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Water; Suwanee Springs. Fla.; Notice.
B. Cohen; Electrical Supply Company;
Practical Cleaners. Savannah Steam Dye
Works; At Joyce's; Sacred Concert at
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Laundry; Hunter & Van Keuren; Out ot
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Sterns’ Bicycles, R. V. Connerat.
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Store.
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Wagon Company.
Daundrv—E. & W. Baundry.
Black Velvet Ribbons —At the Bee Hive.
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lond.
Importers. All Kinds Gin and Rollet
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A Drawing Card tor August—Walsh A
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In Time of Peace Prepare for War—
Leopold Adler.
Good Quality Shoes—Gell & Quint.
Badies' Summer Shirt Waists, Etc.—At
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Gas Bight Cos.
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C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer.
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Bast Week of Our Great Shirt Waist
Sale—At Gutman’s.
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& Bro.
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York; F. D. Rogers & Cos., New York;
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The Wenther,
The indications for Georgia to-day are
for local rains, with light southwesterly
winds; and for Eastern Florida, local
rains and light southeasterly winds.
The currency question in the shape of
campaign contributions ie still a very live
issue with the Republican party.
Booting Pekin appears to be the first
step toward the instruction of the Chinese
in the benefits and advantages of mod
ern civilization.
* • ■
Shanghai Is evidently bent on making a
reputation in the tvay of fabulous re
ports that will surpass those of Mole St
Nicholas and Borenzo Marquee.
The health officer's pronunclamento
against the rank weeds is something like
an impelial Chinese edict—it’s a very good
thing on the face of it, but the powers
that be lack either the Inclination or the
authority to enforce It.
The evidence accumulates. A negro kill
ed a while waiter In Now York City on
Thursday. "Lynch him!” wan the cry
fiom a hundred throats. He was saved
from Immediate destruction by the police
with diawn weapons. Next!
Louis Wormeer of New York, Is to con
fident of McKinley’s eleotlon that he has
bet $40,01(0 to 110,000, B. A. Cooper taking
the Bryan end of it. it may be that some
t me In November Mr. Worm hot will be
iiderlng how Mr. Cooper nought him
for auch a ‘good thing.”
The New York 'l lim* in speaking of the
Akron, Ohio, dleturiiunec, puts forward,
"and doubt )n Jest, the tentative theory of
a mb rots, that breeds riot.” Tile Hot
li’ flit,;. uiaier vulture m the Northern
'lime, has gnen eiUleie. of trill lad Ihit
it I* eonmderaMy MOf* dangerous than
i<i its uit’.-gu natural bnnding ground.
TUB PRESIDENT'S CHINESE POLICY
Our troops are not to be withdrawn
from Pekin immediately. Gen. Chaffee
has recommended their withdrawal just
as soon as the foreigners in Pekin have
been pent to places of safety, and the
very general sentiment of the counlry sus
tain.** this recommendation. It seems that
the President thinks that Gen. Chaffee and
the people do not understand the condi
tions in China-—that is the political condi
tions—and, therefore, he will follow his
own judgment. He may be right. No
doubt he Is aiming to do what he thinks
is for the best interest of the country.
There is nothing for him to gain, from the
standpoint of politics, by keeping troops
in Pekin. Besides, he runs the risk of
making a mistake, and a mistake into im
portant a matter would be very injurious
to his administration and Ms party.
The chief reason why the feeling
throughout the country is in favor of # an
eariy withdrawal from Pekin, is the de
sire that this country shall not become en
tangled in any of the schemes which Eu
ropean Powers may have for the dismem
berment of ihc Chinese empire, or for the
grabbing of Chinese territory. It is al
most eeriain that the present good feeling
between the Powers respecting Chinese
affairs will not be maintained very long.
Already there are signs of trouble. If
our troops are withdrawn from China we
shall be out of the trouble when it comes.
It may be th.it the President thinks our
interests will suffer if we are not on the
ground to protect them. There is some
thing, of course, in that view, but would
it not be better to take the risk of our in
terests suffering a little rather than to
take the chances of becoming engaged in i
a conflict with European Powers over pol
icies in. respect to China?
It is certain that our government will
not take the view of the situation in
China that Russia and Germany will take.
It looks as if each of them is preparing
to insist upon the adoption of its view.
Russia. Is sending a mighty army Into
China, notwithstanding the fact that there
is no need of an army there now, and
Germany has a large force on the way
there. The latter power took one of
China’s best ports and a large slice of
continguous territory as indemnity for the
lives of two missionaries. Bhe may want
half of the Chinese empire as indemnity
for the assassination of her minister.
The only good reason, that has been ad
vanced for keeping our troops at Pekin I
until a settlement is reached is that the
Chinese would construe our withdrawal as
a retreat, and would refuse to grant us
as good terms in settlement of our claims
as if we had soldiers in their capital. The
Chinese minister at Washington, however,
would be able to make his government un
derstand that dur withdrawal was In the
Interest of peace, and for the purpose of
hastening a settlement favorable to China.
It is safe to say that if our troops are
not withdrawn soon their stay in Pekin
will be a much longer one than is now
thought probable. Negotiations are likely
to be long drawn out, with the danger of
trouble between the Powers ever present.
If the President should act in harmony
with the very general feeling of the coun
try in this matter it is doubtful if he would
ever have cause to regret it.
LABOR NEEDED IN COTTON FIELDS.
According to reports from Southern
Georgia a very considerable percentage
of the cotton crop of that section is likely
to be lost because of the inability of the
farmers to get sufficient labor to pick it.
The wages offered are high, but not as
high as are paid by the lumbermen and
turpentine operators.
In all of the towns of the state there
are many unemployed colored men and
women who Could make good wages in
the cotton field. Why do not the cotton
farmers make an effort to get this unem
ployed labor? It is true there would be
some inconvenience in handling it on ac
count of the lack of sleeping and eating
accommodations near the cotton farms,
but it is probable that this difficulty could
be overcome.
During the poach season hundreds of
laborers go from the towns to the peach
orchards and assist in gathering the
peach crop. In the wheat section of the
northwest thousands of persons go from
the towns and assist in the harvesting.
In this city there are, it is safe to say,
a thousand unemployed colored men and
women who could make good wages in
picking cotton frym now until the picking
season is over. Not all ot them would
accept an offer to go to the country to
pick cotton, but it is probable that very
many of them would. Some of them
might turn out to be comparatively
worthless In the cotton field, but, out of
the number obtained, it Is probable that
several hundred might be secured who
would render good service. If efforts were
made In each of the towns a supply- of
labor might be obtained that would be of
very great assistance In saving the
crop.
The cotton farmers are having a pretty
hard time of it this year. The rains and
the drought have cut the crop short and
it is almost Impossible to get sufficient
hands to save what there Is of it. The
only satisfactory- thing in connection with
the crop is the price of cotton. The price
Is good, and If the crop were only a good
one the cotton farmers this year would
feel rich.
ABOLISH TIPPING.
The custom of tipping the waiters and
employes in hotels and restaurants, sleep
ing cars and other places of a public
character has reached the point of ex
treme aggravation. Every now and then
it is the object of denunciation, but it
continues, usually with the connivance
of the employer of the help which ex
ports and demands the tip. It Is money
In the employer's pockrl when the cus
tomer aids In paying his servant's wages.
It is said that the wages of sleeping car
potters are actually fixed on a basis to
give them a certain amount per month
Including tlie lips which it is estimate.)
they will receive from (he passengers.
There is no doubt tlmt the wages of
employes in hotels and restaurants are
much lower than they would lie were not
the tipping custom lu vogue. In Bondon,
particularly, the system lias been carried
to a ridiculous extreme, and Instances
aro known where the employers, instead
of paying them wages,actually exact from
•he employes a part of their “nike-off”
from tIM patrons. To such on extent lute
the evil been curried there that the
waiters have decided to organize mid
enter protest against the system of
tips. Whether the waiters no actuated
by a de. least, 111 the bnesunt received
|i'vi or Horn higher uivUvsa, as
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 20. 1900.
i they assert, cannot be stated, and it is
Ia matter of Indifference, for they have,
; unquestionably, the best of the argument.
Waiters and employes in hotels in Bon
don are very poorly paid, and are ex
pected to make up their necessary living
expensce out of their tips. Now they de
mand that the tipping system be abolish
ed altogether and that their wages be
i -i .They assert that the system de
grades their calling, and that it em
barrasses a large portion of the public |
whose pocker-book is not commensurate
with the desire to live up to the cus
tom.
It would be well if just such a move
ment could be started in the cites of the
United States .in nearly all of which the
tipping system has become, perhaps,
more of an evil than it is in European
countries. It is true that in most Eu
ropean countries the waiter demands his
tip while in America he usually aesumes
an attitude of expectancy and does noth
ing more than look sour if he does not
get it. At the same time It is also true
that the average tip in America is far
larger and more out of proportion to the
service rendered than is the case in the
countries of the old world. In France
for instance, a waiter is satisfied with
two sous for a simple service; in America
the smallest tip is five cents, and so it
increases in proportion. In American cities
sometimes the amount of the tip Is SO nr
100 per cent, of the amount of the bill.
All of this is an outrage upon the Ameri
can public, especially that portion of it
whose real ability extends only to paying
for the service sought. The average Sa
vannahian who fakes a two weeks’ trip
in the summer to some Northern resort
may easily calculate upon spending any
where from $3 to $lO on tips alone during
that time. And the only service received
for it is that for which he has already
paid full price, together with a smile in
stead of a frown from the porter, the bell
boy and the w-aiter.
The American public should see to the
abolishment of the custom through their
disapproval of it. If it cannot be abolish
ed altogether, at the start, the size of the
fee should be made more in keeping with
the service rendered and the amount of
the bill to be paid.
OVER-ZEALOUS MISSIONARIES.
Statements are appearing In the public
prints which seem to justify the conclu
sion that some of the missionaries whose
of labor is in China are over zeal
ous. They are saying that the Boxer
movement was the best thing that could
have happened for the cause of Chris
tianity in China, because the Powers will
not accept any settlement of the attacks
on their ministers in Pekin which does
not include the most ample provision for
the protection of the missionaries while
pursuing their work of Christianizing the
people. Their position Is that in future the
Chinese will be afraid to make any op
position to missionaries, and that the
missionaries will he free to adopt any
methods they please in carrying on their
work.
No doubt the Powers will undertake to
enlarge the liberty which missionaries
have heretofore had, and will insist upon
their having greater privileges and the
most complete prolectlcn, but will the
placing of hard conditions on the Chinese
assist in fitting them for receiving the
Christian religion? Would it not be a
mistake to undertake to force the Chris
tian religion upon them?
It is suspected that more than one of
the Powers have used the missionaries
as a means for acquiring territory. They
have not cared for the success of the
missions so much as for the material ad
vantages to be gained by means of them.
No doubt these same Powers will insist
upon concessions to missionaries In the
settlement with China that will have a
tendency to irritate the Chinese, and thus
open tie way for further territorial de
mands.
Missionary work must, of course, go on
In China, but it ought to be c-nlucted
along lines of the least resistance. The
Chinese ought to be led to accept the
Christian religi n because it is the best
religion, and not because of the armies
and navies behind it. It seems to us that
those missionaries who are rejoicing that
ti e Boxer outbreak has brought about an
exhibition of the power of the Christian
nations that will make the Chinese afraid
to show any resistance to the propaga
tion of the Christian faith in their coun
try are making a great mistake. They are
lacking in the kind of spirit that Chris
tian workers should have.
A QUESTION OF HEALTH.
I* is too late this season to test in the
courts the question whether the city has
the power to compel the owners of vacant
lots to cut and remove the weeds from
them. The city has no ordinance on the
subject at presenit, and would have to
pass one if it undertook to compel lot
owners to clear their lots of weeds. If
such an ordinance were passed no doubt
lot owners would resist the enforcement
of it. It might take months to get a final
decision of the matter.
In the meantime the weeds ought to be
removed. The Health Officer says
they are a menace to the health of the
city. That being the ease there ought to
be no hesitation in having the objection
able weeds removed.
It seems that in other years their re
moval has cos* considerable money. It
is pretty safe to say that If the city
should advertise for bids for the work
it could get the weeds removed for much
less than it wopld cost it to remove them
with its own labor. Some of the farmers
of the county who have mowing machines
and teams would, doubtless, be active bid
ders for the Job.
No risks should he run in the matter
of the city's health. Lots nnd premises
should be put in good sanitary condi
tion for the early fall. It Is to be pre
sumed that the sanitary inspectors are
attending closely to their duties, and are
j compelling compliance with the eanltury
| ordinances. If they are not they ought
to ho called to account at once. The
health of the city Is a mutter of prime
importance.
A state census of Kansas Just com
plet'd. shows the iMHiulallon of that slate
to l>e 1,414,705, an increase of only 19,588 in
habitants over the lnst'censns, or 1.37 per
rent. Tills showing In most unsatisfac
tory to the people of that stale, in view
of Its material prosperity, but the stati
offi lols will not m ike a re ourit. Kun
mis, however, is humiliated by the fart
. limt tier lip lease In population even fails
! below th** average kutMas in th* United
, {jutes by births, which is 1.7 per sent,
The will of the late Colli* P. Hunting
ton, an account of which his been pub
lished in thi dispatches, considering the
fact that 4t is the testament of a multi
millionaire, is a rather unsatisfactory and
uninteresting document. It gives no defi
nite insight into the actual value of the
estaie which has teen variously estimated
at from $20,000,000 to $70,000,000, though the
indications are -that it is nearer the for
mer than the latter eum. The education
al and charitable institutions which were
expected to benefit from the late mill
ionaire’s estate, have been disinherited
so to speak, and the bulk of his property
seems to have been left to his nephew
who i to take up his life work. True,
he gave SIOO,OOO to a negro college in
Virginia, and $25,000 to a charitable in
stitution in New York, but for Mr. Hunt
ington that was like cutting off a legiti
mate heir with a dollar. His legacy of
$1,000,000 in trust for life to the Princess
Hatzfeldt, can hardly be looked upon as
an indication of any unbounded confidence
in, or exalted opinion of the Prince.
In addition to demonstrating how to put
frills on lynching bees and race riots,
Ohio has given the South a lesson In he
lightning administration of justice. It was
heralded as quite an achievement recent
ly when a negro was tried for the ‘‘usual
crime,” convicted and sentenced to the
gallows In Marietta, Ga., in nine4y-five
minutes, but Akron, 0., has made anew
record, and one that, perhaps, it will be
impossible to eclipse. The trial, convic
tion and sentence to life Imprisonment
of the negro Peck at that place for a
similar crime, within five minutes, is an
unequaled achievement In the annals of
modern courts. The state scarcely had
time to do more than put the defendant’s
appearance in evidence and ask the jury
for a verdict of guilty on the strength
of it
PERSONAL.
—Chris Magee of Pittsburg, who is
prominent in Pennsylvania politics as mi
opponent of Quay, is in Atlantic City.
He is afflicted by a malady, which, though
not likely to cause death, saps his
strength, and makes it obligatory upon
him to avoid all exertion.
—Robert Russell, the superintendent of
education for Natal, has just completed
his thirty-fifth year of colonial govern
ment service, having left Edinburgh Uni
versity in 1866 to accept the appointment
of head master of the Durban Govern
men College. Mr. Russell’s work on
•‘Natal: The Land and Its Story,” has
been extensively quoted during the South
African war.
—lra D. Sankey is to sail for Europe on
Aug. 25. He will be In London the second
week in Sep4ember, after a few days
spent in Ireland. A great public wel
come will be held In Exeter Hall Thurs
day, Sept. 13, under the auspices of the
London Singers’ Union and an influential
committee, this being the silver jubilee
celebration of the London chorus formed
by Mr. Snnkey in 1875. %
BRIGHT BITS.
—"That old fellow coming was carried
from the railroad accident all smashed
up, and’ he wouldn't even acknowledge
he was hurt. Must be a Christian Scien
tist.” "No. President of the road.”—
Life.
—No Good for a Frost.—“ When I told
her I had something laid by for a rainy
day, I thought T would! win her.” "And
you didn't?” "No; whqt I’d laid by for
rain was no protection* from frost.”—
Chicago Evening Post.
—An Attraction.—McJigger—“Never met
Madame Capilla, eh? Ah! there's a wo
man of whom it may truly be said, ‘her
face Is her fortune.’ ” Thingumbob—
"Professional beadty, eh?" McJigger—
“No; she's a bearded lady.”—Philadel
phia Press.
—Communism.—Communism raised lis
hideous head. "Golf for the million,” it
shouted. Society in the Belter Sense
shuddered and grew sick at heart. "Gov
ernment links! Public caddies! State ”
But here Society swooned and heard no
more.—. Detroit Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The New York Mail and Express (Rep.)
is one of the few Republican papers that,
recently, are taking a liberal view of race
troubles. It says of the Akron, 0,, affair:
“The city of Akron, 0., has succeeded in
putting the South to the blush in the mat
ter of lynch law detail. A negro is sought
in Jail by a great mob, for an attempted
crime of the customary class. Result,
public buildings damaged by fire, several
persons killed and a considerable number
wounded by bullets, the community panic
stricken, the militia called from neighbor
ing towns for protection, and—the crimi
nal all the while safely bestow’ed in jail
many miles distant from the place where
he was sought. If anything more un
reasoning, more cruelly gratuitous than
this sanguinary performance hosoccurred
in recent years in (he state of Ohio, we do
not know of it. At this rate, and not for
getting recent events in New Y’ork city,
we may begin shortly to w’onder whether
the country is not topsy-turvy, and the
Gulf of Mexico where the St. Lawrence
has been accustomed to flow,"
The New York Evening Post (Ind.) thus
comments on the action of the mob at
Akron, O.: “The riot at Akron, 0., last
night, following so closely the one in this
city last week, is an impressive illustra
tion qf tliefact that human nature is much
the same ot the North as at the South,
and that race troubles would be quite as
serious here as there if the conditions
were the same in the two sections. We do
not recall a more determined attempt on
the part of a white mob to wreak sum
mary vengeance upon a black villain than
that which raged for so any hours in tha
little Ohio city, and culminated in the de
struction of the City Hall and some other
buildings by dynamite, after collisions be
tween the crowd and the representatives
of the law, in which two lnno.:ent children
were killed. It is evident that only the
precautions of the authorities in rushing
the criminal out of town before the mob
was organized prevented one of the worst
lynchlngs ever known in the North."
The New York World (Dent.) says of the
Akron, 0., riot: "The two deplorable oc
currences, however, may serve to impress
on the communities In which they took
place a lesson which seems to be needed—
especially in Ohio—in passing judgement
on those Southern communities in which
the same mob spirit 1 occasionally in
flamed by similar causes. With two such
outbreaks in the very centers of thickly
populated, intelligent and well-|x>!leod
Northern cities It can no longer be ar
gued that i lie spirit of lynch law is pecu
liarly a reproach to the people of the
Southern states. If It manifests itself more
frequently in those slat s it is only be
cause the exciting causes occur more fre
quently.”
"Tha Ohio Race Issue” is the way the
Baltimore Bun hernia Its editorial on the
Akron, €)., riot, In Which it says: "The
mob outbieak at Akron, O , originating in
an attempt to lynch a negro, coining so
soon after tin- riot in New York, seems
to suggtul that there is a wide field umth
ot Alston and Dixon's line fur inis>lun,irv
work loi Mlts Jewett and other* of her
class.
Knocks Himself Out.
One of the latest attractions in China
town is a man known 06 “Bill,” who
makes e punching bag of himself for (he
benefit of sightseers, says the New York
Bun.
3111 first made bis appearance there
about two months ago. He had been
with a vaudeville show, but he said luck
was against him and he went to the dif
ferent resorts an Chinatown and did i
couple of turns nightly, such a® buck
dancing and singing. The profits did
not amount to much and Bill decided *o
shake the place. He reappeared a couple
of weeks ago, saying that he had anew
sketch which would take the people by
surprise.
On the following Saturday when the
largest one of the resorts was well filled
Bill announced' that he was ready to go
ahead, and asktd that the floor be cleared
so that he could have plenty of room. Hiu
request was granted. Bill took his stand
and said that his new sketch was a cor
rect imitation of the McGovern-Erne fight
and after a short speech, he wound up by
asking the spectators to kindly refrain
from passing any remarks. Bill is a talk
er and owing to this fact the people pa.d
great attention to what he was saying.
He then placed two chairs in opposite
corners for the supposed fighters to sit
on. Xux( the referee was introduced and
the fighters were called to the center for
instructions, Bill 'being fighters, referee
an l everything else. Then the mock bat
tle began.
From the start to the finish of the first
round Bill hammered himself in the face.
h< ui and abdomen. The second round
v**as pretty near the game as the first,
only Bill was working a little harder
and he went to his corner looking much
the worse from his own punches. His
face was beginning to puff. Before com
ing up for the third and last round ill
mode it known that he would represent
Erne and that his heavy smashes were
supposed to be delivered by McGovern.
Bill got at himself and smashed away
until he was reeling around the floor. He
went down for the second' time with blood
coming from his nose. He staggered to
his feet, as Erne did, only to go to the
floor again after hitting himself a hard
blow in the face. He lay there long
enough for the supposed referee to count
him out. After Bill got through andi nad
fixed himself up he went around with
the hat and received enough money, as
he eaid later, to pay for a week’s board.
Of late he has been going through his
mock battle only once a week, as he is
afraid the people will get tired of it and
he hasn’t been able to think of anything
new.
The Frog (nine Back.
The firemen at Tenth and Arch streets,
Camden, are mystified at the sudden re
appearance of a large bullfrog, weighing
two pounds, that was kept and petted by
them for several months, says the Phila
delphia Telegraph. The frog was kept
in a large Bquarium, in which sunfish and
carp were also kept, but because scientific
men told the firemen that the presence
of the “rena esculenta” caused the stagna
tion of the water and consequent ck*ah
of the fish, the firemen decided to kill the
frog. Whether the frog, by mental teleg
raphy, became cognizant of his approach
ing execution or not is not known, but in
less than fifteen minutes after his fate
was decided the frog disappeared and
was found in a water trough three blocks
distant. There the firemen fed him with
crumbs until about a month ago, when he
again disappeared, and was supposed to
have been killed by boys.
Yesterday he reappeared. While the
firemen were polishing their harness they
hoard a guttural ‘‘Ker-wuh! Ker-wuh”
and observed the frog hopping from the
gutter toward the firehouse. He seemed
to recognize his former friends, jumped
past them into the room and hopped di
rectly lpto the aquarium. The fish, In
stead of being scared at the Intruder, man
ifested their delight by swimming near
and disporting themselves close to him.
Where the frog was during the inter
vening four weeks is a mystery, as is his
recollection of his former friends.
Staked Hl* All anil Won.
The coatless young man and his young
woman companion meandered into one of
the swell restaurants and sat down at a
table, says the Indianapolis Sun. The
young man had met the young woman
whm he had not expected to. That ex
plained the absence of his coat.
The wai er took their orders. Then he
went over to the proprietor. Then the
waiter returned.
"Sorry, sah, but we can't serve shirt
evaist gen'lemen in the presence ob ladies,
sah.”
The young man favored him with an 1 y
stare. So did the young woman. Then
they started out, but the young man fell
behind the young woman long enough to
press the fourth part of a dollar into the
wader’s hand and whisper;
"Your kindness and that of the pro
prietor will never be forgotten. My lady
friend insinuated so strongly that she
was hungry that I was actually forced to
ask her to dine. I have not got money
enough to pay for the simplest kind of a
lunch. If you had served us, I wouid
have had a fit. I staked my all and won.
God bless you!”
Talented Families.
The unmusical members of a musical
family will appreciate the following con
versation, says London Tid-Bits.
"Do you play any instrument, Mr.
Jimp?”
“Yes, I'm a cornetist.”
“And your sister?”
"She's a pianist.”
“Does your mother play?"
"She's a zitherist.”
“And your father?”
“He's a pessimist.”
This reminds us of another fragment of
contemporary talk.
"Don’t you think,” asked the young
girl graduate, “that Miss Spring is a
charming poetess?”
"Waal,” said Uncle Solomon, with de
“You know,” onco said this member of
liberation, ”1 think she is a mighty sweet
poetess! I’m sure her cousin. Miss Chal
mers, is a charming palntress, and her
aunt, Lucrece, ts an excellent sculptress
and her mother used to be a capital dlsh
w-asheress. It’s a talented family, hers
is."
Painful Inference.
"Don’t trifle with me, Miss McCurdy!”
pleaded the young man, desperately, ac
cording to the Chicago Record. "Wait till
I have finished. Do T need to tell you. af
ter all thrs weeks, how completely and
absolutely your image fills my heart?
Have you not seen? Do you not know?
Have I not betrayed myself by my looks,
by the tones of my voice, by the eager
Joy that lights up my features whenever
you appear? Must I put in words the
feelings I can no more disguise than I
can '
"Mr. Whitgood," interrupted the young
woman, “are you in earnest?”
"Glycerine McCurdy," he said, drawing
hims If up with Injured dignity, "do ycu
think I’m doing this on £. l*:t?”
A Story of Mottlien Arnold.
Matthew Arnold, next to Whistler, was
perhaps the most colossal egotist of Ills
t ine, says lie New Word.
After Ids return to London from hs
first lecturing lour in America, he vl Ited
old Mrs. Proctor, widow of the poet
"Barry Cornwall," and mo'her of .Ade
laide Proctor. Mrs, Proctor, who was then
SO years old, in g.vlng Mr. Arnold a cup
of lea, asked him:
"And what did they say üb.ut you In
Ann rlca?”
"Well,” ia<d tlie literary auto rat
"thry raid I was conc.lt and, and they si,,|
my olotlus did nit fit me. 1
"Will, now,” .aid the el l l td.,, * j
t.ilnk liny wer mistaken ia to lit*
glothsa”
ITEMS OF' INTEREST.
—Some Idea of the importance given to
athletics in colleges and universities may
be had from the fact that Yale, Harvard,
Columbia, Princ-ton, Pennsylvania and
Cornell spent $304,243 for that purpose last
year.
—Experts who have examined rye straw
are of the opinion that a very high grade
of papqr, suitable for books a9 well ns
for newspapers, can be made from that
material. Louisiana produces thousands
of tons of rye straw which is now dis
posed of as a waste product.
—Oxford has among its undergraduates
a married Lancashire mill hand. 25 years
of age, w ho worked his way into the uni
versity by studying after factory hours,
with the helf of free libraries and univer
sity extension lectures. He has won a
scholarship worth £BO a year.
—A portrait of the late Walter Q. Gres
ham, Secretary of Slate under President
Cleveland, will have a place of honor in
the galleries of the Emperor of Japan.
This is to be done as a tribute to Mr.
Gresham’s services in negotiating the
treaty between the United States and
Japan, which wns adopted during Cleve
land’s second term. Frank M. Peebles
painted the portrait.
Upon opening a car laden with hay
in a Chicago freight yard, the other day,
the consignee was astonished to find two
valuable horses inside, while nearly one
third of the hay had been devoured. How
tha animals had got into <he car and
how long they had been there no one
seemed 1 to know. Their stomachs were so
much distended from overeating that both
animals had to be killed.
—ln spite of repeated urgings from their
pastor, some female members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Knights
town, Ind., refused to remove their hats
during service. Then he directed that
those who persisted in wearing their head
gear must occupy reserved pews in the
"amen coiner.” Now these pews have
regular occupants and there is a prospect
that they will increase in numbers, for
most of the women want to wear their
hats, although many yielded to the pas
tor’s wish.
—An old Dominican friar, who had serv
ed his church for forty years in the Phil
ippines, was asked by his fellows to write
a book describing the characteristics,
habifs and customs of the Filipino people.
To this he agreed, with the proviso that
no one should see his work until after his
death. When he died In Manila this year
the book was found among his effects.
On the. first page was the title and all the
other 300 pages were blank except the
last, on which was written: ‘‘This is all
I know, after forty years’ study, of the
Filipino people.”
—A great change seems imminent in the
manufacture of sulphuric acid. The well
known Baden aniline and soda factory
has patented a most imiortot.e improve
ment in the production of this substance.
By this new process there is an immense
saving in fuel, and the expensive piatlna
apparatus is no longer necessary. Mora
important still is the fact that no soP
peter is required by the new process. Salt
peter is of such enormous value for agri
cultural and technical purposes that any
economy in its use must be 'welcomed,
the more so as the saltpeter fields will,
in the course of time, be exhausted.
—The New Y’ork harbor tug B. Bueken
bach has started on a voyage to San
Francisco around the Horn. The tug, one
of the fastest and stanchest; is scheduled
to make the passage in forty-five days,
record time for a tug. . Much difficulty
was had in finding fifteen men who would
make up the crew, as the dangers that the
little vessel will encounter will be enor
mous, even for an ocean-going tug. Only
three or four tugboats have made the trip
around the Horn, the best record of sixty
three days having been made by the G.
W. Pride, which successfully navigated
the Southern seas eight years ago.
—An unusually large number of foreign
immigrants appear to be settling at pres
ent in some parts of the New England
states, where they obtain work in the
cotton mills and in connection with other
industries. Lately, it Is said, in Connec
ticut and Rhode Island the preference
has been given to Greeks, while in the
Fall River mills a large number of Por
tuguese and Poles have found employ
ment. Of all foreign nationalities the
Portuguese are found the most docile
and faithful. The French-Canadians are
more difficult to manage, being more
inclined: to move from mill to mill and
town to town.
—The Hartford Courant tells of a strange
sight witnessed by some of the American
soldiers in the Philippines during a church
service recently held in their honor. The
interior of the church had been bedecked
by the natives in, red, white and blue, the
masterpiece of decoration being a painted
eagle on a shield hung over the image of
one of the saints. On the banner which
streamed from the eagle's bill was this
legend: "The Old Reliable Condensed
Milk.” It seems that the artist who
painted' the eagle hod copied it. inscrip
tion and all, from the label on an old
milk can, believing that the banner bore
the American, motto.
—An artificial stone has recently been
introduced from Belgium into France,
which is said to have four times the force
of resistance of French free stone, and
which has nearly all of -ihe properties of
Cohestang granite. It has been tried in
the Malines Arsenal, and was found to
be to the action of cold, and to
absorb only 6 to 7 per cent, of water,
even after a long dry spell. This arti
ficial stone is manufactured at Uccles,
near Brussels. It consists chiefly of dry
coarse sand and hydraulic lime, cooked
under a pressure of six otmosoheres the
temperature being maintained’at 165 de
grees. The most varied colors are given
to this stone, and Hs manufacture costs
only 2 cents per cubic foot.
—Bruce Benner, of Coffeyville, Kan.,
has made a small fortune during the past
few months by exhibiting a so-called
"feathered and g” in various parts of the
Sunflower state. So far es the f, atheri
were concerned the animal was, of course
a fraud, as has just been dlacovere 1
through the enterprise of a country
newspaper. The deg had been complete
ly covered from nose to tail with a tight
fitt.ng coat of t anion flannel on which
pigeon fcath rs had been so skillfully
sewn as to seem like a natural giowih
A reporter who had been and tailed to visit
Benners show plucked a handful of
featheis from the animal's back unob
served, and the dog never winced. The
fraud was thus expost and. ami B nner fled
from the Kansas jurisdiction.
—Chile is much disliked by the neigh
boring republics. The elongated country
on the western slope of the Andes has
been at variance with Argentina for years
and both are now buying arms and am
munition for a possible squabble, which
will probably be the worst war In South
American history If it should ever break
out. It i- also said that Chile has de
signs on territory belonging to Bolivia
and Peru. Chile has already helped her
self to some of the choicest hits of Peru
bin Is not satisfied and wants more. Rol
Hvia Is busy trying to suppress the little
republic of Acre, which tvos recently es
tablished on the bordir beiween her terri
tory nnd Brazil, but has not succeeded
While thus engaged she 1- apt to awaken
some morning to tlin fuel that Chile has
rais'd Ist Mag over Bolivian territory
South American countrle* rnniiot mix iri
the gt ner.il war 111 China, nor have they
much Inter, si In the, struggle lu South
Africa, but ihe sub-equatorial nation* ire
busy with their own affairs, nnd will
probably engage In several war* us ihe
♦ exult of present complication*.
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Passenger Fares irom Savanna
TO NEW YORK—FIRST CABIN* S S .
FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP s3"' ;v‘
TER .MEDIATE CABIN, sls; INTEKME
DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP $24.
STEERAGE, $lO.
TO BOSTON-FIRST CABIN s*">•
FIRST CABIN ROUND TRIP, S3B IN.'
TERMEDIATE CABIN, sl7; INTERME
DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP, J-‘ S M .
STEERAGE, $11.75.
The express steamships of this line ara
appointed to sail from Savannah, Central
(90th) meridian time, as follows;
SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK,
NACOOCH.EE, Capt. Smith, MONDAf
Aug. 27, 6:30 p. th.
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, Capt. Askins, SAT
URDAY'. Sept. 1, 9:00 p. m.
CIT'Y OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett.
MONDAY. Sept. 3, 11:30 a. m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. 6mlth, TUESDAY,
Sept. 4, 12:30 p. m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt Fisher, THURS
DAY, Sept. fi. 2:30 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Berg,
SATURDAY, Sept. 8. 4:00 p. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins, MON
DAY, Sept. Id. 5:30 p. m.
CITY* OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett,
TUESDAY, Sept. 11, 6:30 p m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, THURS
DAY, Sept. 13, 8:0) p. ni.
KANSAS CITY*, Capt. Fisher, SATUR
DAY, Sept. 15. *10:00 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Berg,
MONDAY, Sept. 17, 12:00 noon.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins, TUES
DAY, Sept. IS, 1:00 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt Daggett,
THURSDAY, Sept. 20, 2:30 p. m
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, SATUR
DAY, Sept. 22, 4:00 p. m.
KANSAS CITY', Capt. Fisher, MONDAY,
Sept. 21, 5:00 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Berg.
TUESDAY, Sept. 25, 5:30 p. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt, Askins, THURS
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, Capt. 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
NKSDAY. 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 Its nailings without notice and
without liability or accountability there
for.
Sailings New York for Savannah dally
except Sundays, Mondays and Thursday,
s:oo*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. ■Say 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.
Morton’s School for Boys.
The fifteenth session of this school
which Is the largest and best equipped
private school m this city, commences
Oct. 1. Thorough Instruction In all de
partments. Students from this school en
ter the State University on Principal s
certificate without entrance examinations.
Special Instruction for those wishing
to enter the U. S. Academies.
For catalogues or other information ad
dress, J. R. MORTON, M. A.
Principal.
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
ad emy~~
For doling Ladies, Washington, Wilkes
county, Georgia, admitted to be one of the
most home-like Institutions in the count
try. Climate healthy. Extensive. luw:
Course thorough. Terms moderate. Music,
Art, Physical Culture, Elocution, Stenog
raphy and Typewriting. Address
MOTHER SUPERIOR.
hit. St. Agiies' College for Women,
M. Washington, Md.
THOROUGH ENGLISH COURSE. Lec
tures delivered. Degrees conferred. MT.
WASHINGTON SEMINARY FOR BOYS
under 13 years. Primary and Preparatory
courses. Both institutions conducted W
Sisters of Mercy. Preparatory School for
little girls. Address
MT. ST. AGNES’ COLLF.GE.
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL,
L. M. BLACKFORD, M. A., Principal.
For Boys. Three miles from Alexandria,
Va., and eight from Washington, l>.
C. The 62d year opens Sept. 26. l'JOd. Cata
logue sent on application to the principal
at Alexandria.
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seeking summer homes attention i= *’“
vited to the delightful mountain resort®
along the line of the Tallulah Falla K:
Close connections are made with ■' 1
Southern Railway trains. You can l? av ®
Atlanta 7:50 a. m., 12 o’clock noon a r, ‘
4:30 |). m. Comfortable and convenient
hotels and boarding houses are locate;
at Demorest, Clarksville, Nacooclvee va *
ley, Turnersville, Tallulah. T.iim.i';
Falls, and in Rabun county. Any
these placed can be reached in a <nre *
hours’ ride from .Atlanta.
of the most beautiful nnd pictuP^Q 1
sections of the South. The climate
cool ands alubrious nnd the water t
purest ami *best in the world. l‘or
ther Information apply to
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General Manager, Clarksville. <.a
HOTEL VICTORIA
UroadvAyy, sth avenue and 27ih *
York city. Entirely new; absolutely hie*
proof; European plan. Rooms, > y
day and upward.
ROBERT T. DUNLOP. Manager.
Formerly of Hotel Imperial
Good Goods —Close Prices.
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