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4 g'ljc Jtofnins fifeto#. II ore leg Nfirs Building:. Savannah, <ift MONDAY, JILY 30, 1000. Registered at the Postofflee in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS !s published every day in the year, and ie served to EUbecribers in the iiiy. or feni by mail, at 70c a month, $4 00 for six months and JS.OO for ore year. The MORNING NEWS, by mall, six times a week (without Sunday ls*U4), three months, SI.: . six months 13,00; one year S6.GO. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week, Monday and Thur.-day, by mail, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance Rr rnit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk ol senders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notice?, amusements and cheap or want column. 10 cents n line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth Is 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 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 and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Tark Row. New York city. H. C. Faulkner. Manager. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Original Anniston Lime, Andrew Ilanley Company; Wall Paper and Paper Hanging. Savannah Building Supply Company; Ship Notice, 6trachan & Cos., Consignees; Read What A. Leffier of Savannah, Ga„ Writes of Suwanee Springs Water; Levan’s Table d’Hote. Business Notices—Harvard Beer, at De goto Bar; E. & W. Laundry. Steamship Schedule—Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company. Auction Sales—Soda Water Factory, by J. McLaughlin & Son, Auctioneers. Educational—Pantops Acedamy, Near Charlottesville. Va. Official—Special Proceedings of Council. Lee-al Notices—ln the Matter of Mrs. Minnie L. Sims, Bankrupt. Medical—Bar-Ben; Hood’s Pills; Cns toria; Hostctter’s Stomach Bitters; Dr. Hathaway Company. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The indication? for Georgia to-day are (or local rain?, with light to fresh south erly winds; and for Eastern Florida, lo cal rains in northern, fair in southerp portion, and light to fresh southeasterly Vrinds. ; The Chinese have taught the Western governments one valuable lesson. tit all events; namely, that It is possible to es tablish a press censorship that will not leak. The Duke of Marlborough wore a blue j ghat and the bridegroom wore flannel 6uit, et the Churchill-West wedding in London. It would seem, therefore, that the function might be called a recherche negligee affair. • ♦ • At the age of eighteen Miss Mary Yard ley of Philadelphia, was a frail, delicate girl, and iho doctors said she could not , live six months. Miss Yard ley died in Chicago a day or two ago, at the age of one hundred and five years. The Philadelphia Record thinks Chair man Hanna is too astute a politician to desire the nomination of un anti-imperial ist ticket at Indianapolis next month, “since such a ticket would he apt to ( draw more votes from McKinley than from Bryan.” The Prohibitionists of Connecticut, have j coined an epigram as a campaign slogan. “Beer follows the flag,” they declare, ; whether the constitution does or not. Ac. proof of the assertion they point to Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippine Isl ands. where the liquor trade has grown to large proportions. It is believed that the United States Philippine Commission, now at Manila, will make some sort of an arrangement by which a number of young Filipinos will be **ent to this country to attend school, at the expense of this government. Paternalism, of course, goes along with Imperialism; and the cost of both comes out of the taxpayers. The late L. E. Chittenden, register of the treasury under Lincoln, had a withered right arm and hand. The cause of his affliction, it is said, was brought on by the severe strain he underwent in writing his signature upon the hundreds of thou sandsof greenbacks issued by the govern ment during the war. The strain brought on paralysis, which resulted in the wither ed arm and hand. H. M. Curry, of Pittsburg, Pa., who dird a short time ago, b it a fortune of |3.- 273,330. He was a member of the Carne gie firm. Twemy-sevcn years ago he en tered the service- of Mr. Carnegie as n ebrk at a very small salary. He showed energy an 1 ability, and Mr. Carnegie ad vanced him whenever he could. Whatever else may be said of the gr. at iron king, it must he admitted that he has done a good part by a number of poor but capa ble young men. Frick, Phipps, Schwab, Curry and others were aided by' him to be come millionaires. DeWet, who offered to surrender to !rd Roberts conditionally, is a Free Stater, and one of the best fighters among th* Boers. For some time Roberts has been closing his lints on the forces of DeWet. with the purpose in view of pressing him kup against the mountains south of Beth* r It would appear from the Boer’s offer of surrender that Roberts had about He. complished his purpose. The English man* position i. probably such that he can fore unconditional surrender. Meanwhile, it seems that Lord Roberts could afford to be generous. POLITICAL SrPERSTITIOYH. Many politicians, as well as actcrs and gamble!s. arc superstitious It may not be that they believe in “signs," or that good luck will follow rubbing the hump of a hunchback; but they do believe that to a certain extent political affairs move in cycles, and with the turn of the wheel one party or the other will win. To sup pose that a s ate will vote one way or the other for the reason that it is “the time” for that state, according to precedent, to vote in that particular way, can hardly be called otherwise than a superstition. A Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post points out that most of th* political superstitions this year ore on the side of the Democratic party; a fact which is giving certain of ihe Repub licans no little uneasiness. One supersti tion, for examplf. is that New York alter nafes between the parties at intervals of four years Asa matter of fact it has done this ever since IS 4 In the last presi dential election it gave its vote to Mc- Kinley. If the line of precedents remains unbroken, therefore, Ntw York will go for Bryan next November. Indiana is an other state with a record along the same line Its period of change, however. Is eight years; and, as in the ease of New’ York. *he present year Is the time for it to swing from the Republican into the Democrat!.• column. For a long time Massachusetts had a habit of going Dem ocratic once in eight years, but two years ago a break was made in the regular or der of changes. Ohio has had a way of going Democratic once in six years, though that state, like Massachusetts, made a departure in its last election. It may be that they will start anew record this year by voting for the Democratic ticket and then taking up the old order again. Another so-called superstition is that the candidate of a great party who has been defeated once for the presidency will be successful the. next time. Ground for this belief is furnished by the cases of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew’ Jackson, William Henry Harrison and Grover Cleveland. Each of these gained strength as a defeated candidate, and upon sub sequent nomination was triumphantly elected. Mr. Bryan, who was defeated In 18%. is stronger now than he was then, and the prospects are favorable for his name to be* added to the list quoted above. Whether or not the beliefs mentioned should he called superstitions, they are based upon the tenable reasons that the people of the United States believe in ro tat on in politics and that it is not good for one party to remain in power too long. ODD EFFECT OF THE HOUR WAR. It is practically impassible to foresee ell the ramifications of the effects of a great war if one bad stated at the beginning of the war in South Africa that it would bring women in New York, Chicago. Boston and Philadelphia to cooking, dusting and house keeping generally, the remark would probably have excited only mirth. But it has been noted In the cities named that precisely that result has occurred to a limited degree; and it is feared the worst is yet to come. The most acceptable do mestic servants have heretofore immigrat ed from the British Isle**. Cooks and maids from Ireland and England are more in de mand, and give better satisfaction, than those from any other country. The rea son is that they speak the language of the United States and come nearer to under standing American manners and wants from the beginning than immigrants who speak a foreign tongue and must be taught not only the language, but practically a new set of customs. Enlistments for the war in South Af rica, however, have largely curtailed the supply of domestic help from the British Isles. The reason is that young women of the class that formerly came to America for domestic service now’ stay at home to do work that was formerly done by the men who are off fighting the Boers. Ix>- ing the work of the men, it is said, pays the women good wages, in addition to which they have the advantage of remain ing at home with family and kindred. The increasing difficulties in Europe— the imminent probabilities of a great war in the Far East—may have the effect of diminishing in a similar manner the do mestic servant supply drawn from Ger many, Austria and France*. Should that come about there would be only Scandi navia to depend upon as a chief source of domestic help—a contingency which is already filling some Northern and West ern housewives with alarm. If they will but reflect, however, upon the fact that there arc many thousands of available colored women in the South, and that they make fairly good domestics with training, the Northern housewives will see that the case is not hopeless. Should it transpire that, by means of the servant question, the Boer war led to a more even distribu tion of the colored race in this country, it would be an unlooked for benefit from an unexpected source. “As almost the only first-class Power in the world that has not shown a dispo sition to oppress, despoil ami dismember j her, it is not surprising that China holds ! out a hand for help to thin country.” So | says the New York Tribune. Unfortu nately for the symmetry of the idea, it | seems that China has held out a hand for help to nil of the other Powers, not ex cepting those which have clone the most in the wny of despoiling and dismembering i her. Hence China does not appeal to ! the United States because of any high rc ; gard she has for them, or because she believes their purposes are purer than I those of the other Powers. China desires ! to get out of the mess with a whole skin, and is therefore begging intervention in all quarters in the hope that it may be forthcoming from some quarter. The trust idea is gaining a strong foot hold in Germany. Recently a monster trust in iron and steel tools has been formed in that country. Its avowed pur pose is to fight foreign competition in tools, etc., and the “menacing commer cial invasion from the United States.” A secondary object, however, is to be the improvement of the quality of the tools and other articles made by the trust. Shorter campaign speeches are to be the rule in Maryland this year, according to the Baltimore Sun. The reform suggest ed Is a *tep in the right direction. Tho average stump speech is tiresome to everybody except the person who Is mak ing It. Let the speeches be short, sharp and direct to the |>oint, and they will prove much more effective than tlie oid ‘fttyle wind-jamming. THE MORNING NEWS: MON DAY, JULY 30. 1000. THE fiHBATEST COH\ fTIOP. Twenty-four hundred millions! The sum is astounding:. It is difficult for the human mind to conceive of whit such an enormous number means. Yet it is esti mated by the government’s weather crop service, and by well Informed men in the grain trade, that this country’s corn crop ihis year will be that many bushels. It staggers the mind to fry to imagine how big a pile bushels of corn would moke. The belief, indeed, is that that estimate of the crop, from the pres ent outlook, is moderate. Should no unto ward incident occur previous to fhc har vest. to cut off the yield, the grand total of bushels will be even greater. As to :he money value of the crop, it may be stated that corn is now quoted at 38 to 40 cents a bushel; but supposing that the great crop will cause a decline in price, the counfry’s corn this year will repre sent an enormous sum of money. It may be that after a while neither cotton nor iron will be king, but that corn will wield the ecepter. Twenty-five years ago Snmuel J. Tilden predicted that if would eventually become the agricul tural monarch of America. He foretold that Europe would Jose its prejudice against corn, or "maize.” as it is called there, and come to realize in full meas ure the excellent qualities of the grain. That prejudice is now rapidly losing ground, through the instrumentality of the "corn propaganda,” which the agri cultural department is maintaining at the Paris Exposition and elsewhere in Europe. In Ireland American corn has heretofore been associated in the public mind with the plague, because both made their appearance there in the year of the famine. But the Irish poopie, are learn ing that corn is wholesome, nutritious und palatable— ns good as wheat and bet fer tha.i potatoes as n staple article of food. In Austria and Belgium, also, corn is coming into favor as it becomes better known. In one or two of the European armies corn is being experimented with as an army rafion. That it will prove its virtue can not be doubted by’ those who know the grain. The prospects are good, therefore, for the opening up of a large foreign mark* t for corn. And with such a mnrket, there would be little danger of very Jow prices even if the American formers raised crops larger than twenty-four hundred million bushels. THE HOME FIELD NEGLECTED. Since the trouhles in China began peo ple in every port of this country have been wondering - whether the home mission field does not offer sufficient opportunities for missionary work without sending money and missionaries to foreign lands. In China missionaries are not appreciat ed, and the Chinese people would feel more kindly toward Christian nations if the latter would keep their missionaries at home. And why is it that our government Is spending money to find out the agricul tural possibilities of Porto Rico and Ha waii while there are vast sections of the states concerning which there is need of just such information. For instance, here in South Georgia the people want to know whether or not they can produce sugar profitably In competition with Cuba and Louisiana, and whether It would pay them to give special attention to the finer grades of tobacco. They would also like to know what they must do to prevent their pear trees from being destroyed by blight. There are other things they would like to know, and which the agri cultural department could tell them if it should devote more time and money to the study of such matters. Instead, however, of paying attention to home af fairs the agricultural department Is giv ing its time and money to Porto Rico and Hawaii. Prof. S. A, Ivnapp of Louisiana has been sent to Porto Rico to find out the possibilities and conditions of that island. He is particularly charged with finding some way for ameliorating the condition of the agricultural population, and in that connection he is going to make some co-operative experiments. Hr. W. C. Stubbs of the Louisiana Ex periment Station has been sent to Hawaii, to assist the sugar planters of that isl and in finding some method of irrigating their plantations that will be less expen sive than the present one. It is said that some of the Hawaiian sugar plantations coat us much as $125 an acre per annum to irrigate them. There nrc vast tracts in the Western states which would be immensely valua ble if some cheap method of irrigation I could be devised. They could be irrigat ed at much less expense than the sugar lands of Hawaii. Why is it that Dr. Stubbs was not directed to make n report in respect to these lands instead of being sent to Hawaii? Unless vve are greatly mistaken, the owners of the sugar lands of Hawaii are nabobs, and are well able to pay the expense of getting infor mation for milking their plantations more productive. There is no reason why home Interests should be neglected In order to look after the Interests of peoples who ! inhabit our newly ac quired Islands. This re|>orl, which is alleged to emanate from Perry Heath of the Republican Committee, to the effect that ex-Spcaker Reed has been blacklisted and will not be permitted to speak in the current cam paign, is all very queer. So far as the public knows Mr. Reed has never Inti mated any desire to speak. Should he in dicate a willingness to go on the stump for Mr. McKinley it Is perfectly safe to say that his services would be gladly ac cepted. If Perry Heath really said any such thing. It is pretty sure that the rea son is similar to that which led the fox to call the grapes sour. It Is probable that Gov. Roosevelt will do some campaigning In Kentucky. The Republicans of that scale realize that they have got to do something to counteract the damaging effect of the testimony that is being brought out in the Powers trial at Georgetown, and they think, probably that the rough-and-tumble Governor of New York will divert public attention from the ugly elorles that are being aired | in the court. ♦ i— j Even In Wall street, the home of money and the head-center of the gold stand trd, there are men who believe that Bryan will be elected. One of them wagered $5OO the other .lay thnt the Nebraskan would he 1 the next President. The Ist was made at J odds of three to one. but when It is re membered that it was a Wall street bet, , amid the strongest anti-Bryan surround | Ingn, there la nothing strange about the •odd*. PERSONAL —Secretary of War EJihu Root Is an ex pert chess player, and he generally amuses himself during his unoccupied evenings ei.her by a game* with a friend or in solv ing some difficult problem. —Rev. Henry B. Smith, rector of St. Paul’s Church, Ardmore. I. TANARUS., who has just been ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, is a full-blooded Cher okee Indian. He will soon leave St. Paul’s Church to become n member of the staff of the Cathedral at Milwaukee. —The eldest son cf the Garkwar of Ba~o da. Prince Fatteh Sing Rao, is to he sent • o Oxford, England, for his education. Ho holds the command of a regiment of cav alry in the army of the Baroda state. Some of the Oarkwar’s younger sons are also to he sent to the schools of England. —Elizabeth Forster, the sister of the philosopher Nietzsche, has sent a protest to the German literary papers against the publication of any of her brother's letters, either in hooks or periodicals, unless by earlier permission of the author or the present consent of his literary’ representa tives. —Sir Charles Tupper, perhaps the most distinguished of Canada’s statesmen, has no doubt inherited much of his ability from his father. Tt is relaed of the lit ter. who was a Baptist clergyman, that by the time he was 65 y’ears old he had read the w’hole Bible in eight language and the New Testament in ten different tongues. He died in 1881 at the advanced age of 87. —“Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’ prophecy about the last survivor nt the end of the century of his loved Harvard clast* of '29 — that there would he only one left ‘when the twentieth century’s sunbeams climb the far-off eastern hill’—has not been fulfill ed.” says the New York Evening Post. "There are two survivors of this class — Charles Storer Storrow of Boston, fellow’ of the American Academy, and Dr. Ed ward Einzee Cunningham of Newport. R. 1.. h*>th of whom have been unable to at tend the commencement exercises.” —Gen. Andre, the new French Minister of War. is in his 63d year, and is tall and of great physical and intellectual vigor. He entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1855. and was commissioned a sub-lieutenant In the artillery in March in the following year. After nearly thirty* y’ears of ser vice he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1885, and of major general in 1893. Just a year ago he was made a general of division. He is an avowed en emy of politics in the army’, and it is ex pected by the friends of the Waldeck- Rousseau cabinet that the policy of ap peasement will find in him a powerful supporter. BRIGHT BITS. —Hoax—“What made the elevator fall?'’ Joax—"The elevator man took a drop too much.”—Philadelphia Record. —-Jinks—“l don’t believe Dante’s descrip tion of the Inferno is correct.” Winks— “ Why not?" Jinks—"Not one of the shades said to any other shade: ‘ls it hot enough for you?' "—New York Weekly. —lnferred—Mrs. HatterEon—"l don't know what I shall do. My husband has been so discontented lately over his meals at home.” Mrs. Catterson—"Why, I didn't know you were without a cook.”— Detroit Free Press. —Self-Interest.—She—"The author evi dently believes In the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number; do you agree with him?" He—“ Oh. yes; only I believe the greatest number is number one."—Brooklyn Life. —Mother (angrily)—"Did I see you play ing pitch and toss with that little Dougall boy?” Tommy—" Yes. ma." Mother "Weil, don’t do it again. Do you hear me?" Tommy—" Yes. ma. I won't do it no more. He hasn’t a ha’penny left."— Glasgow Evening Times. —Wit Enough.—First Bookkeeper— “ That Jinks is the wittiest man in the office!" Second Bookkeeper—"l never heard him say a bright thing'" First Bookkeeper—"No; hut he’s got wit enough lo laugh heartily every time the boss tells that stale old chestnutty joko of his!"— Puck. —Absolute Faith.™" Have you faith In your theory about Mars being inhabited?" inquired the skeptic. "I should say I have faith in it!" answered the man with the telescope. "Why. thnt theory is good for $5O a thousand words every time f choose to write an article on it."—Wash ington Star. —His Rowing Fxpericnce.—A Pittsburg physician who thought of taking his col ored servant with him on a projected fish ing trip. Interrogated him as to his a~- quaintor.ee with aquatics. After a few preliminary questions, he asked: "Have you ever rowed, James?” "Only on the cyuhs, sah.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele graph. II It RENT COMMENT. The Philadelphia Times (Ind.) says: “It is said tin* Republican campaign man agers. now’ threatened with nervous pros tration through fear of what Gov. Roose velt may say in his campaign speeches, have at last hit upon the happy plan of arranging the Rough Rider's schedule so that he will speak successively at widely separated points. This will afford the Colonel opportunity for spectacular dashes hack and forth across the country, which will delight his heart anil till him with the idea that he is strenuous and yet re sult in the least possible output of words. The Chattanooga Times (Dem.) says: “ ‘Cyclone’ Davis, Butler and ail ihe gang of Populist mischief makers, are rushing into North Carolina to assist In defeating the Democrats of that state, in protecting I themselves against the horde of ignorant and vicious forces that have heen for sev eral years past threatening the peace and dignity and social order of the state. Pop ulism has no sympathy with Democracy n<l it is only regrettable that it will take another presidential election lo convince the leaders of the party that this is so.” The Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem.) says: “The habit of buying islands seems to grow on President McKinley. He is about to purchase two more from Spain ‘with out waiting for the aid or consent* of he United States Congress, and his object in purchasing them is to prevent any other nation from getting them. The* mice agreed upon is said to bo $in0.0!)0. which is about sls a head for tlie* inhabitants. Wo bought our Tagalo subjects for only $2 a head. ‘Niggers is rlz!’ ” The Pittsburg Dispatch says: Tt is comforting to learn that the highly wrought picture of Admiral Seymour kill ing ids wounded to prevent their falling into the hands of the Chinese was entirely i production of the Shanghai imagination. | There was reason to doubt it in the first place, ns the reports direct from the Ad miral mating thai he was halted and needed aid were to secure full transporta tion. But it Is pleasant to have the story flatly com radio tod." The Knoxville Sentinel (Dem.) says: “According to the Malthusian theory, wars, pestilences and famines are neces sary in order 10 keep the world's popula j tlon limited to the number of people who an be fed from what is produced on the world's surface. If that theory is cor rect, the numerous wars now going on are part of a divine dispensation to the end I that there shall not be too many of us oil scrra lirma.” A !.**• t Opportunity. A tall, official-looking man with a black pocketbook In his hand, says Spare Mo ments, called the other morning upon our friend Barnes, nnd observed: “I beg your pardon, Mr. Barnes, but 7 believe you possess—ah, yes—a black re triever dog with a white patch over its eye.” Visions of unpaid dog licenses burst up on Barnes, who, with great energy, repli ed: “Oh, no—oh, dear, no; nothing of the kind. He is a {>oor stray brute who fol lowed me home, but docs not belong to me ‘ “Oh, indeed,” said the stranger, “that Is all right, then. Only my client. Mr. Cold rwell, accidentlly shot the dog this morn ing, and I came round to compromise the matter by offering you five pounds; but, of course, it he is not your dog—well, good morning.” Aliaferro Taliaferro. “I suppose,” said a government clerk to a Washington Star reporter, “that you have heard of ihe Virginia family of Der by which spells Its name E-n-r-o-u-g-h --t-y, as well as the Chumleys of England, but 1 came across one the other day that I’ll bet a hat you never heard of. The subject of the sketch was a Virginian, or claimed that he wa*. and he was so youthful and unsophisticated that I guess lie was telling the truth. Children and fools, you know, have a weakness in that regard. “I met the young fellow on a train be tween Richmond and Petersburg, and we struck up quite an acquaintance. He told me his name was Tolliver—Oliver Tolliver —and I very naturally asked him If he spelled his name as did ihe famous F. F. V. Tnlinferros, and he said he did nnd seemed to be proud of it. I was rather proud to be friendly with one of the name myself and made myself extra agreeable. “When he left me at a way station and bade me good-by, he tendered me his card and told mo he hoped I would not forget him. I didn’t look at the card fill he had gone, and would you believe i*. the young fellow’ had his name spelled to match, as it were, and it appeared thus: ‘Mr. Aliaferro Taliaferro,’ which, in my humble opinion, was getting Oliver Tolliver down pretty fine. Don’t you think so, too?” YVhnt the Great linn Needs. The chevalier, Gerard de Kampis, was ft very rich and a very proud man. says an exchange. Soon after the completion of his magnificent castle he wished to have a house-warming, and accordingly all his great neighbors were invited to a great feast. At the conclusion of a sumptuous repast his guests made speech after speech in which the host was lauded to the skies, and told that he was the most for tunate man alive. As the chevalier loved flattery, we can Imagine how proud and delighted he was. One among the guests, however, said nothing for a time. When each man had made his speech he uttered the following singular observation upon the happiness of the host: “Sir Knight, in order that your felicity should be complete, you require but one thing, but this is a very imi>ortant item.” “And what thing is that?” demanded the knight, opening wide his eyes. “One of your doors must be w’alled up,” replied his guest. At this strange rejoinder several of the guests began to laugh, and Gerard himself looked as much as to say. “this man has gone mad.” Wishing, how’ever, to have the clew to this enigma, he continued: “But which door do you mean?” “I mean that through w’hieh you will one day be carried to your grave,” replied the other. The words struck both guests and host, nnd made the latter reflect most seriously. The proud man remembered the vanity of all earthly things, and henceforth he no longer thought only of the perishable treasures he had once gloried in. He was completely altered and made good use of his riches. Buying n Fun. MBs Ka‘harinr Leo Bates, who spent some months in Spain last year, declares according to the Youth’s Companion, that the dark-eyed damsels of the fan and lace mantilla are quite as charming as tradi tion lias pictured them. Ignorant they commonly are, their education being of the most meager, but they are not dull. They are quick-witted, high-sp'riud, and affectionate, and are possessed cf a grace of speech and manner which rarely de serts them. Nor do they reserve their pretty ways only for the ballroom or the tailor; even ordinary shopping is lifted into a scene of elegant comedy by the manner in which it B transacted. This is how a Spanish senorita bargains for her fan: There is nothing sordid about it. Her haggling is a social condescension that at once nuts tlie black-eyed young salesman at her mercy. \ “But the fan seems to me the least bit ♦bar. senor!” He shrugs his shoulders and flings out his arm in protest. “Ah. senorita! You do not see how beau tiful the work is. 1 am giving it 4a way at 6 peseta’s.’* She lifts her eyebrows half-incredulous ly. all bewitchingly. “At 5 pesetas, senor.” He runs his hand through his black hair in chivalrous distress. “But the peerless work, s norita! And this other, too. I sacrifice it at four pese tas." She touches both fans lightly. “You will lot us have the two at seven pesetas, senor?” Her eyes dance over his confusion. He catches the gleam, laughs back, throws up h s hands. “Bueno, senorita! At what you please!” And the senorita trips away contented with a sharp bargain, all hough—for Span ish gallantry,ev n when genuine.goes far ther on Ups. than otherwise—the price w ts probably not much more remote from what plea el the smooth-tongued clerk than from what she pleased. The Debutante. From Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. Who has an arch and mirthful air? Yet when her chaperone is near Seems like an angel unaware? The debutante. Who loves to be extolled end fanned, Yet blushes when you hold her hand As if she didn’t understand? The debutante. Who has a partner in advance For every german, play and dance, And slays a heart with every glance? The debutante. Who leaves a ball and german late. And loves an a L oved tete-a-tete, And sees no serious side to Fate? The debutante. Who at the table takes her seat In some grind banquet-hall complete Yet is too delicate o eat? Tlie debutante. Who welcomes with n rlppflng Laugh The many flattering toasts you quaff. And finds in tin m more wheat that chaff? The debutante. Who listens wbh a coy content To words of love from warm hearts sent, Yet fells you they were never meant? The debutante. Who is it makes the veteran sage. Lagging “superfluous on the stage” Of social life, forget hia age? The debutante. Who is it has unbounded fun ; And sleep* not till tlie rising sun, | With all of Cupid's work well done? i The debutante. Hamilton Hayne. ITEMS OF INTEREST. —The first Corean woman to receive a complete medial education is Mme. Pak. who h3s just graduated from a med ical school in Baltimore. She graduated with honors, though for a long time dur ing her course of study sbe was the de voted nurse of her husband, who died of consumption aome months ago. —The people of Winchester, W. Va., are very anxious to make that town attrac tive as a summer resort, but the abund ance of mosquitoes has thus far inter fered with their plans. In order to do away with the mosquilo pest, therefore, the Town Council has just passed an or dinance requiring every citizen to pour kerosene on every open pool on his prop erty daily, and providing that every open rain barrel shall have a spigot a the bot tom, so that its contents may be drawn off before they become stagnant. —The authorities of Sydney, New South Wales, have been conducting a vigorous fight against the plague, with encourag ing results. The starling point of the disease in Sydney was in the waterside premises in Darling harbor, w’here nearly all imported produce is unloaded, and where rats abound. The government treated this section of the city, bit by bit, quarantining a certain area, catching nil the rats possible, pulling down prem ises that were absolutely intolerable, and disinfecting and whitewashing every where. —The population of Belgium, according to census returns, which have just been made public, was 6,744.532 on Dec. 31. 1899. Of this number 3,363,436 were males and 3,381.0% females. Officially, Antwerp is the most populous city, with 282.018 Inhab itants, and Brussels follows with 210,065; hut if the eight contiguous suburbs of Brussels (which are practically parts of the city) had been counted her population would have been 570.884. The other prin cipal cities of Belgium rank as follows: Liege, 171.031; Ghent, 163.030; Bruges, 53,- 050; Namur, 32,110, and Mons, 25,599 k —The Supreme Court of Rhole Island has just decided that flowers are a neces sary feature of a funeral. The case un der consideration was an action brought by a florist against the administrators of the estate of a deceased citizen, who had refused to pay the plaintiff for flowers furnished on ihe credit of the estate. The court justified the expenditure, remark ing that -the custom of having flowers at funerals is well-nigh universal in this country, and that w’hen not abused by extravagance or unseeminly ostentation it is certainly to be commended as giving appropriate expression to our feelings of respect and love for the departed. —The Electrical World and Engineer suggests that in view of the difficulty in getting news from Pekin, it might be as well for the legations in barbarous re* prions to have apparatus sent them nt once, as news from the legations should be available at all times, nnd, imperfect as the wireless system is, it is fnr better than nothing, and a lot of lives might be saved by its use. The journol also de clares that it is equally imperative that direct cable communication be established with China, as, while it would be “strat egic” at first, it would be commercial within a short space of lime. The fact that the only way of getting news to nnd from China by telegraph is by way of Asia and Europe i9 declared to be folly in these days. —“German business methods are super ior to ours,” says the American consul at Sydney, Australia, in his last report. “The American agent too often says, You want this: it is the latest and best thing out.* And w’hile he is arguing his customer imo a good humor, the German says: Tell me just what you want and you shall have it by the Barbaros-a.’ The American wants to satisfy himself; the German wants to satisfy his customer. The German is a merchant, while too of ten the American is a missionary. If the Germans would improve the quality of their wans and give half as much at tention to style as Americans do, we would have to look out for our laurels. But in view of their enterprise we have a hard competitor in this people.” —When Sir Richard Burton was travel ing among the Afghans in the disguise of a holy fakir, he came to a village that im pressed him favorably as n place to stay for a few days of rest. Wishing to keep up his assumed character, he exerted him self to make a good impression as a holy man. He was surprised when an elder quietly sought him and advised him to go away. Sir Richard not unnaturally in quired whether the villagers were not pleased with him, or whether he had done anything to offend them. “Quite the con trary,” said the old man. “The people are so impressed with your holiness that they think your tomb or shrine would lie a most valuable thing to have in the vil lage. and they have l>een discussing all night what would be the best means of securing it.” At that point Sir Richard Burton became convinced that he had overacted his role, and that it would he but the part of wisdom to put a few miles between himself and the village as quickly as possible. —Provost Ba tersby, writing to the London Morning Post from Germiston, South African Republic, describes a pic turesque incident that occurred on the eve of the occupation of that town at the end of May. In the course of an isolated atempt by a body of mounted infantry to enter the town two troopers were phot, one fatally, as the men w’ere cantering back to cover. The horse of the other stopped for a while by itsxmaster, th<n walked over and took a look a> the dead trail, and then went back to the other, rubbing him with its nose and pretend ng to go away without him. Finally, as though realizing the wounded man’s help less condition, it knelt down beside him, the trooper making several ineffectual at tempts to scramble into the saddle. Mean time the enemy had begun to fire on the horse, which scampered off, while the Hooper—a Colonial—managed to stagger, a few yards at a time, to the shelter of the railway. “There, raising himself on one arm, he waved the other to his horse, which cantered back at the signal to the rest of the troop.” It is interesting o know that the horse can thus be disci plined to the display of a sagacity almost as great as that of a collie. —Dr. A. E. Wright, professor of pa thology in the British Army Medical School, at Netley, has published some ex tremely interesting and signiflcent tables showing the results of the antt-typboidal inoculations among the men of Lady smith garrison. The number of troops not inoculated under observation was 10.- 529, and of inoculated troops 1,705. Among the former there were 1,489 cases of en rric fever, and among the latter 35 eases. The proportion of attacks in ihe one case was l in 7.07, and In he other l in 48.7. The number of deaths among the men not inoculated was 329, and among the inoculated 8. The proportion of deaths to the whole number of men not Inoculated was 1 in 32, the proportion among the inoculated lin 213. The pro portion of deaths to the total number of attacks was in the case of the men not inoculated 1 In 4.52, and in the case of ihe inoculated lin 4.4. 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