The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, August 15, 1900, Page 4, Image 4

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Orders for delivery of the MORNING Newe ?o either residence or place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone No. 210. Any irregular ity in delivery should be Immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE. 23 Park Row. New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. INDEX 10 SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Fancy and Repressed Brick, Bavennah Building and Supply Cos.; Notice to City Court Jurors; Suwanee Springs, Fla.; The*. P. Plercle of Haw kinsville. Ga,, on the merits of Suwanee Springs water; Notice to Superior Court Jurors; Notice to Contractors, Building Committee Board of Education; John Funk, City Market. Business Notices—Harvard Beer at Helroken’s. Steamship Schedule—Merchants and Miners Transportation Company. Publications—Rand-McNally Dollar At las of the World. See Us This Week for Special Bargains in Summer Clothing and Underwear, B, H. Levy & Bro. Our Half-Price Sale of Shirt Waists, etc. —B. H. Levy & Bro. Why Is It?—Munster’s. Legal Sale —City Marhal’s Sale. Cigars—Tom Keene Cigars. Get Our Summer Prices on Stoves, Fur naces and Ranges, Wm. & H. H. Lattl more. Men's 24-inch Full Dress Suit—The Bee Hive. Priming. Etc.—The Morning News’ Job Department. Financial The ' Georgia State Building and Loan Association. Hundreds of Feet are Unhappy—Byck Bros. Cog-seta Thompson’s "Glove-Fitting" Corsets. Sauce—Lea & Perrin's Worcestershire Sauce. Mineral Water—Apollinairis. Medical— Hood’s Pills; Castorta; Dr. Hathaway Cos.; Munyon’s Liver Cure; Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted. Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia and Eastern Florida to-day are for local rains and thunder storms, with light to fresh south westerly winds. It 1# stated that Russia has informed China in plain language that there muet ba no more foolishness. It would be ex tremely interesting to hear a Russian ad dress a Chinaman in "plain language.” The New York World points out that more than half of the population of Wis consin is of foreign parentage, and of these two-thirds are of Teutonic origin. That ie why the Democrats are so hope ful of securing Wisconsin’s twelve votes for Bryan. The Germans are opposed to imperialism. Secretary of War Root who seems now to be running the state department as well as his own, as least in so far as China la concerned, pulls off his coat and gets down to shirt sleeves in his office. And, as a matter of faot, he seems to be turning out a very fair quality of “shirt eleeves diplomacy.” Preeident Harper of the Chicago Uni versity has denied that he will try the ex periment of living on fifteen cents a day; nevertheless the report that he would has spread and called forth a volume of litera ture on cheap living. In Ohio, for in etance, a man has been found who sup ports himself and wife and o family of twenty chlktren on $1.20 per day. and he says they all have a plenty of good, wholesome food, and ore strong and healthy. One cannot help wondering, by the way, why a man with twenty chil dren should not set some of the older of them to work, nnd thus make possible a larger and more varied daily menu. We admire and applaud the patience and persistency of our esteemed contem porary, the New* and Courier, in a good cause. FMr years and years it has been laboring with the people of Charleston to get them to eee the advisability of bath ing, especially In hot weather. After a temporary suspension of the bathing ques tion. during which the naval station, the exposition and the thermometer have been discussed, the News and Courier returns lo the attack upon the great unwashed, and In an editorial of nearly a column tells Its people that If they will get Into a tub of cold water on a hot day the temperature of their bodies will be re duced. That, Indeed, Is something which ought to commend the bath to most dis tinguished consideration In Charleston. We have noticed upon several occasions recently that there ia in that city a disposition towards great heat whan certain matters in con nection with Port Royal sre men tioned. Possibly the cold both would he good for that. At all events, we recom mend to our friend and contemporary that it continue the agitation in favor of the bain, in anticipation of the time the pipe line to the Edlsto river la finished and the cold water Is turned on. HANNA'S PITY EXCITED. Senator Hanna has been moved to re [ mark .hat lynching "Is not a party mat ter.’' It seems, according to our dis patches yesterday, that Lillian Clayton Jewett, the Boston girl who is seeking notoriety by posing as the "Joan of Arc" of the Anti-Lynching League of Boston, called on Senator Hanna on Monday, at the headquarters of the Republican Com mittee in New York, for the purpose of getting the Republican party to Indorse the Anti-Lynching League and Its work. After talking with this would-be “Joan of Arc" for an hour, he cried out, "Poor girl." and told her that he could do noth ing for her and the cause she represent ed, because lynching was not a party mat ter. Lillian Clayton Jewett appears to have created a greai amount of interest in her self in Boston and thereabouts. The story has been circulated that it was her plan to put herself at the head of a lot of negro crusaders and march through the South. She denies that she ever had any such purpose, but as she doesn’t seem to be a well-balanced person, it is prob able that she does not know very clearly whether she ever had such a purpose or rot. There seems to be a pretty large per centage of people In Boston and in the vicinity of that city that have nothing to do except to encourage just such cranks as this Jewett girl appears to be. Lynch ings are, of course, to be condemned, but in order lo stop them, would it not be better to begin a crusade against the cause of them? If these Boston people w ho are encouraging the Jewett girl were as honest as they are zealous, they would admit without argument that negroes would he lynched in any Northern com munity for the crime for which they are lynched in the Southern communities. Only last week a negro came very near being lynched in the neighborhood of Madison Square, New York. A negro was pursued by a crowd of people crying, Lynch him! Lynch him!" because it was reported that he had assaulted a child. He would have been lynched, in all probability, if the police had not pro tected him. As It was, he was very roughly handled. Let the negro commit ia the North the crime for which he is most commonly lynched in the South and he would be lynched there just as promptly as he Is here. There Is no more dbns Ideratlon for he criminal negro in the North than there is in the South. As we have pointed out. the reason there are more lynchings in the South than in the North is be oaues there are vastly more negroes In the South. If in the North the percent age of the negro population were as great as it Is in the South there would be as many lynchings there as there are here. Asa matter of fact, the negroes that are lynched in the South arc worthless creatures. The lynching of a decent, self respecting negro is never heard of in the South. And Is it not strange that these Boston people who are making such a fuss over Lillian Clayton Jewett have never a word to say for the victims of the negroes who are lynched? And yet these victims are deserving of far more sympathy than the victims of mob violence. We are not defending lynching. We sre simply showing that there are two sides to the lynching question, and that if the Boston people were to suffer from out rages such as are the cause of most of the lynchings, the lynching record would be just as great In Boston as in any Southern oommunity. BRITISH LOSSES IS SOUTH AFRICA. Great Britain will succeed, of course, in her purpose of wiping the South Afri can republics off the map, but the price she is paying for doing it is a fearful one. It Is impossible to state what the cost has been thus far, in lives and money, but it Is very heavy. The English debt is larger by several hundred millions of dollars than it was when the war began, and more than 40,000 of Gen. Roberts’ soldiers have been either killed or disabled by disease and wounds. That a pretty big minority of the Eng lish people are heartily tired of the war there is no doubt. It Is stated that the officers and sol diers of the army in South Africa are anxious to get back to England. TJiey have had enough of the war. But they will not he permitted to re turn until the Boers are conquered. When that will be. no one can say with any de gree of certainty. Gen. Roberts has 150,- 000 men fit for duty, and the Boers have about 15,000. Nevertheless, the Boers prom ise to hold out for a good while yet. And when they are finally compelled to yield— to abandon the guerrilla warfare in which they are now engaged—they will retain a hatred of Englishmen that will make It extremely difficult for the British govern ment to govern the country successfully. Even now the Boer officers who are pris oners are telling their captors that the Boers will take advantage of the first opportunity to strike Great Britain a blow They will wait until Great Britain be comes entangled in a war with a powerful adversary, and then they will seek re venge. It Is asserted that the Boer women are even more bitter toward the British than the men are. According to some ac counts nothing would give them so much satisfaction os to have a chance to tor ture British soldiers. And yet the Boers, both men and women, have been exceed ingly kind to British prisoners. It is not clear why the Boers are still holding out, since It must be evident to them that it is only a question of time when they will have to surrender. Per haps hey are hoping to get better terms by holding out a while longer. If that Is their purpose they are probably right. It is apparent that in England dissatisfac tion with the war is becoming more pro nounced. The war was never a very pop ular one. There was a suspicion that it was undertaken to advance ninbitlous schemes of Cecil Rhodes nnd Secretary Chamberlain. The peace sentiment Is bound to become stronger and it will not be without its effect on the government. By holding out, therefore, the Boers may be able to get better terms than would be granted them if they were to surrender now. The Chicago lecturer who has been tell ing college students that people cap live on fifteen cents a day. advisee female ex perimenter* with her theory fo use groat care in the eelection of their "husbands. Would any American gill look for a hus band who would live on flfieen cents a day? The average American girl pi look ing for the bus and ’’o is willing an<l able to make it fifteen dollars a day. THE MOKMNG NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1900. STARVATION OF PORTO RICO. Efforts ore being made to collect money in this country for the starving people of India The amount collect-<1 iv already very la-ge. Nothing has been done, how ever, towards relieving the distress pre vailing in this country. Porto Rico is now a part of this country, and If there is to be an exhibition of charity on a large srale the needs of suffering people in our own country should be attended to first. In our dispatches yesterday it was stat ed that a large number of peo.de had walked twenty-seven miles to San Juan to ask the governor for work —that there were thousands of people in Porto Rico who were actually starving. It seems that these suffering Porto Ricans were too proud to ask for bread. They aked for work. Steps weie taken by the governor to employ them in building roads. The prevailing distress in Porto Rico is large ly due to the terrible hurricane which devastated the island months ago. Many of the plantations which were destroyed then have not vet been restored, and con sequently those who depended upon them for employment have been without the means of earning a living. On account of the lack of foed diseases of one kind and aro’her have sized on the people, and the death rate is apall ingly large. In Pence it is not uncommon for persons to fall dead In the streets. Instances are known where the dead have been abandoned in their huts, because the other inmates had not strength to re move the bodies. In Ponce the death rate has reached 100 per 1,000 per annum. In some of the towns there is a much high er rate. It is rather remarkable that the governor of Porto Rico has not taken steps to relieve the distress either by an appeal to the charity of the people of the United States or by application to the government. The government sent aid to the suffering people directly after the hurricane, but did not continue the aid for the reason that it found if it fed the people they would not make any effort in their own b'half. From a’l accounts, however, the people are willing to work now, but no work can be had. The gov ernment cannot afford to allow them to Btarve. It ought to extend to them a help ing hand, or see to it that there is an opportunity for charitably disposed per sons to help them. THE CHOKER-HII,L FIGHT CON TINUES. The entire country Is interested in the political situation In New York. With the right sort of a man as a candidate for Governor the Democrats will have a good chance of carrying that state, not only for the state ticket, but a'so for the na tional ticket. It seems to be admitted that the most popular Democrat in the stale at this time is Mr. Coler. the present controller of the city of New York. Mr. Coler is not anx ious for the nomination, but it is under stood that he would accept it. He is op posed, however, by Mr. Croker, who is ad mittedly the leader of the state Democ racy. Mr. Croker is against Mr. Coler be cause the latter is unfriendly to Tam many. Also because Mr. Coler, In the event of his election, would be against Tammany. Mr. Hill is supposed to be be hind the Coler movement. It Is suspected that he is using Mr. Coler to defeat Mr. Croker’s political purroses. It Is a question therefore whether Tam many would give Mr. Coler a very hearty support if he should get the gubernatorial nomination. But if Tammany did not give the majority to the ticket expected of It there would be an outcry against it by Democrats through the state. Mr. Croker would be severely censured, nnd might lose the influence in the party which ha has acquired. There is certain to be a very interesting fight, therefore, in the Democratic State Convention. It will be a fight between Mr. Hill and Mr. Croker. These two leaders do not feeetn to be con sidering (he national tioket so much as their personal feelings. Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic National Com mittee. was in New York recently for the purpose of bringing to an end the had feel ing between them. He did not accomplish anything. Hi* concern was not for the state ticket, but for the national ticket. It may be that when the fight over the state ticket Is ended the factions will unite and work energetically for the suc cess of the party, but just now it does not look as it they would. The feeling be tween Mr. Hill and Mr. Croker is so bitter that it does not seem probable that they will ever again work together in harmony. A New England Democrat, well known in judicial, business and social circles, talking-over the pMiticai situation during a recent visit to this city, made some interesting observations. There Is no promise, he said, that a New England Republican will not make and no state ment that he will hesitate to Indorse, if by doing so he can help the Republican party and injure the Democratic party. No matter how respectable In private life or how honorable in business affairs he may be, the New England Republican can not be relied on in politics. He feels thtt it is his sacred and bound- n duty to help beat the Democrats, for If R< publican ism is not bread and butter to him. it is to some of his relatives or friends. He believes that the means are justified by the end. and n< ver lets his conscience trouble him when lie Is dealing with poli tics. It is doubtless such Republicans as the class described wtio are resoonslhlc for the stories that Agulnaldo and Pres ident Kruger are contributors of large sums to the Democratic campaign fund. It seems strange that there are persons credulous enough to believe suchj-ot; but when those who are Raders In busi ness and religious affairs In New Eng land tell such yarns to their followers, the yarns are given the color of plausi bility The two colored romte weeklies of New York, Harper's "Journal of Civili zation," Leslie’s Weekly, and other peri odicals, are using the power of the pic torial pr-s< to aid tlie Republicans in mis representing the Democratic party and its leaders. They cater to New England prejudice* and to the money power. Sir Chichen I.g> Feng Lu, the Chinese minister at London, is o literary gentle man of high attainments, as well as one of the flint diplomats of hl country. He has already translated Biackstone's com mentaries into the Chinese language, is now working on a life of Cromwell, and will reduce Shakespeare to his native tongue. It is the hope of Sir Chichen to establish in Pekin a great library, t.o which he will present all of hia transla tion* from English llteratur*. The anti-coat movement, which origi nated in this city, has spread practically ail ever the country. It may not achieve a solid position his season, but it is bound to be heard from next ye.tr, and in no un certain manner, because it is based upon reason. At Manhattan Beach last Sun day young men without coats, but neatly clad, were denied admission to the grounds.-Is there, as a ma ter of fact, any valid reason why a man. or a woman, should not dress to suit individua fancy, so lung as the costume dos not violate decency? The laws, written and unwrit ten, which prescribe the certain manner in which men and women shall clothe themselves, are relics of old fogyism. Th re can be no reasonab e ohjertion to men wearing shirt waists, or even skirts and bodices, if they want to, or to wo men wearing trousers and coats. Asa matter of fact, the fair sex have already adapted the costumes of men frum the belt up, and look and no doubt feel the better for it. The “shirt sleeves brigade” is a good thing. It is a movement for rational dress r form; and the Savannah young gentlemen who inaugurated it are entitled to the grateful thanks of all men who have heretofore, been compelled to swelter through the summer in coats merely because it was the custom. i Sam Jones received a snub at Pitman Grove, N. J., the other day that would have pricked any skin less elephantine than his. He went to the Association at that place with and upon the invitation oc his friend and understudy Strousc; but the Association declined to ask him to preach or to pay any attention to him. Subsequently the director of the Asso ciation said, in the course of his remarks: ‘‘lf the time ever comes when we have to resort to anything but plain gospel, or attract a crowd by slang phrases and harsh criticisms, tve will lx>ard up the auditorium and write the word Tchabod’ over the gates.” Altogether too much attention is being paid to that young woman agitator of Boston who calls herself a “white negro.” She should be regarded with pity rather than anger. She has already been an in mate of an insane asylum. PERSONAL. —The Princess of Monaco is unique in that she is the first Hebrew to sit on a European throne. She was a Miss Heine and was first married to the Duke of Richelieu. Her present husband has also been twice married, his first wife having been Lady Mary Hamilton. —This anecdote of th crown prince of Japan explains why be is so popular •among all classes of his peop.e: Ten years ago, when in hi 9 13th year, he spent a summer at Futamigaura, Ise. While out gamboling in the water one day the prince noticed a fisherman’s boy of about the same age as himself whose consummate skill in swimming drew forth his ad miration. The lowly youth, whose name was Yei, had the honor of being presented to the prince, and there sprang up a boyish friendship between the two. A de cade had elapsed since then and his high ness was once more back at Ise, the other day, on his wedding tour. The memories of the past came back and the prince thought of Yei. He wanted to see his old friend and, after a good deal of trouble, the order was conveyed to Yei. now grown a sturdy young man, but still poor and lowly. Yei approached the im perial presence. In high delight the prince talked freely of the past and then allowed Yei to take leave of him loaded with various presents. BRIGHT BITS. —Touched—The Pastor—Don’t you think I touched them rather deeply th>s morn ing? The Deacon—l don’t know. I haven’t counted up yet.—lndianapolis Press. —And now a silly literary journal comes forward and volunteers the information that Kipling gets 53 per word for his work. And the uninitiated believe it.—At lanta Constitution. —Necessary Correction—“l am told. Col onel, that the anti-Goebelites in your state are working secretly, and there is further trouble brewing.’’ “No, sah! Distilling, sah.”—Chicago Tribune. —Oversight—“What are you looking so glum about. Borus? The reviewers all praised jour last book, didn’t they?” “Yes, but not cne of them said it was a stmy of intense human Intel est.”—Chica go Tribune. —A Masterpiece—“ Confidentially,” said the statesman, “I wrote that plank in the platform.” “I congratulate you,” said his friend, heartily. “I read it over three times, and I’m blest if it commits the party to anything!”—Puck. —A Double Flow—“YtS, we had quite a blowout at our house early this morning.” “Peculiar time for it.” “Yes. The new hired girl blew out the gas in the gas stove, and the gas blew out the side of the kitchen.”—Cleveland P ain Dealer. CIR a IAT CO >1 >1 ISN'T. The Washington Post (Ind ) says: “It is a good sign of the times that England is at least wearying of the senseless, inex cusable, and cruel attempt co crush out of South Africa the one spark of human freedom glowing there. Of course, the war will go on. Gr.at Bri ain has al.-cady wantonly sacrificed too much blood and rrorny for her rul-rs to gre to lay down their arms. It woujd be occasion for world-wide rejoicing if they would aban don their f* 11 purpose, but, in the mean lime, let us hi* thankful that the murmur of protest, the echo of wh eh comes to us across the Atlantic, Is evidence that all of the Englbh pe pie are neither heartless ncr bind, arid that the love of human liberty is not altogether extinct in their souls.*’ The Columbia (S. C.) Slate (Dorn.) says: “Everybody who wants to rebuke Till man’s bos. ism should first vote against the dispensary candidates all along the line; next, against the gubernatorial candidate he favors, and, finally, scratch his name for senator. This la-t he chill ng s, say ing that if he has not majority of the total vote cast he will not accept the p'ace. He would doubtless find some way to wriggle out of this pledge if the vote proved adverse to him. and Col. Hoyt’s inferposlt on may * liable him to secure a majority; bub. all the same, give him a g od scratching, lie has a case of imper ial eoaema and it will doubtless be a re lief to h : m.“ The Memphis Commercial-Ar peal (Dorn.) finds a parallel between Lord Roberts and Sherman. It says: “Lord Roberts is com ing home soon, it Is said—coming home to he rec lv< and with pomp and pageantry and plaudits; but amid all the flaring flags, barbaric noise and fanfaron there will be a voice crying out against hlin as it cried out against another: ‘He made a wilderness aid called it The Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem.) says: “Northern Republican Journals continue tq denounce the march of Anglo-Saxon elViilzat or In North Carolina, while ap plauding it in the Philippines. Possibly the Filipinos ar<j not black enough to suit them.” Fright and Serve Roth. “Th* worst case of fright and about the best case of nerve I ever came across.” said the drummer, according to the Mil waukee Sentinel, “was a chap who was traveling through the Middle West for a firm last spring. I met him on the train and found he played a good game of whist, so with two other men we made up a little game. He was my partner and was a very silent fellow. He didn’t even mention what his line was, which is unusual. ' With him he had a satchel of very superior make, and the way he kept his eye on that all the time, sneaking lit tle nervous peks at it every two min utes. led me to suspect that he was a jewelry man. had a big lot of valuable stones in the grip, though I couldn’t im agine why a man should take such chances carrying such things in a satchel. Well, the smash came—it was my latest one, by he way—just as my partner was on his way back to the game from having gone to get some wat(f. In all the excitement I distinctly noted the yell he let out. Ic was the finest piece of vocal work of hat kind that I had ever heard. As the car sort of crumpled up he made a dive toward us, and I figured that he was thinking of his satchel. My luck was with me and I found a way out with nothing worse ihan a scalp wound and a collection of bumps. Pretty soon he came crawling out after me. He wasn’t hurt, so far as I could see, but he was whiter than a sheet. I gave him a swig of whisky from my flask and told him to brace up. He took an awful hooker, and then began to twist his fingers and Kind of moan: “ 'My satchel! My satchel! My satchel!’ ’Well, what’s the matter with your satchel?’ I said. “ ‘lt’s in there,’ he said, and I thought by his tone he was going to cry. ‘lt’s in there where I can’t get at it.’ “ ’Say. you make me tired,’ I said. ‘You ought to be mighty thankful to be out yourself without worrying about anj’ satchel.’ “I’ll have to go in after it,’ said he, looking around kind of wild and prancing like a horse with sore feet. “ ‘Not on ycur life,’ said I. ‘Everything’s loose in there, and the whole thing may collapse at any minute, and then where'd you be? Bfsides, the car’s afire down at the other <nd.’ “ ‘My Ged!’ he said. ‘Afire? That settles it. I've got to g-t that satchel, then, if I die for it,’ and he actually tore his hair. I’d never seen it done before except on the stage, but he did it. “ ‘Oh, take a brace,’ I said, getting dis gusted with the man. 'I guess the fire won’t do much damage. If it’s diamonds “ ‘Diamonds!’ he said. ‘Man’ its dyna mite! Enough of it to blow us all into the sky!* “ ‘Dynamite!’ I yelled. ‘What are you. an anarchist?’ “ ‘No; I’m a dynamite agent,’ he said. ‘Don’t keep me here talking. I’ve got to go in. I’ve got to do it. There’s no other way. There may he people in the wreck age. and if that stuff goes off'—- “ ‘Never mind explaining it.’ I said. ‘Go in, and the Lord help you.’ “That’s the sort of thing that takes nerve. I don’t believe I could have done it. He flopp'd down and crawled in there and I watched ar.d waited for a week or so, as it seemed, and prettj” soon he came out look ng like a dead man and bringing that satchel between his teeth like a dog, because he needed both hands to crawl with. Well, we escorted that satchel across two lots and bu ied it In a furrow and put a stone over it before we went back to work at the train. It happened that the fire was put out before it reach ed the place where the satchel had been. Why on earth the stuff didn’t explode and blow us all to flinders when the crash came is more than I know or the agent tither. He said dynamite was always do ing things and failing to do things in the most inexplicable that was what made the life of a dynamite agent one long round of excitement. He never dared to tell what it was he had in the satchel, he said, because the railroads wouldn't carry' him if they knew. He went back and dug up his traveling in fernal machine and walked with it to the nearest town, and that's the last I saw of him or want to see, though he cer tainly did have good nerve. Ever since then when I've seen a man with a satchel that he seemed to think a heap of I’ve quietly moved into the next car.” j Dance of the Dragon. Folger McKinsey in Baltimore News. The balefires lit his yellow eyes, His flaming nostrils spread. Above the city's ancient walls He reared his horrid head; His leaping tongue, through gory lips, Shot out through- fangs of white— The Dragon of the went forth To death’s wild dance last night! Sealed with the lies of ancient power, Clawed with the hate of years, Beaked with the Asiatic dower Of crime-corroded years; Dragging his form above the dead That marked his murderous way, He danced the awful tune that rings Through cycles of Cathay! Gleaming and glaring, huge and warm, The lanterns lit his path Down the long lanes of dead that lay Under his stroke of wrath. Fierce, with the wine of blood debauched, Drunk for the season’s kill, The earth beneath his hoof-beat broke Into a thunder thrill! Play up. the heathen tunes of death! Play up! the Dragon’s dance! The alien peoples in his path Fhall wither at his glance! Sweep of his mighty tail and swing Of Jaws that feed on gore— But hark! along the Tien Tsln wall That can non-throated roar! On to the dance the allies rush. Till dance shall turn to dread. And the ensaffroned demon stretch His length beside the dead! Beat the bright music of the brave That rush to'seal his fate. Whose bleared eyes tremble at the light That breaks around the gate! % Whose talons quiver in distress, Whose huge lips bite the dust. Whose century-cinctured scales fall off Before the swordman’s thrust; Whose Dance of Death is nearly o’er, Whose pathway shall he swept Of women and of babies, foul slain Where’er his hoofs have stept! Out of the night he makes his own. Out of the dance he weaves Around the suppliant form that knee’s ’Neath his huge fangs and grieves, Nations shall mold the higher good. Pierce with their coni rite ray The yellow shadow of thy life— Thou Dragon of Cathay! Buller’H Cantor Oil, Regarding General Bullor and his sup plies, there is also an interesting anec dote current, says a London dispatch. Bullcr, it appears, telegraphed fr.om Natal to some wine merchants to send out fifty canee of champagne, marked “castor oil.” About tlie time the wine was due Bulter wired to the officer In charge of the case, notifying to him that he expected fifty cases of castor oil. which he wished dis patched without delay. The officer at the hose replied, regretting the cases had not arrived, hut saying he had procured all the available castor oil, twenty cases, which he had forwarded in the hope it would suffice for the present. General Fuller’s remarks are not recorded. —Cheering Him l’p.-Mr. Newlywed-I saw your old lover on the street to-day, looking awfully blue. Mrs. Newlywed—l hope you tried to cheer him up. Mr. New lywed—Oh. yes. I showed him my but tonless shirt and that new tie you bought nw.—Judge, ITEMS OF INTEREST. —M. Sardou frankly admits that there is nothing but plebeian blood in his veins. For three generations his ancestors lived in very modest circumstances at Cannes; before that they were Sardinian fishermen. His great-grandfather, he says, may have been wrecked on the south of France and settled there; hence the family name Sardou, signifying an inhabitant of Sar dinia. —(Mrs. Fred Wallace of England has found her brother after a separation of forty years. She heard a piece of music sung at Atlantic Citj', was charmed with it and bought a copy. She found on the cover o portrait and the name of "her long-ioet brother. William Thomas, an au thor and composer of Philadelphia. A meeting wae effected. Each had thought the other dead. Lord Kinnaird is a Scotch peer of an cient lineage, great wealth, broad acres and a happy disposition. He is the eleventh Baron Kinnaird of Rossie,. whose seat is at Inchture, Perthshire. He is a partner in Barclay's bank and when ai work in the city shows that a seat in the House of Lords has not robbed him of any business capacity. He has many interests in life besides banking, and is especially well versed in current religious thought —Scarcity of farm laborers In England has brought a strange assemblage to the country districts. The other day there were working on a Surrey farm a couple of clerks, a compositor, a solicitor, who had been unable to) scrape up the money to take out his certificate; a medical man ‘‘down on his luck," a pawnbroker's assis tant, and, of course, a journalist. The journalist explained that he was there only for the purpose of “copy.” He in tends to write an article arts call it "Hay making by Eminent Hands.” —One British colony is monometallic. The Falkland islands have not imported gold for many years. What little now remains is hoarded as treasure. Silver is the only currency, and as silver pay ments in large amounts have grown cumbersome a government paper issue of 15 and £1 notes has been established dur ing the year and has proved a great success. Thfc, British colony is depen dent for its mails and regular communi cation with the outside world upon a Ger man steamship company. Only one British steamer called last year. —ln a lecture at Detroit Rev. Dr. De Costa made the assertion that "the Cath olic church was founded in America sev eral hundred years before the time of Columbus, and although said to have been established In Greenland In the tenth century by Eric, this was only prop erly a re-establishment. for the church had been in North America long before. Rome took care of the spiritual needs of the people of Greenland and what are now known as the New England efates long before the new world was known to the old, save to those who were in the se crets of the church.” —The omission or insertion of a single letter has often upset a jury’s verdict and even a whole statute. Possession of valuable real estate in Ohio depends upon a single letter "s." The Cincinnati Court of Common Pleas ruffd against Joseph Irwin, the claimant, and sustained Peter Christmas, who has been a tenant for seven years past. The Circuit Court up set that judgment several weeks ago be cause the Jury’s report read, “On the is sues." whereas there was but one issue involved. To-day the Circuit Court re opened the case on proof that the form of verdict was printed and hence the ob jectionable “s” which has caused all this trouble was not made by the jury. Sir Thomas Lipton’s announcement of his assumption of a coat of arms seems a little late, if intended to dissipate that coldness which the sporting aristocracy of Great Britain is said to manifest to- w r ard him. It is probable, however, that he had no such intention. Indeed, from the device he has adopted, it looks as though he were bidding defiance to the aristocrats. For a crest he has chosen two horny hands of labor, one grasping a tea plant flower, and the other a cof fee blossom. The shield bears a sham rock, in memory of his native land, and a thistle, in commemoration of the fact that he started in trade in Scotland. His motto proclaims the fact that labor con quers all things. —The attempt by women to revive the hideous chignon does not seem to be pros pering. Thirty years ago the chignon, imported from France, was seized upon by American women, nnd because It was fashionable they were willing to lose their ,chief glory. The hair was puffed ut In an enormous knot created by a lump of closely woven horse hair, over which the natural hair was stietched and inclosed in a net. It was a hideous hairy wen. The unnatural heat caused diseases of the scalp, headaches, vertigo, and, in many cases, a sort of nervous prostration. Der matology had a sudden boom and scores of hair renewers sprang into existence. It was pie for the practitioner who made a special study of the fertilization of the hair follicle, and specialists were few in those days. —This month Iceland is celebrating the ninth century of the introluctlon of Chris tianity in the far north island. It was O af, King of Norway, who sent over the first priests. Lngfellow gives a somewhat humorous account of the reception of Olaf’s emissary. "Drunken Thangbrand,” who came away quite as disgusted with the Icelanders as they were with him. Chicago has a little colony of emigrants from Iceland, hut in North Dakora ond Manitoba there are many thousand. They are thrifty farmers, well cultured and great disputers on theological subjects. There is hardly an Icelander anywhere, no matter how humble, who is not only we 1 versed In the'literature of his own land, but who .also knows considerable of other countries' hooks. It is no uncom mon thing to find In farmhouses on the bleak Dakota prairies small libraries in several languages. —ln May last, says the New Y'ork Times, Senator William E. Mason of Illi nois found or made an excuse for deliv ering before his more or less attentive colleagues an oration filled with impas sioned eulogies of American champagne. The bill under consideration at the time was that to prevent the manufacture of adulterated foods, and the Senator not only expressed his own personal affection for sparkling wines of native vintage, hut he read long excerpts from testimony taken by a Senate committee, in which the Officers of various American wine companies had minutely detailed the ex cellencies of their wares, and had pro nounced them fuliy equal to anything pro duced in Europe. Now, we have noth ing hut the kindest of feelings for the American wine growers, and would not for the world Intimate any dtstruct of their sworn statements, bit* we would like to know Just how R Is that th--> have been able to send over the country, and under Senator Mason’s frnnk. thous ands of copies of this speech, printed as well as carried at government expense, and forming one of the most valuable ad vertisements ever devised. And others are wondering, too. 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