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4 gffje IBoftting RcTDlng News Building. Sinßßuh, tin. WEDNESDAY, AI GI ST 1, 1900. Registered at the Postofflce in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the. year, and to eerved to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month, ft.oo for six months, and fs.oo for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), *tuev months, 51.50, six months J 3.00; one year $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, 91.00. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered tetter. Currency cent, by mail at riek ©i lenders. 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 and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS,” Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Pork Row. New York city, 11. C. Faulkner, Manager. ISDEX 10 KEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting—P. E. Club. Special Notices—Suwanee Springs, Flor ida: Dissolution, Strauss & Cos.; Notice to City Court Jurors; Notice of Dissolution, R. Q. Caesels & Son; Ship Notice, Btr&chan A Cos., Consignees; Levan’s Ta ble d’Ho’e; Now* at Branch’s, Thomas W. Lyon; John Funk, City Market. Business Notices—E. & W. Laundry; Harvard Beer, S. W. Branch Cos. Black Velvet Ribbons—Ther Bee Hive. New Mackerel—At Munster’s. Summer Resorts—The Grand Union, 4 Saratoga New York. Proclamation—Submitting Constitution al Amendment Regarding Pensions for the Widows of Confederate Soldiers to a Vote of the People. Corsets Thomson’s “Glove-Fitting” Corsets. Remember This—Lindsay & Morgan. Good Morning—B. H. Levy & Bro. Educational—Episcopal* High School for Boys, Three Miles from Alexandria, Va.; Mount St. Agnes’ College for Women, Mount Washington, Maryland. No One Perplexed—Leopold Adler. Legal Notices—Citation from the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham County. Proposals Wanted—For Constructing Storehouse at Fort Screven, Tybee Isl and. Medical—Munyon’s Liver Cure; Bar- Ben; Castoria; Hood’s Pills; Cutioura; Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters; Dr. Kil mer’s Swamp Root; Radway’s Pills. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Loet; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The Indications for Georgia to-day are for partly cloudy weather, with light to fresh northerly winds, and for Eastern Florida generally fair weather, with variable winds. ' l People of the South car* understand and appreciate why the Porto Ricans decline to become enthusiastic over the carpet ing government, which has been given them. _ at The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Record learns that Senator Hanna has made a list of the states which he considers doubtful and that New York 1 in that list. The New York Herald notes that there has been a great reduction In the number of cases of blindness in that city during recent years. The cause of this gratify ing cof-ditlon is stated to be the better care of the eyes of children by parents and by the various charitable institu tions. The fediral department of agriculture it is said, is now giving its attention lo the propagation of dragon flies as a means of getting rid of the mosquito pest. The idea is to raise dragon flies wher ever mosquitoes abound, and let the in sect hawks keep down the pests by prey ing on them. The blue-ribbon "fool" election bet has been made in Detroit. Williams agrees if Bryan is elected to support Stebbins’ mother-in-law for life. Stebbins agrees If McKinley is elected to twist the tall of Williams' mule daily for three weeks, unless permanently disabled before the expiration of that period of time. * - ir I Gov. Roosevelt, It Is said, Is having lone little trouble with his throat. After that recent speech of his, In which he •aid the Democrats were cowards. It was to be expected that Pcnator Hanna, or the President, would suggest to him that his throat was out of order and that ho ought to take a good, long rest from speaking. It begins to appear that the Orange Free Staters are almost out of the war game in South Africa. When DeWct has been got rid of, the resistance to the Brit ish in the Orange River Colony will havo practically disappeared. What the Trans vaaltrs will do remains to be seen, but the probabilities are that, like their al lies. they will reach the conclusion l>e fore a great while that it Is folly to con tinue a hope! ss light. Walter Jones, the actor, has found a means of advertising which he likes bet ter than any of the old dodges which have been practiced by the profession from time Immemorial. Jones doesn't go to the point of getting married, hence he avoids the trouble of subsequent divorces, but he gets engaged several times each Besson end has the engagements announc ed in the newspapers. For the nineteenth time in three years, hi# engagement has been announced, his efflaned this time be ing Mrs. Fulsifer, a rich young widow -of Chicago. THE GERMAN VOTE. The question os to whether Mr. Bryan vrill bo able to capture the German-Amer lcan vote is the subject of a great deal of discussion in poiieical circles. If he can get that vote he will be the next President. He is not looking for It in the East, but in the Middle West—in the states of Illinois, Michigan., Wisconsin, Minnesota. Indiana and Ohio. In each of thcee states the German-American vote is large. It is well understood that the German-American citizens are opposed to imperialism and militarism. If these were the only issues in. the campaign there is not much doubt as to the ticket for which they would cast their ballots. The only thing that makes them hesitate to go over to Mr. Bryan is the silver plank in the Democratic platform. If they were sure that thre was no danger of legislation in favor of the 16 to 1 idea in the event of the success of the Demo crats, they would not hesitate a moment about supporting the Democratic ticket. It seems to be the understanding that they are about half convinced that there is no danger of the gold standard being disturbed. If they can be fully convinced of it there will not be much doubt of Mr. Bryan’s election. The Republicans perceive the danger and they will spare no efforts to make the silver question the leading one of the campaign. They will keep it at the front if they can. They have no doubt appar ently as to how the East will vote. They are that they will carry every Eastern state, so satisfied are they that the East is solidly against the free coin age of silver. In that section therefore, they will likely give a good deal of at tention to imperialism and militarism, but in the Middie West they will keep the silver question constantly before the peo ple. Ohio has pretty nearly 200,000 German- American voters. It is estimated that fully 90 per cent, of the voters of that class cast their ballots for Mr. McKinley in 1896. If they should decide to vote against imperialism the President would lose his own state by a large majority. And he would lose all of the other fore going states. The German-Americans have not yet made up their minds as to which ticket they will vote, and it is probable that they tviil not do so until the campaign has been pretty nearly fought to a conclu sion. It is therefore a mere matter or speculation as to which ticket will have their support. The present indications are that they will give their support to Mr. Bryan. But it would be a mistake for the Democrats to assume that they will, and make but little effort to convince them that it is to their interest to do so. It is certain that the Republicans w.ll spare no effort to get them to support Mr. McKinley. KING Hi >1 HURT’S ASSASSIN. It Is a source of satisfaction that the assassin of King Humbert, although a res ident of the United States for .a number of years, is not a native of thl3 coun try. He is a native of Italy. From the statements which have been published about him Ihe inference is that he was not moved to kill the King by a feeling of hos tility to him personally. He belonged to a secret society that has for Us object the killing of royal rulers and statesmen who stand in the way of its policy. One of his fellow workmen at Paterson, N. J., had been selected to kill King Humbert. The man chosen preferred to commit suicide. Then the man who finally did the terri ble deed was chosen. No doubt he realiz ed that if he succeeded in accomplishing his object ho would pay the penally of his crime with his life. In a land of liberty and plenty like this It is hard to realize that there exist con ditions in other lands which call into exis tence societies whose chief object is mur der. It can hardly be possible that those who are members of thes* societies aro wholly sane. They seem to have the Idea that by killing their lawful rulers changes In government will be wrought by which the condition of the poverty-stricken masses will be improved. The blows they strike produce no reforms. They are fol lowed by a more vigorous policy of sup pression. The condition of the masses In Italy is deplorable. The government and the mili tary establishment cost far more than the people are able to pay. The people aro not benefited, however, by the assassina tion of such rulers as King Humbert was. He was an exceptionally brave and sym pathetic monarch. He was as close to the people as a royal ruler ever gets to be. He was beloved by all classes. He did not maJce the laws. He simply executed them. If the laws were oppressive the rep resentatives of the people were to blame for then*. It may be that he could have influenced legislation In the direction of lightening the burdens of taxation, but It Is seldom that kings understand the real condition of the people. Assassination at the hands of secret so cieties is getting to be quite common In Europe. Only recently the hand of an as sassin was raised against the Prince of Wales. President Carnot of the French Republic was struck down by an assas sin's blow in June of 1894, and the Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, was stabbed to the heart by an anarchist In September 1898. The assassins of Humbert. Carnot and the Empress were all Italians. Italy seems to be the home of assassination so cieties. Mrs. Kehew, a rich woman of Boston, Is the originator of a practical charity which deserves commendation. Hereto fore she has been In the habit, like other rich folks, of shutting up her city house while she went away for the summer months. This year, however, she has loaned her house to six working girls, who will occupy it without cos to them selves during the four months that its owner is away at the seaside and In the mountains. Mrs. Kehew thinks that If others would follow her example, life would be made easier and more enjoy able for a number of respectable, self supporting young women. Somebody in Chicago Is trying to trade upon Mr. Bryan’s popularity. A book has been published In that city, called "The Second Battle, by W. J. Bryan ard Others.” The ”W. J. Bryan" is printed In big letters, while the "Others" ap pears In small type. The matter In the book consists bf speeches by Mr. Bryan, John P. Altgeld, B. R. Tillman and sev eral others. The Impression conveyed by the title Is that It Is Mr. Bryan's sec ond book. He has repudiated the af fair, and. says he has nothing to do with it. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY - , AUGUST 1. 1900. “GOUGSNG THE GOVERNMENT.” Under the above caption the Charleston News and Courier protefr.s against the efforts of certain property owners to ex tort exorbitant prices from the govern ment for certain lots owned by them on Sullivan’s Island. The government desires the property for the purpose of erecting permanent barracks at the military post on the island. An appropriation of $135,020 has been made with which to pay all the expenses of the erection of the barracks. It seems that the islanders aTe proceed ing upon the principle that the owner is entitled to get every penny he /ran out of the purchaser, without reference to any other con ski era t lon. The United States government is rich, therefore there isn’t any reason why they shouldn’t squeeze, or, as the News .and Courier says, “gouge” the government when they get an oppor tunity to do so; that appears to be the spirit of these property owners. How much of a “good thing” they are playing Uncle Sam for may be gathered from a comparison of the assessed value of some of the lota and the prices the owners are asking. Tw'O lots are assessed at S4OO each. For these the owners are willing to take $5,000 each. One other lot, with buildings, is assessed at SI,OOO. The owner would be willing to part with it for $6,500. Another lot cost Its owner $750, but being patriotic, he would let the government have it for SIO,OOO. The assessed value of five lots, with all improvements, is $3,300. The price charged the government for them is $30,300. This matter of the price of real estate on Sullivan’s Island is interesting, because the government may have to buy other lands “at or near the city of Charleston” before long as a site for a naval station. The News and Courier’s Washington cor respondent some weeks ago wired his paper that there had reached the capital reports of syndicates securing control of the available sites for the station with a view to “gouging the government.” Whether there is a basis of truth for that report we have never learned. But, to judge from the case of the Sullivan Island property, it ly not necessary for the Charlestonians to’ form syndicates “to gouge the government.” when it is a mat ter of purchasing land near the city of Charleston. Individuals seem to be ready to do the matter to a trust taste. The army appropriation bill provides $135,000 for the Sullivan’s Island barracks; the navy appropriation bill provides a possible SIOO,OOO for a site for a naval station. These are no doubt tempting plums to the’owntrs of real estate about Charleston that may be available. But it may transpire that the government will kick against being charged premiums of 1,000 per cent, and more for the privilege of establishing posts and stations at a port where there is no adequate fresh wa ter supply, and where millions of dollars in addition must be expended before Its big ships can get in and out of the har bor. I9Mf,t) AS HOSTAGES. There seem to be good reasons now 1 for thinking that, with the exception of the German minister, the ministers at Pekin are alive and free from immediate danger, and that they are being held as hostages. The Chinese government ap pears to have on idea that 4t can make better terms if it holds the ministers with the threat, that If ifs terms are not agreed to the ministers will be turned over to the Boxer mob. 14 Hung Chang Is much wiser than the government. He knows that the Powers would not be bluffed by the Chinese government, and so he ad vises that the ministers be sent to Tien Tsin with a guard capable of protecting them. A quite difficult problem, It must be ad mitted, would be presented to the Pow ers If the Chinese government should offer terms in settlement of the outrages which have been committed, and say that un less they were accepted the ministers would be killed. It is hardly probable, however, that the Chines© government will present to the Powers any such ulti matum. The Powers would have no very good feeling towards China If they should be forced to accept terms conspicuously unjust in order to save the lives of their ministers. Some of them might take an early opportunity to break a peace se cured In such a manner, and in ihe end China would have to pay far more dear ly for the outrages on the ministers and the killing of missionaries, than If she should frankly acknowledge her liability for damages, and offer to settle on the best terms she could obtain. It seems from the dispatches that it Is not the purpose of this country and Great Britain, to parley with China any longer, but to move on to Pekin at the earliest possible moment. The Americans and Rritlsh have a very small force at Tien T-sin. It is not large, enough to justify an advance unless there is an understand ing of some sort that the government will not obstruct the advance—that the only opposition will be from the Boxers. The statement that the Americans and the British have determined to advance at once and to act independently of the other Pqwers, is perhaps a little prema ture. No doubt the American and British generals would like to make Ihe attempt to reach Pekin and rescue the ministers, but unless the situation Is very different from what it Is supposed to be, to go forward with the small force which they have, would be a foolhardy undertaking. Congress and twenty-nine of the states have passed laws expressly designed and constructed to prohibit trusts; neverthe less, they flourish and multiply' as If there were nothing against them. The Satur day Evening Post has been gathering some statistics with respect to trusts, and ilnds that within recent years trusts have been formed in this country with capital aggregating seven thousand millions of dollars. In the number there are thirty corporations which are capitalized at $50.- 000 000 or more each. These thirty are credited with capital amounting to two and one-third billions of dollars. There are 400 corporations In the list of trusts. The Post says: "The entire general stock of money of all kinds In the United States, gold, stiver, notes and certificates, amounts to about/$2,700,000,000; so that If all the 400 combines In the list should in to turn their capital Into cash, they would use up every penny of the nation’s money and then have only about 40 per cent, of their demands. Indeed, the thirty cor porations mentioned would use up nearly all our cash,” This gives some idea of the enormous proportions to which the trusts have grown, in the face of the mass of legislation aimed especially at khem. The cotton tie trust is likely to have competition before a great while, and of a sort that will make trouble for k—at l*art for a while. It may be tha* in the long run the trouble will re-act upon the consumers, as is usually the case when great corporations fight each other. It is reported that the Carnegie Steel Company will erect a great mill for the manufac ture of rods, bands and hoops, such as are manufactured by the American Steel Hoop Company. This latter corporation now possesses what is a practical monopo ly of the steel hoop and band business. Should Carnegie enter the field as a com petitor, it is almost cure there would be a fight of greater or less length. A Chinese newspaper is re ; j>onsible for th * that tome of I r rice Tuan’s Boxers played a gruesome joke h.m recently. Prince Tuan, it seems, offered a reward for all of the foreigners’ heads that b? 1 rought to his office in Pekin, .he Boxers, finding it difficult to secure heads of foreigners in considerable quantities, decapitated ail Chinamen that they could find l a i g hi h noses and deep eyes, thus making quite a heavy draught upon the prince’s money box. Freight rates on groin from Pacific ports have gone up to the highest point touched in several years. The reason is that the urgent demand for ships to be used in transporting troops, coal and pro visions to the Orient has greatly reduced the available bottoms for carrying gram. The price of canned meats has advanced 20 per cent, within the past few daye, on account of the heavy demand for export for the use of armies now in the field or ordered there. v Mrs. Mary Green of New Rochelle, N. Y., announces that, despite her 75 years, she will take the stump this year for Bryan. Her reason, she says, is that she is opposed to militarism and Imperial ism. PERSONAL. —Emperor William of Germany has or dered Ihniael Gentz, the well known painter of Oriental scenes, to prepare a series of paintings of the Kaiser’s recent pilgrimage to Jerusalem. —Col. Frank O. Lowden, who is men tioned as a successor in the Senate to Senator Cullom, is 39 years old end be gan teaching school at 25. by which means he paid his way through the lowa Stare University. —Slatin Pasha, who has returned to Vi enna from the Soudan, where he has re ported on certain questions in whifch the Anglo-Egyptian government and a finan cial syndicate are interested, says that the country is perfectly quiet and in good order, but that he would not undertake to guarantee that it will remain so, unless the greatest caution is observed. —One of the best known American con suls to China is Rev. Samuel L. Graoey, D. D., who is at Foo Choo. Dr. Gracey was born in Philadelphia in 1835. After obtaining an education ho was for thirty years pastor of Methodise churches of considerable prominence in and about Philadelphia, Wilmington and Boston. He was twice elected to the Massachu setts Legislature from Salem —The House of Commons will lose one of its celebrities when Sir H. M. Stanley retires from it. Sir Henry does not in tend to seek' re-election. He is one of those men who come into Parliament with a great reputation made in other spheres and who loes-e none of their glamor in contact with members whose fame be longs to the House itself. As member for North 'Lambeth Sir Henry plays an un distinguished part. He votes steadily ana speaks rarely. BRIGHT BITS. —lndisputable—"l tell you the Weekly Banner is dead-right on the Chinese situ ation." “How many men docs It say we ought to send?” “Says we need an ade quate force.”—Puck. —More Information Tommy "Say, paw.” Mr. FI gg—“Well?” "What Is a Hopper?” "A flopper, my son. Is a man that leaves his party because he cannot take it with him.”—lndianapolis Press, —"Most children,” said the old school master, "are very much like postage stamps.” "Indeed?” said his friend. "Yes; they have to be licked to make them stick to their letters.”—Philadelphia Record. —A country paper has this personal item: “Those who know old Mr. Wilson of this place personally will regret to hear that he was assaulted In a brutal manner last wetk, but was not killed.”— Tit-Bits. —His Definition.—" You never studied or atory ?" "No,” answered Senator Sorghum. "I never cared to be a speaker.” “What is your Idea of a true orator?" "An orator, sir, is a man who is out trying to get votes without paying for them.”—Washington Star. —The Unusual—“ Close the doors of th’ airtight bulkheads!” shouted the captain, for the ship was sinking. A moment later a sailor, ashen pale, with staring eyes and chattering teeth, came staggering up the companionway. “The doors!” he shriek ed. In abjeci terror. "They are actually all right! They close readily." "Merci ful heaven!” gasped the captain, and lost his head.—Detroit Journal. critHEvr comme.\t. The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.), say-s: “With h;s characteristic weakness for saying pleasant things, even at the ex pense cf strict truth, Mr. Ilerew has been telling the London barristers that “lawyers made the United States, and lawyers g vern the Unit*d States.” Law yers may have made the Unit* and States, though the proceedings at Yorktown and elsewhere were nor of a strictly legal na ture, but lawyers don’t govern the United States. Und* r the present dynasty the trusts have undertaken that job, as Mr. Depew has abundant reason to know.” The Philadelphia Record (Dem) says; “The Republican leaders preserve a dis creet silence In regard to the Trusts and their methods of spoliation while at the same time they declare It to be their pur pose to permit no change in the tariff system by which the industrial monop olies live and move and have their being. In Ihe meantime the Trusts through their tariff means of extortion are dally dlmlnishing the comforts and hardening ihe lot of every workingman's family In the land.” The New Orleans Tim s-Demoerat (Dem.) says: “As far as we have been oble to see the Republicans, In spite of their supreme confidence are not going to sit down and ltLeylctory tumble Into the party's lap; on the contrary. It be gins to look as If they thought they had a mighty hard struggle before them, which would nquire all Iheir resources to carry to success More than this even: so little sure do they feel a; heart about a victory crowning iheir campaign efforts that they arc resor lag to illegitimate methods to Influence the votes of ihe peo jplfc” Didn’t Fnruteli Everythin*. Speaking of practical jokes and jollifi cation in general, say the Chicago Times- Herald, probably E. A. Sothren, the noted Dundreajy, was more given to this sort of thing than any actor who has lived since the days of those mad rakes who flourished at the time of Gabrick. Al though apparently a sedate and at times melancholy man, his mind seemed to run riot at all times in a desire for some sort of humorous expression, and it is doubt ful whether he enjoyed his stage work half so as ho did some of the pri vate funmaking in which he engaged. Billy Florence was one of his boon com panions. and on one occasion when these two wore walking through the streets of a certain city they passed an undertaker’s shop, the window of which bore this le gend: “Everything provided for funerals.” Sothern, moved by one of his sudden impulses, insisted on going in, and the be wildered Florence followed, wondering what new caper his friend was about to cut. Drawing a long face Sothern approach ed the funeral man and asked to see his stock. For half an hour he priced cas kets and all the belongings, going into the most minute details of fashion and qual ity, and then with an inanely innocent expression exclaimed: “Is there any difference in the price of blondes and brunettes?” “What's that?” replied the undertaker, evidently mystified. “I want to know',” responded Sothern, whether blonde remains cost more than the brunette?” “Sir,” ciied the' undertaker, in an irri tated tone, “w F e do not sell remains of any kind.” “Then,” said Sothern, “you are a fraud. Look a* that sign on your window, sir— 'Everything provided for funerals’—and now >uu have the assurance to tell me that you do not furnish the most neces sary thing of all. Sir, I repeat it, you are a fraud.” And with this parting shot Mr. Sothern hurried out of the shop, ap parently in high dudgeon, leaving the un dertaker boiling over with wrath. Mr. Davis’ Impressions of fi*resident Kruger. My first meeting with President Kruger w'as very brief, writes Richard Harding Davis in Scribner’s, and I learned little from it of him then which has not been made familiar to every one. Mr. Reitz brought me to his house and we sat on his porch, he loading and reloading his cavernous pipe the while and staring out into the street. The thing that impressed me first was that in spite of his many years, his great bulk and hight gave you an impression of strength and power which was increased by the force he w'as able to put into his abrupt gestures. He gesticulated awkwardly, but with the vigor of a young man, throwing out his arm as though he were pitching a quoit, apd opening his great fingers and clench ing them again in a menacing fist, with which he struck upon his knee. When he spoke he looked neither at the State Secretary nor at me, but out Into the street, and when he did look at one, his eyes held no expression, but were like those in a jade idol. His whole face, chiefly, I think, because of the eyes, was . like a heavy waxen mask. In speaking his lips moved and most violently, but every other feature of his face remained absolutely set. In his ears he wore little gold rings, and his eyes, which wbre red and seared with some disease, w’ere pro jected from the light by great gold-rim med spectacles of dark glass with wire screens. So many men had come to see him and to ask him to talk on a subject for which the day for talk was past, that he had grown properly weary of it all, and be fore I could ask him for the particular information I hoped to obtain, he said, “I say what I have said before, we are fighting for our independence.” He kept repeating this stubbornly several tfines and then more specifically saying, “They are 200,000, we are 30,000.” “They have turned the black men on the border against us.” “We have all their prison ers to feed.” “It is like a big bully figh<- ing a boy.” There Even Death I Slow. Everybody in the oilcloth and linoleum trade knows “the Potter boys” of Phil adelphia and New York, says the New York Commercial. Col. Tom Potter of the former city, who got his title through a staff appointment by a former Governor of Pennsylvania, is a thorough Philadel phian, a firm believer in that town—in all her institutions, big and little, and in her magnificent future. But he always helps to circulate a good story on Philadelphia, just the same. A hustling “free lance” in the life in surance business was over there the other day trying to write a $20,000 policy in a New York company for a rising young man who holds an important position with the Potter company. This was his third or fourth call, and he had his intended vic time almost worked up to the point of signing the application. “I’ll take the policy.” he said, “but I don’t want it just yet. Wait a few weeks.” “No time like the present time,” ex claimed the agent. “Delays are particular ly dangerous in life insurance matters. I tell you what I’ll do in your case—if you’ll make the application now I’ll carry the l>olicy (or you myself for thirty days.” “Oh, I wouldn’t have you do that,” the young man protested. “I might die within thirty days, and then where would you and your profits be?” “Oh, that’s all right, my boy! I’ll take the risk. You won’t die that quick. No body in Philadelphia ever died in thirty days!” After the Struggle. From Pearson's Weekly. Two rivals tried to win her hand— She said them nay. But bade them prove their metal and Return some day. “When you have gone and done your best, Come buck to me. And I between you then will choose— I’ll give my hand unto him whose I fain would be.” One went to war and fought and bled In many frays; Ills fame was widely heralded. Great was his praise. The other went In search of wealth, He toiled and planned With honor for his stepping stone He rose until his name was known Throngh all the land. Upon a day they bent their ways Back whence they came; One with his wealth, one with his bays. Their breastr aflame. But neither won the lady’s hand. A titled cad Had got her while they were away. And, being men who knew things, they Were glad he had. Firecrackers From the Bible. V ' “A few years ago.” said a Chicago clergyman the other day, “there went up a great cry for 'missionelly Bibles' in the Flowery Kingdom. The Bible Society was exiremely gratified. The demand was un precedented and thousands of dollars were spent In sending them nice, red morocco Testaments. This sort of thing went on for a long time, but the number of native converts did not increase accordingly. The missionaries Investigated. What do you suppose they discovered?" "That they used the Bibles for gunwnddlng?” "No. They made firecrackers of 'em. Practical ly all the nicely printed Bibles that we were sending over there were rolled up In nice little rolls, a i>age at n time and made Into firecrackers. The Chinese made firecrackers at home for an incredibly low price, and the paper that they were gelling free was a considerable figure with them. But It taught ua a Celestial lesson, as I might say.'* ITE3IS OF INTEREST. —The celebration of the semi-centennial of California’s admission into the Union will be one of the finest pageants ever seen in San Francisco. The big parade of various orders of Native Sons, which will take place on Sept. 10, will be the main event of the four days’ celebration. —More and more each year, says the Herald, are the houses of New York be coming covered with creeping ivy. These coats of green are attractive, affording a relief from the sombre colors of the buildings and adding to the beauty and attractiveness of the city. We cannot have too many of them. —Andrew Sundheima, a butcher of Wa bash, Ind., is an inveterate tobacco chew fr, using plug exclusively a.nd carrying it in a hip p cket. A few days ag> he ab>ent-mii.dedly rhrust a $ 0 bill down a ongside the tobacco. The weather was hot, the b:il and the ’fca'co stuck to gether and not until the p ug had nearly disappeared did Sundheima learn that for a couple of days he had been chewing a $lO bill along with his weed. —Falcon island, in the Pacific ocean, wh ch orignaliy emerged from the sea after the eruption of a submarine vo cano rear Truga, and remain'd above the rurfacc for precisely thirteen years be fore vanishing two years ago, is reported by the British cruiser Porpoise to be re appearing and to be a serious menace to navigation. It was nine feet cut of wafer at the end of May and may be a mounv tain now, for all anybody knows. —Under the Pennsylvania election law votes ere not counted for the candidate, but for the ticket or tickets on which his name appears. In the Chester coun ty election all parties agreed upon Joseph Hemphill for common pleas judge, and this is the way the official vote was declared: Joseph Hemphill, republican, 8,162 votes; Joseph Hemphill, democrat, 4,371 votes; Joseph Hemphill, fusion, 1,613 votes; Joseph Hemphill, scattering, 374 votes. —A hotel man at Portland, Me., made a bet of a hat with a friend and lo3t. The loser telephoned to the winner: “Get just us good a hat as you want; in fact, buy any kind of a hat that suits you and have them send the bill to me.” In a day or two a bill of $23 from a we. 1-known Congress street milliner for a woman’s hat was received by the loser. The win ner calmly informed him that he w.as pretty well fixed for ha is himself, and so he thought he’d turn the thing over to his wife. It was a hat, and the hotel man paid. —The engineering feat of transporting a steamboat of 559 tons from Scotland, to Lake Titicaca—the most elevated lake in South America—has just been completed. It was constructed in Scotland and then taken in sections to iMolendo. Peru. from, which place it was carried in twenty-two cars to the railroad skirting the steep sides of the Andes to the lakeside, nearly 13,000 feet above the sea level. There the sections of the vessel were put together again and the boilers and engines in stalled. —At a recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Medicine Dr. Tuffler gave an account of three surgical operatlor.3 which he had conducted. One was an am putation of the leg, another the removal of a kidney and the third was laparotomy. In all three eases he had operated after securing anaesthesia by injecting one centigram of chlorhydrate of cocaine into the canal of the spinal column. Acting on the marrow and not on the brain, the cocaine produced; absolute anaesthesia, and the patient submitted, without the usual exhaustion Incident to the use of chloroform, to an operation of which he had no consciousness whatever, although his mental activity does not appear to have been interrupted. The transmission of sensation to the brain was interrupted; that was all. In order to spare the pa tient the sight of blood and the wound, the doctor takes the precaution to veil the face. He says that he has tried the method of securing anaesthesia eighty limes. It possesses many advantages and no inconveniences that he has been able to discover. —“I am apprehensive,” says a man, quoted by the New Orleans Times-Demo crat, “that the next big event on the calendar will be a long-drawn-out war between China and Russia. I don’t care a rap what become.- of either nation, but I do dread unspeakably the task of learn ing those jaw-breaking Russian names. You see, I have had a pretty rough time of It during Ihe last year or two. No sooner had I mastered that terrible Fili pino nomenclature than along came the oßer war, and I had to start in on 'kop jes’ and 'rootneks' and 'spruits.' About the time I had got the hang of Trans vaal ‘Taal’ and was able to talk about the campaign without running the risk of being railed down by one of those pe dantic jackasses who are always lying in wait for a fellow', trouble began in China, and I had to tackle an entirely new vo cabulary. At present I'm hard at work on Tsung-li-Y amen and Hsiang-Kiang and Kiao Tal Chifu and a few hundred other tea-chest tongue twisters, so, natu rally, the bare Idea of starting in on Rus sian, with its ‘skis' and 'koffs,' fills me with horror. I hope to goodness nothing happens in Wales.” —Perhaps the Idea of allowing to poor people the free use of patches of land to raise potatoes on was derived from that old-time nursery tale, “The History of Littie Goody Two-Shoes,” otherwise call ed "Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes.” The he roine of that famous tale, it will be re called, married Sir Charles Jones, who six years subsequently died and left her a large fortune. With this fortune "Little Goody” dispensed a liberal charity in re lieving the wants of the poor. This kind ness of hers to the poor not only contin ued as long as she lived, but found ex pression in her will, by w-hlch she leff “so many acres of land, to be planted yearly with potatoes, for all the poor of any parish who would come and fetch them for the use of their families; but, if any took them to sell, they were deprived of that privilege ever after.” This “Goody Two-Shoes” tale was first published in 1785. but who wrote It is uncertain, the authorship of It, either entire or partial, being variously assigned to Oliver Gold smith, Giles Jones, the latter's brother, Griffith Jones, and John Newberry, the publisher, by whom several of the first editions of the tale were published. —The jealousies and animosities existing in the higher ranks of the French army were illustrated In a little incident which occurred at a luncheon given the other day by the new wnr minister. Gen. Andre, to commanding officers in Paris. Among those present was Col. Bougon of tHe First Cuirassiers. Maj. Gallet of Gen. Andre's staff, was also one of the guests, and, after the meal, approached Col. Bou gon. and extended his hand towards him. The Colonel remarked coldly that he had not the pleasure of his acquaintance, and refused the proffered salute. Maj. Gallec then mentioned his name and rank, but the Colonel turned on his heel and walked away without malting any acknowledge, ment. One would naturally eapect lo hear of a more or less bloody encounter after such an affront, but Gen. Andre look the affair Into his own hands, and promptly ordered Col. Bougon off to Algeria to as sume command of the Third Spahle. In that remote region he will have leisure to reflect upon the folly of offending a war minister, In his own house, by in sulting one of his favorites. The quar rel had its origin In the Irrepressible Dreyfus case. Col. Bougon was a mem ber of the court-morttal which acquitted Ilerbnty. and Maj. GaileU who was one of the judges who convicted Dreyfus in 1194. Is sold to have furniEhed some signifi cant Information concerning the peculiar manner In which the prosecution was .conducted. The Cause of Many Sudden Deaths. There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so decep riZj 151 II Many sudden jTrn fiY iv-4 deat^s re caused by — fleart disease, pneumonia, heart ] | ffjfi failure or apoplexy j|r are often the result i-V'SSd /N \ yc| of tedney disease. If 'vJ&'-Th 1(1 e] kidney trouble is al |J.\\\ b 1 lowed to advance the CV 'v'vj'Hla kidney-poisoned “ blood will attack the vital organs or the kidneys themselves break down and waste away cell by cell. Bladder troubles most always result from a derangement of the kidneys and a cure is obtained quickest by a proper treatment of the kidneys. If you are feeling badly you can make no mistake by taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp. Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It corrects inability to hold urine and scald ing pain in passing it, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of is soon realised. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and sold by all druggists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sized bottles. You may .have a sample bottle of this wonderful new dis- WSSSSS covery and a book that tells all about it, both Home of Swamp-Root, sent free by mail. Address Dr. Kilmer & Cos. Binghamton, N. Y. V/hen writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper. 8., T. 81. Of HOPE R’Y AND C. 8 S. R’Y. St (xLiDLI.SU For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder bolt, Cattle Park and West End. Daily except Sundays. Subject to change without notice. isleloFUopk “* Lv. City for 1. oi H. | I.v. Isle of Hope. 630 am from Tenth | 600 am for Bolton" 730 am from Tenth [ 600 am for Tenth 8 30 am from Tenth | 700 am for Tenth 8 15 am from Holton j S 00 am for Tenth 10 30 am from Tenth jiO 00 am for Tenth 12 00 n'n from Tenth |ll Oo am for Bolton 1 35 pm from Bolton |ll 30 am for Tenth 230 pm from Tenth j 200 pm for Tenth 330 pm from Tenth j 240 pm for Bolton 430 pm from Tenth | 3 It) pm for Tenth 530 pm from Tenth | 4 00 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth j (1 U> pm for Tenth 730 pm from Tenth | 700 pm for Tenth 830 pm from Tenth | BCO pm for Tenth 930 pm from Tenth | 900 pm for Tenth 10 30 pm from Tenth |lO 00 pm for Tenth |ll OO pm for Tenth MONTGOMERY. ’ ‘ Lv city for Mong’ry. | hv7 Montgomery. 830 am from Tenth 715 am for Tenth" 230 pm from Tenth- 115 pm foj Tenth 630 pm from Tenth 600 pm for Tenth CATTLE PARkT"' Lv city for Cat.Park| Lv. 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Leaves West End at 6:20 a. m. and ev ery 40 minutes thereafter during the day until 12:00 o’clock midnight. H. M. LOFTON, Gen. Mgr. B. B. Neal, F. P. Millard, President Vice President. Henry Buts, Jr Sec y and Treat KEAL-ILLARD CO. Builders’ Material, Sash, Doors and Blinds, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glass and Brushes, EUILOERS 1 HARDWARE, Limp, Cement and Plaster, Bny aid Wkttokcv Streets, UTI3SAO, aA. £%, buck’s Wp Dyspepsia Tablets <| | TgZjfW Not only quickly reliava H Indigestion, oi, Bloating. fij kfc'-My Constipation. Biliousness, Pal- H Pitation of thn Heartnd kindred disorders, H ■Tjar " ut osi,eo * • porm*Knt curs. 3jF Promote the Appetite if and Put Flesh on Thin i] 7 Peoole AlldinKitnoftbtitomach md H * bowels can be cured by their H fljf9 u *®- Nest. rr -" l P ! ‘'’t- ran be carried in the pock- H faj et. Pric f.i'c per box. At all druggists. B LOU BURK & CO., OloominQtow. 111. | SLM3IL.iI ilESOai'S. 7fIOTELJNOR?iiAN DIE, At usiil IniaW YORK ABSOLUTELY EIRE PROOF. 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