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4 yTfjc jSoftting Homing >**w* Building. naminniL. On THURSDAY, AUGUST IS. lffUO. Registered at the Postofflce in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the >tur, and is served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month, $4.00 for six months, and SB.OO for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.50? eix months $3.00; one year so.uo. The WEEKLY NEWS, 2 issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency gent by mail at rifck ol tenders. Transient advertisements, other than special coiumn, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth— is the standard of measurement. Contract roles and discount made known on appli cation at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING News to either residence or place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone No. 210. Any irregular ity' in delivery should 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 TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings.—Ocean, City Lodge No. 5, Knights of Royal Arch. Special Notices. Look, Savannah Building Supply Company; Lime, Cement, Piaster; Andrew Hentey Company; S. T. Overstree. M. IX, of Live Oak, Fla-, on the merits of Suwanee Springs Water; Notice to City Court Jurors; Levan's Table d’- Hote. Legal Notices—Libel against British Bark Carl von Doheln, etc. The Wise Ones Take Advantage,—P. T. Foye. Bummer Resorts.—Tallulah Falls, Ga. frro)>osalF.— Sealed Proposals for Dredg thg Cumberland Sound. Official.—City Ordinances. Rapidly Moving.—Parlor Suits, etc. Lindsay' & Morgan. Grape-Nuts.— Post urn Gere a 1 Cos. Cheroots.—Old Virginia Cheroots. Medical. Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable. Pills; Horsford’s Acid Phosphates; Hood's Barsaparila; S. S. S.; Tuft’s Pills; Wom an’s Friend; World’s Dispensary Prepar ations; Pond's Extract; Castoria. Cheap Column Advertisements.—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia to-day are for local rains in the interior, with light southeasterly winds, and for Eastern Florida, generally fair weather, with light to fresh southeasterly winds. There are some seven or eight “third” parties in the campaign this year. And one of them is about as dangerous as an other to the success of either of the great parties. The first annual reunion and encamp ment of the National Association of Span ish-American war veterans will be held in Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 8 to 12, inclu sive. An attractive programme will be arranged, end it is promised that there will be a “hot time In the old town” on that occasion. Chicago sneak thieves are working a 6hrewd campaign game. They operate in gangs. One of them transforms him self into a campaign orator and spouts red-hot politics from a cart or a curb stone. While he is stirring up enthusiasm by expounding the theory of good gov ernment. and denouncing tyranny and cor ruption, his confederates are operating among the crowd and in the adjacent houses. So common has the orator thief become that the chief of police has issued instructions to his men to keep a close eye on all street political gatherings. Jerry Simpson of Kansas, who sockless and irrepressible leaped to the pedestal of notoriety from the crest of the wave of populism which swept over his state some years ago, is now at the. front as the original shirt-waist politician. He is mak*ing his campaign coatless and cool as to his corporeal being, however hot may be the political stuff which he fires at his hearers. It is said that Jerry has received from a Chicago haberdasher a dozen fancy shirt waists of all colors and combinations of colors, and that it is his purpose to appear in these, uncovered by coat or waistcoat, during the remainder of his stumping tour. Doing himself a fad, It is impossible for Jerry to violate the proprieties. At the Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison the lock-step for convicts has been abolished and the military inarch substituted. Ex perts in penology have long condemned the iock-etep, because having been once acquired, it marks a man for life and proclaims him an cx-convict wherever he may go after leaving prison. Not only does the. lock-step gait proclaim an ex oonvict’s antecedents to strangers, but it keeps him always in mind of the iaet that he has been In dis grace and that the disgrace is known to all who see him. Since one great purpose of modern penology is to give an ex-convict another chance in life, the abolition of the lock-step Is look ed upon as an act of humanity. The Cincinnati school board has deter mined not to purchase any maf< of Af rica and Asia this year. It had been the purpose to supply the schools with anew eet of physical and political maps during the coming fall, but the board has decid ed to await the outcome of current af fairs In South Africa and China before expending a considerable sum for maps which might become obsolete before they had fairly got into use. It is practically certain that the boundaries of the South African atales will hove to be revised as an outcome of tpe war, and It may be that the *ame will be true of China; Ijenoe the Cincinnati school hoard pro poses to save money by waiting until the tgAtiog la ovsr before buying new maps. THE STANDARD B %I,F MOVEMENT. The arguments in favor of rescinding the rule of the Cotton Exchange which discriminates against the irregular cot ton bale, advanced by some of the mem bers of the Exchange, appear to he good ones. It is important that the standard bale—the 24-54 bale—shall be generally adopted, but ir is hardly fair to expect Savannah to bear the whole burden of bringing about the reform in the South Atlantic section. If the frule is Insisted upon it is thought that Savannah will lose considerable cotton this season, and until th'* s ? andard ba’e i* very gen erally adopted. The ports which are the rivals of Sa vannah would like to se* the rule in ques tion enforced, but they do not seem to be willing to assist in enforcing it. They know it would be better for all concerned if all the tquare bales were made in ac cordance with the standard measurement. Why they' will not lend a helping hand, therefore, in effecting the reform, is one of the things that are hard to explain. It may be that they think that If Savan nah retains and enforces the rule they will get more cotton, believing that the owners of irregular bales will avoid Sa vannah rather than pay the penalty' for w’hich the rule provides. 0 There is no doubt that exporters prefer the square bale to the round bale, because it enables them to know' what kind of cotton they are buying, but if the square bale- is to hod its place in the cotton trade it must b constructed in accord ance with the standard measure. The irregular bale costs more to handle, both on the cars and on the ships, and there is no reason why the standard bale should not be made at every ginnery. The cost of changing the boxes is so small that it is hardly worth considering. And it is to the interest of the farmers that the square bale shall hold its place in the cotton business. Whatever m.iy be the mori s of th** round bale it would not be a good thing for the farmers for one company to control the means by which the entire eorton crop is baled. Having secured a monopoly such a company might want to exact a greater toll than the farmers would be willing to pay'. Avery large percentage of the. cotton boxes have been changed to the standard bale dimensions. To get the remainder of them changed would It not be advisable to offer a small premium for cotton put up in standard bales? That suggrstion ha 1 * been made by one of the members of the Savannah Cos ton Exchange. While a pen alty on irregu ar bales would have ten dency to force to other ports cotton that legitimately belongs here, a premium for the standard bale would influence cotton in this direction. No doubt the whole mat ter will be given very' careful consider ation as soon as a sufficient number of the members of the Exchange return from their vacations to justify a meeting of that body on so important a matter. HARMONY DEPENDS OX Mlt. BRYAN. What a remarkable change in the atti tude of the New York Democracy toward Mr. Bryan has taken place within the last four years! In the campaign of 1896 its leaders had very little regard for him. Now’ he is so popular with the leaders and the rank and lile of the party that it is thought that he alone has sufficient influence with the warring factions of the party’ to settle the differences b tween them which threaten to destroy w hatever chances the Democracy’ has for carrying the state for both the state and the na tional tickets. Mr. McGuire, the chairman of the Dem ocratic State Executive Committee, and Mr. Campbell, the chairman of the Dem ocratic State Committee, have written to Mr. Bryan asking him to come to New York and see w hat he can do to get Mr. Croker to cease his opposition to the nomination of Mr. Color for Governor. In their letters to him they say that un less the differences between the factions are adjusted, and Mr. Coler is nominated, the chances are that the Republicans will carry the state both for the state and the national tirke'e. In their opinion the nomination of Mr. Color would be worth 50,000 Votes to the national ticket of the Democratic party in New York. Mr. Bryan may un derrake the role of a peace-maker in New York, but if he does he is going to en counter difficulties which will be difficult -to overcome. Mr. Croker is strongly against the nomination of Mr. Coler. He knows Mr. Coler is not a friend of Tam many’, end Mr. Croker’s main purpose is to take care of Tammany. Besides, Mr. Croker regards the effort to nominate Mr. Coler for Governor as a move on the part of Mr. Hill io w’eaken Tammany’s power and influence. The situation is a very com plex one. The whole country is interest ed in it, because the success of the Dem ocratic national ticket may depend upon the way in which it Is adjusted. Chairman Butler of the Populiat Na tional Committee is in favor of nomi nating a Populist to go on the Populist ticket with Bryan, and not accepting Stevenson. Butler is evidently looking out for himself, and not for the good of tho reforms which he professes to sup port. He fears, no doubt, that the with drawal of Tow’ne and the acceptance of Stevenson would mark the beginning of the absorption of the Populist party into the Democracy; and that would mean loss of power and influence to Butler. It Is very improbable, however, that Chairman Butler will be able to control the full committee and prevent the substitution on the Populist ticket of Stevenson's name for Towne’s. Mr. Towne is a man of far more ability, magnetism and pa triotism thon Butler, and the probabili ties are that the committee will follow the lend of the Minnesota man in prefer ence to that of The discredited North Car olinian. A commercial traveler now in this city, who has noticed the discussion of the proposition of a person living on lifteen cents a day for meals, writes to the Morn ing News as follows: “Last week 1 took four very good meals with the Ruskln Colony people (n South Georgia), und was Informed that their yearly average is at the rate of 2.7 cents per meal, or losa than 9 cents per day. This Is not a 'spurt,’ but goes on from year's end to year a end, and their living is ahead of that en joyed by the average farmer," This Js, Indeed, cheap living, and the Ruskinttes are to be congratulated upon having solv ed the problem. Nicaragua canal promoters will see In tho death of Mr. Huntington the removal of .a great obstacle from their path* THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY; AUGUST 16. 1900. THE LAND GRABBERS TO BLAME. Mr. John Barrett, ex-minister to Siam, in an article in the New York Journal, says that the land-grabbing tendency dis played by some of the Powers of Europe is chiefly responsible for the present trouble in China. He admits that there arc among the missionaries some men and women who should never have left their native land. They are unfit for the work they have undertaken, but the percentage of these unfit and trouble-making mission aries is not greater than that of peace disturbing agents of business firms of this and other Christian countries to be found in China and other parts of the Far East. These agents make trouble by their efforts to get the better of the Asiatics. They think they are very much smarter than the Asiatics, and therefore endeavor to deceive them. Thus bad feeling is aroused. # Mr. Barrett takes the position that if the missionaries of the Christian countries are withdrawn the merchants of those coun tries will also have to be withdrawn. The one Is just as much in need of protection as the other. In the event of the with drawal of the merchants commerce will receive a set-back from which it will not recover in years. In Mr. Barrett’s opinion there would have been no serious trouble on account of the missionaries, notwithstanding the fact that so many of them have not the qualifications necessary for getting along in such a country as China is, if some of the Powers had not alarmed the Chinese by forcibly taking possession of ports and large tracts of territory of China. The talk of dismembering the empire and di viding it among European nations hod a most disquieting effect. The Chinese became alarmed for their national life, and they had reason to be. Under the circumstances it is not to be w’ondered at that the anti-foreign movement gained such strength that it showed itself in acts of violence directed against foreigners. It is evident that whatever settlement is made of the presentdifficulty guarantees will have to be given that the integrity of the Chinese empire shall be preserved, and that only such missionaries shall be sent to the country as shall possess qual ifications that w r ill enable them to get along wiih the natives. It is a mistake to send to China as missionaries persons who are lacking it fitness for missionary duties. It is doubtful if there is the care there should be in choosing persons for the Chinese mission field. In fact it is questionable whether those who select the missionaries ever take into account the fact that a missionary in order to be suc cessful needs other qualifications than those that would fit him for a religious teacher at home. Missionary work in. China will not be abandoned, of course, but in order to se cure the largest amount of success it should be carried on in future in a way that would produce the least possible amount of irritation on the part of the Chinese people. GOLD EXPORTS. The movement of gold to Europe ex cites no alarm in financial circles. Ac cording to our dispatches $8,000,000 was shipped yesterday, and the shipments last week were large. Gold would not be going from this coun try to Europe if $28,000,000 had not been subscribed to the recent British loon. It is the understanding that this country does not owe anything in Europe now. It has paid all of its debts abroad and is prepared to loan to European govern ments. There was some complaint in London that the British government placed so large a part of Its recent loan of $50,000,- COO in this country. But it could not help Itself. The Bank of England was in need of gold, and the only source of supply at a reasonable rate was the United States. There is an abundance of gold in this country. The United States treasury has a greater supply than it has had at any previous time in many years. The banks have all they need; in fact more than they care to have. Nobody wants gold now that it can be hud for the asking. All the indications are that the United States will soon he the great creditor na tion of the world. For the year ending June 30 last their exports exceeded their imports nearly $600,000,000. There is no reason to doubt that the excess of ex ports this year will be greater than that of last year. In fact, there is bound to be a steady increase in the excess of the exports. That being the case, it cannot be otherwise than the United States will become the creditor of most of the other commercial nations. London has been the money center of the world so long that she feels a little eore at the proepect of losing her su premacy in that particular. The time has come, however, when Great Britain must take second place in both commerce and finance. The first place belongs to the United States. New York, if she is not already, will, in the very near future, be the financial center of the world. The report of vital statistics of the chief sanitary officer of Havana for the month of July contains some interesting infor mation. It appears, among other things, that yellow fever is far from extinct in t hat city, there having been thirty deaths from that disease during the month. They have some old people in Havana, as well as elsewhere. During the month there w'ere four death** between the ages of 80 and 90, and two between 90 and 100. The highest tnean daily temperature for July was 83 degrees; considerably less warm than It was in many cities on the main, land of much higher latitude. There were 877 immigrants from Spain, but none from the United States. The death rate con tinues in excess of the birth**, the excess of deaths for the month being 158. The greatest death rate was among children under one year old. In a population of 242.055, there were seventy-six marriages during the thirty-one days. There were more deaths from consumption than any other discare. Gen. Patrick A. Collins is a leader of the Boston Democracy. Under Mr. Cleveland’s administration he was consul general In London. Four years ago he was opposed to Mr. Bryan’s candidacy, and took no part in the. campaign. This year, how ever, he has decalred himself in favor of the straight Democratic ticket, and will do what he can to assist in its success. Maj. Mims proposes a s4ralght-forward. clean-cut canvass for the mayoralty of Atlanta, without vote-buying or undue influence. Whereat all of the other poli ticians and many of the voters are struck with almost speechless astonishment at .the temerity of the man* Under the terms of an order Issued by- Gen. Young on June 10, all Filipinos in Northern Luzon must not only be pro vided with a certificate of registration, but are forbidden to travel from place to place without u written pass issued by the local authority. Is that what the Re publican administration calls “benevolent assimilation?” The probabilities, how ever, are that the natives pay little at tention to the order, except in the imme diate vicinities of the garrisoned posts. This is indicated by the great activity of small bands of insurgents in all part 6 of the territory held by the American army. In Leyte, Samar and Panay, aa told /in our dispatches of yesterday, the inaur ents come and go at pleasure, and contin ually harass the pmall garrisons, using smokeless ammunition in their “sniping” and ambushing operations. Webster Davis will not be able to make the Boer war an Issue in the campaign in this country, but he may be able to show from it what British imperialism leads to in cost of monciy and lives to the British people, and injustice to liberty seeking peoples in other sections of the globe. PERSONAL. —Emile Zola expresses his deep sympa thy' with Maitre Labor!, who has- been so boycotted because of his part in the Drey fus case, and in a rtc nt interview urg ed that every possible support and aid be given to the brave lawyer. —Frederick P. Spauldirg of Bethlehem, Pa., who has been appointed professor of civil engineering In the University of Mis souri. was graduated from Lehigh Uni versity in 1880. He was instructor t Cor nell University for seven years, and later returned to Lehigh University for two years as Instructor. He then entered the field of practical engineering. —The details of the ceremonies at the unveiling of the Vance statue in the Cap itol Square of Raleigh, N. C., on Aug. 22, have all been arranged. Thomas S. Ke nan will bu chief marshal. The state Guard is invited through the adjutant general, the Confederate Veterans through their commander, and the editors in the state also receive a special invi tation. The orator of the day will be Richard If. Battle, who during the Civil War was Governor Vance s private secre tary. —Mr. Traves, the great English surgeon, in his lecture to medical studfnts at the opening of the new club rooms in the London Hospital the other day, said that gfnins was some form cf neurosis, an un labulated nervous disease. The few per sons of genius he had known had been exceedingly impossible persons, and if there was one profession where genius was out of place it was the medical pro fession. The thing which in that stood above all else was hard work, and one very peculiar faculty, that of close ob servation. BRIGHT BITS. —Making Quick Time.—Firs? New York er (w’ho lives in New Jersey): You leave your office at the same time I do. How does It happen that you get home an hour ahead of me? Second New Yorker (who also lives in New Jersey): I take an express train to Trenton and a way-train back.—New York Weekly. —The persls4en? correspondent W'as worming a biography out of the re’.uctant statesman. “I suppose it is true. Senator, as every body understands,” he said, ♦‘that you began life as a poor ploughboy?” "No, sir,” growled the statesman. “I began life as a red-faced, flat-nosed, squalling baby.”—Chicago Tribune. —The Real Thing.—With the aid of a powerful microscope, we regarded the ptomaine in the ice cream steadfastly. “Yon are extremely ugly!” we observed. “Of course!” replied the ptomaine. “Did you ever see a genuine lady-killer that wasn’t more or less ugly?” To be perfectly candid—but why speak of this?—Detroit Journal. —The Boy Told Him.—After a recent supper in the rural district a clerical looking individual arose to respond to a toast. “What am I here for to-night?” was the question he opened with. “To cat!” shouted a hungry small boy, near the door. “You’ve done drinked six cups of*coffee an’ swallowed rhe last bis cuit on the plate!”—Atlanta Constitution. CURRENT COMMENT. The Washington Post (Ind.) says: “In the three years during which Mr. Mc- Kinley has been President the enormous sum of $420,000,000 has been paid to pen sioners, and to this fact the Republican managers point with pride. It seems to us, however, that this showing, together with the further fact that from July 1, 186*, to June 20. 19C0, the payments' for pensions and expense* connected with payments aggregated $2,600,000,000. will be apt to awaken the conn ry to the drain which the pension fund makes upon the national treasury. Even now, a third of a century after the close of the war. there are 993 529 pensioners on the roll. We hope they are all honestly entitled to the gratuity which the government gives them, but we conf<B to the belief that a weeding out of the tension list would not do injustice to any honest pensioner and might save money for the government. The pension roll has always been used as a political adjunct, but never quite so flagrantly as in the present instance. Some good will be accomplished, how ever, if the wide publicity which is be ing giv<n to the Republican National Com mittee’s campaign document brings about an awakening and a reform.” The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says: “One of the beauties of the injunction sys tem is manifest in tho case of the tele graph company which is enjoined by one court to cease serving grain and is enjoined by another court to keep on serving them. The company’s officials are lik'dy to get into Jail whichever court they obey. This, taken in connection with the fact that anyone with a $5 bill can secure an injunction against anybody do ing anything, is calculated to mak* peo ple think that there may te something in the talk of go\ernment by injunction’ af ter all.” The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: “Cer tainly the experience of the Southern states with the black race ought to make all thoughtful men oppose the Republican plan *o annex and ah*, rb 10,000,000 brown skirned p ople of an alien race. Tne issue of imperialism will not be dropped in this campaign because of threats to punish the South for eliminating the Ignorant negro vote. The South, indeed, will continue to opposs imperialism In the Philippines as well as in its own afTairs, and will not be deterred by threat* from Republican sources.” The Greenville (8 C.) News (Dem.) de- | dims to differentiate between the colored races. Everything that isn't while must be Mack It says: “The recruiting offl e in Savannah has received orders to enlist negroes for service in ho Philippines. It would be a good idra for the government to use as many negroes qs possible this way. Then it would b* * war of negroes on fifth aides.” • The .Antics of•• Bobs” on the Dead Line. The spectacle cf Lord Roberts, shrivel ed and seventy, plunging into the smoke and struggle In South Africa and emerg ing with “the garter” in one hand and a dukedom In the other, is exhilarating and suggestive in view of the “dead-line-ai hfty” discussion, says the Saturday Even ing Post. Roberts, as an old *nan, who had fought his battles and won his med als, who had all to lose and ontning to gain, stayed at home during the early weeks of the war. And younger fighters, Methuen end Buller, set out on the search far easy glory. What they got Is painful history of England. Roberts at and Kitchener—the younger man was expected to do the big things-were sent out as an eleventh-hour hope. For a few weeks Kitchener's picture loomed large In the papers; thin be dropped out of ?lght. And in the end it was Lord Robcris, twenty years past the and *ad-line, who fought out the war. It is futile to lay down general laws; folly to apply th<m to individuals. Yet the d€ad-line-ai-flfty heresy has been accept ed as gospel by so many people that it is worth following up, with “Bobs’’ as a beacon. Undoubtedly there is a dead line. Some men have already it at thir ty; others never reach it till they follow a clergyman feet flrst out of church. A young business man is naturally in touch with the methods that revo lutionize trade every few years in these rapid times; but the older cne who keeps up with them is his equal and his supe rior by the weight of his added experi ence. For the professional man whose ttucly lamp s ill burns, fifty but a mile-tone on the read to greater power. And for him there is always something to be won and anew way to win it if the o'd one will not do. At seventy he is learning and planning and executing. He Is climbing tiees. like Gen. Wheeler, to see what the enemy is up to; or drum ming up w heat, like Mr. Armour, to freeze out the other youngster; or planning a great home rule programme like that lively octogenarian, the late Mr. Glad stone. The ability to see new conditions and to meet them is the secret of youth’s power in the world to-day. And so long as a man has that ability, the years count for nothing. You can draw 7 a dead line behind him, but you can’t catch and push him over it. Equal to the Emergency. “That man who advertised for a red headed office boy the other clay reminds me of a curious experience,” said an old reporter, according to the New Orleans Times-Democrat. “Years ago, when. I was a cub, doing my flrst assignments on an afternoon daily in a big Western city, we had a thin, freckle-nosed office boy with a head like a full-blown poppy. He was a silent sort of a liitle chap, but anybody could see with half an eye that he was sharp as a needle, and he was a favorite with the whole staff, from the chief down. One day the city editor sent the star re porter Out to a country justice court, nearly ten miles from town, to write up the case of a school commissioner who nad been arrested for misappropriation of funds, and, as an afterthought, he told ‘Reddy,’ the office boy, to meet him there so, if necessary, he could carry in early copy. The star rej>orier was a great ar tist. but also a periodical drunkard, and at about 1:30 that afternoon the city re ceived the cheering news that he was then asleep in a neighboring bar. At the same time a rumor reached town that the school commissioner’s trial had developed a tre mendous sensation and that the prisoner had made his escape at the point of a pis tol. We went to press at 2:20 sharp, and for the next fifteen minutes we had the wildest city editor in seventeen states. He had already rushed two men off on horseback and was dispatching a third, when in walked ‘Reddy,’ who had been entirely forgotten in the general excite ment. ‘That was a good story out at the rube court,’ he said, ‘and seeing as Mr. didn't come, I wrote it up myself. ‘Where is the copy?’ yelled the city ed itor. ‘Here,’ said ‘Reddy,’ and handed over a roll of manuscript. 1 helped edit it, or rather I helped read it, for it didn’t re quire any editing. It was a beautiful story, clearly and graphically told, with subheads inserted and everything ready for the printer. The city editor was de lirious with joy and next day the kid got a legular job on the staff.'' “And I sup pose now he’s the managing editor,” said one of the listeners, with a slight sneer. “No, he isn’t,” replied the old reporter. "This story happens to be true. Reddy didn’t fulfill his early promise. He went wrong and is now serving out a term in Congress.” Tho Infold Story. Curtis May in the Youth's Companion. Into the Great White Gate of the North The stately ships go sailing. Where the waving flags of the cold stream forth And the bitter wind* are wailing. The sentinel iceberg nods and dips, The sun comes up from his long eclipse, And the shining stars are paling. The Ice King shou;s, “You have marked the earth With, strength that is past denying. But here alone from primeval birth Have I watched the swift years flying. Secure in the fastnesses of the cold, The centuries watched as I built my hold. With their eyes turned North in dying. “And will you pass through the Great White* Gate Thai guards the realm 1 of my dwelling? Shall I before you a vassal wait. And ber.d to your proud compelling? Away! So long as the wind shall blow, The wonderful secret I only know Shall never be yours for telling. But human courage and human will Shrink not from the undertaking. And hope’s high flood w'hen the pulses thrill Ebbs not, though the strength be break ing. The ships still strain toward the distant North, And life and valor and love go forth To the sleep that knows no waking. Yea, born with purpose that knows no fear And daring that aeks no glory. Men leave behird wliat is known and dear And seek for the Ice King hoary. Wrecks strew the way of the Great White Gate! Unheard the tales of tho grim North wait! Oh, who shall bring us the story! Hliy Franklin Dfll Nof W rite If. “It has always been a curious puzzle why Franklin, the man of ripe age, of commanding distinction and of approved literary skill, was not selected to write this declaration instead of Thomas Jef ferson. then only thirty-three years o!d and comparatively unknown," ways John Gilmer Speed, in the Saturday Evening Post. “It could not be that Franklin was passed by because he had done every thing within his power to avert the war and reconcile the differences between the colonies and the Mother Country, for nil wise men in the. colonies did all that honor permitted in that direction until tho die was cast. No. it was not a fear of Franklin’s earnestness In the cause of the colonies—it was probably the fear of Franklin’s humor. “He was not only the greatest man of his time, but he was one of the greatest humorists of any time. And so his asso ciates were possibly afraid that he would put a joke In the Declaration, and pass ed him by and selected the lank young Virginian with the freckled face. “As It was. Franklin did have his joke, for when the members of Congress were about to sign the Declaration, Hancock, whose earnestness is expressed in the bold signature which comes flrst. said In hie own earnest way: ‘We must be unanimous; there mut be no pulling dif ferent ways; we must all hang together.’ “ ’Yes,* replied Franklin, *we must hang together or we shall be pretty sure to hang separately.* 9o gjßj| Used over Half a Century ssjjjjffe SUNBURN |||| CHAFING lly MOSQUITO BITES ?:s?#; ITCHING SCRATCHES sprains mn STIFFNESS FATIGUE and j|||jj| ALL PAIN ■ I* Right On to PEKIN! STEP BY STEP —AND— DAY BY DAY YOU CAN TRACE THE MOVEMENTS OF THE ALLIED FORCES BY THE USE OF THE RAND-McNALLY IB JUS! OF THE WORLD. 91 COLORED MAPS. 97 PAGES OF READING MATTER. 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Morning News the cost to you will be only 40c The Atlas is now on sale at the Busi ness Office of the Morning News. If At las is to be mailed add 10 cents for post age. making 50 cents for the Atlas de livered., MORNING NEWS. Savannah, Ga, J. D. WEED * CO UTAHIAU, QA. Leather Belting, Steam Packing & Hose. Agents for NEW YORK RUBBER BELTING AND PACKING COMPANY. Good Goods—Close Prices. Send us your orders. Soaps, Patent Medicines, Drugs, Rubber Goods, Per fumery, Toilet Powder, Combs, Brushes etc. DONNELLY' DRUG CO., Phone 678. Liberty and Price sts. IF YOU WANT GOOD MATERIAL and work, order your lithographed and printed etatlouerr nod blank books from Morning New*. Savannah. Qa. Ocean SteamsliiD Ga —FOR— NewYork, Boston —AND— the east. Unsurpassed cabin accommodations. All the comforts of a modern hotel. Electrio lights. Unexcelled table. Tickets include meals and berths aboard ship. Passenger Fares lrom Savannah. TO NEW YORK—FIRST CABIN, S2O; FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP, $32; IN TERMEDIATE CABIN. sls; INTERME DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP, $24. STEERAGE, $lO. TO BOSTON FIRST CABIN. $22; FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP. $36. IN TERMEDIATE CABIN, sl7; INTERME DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP, $28.00. STEERAGE, $11.75. The express steamships of this line are appointed to sail from Savannah, Central (90th) meridian time, as f ollows: SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK. CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Daggett. THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 9;00 a. m. NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith. SATUR DAY, Aug. 18, 11:00 p. m. KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, MONDAY. Aug. 20, 1:00 p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Burg. TUESDAY, Aug. 21, 2:00 p. m. TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins, THURS DAY', Aug. 23, 3:30 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett. SATURDAY, Aug. 25, 5:00 p. m. NACOOCHEE. Capt. Smith. MONDAY. Aug. 27. 6:30 p. m. KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, TUES DAY, Aug. 28, 7:00 p, m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Burg, THURSDAY, Aug. 30. 8:00 a. m. NEW YORK TO BOSTON. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage, FRI DAY. Aug. 17. 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage, WED NESDAY. Aug. 22, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage. MON DAY. Aug. 27, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, FRI DAY, Aug. 31, 12:00 noon. This company reserves the right to change its sailings withoiit notice and without liability or accountability there for. Sailings New York for Savannah daily except Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, 5:00 p. m. W. G. BREWER, City Ticket and Pass enger Agent. 107 Bull street. Savannah, Ga. E. W. SMITH, Contracting Freight Agent. Savannah, Ga. R. G. TREZEVANT, Agent, Savannah. Ga. WALTER HAWKINS. General Agent Traffic Dep’t, 224 W. Bay street, Jack sonville, Fla. E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager, Sa vannah, Ga. P. E LE FEVRE. Superintendent, New Pier 25. North River. New York. N. Y. MERCHANTS AND MINERS TRANSPORTATION CO. STEAMSHIP LI AES. SAVA.NA VI! TO BALTIMORE. Tickets on sale at company’s offices to the following points at very low rates: ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. BALTIMORE, MD. BUFFALO, N. Y. BOSTON. MASS. CHICAGO, ILL. CLEVELAND, O. ERIE, PA. HAGERSTOWN. HARRISBURG, PA. HALIFAX, N. S. e NIAGARA FALLS. NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA. PITTSBURG. PROVIDENCE. ROCHESTER. TRENTON. WILMINGTON. WASHINGTON. First-class tickets include meals and state room berth. Savannah to Baltimore. Accommodations and cuisine unequaled. Freight capacity unlimited; careful han ling and quick dispatch. The steamships of this company are ap pointed to sail from Savannah to Balti more as follows (standard time); TEXAS, Capt. Eldridge, THURSDAY, Aug. 16, at 9:00 a. m. D. H. MILLER, Capt. Peters, SATUR DAY, Aug. 18, at 12 noon. ITASCA, Capt. Diggs, TUESDAY, Aug. 21, at 3:00 p. m. ALLEGHANY, Capt. Fostor, -THUR3 DAY, Aug. 23. at 4:00 p. m. TEXAS, Capt. Eldridge, SATURDAY, Aug. 25, at 5:00 p. m. And from Baltimore Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays at *4:CO p. m. Ticket Office, 39 Bull street. NEWCOMB COHEN, Trav. Agent. * J. J. CAROLAN, Agent, Savannah, Ga. W. P. TURNER, G. P. A A. D. STEBBINS, A. T. M. J. C. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager. General Offices. Baltimore, Md. SUMMER RESORTS. CHARMING RESORTS For health and pleasure along the line of the Tallulah Fal-te Ry Cos. To those seeking summer homes attention is in vited to the delightful mountain resorts along the line of the Tallulah Falls R>’- Close connections are made with ail Southern Railway trains. You can leave Atlanta 7:. r )0 a. m.. 12 o’clock noon, and 4:30 p. m. Comfortable and convenient hotels and hoarding houses ore located at Demorest. Clarksville. Nacoochee Val ley. Turnersville, Tallulah. Tallulah Falls, and in Rabun county. Any of these placet* ran he reached in a thfee i hours’ ride from Atlanta. This Is one of the most beautiful and picturesque sections of the South. The climate cool and salubrious and the water the purest and best in the world. For fur ther information apply to SAMUEL C. DUNLAP. General Manager, Clarksville. Ga. IN THE COOL MOUNTAINS. The Swannanoa Hotel, Ashevil.6, N. C. Under new management. A high ciasa family and commercial hotel, with table of superior excellence. Casino, music and dancing. Centrally located; good bed*; cool rooms: rate-a moderate. Write to BRANCH & YOUNG, Proprietors. HOTEL VICTORIA Broadway, sth avenue and 27ih st.. New York city. Entirely new; absolutely fire proof; European plan. Rooms, 11.00 pcf day and upward. ROBERT T. DUNLOP. Manager. Formerly of Hotel Imperial. COMFORT For your stock. The fly season is now oO us and the time to use Tough on Flies, a lotion when applied will prevent your horses and cattle from being pestered. Try It and be convinced. HAY, GRAIN. BRAN, COW FEED, CHICKEN FEED, etc. T. J. DAVIS. Phone 228. Ilf Bay street, wesL — '■ ; . L ' - Empty Hogsheads. Empty UoL.ar, Ho,, ahead* to* Ml* by C. M. GILBERT & CO.