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YMI 10 SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Savannah Lodge No. 183, P.
B. O. Elks; DeKalb Lodge N. S, I. O.
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Special Notices—Acute Rheumatism and
Acute Catarrh Cured by Suwanee Springs
Water; J. Pinkussohn & Cos. Will Open
Their Wholesale and Retail Cigar Store
Thursday Evening; Fine Flour, A. M. &
C. W. West; For Sale or For Rent, C. H.
Dorsett; Levan's Table d'Hote.
Business Notices —E. & W. Laundry;
Harvard Beer, at DeSoto; Dainty Watch
es, Hunter & Van Keuren; Seasonable
Dainties, the S. W. Branch Cos.
Steamship Schedule—Merchants and
Miners' Transportation Company.
Railroad Schedule—Seaboard Air Line
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Financial Statement—United States
Branch of the Thames and Mersey Marine
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Legal Sales—City Sheriff's Sales: Chat
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shek & Cos.. Auctioneers; Trustee's Sale,
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No Cooking—Grape-Nuts Are Ready.
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Amusements—Mr. Sidney Woodward In
Grand Festival Concert Monday Evening,
Aug. 13.
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Black Velvet Ribbons—At the Bee Hive.
Legal Notices—Rule as to Petition of
C. B. Younglove and J. D. Goodwin vs.
A. P. Greene; In the matter of W. P.
Golden, Bankrupt; Citation from the
Cierk of the Court of Ordinary of Chat
ham county ;Application to Sell Real Es
tate; Notice to Debtors and Creditors Es
tate Mary Ann Theus.
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Hathaway Cos; Castoria; S. S. 9.; Hood’s
Sarsaparilla; Pond’s Extract.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; FVjr Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Tlic Weather.
The indications for Georgia to-day are
for generally fair weather, with light to
fresh southerly winds; and for Eastern
Florida, local rains In southesu, fair In
northern portion, with light to fresh
' northeasterly winds.
According to all the American
apple crop of this year will be enormous.
It is estimated I hat the output will be up
wards of 60,090.000 barrels. We shall,
therefore, not want for cider, "sass" or
‘■champagne” this season.
T. W. Johnson ot Can Francisco, who
has recently returned from the Northern
gold fields, says; “Cape Nome's ‘golden
sands' ara largely a myth, invented for
the benefit of transportation companies.
The health authorities estimate that of
every ten men going to Nome, one will
never get back alive.”
Twenty-five Fall River cotton mills are
Idle this week, arid It Is a matter of doubt
whether they will or not be started up
next week. The mill men of that center
soy that unless there is an improvement
In the cotton goods market soon they will
be forced to curtail production consider
ably, and the stopping of the mills may
be extended into November. Meanwhile
there are no reports of the shutting down
of m&)3 in the South.
The New York Press Is as uncompro
mising an enemy as Richard Croker has;
nevertheless the Press pays the Tammany
chief the compliment of saying that "his
general behavior In public is a tine ex
ample for the rising generation." "When
caught drinking.” It continues, "the po
tation is found to be mineral wafer. He
is one to whom excesses are. a stranger.
He neither smokes nor eats 100 much,
does not over-exercise, does no* slop over.
He Is the best type of moderation we
have In his class."
Anew course of study, and one which
1b likely to prove of much value, has
be*n ad led to New York’s school of agri
culture. It is a course in cold storage,
and the students will be Instructed in
methods of refrigerating food products,
especially fruits. Students In this course
will be taught how to pick, pack and
ship consignments for long distances, on
both land and water. They will also be
coached In the construction of refriger
ating plants, so that each student. If
IMcMMty, can build a cold-storage plant
on his own farm, and thus save much of
the fruit that now rota on the ground
and on tret* and vlnea.
nRYAVS XOTIFIOATIOK SPEECH.
H has* been announced that the speech
which Mr. Bryan will make when notWkVI
of hie nomination for Presklent, has been
completed, end contains about 10,000
words. The speech of Mr. Stevenson, who
will be notified at the same time and
pi ace, contains between 4,000 and 5,00 u
words.
•Mr. Bryan is a very entertaining speak
er. and there is no doubt that the audi
ence which will greet him at Indianapolis
to-morrow, will be deeply interested in
what he says. But is not the speech too
long? Mr. Bryan doubtless thinks he
cannot say all he haa to say in fewer
words. But if he should make the effort,
it is probable that he could cover all of
the topics he will touch upon, and cover
them intelligently and quite thoroughly
in les# than haif as many words.
His is to get his views before
hs many people as pos.-ible. It is safe
to eay that not half as many newspapers
will print the entire speech, as there
would, if it contained only 4,000 words.
The speech will occup*' at least eight
columns in the average newspaper, and
there are very few newspapers which can
spare that much space, unless they print
supplements. Besides, some space must
be given to Mr. Stevenson's speech. If
published entire, it would fill between
three and four column®.
The great majority of the newspapers
will cut both speeches down. They will
do this for two reasons. One is that the
lack of space will not permit of the pub
lishing of the full text of either speech,
and the other is that comparatively few
people care to read long speeches, even
when made by such eminent men as Mr.
Bryan and Mr. Stevenson. But everybody
will want to know what Mr. Bryan said
on the occasion of hts notification. There
fore i he chancee are that in most of the
newspaper* there will be published a
synopsis of his speech. Some attention
will also be given to Mr. Stevenson's
speech. The work of reducing the speeches
will be done hurriedly, and in some cases
by persons not very well qualified
for it. The result will be that, in many
instances, the best parte of the speeches
will be overlooked. The public will never
see them.
Would it not be better from every point
of view, for Mr. Bryan and Mr. Stevenson
to cut down their speeches. They can do
that much better than anybody else. If
Mr. Bryan should reduce his speech to
S.OOO. or even 4,000 words, it would be read
by five times a many people as will read
the 10,000-words speech. The main purpose
of the speech is, of course, to influence
public opinion. To do that it to necessary
that the speech shall be very generally
read. To insure its being read it should
b? short.
VIEWS OF TWO WAR CORRESPOND
ENTS.
Two of the most conspicuous war corre
spondents In South Africa were Mr. Win
ston Churchill, son of Lady Randolph
Churchill, and Richard Harding Davis, the
well-known author. Both are quite young
men. Mr. Davie arrived in this country
from South Africa last Saturday, and Mr.
Churc'htll is expected here early in the
fall, to enter upon a lecture engagement.
He is a Briton and takes the British view
of the South African question. He says,
however, that it ts hts purpose to tell tha
truth. There is no doubt that he will
do that—that is, as he understands It.
Mr. Churchill regards the war on the
Boers as a Just one. In support of that
statement he says that there are 2.500
Americans fighting on the British side and
less than 600 on the Boer side. Ho seems
to think that as none ot these Americans
are mercenaries the great majority of
them would be on the Boer side If they
thought the Boers were really fighting for
their homes and liberty.
That argument Is not a convincing one.
It may be that the Americans who are
fighting in South Africa are there simply
from the love of adventure, and that the
majority of them took the British side be
cause they thought they would receive bet
ter treatment on that side—that Is, they
would be better fed and would get better
attention In the event they were wounded
or became ill. But, whatever the reason
was that Induced more Americans to en
list in the British than In the Boer army,
it does not follow that because more of
them are with the British than with the
Boers the clause ot Great Britain is right.
Mr. Davis has the worst possible opin
ion of the average British officer as he
appears in South Africa. He attributes
much of the British lack of success at the
beginning of the war to the Inrompetency
of the British officer. How great that ln
competeney was, and still Is, no one not
personally acquainted with the facts will
ever fully understand. And the British
officers as prisoners behaved outrageously,
Mr. Davis says. In Pretoria women were
afraid to pass the building where they
were Imprisoned. They were so Insulting
In their remarks that the Boer govern
ment. on the petition of women, moved
them from the Center of the town to a sub
urb. Mr. Davis does not believe the
Boers are anywhere near beaten yet. He
thinks their chances for winning are ae
good as they ever were.
Mr Davis ts an enthusiastic admirer of
the Boers. Hts sympathies are with them.
That is why his talk and his writings are
so much in their favor. Still, there Is no
doubt that both he and Mr. Churchill are
sincere and believe everything they have
written for the public.
Dr. L. W. Habereoxn of Washington is
on* of the best known German newspaper
write! s In this country. During several
pres ilentlai campaigns he was connected
with the Republican literary bureau. He
has always been a Republican. But he
says he cannot stand McKlnlevlem, and
In this campaign he will write, work and
vote for Bryan. '1 consider Imperial'am
to be the most important Issue befsre the
pec pie,” he says, "and I regard the
course pursued by the President ns a
menace to this form of government. I
am enough of a patriot to put aside party
considerations and do everything in my
power to defeat that principle." Dr.
Hsbercom Is the Washington correspond
ent of some ninety German papers. Of
these he suys at least sixty will be ac
tively. In favor of Bryan.
An American young woman In China
writes to relatives in Chicago that the
Chinese have queer Ideas about war. "The
Chinese Idea of wsi," she ssys. "Is to kill
and torture women and children, and mur
der pianos, organs and other monsters."
It may be itae th it the Fllllplno Insur
reet’on has bee three •. but the frag
ments are terriMy hard to sweep up
THE MOKNING NEWS: TUESDAY; AUGUST 7, 1900.
HUDDLED ABOUT THE AME*DMB*T
Same of the Western papers do not ap
pear to have a very clear understanding
of the different constitutional amendments
limiting suffrage which have been adopted
by Southern states within the last few
years. For instance the Chicago Chron
icle, commenting on the suffrage amend
ment that has just been adopted in North
Carolina, says: “New constitutions sim
ilar to this in their provisions adopted by
Mississippi and other Southern states
have been declared by the Supreme Court
of rhe United States as not in violation
of the amendment to the federal consti
tution. They do not discriminate In terms
against race or color. They dtecriminate
against illiteracy, not against color. The
protection of the ancient franchise exist
ing previous to 1867 is not drawn on color
lines.”
The main reason why the Georgia Leg
islature refused to consider the Hardwick
bill favorably—a bill which, provided for
an amendment to the constitution of thi3
state similar to that which has been
adopted in North Carolina—was the doubt
which exists ns to the constitutionality
of the amendment. The amendment to
the constitutions of Mississippi and South
Carolina, by which the bulk of the negro
vore in those stales is kept out of the
ballot box, is radically different from that
which has been adopted in North Caro
lina. The Mississippi and South Carolina
amendment is timilar to the suffrage
provision of the Massachusetts constitu
tion. That has been held to be constitu
tional by the United States Supreme
Court. The North Carolina amendment,
however, like ihat of Louisiana, by means
of what is known as the “grandfather
clause,” discriminates against the negro.
When this clause was under discussion
In the Constitutional Convent on of Loui
siana, some of the ablest lawyers of that
state gave it as their opinion that an
amendment containing it would be un
constitutional. It wis, however, adopted.
But It has never been passed upon by the
Supreme Court of the United States, as
the Chicago Cnronicle seems to think.
There is talk ot again introducing the
Hardwick bill into the Georgia Legisla
ture. There is not much probability of its
passing until the constitutionality of the
“grandfulhcr clause" amendment has been
passed upon by the United States Supreme
Court. That that court will be asked to
decide the question of the validity of the
amendment there is not much doubt.
A DEBATABLE STATE.
Even the Republicans admit that Indi
ana is debatable ground. The Democrats
feel satisfied that with the right kind of
effort they will carry It by a substantial
majority. The fact that Mr. Bryan is
to make his notification speech In that
state Is a strong indication that the Dem
ocrats believe that they have an excel
lent chance for carrying it. Had it not
been for the existence of such a belief it
is probable that Mr. Bryan would have
received the Notification Committee at his
home, in Lincoln, Neb.
A full state ticket and a legislature are
to be elected In Indiana. The Republi
can nominee for Governor is Col. Durbin,
who is well known in this city, he hav
ing been here with Lee’s army corps. He
made a great many friends by the man
ner In which he showed hts appreciation
of the courtesies extended himself and his
men. His opponent is Mr. John W. Kern,
a lawyer of the highest standing in his
profession and a citizen of spotless repu
tation.
Mr. Kern was a Gold Democrat. In
fact, he is a believer now In the gold
standard. He does not believe, however,
that the money question will play an Im
portant part In this campaign. He Is
satisfied that If Mr. Bryan should be
elected he would not bring the silver ques
tion Into prominence against the known
Wishes of hts party. He thtnks that Mr.
Bryan is prepared to abide by the will
of his party on that as well as on other
questions, and that the sentiment of the
party was pretty clearly shown In respect
to stiver In the meetings of the Platform
Committee at the Kansas City Convention.
The indications are that the Gold Dem
ocrats will vote for Mr. Kern. If they
should, it Is pretty certain that he will
be elected, and that Mr. Bryan will carry
the state. They hold the balance of
power.
Immediately affer the nomination of Mr.
Bryan they hesitated as to the course they
should pursue. Believing as they do,
that the silver question Is settled for a
number of years, if not forever, and be
ing strongly opposed to Imperialism, they
have about come to the conclusion to sup
port Mr. Bryan. If the movement in
favor of a Gold Democratic ticket had
materialized It is probable that they
would have given it their support. Now
that the contest is squarely between Mr.
McKinley ar.d Mr. Bryan, they will stand
by their party and cast their votes and
use their influence for Mr. Bryan. Un
der the circumstances it is not surprising
that the Republican managers are becom
ing uneasy respecting the prospects of
their party in Indiana.
Two American millionaires gave Pa
risians two little incidents to discuss, and
thereby relieved the monotony of talking
about China and the exposition, during
the past week. The Americans were
John W. Gates and William K. Vander
bilt. Gates climbed the Eiffel Tower, and
from that eminence threw franc pieces to
the crowd below. When he had thus dis
posed of several handfuls of silver a po
liceman discovered and arrested him. At
the station the Justice said something in
French, and Mr. Gales gravely replied
that he did not know it was against the
law to throw over any coin of less stze
than five francs. The magistrate im
posed A fine of fifty franca and deliv
ered Mr. Oates u lecture full of gestures
and shrugs, of which the culprit did not
understand one Word. The fine was paid,
end the American went away smiling, to
look for some other way of getting rid of
bis money. Mr. Vanderbilt went Into a
Jeweler's shop to look at some pearls. Se
lecting a large, and fine one, he pieced it
between his teeth to test its hardness.
Then he opened hts mouth so suddenly
tha* the pearl slipped and flew down hla
throat. Both the dealer and the cus
tomer gasped. Mr. Vanderbilt was first
to recover hie composure. "How much?"
was ell he said. The dealer named a
price, the American pulled out a roll and
peeled off a number of bills, and the In
cident was closed.
It la reported that the Republican cam
paign managers will spend considerable
money in New England this year. If
true, isn't .that a little queer? Are the
New Englanders not Republicans "from
Some good and consistent Catholic par
ishioners of Elizabeth, N. J., were not a
little disconcerted a day or two ago by
observing on the top of the tall spire
of their church an American and an Eng
lish flag Idl the "place where the gilded
cross had been. A “steeple Jack" had
been employed to paint the spire and re
gild the croes. The pastor desired him
to substitute something in the place
of the cross while it was undergoing re
furbishing, and he put up the flags. Some
of the parishioners wanted the English
flag removed, but there was nobody in
town besides “Jack” who could climb to
tha4 dizzy hight, so both flags remained
and flutfered complacently over the con
gregation that heard mass celebrated by
Father O’Neill.
PERSONAL.
—Senator Heitfeldt of Idaho used to be
a cowboy in Kansas and has always been
more or less engaged in stock-raising.
—Mile. Dosne, sister-in-law of Thiers,
has presented his manuscripts to the
national library in Pari6, a condition bein<
that they shall not be utilized till after
her death. Ir is believed that they will
throw much light on French political and
literary history.
—Chief of Police Devery and Fire Chief
Crok* r of New York city were asked for
a definition of heroism and replied as fol
lows: Devery—“Heroism is the taking of
a forlorn c'hance to save a fellow being
from danger or death." Croker—“Hero
ism is merely conscientious fulfillment of
imlooked for duty.”
—Mrs. Stanislaus Vezyk, the representa
tive of the Polish photographers of Chi
cago at the convention of the American
Photographic Association at Milwaukee,
is one of the few women professional pho
tographers in America, and the only
Polish woman in the United States who
makes her living by her camera.
—Dr. Charles E. Page created quite a
sensation at the Washington Convention
of Doctors by coming to the defense of
the microbe. He held that a healthy
body generates its own germicides and
that the microbe in such a body stands
about as good a chance of doing mischief
“as a moupe in a tight room surrounded by
a dozen hungry cate.”
—ln a study of American politics which
appeared in a recent number Of the Lon
don Chronicle, it was pointed out that out
of the twenty-five presidents of the United
States, all but one have been of British
family origin. Fifteen, headed by Wash
ington, came of English stock. Three,
including James Monroe, had Scotch an
cestors. One, Thomas Jefferson, inherited
pure Welsh blood, while five others traced
their lineage to Scotch-Irish ancestry.
—The design of the gold casket which
the London Corporation prepared for the
Shah is of Persian character throughout.
The four corners ore recessed alcoves,
containing figures, and surmounted by
delicate minarets. The figures represent
London welcoming commerce, education,
and justice. On the obverse ie an enam
eled miniature of the royal recipient,
whose imperial 'crown is set with pre
cious stones, and in the center is an es
cutcheon bearing the initial letter "S”
set In diamonds.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Mrs. Spinks; I can’t pay you. I
haven't a cent. But perhaps my hus
band will have some money when he gets
home. I believe he's gone to a horse
race.
Grocer (weeping); Alas! madame, you
are mistaken. It wasn’t a horse race he
went to. It was a church fair.—New York
Weekly.
—Didn't Fill the Bill.—"Ma says, how
much will you charge to write a ’bltuary
on the death of my dad?”
“Three dollars an inch,” replied the ed
itor, gruffly.
The messenger departed, but In a /lttle
while he returned and said:
"Ma says dad wuz six-foot two inches,
but he wuxn’t wuth three dollars!”—At
lanta Constitution.
—A Contradiction—Politician: My boy,
the door to every successful business Is
labeled "Push."
Thoughtful Youth: Isn't your business
a successful one, 6ir?
Politician: Well, yea, I flatter myself
that it is very -successful. Why do you
ask that?
Thoughtful Youth: Because, sir. I see
your door is labeled “Pull."—Detroit Free
Press.
—Properly Interpreted —She was radi
antly happy as she passed into the ball
room after paying her respects to the
hostess.
"How do you do, my dear?” the latter
had said to her. "I hope you do nol
feel as weary as you look.”
"Ah!" exclaimed the fair woman after
ward, communing with herself, "how
charming I must look to-night.”—Phila
delphia Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
*
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
(Ind.): "North Carolina is now a white
man’s state, politically, for, at least, a
generation, provided there is no serious
interference with the new amendment by
the United States Supreme Court; and
this Is scarcely expected, now that the
Mississippi amendment has stood for sev
eral years. The immediate political effect
of the election is of no national conse
quence, although a straight Democrat
will be chosen to succeed the Populist,
Butler, in the United States Senate. The
complexion of the Senate on the money
question will no* be changed, unless the
new Democratic senator should have anti
silver leanings, and In that case, the
change would be for the better.”
The Pittsburg Dispatch believes that
China is at war with the world, and says:
"Asa matter of fact, the initial acts of
war were committed some time ago. It
boots little now to discuss who took the
first step or whether better results might
net have been sectired if different courses
had been taken. It certainly seems that
if this report Is true the prospect of se
curing the safety of The ministers by the
advance of the troops is much less hope
ful than if the course had been adopted
of giving China a chance to redeem her
self. But since the die ts cast all the
civilised world will hope for a more rapid
advance of the troops and a greater suc
cess than is Indicated by The record of
the past month.”
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
(Dem.) says: “Yesterday it was King
Humbert, to-morrow It may be another
American Prextdepi who will be named In
•he secret councils of the anarchists. The
authorities of every American city should
<ake active steps in ferreting out the
dens of these miscreants, which Is not a
difficult Task, for they take special pride
In advocating their damnable and per
nicious doctrine, and our laws should be
administered In such a manner that he
who preaches death and disorder should
be given short shift, and no opportunity
of continuing the practice."
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
"Senator Stewart of Nevada has flopped
To the Republican party on the Issue of
tmperisllsm. if he lives a few years long
er. he will be trying to convince the peo
ple that he didn’t know what he was do-
J tng. This was Ihe course he adopted,
with regard to 'the crime of ’7l' **
•Unking the Bent of Thlngu.
A Glasgow paper reports, according to
the Westminster Budget, that “in a coun
try church on Sunday forenoon the ser
vice Vas practically stopped for a short
time, owing to the noise caused by a
couple of dogs outside which started wor
rying each other.” A correspondent who
semis us the cutting tells another Scotch
story. It was once usual for Highland
shepherds to take their dogs to church
and leave them outside the pews. Two
shepherds at enmity sat on opposite skies
oi* the aisle one Sunday. Soon aiter the
sermon began the dogs—one a collie and
the other not—seemed to enter into their
masters’ quarrel. One tender of the flock
and then the other egged on his arumai,
and each faithful dog obeyed hie master.
The people at last craned their necks over
the pews, ami when the dogs actually
fought not a few of the congregation were
upstanding. The minister’s patience was
ultimately exhausted, and so he called o
his “hearers” and said, “Ah, weel, my
britheren, I see ye are most interested
in the dog fight than in my sermon, and
so I’ll close the buike—and I’ll bet half a
crown on the collie!’’
HanlnnN Great Speech,
It is related of Edward Hanlon, the.
great Canadian oarsman, that ae a speech
maker, he is without a peer, says the
Cleveland Plain-Dealer. The only claim
upon which this can- be based, however,
is the story of how he delivered a speecn
after winning his second race in England.
His first victory had found him unpre
pared. He was ready for his second with
a good speech, composed for him by a
newspaper friend, neatly copied out on
paper, and stored away for use in hla
coat pocket. When the crowd outside the
clubhouse insisted upon seeing and hear
ing the winner, he was helped out upon
a window ledge by his friends and held
there by the coat tails and the legs. The
crowd cheered him wildly. He was too
confused to speak. They cheered him
again. He threw out his hand in a % ges
ture of helplessness and moved his lips
in some inaudible mumble of apology for
his inability to deliver a speech. They
could not hear on account of the noise,
that they were themselves making, but
{hey encouraged him with a generous
applause. He saw his escape, and pro
ceeded to shake hie head and work his
lips in a fine frenzy of oratory, gesticu
lating eloquently and smiling hi 6 thanks.
The noisy and good-natured crowd cheer
ed him to the echo, and his friends drew
him in from his precarious position on
the window ledge. “You carried that
crowd along in style,” they congratulated
him. “What did you say? We couldn’t
hear you.” “Yes, give us an idea of
your speech,” the reporters put in, draw
ing their noteoooks. Hanlan took the
manuscript from his pocket. “Here’s the
ivhole thing,” he said; “do you want it
all?” “Weil, rather,” they answered;
“that speech made a hit.”
Adjustable Examinations.
In the worst days of New York politics,
when “Boss” Tweed flourished and made
money for himself and his friends, he
found it occasionally convenient that some
of his supporters who never had a legal
education should be admitted to practice
in the courts, says the Youth’s Compan
ion. The process of admission Was then
an examination to be held in open court
to test the qualifications of the applicants,
but Tweed guarded against all possible
difficulties by securing the appointment
to the examining committee of judges in
sympathy with his methods. The author
of "Thirty Years of New York Politics"
gives a report of one of these "special"
examinations.
Judge Barnard was In the chair. The
first applicant was a state senator who
had never seen a "Kent" or a “Black
stone’ in his life. With mock gravity the
Judge put him through a catechism which,
it is said, ran as follows:
Question—Senator, do you know there is
such a thfhg as a state constitution?
Answer—Yes, sir.
Q—Well, then,. If a proposed bill came
up for consideration which you knew was
in violation of the constitution, what
would you do?
A.—l would move to suspend the con
stitution, same as we sometimes suspend
the rules of the Senate to pass a bill.
"Stand aside." said the Judge, with a
smile. “ You will make a profound law
yer.
Now. sir," said the Judge, addressing
Daniel Breezy, another applicant, "if you
had a claim for a client of *50,000 against
the city, what would be the first step you
would take to recover it?"
"I would go and see Bill Tweed," was
the sagacious answer.
"You will make your mark as a corpor
ation lawyer,” said the Judge, amidst
great merriment.
Plain I-nngmaKe From Trnthful
James,
(Table Mountain, 1870.)
Which I wish to remark—
And my language is plain—
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
Which the same I would rise to explain.
Ah Sin was his name;
And I shall not deny
In regard to the same
Whot that name might imply,
But his smile it was pensive and child
like,
As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye.
It was August the third;
And quite soft was the skies;
Which it might be inferred
That Ah Sin was likewise;
Yet he played it that day upon William
And me In a way I despise.
Which we had a small game,
And Ah Sin took a hand;
It was euchre. The same
He did not understand;
But he smiled as he sa by the table,
With a smile that was childlike ’ and
bland.
Yet the cards they were stocked
In a way that I grieve,
And my feelings were shocked
At the state of Nye’s sleeve;
Which was stuffel full of aces and bow
ers
And the same with intent to deceive
9 '
Bin the hands that were played
By that heathen Chinee,
Ami the points that he made
Were quite frightful to see—
Till at last be put down a right bower.
Which the same Nyo had dealt unto me.
Then I looked up at Nye,
And he gazed upon me;
And he rose wfth a sigh,
Apd said, "Can this be?
Wet are ruined %y Chinese cheap labor”—
And he went for that heathen Chinee.
In the scene that ensued
I did not take a hand,
Bnt the floor It was strewed
Like the leaves on the strand
Wtth the cards Ah Sin had been hiding,
In the game "he did not understand."
In his sleeves, which were long,
He had twenty-four jacks—
Which was coming it strong.
Yet I state but the facts;
And we found on hit nails, which were
taper,
What Is frequent In tapers, that’s wax.
Which Is why I remark.
And my language Is plain.
That for ways that are dark.
And for tricks that are vain.
The heathen Chinee Is "peculiar,"
Which the same I am free to maintain.
—Bret Harte.
—The Minority.—The minority is quite
as Important in the manufacture of his
tory Hjt is the nether millstone In the
manufacture of flour.—Detroit Journal.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Awarding to the comments of the
Paris press, American women are the best
dressed of any who visit the exposition.
Figaro says that American women have
even set the fashion for their French sis
ters. The latter have begun to copy styles
which they find worn by women from Chi
cago and New York.
—The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety is providing ail Boer prisoners with
Bibles printed in Dutch, and the plan will
be carried out within* a few weeks. The
society might save its money. It’e a'queer
sort of Boer who don’t carry a Dutch Bi
ble, and most of them, like Oom Paul,
know much of it by heart.
—There are more than twice as many
blind persons in Russia as in the whole
of the rest of Europe. They number 190,-
000. which is equivalent to two in every
1,000 of the population. In France and
England the proportion is not quite one
per I,ool*. In the United States most of
the blind belong to the Republican party.
—When the political economist in talk
ing for McKinley telle you about the great
wages paid to American workingmen and
quotes $lO as the average earnings in this,
that or the other mill, it is well to remem
ber that out of ninety-eight of the chief
national industries of this country only
twenty-nine of them give employment 300
days in the year.
—A notable feature of the American
celebrations, and of the United Scales at
the exposition itself, and in general of
the American tourist in- Europe, during
these recent years, is the inordinate uS<?
of our flag. Young women are dressed
i it, young men. wear it around their
necks for a cravat, it is twined round the
head of the colored cook) at the corn
kitchen.
—For some unknown reason there has
been a great falling off of suburban travel
on the steam lines entering Chicago..
Trains which have been going and com
ing well loaded in the spring and winter
are often this summer nearly empty. It
is not caused by absence of people from
the city, for there was no such falling
off last summer or in previous years. It
may be that the cool and rapid trolley
lines have begun to cut into the business
of the steam roads.
Kansas women continue to kep in
evidence. One of them ran a state con
vention the other day and compelled the
nomination of her candidate for the su
preme bench. Another, the wife of the
mayor and banker in her town, runs the
best hotel in the state, so it is called. It
is a cottage but little larger than the or
dinary. rt is beautifully furnished and
she superintends the cooking and ssrving.
The table is said by travelers to excel
anj thing of the kind in the West, and
she is getting rich on her own account.
Her husband has nothing to do with the
affair. He dines there like any other
man.
—Sir William Bailey, the head of the
Albion works, at Salford, told this story
the other day: “A certain Manchester
merchant saw a mummy in Egypt and
brought away a portion of the mummy
cloth. This was handed to a buyer of a
large Manchester warehouse, who was
asked if he could tell where it was woven-.
After examining it carefully with bis
glass, he said he thought ha could put his
finger on the mill where It was produced
if he could borrow the piece for a faw
days. Afterward he rfported that it was
made where he had thought, n ar Old
ham, and was called by the manufac
turer his ’No. 83.’ ••
—Chicago grain men are interested in
the report that within the next few years
an enormous grain trade is certain to be
developed between Mongolia and Siberia.
The population of the vast Mongolian
steppes concerns itself a'mest wholly
with the breeding cf cattle and horses
and is likely to draw almost all its food
stuffs from Siberia In the future. Another
matter of similar inte’est is the growing
wheat area of Argentine. In competition
with the United States the Argentina Re
public is at an advantage in some ways
and at a disadvantage in others. Her
wheat fields are close to the ’ serbeard,
making e great saving in land freigh',
and she has cheap labor, but the ocean
freight rat-a are excessive.
—The annual payment of a rose by a
church in Pennsylvania ax rent, a custom
surviving from colonial days early in the
last century, calls attention to strange
rents In England. The Duke of Marl
borough gtves a banner to the Queen
every year on Aug. 2. the Blenheim an
niversary, as rent for the manor of
Woodstock. The Duke cf Wellington
pays the same sort of rent for Strathfleld
saye, presented to the Iren Duke, for his
victory at Waterloo. In Yorkshire hun
dr ds cf acres bring in no other rent save
roses. Formerly land in Norfolk was
held by giving the king each year twen
ty-four pasties cf fresh herrings. In
other places a cock, a hen, a side of ba
con or other article Is given instead of
money.
—John J. Brenneman, who represents a
New York firm in Shanghai, wrote thus
In a letter da’ed June 30: "I am likely
going up to Hank-Kow, about nine hun
dred tries up the river, the coming week,
and I expfet to sec some interesting
sighis. I have joined the American R fie
Company of the Shanghai volunteers. Th-
American consul has armed vs with Mar
tini-Henry rdles bayonets and cartridges.
We ara drilled lw.ee a day by regular
army men. Things are quieiing down
about ifharghai, hut we will be prepared
for emerge nebs The best paying thing
here at the present moment are firearms
and ammunition. They are commanding a
premium of lOD per cent, and in some
cases more. Almost all the large business
houses out here are general merchants,
and they deal in every ard anything that
comes along." i
—Ernest L. Harris, the Amerl an con
sular agent at Eibenstoek, tells why the
lumter merchants of Hamburg, Geimany.
are prejudiced against 'American lumber:
"They ordered lumber from the United
Staes. received th do uments, paid one
half or thrte-feurths of the Invoice value
Inspected the cargo after ha' lng paid for
the same, and th n found that the lumber
was not in accordance with the order.
They had to sell the best they could, ex
periencing less In order to cov, r the same,
being obliged to bring suit against the
firms In the United States, and In every
care I have c-me in contact with the par
ties in Hamburg have been losers. This
is caused by the expenses connected with
the suit or by the firms in the United
States compromisin'.?; in such a manner
ihat the firms here were ob’lgcd to accept
the compromise. I know of one case in
Hamburg in which the firm has lost about
*11,28(1 In this way."
—On the Feast cf St. Martin recently,
an unusual religious ceremony took place
at North Lew, a village situated upon the
northern fringe of Dartmoor. England,
when the Bishop of Bristol, after the first
evensong and preceded by the surplice!
cher a-d a rumb r o' local cle gy in
their robes, roinhel with banners flying
from the parifb church to the venerable
old preaching cross In the market place,
which, having fallen Into a lamentable
state cf decay, has Just been restored.
The Blchop. having ocveikd the structure
and solemnly blessed It. mounted to the
topmost of the triplet of octagon steps
that go to form the base of the lichen
grown and venerable fabric, and preach
ed an eloquent sermon to the large os
8, mbly. The cross, which was formerly
one of the finest la the West Country,
was originally e erted by the Missl ner
Benedlct ne monks cf the Abbey of St.
Mary and St. Reenon. at Tavistock, and
Is In tha main, of thirteenth ce.,tury
work.
Jos. A. Magnus & Cos.,
CINCINNATI, O.
SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT FOR
THP> SIX MONTHS ENDING JUNE 3l\
1900. OF THE CONDITION OF THE
UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE
Homes ol Mersey Hi
luce cm,
(LIMITED),
OF LIVERPOOL. ENGLAND, ORGAN
IZED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND. MADE TO THE GOVERNOR
OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. IN
PURSUANCE OF THE LAWS OF SAID
STATE.
PftßGlpol lie? in lied Sidles.
69 WALL STREET, NEW YORK CITY,
N. Y.
I.—CAPITAL.
Whole amount of cap
tal stock $19,000.000 00
Amount paid up in
cash 1.000.000 00
UNITED STATES.
II.—ASSETS.
Stocks and bonds
owned absolutely by
the Company-
Par value $ 512.000 00
Market value (ear
-0 ried out; 649,086 25 —5649,086 25
Cash in the company’s
principal office *6O 48
Cash belonging to tbo
Company deposited
iu bank’ 2.876 79
Total cash items tcarried out) ....$ 2,987 27
Bills receivable, not
matured, taken for
tire, marine and in
land risks 63.679 65
Due from re-insuring
Companies on louses
paid .. 3,940 93
Uncollected premiums
(not over three
months due) 50 382 98
Total assets of the Company.
actual cash market value $770,027 08
III.—LIABILITIES.
Gross losses in process
of adjustment or in
suspense, including
all reported and sup
posed losses 118 ,828 00
Losses resisted, includ
ing interest, cost and
all other expenses
thereon 4,500 00
Total amount of claims
for losses 123,328 47
Deduct reinsurance
thereon 28,932 00
Net amount of unpaid losses (car
ried uuti . .$ 94,403 00
The amount of reserve
for reinsurance 25,901 46
Amount due insurance
Companies 9.463 59
Amount due brokers.. 5,528 67 14,992 26
Surplus beyond all lia
bilities 634.730 36
Total liabilities $ 770.027 08
IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRST BIX
MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1900.
Amount of cash premiums received? 214.288 43
Received for interest 7.500 00
Total income actually received
during the first six months in
cash ....$ 251,729 43
V. EXPENDITURES DURING THE
FIRST SJX MONTHS OF HE YEAR
3900.
Amount of losses paid $ 113,743 83
Paid for state, national aud local
taxes in this anil other states.. . 9,812 30
All other payments and expendi
tures, viz: rent, supplies, sala
ries, etc 21.474 58
Brokerage 22.461 01
Amount sent to home offices during
the first six months 96.734 99
Total expenditures during the
last six months in cash $ 264.220 71
STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF
CHATHAM.—Personally appeared be
fore the undersigned A. L. FARIE, who,
being duly sworn, depose* and says that
he is the agent of the THAMES AND
MERSEY MARINE INSURANCE COM
PANY, Limited, and that the foregoing
statement is correct and true.
A. L. FARIE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 6th day of August. 1930.
H. H. KING,
Cl rk U. S. Circuit Court.
Name of state agent, A. L. FARID, 118
East Bay street, Savannah.
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