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TWENTY PACES
IVDEX 10 SEW IDVEBIISEHEETS.
Special Notices—House and Sign Paint
ing. Etc., Wm. T. Leopold; Acute Inflam
mation and Catarrh of the Bladder Cured
by Suwanee Springs Water, Suwanee
Springs, Fla; Fancy and Re-Pressed
Brick, Savannah Building Supply Cos.;
Around the Horn.; Malt Mead, John
Lyons, Grocer; Malt Mead. McGrath &
Hansford; Malt Mead, at Conida's; Malt
Mead, the S. W. Branch Company; Malt
Mead. John Sullivan, Grocer; Malt Mead,
at Livingston's Pharmacy; We Buy ana
Sell Real Estate, Etc., W. C. Fripp &
Cos.; Moonlight Excursion, Lafayette Mc-
Laws' Camp. U. C. V.; New Mouldings,
Green & Cos.; The Time of All Times, Na
tional Mattress and Renovating Company;
Auction of Bicycles, at Thomas' Bicycle
Emporium; Levan’s Table d'Hote.
Business Notices —A Pointed Statement,
Hunter & Van Keuren.
New Mackerel—At Munster's.
Laundry—E. & W. Laundry.
Keep Your Horse Cool and Comfortable
—Leo Frank.
Black Velvet Ribbons—At the Bee Hive.
We Continue This Week Our Great
Sales—Daniel Hogan.
Wire Wheel, Rubber Tired. Ball-Bear
ing Runabouts—Cohen-Kulman Carriage
and Wagon Company.
Only Twenty Days Remain—P. T. Foye.
Auction Sales—Celebrated Yacht Dra
goon. by I. D. Laßoehe, Auctioneer'; Two-
Story Dwelling, by I. D. Laßoehe. Auc
tioneer.
Railroad Schedules—Southern Railway.
This “Don't Go" in Our Store—Byck
Bros.
Put l’p Fruit While It's Cheap—Thos
West & Cos.
August Closing Sale —Chas. Marks.
Because We Are Quoting Prices Abso
lutely Low—The Bee Hive.
The Summer Heat Distracts—Leopold
Adler.
Annual Midsummer 23 Per Cent. Dis
count Sale—At Levy's.
A RuEh—At Eckstein's.
What We Advertise We Sell—At Gut
man's.
The Gas Range—Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
Corse ts—Thomson's Glove-Fitting Cor
sets.
Postum Cereal Coffee—Poatum Cereal
Company.
Financial—F. A. Rogers & Cos., New
Y’ork; Lewie C. Van Riper, New York;
The Yankee Consolidated Mining, Mill
ing and Tunnelling Company, Denver,
Col.
Midsummer Clearance Sale—Walsh &
Meyer.
Worth While—Wm. A H. H. Lattlmore.
Anti-Rust Tin—George W. Allen & Cos.
Beef—Liebig s Extract of Beef.
Medical—Cutlcura Remedies; Hood's
Sarsaparilla; Dr. Hathaway Company;
Tyned's Dyspepsia Remedy; Peruna; S. S.
S.; World's Dispensary Preparations;
Munyon's Blood Cure; P. P. P.; R. R. R.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Ixt; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Weather,
Tha Indications for Georgia to-day are
for showers on the coast, fair In the in
terior, with light to fresh southeasterly
wind*; and for Eastern Florida local
rains, with fresh east to south winds.
North Carolina has now retired her ' red
shirts.” Will Pennsylvania follow suit
■with her “white caps?”
Alabama is the next state on the list to
hold an election. It will occur Monday,
Aug. G. There are good reasons for
thinking that Alabama will go Demo
cratic.
A New Jersey follower of the faith cure
cult, who was attacked by appendicitis,
refused to accept the services of physi
cians, and died declaring that his faith
would make him well.
The Philadelphia Ledger says the work
on the Nicaragua canal will have to be
begun all over again; ‘‘but," It sagely
adds, "as nothing has been accomplished,
this will not be much of a calamity.”
The dove-like anarchists, it Is said,
have announced that they Intend to kill
only four "crowned heads” this year.
That is very kind and considerate of
them, seeing that there are quite a con
siderable number of "crowned heads” do
ing business at the old stands, who ac
cording to anarchist beliefs are legitimate
piey for bullets, knives and bombs. That
It has been determined to kill only four
of them, therefore, is to be regarded as
an evidence of the gentle disposition of
the "reda."
A PIZZLI>G SITUATION.
It is not clear yet what the policy of the
Chinese government is in respect to the
ministers, or whether it has any policy.
In fact, it is not satisfactorily settled
whether the government is In the hands
of the rightful rulers of the empire or is
under the control of a mob. The mes
fcoge, amounting almost to a declaration
of war. sent by Secretary Hay to it last
Wednesday, remains practically unanswer
ed. In that message, which was delivered
to Li Hung Chang, to be transmitted to
his government, it was stated that the
United States would not enter into any
negotiations w ith the Chinese government
until the ministers were allowed free
communication with their respective
governments and all danger to their
lives and liberty was removed. It a.so
contained the statement that free com
munication with Minister Conger was
demanded as a matter of right, and re
fusal to grant it would be regarded as
an unfriendly act.
The only reply that has been redeived
to this is an evasive one from Li Hung
Chang making an effort to bring about
further discussion.
It looks as if the Chinese government
were in the hands of a mob or preparing
to make strong resistance to the advance
of the allies on Pelrin. The impression
that Is made by the dispatches is that the
Chinese believe that they can overwhelm
the allied forces by their numbers, and
are now trying to gain lime to get their
armies well placed between Tien Tsin and
Pekin. According to the figures given in
the dispatches the allied forces do not
amount to more than about 30,000 men.
Suppose that little army should be con
fronted by a quarter of a million of well
armed Chinese! Would it not be over
whelmed and cut to pieces before the
Powers could send it assistance? A 6Jout
ing party of Japanese, a day or two ago,
found out that the Chinese are prepared
to fight, and will fight.
Is there any chance of saving the min
isters except by making concessions to
the Chinese government? It is clearly
the purpose of the Chinese to hold the
ministers for the purpose of secur
ing satisfactory terms of settlement with
the Powers. The United States have al
ready announced that they would enter into
no negotiations until the ministers were
given their liberty and assured of safety.
That means that the advance on Pekin
wiU be continued. And does it aleo mean
that the occupants of the legations will
be given over to the mob if the allies suc
ceed in reaching the walls of the Chi
nese capital? A peaceful settlement may
be made, but the outlook is for a great
war in China.
WHY NOT DO THIS f
It is very probable that the City Coun
cil will grant the application of the Sa
vannah, Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope
Railway in the matter of double-tracking
Barnard street and running cars both ways
on Whitaker street. The company would
be serving Its interests and those of the
public at the same time if it should re
store the old “big belt” by connecting the
Montgomery street and Habersham street
lines by a track through Twelfth, East
Broad or some other street. These lines
were once a part of the “big belt.” The
Montgomery street line Is now run as a
short spur line, and the Habersham street
line, while it Is a long one, does not ap
pear to be a popular one. Roth lines, how
ever, traverse sections of the city which
were growing rapidly when they were op
erated as the "big belt," and were well
patronized. Apparently, neither the Mont
gomery street nor the Habersham street
line, under the present mode of operating
them, does much business. The city is
growing southward, and every house that
is built means -c'ontrlbutkms to the treas
ury of the street car company. It is
therefore to its interests to en
courage improvements. The people
of Savannah are liberal patrons of
street cars. It is said that more people,
in proportion to the population, ride here
than in any other city in the world. And
with more facilities there would be still
greater traffic. This matter should re
ceive the thoughtful attention of the
managers of the street car company.
HOT WEATHER STORIES.
Sun spots are said to be responsible for
heat waves, and heat waves in turn for
peculiar aberrations in mankind and
queer doings in beasts, birds and reptiles.
Whether this theory accounts for the
many queer animal and snake stories that
are now finding their way Into print may
be a question; but there Is no question
about the abundance of such stories. It
may be that high temperature has put
the "beases" up to all sorts of pranks,
or it may be that it has merely developed
talent of the kind formerly employed at
Mole St. Nicholas, and which is now mak
ing itself conspicuous at Shanghai. Nor
does any section of the country seem to
be exempt from the strange departures
of both higher and lower orders of ani
mate life from their usual customs. From
Maine, where an enormous bull moose the
other day Invaded a populous city and
paraded the main street for an hour or
two, to Florida, wuere a dog that dives
Into the water and catches fish has been
discovered, there appears to be an epi
demic of freaktehntts— to judge front the
stories.
In Atlanta, a day or two ago, for in
stance, a king snake and a rattlesnake
were put into a pit together, for the pur
pose of demonstrating that the two spectas
are deadly enemies, perpetually thirsting
tor each other's gore. According to the
popular theory, as soon as each snake saw
his mortal enemy he should have been
seized with a reptilian frenzy of anger and
eagerly rushed to the duel. But the At
lanta snakes merely blinked at each other,
stretched themselves along the ground
and positively refused to rupture the en
tente cordlale.
From Missouri come two snake stories,
In each of which, however, a woman Is
the central figuie. In one case the wo
man, picking berries, stepped on a rat
tler. Before he could strike she pinned
his head to the ground with a forked
stick, and then went on picking berries
until she bad her plggln full, when she
leisurely killed the snake. The other wo
man stumbled Into a nest of rattlers,
killed forty-seven of them with a hoc, and
was then paralyzed by the poison float
ing in the ntmosphere.
The chief goat stories of the week,!wo
lit number, come from the mining dis
tricts of Pennsylvania, nnd both Involve
explosions. In the first Instance a goat
tried to chew a dynamite cartridge, and
was distributed over a space In the form
a rain of flesh. The other goat swal
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY; AUGUST 5, 1000.
lowed a pint of nitroglycerine, which was
detonated by a rock thrown by an angry
miner. Both occurrences were in the
neighborhood of Hazelton.
At Middletown, N. V., a cloud of small
yellow moths settled down, and for twenty
minutes endeavored to fill every ear and
i note in the place, and to tumble Into all
j open pitchers and other vessels containing
j liquids to be drank. Then the moths
I sailed nway and disappeared.
Ai Bridgeport, Conn., a parrot stopped
.i prayer meeting by screaming “Lucy’s in
! the water!” The congregation ran down
the banks of the Housatonic, intent upon
saving the valuable life that seemed to be
in peril. But there was no “Lucy” to be
found in the water. Finally the parrot
was discovered, “rubbering” her neck
about as if enjoying the scene ehe had
caused. Then the prayer meeting was
resumed. At Newport, R. 1., Mr. Boch
tcrle was awakened In the middle of the
night by his parrot screaming “Shut your
d—d mouth!” Upon investigation he
learned that a burglar was in the house,
and had bumped Polly’s cage and awa
kened her in an angry mood. The ecreams
were repeated, louder each time, in iapid
succession for a minute or two; and while
they were profane, they awakened the
householder, frightened the burglar aid
earned Polly the gratitude of her master
and an extra allowance of sugar.
In Florida a hen has hatched out a
brood of young alligators and is being a
mother to them. In Maryland a hen has
laid an egg the shell of which bears a fair
outline sketch of the face of Chauncey M.
Depew.
In several states there are donkeys run
ning for public office.
All of which goes to show that things
are happening right along elsewhere than
in South Africa, the Philippines ana
China, although they may not make much
impression on the public mind.
AX OCEAN GROVE INCIDENT.
Ocean Grove, on the coast of New Jer
sey. like Asbury Park, is patronized large
ly by church-going people. The Methodist
denomination has an auditorium there. It
has been dedicated as a church, but Is
used for lectures and concerts that are
in haimony with the work of the church.
Albert Armstrong, a Boston Sunday
School puperlntendent, was engaged by
the management of the auditorium to give
his lecture last week on “The Little Min
ister.” The lecture consists of stereoptl
con reproduction* of photographs of
scenes mentioned in “The Little Minister,”
together with recitations of portions of
the text of the celebrated story. The story
is a clean and wholesome cne and carries
a good moral. There Is no possible objec
tion to it from any point of view.
The committee that had the matter in
charge advertised the lecture “as a pic
ture play.” Someone called the attention
of the Devotional Committee—the commit
tee which decides the character of the en
tertainments that may take place in the
auditorium—to the advertisement, and
that body at once decided that the lecture
could not be given In the auditorium—not
because there was anything objectiona
ble in it, but because of the word
ing of the advertisement—becauae the
lecture was advertised “as a picture
play.” A member of this committee is
one of the best known bishops of the
Methodist Church, North. The action of
the committee was sustained by the older
element of the religious people at Ocean
Grove, but was severely and adversely
criticised by the younger element. The
latter element constitutes at least three
fourths of the church-goirg people at that
popular a side resort.
The question which presents itself is
this: Was the cause of the church of re
ligion helped or injured by the course pur
sued by the Devotional Committee? Was
th 1 younger element drawn closer to the
church by the act of the committee or
was it repelled? This is a question that is
worthy of careful consideration, because
it is being claimed that the religious feel
ing among young people is not as sirorg
now as it was a quarter of a century ago
—that It is becoming weaker. Is the poll:y
that Is being pursued by religious guides
and teachers such as to appeal to the
judgments and consclenciences of young
people or does It impress them as being
too narrow?
PEACH CROP PROFITS.
The peach crop in this state has been
marketed and the growers are not satis
fied with their profits. In most parts of
the state the yield was considerably be
low what it was expected to be. The
unfavorable weather caused the fruit to
rot on the tree® and to decay quickly
after being picked. Because of the lat
ter tendency much of U arrived at the
point of distribution in an unmarketable
condition.
If reports are to be depended upon
many of the peach growers made very
little money. They ore disappointed and
disposed to find fault with the transporta
tion companies. In their opinion the rates
of freight are too high, and it is prob
able that a determined effort will be
made before the next crop is ready for
shipment to secure a reduction of them.
The transportation companies are, of
course, claiming that for the kind of ser
vice they are rendering the rates are as
low as they can afford.
The only solution of this freight rale
problem that we have seen Is that pre
sented In a report made upon the orchard
of Mr. Mark Hardin. According to that
report, transportation costs him only 25
cents a carrier, while U costs other peach
growers 50 cents. It seems that he uses
an Improved carrier of his own devising,
by which he gets 1,200 carriers In a car,
while other growers gel In only 600. It
would seem as If other growers would
adopt the carrier used by Mr. Hardin, as
suming, of course, that the report made
In respect to It Is in every respect cor
rect.
Mr. Berckmans, the well-known nursery
man, made a statement at the meeting
of the Horticultural Society in Dublin last
week, which ought to arrest the atten
tion of peach growers. It was that some
growers, during the present season, sent
their fruit to market In an unfit condi
tion. It was not at the right degree of
maturity and was not properly packed.
He warned the growers that It was In
their power to destroy the fruit industry
of the state by sending fruit to market
that Is not wanted. The effect of such
a practice, he said. Is to deatroy the
reputation of the fruit of the state and
to make It Impossible to get remunera
tive prices.
It is evident that there are a good many
things to be learned In order to succeed
tn growing peaches. There Is money to
be made In the business, but, like every
other business in which success is at
tained, It must be understood thorough
ly. It Is said that Mr. Mark Hardin
made enough from his crop this year to
fully pay the purchase price of his orch
ard. Ift, ehereforc. has very little rea
son to complain. Doubtless there are
! others who did pretty nearly as well,
considering that the yield was below the
average.
The transportation companies cannot af
ford to let the Industry languish. It
may be that some way will be discov
ered to preserve the fruit while on its
way to market that will not be so cost
ly as the present one. By working at
the problem of getting a better net re
turn for the peach crop the growers and
the transportation companies will doubt
less solve It.
Rudyerd Kipling's excoriation of some
of the medical men with the British army
in South Africa, will meet with general
approval. Mr. Kipling says that Ihe poor
soldiers who were sufferng with fevet
were given but littje attention, fevers be
ing such lingering and bothersome things.
But if there was a leg to be cut off. or
a soldier to be carved, the doctors were
ready for him. The surgery’ cases offered
a varied and attractive field for the young
doctors, but a mere fever case aroused
no enthusiasm at all. That, he believes,
is one reason why the fever hospitals
were so bad, and there were so many
deaths in them.
The announcement Is made that Mar
cus Daly, the arch-enemy of Senator
Clark of Montana, finding that he could
not defeat Clark inside the Democratic
party, has left that party and become
a Republican. It is said that Daly has
entered into a combination with Senator
Carter to defeat Clark when he seeks
"vindication' in a re-election.
At a fashionable luncheon given in Lon
don, the other day, each gu st received a
souvenir in the shape of a little figure of
a Chinaman with a halter about his neck.
Nevertheless the English-speaking people
pride themselves upon being in advance
of the rest of the world in the ma'ters cf
civilization and delicacy of feeling.
A death mask of Gen. R. E. Lee was
found the other day in the Corcoran art
gallery at Washington. This mask had
been lost for the past ten or twelve years,
notwithstanding many efforts to find it.
The mask was made by Clark Mills. What
will be done wi h it has not been deter
mined.
PERSONAL.
—A most remarkable exhibition of the
power of the press is shown in the case
of one Luke Green, a traveler in Rho
desia, who asserts that he drove off a
troop of five lions and many hyenas, which
had attacked him and were not frightened
by his gun, by firing English periodicals
at them.
—“Gen. Alexei Nicolaievich Kuropat
kln,” says a correspondent of the Chicago
Tlmes-Herald, "who it is said will be sent
to China as the commander-in-chief of the
Russian forces, is the Russian minister
of war. and Is probaly the most trusted,
most powerful and most faithful servant
of the Czar. Long ago, when Kuropatkin
was a young man, he was sent to Turkes
tan with the Russian advance, and Fpent
his youth in high adventure and in win
ning for himself honors, decorations and
promotion. When he had served his ap
prenticeship In the marches and bivouacs
of the East he returned to Europe and
resumed his studies in the schools. At
Paris he won the Legion of Honor, and
was the first Russian officer to do so. This
was In 1874. The following year he went
to Kokand, fought in the Pamirs—the
'roof of the world’—and in the country
of Kublal Khan. He rode 2.500 miles on
horseback, came back, wrote a book and
won the gold medal of the Geographical
Society. He entered the war with Tur
key as a lieutenant and emerged from It
a colonel. ‘For God, the Czar and coun
try’ was the motive of all his deeds, and
this faithfulness was not without its ef
fect. Slowly he rose on the ladder of ad
vancement until tn 1898 he was made ab
solute master, under the Czar, of the ar
mies of all the Russias. Kuropatkin’s
rank will probably give him command of
the allied forces in China.”
CURHENT COMMENT.
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: “The
elimination of the illiterate negro vote in
North Carolina will prove a blessing lo
both races. It will Insure honest and
efficient government by those best fitted
to control the affaire of the state. It
will prevent friction between the races
and will lead In the end to improved re
lations between whites and blacks. There
is no disposition in North Carolina to
treat the negro unkindly. His best friends
in that state are among the most ardent
advocates of the amendment adopted yes
terday. He will be educated and cared
for in the future, as in the pest, by
those who voted to disfranchise the illit
erate members of his race. The adoption
of the amendment will prove beneficial
to North Carolina in more than a politi
cal way. With the friction between the
races reduced to a minimum and white
supremacy assured, the material develop
ment of the state will be greatly pro
moted.”
Mr. E. L* Godkln, formerly editor of
the New York Evening Post (Ind.) in an
interview on the political situation, says,
In part: “What we need in this country
more than anything else is a large body
of men who will keep to the same idea
several years In succession. Consider the
unsteadiness of Senator Hoar, the ridicu
lousness of Lodge, and the prattle of that
upstart Roosevelt, the Rough Rider. It
grieves me when I hear the applause
which greets Roosevelt. Why is it that
so many attach importance to Roosevelt
and consider him a statesman and a sol
dier? I cannot understand it. It Bhows
a marked decline of public sentiment. I
fear for my country. Mark me, Roosevelt
won't last long. There will be a col
lapse shortly.''
It Is interesting to note occasionally
what foreigners think of our public men.
Of Mr. Bryan the London Speaker says:
“Constantly before the American public
for years, scanned with close scrutiny, he
lias given the impression of sincerity and
humanity. The American people, cursed
with the sinister spectacle of whole etate
under the rule of corrupt and cynical
“bosses,” of Croker, Platt, Quay, Ad
dlcks, of men rich with the spoils of "pro
tected" syndicates and I rusts, have seen
in Mr. Bryan a clean handed man entire
ly removed from all this dirty money
making and wire-pulling. His life Is sim
ple. hts tasteec are ideal, his character Is
above reproach, his eloquence Is power
ful, his Industry untiring.”
The Hartford Times (Dem.) says;
“There are two or three thousand more
pensioners on Uncle Sam's list than were
there a year ago. It will soon tie twenty
five yeats since James A. Garfield de
clared that the maximum of pension pay
ments had been reached nnd that the an
nual charge for their maintenance would
ateadlly decrease. A year hence the to
tal number of pensioners will probably
be In excess of 1,000,009.”
A Vital Question.
"Yes, I'm back!” snapped Grumply, aays
the Detroit Free Press. "Went away for
a month's vacation and got enough of it
in a week. Allowed myself to be flim
flammed by an old lay In the country
who adv rtired ail the comforts of hom“
ai reasonable rates. My wife thought It
would do the children a world of good
to gei a taste of the country, so we left
our comfortable heme with the Idea of
spending four weeks communlrg with na
ture.
“The old farmer with whom we stayed
seemed to be good-ra'.ured and tock to
the children, teaching them how to weed
onions, feed the chickens, and pump wa
ter fer the stock. He offered to teach me
how to hre cabbages, but I declined with
thanks. AVhen I think of it now I see
that the old man was not as big a fool
as he lorked and that he succeeded in
get'irg his city boarders to do about two
thitd.s of the work on the farm.
“One day the children were hunting
eggs, and it awoke the memory of my
youth when I elid the same thing myself,
and I joined them just to show them that
I hadn't forgotten how.
“ 'l'll show ycu where they ore!’ I
shouted as I climbed into the hay mow.
Just keep your eyes cn your dad and get
a few pointers!’
”1 nrver thought I could get so excited
ever so small a th ng as hunting eggs
" 'l've found one!’ 1 shouted a moment
lut r.
"Just then my foot slipoed and I sid
down the hay head tirst into a hay chute
and brought up a moment later In one
of th: mangers be'cw with a Jar that
threatened to break every bone In my
body.
"While I lay there wondering whether
I was dead or alive the old farmer rush
ed up and with a voice that thrilled with
emotion he gasped:
" ‘Did ye break the egg?' ”
Complimenting Gen. Lee.
Few defeated generals have been so re
vered as was Robert E. Lee, says the
Youth's Companion. Every Southern man
and woman admired him. The author of
"A Girl's Life in Virginia” tells a little
story that shows how much he was loved
by children.
A year after the surrender Gen. Lee
journe\ed across the mountains on his old
war horse, Traveler, to pay a visit to the
author's mother. On the night of his ar
rival he said:
“To-day an incident occurred which
gratified me more than anything that has
happened for a long time. As I was riding
over the desolate mountain region I was
surprised to find, on a Fudden turn in the
r:ad, two litte girls playing on a Varga
rock. They were poorly clad, and after
looking at me a moment began to run
away.
” 'Children, ’ said I, 'don’t run away! If
you knew who I am you wouldn't run
away from me.’
“‘We do know you,’ they answer, and
“ 'You never saw me before,’ I said,
‘for I never passed along here.'
“ 'But we know you,' said the children.
‘We’ve got your picture in our house
You're Gen. Lee! We Qin’t dressed clean
enough to see you,’ and they scampered
off to a hut cn the mountain side."
Then the General told of another adven
ture that he had had the same dav.
While riding through thick woods he met
a man who, recognizing him, stopped.and
throwing up his hat in the air exclaimed:
“General. rDase let me cheer you!” and
then he hurrahed as loudly as he could.
Gen Lee was too great a man to be ex
cited by ordinary applause. On the ecn
trary, he was annoyed by a compliment
to his valor of skill as a general. But he
was touched by the compliment which the
two little girls of the mountain paid him:
“We ain’t dressed clean enough to ste
you!”
A Great Duke’s Economy.
The Duke of Portland is what the Scot
tish people call "a full man;” he knows he
is the Duke of Portland and is proud of
his position in the world without being in
any way conceited or haughty, says the
Saturday Evening Post. Always exquis
itely groomed, he is most polite and affa
ble to ail, and consequently Is popular
with prince and pauper alike. In front
of the press box at Epsom a seat runs
along, shot out. as it were, from the mem
bers’ inciosure. On Derby day the end
position on this bench is Invariably occu
pied by the lord chief Justice. Next to
Lord Russell of Killowen usually sits Lord
Rothschild, and then comes the Duke of
Portland, who for wealth is nearly the
peer of Rothschild himself.
During the hour that Intervened between
the previous race and the classic Derby
the Duke, the stump of a cigar in his
mouth, turned to a newspaper man and
said; “Can you oblige me with a match?”
The journalist slipped his fingers Into his
pocket and pulled out his last two wax
matches.
“Oh, 1 may have the two, may I? I am
exceedingly grateful to you." said his
grace, gratefully.
With the first match he managed to
light the cigar. Then, slipping his fin
gers Into his waistcoat pocket, he brought
out an exquisite gold matchbox, opened
it—and every one present, including Roth
schild, the lord chief justice, and the news
paper man. saw that it was half full of
matches. But the Duke slipped' the Jour
nalist’s last match in with the others and
put the box back into hts pocket.
"That’s the way to get rich and to keep
rich," whispered one of the onlookers,
and the absent-minded Duke could not for
the life of him make out why every one
in his vicinity was grininng.
Roosevelt Rewarded Him.
“During the storming of San Juan hill,"
said Gov. Roosevelt, while remarking
on the extreme heat, as he journeyed
through Kansas, according to the Alton
Empire, “I was requested by one of my
men to betake myself to the very hottest
region, but when it comes a hot day I
always congratulate myself that I didn't
go.
"There was a young fellow from Arizo
na—Busby by name—who was shot
straight across the top of the head. I
happened to overtake him and eaw the
way the blood was streaming down his
face thnt he was in no condition to stay
in the front. Riding up to his side I
tapped him on the arm and said, 'You
go to the rear.’
"Well, I’ll never forget the face that
fellow turned toward me," said the Gov
ernor. "It was one mass of blood, and
this added horrible fierceness to the look
he gave me.
“ 'You go to hell.’ he said, as he struck
out on a run up the hill.
"I couldn't forget such a fellow, and
I got him a commission in the regular
army. He's now in the Philippines. ”
Hl* l nfort nun to Xante.
Baptismal stories e em to be as numer
ous as the sands on the seashore, says the
London Telegraph. Of numbers which
have been ant to us we give the follow
ing: "A dlfflculiy commonly met with
by priests is due to the fact that parents
and godparents persist in giving both
Christian and surnames when asked to
'name this child.' A year or two ago I
was summoned by a member of our con
grigallon. Hill by name, to baptize his
'brctlier's baby,' who was suppoeed to be
d>lng. Now, it happened that the man
was rco’.ly his brother-in-law. and was
named Gee, though I was unaware of it
at the time. 1 proceeded to baptize the
infant, and on Inquiring the name was In
formed that it was to be Hubert Gee.
'Hubert Gee?' I Inquired, doubtfully. ‘Hu
bert Gee,' reaffirmed ihe mother. Accord
ingly I baptized the child by this name.
Imagine my horror and amusement when,
cn taking and wn the particulars for entry
ln'o the hip’lsmal register, 1 discovered
that the family name was Gee, and that
the baby would henceforth be known as
Aiuberi Gee Geel”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Daniel M. Nilloeh, an American diver,
undertook to ride a bicycle at the bottom
of the sea a few years ago. In his heavy
diving dress, weighing over 200 pounds,
he was lowered into twenty feet of water,
and rode the machine for a considerable
distance.
—One of the largest publishers of books
in New York eay thnt many of his spe
cial editions of books are now bound
for him by young women who are per
mitted to develop their own ideas. It
is remunerative work for them and the
results are novel.
Trans-Atlantic travelers who favor
ease and informality at sea are alarmed
at the rapidity with which former ideas
on this subject are being remodeled. Men
nearly ail appear at dinner nowadays in
evening dress, and, of course, the women
are equally formal.
—When the New York health authori
ties set about cleaning Chinatown in that
city with disinfectants the inhabitants be
lieved the sprinkling pots contained poison
with which it was expected to extermi
nate the Chinese. There was, of course,
great excitement and commotion.
At Grant City, Mo., the other day a
man licked his wife and was arrested
on a warrant sworn out by her. He was
sentenced to the rock pile, and the next
morning the people were astonished to
see the wife patiently holding an umbrella
over her spouse as he hammered away at
the rock.
—One of the most confirmed expansion
ists in the country is Conrad Urich • f
Myerstown. Pa., a 13-year-old boy. who,
though tittle more than 4 feet tail, already
weight 170 pounds and is daily adding
to his avoirdupois in spite of all efforts
to restrain his growth. Ten pounds a
month is about hie average increase.
-According to the year book of the Con
gregational Church the salaries of the
clergy are far from being princely. In
Massachusetts, where the salaries are said
!° • ! l'^ aee highest, they range from S3OO
to SB,OOO a year. The most common amount
is SBOO and more than half of all the clergy
men receive less than SI,OOO a year.
—Eight different nationalities were rep
resented in the graduating class of the
American College for Girls in Constanti
nople this summer. They were Greek,
American, Hungarian. German, Austrian.
Armenian, Bulgarian and Italian. A
f rench play given by the graduating class
was one of the features of class day.
—Divorce records for the court year just
closed at Cleveland Indicate that one of
every five marriages there is so complete
a failure as to lead to the extreme re
sort. The number of marriage licenses
issued in that city during the year ended
June 30 last was 3.235, and the number of
divorce petitions filed in the same time was
646.
—The superintendent of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad has a telephone in his pri
vate car, and whenever he wants to com
municate with any place on the line the
car is stopped, a lineman makes a connec
tion with the wires alongside the track,
and question and aswer are had much
quicker than by means of a "rush" mes
sage.
—The Smithsonian Institution in Wash
ington has commissioned Ed Hofer, long
known as a hunter and guide in Yellow
stone Park, to go to Kadiak Island in the
Gulf of Alaska and capture one of the
monster bears which live there. The bears
are of the. polar variety, weighing from
2.300 to 3,000 pounds, and none of them has
ever been caught alive.
—Philadelphia papers are responsible for
the statement that Lewis E. Beltler. dep
uty secretary of the commonwealth, re
cently swam eight miles in 1:59:20. Al
though this feat, considering that it was
undertaken on the spur of the moment,
looks a good deal like a record perform
ance. Mr. Beitler is declared to have
finished strong,” as sportsmen say.
—Judge Hickman of Saline county, Kan
sas, thinks he has discovered anew cure
for rheumatism, which has long been a
tenant of his right knee. While he was
asleep in a hammock two bees crawled up
the leg of his trousers and stung him In
the spot named. Since then he has been
free from his old enemy, and he thanks
the bees for the relief.
—The English cynic's remark that “the
first sign of civilization in a savage coun
try is often to be seen over a whisky shop
door ’ is recalled by the announcement
that a New York architect is preparing
plans for a $500,000 brewery which is to be
built by British capital somewhere in the
Transvaal. American beer is to be manu
factured and the capacity of the brewery
is to be 200,000 barrels per year.
—With a view of relieving some of the
congested districts in India. British au
thorities are considering the question of
opening up British Guiana as a field for
Immigration. It is hoped that some en
tire Hindoo communities may be induced
to settle In the South American possession
where the climate and soil would combine
to give the strangers a much better living
than they have hitherto known.
—lt came out in the reports of the re
cent Methodist Conference that only two
of the fifteen official journals of the
church, published in different sections of
the coumry under the common name of
the Christian Advocate, had been con
ducted at a profit. The net loss on the
others—sloß,ooo in four years—had been
borne out of the profits of the publishing
business known as the Book Concern.
—A settlement having been made with
the heirs which will put a stop to further
litigation, the $4,000,000 estate of Dr.
Thomas W. Evans, the Paris-American
millionaire demist, will be divided. Three
million dollars will be devoted to the
founding of a great dental institution in
Philadelphia, work on which probably
wdll begin at once. The heirs will get
$1,000,000 instead of $250,000 left them un
der the terms of the will. The contes
4nnts were Dr, Kudolph Henry Evans,
brother of the deceased, and eight nieces.
Dr. Evans lived In Paris forty years,
and accumulated his groat wealth there.
He had a wife, who died in 1897, and the
doctor did not long survive her. They
had no children.
—Officers of one of the railroads oper
ating in the territory west of Chicago
are considering the advisability of aband
oning the time-honored title of brakemen
on passenger trains and substituting the
names, "first assistant conductor,"
“second nssisiant conductor," and so on
down the list. It is urged that braking,
particularly on passenger trains, is no
longer done by muscle, but by air, which
makes the title a misnomer. The change
may be extended to freight brakemen
as soon as all cars are equipped with air
devices. A brakeman has nothing what
ever to do wlrh brakes except to connect
the air apparatus between the cars of a
train when it is being made up. Even
this work is not done by them in large
terminals. These men are assistant con
ductors. They attend to the signals, call
the names of stations and assist in many
other ways about the trains. The change
would help raise the calling; it would
tend to add more dignity to men in this
department of railroading. On many
roads passenger brakemen nre promoted
to conductors. Brakemen have long been
in favor of having their titles changed
to something besides brakemen, not be
cause they are ashamed of their depart
ment, but because the nume no longer in
dicates their lino of work. It is under
stood that the question will lie taken be
fore the next meeting of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, which is
made up principally of brakemen, and all
roads will be asked to adopt the change
An nomenclature.
DR. HATHAWAY
INVITES
All Visitors to .the City to Call
at His Office for Free Diagnosis
and Advice.
He Extends the Same Invitation,
Also, to All Sufferers From
Chronic Disease.
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D,
The Oldest Established Specialist la
the Sooth.
This is the season of vacations. Many
people who live hundreds of miles away
will visit the city either to enjoy its sum
mer pleasures, to visit friends, or to spend
a day or two en route to other vacation
resorts.
To all such who are in need of medical
assistance—who suffer from any form ol
chronic disease, I extend an invitation to
visit my office. They can. all and every
one of them, have the benefit of my twen
ty years of practical experience in
the matter of diagnosis and advice
xvihout any cost whatever.
When you visit this city you can regard
yourself as one of my office guests. What
ever service I can render you is yours free
ly for the asking. Because of this you
place yourself under no obligations to
place yourself under my treatment.
If yon have Vnrlcocele, I can care.
If you have Stricture, I can core
you.
(Both, by my exclusive method of
home treatment, without any opera
tion, or pain, or detention from
business.)
If you have any Nervous Weak
ness or Disorder, I can core yon.
If you have any form of Urinary
or Genital Disease, I enn cnee yon.
If you have any Blood Disease, in
whatever stage, I ran enre yon.
If yon have Catarrh, Asthma or
Bronchitis, I can enre yon.
If yon have any form of Chronlo
Disease. I can care yon.
This is no boast; it is proved by the uni
form record of cures I have made for
twenty years.
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D.,
Dr. Hnthnway A Cos.
25 "A” Bryan Street, Savannah, Ga.
Office Hours: 9 to 12 m., 2 to 5 and 7 to
9 p. m. Sundays. 10 a. m. to 1 p. tn.
Morton’s School for Boys.
The fifteenth session of this school
which is the largest and best equipped
private school in this city, commence*
Oct. 1. Thorough instruction in all de
partments. Students from this school en
ter the State University on Principal'*
certificate without entrance examinations.
Special instruction for those wishing
to enter the U. S. Academies.
For catalogues or other Information ad
dress, J. R. MORTON, M. A.
Principal.
SUMMER RESORTS.
SARATOGA.
THE GRAND UNION
For Illustrated Booklet address
WOOLLEY & GERRANS, Proprietors,
Saratoga Springs, New York.
IN THE COOL MOUNTAINS.
Tne Stvannanoa tiotei, Aanevil.e, .N. c.
Under new management. A high ciasa
family and commercial hotel, with table
of superior excellence. Casino, music and
dancing. Centrally located; good beds;
cool rooms; rates moderate. Write to
BRANCH & YOUNG, Proprietors.
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs.
West Virginia.
Representative resort of the South. Open
June 15. 540,000 In improvements. New
sewerage, plumbing, lights, private baths
and toilets. Orchestra of 16 pieces. Fam
ous Sulphur baths. New -hole golf
course. 2,700 yards. Professional In charge.
Write for illustrated booklet. HARRING
TON MILLS, Manager.
ROCK LEDGB,
ASHEVILLE, N. C„
In the Mountains. The p ace to spend
your vacation. New house, cool rooms,
modern conveniences; on Battery Park
hill, near postofflce. Free from noise and
dust; excellent table; moderate rate.
MRS. L. COLE
SCHOOLS AXO COLLEGES.
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL.
L. M. BLACKFORD, M. A., Principal.
For Boys. Three miles from Alexandria,
Va., and eight from Washington, D.
C. The 62d year opens Sept. 26, 1900. Cata
logue sent on application to the principal
at Alexandria.
JIT. ST. AGNES’ COLLEGE for WOMEN.
Mt. Washington, Maryland.
Thorough English course. Lecture* de
livered. Degrees conferred. Mt. Washing
ton Seminary for Boys under 13 year*.
Primary and Preparatory courses. Both
institution# conducted by Sisters of Mercy.
Address MT. ST. AGNES’ COLLEGE.
Still In the Ilinj?.
We wish it understood that we are still
prepared to dispense the best Soda Water
in the city.
DONNELLY PHARMACY,
Phone 678. Liberty and Price.
M Morphine and Wbiakey hab
its treated without pale or
continement. Cure guaran
teed or no pay. B. H. VEAL
Man’gr Litbia Springs Baa
ll.nuai. no* 8 iiwlrit On.