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4 £bc Morning |Crn>s. Merulug Km (landing. Mfuuk. Ua. TI'CWIAT, HKPTKMBKH 11. IWW. Rag’etered •( the Pestoffica m B*;nn*h. Th* MORNING NEWS I# published every dar la Ibe )'. and aarrad to subscribers in IM city, or aam by mall, at Me a month. H lor au ntonina. aud b h (cm- ana >aar The MOHNINO NEWS, by mall, at* times a merit (without Sunday tatoa) Aprs* months, U.SU. ala mouths ILO*. ona year 96.40. The VVEBKLT NEWS, i laauaa a weak. Monday and Thursday, by mail, ona year. ti.M. Subscriptions payable in advenes Ra mil by poatal order, check or registered latter. Currency aam by mail at rlak 01 senders Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading noltcea. amueaments and cheap or want column. Id cents a Una Fourteen Horn ot aa<e type-equal to one Inch square tn depth— Is the statidard of measurement Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at busineea office. Orders lor delivery of the MORNINQ New* to either residence or plea of busineea may be made by poatal card or through telephone No. HO Any |rre*ular- Ity In delivery should be Immediately re ported lo the office of publics (lon. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed ’’MORNING NEWS." Savannah. Ga. EASTERN OFFICE. Park Row, New Tork city, H. C. Faulkner. Manager. INDEX 10 HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Sl-etingie—Ancient Lst.lm-.rk Lodge, No. Ml. F. * A. M Special Notice*—P. J. Dougherty of Hartford. Conn . on Suwanee Spring* Wa ter lor Kidney Trouble; Plasterer*’ and Masons’ Supplies. Savannah liuitdlng Sup ply Company; Doors, Sash. Blinds, An drew Hanley Company; To fhe Business Men of Savannah. James tinnier; Special Notice. Chas. Moyer. Receiver; Ship No tice*. Strachan (k Cos.. Consignees; To Water Takers; Levan’* Table d’Hote. Business Notice*—Hunter Pure Rye Whisky. Henry Solomon A Son. Bole Agents; Green Peas, Crop of ISUO, 8. W. Branch Company. Legal Notices—ln Ihe City Court of Sa vannah. Michael A Connolly vs. the At lant.c Contracting Cos. Arrlted Yesterday—At Foye’s New •tore Monthly Periodicals— Morning New*’ Job Department Publication*—The Smart Set for Sep tember. Cheroots—Old Virginia Cheroola. Medical—Hood's Harsaparllla; Tulls’ PtUa; Pond's Extract; ('oka Dandruff Cura; Castorla; 8 8. 8 . Horeford* Acid Phosphate; World’s Dispensary Prepara tions; Dr. Hathaway Cos.; Mra. Plnkbam'a Vegetable PHD. Cheap Column Advertisement*—Help 'Wanted. Employment Wanted. For Kent; Far Bale. Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. a The Weather. The indications for Georgia to-day are for fair, continued warm weather, with light east lo sooth winds; and tor East ern Florida, partly cfeurtv meat her. with showers In eastern and extreme southern pontons, and {rash easterly winds The next time Charleston will see to M that there Is an excursion In town when the census Is taken. With cotton at ten cent* a pound, the fanners of the South do not care who dis cover* the North Pole. The Gordian knot which formerly tied cotton, wheat and silver together seems to have been severed by supply and demand. ft Is an anomaly of poMtlrs that the Re publican party, the party of proiertlon. Is now making love to the free-trade Brit isher*. Atlanta does not believe In one-man poster, therefore she ha* placed It in the power of two m<-n to say whether the Mayor shall continue In office to the end ot his term. A Chicago paper soys that Russell Bare 1* so certain of the re-election of Pres).lent McKinley that he doe* not feel called upon lo contribute his customary M cent* to the Republican campaign fund. The European troop* in China seem to make It a point to secure for themselves these quarters In captured elite* In which richest loot D to be had The quicker Co de Bam savers rotations with those ma rauder*. the better opinion he will have of himself. Thor* may be a Held for tha disfran chised negro.* of the Carolina* In West Virginia. A Chicago exchange says that Senator Elkins; alarmed by the trend of white sentiment towards Bryan. D Im porting Southern blacks by the hundred and colonising them on his Standard OH satate tn andcipatten of election day. Sailors have • superstition that the first vessel to enter port with a certain kind of cargo foretell* the death of aome per son connected tn some way with the ves sel The American ship Eraklne M Phelps arrived st Ihe pori of Manila the other day with a cargo of coal—the first cargo of the kind to arrive at Manila In an American merchant bottom. The ship wo* built at the yard* of Arthur Bewail In Maine. Within a few days of th* nine of her arrival In port. Mr. Hews!] died: and now Mr. Phelps of Chicago, for whom the vesiel wa* named, ila* critically 111. The eallor man 1* never a: a iocs for facta with which to back up his pet supersti tions. A Pittsburg dispatch say* that the rea son Mr. A M. Moreland wished recently to resign his office a* secretary of Ihe Carnegie Steel Company wa* to avoid the necessity of writing hi* name 54.000 time*. Th# comt any ha* Ju*t issued 54.000 bond*, worth 1160.000,000. Each of these lnd must be signed by the secretary Of the corporation. Mr Moreland viewed the Job of signing those bond* with de cided displeasure, and tried to shift Ihe work upon a clerk, but that would not do. Then he trV and to resign, but failed In that, and finally had to tackle the big ptls of bonds After be had been writing his name on them steadily for a week, more man half of tbe pile remained un- MhMi - AN IMPAHOI’P CHAMK. ' The Republican leaders ar* resorting fc unscrupulous methods *o elect Mr M - Kailey. They are circulating th* charge | (hat lire Democratic .coders are respon- I ;Ne for the movement of the miners in I ihe anthracite coal region to inaugurate a *rr*ai strike In dispatches from th# coal region, published tn Republican papers, the statement is made that Dem ocratic agents have bran among the miner* for week*, urging them lo strike, pointing out n. them Hut toe... acre cer tain grievances which they ought to have adjusted at once, and that now la tae time to hove them adjusted to their *alia ise t ion The statement is also made tn these dispatebev that these same Demo cratic agitator*' tried to Mart a strike in the bitum.auta ouui region of the West and failed ll is outrageous that the Republicans should set afloat such a charge unless they have proof of ft. and they have ot tered no print John Mitchell, president of the National Executive Hoard of the l'railed Mine Workers of Amertra. save that he doe* not believe there as any poli tics in th* purpose of the miner* to inau gurate a strike He hia not heard that agents of ihe Democratic party or any other party have been among the miner* urging them to strike. If there had been he would no <loubt have heard of them. The Republican hauler* say that It 1* generally admitted that the great Home stead strike beat Gen, Harrison when a candidate lor re-election, and that th* Democrat* think that by getting up a big strike, and fermenting labor trouble* of uch a character that the services of th# National Guard will he necessary, they will he able to defeat Mr. McKinley for re-election. It te safe lo say the Demo cratic leader* never thought of such an in famous scheme. The naan or set of men * k,c would advise a course of action that would bring suffering, and probably want, to 150.000 laboring men ond to their fami nes, with the hope of winning a pohiical ' oof ret, would be flt subjects for the peni tentiary. There are of course plenty of vtle men who are ready to do any job for money, but men to advise such a scheme are not to be found among the Democratic leaders. Besldr*. tt would be Impossible to get the miner* of a great section of country lo go on a strike unless they had a real grievance, no) tf they had a grtevan - they would strike, In all probability. If they could not get an adjustment, without any urging from political agents. Th* truth seem* to be the anthracite coal miners bnvo a grievance. In fact, they have several grievances. Their main ones, however, are that the prtces of powder and ill of the necessaries of life have been steadily advancing and their wages have been at a s’and edit, amt that they have no representative ameng the weigher* of the coal. They ore paid by the ton. and they claim that the weighers of the coal operators cheat them out of several hun dred pounds on every ton. They have asked for arbitration, and the operators have refused their request. They have dor.# everything they possibly coukl—t least It Is said they have—to get a satisfactory settlement of the things of which they complain, but without success. The only thing left for them to do to to fight for what they cDim to be their rights. Justice Is sought not the success of a presidential candidal*. Tin; UALVEITOir CALL MITT. It Is a sad. n beart-Ti-ndlng aiory which comes from Galveston. Saturday morn ing Ihe diy was a bustling, prosperous community, alive with energy and hope. Sunday morning It wa* a torn, bleeding wrack, with death and destruction upon every hand. Th# work of the hurricane had been pitiably thorough. Wind and waves combined in their fury to carry devastation throughout the little island. Building* were blown or beaten to pieces, and their lnmalce who escaped being crushed found themselves surrounded by the angry water*. The earliest reports sent out of the dlsaetcr said the casual ties would approxltn.ii* 2.009; and It seems the csilmalt; war not overdrawn. Indeed, when the final accounts are at hand It is possible that Ihe total may be above that figure. That would make the Galveston calamity one of th# greatest storm hor ror* of Ihe century. The property loss will mount up into Ihe millions; but ii Is not a lime now to give much attention to the money side of the tooses. That can wait. The first thing to be considered la th* relief of the surviving victims. Their condition must be something pitia ble. The fresh water supply of the city has been destroyed. The provision supply is probably ntau ruined, from the soaking with both aea and rain water to whl'h It has been subjected Thera are thou sands of persons, including frail women and lltlle children, who are without homes or sheiter. Many of them have been be. reft of their means of support, and must, ai least for a tin**, be dependent upon charity for their sustenance. And that charity ought to he quickly feepomdve •o their distress. The War Department will send what aid It can Immediately. Ira efforts ought to be. and no doubt will be. supplemented by liberal contributions from all sect to*-* of the country. If ihe country Is proirou, the occasion ha* arisen for It to show Its gratitude lo prov by be-rawing eomn of the fruits of its prosperity upon a sadly stricken peo ple. The mayor of Wllkesbarre, Pa., Is mak ing a reputation aa a second c'olomon. The other day leu* women were before him for the purpose of having settled wome disagreement between them. Both wanted to laik at the same time, and each tried to talk louder than the other. After suffering under the verbal cross fire for half an hour, the mayor ordered the two women locked In the s.ime room "until they had fully expressed them •elves." At ihe end of three hours the women had quit talking, and not only that but they had themselves made up their difference and came out of the room ihe best of frlands. Jeffries, the cbrimpton prise fighter, will now proceed to elevate the stage. The playwright ha* been kind to the slugger He will not have much talking to do. He appears as "Bilenl Bam," whose business tt Is to keep his mouth shut, and to rush on Ihe Stage at such opportune times as th* heroine has must need of him to save her from the villain, who get* his pun ishment In the shape of various right and left swings and upper-euls It used to he on* ot the most amusing things on the stage to see John L. Sullivan making love; and they say that Jeffries Is even a worse actor than Budivon, THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY? SEPTEMBER 11. 1900. VTtUill KWI 4KI> THE IHIIB OF COTTON. There was a phenomenal rise In the price of cotton yesterday. Il wa* canted | liy the new* from Texas Th* great j aiotm. which wrought such destruction j tn Galveston aju) caused auch a heavy loss jOf life there, swept through ihe colton belt of the state and did a great amount [ of damage to the cotton. No esimate of the loss that could be made al thi* time would be worth much. It i.v believed, however, that th* damage Is large. According lo the reports Ihe opto cotton waa completely beaten from the bolls In many localities and In other* the stalk* acre blown flat to the ground. It Is probable that (he total loss through out the state will not be a* great as It Is now believed It will. The first reports of damage to crops are generally overesti mated. Beside*, speculators are Intertat ed In exaggerating th* loos. Btt;i. In view of the fact that It was be lieved before Ihe storm that the colton crop was a short one. the loss of even a small per cent, of the crop tn Texes I* certain to have a sirenghtenlng effect on the cotton market that will last throughout the season Th* great rise of the market yesterday may not be main tained when estimates of the damage that are regarded as reiDble are received, but the price of colton will be higher through out the season because of the storm. The English mil.* which have shut down because of the high price of American cotton find nothing In the situation that Is calculated to lead them to believe that they acted wisely, ll begins to look,a* if the. longer they waited lo buy cotton the more they would have to pay for it. ll i* probable that the Southern cotton mill* which sold their icons of cotton last summer at what they thought a good price, expecting to get a supply at a re duced price when ihe new crop was mar keted, are ktenly disappointed. There Is no Indication that they will make money by the operation. Il Is alto Mild that many farmers, be coming alarmed at th# r*|g>ria that an Immense acreage was being planted, and believing that Ihe price of cotton would drop lo 6 cents or t cents a pound, sold their cotton at price* ranging from m lo TH cent*. It is safe to assume that they are not gathering their cotton with feel ings akin to Joy. Guesses a* to what the price of colton will be before the season it over are not worth a great deal, but It Is sate to say that It will be high enough lo make II worth while for the farmer* to pick every bit of cotton they can find In their fields. urn AN*. Gen. Fltghugh Lee, military commander of the Department of the East in Cuba, who Is now In this country on a short leave of absence, says that the feeling In Cuba against the United Hsates Is ex tremely bitter, particularly among those Cuban* who wer* In the army during the Insurrection. Th* s.- ex-eoldlera are dissat isfied because they have not been per mitted to lake entire coeitrol of affairs. From this It would se,m that they were not lighting so much from patriotism and to free ihGr country from Ihe yoke of 6pa In. a* tp get Into a position where they could live o*i the people. What they are afraid of now Is that they will not have control of the govern ment when It Is established, and there fore may not get the full amount of what they claim for their services while fight ing Spain. What they have been expect ing Is that a government would be estab lished tn Cuba that would bond the Isl and for an Immense sum. and distribute the money among those who constituted the Cuban army. The fact (hat the United States require that the constitution which the approach ing constitutional convention will adopt shall be submitted for approval to Con gress. alarms them. They are afraid that the I’nlted State# Congress will not ap prove a constitution that gives (he Cuban government authprlty to lasue bonds to pay the enormous claims of ex-soldiers. The chances are that they have good rea son for their fears. Cuban bonds could not he sold except at a ruinous discount, unless guaranteed by the Unlttd States, and It Is certain that they will not be ao guaran tied. The United States do not Intend that Cuba *hal! be burdened with an Im mense debt—a debt that would make the people so dissatisfied that they would wel come revolutions. The Cuhan* who are'dlasaltsfied with the United States have nothing, and do not count for very much. They might make trouble for awhile, but with the senti ment of the property holding and thrifty elements against them they would be soon starved Into submission It ha* coat the United States a good ileal to free Cuba, and It will coat them a good deal more befoig they have a stable government es tablished In the Island They are not. therefore, going to he Influenced In the least In the work they have mapped out hy the dissatisfaction of the men who composed the Cuban army. ilillll. CITY THEM AA'.ANTED. The Park and Tree Commission of this city had Its Inception In u general desire that there should he a systematic piuti followed for th* beautifying of the public parks and the preserving of the tree* whl 'h have me-*- kavannsh known far and wide a* the Forest City. The old Prtde of India, mulberry, water-oak and other treea that had aided In giving the city Its reputation had hcn sadly used by the severe tropical storms which swept up Ihe coast from tin Caribbean sea. Very many of them. Indeed, had disappeared, and there was a gradual denuding of Ihe streets and parks of forest growth. At (hi* Juncture the Park and Tree Commis sion was created;, and It has done much and intelligent work to restore the beau tiful native tree growth within the cor porate limit*. But the Commission, from lack of funds, has been unable to go Into tree planting upon anything like a comprehensive seal*. There Is a large area to which the Com mission has not been able lo give Ihe at tention It deserve*. During the next tree planting season, which Is now abou’ at hand, the effort* of the Commission should be supplemented by those of land owners and householder*. With co-opera tion on the pari of the** Interest*, a year's work would show most surprising and gratifying result*. Every owner of a lot should take steps to see to ll that his lot was bordered by tree# If th* Commission cannot plant the trees, the owner should plant them himself. The coal Involved would be Infinitesimal In comparison with the benefit and pleasure that would be derived from the trees In after years. The Commission might fa.dltatq the suggested co-operation by addressing a circular letter to the lot owners, suggest ing to them what trees to use, how to idant and car# for them, and the prob able cost. The snood* around Savannah are full of beautiful, healthy, vigorous young treea, of hardy and quick-growing varieties. In nearly. If not quits, all In stances these young trees may be had for the asking, hence th#" removal and trans planting of (hem would be the only ex pense Involved. If this project wer* taken up at once and pushed vigorously, II Is not taking much risk to say mat within a year or two there would be trees In front of about every lot between tha business section and Twelfth street. A little encourage ment and information will get the lot own er* Interested. By th# adoption of the scheme outlined above Ihe Park and Tree Commission could get an immense amount of help in ita work of beautifying Ihe city from private source*. There Is considerable doubt as to how she bubonic plague wa* Imported Into Glasgow, but there Is no question that •he outbreak occurred in one of Ihe dln lesi sections of the city and that th# dta easo has been confined to those places where sanitary precautions are moat wanting The first caaa wa# found In a dilapidated old tenement In Thistle street. In which a number of families were crowded, each family occupying one room and a kitchen. And the spread of the dis ease ha* been almuet wholly among sim ilar houses. The authorities agree that, while the plague may sometimes elude the most vlgdang sanitary cordon. It muss have dirt tn which to germinate. Th# heel safeguard against h, therefore, D clean liness. Beginning next Thursday and lasting until the following Monday the Indiana of tha Rosebud and Sioux agencies in South Dakota will hold a Presbyterian camp meeting at Buffalo Lakes; 8. D. There I* now a Presbytery of twentydive Indian churchee In the Dakotas, having sixteen native preacher*. 1.416 converts and tu7 pupils In Sunday schools. Last year the Indiana contributed over JS.'Ou to missionary work. PEHMSAL —Prince Arthur of Connaughe ha* en tered the Royal Military College. Hand hurst. as gentleman cadet on the terml natkNVyOf the summer vacation. He will pursue the usual military studies. —One of ex-Presldent Harrison’s an cestors wa* th# Thomas Haralson who served under Cromwell and signed the lealh warrant of King Charles. On the Restoration he was executed In 1660. —Several Chicago men, led by Charles F. Gunther, have promised to contribute generously to a fund for reproducing In marble one of the arches which ornament Ihe city in honor of the Grand Army vet - erara. —John Hnye*. who opened the first cop per mine In this country. Is still living In Cleveland. Thai was on Ihe shore* of Lak* Superior fifty-six year* ago. Hl* wife, who I* aleo living. Is believed So be Ihe first white woman to look upon Irak# Superior Two year* ago the out put of copper in Ihe I’nlte,l sTalea waa 19.241 ton*, valued at 56a.12t.u47. IIIIIGHT BITS. 0 —"I can’t go to that church again; the pastor doe* not believe that people go to hell." ’’Ohl Don't say that; he believes that seme go-" ’’Well, that Is better than nothing!"—Hiooklyll Life. —The Professor's Scheme—Henderson (who has Just bought anew pipe)—Can you tell me, professor. If this amber Is genuine? Professor—Oh. that's easily determined. Biak It In alcohol for twenty-four hours, tf It's u genuine It will then have disap peared."—Glasgow Evening Time*. —A I-lberal Authority—She—Don’t you ihlnk my chap, rone I* delightful? He (a war correspondent)—Very. There Is no 'press-censorship' about her!—Puck. Not so Perilous—The boy stood on the burning deck Quoth he; "This is no Josh! But It's not a party plat form, so It might be woreb'gosh!"—Detroit Journal. —Corrected—City Editor—Evidently you didn't get a very close view of Nookash’s summer place. Reporter—Not very close. Why? City Editor—Yon refer to It as ‘a mag nificent marble pile,' whereas It’s a frame house. Reporter—ls tt? Just cross out ‘msrble’ then and Insert 'wood.'—Philadelphia Press. CIRREXT COMMENT. The WMhlntton Poet (Ind.) doe* not Mnid Hanna, Platt and Depew as the proper tutors In politics for young men. It say a: "Young Cornelius Vanderbilt I* a delegate to the New York Republican State Convention at Saratoga The fact Is taken to Indicate his intention to enter politics actively. If that he true It Is to be regretted Mr. Vanderbilt has Invented a most clever locomotive firebox. He has been considered an estimable and useful cltlsen In other respects. He should be content to let his reputation rest upon his mechanical ability and Ms social qualities, tf he gets Into politics he will be templed to associate with Thomas C. Platt. Mark Hanna and Chauncey M Depew. He Is old enough to know that that would mean moral ruin. He should desist befors It Is too late.” The Charleston News and Courier (Dem). commenting on toe President's letter of acceptance, says: "The Presi dent's theory seems to be that the will of the American people as expressed by the President and his administration should be the law and gospel to all people whom we ran buy or conquer, and that It Is an unpardonable sin that the Ptllptnos. whom we have bought, will not allow us to con quer them and convert them to our own ways of thinking and acting.” The Philadelphia Record (Dem > says: •‘That Secretary tinge's alarm over the consequences of a Bryan victory to the gold standard la for campaign use only Is shown quite conclusively by the fact that less than two months ago he made this statement to the Washington correspond ent of the New York Journal of Com merce: 'I am satisfied that the new law establishes the gold etandard beyond as sault, unless It la deliberately violated.' " The Chicago Tlmes-Herald (Rep.) nays: “Mayor Harrison’s brother Preston says the Porto Ricans are mud at the United States because they all expected to be made rich as soon as their Island was an nexed. It Is evident that the Porto Ri cans have a good deal of human nature like that possessed by the man who found a lie bill and cursed his luck because It a-aan't S3O. ' The Chicago Chronicle (Dem I aaya: •‘The race question I* drawing unpleas antly near to CMcago. Several times of late conditions on the public highway have seemed to be rife for an outbreak similar to those at Akron and New York, flood luck may not always Intervene In the In terest of order and our good name.”. What He Would Gel. Rome year* ago the-Prlnc# of Wales vis ited a factory where a large number of men were employed, soya Tlt-Blta. The Prince asked one of the workmen, who ww* perfectly ignorant as to the Identity ot ihe etranger who was addressing him: "What wage* do the men have hero?" "Well," replied the hornet workman, lespectfully scratching hi* head and par tially lifting hi* cap with the same hand, '•that depend* on what they Is. A tha;> Uke you would get about 19 bob a week." The Prince often relates the story with a nmlllng face. A Smart Heply. Ixitiis XVIII was one day engaged In eome business ot stale with hi# mmDter of finance. When they both were abour to take their seal* at a targe table, cov ered with u multitude of papers, the min ister, absorbed in thought, mechanically placed hi* snuffbox and handkerchief on the loNe. The King, on teeing this, gond-hunioredl.v observed: "Why, you ate emptying your pockets, cry dear. F." "Sire," replied the ststeeman, quickly recoil*-,'ting himself, “R is better a min. iwer should empty bis pockets than fill them." Maw They Changed Shirts. The Outlook tells this story Ulustratlve of the fussy, amateur generalship which has coet the British so dearly tn South Africa: “Notice waa received In the ve nous camp* that on auch and such a morning every msn In tlen. - ■’ army must change his shirt. The Imperial Light Horse, who formed perl of the command, had only one shirt apiece, and Ihnt wa* on their hacks, so a messenger wa* dis patched to headquarters to explain. But (Ten. rose at once to Ihe question. My orlera.' he remarked grandly, 'are imperative. If the men of Ihe Imperial Light Horse have not got a second shirt, let them change shlrie with each other.' “ A Mining Camp Hrratos. "Jim Wardner of Wardner, Idaho," gives the following mining camp sermon: "Brother* and sisters. I come to say goodhy. I don't believe God loves this church, because none of you ever die. I don't ihmk you love each other, because I never marry any of you. I don't think you love me. because you have not paid me my salary. Your donations are moldy frud and wormy apples, and 'by their fruit ,ye shall know them.' Brothers. I am going to a better place. I have been called lo be chaplain of the penitentiary. Where I go ye can not now come. I go lo prepare a place* for you. and 'may the Lord have mercy on your souls.' " Not a Good Remedy. There Is a lltlle settlement of New Hampshire people |n Kiowa county, Col orado. Among other things, they brought with them the New Hampshire aversion to using any nore word* In conversation than are absolutely necessary- Two of them met on the road re.-ensly and in dulged In the following dialogue: "Mornln', Si." "Mornln'. Joeh." "What'd you give your home for bots?" "Turpenllne." "Mornln'." "Mornln'." A few day* lifer the m*n met again, and her*’* the way n hard luck story wu told in mighty few words: "Mornm'. Si.'" "Mornln’, Joeh.” i*Whal'd you say you gave your horse (or bora?" "Turpentine.” "Killed mine.” "Mine, too.” * * "Mornln'.” - - “Mornln'.” A Knimlni Old Pali Parrot. Some remark* in th Newcastle Journal about aged parrot# have produced a let ter (nun a Novoc.islrlan. aay the London Time*, tn which the writer relate* the following anecdotes: A few years afto a vcnemblc-looktng stranger was saunter ing along the street, when he time to a window, outside of which hung a cage with n parrot In It. As the stranger came up, the bird suddenly broke out into crying: “Coal*! Coals! Coals!" Neither the people of the house nor the neighbor* had ever before heart! the par rot cry "Cools!" and quite a tittle crowd gathered to bsten and express surprise. The aged wtriitker. In contemplative mood looked on, and at length addressed the oystandera tn these words: "I am a na tive o. Newcastle, nnd when a boy 1 served a . oilman here. While my master carri.d In the bags of coats, my duty was to watch the horse nnd keep crying •Coals! Coals! Coal*! - This parrot was here then; 1 remember her well. One aml-wlxty year# 1 have lived In America, and am now here on my first visit since I left Old England. This parrot Is the only soul that recognized mo In Newcas tle.” Their Vacation In the Woods. "My husband has always said he wanted for once to spend his vacation far, far away from telegraph lines and post of fices." said Mrs. Bronson, according to the Chicago Tlmes-Herald, “and so this year we planned to go up Into the woods somewhere instead of to a fashionable re sort. Before we started Henry said he wanted to get Just as far awny from civ ilisation as he could. He didn’t want to have to answer a letter or see a newspa per while we were away. Bo we went to a place about a dosen miles from No where. and I never put In such a miser able. lonesome time In my life. Just imag ine being left alone day after day In a dready hut. nearly a day's Journey from the nearest village. I positively thought I’d die of loneliness.” ••But your husband? He was there to keep you company. It seems to me that a woman who loves her husband ought to be happy with him even If they were on a desert Isi >'• ••Oh. I'd have been happy enough If he had only been there with me. but you see he had to go \o rhe poMoffl.-e every day to see If he couldn't And somebody there with a city paper that he could buy or borrow' A Mother’s Neserle. George Birdseye In Boston Transcript. My baby boy upon the pillow He*. Wonder forever old. forever new; And a* I gate, he opens wide his eyes. Like violets kissed by dew. They seek my face with love and rapture filled; That look of tenderness how well 1 know— The same hi* father wore, whose life death stilled Only • year ago. Ah! will hts boy be like him when he grows To be a man. nfsr from home's caress' Will he he nobler, braver when he knows Hl* father's worthiness? Hl* work Is not begun: may he decide On one true Guide to lead him through life's days; Oh, may he stand the test when souls arc tried. And follow virtue's way*. Am! yet I dread the hour when manhood calls; He wIB no* be as now my little child So guar,led by his dear home's hallowed walls Where love and mother smiled. But now. while he I* mine And only mine. ! I’ll fold him closely In warm arms of love. And feel the Joy the world, ere I resign. Can never rob me at # *■ —i i • ITEMS OF INTEREST. —I. is now estimated that the urban population of the country, as shown by the new census—the population. ttuK is. of paces containing B,<W) Inhabitant* or over—will reach 3J per cent, of the total, a# egalnsi 29 per cent. In 199 b. —So successful ho* been inoculation against cholera among coolies employed by tea planters in India that the native* are no* eager for th# simple operation. Th# planters have clauses in their con tracts culling for Inoculated coolie*. —Tle Minneapolis City Council has re fused to give ihe Popullat# representation or. the election boards of that city. The UroMlxUonlata ore accorded the third I dace, as that party caac a larger vole tbun the PopuMsts at tha last election. —lt I* said that many French medical men are abandoning the uae of tobacco, owing largely to the government monop oly of that oramaHlty. According to the physician* Ihe cigar* of the "Regie" (those made at the government factories) are so uniformly bad and the tax on all other brands la so prohibitive that the only sensible thing to do la not to smoke at all. —ln the ctounly of Kent. England. It has long been usual for farmer* to lose Im mense quant Hie* of fruit for tick of rail road transportation They now engage automobile cars, which they load In th# evening and lake to lavndon during the night The arrangement t* working well and railroad official* are busy devising plane to head off what may develop UMo serious rivalry. —A cTusade against pralrl* dog* Is to be made In Northwestern Kansas Strychnine and cyanide of potassium arc mixed with wheat and put around the hole of the ixalrie dog When this Is done a couple of lime* the prairie dog Is no more. In the prairie dog neighborhoods there are an average of 150 hole* on every WO acres of land. A hundred and fifty prairie dog families will play havoc with a crop; —Since 1961 the total vote at each suc cessive presidential election has shown an Increase over the vole of the preceding con test. From 1561 lo !*W the gain was 1.700,- 009; from 1868 lo lE2. 70.0*; from 1*72 to 1*76. 2.999.0)0. from 1*76 lo I*. Kno.tsn; from I*9o to 15*4. 909,000; from ISM to 1889. 1.J0U.- 000. an abnormally targe increase, not ac counted for by the admission of new states: from 1*55 to H 92. 100.909. and from 1*92 to 1*96. 1.600,600. This year the prob able total popular vole la estimated at 16,000,000. —There wan rather en odd weddmg over In Dinsing, Mich., last week, when J. A. Oreenough was married for the second time to the came woman. Twenty-five years ago. Immediately after hie first marriage, he started for the Black Hill* to seek gold. After n time he ceased to write home and his wife, sfter securing a divorce, married B. A. Timmerman, who died three years ago Last spring the widow learned that her first husband was still alive, correspondence ensued and now they have been Joined in wedlock once more. —Another mode of treating th# drink habit is said to he In successful opera*lon in I’sris. where ihree physicians—Dr*. Rapelier. Thebanet and Broca-announce (hat they have discovered anew serum Of flfly-eeven casts* treated thirty-two were cured and fifteen were improved, only ten falling to show Improvement. The serum la obtained from homes that have been dosed with alcohol until their system* are drenched with th* poison When administered to patients the serum revive# natural repugnance to alcohol, which continued use ha* broken down. —Seldom has anyone shown such pres ence of mind as was exhibited by William T McCracken, who was fatally Injured While repairing a broken telephone wire Ir Kansu* City. In some way the line became crossed and McCracken fell writh ing to Ihe sidewalk. "Don't touch me," he cried lo a bystander who hurried up. ••you'll be killed If you do. Gel a dry board and stand on It and wrap your bunds in a felt hat, then you can get the wire off without hurting yourself." The man dawned off tn search of the bjard. but before he came back McCracken was dead, the wire still grasped In his charred bands. —A mountain of copper has been discov ered at Howe Sound, within thirty miles of Vancouver. Assays from all over the mountain have been taken and the ore runs 5 per cent. On the Daisy claim, the chief showing In the group, nature ha< -lone what a gang of 200 miners could not do in five year*. A stream of water has worn away the soft chlst and ex poped cliff of copper oro 429 feet high. Sur face openings have also been made with powder which exposes the big quarry of copper for lAM feet. The tremendous out crapplng i, less than half a mile from he famous Britannia group of nro-oec* •* -.1 IZZTtZ - "Down la Guatemala." *iy a * man quoted by the New Orleans Tlmes-Demo ”,h*' fvor “* weapon of the native bandits and desperadoes ta a awc.l-rr mutxle-loadlng ahottun of th* blunder buss patem, and when Ihey run short of huchshol they sally out to the railroad and steal a few dozen seals, which ar Simply disk# of soft lead alxnit the s|„ rhe‘ 1U " r, u r * '‘' , ,n 'o rough! halls thej make projectiles by the side of which a Dumdum Is *n angel of mercy, sn d when one of their blunderbusaes goes off It an -rally kill, everything man directly behind It l, was a hlndfu* of car seal slugs that laid out \| a j ' A ,' I-aland*, the Guatemalan chief of pollrr who came here for surgical treaim-ni *h° U h a w y '“ r He got five C f Hi.-m in ‘ ,,Vl h °* • urvlv *‘i >• mra .toklne thlneV’, m °' l f.>oKtn* thin** I mk. urn* nf tha slugs had lodged under his collar boo* and was cut out by Dr Mata*. When La land* got out of the hoapltal he had a gold ring pm m one lump of lead and ™ ore "** * " ,a,ch charm The other four he carried around In his vest pocket md di wt-h “.h u" 1 Wh *' h * wa * * oln * (ta at h the collection he said he Intenl ed to hand them back to Scnor Ros , wh-n he returned home. Honor Ro,a thf tom Tp* P ' r,or, ' M * hlm 1-aland* killed him with a saweU-ot, shotgun about a month afterward." -The question whether dumb animal* .have any appreciation of pictures has oc. cupled the attention of a great many na turalistg. aaya the Philadelphia p r *e* fateful observation* have shown the „nl tna * of many species do at least recognise ot ""’""five* and other animals Alexander von Humboldt showed his lit tie lame Orinoco monkey some colored pictures of wasp* and grasshopper* The 2!" 1 * * * r,t ' ,I>r ,h " Insects w||h t h |,te ,h " *" M * m Intention of call hlng and eating them Bid* ly recognise their reflection* m mirror. A tame starling which was allowed in fly at will about the bouse always perched on lhe table of a pier glees and sang his hU . co, * n, * rf1 t PMaentment Cals and chamois also recognUc -heir reflect e.l Images The hehnvlor of .logs when before a mirror varies greatly with the Individual Home dogs show violent on llpnihv for the Image, while other* rub their noses against them The behavior of dog* toward pictures I* some:lm •* amusing A rat terrier that found tta way Into an art gallery In Schwerin was scared Ur.?*! 11 * Tk* b> * Pointing of a l *rge *!o. The t*rrt#r howIM with fright and ran Incontinently out of the room' A hound that wandered Into the studio of . Mun,eh - r * n yelping around a large picture of a medieval hunting *aie and made frantic but fruitless ef! I caovgiai J<>m ,l> * P * ek ot houn<l • * **• ! Scrofula THE OFFSPRING OF HEREDITARY BLOOD TAINT. Scrofula is but a modified form of Blood Poison and Consumption. 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