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4 §se Jffiofnittg ffetog. Keralßg News baviaaah, Cia. TIESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1800. Registered at the Postofflce in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and ie served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a mouth, W-00 for six months, aud IS.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times o week (without Sunday issue), three months, *1.60; six months *3.00; one year $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS. 3 Issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, (1.00. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by posial order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by' mail at rtek 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 dept Il ls the standard of measurement. Contract nates and discount made known on appli cation at busineee 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. YMI 10 SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Savannah Lodge No. 183, P. B. O. Elks; DeKalb Lodge N. S, I. O. O. F. 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 Railway. Financial Statement—United States Branch of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company (Limited). Legal Sales—City Sheriff's Sales: Chat ham Sheriff's Sale; Trustee's Sale. Auction Sales—Trustee's Sale, by Plai shek & Cos.. Auctioneers; Trustee's Sale, by Robert H. Tatum, Auctioneer; Admin istrator's Sale, by I. D. La Roche, Auc tioneer; Trustee's Sale, by I. D. Laßoche, Auotlonesr; Beautiful Property at Isle of Hope, by I. D. La Roche, Auctioneer. No Cooking—Grape-Nuts Are Ready. This Is an Advertisement—B. H. Levy tc Bro. Amusements—Mr. Sidney Woodward In Grand Festival Concert Monday Evening, Aug. 13. Hotel—Hotel Victoria. New York Cliy. 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. Medical—Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Pills; Dr. Pieree'B Favorite Prescription; Tutt's Pills; Coke's Dandruff Cure; Dr. 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. "■■■ " ■ 125 Cun si. West. We handle the Yale & Towne Manufactur ing Company’s line of Builders’ Hardware. See these goods and get prices before plac ing your order else where. 5U CUM Lit UkUUltlS. iNnTtTE^HoOL^MOtJNTAINSirr* Thu StvutiiiaiiOLt nviti, A&nevil.e, N. '-*• Under new management. A high claM family and commercial hotel, with table of superior excellence. Casino, music and dancing. Centrally located; good bedg; cool rooms' rates moderate. Write to BRANCH & YOUNG. Proprietors.^ HOTEL VICTORIA Broadway, sth avenue and 27th st.. New Tork city. Entirely new; absolutely fire proof; European plan. Rooms, *I.OO per day and upward. ROBERT T. DUNLOP. Manager. Formerly of Hotel Imperial.