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4 gtlje JSirtnina f?eto£ Morn tug Wew BuilcUbc saianaah, Gv TUESDAY, ACGI 14. 1900. Registered at the Postoffice in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and ia her red to subscribers in the city, or eem by mail, at 70c a month. *4.00 lor fix months, and *B.OO for one yar. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six j times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, *1.50; ix months $3.00; one year *t 00. The WEEKLY SEWS. 2 issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year. *I.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re- mit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at riak ol tenders. Transient advert torments, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements! and cheap or want column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen line* of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth la the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at buainesw office. Order* for delivery of the MORNING News to either residence or place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone No. 210 Any irregular ity In delivery should be immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters ar.d telegrams should be ad dressed MORNING NEWS,*' Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE. 23 Park Row. New York city, H. C. Faulkner. Manager. LNPEI 10 m ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings—Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 231. F. and A. M. Special Not ires—Root Beer in Quart Bottles. A. M. * C. V>\ West . P. J. Dough erty on Merits of Suwanee Springs Water; Wail Paper. Paper Hanging, Savannah Building Supply Company; Martels, Orate* Tiling, Andrew Hanley Company; Levan's BUI of Fare; Grand Moonlight Excursion. Last of the Season, on Wed nesday Evening. Business Notices—Savannah Steam Laundry: E. & W. Leundry; Georgia Syrup. The S. W. Branch Company; Gem Chat. Hunter & Van Keuren. Velvet Ribbons. Etc.—At the Bee Hive. The 2,000 Yards of Silks—P. T. Foye. Legal Notices—Notices to Debtors and Creditors Estate Clara M. Kills, Deceased. Nw Strictly Up-to-Date Stock—At the Bee Hive. Auction Sales—Trustee’s Sale, by Plat shek & Cos., Auctioneers; Old Hoes Sale, by I. D. La Roche, Auotioneer; Trustee's Sale, by Isaac D. La Roche, Trustee. Grape-Nuts—Sold by All Grocers. Insurance Statement Semi-Annual Statement of the Massachusetts Life In surance Company. Wanted—Bhoe Salesmen Wanted. Proposals—For Dredging in Harbor of Savannah, Ga. Cheroots—Old Virginia Cheroots. Medical—Hood's Barsaparllla; Horsford s Acid Phosphate; S. S. 8.; Caatorla; Lydia Plnkhom Vegetable Pills; World's Dis pensary Preparations; Pond’s Extract; Woman's Friend; Tirtt's Pill*. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent; Fbr Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weatlier. The indications for Georgia to-day are for generally fair weather, with light to fresh southwesterly winds; and for East ern Florida, generally fair weather, with light southwesterly winds. The probabilities are that the Shanghai prevaricator is being made the acapegoat upon whom tc load a number of the eins of fake writers lor the yellow press In New York. The gate receipt* of the Fitzsimmone- Ruhlin fight in New York the other night were 340,000. Of this amont the lighters received 320,000. the winner getting 75 per cent and the looser 25 per cent. The San Francisco Chinese will shortly dedicate their new Joss house with much pomp and ceremony. It is of brick, and is said to be one of the finest Chinese tem ples outside of the Celectial Empire, hav ing cost upwards of 320.000. The god of war is the principal deity in the new tem ple. This god i9 carved of wood, elab orately garnished with gold and stands about three feet high. So far as is known Mr. Debs Is still run ning for the presidency on the Social Democracy ticket. Mr. Debs would greatly Increase his popularity If he would follow the example of Mr. Towne and aid in concentrating the opposition to the Republican party under one head. Under existing conditions he knows that his candidacy Is merely an aid to Mr. McKinley. Still, it may he that that Is .the reason Mr. Deb* is running. Talk about credulity! Walter Wellman writes to the Chicago Tlmes-Herald that he has found a well-informed Kentuck ian who believes that Kentucky "Is a cinch for McKinley at anywhere from 10,000 to 15.000 votes.” And Wellman says he believes it. It seems that after a man has been a Washington correspondent for years and years, and has led one or more Arctic expeditions, he ought to he able to tell when anybody Is “stringing" him. / Not even was Joan of Arc an original character. The Chinese had one of her kind hundreds of years before the French Joan was born. The name of the Celes tial Joan was Mou-Len. and erudition has It that in the garb of a man she led the Chinese troops to overwhelming and bril liant victories. The position occupied by the present Dowager Empress as the leader of an empire In which women gen erally hold an inferior position is not, therefore, altogether novel. The Republican ft*tt Convention of Wisconsin, recently In seaaton, adopted a resolution in favor of abolishing all dele gate conventions for the nomination of party candidates. It Is proposed that all candidates shall be nominated by a direct vote of the people, under the Australian ballot system This ie merely an elabora tion of the primary election syetem, which has obtained in several of the Southern states for many years. The Wleoonsln proposition Is that the result of the pri mary shall stand alone as the voice of the party, while It Is the practice In the South to have the result of the primary ratified by • delegate convention. ErrAFi6i*ENE?m should bt: AtOIDCD. The position occupied,by the government of this country in the Chinese trouble is very generally approved. It has been made clear that the United Statej are not seeking territory. Their pur pose is to rescue Mr. Conger and those dependent upon him in Pekin. China un derstands this, or ought to by this time. Li Hung Chang has t>een authorized to open negotiations with the Powers for peace. The sooner he accepts the terras proposed by the United Skates the better it will be for China. If the Chinese gov ernment will co-operate wfth the allies in getting the occupants of the legations to a place of safety—at Tien Tsin or some other port—the United states wiil act as her friend. But U is doubtful if they will undertake to negotiate terms of peace with Li Hungr Chang until their demand in regard to the ministers is complied with. Occupying ®o favorable a position, the United States shou.d be extremely care ful not to become emangkd in any of the scheme* of the other! Powers for acquiring territory. Ir is understood that the Unit ed States have agreed to the appointment of Field Marshal von Waldersee as com mander-in-chief of the allied forces. It is absolutely necessary, of course, that there shall be a commander-in-ohief, but the ! United States should have it distinctly understood that the agreement is not to last beyond the rescue of the members of the legations. * It seems to be the understanding in Germany that it is to continue beyond the liberation of the foreigners in Pekin— that It ie to continue until there is com plete subjugation of the Chinese forces. It is doubtful if there is any such under standing in this country. If it Is Ger many's plan to completely subjugate the military power of China, then it is her plan to demand a large amount of ter ritory as indemnity. Are the United States ready and willing to help Germany grab a large section of the Chinese em pire? We do not think so. It is not the desire of this country that the empire shall be dismembered. That being the case, It Is probable that our government has been rmreful to notify the German government that it accepts Field Marshal von Waldersee as commander-in-chief only so long as the allied forces are engaged in securing the release of the foreigners in Pekin. Without such a limitation this country might find iteclf entangled in the schemes of the. European Powers. It looks now ns 1f the foreigners in Pe kin would be liberated or assassinated be fore Field Marshal von Waldersee could reach the allied forces. In that event there might be no needf for his eervivecs. so far as the American army is concerned. THE POLICY BUSINESS. It looks as if this city hod about seen the end of policy gambling. The sen tences imposed by Judge Falligant upon two of the offenders who plead guilty yesterday, practically puts an end to that kind of gambling—the very worst kind with which the city has been afflicted, because its patrons are the poorest class of wage earners. As long ats the sentence was a fine, the proprietors of the game continued; to conduct it, but now that the court has decided to imprison those convicted of a second offense, it is safe to say that there will be no more policy writing and draw ings. The remedy for the evil of which there has been so much complaint, has appar ently been found. It is not surprising that the court decided to deal with the offenders more severely than heretofore. Immediately after the policy places were raided recently by the sheriff and his deputies, the policy business was begun again. It , was this, in ell probability, that induced the court to try the effort of imprisonment as well as a fine. Judge Falligant is to be commended for adopt ing a course that will put a stop to an evil that has flourished in this city for a long time. THE GOODYEAR IMPROVEMENT. The Washington Mirror of Aug. 11, has a rather nasty attack on Col. Goodyear of Brunswick, and his improvement at the mouth of the harbor of that city. It also attacks Congressman Brantley for assisting Col. Goodyear to get the har bor improvement contract. The attack is of course unjust. Col. Goodyear has obtained the depth of water on the bar he contracted to get, and is, therefore, entitled to hie money. We do not know whether he got the depth by means of dynamite or by dredging. It does not make much difference how ha got it. The survey shows that the depth was there when the survey was made. It is well known that very able engin eers hold that ocean bars can be opened and kept open by dredging at much less cost than jetties can be constructed and kept in repair. If we are rightly inform ed engineers do not take much stock in the dynamite plan for deepening bars, but they are becoming converts to the dredg ing plan. The new and powerful dredges now tn use. accomplish wonders. Marlon Butler of North Carolina se*m* likely to be the cause of some little em barrassment to the national Democratic campaign. It is very well known that he is not i>opular with the Democratic party in his own state. Cor reasons that need not be enumerated, so well are they under stood. Indeed, it has been pretty broadly hinted to him that his permanent depart ure from the state would be a matter of pleasure to his fellow citizens who are Democrats. Meantime Butler is a strong Bryan man, and is said to have the friendship of the Democratic candidate. There has, in fact, been some talk of But ler going on the stump for the Democratic national ticket. Should he do so, it would hardly do the ticket any good In North Carolina. Meantime, should Mr. Bryan repudiate Butler it might cost the ticket heavily in Populist votes in the West, where the North Carolina man Is said to be quite strong as chairman of the Popu list National Committee. The largest sehoon<*r in the tvorld is scheduled to be launched at Bath, Me., to-day. The craft Is 345 feet long. 4t> feet beam and 23 feet deep, and will have six masts. It is estimated thut she will be able to carry at least 6,000 tons of coal. Only fourteen men, all told, will be requir ed to handle her. With this small work ing force, and having large carrying ca pacity, her owner believes that the ne.v vessel will be cheaper than a barge. Twen ty-/! vs u thirty years ago a vessel of her else would have been ft square-rigger, and would have taken a crew of twenty-five to i thirty men. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, 1 AUGUST 14. 1900. MISSION* OAF. ftOURCE OF TROUBLE* Many sermons are now being preached on the trouble In China. The position taken in roost of them is that the mission* ; and missionaries are In nowise responsi ble for it. It ia doubtless true that the missionaries are as careful as it is poe j sibie for them to be not to give offense : and to comply with the local laws and with the r#aty obligations of their re -1 sportive governments. But ns a matter ; of fact are not the missionaries and mis sions one of the causes of the existing trouble? In the August number of the North American Review there is an article by George B. Fmytb. president of the Anglo- Chinese College at Foo Chow, entitled, "Causes of AnM-Forelgn Feeling in China." In the course of his article he says: "Missions and missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, have also added 10 the causes of antagonism. lam aware that this is denied by many of Those who are interested in missions, but no one will question it who is acquainted with the facts. It is not wise to argue from the nobility of the missionary motive To its ready appreciation by the Chinese peo ple. The motive, so apparent to us is not equally apparent to them. They look at It through the medium of unfortunate accompaniments of which we never think. Apart altogether from the offense to the national pride in undertaking to teach a faith claiming to be higher Than their own. the whole missionary movement is unhappily associated with conquest, and its toleration is the result of successful war. Noble, therefore, though the mo tives of the Christian Church are. its work is Tainted by Its association with force and conquest. To thoughtful Chi nese. familiar wkh the recent history of the country, the presence of the mis sionary in every province, in country vil lages as well as in great cities, is a re minder of national humiliation.’' Mr. Smyth has been a resident of China for seventeen years, and occupies a po sition which enables him to know the real sentiments of the Chinese people with re gard to missionaries. He comes into contact with the class of people who form public sentiment. His views, therefore, on the subject of missionaries, as a cause of Trouble 4n China, are of far more value than those of the casual or interested ob server. He is not against missions and missionaries. On the contrary, he is very much in their favor. He says: "The Christian Church must preach Christian ity. To ask it to reject its missionary commission Is to ask it to commit sui cide. Nevertheless, it is unwise not to recognize in the preaching of the new faith a source of antagonism, and it is unjust to censure the Chinese Too severely for their opposition to what they do not understand, to a process which they re gard as destructive to the fundamental principles of their notional life.” Assuming That the foregoing is correct, to is apparent that the Chinese people are hostile to missions and missionaries. They feel toward them very much as we feel in this country toward the Mormon mis sionaries. How Mormon missionaries are treated in pretty nearly every state in This republic* is Very well known. Thev are driven out of most communities with Threats of violence. The Chinese toler ate the missionaries because they cannot help themselves. The Powers have bound them by treaties to guarantee them cer tain privileges. They know’ That if they violate These treaties, or harm the mis sionaries. a heavy indemnity will be ex acted. In fact, the present trouble in China had its origin directly In the killing of two German Catholic missionaries. These missionaries were brutally murdered in a riot In The province of Shan Tung in No vember. 1897. As an indemnity for That act Germany took possession of the im portant port of Kiao Chow, together with a big slice of adjacent territory. That act led to outrages out of which grew the Boxer movement. Tt is impossible, of course, to point out in a short article the different ways in which the missions and missionaries pro voke irritation. One or two may be men tioned. The opposition of Christianity to ancestral worship is what offends the Chi nese most, for they consider it an attack on The most sacred, of obligations, on the very foundation of society itself. The peculiar polirical status of the converts is another cause of ill feeling. The treaties guarantee these converts immunity from various exactions. These immunities get the native magistrates, the missionaries and the foreign ministers and consuls Into trouble, because the converts mislead the missionaries in making charges that the treaty guarantees are not respected. And the fact that the converts are re leased from certain exactions to which other citizens are subjected makes the people bitter against The converts and the missionaries. It is hardly probable that this or any other Christian nation w’ould submit to such treaty terms in respect to converts to a religion hostile to Chris tianity as have been imposed upon China. What China has had to endure from Christian nations is not calculated to cause her to regard with favor mission aries of the. Christian religion. But mis sionaries ore not to blame for this. They have done the best they could for the cause they represent. In Paris Mrs. l*otter Palmer Issues cards stating that she will receive at her "hotel” on such and such days. By some means one of these cards got into the hands of one liobeon in New York, who cabled to Mrs. Palmer that he would ar rive in Paris with his family on a cer tain date, and he would like her to re serve rooms for the party in her hotel. Upon his arrival In Purls Hobson went at once to the Palmer residence, from which’he was promptly ejected. Then he instituted a suit against Mrs. Palmer for damages, and she wrote him a hot letter resenting his alleged insult to her. To this Hobson replied that he did not un derstund how a nottd Chicago hotel keep er (Potter Palmer) could feel insulted because one imagined that he kept a sim ilar hostelry in Paris. The mistake arose from the fact that the word "hotel” is often used in French, as it was on Mrs. Palmer's curd, to signify a lofty piivate mansion. The Shah of Persia has proved n k<>4| customer to American manufacturers who are represented at the Paris Exposition. Hit Majesty has purchased sixty bicycles, two automobiles, 100 telephones, three pho nographs, and ten sewing machines ot American make, which he will take home with him. It 1* his purpose to create o bicycle polic? for?# li) Tthtrgp, his cap , UaL One of the most famous, tender and paihetic of American Sunday school son&s is called "There’s a Light in the Window for Thee, Brcth r." It was written by Rev. Edward Dunbar, the story of whose career is a romance and a tragedy. In his youth Dunbar wa* of a roving dis position. He lived with hie mother at Nvv Bedford. Mass. It was her Cualmn to set a light in the window for him at r ight, to guide his st* ps and to assure him of a Welcome. When about 18 years of age he went to sea for a three years’ cruise. During his abs nee his mother fell ill and died. Shortly before she passed away she left this message: ‘Tel Edward that I will set light in the win dow cf heaven for him.” When the yourg man returned and received the message he was profoundly Impressed, and re formed and became a preacher. During the process of his r formation he wrote the famous song. He was talented and eloquent, and had no difficulty in con tracting a desirable marriage with a young woman of his native town. Five ehildr n were born to the coupler Then, one Sunday morning, the town was dumb founded when ii was announced that Rev. Mr. Dunbar had disappeared, leav ing wife and children He went to Kan sas, and to Minneapolis, where he h*-ld revival mee ings. In Minneapolis he married a handsome young heiress. His Massachusetts antecedents becoming known, he was prosecuted for bigamy, convicted and sentenced to the peniten tiary. When his time was up he went forth from the prison a vagabond and a tramp. Some years afterwards he ap plied at the Coffeyville. Kan . jail for a night’s lodging. He wes ill, and died the next day. His body was placed in a pauper’s grave. Recently the church people of the town have erected a simple slab over his grave, commemorating the fact that he wrote the beautiful song. PERSONAL, —M. de Blignleres, whose death is an nounced. was joint controller with Sir Evelyn Baring (now Lord Cromer) of the Egyptian debt in the time of the condomin ium. —John Howard Bryant, a brother of William Cullen Bryant, recently celebrated the ninety-third anniversary of his birth at his home in Princeton. 111. He' is the only surviving member* of the family and has a local reputation as a poet. —The Prince of Woles has developed quite a passion for automobilism. and has proved an adept in handling his new-built car himself. It is painted a dark brown with wheels picked out with red and is quite a stunning turnout. The Prince had it at Ascot with him, where he enjoyed several spins. —The R#v. W. H. Murray, a missionary in and one of the men whose fate is yet uncertain, became interested in the condition of the blind in China some years ago, and to help them devised a system of representing the sounds of the Chinese language by raised dots. It has* been found that by this means a blind Chinaman can learn to read in three months, much less than one who can see and uses the ordi nary alphabet, as there are only 480 sounds in Chinese, while of written char acters there are more than 4,000. BRIGHT HITS. j —Horace—“Uncle George, I see a good deal in the papers abouT roof-gardens. What are roof-gardens, Uncle George?” Uncle George—" They are places, I be lieve, where young gentlemen sow wild oats.”—Boston Transcript. —Just One Thing—" Even the general that never wins a battle can beat some times.” remarked Beachwood. "What ore you drivin at?” asked Homewood. "He can beat a retreat.”—Pittsburg Telegraph. —The Old Jealousy.—“ Just home from Ix>ndon, eh?” “Yes,” replied the Western man. "I took in everything worth seein* in the town.” “How did St. Paul’s Ca thedral impress you?” "Didn’t go near it. I’m a Minneapolis man, myself .’’—Phila delphia Press. —Mendacity As An Art.—"So that young Chinaman is studying here to perfect him self as a court official in his own coun try.” "Exactly,” answered the Profes sor. “What w'orks is he reading now?” ‘Baron Munchausen. Marco Polo, and the European summer resort circulars.”— 'Washington Star. CURRENT COMMENT/ The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says: -We are Informer! by the Wilmington (Del.) Every Evening: that the new con stitution of Delaware provides that no person shall vote in that state unless he can read and write or was a qualified voter when the educational qualification went Into effect last January. It will be seen at once that this Delaware suffrage restriction discriminates in favor of such illiterates who could vote last January in much the same manner In which the North Caro'ina restriction discriminates in favor of those white illiterates whose ancestors could have voted in 1887. In each case. 100. the gradual elimination of the favored class is provided for. Why don’t the New York Sun and the other Northern papers which have been utter ing such hideous howls about North Car olina’s suffrage qualification say some thing about Delaware’s?” The New Orleans States (Dem.) says: "Our Northern friends used to indulge in a vast den! of vilification of the Demo crats of the South for resorting to ques tionable practices at the polls to redeem the section from negro rule. The fact re mains that the Republicans up there, and especially those in New York and Penn sylvania. can give us cards and spades in this game. The difference is we cheat ed a little to save our people from ab solute ruin, while they cheat by whole sale for purjioses of stealage. An in stance Is afforded by a recent primary election held In Ctica. N. Y. The honest Republicans who are fighting the Infa mous Plott wing of their party believed that they had won with hands down, but when the ballots in several wards were counted the number proved to be hun dreds in excess of the entire registered vole." The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) says: “With the Republicans charging that the war is to be continued in the Philippines until after the election be cause the Filipinos hope for Bryan's elec tion, and with the Democrats charging that the war Is to be continued until after the election as u Republican cam paign aid. it looks as if we are pretty unanimously agreed that the war will not close until November, at any rate." . *'lThe Baltimore Run (Dem.) asks: “Is It certain that the fifteenth amendment was •made for the happiness of either of the races?” To this the Richmond Dispatch (Dem,) replies: "Of course, not. The fifteenth amendment, like the fourteenth imendment. was made for the purpose of giving practical force and effect to the feelings toward the South of the North ern maitgnants, and with a view to per petuating Republcau rule In this eeetior " A Little Sermrrn. There was once a little boy who was very lazy—so lazy that he would not eat oranges because he would have to spit out the seeds, says the New York Press. ! The only thing he would do was to fish, a :d he would not do this unless his moth icr dug the worms for him. Tnis she : could not do often, for she had to work hard taking in washing to support two | daughters who w re studying art in Palis. One day, af er the minister had prayed sorrowfully ever the boy, there came a Lon* a man whose business it was to make biscuits out of pussy willows. He was also a politician, and if the moon was net made out of gre n cheese you would nev er have known it by what he told you. “I see,” said the man cunning y, "mat you are fishing. You have dodbtless had to dig the worms for your pastime. Dig ging worms is work. Ltt us tell you how to get them without working any. Then the man told him to make some hollow' tin birds, holding their mouths wide open, when he had found some nests with ycung birds in them to take the young birds c#jt and put the tin birds in instead. The parent birds, the man told ham. would fill them full of worms, and all he would have to do would be to cimb the trees and gather them. The boy thought it would be a fine thing to watch the old birds make fools of themse!\es and get the worms with out working. So he went and apprenticed himself to a tinsmith and learned how’ to make tin birds. When he had made a lot he put them in the nests, and the first day he collected fourteen bushels of worms. Having more than he wanted, he es tablished a worm emporium and sold them to anglers in (he neighborhood, where he soon became a wealthy and in fluential citizen and paid h s mother the very highest price for putting a Chinese gloss on his shirt fronts. Thus we see, children, that it never pays for parents to despair so long as politics has still a philosophy. Tlie Senator’s Criticism. One of the most lovable men I ever knew is R. R. Hitt of Illinois, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, says the Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has spent nearly’ his whole life in the practice of statesmanship. When a mere boy he re ported stenographic-ally the great Lincoln- Douglass debates, which in itself was a liberal political education. Then he spent several years in office in Washington. For eight years he was secretary of legation in Paris under Elihu B. Washburne, and for much <4 that time was charge d’affaire. He was assistant secretary of state under Blaine. He has been in Congress many years. He excels in the decilate art of story telling. Not long ago in the cloakroom I was talking with him about Thomas Hart Ben ton, whereupon he told me an anecdote of Benton’s most masterful antagonist, Sen ator James Stephen Green of Missouri. "Senator Green,” said Mr. Hitt, "was not only a man of splendid genius, but also of charming manner. He boarded at the National Hotel, where he was popular with men and women. The latter foil ml out that the Senator was not much of a churchgoer, and insisted that he should mend his ways in that regard. One Sun day he was late for dinner. The women asked him why. “ *1 have been attending divine worship,’ replied the Senator, gravely. To what church do you go, Senator?” asked a woman. ’I don’t know’,’ answered the courtly Missourian. “ ‘Who preached?” they asked. ‘I don’t know’,’ he said. ‘I walked up the avenue, turned up Fourth street, and entered a church on the left hand side.’ This was an Episcopal Church. “ ‘How did you fike the service?” asked another woman. "‘lt appeared to me,’ answered the Senator, ’that there was too much reading of the journal and too little debate.’ ” ••Ze Flavour DolVat. At one of the famous little dinners a prominent professional man of Washing ton was greatly pleased with the salad, as were also his guests, says What to Eat. Evidently’ it was partly meat and partly vegetable, but the flavor was new, distinct and undeterminable. This was so faint that one guest declared "It’s not a taste at all; only a smell.” At length someone suggested that the chef he asked for the recipe, upon which the host remarked: "My man greatly dislikes being asked for recipes. On this occasion, however, his vanity may overcome him if vve teil how greatly we have enjoyed the dinner, and the salad in particular. At any rate, we’ll see.” The Frenchman soon app ared, and was visibly affected, not to say elated, by the compliments. Kct gif me gret plalslr,” he said, “to tell how I mak ze sal-lad. Eet ver’ seem ple I haf ze laitue ’rrange ready; an’ I baf ze meat chop ver’ fine an’ dry; ze ce’eri 1 haf chop ver’ tine; an’ I haf ze pomme de terre, ze patate, an’ stan’ a le-tle an’ dry; zn I mix zem up. Zen I mak’ ze dresseeng mayonnaise; madame, she know. I half all ver’ col’ ready as ze feesh ees serf Zen as ze sal-lad ees to serf, I tak’ une tete d’ail pardonnez mol, one leetle cloaf, of ze garleek an’ neeble him in ze mouth, so. an’ breathe gentle, ver' gentle, on ze sal-lad. Zat gif eet ze flaveur del’cat.’ ” Henry Paine’s Repartee. The late Henry W. Paine of the Massa chusetts bar was once defending a char ity case in which a boy of 15 was charged with arson, says the San Franc seo Wave. He lyiade out a strong case to prove the defendant an idiot. After a charge from the judge, which was practically an or der for acquittal, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. The judge asked Pa'ne if he would move for anew trial. "I thank you for your suggestion,” was the answer, "but I am oppressed with the gravest doubts whether I have the right to move for anew trial. Your honor, I have already asked for and have re ceived for my idiot client the most pre cious heritage of our English and Amer ican common law’—a trial by a jury of his peers.” Fafne had an old quarrel with thv Supreme Court, and never lost an opportunity of showing hia contempt for that body. Once, riding from Bos ton to Cambridge with a load of law Looks, he was accosted by a young Har vard man with the remark: "You have quite a load, Mr. Paine. Ix*w books. I suppose?” "Oh. no,” was the answer, "only Supreme Court reports.” Plenty Left for n Sandwich. A certain lawyer who was a candidate for a municipal office went out canvass ing one day and knocked at a cottage door. The door was opened by a woman, London Tit Kits. "Is your husband in. Mts. —in quired the lawyer. “No, sir." was th^ - reply, "but I know what you want. My husband is sure to vote for yen. because you got him off for stealing that ham last week.” "No, no; alleged stealing of the ham," corrected the lawyer. ■'Alleged be bio wed!” was the woman's smiling reply. "We ve got a hit of it left still. l<emme give you a sandwich out of it. sir.” The firrntral Preacher. A story In the Scottish American runs that some Paisley weavers were speaking about their ministers, when one said that it wus wonderful how much his minister could bring out of Scripture. He had known him to preach sevrral sermons from one text. Another said his minister surpassed that, for he had preached six termons from the shortest text In the Bi ble. "llut that's naethin’ to my wife,” said the third. “She's been preachin' to me for sixteen years frae nae text at a’,” ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Bombay Is an immense city, with land and sea shipping equal to the best. It has large commerce and trade and manufac turing interests. Its buildings are said to be the finest in India. —A physician declares that a person in robust health walks with his toes pointed to the front, while one with his health on the wane gradually turns his toes to the side and a bend is perceptible in his knees. —A shark in a Florida river met a 400- pound turtle and tried to swallow him, tail first. The turtle extended his forward flippers and the shark, after repeated ef forts to get him down, was reluctantly compelled to turn the rascal out. —Chicago physician® say that more than one-half the women of that city, or any other civilized place, have euteroptosis, a dragged down condition of the viscera and stomach. It Is this condition which brings on chronic biliousness, constipation, back ache, debility and loss of complexion. —lt is the law in Maine that the bounty for bears shall be paid when the animal’s nose is shown. In New Hampshire the ears must be exhibited. Some enterprising sportsmen living near the borders of the two states get a double bounty by collect ing on the noses in one stale and on the ears in the other. —When Benjamin Constant.the celebrat ed French painter, painted a portrait of His Holiness Leo XIII and presented it to the distinguished subject, the latter generously asked the painter to name his own present in exchange. M. Constant modestly requested that the Pope give him the soutane worn by him during the religious ceremonies of holy week. —Altman, Col., Is said to be the highest incorporated tow’n in the country, being 12.000 feet above the sea level, a justice of the peace who had fined a disorderly character $lO and costs said in reply to this prisoner’s announcement of appeal: "What? Appeal, would you?” asked the astonished court. "You don’t come any o’ that. now. This is the highest court in the United States, and you can’t appeal.” —Twelve hundred Italians of the Sec ond Assembly district, New’ York, and members of the Daniel Volenti Associat ion. raised an exceedingly handsome Bryan and Stevenson banner last week in front of their headquarters. The ban ner is 20x40 feet and the portraits of the candklafes are particularly good, having been painted by Louis Dlorfo. who came over from Italy especially to paint this banner. —Stockholm, Sweden, is continually quoted as an example of up-*to-dateness In matters telephone, as the ratio of ’phones to inhabitants at that place is the largest in the world. It is no* so well known, however, that San Fransioo claims that honor in America, having the sec ond largest telephone sys'tem, numbering 18,000 subscribers, with New’ York, of course, in the lead as regards numbers. 45.000 being to her credit. Cleveland has 15,000 subscribers and ranks third, while Detroit with her main office and six branches to be in operation by the end of this month, claims fourth place. —Giacomo Puccini, whose Tosca,” w r as produced recently at Covent Garden, London, is fifth representa tive in a direct line of a family that in its contributions to musical art dates back nearly two hundred years. His gr at great-grandfather, also called Giacomo (torn 1712). was maetro di cappella at Lucca, and was the tutor of the once fa mous Gug’.ie'mi. Giacomo’s ton Atiton o (bom 3717), wrete for the church, and l e ft a son Domenico (born 1771). w r ho composed both operas and sacred pi-ces. lli3 des cendant was Michele (born 1813). whose music was .steemed for its scientific at tributes. and one of his sons is the pres ent Giacomo (bom 1858). —The Philadelphia Record says: "The largest time ball in the United States is being erected on the roof of the Fourth street end of the Bourse, the task being under the supervision of Lieut. Hughes, who is in charge of the Branch Hydro graphic office in this city. The bail, which is four feet in diameter and weighs sixty pounds, will be hoisted to the top of an Iron column, 190 feet above tide water, five minutes before noon each day and dropped electrically forty feet to an air cushion exactly at noon by the naval observatory clock in Washington. The object of the time half is to enable all the mariners in the Delaware and Schuyl kiil rivers to regulate their chronometers before sailing.” —The Crow Indians of Montana, who raise a great deal of wheat, have entered into a contract with the United Stales government to supply the Cheyenne In dians with flour. They have constructed a system of irrigation for their farms, and have a good flour mill at the agency, while they are building another at a tant part of the reservation. They have sold much faTm produce annually for sev eral years to buyers in the country round, and many cattle and horses. They are rich in farms and flocks and herds, but this is the first time a government con tract or a railway contract was ever let to an Indian— at least, to a "blanket In dian" of the mountains. —The remarkable number of deaths by drowning proves that too many persons venture Into waters without knowing how to swim. About 80 per cent, of those drowned so ft*r this summer did not have that knowledge. This is all the more wonderful when a knowledge of swimming may so easily be had. A person of aver age physique should be able to swim sev eral hundred feet after a dozen lessons. Even weaklings may be taught to swim twenty-five feet or more without exhaust ing themselves. There are dangerous places on the ocean beach. Where the sea puss or undertow will sometimes over power the strongest swimmer. Even on Chicago's beach there is at times a sirong and dangerous underroWT but a knowledge of swimming is within he reach of all. —A Maori chief who lost MO through a white storekeeper going through the bank ruptcy court has given the following lucid exposition of this particular branch of British Jurisprudence: “The pakeha (white man) who wants to become paka rapu (insolvent) goes into business and gets lots of goods and does not pay for them. He then gets all the money he can together, say £2,000, and puts all of it, except £5, away where no one can find It. With the £5 he goes to a Judge of the court and tells him he wants to be come pakarapu. The Judge then calls all the lawyers together, likewise all the men to whom the pakeha owes money, and he says: 'This man is pakarapu, hut he wishes to give you all that he has got, and so he has asked me to divide this £5 among you all.' The Judge thereupon gives the lawyers M and the remaining £1 to (he other men. Then the pakeha goes home.” —This story I* told hy the Berlin cor respondent of the London Dally News as the origin of the nntl-foreign movement In Manchuria: "Lately about twenty thousand Chinese engaged l pn the Man churian Railway struck work owing to a report that the Russians had killed Chi nese In the hospital, and boiled the bodies to get fat to lubricate the engines. This was spread abroad by some ragpickers, w ho found In an ash pit n couple of bear's paws. These were mistaken for human hands, and they were hung on a tree, and cause.! tremendous crowds to gath er. The Russian Inhabitants of Charbtn were very anxious and Dr. Steveniiskl. who had shot the firs* bear, now shot a second to show the excited Chinese their mistake. The excitement was somewhat allayed hy this, but many of the labor ers left, fearing to become victims of the 'great cauldron' of he European*. These laborer* afterward Jvlued Ur* JJqx{.•'. ’Tis So Handy -AND- t | So Full of Information RAND-McNALLY iui OF THE WORLD. 91 COLORED MAPS. .1 PAGES OF READING MATTER. A Big Little Thing Convenient In size and arrange ment. Will help to till the niche* tit your geographical knowledge. Will take hat a small space on your ileaU or shelf. Hut will show whnt you Tills Dollar Atlas CONTAINS MAPS of every State. Territory, Con tinfnt. Canadian Province, Foreign Coun tiy. Our New Possessions, Mexico, Cen tral America, etc. All from new plates, handsomely en groiftd and printed. 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