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4 ytyc f£[eto|. MormuiC Nf* lluilUlnc; tea asm 4 h ita mD4I, 0( Tolu:n S3, iinni. Hvgiii(U i ih I'oaioOKo in BaVMnalL Tha UOHNINO KKWfI i published •very day lu th* year. m<o k wrval U teuuscllber* U* tlie city, n *eM by tr,aU, *i *Ol u uiitfftth, RuU (>r a luolitlii, aud iwi (Mit >i Tha MOHNiNG NDWS, by mall, tlx ioihj a ack (WtitaJt Sunday ia*t>. three inomh, *. JO, ii m W Wi, one year |o uu. The Wii)XLY NEWS, : lauei a week. Monday arid Thur.-day, by mall, one year. 11.00. Subscript )on iyable In advance. He mil i> p**(al order, check or regtatared Wlter Currcucy aent by mull at ruk ol erode ra Truuxlcm advertisements, other than special column. lo* at or reading noti <* s. imuMmenif and rhr.ip or want column. Ip ctoti u line. Fourteen lima ol agate type* -equal to one Inch square in depth— U the ttaudard of measurement Contract re lea a|ul 4i*count nvuJe knowu on appli cation at Uißlrina office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING News to either resfcknce or place of business may bo made by postal card or through florepfrone No 21u. Any irregular-* My In dedvery should be immediately re tarded lu tlk* olhce of publication. heittTi and telegrams should be el dressed "kiOKNING NEWS.*' Savannah, Ga. EASTfrnN OFTfCK. l’nrk Row. New York city. II C. Faulkner. Minager. LM)tX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—A clem Laivlmirk Lo*!**- No. 2il. F. Ar A M ; Bavunnah Loti#*- No. 1U It. IV O. Klkf. Special Noth • Plant of the Forest City Varnish <\imiMuy fur Hlc. Bhl| No tice. Htrachnn Ac Cos, <<>m it?u**-•*. Pro ps.ilx Wanted, (leorgc \l Gadsden, direc tor; Bbl|> Nolle* . J. IV Mini He Cos.. * 4- >i*me**; 8p <i and • M irk Apple'* It* pHor) . Houk> AdJUStid. Jurw |>h A Rob erts Nolle*-, c ||. Kehrodor; Ship Notice, P.itrraori-Ifownlng Company. Ship Notice, Harr ar<l *v Cos., ugents. Husllje's Noticif. Sweet Mnilll‘1! ToIRI S*'it|. Henry Hulomon Air Bon; Sterling Bllver, Hunter A- VanKeuren; in Cabi nt ami Hhlrboard. The 8. W llr.iuch Company Silver HcrvßKS—Samuel Kirk A Son Cos.. Rattlmore. < n< roi* —Old Virginia Cheroot*. W hi* key Duffy'x Pure Malt Whiskey; Yellow Lain I Whiskey. Medial- Ylunyon'y Elver Cure; Peruni. Pyramid Pile Cure. tfool‘* H.tr*ip.iritlu; Eydin !*irikh im Wri table Pil e. Tuns Pills. Work!'.- blqMii.strf Prep i rat lon**; llorsforda A id Phosphate; Castoria. S B. S.; Mother and Friend. Cheap Column Advertisement a—Help Want* and. Employ men I IV *M*d. For Itnt, For bait . Lort. personal. Mix* * !l.n* o is*. The Wrnther. The Indications for (korgla to-day arc for ©c rains, with * fresh south' Himniy wlnda, und for Ba stern Kiutld.i ck .iflorul ruin* on Iho east coast. with fre*h south* .mic rly winds. This has certainly U*en Texas' unlucky your. No k*n than throe d* structiv* Morin? hav* visited thrt Mat* within tb* pant three months, •loliik lisnux* amount ing to million?- of dollar It i> hlticenly hoped that the storm of ttuisliy. near Lodi. will not prove to hove been of se rious proportion*. A lire tourist hotel, such us it Is pro posed to >uli-i in Charleston, woukl le on excellent thing tor that charming 0.l city; and no more picture mju*- ami de lightful silo could lo elected than ths northern en<J of the Bust tor High) Bat tery From the pidzztae of u hot* Iso sit- Uttta) u view of the hurlior and its many historical point* of interest <>uld be had. Thut onee brilliant genius. Oscar Wiki*', i 3 *ald to he now one of the most pitiable objects in the world. ll* is living In Fart*, piactlcaliy destitute and almost 'helpless lately he has l>oeft kept from starvation only by the charity of former admirers. A few day* ago he was taken to a hos pital. from which. In all probability, he will not emerge alive 2*r**iior Hanna is working the personil pronoun "I** pretty heavily of late. *"I have done more then any other man in the United Unites to settle the strike In favor of the miners." he *akl a day or two uko; and again on Sunday "I have taken South Ihikoti oik of the doubtful column." Bvldently Senator Hanna re gard* himself s the "Big I" of the Ite publicun party. Who hcara th burden of the military cotatdlstim* m? Kx-Hov Bout well of Mas iwrhu Mitts, In un address to the I l**fing classes just mah public, point*, out that it is the consumers—! he working people— wdK) must eventually pay the taxes. un*t that of* the prr < ni Iso is the milliury *x psooe* are not less than 111! annually for every family of five person* in the Uni ted Staten. Therefor*. he nays, "the Philippine war concerns, und a chiefly concerns, the loitering and producing classes of the country.** It is probable that (k-orge Mould will he th next defender of the America'.* cup. again*! Sir Thomas Upton. It fc* runs* red in New York that Mr tiou *1 is willing to hear th- expense of build ing and sailing a craft to defend the famous trophy, n seem* to be conceded thut the HcrrcshofT* will be th <l**ignerv and con sr rue torsi of the new yacht, wheth er the owner P Mr. Mould or another. Should Mi Mould defend the cup |t wouid pref-iMy of* n to him the last door to the Inn-r circle of New York society. The gor -ip* l:a%- ft thut th* >oung Duke Heinrich of Mo klenburg-Hch werin, th* betrothed if gu** n Wdhtlmlna of Hol land. Is li ft an nrdfnt lov* r. for the co gent reas* n thut he 1.a.1 given hi* heart to a Merman print.** 1-efore he met the W w, n M here others had been obseqiifou"* In their attention# to the royal l*euut>\ Heinrich was only coldly respectful. Thl and fttdence n* ttkd U llhelmina. who deter mined to inuk* Heinrich love her. and ended by loving him. Sine*- in betrothals of royalty the initiative must be taken by the party of higher rank. Wtllulmlr.a had to propose to the Duke. who. because of hkimliy luflucncv, ai.j political rvssvns, ac THE W H IPE\ FOR HKTTI.KNBIT. The agreement hat wean Great Hrltain and Germany r*-i* *1 vk dilliNe m.itferx I ought to ojnn the way for a speedy set. turnout of the trouble- in China Then* dona trot stem to be iiiy douid that it wdl be appftMpd by the ITnltrd Htnt: Ity It the of* n door policy t* to be it* tiriMin* I and none of China's territory Is to be tnk*ti as Indemnity. It was thought that Germany would d< mand <t Mg rile, of territory hub mnity mu It wax * xpected that such tlMnand would be an almost Insurmountable dif ficulty to an under.Htandlng I viwwti China and the Powers. It Is a matter f speculation as to how ijor l Salisbury m.t r* * *l* 1 In g* ttlng th<* German Hmpernr to accept Great Hri talri s Chine e poll< > It was the un *i*T-tandlug that Russia was willing that Cf tunny should dein trsi Chin* * Crritory >s Imb inn Ity because mi h a demand would tie offensive to (Irmt Hrltain Sur prise is express**! th itforo that tiei many has joinal h.indi with Great Url tain instead of maintaining the under >-landing It was believed she had .with Russia It may be that Germany, after I Hiking over the Held, rami to the eon • lusl m she could get more* out of China through th o|m u door policy, the Integ rity of th'- empire being maintain* and. than by grabbing territory, urn! being confined lu commercial matters to that |B*r tlcul.ir territory. She has coniklence In her abil ity to compete sue..■* .- -fully with Great lh Haiti In matters of trad- The Pnlicd Si.it* s have nothing lo r<ni plnlri of. The op n door |Hllcy suits them If thy ion not get a fair share of the trad** of China In open competition they will have only them • lv* -to blame The thanc'M are that in le.-s than a tlwcade they will have more trad* with China than .my other nation Just at present things In China are moving along Hues that ore satisfactory to this r umtr) And American diplo macy has ccntrlhutod a great J* al to bring lotJt this result. t\ Ol I) qi RATION 1\ % YEW Ft HOC Tin* question u < to whether the * onstt tutlon follows the flag came up In anew hap* last week in New- York during th* rogb-tration Some Porto Ricans who re .-!*! in that city offered to ngislcr. but th*' rg!strtion officers refused to |ut their names on the voting Hat on the ground that their political and civic stat us had not yet been established. They m:d their friends contended that as Porto Rko ha l boon ceded to the I’nlted Suite* and th* Amerhan flag rals*d over the Island all Porto Itlcan. who hud not elected to become eltlxcn *f some other country were citizen* of the I'nitol Stat* h t*cause the constitu tion follows the flag It seems that In the treaty by which Port > Rico wan ceded to this country it I stated that the civil and political sta tus of th* natives f the Inland shall Ih. *l**t rrnln* *1 by Congress. Af * well known Congress has don*- nothing about this im portant matter yet. The question as to whether th* nailv*.-- of Porto Hie© ar citizens of th*- Pnltod Btatis Is therefore an unsettled on* If. as Is contended, the constitution fol low** the tlag the people of Porto IticO .*re citizens of tills country, even though the treaty rays that the citizenship ques tion shall be sett ltd by Congress. The Supremo Court of the t'nited States ha.- before It now this very question, and It i-t * xpeeted that u decision upon it will be rendered within u few works. Nothing, however, can be done to assist the* Porto ideal.. In New York city, who want to \oie at th** approaching election. They will have to wait f*nir year.- before hav ing a chance to vote* at a presidential lection, and it Is not certain that they will ever have th* right to vote for ** candidate tor President of tho United Statis. Till: OTHER f VYUIII %TKR. Why is It that nothing Is ever heard of the other presidential candidates— darker, Wooiley and Debs. In none of the estimates is either of them mentioned a*l ths speeches of no one of them ure re liorted. They might Just ;s w*dl Is- .t tic m* n*l *im .| as In th- presidential race, tor all that the country h*art* of them. It his not been so very long since Mr. Parker talked about g<.-tting millkin of vot* -. and the *-fr*rts which Mr. Woolley m.il- to get the Prohibition tiotnln.ition Jisiifl* and the * oncluskm that he really thought presidential lightning might strike Him Mr Barker must have found out that the Mlddic-of-th*—Hood Populists are tax truing to vote for him In any consul* ru ble numb* r or else he would t<- making i great *l* il more noise. And why should they vote for him"' He hoen't a ghost of chance for getting an electoral vote. A vote for Inin would therefore l*e thrown owuy. The Middle-of-the- Koaders are not saying much, hut doubtless they are .king a great deal of thinking. Their .Hfferenccs with th*> R gulcir Populists •ire comparative.y Imdgnlfb unt, nnl ih* < imnmi are jh it th* great majority of rh*ni %vlll * i thir ImlKmx for the l*m • •crxtle nominees. They would act wisely by doing ho. Mr Idebe, It Ii ife to say t . nev r er exi>*-ct •*i to gel more than a handful of vot** Th* men who will vote for him look upon tho other candidates us th*- enemies of "•uciety. They wouldn't vote for tiny ooe *f them under my * <imklt ration. They •re m*r* concerned in smashing things than in the Philippine* or the 16 to 1 Plea j The figure they wilt cut in the election, however, wtil not uttr.i t much attention In fact, in M*n*- of the slat**-, owing to i**itur<* of th*- election law. they will not be aid* to *ut any figure whatever. The country R not concerned about the other * undl-tates It Is fully occupied with Mi. Bryan find Mr McKinley. Some Brooklyn politicians, who have lately Rm coquetting with th*- negro vote, have had the table* turn and upon th**m neatly by ti smart "brother to Mack." This •"brother.** of th*- nim*- of Moore, shrewdly managed to hav*- him self nominated for representative In the I se ers who wen whooping It up for Moore hnd no Idea that lu* was a negro. He Is a Republican, of course, and the white Republicans have now got to stand by liitn or bolt the party. It Is not ladleved that Moore will be elected. The New Yorkers ure fond of coddling th- negro, but they have not yet reached the point of giving him office or sending him to the capital lu help to URtkc law*. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY; OCTOBER 23. 1000. EI.E4 TIOY Gt rftftl&ff. j ft Is a fact of catirve that the batting lon fhe result *)f Ihe elect bn Is in favor of !Mr M- Kinley and the estimates of the j numier of slectoml vot*s each candidal* j will receive are gbo In his favor, but tlns, ! who are *iff#*rlr,g large odds on Mr. Me- Kinley and those who are making call mutes that are fav**r;4le to him are not j better Informed at to fh< iiolitlcal con*ll I Rons In the various statt* that are the i !*-mocrtle l* i*i* r* Yesterday w i forecast ma ! by Mr. Btev* naon, th* UemocratP* candl ilai* for Vice preskl*-nt, in which h gav, Mr McKinley I3>* electoral votes, and Mr Ittyati HO, putting down 13 us tluubtful In Its Sun<Wiy tdbiun. the !y*w York Her all regards It us probable- that Mr M Kinley will get Z'l ale* loral votes, and Mr Bryan Ul Of cours>. In this calcu lation Mr. McKinley Is given very on** of the States which have all along been considered doubtful Even Indiana. Mary land and West Virginia r** given to him From some of the last sources of infor rn ttlon come** the statement that Mary land I* dmost certain to cast her elec toral vote far Mr I trynn and the chances of Indiana lining the earn* thing are ex cellent. lauding members of the Democratic National Commit!* ** gave out on Buturday thlM estimate Bryan 21*?#. McKinley 1M At th*- R**publi> an headquarters the fol lowing was given out *n Ratur lay M* M< Kinley J7H. Bryan 13 It Is evident that not much r llan * can Is* pi iced on any of these estimates be* ium- they are made for th*- purpos* of influencing the result ut th** lectlon. The Republicans claim about ill of th** doubtful state.-*, and so do the Democrats, In their estimates. On** thing that seem* to be certain at this time Is tlait Mr M* Kinley will not get as larg* majorities In the states which h will egrry a** h* got In lfff The m<*st enthusiastte M Kinhyltes admit that In about nil of the principal Republican slut* the Republican majority will fall much below that of four year.-* ago As suming that this Is the case, does it not seem reasonable to suppose that there will be a similar falling off in the Re publican vote In the state* which gave Mt McKinley very small majorities In IsPft? In that year Mr McKinley got only H. plurality In Indiana, an I his plu rality was small In some of th** other states which are now claimed by the Re publicans. There Is going to be a big silent vote this year —that Is, there r many thou sanda of voters In each one of the states who have not yet announced the ticket which they will vote This silent vote may give the Republicans a surprise. 4>IEH It 4 IY THE EE 41). It Is no less amazing than gratifying to uote l**w often It Is of late that America, or rather the United States, take the H i I In * oni;**t It 100 with Europe. If there Is a ut* at h rs.- racing event reported. It ‘a quite certain th.*t the winner was rl l*!en by a Bloan. a Rleff or s*>me other "Yan k-- ** If It Is n .-4H-i;a| *-ontet. It is pretty sure that Mrs. Palmer. Mrs. Inciter or another from "the states" gave th*- sw. llesl entertainment. If there is a gain*- of |Mik*-r that will pass into hiatory ms exceptional, it la an American that “mokti the killing." The dispatches of a few days ago an nounced that at th*- Paris Exposition the greatest ntiml*a of first j r.z* s award* ! m any foreign country had been won by the United States In machinery nd me chanical api lUmces rap*daily were the American exhibit compk t and In ad vance of ail • *>m|*-tit**rs. Am* ric.,rT e!* - trical an* I railway apparatus w< re a* far suierior to European machinery design-d for wlmlkir purposes that the Anu-rkin sfaclmens on xhi ; >ition were sought by Kuropnn purchasers. Not only .lo w.- t ike Iht- load |nnc ,h llnp* mrnllnnr.l. hul v. have hm|.js-p| . verythlnK tn tho **oM country" in the production of Iron. r.. 1 nn<l coal. T’p >o ,hp Cnltod KintE.lom . Dir urcteM prluccr of |.tjt Iron. In that year the I’nltct H'ntoa forßxl ahead, and hud yc.,r w*‘ I**.! th*' Itrlttxh In total pr.ductton hy more than 4,<nr.ra ton.. And th. moat remarkahh development which enabled tie to thin* tak.- the lead of |he word in pi* Iron oecurrcl In Alabama and Ten ncrxcc. Th.' growth of the tec| Industry during the laixi doien year* hax been phcnomrnnl Mere, attain, th.- fnltrd State. h->ld the primary, tieeauic of thetr pro luctn* *|. moat 40 per cent, of the worl.l'a etrel out put while Oreat Hrltain produce* HP, pr.- .•ent and Oermany 21 cent Nn other n.tilon convert* *o much of lu | ln Ir n Into xteel av ihe t’nltcd Rt itr* do. Of the world - * plk Iron output. 40,000/01 ti n*. TO l**r i-ent . Is mole Into steel, wherea* thin country rnnvcrt* 77 |*er cent, of It* |lk Iron tonnokf Into atecl. amountlnk to io.. tdtT.hoit ton* out of the world's tut i| output of 27.110,01*1 ton* The I’nlled Flat** nr* the foremotd *tee|.conaumlnk country of the world, a finale city havlns conetime*! I. '..<■ ton* In n yi.tr for bulMtna ptinrato alone, and nn< ear rompany havlPK re qulrcd 4***.a> ton* of *t**i t<> m • t lu y* tfly contraet*. In 179 attoul on. -third of our p!k Iron w i* mail.- Into rail*, hut -Ince th,it dale ste. | rails have cta-i I to Ih* th* hit f form of *te* I proturiion, Ihtdr proportion In !!* brink hut of the whole, The consumption cf *te*l per caplin for non-rail use* In If>79 wet TT.,4 |<ound*; In lksa. 213 2 poun*l; lKls 7fi.;> pounds, fhowlnk how other than rail uses of alee) have developed In twenty year* In our Iron an.l *tecl trade with foreign eountrl. - covering the la*! twenty year* our |*o*ltlon hat* been exactly reverted. Within the Inst five year* we have actual ly chant;* and from an Imtiortinit to ~n lurilnk nation. In lt> we Imiorteil live !lm* s a** much In valu* a* we ttxporte I of Iron iikl *tecl product*. Now we export six time* ihe value of our Iron at and ft-el Import* According to Sir Hobert tilff* n, the not *tl statistician of IdUidon, there arc now only four krejt world I’owerit— the United States, (treat Britain, Ku**ta and tler muny—with P’rance a doubtful fifth Th* United State* he ron*ldcr at the h* and of the ||*t, or the kreateM of al! the How* r* so far as popul ttl n and r* - u r cc<t ire eoncernc<l. The United State*, h point* out, have a (treater Kuropean pop. illation than any Kuropean state, while their material resource* arc practically Incalculable. In another century, he pre dict*. the "*yc||ow iierll" will disappear, as the yellow race* will be vastly out numbered by the Kuropean. whlcT- a hun dred ytar* hence ahnuld number nearly two thousand tnilliua*. A ■trik#* in tbc cool rvglono of Pvnngyl vanla which ittracial fio •Uonttott, but whit ;i involve*! u prliK'lpif nnl wax huc* • afi.:. w.is that ol tbe female Ikicl ; HHp at II izlf*-n Tho propri* i>r *- micl art order iH.it fho flrh i*h**ukl mat r 4 , five .m*l mtertain fbelr mol* frlnnrlii in th- kitchen. The girl* Plwdl It tor one evening, and * nfltllifil their < mploy erx that If they coubl noi lmv thetr b in:-' In ihe kitchen, they would go on etrlk*-. One hour wax giver* the employ r to y whether they w**ul<l put up with the kitchen vleltx. or attempt t* get ukthi- without gtrb in fory-Hv* minuicx the glrlx were tnf.irrrv I that their b— -m.<n<! hti'l bin acceded to. and that night th* re wax great revelry in the kitch ens. A* Inlb u tic point loan ♦ x option ally heavy vote In the ritlw of tti* North n Nov 6. Th*- registration of voter* In l*ra*tlt il!y nil of them show* large In *-r r.-* - In New Y'ork city the increase h*' been upward* of In Boston more than 4.0U0. In Sow llnven it* Hart for* I 4,03. nl no on. Th* aixathy whl I* * *r i-t* rlz# *1 the ampauro twoor •hr* * we* ki-* ag*> r mx to hav* given place to a marked degree of activity. In the Bcjiith things continue to drift along In • n-fl*t.. sort of wav, because It lx a lor*, •■r** conclusion hw th* Bouth w.il vot* But In the North the fight ? the U-Hot lox Is going to tw one <># the warm • t that ha- o*curre*l In many years. Is Great Britain no longer th<* mistress of the -* 11? I lav*- trie other J’owem lu • r* i,**t| their naval firmaments to such • n extent that the eupremacy of til* British ff;g n* longer 'Xlets? That lx about the view of the situation taken by the British Navy I*f.igu<- In a recent manifesto tlie !,* agu- *l* hires that, ow ing to the * 11** *|e nee of her navy Great Britain ha* lost tier xupr* m*cy of the xvas i\>x.-*ii>ly the document t** only for political effect naval approprla ikxit are desired, and this may Im* one of flu mean** employed to got the people to consent to the X|iend|ture. Out Wt -t an -x< 4-ib-nt Idea which might will In* conskleret! In *J**orgl.i ntvl *-lse where, h> been put Into practice. In many town rest rooms have been pro vlded f*>r farmers' %vlvea. They are k rdlwl in the business center, have !! conveniences. .twi ure m.ule coxy and comfortable with easy chairs, lounges, hook-* and magazines. In some of them • off. ft i #nd other light refreshments ire curved ut nominal prbes. The roonv* are eustulrud ty the women’s clubs and th** m**n lants of the towns In which they .ire situated. The idoa. of course, is to draw trade I'KIIMI Y 4b. Bret II *rte Is to *|cnd the- coming winter In Italy and has rented for that purpose a villa near Naples. ■-Tb*- Grand Ihike of H**sse Is skilful with the needle, and hlx embroidery Is lid to la* beautiful. He t kes the gr**ntest Interest In his tv *rk. an*l Is iMirtlcularlv cl* ver In th* arrangement of colors. He bus a very artistic nature, ms he Is de voted to music, dancing and acting, but h* does not ear* much about more active pursuits, though he both shoots and rides. —Michael Anagnos, the head of tha Per kins Institution for th* Blind, in Boston, has returned from Europe, whither he 'v * tit to attend th- international congress of instructors of the blind He has given to bis native twn tn Turkey, near the borders of Greece, s2o,o*<*, i, be Invested In such u manner ax to give a certain numlx-r of worthy students the b-n*fltx of a higher education each year He has also arranged a curriculum for advanced stu dent*. to the preparation of which he h id d* vot'd much time | —lt seems l*rf. Trlggs knew what he was Mlnoit v htf-n he place*! Bhakespear** and Rockefeller cm a parity ax to great ti- >s. says the Chicago News. In hlx xe qel to the Ro''kefe!!er-Hhak*!*pearv de livery the prof*- -or ays "I know how to construct a play, but I never could under •an*l how to m*kc a million of dollars." Ergo. Bhakesptare "knew how- to con struct a play" (though Prof Trigg* could have given him a valuable pointer or two, but he probably never did understand how to mak*- a million dollar-*. Al least never did. and hence has to movi> up In the |K>**ts' corner of the Trlggx Hall of Fame to mak* room fr Ihe men who n*t only knew how to make a million dollar* but did the act many tlmex Prof Trtggx, in showing that genius and trusts are oti in equal footing ax to greatness, has at least demonstrated hlx right to be* door keeper of the modern Valhalla. I I 1111 t: YT i omil'AT. The Me mphls Commerckil-Appeal (Pem.) ivs: "'Down with the Supreme Court.' t* a cry that has been attributed to Bry n. It I** a purely gratuitous slander ax well as an affront to the Intelligence of the people Mr. Bryan has never uttered such a cry or anything like It In the first place It Is a cry for nn Impossibility. Mr Bryan could no snore pull down the Bupreme Court than he could pull down th* pillars of the national caplto'. To charge him w!*h **v**n a wish to *b> such :i thing Is * <Hiwardly and unwarranted slm.br But th. •• dexpernta taetbs on the part of Republicans nee*l not • irm the Demo* ratio party. They merely indicat* ih* ifnrm existing In the He|>ut lb-.n < imp on I show t* what straits the cfMiny hav. been rsluced. They will react • gainst rh- party of xlnn.ler and mix re p rv-enfatten. ml will harm McKinley far mor* t! in they will Bryan." The Cincinnati Enquirer (D*m.) snyx: The lt*-puhlk-nn nominee for vice presi dent occaslonaFy r**fers to Col. Ir>nn ax his opponent. This Is wormwood for Bcn tor Hanna an*l President McKinley. Teddy means what he xayx. ll** expects to In President In the event of the xuc . esx of the Republican ticket. B* mtor Platt, whose abject creature Rooaevelt la. whipped Hanna and th.- President to a stamlstlll t th- Philadelphia convention. He show.*! hi suj>erior capacity as a Is's*. and he will xe- to It that. If th- Philadelphla ticket through, he an.l Te*ldy rule the roo-r. It will not le the first tlm* Mr M -Kinley box acted the part of ii figurehead." The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) says: "It has been stated that not mor.- than 10 per cent ut the negro men In this city work with regularity. This lx probably ton low nn estimate of the Industilous ne. erre-< but It Is certain thnt there ar*- too many Idlers to rim th. risk of Increas ing the number* hy Inviting the pr-a --• nee of more from the country. The place for the giext body of negro labor lx on th* farm and plantations, and If all the habitual Idlers here can be weeded out and x.-nt to the country It would t*c a great matter for 1-oth country and city." The Bprtngfkld (Mass.) Republican (Ind 1 has this: "Philippine trade Items imimrtx by the transport Ixg.in. which has just cleared from Manila for Ban Francisco, 27J sick soldiers and 10 insane; hy the ft aits port Bhernum. whk'h arrival t San Francisco yesterday. 467 sick sol diers, 12 insane, aud ti In c*o(IIm. •VrfectlON. The maiden asked "Chin you make me beautiful?" "For r," said the witch, "1 ran make you so I*.’pitiful that all Ih*- men will turn to stare ut yewj as you pass*." The maiden smile*! disdainfully. xyi New York Life. Her experience had taught her this was not such *n *ti**jr matter. "For |s 7S. former price fV snkl th*' Witch. "I ran m.lfcc you So tteautlful that th*- photographer will copyright your pic tures.*' Bull the maiden, unsatisfied, shook her heitd. "For sl4 an*) onlv on** nt the price " said the witch. "I can make you so lienn tifui that vou will not have a woman friend in nil the workl’" "Ah." cried fhe maiden rapturously, "that will be beauty. Indeed!" \ nrlnlion* In l.lfftenesx. Borne Louisville fathers of families were discussing recently the various occasion? si whl* h they hud been malv to feel xmull. says the Ixulxvllle Timex K.nn had hix ape 1.l tnle of wo One felt when hi- motherdn-lu w had sat down on him in the presence of visitors and hlx wife. Another when, after preach ing economy to his better half, a hill had com*- In for wines and cig.m* which be hud told her were presents. Another when he had brought horn*- a gnme bag full of birds. *nd th-ti found the m.-asley mer* hunt from wh*m he taught them hot! sent in a bill for the same, and hlx wife had reckoned th. bill called for twenty four* bir.lx. wnen h** h.id only brought home twenty. Every one had a tale of woe and each *l* lured no one could have Mt more liiMgnlfl* ant than himself on these occasions, but the boss man took the banner. "Boys." said he. "If you want to feel like 30 cents Just you go with your wife to i milliner's store when she !* going to buy u hat. You sit in n chair like u piece of putty, its! you can't soy your soul ! your own " Tlie 1.n% Mild the t nt Orel la. "What are you looking ifter?" "Oh. I've lost my umbrella nn*l I thought possibly I might see someone carrying ft ofT," replied the young man who stood in front of one of the large office buildings, looking closely at each passerby. "Wh.it woul 1 you do If you saw some fellow carrying it away?" "Stop him and and m*an<l its return." "But w-hat if he simply pushed you iisld* and walked away?" "Follow him and find out his name and have him arrested.” "Do you think you would get the um brella back?" "Why mi? Anybody who has it pos sesses stolen property." "Then you never heard of the decision of Ijord Coleridge, the famous Eng H-h Ju rist. tn an umbrella suit that was brought before him?" "I can't say that I have. An umbrella Is the same ax any other property. Isn't it? Couldn't I have a man arrested tor stealing my w itch?" "Yes. But. wait til! I rend you the de cision of la>rd Coleridge." The speaker took from his pocketbonk n newspaper clipping, says th#* Utica Obser ver. and rend: "Umbrellas, properly considered, ure x part of the atmospheric or meteorological condition, and, ax such, there can he no Indivtdu *1 proierty right In them. In Bimpson vs. Thompson defender! was rhargiil with standing on piatattfTs front rfep. during a |or nr ard thereby soak ing up n larg* quantity of rain to which plaintiff w.*x entitled But th* court held that th** rain wax any man's rain, no mil ter where tt fell. It follows, therefore that the umbrella lx any man’s umbrella. In all ages rain and umbrellas hate yon'* together nd there Is no rc-aton why they should be separated In lnw An umbrella may. under certain conditions—the chief of which is posse**Mon—take on the at tributes of personal property. Just as If man eel a tub and catch a quantity of rain w it r. that rain water will be con sidered as his personal belonging while It Is In his tub But If the sun evaporate the water and it Is ruined down again, or If ♦h. tub be upset and the water spilled, ♦hen the attribute of persona* ownership Instantly disappears. H* If a man holds hlx umbrella In his hand It may Ik* con sidered a personal belonging, but the mo ment It leavex his hand It returns to the great, g* neral. Indivisible, common stock of umbrellas, whither the law will not at tempt to pursue It." TA - I The Hnitf Divided. From the Chicago Timex-Hern Id. My pa he's viewin' withal rm. but ma she points with pride; He thinks there's trouble In the air and snores on every side; "There's wars ami strikes a-goin' on." he spys to ma and me. "Ami folks are getlln' kllle 1 In storm* and drownded In the xoa! I ilunny hardly what to think—lt seema as though, somehow. That nx*t thing*- didn't use to be os troublesome as now "Th* scientists arr flndln' germs and mi crobes everywhere. There’s microbes in the stuff we eat and ml* robe* in the air; There's g* rms a-lurkln’ In the clnthes we hove to wear to-day; The fruit we get’s all full of worms—buss take ih* crops away! The way things go It seem* lo me that life has It Isn't very hard to see pa's viewin' with alarm. "Oh pshnw!" says ma to me and pa. "Urn not afro I*l of germs; They’ve nlviys been right whoie they are. and sum* way with th* worms. We n#vr r heard of them before, and so we didn't care— Folk- don't ge# scar'd at things, you know, unless they think they’re ther*-! We h ivn't Just begun with plagues or Morins that raise the tide!"— And wny one could see right off that ma she points with pride. look how rb** rich are grindtn* down the poor," ways p.i. "and how The papers everywhere are fu!l of crimes and I rot i Ides now! There's got lo be a change right off—we re on the downward path* It looks to me to-lay hs though the Lord wax full of wrath! ! tell you what, we’ve got to rise; we've got to strike and Imke! The and vll's in the saddle, ma. and things ain't runnln’ right!" "They had their trouble and their crimes." ma told us. "long ago— The pa tiers didn't use r.| ink to tell about th*m. though! And I believe the I-ord Is Just as full of love .to-day. As ever In the part for folks who go the proper wny; The rich have ulways kin I of liked to keep the upper hand— And any way the ‘l-ctlon goe*. the govern ment'll stand!" Pa’s rented out the farm on shares, and so we've move*) to town; He sits around the grocery when he Isn't lay In' -town; Ma works about the house all day and keeps things spick and sjxin. And dots a little sewin' for the neighbors when she can— I don't know why they argue so. each on a different aide. But pa he's viewin' with alarm, and ma she points with prkie! -B. E. Kiser. • t —Ueeo*n*t*l It.—" 80 Ibat'* your lilt , gam*. I* It?" rkl tho uwt al (hr r„tau raht lo th, waiter who h<l brought him Knclloh wpurrow, (or rec-U UUJ—CUR,go Trtbuac. ITU (I w nr I\TKIIET. —A rorntnerclal unlvrrgtty etmtlar to the one In ~| In CologtX'. I>r. von M* vl**or.. a tub lrm of the city, having ilonatt** the ic c.'iry fund,. -The I-Ullman Uomptny of Chicago laai month rent lo Mexlto two |>rtvat.' cur* lo eompletr Ihe speekil (tain of four Intendrd for I’rteMt-nt DIM’, u,e. The imi Juki forwarded are for (he serrahl und hor*e, of the President. —The new Turkish unlverity at Uon ,l,intlno|>le will not accept Mucknli over ltt year, of age. Eacept the theologk'tl couraea (Koran, etc.), which will he op n to thirty *tuknt. no faculty will accept more than tweniy-flve atudenlo. - Ihnevolent attsimllallon may be icconi pllshed In a hurry by mean, of a bomb Invented by Prof. C'amphausen of Amuter dam The liomb 1, *ald lo be capable of generating funr r that will make breath ing ImivMudblc within a radius of IUO j-wrd, of the explodon. —China Imported In Ihe flrat xi* monih, of 1300 3.300.(00.10) rare, of Itiifrlan pe troleum. again,! 8.410.000 cage* In Ihe error period of l.dO. an.l 0.100.U0 raw, of American pertoleum during Ihe flrai ,1* month* of !*>. again, t 4.520.00 case. In Ihe same period of IhW. —The German Ambos,a<tor ha, lodged a formal complaint agalnat Ihe conduct of the French Thirty-seventh Regiment of the Une. who. It 1* idaicd. during ihe recent matieuvera deliberately crossed Ihe German frontier and wrote insulting re mark, on Ihe frontier po,ia. -The French Court of Cassation I, now engaged In trying u libel suit growing out of the bailie of Waterloo— certainly one of the most curious rase, on recori. The defendant 1, the author of ti recently nubllehc>l history, who said In hi, hook (hat Count de Hourmont deserted to the enemy tn the famous battle He Is being sued hy the nobleman's descendant, for this aspersion upon the Count's mem ory. —lt I* reported on high authority that the petroleum Industrie* of Itoomano have made great progress of late, and that. If trans|ortatloi Is-corocs cheaper anil better, this country will be a formid able competitor of America and Russia —Until the middle of the last century cavalry deployments were by two rlahi angle turns, and when the diagonal march was oftopted Instead of making the diag onal by a half turn of each horse the movement was by the whole troop on unit. —The butterfly Invariably goes to sleep head downward, say* the Spectator. It fold, and contract* ks wings to tbe ut most The effect bt to reduce Its slge anti shape to a narrow ridge, hardly dis tinguishable In shape and color from the seed-head* on thousands of other stems around. The butterfly also sleep* on the top of the atem. In the morning, when 4he sunbeam* warm them, all these gray pled sleepers on the tops open their wings, and the colorless hennet* are starred with a thousand living ttowers of purest asure. —A Chicagoan who Is gifted with a mas sive intellect ha, suggested that Ihe Ker ris wheel roukl lie utilis'd as a locomo tive roundhouse If II should be laid on It* side The wheel, which would, of ■ourse. have to be roofed over, would re volve on a horizontal plane ami would receive Severn y-two engines from a sin gle track. It Is 250 feet In diameter, 9> In width and weighs UU> too*. There ate almost Insurmountable engineering dlttl cullles tn connection with the ;4an sug gested and It Is unlikely that there will be any attempt to carry the scheme tn’o eHect. —The University of Chicago, through one of Its faculty. ITof. Mlchelaon. has be< n awarded a "grand prig" for a phys ical research In-trument namul the eche lon spectroscope. It Is designed for In vestigations In optics, and Is used for the separations of my* of light. Hy means of It the exceedingly minute period of a wav* bngth of light may be used ns a standard of measurement for Infinitesimal ly small distances and differences of op tical density. It Is wonderfully sensitive. It being ass. rted that "If wo rays of light ( it > one th raw- hundred- thousandth pari their earn wave length, it will detect the difference and record the lengths of the two waves." —lt Is not generally known that during hts recent visit to Hamburg the Frtnce of Wales was driven In steam motor car to Langenschwalhnch, where he had an appointment tomeet ihetlrandOukc Mich ael of Russia, says the Westminster Oa xette. The Autocar, which reports the fact, says the run was most enjoyable. The Grand I)uk*- showed * much Inter est In the autocar as the Prince of Wales. In the afternoon the party start ed on thetr return Journey In Ihe pres ence of n large crowd, who cheered with • nthusiasm * Ihe ear bore off the l*rlnre. His Royal Highness declared himself so pleased with the run thnt he requeMcd M R. rpollet to take him for another ride the following Monday. Refore the start on that day Messrs. Gardner and Ber pollet lunched with the Prince of Wales, who gave them an agreeable surprise by pres* tiling each wkh a scarf pin composed of brilliants —Finland Is no longer a member of the International postal union, n* by an Im perial Russian ukase the Finnish postage stamp Is withdrawn from uee, and the Russian postage stamp *ut>stltuted. says the Chicago Times-Herald While the Finnish postage stamp until a few weeks ago had no value In the eyes of stamp collector*, tt ha* now at one jump reached to the head of the list, and will probably te the most valuable In the stamp col lector's albums. The Ftnns are, of course, furious against Russia for this additional demonstration of the Rear to hint their country off the map of the world llui the Finns are by nature n stubborn pro pie. and the method they adopted to still compel the Russian authorities to for ward letters with the Finnish postage stamp i, amusing. Thetr correspondence they Inclosed In an ordinary envelope, on which they placed the Finnish postage stamp In the usuol corner. This envelope was then Inclosed In a thin transparent envelope, plainly showing the Finnish stamp. The outside envelope wa, then properly addressed and provided with a Russian rtoslage stamp placed hy the side of the Finnish. Bo far no notice has been taken hy the Russian government of this amusing method. —The cruel murders recently committed hy u couple of black natives In New South Wale, have naturally directed In creased attention to the present condition of Ihe remnant of the strange, mysterious race which formerly peopled the Australian Island continent says the Westminster (). xette. It Is difllriilt to form a correct estimate of the numliers of the aborigines; but while there Is reason to belley. that some generations ago they were very nu merous. there Is ampls evidence of late year, that In many places they are de creasing. and they may now be counted hy live where they were formerly counted hy hundreds. At the census of Ktfl only 3h.- •79 aborigines wen enumerated, of whom S.2SO were In New Booth Wales. 5d5 In Vic toria Zt 7S> In South Australia and 1*245 In Western Australia The figures relat ing to N'-w* Booth Wales and Victoria In cluded all aborigine* living In those prov- Inees. but the return, from the other colonies were very Imperfect. The census of Western Auiwralta Included onlv those aborigine* in the • mplovm. nt of the col onist,. ami as large portions of thla col ony are ns yef unexplored |. may h „ pr ,. stimed that the number of aborigines enu merated was very far short of the total In the colony Altogether, the aboriginal population of the continent may be set <*wa at *ouhiag lUu u00.00*,. Ocean SieainsniD Ga -FOR- New York, Boston —AND— the: east. Unsurpassed cabin accommodations. All tha comfort, of a modern hotel, hllsetru light,. Unexcelled table. Ticket. m-Hdi meal, and bertha aboard ship. Passenger lares irom Savanna! TO NKW YORK—FIRST CAlllN. U. first cabin hound thif. iu; in termediate CAlllN. SIJ, INTERME DIATE cabin round trip. u*. STEERAGE. *lO. TO BOSTON - FIRST CABIN, C 2: FIRST CABIN ROUND TKIF. IK. IN TERMEDIATE CABIN. 817; INTERME DIATE CABIN ROUND TRIP. LiAW. STEERAGE. Rl 75. The express ateamshlps of this line are appointed to ,nl! from Savannah. Central (90th) meridian time, aa 'allows: StVA.WAU TO MEW tOHK. KANSAS CITY .Capt. Fisher. TUEB. DAT. Oct. 23. t3O p m CITY OK BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Berg, WEDNESDAY. Oct, it. S:DO p m TADLAHABSKE. Capt. Aaklnf. THURS DAY. Oct. 25. 5:30 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA. Copt. Daggett, SATURDAY. Oct 27. 7:00 p. m NACOOCHEE. Capt Smith. TUESDAY. Oct so. io on p. m KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, THURS DAY. Nov 1. 11:30 a. m. TA 1,1, A HASHED. Capt. Asking. SATUR DAY. Nov. 3, 1:30 p. ro CITY OK BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Her* SUNDAY. Nov t. 2:00 a m CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett TUESDAY. Nov. 6. tCO p m. NACOOCHEE. Capt Smith, THUP.S. DAY. Nov 9. 5:00 p m KANSAS CITY. Capt. Ftiher, SATUR DAY" Nov. 10, 7:30 p. m. TALLAHASSEE. Capt Askins. TUES DAY. Nov. 13, 910 a. m. OHTY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Daggett, THURSDAY. Nov 15. 1130 a. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. llerg, FRIDAY. Nov !. 12 3T* p m NACOOCHEE. Capt. Smith. SATURDAT, Nov 17. l to p m KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, TUES. DAY. Nov 20 3:30 p. m TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Askins. THUftt. DAY. Nov. 22. 13(1 p. m CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Dagcetf, SATURDAY. Nov. 24. 0:00 p m NACOOCHEE. Cnpt Smith, TUESDAY, Nov. 27. 9:30 p m CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Berg, THURSDAY. Nov. 29, 10:00 a m KANSAS CITY. Capt Fluher, THURR# DAY. Nov. 29. to 00 a. m. NOTICE-Steamship City of Blrn-tn*. ham will not carry pa-song'*’- Nft.:w YORK TO UOMTON. CITY OF MACON. Capt Savage. FRI DAY Oct 26. noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage, WED NESDAY. Oct. R noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage, MON DAY. Nov. 5. 12 00 noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage. FRI DAY. Nov. 9 12:‘ noon CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage. WED NESDAY. Nov 14. 12 >I noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage, MON DAY. Nov 19. 12:00 Boon. CITY OF MACON. Cnpt. Savage. FRI DAY. Nov. 25. 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt Savage, WED NESDAY. Nov. 2 s . 12 00 noon. This company rea-reee the tight to change tt* -ailing* without notlae and without liability or accountability there, for Balling* New York for Savannah Two. day*. Thursday* and Saturday* 8:00 p tn. w. O BREWER. City Ticket and I’ll enger Agent. l</7 Bull atroet. Savannah, Oa. E. W. SMITH. Contracting Kraagnl Agent. Savannah. Oa R O TREZEVANT. Agent, Savannal* Ga WALTER HAWKINS. General Agent Traffic Dep't, 234 W Bay streai. Jut •onvllte, Fla E H. HINTON. Traffic Manager, Sa vannah. On V E LB FEVRE. Manngar. New Tier *B. North River. New York N Y Mercdiniis S Miners TransporKHion Ca Steamship Lines To Baltimore & Philadelphia Ticket* on Sale lo AU I'olnta North and Went. Firt-rUzs ticket# trclude #•!* berth* Hiivannah to Baltimore xo*i n>H*- l*]|>hlA Acvoinmodattoriz find culxtnd tinequaled. The xlrnmehlpx of thlx rompony zr* ap pointed o xall from Savannah a follow* (Central Standard Time): TO IIALTIMOne. D H MILLER. Capt. Pelefa. TUES DAY, Oct. 23. 6 p. m. ITASCA. Capt. BlilupO, THURSDAY, (Vt 2T). fl | m DORCHESTER Capt. Jaime, SATUR DAY. Oct. 27. 7 |i m Sailing* from Baltimore TuesdavS, Thursd iy, aid Saturilayn at t 68 p m TO FIIILAOKI.PHIA. ALLEOIIANY. Cap! Foster. TUESDAY, Oct. 23. 5 p. m BERKSHIRE, t apt Ryan. SATURDAY, Oct. 27. 7 |> m. Sailings from Philadelphia evory * T * day* nt 3 p. m Tick t t aHa U 2 >* ull ”■•>'*- J. J. CAROLAN. Agent. NEWCOMB COHEN. Trar. Aft. Savannah, Go W P TURNER. G P. A. A. D. STEBMNS. A. T M J C. WHITNEY. Traffl ’ Managet. Genrrat Officet. Baltimore. M-l. LOADED AND EMPTY SHELLS. AnnUNITION. CANVAS HUNTING GOODS. GUNS, RIFLES AND REVOLVERS. EDWARD LOVELL'S SONS, 113 Broughton Street. Weet. JOHN G. BUTLER, -dealer in- Paints, Oila and Olasa, Doora, Blind*, and Bulldara' Buindtru. I'laln and DtCOr*' tlvn Wall I’aprr. Koraign and Dome* Crmatitn. Dim*. Plnatar and Hair. Bo> Aranl far Ahaaflna Cold Wotar rail* Congrea* atrnrt. w*. and IS 81. Julian atrrat. wont. _ ODD NEWSPAPER®. for o<® ** Buauxaw Offlta Murom* Now®