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4 §t(je IHofning Iffttt?. MralK ilutldlag Nnvaattii On WLUM>I)A), Ot TABMi a, ltfOtf. Rag.atcrcU mi tha lonufflf# in flavannatk. Tha MORNING NEWS is published •vary ua> in Ilia jriir, anti la aet*G to •iftkacnbat* m tha city. or acr.i to* mau. at 7#c m mouth. P 4 00 for u tuu*.i ha, wu 18.00 for on© ymmi Tto# UOIiMNU NBWi. by nail. •* Uimi a (aitnout Sunday umuo), U*ir fuonUu, SI.W. sx mot. ins ona yaar |.W Tha WEEKLY NEWS. 1 Inuta a weak. MobJa> aui Thursday. b> cua.l, oua year. |TE. fiubscriptions payable in advan a. Ha mit by po:al ouitr check or rf#bttrl latter. Currency aea'. by mail at i*ak ox senders Transient advertisement*. other than •peels! coiumii. local or reading notices, amusements and * heap or want column, lb cents a line. Fourteen llnea of agate tjrpe—equai to one Inch square in depth-* la the Mandaitl of measurement. Contract rates and discount made known on appli cation at Luiu.im otll e. Orders far delivery of the MORNING News to either residence or pUiw-a of business n,a> be made by postal card or through telephone No 210 Any irregular ity In delivery should be Immediately re ported to the office of publication. Eel tern and telegrams should be ad dieted 'MORNING NEWS.** Savannah. Ga. EASTERN OFFICE. S3 Park Row. New York city. H C. Faulkner. Manager. IMLX 10 M.W AmtItIISEMEJIS. Mr.linp—Georgia ('fiapur So S, R A. M. Hpfrlal Nott’**,-—How anil Wh Bu wauf* Spring* "atar Our**: S'otlse, Bol omon Company, Fin- Meet* John Funk, Bill ol IkM, bmin’i Uaf*. Buslm ,-t* Non < -K A W laiun.lnr. Auction ha I**—Choir. Furniture, by I. U. IxiiUtoli- AunMOfirer Publication*—•NorafootT a "Hatlre.’* Morn Boxes of Gold—l’oslunt Cereal Company. Mineral tV.iter-Sjiogi Aronda K Water. Bauc)—Lea A r-rrln'a Jxrl Notlo-a-Otation* From the Clerk ot tii. Court of Ordinary. Medical—Or. Pjrrtv'. Meillral Dlacovery; Cutlcum ItenixoU-s. Munyott’a Kidney Cure, htuart a Dyap-p-ia Tablet*. Plnk iuun'n Vegtstabi* Compound, Hotel a I’Uta. Mot'.rr'a Friend, Ayer> Pill*. Cheap column Adv-rtts-roent* Heip Wanted. Employment Wanted, for Rent, Re Hale, Lki, Ptnual, Mleu. line< ue. The Weather. ThadlntUnatione for t-xlay are for rain. arHh freah to brisk northeasterly wttida, brtak on oonat. The New York Hun le apparently much worried because ej-Qov Stone of Mis souri Is enjoying a "full dinner pall.” .♦ . | Two horses have been shipped from i.rr* tnjrton. Ky„ to China. They are Intended for the personal use of Count von "ai der •. The f’lHladiphla I-edger notes that wo seem to be toeing more men In the Phil- Ippines since the war closed officially than we did while Ir was officially raging. Five billions three hundred and thirty three millions of postage stamps were used in the United H.atea last year. This la n fitnreaae of 40u.000.mi over tho year pre ceding Henatotw Hanna and IteverlJge ought to get together and arrange a compromise with respect to trusts. Hanna says there are no auch thing*, while Beveridge telle what ie do with them. Home of the Republican iwpers are pointing out how Mr. Bryan could be a t-'nlted Slates Henator If he wanted to, and In that position do much to udvan es Ms political l.lies Meanwhile Mr. Bryan has a very line chance of being President. Oddly enough, the Emperor Kwang Hsu bss not committed suicide nor born pois oned by the Dowager Empress since the Foams re marched upon rekln. It might be a good thing for Kwang Hsu to have the Powers remain at hts capital permanently. A special session of the Texas legisla ture may be called to afford relief to the city government of Galveston. Th# city Is practically bankrupt It ha* no funds with which 10 maintain a government, and It* sources of revenue were wiped out by tho alarm. • It I* soi l that the Boer general, Chris tian De Wet. bears a striking likeness to the Irish patriot, Charles Htrwurt INrmell This likeness, It Is surmised, has given rise to the repealed rumors that Parnell is not dead, but In Houth Africa fighting with the burghers, in the person of De Web It Is stated that New Jersey, by stste and county appropriation*, has built 1,000 miles of good roads In the past eight years, and now stands at the head In this respect. Whatever else we may think of New Jersey, w arc hound to admit that she is right In this mutter, and has bund ed tor future prositerny. The •’riot" In Georgetown. H C., seem* to have been merely a matter of sus plston on the part of the negroes anJ neivousnoas on the pari of ttys white people. No harm was done. Meanwhile the situation was for a time dangerous, end but for the prompt arrival of tr op* there might have hern bloodshed G-orgetown Is In th# “black be.f of fieutli Carolina, the proportion of negroes to whites i,. n, e about live lo one .♦ . 1 The Philadelphia Free* prints a dis patch from Pekin, signed "Role rt Cole man. Jr.," In which the statement Is made that some of the missionaries, both Cath olic and Protestant, have set the Chinese a very bad example "by seising the val uables of the wealthy Christian*" Prr. somably h# valuable* of wealthy Chinese converts to the Christian religion are what Is meant. "It will take many years to t rase the memory of these ac*s." con tinues live correspondent. It Is hardly • oneslvablo that She missionaries took part In the looting It must be that they seised tho property for the purpose of pre venting It from falling Into the hands of the loosing soldiers. Intending to restore It to rightful owners upon th# cessa tion of hostilities. MR. BRIAN AND THE NEGRO VOTE. It •tf'4'fn* to ua that th* construction ; ahl h Col. Alexander It Lawton. in a communication | übllshed In another col umn thl# morning, put* on that portion of Mr Bryan’* ©(*©* r-h deliver*! In Ht Haul, Minn.. on M*! lay, and report*! In our dlrpdtch©# yesterday, which re’ate* | to the treatment the negroes have re i elv-d at the hand# of the ftopul)! • 41) party In the matter of offloai, t* a ©train** I one. Mr Dry an simply til l that tho negro© had done for the Republican party all that that (tarty could nationality ex (net th m to do—tliat they ha! betow*<| th* presidency upon It inoir than once and In return had bmi gtv n janltorahtp* lit* aim In *b ill k wih i n<it cie*. wan not to have th*m to unJ*mt*n<l that If they would vet a lor him tt>ey would Iw rewarded with he ter ofTß'ft than they have received frrmi the Republl Vi party hut that there i no longer any reaaon why they should ftel under to that party, that they *hou!i feel fr**w to vote in ac‘l'ordance with tmlr Inclination and judgment. in -ome o| the atatea whl h are renr 1- ed a* <iou!4fui them In a very Urge mgro vote, for Instance, the *tat** of Ohio and New York Mr. Bryan In Justified In ue ing every fair moutu to get that vote. ll*- that there Ir great dlraatla faction among the negro**, partl-ularly the negroes of the .North, with the treat ment they have received ft urn the Re publican party. That thi* I* ro I* ihuwn by what Col. Eawton *.ya In Mr com munication. and the recently published letter* and Interviews of ItUhop Turner of this elate The negruc* do not think Mr. .McKinley haa done what he could to ruppree* the lynching of negroee In the South. Hut It ahou.d be troll* e l that Mr. Rryun h mn made no prom lees to appoint negroes to office and he han not nai l In any of hi* speeches that ho would appoint them in the event *f h:a election, even If It should be shown that th**y contributed largely to hi# success f>n several occa sions recently he has been a*kd whether approved the diifranchlrement of ne and he hae raid nothing from which the negroes couid draw that they would receive greater consideration than they are receiving from the Republh ana In the event of hla reaching the presi dency. Mr. Bryan holds out no hope to the negroes that under n Democrat Sc admin istration they would get greater r*’ogT)l tl>n In the matter of offices. He Is doing nothing more than trying to make ne groes w ho are with the Repub lican party understand that tlieir obliga tions to that part> have heen discharged und that they are now free to vote the Democratic ticket. If It were hi* purpose to reward negroes for voilng for him he would not heaPate to say so--;it least, a fair Inference from his record I* that he would not. THU TRBATV • l.tlAItA I'llft£ WAV. SuiKlty'i Oil -ago Record ha* a signed artlrb* by Mr Bryan. In which ha makes a vary strong defense of hi* position on <h Philippine question There I* nothing new in this article, hut the aritl-lmpor lalistlc argument* wliich he hits used in hi* various speeches are clothed in anew dress, and are made to up|>ear more at tractive* There Is one point In thin article that should receive more than a paoing no tice. It la being charg’d against Mr. liryan ail the time by Republican stump speaker* and hewspapor* that he le us much responsible for the p wsrlort of the Philippine* by ttio United States as Pres Went McKinley, because he Insisted that the treaty, by which the Islands became the territory of the United States, should be ratified. II Is admitted that he favored the Hartm revolution, which provided that the Filipino* should he dealt with a* It wos proposed to deal with the Uulmns, hut It Is pointed cut that he insisted u|> n the ratllt alien of Ihe treaty after th- Ilacon resolution was defeated, and that If It had not been for him th-- islands would not now be a possession of the United Htate-. On this point Mr Bryan In his Chicago Record article says: The ratification of Ihe treaty. Instead of commuting the United rMa ea to a col onial policy, pally clear* the way for the rccognltion of a Philippine Republic Lin coln, in hit first Inaugural mes-age, con densed an ut answerable argument Into u brief question when he asked, “fan alien* moke treaties easier than friend* can make laws?" The same argument I* presented In the question. "Could the In dependence of the Filipinos be* secured more easily by dlplt mscy from a forelat) and hostile nation than It can through laws parsed by Congress and voicing the sentiments of the American people alontv?" If Independence Is more desirable to our people thur. a colonial policy, who is there, or what Is there, to prevent the recognition of Philippine Independent e? It Is absuril to say that the United Stans •an he transformed from i republic Into uti empire without consulting the voter*. .The Imperialists may he willing to deny to th<> FI 11 t*l nos'the right to govern them selves. hut they cannot deny to the Am r lean people the right to determine the policy to Im pursued by the Foiled (Rates In the settlement of the Philippine ques tion According to the foregoing. It was Mr ltrvan'a tsirpose to secure Ihe Independ ence of ihe Filipinos by having the treaty ratified It may be that If he could have foreseen what trouble It would he to bring about the independence of the Fili pino* In that way. he won I net have In stated *o strenuously on the ralltb atlon • f the treaty. He wotr'd have -'<V'd p-oh ably, with those who npim*< I th- treaty, and there were ninny, h -th Democrats an l Republicans The first sugar of leuii- lawn's n-tv crop reached New Orleans lasi Friday, almost a month In adv mce of u*t **non* llr! receipts The Tim*- lu-mo--r*l -ays th.it this is rot only *rher than In non. hut earlier than for ten years past, and Is somewhat of a surprise Itolh rotten and ; rice are backward, and while the sugar district has b*n more favorrd In ih. matter of weather, no one uppo-ed that i the sugar crop wa much. If at alt, in ad vance of previous years. All indications point not only to an early crop, hut to a large one—one of Ihe most successful jn many years. The government of Colombia has con cluded that 11 doe* not desire, or rather cannot afford, to own Oeorge Oould s old yacht. Ihe Atalarta It was stated recent ly that the yacht had he-n purchased by the South American republic and would be fitted out as u war s-lhp. It appear*, however, that the war *h I ■ already own ed by Colombia, small In tonnage and few In number, have n ither gun* nor nrrnvr, and the government has no money with which to purchase the equipment. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY; OCTOBER 3. 1900. NO INfRE ASE IN THE fTIY®ATD. It la worthy of notice that a tbo co *’ ton advances there la no Increase in the estimates of the rige of the cotton crop On the contrary, the disposition I* i to reduce the eatimates. It 1* a fact that In many of this state the outlook for even a half crop la very far from promising The weather, during Bcptember was not favorabla to me crop In rom* loralitlea there ha* b n too mu< h rln and In other* ttw-ra ha* tecn a drought. Consequently there are rotnplgir.ta from nearly all part* of Ihe stale. Aral the situation la not much better In about all of the other state*. From ro one of them do them com* encouriglpg repot is. That being the case, la It not a fair conclusion that the conservative es timate made early In the season, namely. 9 hales 1* altogether too high? Does U not begin to look as if the c;op would not reach I.OOo.Qtt bale*? Hy many It waa thought that the price of cotton would drop below 10 cent* a pound by tha end of ■* ptemher. and re main below that prk e for a very const lar ibio part of the season It has not drop ped. On the contrary. It ho* naan, and It would not be surprising If It should con tinue to rii. The com on crop experts have a pretty fair opinion of what the volume ol the crop will be. end the spinner* have been lnform*<l of this opinion. That l —hy the price of cotton !■ rem.tlnln o tlrm. The apinner* of Europe who closul their mill. In Beptember with the hope that coiton would pile up In tlt warehou*#* and the price would drop are hecotnlna alarmed. They will lerom* panicky a little later on. ami will be so ea.er to buy that they wIM *<-n*i the price upward with * bound Th* wise s|Anners are those who have bought all the cotton they could and ate tsklng what they can get now. The situation In Chins 1* not going to have as great an effect on the co'ton mar ket as It was thought It would a month ego The exports of cotton goods to that country may be cut down somewhat, hut not enough to materially affect the de mand for the output of the cotton mills. CHANGE* IN ftTHEET N % MW* li I* rrport* \ that AkDrman Dixon, chairman of ihf Commute* on •nd Ida net*, will submit to city Council at Itf next mating an ordinance chantn th# name*, or rather the number*, of the itrret* aouth of Anderaon, ao that the number-namea of the atreei* will con form to h*tr respective f>rrdtlon* In the m|* of the city Thu* what la row FirM atreet will bt m Thlrty-ffrat atreet. *inc there are thirty Direct* from Ray to An dcraon. Inclusive. Hy addin* thlriy to tha present tr#t number-name#, the correct poult lon of ony on* of the numbered Hirer)* would be Indicated by It# name Twelfth airret wool! tveome Forty-aec ord *tfeet, and tta namo would lr.dtc*t# lh.it It l forty-two wtreei# from Bay •tract. Thl# chinff# I# one In the line of pro*- r and It will coat the city noth Inf more than he value of the paper on Which the ordinal) •• t wiltten And now le tha time to mu lie It. before ihe southern wc* (lon become# loeely built up and the re#- (dent# becomo itronfty attache! 10 the old and erroneous number#. When tha preernt eyatem of numbering the aireeia was begun, w l.at la now ihe wouihern Hon of the city wa# beyond the corporate*! limit#. Now that th.it oeciion U a [>*rt of th© corporation. It would be only an act of common# nenie to number It* at reda In conformity with their actual numerical poalilon. A* the numbera eland they* glva the Dtranxer the Impr* anion that there are only twelve Kaat-wnd-Wcat • tree)a In Sa vannah. whereat there are lortjr-two of them. If Aklrrmnn Dixon's ordinance should also call for the changing of the name* of such slant connecting street* as Pino, Harrison. Margaret. William, New. etc., to Congress, Slate. York. Oglethorpe av enue. Mull. etc., of which they are merely •-xtinalons, It wou.d *<lll further elratghtcn out and simplify the street division* and nomenclature. An Improvement similar to the one suggcsled was made when Joachim street, which was an ex'enslon of lln>, was given the nan* of the latter, and when Chnal street went out of existence and River street took ll* place. Zubly street, which run* west from Broughton, might well lie railed by the latter name. Indeed, the city map shows a number of such change* which might be made, with the rrsull of more clearly Identifying the location of Ihe street*, and thus Increasing the value of properly situated upon them. For It Is a fact that properly upon a well known street I* worth more than It would lav upon a street seldom heard of. even though the latter were merely a continu ation of ihe former. That portion of the city In which Mar garet Bnd William stieets are located waa once a suburb, nisi was known as Kwens vllle, and Ihe streets were named alter William Kwen and hi* wife Margaret, who owned Ihe properly. There Is no gool reason h> the*, streets should not now te renamed to correspond with Ihe street* In the main portion of the city of which they are continuations Indeed, the names should have b*en changed long ago. Mrs. Kmnv* P. Kwlng. of cooking school fame, said to a class of young women at Syracuse the other day: "I want to sav in you that the average American man Is Just my Idea of a saint." She qualified this however, by continuing: "The saint liness of ihe American man I* shown In his long, patient adeepiam-o of an lll munag-d home and badly cooked food." She declared that she would have the Legislature pas* a law prohibiting aay glrl from getting married until she kn-w how to do housework. Behind his hand Ihe nveiage American nun will breathe a fervid "amen" to Mr*. Kwlng's observa tion. nnd then he will go right along mar rying ihe .average American girl, who does not know how to cook. Just us he has al ways been doing. "Ohio Is a doubtful stale." says Demo critic Chairman loon* of that gt.ne. 'and we have good hope* and a good chance of carrying It for Bryan." "I can wifely say that M Kinb-y und Roosevelt will carry Nebraska." says Republican Chair man I-Indsay of that state. This is an In teresting feature or the campaign. Tho Democrats are claiming that they will carry MaJ. -M Klnley a stale, and the Re publicans are claiming Mr Bryan's. It Is doubtful If the hopes of either will be re alised. The Transvaal seem* determined to go out of business with a clean record- It Is paying oft Its soldiers from foreign couotrlos and seudlng them ftomta t Col. Arthur Lynch, formerly In command of the Second truth Brigade of the Boer Army, Is In New York. He Is quoted as saying that he expects President Kruger af the Transvaal to visit the United States before a great wht e He do-s not know that It Is Mr. Kruger's purpose to make this country his home, though he may do so The sturdy old Hoer would And a warm welcome In th# United Hiatt-*, and Incidentally there are any number of American promoters who could tell him how to Invest those millions of gold In a manner to yield him handsome returns. I'BHIOI %’b. —Mariano Reulliure, th famous Span ish artist Is at wosk on a monumental vase which the city of Buenos Ayres l* to present to the Queen Begrnt of Hpatn —titdney Grundy Is one of the most pro ductive of dramatic authors. In one year he has been known to produce Ave ptays. He begati to wrtto at td and he 1 now U. Augustus fit. Gaudens, the sculptor, underwent a serious but successful oper ation In a Boston ho-pttsl but l now rapidly recovering all of hts old strength. —ln •Uscusslng national politics th other day Itavid B Hill said reflectively: J're.ldents are very much like saun*es." "Why? .eked a puxxled auditor, "uh. you Ilk" em better when you don't Bee 'em made." waa the dry rejoinder. —Gen. Fltahugh ami family ha I In tended to return to Cuba Oct. 22. but the prevalence of yellow fever in Havana has changed Hie General's plans. He will re turn to hi* tst alone, but the family will apend the winter in Richmond, V*. -Tha Frlnce of Wales recently said of President l-ouhet of France: "I like him much better than I did M. Fsttre. M Loober ha* *he air of being a good clflxcn, which he ought <o be. M Faure put on the airs of a sovereign, which he was not." —The Prince of Wales ha* lately amused himself by collecting pens of famous writ ers of the Victorian cr*. He has one that belonged to Tennyson one of Browning’s, of fiwtnburne's, of Hardy's and flfty or sixty more. Including a curious Inkstand once the property of Robert Laruls fltevan son. —Three bronxe tablets have been affixed .o a wall rteor the bust of Bishop Brooks In the "Phillips Brooks House." at Cam bridge Mass., which has JueS been opened to the public. On the tablet above the bust Is the Inscription: "This house is dedicated to the piety, charity, hospitality. In grate ful memory of Phillips Brooks " The plate on the left gives biographical details, and that on the right reads: "A preacher of righteousness nnd hope, majestic In stature. Imperious In utterance, rejoicing In the truth, unhampered hy bonds of church or station lie brought by hts life and doctrine fresh falsh ton people, fresh meaning to ancient creeds. To hts univer sity he gave constant love, large service, high example." Hit 11. HI HITS. —Onwfoert —While your wife l* nrvav In th© country what doe* #h© find to writ© lo you about ao reaularly? Cra hahaw.—Money.—Judge. —••Flavtlll. you ought to take mor© pain# with your letter# io MyrtUla.** “Nonaenae, pa. If ©he o.n re.id her own wrlMng #h laDyTcad mine." lndianu|R>ii Journal. I’lon the heating wave© he gazed And murmured In a©tnnl*hm*nt. “Why do they keep on twvvtln* now With no one her© to ©pend a cent?" —Washington Htnr. —Brlgg©.—laook here, you’ve been mak ing love to the girl I am engaged to. Grigg# Well after I had wen her once or twice, I made* up my mind that you needed help.—Detroit Free Proas. —landlady (threateningly) I*ll give you a ple © of my mind one of the#© days If you’re not careful Boarder.—l guea© I can ©land It If It lan’t any bigger than th© plec© of pi© you gave me BufTalo Expreaa. —Heredity: "That girl Id an enigma." "No wonder. Her mother wn© such a mere butterfly " "Indeed?" "And her father wa# regular lobster!" Even the ©mart #et. pray observe, are not altogether ex empt from the subtle Uwd of heredity. —"Don’t you admire determination In a man'# character?" "It ail depend# on the result." answer ed Sirius Barker. "If It bring# suites© I praise li a# splendid peraevarance. If It brings failure 1 denounce It a# confounded obstinacy."—Washington Htar. Ml## Pa say.—Yea. ami when he pro posed ! tried to pretend thot I didn’t car© for him at all. I tried hard not to let him read my encouragement In my far©, but he did M&stt Peppery.—Ah! I suppose he mold read between the line#—Philadelphia Press. —Decidedly Othorwlec: "And this 1# th© man." exclaimed Mrs. Rimho. "whom, fourteen year# ago. T promised to love and cherish " "No m’ dead." Interrui***! Mr Hamho, grasping one of the chairs a- It swam around him nnd dropping In it; 'man's all m.ul* over every oeven years. Pm two removes fr'm th' man >ou mar ried. in' dear ' v 0 c i iiiif\t i n>niK> r. The Chicago Chronicle (Dem > *ay* Mr McKinley's severest critic cannot but admire the prtalr>n ti.l silence he In keep inn In then, try Inn day* Almost anything the President could any on either side of almost any subject would Infallibly be a flat negative of some previous utterance of hts on the name subject.** The Philadelphia Record (Drm.) say* "Chairman Hanna said to the commercial travelers of New York. ‘liruh aside all the collateral Issue* meant to deceive you amt tmikc you forget that the one Issue la Prosperity.* There is one collateral lu pin* which Mr. ll.tuna Ip quite willing to bruph aside till after the election, and thl* Ip hip monstrous scheme to take $370.- oon.flho of the money of Anirri'’;n tax payer* out of the treasury for bounties to steamship corporations." The Philadelphia Tlmep. heretofore Inde pendent In politics, makes a bold declara tion In favor of Dryan. and will exert Itself in his behalf. It says. In part: "Our belief in th* essential doctrines of the Democratic party and In their necessity to the country I* stronger than ever. So one qu*:ion* or cm question. the ability, the Mrtictn' f■* the Integrity of the Demo cratic candidates. For th- rescue of all that has made America glorious In the past and that can make her strong in the future. It Ip a duty to support their elec tion. The Syracuse (S. Y > Telegram (Dem.) pays: **lt Is perfectly apparent that Hanna Intend* to pursue the same tactics In this campaign that he did in HUM. lie ts raisins an Immense .‘orruption fund with which he hopes to buy up close and doubtful elates as he did fpur years ago. The trust** and pro*acied monopolies are to furnish the hulk of the slush fund Hanna a 111 And • year, however, that the sentiment of the people Is too si rone against McKinley and Hl** policy of Im perialism to be turned in McKinley's favor by hta big corruption fund. Taught C hlueae Emperor, "When Kwang Hsu was a child there wero two foreign stores in Pekin that had been established without permission from the Chlneaa government. As they were on Legation street, they seem to have been too unimportant to attract official often lion. Yet these same stores were des tine*! to have mighty Influence on the future of Chins. One of them was kept by an ll.lterate Dane, who sold foreign tops, notions and dry goods such a* might please (he Chinese or he ot use to the #< any European population of the capital. By chance, some eunuchs from the Imperial palace bought toys In this shop for Hu Infant Majesty. "As the tiaby Emperor grew, the busi ness of the Dane shopkeeper Increased. Ills stock became larger and mote varied Ansi She Emperor remained a profitable customer. Musi, al cats, dogs and siieep, horns, guns, trains of curs, striking clocks and Swine watches *ll were bought In turn by eunuchs from the pal ace As the Ernpeior grew to boyhood the Danish shopkeeper supplied toy* suit able to his year* from h* inexhaustible shelve* To understand how searching an Influence three produce# of far-distant lands must have hail on the growing mind of the Emperor, you must know mat he was shut out from the world, shut out even from his own people, by three strong walls. He never left the Forbidden City excepe m a closed chair or in a < losed cart.* Every side street was barred from h:m by hanging canvas of mivs. He was a prisoner and slave In the palace of his bin bright. "If custom forbade his going out to see the world. It did not prevent the world from reaidilng him In the shape of wares sold by the Dane In I-eg.iMon street These were no longer toys, although such they seemed to the Emperor. An electric rail road was built for him in the palace grounds, on which he rode as our children ride on merry-go-rounds. For him an electric plant was built In the Forbidden City, and the palace was lighted with Incandescent lump*. He experimented with min.ature telegraph and telephone in strument* off! ials that sough Imperial favor scoured the port cttles to find new toys for HI- Majesty. They came fo Fe kln University and bought our phono graph. They got for him riamophonn'. must? boxes, aeollnna and mignlAcent clocks that s:rurk the hours with music or with the song of birds All the re sources of roojern Invention in the West were tapped to procure toy* for the Em peror Kuang lisu. Once the assiduous Danish shopkeeper ha.l t sleigh made for him In Europe, The slelgli was a marvel of Ingenuity with it# foot-warmers, mir rors. docks, cushions of yellow silk and figureheads In the s.iupo of golden drag ons. "As the hoy grew older his taste# i hanged There were elenr Indl- allots* of mental growth as the years advanced lie began lo wish lo know the llbiature of the countries that produced the fairy toys and wonderful del in * of his boyhood pleasure*. He had two teachers apiint ed to Instruct him In F.ngltsh. fine of these teachers was the grandfather of n young man to whom I had taught English In return for lessona in Chinese. In liii* wav I learn*-! much of what was going on In the rec ~s of the palace. I wis In formed by (hose who had been Into th* Emperor's private apartment* that they wete more like n museum, than like liv ing room-, so crowded were they with complicated mechanism- arsl toys." Kwang Hu a spoiled Child, ""'hen Kwang Hsu was a young man 1 wn* depositary of the North China Tract Society and librarian of the Fekln Univer sity. For some weeks a eunuch from the pa Ice came every day to secure a book. Nor would he he pin off without one. Something must be given to him. were It only a leaflet on a religious topic. At las', were were forced to take the Chinese nod ical hook* from tny wife's private library to satisfy him. "The Emperor gralually made a study of all kind* of religious book*, hooks on chemistry, pliysies. nvdtclnr, the science of government, international law. political economy, mental and moral science, as tronomy. physiology, mathematics—all hooks. In fine, (hat had been prepared or translated Into the Chinese language on subjects relating to foreign science. It began to be rumored among the Chinese that Wan Hill, lO.ftM year# (the Chinese way of speaking of the Emperor), wa* going to become a Christian. "The child tmd become a man. a self made, self-educated man. Never did any one secure a liberal education under mor. difficult circumstances. Hhut off from all the world, he learned about all ihe world. Horn In the most conservative of empires, confined In she palace with two fogylsli old women, without any examples of lib eralism among his ancestors, and without guldince stive his own. he became Ihe mainstay of the Liberal party of his coun try. "Vet H must not be supposed from what I have said thus far of 111 st Majesty shat because he was studying Christian hooks ho was therefore becoming a Chris tian. The Chinese did report that hr play ed at Christianity with the eunuchs, standing them up In classes and catechis ing them from the books he had read. As for Instance: # " '"'hat god* do you worship?"* " 'I worship Buddha ‘ " 'No, you don's. ‘ " 'Oh, no! 1 worship Jesus and the God of Heaven.’ “ ’Correct.’ "But It takes more than the mere read ing of books and a bias In favor of Chris tianity to make a Christian Asa matter of fact, the Chinese idea of the Emperor I# that he Is nothing but a spoiled child. They used lo say: "The Empress Dowager ought to take him over her knee nnd spank him. It Is told of him that one. when he did not get what he wanted he grabbed fine Swiss watch from a table In his rage, dashed it to the floor nnd #t tmped It Into smllhmen* "On another occasion the Emperor had ordered several of his eunuch* to come to him. Only one of them put In an ap pearance As <he eunuch prostrated him self to kotow, the Emperor, In n frenzy of vexation, kicked his slave In the mouth The man who told me of this Incident gns his Information direct, and exclaimed af-- cr h** had related It to me* " '"'ha' kind of a man Is that to gov ern a country?' “Hpolled child Kw.tnr Hsu Is. without douht, and he I- by- no means a Christian, yet he Is the only hope of Chinamen to day.” Told pf Their I'anlts. Many were the Interesting experience* be longing to the first North held confer ence colled by P. L Moody, says the Youth's Companion Ore especially show* Mr Moody himself In his varying ph ises It was the conversation hour a iron, and about a hundred m#n were sitting under the tent on Hour 1 Top Mr. M odv. leaning **tirdl!v against tb* trntpnb . led the meeting. Sudden v there* came from him the plump question "Brethren. how many of you have *. grown In grace that you can bear to have your faults told?" Many hand* wen* up. Quick ns a flash, but neither sharply not Insulting v. Mr. Moody turned to n young minister, an 1 said: s "Brother, you have spoken 13 times In 12 days her. and twrhgp* shut out J2o'her good men from hpeeking." It was true. The young man hid I r*n presuming tied ofTb lou* fie had h* Id up his hand, but he could not bear to be chidden; end how he stoutly defends | himself, only making matters worse Then another mini-Dr broke forth, mil he. ruled Mr. Moody for his Iduntnese. The latter blushed, but listened until the r*- proof was done. Then he suggestively covered his face, and spoke through his finger* * Bretheren. 1 admit the fault m> friend charge- me wih; but bieth ren, 1 did not hold up my hands!** i ITEM# OF IITKHUT. —New York city has I.&S polling place*, only fifty-one less than the whole slate of Nebraska, and nine more than there are In North Carolina. —A manufactory of spurious Brazilian hank note* has been discovered In Paris and b:ta resulted In the orrest of six forgers. Including Horace Urbam Massard. son uf the engraver of the same name. —Snakes of all sixes abonnd In the Su matra jungles. Monster lizards are there, measuring six and seven feet. The house lizard Is about twelve Inches long and makes a noise like the bark of a toy ter rier. —The farmers living In the vicinity of Harvtell In Buller county. Missouri, have sued for the possession of a < emetery k ,TI’ graveyard Is In the center of a farm, the owner of which has been guarding It with a shotgun to prevent any more burials. —Export* from ihe I'nlled States during the post fiscal year Increased to every s* lion of the globe. Next to European exports, the largest increase was In ship ment* to Asia and Oceania, the third .argest Increase was In exports to other parts of North Amerl a. —ln his annual repert for tha fiscal year ended June 10. Land Commissioner French ot Michigan says that the total amount of land now held by the state I* 637145 acres. During the year-17.211 acre* of land were disposed of. for which slll.- 195 will he received, all but SIISSS having already been paid. —"'hen Gen Gatarre was a young en algn he whs present at the flogging of a soldier and was so much upset hy the sight and the erreanu of the man that he declared hi* intention of selling out If he had to b presen* at many more affairs of that kind. "You'll get used to it In lime, sir," said a color sergeant to him. How ever. soon after this flogging was abolish ed In the army. —A civil engineer who l In Alaska has written home to Chicago that the rails on the Ohilcoot Pass Railway rxpagd with the cold Instead of contracting as they would he supposed to do A temperature ranging from 12 to 10 degrees below zero Fahrenheit would not appreciably affect the length of roll*, but severer cold than that would he attended with expansion This I# certainly nn exception to a law- of nature, although water shrinks as It cool* until S9 degrees Fahrenheit Is reached, yvhen It begins to expand —lt has always been thought tha* It was tniposdblr to Imitate the cloth In which th# ancient Egyptian* wrapped their mummies A Manchester tourist brought home a small bit of the fabric nnd asked .* rollon expert If hr could tell from what mill It came. He examined it carefully ui - der his glass and then said that It came irom a mill near Oldham. England, und was known hy the manufacturer us, his “No. SV Investigation showed that he was right. The ancient mummy doth* h*l worn out and the Egyptians were rewrap plng the relic* In English-made fabrics. —Home of those who are watching the Belgian hare craze which Is sweeping this ountry at present fear that when It sub sldes the land will he afflicted with a pest which w-11l threaten the ngrieuisure T. H Palmer, acting chief of the Biological Survey, has sent om warning letters In which he sugvests that step# he taken to keep under observation the hares that have been liberated add that all possible measures I*e adopted to dlseounoge the lib eration of the anlmils. All countries have these crazes for .animals not Indigenous to them. Japan twenty years ago went •leaft over rabbits and pigs and the spec ulators made vast sums of money out of them. —Wherever In this country the Hebrews have established charitable bureau# these a-sorl.atlon# have accomplished their work much more successfully than have the as sociated charities of other denomination" or of secular origin. Qt 1# hard to remem ber seeing a Hebrew beggar. Ye* there are such, but they ore nldcd hy their own (►eople. whose charitable bureaus, how < ver, know no nationality or rellgldn so far the Ihe beneficiaries are concerned. In New York the I'nPed Hebrew charitle* report that of those who sought aid In !*!*!. 60 |>er cent <lld not return lacr. 71 per cent, were al-s.nl after 1995. S> per cent, lifter IW. #S per rent, after IW7. 93 per cent, after 1*99. leaving only 7 per cnt. of the applicants of I*9l. —A curious piece of news has been sent to the London Times by Its Rome corre spondent, to the effect that th© Vatican I urposes going Into the news bus iness a# . competitor of the existing en terprises of this kind, the idea being to (stnblish such an agency under the direct control of the Vatican, which will Ik* sup plied with telegraphic new# free of charre by all the Catholic clergy In the world The promoter of the scheme 1# said to be Cardinal Rnmpolia, who ha# been negoti ating with various eminent French finan ciers rind jiolltlcians. The idea underlying the scheme Is that by turning th© clergy Into reporter and getting the new# with out Ofit the agency ein a monoio -ly by underselling all existing entcrprl****. and therefore secure a "corner" on tho new# markst. which It will then b© obi© o control, and thus "make th© lay and J#*wl#h Journals Ink© Catholic version# of everything." This w'ould make ih© Rev. Mr Sheldon of Topekn and hi# Chlrstlan newspaper look like a bub© In arm#. —The Red Cross Society rep>rt# that during th© Urn ierlod (from July 1. to July 23) of th© experiments now being car ried on under it# auspices In th© Agro- Rnmnno. 3fl patient# were conveyed to Rom** or elsewhere by the so vet) ambu lance* engaged in the work From July 24 to Au* 15. fi! pntlents so tr.ns poritd The medical officer# ntt.vched to Ihe ambulance# attended during the flrst period patient*-, of whom b£% were suf fering from malaria, anti during th© sec ond period 192 patient:*, of whom were malaria In *pl?e of tho notoriously un he.ilthy condition of th© locnlltie# In which the ambulance# are stationed, no single metnb’ r *.f th© Htaff, either nmong ihe ir.ed. leal men or attendant#, had contracted fever during these iwo periods. The im munity thus enjoyed by the member# of the ntHstoti I# jiscrllied to the precautions idopird by the rnunb Ipillty for jsrevent ing th entrnne© of mosquitoes to tho room# in which the men -p. .nd I# rc garded *•* n further confirmation of th© correctness of the mosquito theory of ma iariM Infection. In the course of rotne recent experi ments on liquid air, says the New York Times, It. Kbert and It. A. Hoffmann notice*! that a body suspended above the surfa •• of Ine Ibpild ac quired a strong negative charge of electricity. It was sub sequently determined that this charge was tot due to the liquid Itself, but to the frklMi of rntnut* particles of very cold k*e suap*nk-d In It. The discoverers suc ceeded In constructing on electrifying machine by mean* of a tube -out.lining a piece of wire game, through which the vat>or of liqubl air was driven Ire ac quires a positive* charge by friction with a metal and imparts to the metal n nega tive one. It appe.tr* to be more active in this respect the <te'.der and drier It is. Thl# may account for the strong electric efTecl of polar snowstorms. liven In temperate latitude*, ascending currents of air soon reach elevations at which their water free*s. nnd the friction of the Ice crys tals against aus|*eoted dutt particles would account for of the atmospheric e!a<- trlOcatton. It Is also suggested by the authors that In the most northerly regions a friction between atmospheric Ice and conmlc dust, together with solor ionisa tion and the consequent conductivity of the atmosphere, may account for the aurora and otter curious light pheuoiu •no. The Quakers Are Honest People. §The Quaacr H*rl Tonic la not on.y , Mood purifier, but Blood ms Her ; w . Pal#, Weak and r>. Mutated peop.e wn o h*v* not atreneth nor blood It acu ~ a tonic. It rezuiaiee digestion, cure* d)t pepela and |.nd. •trength and ton# to th* nervoua (yatem. It Is # MMdlcln* for weak women, li u > purely vegetable medicine and can be taken by (tie most delicat*. Kidney Dis eases, Rheumatism and all disease* of th* Blood. Stomach ar.d nerve# won succumb teit* wonderful effects upon the human • jxtem. Thousand! of people in Georgia ■ ecommend It. Price 11 00. QUAKER PAIN BALM la th* med clre that Ihe Quaker Doctor made aU ot hi* wonderful quick cure# with. It a anew and wonderful medicine for Neura.gia. Toothache. Backet he. Rheumatism. Sprains. Pain in Bowel*, in fact, all pa.n can be relieved by 11. Price 25c and s*. QUAKER WHITE WONDER SOAP, a meat, at-a soap for th* skip, scalp and complexion. Price 14c a cake. QUAKER HEALING BALVB. a vege table ointment for th# cur* of tetter, ee zerea and erupt lona of th* akin Prtc* 10c a box. FOR *\l.K RT ALL DRUCGISTB 8, T. S l Of HliPf R’T HD C. 8 S R'Y bIJIEUIMu For Isle of Hope. Montgomery. Thunder bolt, Cattle Park and Weat End Dhlly except Sunday*. Subject to change without notice. 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