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The Weather.
The Indlcallorvs for Georgia are for rain,
with fresh west to northwesterly winds;
nod for Eastern Florida, showers, with
variable winds.
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H appears that Candidate Woolley re
elved one vole In South Carolina.
There are some member* of the Geor
gia Legislature who would tuek a tem
perance amendment on to an oyster law.
Mj McKinley will be the flrat Presi
dent Irf twenty year* to succeed himself.
A lot of precedents und hoodoos were up
act In the election of last Tuesday.
Chapel attendance Is compulsory upon
ximH-rgraduatc* at Yale. According to
Prof. Perrin, the official who conduct* the
wervlees. almost Invariably (eel# when he
approach*-* the “Amen" os if he w* ra
about to scrip bar k the ball." No waatier
Is the 'Amen ' pronounced than there Is
n wild scrimmage to get out of the chapel
As n nucleus for his new party, Sena
tor Pettigrew of South Dakota might • n
llst Senator Wellington of Maryland. Sen
ator Muller <f North Carolina. "Coin"
Harvey of Chicago and Arkansas, and
tJeorgo Frtd William- Massachuselti.
Such an aggregation ought to !"> able to
work up the finest son of calamity howl*.
II |e a waste of time for any person to
worry over the future of Mr. Bryan II
canes out of the i-om;>algii with an earn
ing capacity as great as that of about
any man In the country. Already he ha*
bad an offer of *bV a y*w to •
newsixiper n l>enver. and there ere a
number of other positions lhai would pay
as will or better which lie could have If
hr would accept them
If the Georgia Legislature really wlshea
to cure absenteeism. H will not bother
about reading out the names of the ab
sentees. who would care not a baubee
about any such proceeding. What It
should do Is to withhold the per diem of
every member who neglects hi* duly by
lemaliiinK away from the state house
without permission. To hit them In the
pocket Is th only effective way of deal
ing with the careless statesmen.
Asa result of the recent election, several
well-known senator* will tie missed In the
new Congress Among them are Wolcoti
of Colorado. Thurston of Nebraska. Car
ter of Montana. Butler of North Carolina.
Pettigrew of Houtb Dakota and Shoup of
Idaho. Senator* Caffery of Louisiana.
Lindsay of Kentucky ami Sullivan of Mls
wisslppl will also retire nest March, thrlr
successors having already been chosen by
the Legislatures of their respective state*.
The British government I# confronted
with a bill for IdXi.OOn.W) a* the cost of t ie
Moer w.it How to psy It Is a question
that will have to receive the nltcniinn of
Parliament. It ha* been suggested In
financial circle* that a royalty of 10 per
rent I.e levied upon thw output of the
Housh Vfrl an mines until the wnr debt
. • xtlngulshtd. The mine owner*, how
ever, are disposed to Insist thot the Brli
ttn taxpayers shall bear the burden of the
oxpenso.
A patiilon urging the vigorous continu
ance of the open door policy on the
part of till* giiveri men* with respect So
China he* been pre|*ired **>' • number of
Houtfcern cotton mil; operator* The pe
tition la addroesed io Hon John Hay,
He reutry of StatA. and recite* th nd
vantugea, which mav be expected to an
erne to American cotton manufactories
and particularly those of the South from
the maintenance ot that policy It Is ex
pected that the petition will be signed
by practically aU of tho Woulhern cotton
. vanutaegorera.
THE HRIFT OF litIIKHMIIItT.
Th* Springfield (Mass I Republican
which supported Mr Bryan, in comment
ing on tar result., of the eir -ttop, esvs
The drift throughout the civilised world
at present I* away from popular to cen
tralised form* of governmtnl on the had*
of an aggressive, militant rommercl*
l*m ' There ts much truth In thi*. In
ltd* country the drift t- undoubtedly to
ssed* reiitrnhzatloi Amt strange is
It may seem, both grout political parties
are responsible for thi- condition of if
fairs.
In every part of the country the dispo
sition I* steadily In the direction of great
er dependence on lb* government at
Washington Wn<n there Is a gri*i4
flood in any state or u groat epidemic
the first thought I* to ask asl of the
general got i rmeil Tht chief railroad*
~f the country, those Which cross stats
line*, are virtually tipper the control of
the general government. The Interstate
t'ommrr * Commission has supervision
■f them. It I* now proposed to place in
terior quartname matters in the hand,
of national offl- lul*. and It Is proitanl-*
that It will not be very king before th<
Marine Hospital gervlee will be In charge
of quarantine tl all of lb<- ,Kirta
In th* re >n campaign. Mr. llryan pro.
loetsl to tie ,| with trust* by preventing
them from skiing business outside sif the
stale- in which they were Incorporated
without flrt getting a license from tn>
national government. Could there be a
stronger eentrallxlng propoaltlnn than
that?
One thing follow* another tr the direc
tion of c, ntruiiiatton flo gradually ha*
•sntrallxatlon bees, gsting mi that the peo
ple nardly realize how many of the priv
ilege* the elate* formerly po*#e<d have
been yields-1 to the eentral gs.vemment
And It l<tok* a If this cenlrabz flon will
•■on Untie until but little of the authority
the state* or.ee petr-sp) will he 1 ft ts
thsm While It If true that the Its-pub
llcan party is the |>arty of rentrnlixatlon.
both of the great parties have consented
most of the change* which have taken
hlarT. Whether this enlargs-ment
of the rentral authority will
prove to bo best for the coun
try In a question that cannot be an
swered at tht* Urns AM that an he *al<l
I* that people have acquiesces! In tnst
gradual growth of centralization Is-suss
thetA, have (seen condition* which seemed
to moke It necessary that the rentral
authority shotils) he enlarged.
ITII.I M V. BLACK I.AHItN.
Tito labor rttnation on the New Orleans
dock* and th* Mtswisstppi river steam
boat* Is peculiar and interesting Th
negro roustabout* have gone on strike for
higher wage*. They have been re-etvlng
from rs to *IOO a month, but are slemand
ttqr lion to 1131) Th*, steanibostt owners
consider this demand unreasonable, have
refused to comply with It and are employ
ing Italian* to tako the pla-e* of the
striker* It l reported that a f tir meas
ure of success ha* been obtalnssl with (be
Italians, though they httv*- not ytt Iteen
long enough at the work to demonstrate
thetr entire fitness for It The Italians nr**
willing to work for J.V) to |a> i-r month, or
about half what the negro*-- are sls-m.tnd-
Ing and very much lees than they have
heretofore received-
The life of the Mississippi roustabout I
a particularly hard s-ne. Th- man must
he ready tit nil hours, day or night, to roll
heavy barrel* of augur, bale* of cotton or
Issxe* of bus-on up and down the st*-cp
gangways *f the river landing* He must
take hi* *l*“ep ns he can get It. and be
able to work twelve hours at a rftretcb
If necessary. A powerful physique, It I*
easy to see, t* Imperative in the rousta
bout. This the river negro ba* lie eat*
Issur or five tints* it day. his food being
fat Ituron. < rn pone, beans, |te;o*. potu .se*
and black coffs-e. These he ivmstinis-s In
large quantities*. liberal eating being n*>c*
esaury to k*-*-|dng up hi- strength The
Italian, on th*- other hand, is usually n
sparing *-tcr. In hi* own country hi*
Iltnt hit* been chiefly fruit* or vegetables.
Ill* strength and s-mltiritnce. therefore,
arc- not to lie compared with thoae of th*
liognu It may be. however, that the
Italian will adapt himself to clrcum
tttunoi'* on the river anil become meat
and corn suiter, as the negro Is, ansi thus
b able to “hold hi* Joh.”
One matter In sagtnet (lon with the sub
stitution of Italian for black Itlwr on tie
boat* that la giving some concern to the
Shopkes-per* and others In New Orleans
I* tho fact that the negro Is a liberal
spender, while the lutlktn •* not. Every
iloitar that the negro make* he spends
The most of tho money may go in crap
games, but nt all events It goes and ts
thus kept In circulation. The Italian, on
the other hansl, I* frugal, siatrlng of ap
petite an 1 niggard of purse, lie will make
■I few cent* slay cover all of Ills need*,
w hile he hoard* hi* money in anticipation
of tho time of hi* return to Italy. The
prospe-'t of tho substitution of the clomp
laborer from Palerno for the native black
| article I*, therefore, not very pleasing to
those Interest* along the water front that
have profile*! by the black roustabout
! trade.
The Philadelphia Ledger asserted a
day or two ago that, from the election
return*. It did not appear that Mr. Bryan
brought any personal support of con-e
--j licence to the Democratic ticket. Fold
: the lodger “It does not appar that as
n candidate he received more titan thir
teen electoral vol<-* The other votes that
are put In the Bryan column are from the
Southern s'ates which are sl.tmittatid !y
the white man's party, and which vote
tti*- Ib-mocratlc ticket front n<crsitv.
without any regard to the name* of the
nominee-.'' The la-tiger'* comment was
made when It was thought Nebraska was
In the Bryan column. Deducting tlx eight
electoral voli-w Of Nebraska M would up.
1-e.ar. according to the I-edger, that Mr
dlryan* personality had really b-en
worth ottly five vote* to the ticket.
Mr. Wu, the Coins--,, minister at Wash
ington, went to a M.trvi.tnd suburban town
last week to watch tit. American election
methods lie expressed htnie|{ as being
pleased with w tint he saw The Pnllnd-I
phla Time* comments: “If Mr. Wu
wishes to observe the Americans lector t
system In it* perfection he should not
I confine hi* observations to suburban Mary
j land If he will s ome on to Philadelphia
I next election we cn ehsav him the real
i thing A polling place in tue Fifth word
I wtth the police dubbin, away th* opposl
tlon voter* and the sdectlon officer, pit
ting In only the ballots that rolled them
would give him aome new Idea, of West
ern civilisation.*'
THE MOKNING NEWxS: MONDAY; NOVEMBER 12. 1900.
M f.lttt I. A lit HI !> < MITM MILL*.
{Several aitrm:4 Have been ma-b by
white men In ' narleaion and elsewhere
In the South, to uttltxe colored help in
Kxi.le fat torle. Thee* exitertm-n - have
i ut been nilcnded with encouraging re
sult*. Ind-esl. In mat tntan s they have
Iteen flat failure- It may that l,lack
man ha* discovered the solution of the
prob.-m of blu k factory help Ttil* col
ored pioneer ts T W Thurston, and he Is
superintendent of it silk mill In Fayette
ville, N. C. He is said to be a man of
♦flliftlf tor, natural ability and much,
strength of character. ll* ba, under him
a force of sot er.iigd operatlvea. of Imth
sexes, r snrlt gln lie from twetv*- t*>
twenty-fly* year*, and he has fora year
succeeded in gesilng sffVlcnt service from
them.
A correspondent of the N*w York Jour
nal of tVgmrei • is recsnlly In Fayette
ville, and htd n talk with Hup rlnten Is m
Thurston ut-n his m- thrds. Thurston
declared that If was abeo'.uiely neccsrry
to enforce dtscfpltne "By fine*. I sup
ruffe et. and She - stm -put.lent. “No
vlr." replied Thurdon “by whlppfna
He then w<nl eat fo explain that fh-- flog
ging, wen- laid on soundly lor Infraction
Sif rhe rule,, not only upgt the ,mal' boys
but the big one, a, well, and not only
upon the males but the feena ea. The
larger girl-, he said, seldom had to Is
whlpprsl mom thin once, ldght punish
ment, Thurston ieeert—l would le tiros*
wasted, therefore It r> made severe;
something to be remembers*! a long time
He will accept no help In the factory be
tween the ages of twelve and twenty-one
that Is ran absolutely given over to hh>
control, hv parent* or guar-bin*, between
the hour* of 6 In the morning and 6 in the
evening Authority to manage thU labor
.1* he see, tit I* legally conferred, so that
he i, responsible to no person for how he
maimirrfi It.
Speaking of hi- use of the lash. Super
intendent Thurston said: "No one d**lres
more than I do to see th* potltn of my
people improved, but I have no false Idea,
i* to tho condition of a majority
of them. Thev lack #• nee of responsi
bility. ond are like chlMrtn Where money
I* concerned That must be kept tn view
a hen dealing with them. My methods
may b*- de-rled by humanitarian*, but I
am proving their stteces*. and I believe
thnt some .if tho*** boys l -im bringing up
here will In turn prove mean* of forward
ing the lnditrtai ulvan ,-mei t of the col
ored race. Forty year* ago they whipped
boya In mills, a* swm*- of the spceesful
manufacturer* of to-day can testify from
painful <-x|Mr!ew*e, and we are beginning
Just so runny years liehlnd ”
Flogging as a mean* to the end of Incul
cating cure, pertinacity and dexiertty has
by no mean* gone soul of practice. It Is
employed In probably lh majority of
households even to thi* day. It ha* not
be* n many year* . c lnc*- It wait common in
the (Choate, though in thi* country cor
poral punishment tn the schools is now
seldom resorted to. In England and Ger
many. however, the rod is still wielded
itrs*|Hirlngly—a fact that can be testified to
by a number of prominent men's sons
The chance* at* that many of the "hu
mnnttarian*' who wl.i crttlcle*- Su|ierin
tertdent Thurston'* methrsl roost severely,
ttssg Hielr iwn chlMren. boys itr.sl girl*,
for (allure to apply Ihcmsalva* to and
master their lessons nr for breaches of
the rule* laid down for their deportment
It Is Thurston' - theory that the n*-gro
rose Is It* a lot of children. In so far as
textile manufacturing t* concerned. Mid
that In order to teach them to be mauufiir.
ttiring expert* they must l*e brought ttn-ler
rigid discipline and forc*‘d to t*erf-arm
their dntle* sntlsfnctorl ' After a getter
utlon of Thurslon's m* the*ls. *u* h dtas
jlc measure, would no doubt be fuun*l ttn
ttece**ary.
\trr a Mi;iit ih: m ig.
Wo fall to es- the wtwlom of the bill
IntrnslU' s-d Into the low-r branch of the
I/el,lature on Oct. *, which, among
Other thing*, gives the F.mtmlwdotter of
Agriculture authority to lupeet proprie
tary medicine* are I decble which are
wholes.arte and which ar*- n-tl
In a matter of that kind he I* Just
u* likely to make it nil,lake ns he 1* to
get at the truth. Medicine* are tom..
thing it trout which there I* a v*ry great
sltfference of opinion. What seems to Iwn
ellt one i*er*on does not seettt to do an
other any good. It Is all well enough
to give the commissioner authority to In
spect butter, lard oil and -itch things, be
cause It 1, an easy matter to distinguish
butter from ob-om irgurlne. olid genuine
lard from the mixture* that are offered
In the market as lard. Anil there Is no
trouble in fln-tlng out when an Illuminat
ing oil I* ilungerou*. but who Is t< say
whether a medicate I* valuable or not’
Even doctor* disagree as to wholesom- -
nt*, of meslictns * and whether or not they
posses* any virtue.
We have no doubt that the people take
too much medicine, but they would fed
they were being oppressed if they were
stented the privilege of taking whatever
medicine they took a fancy to. Beside,
the power to aay which medicine, are
good and which bad 1* a -langerou, one
to Is* exercised, except by u thoroughly
s-iltlcalsd physician, and even physicians
are not Infallible Home of them even nave
prejudice-* It might happen that n man
opposed to all patent medicine# might get
Into the nfflre of Commissioner of Agri
culture, and the proprh lew* of even vttlu.
able meellclnes anight have trouble In gei
; lug him to permit the sale of them In
the ,:Mc The wl*er plan I, to confine
the powers of the csnmissKmer strictly tr.
m*t*r* pertnlnlng to agriculture. The
I farmer* will Is- he-tter pleased, end It I*
I certain the patent medicine people will.
i of the eight original members of Pres.
' .dent McKinley'* cabinet only three re
main—Secret.trie* Gage, Long an*! Wll
son Th* re have three *e*-retar|es of
stsMe. ftherman, Day and Hay. two sec
re anew of war. Alg-r an-l Boot, two at
torney general*. .McKenni and Grig,-;
two postmaster genera:*, Gary and Smith,
and two secretaries of Interior. DHm and
Hitchcock. Whether there wl,| be a re
organisation of the cabinet l* a matter
of •peculation. Then- |* a strong probabil
ity, however, that several member* of the
present official household will retire to en
gagr in private buslnesa.
The Kiiggeattcn that Mr. Bryan will be
otne * Preabytarian minister t probable
,t grntultoua one. without any gowl reaaon
for the though. At the same time It will
s- eoneeted that, with hi* remarkahl*
command of language and hi, mastery
of elocution, he would be a power tn the
pulpit.
I'KHMIUU
—'Throuith Ooytit Ta!l©yrn<S-P©r!*orl
!>n|©ror Wlßiara ( llO.’i'U for
to b' diitflhu'H at Ih© r* #* of
th* I*-irl Automobllv Club u l>ui.
Fmfwror WilMam f % G©imny hni.
throunh rour.t TalV >rni lVrt*Mrd, prom
sK*,‘Do fur prli to ‘ll*trlbulei at
th© tm v of fh Tterjn Automobil© Cl%b
In 2W>t.
—4A©ti W©|©y Mn l!i foum! th© Pari*
I:*portion not up to i ipfoutlont. !!•
think* that th© prim i|*l 'lefrrt wan In
a
J*r,ch fiilr WBS far inferior to our own
at Chicago.
-Oov. r.rrrc© of Michigan, apcaktng of
M* poHtlc.il Ilf©, ha© fold th© n©wi|t©ri
th they may ©r©ct h monument and
rii© hia ©pltai>t H© hip taken no p.rt
it‘ th© pr©*nt ini|4,-ii a- in* health
required quint and car©ful nurin^
<’oi John M Brook©, th© d©i*Urn©r of
ih© Mprrtmac, and. r>n©fju©ntly. f,it her
f th© mniUrn t©©l wamhtp. In nearly an
toKirii4r.au. having r©**enily ccl©hrat©d
th© TPth ant)tv©rsary >f hi© birth tie ©till
hfl Jp *h<. profecMOrthip ai th© Virginia
Military Inptitut©, to which h© wn
(XMnttd at the end of th© V.ir.
-If Sir Michael 111 k* Beach fllla his
old iKttitlon tkb Chan f ilor of th© Kxch©-
u©r In th© new cabinet, th© unplrirant
duty of lnfli©!lna th* extra tax©p to pity
■<r th© South African war will fall upon
hint ll© b a total abstainer from the up©
f-tol*a©co. po pmoker* may b© warnol to
I ok out for aqualla? .Sir M* ha©l, unlike
Mr Chamberlain. Ip never to b© ae©n in
tb© *mokinir room ot tn© lloiuw Ilia fa
vorite piac© la th© tnrmberi' tea room.
—Th© Govcrrjor General and j..n
ton of Can .<la h ive l©en th© vi tlm. of
n awkward contmtcmpe. They ordered
th© A. D. C. In waiting to p©nd out h hun
dr©d or po invitations Th© card* were
w rltt©n. an I on th© afternoon appoint©!
th© vie© r©ral hot and hoeifM* were
rady to receive ih* ir gueitr Th© hand
played, th© t©. irwl < off© M©avn©d away
m the urns on th© refrfPhment table; but
t.obody cam© By 4 o’clock rfn©thlnjt wa
it now n o U wrongs then th© A \). C.'p
were Interrog it* and and it dawned upon
on© of them that h© had forgotten to pend
<ut th© card©
—Prof Adolf Harm k. th© r©ctor of th*
I’nlverplty of Berlin. iak©p thi* vl* w of
miPPlon*: •*Protection should neither I©3
•<k©d by mlPlonarl© 4r given to them
in certain land© It muwt be reco*nl*ed
that mtpptonariep glv© up their right© a?*
©ubject* of th*ir own coutltrle© Th© ml©-
©ionary ought not to go to region© wh r©
hr feel© he rannot r*m-un during tlm* *p
of peraeetxlon. If th<* cour-© of political
vents make* the pmeerutlon of mip©
iTy work Impopslhlc. th© mlionarl©j*
mutt withdraw. ©v©n if they lop© all they
had gained Plate church©* an ©uch ©houl I
©ever engage In mi- lonary ©ntrrprl©©
TtvtP ©houid b© a private undertaking
Wtwelonp ©houid leav© no doubt !n th©
n.lnd of th© Chine©© that they ar© a pure
ly ©pltltual |owrr. They ©heuM r.ever b©
ar Identified with wor'.dly pow
* r The>* phouid mak© It clear that th*v
do not re prepent tn© Interest© of Euro-
I*oris or American©, but the tntere©f of
the native©.**
■I HHi Hl’ HlT**.
—ln Brooklyn—“Do you boll your water
before drinking It?' “801 l It! Well, I
rue©* not. I'd rjther drink a m*nagciie
than it cemetery any day."—Life.
—A I*nr©4te —Towtit—lt aeem© Jenkina
tiap Just discovered that he ha© a family
tree. Browne— Yen; V’© an outgrowth of
hi* pin . ••spfut bufdn i plant.—Phll.adel
i*hia Time©
—Reward of Merit.—Nellie—Oraclou©!
How do you nmnag' u. knit ©o much in
so ©hurt a tlm©'* Ninette—Every tlm* I
io ten row© I give my ©elf a chocolate
cream.—Chicago Tnburn .
—Tle Regular Procedure —First Offiee-
Boy Wot*ll y rdoif de bona ralae© yor
ewlnrv from t*re© t©r live? Second Office-
Boy—W**d. I hdn t fully decided—’cept
• lat I’ll take up golf.—Puck.
—A Champion Mlp© Pinker!)*— Don't
vu think Mr. Tatter, that Mipp Yiui
Antler i© a beautiful girl? Young Tatter
Yvp. Mi© Clara. But you were no doubt
Jopl IxMutifuA ut h©r age.—Detroit
Free Prea©.
MlPfrcsp— Margaret, what doe© tht
policeman want around here po much?
Whom doe he ix>m to ©ee? Maid—l
!on‘t thlr.k, ma'am, he come© to ae© you:
so there’© no occasion for you to worry
yourself about him —Boston Transcript
—Jon©*—What ponaersed that political
orator to make ©u*h wild mlaatatementa?
drown- Well, he • 1 uni© that h* wonted
to t©et whether or not hi own party
rc id© hi© ©peeche©.—lnHanapol!s Journal.
—The Doctor—H©re I cart led that pa
tient through dewperat© ©lekne©©. only
to ill© Wife—-Have him object to
your fee? “No. drop dead when he paw
my bill!"—Life.
—Yeat—l thought you told m© your
wife d.dn't known what fe,ir wap? Orlm
son beak So Id •!. “Well, my wife h©r*l
her ©cream when ©he saw a mouse the
other dnv * "Oh. well, that wn©n*t fear;
It wp© n©rYu*ne©'i. f> —Chicago New©.
—"There are no ©tatue© of w'omcn In
the li.dl of Kami " "No; they couldn’t
i build a hall big enough for all the fa
! mou women in the country."—Chicago
: Record.
"I writs you. rlrarest," h* Jottut <lown.
Afar from ths not,* an<l th, dust of
tow it."
Ho her fund Ihouxhta *tr.alcht to th,
country fly—
While h,'a In a tcyncrap,r th,rc n,*r
by. —Chlonao New*.
I I lUtE\ r rONHBNT.
The Chi. azo Chronicle (Dcm.) say*: "It
Is iKis.lblc that th, tinn' may come whan
Mr, Hlcli.ir.t Crokcr shall b, overthrown
In New York city, hut It may be act
itown is cert.iln that hi* overthrow w II
not be accomplished by any bloodies, per
son Ilk. Mr Seth laiw The mail who
downs Mr Crokcr ha, trot lo have lot*
of rl h. re I hloo.l and no end cf stren i
osily. and he must be predated to K et up
ver early and slay up very lato whll*
the 'downtnx' pm.-caz la In oi>eratlon. Mr
Low l,n t that kind of a man."
The N.aahvllle American (Demo wy:
"Samuel E Mor**, eilitor of the lndltn
apoll* Sentinel, sixes It up pretty we I
when he say* he does, not expect Mr.
Bryan to be the nominee of the liemi
cratio party In rH. and that the Demo
cratic party cannot win unlr>* it ha, a
different raarnz-ineni. that It must nomi
nall siac man a* ‘patriotic an.l m <>r
ruptible a, Mr Bryan, but of a wholy
dtfferrnt temiAament.' "
The Memphis t’onwnercla!• Ap|>eal (D,m )
say,; “Senator Gorman thinks that Ih*
defeat of th. Democratic party has b an
so complete ard c'ushtna that no on
•houid try lo think for iwhl'e The bl w
■tuns, of conr*, but common sense would
iu(fwl that we throw overtward the
nahs as the first movement to,, and sav
in* the *hlp."
The M.tntxomcry Advertiser (t'em )
po'ilKts that before four more year* have
elapsed no man calling himself a Demo
oral will have the hardihood to “aiiti a
slur" at Cleveland.
Love Still Find, a t\,y.
Ther, was the agony of despair tn
Itl hard Puddle ford's face a, he ,-ood bv
th, aid, of th, center table waiting for
MBs Maesingham to come down-stair*,
any* th, Chicago Times-Hrrabl.
After *h, bad put Ih* final louche, on
her eyebrow, and aeen thnt ner skirt?
hung perfectly straight behind the beau
tiful girl tripped llghtljr down and wll.t
both hand, heat out to him cried
“Oh. Mr Puddieford! llow glad 1 awn
to see you! 1 wa, not expecting you at
thla hour. Why. what makes you look
so *ad"“
, “Ah M!„ Mae-InKhwir," he sighed “I
have com.- to say good-bye to you. 1 am
g..lng away front hero—fur. fir away, lo
try to forget."
“What are you rilktfig n stut?" she de
manded somewnat mystified.
“Have you ,< en th* mottling |xpi r,?“
he replied “The election, you know It
ha, gone ait ilnsi me If It went one wav
your father w, o gl\ ** m* hi, permission
to—to .all here —sometimes—anti—ard—hut
If It went the other way I , to remain
aMy and ha-silent. Well, he ha, won and
1 have toM
"Oh," hc aa.d. "I* that all?"
“1* that all?" he echoed. There wa* a
quiver atanit hi* chin Halt she oukl not
help seeing. "Ah. If yon only knew -onlv
guessed—wu.M nils in* ins to me! But I
dare not tell you. It would he unspnr:--
manlike for m- to violate the condition#
of the igreemcnt. I can only say that 1
am robbed of my dearest nope, of my
fond* t—“
“Walt." she Interrupted; “before you
any farther Just listen a momen. You and
father mad*- a bet. didn't you" 1 won
wnat they .all Itie stake, wxsit t I? Who
is the staki ho..l<r please?"
"Bitikeliolder?" he said. "There Isn't
any You aee "
“No, I don't. Wherever there I* a bet
there ough' to !*e a staki bolder, and If
I were in tour place I think I would, see
ing there is nonody els.- here to act. ap
point myself to that office, and "
•She sal*l no more for few illimite*
Then, who she could use her lip, for
sp<-aklng y.ur;iose, again she said:
“That'll *lo. Richard, dear. You Imvu
acted In thoroughly sportsmanlike man
ner You hnv observed the condition*
of the net. WIU you be mine forever,
darling'"
Cllnelie. on I’enple'a Xloney.
The Bank Dresden! (according to the
Cleveland Plain Dealer)—How doe, the
new system work, Mr. Cashier’
Tho Bunk Cashier—Admirably, *lr. We
are constantly adding new features, uni
I hrllove that In a short twne It will n.-
• a perfect as human Ingenuity can make
tt Every employe 1, now carefully
searched and farced lo tak* u Turkish
Uuh before leaving the premises
The President—But why glv.. them
Turkish hath*?
The (’ashler—lt suggests the sweatbox,
sir. After the day force have gone to
their hiffnes, carefully guarded by* detec
tives. the night force comes on and veri
ties the figures of the day force
"Hut couldn't tnere be collusion between
the two forces?”
"There could lie no sympathy between
them, air They belong to rival college
fraternities.''
"And h*> about the detective,?”
"We have the detectives of one agency
watch the detectives of itlyei other
agency
"Good Idea. You spoke about using the
X-ray machine."
“Ye*, wo have a skilled operator al
ways on hand tn the main room. u*l at a
moment's notice he will ho prepared to
tell ue th* content* of th* 1 pockets of
etcry susplclous-looktrig person whim w.
think wa have reaaon to suspect."
“Very good, Indeed. Didn't 1 see a work
man putting in some tlectrlc wires to
day?"
"Y’es. we have connected a powerful
battery with the choirs set aside for tne
use of the government bank examiners.
We think that we will be ,ib!" to f ivor
them with a shock sufficiently strung to
keep them awake."
"And what is your own opinion. Mr.
Cashier? Do you think these safeguards
are sufficient?"
"They will certainly reduce the defalca
tions to u minimum, sir. lint It Is quit*
Impossible to foresee everything."
"Too true."
Ill* Theory .
Sometime* children show an Instinctive
sense of the liner relation* of moral obli
gations that Is surprising. *ay* the Lo*
Angeles Times. Tne subtle analyst* I* glv
! en at the most unexpected moments and
under circumstances that we hail never
anticipated, especially from them.
On such occasion* we arc more than
Inclined to believe with Wordsworth, that
"Our b rth Is but u sleep and a forget
ting"—and vital the little ones have yet
aome of the truer impression* left over
from the other skis of existence.
An example of till* kind was brought
to notice the other day, when a iioy was
reciting hla with reference to
th* duty a child owed reap* tv ly to his
.parent* When h* 1 came lo the fsirt of the
Ten Commandment* that say*; "lion*..
th> father and ©y mother." he paused a
little, and then said;
"Hut yu must honor your mother more
than your father."
"Why. how ts that. Harold?” inquires)
his teacher
"Oh. ’cause your father Is related to
you only by marriage, hut your mother I*
related lo you by• hoenatlon."
The tnntesslnu.
From lbs t'hloaao Timesdleml.t
Where I'etrr guarded heaven's gate
A woman iwm* 1 on* day.
And meekly knocked and meekly *IJ:
"Oh. let me In. I pray!"
And many a fairer one than ahe
The good old eamt had sighed to see
Forever turned away.
"And why." h* asked, "should I unbar
The gale to let you In?
I* ther** upop your heart no scar,
And ltd you never sin’
Nuy. look me fairly in the face
And hurry up and plead your caxe—
I'm wfiltlng—cemi— lexm!"
"Ah. yes! 1 must conies* I sinned,
Tite one without replied;
To keep from paining other, I
Well, ofien, Hlr—l bed!
But prny do not coeelemn me yet,
1 have oomr virtues I would *et
Up on the other side!
"I didn't hate mv husband's folks.
Nor run them down. ' said she,
"I let him love hi* mother, and
fir kind lo her. and he
Could talk to other women who
Were young and blithe and comely, too.
Without offending me.
“I never, never mode him wait
A dismal hour or two;
"When he and I agreed to meet
I got there!—And I threw
No slur* nor ever tried to taint
The name* of pure—" "Ah." said the saint
“Come mi. you angel, you!"
Artistic Heuac In hnme.
The lady retainer had been detailed lo
procure the name, of prominent person*
In antendancc at a performance of grand
opera, say* the Chicago Journal.
“I beg your pardon, madam." she said,
approaching one of tne o< uparttff of a
private box; "but will you oblige me by
giving me your name 1
'Mr* Archibald Jo Neese " replied the
lady
"Pardon me." .-a and the reporter. "I dl l
no* quite iwtrh the last name "
"Jo Seize''
• May I *k you how to p*l! Itf
' Certainly J-n-n-e-g- Jo Neese," haugh
tily answered the occuiun* of the ho*,
and the reporter retired to fan herself.
ITEM* OF IHBIIIAT.
—A firm In Lyons, France takrz ad
vantage of Ihe shortening of cotton fiber*
under • non-mcrcerlxed treatment by
caustic p.aa*h to produce In llk wi !*
certain |**culiar and very rluh .-mtwssed
effects. The ellk'-n web* have vtion
thread* at itxrd illzttMM, wnt *h. when
the chemical sotuiton I, applied, shrink,
while the silk, keeping It* original length.
I* gathered tri tiny fold*. In this way
the most diversified pattern, are pro
duced.
—Several Austrian manufacturer, hove
formed an association for insurance
against strike*, accord.ng to United
-State*, Foeteul Hossfeld, at Trieste. It I,
the obj-i ttof the association to indemnify
Its *evert member* for all loose* sus
t lined by Diem from unjust strlk* • wlik-h
may br' Ik out in their establishment*..
E i h mem tier ** to pay n w eekly pr< mltim
equal to Horn 3 to t |*r cent, ol the
amount of hi* pay roll When a strike
occurs, a committee will he appointed to
Investigate all the circumstance*, and tf
the cause of the strike should be found
just no Indemnity ohall b* paid. Aim
-1 lar insurance association, although on a
.■-m.tller ta ale, L said to have Iteen organ
ix***i In Germany. Both the Austrian and
German associations, it ippear*. say,
Consul Hossfeld, recognize In principle the
Just nr-, of strikes, which Is. In Germany,
at least, an Important concession to labor.
—An electrolytic method for drilling *nd
slotting metals has rc.enlly been devised
by t’owper Coles, the distinguished Eng
lish metallurgist Ills system, which I*
particularly applicable to Iron, consist,
ill al.owing a Jet of an electrolyte, such
a* dlltilo sul|*hur!c add or a .-.Aullon of
. ommon salt, to fall on the object to he
drilled, and use* the nozzle from which
the Jet flow* as th*' (tlMt. whl'*- the
plate or ptec** that ts drilled I* ihe anode.
The plate i mM to l*e laptdly Worn
sway In * manner similar to the anode In
tho electrolytic lath, and both drilling
anil slotting can Is accomplished quite
rapidly. In Ihe most recent form* of the
apparatus the nozzle ts plaid near the
plate, being separated only by an India
rubber waslur which determine* the alar
and shat**- of the holt The cat hod*- Is
formed of oesmall needle point on which
the powder from the bob' collect,.
—The hollow bone* of birds. *y* a welt
er in Popular Science Monthly, are fre
quently cited a* beautiful Instance* of
providential ntc, htink’s in building the
strongest and largest poe-lble limb wlt.n
the hast expenditure of material, and
this I, largely true. And yet birds, like
ducks, tvhlch cleave Ihe air with the
speed of an express train, have the long
tuies fllied with marrow or saturmed with
(ut. while the lumlierir.g hornbtll that
fairly hurtle* over the trertop* has one
of the most completely pneumatic ski le
lons Imaginable, permeated with ntr to
th*' very toe tips; and the ungainly pe'.l
--.111 Is neuriy w*-i| off Btill It Is bu'
fair to say that the frigate bird ami tur
key buxxurds. creature* which are most
at tuse when on the wing, have extremely
light mid hollow bone*, but compirhig
one niM with another the |>.tramount Im
|s*runce of a pneumatic slp'leton to ii
bird Is not a* evident as (tail of a pneu
matic tire to a bicycle.
—"A Good-Health Party." the very lat
eg!, I* suggested by a Western woman
who ha* the courage of her hygienic con
victions. It would begin otieration*. he
say*, by so stationing Ihe polling place*
that every voter would latve to walk IBs
mills to deposit hi* taillo. or her*, for this
would b; a woman's suffrage t arty, the
ballot being granted to every woman who
could show a waist measurement of fiom
JS to X. Inches! Every candidate would
t*e required to prove that he took a cold ,
,nutig* 1 bath every morning, an.l the can
dntete for President would have to be
th*- healthiest man ut the United Htute*—
a man who hud never used tobacco or
tasted alcohol; who neyer drank lea or
' offw or water at meuL. who had 1!
sound natural teeth who always went to
tied at tv o'clock, who hud studied foods
md always ate for nourishment and never
for fun! w ho abh<trr*d l*e;,>er. vinegar and
mustard aiut believed that ice-cream
should he eaten hot."
—The Greek government has Just signed
a contract for ihe coasttaicilon of a rail
way 372 mil*-* long between Piraeus, thi'
port of Athetui, to Demerli. in Thessaly,
on the Turkish tiord.-r. says the Balti
more Hu: I will l ike the traveler from
Athens through AMlea and lloeotta to
Thela-S and th. nee thnaigh Phokia and the
country of Aehltle* aero** the othry*
Mountatn*. Branch line* will convey the
"indent of antiquity toChalkl*. tn Euboea,
and to Lamia In one day the tourist m <>•
v.*lt phu mud. famous by the ilolng* of
Themlatoeles, Pericles, Epxminondas, Her
cules and othir more or le,* veritable
worthies. It ts thought that the new line
will largely Increase the tr ale lietw.en
Turkey and Greece and will esiMa-lally
have i great Influence upon the mall
train, 1 hetw*.n Europe, India nnd Il>e Far
En9t. u* It |* generally accepted that the
mail would then I* l conducted via Athens
Instead of Brindisi. Thi- distance between
Port Said and Piraeus Is 373 miles shorter
than that from Port Slid to Rrlndlvl. The
saving In time for mall vin Piraeus would
lie S3 hour* for Huditpeot. 24 for Vienna 12
for Munich, a) for Berlin TO for Warsaw"
St Petersburg and Moscow, and it for
Brussel*.
Th l Hutchinson tKsn.) New* say* that
-very morning at the usual hour Mis*
Mary Screggln* open- Ihe school house In
i Rt no nt .'..i
-!ts tit her desk all d*y long, while not
:i pupil come* to receive Instruction It
stems that all Uu> families living In Dls
trtet No 79 ar.' Catholics and send thilr
children toa i-i-arby paroc.ilnl school \) *,
Scroggins*ha* the usual contract with tits
school officer*, md she will continue in
open and occupy her lonely school room
through all the winter month* la*t year
•he had no pupils at all during the tlrst
four months of the term, and only two
pupils during the remaining three months
—Many ludicrous misunderstandings oc
curred in the taking of the census One
question * Indicated by the i mark
"length of reat.l nee." which wa* ss.. t
isl to show how long the ticoplc living In
various localities at the tim* <*f the ce't
au# had baen there. When* the retain
came in It wa* found that many of these !
qurrle* were answered In figure* in thi*
ivuy: 20x10. 15x!i.\ etc. The enume:ator
had gon.- atoand with a foot rule and had
measured I’m length of the rettldence* ~f
the i eoplu they eounteil
-Theoretical Inalcht Into tiw> mysteries
of electricity is iii iklaK proffer*. The
development of th.- elytron theory hy
Robert lamit in a Herman periodical la
tlu eumni.tr.z.,l hy Nature. Knghsh
publlrnt on: It may now he **id th „
phenomena of nugnrtlHtn have at |„* t
U-n mim —fullv reduced lo tho-a- of
electricity. We know f r „ n , , h< . wwk „ f
rhomnoti and of liru.ie that an ~|0 . ,r 11.
current In a wire conaiats of * ,t r ,.. im „f
vary sm.ll particles. called .Maoironw
These cotton* or.' form..! by t|„. ...j,,.
tli ui> of th. m. t.ilie nloins into a |,.rif*r
poalllve or l a -milUv ~. native portion
The posllve electrons, under th- Influence
of an electromotive force, inivel m one di
rection lion* the wire with a velocity of
on# ivntlnjf'Jt r j>*r mvou.i ri... *. .
wiih iZ" IZ" •>■<■' •< llrc tlon
with the same try but wilt, a .mailer
Z,'. . T r r " ' ln ,h “ rMn or
about nine to N• areordtn* to
around fh -le.-tron* revolve
around the heavier positive electron, in
a mernetirct m. ml. , p| nn et , roun< ,
the .un and th. ebSrlc eoiveetlon-cur
ren* thus prohi <■! are nothin, more
".'.Ter'*" Ami Pro's ' elementary mo!c. j
cular urrente calculate.
ofThe'e nrV T * ,hl le diameter
fhe r orb Tlr- speed , that of
XL'T "V r,h '" l "'" l led o conoid
fiw*. ° irreemoßt with known
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a tonic. It reguiai,.
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strength ami tAne ,
the nervous nystwn.
It t a medicine for wreuk women, it i,
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taken bv the most delicate. Kidney Dh ■
coses. Itheumatiim and alt disease, ot ths
Blood. Btotnach and nerves soon succuir
lo Its wonderful effects upon the hums;,
system. Thousand* of people In Georg! <
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