinnamon drunk. Two of the biggest and best lum bermen in camp were missing and when they came back it would be a case of look out. “ ‘I can’t get in into my head what they do it for.' said the superintendent. We've had a dozen cases in this region in a couple of years, and the men know it's sure death, but every now and then some of 'em break lose. Jed and Horace are sure to be back by evening and I’d advise you to go down to the river and fish till then. There's mighty good bass fishing there and if you *tay here, you’re liable to see things that’ll make you sorry you came.’ “I’d heard about the cinnamon drunk before, and I made up my mind that as long as there was one on I’d see it. Be sides from having to be so much in the wilds I’d learned a little about medical practice, and I thought I might be of some use. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon, when the thermometer might have been somewhere about 100. there was a roaring from back of the camp, and everybody said, ‘Here they come.' A couple of min utes later two of the most terrific crea tures I ever laid eyes on burst out of ihe underbrush. Both were big men. over six feet tall, and both were stark naked end bleeding from hundreds of scratches where they bad plunged through wild blackberry patches. One of them bradished an ax and the other had a small log which he handled as if it were a feather. As they came into the clearing they let out anoth er roar, and I give you my word there was nothing human In it. Those lumbermen are pretty tough specimens, and it isn’t easy to scare them, but the whole crowd broke and ran for the thickest of the cover when those madmen hove into view-, ex cept the superintendent and myself. I sup pose the reason I stood my ground wis that I was too amazed and paralyzed to start. The superintendent felt that ns cap tain of the outfit he had to stay; so he Just drew his revolver and waited. The man with the axe made straight for me. I thought was murder, sure and I Jumped for a tree to dodge around it, but the man never changed his course, and then I saw* that his eyes were set and he probably didn't notice me or anything else. Have any of you ever seen a rabid dog run? Well, this man ran just like a rabid dog. He wasn’t after anything In particuolr, but if anything got in his way it all day with it. Three times he rushed around that clearing bellowing and then w’ent down in a heap. ‘‘Meantime the- other man was pursuing an entirely different course. With his club held up he went sneaking along by the big shack where the men slept, as. if he were looking for something. All of a sud den he swung the great piece of wood back, rushed toward the front wall and let the thing go like a battering ram. It went clear through the wall, as if the house were built of paper. Then the cin namon drunk turned and rushed back across the clearing with the speed of an express train. Both the superintendent and I yelled at him. for we saw what was go ing to happen, but you might as well have called to a mad bull. He went headfore most into a big oak tree and fell dead. I suppose his neck was broken. I went over to attend to the first man. who was lying face downward and breathing heavily. His face was streaked and blotched with pur ple and red. and you oould hardly see his eye*. I started in ’to do what I could, while the superintendent blew the horn to let the other men know’ it was all over. " ‘There’s no use you’re trying to help him.’ said he. 'He'll be dead in on hour.* “And he was. He died with his eyes open, rigid, like a man in convulsions. Thera were other details just before the end that I have since been industriously trying to forget—they were such that some of the men lay down and cried, and others begged the superintendent to shoot the sufferer and put him out of h!s agony. When I got biuk to the nearest city, some forty miles away, I saw a paragraph in j the local paper headed. ‘‘Two More Dead :of Cinnamon.’ If any skeptic.” he conrlu ! .led, lookin'* at the doctor, “doubts the factr* I have got the clipping with some I other clippings on the same subject at I home.” 1 “It is up to me," admitted the doctor. “GkntiemM), in ordering kindly confine yourselves to the beverages of clviliza | don.” JI STIC K bOXG DELAYED. A Thief Who, Djing, lUflrhted a Great Wrong. From the Washington Star. “The wind-up of as queer a piece of work as ever I heard of came a couple of weeks ago In my town, when ft well known crook was accidentally shot by an officer, w'ho was resisting a crowd of street car strikers, and died in the hospital, aft er telling his story.” said a St. Louis de tective who was in Washington on a still hunt last week. “The Job began eight years ago. and it got a perfectly innocent woman into two years of that .sort of trouble which consists in wearing a gray (Whs the shape of a gunnysack and of £Ol. T |Q <*ieepnt night behind iwo-lnch Iron bars. rn have to take you to the be -1 ginning o; *.♦ to give you the connection. | “One summer ufirrnoon. about eight j year* ago, a truck *rove up in front of a j swell St. Louis hou** t not far from Rhaw's Gardens, and one %f the three men in the truck walked up the steps and pulled the bell. The only person who hapepned to be In the house, was tu maid THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. JULY 1900. of the lady of the. house. It was an aft ernoon off for the other servants, and the mistress of the household was down town on a shopping expedition. “ Here’s that sofa,’ said the man who pulled the door bell. “ ‘My mistress didn’t tell me she was ex pecting any sofe,’ said the young woman to the man. in some surprise. ” ‘Well, it must ha’ been ordered—here’s the name and address,’ said the man oil the steps, producing a card. The card was all right, and it showed that the sofa, or rather, the box-couch, as it proved to be, had been ordered from a well-known St. Louis furniture establishment. "The maid was in a quandary as to tvhere she should have the couch placed, the establishment being already pretty well stocked with articles of furniture of that sort, but she finally directed the three men to carry it to the second floor and place it in one of the bedrooms. The men deposited the box-couch according to the mold s directions, and went their way. The maid went to her room on the third floor to do some sewing for herself, and a couple of hours later the mistress of the establishment returned. The mistress of the establishment hadn’t been in hep room two minutes before she discovered that she was out Just $6,000 worth of dia monds. The jewels had been left by her in a jewel box in a bureau drawer, where she had seer, them only a few moments before leaving Ihe hpus-e on her shopping expedition, but when she opened the bu reau drawer upon her return the hox was gone. The mistress of the establish ment made careful search of the room, and of the adjoining room, before she summoned the maid. Then she rang for the maid and cross-examined her with reference to her visitors during the af ternoon. The maid told the mistress that the three men with the box-couch had been the only visitors, and showed her mistress the box-couch. The mistress at once said that she hadn’t ordered any box-couch, and accused her maid of be ing in cahoots with the three men who had brought it. declaring that the maid had arranged for them to bring the couch in order to divert suspicion from herself. The girl cried and protested and went or. her knees, but the mistress of the es tablishment was convinced that the maid was the thief, or at least the accomplice of the thieves, and she locked the doors and declared that when her husband re turned from his office she would have the girl arrested. She did summon a couple of men from the St. Louis Central office when her husband returned from busi ness and announced his belief, too, that the girl was either crooked herself or In league with crooks, and the detectives gathered the girl in. They investigated her, and they found that she had a first cousin who was a weii-known sretk ihief. They fail'd to find that the girl had ever had anything to do with the crook, but the mere fact that she had such a relative was enough, and when the girl was tried for the theft of the jewels it was the biggest point against h-r. The chief tried to put Ihe girl through the third degree, but she stuck to her assertion that she was innocent, in the face of all suts of premises of lighter punlshmtnt if ?he would own up and make seme sort of a statement that would give a line as to where the jewels could be recovered. The nerve with which she stuck to her assertion that ehe was inno cent got a lot of her questioners going, but she was convi-ted of grand larceny, anyhow, and sent away for two years. “The girl didn't get any good time for good behavior, for she became thoroughly hardened over what she railed the injus tice cf her conviction, and she cut up so' in prison that she had to do her entire two years. She came out of prison a pretty sore woman, and a pretty hard one. and for a couple of . years she went a pretty craggy course—the central office people bad thetr eyes on her all the time. She didn't do anything to get herself behind the fa's again, for all that she was often preity close to It. Well, some good women of St. Louis came along and took an in terest In ihe girl, who had a lot of good traits that they saw, and the built her up. They look care of her while she was studying to be a trained nurse, and a cou ple of years ago they go; a fine position for her as <ne of the trained nurses in a leading St. Louis hospital. “Well, a couple of week ago a sneak thief well known to the, S. Louis po lice happened to get mixed up with a bunch of street car strikers who were at tacking a car, and when one of the offi cers on the car blazed away into the crowd this crook got a bullet In his stom ach. He was taken to the hospital in this young woman I'm telling you about* was a trained nurse, and as soon as the surgeons looked him over they told him he was a goner. The man was per fectly conscious and pretty debonair at that for a chap so near the hlg divide, and when the consultation of doctors around his bunk was over and he saw a white-capped nurse sitting by his side, he gave a bit of a start when ho examined her features. Ho looked at her Intently for a while and then he asked her to bend close to him. fey his voice wasn’t partic ularly strong. He (hen asked her If she hadn't done her little two-year bit on the charge of lifting. She frankly told him that she had, and then he said to her: " 'Well, I'm glad I’ve run Into you be fore going into the discard. I got you those two years, and I always meant to square you some time, but they’ve watched me so clftse that I never had a show It was me that made you do the lime.’ "Then he told her how the Job had been cooked up, and how he was Inside ihe box couch on the afternoon when it was deposited in the bedroom on the second floor of her mistress' establishment —how nir holes hnd been duly bored In the thing so that he wouldn’t smother—and l how, when the young woman had gone up stairs to do her sewing, he had lifted the lid of the box couch, done his little 56.000 worth of rummaging and tiptoed down stairs and out the basement door. The nurse called the superintendent of the hospital, who knew ber slocy, to Itst- an to the crook'* statement and take It down when the man repeated ft with hf dying breath. A copy of the dying crook’* confession has been filed with the papers in connection with the yoimg wotnan'e trial and conviction, and any time #he wants a home and the beat roing with the mistress who helped to swear her Into state prison on circumstantial evi dence. all she has to do 1* to say the word.” OFFICERS ARE WELL PAID. I’ncle Slam I* One of the Afont Liberal of Paymaster*. From the Pittsburg Poet. The movement on foot to increase the President's salary bring* to lig*ht the fact that, though he undoubtedly needs more money, he is one of the best paid of all the executives in the world, sensational rumors to the contrary notwithstanding. The salary was purposely made small in George Washington s time at the tion of the revered father of his country, for Washington felt that the. money ought not to be sufficient to make the office a desirable one from a moneyed standpoint; so he took particular care to see that Lie sum was placed so low that no desirable man would forsake a position of high standing for that of tho executive office. Now tt is $50,000 a year, and that sum for four year® sound* very fine. And fine it would be if the President could spend it in his own way or save it et will. Could President McKinley live in his little house in Canton and receive his pay as President of nearly SI,OOO a week he would soon find himself able to amass a fortune in a short time. If he were frugally inclined he could live on $1 000 a year and save $40,000. the remainder. President’* Expenses Heavy. Unfortunately, however, from the stand point of his pocket, the President can do nothing of the Fort. He must live in Washington; and he must reside in the mansion which the government provides for him. Some money is given to him for such necessary servants as are daily used in the interests of the government, but this is little. It must be remembered that the White Houoe is also the President's official place oi business, and here the offices must he maintained and the tick ers telephones nnd messengers may be used at all hours of the day and ntgnt. It is asserted by those who hav*> been in the Pr s'dent's hoots that it takes every cent j aid by the government to maintain the 6tyle necessary for ihe White House. The calls and dinners of state and court esy, outside of the diplomatic d’nners, are so numerous and of such importance that the Presi J ent's income melts away Ike wine before the corkscrew’. The mere mat ter of providing the diplomats wdfh drink, worthy of their taste. Is a serious one; not to more thzn hint at a great number of foreign visitors who must be entertain ed. Fancy the calls upon the President's purse in social and other ways, and then you can get some faint idea of the ex penditure to which he Is compelled to go Besides this point there is another that is even more w’orthy of consld ration. It is seldom that a retiring Pres'dent has money enough to live upon; and th*> na tion is treated to the spectacle of an ex- Pr®s!drnt hard at work in an office, when honor fhould seem to demand that he be kept In comfort tl e rest of his life. Other !\ationn Pny Metier. Yet fxeciitives of ether countries are not so very well paid. An exhaustive ex amination has been made of the political i ay rolls of the civilized world, with ihe following interesting results: So far as payment in hard cash go, the brawny burghers of the Tiansvaa.l are decidedly the bert off. Quite recently the Boer Parliament increased the salaries of its members to JG.CtK) a year for each individual, as they can very easily afford to do, when one' remembers the Mg tax rolls which the unfranchlsed uitland*rs are compelled to pay. But in actual emol uments the United States Senator proba bly receives a better reward. He Is allow *l m leage and nunv rous minor fees and privileges wh ch swell his annaul income materially over Its nominal $o.O 0. Grebt Britain, as every student knows gives her members of f’ariiement no sal ary, although the government officials for the time being are royally paid. The first lord of the ireaeury receives $25,000, as also do the foreign, home, colonial, Indian and war secretaries. The lord chancellor receives $50,000 per annum. But for he M. P. who does not hold office there Is naught save honor. Even the old privi leges of not being liable to arreat for debt while on M. P. has been nhollshed. The British colonies, however, do not follow the example of the mother coun try. New* South Wales and Victoria allow’ their M. P.'s $1,500 per annum, Canada and South Australia SI,OOO, with an addi tional mileage rate for the former, and Queensland $750, with mileage. New Zea land representatives get $1,200. France gives it* senators and deputies H.SOn, but there is a “string” to this sal ary. which might be tied elsewhere—ln Vl enn.d. for instance, with good effects. Any member who is twice called to order dur ing a sitting forfeits half his salary for two weeks. Cases exist whore certain fiery French deputies have lost their en tire year’s allowance in this manner. Some Niggardly A I limn nee*. Belgium, while It grants members of the representatives’ chamber SBOO a year ancF passes on the railroads, curiously enough makes its senaiors work for noth ing and pay their own traveling expenses. In the realms of the little Queen of Hol land members of the upper house are paid a sum equal to about $4 per diem for eacn session, but since they only meet on thir ty or thirty-two days of the year they can scarcely be said to clear much. Jn the s cond chamber SB3O pr annum, with a travel ng grant of Just over a shilling for every hour spent on the railroad, are the allowance. Absentee Dutch law-giv ers forfeit their salary, whether their ab sence was caused by illness or not. The new Japanese parliamentary consti tution compels each and every number of the national parliament o draw annually from the treasury about $175. All member* of the aristocratic clashes refusing to ac cept this salary, through pride or other reasons. Is subject to fine and dismissal, by the parliamentary rules of IKK). Por ugal is niggardly with Its represen tatives. giving them only $320, and Norway pays members from $350 to S4OO, according to the length of the session. In Sweden numbers of the u: p"*r house *rve absolutely for patriotism, wh le the lower chamber members are given only $335. Moreover, $2.65 Is deducted for non attendance. Even the unpaid house is fined for absenteeism, although Its members get. nothing—not even train fares. The Greek law-giver is a ?3f.0 yer annum man, with additions for overtime work (*uch as in the recent war). It was re renily suggested that these salaries should be slightly “docked,” so as to help pay ihe Turkish indemnity, but the was promptly condemned. Switzerland gives her councilors something less than $5 a w'e*k, with about 40 cents a day for traveling expenses. —Mrs. C. J. Armstrong of Pklsburg, witnessed the McOovern-Erne fight at Madison Square Gnrden. She was ac* '•ompaniod by her huaband and wore a suit of his clothes, consisting of striped trousers, black diagonal double4brea*tef| coat, outing hat and patent leather boots. Her hair waa done up high on the top c f her head. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars tho Signature of gm. THOMSON’S “Glove=Fitting” Corset require no “breaking In.” The seams At so accurately over the MSS*. lines of the body that you do not realize you have changed the * old cersst for the new. g. Turn them over and see how they*re made AIL seams run around the body. HrU 1 * \vv ! I This picture showa 1 our Venti,atin 2 c ° rset ’ IB** 1 ‘ (Trads-MarU made of Im '■n'nralji tj I porte.l nattin*. strlprefi with couth, and I >■': trimmed with lace and baliy ribbon $lO9 - A'Vil il iHa 1■ •’ ‘illwMi’l LJffht as a feather. yt strong as the strongest. Handsome Illustrated cata- Ouo.C.Batcbeller &C0.,345 Broadwgy.N.Y. For sale by all leading; dry goods stores. WALSH 6c MEYER, 1-4 Broughton, West. LADIES’ FURNISHINGS. Something Worth Talking About Our Shirt Waist Sals! And w*> are going to back this talk up with facts this week. i, ! f White Lawn Shirt Waists, with inserting, 50 cent*. ,j i ♦IHjiU.. This season’s Waists, our $1.50 waist*, going at 50 cents. jjjjl Good value in White Pique, 15 cents. The latest, noveliies in Ladies’ Collar* One lot of Ribbons, 9 to 22 Inches, 9c per yard. NOUNS LIKE IT! There is nothing on earth to equal “Infants’ Friend Powder.” Where it has been tried it has taken the place of all other preparations for the face, prickly heat, and a thousand and one uses to which ladies put it. The baby needs nothing else. Try nothing else for it. READ THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS Rowllnski, Pharmacist, Broughton and Drayton Sts., Savannah, Ga. July 5, 1900. Columbia Drug Cos., Savannah, Ga: Dear Sirs—Please send me half gross Infants’ Friend Powder. I have sold It for tome years and it has been a good seller-give wntisfaction; package unique, and from personal use I can recommend It highly for chafing and prickly heat. Youre truly, ROBT. A. ROWLINSKI. This Is unsolicited. FIRE PROOF SAFES. We carry the only line of Fire Proof Safes that are for sale in the State. We have a stock of all sizes and a visit to our establishment is cordially invited. To be prepared in time of peace is our motto. Get a good Fire Proof Safe and you will never regret the invest ment. Do not buy a second-hand safe unless you know it has never been in a fire. We will sell you Iron Safes as low as the factory will, with freight added. LI PPM AN BROTHERS, Wholesale Drngffists and Wholesale Agents Fire Proof Safes. COMFORT IN HOT WEATHER. A Phyalclan’a Way of Taking a Hath by Which He KcFpa Cool. From the New York Sun. A* wton an the hot- weather begins toget in its serious work people of all degrees of competence and incompetence to speak on the question proceed to formulate and communicate recipes for the avoidance of sunstroke. So numerous are those recipes that if a man attempted to follow out one tenth of them he wouldn’t have time to do anything else. Ail the efforts of these altruistic adviaers feem. however, to te late to the saving of life; none of them considers the subject of comfort, without which life ooon ceases to be worth living. For the benefit of such persona as greatly desire to keep cool—and this category In cludes! probably an overwhelming majority of the adult population—a well-known physician, who Is himself a man of ex jtenalvo adiposity and therefore subject to suffering from high temperatures, has for mulated a simple plan which is within the reach of any person having access to a bathtub. “This is a method that I have been try ing on myself with great success for three yearn now." he says. "It begins In the bathtub and ends in the bathtub. There's nothing else to It except a towel. A great many persons advocate tepid baths in hot weather on the ground that a cold bath produce* a reaction that heats one up rapidly afterward. Well, I've got noth ing to say against the tepid bath treat ment. For a person who has a weak heart or who is not constitutionally sound it s an excellent thing, but for a robust man the cold hath I* better when taken in the right way. “The popular shower hath la a fallacy so far as he-lplng one to keep cool is con cerned, for five minutes after you are dry your skin Is in a glow. The thing to do Is to fill your bathtub up with cold water, get Into it, and lie perfectly still for ev erol minutes. To with, three or four minutes will he as long a* you will want to stay; later you will find yourslt re. malnlng for eight or ten minutes. “When you are thoroughly chilled through and your skin la cool all over It is time to get out. Now come* the Import ant part. Most people think they must ecrub themselves furiously dry with a crash towel. That Is all wrong, it sim ply sets up action of the pores, and there you ere perspiring again. The proper way Is to press off the drops that adher- and do the rest by fanning yourself with the towel. Then get Into your clothes In a leisurely manner, and you will find that for three or four hours thereafter you will be cool and comfortable though all ceallon around you Is melting its collar. , “Take a bath like this Just before brealp fast, and if you pomdbly can, another ,n The Constitution. Atlanta, Ga. Woman's Department, Mrs Wm. King, Editor. 480 Courtland avenue, Atlanta. Oa . April 26. 1900. Columbia Drug Cos.. Savannah, Ga.: Gentlemen—lt gives me pleasure to heartily recommend Infants' Friend Powder, and to give to you a singu lar little coincident connected with it. During the Cotton States and In ternational Exposition I was presen ted with a little box of this powder, and was so piaaoed with It that I was exceedingly anxious to get more, but on looking at the box I found nothing but Savannah, Ga., no other addresa. I have often wtshfd I knew where to get It. This morning's mall brought your circular with en closed sample I immediately re ferred to my box. and found it was the Infants’ Friend Fowder. It ts without doubt the best powder I have ever used. Respectfully, MRS WM KING. the middle of the afternoon, when the temperature is highest, and you will find the mtsertee of city life in the heated spell o mitigated that you will forget all about them. I first tried this two years ago. when that terrific hot Hpell hit the city early In August, and, though I had to be in the city throughout the heat. I got through It well and almost comfort ably. But It must be remembered that this treatment Isn't for Invalids or people with weak lungs or hearts. I don't want to be responalble for deaths hy heart disease and pneumonia. The safe thing to do Is to ask your family physician whether you are hardy enough to stand such a course before you begin.” Japan Hat Never Lost n Ship. From the London Times. Since Japan's national navy began to be formed thirty years ago they have not lost a single ship owing to faulty seamanship. One vessel, a cruiser built in France, dis appeared on her way out from Europe, while still In the hands of Ihe French, and one, a gunboat, sank by collision with a foreign steamer In circumstances that did not convict the Japanese of any fault. With these exceptions, there has been complete immunity from serious accident, a remarkable record when we remember that. during more than two centuries im mediately anterior to the Meijt era, tho law interdicted the construction of sea going ships and Japanese sailors could not acquire any knowledge of navigation beyond what was furnished by coastwise voyages In small junfcs. *No edticstion could have been less ser viceable for the purpose of modern sea manship, and, when the admiralty In To klo sent Japanese officers and crews lo Europe to bring out line-nf-battle ships and first-class cruiser*, the proceeding seemed rash, if not reckless, to those who knew something of the qualities required for commanding these huge vessels. Nev ertheless. the results have hitherto fully justified the Japanese admiralty's confi dence In Its officers, and the recent naval maneuvers furnish an additional evidence: for certainly It stands to the no smaii credit of the Japanese navy that absolute freedom from mtshap should have marked these Intricate evolutions performed by two squadrons, aggregating fifty ships, during a space of ns many days. There can be no doubt aliout Japan's position now as a maritime power, in the Orient at all evants. Never before under any flag has such a fleet aseembled In Eastern waters as that reviewed by the Mikado on Aon! n —Free lectures given under the auspices of the New York City Department of Ed ucation show sn Increase In attendance of 18,673 during the last winter and spring, as compared with the same ocrinri of a year before. Ocean Siewiilp Cos. —FOR— IMew York, Boston -AND- j J THE EAST. Unsurpassed cabin accommodations. All the comforts of a modern hotel. Electrio lights. Unexcelled table. Tickets tncluda meals and bertha aboard ship. Passenger Fares Jrom Savannah. TO NEW YORK—FinST CABIN. S2O; FIRST CABIN ROCND TRIP, $32; IN TERMEDIATE CABIN, sls; INTERME DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP. $24. STKKRAOE, sl9. TO BOSTON - FIRST CABIN. $22; FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP. $3. IN TERMEDIATE CABIN, sl7; INTERME DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP. UtX>. STEERAGE, $11.75. The .xprpss steamrhlps of this !tn are appointed to sail from Savannah, Centrel (90th) meridian time, as follow*; SAVANNAH TO ISKW YORK. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Cpt. Bur*, FRIDAY, July 27, at 5:00 a. m. TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Asktns, SATUR. DAY. July 2S, at 6:00 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. MONDAY, July 30, at 7:00 p. m. NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith. TUESDAY, July 31, at 8;00 p. m. KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, THURS DAY, Aug. 2, 9 00 a. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Burg. SATURDAY, Aug 4. 10:00 p m. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Askins, MON DAY, Aug. 6, 1:00 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett, TUESDAY. Aug. 7, 2:00p, m. NACOOCHEE. Capt. Smith, THURS DAY. Aur. 9, 3:30 p m. KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher. SATUR. DAY, Auk. I], 5:00 p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Bun* MONDAY. Aug. 13, 7.00 p. m. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Aakina, TUES DAY, Aug. 14. 7:80 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Daggett, THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 9:00 a m. NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, SATUR DAY, Aug 18, 11:00 p. m. KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, MONDAY, Aug. 20, 1:00 p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Cgpt. Burs TUESDAY, Aug. 21. 2:00 p. m. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Askins, THURS DAY, Aug. 23, 3:30 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett, SATURDAY, Aug. 25, 5:00 p. m. NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, MONDAY, Aug. 27, 6:30 p. m. KANSAS CITY, Capt. FUher, TUES DAY, Aug. 28, 7.00 p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Burff, THURSDAY, Aug. 30, 8:00 a. m. NEW YORK TO BOSTON. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage. WED NESDAY. July 25, 12:00 noon. CITY' OF MACON, Capt. Savage. MON DAY, July 30, 12:00 noon. CITY’. OF MACON, Capt. Savae, FRI DAY, Aug. 3, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, WED NESDAY' Aug. 8, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON. Cnpt. Savage, MON DAY, Aug. 13. 12:00 noon. CITY' OF MACON, Capt. Savage, FRI DAY, Aug. 17, 12:00 noon. CITY' OF MACON, Capt. Savage, WED NESDAY. Aug. 22, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MAGhN, Capt. Savage, MON DAY', Aug. 27, 12:00 noon. CITY' OF MACON, Capt. Savage. FRI DAY', Aug. 31. 12:00 noon. This company reserve* the right t change its sailing., without notice an<t without liability or accountability there for. July nailing* New York for Savannah daily except Sundays, Mondays anJ Thuredoye. 5:00 p m August sailings New York for Savannah dally except Sundays, Wednesday* an<l Friday**, 5:00 p. m. W. O. BREWER, City Ticket and Paeti enger Agent, 107 Bull ntreef. Savannah. Gn. E. W. SMITH, Contracting Fretghff Agent. Savannah. Ga. R. G. TREZEVANT, Agent, Savannah, Ga. WALTER HAWKINS. General Agent Traffic r>e*p’t, 224 W. Bay street, Jack sonville, Fla. E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager, Sa vannah, Ga. P E. LE FEY’RE, Superintendent. Neetl Pier 25. North River, New York, N Y. MERCHANTS AND MINERS TRANSPORTATION CO. iTEJMiUIP 1.1N*0.8. SAVANNAH TO 11ALTTJMORK. Tickets on ealo at company’ office# t Ihe following points at very low rate!: ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. BALTIMORE MD. BUFFALO, N. T. BOSTON. MASS. CHICAGO. ILL. CLEY7ELAND, <X ERIE, PA. HAGERBTOWN. HARRISBURG, PA. HALIFAX, N. 3. NIAGARA FALLS. NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA. PITTSBURG. PROVIDENCH. ROCHESTER. TRENTON. WILMINGTON. WASHINGTON. Flrst-claa* tickets include meal* and state room berth. Savannah to BaTlimoro. Accommodations and cuisine unequaled. Freight rapacity unlimited; careful han dling and quick dispatch. The ctcamah'.pa of thin company are pointed to Ball from Savannah to Balti more a follow* (standard ilmei: ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, THURS DAY, July 26, 4:00 p. m TEXAS, Capt. Foster, SATURDAY, July 28, 5:00 P on D. H MILLER. Capt. Petera, TUES DAY, July 31, 6:00 p. m. ITASCA, Capt. Diggs, THURSDAY, Aug. 2, 10:00 a. m. ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, SATUR DAY, Aug. 4, 11:00 a. m. TEXAS, Capt. Foster, TUESDAY, Aug. 7, 1:00 p. m. D, 11, MILLER, Capt. Petera, THURS DAY, Aug 9. 2:ff) p. m And from Baltimore Tuesdays, Thur*- days and Saturdays at 4:00 p. m. Ticket Office, 39 Bull street. NEYVCOMB COHIiN, Trav. Agent. J. J. CAROLAN, Agent, Savannah, Ga W. P. TURNER, (5. P. A. A. D STF.KIiINS. A. T. it. J. C. WHITNEY. Traffic Manager. General Offices, Baltimore, Md. FRENCH LINE. COMPAGNIE GENEiULE TKAMSAIUNTIiIIL direct LINE TO HAVRE-PARIS (Frano#) Sailing every Thursday at 10 a. m. From Pier No. 42, North River, foot Morton a LtOhamuairne ,lulv2 La Bretagne.. Aug. 1< I,'Aquitaine ...Aug. 3 La Lorraine.. Aug. tt I.a Tourulno Aug 9 IVAquitaine. Aug. 30 i'arle hotel accommodations reserved tor company's passengers upon application. General Ageucy, 32 Broadway. New York. Measrs. Wilder & Cos. COMFORT For your elock. The fly aeaaon la now oa us and the time to ua* Tough on Flies, a lotion when applied will prevent youg lior-es and cattle item being pestered Try* It and be ronvli ood. HAY, GRAIN. BRAN, COW FBBtL CHICKEN FEED, eta T. J. DAVIS, ?booe 32 Alt Bay street, wet* 7