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6 0% Jflofninfl ffeto#. Morning Newt Building, ennh, Grv SI'XDAY, AVGUST 12. 1000. Rtgtered at th© Postofflce in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and is served to fccJ>scribers in the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month. $4.00 for six months, and so.oo for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.50; 6ix mooth9 $3.00, on© year $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, on© year, $1 00. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk ol tenders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type-equal to one inch square in depth— is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of th© MORNING New6 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 Tark Row. New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. TWENTY PACES IK DEI 10 KEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Hardee & Marshall; Robert M. Hull as to Suwanee Springs Water; Plasterers’ and Masons’ Supplies, Savannah Building Supply Company; Su wanee Springs, Fla.; At the Royal Music Hall; As to Receipt of Check for J 2.000 by Knights of Damon on Life of S. L. New ton; Malt Mead, George Meyer; Malt Mead. John Lynch, Grocer: To the Pub lic, Electric Supply Company; Ship No tice, Straehan & Cos., Consignees; NoMce to Superior Court Jurors; Around the Horn, George U. Beach; At Joyce's; First Annual Picnic at Tybee, J. C>. V. A. M , D, of L., Aug. 14; National Mattress and Renovating Company; Auction of Blcy alea, Thomas’ Bicycle Emporium; Levan's Table d’Hote. Business Nolces—During the Summer Weeks, Theus Bros.; A Group of Smart Jewelry, Hunter & Van Keuren. Greatest Sale on Record—Globe Shoe Store. Annual Mountain Excursions—Over the Southern Railway. Cutting Down Prices—At the Bee Hive. Half Price This Week—At Munster's. Financial—F. R. Rogers & Cos., New York; Lewis C. Van Riper, New York. Laimdrv—E. & W. Laundry. Twenty-five Per Cent. Reduction on AM Summer Horse Clothing—Leo Frank. ’’A Multitude of Commercial S ns"—Co hen-Kulman Carriage and Wagon Com pany. Down Gees the Prices of Men’s Fine Shoes—Byck Bros. Gas Ranges—The Mutual Gas Light Company. By Sept. I—P. T. Foye. Railroad Schedules—Plant System. The Ribbon King—M. A. Stokes. Fruit Jars—Thos. West & Cos. Every Man in Town Should Com*—Gus tave Eckstein & Cos. It Will Pay You—Walsh & Meyer. Mid-Summer Inducements-Daniel Ho gan. A Seaside Digest—Leopold Adler. Real Values in Shoes—Chas. Mark*. Our Electric Fans—At Gutman's. As We Said—B. H. Levy & Bro. Beef—Liebig’s Extract of Beef Fostum Coffee—Postum Cereal Cos. Medical—Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy; Peruna; Dr. Hathaway Cos.; S. S. S.; World’s Dispensary Preparations; Coke Dandruff Cure; R R R.; Hood’s Sarsa parilla. Smith’s Chill and Fever Tonic. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Fent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Tin* Weather. The indications for Georgia to-day are for thunderstorms and not so warm in the interior, and fair on the coast, with light to fresh southwesterly winds, and for Eastern Florida local rains, with fresh southeasterly winds. If it takes so much to establish "proba ble guilt” in the case of Greene and the, Gaynors, in New York, before Commis skmer Shields, one cannot help speculat ing on how much more evidence the Dis trict Attorney will have to presenit to the trial court. Russell Sage is not at all pleased with the present state of the money market. He says money Is too cheap; is "a drug on the market.” The plentifulness and cheapness of money is causing banks to accept collaterals for loans which they would not lake if there were a lively de mand for money. These collaterals are likely to be so affected by a falling mar ket, Mr. Sage says, that the lenders on them would find themselves insufficiently protected. Mr. Sage, of course, always looks at financial questions from the money lender's point of view. Savannah has now the cleanest, fresh est, neatest appearance of any city in the South. Can that appearance be possibly enhanced by dotting the sidewalks with ugly, foul smelling garbage barrels dur ing the morning hours? And is there any assurance tha-t many of the barrels would not remain cm the sidewalk all day, an of fense to eyea and olfactories? Under the existing system every driver of a garbage wagon Is—or ought to be—something of an inspector of premises, to see that back yards are clean. When the barrels are put upon the sidewalk there will he many e backyard that will become foul and pos sibly dangerous, without anybody in au thority knowing it. It seems that some thing else besides the convenience of the drivers of the wagons ought to be consid ered in this question of garbage collection. Would a good housewife clean house and kitchen into the front hall, merely because that chanced to be mors convenient to Ibe servants ?, - REPUBLICANS ON THE DEFENSIVE. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Pres© says that Gov. Roose ; velt Is "Just now devoting himself, so far as serious work is concerned, to his let ter of acceptance, which will probably be made public in ten days or two weeks, perhaps two or three days after President McKinley’s formal letter of acceptance is published. The Governor has talked free ly about the letter with intimate friends, in whose judgment he has confidence. They say that the greater part of the Governor’s letter will be devoted to an exhaustive treatment of the subject of expansion, and that he will consider the subject both from an historical and economical points of view. The Governor regard.® expansion as inevitable, if there is to be national growth, and he will, in his letter of acceptance, attempt to an swer the very points raised by Mr. Bryan in his notification speech." Il seems, then, that the Republicans are already on the defensive. They have not been able, as they expected to be, to make the 16 to 1 idea the paramount issue of th© campaign. It looks as if they were ready to admit that they will have to devote the greater part of their time to defending their party against the charge of imperialism. Gov. Roosevelt is a 'well-informed man, and a writer of much more than ordinary ability. It is for that reason, doubtless, that he has been put forward to answer Mr. Bryan’s speech. He ha© a very dif ficult task to perform. It is doubtful if he can accomplish it satisfactorily. Mr. Bryan’s speech is a very able production. AII of the independent papers admit that. The New York Evening Post, which does not support Mr. Bryan, declares that the "speech was a great literary and oratori cal achievement." It says also that "neither Senator Hoar, nor Carl Schurz, nor ex-Gov. Boutwell, nor all of them together, have produced a more masterly indictment of imperialism than is to be found in this speech." The Republican papers are calling it weak and dull, and In every possible way are endeavoring to lessen the force of it, but the fact that Mr. Roosevelt is to un dertake the task of answering it is evi dence that they are not sincere in their efforts to make it appear that it has made no impression on the country. The Republicans may be able, later on in the campaign, to get the people in terested in the silver issue, but it is doubt ful if they' will. The people are tired of it. They regard it as practically settled. The issue of imperialism is much more attractive to them. It is certain that they are now giving their attention to it. and the chances are that they will continue to do so until the day of election. In that event the Republicans will be on the defensive throughout th© campaign. One of the reasons the Republicans are so apathetic is the feeling that they are on the defensive. They are in doubt as to the wisdom of the Philippine policy of their parry. Senator Hanna, the chair man of the Republican National Commit tee, complains of their indifference. He is beginning to realize that his plans for putting the Democrats on the defensive by making the silver Issue the paramount one have thus far failed. Unless he can make silver the chief issue, and thus open rhe way for claiming for the Republicans credit for the prosperity which the coun try ha 6 been having for the last two or three years, his party will have very lit tle chance of retaining control of the gov ernment. TIIK COTTON CHOP. The outlook for an average cotton crop Is not good. At the present time the crop promisee to be a comparatively small one. The government’s cotton crop report, Is sued on Friday, justifies that opinion. The crop is good in spots. In other spots it is very bad. There is, of course, still time for great improvement. There Is just as likely to be unfavorable as fav orable weather, however, from now until the close of the harvesting season. No doubt there will be efforts to Influ ence the. public mind respecting the prob able size of the crop. These efforts will be in the interest of speculation. Cotton is bringing a good price now. It Is a much higher price than cotton was commanding at this time last year. Will the price go higher? That is a question which every cotton farmer must decide for himself. The indications are that the price will be higher. The market is pret ty bare of cotton. Foreign spinners will take care not to be. caught as they were last season. They will be early buyers, particularly if the reports continue to in dicate a short crop. It Is said that the trouble in China will lessen the demand for cotton goods, and that therefore there will be a lighter de mand for cotton. The Chinese market must be supplied whether the oountry is in k state of war or not. The demand may be somewhat lighter from China, but the chances are that It will not be very much lighter. The troubles will be settled, in ail probability, before the cotton season is fairly open. The preparation which the Powers are making for war will scare China into agreeing to peace on terms that will be proposed to her. In this state the crop in the midddle and southern sections Is said to be pretty well up to the average. In the norchern sec tion the outlook for an average yield is far from encouraging. The farmers will not lose anything, in all probability, by holding at least a part of their cotton. AN E\TH A SESSION OF CONGRESS. There appears to be a growing senti ment in favor of an extra session of Con gress. The President thinks, however, that he can manage the situation In China without assistance. There is no doubt that Congress would readily grant authority for rtdsing a volunteer army for service in China, because the sentiment throughout the country is that every possible effort should be made to rescue our minister and our missionaries who are shut up in Pe kin. It is probable that the President is In fluenced by several considerations in hes itating to call an extra session of Con gress. One is that he does not want Con gress In session during the presidential campaign. Another Is that he thinks the question of the rescue of our minister and missionaries will lie settled within the next two or three weeks. It would not be possible in that time to have a session of Congress, raise a volunteer army and land It in China. It Is doubtful If an army could be raised and sent to China In less than two months. The announcement has been made that the Chinese government is very anxious w peace. It has been stated In the dls THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY; AUGUST 12. 1900. patch*© that Li Hung Chang has been appointed to nego late term© of p ace with the Powers. The all es are pushing on toward Pekin. Unless th*y meet with dif ficulties which they cannot jros&ibly over come they will reach there by Sept. 1. If insurmountable difficulties are encoun tered and additional American troops are imperatively demanded, th*y will be sent, | in all probability, from the Fh 1 ppines. rt has been statel that preparations are I being made for sending more troops from i the Philippines to China. I The reasons the President has for not i railing Congress together may therefore !be good ones. It is certain that if it should | turn out that he made a mistake in not convening Congress he w’ould be severely condemned, and if the public mind should be made up in regard to the matter be fore the election, the condemnation would show itself at the polls. A STARTLING STATEMENT. Our dispatches yesterday announced the adjournment of the annual convention of the Catholic Total Ab6tinence Union of America. The union held its convention this year in Philadelphia. On Thursday Mrs. M. L. the third vice presi dent of the union, read a paper which startled the convention. The purport of it was that drunkenness among women of ail classes is increasing rapidly. Among other things, she said: "Why. would you believe it, at many afternoon teas intoxicating liquor has taken the place of tea to a noticeable extent." An other statement she made was this: “There are many women from the higher walks of society going to the House of the Good Shepherd voluntarily to get away from liquor. The number is in creasing all the time. At the woman’s alcoholic ward in Bellevue, Ihe attending physicians and nurse© state that seldom a day goes by that some decent looking woman i9 not brought in or comes in her self to be treated. The ratio has gone up frightfully in the last few years." Reports that th© drink habit is gaining ground among women, especially women of the highest class, are becoming alarm ingly frequent. Women in the large cities are, of course, referred to. Social func tions make 6uch a demand on their strength that they get into th© habit of taking stimulants to sustain them. Be fore they are aware of it the appetite for strong drink has acquired such a hold on them that they are slaves to it. The impression seems to be that there is much less drinking of strong liquors among men than there wae a few years ago. Beer has, to a very considerable ex tent, taken the place of whisky. It is a regrettable condition of affairs that the drink habit ie increasing among women, assuming that the ©tatements to that ef fect are correct. The best cure for the habit among society women is, probably, less society and more attention to domes tic duties. THE CHILD'S SUNDAY. Mrs. James L,. Hughes of Chicago, a prominent member of the League of Amer ican Mothers, gives expression to some opinions respecting the child's Sunday that are worthy of the earnest thought of all parents. There are thousands of American children who regard Sunday with a feeling next akin to horror. It is a day on which their privileges are cur tailed to the limit. On Sunday there must be no running, romping and playing; all games must be put aside; there must be no communion with princesses and fairies through the medium of story books; dolls, pocket knives, hoops, kites, tops, etc., must be put aside. In starched clothes, and with faces shining of soap, the little folks must go to church and to Sunday School, whether they wish to or not, with punishment as an alternative, and during the remainder of the day under threats of dire consequences they must be prim and precise—and miserable. "The child’s ideal of Sunday,” says Mrs. Hughes, "should be to make every one happy. It should nol be made a special day to be good. Games that are not harmful on other days are not harm ful on Sunday. Anything that is not good enough for my children to do on Sunday I would not consider good enough for any other day in the week. I would not send my children to church or Sun day School if they did not want to go. I would not teach them doctrines nor catechisms.” Such an expression is likely to call forth criticism. Indeed, It is open to criticism, especially with respect to the teaching of "doctrines” and “catechism." Parents cannot, with safety, neglect to inculcate religion, along with morality, in their children. And some pressure should be brought to bear—a gentle and loving pressure—to direct the children into the way of attending religious services, from preference. Meantime, is it not a fact that nwny adults of to-day have been turned away from a strict observance of Sunday by the. obnoxious, the tyrannical, manner of their Sunday training in childhood? Ar riving at the years of personal liberty, they hove rebelled against the harsh and narrow limitations of their childhood's Sunday, and in many cases, have gone to the other extreme. From involuntary and enforced Sunday observers, they have become voluntary Sunday "breakers," in n considerable degree by way of protest against former unreasonable and Irksome restrictions. It Is meet and desirable, of course, that God's day shall be kept reverently; but that does not mean that children shall sit in straight-jackets and sing pslams all day. It does not mean that they shall re strain their laughter, talk in an under tone, and go about upon tiptoes. It dot?s not mean that they shall be forced to sll In a church pew, fired and bored, while the minister drones a long and dry doc trinal sermon which they do not under stand. We believe, with Mrs. Hughes, that the child's ideal of Sunday should be one of brightness and happiness; anil that the little folks should be taught goodness because it is good, and not to simulate a semblance of goodness in order to escape punishment. They should be taught to love Sunday, not to dread it, and to attend religious services as a pleasure, not forced to attend as a pen ance. Prince Sheng, Chinese director of rail ways and telegraphs, Is a very rich man. It Is said that he made his money by run ning a gambling house in Tien Tsln in which every contractor, merchant or other person who hoped for government favor was expected to lose money. Unless a tribute was paid to Sheng through the me dium of his gambling house, no govern ment contracts were ever forthcoming. Experiments in the treatment of yellow fever are being made at Vera Cruz, Mex ico, with a serum invented by Dr. Bel linzaugh The results so far obtained, it is said, have been ve-y gratifying. Pa tient© treked with this serum, according to reports, show great improvement and are quickly relieved of the most distress ing features of the malady. Medical men everywhere wfill watch this new remedy wi<h interest, in th,* hope that it will be found really a specific for the yellow death. In Washington a child has been born without a spine. Unfortunately, the child Is a girl, otherwise it might grow up to b© a great politician and a man of des tiny. PERSONAL. —There is a legend about the Senate chamber that Gen. Hawley, for ten or twelve minutes, in a speech once spoke 225 words a minute. The average speed of senators in speeches does not reach 110 words, and in dictating letters rarely reaches 100 words. —Sir Richard Webster, the new English master of rolls in succession to Sir Na ihnniel Lindsay, was born in 1842, and is the second son of Thomas Webster, the famous lawyer. Hf? is a Charterhouse alumnus and has been attorney general three times. —Secretary Hay figures as a leading American man of letters in a recently published London interview with the Eng lish poet, Swinburne, in which Mr. Swin burne speaks of him as having great or iginality in his verse and a distinctive American note. —Dr. George A. Dorsey, curator of an thropology in the Field Columbian Mu seum, Chicago, recently returned from a 25.000-mile trip through the Southwest in search of ancient remains, has now sail ed for *Paris, w here he will be a dele gate to the International Congress of An thropology. —A pretty story Is told of the late King Humbert and Queen MargherUa. The Queen, it seems, had a strong partiality for white dresses, but with the advancing years she feared that -they looked too girl ish and affected, and asked the King what he thought about it. He replied that he would think it over. A few days after she received a box containing half a dozen white dresses fresh from Paris, with her husband’s compliments. No answer could have been more gallant, graceful and pleasing. BRIGHT BITS. —Handicapped.—"l lost ten on Hoodoo Saturday." "Yes? Couldn’t carry so much weight, I suppose." "No—and he was carrying my money."—Puck. —Evidently the Head of the House.— "No," said the man at the door, "I have no view's on politics." "Well," returned the political canvasser, " in that case I’d like to interview* your wife."—Chicago Post. —Directness Needed.—" See here, Sol ger," said the city editor, "you’ve slight ed the dramatic features of this story." "Why," said the young reporter, "I’ve written all about It." "I’know* you have. Suppose you try again and write at it."— Philadelphia Press. —More Cause for Hatred: The Mild An archist.—"But you must bear in mind that kings work as hard as anybody now adays. ’’ The Radical Member.—" That’s one reason why I hate ’em so. What bus iness have they to eet such an example?" —lndianapolis Press. v*,—Fusion: Democratic Manager—"l am glad you have arranged a deal with the populists in your locality. What terms did you make with them?" Subordinate Committeeman—“ Well, we gave them the platform and the candidates, and they let us call It the Democratic ticket."— Chicago Tribune. —Almost Cleared Up.—" Here," exclaimed the under secretary, rushing in, wildly ex cited, "i6 another cable from China. It must be something important, because it’s written in cipher. Where’s the code? Let’s get it translated as soon as possible. At la©t the great mystery may be cleared up." Then they w'orked over it for three hours, and finally the chief of the de partment was called in to help. He looked at it hard for a few minutes and then said: "Put up the code. This is a list of the names of Russians who were wounded in one of last week's engagements.’’—Chi cago Herald. CURRENT COMMENT. Of Mr. Bryan’s acceptance speech the Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says; “No candid and thoughtful person can begin the pe rusal of this really great speech and stop short of reading it to the end, and it de serves to be read by every man, woman and child who is capable of understanding and appreciating clear, simple, vigorous English. It does more than sustain Mr. Bryan's previous reputation as an orator. It abundantly justifies the contention of his friends that during the past four years he has matured and broadened in his views and his intellectual grasp. While charac terized by his usual facility' and felicity of expression, it is notably free from any straining after mere rhetorical effect, but, on the contrary, is full of solid meat meat for grown men as well as babes. From its simple and modest exordium to its splendid peroration it is throughout ar gumentative and unanswerable. The Dem ocrats will have no belter literature to cir culate than this initial speech in the cam paign of their eloquent leader." The Chicago Times-Herald (Rjp.) sagaciously points out that after Mr. Mon roe had purchased from France the Louis iana territory in 1803 President Jefferson accepted the credit which it brought to his administration. The Chicago Record (Ind.) says: "This Is not surprising. It has happened since the lime of JefTerson that presidents have opposed a certain policy which when forced upon them by the people brought great credit to their administrations. Take, for example, the course of President McKinley in the Amerlcan-Spanlsh War. Mr. McKinley op posed the war up to the last minute, and was forced into it by the people. Now he and his friends are entirely willing to ac cept the credit coming to him because of the results of that war." The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says: “There Is no conceivable limit to the ex pansion of American commerce under Democratic principles except the limits of the soli and labor of the United States. Expansion of American trade under Dem ocratic direction would be unaccompanied with war taxes. Expansion under Mclvin leyirtn means miliiartsm, imperialism and war taxes, ihe profits going into the pock ets of Republican trusts. Which ought n telllgent Americans to choose, commercial expansion with peace and honesty, with out war taxes, or militarism, dihonesty and war taxes?” The Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.) says: "What a travesty upon the past of the Republican party that Mr. Bryan, rather than Mr. McKinley, should be the one to quote from Lincoln and to point to the highest Ideals of government as the guides of the common people. Yet these weapons, which prove so powerful in the hands of so great an orator as Mr. Bryan, have been placed within his grasp by those who formerly held them. The out come will be watched with increasing In terest as the weeks flit by. The action of Mr. Bryan has put a spur into the cam paign that will be felt.", flaston’ff Government Check. A conspicuous guest at the Waldorf-As toria during the past week was Col. "Sim" Baeton of Cheyenne, Wyo., ©ays the New York Commercial. Baston is a million aire, but nobody would ever suspect, to look at him, that he could raise SIOO on call. He is about six feet and an inch in hight. very thin and bony, ha© a perfectly white beard that he parts in the middle and brushes back past his ears, high cheek bones, small gray eyes, and a nose that s not only highly tinted, but has lost a big slice off its left side, possibly through an encounter with a bowie-knife or a bul let. To a knot of chance acquaintances at the Waldorf one night "Sim" recounted some of his ups and dow*ns. The talk turn ing on the census, he said: "I was an enumerator in 1890, down in Louisiana, and being down on my uppers about that time, I Was tiekied enough to get the job. My bili against the government was sll9, and 1 used to lie awake nights planning how I would blow itie money in. 1 was terribly disappointed w r hen the supervisor told me I would have to wait for a government check. He said, however, that the re mittance v;ould be along in a few days, and I began to haunt the Postoffice, ex pecling to get it in every mail. I kept that up for about sixty days, and meanwhile missed several goodo chances of getting a job. /Lout a month later the otner boys received iheir checks, but mine failed to arrive. I wrote a hot letter to Washing ton. telling the supervisor general all about my troubles, and, in four or five weeks, got a reply from the ninth deputy of the fourth assistant clerk of the acting superintendent of the Bureau of Kicks and Wails*. He said the records showed that all the enumerators had ben paid, inti mated, courteously, that I was a crook and a bunco man, and requested me to fill out the inclosed blanks. They were forms lor filing a claim against the govern ment. I threw the bunch into the waste basket. 1 decided not to devote my entire life to the collection of sll9. I’ll forget this, I said to myself, and try to live it down. In the Fall of 1894 I was spending my vacation at Denver, Col., when I re ceived a letter that had* been chasing me all over the country and was black with postmarks. It contained a check of sll9 and a brief, cold, typewritten statement that the Census Bureau had found my ac count. I cashed the check, took the money to a faro bank around the corner, pul it on the ace, and lost." A Dooley in the Cabinet. Mr. Long, the Secretary of the Navy, gave the final cabinet dinner of the sea son on board the yacht Sylph, says the Saturday Evening Post. It was Mr. Long who thought of the idea of giving this official function aboard a luxurious boat on the Potomac. He is always individual, and never does what other people do. The Secretary of the Navy announces that his very position compels him to en tertain on water, Instead of land, and every member of the cabinet confesses that no dinner is looked forward to with such anticipation as that given by Mr. Long. "Whnt’s Long going to do, I wonder?" is the social question that interests the cabinet for weeks before the evening ar rives. And at this last dinner he certain ly gave them a surprise. It w*as in the form of a Dooley letter read aloud by Mr. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. McKinley has long been In the habit of reading to the cabinet Mr. Dooley’s weekly letter on some issue of national politics. The "hits" on the pub lic officials are very much enjoyed. Taking this as a cue, Mr. Long, when coffee was served, announced that, ac cording to custom. Mr. Dooley’s latest letter would be read and that it was writ ten for the occasion. The host added that Mr. Dooley with characteristic, insight had named his ar ticle, "W’hy No Cabinet Member Can Be Nominated for the Vice Presidency." Secretary Gage read the letter, and dialect, spirit, humor and keen penetra tion it bore so verily the hallmark of Dooley that the guests were kept in a gale of merriment. It was written in a particularly happy vein, and was filled wdfh so many personal allusions and with so many jokes that referred to doings or discussions in the cabinet that there w*ere shouts of laughing amazement. The President himself is said to have enjoyed it more than anything else -written this year. Finally there came the explanation—an explanation that elicited more applause than did the original reading. Tt was no Dooley letter to which the cabinet had been listening—for the Secretary of the Navy had written every word of it! Mntle Paderewski Fnmons. The subjoined Story narrates in an in teresting manner how Paderewski, the re nowned pianist, took the first step that led to his present fame and fortune, says the Golden Penny. At the age of 27 Paderewski was In Paris—whither seem to go all poor mu sicians, not when they die. btit when they struggle to live. He confesses that he was miserably poor, that he owed much, that the future seemed to have nothing for him. But the day came when he met a Polish Princess, who was so impressed with his powers that she offered him the sum of 100 francs to play at her house. Unable to indulge In the luxury of a carriage, he walked there, and played—well, as Paderewski only can play. At the end of his performance his host ess, observing the young man’s fatigue (he was probably in those days more at home in the cafe w'here the fragrant cup at 3 sous, of which Alphonse Daudet speaks lovingly, was vended), offered to send him home In her carriage. But with pride In his eye, and defiance in his mien, the pianist declined. “Madame," said he, "my carriage is at the door.” And with that he walked out. Such an altitude was one to win a wo man’s sympathy. His new patroness was delighted both with his marvelous gifts and his graceful bearing. She spoke of him In the salqns. Engagements began to come swiftly. In a few years his name was ringing through the city. And from that time he never looked back. Chase the Sunset. An excellent piece of advice, which may be applied in may eases, was once given by William Hunt, the artist, to an un wise pupil, says the Youth's Companion. The young man was making a sketch of a landscape tyathed In the sunset light of a summer day. In the foreground stood a picturesque old barn. Mr. Hunt stood behind his pupil silently for a few mo ments. wntching him work. Suddenly he stopped and put his hand on ihe young painter’s arm. "See here," he said, firmly, "if you spend so murh time painting shingles on a barn, you'll never have time to paint sunsets! You'll have to choose.” It did not tnke the young man long to see the point, and make his choice. He never forgot his famous teacher's advice when he was templed to exaggerate the Importance of details. Tank flint for n Foreigner. An English bicyclist was coming at great speed down one of the steepest streets In Edinburgh, when his machine capsized and landed him in the middle of the road, Rays London Spare Moments. Two carters were passing and they promptly came to his assistance. "Maun, hoo did ye fa'?" kindly inquired one of the carters, to which he received the answer: "1 was coming down that declivity with surh velocity that 1 lost my gravity and fell on the macadamized road." The carter turned from the unfortunate rider with true Insular contempt. "9 *.' Jock." he said to Ills mate. "If I'd Kent the cratur' wls a forrlner he would hae lain In the gutter long gneuch tor me.”, - -* ITEMS OF INTEREST. —There are 41 cities and 933 towns in the state of New York, only two of the ci ies having mo:e than 25),0C0 population. —Some years ago it was the "Cherokee Strip," with not a white settler in all its bounds. Now the territory of Oklahoma, with 300,000 inhabitants and a harvest worth $100,000,000 seeks admission as a state. —ln "Antiente Efpitaphes," Thomas F. Ravenshow (MDCCCLXVTII), says Notes and Quer es. this epitaph is printed: 3656 Richard Richards. To the memory of Ric. Richards who by Gangrene lost first a Toe, afterwards a Leg & lastly his Life on the 7th day of April 1656. Ah! cruell Death, to make three meals of one, To taste and taste till all was gone. But knew, thou Tyrant, when the trvmpe sha’l call. He’ll find his feet & thou shalt fall. Banbury, Oxon. —From Sicily to Finland is a far cry, and on a crawling tramp a tedious one, yet the long sea miles marked no divergence of foreign sentiment, says a correspondent in a London .newspaper. We left Anglo phobia strong in Girgenti; we found it rife it Koika. Finland is at present in the throes of Muscovite absorption. She feels the hug of the Russian bear badly, and it grows daily closer. Her representation is cut down to a farce, her press censored to death, her language suppressed and her territory garrisoned with alien troops. If one might hazard a political forecast, her remote and only hope of emaniepation lies with this country. It is the policy of Eng land to keep the entrance to the Baltic open. As things trend now. after Finland it will be the turn of Scandinavia. If then, in the case of a Russo-Britjsh conflict. England put an army into Finland, while that country rose and Scandinavia stood in, the allies’ position for striking at the Russian vitals would be strategically ex cellent. But to revert to things in being, if England is shedding any pity on ihe sad case of the late Grand Duchy of Fin land, she has her trouble for her pains. We are jus-t as misunderstood in that country as elsewhere, and it was there that I found a merchant, urbane enough in every other way, with numerous business corespondents in England, grinning sym pathetically over Indecent caricatures of the Queen in scandalous French newspa pers. —Not a few readers of the newspapers must have been puzzled by ihe fact that the new King of Italy calls himself and is called "Vittorio Imanuele III.” says the New York Times. As the existing King dom of Italy has hitherto had only two Kings in ail, and as one of them was named Umberto, It was natural to ask how (his one could be the third bearer of the first King's name. The explana tion lies in the circumstances that, before the creation- of modern Italy, the present King's grandfathei was king of Sardinia, and he was the second Victor Emmanuel to bear that title. He did not change it on assuming the more spacious throne, anil the rurious result is that Italy calls her first Victor Emmanuel her second and her second her third. This may seem rath re absurd to us demoeratieal plebeians, but who are we that we should criticise the peculiarities of royal arithmetic? Judging from what may be called his prospectus, the new ruler is a sober-mind ed and sufficiently sensible youth, with good judgment in the choice of secretaries and a full realization of the weight of his responsibilities. His proclamation is as modest os it could well be while preserv ing even a semblance of belief in "divine right,” and there is a hope-inspiring ab sence from it of the signs of megalomania which another once youthful monarch has forced us to expect in such a document. It is of little consequence, therefore, that this second Victor is the third. Belong ing. as he does, to a family that has kept tabs on itself since the year 1032, he could doubtless find an excuse for using almost any numerator he chose, and It was a mark of commendable moderation that he was content with the figure 3. —lvestigation of the region of the great lakes by G. K. Gilbert of the United States Geological Survey has brought out the fact that this whole region Is being lifted on one side or depressed on the other in such a manner that its plane Is tilted bodily toward the southwest, says the Popular Science Monthly. The shores of each of the lakes are sinking on their southwestern and rising on their north western sides, the rate of the movement being such that the two ends of a line 100 miles long running southwest and north west are djsplaced relatively four-tenths of a foot in a hundred years. In Lake Su perior, to illustrate by a single example, the waters are advancing on the Ameri can and failing on the Canadian side. At Duluth the advance Is six inches, and at Huron hay the recession is five inches In a century. At Chicago, on the sinking shore of Lake Michigan, the water is ris ing at the rate of nine or ten inches in a hundred years. Eventually, unless a dam is erected to prevent it. the lake will again overflow the Illinois river, its discharge occupying the channel carved by the out let of a Pleistocene glacial lake. The sum mit of that channel is now about eight feet above the mean level of the lake, and the time before it will be overtopped can be computed. For the mean lake stage such discharge will begin in about 1.000 years, and after 1,500 years there will be no interruption. In about 2,000 years the Illinois river and the Niagara will carry equal portions of the surplus water of the great lakes. In 2.500 years the discharge of the Niagara will be intermittent, falling at low stages, of the lake, and in 3.500 years there will be no Niagara. The basin of Lake Erie will then be tributary to Lake Huron, the current being reversed in the. Detroit and St. Clair channels. —Andrew Campiano, aged 45 years, hight 4 feet. I.ouis Campiano, aged 13 years, hight 4 feet. Frank Campiano, aged 13 years, hight 3 feet 4 Inches. These are Ihe names, ages and dimensions of the queer, st little family in California, says the San Francisco Examiner. Their home is in Oakland, and ore may visit them any day at their residence on Fifty-first s red, near Telegraph avenue. They may be seen going ab ut their business in as matter of fact a manner as though they were as big as anybody. Their occupation is the rat lng of flowers and Mr. Cam pano. the father, says that he would ra'her work In this vocation than be the greatest celebrity the vaudeville world over knew. He has a wife who is quite, tall—taller than the average woman—and the two have always been happy togeth er. Two of his sons take after himself in stature. They are round-limbed, sturdy youths, with a som what mature express ion on their chubby faces, as though they had advanced mentally, corresponding to the retardment of their phys'eal growth All are of a sunny disposition, taking af ter the genial c'tme of Southern Italy, where th !r father and iro her were born. The elder Campiano says that he might account for his own and minutiveness. "1 was unable to walk until I was 4 years old,” he says "By that time I had al most reached my present hight. I have grown stouter in the succeed ng year*, but very little taller. I gr w very rapid ly up lo the age of 4. when rheumatism or some other disease fell on me like a blight and stunted my growth. My chli dten have not inherit and the aliment that I suffered In my Infancy, and which may have been the cause of my retarded growth. On the contrary they have always be>n very healthy I was the first small person in my family, so far as I know. Both my parents were large people, my mother especially. She weighed more than 200 pounds. I have one other son, who is not small like us. but takes after- Ms mother. He works for a florist, and he sells moet of our flowers for us. My eldest s*n was born In my na 1,-e country. The other two, the little one*, were born Lera.’t ’Tis So Handy —AND— So Full of Information RAND-McNALLY hi mu OF THE WORLD. 91 COLORED MAPS. 97 PAGES OF READING MATTER, A Big Little Thing COBTMileiit in >tif and arrange, nient. 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