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4 he IRofning Horsing >rw Knliding SnTisnnb, tin MONDAY, AIGIBT 13. 1900. Registered at the Postoffice in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and ia served to eubacribers in the city, or sent by tnaii. at 70c a month. $4.00 for six months, and SB.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, el* times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.50, six months $3.00; one year $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week. Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, |I.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, or registered letter. Currency cent by mail at riek ot renders. Transient advertisements, other than special coiumn. local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cent? a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth— is the standard of measurement. Contract roles and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING Newe 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 Pork Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. INDEX 10 KEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting?*—Magnolia Encampment No. 1, TANARUS, O. O. F.; Savannah Volunteer Guards; German Friendly Society. Special Notices—Suwanee Springs Wa ter for Inflammatory Rheumatism; Paints and House Painting. Savannah Building Supply Company; Paints. Oils, Varnishes. Etc., Andrew- Hanley Company; Levan’s Table d'Hote. Business Notices—Harvard Beer at De Soto Hotel Bar; E. & W. Laundry. Legal Notices*—Notice of Application for the Opening and Establishment of a New Public Road in Chatham County. Auction Sales—Furniture, Etc., by C. H. Dorset!, Auctioneer. Steamship Schedule—Merchants’ and Mi ners’ Transportation Company's Steam ships. Medical—Castoria; Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters; Dr. Hathaway Company; Hood’s Pills. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia to-day are for fair weather on the coast, local rains, and not so warm in the interior; fresh southwesterly winds; and for Eastern Florida, local rains in southern, and fair In northern portion, with light to fresh, southeasterly winds. The government of Panama derives its revenue from granting monopolies to in dividuals and corporations. It counts among its most valuable franchiaes that of gamhling, which turns In to the trtas ury $44.00) a year iy gold. Marion Butler of North Carolina is mak ing himself ridiculous by maintaining an armed guard about hie person and his house. Butler's purpose, of course. Is not to secure the safety of his person and his property, since he knows that there is no desire or purpose on the part of the Democrats to injure either. What he wishes is to make the people of North Carolina appear to those at a distance to be outlaws and thugs. North Carolina Democrats may regard the man with con tempt, but they are not going to hurt him. It is significant of Chinese shrewdness that none of the dispatches that are be ing received by the Powys from their ministers at Pekin, are dated. It is not in the least probable that all of the min isters would persistently neglect to date their communications, especially in view of the importance of their governments knowing the dales upon which matters reported by them occurred. It appears, therefore, that the Chinese censor makes it an invariable rule to run his blue pen cil through the date lines. What is hie object? There must be some reason. It betomes apparent to everybody, in cluding even the casual reader, that there has been and is being an unconscionable lot of false swearing done in the trial of Caleb Powers, at Georgetown. Ky. Many of the statements made on each side are so at variance with other statements cov ering the same ground that it Is abso lutely Impossible to reconcile the two, even allowing for partisan bias. It would not be surprising if a number of indict ments for perjury followed the conclusion of the case. It certainly appears that there is room for such indictnrxn's. During the first nine days of August the War Department expended $. r >,415.000. The total of expenditures for that department alnce the beginning of the new fiscal year, July 1. is $24,260,124.47. That affords an idea of the cost of militarism. Under an Imperialistic policy it might he ex pected that the army expense* would con tinue to be at least that large, and prob ably larger It is now regarded as prac tically certain that there will be a heavy deficiency for the year in the War De partment. The appropriation for the year is something over $114,0)0,000, but the cam paign in China was not dreamed of when It was made. There are hundreds of alleged "miners" nt Cape Nome who will perish during the coming winter unless the government sends them aid. The probabilities are that only a small percentage of the men ate bona fide miners. Most of them arc adventurers, willing to take big risks in the hope of striking large profits. They have, as a matter of fßot, no more right to look to the government for succor than would men who had gone to Manila In the hope of "striking a good thing • and failed to realize their hope. Still, the destitute men are at Nome, and a hard winter with starvation and death is ap proaching. What is lo be done? It looks as If government help would have to be sent, whether (ha adventurers deserve it or not. COMMERCIALISM INI POLITICS. Some time ago. before the Mazet In vestigating Committee in New York. Mr. Richard Croker boldly declared: “I am working for ray own pocket all the time.’’ Comptroller Coler of New York City, in an article in the Independent on “Com mercialism in Politics,” declares that Mr. Croker put into a “terse phrase of unvar nished truth” the exact condition of mod ern politics in the great cities of the United States. Politics generally, and state and municipal politics especially, are permeated with the spirit of commer cialism, and almost every practical politi cian. which is to say nearly every office holder and political worker—is working for the benefit of his own pocket all of the time. "Few men enter modern politics for fame or honor,” says Mr Coler. They are after dollars; as many of them as they can get. Often, too, they secure those dollars by methods that would be called dishonest in orilnary>buaines; but, inasmuch as they get them through poli tics, no compunction ie felt because of the questionable manner by which they are obtained. No quibbling, explaining or denying, says Mr. Coler, is sufficient to conceal the fact that commercialism is so intrenched in our politics, that when an individual or a corporation desires the favor or the pro tection of government, it is not the law maker who is approached, but the boss. The individual or the* corporation drives a trade with the boss, giving a valuable consideration of votes, or something Ise— most often the latter—and the thing is , accomplished. Financial and business in- | are always in favor of quiet and conservatism: of immunity from violent changes and interruptions. Capital, there- i fore, is ever ready to purchase peace ; rather than engage in an open war for a government that could not be bought*; not i because there is natural dishonesty in j business, but because of timidity which fears less honest competition. “When it is known that the favors of government are for sale, there is never a dearth of * buyers.” • • • “Under the present system our state governments create trusts arid monopolies that make a busi ness of buying any additional favors or special legislation which they may need to crush competition or prevent expos ure.” How far-reaching are the ramifications of commercialism in politics will never he known; but Controller Coler has no hes- j itation in declaring that “if the ownership ; of every share of the corporations of any great state of the Union could be exposed, there would follow a political revolution In that state.” His meaning is plain. It is that the corporations—the trust*—often buy favors from public office holders and pay for them in stocks. There isn’t any office in this country, Mr. Coler says, which pay* a salary large enough for the holder to get rich on; therefore when a holder makes use of the power of the office for his own profit, he has entered the commercialism of politics, “and the end of that business is dishonesty and moral bankruptcy.” Commercialism in politics, however, may be mitigated, and in the end driven out entirely, by the employment of stren uous efforts on the part of honest and patriotic voters. Publicity will do the bus ness. Here is where the Controller’s well known remedy for the trust evil comes in. “The remedy.” he says, “is publicity and stare inspection of books, account* and business of every chartered company. An aroused public opinion will administer that remedy until the body politic is purged.” EXPERT TESTIMONY. The question of whether expert testimo ny, as it is employed in modern murder trials where poison has been the means of inflicting death, is worth what it costs, has been re-opene<l by the publication of the bills of the experts in the Molineux case, in New York. There were some sixteen experts in medicine, chemistry and hand writing called by the state in this cas*\ and their charges for services aggregate more than $50,000. One expert charged $6,000 for analyzing a stomach, SSOO for analyzing the contents of a spoon, a similar amount for analyzing a small quantity of bromo-seltzor, SIOO per day for attendance upon the trial and SSO per day extra for every day that he was called upon to go on the stand and testify. HisA hill amounted to $18,550. Another expert charged $1,850 for appearing three days in the court—sol 7 per day for answering questions. Another expert, who works for a salary of $2,000 per year at his regular business, charged $3,110 for his services to the court extending over a few days. And what is the real value of all of this high-priced expert testimony? Has It re sulted in determining the guilt of the ac cused beyond a reasonable doubt? It has not. On the other hand there is a pret ty well defined opinion,held by many care ful persons, that it served during the trial only to befuddle the brains of the jurymen and make it more difficult for them to render a verdict in strict accordance with the law and the farts. The issue at stake was so clouded by the mass of abstruse and, to the Jury', unintelligible .technical jargon that it was impossible for the Jury men to see clearly the leading and para mount facte. In short, there is in the public mind a very strong doubt of the guilt of young Molineux, and many per sons look upon him as being the victim of too much expert testimony. It is a very striking fact in connection with this case, and the same may be true of other and similar cases, that some of the experts at first selected by the de fense were afterwards retained by the prosecution, and vice versa. Tfrjs would seem to indicate that there are experts who are quite ready to testify on either side, for a consideration. And during the trial many of the exerts testifying as to hand writing. hut on different side*, flatly con tradicted each other s premises and con clusions. The same Is true of the chemi cal expert*. Yet one set of experts was as worthy of credence as the other. Is not too much importance attached to this character of testimony? Does it not cost too much in money, time and risk of irre parable Injustice either to the accused or the commonwealth? Farmers have their hardest work to do in the hottest of summer weather; never theless, It is very rarely the case that a farmer Is overcome by heat. Th* expla nation probably Is that the farmer be come* Inured to the h*! of the sun by working in aunshine day by day from *arly spring Into the summer weather. When the hot day* come, therefore, the change is not so violent to him as to others who have been accustomed to working under shelter. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 13. 1900. nniXGHG SILVER TO THE ERO\T. The feature of the campaign text book which the Republican National Commit tee has is ued is the argument, supported by many alleged facts and figures, to show that, in the event of the election of Mr Bryan, the Senate in 1903 will have a majority in favor of the free and unlimit ed coinagr of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Last winter the Republicans, w'hen they thought there would be no doubt about the re-election of Mr. McKinley, laughed at the suggestion that the Senate would eon- j tain a majority of silver men within three j years. They insisted that the silver men . had not one chance in a thousand of get- j ting control of the Stfna'e in the next six j years. It suits their purpose now. however, to j try to create the impression that the elec- J tion of Mr. Bryan mejns the undoing of all that has been done to establish the i gold standard on a lirm foundation. It is evident from this text book that I their and their stump speak- ! ers are going to make all the use they can of the silver question in the cam paign. It is about the only issue that promises them a chance of success. By means of it they may be able to prevent some of the Gold Democrats from voting with the Democratic party. But it will not be possible for them to make as much out of the silver issue as they did in 1896. The great majority of the people do not believe that tihere is any probability that the gold standard legis lation will be disturbed in the very near future. Even if the Democrats should get control of both the House and the Senate it would be a very difficult matter to get a majority in favor of silver legislation. The attitude of a majority of the mem bers of the platform committee" at the Kansas City Convention was an indica tion that the dominant sentiment among Democrats is against doing anything rad iral at present in respect to silver. Even the Republicans know that the members of their ojvn party are not feeling any alarm on account of silver Mr. Wilson, the Secretary of Agriculture, who has re cently traveled over several of the West ern states, was Interviewed on the politi cal situation on his return to Washing ton early this week. He said that the peo ple only smiled when the subject of sil ver was mentioned. Evidently the peo ple whom he saw are not disturbed by such fears in respect to silver as seem to keep the Republican National Commit tee in a state of perpetual alarm. It is pretty safe to eay that the Republican National Committee is wasting money in publishing and distributing a book on the silver question. THE PASSING OF HITLER. The result of the recent election in North Carolina effectually disposes of Marion Butler. His term in the United States Senate will expire on March 3 next, and with it his political career, at least in his native state, will come to an end. It may be doubted that he could be elected a cor oner in any North Carolina county under the new amendment to the constitution. There will be few' sincere regrets be- of his retirement, and the state will be better off for his obscuration. That he is a man of a good deal of ability can not be doubted; otherwise he would never have been a United States senator. But his talents have not been used for the best possible purposes. In politics he has rep resented no great and enduring principle; nothing, indeed, ex dept opportunism. His plan of campaign has been “anything to win.” He* has been shifty, shrewd, and a bargainer. He was ever ready 'to enter into combination with any political organization that would agree to dividing the offices with his faction; and the party that offered the most and the best paying offices was the one which received his favor. As chairman of the Populist Na tional Committee he was ready to combine with the Democrats against the Republi cans on the national ticket four years ago; and as leader of the North Carolina Populists he arranged a fusion with the Republicans against the Democrats on the stata ticket. That is a pretty fair indi cation of his character as a politician. Political principle he cared little for. “Will it win?” was the test which he ap plied to every proposition. There cannot be much doubt, if any. that Butler is largely responsible for the animosities that have grown up and the i tragedies—the Wilmington riots, etc.—that have occurred in North Carolina during the past three or four years. From the time of the overthrow of carpetbag gov ernment in the South, more than twenty years ago, the negro hud remained quies cent as a political factor in North Caro lina. until Marion Butler and his co-work ers stirred bim up and made him believe ttfat it was his mission to be a ruler in the land through the ballot box. Butler’s object, of course,‘was to secure offices for himself and his friends. In order to get them he was willing that his state should pass under the domination of the weakest, most ignorant political element. Butler is one of the brainy demagogues that climbed into prominence upon the shoulders of the Farmers’ Alliance; by which performance, by the way, the or ganization was ruined. But he erred in supposing that he could perpetuate him self in office by a policy based upon ex pediency alone. Butler’s downfall was not long deferred He has had only six years of good office-holding. There are other demagogues of the Butler cluss in high places, who may he expoeted to take a tumble sooner or later. Since it Is not practicable to pick flaw* In Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance, it Is understood that the Republican eam poigners will try to pick flaws in hi* per sonal record. They will ussert that ne was first a free trader, insisting that free trade was the paramount issue; then he was a free stiver advocate, making free and unlimited coinage at the ratio of six teen lo one his chief demand, and now. putting both free trade and free silver Into 'the background, he is making impe rialism the paramount Issue. To have the Republicans attempt any such policy would no doubt be pleasing to Mr. Bryan. He has always been consistent, and would be able to give back better than his po litical enemies could send. So the Sultan Is not going to place an order in this country for a warship, after all. He Is going to have six cruisers built In Germany. Probably he gave over the Idea of having one constructed In the United States because he would not be permitted to Include his Indebtedness to the government for indemnity claims In the price to be paid for the vessel. Robert Fitzsimmons is a wonderful man He claims to be about thirty-seven years of age, but there are those who, having looked up his record, are quite sure that he is at least eleven years beyond that mark, or near forty-eight. At ail events, i he is one of the oldest men actively in the prize ring, and decidedly one of the best, if not indeed the premier. That he was able to give Ruhlin, fifteen or more years younger and thirty pounds heavier, such a terrible beating is proof positive that the “old man" has not yet passed j the limit of his usefulness. He still knows how to use tils fists, and has the muscle, ; the steam grid the stamina to turn his ! knowledge to the best money-making pur- ! pose. The secret of Fitzsimmons' won derful strength and lasting power is un- j doubtedly (hat he takes ebre of himself, j He burns up a plenty of tissue while he ( Is fighting, to be sure, but when the fight j is over he goes to work to regain the j tissue he has lost. He does not debauch, but Is temperate in all of his habits. That is why his brain is always clear and his muscles always hard. His career would seem to indicate that it is not the hard fighting which makes a pugilist's “life'' short—for Fitzsimmons has been fighting almost constantly for more than twenty years—but the fast living which almost invariably accompanies the following of the prize ring. The peroration of the speech of the prosecuting attorney in the case of Alex ander Jester, recently tried at New Lon don, Mo., for the murder of Gilbert Gales thirty years ago, was as follows: “The case is up to the state of Missouri. It is up to Missouri, and the world expects you to do your duty." Whether it was be cause of this unpardonable, lire of slang or not, the fact remains that a verdict of acquittal was soon returned. The lawyer who cannot round a better period than that deserves to lose his case. PERSONAL. —A Japanese, Kiichi Abe. of Tokio, re cently applied to the First Bank for per mission to make a deposit of 3,000 yen (J 1.500) for a period of 250 years at a rate of Interest of 5 per cent, per annum. The bank granted the application. As the de posit and interest will be left untouched during that period the depositor’s descend ants are to receive about 1,200,000,000 yen (3600,000,000) altogether at the expiration of the term. —The sudden death of Prof. Max Koner of the Berlin Academy of Arts is a severe loss to artistic circles. He was the por trait painter of the learned world, but of late years his brush has been in as great demand with the Berlin aristocracy as with the scholars. The Kaiser sat to him several times, which naturally made him fashionable. .He had not reached his for ty-sixth year, and had lately received the French gold medal for his portrait of the Kaiser exhibited in Paris. —Willard S. Mattox of the Christian Sci ence Publication Committee for New' York state, denies the statement credited to the Philadelphia Medical Journal, that Mrs. Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, is suffering from paralysis. He says: Cas uistry is made to account for the denials concerning Mrs. Eddy's health, whic'h have appeared in the dafiy press of the country. This ts a fine distinction, and is entirely misleading. When those who know Mrs. Eddy and have seen her say 'she is not sick,' it is no Juggling of phras es. They mean just what they say, in the ordinary acceptation of the meaning of those words. When I assert, as Ido now, (hat Mrs. Eddy is not sick, that assertion is lo be accepted as uncompromising In its Intention and effect. She has no or ganic disease; she is alert and active, and has complete control of her faculties; all this in the human sense of being well.” BRIGHT BITS. —Probably—"l see that somebody was badly Injured in a game of golf the other day.” "What was the matter? Did he insist on calling his brassie a tlok?'--Chicago Herald. —A Life Lesson—James—"My rejection taught me one thing." Horry—"What was that?" James—" That a fellow never should make his maiden proposal to a widow."— Philadelphia Bulletin. —The Cheerful Idiot—" There is no show for the downtrodden poor man In this country," said the dyspeptic boarder. "That’s a fact. The man with only one suit of clothes has no redress at all,” said the Cheerful Idiot.”—lndianapolis Press. —Gallig missed his poeketbook the othe'r morning and at once advertised for It. When he returned home in the evening he found It in the pockets of his other trous ers. "Mein cractous!” he said, “It bays to advertise like de leffie!”—Chicago Tri bune. —At the Literary Reception—Old Hand— " There go two authors; Snooks, the au thor of ‘The Harp of the Passions,’ and Saddler, who wrote 'The Carriage Paint ers' Manual.' ” Enthusiastic Young Lady—“ Which is the one with the flashing eye and the dark locks clustering about a marble brow?” Old Hand —"That’s Saddler."—Boston Transcript. CURRENT COMMENT. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.) says: "Slavery In the Sulu Islands continues, In flagrant violation of the constitution of the United States. This fact rather debars Mr. McKinley from making an issue of the'educational teat applied to negro voters in the South. The Southern negroes are unjustly discrimi nated against, but Mr. McKinley can say nothing so long ns he tolerates human slavery under the American flag." The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says: "Gen. Chaffee, it seems, has been in structed to 'co-operate with the Chinese imperial troops In the restoration of or der.’ It will be Interesting *o observe (he general eo-operating. Let us hope that his supply of fixed ammunition and other co-operative material wilt not run short. Otherwise there may be some slight hitch In the alliance." The Hartford Times (Dem.) says: "U Is announced that President McKinley's formal letter of acceptance will be In the nature of a reply to Mr. Bryan's speech* of acceptance. Then, naturally, Mr. Bry an's letter of acceptance will be a re joinder to Mr. McKinley's reply, and per haps a deoate will be started that will continue until November. It is not a bad idea.” The Washington Post (Ind.) says: "It is strange that the heathen Chinese have not thought to set up the claim that they are merely contending against the idea of having their postal service improved by Christian artists of the Rathbone anl Neely variety." The Columbia (ft. C.) State (Dem.) puts It this way: "Shall the government of South Carolina be a government ’of the people, by the people and for the peo ple.' ot a government of Ben Tillman, by Ben Tillman and for Ben Tillman? That z* the question.” Superior in Vowels A few days ago, says a Writer In the Mexican Herald, I was dining in one of the restaurants of the city. At a table next to me sat a party consisting of a Frenchman, a German, an Italian, a couple of Mexicans and a Scotchman. The conversation turned upon the comparative beauty of language. Each one of the party contended that his own language was the superior of all others. The German based his contention upon the wonderful strength and self-sufficiency of the German lan guage and the virile character of its thoughts and its literature. The French man claimed that ihc French language not only had no superior, but no equal, in its ability to express all thoughts accurately and with true beauty and depth of feeling. The Italian and one of the Mexicans each claimed one beauty to which no oth er language could lay claim, the beauty of sonorous sound. The battle waxed hot between these two. the Mexican maintain ing that Spanish had more true full vowel sounds than any other living language. Finally both appealed the matter to the Scotchman, who had. contrary to the characteristics of his race, not taken any part in the discussion, good, bad or In different. Saundy scratched his head for a moment, as though reflecting deeply; then he said: “Ah. week A dinna ken but yee'll be balth richt. for ye ocht to ken yer aine langwidge weel. But when it comes to talkin' o’ vowel soonds A dinna ken ony langwidge that ken coopt oop to thae Scotch. A’ll jist give ye a wee story that illustrates wha' A wad tell ye. “A tnon ance went into a store in Dun kirk. on' catched a piece o' cloth atween his fingers an’ his thumb an’ he said to the storekeeper: “ ‘Oo?’ “And the storkeeper said: 'Ay, oo.’ " Aw oo?’ said the mon. “ 'Ay, aw oo,' answered the storekeeper. “ 'Aw a oo?' asked the mon. “ ‘Ay, aw a oo?“ said the storekeeper. “There's a complete business transac tion earired on wi’out the use o’ a single consonant soond. A dinna ken if either Italian or Spanish or any ither langwidge can equal thot." The above story, as told by the Scotch man, is here given with the representation of the sounds of the words in preference to the Scotch spelling, which might not be familiar to some of the readers. The trans lation of the conversation which took place between the merchant and his customer is as follows: “Wool (oo)?” "Yes, wool (ay, oo).” “All wool (aw oo)?“ • “Yes. all wool (ay, aw oo).” “All one wool (aw a oo)?“ “Yes, all one wool (ay, aw a oo).” The Souvenir Seller. They were very busy when she entered, says the Chicago News, but beauty is far better for the eyes than figures, and they all dropped their pens and looked up. “What can I do for you, miss?’’ said the confidential clerk, glancing at her stunning gown and picture hat. "I am afraid I am intruding on your time," she said sweetly. “Res* assured that you are not.” She opened a dainty little satchel and brought forth several blocks of wood. "Have you gentlemen ever seen the red wood of California?” she inquired. They confessed that they had not, and she continued: “Well, these are specimens. Now, X am selling these little souvenirs at a quarter each. I am assisting in the work of rais ing a fund to protect these giants of the West. Just to think of these monarchs, that have defied the elements for years, falling before the ax of man. Think of their huge trunks groaning beneath the teeth of the hungry saw. Of course, you gentlemen will assist In the work?” Of course they would. The staff of clerks passed up their quarters like small boys before the circus wagon. “Thank you. gentlemen,” she said, bow ing herself out. “You have, indeed, as sisted in a noble work.” Then came Jimmy, the office boy. “Say, where did you fellows get them little blocks?” he inquired. “Bougnt them from a lady,” responded one. “Redwood souvenirs." “Did she have on a pink dress?" "Yes.” ” "Carry a little satchel?” "Yes. Where did you see her, Jimmy?” “Down in Cane's furniture factory, ask ing the foreman for little blocks. Told him she wanted them for a child to play with. Say, you fellows don't know red wood when you see it. Them blocks are cherry.” Danger in Electric Fans. Landlords who don't want to furnish free to tenants power with which to oper ate electric fans have started afresh the old story about the danger of sitting in the draught caused by these useful, and, I believe, indispensable household articles. My landlord has gone so far as to remove ail fans from his hallways and even from his own appartment. and the current sup plied to his tenants has fallen so low that a sixteen-candle-power light, looks like a glow-worm. It is true that a few cases of rheumatism have been developed by not persons sitting or sleeping in the draught of a fan, but the fan-makers find it im possible to fill orders from people who are not afraid of keeping cool. These fans have strange freaks which only a practical electrician can under stand. The laymen would like to know why there are ten-inch, twelve-inch and sixteen-inch fans, and no fourteen-inch ones. He always inquires why the fan operated by his electric light will not go when attached to a cell battery, and is puzzled to learn that he cannot get any wind out of an alternating current and an "incandescent" fan. No spectacular feat Is easier than stopping a fan going at full speed by pressing the thumb upon the blades near their end, but the novice al ways things the thumb should be Inserted from the rear instead of from the front. A moment's thought would set him right. But he doesn't think. He sticks his thumb the wrong way and loses the end of It. Motherly Solicitude. A woman employed at a Yorkshire fac tory took her 5-year-old boy lo the hos pital and asked the surgeon to look at his hands, says London Spare Moments. By some freak of nature his finger and thumb had interlocked, causing him great pain at times. "Why didn't you come here earlier, my) good woman?” said the surgeon in a tone of sharp reprimand. “The little chap has evidently been suffering from this extra ordinary defect sipce the day of his birth. If you had brought him soon after he was born I might have done something for him, but I very much fear I cannot now." The woman, aware that she W3S sadly to'blame, but loth to take the full respon sibility, immediately turned upon her un fortunate offspring. "Dost ta hear what the gentleman says, Tommy?" she cried. "Tha ought to 'ave mentioned It five years sin'. Oih've no pa tience wi' folk 'at suffer an' say nowt." Business In flraztl. An American who had occasion to con sult a prominent business man in Rio Ja neiro tell* of ills experience In a letter to the New Orleans Times-Democrat. " 'Senhor Jose has not yet arrived ' the head clerk would Bay blandly whenS In quired for his principal. ‘How soon will he be in?' I would usk. Innocently. 'God know, senhor,' the clerk would reply, stllj unruffled. Then, perhaps, after calling five or six times, I wouid get desperate, and a conversation something like this would ensue: ‘Will Senhor Jose he here to-day?' 'Ah, senhor, I know not.’ 'Well, to-morrow, then?’ 'Perhaps; who knows?' But I want to make an appointment Do you expect him any time next week?' 'lt is possible, senhor.' 'Oh! confound It! Will *,e be here this year?' ’He may, senhor.’ " ' ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Attention is called by the Boston Even ing Transcript to the fact that modern rapid transit systems In our large cities are potent factors In checking the growth of centers of dense population. The low fare for long distances permits persons of moderate means to live in the suburban oi semi-suburban sections. —The London Daily Mail has Just awak ened to the fact that "in big American cities ice is carried "round like milk." It says that "in London one searches in vain for an ice shop or warehouse. Though thousands of tons are sold every week, the average Londoner is unable to procure tee. One difficulty Is that the weather is variable. Another Is that London is be hind the times.” —China proper is about half the size of the United States, leaving out Alaska and the Indian Territory, and h-as about five and a half times the inhabitants. The Chinese empire is about as big as the Untied Slates, including Alaska and add ing Mexico. It contains close to six times as many inhabitants as the United Stales. It is nearly 1,000,000 square miles larger than all Europe, and contatns about the same poulation. —lll addition lo the medals already de signed in commemoration of the Paris Exposition, says the Geulois, three other medals will be struck in connection with congresses which will assemble during the exposition at the Palace of the Cours ia Rrine. The first medal, designed by M. Dupuis, is intended for members of the Numismatic Congress, and represents Nu mismatology as a nymph, seated, and scrutinizing a coin. The second medal, commemorative of the Congress of Med icine. has been engraved by M. Vernon, and fhe third is by M. Roty, this being intended for members of the Congress of Valuers. On the obverse the third medal ha3 a fine figure of the republic, and on the reverse Fortune pouring into a coffer the contents of a cornucopia. —An English shoe trade organ quotes one of the traveling salesmen of a Liver pool house as follows: "In looking back ward one feels that the spring season has been especially noteworthy in respect to one peculiar item, viz., every commercial traveler representing a British house has felt American competition to be a real, live fact, and far from being the bogy that It was said to be some time back. Slowly the various' American houses have ad vanced and spread themselves around, adapting themselves to the wants of each particular market with a cleverness which will always make them formidable com petitors. They are thousands of miles away, and home manufacturers are on the spot; and yet, in spite of all advantages, they have increased their trade and to some extent established themselves.” —A Chicago man with nothing better to do has discovered that at least 20 per cent, of the women of that city "toe in.” From observa lions made in houses, railway cars and out the street he finds that the habit of about one-fifth of the women Is to turn their loesin. Sometimes it is both feet and sometimes but one. He does not pretend to account for this ungraceful habit, but it presumably arises from improper or a to tal lack of physical training. Certain it is there is scarcely anything more distress ing than to see the points of a pretty wo man's shoes converging toward each oth er from beneath her dress. No one of an observing nature who once saw her feet in a glass would ever again toe in. as the saying is. It is a habit acquired in child hood. but which might easily be correct ed by mothers—if they did not “toe in” themselves. —English experts are convinced that Jin goism Is anew development of brain dis ease. Others believe that it is the result of cerebral laws which have alweys ex isted. but of which little has been known until lately. A sudden Inroad of exictlng images—such as the spread of the Ameri can flag over the entire world, the control Of !' 1 earth's commerce by the United States, etc.—causes strong vibrations over the nerve centers, the brain becomes overwrought and the mental balance is temporarily upset. In this condition per sons fall into a state of exasperation, be come fatuous and often cruel, and swell up with pride and self-content. The condi tion is contagious because the image of one mans mind is transmitted to the brains of other men, with the result that while none reflect, each is influenced by the Impression that his sensation is that of many others. —'Two of the many snuff boxes of the First Napoleon came to England in the shape of presents, says the London Tele graph. The one bequeathed to Lady Hol land, and handed to her, if we are not mistaken, by Gen. Count Bertrand, is in the British Museum. The other, given personally by the great captain to Archi bald Arbuthnot, surgeon of Her Majes ty’s 20th Foot, was, as we mentioned yesterday, sold on the anniversary of Waterloo, at Messrs. Sotheby's, and real ized £l4O. Archibald Arbuthnot lies in (he graveyard of Ecciefechan, his native place, close to the remains of the great est of all his fellow-townsmen, Thomas Carlyle, who only wrote a short mono graph on the modern Hannibal in "He roes and Hero Worship.” It is curious to reflect what wouid have occurred if these two had ever met. We might have had a sequel to "The French Revolution." But the future author of it left long be fore the surgeon returned from the wais, and the world is the poorer, perhaps, by one great book. —lt is a fact of comparatively recent dis covery in chemical metallurgy, says Pear sons. that metals lose their vitality from repetitions of shocks and strains, and may be said,as the expression is.to suffer from fatigue—that is. they may be worked till their molecules fail to hold together. As is familiarly known, bars of tin, rods of brass and wires of any metal will sepa rate, owing to fatigue, if bent backward and forward continuously. But by care ful experiments, however, the fact Is made to appear that a remedy exists for this condition of metals if the overstrain does not border on .rupture, and this remedy Is very much like that which ts applied In the case of an overworked human frame— namely, rest. Feather-edged tools recover their vitality better than any other. Of course, the length of time required for this rest varies with different metals and the amount of strain lo which they have beer, subjected. Hard metals, such as iron and steel, use up one and two years’ time in the process. On the other hand, soft met als, like lead, retain their cohesive force longer and also require less reel. is applied by 'the Electrical Review to the manufacturers of automobiles, all be cause they cotlnue to give their machines a form that makes them look like "a horse vehicle without a horse." "In other branches of design,” declares the Indig nant critic,” "the best taste has unani mously decreed that the function of the structure should be expressed in les ex ternal appearance; there should he no con cealment of the mechanism of structure, because the highest canons of aesthetics demand that for beauty a Structure should be not only symmetrical, but' truthful. It Is Just this that the ordinary automobile is not, says the New York Times. It does not look like a self-pro pelling vehicle, and It does not even sug gest that It contatns the machinery for its own propulsion. "It Is thoroughly Chi nese In its adherence to the good old things thait were.” That, undoubtedly, is orthodox criticism, but why didn't this well-instructed writer go ahead and tell the automobile manufacturers Just what to do in order to make a four-wheeled ve. hide carrying human passengers look ma terially different from other four-wheeled vehicle* designed for the same purpose? 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