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6 gfjje ilofninfl Ueto|. Blorniug Newt Building bAvunnah, Oa SIMXW, AUGUST ft, 1000. Registered at the Postoffice In Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day In the year, and Is served to subscribers In the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month. *4.00 lor si* months, and iS.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.50; six months *3.00; one year $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 Issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, iI.OO. Subscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at riek ol senders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth— is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at busine66 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 Park Row. New York city, H. C. Faulkner. Manager. 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.