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4 gflje Jfflnfning MuruiDK Vcwk Building. hanaHh, Un. SATT'RDAY, ABOIiT ark lf*oo. Regt*iere<s at the PostofHc* in Savannah. The MORNING NEWS is publiahed even- day In tba year, and is served to 6Ubsorib*rs In the city, or sent by man. at 70e a month. *4 Ott for six months, and sß.o if t or one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a weelt (without Sunday issue), three months, {1.50; six months {3.00; one year $6 00. Tbe WEEKLY NEWS, 2 lseues a week. Monday and Thursday, toy mail, one year, $1 00. Subscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency 6ent by mail at rik ot tenders. Trane lent advertisements, other than special 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 rales 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 Fark Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. 15DEX 10 KEI ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices —Notice, William P. Bailey, Clerk of Counoil: Fine Goode at Low Prices, C. A. Drayton Grocery Com pany; Richard Baughn on Suwanee Springs Water for Rheumatism; Fancy and Re-Pressed Brick, Savannah Build ing Supply Company; Mantels, Grates and Tiling. Andrew Hanley Company; As Usual, the Very Best at Funk's; Ship Notice, Strachan & Cos., Consignees; Le van’s Table d'Hote. Business Notices—Henry Solomon & Son Control the Genuine Old Grotv Whis key; Groceries, The S. W. Branch Com pany. Butter—At Munster's. Corsets Thomson's "Glove-Fitting'’ Corsets. Offlaial—City Ordinances. Railway and Mill Supplies—W. Ross Gravener, Manufacturers’ Agent. Electric Paste—Steam’s Electric Paste. Men’s Furnishing Goods—The Bee Hive. Proposals—Sale of U. S. Vessels Nan tucket and Cheyenne. Postum Food and Grape-Nuts—PoStum Cereal Company. Cheroots—Old Virginia Cheroots. Amusements —Guy Woodward at Thea ter, Week Commencing Aug. 27; Her mann, the Great, at Theater. Aug. 28. MedioaJ— Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Pills; Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Tutt’s Pills. Cheap Column Advertisement—Help Wanted, Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The Indications for Georgia to-day arc for generally fair weather; warmer In Interior, with light southwesterly winds; and for Eastern Florida generally fair weather; warmer in central and northern portion, with light southeasterly winds. Maybe ex-Gav. Northen's appearance In a shirtwaist will make the farmers less backward about coming to town In a Cos too shirt with “one gallus 1 a Hr. Hanna s demand for the perpetua tion of the present administration, made In bis Asbury Park speech, was hardly inadvertent. It is not denied that his efforts are directed toward the perpetua tion of the imperialistic policy. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has himself net at rest the report that he was to return to America to old Mr. Bryan’s campaign. Mr. Carnegie may be strongly opposed toe the imperialistic policy, but it is not like ly that his opposition there i so strong as is hie advocacy f trusts. Street car conductors will have to be ware, if a decision of a Washington po lice oourt Justice holds good. Profanity, this Justice declared, is excusable under great provocation, and upon this view o' the case he dismissed a defendant charged with swearing trt a street car conductor, who had refused to give him a transfer. Perhaps the Justice had had some similar provocation himself. If Mr. Hanna's agents aro violating the civil service law with reference to levy ing assessments upon public officials for campaign purposes, it must be that they are doing It with his connivance and con sent. It is a general principle In law that the principal is more guilty than the ac cessory. If ouch campaign assessments are being levied, as Is stated, why would it not be a good idea for the civil service officials to make a test case of Mr. Hanna? Every now and then It is made apparent that IxMidon business methods are some wnat behind rhe times, in spite of that city's great etgv. The threatened inva sion of London by the American .depart ment store is already causing much talk of adverse legislation, and with Us ad vent there is no doubt that the small shop keepers will rise up in urms ugoinst it. There was some talk of anti-depart ment store legislation in the I'nlted Stales a short time ago, btrt the department store continues to exist and increases in num ber. The Joy of the Republicans over the re turn of Senator Stewart to their |>arty is sufficiently great to justify the conclu sion that they really feel .they are in noed of recruits. The Senator is one of the most tiresome ruen in public life. It was supposed he left flie Republican party because he was largely Interested in silv-r mines. He joined ills political fortunes to those of the Silver Repub licans. He must have made up Ida mind that the silver Issue was tlead or else h* would never hove gone back to the Re publican party. His going back will in crease Senator Hanna's difficulties in try ing to got the people to believe that the •liver question 1 the paramount one In the campaign. The desertion of the Sil ver Republican party by Senator Slew-art will convince - large percentage of people that that question U practically settled. WHY XOT WITHDRAW FROM CHI* A? It is a caue for satisfaction that no more American troops are to be sent to China unless there are developments there which demand additional troops to properly pro tect our interests. Troops which hud been ordered there, but which have not yet reached their destination, will go to Ma nila. With those 1 which have about reach ed China Gen. Chaffee will have 5,000 men under his command. A® far as can be seen now, he will not have need for a larger number than that. l*ut would it not be advisable for the United States to withdraw their army from China t once? What reason have they for keep ing an armed force on Chinese soil, now that the purpose of sending an army to China has been accomplished? They have not declared war against China, and they are not making any demand on that em pire with which it refuses to comply. Li Hung Chang has asked that the United States appoint at once someone with authority to negotiate terms of peace. The reply of our government to that re quest, it seems to us, was a very proper one. It was that it did not appear that Li Hung Chang had authority to make such a request—that it could not consider a request of that kind unless it came from the recognized head of the Chinese gov ernment. Doubtless Li Hung Chang will get the authority which it is necessary he shall possess In order to represent his government in peace negotiations. It may be that there are excellent rea sons why the United States should keep an army at Pekin for the present—reasons which the government thinks it unwise to make public—but the people fail to see any. The sentiment of the entire country seems to be that our troops ought to be with drawn at once. A number of senators have been Interviewed in regard to the matter and the most of them have taken the position that the sooner the United States get their troops out of China the better it will be for them. There is no good reason to doubt that several of the Powers are preparing to take possession of Chinese territory, and it may be to set government at Pekin under their protection. The Ameri can people don’t want any Chinese territory', nor do they want their govern ment to enter Into any arrangemni for sotting up a government for China. They’ know that their army can be recalled now w'ith honor to the country and without en tangling the government In any' schemes for despoiling China which the Powers of Europe may have in. view. Therefore the President and his advisers will make a mistake if they insist upon keeping an army in Pekin, unless there are reasons for doing so which the great majority of the people would approve. The question of indemnity can be settled without the presence of an armed force on Chinese soil. If the Chinese government* should refuse to make a just settlement of our claims growing out of the attack on our minister at Pekin, a couple of war ships could get close to one of the Chi nese ports, and, under threats of bom bardment, compel a settlement. The thing to do now, as far as can be seen, is to withdraw our army* from Pekin and, in fact, from China. OMAHA’S ItLAt'K. EYE. It is evident that Omaha, Nob., has not gone backward, and yet the census re|Kirt shows that she has. The enumeration this year gives her 102,555 Inhabitants. The enumeration of 18K> gave her a population of 140,152. Seemingly, therefore, she has lost 37.897 inhabitants In the last ten years —a los of 26.98 per cent. There are, how ever, no signs of a loss of population. On the contrary, a great many new buildings have been erected. It was said, immediately after the enum eration of 1890. that Omaha’s returns were padded. Thousands of people were cred ited to that city who had no residence there. It was the hope o< the city that a big showing of population would be a great advertisement for her. It probably did help her a little, hut not nearly as much as was expected. • But the showTng she makes this year will do her far more harm than the false return of ten years ago did her good. Peo ple are not anxious to invest in a town that is apparently going backward, and the census figures indicate, though not truthfully, that Omaha is going backward. The most dissatisfied of all ot the cities, whose populations under the present census have been made public, Is Chicago, and yet ehe shows a percentage of gain larger than thatof any other. The census gives her 1.698,575 inhabitants. That is about a half a million more than she had in IS9O. Her newspapers are insisting, however, that she has more than 2,000,000 within her lim its. The city has had three censuses tak en on her own account recently, namely, a postolfice census, a directory census and a school census. The most favorable of these gave her 2,015,000, and the least favor able 2,007,000. The chances ere that the Federal census is pretty close to the truth, notwithstand ing the fan that her newspapers are In sisting that there was gross carelessness In taking it. The fact Is Chicago would rot have iteen- satisfied if the census had given her 2,000.000 inhabitants. She It is an ambition to be the biggest city of the country—an ambition that is not likely to be satisfied In many years, if ever. The muddle in the Neely cave appear* to he growing thicker. Nobody doubts Neely’s guilt of wrongfully appropriating Cuban funds, and yet there appears to be what might be called u legu. conspira cy in his favor. The courts, of course, are not lo he hlamcd for construing the law as they understand it. hut it appear* that there is an unnecessary amount of red tai>e to be gone through with before the desired end is arrived nt. There Is Utile doubt that it will' end In the extra dition of Neely, but before It does t i. according to present progress, it may he that Cuba will have been given her In dependence. and Neely's trial will be un der a different regime. ty trolley line fritn Boston to Wash ington is the latest gigantic rnpll a Italic s-heme tn fool. A syndicate lie de I by a number of East rn capitalist-, has sue. eroded in a curing f anchi es that will permit the construction of a trolley line from New Y rk city io Harrisburg. Pa . the olij ct belrg to extin I it ultimately ■t, othir direction so ns lo connec Bos ton and Washington. Th syndicate al ready owrs tiolley lll.es covering all lint forty-fix milts of the distance lad ween New Yrrk and Harrisburg, and arrange ment* have ate lit be n made lo complete It for th# liuUmee of tfi distance. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1900. SOI 111 < tHOLIA A*S CAMPAIGN. The state campaign in South Carolina, one of the most interesting in that state’s history, and one of those unique affairs for which the state is famous, was con cluded Thursday at Columbia, and the Democrats are now ready for the battle of ballots at the primary' on Tuesday. Aug. 28. The South Carolina campaign consists essentially of stump debates be tween all the candidate® within the party. They go together from place to place and extol their own virtues and lay bare their enemies’ errors. It is possi ble under these circumstances to inject • a considerable amount of bitterness into a campaign, and the candidates in this in stance have not failed to do tso. Sena tor Tillman, w r ho is striving for the elec tion of a Legislature that will return him to the United States Senate, was re ponsible for much of this, though there were one or two bitter encounters be tween candidates for Governor in which 4 he Senator appeared in the role of peace maker. Senator Tillman’s chances for re-election, it is claimed, are more in doubt now than when the campaign be gan. His bitter antagonism of the pul pit has arrayed the ministers of the whole state against him, and they are fighting him with a severity' that is like ly to prove telling when the result is known. The dispensary' has, of course, been the most important and Interesting factor in the fight between the candidates for Governor and the other state offices. Gov. McSweeney’s administration ha® been at tacked on the alleged ground that he has not enforced the dispensary law. He has reduced the number of liquor constables, but has given a careful and a quiet ad ministration, not hunting for violations of the law where they do not exist, and hence has not displayed the skyrocket qualifies of tome of his predecessors. As a candidate for election to the governor ship he has avoided adding to the bitter ness of campaign, and there is a be lief in many quarters that he will be made the party’ nominee. Col. Hoyt, as the representative of the prohibition ele ment, has made a strong fight, and has held up his end well. While the prohibi tion element is a rather powerful one this year, it does not appear that the state is ready- juet yet to accept prohibition as the proper remedy. Gary, too, has made a good tight, though he has been attacked on the ground that too many of his fam ily have held office, while Whitman and Patterson have not lagged behind in the procession. With five gubernatorial can didate* in the field it Is difficult to pre dict w'hat will be the outcome, and so far as is known, no prediction has been attempted by any thoroughly unprejudiced authority. The chances are, however, that the dispensary’ will hold on for some time to come. The candidates for railroad commis sioner, lieutenant governor, adjutant general and other state offices, while they have been following the campaign from point to point, have been given less at tention than Tillman and the candidates for Governor, for the reason that little is involved in their fight outside of tehir personal desire for election. The liquor question has been the main issue and on that ground the contest has been , fought out. Tillmanlsm in a more or less modified form will undoubtedly prevail, whether the Senator succeeds in being re elected or not. THE, HANNA ASSESSMENT. It Is probable that Senator Hanna is not asking each Federal office-holder to make a eontributMn to the campaign fund of the Republican party, but each office-holder—especialy each one that af filiates with the Republican party—knows that it he fails to make a contribution the chances are that an excuse will be found for dropping him from the pay rolls. Therefore, In getting oontributlons for the Republican campaign fund the law against assessing office-holders for political purposes Is not actually violat ed. The spirit of it, however, is, and it ought to be so amended as to prevent em ployes of the government contributing to campaign funds of political parties. It seems to be the understanding that Senator Hanna is not having much suc cess in collecting campaign funds. That is the reason he is saying that the Re publicans are apathetic this year. It has seemed strange lo many why Senator Hanna went to New Jersey to deliver a political speech, when It was well known that his health was such- that he ought not to make any extraordinary exertion. No doubt his purpose was to give the trusts a hint, that If they know what is best for their Interests they will not de lay long in making liberal campaign con tributions. New Jersey is the home of the trusts. More of them are incorpor ated under the laws of that state than un der the laws of all of the other states to gether. By going to that state and an nouncing that It wnecessary tor the Republicans-to "wake up" If they wanted to win the election this year, he practi cally told the trusts that the time hod arrived for them to come up with their campaign offerings. And their offerings will have to be large to satisfy Senator Hapna. He real izes that the Republicans have an up hill tight on hand. The feeiing through out the country against imperialism is very strong, and Mr. Bryan, by his ad mirable speeches is making It stronger. Senator Hanna and tho other Repub lican leaders have been doing their best to bring tile silver question to the front, but they have met with no success. The people are Interested In Imperialism, and it iooks as if the .bmoalgn would have to be fought on that Issue.and that means Democratic success. It I haid (o believe that the Republi cans intend to make a cam al n orntor : out of Minis cr c ng. r whose rescue from I is p< rilous position has Just been aceom p Ished, y. t lit. Chicago Tlmee-Heiald Is reqonslble for the report# that he will n, ,k a f w speech for McKinley and Roosevelt, if he can gel home in time. Perhaps litis Is on* rf "Boss” Hanna s I l<; s since he counsels that the Repub i IBans, this year, mutt not ”mlst a trick.” Mr. Bryan and Chairman Jones have ve ry wisely decided o keep hands oIT in state Pcm era tic affairs In New York. They wII lak' no stand eitier for or •■gainst the rotrltfttlun of Mr. Coer, and both factions Jin r r be. n so no'lfled. The C'tltcst In New York Is putely a local one, and has •v. n las tearing on the nattornl sleetl'ii than do lh results of local ‘dec Ins In sc m. of the ler# popu ious stats. The statement made at the Farmers’ ' National Congress by’ Dairy’ Commission er Whittaker of Massachusetts, that the j annual value of dairy product* of the j United States is, in round figures, SSOO,- J 000.000, is somewhat startling. At that fig- j ure it is greater than the cotton crop, j the staple of the South. To equal in value j the dairy- products of the country’ a 10- 000,000 bale crop of cotton would have to j sell at ten cents a pound. With that j enormous production of the dairies there j is seldom heard a cry that the dairymen are receiving less for their products than j it costs to make them. One of the leaders of New York and Newport society, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, entertained the ‘‘4oo“ the other night at a “harvest festival dance,” at her New port villa. The feature of this interest ing function was its rusticity’. The pro duct® and the costumes of the farm, but on a magnificent scale, of course, formed the decorations of the villa and the adornment of tile guests. The extent to which wealthy’ New-port society will go for originality’ Is not surprising, though it is rather strange that the rural and the rustic should be drawn upon to se cure it. It is now considered practically certain that Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., will be nom inated as the Republican Candida*® for Governor of New York state. Odell is well-known as a machine man and is un questionably satisfactory’ to Senator Platt. Bird S. Coler. too, is a machine man,’ but he docs not appear to be the kind of a machine man that Chief Croker wants. Strange Id say it has bcn stated very forcibly that Mr. Croker would rather see a machine Republican elected, than to take chances on Mr. Coler’s getting into the gubernatorial chair. Judging from the reply of the Russian general commanding the forces in China, when the rest of the Powers decided not to lire upon the Imperial Chinese palace, Russia is at war with the Chinese. If this is true, it is difficult to see how r the other Powers which have maintained that they were not making war upon that country-, can continue to join issues -with Russia, unless they place themselves In the same attitude. It will be interesting to know what view- Count von Waldersee will take of this matter when he gets there and takes charge. Tammany Hall is not very anx ious to “cut any more ice,” at least not so far as the New York ice trust is concerned. Richard Croker announces that he has sold ill of his ice stock, and it is likely that Mayor Van Wyck will do the same thing. Cro ker eays the Republicans have made a great mistake in the ice trust agitation on account of the fact that ell of the offi cials and directors of the trust are Re publicans. He thinks, the shoe Is on the other foot, and -that it will do some pinching. The first American soldier to scale the Chinese wall and enter the city of Pekin tvas Calvin P. Titus, an army musician, and a former member of the Salvation Army. He is not yet twenty years old, arid when he desired to enlist as a regular he pawned hie watch to pay for guardian ship papers so that he could secure proper permission to go into the army. He was wounded slightly as he went over the wali, but not sufficiently to prevent his being heard from again, as he undoubted ly will be. PERSON AM. The Queen of Spain has announced that in the event of the marriage of the Princess of the Asturias to Prince Charles of Bourbon no dowry will he ask ed for from Parliament. —Mrs. Deliah George of Lancaster, N. Y., is said to be the oldest woman in that stale outside of New- York city. The other day she celebrated her 104th birthday In full possession of her health and faculties. —Gov. Crane of Massachusetts is so much of a reader that he never goes about without several small books In his pockets. Talking on almost any topic he will say: "Apropos of that, I’ve just been reading"— and will dive into a pocket and bring out a book, find that is not the volume he is in searcli of and go for another pocket, and so on until he gets the book he hap pens to have In mind. In every pocket, however, there seems to be a book of some sort. CURRENT COMMENT. The" Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) gives tho people of the North this interesting bit of encouragement: "The summer is not yet over. Anew hot wave, with tem peratures as high as HX) degrees in the shade, has been scorching Kansas and other trans-Mississippi states for several days, and on Tuesday it had advanced as fur eastward at Si. Louis. It is not likely to bring its extreme severity to this section—neither hot nor cold waves ever do—but it may well be hot enough to causa discomfort, not positive suffer ing and d.-nth. Augusi does not epd the summer season in this latitude; we un apt to have a spell of extremely hot weather in September.” • The Washington Post (Ind.) says: ”Our trade with China is not in danger. Least of all, will we have to fight to retain what we already possess. The extension of our commerce Is not ’to be pUEfhaxed at the price of war. If such a dreadful contingency sivould bo really threatened, we might w ll pause and wonder if it were worth the cost. It Is not, however, even n remote possibility. The time has not'yet come, thank heaven, when, for the United States, armed conflict anil trade extension must needs go hhnd in hand." The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) says of Mr. Bryan us a campaigner: “Mr. Bry an's speeches do not netd Interpretation or explanation. They are direct and to the point. They are alive. They are more than eloquent. They deal in man to-man find lieurt-to^heari stylo with Is sues that are immediate and vital. The citizen of the United State*—especially If he Is a Democrat of any shade of belief— who expresses doubt about Mr. Bryan wli bout having read his Indianapolis speech, does himself a rank injustice.” The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says: "What In the matter with Hanna? The cry of alarm which he emitted In his speech at Asbury Park on Tuesday even ing last betokens slow subscriptions to lhe Republican campaign fund. He talks about a lock of patriotism: but patriot ism and cash tire ail one In the Hanna vocabulary. What he really lacks Is ready cash.” The Springfield Republican (Ind.) says: "If China ennnot pay a money Indem nity to tho United Ktales, why uot let 'hat nntlon take the Philippines instead, suggests Henaior Money of Mississippi. And, Indeed. In n etrlotly financial view, what gieuter or more profitable indem nity could we possibly exactV Hail a Close Call. “An officer often has to risk his life to protect i prisoner,” remarked an old rail road detective last evening, according to the New Orleans Times-Democrat, “but generally a little strategy will outwit n mob. The queerest case of that kind I ever heard of happened years ago, out In Colorado, at a place called Carbonvllle. It was a pretty tough mining camp, and one night* In a brawl, the town marshal was shot dead by a gambler named Con nors. The mufderer was n stranger in the place and managed to make his es cape, but the marshal had been very pop ular, and the miners swore all kinds of vengeance. About a week later a couple of deputy sheriffs captured Connors at a place some thirty miles away and decided to take him to the next county seat for safe keeping. The road ran through Car bonville, and, as the news of the arrest had already reached the camp and stirred it to fever pitch, they calculated, very correctly, that there was likely to be trouble when they showed up. At last one of the deputies, a reckless sort of chap named Jake Higgins, suggested a scheme. I look a good deal like Connors,’ he said, ‘and those folks over there hardly know hint. Suppose I play prisoner, while we send an officer with our man through town by a back road. They ain’t going to hang me right away sudden, and while they are pow-wowing about it Connors will be through and gone. Then we can tell ’em who I am, show ’em our badges and papers, have the laugh on the gang and follow on behind.’ This brilliant idea, which w’ould have occurred to noSody but a scatter-brained lunatic like Higgins, was promptly adopted. He was handcuffed, put in a wagon between two deputies, and the real prisoner brought up the rear with another officer in a buggy. “It was about dusk when the wagon reached Carbonville,” continued the detec tive, and, “just as they had expected, a crowd of tough citizens were in waiting. They promptly held up the team, and the spokesman told the officer® that the good citizens of the camp had decided it wasn’t worth while to waste any money giving Connors a regular trial. The only thing that was needed, he said, was a short piece of hemp, and they brought a section of shaft rope, all ready for the ceremony. The deputy began to expostulate to gain time, but they cut him short and started to drag Higgins out of the wagon, while some of the others threw the loose end of the rope over n near-by limb. That looked critical, and the deputy got rattled. ‘Hold on, boys!’ he yelled, ‘this isn’t the man!’ And with that lie blurted out the whole story as fast as hi 9 tongue could wag. As they might have anticipated, if they had had any sense, the explanation was received with jeers. Y'ou see, Connors had been in camp only a few hours before he got into the shooting scrape, and Higgins was himself a stranger in that locality; so it whs easy to confuse them, especially as they really did look alike. A dozen men in the crowd declared positively that the deputy was the real murderer, and they simply laugned nt his papers and star. ‘lt’s too thin!’ said the leader; ‘We’ll give you a couple of minutes to say your prayers, and then up you go!’ At that stage, when Higgins’ life wasn’t worth an old button, a minor came rushing up with the news that two men had been badly hurt in a runaway on the edge of comp, and that one of them was handcuffed. That started the crowd, and they sus pended proceedings to investigate. It seemed that the other officer with the bona tide prisoner had attempted to cut around town at top speed and ran the buggy into a little gulch. He had his col lar bone broken and Connors fractured his leg. When they carried them info a bar it was seen at once that there had been a mistake, and, somehow or other, the idea that they had come within an ace of stringing up the wrong man took nil the lynching spirit out of the mob. Connors was allowed to go through, spent six months in jail, got a change of venue and was actually acquitted on trial. I don’t know what became of him. Higgins died a year or so ago. That’s n true story, boys, and the very closest call In my mem ory.” lee Served at a Dinner, "Speaking of the use and abuse of Ice,’’ said the old engineer, according to the New York Mail and Express,. "I remem ber an experience of mine down in Mex ico in the early eighties. I was one of a party of civil engineers engaged In lay ing the Mexican Central Railroad from (he City of Mexico to Paso del Norte. We began at the Mexican capital and worked North. We couldn’t buy anything worth having in the city, and our supplies were brought down by steamer from San Francisco to Vera Cruz and then carted inland. “It was fearfully hot and one day I conceived the brilliant idea of having our supply steamer bring down several tons of ice on her next trip. The matter was evisily arranged and some weeks later X found myself tyith all the ice I could pos sibly use and some to give away besides. ”1 had been invited out to dine the day the ice came and I decided to send a cake or two to my hostess. I don't know what she imagined it was, but I do know that one of the courses served at the dinner was a big piece of ice brought in on a tray, like a brick of ice cream, and still covered with the sawdust in which it had been packed. "That was bad enough, but I nearly fell off my chair when the servant placed the tray in front of me and the hostess said in Spanish: ‘I thank you for your gift. We thought it would be better if you served it as you do in the States.’ "I gave a gasp and then asked for a hammer. With this I broke the cake Into little pieces and passed the fragments around. The .Mexicans seemed afraid of the stuff, but following the lead of their hostess they nibbled away as if they en joyed it thoroughly. It was a hard posi tion to put a man in, and I don't moke any more presents to my Evi dently Ice was a Northern product of which they knew'little and cared less.” Should Not lack a Name, Kate's place was in the dining-room. She was pot the cook, but she had a fine talent for desstr:s, and often went into the kitchen Yo make up some special dair.ty, says the Worcester Gazette. So it tiappn. and that when the mistress had a clerical dinner, with the bishop and two or thiee other churchmen. Kate was author of the pudding. She was very much pleased when th> Bishop praised tin dish and the olher clergymen echoed his opinion, but she masked her ertjoy m nt cf ihe situation behind the solemn face which she always wore when wait ing on tile table. "Pray iell me,” said the Bishop, "what is the t ame of this wend' rful pudding?" "t really don’t kt.ow,” said the mistress. "Whit Is the name of B, Kate?’ Kate, very proud of the Importance l>e s'nwHi Ujon her, but with features un movi and, sail: "Well, ma’am, to tell ye the truth I've been so buy t.i-day that I hadn’t t me to nune it, but, sure, with so many of the reverend'el, rgy here this evinin' it'll not be long befote 'tls chris tened.” lie Rail n Whole Edition. There were many tales topi In the days . f old of s .aiding wives and henpecked husbands, says the Scottlih-American Evidently the ladies are becoming more equable In their temp, rs,or thrir husbands may have got the "upper hall’." There Is a story told of a |ioor man who was sorely tried lay his wife's temp r. On one occasion a friend asked him If he had ever seen a famous little look which bote the lit s “The afflict and Man's Corn put Ion.” “I hne an edeet'on o't In rna aln hoose," said lie. "Man, I wtd like to see't." aatd his frl< iid "ft me In bye. than” he esld. At the flis-sde sat his wife. Pointing to her, he raid "That's my copy o' The Afflicted Man's Comi aiilcn, *• ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Most bald people are found to lead In door lives, and almost all of them belong to the intellectual class. Usually the loss of hair begin* before the thirtieth year. In woman it usually constitutes a general thinning; in man it affects the top of the head. Diseases that affect the general nutrition of the body are likely to thin the hair. —Philip Eilithorp, a farmer of Hitch cock, S. D., has demonstrated that sugar cane can be grown in that section. He experimented w-ith twelve acres of whut is commonly called “sorghum cane” and is more than gratified’ with the result. It Is rank in growth, ha® large and very juicy stalks, equal in every respect to that grown in lowa, and from it a line quality of sorghum molasses can be made. Mr. Eilithorp will cut the crop for fod der. believing it superior to the best corn fodder, cattle taking to it ravenously. —“Brother Jonathon” was Gov.' Jona than Trumbull cf Connecticut, to whom Washington often applied fer aid ar.d ad vice during the Revolution, and Uncle Sam was Samuel Wilson, a government inspector at Troy, N. Y., during the war of 1832, wlo was accustomed to mark packages he had inspected and passed with the initials “E. A.—U. S.” E. A. stood for Ebert Anderson, the government contractor, and a local wag started the s;ory that U. S.. original’y intended lor United States, meant “Uncle 3am," in playful alius on to the inspector’s first name. Mr. Wilson died in 1854. —The foreign demand for American com is rapidly increasing. Until wifthin recent years Europe failed to recognize the superiority and economy of corYi as a cheap food for animals, but they are now awakening to that fact. Indeed, the in crease in the export observed in the last five years has been the most striking fea ture of our foreign commerce, the increase observed during that period being equal to about 254 per cent. The maximum tvas reached in the last fiscal year, when the exports attained the unprecedented total of 209,348.273 bushels, valued et $85,206,389. This figure represents but one-tenth of the total value of our corn crop. The shah of Persia, though he disgusted i e French people with his unclean per sonal habits, he proved a profitable shop per, and he returned home with a ship load of purchases. In the list of the lat ter American products figure to the follow ing extent: Sixty bicycles, fifteen lawn mowers, ten washing machines, ten naph tha launches, ten windmills, five well boring machines, three motor cars, twen ty baby carriages, three phonographs, ten sewing machines, ten furnaces and cne private railroad car. And his majesty se lected these only after a careful compari son of the makes from every other na tion represented at the Paris Exposition. —The average man’s coat picks up a vast quantity of bacteria in the course of a day, and these are delivered by him in his own home when he returns from labor, says the New York Press. He has rubbed and brushed up against seats in cars that but a moment before were oc cupied by reasty, germ-breeding gutter snipes. He has leaned his elbows on pol luted tables and bars, his back on pillars and posts, all oozing with microbes. Only the rich and fantastic change for dinner. Nearly every one beneath the upper ten dom of swells and strut* lounges about the house in the same old clothes w’ith which he wipes up the office. How he es capes infection I cannot imagine. —William Creiger of Northville, Mich., has on his right cheek a wart which acts as barometer for the entire neighborhood, and in the matter of accuracy is declared to be for ahead of the weather bureau. During dry weather 1-t is small and rather dry. When a storm in coming twenty hours’ notice is given Mr. C. by this wart swelling to two or three times it? nor mal size. During the late drought Mr. Creiger was the object of much prom inence, as everybody wanted to know when rain would come In order to save their corn end potatoes. The day before the. rain did come the wart began grow ing larger and Creiger was pure the drought would be broken, and it was. —Perhaps there Is a lesson for a good many Americans in the fact that Spain seems to have been mu-h benefited by the less of her colonies, savs the Chicago Chronicle. For a number of y ere the na tion was dr line 1 of her young me i in order to ke*p up (he warfare on Cubans and Fi ipinos the m r.e/ of which was about SIOO/93 000 anm a'ly. Now', ac cording to a Spanish financial journal, Spain is progressing more raoid’v than it has at anytime within the la*t century The government loan of s2o>/0M)0 was oversubscribed three times. Industries which have dormant for years are being revived and electr o traction is making is way into Spani h cities. Ppain Is still r ceivlng a large share of the products of what were once her colonies and is buying heavily of machinery from the United States. —Touching the hump continues to be re garded as a sure means of wooing Mis tress Fortune, says a writer in the New York Press. Two young mew who appear ed to be in moderate circumstances, judg ing by their dress, walked through Mail street yesterday just at the time when a hunchback grasped his horse by the head and backed him toward the wholesale end of the Postoffice. The situation did not warrant either in Jostling the malformed creature, but they sidled up over toward him until one rubbed his arm against the protuberance of spine. It seemed to be accidental, of course, and no harm was done. The leprechaun paid no attention They passed on a little distance, when the one who had rubbed against the de formity whispered: "Everything goes yny way to-day. I touched his hump.” The smile of .serene satisfaction indicated a positive faith in lhe enterprise. "The ‘moving train’ illusion is some thing the cyelorama experts have been nt work on for v ars,” said an old showmnn, talking about tricks of lhe trade, accord ing to the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "The idea is to present the same effect one gets in looking out of the window of a passenger car moving at full speed, an.l the thing suggested itself almost ns soon as the modern cyelorama was in vented. In the abstract it seems very sim ple—merely a matter of seating the spec tators in a dummy car and then reeling a long panorama of landscape past the win dows. Nine people out of ten would say such a contrivance would produce an il lusion of motion; but it doesn’t do any thing of the kind. If you will stop fo think about it you will remember that a real landscape, seen through a ear win dow, appears to he moving past you at different rates of spe*>d. The foreground, nearest the trnin, whizzes by like light ning; the middle distance glides away less rapidly, and the horizon line recedes very gradually front view. In order lo secure the same Illusion it Is necessary to observe the same graduations in spied, and that was apparently such a compli cated problem that, most of the cyclo rama people gave it up in despair. But I hear that It has finally been solved in Paris, in the big Silurian Railroad pano rama, and people who have seen the thing lell me that the effect is so reallstls that It is almost impossible lo believe that one Is not actually on a moving train The landscape Is represented by three long rolls of canvass of different bights, the first and lowest showing ihe rocks nn.l bushes of the foreground, the second the middle distance and the third the back ground and sky. They move at speeds of 20. S'A and 3 miles an hour, and the spec tator* nr.- seated in ordlnury parlor cars which are given n alight rocking motion by machinery tibder the trucks. The re. suit 1* the hest illusion in the hietory of eycloramas up in the present day. I un derstand the show will he brought to this ountry after lb* exposition is over,” DR. STEOfWS Teething Powders The Famous Aid to Safe and Painless Teething. Used by mothers the world over for nearly so year* DR. RTEDMAN having opened a branch offic%i!i A meric*, considerably reduces theooatof tfceae JuatlJ celebrated powders. They are put up In yellow w iai pers. The trade mark, a gum luncet, * TRADF <^IS^ MARK Is on every packet and on every powder, without which none is genuine. A packet containing nine powders, 25 cents. At your druggist's, or mailed postpaid on receipt of price. Send for booklet-- “Dr. .sted man's Nursery Doctor .” Address J. fc. MneU ALTER, West Johnson St., Ucrrauntown, Phi]*., I**, Sold by LIPPMAN BROS.. Savannah. Ot. 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The Dollar Atlas is Sold Everywhere for sl, But If You Are a Subscriber to the Morning News the cost to you will be only 40c The Atlas Is now on sa!e at the Busl r.ees Office of the Morning News. If At lf\® is to be mailed add 10 cents for post making 50 cents for the Atlas de livered. MORNING NEWS. Savannah, Ga 8.. 18 LOf mi rt IN) G. 8 S. R’t • SCUEDLLK For Isle of Hope. Montgomery, Thunder bolt, Cattle Park and West End. Dally except Sundays. Subject to change without notice. ISLE OF HOPE Lv. City (OI I. of H. : Lv. Isle ol Hope^ 6 30 am from Tenth [VvO am for T’olion 730 am from Tenth cOO am for Tenth 830 am from Tenth 700 am for Tenlh *ls am from Bolton 800 am for Tenth 10 30 am from Tenth 10 00 atn for Tenth 12 00 n'n from Tenth 11 Oil am for Boltoh 1 IS pm from Boiton 11 30 am for Tenth 230 pm from Tenth 2CO pm for Tenth *BO pm from Tenth 240 ptn for BePoS 430 pm from Tenth 300 pm for T-nth 610 pm from Tenth 400 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth 6<o pm for Tenth 730 pm from Tenth 700 pm for Tenth 830 pm from Tenth BCO pm for Tenth 9SO pm from Tenth | 900 pm for Tenth 10 SO pm from Tenth |lO 00 pm for Tenlh jll 00 pm for Tenth MONTGOMERY. Lv city for Mong'ry. | Lv. Montgomery 830 am from Tenth |715 am for Tenth 230 pm from Tenth | 115 pm for Tenth 630 pm from Tenth | 600 pm for Tenth CATTLE PARK. Lv city for Cut.parkl Lv. Cattle Park~ 6 30 am from Bolton | 700 am for Bolton 7 30 am from Bolton | 8 00 am for Bolton 1 00 pm from Bolton i 1 30 pm for Bolton 2 30 pm from Bolton j 3 00 pm for Bolton 7 00 pm from Bolton | 7 30 pm for Bolton 8 00 pm from Bolton | 8 30-pm for Bolton THUNDERBOLT. Car leaves Bolton street Junction a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter until 11:30 p. nt. Car leaves Thunderbolt at 6:00 a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter until 12:00 midnight, for Bolton street juno -11 FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR. This car carries trailer for passenger* 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., 6:00 p. m. Leaves Isle of Hope for Thunderbolt. City Market and all intermediate point* at 6:00 a. m . 11:00 a. m., 2:40 p. m. WEST END CAR. Car leaves west side of city market tor West End 6:00 a. in. and every 40 minute* thereafter during the day until 11:30 p. m- Leaves West End nt 6:20 " m. and ev ery 40 minutes thereafter during the 0r until 12,00 o'clock midnight. U. M. LOFTON, Oen. Vgr.