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4 gffjc ilofning ffetu#. Mornlog News Building. Savnnnah, tin. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, lfKK>. Registered at (he Postoffice In Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, ami ie served to subscribers in the city, or sent by tnail. at No a month, *4.00 for six months, nnd *S.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mall, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, *I.OO, six months *300; one year *O.OO. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 Issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, *I.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk ot 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 mails known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING News to either residence or place of business may’ be made by postal card or through telephone No. 210. Any irregular ity in delivery should he 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. ISDEI 10 KElf ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting—Clinton Lodge No. 54, F. and A. M. Special Notices—Gout and Catarrh of Bladder Cured, by Suwaneo Springs Wa ter; Special Notice, Dr. M. A. Morris, Vet erinary Surgeon; Notice to City Court Ju rors: Notice. Central of Georgia Railway Company: Levan’s Table d’Hote; Why Do I Keep Such Fine Meats? John Funk; City Market; Ship Notice, Capt. Falk of the German Bark Frieda; Pinkussohn & Cos.; Up-to-Date Bargain Store; Forest City Independent Club Plonk! to Tybee, Aug. 9. Business Notices —Le Panto Cigars; Har vard Boer, at Hicks’ Restaurant. Mineral Water—Apollineris. Fruit Jars—Cheaper Than Ever, Geo. W. Allen & Cos. Pitted Olives—At Munster’s. Ladies’ Shirt Waists and Skirts at Half Price— >B. H. Levy & Bro. Boys’ “Armor Clad"’ Shoes—Byek Bros. Legal Notice#—Citations From the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham County; Notice to Debtors and Creditors, Estate Warren Palmer WlUcox, Deceased; In the Matter of Mrs. B. LevUon, Bank rupt. Mineral Water—Apolllnark*. Educational—Mt. St. Agnes' College for Women, Mt. Washington, Md. Cleveland Bicycles—Wm. & H. H. Latti tnore. Medical—Mimyon’s Kidney Cure; Hood’s Pills; Castoria; Dr. Hathaway Company; R. R. R.; Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Auction Sales—Guardian’s Sale, by J. McLaughlin & Son, Auctioneer. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Fbr Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Tlip Wenther. The Indications for Georgia to-day are for generally fair and continued warm weather, with light to fresh southerly winds; and for Eastern Florida generally fair weather, with light to fresh north easterly winds. Messrs. Bryan and Stevenson will to-day learn officially that they have been nomi nated by the Democratic party for Presi dent and Vice President of the I’nlted States. Maurice de Floury, an erudite French man, eays that the term, “love sick," Is not an empty phrase. According to him, love is a malady of the mind, to be class ed among the most distressful of disease*. What are these foreign scientists going to leave us In life that Is sane? Nordau eays genius Is Insanity, Lombroso says crime is Insanity, and now this other man comes along and says the grand passion of the heart is insanity:* Must man be as unimaginative and as unemotional as a clam to be classed us normal? Dudley Township, Haskell county, Kan., came Into prominence four years ago as the only township In the country to give a. plurality for Palmer and Buckner. Dud ley township comes forward again this year, with a paramount Issue that Is en tirely outside all of the platforms. James Bradley, Republican, and Willis William son, Democrat, are suitors for the hand of Miss Kincaid. She has Informed them that she will marry the one that carries ths county for his candidate for Presi dent. The electioneering that they are doing is said to be something wonderful to behold. Meetings have recently been held in the provinces of Tacna and Arica, Peru (or Chile?) tn which it was resolved that an nexation to the United States would sought unless Chile speedily restored <he provinces to the Peruvian government. In Bolivia, which country is threatened by Chilean aggreseion, there Is a good deal of talk about annexation to the United State*. Recently a leading journal of Switzerland openly advocated the annexa tion of that republic to the United Slates. What a magnificent scheme of empire all of these suggestions must open up to the mind's eye of the Republican bosses! An evidence of the Increasing importance of New York as a money center is to he seen tn the heavy subscriptions to the new British war lonnol £10,000.000. Already, It is estimated, more than one-half of the total loan has been subscribed for in this country. A few years ago the floating of any considerable part of a Eu ropean war loan in the United • States would have been unthought of. Now, how ever, American financiers have so much money at their disposal that they are al ways in the market for first-class securi ties. domestic or foreign, even if the secu rities offer low Interest. There are good reasons for thinking that the lime Is not far distant when the financial center of k the world will not be In Europe, but In ■ Wall street. New York, CHINESE OFFER CTROKG RE SISTANCE. It is evident that it is not going to he an easy task for the all lea to reach Pekin. It is a question whether they can reach it at all without large reinforcements. The meagre accounts of the battle that ha been fought on the road to Pekin show that the Chinese are prepared to make very strong resistance. If it be true that the killed and wounded of the allies num bered I.HOO, it would not require many more such battles to make them halt and waif for assistance. No doubt the loss of the Chinese was* far greater than that of the allies. Sup pose it was five iimes or even ten times as great! They cculd stand many such losses. They could lose an army of 100,000 and scarcely mies it. Hut every man of the allies is needed. The allied army is a small one, and it has a dangerous road of seventy-two miles to travel in order to reach its destination. And when It reaches Pekin it may encounter a great army—an army of perhaps 300,000 men. It is fair to assume that the Chinese have not been idle since it became known U was the purpose of the Powers to send an army to rescue the ministers. No doubt they have been collecting their sol diers from all pa its of the empire with the View of inflicting a great defeat on the allies. If the invaders should be driven back, and put in peril at Tien Tsin, there would be an uprising of the whole Chi nese people. They hate foreigners, and they would assume that they could drive them out of China and keep them out if they should force the allied army to re treat to Tien Tsln. If those in authority ot Pekin really wanted peace they would have given up the ministers when the demand for them was first made. If the ministers did not desire to risk themselves and families with a Chinese escort, the Chinese would have permitted a small force of the allies to come to Pekin and take them to Tien Tsin. It is clear that there has been no Intention to give up the ministers except on terms made by the Chinese authorities. It would not be surprising if among the terms would be one that all foreigners, in cluding missionaries, should get out of China and stay out, and that all territory ceded by the empire in recent years un der compulsion to European Powers should be restored. The statement made by LI Hung Chang that the minister# were sent to Tien Tsin several days ago is not credited, even in China. It is doubtful if the Chinese gov ernment will give up the ministers until It is compelled to do so. A TASTE OF IMPERIALISM. Here and there evidence is crop-' ping out that the people are becoming dis satisfied because Congress has failed to repeal the war taxes. It Is asserted by the administration that we ore at peace with all the world, and yet the war taxes are still being collected. It may Ire said that we are having trouble in China, and that the cost of sending an army there is very great. The trouble In China had not Ire gun when Congress adjourned. Hence the Republicans cannot say their refusal to reduce the war taxes was due to expendi tures in China. While we are not at war with the Fil ipinos we are doing a good of fight ing In the Philippines, and It costs a vast amount of money to maintain the 60,000 soldiers there. The Indications are that even more soldiers than are there now will hwve to be kept there for many years if the policy of holding the islands as a permanent possession prevails. The money spent in holding the Philip pines Is giving the people a taste of im perialism. To rttie people without their consent a large army Is nedessary, and a large army means heavy taxes. No ar gument that Mr. Bryan or any other orator will make during the presidential campaign will have so much Influence with the people as these war taxes which they are now paying. They cannot see that the Philippines will ever be of much benefit to this country. But they know that they are costing n great deal of money and many valuable lives. Some of the Republicans are claiming that we have the Philippines now and we cannot honorably get rid of them—that we are under obligations to the whole civ ilized world to hold on to them and pro vide them with an enlightened, liberal and stable government. If that is the case then the Republican party ought to be turned out of power for Insisting upon having them. The main reason why It Insisted on having them was that It thought It would gain great glory by adding so much territory to the republic, and that the popularity thus acquired would be sufficient to give it a long lease of power. It did not forsee that the Isl ands would be a costly possession—that an army would be necessary to hold them and that their commerce would not he sufficient to offset in the smallest degree the sacrlftce* the American people would have to make to rule them. The Republicans are saying that im perlalsm will not cut much of a figure in the campaign. It Is beginning to look as If the people would give very little at tention to anything else. The New York Commercial, philosophiz ing upon plantation labor and the educa tion of the negro, reaches this conclusion: "A negro cotlonfleld 'hand' with a good education ought not to be any more of an anomaly than a 'hired man' on a New Hampshire farm, who can demonstrate a problem In algebra during the nooday lunch, and he Is by no means uncommon.” This presupposes the mental equality of the negro and the white “hired man” of New Hampshire; in which premises the Commercial fatallyorrs. Whetherornot the negro "with a good education” "ought not to be” an anomaly as a farm hand, the fact remain* that such farm hand Is not only an anomaly, but Is Lon-exlstent. There are many educated negroes In I hie country, but non* of them Is to he found as a "hand" on a farm. It Is the negro’s Idea that as soon as he acquires an edu cation. even if It be only a superficial one, that he must enter one of the professions or hold a political office. With his educa tion he takes on too much dignity to work with his hands. Ho looks upon the ability to read, write and "cipher" as an "open sesame” to all of the good things and soft snaps of life. He must he a preacher, a teacher, a lawyer or a politician, or he will be nothing at all. There is no such thing as the dignity of labor in his lexicon. Booker T. Washington has frequently re marked upon thle characteristic of the race, and he Is doing hts beat to counter act It; but ao far the fruits of his efforts ore Dot visible. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY; AUGUST 8. 1000. A MISTAKE* VIEW. Some of the Republican papers are say ing that there is no freedom of speech and discussion in political matters in the South, and they base this statement on the fact that the electoral vote of the South will he cast solidly for Mr. Bryan, notwithstanding the belief of Southern business men that his election would not be for the best interests of the country. There is no doubt, of course, that the electoral vote of the South will be cast for Mr. Bryan, but it is not true that there Is no freedom of discussion of polit ical matters in the South. Neither is there any substantial ground l for saying that the business men of the South think that the election of iMr. Bryan would be inim ical to the best interests of the country. It is no doubt true that many Southern business men favor the re-election of Mr. McKinley, and it is probable that they will vote for him. just as they did in 1896. That there is no effort to suppress the discussion of political questions, or to pre vent a division of the people into political parries, is shown by the fact that the Populist party became strong in every one of the Southern states. It still has considerable strength in each one of them. The most of the Populists, how ever, have returned to the Democratic party because the principles of that party suit them better than those of the Pop ulist party. Rut what the Republican papers mean when they say that there is no freedom of opinion in political mat ters in the South is tha4 the white people do not feel free to join the Republican party. They are free to join that party If they want to, but they do not want to. And why? Simply because it is against their interest to do so, end the Republican party has made it against their Interest. That party under took to control the South by means of the negro. It attempted to do an impos sible thing, namely, to put an inferior race over a superior one. The white peo ple, in self protection, were forced to act together. By acting together they got con trol of their political affairs, and by re maining together they retain control of them. The Republican party failed In its attempt to get the Congressmen and elec toral votes of the South. For the sake of getting the Congressmen and the electoral votes the Republican party would have turned the South over to negro rule. * That party therefore has no ground for complaining that the electoral vote of the South will go solidly to Mr. Bryan. It has been the chief agent in making it solid for him. And it continues a policy calcu lated to keep the South solid. Every Re publican President fills the principal Fed eral offices in the South with negroes. If the ballot had not been given to the ne groes. or given to them only as they showed themselves fit for it, the chances are that there would be a strong white Republican party in the South now. But there will never be a white Republican party In the South as long as there is an opportunity for the negroes to exercise great political power. Thes.e same Republican papers complain of the movement in the South to disfran chise Illiterate negroes. Why shoukl they complain? When that movement is com plete there will be a better opportunity for the Republican party In the South than there is now. With the negro vote out of the way the political division of the white people will become more marked. The Republican party gets nothing from the fiouth under existing conditions. It may get something after the disfranchis ing movement has been completed, though it is probable that the Democratic party will always he dominant in the South. The Republican party made a mistake when It attempted to force negro rule on the South and it would make a mistake if It should oppose the movement to dis franchise illiterate negroes. ENGLAND'S FINANCIAL CONDITION. The Boer war Is causing uneasiness in financial circles in London. It was stated In our dispatches a day or two ago that the English governmetn was seeking to borrow JjO.OOO.OOp New York. It Is un derstood that the bonds that are offered there will be taken. Therefore some of the gold of the T’nlted States will go to the Bank of England. But the rate of inter est that England is now compelled to pay for money Is very close to 4 per cent. The government of this country had no trouble in getting all the money it asked for at the beginning of the Spanish-American War at 3 per cent., and these 3 per cent* now command a premium of about 9 per cent. English consols arc offered at 9714. It Is not surprising, under the circum stances, that there Is uneasiness in Lon don's financial circles. The Boer war has proven far more ex pensive than It was thought It would be. It has already cost over $300.(100.000, and the end Is not yet In sight. England has an enormous debt. She Is rich, of course, but her resources are not Inexhaustible. In fact they are steadily becoming smaller. This country Is cutting Into her commerce In a way that is making her merchants and manufacturers extremely anxloua In steel products Americans arc underselling English manufacturers in the London markets. If they are underselling them at home what must they be doing In other markets In which they compete with them? If England feels the financial strain of a little war like that in South Africa what would be her financial condition If she should become Involved In a great war? A great war growing out of the Chinese sit uation to which she would be a party Is not Improbable. It Is not to be wondered at that there are anxious faces among the statesmen and leading business men of England. These are halcyon days for anarchists. Lucchenl, who assassinated the Empress of Austria, Is serving a life sentence In Geneva, because there Is no death penalty in Switzerland; young Sipldo, who at tempted the life of the Prince of Wales In Belgium, Is at large through a miscar riage of Justice, and it transpires that Brescl, who killed King Humbert, cannot be executed for the reason that capital punishment has been abolished In Italy. As long os these men live they will be re garded by others of their class as heroes and an Inspiration to similar deeds. It Is worthy of remark In this connection that (here are in this country five states in which the President might be assassinated without the murderer suffering capital punishment. These states are Colorado, Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan and Wis consin In each the death penalty Is for bidden by law. Richard Harding uai’ia went to South Africa decidedly pro-BritfteJi. He has just returned to New York, and it appears that j while he is not exactly bubbling over ■ with contempt for the British army officer, he is pretty close to it. It is to be borne in mind, however, that the American army officers in Tampa, just prior to invasion of Cuba, earned the lasting dis pleasure of Mr. Davis by attending to their own business in their own way and paying precious little attention to him. Probably the failure of the British in South Africa to fully realize the im portance of Mr. Davis, at his own valua tion, had a good deal to do with Mr. Davis’ opinion of the British officers. At a!! events, he says the English soldier is a loser of the worst possible sort. Lord Roberts, according to his view, lacks a lot of having the hardy Dutchmen beaten, and the worst part of the war is yet to come. He says the English stories of the Boers having used poisoned bullets is all stuff. The Boers greased their cartridges, to make them work smoothly, and where the tallow and the shell came together a “green stuff formed, just as a green stuff will form in a brass candlestick.’’ An English soldier, who had one of the Boer “poisoned” cartridges, showed it to young Consul Hay, and complained of the bar barism of the Dutchmen. Hay placed the bullet In his mouth and scraped off the “green stuff” with his teeth. “Bring me all of these you can get,*’ he told the Britisher, “I like to eat this thing on them.’’ Thirteen of the battleships enumerated by the British Admiralty as belonging to the “first line of defense,’* a similar class ification to the American first-class bat tleships, are said to be armed with large guns that ore in no essential different from the gun# with which the Victory was armed in 1805. They are old, muzzle loading pieces, awe-’nspiring to the sight, but of little consequence if pitted against the modern rapid-fire, breech-loading ri fled cannon of rruch smaller caliber. The best guns of this fleet of thirteen battle ships, it is said, became obsolete thirty years ago. Many Englishmen are coming to a realizing sense of the fact that a con siderable proportion of the boasted Brit ish navy is deplorably weak in both armor and armament, and that some of the heaviest nnd most formidable looking of the old battleships would fall easy prey to the modern swift and powerful cruisers that have been recently added to the na vies of other countries. Dr. Harper, president of the University of Chicago, is going to make the experi ment of living on an expenditure of 15 cents ri day for each member of his fam ily. He will do this for one week. Can he possibly demonstrate any useful propo sition by any such experiment? PERSONAL. —An American woman. Miss Harriet C. Fay, is chaperoning a party of eight young Mexican women, lately graduated, who are making a tour of the United States for the purpose of examining the schools. Th state of Vera Cruz pays all the ex penses. They have visited St. Louis, Chi cago, Buffalo, New York and Boston. —Gen. Alexei Nicolalevich Kuropatkln, (he Russian Minister of War, is probably the most trusted, most powerful and most faithful servant of the Czar, says the Chi cago Times-Herald. His rise to rank and power was gradual but sure, and In IR9S he was made absolute master, under the Czar, of the armies of all the Russia*. He began his military career in Turkestan when a youth, and has served with distinc tion In all Russia's wars for many years. —Gen. Chaffee, who is now in command of our forces in China, bears the odd Christian names of Adna Romanza. Adna i from the Hebrew and signifies pleasure, while Romanza is derived from the Ital ian, Romanza. and In English is applied, in music, to a tender sentiment—a song without words. It would be Interesting to know how Gen. Chaffee's parents, who were plain farmer folk living in prosaic Central Ohio, came to give their son there peculiar names. This stern, matter of fact man of action would seem to have a name quite out of harmony with his character. —The Philadelphia Press says: “The will of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, a rel ative of the French Emperor, who resided in France, though a native and citizen of this country, has been put on record by Register of Wills Haekett. The testament devises to his family his estate of $1,000.- 000. with the exception of a few small leg acies to servants. The will requests that at the widow’s death she shall give and bequeath all pictures, busts and other ar ticles connected with the family and In the nature of family souvenirs or heir looms to the children or their descend ants. In the event of no descendants surviving him, the heirlooms, of almost priceless value, are to revert to his broth er, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, or issue of the latter.” CIHIIEXT COMMENT. The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) .save: "Mr. William W. Rockhlll has been ap pointed a special United States Commis sioner to China. Just what we want with a special United States Commissioner now has not been explained Possibly he goes as a part of the commission habit of the administration. His principal duty will be to keep away from those parts of China where there is information to be obtained. If he shculd go to these for bidden places he might be gobbled up. and our country might be obliged to go to war to get him out of pawn. In -the places which will be accessible to Mr. 'Rockhlll there are now plenty of repre sentatives of the United S ates capable of giving information to the government at Washington.” The Philadelphia Record (Dem ) says; "Doubtless it was 'fun' for John W. Gales, the head of the Wire and Steel Trust, to throw silver francs from the top of the Eiffel tower to the sctambling Frenchmen below, but many people in this country find displeasure In reading of his vulgar performance. Moreover, there are workingmen who were forced into Idleness to promote the speculative scheme* of the trust, and these may be prone to think that by good right the scattered francs were theirs.” The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.), discussing the North Carolina franchise amendment, says: "The Southern whites, however, ore Rot entirely confident that the grandfather clause will survive the crucible of the courts. It Is understood that the North Carolina amendment is not made operative until July 1. 1992. In the hope that changes In the Supreme Court by that lime will render that body more favorable to the amendment than It is feared the present court might be." The Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.) says: "Every now and then a bishop say* that the China tragedy "Is simply a plowing of ‘the field for the gos pel." Bishop Moore of ths Methodist per suasion strongly holds to this theory. It will have to be said, however, that the Chinese are now killing off the native Christians much faster than the mission aries can convert them." A Valuable Book. It waji an open car, says the Washing ton Star. A man of years and sedateness eat next to a young man who was con sulting a dictionary. By and by, and without any premonitory symptoms, the sedate man said; “It’s in there. I was looking overdone of them books yesterday and I picked out the very words.” “What do you refer to?’’ asked the young man. “To w hat a woman up my way called me when I askel her to marry me.” “And what was it?” “A concave cataleptic semi-annual old id ot. At first I didn't exactly know whether she meant to say yes or turn me down, but after looking in the dietlcnary I mad© up my mind that she was dot for me. Mighty handy, these diction irlcS are, when you g<t stuck on a hard word, eh?’’ Prince Remembered Playmate. Ten year's ago when the crown prince of Japana was in his thirteenth year, his highness rpent a summer at Futamigua ra. Ise, says the Cleveland Leader. While cut on the water one day the Prince no ticed a fisherman’s boy of about the same age as himself, whose skill in swimming drew forth hi* admiration. The lowly youth, whose name was Yei, was present ed to the Prince, and there sprang up a friendship between the two. His highness was once more back at Ise the other day, on his wedding tour, and the Prince thought of Yei. He wanted to see his old friend, and, after a good deal of trouble, the order was conveyed to Yei, now grown a sturdy young man, tut still poor and lcwly. In high delight the Prince ta fe ed freely of the past and then allowed Yei to take leave of him loaded with va rious presents. A Clever Use of Strategy. An English paper records the following instance of the ingenuity of Col. Frank Rhodes when the relief column was mak ing its way to Mafeking and Plumer and Baden-Powell had sent messages asking for details as to numbers, guns and sup plies. It was impossible to trust a straightforward answer to the risks of the road, and so the native runners were sup plied with this ingenius reply: “Our numj>ers are the navel and military multiplied by 10; our guns are the number of sons in the Ward family; our supplies the O. C. Ninth Lancers.’’ It would have puzzled the Boer intelligence department to find out that the Naval and Military Club is at 94 Picdadilly; that the house of Dudley has six sons, and that the offi cer commanding the Ninth Lancers is Col. Small-Little. Won 111 n’t Give up the Button. There is a good story told of a ma gician who has passed the great divide, says Spare Moments. He was a world traveled player, and his wanderings set him upon cne occasion in far-away New Zealand. It was arranged that he should give an exhibition of mirid-reading before the King of the Maoris. After some parleying it was decided that the king himself should conceal the article which the magician was to dis cover. The mind-reader left the room, and aft r a time was brought back blind folded, as is the custom in such perform ance*. After some time the magician de clared that the hidden article, was in the king’s mouth. His majesty shook his head savagely in the negative. The ma.- gician insisted upon his point, and de manded that the king's mouth be opened wide. The king refused. The magician insisted, and the excitement became very great, until at last the dusky king re luctantly opened his jaws. The article was not there! The next instant, however, the king was taken with a violent fit of coughing. He bad tried to swallow the lost article, a button, but could not, and was compelled to cough it up. The Maoris were up roarious with mirth. They did not know which to admire the more—the wisdom of the magician or the heroism of the king. Ploknrd and Pickard. There arc two ministers in Cleveland who bear the same surname, says the Cleve land Leader. The yare Rev. Ward Beech er Pickard and Rev. 'William 1.. Pickard, time ago Rev. W. B. Pickard was sitting in his study at his home on Fourth avenue when his wife brought him a daintily scented envelope. She said that a man in evening ajttlre and who looked to be a blushing groom, had given her the trackage. Mr. Pickard tore open the envelope and found a gold eagle. He guessed what it was for and for whom It was meant, so he forwarded It to Dr. W. L. Vflckard. Another funny incident happened. Dr. W. L. Pickard was conducting Sunday school meetings in a small town. After the services an elder came to him and said that a poorly clad man was wailing in the, ante-room to see him. Dr. Pickard went into the room and confronted the stranger. The man stammered and halt ingly said that he wanted to see Mr. Pickard. The minister replied that his name was Pickard, and asked, “What can I do for you?” “Well. I wanted to see Mr. Pickard, as I am a friend of his, but if you are half as good a minister you will lend me a quar ter.” He got the money. Ahead of Poe. Two hundred years before Christ a Chi nese statesman and poet, Kla Y 1 by name, anticipated Edgar Allen Poe's master piece, says the New York Post. This we have on the authority of the Book buyer, and Mr. J. Dyer Ball's "Things Chinese” (Scribners'), In which the Chi nese “Raven” reads as follows; THE FU-NIAO. OR BIRD OF FATE. 'Twas in the month of chill November, As I can very well remember, In dismal, gloomy, crumbling hall, Betwixt moss-covered, reeking walls, An exiled poet lay— On his bed of straw reclining. Half despairing, half repining; When athwart the window sill, Flew a bird of omen ill. And seemed Inclined to stay. To my book of occult learning. Suddenly I thought of turning. All the mystery to know Of that shameless owl or crow, That would not go away. "Wherever such a bird shall enter, ‘TIs sure some power above has sent her, (So said the mystic book) to show The human dweiler forth must go”— But where, it did not say. Then anxiously the bird addressing, Ann my Ignorance confessing, “Gentle bird, In mercy deign The will of Fate to me explain, Where Is my future way?" It raised its head as If 'twere seeking To answer me by simple speaking, Then folded up ltf sable wing. Nor did It utter anything. But breathed a “Well-a-day!” More eloquent than any diction. That simple sign produced conviction. Furnishing to me the key Of the awful mystery That on my spirit lay. "Fortune's wheel Is ever turning, To human eye there's no discerning Weal or woe in any state; Wisdom is to bide your fate;” This is what is seemed to say In that simple "Well-a-day.” This is not very good poetry, but It Is a “Raven” poem without doubt. We know that "Ther n'ls no newe guise that it n'as olde.” But w# should be glad none the less to know more of the euphonious Kal Yl, to I see the original Chinese, and to be aa- Igured of the translator'* candor, ) ITEMS OF INTEREST. —A Missouri paper, driven to despera tion, offers cash for the remains of cam paign poets, but stipulates that certifi cates must accompany all consignments showing that death was not due to nat ural causes. —The largest halloon ever constructed, and capable of lifting over six tons, wl 1 asct nd ftom Berlin shortly to make mete orological observations. It will be sup plied with provisions for several weeks and with two beds. —Proximity to a fire engine house dees not insure one against danger from flames. A woman in Chicago recently moved near a west side engine house, and the very next day her gasoline stove blew up and set fire to the house, which burned to the ground. * —To prevent the destruction of the vast areas of forest land in the northern part of Ontario the Canadian government has issurd a card of instruction to campers, telling how and where to build fires and how to prevent damage, an ounce of pre vention being apparently properly va'ued in that region. —The maria for riding on railway trains is now known as chuchuitis. A physician in Chicago has invented a word to des cribe a patient whose mania Is riding upon the trolley cars. He calls him a trol liac, which is a very expressive term. Ths doctcr siys that trolleyitis is becoming very prevalent in Chicago. —lt is not generally known, but the name Kearsarge, applied to the mountain and the warship, is not of Indian origin at all. An officer of the hydrographic of fice says that it is a combination of let ters formed from the yankee name Heze>- kiah Sargent, an old farmer, who lived near the New England peak. —Pearl fishing is ©aid to be falling off. In Ceylon, a short time ago, it was found that immense banks of oysters had abso lutely disappeared, and now at Mergui, across the sea from Madras, the Mergui pearl fishing is reported to be declining, because returns in the shape of valuable pearls art decreasing, while, on the other hand, the cost of pearling is greater than it was. —The pay of the Chinese soldier indi cates that he must be an even more eco nomical person than the New Zealand bushman who was able to live on £4 10s a year (on w r hlch he kept a horse and en tertained). The Chinese private, at £2 8s per annum, is extremely inexpensive com pared with the Englishman at £77, the Russian at £4B and the Italian—the cheap est of European soldiers —at £4l. —News of a rich turquoise find comes from Cerrillos, N. M. The strike was made in the mines of the American Tur quoise Company at a depth of 300 feet. Experts pronounce the gems the largest ever found, as well as possessing the greatest purity, with the most beautiful tinting*. Most of them will easily polish to the size of small hens' eggs, which easily ranks thejn as the largest in the world. —Needles are made by machinery. The piece of mechanism by which the needle is manufactured takes the rough steel wire, cuts It into proper lengths, files the-point, flattens the head, pierces the eye, then sharpens the tiny instrument and gives it that polish familiar to the purchaser. There is also a machine by which needles are counted and placed In the papers in which they are sold, these being after ward foldtd by the same contrivance. —“lf a spray of liquid air is applied to the skin,” says Omega, “the part at once becomes anemic and perfectly color less. If the application is made only for a few seconds, the color as quickly returns and the skin is congested for some minutes thereafter. Wtthln much less than a minute’s time, by means of a spray, the pert Is frozen as hard as ice, but, strange to say, in a few minutes cir culation returns without injury to the tissue, providing the part Is not in the end of some extremity. There Is no pain In the application excepting at the very be ginning; but there is a slight burning nr tingling. It also completely anesthetizes the part to which it is applied without freezing it solid.” —The acceptance by Dr. Pritchett, superintendent of the Coast Survey, of the presidency of the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, is an instance, we are reminded by the Popular Science Monthly, of “the fact that the only pro motion possible to men of science or uni versity professors Is an executive posi tion. The type of the German Gelehrte, still cut rent in literature and on the stage, is not common in America. The modern methods of advancing science—the labora tory, the observatory, the museum, the expedition, with their complex equlpmeht —demand administrative ability of a high order. Science has been able to supply presidents, not only to the great techni cal schools, but also to Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and other universi ties. Still, it Is unfortunate that the man of science can not look forward to pro motion in the direction of his own work." —David Iks wick, formerly of Philadel phia, has Just returned from Tlen-Tsln, where he went some time ago to set up a woolen mill at the invitation of a Chinese mandarin. "I greatly regret the troubles that have arisen,” he says, "for I saw a bright futrue there for American capital and skilled labor, especially mechanical and civl engineers. Tien Tsin, with mills, would become a great manufacturing cen ter, because from there are shipped vast quantities of wool, much of it to this city, for making carpets. At present it is one of the main shipping ports of China, some of its products besides wool being hides, peanuts, br'stles, and furs of all kinds. I found the natives lo be a very intelligent people and splendid Imitators. The cli mate is cold and healthy, well suited, lo Americans. Living is very cheap. Duck. wild boars, deer, pheasants—in fact, all game—is the cheapest kind of food, while mutton, beef and canned goods bring high price*. Theie are no factories north of Shanghai except the one I ran. Ido not yet knew win ther to go back. The causes of the uprising are so complicated that no one can defne the real origin of the trouble.” —A remarkable escape from death is chronicled by a correspondent to the En gineering News from Tacoma, Wash.: "In some manner the clothing of an engineer at the Olympic Iron Works of that city was caught In the revolving shaft of the engine and his body Instantly drawn In and whirled around with the machinery. After a short time (variously estimated aj from one to five minutes), the engine was stopped and the apparently lifeless body taken down, practically denuded of clothes and bleeding from many wound* on the face and on other parts of the body. Almost immediately, however, sign* of recovery were shown, and before an ambulance arrived the man was able to sit up and even to walk, with assistance. The remarkable feature of the accident lies In the fact that the man was whirled around with sufficient speed and force for his feet and legs to strike the floor and split one-inch boards, without breaking tiny bones or even badly straining or bruising them. As the shaft was revolv ing over 100 revolutions per minute, and the distance from floor to shaft is about three feet, his feet were traversing the circumference of a circle of six feet In diameter at a velocity of approximately 2,000 feet per minute. We are all familiar with the phenomenon of shooting a candle through n board without damage to the candle,'but that n human being can be caught by the shoulders and made to split kindlings wl*h his heels without damage to the aforesaid heels seems well-nigh in credible." 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