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16 TN6 tlnnilii) to Krldtr Slubl-llobtoo Theater t i> in |>Htl > . MBOirilnj Mmtnrt out! blfht— ••Mnn o' Unr Men." Thl* wok *lll b< full week itt the Heuter. The Kobe on Theater Company will open a live nth!' outiiit*n!*tit to morrow niitht ir. "The Ited Croaa Nttne." a foor-o t military drama The Itobson company played an emtn**- mrnt here last aeaaon and among the many popular price ■ ompanles which played here was considered among the nest Mr Hobson claims lo have even a better company thla season. Including Miss Motile Nelson, who played the lead ng role* last year and promises a mini be? ot strong plays. Specialties will lie Interspersed through out each performance and there will be a 'bangs of Mil nightly. Saturday matinee and night "Man o’ Wars Man.” a naval play, os the name Suggests will be the bill. The play concerns the love of TTlr.or Denbigh, on the part of rapt. Jaclc Con way of the Vnlted States warship New gleans. The captain's rival is ilaslllo Havllando, who commands the Spanish ship El Sc.irpl in The fact that Elinor Is i Russian spy In known lo tlen Ivan Tetrovli h the Hu:an ambassador, who lets the Spanish captain into Ihe r* t To Capt Conway, Elmir is xnown only as the adopted daughter of die Englishman Denbigh, until by her ■wn confession she tells him th*' she Is I Spy In the pay of Russia, subject to • h'- command* of Pletrovtteh. one of itwse command* is that for purposes of state eh- kli: or cause to he killed the Amerban captain, or her fath-r'a life will puy the forfeit In Siberia. Distracted, she -asls lha die In her lover's favor, res in** him from the Russian prison to which he la condrmned by the machina tions of the Spaniard, and Joins him In ih* last act, vindicated. The comedy la furnished In the agree able aiel freshening love-making of En sign Harry Hanlay. an lrlsh-Asnetican vouttl of redoubtable prow**. In love and war and Howe I-es>tlne, a fllrtaMou# little French girl, who la readily becoming Xmerlcanleed. anel who has a lerrtble fir* - atlng brother In ihe French navy, rill. High all of thla melo.lmm.itlc pot pourri Capt Ilaslllo Havllando trails sT pentlnely. He plots and countcrpta**. and [S defeated in every turn. Even at the oat his Identity Is denied when he Is on fronted by Capt. Conway, who Is ltessed In ihe Simnlsh captain's uniform at the room of the war council nl t euta. The deal act Is the Interior of the Army irst Navy Club In New York city. A ball I* In progress. Capt. Conway discovers als love for Elinor, who, as Vera, the Hus sion spy, has been ordered to kill him. Acl e* < ond present* the Amerban coil - til late ai Honolulu, and ends with one >f Ihe beet stage effects ever seen Tlw American blue)* kets cover with their guns the Husslan emissaries and bring them lo surrender. The prison seen In the third act calls for sustained and *ttt lenl work on the iart of Capt Conway and K.lnor Denlclgh, when the former counterfeits the French agent, and the lat ter knowing her lover In this disguise, sits unconcerned In the presence of Ha ron AdamantofT. and on leaving them rtir leptltlouslv convey* to ihe disguised American captain important state papers in tlie matter of the Nicaragua canal. The second scene shows the Interior of a Husslan prison, with Capt. Conway in chair*. Through Vera'* contrivance he Is rescued The escape is well planned and well carried out. Conway 1* vlslt-d by Vera and a minute liter by Havll tndo, who catne uo taunt them loth. In a twink ling. Havllando k mads prisoner In the place of Conway, who appropriates the Spaniard s uniform and presents himself as the representative of Spain at Ihe war council of Ihe assembled nmlmwatlors ot Ceuta, who have met 10 take measures for an European coalition to deprive America of the control of the proposed canal at Nicaragua. In art tonrih the Yankee fleet Is tri umphal)! and the canal Is saved lo the Cntued flint** by her giillant tars The closing scene Is said to he brilliantly real istic. The advance of (he American fleet, the retrial of the B|<anl*h fleet. Ihe launching of the submarine boat and the dcetru-uion of the whole army of ftpain follow<d In rapid mid daullng order. Holcombe Bacon, a son of the lale De Writ C. Bacon and well known himself In Savannah, has been studying In New York for in*- stage for some time and It Is understood that hr will soon make hi* debut Mr. Hopper was graduated from the law department of Columbia Univer sity and for a short while read law In the ofhee of Denmark. A'lnms & Freeman In thia city. It ha* not been generally known that he had ambitions of a histrionic na ture and It will be a to his friend*. He ha* ample mean* to further any theatrical project that he should fancy, and If he has talent he ought to And the way of the thesplan much easier than the average tyro. Ano'her e*-Bavannahlnn who Is doing wary • - " n 1,10 New York stage is ills* Bry.m who will t>e remembered a* a FU tege of Urof. Von de Hoya. who wa* a professor of music here several ycers ago Miss Itlanehe Walsh, Ihe gifted young actress, who has made such a name for herself, ami who some critics think ls the euccf ssor of Davenport, has Just returned from Europe. ills* Walsh I* evidently aofhewhat of a critic herself, as well us a keen observer, as the following delight ful interview will show: "Naples." she raid, "Is a fine opal set in sapphires• Its beauty of coloring is r<, vfvld that whit* l chirms it wraths and Intoxicates, like Its native wine. L?- caryml Chrlstl. It |s a city of hellish mis-, which I would like heller were the modern Neapolitan eliminated.'' "Y'ou do not like the Neapolitan, then?" "It 1* not a question of liking or other wtt-e. but of Impression, and to me the Nt upoitiwn eem* to assume all ihe worst traits of the ltnllan nation. He is the plebeian pur excellence of a race once groat and retire I His manners leave much to be desired " i you visit Mount Vesuvius?" • "Yee. 1 have had Ihe sensation of vol untarily climbing up :o the internal rc giens." "Mow did vou like Home. Miss Walsh? ' "One, I think, is not railed upon to fall 1n love with every city otic visits I wt awe-struck, naturally, with nil that sll.l *' mds at a landmark of her ancient grandeur. Nevertheless, mo<l< rn Horn affects me dwagreeahly as ihe cradle of Ignorenci and superstition.*' "1 was In It me only twelve days, spend ing most of my tlm> at the Conatanxl Theater studying the Italian actor, Kr m-te Karronl. In a paradoxical repertory which cover'd th* gamut from comedy to tragedy. From ltome I went to Florence While I lonslder the Neapo'ltan as thr chaff of the liu'.i.in peninsula, Ihe Floren tine se- m- to tin to lie its patrician. The city of Florence Is a delightful gem. pus s salng unique charm As to the Floren tines, -\v y atone for the general 111-breed ing I had noted In Ihe Ncaimlltan and tho Homan. You must remember that 1 was only five wick* In Italy and that opinion 1 • > xprtii ii * hai'hnir ) on. though I believ. that the Intuitive lmr thou* not founded upon act ual knowlfdirt and experience—arc in the lony tun th*- moot rorrn*i "From Floranc I visited Vanlce I tUnhrii to • tin 1 old city of th# I'kgce# ht for#* thr modern utohl with hi# naph tha launch** and at* .tmheata altogether wipes out tho native gondolier, before the time h*r. the lagoon* shall no longer resound with thr anclrnt melodies of thl* weird water city Around VV nice, so appropriately called the Bride of the B*, th*lr still I net* thr sadness of frustratel h p*-# and ambition*. Venler no m- with her own melancholy that I wan glad to hurry to Faria, where humanity in given to th* exhibition of extremes, f olishr##* ar.d enlightenment. "Fir!*—copiteure. Interesting. distract ing, while thr flippant m *d I* Ui>p*rmotM; how chr pa lie when th** qtilelrr. *n* r mood In dominant. At hr b#M l # on Id llkrn I’arl to a lovely * ourteaxn and it ht-r worn to an uifly vingo. The latt* r ,'i pfu tn.%) tr ikr |ta*lf fr.t especially ?- t*r the fXfioriilon. *‘l saw all the pliyw worth seeing; I.'Alglon, Cyrano le Madam* Bans Gen# and the great company of player* at the Anio n** Theater. ‘ The Exposition? It i- a snare and a delusion! The od woman making a hM superhuman attempt to catch lover, decked in finest linen and mo*t fiiudy a.lk. |wv*d*r*t aid roaued to hide tha wrinkle# and the prim of time All f k*. clap-trap m l faiae. The Kxpodiion to my mlnl hn . nerved hut one purpose—to divert the French and other n itlomi from Ihe Internal ailment* rnawlng at her na tional h* art. In oth*r word# It 1* an at tempt lo kI >** over, ;♦* in 1570. the crav ing for a I'hange in the form of govern ment. But France, like u mummer, lueta for universal attention. f*he must ever .and her motto I*: ‘Think what you all! of me. !*e it **o<J or bad. but ignore me you rhall not.* M The prtxhictlon of "Janice Meredith.** a dr.imatlxailon of Paul I*eli*eeter Ford * pretty novel of thnt. name. i #*rf!n to arouee much Interest and It will doubtl** be one of the events of ;he *<-a*on. Preparation# for the prnfluctlon M the Si ir Theater in Buffalo, Oct. 1, are going forward rap Wily. Mary Mannering and her *upjw>rtlng company re rehearsing daily • t th* Madison Square Theater In New York under the direction of H A Hoh- rt* The dramatic version of Paul Lei cester Ford*a etory will l>e told In four act#. The opening ecene will he the farm of ‘Hquire Meredith. "Oreenwood.” in New Jereey. Here the leading characters are In ‘reduced—Janice, t'hurle* Fowne*. the hondman: ‘Bqulre Meredith, the atan h Tory, and hla Clvin!ilc wife; Tahltha l>rlnker. ‘Squire Ifennlon. Meredith*# alv. scheming neighbor, who ae-ka to eecure Janice for hi* son, Philemon, a country bumpkin who afterward devHop# Into a fighting major In the HrltUh army; Lord Plow* n. the Itrltiah apy; Lieut. Mobrtiy. an horrorahle soldier In the Klng'a army, and Joe Bagley. the trimming, tlme-acrv tug captain of the village mllMta. The finale of the flr*t act la the arreat of Fharlea Fownea and hla eacape to Gen. Washington"# line#, aided by Janice, with the gunpowder purchased for BagUy a company. The Neuond act ahowt> the homely life of the revolutionary time in a scene w hich represent# the living room nt Green wood. Here Fownea. now know'n :i# Col. John of Gen. Woahlngton'a staff, la met again. h.rd preaaed by Lieut. Mobniy’a |atrol. J.inlce alda Idm to es cpe the British. The third act la laid In the hradqunr :*ra of the drunken lleaatnn commander. Fol. Huhl. ot Trenton. J.inlce la under arrest for aiding Col. Brereton to escape. Brereton t omes there dl*gui*ed aa a He*- alun soklier to secure plan* and Inetnjc- Bona which Washington dedre#. AUled by Janice, he secures the paper#, but I# detect#*! .n<| condemned •* a spy. He 1* saved by the <’iMitln*‘nl<ils, who unex pectedly cross the Delaware, despite the h e and surprise the hireling lleaaluns. Pbe locale of the fourth act 1s York town. the .lav of Fom wn Ills' aurremler. The latter scene will b* unusually elab orate in me hunlcal and lighting effect* The dramatic version of "Janice Mere dith" will ■*e por;l u!.irly strong in it love interest. The mutual attachment between Janice aid Fownea will be mad • manifest at the opening of the play, on I will no: be held In abeyance a# to th book The development of a coherent dramatic story tma rendered necessary Nome departures from the book tide The ptav will not. however, lose In any whv the fi-cln itlng interest of the original All the characters In the book In which the reader !>ccame Interested will t* trans bited to the stage In the dramatic version Rrh*ar**l Cf ’Thr Choir Invisible." which will hr fro<lun <1 at th# Park Th*-- at#r. Boston, on Oct. 1 w#r# begun last Mon-lay. Th# principals ln. lu>lc |f#nry J#w#ft. William J. L#Movn# G#ora# Woodward. T J M#Oran#. William H* *#ltln#. Walt ffit#hcork. Gsrtrud# Ren net?. Mah*l Dlx#y Ad.i Drava# Sarah flummp-r am! Judith Hathaway. Th# Chi raco lnt#r-o###n Inquire# if thin iat named actrrss is In reality Mrs. H#nrv J w#tT (FranoN Hastings), who original* I th# polo of Mis Falconer, but mi< h ts not th# case. Mis J*-w#tt dramatised "Th# Choir InvislM#’* from James Lan# Allen’a atory. and con#l.l rs that sufficient labor and honor ll* nry K Dix#y. who t n gan r h#ar*ai* Of th** title rob* in "Th# Adventure* of Ft ancols’’ op Monday, ftcla #sp#<daily happy In having for his stage director. Herbert Gresham, who w.-i# a*s<H*lat#d with him in tb# oil "Adonis’* day#, and wa# assistant #tuge-manager with Augus tin Drily shm Mr Dlxey was m#mb#r of Daly’s company Dlxey piay<d Mai vo lt'* and Orrvham Sir Andrew Aue#he#k In ow of th# best production# of "Twelfth Night" ever given nt Daly’# Theater In this connection an amuhg story 1# told of the production Hhrid n‘s "Th# Crß l<\" In which Dlxey played Puff During rehearsal* Dlxey was locking rather glum ami disgruntled, w hen Mr.* Daly r* mark ed to him: "What’s th# matter, you don’t serai to Ilk# th# wnv thing# are going " "Id n*t." responded Dlxey frankly, "I think Gresham could direct th# piece much Utter than vou can’ "Wt 11. let him. tfun." sail Daly, who promptly retired from th# stag. Dlx v and <r -ham th#r#ii|Min got th#lr heads tug* ther and Introduced a veiled .-k.it upon "Trilby," thn unprodtn*e<l as a play, with Miss llehan In th* clt I rle and Dlx* y a# Hvrncnll. This skit was th# hit of lh*‘ pbc . and call# I from Mr. Daly a ep**cll letter of commendation. The gl imour of romance which ho* al ways nurrounJn) J:im- O'Nelli's perform ance of "Monte C'rlsto” In innmiiinl this season by the Hiltndkl scenic setting which IJebler A Cos. have provided for this ever-popular play. In spite of the fact that Mr. O'Neill, ha* played the pari over 3.001 time*, the theatrical lUcrrM of "Monto Crlalo,” at Indb ned by continued acceptance h far surpassed that of nil lit contemporary play*. The* sucres* ha a doubt loan been due to the ever lent actinic of Mr. O'Neill, since no other uctor haa been able to seore more than a temporary auccera in the role of Kdmond Ibintee. Al though the star bt* on numerou* occa- MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IH, 1900. slorts endeavored to doff permanently the tailor garb, priestly robes and court coe lume* of the picturesque and romantic hero, the support that the public always gave "Mono CrUto" left no room for doubt that It would patronise him to the full extent of crowded houses Ther* fore his managers decided to him to m f w cities in an edition de luxe of his old favorite. The immensity of the produ - tlon has made It advisable to propoor the pro duction for on# ntght. In order that the stage hand* of the Boston Theater may become ac uslnmed to handling th- he ivy e< • nery, therefore the opening of "Monte Frialo" will be chi Sept. 1!. coming to the Acwdcmy of Music, N Y., on Oct. 22. The Dr.im rlc News has this to say of Bcw:n Olrard: If ever there was a ca>* of virtue being re era riled, it Is shown In the cas* of Bet firm Girard This elever woman h*is put l>chin*l her all the which hurt her. and Is now * irnlng •* splendid living in vaudeville. Bhe was In Hb hmond last week, and Is singing In W ashington this week at n big salary. GRAY AM) Bis! F VFTF.RA**. % tiruup of Theft* In "The t owfeder ntr \ eteran.** Fine Crest Viilo. Maitland, Fla . K At the time I should have been pre paring my letter for last Aindiy'i Morn ing News I wus engaged In s moat des perate battle for my life, and thit. too. among strangers, with not a familiar fa*.e to ennle Ujion ni-. It w.is a sudden, sharp conflict wfh disease, and yet. tnrough • kind Providence. 1 won tha victory, although It may be my last. In the past my wonderful will-power has carried me safely through many such con flu-is. but 1 fel row :;iat 1 can har*l*> exp* t to tand any nwre su a struf:* J for Ilf* tkd has fovored me above my m*rit. in long life and active service, while hundreds of my frtersk* and •n’*o- in Georgia, who shouk! have out llved me main years, are in their graves. The Conf* derate Veteran of Nashvllie. for July contains a group picture of the *l-akeri‘ tai'le t the Atlanta Blue and Gray Reunion. My picture is that of a little old man with full grey beard, and is taken for Gen. Joe* Wneeler. Next to m** 1 1 u tall, stalwart Confederate veteran. <V>I. Martin Van Buren Moore Aif Au burn. Ala., the husband of "Betsey Hamilton," and. himself a grftwl writer He should have outlived m- many years, and yet on Monday morning, rfep?. 2. in the depot at Loatevllle. Ky.. I read of his death. He was nos. however, as stated, a graduate of West lYHnt Mhitnry Academy, nor ever a cad*t there, at*d yet he was i brave nnd faithful Confederate soldier. A press teiegram said Gen. Joe Wheeler would leave Chicago for Monte Hano, Ala. "hts native home.** Such ignorance is Miss when* '# folly to be wise. (*-n. Wheeler's native home Is Augusta, Q:., an*t hi# faintly residence nt Wheeler, Ala., a rural railway station, but his law of rtf’** has keen at Cortland, a nearby town. He entered West Point Academy from New York, because both his father end mother opposed his rhosing a military ca reer. But he was horn to I#* a soldier and so wens to New York to relative# who fa vored his ambition and got him appointed to the academy. Gov. Candler Is rather hasty and brush in bl? attack upon Eggleston's Hlbtory of the Cnlted State* Rev. I)r. Edward Eggleston Is. 1 think, a Virginian, and his brother George served os a gallant cav alryman In the Confederate army, and after the surrender published a very in teresting book on his war expeHences. It would seem that the G. A. R. Influence which Gov. (Yi tidier condemn# would hardly reach this Virginia family In suffi cient force to warp Rev. Dr. Eggleston’* mind Into doing mnrked Injustice to his native state nnd her Illustrious Confeder ate dead. Gov. Candler’s as sort loti that the Gran I Army of the Republic Is merely ’*• sale show to the Republican party," Is the merest nonsense. The only two conspicu ous generals on tho stage .luring the ses sions of the Grand Army Encampment at Chicago, were Gen. John C. Bla* k. *f that city, and Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. C. H A., tretlr**!). of New York, both life-long nnd honored Democrat*. No member of the Gram! Army of the Repub. li.- Is ever allowed to wear his badge at .* political meeting or appear there as a Grand Army man. No Grand Army of the Republic officer is ever allowed to use bis official paper for political purposes of any kind; and Grand Army of the Re public official# • emnot, as such, recom mend any one for a iiolltir.il office. No political question. an*l no candidate can is- discussed In a Grand Army meeting Thnt the majority of toe members ar<* Republicans I- not the fault of the Order, and no Democrat is debarred from mem bership nor 1# he made uncomfortable In soy way because he Is In the minority. Here In Florida the highest honor* of the Gram! Army of the Republic have beeti bestowed upon Hfedong and active Dem ocrat*. If the Grand Army of the Repub lic was merely "a side-show to the Re publican party.** these men would leave It In a moment. Rut they know better Itelng on the inside, and hence pay no at tention to the slanders of Ignorant oui slders. The ann.virrrnvrt lh.it Gen. Otis will not take command of the Impertinent of the lake* at Chicago until Oct. 1. carrier with It no explanation of the reason for this delay, w I will explain It M.J Gen F. well 8. Otlf, U. it A., I* a member of the famous lafayctte Post. No. it. G A. It . of New York, the richest and swcll rat poet In the country. On Sept. 2# they propose to give Gen. Otis • grand ban quet, something unsurpassed In the hi* tory of the poft On Wednesday night, Aug 29. my wife ami 1 accompanied Com mander A. C. flake well and Adjt. WUtair F Itruwii of Lafayette Post to the roornu of Gen. Joe Wheeler. I*. H A., and daugh ter?*. at th* Auditorium Hotel In Chl ago. the object of the visit being to present Gen. \Vhe hr a formal ami very ibnliil invitation to le the second guest of honor nt the proposed banquet. The old Gen eral could not resist the Invitation, and anile Gen. Otis will l*e the real guest of honor, little old righting Joe Wheeler al l be the lion of the occasion. Lafayette Post not only admires the hero Wheeler, but they Jove the man -so modrst. so gen tle. and yet us brave us a lion Ills re ception at the banquet will be one of the g rente*! events of his life. The people of <*lil ago were greatly endeared to Ocn. W ler, and now he is over in Alabama an ng his old constituents, who are pay ing him nil the honors n “Conquering Hero'* could ex|'**ct on his return from a great and faithful service In the field. Judge Leo It issleur of Bt. IxhjU. the new commander-in • hlef of the Grand Army of the Republic. Is a peculiar look ing man small of stature, with a foreign countenance ami a cold, staring gaxe. lie Is Just the opjioidtp of Gen. Hhuw, or any previous comma nder-ln-cblef, and is a man of very pronounced views. Coder his administration many radical changes wdl lie made, ihe removal of headquarters from Philadelphia, and the disposing with the valuabb services of Adjf. Gen. Stewart Wing among them. He will largely Westcrn.se the organization and Impress his own Mi n very strongly*upon It** operation* the present year. One sig nificant event took place at Chicago. There Is n sharp rivalry between the Wo rn in's Relief Corps and the Ladies of the G A. It., and after his election Judge Ras slcur visited the headquarters of the lat ter organization and accepted an honor ary membership In It. His future action in regard :*> three rival organizations will be watched with peculiar Interest, as the Woman’s Relief Corps has always been very near to the 15 A. R in the past. Judge Raasleur Is also suid to have his own views on the subject of mbltnry In struction nnd patriotic teaching In the public schools, and be will probably In augurate some radical chong*** In this de triment. so ably conducted the past two years by Col Allen C. Rakeweli of La fayette Post, New York. Sidney Herbert. t AIKiNT IY THE FLOOD. A 1 units l.ad>*a Descrlpllo* off Ike l.alveatoa Storm. A ffavannah! in who had r lativea In Galveston during the storm, received a letter yesterday from his niece giving a graphic description of their experience. The I#tier was written land Sunday morn ing aft#r the wind and water had sub sl'i-d, and Is as follows Galveston, Tea., Hept. *. IfOO —Dear—: I know you are worrying yourself to iSmih about us. and 1 hasten i* write you, although everything ls In terrible confu rOoiv, and 1 do n*t know when you will get this, there Is no telling when the trains will run. The wind was blowing at nearly thirty mil* n ali day. and at 11 o'clock It started to rain A the wind was blowing from the north* -u.; it was not long befufe the Gulf and bay mot—this wa> about 4 o’clock In the afternoon Our house is a very higii.> elevated cottage and the Imsement I* v* r> well finished, so we that for bedrooms and kept out trunks there. When tie water began to rise, m.imma got a colored woman, who had a room in th# yard, to help her move some of the trunks to the main floor, and by the time the) had finished moving half of them 1 1 • water was marly six feet deep in the basement. The* wind wa so strong the window* began to break. One window al ter another went, until we were confined to one room, that soon started to leak, and we bad to try the sitting room. We stayed there about one hour, and then ihe water rose to ihe front gallery, that In about fifteen feel from the ground, then w* ad piled Into the garret, and were lo king every moment for the house to In b.own over, but, thank God, It stood Its own. I have often read of floods, but I had never Imagined they were so bad If it hud not been for the negro who heipe-d us move the trunks I do not think we would have been left to tell the story. The wind blew the dining room door of Its hinges and tried to do Ihe same with the hall floors, but the negro nailed one of the doors and stood by the other to k***p M shut the greater pait of the night. Imagine how we were situated, without a dry match on the place. In total darkness About 11 o clock the wind changed and the water began to subside. We remained up until it was most daylight, when we made a bed on the floor and tried to sleep, but were so thankful that our lives wero spured we could not do much sleep ing This morning the sight which presented itself to our eyes was one never to bt forgotten. The fence was gone, the house In *he yard had collapsed and the front step* were washed away. All the trees on the sld walk w*re blown to the ground, and house* wore floating about the street in every direction. A three-story build ing hack of us was blown all to pieces und the sight the streets present Is some thing *lr* wilful. Feople who lived near the leach and some who did not were roam ing nhout half clothed—all they possessed having bean washed away, and many are the live* that are lost. Every little while we see the patrol pass with dead bolte*. One very* dear friend of ours who lived about five block* from us was drowned with her mother undone brother. Bhe wv* such a sweet girl nnd the only ore In a family of eleven boys. We have so much to be thankful for. I do not think we can ever be grateful enough, for we did not lose anything, only all our belongings were soaking wet and the furniture ruined. I know p;pa Is worried to death; he Is in El Faso now. and we do not even know his address, as h* ha* only been tehre a day and has not had time to write u# since hi# arrival. You must excuse pencil and paper as It I* all I have—the other Is soaking wet I can't help but think that yesterday this time how dreadfully frightened we all were, und I will remember the gfh of September, IWD, as long as I live. With love Lola M. ODD FELLOW* AT RICHMOND. Sovereign Grand Lodge \% 111 Hold Its Annual Meeting. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fel lows will hold lta annual meeting In Richmond this week, beginning to-morrow nnd listing through Saturday. This lodge Is convposed of representatives from each of the Grand Lodge* and Grand Encamp ment* in the Cnlted Slates and Canada These representatives, together with the Past Gram! Hires ami the present officers of the lodge, will number almost two hun dred. Each grand lodge and grind en campment is allowed lwo representatives. Those from this state are Mr. C\ fl. Dorset t of this dty. who. together with Judge J G. I Rond worth of Atlanta represents th* Grand Encampment, and Judge Robert T. Daniel of Griffin ami Mr. G. L Oood wln of Atlanta, who will represent the Grand I/xlge. The principal business of the meeting will le the election of officers for the next year. This will take place on Tues day. Alfred 8 Pinkerton of Worcester. Mass.. Is the present gtand sire, but It is practically assured that to this position for the next year will be elected Gen A C. Cable of Covington. Ky.. who is the present deputy grand sir** There Is a strong hope that Mr. Goodwin of Atlinta will he selected to succeed Ihe |ost of deputy grand sire The hope Is well founded. a> Mr. Goodwin, at present In the position of chairman of ihe Commit tee of Appeals, holds one of the mo-t re spon slide portions In the order, ami his election to sue eed Gen Cable would be but . Just recognition of the conspicuous ability with which he has performed the duties of his office. The Committee of Appeals is one of the most Important bodies In the order. It takes cognisance of and reports to the Hovereien Grand l*odge on all appeals that are mode to that body, with recom mendations for their being granted or not. Its recommendations are usually final re garding the ultimate fat** of the appeal, ** it is but rarely Indeed that the sover eign lodge acts adversely to a recommend ation. *4 11001. BfHtkl D CAROLINA. Plan by %% ll It Only Southern Honks %re to He t srd. Columbia, H. C., Bept. 15 —The agita tion for “Southern book* for Southern" , hl'idren has bad an effect on the State Hoard* of Education, and In adopting hook* to t*e used In the public school* till July I. I**. It has made n clsnn sweep. A Richmond. Va., flrm-lt. 11. Johnson 4 Cos —gets the contract for furnishing all the readers nnd histories. All of these books are by Southern men. ami the special hi*tory provided for Is Indorsed by the Confederate Yet* ran-, who hav* taken n lively Interest in this matter. No other hooks than t!o*e select'd can )v* us*d In the schools of this state. Very binding contract* ore mode with the pub lishers as to price, etc. They are furnish td at a certain price to county d*|o*l torles and resold to pupils, th* price in each case being printed on th** hook During the lirst year the publishers must take up all old text books and replace them nt • fixed charge. Few I Dam in Recorder's ( onrt. In the Recorder’s Court yesterday there were heard only six cases, none of which was of more than passing In tercet. The two boys arrested the day before by De tective Hunk were not tried, * one of the chief witnesses against them was not in the city. He will be here R Is thougut on Monday, when, probably, a builiy will be given the prisoner CHINA THE WORLDS PERIL TUB VIEWS OF MID. Lr WHEAT Or KHARUHAI. Twenty Year, of Flanahtee Would l.eate € lllneae Euonat* to Meaoee rtvlllMtloa—'The Wnaderful Re cuperative Hare, Wht.-h, Haa,ed hr I'lagur and Fnmlna, Mill In rrmtei—Nat Only ike Title, of Chiu, awaem. Hal Even the Farm- In, I'ravlnee, Aee Oernpied Al most to the l.at Foot of Moll. Farm, Twelve Fee, ftqaare *■ Mer hnoH—H,,r, of a Ray Who Walk ed Thirty Mile, to Carry Coal—'The Old Order (han,l,, la China. To an Amnrtcan, on adequate compre hension of tho Irrmendtue populouir.ea, of China It almost Impossible This coun try has nothin, to approach It. The (leni ent alum, of the great American cities with their tremlnc tenemoits give but a faint Idea of China’s swarmtn, communi ties Tho very farming district* nr* a* over-crowded as our great American cltlea. It ta this vast and ever Increasing population which constitutes th* main danger to tha civilised nations, of a war which should Involve th* who:* Chinese people. The mete force of number, of thoea millions, uncounted and unreckon able with any decree of accuracy, would wear down a vast army An admiral ot the American navy, who has traveled in China, put the cos* tersely a few week* aco when he said, that all the armies of the world m!(ht be kept busy for twenty year* klltlne Chinamen and there would still be enough left to be a serious men ace to mankind, should the survivors unite In war. fttatlsttca In China are th* merest guess work. but It Is highly prohahle that sil given estimate* fall short of, rather than exceed, tha conditions. Mr. Archibald Lit tle, the trav.br, save. In a recent lecture In Shanghai, an Idea of th* conditions tn the province of Ssechuan at the present time ttsechusn Is n Inland province, about U> b> 400 miles tn extent, made up of mountain ranges, a most unfavorable locality for farming. n*verihe l ess. the populace supports Itself mainly by th* lalslng of tiny crop* on minute plots of Und. Mr. IJtti* said that in traveling through It In any direction It was Im possible for days at a time, to And a vs •am spot large enough to pitch a small tent upon. FYequ*ntl>. he said, th* Chi nese former would climb a flight of three thousand atone steps to a piece of land no more than ten or twelve feet square— and this economy of space went on to the very topmost point of all the mountain* While Mr I.title was traveling through flzechuan a boy of nine or ten years fell In on* dav with hts traveling istrty and plodded sturdily along all day. keeping up bravely with the retinue, taking dust, heat, and htll climbing as patiently as the grown men He was naked, save for a loin cloth, and without food or money At night Mr. I.!ttle. who speaks th* lan guage, asked him where he was going, to which he replied, "To Bu Low, to carry •ORl.” "But," sold Mr. Little, “you cannot car ry coal, you are too young " “Oh," said the little man. “I can carry fifteen baakei* In a day for which 1 will be paid seventeen cash (about lVfc cents)." "Have you eaten to-day?" Inquired Mr. Little. “No," said the brave llftla fellow, “but I’m not hungry.** As there was still about thirty miles of hard hill rood to be gotten over before reaching Hu Low one can conceive some thing of the mornl courage of that child. Amidst unutterable poverty, disorder and confusion of confusion*, desplta over population. pestilence ami famine, the ChlttAtnan Increase* and multiplies unin terruptedly. Thts is In part due to the universal desire for children, progeny who shall hand down the name and family blood through long generations. All the miseries of existence have no terrors for the Chinaman so long a* he Is raising children to worship at the ancestral tombs. Ills individuality he counts ns nought If he only may turn to his family and with pathetic devotion die within the charmed circle. Ask him low long he has lived In a certain U % ality nnd he will an swer Ax) or I.o*o years, meaning that for that length of time his family has perj>et uated Itself end left the records of It* tombs there. If death claim his legiti mate children he looks to the children of his concubine or to those of some relative whom he adopts, to perpetuate the family name and traditions. Fading this he has recourse to a method which to Occidental morality is somewhat startling he hires for year a friend's wife who has a rep utation for fecundity, hoping thus to re pair the fortunes of hi* line and to escape Heaven's worst curse, that of childless ness. From time to time the Chinese have paid the penalty of their conditions of life, and nature, "auditing her accounts with a red pencil," has revenged herself with decimating plague and famine Rut the recuperative ability of the race, after such loss of life, is without parallel. Chi nese annals, with every evidence of au lhenflcity,state that after the Block Plague of the Fourteenth Century hod swept away Its millions, the hirth rate showed on In crease that was almost Incredible. The birth of triplet* throughout China was of common occurrence, nnd tnfatw mortality decreased to a very small percentage Love for his children Is the dominant emotion In the Chinaman'* heart Patient under abuse, ridicule and 111 treatment of himself, he will endure no harm to hi* children Lay a hand upon them and you s*e him descending wild-eyed. In multi tudes from his mud hovels, every man with a heart full of sorrow and savagery, bent on your destruction. It Is by appeal •o this feeling that the secret society men of China are now arousing widespread sentiment against all foreigner*. Under their teachings, millions of the coolie das* sre coming to believe that all foreigners are kidnapers and that the eyes of Chi nese children are used for making medi cine. There |* a story’ being scattered broadcast at this moment to the effree that the railroads lay the foundation of their bridge* in children’s bone* That be lief Is nt the root of much of the antag onism to the building of railroads. All over the country the Ch'nese are guarding their wells lest the foreigners put poison In them. Less than f<oo years ago our ancestors held precisely the same super stitions as do the Chinese to-day. During the fourteenth century they persecuted an*! burned alive thousands of Jews for the supposed poisoning of wells, and dur ing the great mortality caused by the bu bonic plague In fourteen hundred and for ty-eight <!44M4* the Jews were consid ered as having brought the fearful mor tality upon the Christians and In My ence alone 12.4vm Jews were burned alive bv the Infuriated people It was reported nil over Europe shat the Jews received poison from remote places w hich they pre pared with spitlers, owls and snakes, j n order to destroy the children of the Chris tl ma in superstitions and prejudice* the Chi naman is to-day where the European was five centuries hack. Owing to the severi ty of the purely animal struggle f,-*r ex istence. hl Instinct of Isolation, and hU In-penetrable egotism, the Oriental has stood still, while the rest of the world ha* advanced. Under favorable conditions he should have less ahead of us. and this mtmt be taken Into account In reckoning with him as a foe. for the s**.ls of a higher order of civilisation are latent In China. They have blossomed once and may ag tin blossom. The Chinaman s physical char acteristic*. too. are such a* to make him formidable. From the physical point of ▼law he seem* the fittest of all race* to survive adverse coodiiLna. Well built, to your financial wcl- F |BM Wpl 0 fare if you neglect to V^H ,2 THAT GAS RANGE. !j| 8 Ul The Inrrrnupil nui of prrryltilsg C* on your fahlr uinUpr ! In|*rallvr lira In to MVP at tho rooking. / \ [.> only S' month. t GAS LIGHT COMPANY, jp L, 7 a/id t Congress >trr*t, west. Colored Lithograph Posters. WE do a great deal of this class of work for Proprietary Medi= cine Concerns, Furniture Houses, Cigar Manufacturers, Clothiers,Sea* side Resorts, Mountain Sanitariums. All you have to do, if you are inter ested, is to drop us a line. We cheerfully make estimates 11l MS Ji Mill J. H. ESTILL, President, SAVANNAH, GA. EDI C AT ION IL Emor\> Collcoc^-c^ i Forty mile* east of Atlanta situation high and healthy. IS WfnTYVWQ j£|\ No liquor* sold in county. Intercollegiate games pro llS HlLlUJjfl 21 hi hi ted Full eollege course* offered leading In A 8.8 <*// Ph a*ul K *■* Regre.*- Kntlre neor*sary exjwne with- VV .// in §. 0 Sard annual #e*:.*n begin* 19. 19G0- For cauloinir nJ full information, il,tr-* c. E. Bowman, pteeiocnt possessed of marvelous endurance, with an unequalled power f ratlal perpetua tion, Inimd to all hardship#, thriving amidst condition# of Ilf# th:n w<>uhi wijie out most races, he is of th# material of thne# who conquer by th# very power of re>l#tanoe That h* will ever amalga mate with other peoples I# highly im probable. Admitting that w# all spring from an anthropoid race, th#re still must have be*n some characteristic |>#ctillar to th# stock from whh h th# nvm with th# almond eye cam#. The* |>#ridM#nc) with which h# turns his f.. to in# East and Invokes the spirit of hi# ancestors. Ills unwillingness to associate with other m#n. hi# non-comtnunlcativeiH -s. hi# highly re ligious and superstitiou nature, r.* wavering shadow# of aome far off origin. too long hidden away from us to And out. Not a little has been hasdly said alot th# fighting qualities of the Chinaman, hut n> have y. t to brn what he will do under suitable Incentive. During th* Japan-China war. w# must remember, h# was a#k*d to tight for a cause of which h# knew nothin*. With small newspa per facilities and n-> common tongue, (it should D born* In mind that #a* h of th# c ghticn hundred provinces uses a langu.ig pecul ar to ItM lf. and also that m#n from the different provinces not only cannot converse w ith a* h other, but us ually. owing to their • lanlahnes#, hat# each other) pooriy paid and po rly fed, h# was hustled to the fi -nt and asked to tight for a caus- of Which he had never h#aid kb n who h„ht w* II nr# usually men who believe In their cause It mat ter# n*t whether that cans b# true nr not. the fart Fiat he I ib-vrs It deter mine# th# man’s whole conduct in con nection with It. Events tn tr Fekln r#- c- ntly have d*monstrat*d that th# secret society nu n of China kn*w how to bring every man. woman and child to arm# wh n they dr Mr# to do *. Being famili.tr whh the superstitions of the people, they nin<al -HiO' tly to them with the reault that thty can epread ahrond auch Infu riating rumor a a a may yt prove a llre br.tt and to the vaat empire. Tip re l yet M'lendltl me'al In China but hope has g tie out of the Chinaman'* heart. Toe spirit of dlsonpnt la dead within lilm l.lke a dumb animal, hopny If he m iy eat or If he may not eat. with tto prraaeaalona but his children, he moves oil to meet hla coming doom. There are Intellectual nnl abb Chinamen, the flow er of thla nr .it stalk, but they are few. and the atalk Is withered at the root. AH classes ar suffering from the agony that precedes th- blrih <f anew era The time hna come when China has reached the limit of what she can do under the old conditions The Chin* ae empire Ison the verge of dissolution, hut there still re mains. for the armies of civilisation to reckon with the Chinese people, sullen, ravage, and superstitious, with fearful p PSlbilltbs of danger lti their steadily Increasing millions. Mrs. i.ii Wheat, Shanghai. China. —A complete set of Mafeking siege postage stamp* was sold at a I cm. Kin auc tion recently for $l. ami two seta of Marking paper money brought sll# each. % Negro Einriit*! I* It llealreshlef Writing fr- m North Carolina, a corre spondent of a daily newspaper gives a lurid account of a movement of m* r* than “sixty thousand negroes, who are Laving the state, seeking anew horn*, the reason given being that the with drawal of the voting privilege is a hostil* act! If the nrgro in any considerable num ber m*kr a voluntary movement, of thi* natur , few thoughtful persons will see :n it a danger or a menace of danger! flu* h action intelligently carried out would !*• benefit l.il to both race*. One element ef danger suggested by the correspondent Is I "That if the negro laborer departs tht Caucasian will have to go to work!" On* i find.- It difficult to realize that thi** ran In any event become • danger To many it will appear to U- the r verse It chan* • * I °uce to a trarnp that all aid was rt fi sd He said. If you do not kelp ni* * shall resort to something desperate, whi h I have never tried, “I shall have to work! L-t u* endeavor to be fair to both side*, yet w . need n- t be over-tlmld. The negro should be equipped and fitted for a move ment which shall fit him for the ml*** oo which h* must fulfill. I’nder his present environment he Is by Interested contrx - torn called “tha L st laborer In the world If this In* even approximately true, then he I-* capable of working out hi* own sal vation. of reaping the full benefit <>f h* own Industry Freed from all th-‘ Influen of "race ptcjudl •*," nnd competition. In a land of his own choosing, here and alone may b* found an answer to the que-tlon. “What Is Lst for th IW,) race*?** Hitherto, we have underrated ability of the negro In many field* of in dustry and of b arnlng. Ho Is rapid! out growing the limitation* we have pls upon him. and sh aking for him as wr^,| ‘ a* for my own race, 1 am confident that the door shou and be opened wide, and th*t he should be aided In the effort to found nation and to establish a home. The more skilful and Intelligent he be* comes, the better fitted he will be te *D this work nnd conversely the greater ▼ * be the nerd f r It. For as ho presses Into the field, competing with the Cauc*suu In the work *h p there will be Incr* * friction and ho will ex(>*nd his efforts in a vain conflict against superior force, lu st- ad of proceeding along the line of I-*‘ l re.-l*ianc* in anew field The old regime Is passing away. Ho long as the old "si*'* owner remains'* the negra has a fri n and protector, hut “anew k rig ha- 4 a* 4, n who knows not Joseph.** and th • ni **•*' tory m*v*mrnt must begin. It *h o' l f ’ the result of wise, concert of action ® thoa- who desire the best condition- f ail human L ings. Heverol features call for treatment, but this will serve the present. Our Northern brethren h*' already suggested pssible dang r by f*" son of the coming from the Hoath of 1 negr*e*/* yet I find no kindly hind tended either from the East. North. r ‘ yet from the Great West, nor any v*)M bidding the negro welcome as he 1 from the land of his oppressors, ax 1 Dooley terms us .William Rilty B P