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4 gifjc IHofning •lorelu- >ew Building. Savannah, Giv XIIIRSDAY, At GI ST 21S, 1000. — , ■- Registered at the Postoffice in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, at 70c a month. $4.00 for six months, and $6.00 for cue year. The MORNING NEWS, by mall, eix * times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.50; six months $3.00; one year $6.00. The WEEKLY NEWS. 2 issues a week, Monday and Thursday, by mail, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk oi senders. Transient advertisements, other than epecial column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch square in depth— is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at businece office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING New6 to either residence or place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone No. 210. Any irregular ity in delivery should be immediately re ported to the office of publication. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS.” Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE. 22 Pork Row\ New York city, 11. C. Faulkner, Manager. INDEX TO KEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Ojean City Lodge No. 5, Knights of Royal Arch. Special Notices —Mrs. Kate C. Bolan on the Virtues of Suwanee Springs Water; Ship Notice, J. F. Minis & Cos., Consl gees; At the Hotel Tybee This (Thursday) Night, Chas. F. Graham, Proprietor; Har vard Beer at Hicks’ Restaurant; Paints and House Tainting, Savannah Building Supply Company; Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Ktc.,‘Andrew Hanley Cos.; Lively at Ty bee To-night, Chas. F. Gruhum, Proprie tor Hotel Tybee; Levan’s Table d’Hote. Business Notices—New Gobi for Old Gold, Hunter & VanKeuren. Shelled Nuts, Etc.—The S. W. Branch Cos. Legal Notices—William K. Roberts, in Bankruptcy; J. T. Boyd and John T. Boyd and George M. Boyd, in Bank ruptcy; Boyd Hardware Cos., in Bank ruptcy; James Tison, in Bankruptcy. Amusements—l T na Clayton at Theater To-day and To-night. Printing for County Fairs—Morning News Job Department. Washing Powder—Pearline. Grape Nuts—Sold by All Grocers, Cheroots—Old Virginia Cherooots. Medical—Tuit’s Pills; Hood’s Sarsapa rilla; Castoria; Lydia Pinkham’a Vege table Pills; World's Dispensary Prepara tions; S. S. S.; Dr. Hathaway Company. 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 and cooler weather, with light northerly winds; and for Eastern Florida, local thunderstorms, with varia ble winds. The shirtwaist policeman would un doubtedly add to the picturesqueness of the Bull street summer promenade. Western hoboes are nothing if not up to-date. A paper in the r interests, the Tourists’ Union Journal, has just made Its appearance at Sycamore, 111., and will be published regularly. The sub scription price Is not stated, but presum ably is something like one “hand-out” and a night's lodging in the hayr.ck. England, too, stems to have her promi nent anti-imperialists, but Mr. Labou chere will probably be able to explain sat isfactorily his letter in which he advised the Boers how they could gain lime, prior to the war. There have been evi dences all along among some of England's . most prominent leaders of a lack of unity on the subject of the South African war. The cablegrams from Paris with refer ence to the forced sale of Count Boni de Castellane’s summer chateau, ewn to have done the little count an Injustice. He did not own the chateau. It Is said, but rented it, and it is only his farnitrlre, wine cellar, horses and traps that will oo upon the block unless George Gould who has been appealed to, comes to the rescue of his sister's husband. What u chance fer a sympathetic touch of the Gould barrel! A number of prominent Irishmen who Were supporters of McKinley in 183! will gather at the lloffmun House in N- w York Ic-night to arrange plans to throw their active support to Bryan. Their ac tion is due to the imp riadstie Issue which they and practically all of Mr. Bryan's supporters regard as the para mount one In the present campaign. It is the issue which the Republican party would like to dodge, but unfortunately for that i arty th. re is no way aiound it. There is no telling to wh it extent the Imperialist policy of the administration U going to Increase the pension rolls. Already the applications for pensipns on account of the Spanish war are more in number than the men wiio saw actual fighting service in that war. The war In the Philippines will furnish, probably, twice as many more, ar.d even that will not end it. A vote for McKinley will be a vote in favor cf still Increasing this colosttal expenditure. The members of the Merchants’ Associa tion of New York city have determined they will not put up with the proposed Ramapo water contract and have signed a report demanding that the city own and control Its own water supply, even If it lias to condemn private property to gel it. The merchants have figured that the city would lose *1.),UOO.OOO In forty years, all of which would, no doubt, go Into the pock ets of the politicians who are back of the proposed Komspo deal. The backers of the Ramapo scheme have not been heard from recently, but there Is little doubt h it they are quietly nursing the hope that they may be ul>le sooner or later to slip the deal through without the people- know ing anything about it. TtCTICS OF NEW ENGLAND MILL MIJ\. . It would be interesting to know whether the charge made in a dispatch from Ports mouth, Va„ to the Washington Star, that the New England mill men arc behind the movement to organize labor unions in the cotton mills of the South, rests upon a substantial foundation. If it does the New England mill men odcupy a very un enviable iiosltion. It is a fact that the mill operatives in the Southern states are being organized into unions, and in some localities strikes have been ordered because the demands of the unions have not been complied with; but the impression has been that the movement in the direction of un'ons in Southern mills was being engineered by agents acting under the authority of the labor unions of the New England mills. It hail not been suspected that Nc-W England mil! men wire the instiga tors of the movement for the purpose of destroying the advantages which South ern mills have. It is true, of course, that mill labor is cheaper in the South than in the North. This is due largely to the fact that liv ing in tlie South is less expensive than in the North. Because of cheaper lalior, and also because Southern mills, being close to the cotton fields, get the raw ma terial at a less cost than the New Eng land mills, Southern mills make larger dividends than those of New- England. Because of the advantages which the South has for manufacturing cotton goods many New England cotton manufacturers have either moved their plants to, or have established branch mills, in the South. The grow th of cotton manufacturing in the South has been remarkable. And the building of new cotton mills is going on steadily. There does not seem to be any reason to doubt that within a very few years the bulk of the cotton goods pro duced In this country will be manufac tured in the South. It is natural, of course, that llte New England mill men should fee! some jealousy of the prosper ity of the Southern cotton mill men, but we had not thought that It was within the bounds of probability that they would de liberately and systematically set to work to injure the mill men of the South. Be fore the charge made in the Portsmouth dispatch is accepted as true there ought to be a thorough investigation of it. If the facts sustain the charge then the New England mill men should receive the con demnation they would deserve. Asa matter of fact, owing to the cheap ness of living in the South, 'Southern op eratives are about as well paid as New England operatives—that is their earn ings will purchase about as many of the necessaries and comforts of life. They have no reason, therefore, to complain that they are not dealt with as liberally in the matter of wages as New England operatives. Of course, if the union movement is purely the work of New England opera tives, Southern mill men have no ground for finding fault with New England mill men. In that event it is a matter be tween the operatives of the two sections of the country. It is a matter, however, which Southern operatives should consid er carefully. If New England operatives are trying lo get them into unions they may be sure that the motive is not a wholly unselfish one. The New England operatives are trying to use the Southern operatives to promote their own interests. They want to stop mill building in the South, so that work in the Northern mills will be steadier at a scale of wages fixed by themselves. The question for Southern operatives to Consider is whether in the long run they would be as well off with strikes and lockouts, which would be certain to come with unions, as they are now| with steady work year in ond year out. A MATTER WORTH CONSIDERING. The suggestion was thrown out in our local columns yesterday that Savannah has an interest in having the naval sta tion remain at Port Royal that is wholly apart from the fact that she now gets a very large part of the trade of the station. It is that in the event of war between this country and another Power warships at Pori Royal would be in closer touch with Savannah than if they were at Charles ton. Savannah’s commerce Is now very large and is steadily increasing. In the event of war the destruction of Savan nah’s commerce would be one of the things at which the enemy would aim. Port Royal, being the naval station, would naturally be a rendezvous for our warships. It can be readily seen that the protection they could give Savannah’s commerce from that point would be greater than if they were at Charleston, because they would be n arer Savannah. In determining the question whether the naval station shall be removed from Port Royal the interests of the entire South Atlantic ccast should be taken into consideration The interests of Charles ton and the wishes of the navy depart ment are, of course, factors in the ques tion, but they r,i not the only ones. Sa vannah being the most important com mercial |>ort on the South Atlantic coast —the port having by far the largest com merce—her interests should have great weight wilh the commission that has the ma ter of the removal of the station uti der consideration. It set ms iliat the Mayor Intends to ap point a committee soon for the purpose of ga ting Congiess to authoiize an lm. provemtnt in Savannah's harbor to se t urea channel having a depth of from [ 38 to 30 feet, and he wl 1 call its attenii n lo the foregoing reason why the naval , -lation should temaln at Port Royal. No doubt tlie committee will lose no time in rommuni aling with Ihe naval station commission. In commenting on the report that ”an alderman, some policemen and other persons,’’ have been caught up with in bathing in the Charlotte. N. C.. reservoir from which the supply of thinking wat<r Is drawn, the Charleston News and I Courier remarks; "Warm and dusty al j derrnen. policemen and other persons In Savannah and Augusta will take notice. ’■ Fortunately, having an abundant supply of water, Buvannahians do not have to bathe 111 thi ir artesian wells, but there is a suggestion In the incident to whieh the News und Courier calls attention,that j Charleston seems to have overlooked. If all Charleston ne ls a hath why not : open up tie oil cisterns and convert | them into pubic swimming po-lsT Or j does Charleston bar that bathing in them I would be about us dangerous as drinking Vfclie water they contain? THE MOKNING NEWS: THURSDAY; AUGUST 23, 1900. TO TRY LOCAL OPTION. The Prohibitionists of New Jersey have about decided to try local option. Either they do not think there is any probabili ty of getting prohibition legislation or else they agree with the late ex-Senator Ingalls that under a prohibitive law the Prohibitionists get prohibition and the Anti-Prohibitionists get whisky. Any way, they have decided to ask the legis lature to enact a local option law, so that communities can control the liquor traffic. They will find probably that they will be aide to accomplish more for the cause of temperance by means of local option than they could possibly accomplish for it by means of a prohibifion law-. There is a strong movement on foot in Maine new to repeal the prohibition law in tha* state. It has never been enforced in the cities, and only partly in the rural dis tricts. If a local option instead of a pro hibition law had been enacted, the chances are that the state would now be much nearer to genuine prohibition than it is. Under local option there is a constant effort in Ihe direction of temper ance. One county after another is raptured for prohibition. The cities hold out the longest of course, hut where they are not educated sufficiently *o adopt pro hibition there is a noticeable falling off in the drinking of strong liquors. If New Jersey enacts a prohibitive low she should give it a fair trial. The tem perance people should not get weary in well doing. By constant effort they cou'd get control of the greater part of the state in the course of a very few years. Then they could begin the work of putting a stop to the liquor traffic in the large cities. In South Carolina juet now there is n notable contest between the forces of pro hibition and those of the Dispensary. It would be better for the state and the peo ple thereof if the two factions should agree on a local option law. It is safe to say that there is not nearly so much in toxicating liquor per capita consumed in Georgia as there is in South Carolina. And if a prohibitive law- were enacted in the latter state the sale of liquor would still go on. The whisky drinkers would man age to get whisky. RELIGION IN THE BOER WAR. It is well known to those who have kept truck of the war between the Brit ish and the Boers in South Africa, that on the Boer side of the struggle religion has been an important factor, and though it may be of little import in determining the final outcome, it certainly has had much to do with the stubborn resistance which the Boers have made. The Boer’s religion reaches fanaticism; the Bible he accepts literally as he does any conclu sions drawn from it and enunciated by his superiors in the church. What, then, has been the effect of such religious influ ences as these in the South African war? Evidently it has been to unify the Boer army, though at times it may have made the soldier depend too much upon super natural aid. Even with the carelessness incident to such faith, it must be nd mitted that the Boers have given the Eng lish some interesting lessons in military strategy. The religious tie has been, un questionably, a bond of union which, in any event, made the Boer army far more effective than it would have been with out it. Col. Arthur Lynch of the Second Irish Brigade, in the Boer army, gives, in the current Independent, an interesting in sight Into this religious enthusiasm which the Boers carried into the war with them. President Kruger, he says, is a Christian of “quite primitive type.” He is the chief of the religious sect known as “Doppers, a sect whose pride is to reduce the cere mony of religious service to Its very plainest expression.” The burghers have always looked up to him somewhat as a religious as well as a temporal leader. It has been his custom to append some Biblical text to the mili tary orders he issued, or to wire some quotation from the Bible for the benefit of the army on the eve of bat tle. Joubert was, practically, just such a Christian ns Kruger, and would pray as ardently after a defeat as after a victory. Of such character are the Boers, though the ordinary soldier, as a rule, has laxness along with his religious fervor, and frequently steals a horse or loots a farm house with the sincere belief that his prayers and Bible reading absolve him from all that is reprehensible. This, of course, illustrates Ihe Boer’s unbounded confidence in the power of his religion, and with many it goes to such an extent that they have asserted they saw the "Victorious Angel” leading the Boer army to success in battle. There can be no doubt that such Influ ences as these have given the Boer army unity and a degree of courage that has greatly Improved its nat urally rather primitive fighting qual ities. The Boers believed that their battle was of God's fighting through themselves as agents, and that their suc cess was as certain and as God-given as was that of David over the Philistines and Moabites. They expected success from the start, and at the beginning of the war they were surprised by the degree of it. This only added to their faith in their Ultimate victory through the samd source. It is no wondei, then, that the war has been long drawn out, that it has already ’.asted almost a year. It Is no wonder that the struggle is not yet concluded and that the burghers are still stubbornly fighting, though scattered and reduced in numbers and driven from their capital. Faith in battle is a powerful weapon; it gives courage and strength which are half the fight. These are the qualities to gether with their good marksmanship aim knowledge of the country, that have en abled them to hold out against every thing but overwhelming numbers. The Populists who are undoubtedly anx ious for the success of Mr. Bryan this year, appear to be on the verge of mak ing the same mistake they did in 1596 by putting another candidate for Vice Pres ident in the Held. Practically ail points of difference between the ropullsis, who met at Sioux Falls and the Democrats, have disappeared, and there is no reason therefore why they should not unite on the support of the same candidates, it is to he hoped that the Populist National Committee will see it in that light when it meets In Chicago on Aug. 28. It Is gratifying io note that Tybee is i not to he rtenerted so early this season as j has been the custom The ocean breezes jure sifil a* . risible and the temperature | )s sufficiently vivid to make them moei de van s hie. The commonly accepted belief that the population of China is somewhere in the neighborhood of 400,000,000 people is in danger of being shattered. In a recent article in Weekly, Mr. W. B. Parsons, who had occasion to explore for ♦ingineering purposes a considerable por tion of the Chinese Empire, reaches the conclusion that the Chinese population has been very much exaggerated, and his careful observation lead him to the be lief that the population of the empire will not go over 200,000.000. if as much. Mr. Parsons says that every Intelligent trav eler. in whatever part of the empire, con cludes that the population of the section he has visited is greatly overestimated. An investigation by a French commission in ISOS led to the conclusion that instead of 20,000,000 as claimed, the province of Yunan contained only about 7,000,000 or 8.000,000 inhabitants at the outside, and that the largest province, that of Sze chuen, instead of 73,000.000, contained from 25,000,000 to 35.000,000 less. China, no doubt, would like to have the world con- ! tlnue to believe that her population is j 400,000.000, but in the face of the evidence l it would appear that her magnificent pop ulation swear 2r is about to be found out. , The eyes of the sporting world are turned eagerly toward the Futurity raee to be run at Sheepshead i Bay next Saturday. No expense has been spared by the millionaires who will have some of the finest young horseflesh in the country entered in this struggle. The hardest fought feature of the contest will undoubtedly be between the horses be longing to William C. Whitney and James R. Keene, both of whom are anxious to win, and lo whom the little blue ribbon is worth more than the stake of $40,000, for each has already spent as much, if not more than that, in preliminary ar rangements. Mr. Whitney will enter Ball hoe Bey. while Mr. Keene will have in the race four children of the famous Dom ino, bred in his own stable, one of which will be ridden by the jockey, Tod Sloan. Altogether there will be millions of dol lars bet on the outcome of this, the most interesting race of the season. Whenever the summer dullness is re sponsible for a lack of genuine sensations, the New York yellow journals bring other resources into play. The importance of a murder story 01 other event of sensa tional character car be magnified to satis fy the necessities of the occasion, and these papers are not at all backward in doing it. The murder of the girl, Katha rine Scharn, in that city a few days ago. was nothing more than a very ordinary homicide of a very ordinary girl by a very ordinary criminal, who will be caught sooner or later. However, for the. lack of something better, this murder bids fair to go into newspaper history like the Guldensuppe case, as the crime of ihe sea son. The growth of Siberia, according to Russian Vice Minister of Justice P. Boutf sky, who has just arrived in San Fran cisco on his return from that country, means much to the United States. Russia will purchase from this country, he states, all the supplies for the trans-Si berian Railroad which cannot be secured at home. This means the expenditure In America of many millions of dollars, as it is estimated it will require to complete the work, something like $100,000,000. Of course Americans are glad to sell to Russia all she needs, but there is no doubt that Russia is coming here because she knows she can get the best the mar ket affords. The fight between Hill and Croker over the question of the nomination of Bird S. Coler, as the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, has been trans ferred from Saratoga to New York City, and is proceeding with more bitterness than ever. Coler’s success seems to de pend on a split in the Brooklyn delega tion whieh his friends are working hard to secure, and which Croker is working just as hard to prevent. The Coler movement, however, appears to be pro gressing in spite of the veiled threat that Tammany will use the tomahawk in the event of his nomination. ■' • ♦ ■ “A mass of mystical vagaries and dis eased dreams,” is what a Baptist pastor of New York calls the latest book by Mrs. Mary C. Eddy, the so-called “mother” of the Christian Scientists. It Is not likely that such criticisms ruffle "Moth er” Eddy. As she would put It, he only imagines that he thinks what he said. Now that Gov. Roosevelt knows what the President wants him to say. he is ready to start upon his campaign tour. "Teddy” may look out for a sharp te'e gram from "Boss” Hanna, if he forgets his instructions. CI'RREYT COMMENT. The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says: "Though the Cuban patriot is not a pure ly intellectual person, it is evident that he is no fool, either. He insists, for ex ample, that during American occupa tion the American trusts shall not be al lowed to gain a foothold in Cuba fibre. This shows that the Cuban patriot’s head is strictly level. Having hod experience with Weyler, Blanco & Cos., he Is not going to put his neck under the yoke of Rockefeller, Havemeyer, Morgan & Cos. In short, the Cuban patriot can give his American contemporary some pointers.” Discussing our army in China the Phil adelphia Times (Ind.) says: “The troops should he recalled at once and the work of diplomacy begun whenever and where ever a responsible government shall be found in China. If diplomacy fails, the army may have new duties to perform; but it is not for the President to decide wheiher we shall invade China again to enforce the payment of indemnity. That is a question of war or peace, and the people, who are the sovereign power of a nation, ore keenly sensitive in their hostility to executive usurpation.” The Memphis Commercial Appeal (Dem.) says: "Think of it, good people! In the good state of Tennessee a fight was made on a candidate for Congress because it was rumored that his son. after being married by a magistrate, was again mar ried by a Catholic pries*. Strange. Isn’t it? Strong- r still is the fact that the rumor was indignantly denied which turn ed public sentiment in favor of the ac cused and elected him. because of the hor rible accusation! And we are building school houses in Chino!” The New York Tribune (Rep.) gives (he Charleston News and Courier this shot: "A Charleston newspaper published for a headline the other day this startling descriptive comhlnotlon; 'The GoebelcM-- Murder ’ The shooting of Goebel and th performances which have followed :i seem ghastly enough without the sd-h-1 horrors ot such phrase coining experi ments,” ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Underground railways of London carry only 19 per cent, of the passenger traffic; 81 per cent, is carried by’ omnibuses and street cars. —An ostrich in the Cincinnati zoological gardens is undergoing treatment by elec tricty for paralysis. Under this treatment the bird has been able to swing first one leg and then the other. —The large German # dockyards are kept so busy building warships that fears are being expressed that it will soon be nec essary to have merchant vessels built abroad. —Small spiders play havoc with the tele graph wires in the Argentine Republic. The long cobwebs settle on the wires and ns soon as dew or rain fails they arc ren dered to some extent a conductor and the effect is practically to stop the operation of some of the lines. The government has determined to connect Buenos Ayres and Rosario by an underground cable 150 miles long to obviate this difficulty. —Many fish can produce musical sounds. The trigia can produce long drawn notes ranging over nearly an oc tave. Others, no'ably two species of op hidian, have sound-producing apparatus, consisting of small movable bones, which can bo mode to produce a sharp rattle. The curious “drumming” made by the species called umbrivas can b’ heard from a depth of thirty fathoms. —The remarkable number of deaths by drowning proves that too many persons venture into waters without knowing how o swim. About 80 per cent, of those drowned so far this summer did not have that knowledge. This is all the more won derful when a knowledge of swimming may so easily he had. A person of aver age physique would be able to swim sev eral hundred feet after a dozen lessons. —ln the Island of Minora, one of the, Philippines, the humming birds are pug nacious little creatures. A hunting party’ had o novel experience with them. One o f the huntsmen wandered off from his comrades, but soon his screams were heard. Thousands of the humming birds had attacked him and wounded him in hundreds of spots on his face and neck. When rescued he was streaming with blood. —lsmail of Bodru, in Asiatic Turkey, is the smartest fellow yet. He is 120 yaars old, and lately married his thirty-fourth wife, who is half his age; all the vliiage turned out with fifes, drums and guns to celebrate the wedding, and there were in the procession 140 sons, grandsons and great grandsons. How many daughters he has does not appear, nor Is it said how many of his 'Wives survive to greet the bride. —A train on the Ulster & Delaware Railway was stopped recently on account of the caterpillars which collected on the tracks in sufficient numbers to stop the train by the lubrication of the rails, which resulted from,the crushing of their bodies under the wheels. According to the Railway Review it is necessary for men to sit upon the cowcatcher and keep away the obstructions by holding brooms on the rails. —A medical society in Cleveland has started a movement for removing offen sively deformed and crippled beggars from the street. The number has greatly in creased in recent years, and the doctors felt that the public display of deformity was injurious to the community. There could be no better place for socialism to begin than in toking proper care of these unfortunates, who are unable to work, and ought not to afflict the public by a parade of their deformities. —Albert Wilde of the Royal Society of Great Britain has been presented with the Society of Arts Albert medal. This is a most highly prized trophy and is awarded for momentous discoveries in science, in the present case it was nwatdcd to Mr. Wilde ’’for the discovery and practical demonstration of the indefinite increase of the magnetic and electric forces from quantities indefinitely small.” The mod ern dynamo is based upon this principle, and it is adopted in ail modern dynamos. —ln the parish of Runwell, Essex, an apparatus has been lately invented by the rector for ringing the church bells by electricty. The origin of the invention is rather curious. The rector, finding a difficulty in obtaining bell-ringers, rung the bells for three months himseif. In order to save the labor involved in per forming this task he invented the "au tomatic ringer” and erected the appara tus in the church tower. By connecting the machine with the electric current al ready in use for lighting the church and rectory, the bells are now rung with per. feet order and precision. —A correspondent of the Boston Trans cript from Iloilo Island of Panay, in the Philippines, writes: “What interests Americans more than anything else is the opportunity for the development of the tobacco industry and the chances for Americans to engage in the traffic. The chances for development are probably greater than those offered in any other country, for the reason that in this coun try everything has been held back for a hundred years or more, and the condi tions at present are ripe for improvement. If the tobacco lands of the Philippines have been made to pay iarge returns on the original investments under the pre vailing conditions, the chances for making iarge gains under modern methods must be apparent. There is a good chance for en American buyer of cigars to make money by putting up an outfit with which to go from district to district in which the cigars are made by the women folks in the towns and barrios.” —ln ages gone by there were snakes in Colorado perhaps 100 f at in length, says I the Denver Republican. Cura’or Will C. j Ferril of the State Historical Society considers himself at liberty to make th s statement, as the result of recent dis coveries made in the vicinity of Flor i cnee. A huge monster has been discov j ered which proves beyond peradventure the snake story. Near Florence. W F. Masters of Vic-or found part of the pet rified body of one colossal snake. The prehistoric reptile had a head fully the size of a ham and about the same shape. The exceptionally large eyes are placed as are those of an ordinary snake. The stone head Is 33x38 inches. A piece rtf the stone tail found, which Is thirty-six Inches long, indicates that the repti e must have been thirty inches in circum ference. Masters seems to think from the development of the tall that this par ticular snake was a young one. not fully developed. In that case those of the same family fully grown would be larger and much longer. In sending to Gov. Thomas tie description of this important discov ery Masters says that he will forward a sketch as soon as possible. Ferril was asked by Gov. Thomas to use every means at his disposal to secure the sre.-i --men at onee, together with as many oth ers from the same locality as possible. Curator Ferril thinks that as the osL fled head was found in the sandstone strata there must be more specimens near at hand. These he will at once se cure, If possible, and will ndd them to the state collection. Mash rs' letter io Gov Thomas, which sets forth the first vague and uncertain facts In this Im portant discovery. Is as follows: “Hon ored Sir—l have recently found a fossil ized specimen of a huge mons'er of a very singular character, and, thinking you were the one most likely to cite me to the prop<r person for further corre tpondenee In regard to the matter, I would !e pleased to have you refer the matter to proper authority and have the lnc'osed clipping written up in the Re. publican If 1 have time I will send a tough sketch of the find. I think this |s ■ something no; on record, and should be \ kept in tbe state museum. ' Jos. A. Magnus & Cos., CINCINNATI, O. S„ 1.81. Of mi R’T UND G. BS. RT hCUEDLLE For Isle cf Hope, Montgomery, Thunder bolt, Cattle Park and West End. Daily except Sundays. Subject to change ■without notice. ISLE OF HOPE. Lv. City for 1. of H.| Lv. Isle of Hope. 6 30 am from Tenth | 806 am for Bolton 730 am from Tenth j 600 ani for Tenth 830 am from Tenth j 7 00 am for Tenth 9 15 am from Bolton | 8 00 am for Tenth 10 30 am from Tenth |lO 00 am for Tenth 12 TO n'n from Tenth |ll 00 am for Bolton 1 15 pm from Boleon jll 30 am for Tenth 230 pm from Tenth | 200 pm for Tenth 330 pm from Tenth | 2 40 pm for Bolton 430 pm from Tenth | 300 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth 400 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth | BCO pm for Tenth 730 pm from Tenth | 700 pm for Tenth 830 pm from Tenth | 800 pm for Tenth 930 pm from Tenth | 900 pm for Tenth 10 30 pm from Tenth |lO 00 pm for Tenth ju 00 pm for Tenth MONTGOMERY. Lv city for Mong'ry. |" Lv. Montgomery. 830 am from Tenth | 715 am for Tenth" 230 pm from Tenth | 1 15 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth | 600 pm for Tenth CATTLE PARK. Lv city for Cat.Purkj - Lv. Cattle Park. 6 30 am from Bolton | 700 am for Bolton 7 30 am from Bolton | 8 00 am for Bolton 100 pm from Bolton | 1 $0 pm for Bolton 2 30 pm from Bolton | 3 00 pm for Bolton 700 pm from Bolton j 7 30 pm for Bolton 800 pm from Bolton | 8 30 pm for Bolton THUNDERBOLT. Car leaves Bolton street junction B:30 a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter until 11:30 p. m. Car leaves Thunderbolt at 6:00 a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter until 12:00 midnight, for Bolton street Junc tion. FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR* This car carries trailer for passengers on all trips and leaves west side of city market for Isle of Hope. Thunderbolt and all intermediate points at 9:00 a. m.. 1:00 p. m., 5:00 p. m. Leaves Isle of Hope for Thunderbolt, City Market and all Intermediate points at 6:00 a. m.. 11:00 a. m., 2:40 p. m. WEST END CAR. Car leaves west side of city market for West End 6:00 a. m. and every 40 minutes thereafter during the day until 11:30 p. m. Leaves West End at 6:20 a. m. and ev ery 40 minutes thereafter during the day until 12:00 o’clock midnight. H. M. LOFTON. Gen. Mgr. The Singer Piano of Chicago, 111. This SINGER PIANO Is sold by many of the leading dealers In the United States, such as Wm. Steinert Sons Cos., who have the largest establishments in Boston. New Haven and Providence. Also the SINGER PIANO is sold by Wm. Knabe Cos., having the leading house* in Boston, Baltimore, Washington and New York city. There are a large number of leading houses handling SINGER PIANO, too numerous to mention. The SINGER PIANO is evidently one of the best pianos in the market, or It would not be sold by these leading houses. It has an elegant singing tone, much finer than most pianos, and about one-half the price of other Instruments. Call and see, and examine the BINGEH PIANO and save a good deal of money on your purchase. Same guarantee Is ex- I tended for the SINGER PIANO as any of the leading pianos of the day. and a sat- ' Isfactory price will be given to all on ap plication. LIPPMAN BROTHERS. Wholesale Agents, Wholesale Druggists, Barnard and Congress Streets, Savannah, Ga. M'MMldt HkSUItTS. CHARIVjINC RESORTS For health an<l pleasure along the line j of the Tallulah Falla Ry Cos. To those seeking summer homes attention is In vited to the delightful mountain resorts j along the line of the Tallulah Falls Ry. j Close connections are made with all j Southern Railway trains. You can leave Atlanta 7:50 a. m., 12 o’clock noon, and j 4:30 p. m. Comfortable and convenient I hotels and boarding houses are located j at Demorest, Clarksville, Nacoochee Val ley, Turnersvllle. Tallulah, Tallulah Falls, anal in Rabun county. Any of these places con be reached in a three hours’ ride from Atlanta. This is one of the most beautiful and picturesque sections of the South. The climate is j cool and salubrious and the water the purest and best in the world. For fur ther Information apply to SAM CEE C. DUNLAP. General Manager, Clarksville, Ga. HOTEL VICTORIA Broadway, sth avenue and 27th st., New York city. Entirely new, absolutely fire proof; European plan. Rooms, SI.OO per day and upward. ROBERT T. DUNLOP. Manager. Formerly of Hotel Imperial. Good Goods —Close Prices. Send us your orders. Soaps, Patent Medicines, Drugs, Rubber Goods, Per fumery, Toilet Powder, Combs, Brushes, He. DONNELLY DRUG CO., Phone 678. Liberty and Price sts. J. D. WEED * CO UVAHIAB, GA. Leather Belting, Steam Packing 4 Hose. I I Agents for NEW YORK RUBBER j BELTING AND PACKING COMPANY. 1 Empty Hogsheads. Ciaptr Molasses tiugelirad* fa* sale by c. M. GILBERT & CO. Ocean SteainsHin Ga -FOR IMew York,Boston —AND THE EAST. Unsurpassed cabin accommodations. All the comforts of a modern hotel. Electric lights. Unexcelled table. Tickets Include meals and berths aboard ship. Passenger Fares From Savanna! TO NEW YORK-FIRST CABIN. $"o FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP. $32 IV TERMED I ATE CABIN. sls; INTERME DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP, }>). STEERAGE, $lO. TO BOSTON FIRST CABIN, $22- FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP. $36. IN-' TERMEDIATE CABIN. sl7; INTERME DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP, S2B 00. STEERAGE, $11.75. The express steamships of this line are appointed to sail from Savannah, Central (90<h) meridian time, as 'ollows: SAVANNAH TO SEW YORK. 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 Berg, THURSDAY. Aug 30. 8:00 a. m. TALLAHASSEE, Cart Askins SAT -I'RDAY. S pt. 1. 9:00 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett, MONDAY. Sept. 3, 11:30 a. m. NACOOCHEE. Capt. Smith, TUESDAY, Sept 4. 12:30 p. m. KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, THURS DAY, Sept. 6. 2:30 p. m CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Berg, SATURDAY. Sept 8, 4:00 p. m . TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins. MON DAY. Sept. 10. 5:30 p. m. CITY' OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Daggett. TUESDAY. Sept. 11, 6:30 p m. NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith. THURS DAY. Sept. 13. 8:00 p. m. KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher. SATUR DAY. Sept*. 15. 10:00 p. m. CITY’ OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Berg, MONDAY. Sept. 17, 12:’0 noon. TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins, TI'ES DAY, Se; t. is. 1: 0 p. m CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt Dagrett, THURSDAY’, Sept. 20, 2:30 p m NACOOCHEE. Capt Smith, SATUR DAY. Sept. 22. 4:00 p. m KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher. MONDAY, Sept. 24, 5:00 p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Berg, TUESDAY. Sept. £3, 5:30 p. m. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Askins, THi'RS DAY, S.pt. 27, 6:30 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett, SATURDAY, Sept. 29, 8:00 p. m. NEW YORK TO BOSTON. CITY OF MACON. Cap*. Savage, MON DAY, Aug. 27, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, FRI DAY, Aug. 31, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage, WED NESDAY’, Sept. 5, noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage, MON DAY, Sept. 10. noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage. FRI DAY, Sept. 14. noon. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, WED. NESDAY. Sept. 19, noon CITY OF MACON. Capt Savage, MON DAY, Sept. 24, noon. CITY’ OF MACON. Capt. Savage, FRI DAY, Sept. 28, noon. This company reserves the right to change Us sailings without notice and without liability or accountability there for. Sailings New Y’ork for Savannah daily except Sundays, Mondays and Thursday, EDO 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 UNO MINERS TRANSPORTATION CO. STBAHSUII* LINKS. SAVANNAH TO BALTIMORE. Tickets on sale at company’s offices to Ihe following points at very low rates ATLANTIC CITY, N. J BALTIMORE, MD. BUFFALO, N. Y. BOSTON, MASS. CHICAGO, ILL. CLEVELAND, 0. ERIE, PA. HAGERSTOWN. HARRISBURG, PA. HALIFAX, N. S. NIAGARA FALLS. NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA. PITTSBURG. PROVIDENCE. ROCHESTER. TRENTON. WILMINGTON. WASHINGTON. First-class tickets include meals end 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): ALLEGHANY. Capt. Foster, THURS DAY, Aug. 23, at 4:00 p. ni. TEXAS. * Capt. Eldridge, SATURDAYi Aug'. 25. at 5:00 p. m. D. H. MILLER,' Capt. Peters, TUES DAY. Aug. 28. 6:00 p. m. ITASCA, Capt. Diggs, THURSDAY, Autf. 30, 7:00 p. m. ALLEGHANY, Capt. Foster, SATUR DAY, Sept. 1, 10:00 p. m. TEXA3, Capt. Eldridge, TUESDAY, Sept. 4, 1:30 p. m. D. H. MILLER, Capt. Peters. THURS DAY, Sept. 6, 3:30 p. m. And from Baltimore Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays at 4:00 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 BRHNNAN BROS., WHOLESALB Fruit, Produce, Grain, Etc. 22 BAY STREET, Was*. Telephone SS*- JOHN G. BUTLER, _LHsiALLiI i*' - Paint*, Oil* ana Gtaa, •**>. Doo "'^’ and Builder*' Bupplla*. t’taln and live Wall Paper, f oraUn and y o "** Cement*. Lima. P!el*r and Hair Arrnt for Afcretln* CnM Water P*l" CooffT*** *tr**t, weaLand a 8t - Ju ““ alrwet, MM.