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The Went lier.
The Indications for Georgia to-day are
for lo< al mins, with light to fresh north
easterly winds, and for Eastern Florida,
local rains, with light to fresh southeast
er. y winds.
In New Jersey, it is stated on the au
thority of a Camden lawyer, the Christian
Scientists are practicing a new' cure, w hich
Is described as “kissing away error
among women patients.” It had been ex
plained to him by on** of his clients, a fol
lower of the cult, the lawyer said, that
“on certain women patients it is necessary
to kiss away errors, and until the oscilla
tory service is done the treatment is worth
nothing."
Miss Susan R. Anthony desires that col
ored w men shall be vested with the right
of the electoral franchise. It would he in
teresting to see Miss Anthony fraterniz
ing with an assemblage of colored “lady”
voters In Yamaeraw or on Hilton Had
Island. It would be safe to wager some
thing handsome that she would quickly
change her min i about its being the duty
of the government to give negro women
the ballet.
It wouldn’t be to place too much
dependence upon the report that Prince
Tumi: has 1 e n killed at the In ad of his
tri ops Ii will be recalled that news of
the death of the Emperor of China upon
several senara’e o fusions has been re
ceiv'd; nevertheless President McKinley
o few days ago n reived a communication
from him asking tin* intervention of this
country to settle China s trouble-. The
probabilities are that Tuan is Just about
as dead as Kwang Hsu, and he appears
to be altogether too lively for a dead man.
THE .u;\v ORLEANS RIOT.
Will any of the ringleaders of the New
Orleans riots be punished? Many inof
fensive persons were killed and a large
number wounded. For a time the city
was in the hands of n mob composed of
the f worst element of the white popula
tion. If it had not been for the prompt
response of the law-abiding portion of the
population to the call of the Mayor for
assistance, the number of killed nnd
wounded would have been much larger.
The police force, if it had been Inspire I
by the proper spirit and had been prop
erly led, could have quelled the disorder
in its incipieney, but from the accouqts
which appear in the New’ Orleans papers
it is in a demoralized condition. On this
point the Times-DemoJrat of that city
says: “In the first place the in
oiTqWonry of the police stands out In :
high relief. It is. Indeed, only too plain
that a comparatively small force of reso- 1
lute men might have brought the rioters
to terms at the outset, but the golden
moments were suffered to slip by.” The j
Tirm*s-Democrat places the blame for the
demoralized condition of the police on the j
Police Commissioners, who, it asserts,
release offenders without inflicting any
punishment upon them or inflict so light
a penalty that the disorderly element
has no respect for the police or the law.
Under the circumstances the police are
without discipline and a “bracing sense’’
of duty. In other words, the hoodlum i
element, being a power in politics, is per
mitted to run the city.
A special session of the grand jury has j
been called and that body has been told
by the judge to do its duty, whi’ch means
that it should indict every person guilty ;
of shooting to death or wounding inof
fensive citizens during the period of the j
riots, against whom it can get sufficient j
evidence. But will it get evidence against
anyl)ody? It is doubtful. The guilty par
ties have friends who will see to it that
the grand jury gets no evidence. There
may here and there a rioter without
influence or friends w’ho will be indicted,
but it is pretty certain that the ring
leaders will get off scot free.
There is a bitter feeling in New Or
leans among the white laboring class
against negroes, because the negroes, be- J
ing willing to work for less wages, have
practically taken possession of the
wharves. The handling of cotton and 1
grain that was done a few years ago by
white labor almost exclusively, is now
done by negroes. It is not definitely
stated in the dispatches that the race feel- i
ing that cropped out in the riots was due j
to labor troubles, but it was hinted. If '
there had not been hatred of negroes for !
some special reason, the killing of two
policemen by a negro* desperado would
not have been sufficient cause for the
gathering of a mob of several thousand
people, and the beginning of an indiscrim
inate war on the black portion of the pop
ulation. The hoodium element of New
Orleans would be bad even if kept under
reasonably strict restraint, but, on ac
count of rotten politics and a weak po
lice department, being permitted to do
pretty much as it pleases, the wonder is
that disturbances of a serious character
do not occur more frequently.
THE “ABEKR VTIOX PERIOD.”
Sane men Fometimes do things which
appear unaccountable to other persons,
and for which they cannot offer any rea
son that Is satisfactory even to them
selves after the things have been done.
Probably most readers will be able to re
call instances of the kind. Doctors In
England have now evolved a theory which
assumes that there is what they call “the
aberration period of middle life,” during
which mankind is ap< to do very foolish
or very dangerous things, without the
consciousness of doing wrong. A case
in illustration is given in the New York
Evening Post. A railway disaster oc
curred recently at Slough, England. At
the inquest it was brought out that the
engineer of the train had run past two
signals set against him. He was an old
and tried employe, with an excellent rec
ord. He did not deny that the signals
were properly set and that he saw them.
He did not remember having seen them,
and was positive that if he did, they did
not make the usual impression on his
mind. The engineer was 59 years old;
just the age, according to the. eminent
Dr. Dabbs, “when the equal exercise of
full and complete powers of observation
Is often in temporary abeyance.’’
Dr. Dabbs gave a number of instances
of the temporary abeyance of the powers
of observation during the “aberration
period of middle life.” One w’as the case
of an eminent London physician who, be
tween 55 and 62, found himsejf often unable
to depend, as he himself expressed It,
"not on his observation, but on his ap
plication of it.” “In other words,” says
the Evening Post, “there is a decade In
a man’s life—his climacteric—when he Is
peculiarly subject to aberration. lie
sees, but he does not perceive; observes,
but docs not remember. Men hastily im
peach his honesty; what they should do
is to remember that he is passing
through his period of aberration.”
It is a bit unfortunate that the emi
nent scientists have not been able to
name with any precision he age at
which this climacteric may be expected,
ns with that information a clue might
be had to the cause for many peculiar
occurences. It might explain why Presi
dent McKinley deliberately ran past the
danger signal of “plain duty” in the Por
to Ifico matter. It might explain why
it is that Senator Hoar, clearly seeing
that the imperialistic policy of the ad
ministration will undermine and over
throw the republic, cannot perceive that
it is his duty to oppose the Republican
party with influence and vote. It may
be that the Dowager Empress of Chinn,
in the “aberration period of middle life.”
sees the danger to her country, but, be
ing unimpressed by it, is running the
country to ruin. There are these and
other incidents of current history for
which adequate explanations are lacking.
Are they to be accounted for by the
"aberration period” theory?
Not only have the people of the North
to contend, Just at present, with exception
ally hot weather, but they are being vis
ited by “kissing bugs” and mosquitoes
that are deadly. In New York the other
day a small child was killed by the bite
of a “kissing bug,” and in Toronto on the
same day a man died from the effects of
a mosquito bite.
The Chicago News suggests a plan for
getting the allWd Powers Into Pekin
quickly. Let t-omebody circulate the ru
mor, it Fays, that gold has been dDcover
td there, and the Powers wou:d be In Pe
kin In short order*
THE MOIiMNG KEW'S: ST XDAY,’ JULY 29. 1900.
HOVT’S TRAGEDY.
‘‘Charlie’’ Hoyt has been known to the
! people of this country, from one end of
it to the other, for severe! years as a fun
! maker. His farce comedies, the brightest,
cleanest and most wholesome of a genera
| tion, have conjured up literally millions
of laughs. His wit, keen and bright, and
his humor, always pungent, has never
been of the kind to wound and rankle.
With remarkable perception he has been
able to see the droll, the ridiculous, the
funny things in life, and to place them
on the stage in such a manner 'hat they
gained rather than lost in power to ap
peal to the observer's sense of humor. As
a creator of comedies of the lighter sort,
Hoyt was at the head of his profession.
His genius was recognized and acknowl
edged, and had won substantial reward.
Poor Hcyt is temporarily in the public
mind just now, not as a creator of come
dies, but as the central figure in a par
ticular touching tragedy. The man who
for years caused others to laugh is him
st;f now beyond other than a maniacal
laugh. He Is insane, and has been com
mitted to an asylum, with scarcely a shad
ow of a hope that he will emerge from it
alive. The nature of his ailment is called
paresis. His brain is softening. The once
brilliant mind is clouded. He cannot re
member clearly any mailer, except that
he has lost his beloved wife and child,
and that memory only tends to add to his
trouble.
During the examination of Hoyt for com
mitment to the asylum there was a pa
thetic incident. For one brief moment
he seemed to be himself again, and his
sense of humor was as keen as ever. “1
studied law once for a year, Judge,” he
said. “At the end of the year 1 asked the
lawyer with whom I was studying how he
thought I was getting on. He said, 'Well,
Hoyt, I know all of your stories, and you
know all of mine.’ That was what he
thought I had learned in a year, so I gave
up the law.” This caused a smile in the
court room, but the smile quickly
melted into something which resembled
tears when it was seen that Hoyt was
staring blankly into space and that his
face had assumed an almost idiotic ex
pression.
What a formidable list of people of the
theater has of recent years passed from
this stage of action by the paresis route!
Among those who will be most readily re
called are John* McCullough and “Billy”
Scanlan, both actors of reputation. And
now’ Hoyt the playwright is to be added
to the list.
OUTLOOK KOlt A \ OTHER TICKET.
Some of the Gold Democrats are rot
satisfied with the outcome of the con
ference of the National Committee of
the Gold Democratic organization at In
dianapolis, and they hope that a presi
dential ticket will be nominated by the
conventions called to meet at that city in
the middle of August, by the Plaza Hotel
Committee and the anti-imperialists.
There is undoubtedly a very large num
ber of Republicans who ere against the
imperialistic policy of the Republican par
ty, but who will not vote for Mr. Bryan
because he is committed to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver; and there are
some Democrats who object to voting for
Mr. Bryan because of the silver declara
tion in the Democratic platform. This
class of anti-imperialists and this class
of Democrats may be able to get together
and make a ticket that will be satisfac
tory to them.
The Democratic leaders are not concern
ing themselves much about the matter.
They are confident that if another ticket
is nominated it will take more votes
from Mr. McKinley than from Mr. Bryan,
for the reason that Goid Democrats are
pretty well satisfied that Mr. Bryan's
election would not result in the overthrow
of the gold standard, and hence will vote
the regular Democratic ticket, but there
are, tens of thousands of Republicans who
will vote against Mr. McKinley, provided
the opportunity is offered them to do so,
nnd at the same time to rote to sustain
the gold standard.
The Republican leaders pretended to be
very glad when the Gold Democratic
Committee, which met at “Indianapolis on
July 25, decided not to call a convention
to make a ticket, but they will not be
so well pleased If the anti-imperialists
and Gold Democrats at their conventions
nt Indianapolis in August, nominate a
ticket. A ticket by that combination
would reduce greatly Mr. McKinley's
chances for being elected.
And remarkable as it may seem the
candidate for President mentioned by
leaders in this combination is ex-ISpeaker
Thomas B. Reed. Did his remark a year
or so ago that Mr. McKinley had bought
10,000,000 Filipinos at $2 a head, win him
this distinction?
EXPECTATIONS OF THE PROHI
BITIONISTS.
The Prohibition party Is expecting to
poll a much larger vote this year lhan it
did in 1596. It thinks that there are many
Republicans who will not vote (or Mr.
McKinley because they are opposed to im
perialism, and many Dcmocrals who will
not vote for Mr. Bryan because they are
against the free coinage of silver.
The Prohibitionists are particularly bit
ter against Mr. McKinley because he will
not permit himself to be dominated by
them. One thing that embittered them
against him was his refusal to overrule the
opinion of the Attorney General that there
was nothing in the law which prevented
the maintaining of canteens in the army.
They think they know much belter lhan
army officers what is best for the soldiers.
Because tho President Is a member of
the Methodist Church the Prohibitionists
thought he would listen to their request
that wine be abolished from the White
House table. While he is not a drinking
man he has wine served at his table, par
ticularly when he has guesis. Therefore
the Prohibitionists declare that lie “has
done more to encourage the liquor busi
ness, to demoralize the temperance habits
of young men and to bring Christian prac
tices and requirements into disrepute than
any other President this republic has had."
Of course this is raiher unjust to the
President, but it is politics, and the Pres
ident will have to take his share of con
demnation for his alleged shortcomings.
No doubt the Prohibition parly will draw
many more votes from the Republicans
than from the Democrats. This year its
platform contains but one plank—the
plank against the liquor traffic. In clew
of the strong Prohibition parly there is in
South Carolina it would be Interesting to
know whether the National Prohibition
ticket will gee many votes in that state.
Now that Tillman has asserted that
the preachers have formed an unholy a 111-
.ai.ee with the barkeeper* to defeat the
dispensary system a good deal of interest
has been awakened in tlie cnu. e of Prohi
tion in South Carolina. Ar.d in this state
there is a strong prohibition sentiment. If
a thorough canvass were made it is prob
able that the Prohibition ticket would get
mans* thousands of votes in loth South
Carolina and Georgia.
A little war which nobody would regret
much is threatened in Servia. King Alex
ander’s announcement that he will marry
a former lady-in-waiting of his mother,
is said to have so angered his father, cx-
King Milan, that he may try to oppose
Alexander’s plans by force. The King
has stretched a military cordon along the
frontier to keep his father out of the
country, and Milan may try to break
through it and capture the capital. Should
fighting occur, it is to be hoped both of
the royal disgraces will get into the thick
of it at once, and that well aimed bullets
will remove the cause of discord on both
sides. Servia could well spare both her
King end his fa:her.
"S’.ay and spare not ’’ i the policy of
the Empercr William with rc-p.ee to
China. Nevertheless the representative of
Germany ar.d the re presents'ive of China
sat tegular in ih luterr.at o .al Peace-
Conference at The Hague, and each voted
in faver of condu ting warfare upon a
humane and high plane There is a good
deal of the old sp.rit of barbarism remain
ing in Europe, as well as in China.
PERSONA L.
—Mr. Smuts, w*ho succeeds Dr. Leyds
as secretary of state for the Transvaal,
is little over 20 years old. He was edu
cated at the Cape University and at
Cambridge, qualifying as an English bar
rister.
—Prince Ching. the Chinese General,
w’ho has been so friendly to foreigners,
was for some time Lord Chamberlain of
the Court, and was President of the
Tsung-li-Yamen in 1898, when Lord Charles
Beresford visited it.
—One of the British Army's oldest offi
cers is the Duke of Cambridge, who, not
withstanding the fact that he is three
months older than the Queen, shows few
or no traces of old age; Indeed, eince hie
retirement from the post of commander
in-chief he has accepted far more social
and official invitations nnd engagements
than he was formerly able to do.
—There has not been a New Yorker In
the Speaker’s chair of the House of Rep
resentatives for seventy-three years. The
latest New York member to hold the
Speakership was John W. Taylor, who
serve*} from 1825 to 1827. There have been
Democratic Speakers from other states
since the close of the war—lndiana, Penn
sylvania, Kentucky and Georgia.
—Joseph Flory, the Republican candi
date for the Governorship or Missouri, Is
conducting a most novel campaign among
the railroad men. He has secured
railway velocipede, on which he hae
been traveling all about the freight yards
of St. Louis and other cities in Missouri
getting personally acquainted with the
workers. He is in his shirt sleeves most
of the time.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Very Like.—“ What a lawless set those
Chinese Boxers seem to he.’’
"Yes; they carry on for all the world
like Kentuckians in election time.”—ln
dianapolis Journal.
—Reports from the rural districts con
firm the Impression that the hired man
perspired awfully last week, while the
farmer sat in the barn and expatiated
on his love of hard work.—Boston Tran
script.
—An Easy One.—“ Why is W. T. Stead
like the platform of a party that Isn't in
power?”
“I dunno.”
“He always views with alarm.”—Chica
go Times-Herald.
—“Aren't you ashamed to be an object
of charity?” exclaimed the pedestrian.
"I ain't no object of charity,” replied
Meandering Mike, indignantly. "I'm a
great moral an' civilizin' influence. I
am a promoter of philanthropy.”—Wash
ington Star.
—Passenger: Guard, have I time to say
good-by to my wife at the barrier'’
Guard: I don't know, sir. How long
have you been married?—Glasgow Even
ing Times.
—Different Pinks.—“Do you like pink
teas?” asked the Brooklyn girl.
“I never tasted them," replied her vis
itor from Cook county; "hut I just dote
on pink lemonades.”—Brooklyn Life.
—Ratios.—The goose laid a golden egg
and sixteen silver eggs in rapid succes
sion. Then she laid another silver egg
and the peasant killed her forthwith.
“She is infected with the commercial
ratio heresy!" he said, very sternly.
This fabla teaches how extremely earn
est are the agrarian element in respect
to this matter of ratios.—Detroit Journal.
CI'KREXT COMMENT.
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: "Rath
bone has had what an American humorist
once described as ‘a halcyon and vocifer
ous time' at the expense of our wards in
Cuba—the untutored people to whom we
are teaching the art of government. Hav
ing enjoyed himself to the utmost, it now
remains to be seen whether the admin
istration will make him do penance for his
misdemeanors. It is to be regretted that
a man of his character should have been
sent to Cuba, and those who are responsi
ble for his appointment cannot expect lo
escape censure. Was he sent to the island
because he had been 'useful to the party.'
and, from the politician's point of view,
was entitled to a position in which he
could make use of his opportunities? Was
he worth a salary of $6,300 a year in Cuba,
or anywhere else?"
The Nashville American (Dem.) says:
“Mr. llaldeman's move is important. Will
others follow, or Is he but getting into
the drift already setting in? Mr. McKinley
was elected by men opposed to free coin
age. If these same men now believe free
coinage to be a 'past issue' will they not
vote against him, and deliver the govern
ment from the selfish, centralistic and un
reptiblkan tendencies of the party which
is fast dragging il toward the sea of em
pire?”
The Hartford (Conn.) Times (Dem.) save:
"It will not Ire possible much longer to
keep up the pretense that the United
States as a nation Is sending troops to
China In order to prevent the iMrtitlonlng
of that vast country. It Is thp Intention
of ench of the European Powers to ag
grandize itself by sending an army to
China. If we send an army there we
must send it with the intention of doing
as the others do and grabbing our slice of
Chinese territory."
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
(Ind.) says: “The signs may be said to
multiply that the Populisi party is a thing
of the past when 'Jerry' Simpson i hissed
down at a Populist convention In Kansas
Mrs. Lease and Poffer are gone, and many
others less known, who arose to promi
nence in ihe great farmers' rebellion of
ten years ago. Now 'Jerry' Is hissed, and
his pro(>osal thal he be nominated for
.senator la defeated by 100 majority."
Obej ing Order*.
Fun at the exj>en3e of his wife, provided
he were the originator of it. gave Horace
(ir eley much innocent pleasure—w’herein
he was not unlike many ano.her man of
l si distinguished character. Illustrative
is this inc der.t. found in Lippincott s:
Mr. Greeley enjoyed a holiday in the
country with he enthusiasm of a boy. All
his ares and troubles were left behind,
locked up in his desk in the Tribune of
fice. Mr. Greeley was different from her
noted husband in this respect. She brought
her caiis along with her. and among
thrm that of keeping Mr. Greeley within
bounds. One clay she k* pt at him till hc
said:
“All right, mother; whatever you tell
me to do the rest of the day I’ll do.”
An hour or two later they were getting
info a row-boat for a trip to lona Island,
a rural paradise suit unded by the wa
ters of the Hudson. Mrs. Greeley stepped
in first sat down, and placed her parasol
with the handle resting on th# seat and
the other end on the bottom of the boat;
then, glancing up at Mr. Greeley, who
was waiting to get into the boat, she call
ed out:
“Now. Horace, be sure to step on my
I avasol and break it getting Into the
boat.”
‘ All right, just as you say.” responded
VlfjT.ee, cheerfully, and down came his
foot on the parasol and completely wreck
ed it.
Mrs. Gre?Ky looked dagc'rs a Mm a l
the way to the i -laud. H himself
was in the best of mo ds. often chuckling
seftiy to himself, os if he had just
thought cf a good j ke. lie made matters
right when they got back to the Peeks
kill side by buying Mrs. Greeley a new
parasol, and handing it to her with the
bantering remark:
“There, mother, is a brand-newr sun
shade for jou, much finer than the old
one. and now don’t you ever tell me to
sup on it unless you expect me to do it.
I always obey the orders of my superior
officer.”
Story of Admiral Pliilip.
“I knew the late Admiral Jack Philip
about ten years ago. when he was sta
tioned at the Mare Island navy yard.”
said a former Californian, now living in
New- Orleans, according to the Times-
Democrat. “He was not then noted for
his professed Christianity, but was an
out-and-out good fellow, albeit a trifle
blunt in his speech. On one occasion n
United States ship was in port—l am not
quite sure which of the fleet it was—
and a party of Frisco folks went over to
the island to see her. I was with the
crowd, and while we were in the ward
room one of our number, a city official,
by the way, told the steward to go and
get two or three bottles of champagne.
The rest of the visitors were aghast
at his effrontery, but one of the officers
made a sign to the servant and he went
out and presently came back with the
wine. While it w T as being opened the
cheeky boor who gave the order remark
ed jocularly that he always liked to de
stroy government property. ‘l’ve often
wanted to drink some of Uncle Sam’s
fizz.’ he added, grinning, ‘but this is the
first chance I’ve ever had to sample it.’
“Capt. Philip was present, looking pret
ty black. , and that remark was too much
for his patience. ‘Sir!’ he exclaimed, in
his peculiar high-pitched voice, ‘you seem
to be under the impression that the Uni
ted States of America furnishes free
champagne to its naval officers.’
“Well—er—don’t it?’ asked the visitor,
a trifle disconcerted.
’The. only drink that the government
supplies to the npvy,’ said Capt. Jack,
solemnly, ‘is water. You’ll find plenty
of it outside,’ he added, after a pause.
Several of the ladies giggled, and the
champagne fiend took an early occasion
to sneak away.”
Snti*(L*l With Themselves.
| Schopenhauer, the great German philos
opher, afforded one of the most remark
able examples of self-complacency that
| have ever been known, says London Tit-
Bits. His naive eulogiums on his own
productions are almost beyond belief.
In writing to the publishers of his w’ork
he says:
“Its worth and importance are so great
that I do not venture to express it. even
to you. because you could not believe
me;’’ and he proceeds to quote a review’.
“which speaks of me with the highest
praise, as the greatest philosopher of the
uge, w'hich is really saying much less
than the good man thinks.
“Sir.” he said to an unoffending strang
er w’ho watched him across a table d’hote,
where he acted the part of the local
“lion” habitually, “sir. you are evident
ly astonished at my appetite. True, I
eat three times as much as you, but then
I have three times as much mind!”
A well-known English novelist has a
great appreciation of his own powers and
work, and many stories are told of the
obtrusive way in which he displays his
vanity. A writer says of him:
“Every year A visits three or four
fashionable watering places, at each of
w'hich the following episode occurs at
least thirty times. The novelist in
dulges in small talk with the little chil
dren on the sands, and invariably ends
the conversation thus: ‘Do you know’ who
has been talking with you? A ! Tell
that at home!’ ”
A Story of Conger.
A story is told of a certain Chinese man
darin who once learned that Mr. Conger,
the American minister to Pekin, was not
to be balked or bluffed. A missionary of
the American Bible Society, duly provid
ed with passports and credentials, was
Stopped by ihe officials and held in the
miliiary quarters on some paltry trumped
up charge. The missionary sent word to
Minister Conger, and the minister went
in person to see about it. When he learn
ed the trivial nature of the trouble he
demanded the release of the missionary,
saying he was an American citizen and
ns such his rights must be respected. "But
my orders are to hold him here,” said the
officer "And my orders from the United
States are to demand his release.” “He
must stay here until it suits His Majesty
to release him.” "The United States of
Amerl a demands his Immediate release,"
quietly rejoined Minister Conger, "and
we're used to gening what we want.” The
missionary was freed at once.
The Power of Oratory.
"Help! Help!” In a panic the passengers
rushed to the side of the ship, and gazed
helplessly at those struggling in the
waves, says Harper's Bazar. It was, in
deed, a perilous situation. What was to
be done? Thera seemed to be no rope at
hand, and there was trouble in lowering
the lifeboat, and, os is usually the case,
none of the sailors could swim. ,At this
instant a man of commanding presence
pushed through the frenzied crowd and
struck an attitude close to the rail. The
drowning ones recognized him as a famous
political orator, and their spirits rose.
“Fellow citizens." he began, "we face a
crisis!” The next moment a cry of Joy
went up. For the people In tho water
were hanging on h!s words, In which po
sition they continued till the boms were
lowered. The gift of oratory is truly
'blessed.
The Highest Court.
The Denver Times says lhat when
“Tom" Bagnell was Justice of the peace
at Allman, the highest Incorporated town
in tho country, standing 120C0 feet above
sea levs', he had occasion ti fine a disor
detly character $lO and costs. The victim
of the operation of Justice objected io the
finding of ihe court and announced that
he would take an appeal.
"What? Appeal, would you?" asked the
astonlshid court. "You don't come any o'
that, now This Is the highest court In
the United Slates, aert you can't appeal."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Young men who like to follow the
latest fashion in neckties wear these long,
with about two feet of the ends left free
and flopping, says the Hanford Times. It
is about as sensible a style as wide col
lars with which mistaken mothers rig out
good little boys—a sort of while mainsail,
that covers shoulders and back, puts a
veto on free play, and gives rise to the
false impression on the part of the be
holder that the unfortunate child has
carelessly put on his shirt wrong-end,
upward.
—A serious problem confronts the cn
ginee-rs in charge of the erection of the
New York peace memorial on the summit
of Lookout Mountain, according to me
Boston Transcript. The question is how
to get the material for the monument to
the top of the mountain. 2,0(K) feet above
the surrounding country. The railroad
which has been running to the top of the
mountain as a freight line has been dis
continued. and the rails will be sold lor
old iron. The track in its present con
dition-will only safely stand a load, of 30,-
000 pounds, the engineers say, while one
of the stones to l>e used in the monument
will weigh nearly 60,(W0 poTtnds, and many
of them 50,000 pounds. There is no road
way near the spot where the monument ie
being erected, it being high above all ‘he
surrounding country. In case no o.her
means can be devised to handle the mate
rial and remove it to the top a road four
miles in length will be constructed by the
government or by the New York Commis
sion especially for this purpose.
—How St. Francis tamed the wolf of
Gubbio is the most famous, if not alto
gether the most credible, of the animal
stories related of him. says the Contem
porary Review. That wolf was a quadru
ped without morals; not only had he
eaten kids, but also men. All attempts
to kill him failed, and the townsfolk were
afraid of venturing outside the w’alls even
in broad daylight. One day St. Francis,
against the advice of all. went out to
have a serious talk with the wolf. He
soon found him. and “Brother Wolf,”
he said, “you have eaten not only ani
mals, but men made in the image of
God. and certainly you deserve the gal
lows; nevertheless, I wish to make peace
between you and these people, Brother
Wolf, so that you may offend them no
more, and neither they nor their dogs
shall attack you.’’ The wolf seemed to
agree, but the saint wished to have a dis
tinct proof of his solemn engagement to
fulfill his part in the peace, whereupon
the wolf stood up on his hind legs and
laid his paw on the saint’s hand. Francis
then promised that the wolf should be
properly fed for the rest of his days, “for
well I know.” he said, kindly, “that all
your evil deeds were caused by hunger”
—upon which text several sermons might
be preached, for truly many a sinner
may be reformed by a good dinner and
by nothing else. The contract was kept
on both sides, and the wolf lived happily
for two years, “nutricato cortesemente
dalla gente,” at the end of which he died
of old age, sincerely mourned by all the
inhabitants.
—The one ring circus hes gone and now
the red lemonade is in danger, say 6 the
Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Out in Illinois
they have framed anew pure food law,
and on the first day of July it went into
effect in all its startling sections. The
law* says that all lemonade must hereafter
contain at least 5 per cent, of pure Icm
jh juice! Reflect on it! Not a solitary
suggestion of any exception in favor of
red lemonades! Think of circus lemonade,
red or otherwise, with 5 per cent, of lem
on juice in it—lei alone pure lemon juice!
Why, they couldn’t dream of washing the
snakes in a strong solution like that!
And, of course, in all we)l regulated cir
cuses they always do wash the snakes
in the lemonade. The acid is good for
them, you know, when it isn’t too strong
—and it never is. To snakes brought up
on the usual lemonade bath 5 per cent,
of pure lemonade juice would act like
turpentine. There wouldn’t be aby 4iv
ing in the house with them. It’s evident
those Illinois legislators haven’t any hu
manity in the direction of snakes—nor
small boys, either. If they had they
wouldn’t want it on their fossilized old
consciences that they had forcibly soured
the disposition of both the serpents and
the youth of this country with that un
necessary acid. But there's no use ar
guing on the eubject. They might as well
order rhe nrsenU- mixer to color his decoc
tion with 5 per cent, of imported red Ink.
He can do it. but it won’t be the real
thing. He can put 5 per cent, of lemon
juice on his snake, but it won't be cir
cus lemonade.
—The result of a survey of I/ake Chelan,
In the northern r art of the state of Wash
ington, has been given out by Gen. Mer
riam. He says in his report: “The cliffs
on each side of the lake were most pre
cipitous, tower ng up in many places to
a hight of 1,500 or 2,4>)0 feet. But It Is the
lake itself that is the grea est $ narvel. Its
voters are clear and blue, and by actual
soundirgs have been found to be of an
average depth of 3,000 feet. This seems al
most incredible, but it is the truth. The
width of the lake varies from one and
one-half to two miles, but he length is
the most remarkable of all. When I point
ed up toward what appeared to be the
l ead of the lake and asked the Indians
if the lake was not about three miles long
they laughed and shook their heads. They
said it was a three-day journey tfor a
four-oared catve. “I .deermined to see for
myself, so the next morning my engineer
and 'I and two Ind'ans sorted up the
l ike in the largest cance the natives pos
sessed. It was Impossible to go on the
like shore, as in most places moun
tains ran sheer down to the water’s edge.
We rowrd along un il we cam? to the
northern confine of the lake, and there
we found that it mad • o big bend to tlie
right and stretched on and on. The next
day we siartoJ out again, and on the
third day at nightfall, just as the Indians
bad said, we reached the head of the lake.
On the return trip we measured the dis
tance and fund the length to be a frac
tion over Cos miles. This curiosly narrow
.and deep body of water was cut right
through the mounsains by the glaciers
of bygone ages. At the foot of the lake
is a great moraine.”
—Ferries in China are numerous, and
so are the heavy carts to be ferried. The
spectacle of a crossing is full of su prises,
jays Rev Arthur H. Smith in “Village
Life in China." To get one of the clumsy
car's and wn the steep and shelving Incline
to the river requires considerable engin
eering skill, and accidents are not infre
quent. When the edge of the ferry is
reached the whole t am must be unhitch
el, and each animal got on board as best
It can be. Some animal; make no trou
ble, and will give a mighty bound, land
ing sc mow lit re or everywhere, to the Im
minent peril of any passengers on hoard.
When an animal refuses to budge—an oc
currence at almost every crossing—lts
head Is 1 a'daged ad It 1) Id around
and around for a long time so as to in
duce it to forget all about the’ferry-boat.
At last it Is 1 and to tli ■ edge and urged to
Jump, which it will by no means do. Then
the drivers twist its tail, put a stick be
hind it as a lever, and get six men at
each end of ill. stick, while six more tug
at ropes which nr attached to the ani
mal's herns. After a struggle, often last
ing half an hour, and frequently after pro
lo ged and cruel beatings, the poor beasts
are all on beard, where the m re excitable
prance about among and over the human
passengers. Next comes the moving of
he heavy cart, which must le dragged
on to the ferryboat by the strength of a
small army of mi n. On the farther bank
another exciting struggle occurs. The exit
of the caits and animals is Imp-ded by
th struggles of those who are eager to
cross to the o her shore, and can not be
oortert to wait until Ihe boat Is unloaded.
Order is unknown, and it Is a wonder that
people are not frequently killed in these
tumultuous crossings.
Jos. A. Magnus & Cos.
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