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6 ilfjc iHofning |fctn|. Morning: News Building. SHVunnah, Grv 51 \DAY, JULY 1990. Regisiered at the Postoffice in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, at 70c u month, $4 00 for six months, ar.d SB.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a w• • k (without Sunday issue), three months six months $3.00; one year $0.0". The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, SI.OO. Subscription? payable in advance. Hp mil by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk 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— Is the standard of measurement. Contract rales and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING News to either residence or place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone No. 210. Any irregular ity in delivery should be immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters ar.d telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS,” Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York city. II C. Faulkner, Manager. TWENTY PACES ISDEX ID SEW UVEEIISEMEHIS. Special Notices—To Builders, Electric Supply Company; Reports from Suwanee Springs; Fancy and Re-prcssed Brick, Sa vannah Building Supply Company,; Su wanee Springs Hotel, Suwanee Springs, Fla,; Solicitors for Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, N. J.; Excursion to Bluffton Wednesday, Aug. 1; Ryan’s Business College; Special In ducements a< Mark Apple’s Repository; Malt Mead; Helmken’s Uafe; At Joyce’s; Erstes Si if t ungsfest des Plattdeutschen Bruederlichen Bundes, Sohuetzen Park, White Bluff; Auction of Bicycles, at Thomas’ Bicycle Emporium; Charlton & Charlton. Attorneys and Counsellors ot Law; Around the Horn, Sunday; Levan’s Table d'Hcxe; Grand Union Tea Com pany. Business Notices—Our Stock of Cut Glass, Theus Bros.; Do You Write? Hun ter & Van Keuren. To Rent—Modern Dwelling, C. A. Mun ster. Educational Savannah Preparatory School, Savannah. • Hose and Reels—Edward Lovell’s Sons. Smashing All Price Records—At Eck rtein’s. Ladies’ and Men’s Suits— B. H. Levy & Bro. The Balance of Our Summer Good? Must Go—At Gutman's. This Week It Will Be Men's Clothing —Leopold Adler. Cleveland Chainless Wheels—Wm. & H. H. LaTtimore. Shoes for Mountain Resorts—At the Globe Shoe Store. Laundries— Savannah Steam Laundry; E. & W. Laundry. Great Sacrifice Sale of Odds and Ends —Leo Frank. Whisky—Old Crow Whisky. Ladies’ Underwear—Daniel Hogan. Black Velvet Ribbons—At the Bee Hive. Seed Rye, Etc.—W. D. Simkins & Cos. Ladies’ Shirt Waist Sale—At the Bee Hive. A $lO Spent—At Ladeveze's Picture Frame Factory. • The Men’s Shoes Honan Makes—Byck Bros. Auction Sales—Monday’s Auction Sale, by C. H. Dorsett. Auctioneer. A Gas Range—Mutual Gas Light Com pany. Financial—F. A. Rogers & Cos. (Limit ed). New York; The Yankee Consolidat ed Mining. Milling and Tunneling Com pany. Denver. Col. Those Dinner Sets—Thomas West & Cos. Anti-Rust Tin—G. W. Allen & Cos. Beef—Liebig’s Extract of Beef. Medical—S. S. S.; World’s Dispensary Preparadons; Hood s Sarsaparilla; Coke Dandruff Cure; R. R. R.; Peruna; Moth er's Friend; Bar-Ben; Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy; Munyon’s Guarantee. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Warned; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. 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. 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