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4 gflje IHoftting scin§. Morning; New* Building:. Savannah, Urv FRIDU, JULY 27, 1900. Registered at the Postoffice in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published even* day in the year, and is nerved to subscribers in the city, or cent by inaii, at 700 a month, $4.00 for six months, and ss.oo for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, Si..' , six mot.'hs $3.00; one year $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, SI.OO. Subscription? payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered* letter. Currency pent by mail ♦at riek ot senders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth-* ; Ss the standard of measurement. Contract ] rates and discount made known on appli- ! cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING > News to either residence or place of 1 business may be made by postal ard or j through telephone No. 210. Any irregular ity in delivery should be immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters and telegrams should he ad dressed "MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York city, 11. C. Faulkner. Manager. IKDEX 10 KEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Paints and House P.tint ing, Savannah Building 'Supply Company; Suwanee Springs. Fla ; Read Report of Dr. Cook. Bellevue Hospital. About Su wanee Springs Water; Jams at A. M. & C. W. West s. Baking Powder—-Royal Raking Powder. Insurance Statement Semi-Annual Statement of the Condition of the London Guarantee and Accident Company (Lim ited) of London. Official—Proceedings of Council. Railroad Schedule—Southern Railway. Telephones—Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company's Cable Across Sa vannah River to Hutchinson's Island. Steamship (Schedule —Merchants' and Miners’ Transportation Company. Medical—Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure; Horsford' Acid Phosphate; Bar-Ben; Hood’s Pills; Mother's Friend; Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters; Casloria; Coke Dandruff Cure; Dr. Hathaway Company. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather* The indications for Georgia to-day are for local rains; cooler on the coast; light to fresh northerly winds; and for Eastern Florida, local rains, with light to fresh southeasterly winds. James Creelman declares that "Mr. Bryan's three great attributes are deliber ation, decency and honesty." A man of ability possessing these virtues could not be out of place in the presidential chair. Lori Roberts wants more horses and mules. Horses and mules are. wanted In China. The slock raisers of Missouri and Kentucky are able to find mitigating cir cumstances in connection with the wars. The Populists of Texas are humorists. In their State Convention the other day they passed a resolution providing that, as "past experience has proved that Pop ulist platforms are tempting to Demo cratic politicians." the platform adopted should be copyrighted before the Demo cratic Convention meets on Aug. 8. During the past two years Danny Swee ney of Hazleton, Pa., aged 8, has fallen twenty-five feet from a roof, been knock ed down twice by trolley oars, run over by bicycles six times, thrown from a freight train once and knocked off the track by a yard engine once. Yet Danny Is as sound as a dollar and mischievous as a kitten. Probably Fate is reserving Danny for a case of the measles. A picturesque feature of the campaign will be a full-blooded Indian chief on the stump as a speaker. Tull Beaver, of the Comanche tribe, is a Democrat, and be proposes to dresp in the costume of bis people and take the stump for Bryan. It is probable that he will include the South in his itinerary. Tall Beaver is an educated Indian, and is regarded by his people as a marvel for his eloquence. The Union Pacific Railway has a rule which prohibits all employes from smok ing cigarettes. The rule has beetj sanc tioned hy the board of directors. George Gould is a member of that board. The other day the board held a meeting in New York, with Chairman Harriman of the executive board presiding. George Gould came in with a cigarette between his lips. "Drop that cigarette,” command ed Mr. Harriman. "I mean it," he con tinued, as Mr. Gould hesitated with a look of inquiry upon his face. "There Is an order forbidding employes of this road from smoking cigarettes," went on Mr. Harriman; "you hare sanctioned that or der, with the others of us. Y'ou are an employe, since you get $lO for attending this meeting. Cigarettes make men ‘dopey.’ Please throw your cigarette away." And Mr. Gould threw it away, and look his seat. _ The "New Man," the man in the shirt waist, it is pointed out by the New York Sun, must la* on the hither side of middle life, and must not be fat. As the average man approaches his fiftieth year he is apt to become art expansionist. In a sense; bis waist gets out of line with his chest: Then it Is better that he should be dress ed or. Impressionist lines; otherwise, keep his coat on. The Sun, by the way, ad vances for consideration the following in teresting solution of the summer costume problem: "It the coat must lie left off, it would be better probably If the shirt should be extracted wholly from the waist band of the trousers, let fall in obedience to Its natural weight and then cut, nil buttoned tip before, into the semblance of the disc irdcd coal The shirt-coat would preserve all the formality and dignity of Ibe usual dress and still compel man to wear no more thicknesses of stuff than When he is in ‘shirt sleeves.' •* XORTH CAROLINA’S SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT. Considerable feeling is being shown be tween Democrats on one side and Repub licans and Populists on the other over the slate election which occurs next Thursday in North Carolina. The Chief thing at is sue is the proposed constitutional amend ment for limiting the suffrage. The real purpose of the amt ndment is lo close the ballot box to negroes. The amendment is practically the constitutional amend ment that has been adopted in Louisiana. It prevents any one from voting who can not read and write any section of the constitution in the English language, and who has not paid his poll tax for the year j preceding the one in which he offers to register, but it permits any person who had the right to vote in any state in the Union on Jan. 1. Is>7, and any lineal de scendant of such person, to register and vote, provided he has paid his poll lax. The latter clause is called the "grand father clause*’ and is Intended to open the way for illiterate whites to vote while shutting out illiterate blacks. A letter was addressed to tho President | the other day by leading Democrats t harg ing that the United States officials were showing pernicious activity in the cam paign, and were doing all sorts of un 1 scrupulous work. From all accounts these officials have made themselves liable to dismissal. It is doubtful, however, if the President will take any steps looking to the ousting them from office. It is a matter worth noticing that the leaders of the National Republican party do not seem to be very much interested in the outcome of the election. It may be that they think the Republican party of North Carolina will fare better without the negro vote than with it. They are well aware that under existing conditions the negro vote is of no benefit to their party. The Republican party In the South does not furnish any representatives in Congress nor does it elect any of the presidential ele tors. It may be that the Republican leaders are disposed to see whether the Republican party in the South would be any better off with the negro voter eliminated. They . have been told that the South will remain sol idly Democratic just as long as the negro has the ballot in the. Southern states, but that if he should be eliminated from poli tics the chances are that there would soon be a strong Southern Republican party. In the present contest In North Carolina the Populists and the Republicans are al lies. The Democrats are opposed to them, but there are a good many white Repub licans who are going to vote the Demo cratic ticket next Thursday. They are business and professional men who are convinced that the state would be far more prosperous if the negro were shut out of politics It seems to be the very general opinion in North Carolina that the amendment will be adopted. In the event that it is, it is probable that the question of the legality of the amendment will be que tioned soon in the courts. The weak part of it is the "grandfather clause.” It looks as if that clause- were such a clear dis crimination against the negroes that the United States Supreme Court would hold the amendment invalid. However, it will be time enough to meet that question when it arises. A feature of the campaign that is at tracting very general attention is the in difference of the negroes to the result of the election. They do not seem to care whether the ballot is taken from them or not. They have made such bad use of it that it is probable that they have come to the conclusion that the loss of it would be a good thing for them, until they are better prepared for it. GOLD MINING IN GEORGIA. It would not be surprising if the output of gold in Georgia within the next ten years should amount to several millions of dollars annually. The reports which are being received from the gold bearing section in Lumpkin and White counties are of the most encouraging character. In our dispatches yesterday from Washing ton, Wilkes county, there was a statement that there had been found a gold field in Lincoln county, and that one man had been offered $280,000 for a tract of forty acres by New York parties. Lincoln anl Lumpkin counties are wide apart, indicat ing that the gold-bearing section of the state is extensive. t A large amount of money has been placed in gold mining in the Dahlonega section. And the returns, It is said, more than justify expectation. It Is reported that the Consolidated Gold Mining Com pany, which is capitalized at $5,000,000, but which has invested, so it is claimed, only about $500,000, will make this year fully $1,000.1X10. There are other companies which are doing so well that their stockholders are more than satisfied. Of course, full reliance is not to he placed on newspaper reports ns to what the mines are doing, because the news papers have to depend largely on wlnt they can pick up. Naturally the com panies which are being operated are averse to making known the details of tlirir business. If they are mak i' g money and are not seeking to dispose or stock they will maintain secrecy re specting the gold prospects. Doubtless they have their prospectors out all the time and ore keeping their discoveries to themselves. If there Is gild bearing land to he had they want it. The loss said about the output of the miner the better their chances will he for getnng gold-bearing land at a reasonable price. It b- said that some of the ore yields at Ibe rate of $18.50 per ton. That is a very large yield. Much of the ore. that is worked in Colorado does not yield over $3 per ton. If the ore in Lumpkin and White counties Is ns abundant and as rich as it is reported to be, Georgiu will soon be classed as one of the big gold producing slates. It would be interesting to know whether or not the great trust octopus is still ford ing in Texas, despite tlte stales anti trust law. It appears that there are about 4,000 corporations doing business in Tex as, each of which has filed an affidavit ut Austin saying ihut It Is not a trust anti has no connection with any trust. Among these corporations, It appears, are some of the largest concerns in the coun try which nre known as trusts elsewhere, whether they are trusts in Texts or rml It is intimated that the Attorney General will institute suits to zscertaln whether the filing of an affidavit is all that is necessary to change a man-eating trust Into a harmless corporation, ard if not what can be done o a trust lor false swearing. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY,' JULY 27. 1900. DECISION OF THE GOLD DEMO CRATS. The decision of the National Committee of the Gold Democrats not to call a con ! vention to nominate a presidential ticket ' is a wise one. The impression gained from ! published interview* with Gold Democrats ' in different parts of the country, is that i Gold Democratic ticket is not desired by the great majority of those who supported j Palmer and Buckner. Asa rule, Gold Democrats have made up I their minds to support either Mr. Bryan or Mr. McKinley, it is safe to say that four- I Fifths of the Gold Democrats of the West will vote for Mr. Bryan. In the East a ; majority of them probably will cast their j ballots for Mr. McKinley. It is not a mat j ter of much consequence how those of the i South vote. It is certain that the electo i ral votes of all of the Southern states will go to Mr. Bryan. In the West the silver question is look ed upon as a dead issue. It is not be lieved that Mr. Bryan, if he should be j elected President, would attempt to ob- ' struct the operations of the gold stand- j ard law, or that it would be possible to 1 secure the repeal of that law i during Mr. j Bryan’s term of office. Having no fear of j the 16 to 1 idea Gold Democrats will go i j back to the regular Democratic organiza ! lion. e The real fight in the Presidential cam paign will be in the states of Indiana. Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin. Mr. Bryan is sure of all of the Southern states and there is not much doubt about his getting j most of the Northwestern states. Mr. I McKinley will get the New England and | Middle states and the Pacific Coast states. The fight will be for the states of the j Middle West. Both political parties un- j derstand this. It has already been an nounced that Mr. Bryan will make some speeches in Ohio early in the campaign. The Democratic leaders have good rea sons for thinking that he can carry the President’s 6tate. With no Gold Demo cratic ticket and many Republicans vot ing with the Democrats on account of their opposition to imperialism, the out look for the election of Mr. Bryan is very bright. ■ A Q 1 ARANTINK DISAGREEMENT.* The disagreement that has occurred be tween the health boards Louisiana and Alabama respecting the existence of yel low fever at Port Limon, Costa Rica, em phasizes the necessity for uniform quar antine Jaws. The inspector at Port Limon for Louisiana reported there was yellow' fever at that place. The Louis iana 'Board of Health quarantined against it. The inspector for Alabama at Port Limon took the ground that the fever at that place, reported as yellow fever, was some other kind of fever. The Board of Health of Alabama therefore refused to establish a quarantine against the sus pected- port. The result is that the fruit ships that have been going to New Or leans are now going to Mobile, and there is not the best of feeling between the two cities. There ought to be uniformity in quar antine regulations. The precaution taken by the Louisiana Board of Health will be of no practical benefit to Louisiana if it be a fact that there is yellow fever at Port Limon. The fever, if it should reach Mobile, would be introduced into Louis iana almost as readily from that city as from Port Limon. Mobile is only a short distance from New Orleans, and railroad communication is very close. There are several quarantine bills pend ing in Congress, each of which has some good features. No agreement has been reached with respect to any of them, how ever. because health authorities in vari ous ports of the country are not disposed to accept a compromise measure. But if there is to be quarantine legislation, there will have to be a compromise. Hav ing once secured a national quarantine law. it would be an easy matter to amend it in accordance with the needs of various sections of the country. A national quarantine law is n necessi ty. If yellow fever should appear in any part of the country, there would be put in force at once all kinds of quarantine regulations. The wheels of commerce would be blocked, and the losses that would be incurred by business interests would amount to millions of dollars. The differences which have cropped out be tween Alabama and Louisiana are indi cations of what would occur if yellow fever or cholera should make its appear ance in any one of our cities. It is reported that a Pennsylvania chemist has invented a gunpowder that is not only smokeless, but noiseless. At a private exhibition given a few days ago. "a shell loaded with the powder was fired at a target fifty yards away. The only sound indicating the explosion was the falling of the plunger on the shell." The bullet pierced a plank of seasoned pine an inch thick. What great possibilities for this powder there are in warfare! "Snip ing” with such ammunition would be like striking a man in the back with a dirk in a dark alley. In battle the army pro vided with noiseless and smokeless pow der could iie hidden and decimate the enemy before they could discover whence the bullets came. There would be no more pleturesqueness In the. armed en counter. The "smoke and roar of bat tle” would give place to a graveyard still ness while the silent messengers of death sought liter lodgement. What would be the effect of noiseless powder upon the nerves of soldiers? In Innumerable Instances faltering and fainthearted sol diers have hei n given courage to fight like lions hy the noise of the firing. With the new powder there would not be that au dible stimulus to the nerves, but the men would have to go against an unseen, un heard and to them absolutely intangible danger. The New Jersey authorities have on hand an abstruse problem to tie solved. There ts a little child a year or two old in the slate prison, lie is with his mother, who is under sentence for or;mo. The mother is believed to be beyond reforma tion. What to do with tlie child, a par ticularjy bright and promising tot, is the ' question. There Is no legal authority for keeping him in the prison. His moiher objects to giving him up and the officials are not willing to turn him into the streets. To permit him to remain in the prison with the woman would be to leave him under Influences which would probably ruin hie life. If a respectable family were to adopt him. against the protest of the mother, she would probably make trouble after the expiration of her sentence. The j Governor Is giving his attention to the j matter. J Dr. Bradford of Cedartown, is right when he says that small school girte ought rot robe required to debate such ques tions as. "Resolved, that the American system of .trial by jury should be abolish ed." The question is entirely too ab struse for youthful brains. It is one fit to engage the best minds of adults of mature years. It might well enough be assigned to a class of young men. but it Is totally unsuited to young school girls. A great difficulty in many schools is that the teachers do not select the subjects for debate or essay with a view to accommo | dating them to the pupils. They endeavor to force the pupils to accommodate them selves 10 the subjects. The consequence is that the children do not understand what they are apeaking or writing about, their Jit tie brains become muddled with respect to the subjects, and the time is worse than wasted. It requires intelli gence, as well as education, to make a successful school teacher. The report of Fourth Assistant Post master General Bristow on tho Cuban postal frauds, shows a degree of rotten ness in that service under Rath-bone and • Neely that is astonishing, disgusting and humiliating. It is almost incredible that Neely and his accomplices should have been able to systematically rob the postal service for several months before they were suspected of wrong doing. It eeem that the Washington authorities ought to have been able to discover that some thing was wrong before the thievery amounted to more than $130,000. Mr. Bris tow’s report, by the way, seems to call for some sort of explanation from Post master General Smith respecting the “pull" exercised by Rathbone, and by means of which he succeeded in getting the Postmaster General to allow him an income greater than that of a Senator of the United States, and approximately as large as that of a cabinet secretary. A Turkish journal says that His Majes ty. the Sultan, is "greatly affected'by the barbarous acts of which the Chinese have recently been guilt j. The New York Times wants- to know how the Sultan is affected; whether it is sorrow or jealousy that he feels. The slaughter by the Chi nese certainly has not been greater nor more horrible than the massacres of Christians in the Sultan’s own country, which were, it is generally believed, pre cipitated by his own orders. PEIISOXAL. * —At a luncheon given by Mr. and Mrs. Blow in London last week to the commit tee of the hospital ship Maine, each guest received as a souvenir a little figure of a Chinaman with a halier around his neck. Rider Haggard, the author, in a pub lic address in London the other day, said that athletic training was a most desira ble preparation in the life of a missionary, because nothing in a missionary impresses /he savage so much as to find himeelf equaled or surpassed in strength and agil ity by the stranger. —On the fiftieth anniversary of the dis covery by Johann Rebmann of the Afri can snow mountain Kilimanjaro, a large volume describing it from every point of view has been published- in Germany. The author is Dr. Hans Meyer, who has spent years in exploring the mountain sides, especially at the higher elevations. BRIGHT BITS. —"T speak for the ‘Solid South,’ ” cried the Democratic orator. "On election day Bryan will have all the whites with him." "And the next day," cried a voice in the crowd, "he will have the blues.’’—Philadel phia Press. —Surprising information—Old Lady (pointing to elevated railroad)—"Where do them cars go to?" City Man (hur riedly)—"Almost anywhere you want, ma’am." Old Lady— Sakos! I thought they had to stay on the rails."— New York Weekly. —The Golf Fever—"So you can’t play with me on the 20th," said one young golf ing man to another over the telephone. "Don’t see how T possibly can, old man. But, I say, leave it open for a couple of days. Between you and me, I have an appointment to be married on that date, but she may be willing to make a change, so that I can have a round with you."— Tit-Bits. CCIIRENT COMMENT. The Philadelphia Record (Pom.) says: "What chiefly concerns Senator Hoar is the fact that his term will expire on March 4 next. As the Republican Legisla ture of Massachusetts will elect a sena tor next winter, he knows full well that it will choose no opponent of McKinley and his administration. This is what in clines Senator Hoar so strongly to the belief that ‘he and the Republican party’ will secure to the Filipinos local self-gov ernment, notwithstanding the evident pur pose of the administration to govern the territories outside of the constitution. There is nothing that a man tbolieves so easily as that which he has a great inter est in believing." The Charleston Post (Dem.) says: "The indications are that the tight for white supremacy in North Carolina will be won on August 2, when the proposed constitu tional amendment to restrict the suffrage will he voted upon. The registration of w’hite voters has been very heavy, which is a promising sign. North Carolina has gone through trying experiences during the last few years, with which we in this state can sympathize fully, and now that she is' alK)ut to throw off the burden we will encourage her ip the effort and re joice with her in her accomplishment. Alno, if she should need nnv help a call across the border would bring it.’ 4 The Pittsburg Post (Dem.) says: "Dem ocrats will not rely for success on any class of voters*, but will draw support from all classes. Yet it is not impossible that the presidency may be determined by German voters, Republicans in 189'i. who cannot stomach imperialism and mil itarism. New York. Ohio. Indiana. Illin ois, Wisconsin and Minnesota may be de termined ns to their electoral vote by Re publican Germans who now repudiate Mc- Kinley." The Troy (N. Y.) Press (Dem.) says: "It is said that war makes money plentiful. Temporarily, Just ns it dors for a in,in w ho owns a tine house and slaps a mort gage on it. lie can revel In the luxuries for a season, but when the time to pay it. plus interest, rolls along—well, that’s dif ferent Fool Is he who imagine- that the wanton and enormous destruction of prop erty and young men tends to enrich the world. Reason repudiates this frightful fallacy." The Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.) says: "Those distinguished gentlemen who are condemning the government for not rushing ships and soldiers to China for the purpose 'of relieving or rescuing American citizens, with one side of thT* mouth, and w ho declare it criminal to en list or leave this continent for the purpowe of drawing blood, with the other side of j the mouth, are gems of consistency." J ITEMS OF INTEREST. —A Detroit business man says that dic tating .to a stenographer has ruined his spelling. He cannot write an ordinary let ter now, he says, without making gross errors in orthography. —A Bulgarian journalist named Sangoff recently wrote an article in a Sofia paper on the subject of the relation, of the nose to character. After discussing the va rious shapes he came to the conclusion that persons with long noses are often bad characters. The public prosecutor regard ed this as a case le.se majeste, because Prince Ferdinand has a long nose. SangofY was arrested, tried, and sentenced to three days’ imprisonment. —Trolley lines are likely to be prominent as freight carriers in a short time. In addition to the large company that has been formed to take freight and express packages in Brooklyn, some have been formed in other states. In Michigan a road is to be built between Saginaw, St. Charles and Durand, to convey fuel and the sugar-beets which are grown in im mense numbers in that section of the state. A similar road has been projected in the northern part of Illinois. It is more than likely that the express com panies will suffer, but, on the other hand, the dwellers in suburban districts will be the gainers, and any large movement in the direction of companies to carry packages in this way vyiil lead the express companies to adopt the eystem, and thus benefit all concerned. —Consul General Lay, at Barcelona, Spain, writes to the state department in regard to the electric tramway system. He says that a line fobr miles long is to be built in that city by a Belgium com pany. He reports his inability to find cut what other roads are projected, but sug gests that those interested write to the Societe Anonyme d’Kntreprise Generate de I ravaux, Liege, Belgium. The company is now engaged in building the four-mile road, and has built many other lines in Europe. The consul is also informed ihat American agents in Barcelona have lost sales because they do not keep a large enough stock on hand, buyers preferring to take the English or German goods rath er than wait for the better American made articles, which take so long to get there from the United States. —Various theories are advanced to .ac count for the deposit of carbon on the in ner walls of incandescent lamps in the course ot time. J. Stark, in. a German pa per. doubts Moissan’s hypothesis of a slow evaporation of the carbon of the filament, because the deposit does not depend upon the degree of exhaustion. The idea ad vanced by Berliner is also opposed, on the ground that the deposit is the same in continually glowing lamps and those which are often relighted, which disposes ol the idea that gases are occluded in the fila ment and escape with explosive rapidity when incandescence sets in. To meet the occasion Herr Stark says the disintegra tion of the carbon is due to vagrant cur rents between various parts of the carbon filament, which traverse the intervening gas, as in a Crookes tube. He gives, as a proof of this, an "aureole” between the arms of the filament, which he declares is nothing but the positive glow of a gaseous discharge*. —“.Talk about watchdogs!" said a man who lives at Clifton Heights, according to the Philadelphia Record. "Dogs are not in it with guinea fowl. I ought to know, for I have a flock of them at my country place. All day they wander about, but at sunset they go to roost in a pine tree at one side of the house. There is no danger from burglars with these birds around, They sleep up in that tree summer and winter, and they sleep with one eye open. They hear every little sound all over the place. The family can talk and laugh and walk about in the evening without dis turbing their peace of mind in the least, but a stranger they detect at once, if it’s only a stray cat or dog. We’ve had peo ple walk quietly over the lawn just to test the birds and they never once failed to raise an alarm. They use judgment, too. hen we’re all about they content them selves with a subdued cackle, enough to attract attention; but later, after things have settled down for the night, a noise makes them break out in shrill cries suffi cient to wake the dead. It’s rather annoy ing at times, w r hen one gets home from the city lute, and doesn't care to have the. whole family aroused by his arrival, for instance. But consider the comfort with which one can go to sleep at nights! Give me guinea fowl for watchdogs every time." Few vessels have had more narrow es capes in as short a space of time as the United States transport Grant, says the San Francisco Call. The last round trip to the Philippines has been a succession of narrow escapes, and it is only due to the vigilance of the officers that the trans port finally reached port. iSoon after leav ing San Francisco one of her 'inlet valves became clogged and the water rushing in filled the engine room until the fires un der the lower boiler were drowned out and the engineers and firemen were working up to their waists in water. While the run to San Francisco was under w*ay the man on the lookout ran up against a mi rage. He thought land was straight ahead and so reported it to the bridge. The officer on watch saw an outline loom ing up and, as it was apparently capped by a light, he gave the signal to stop the ship and sent for the captain. The Grant was in the vicinity of Reed Rocks, the position of which is doubtful, their place on the chart of the globe being followed by a query mark. When, therefore, the fog bank took on the appearance of the Farailone Islands and the morning star showed up like a beacon on its peak the lookout thought the land was dead ahead, so tlte engines were stopped and reversed and the ship was going full speed astern when Copt. Buford reached the bridge. It did not take long to discover the mis take. and in half an hour the Grant was once more on her course. Reed Rocks have not been seen since 1868, when the ship Yankee nearly ran them down. They had always been classed as “doubtful,” and the chamies are that the old Yankee skipper was fooled by the morning star and a cloud, as was the lookout of the Grant. —Opinions of many scientific men and of imaginative writers as to how the world will end are gathered together In Pear son's. Lord Kelvin predicts that the world was doomed to die of suffocation; Nikola Tesla thinks that*we may set fire to the atmosphere with our eieetrical discharges; 11. G. Wells conceives that intense cold will end life on tlie world; Sir William Crookes think- our food supply will fail, and others have predicted the end of the world through collision w'th a comet or the supremacy of the best creation over man. cine of the most novel theories dis cussed is that of M. X. Startler, the, cele brated professor of geology, who puts for ward the idea tltai mail will die of thirst. M. Startle! allows that the Idea of man kind dying from thirst seems paradoxical w hen we consider the seemingly inexhaus tible Supplies man possesses in the oceans and seas which cover three-quarters of the surface of Iha globe. Sill) there Is some danger of this vasi quantity disap pearing, In the past the terrestrial c rust has absorbed large quantities of water; this action is still going on and likely to ' assume greater proportions in the future I On account of Its weight water tends to descend into deep holes; while the center of the globe remains In a fiery condition this absorption Is slow, but as the cooling of the interior rocs on the surface water will penetrate more and more and will enter into combination with the recently solidified rocks in the heart of the earth, \ which are specially absorptive by reason of their metallic composition. “The oceans." prophesies M. Stanler, "will grow smaller mid sntullei; the rains which nour- \ isli the continents will become rarer end rarer, while the deserts will enlarge their boundaries and graduallyy absorb the fer tile plains.” The Quakers Are Honest People. SThe Quaker Herl Tonic is not only a blood purifier, but a Blood maker foe Pale, Weak and De bilitated people who have not strength nor blood It acts as a tonic, it regulates digestion, cures dys pepsia and lends strength and tone to the nervous system. It Is a medicine for weak women. It Is a purely vegetable medicine and can be taken by the most delicate. Kidney Dis eases, Rheumatism and ali diseases of the Blood, Stomach and nerves soon succumb to its wonderful effects upon the human system. Thousands of people In Georgia recommend It. Price SI.OO. QUAKER PAIN BALM is the medicine that the Quaker Doctor made all ot his wonderful tpuick cures with. It s anew and wonderful medicine for Neuralgia, Toothache, Backache. Rheumatism. Sprains. Pain In Bowels; in fact, all pain can be relieved by it. Price 25c 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 sema and eruptions of the skin. Price 10c a box. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. S.. T. SI. OF HOPE R Y AND G. S & R’Y. SCHEDULE For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder bolt, Cattle park and West End. Daily except Sundays. Subject to change without notice. ISLE~OF~HOPE. Lv. City for I. of H.J Lv. Isle of Hope. 630 am from Tenth | 6 00 am for Bolton 730 am from Tenth | 600 am for Tenth 830 am from Tenth j 7 00 am for Tenth 9 15 am from Bolton j 8 00 am for Tenth 10 30 am from Tenth >lO 00 am for Tenth 12 0) n'n from Tenth jll 00 am for Bolton 1 15 pm from Bolton jll 30 am for Tenth 230 pm from Tenth | 2 00 pm for Tenth 330 pm from Tenth | 240 pm for Bolton 4? 30 pm from Tenth j 3 00 pm for Tenth 530 pm from Tenth | 4 00 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth j 6 00 pm for Tenth 730 pm from Tenth j 700 pm for Tenth 830 pm from Tenth | 8 00 pm for Tenth 930 pm from Tenth j 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 830 am from Tenth | 7 15 am' for Tenth” 230 pm from Tenth | 1 15 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth j 6 00 pm for Tenth CATTLE PARK. Lv city for Cat.Park] LvTCattle Park. 6 30 am from Bolton I 7 00 am~for Bolton 7 30 am from Bolton j 8 00 am for Bolton 100 pm from Bolton j 1 30 pm for Bolton 2 30 pm from Bolton | 3 00 pm for Bolton 7 00 pm from Bolton j 7 30 pm tor Bolton 800 pm from 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 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 ENT) 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:?0 p. m. Leaves West End at 6:20 a. m. nd ev ery 40 minutes thereafter during t(je day until 12:00 o’clock midnight. H. M. LOFTON, Gen. Mgr. SUMMER RESORTS. HOTEL N ORfWI ANDIE BKOALWAI & 38TH STS., NEW YORK. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. EUROPEAN PLAN. COOLEST HOTEL IN 'JEW YORK CITY Located in the liveliest and most inter esting part of the city; twenty principal places of amusement within five minuteW walk of the hotei, CHARLE3 A. ATKINS & CO. Summer Resort—Ocean Hotel. Ashury Park. N. J. GEO. L. ATKINS & SONS. HOTEL DALTON, DALTON. GA. Popular summer resort. One of the most popular summer resorts in North Georgia; climate delightful, beautiful drives, brick hotel, hot and cold baths on each floor; elevator, electric bells, good tables. Special rates to families. Further Information given by D. L. Dettor, Prop. LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN HOUSE. Location beautiful and sanitary. Hotel comfortable and homelike. Rates from $7.00 to SIO.OO per week. MRS. GEO. E. PURVIS, Lookout Mountain, Tenn. GRAND ATLANTIC HOTEL, Virginia ave and Beach,Atlantic City.N.J. sth year. Most central location; highest elevation, ovetlooklng ocean; 350 beautiful rooms, many with baths. The terms are reasonable. Write for Irooklet. Hotel coach es meet all trains. CHARLES E. COPE. BUCK’S Fj dyspepsia yU§U: Y Tablets ♦ iij . N°t only OMtruly r*!i*v Induction. Bloat* nt; t . , . V. ,n *" r,ntlon ‘ Tl,l ‘ o,,9ne *" l‘al tnt ®“oct a permanent euro. Promote the Appetite V Put Flesh on Thin / People. All disorder* of the stomach and bowolfl can h cured hv their ** o eat ' r ' ,mT, ' lc, ‘ *• be earned in the pock ■ *t Prim 6ft, ’ per ho* At all (li-niwiatl 111. BRENNAN BROS., WHOLESALB Fruit, Produce, Grain, Etc. BAY STREET. West. Telephone BSS. COMFORT For your stock. The fly season It now oa us and the time to use Tough on Flies, a lotion when applied will prevent your horses and cattle from being pestered. Try It and be convinced. HAY. GRAIN. BRAN. COW FEEIX CHICKEN FEED, eta T. J. DAVIS, Phone 23. - Bay street, west Ocean Steamship Go. -FOR- NewYork, Boston —AND— the east. Unsurpassed cabin accommodations. Alt the comforts of a modern hotel. EL ms lights. Unexcelled tabje. Tickets ir.c> meals and berths aboard ship. Passenger Fares lrom Savannah. TO NEW’ YORK-FIRST CABIN r O . FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP $ 3 ‘ L?' TERMEDIATE CABIN. sls; INTFRmV DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP ' STEERAGE, $lO. ’ *” 4 ’ TO BOSTON - FIRST CABIN FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP *3ti -v TERMEDIATE CABIN, sl7; INTERMF DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP , £ STEERAGE, $11.75. ' The express steamships of this line a. r # appointed to sail from Savannah, Centra (90th) meridian time, as follows. SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt Burg FRIDAY, July 27, at 5:00 a. m TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Askins, SATUR DAY, July 28, at 6:00 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett 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. Bure 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, Cap*. Smith, THURS DAY, Aug. 9, 3:30 p. m. KANSAS t CITY, Capt. Fisher, SATUR. KAY, Aug. 11, 5:00 p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Bure MONDAY, Aug. 13, 7:00 p. m. TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins, TUES DAY, Aug. 14. 7:30 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Daggett, THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 9:00 a. m. NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, SATUR. DAY, Aug. IS, 11:00 p. m. KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, MONDAY, Aug. 20, 1:00 p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Bure, TUESDAY, Aug. 21, 2:0) p. m. TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins, THURS DAY, Aug. 23, 3:30 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett. SATURDAY, Aug. 29, 5:00 p. m. NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, MONDAY, Aug. 27, 6:30 p. m. KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, TUES DAY, Aug. 28, 7:0f) p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Burg, THURSDAY, Aug. 30. 8:00 a. m. NEW YORK TO BOSTON. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, MON DAY, July 30, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, FRI DAY, Aug. 3, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, WED NESDAY, Aug. 8, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, MON DAY, Aug. 13. 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, FRI DAY, Aug. 17, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON. Capi. Savage, WED NESDAY. Aug. 22. 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Cap*. Savage, MON DAY, Aug. 27. 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage. FRI DAY, Aug. 81. 12:00 noon. This company reserves the right to change is sailings without notice and without liability or accountability there for. July sailings New York for Savannah daily except Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, 5:00 p. m. August sailings New York for Savannah daily except Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 5:00 p. m. WU G. BREWER, City Ticket and Pass enger Agent, 107 Bull street. Savannah. Ga. E. W. SMITH, Contracting Freight Agent, Savannah, Ga. R. G. TREZEVANT, Agent, Savannah, Ga. WALTER HAWKINS, General Agent Traffic Dep't, 224 W. Bay street, Jack sonville, Fla. E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager, Sa vannah, Ga. r. EsLE FEVRE. Superintendent, New Pier 25, North River. New York, N. Y. MERCHANTS AND MINERS TRANSPORTATION CO. STEAMSHIP LINES. SAVANNAH TO BALTIMORE. Tickets on sale at company’s offices M the following points at very low rates: ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. BALTIMORE, MD. BUFFALO, N, Y. BOSTON, MASS. CHICAGO, ILL. CLEVELAND, O. ERIE. PA. HAGERSTOWN. HARRISBURG. PA. HALIFAX, N. S. NIAGARA FALLS. NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA. PITTSBURG. PROVIDENCE, ROCHESTER. TRENTON. WILMINGTON. ■WASHINGTON. First-class tickets include meals and stale room berth. Savannah to Baltimore. Accommodations and cuisine unequaled. Freight capacity unlimited; careful han dling and quick dispatch. The steamships of this company are ap pointed to 6aii from Savannah to Balti more as follow* (standard TEXAS, Capt. Foster, SATURDAY, July 28 , 5:00 p. m. D. H. MILLER, Capt. Peters, 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. tn. TEXAS, Capt. Foster, TUESDAY, Aug. 7, 1:00 p. m. D. H. MILLER, Capt. Peters, THURS DAY, Aug. 9. 2:00 p. m. And from Baltimore Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays at 4:00 p. m. Ticket Office, 39 Bull street. NEWCOMB COHEN, Trav, Agent. J. J. C A ROLAN, Agent, Savannah, Ga. W. P. TURNER, O. P. A. A. D. STEBBINS, A T. M. J. C. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager. General Offices, Baltimore, Md FRENCH LINF COKPfIGNIE GENERALE TRAMIM DIRECT LINK TO HAVRE—PARIS (France- Sailing every Thursday at 10 a. ra. From Pier No. 42. North River, foot Morton se L Aquitaine Auj. -2]La Lorraine.* Auk I* La Touraine Auk. D L*Aquitaine Aug M La Bretagne . .Aug. 16 1 La Touraine. ..Sept 6 Parti hotel accommodations reserved for company's passengers upon application General Agency, 32 Broadway. New York. Messrs. Wilder A Cos ®CUSE YOURSELF! tlflo Til* for unnatural lisrharges* inflammations* rritatioDß or ulcerations >f mucous membranes. Painless, and not astno* , guut or poisonous. Sold by I>rnmrista* or sent in plain wrapper* by express, prepaid, for •l.no. or 3 bottles, £.75. Circular aent on reuaafi* SODA WATER. Soda Water, Ice Cream and Sherbets made of the beat fruit and cream by a professional dispenser. Sent to any pan of the city. 3 unlay orders solicited. Cream and sherbets 5 cents. DONNELLY PHARMACY, Phone No. €7B, No. 421 Liberty #t, e**t,