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The \\ phi her.
The indications for Georgia to-day ore
for fair weather, wtth light north to
ease wind*; and for Eastern Florida, fair
weather, with light variable wind*.
A notable funeral In New York o few
day* ago was thot of Mr*. Henry Hol
lander. Mr*. Hollander was a full-blood
Chinese woman having been horn and
reared In Amoy, where ehe met and tnar
rtad her husband, the son of tha United
(State* consul, enme yeara ago. Mr*.
Hollander had resided In thl* country for
a number of year* and become thorough
ly Amcrtconixed.
A South Carolina correspondent ask* the
Morning New* tf It has heard anything of
or from Senator Tillman, of that atate,
sine* the election. It ha* not; but our
friend need not be uneasy, Tillman Is not
lost. He will show up all right, lie
knows shat he 1* safe, despite the land
slide. South Carolina has not yet recov
ered from the Tlllmantle knock-out drop*
administered to her several year* ago.
and "Brave Ben" may be depended upon
to make the most of hi* opportunity while
M last*.
Gov. T*nner of Illinois, the man who
would meet "niggers" nt the state line
and "*hoot them to pieces with Gatlins
gun* " Imagines that he Is a candidate (or
the United Stales Senate against Shelby
M. Cullom Cullom I* not mucti in the
way of a statesman, but then he “looks
like Lincoln," whlla Tanner doe* not look
like anybody but himself. Furthermore.
Cullom-has a number of friends among
tha great railroads and other corporate
Interests. In view of these facts Tan
ner's chance* appear rather ellm.
Holland I* willing to buy land In Ger
man Bouthweet Africa for the Boers of
Soulh Africa. But what assurance has
either Holland or the Boer* that Great
Britain would not cast covetous eyes up
on the new Boer settling-place within a
few year*? Holland Is not strong enough
to protect the Boers In any place she
might assist them to. and there I* not yet
any good reason for Blinking that Ger
many would Intervene In the event that
Rngiand should take It Into her bead In
annex the possible new Boer settlement
tn Southwest Africa.
Some of th# New York tiewspnpers—of
Republican sympathies, tt must be re
corded—are telling queer stories about
ex-Gov. TYliUam Joel Stone of Missouri,
who managed the Eastern end of the re
cent Democratic campaign. In New York
According to the Tribune Mr. Stone wu*
so completely taken In by the predictions
of Ktchard Croker and James K Mc-
Guire that he "lost ell of hla ready cash,
about 110,000, and a good deal of the
money of hut friends, In bets on the else
of the tiepubllcau majority In the state.''
It would appear from the stories told that
while Mr. Btono was predicting thot
Bryan would carry the state, he was bet
ting that the Republican plurality would
net be aa much as iOO.Wu.
|.l\ !\.hVO\ %Ml THE IMMIiWn K
HII.I*.
’ongre*#man L*i% IngMon does Ml Inok
with favor upon the Hardwick bill, which
piovtd* • for the and #fratv hle©m©nt of
rwrro*#. Ml* vi©w 1* io l* t w II • -*-u”
alone Then 1m do doubt n mo.'in-i :
among *ome of lb* hoi-hrad Itep.Ml in*
to ui down the representation of tn©
Houih h Gong tea*. Representative <*rum
[vekrr Introduced * Nil Into ihf Ilou'e at
III* |BM #©##trn Of Com. lt # # '* nil down
th© r*r>r#of to© i.*te whlh
have di* rtm.rated against negro©? In the
matter of the frar hl*o.
\# ha hrt ri n* / ..t out many tlnv*
there ar© only two of th* ■ #lal© via,
leuui'Mtoi and North Ciuolini Th** edu
atiou ini .fi ation prevail# In
N an I booth Carolina out It appitrn aiik©
u* whif* and t* k Uitterat*'# Hi# Hmml
wl k b!l. t otK>*e* cun-Mnrlona! am nt*
mrni #lm *r to that ;do**led In
aria art North Carotin it
There in \**r> lit tie? ir <hwt>Ully that th#
llardwlt k hill *vlil receive favoraM** <oi-
UdinlKMi. h got but one or two Vote*
in the last Leg I*'.a (lire. m 1 mere h no
f. | leut r that th#*rr* t.aa bin a great rev
o lion of ii b.if m* niiment Mitt- then. A#
a milter of fa- r t ie -tutr t- grttiiijc ulook
v#ry Wv It urah r th* (uimary yttcm,
which c l.rnlnat#'* the nr*;ro vo:r.
It w- ..lb good jo.ii > to Jet the ques
tion of dlfranchlM'.ng th negro r#>t
•while at leat until h is *fon what
l U*t! In ilkely to he lak'-u In resjuri to
the wmoh have N* i* idoptM
:n North Carolina and l/itiUUnH It I*
;i!mo>i rertalr that the rvnuliuitonjlltj'
of mendrnent!* will be t**teri In the
<*urtM. It is well known that f*<mte of the
ablest lawyer# of loth th**ae state ho| t
in to h** un- on#'ltutlonal. It would te
* mistake for ihl mat*’ to adotu an
Jimtr.dnxnt similar to them while their
• otiatltutlooality I* In lou:>t. Col laJv.
ingiton is a lev* l.heud*t man even If
he mu le h mistake alnai! New Jero.
and the* Legtelature might -k> worse than
to fohow his idvi *• In thi? matter
A thing that the *Soutn Is more 'On*'erne<l
;n at this time than the question of dtw
frjnchUdng th* negro Is the p?ote>i;ion of
Senator ott of TVeat Virginia—the Sen
ator tv ott who. at the HooMevelt dinner
i New York, l#clared that h** h*lb \ed
trusts were good ttilng- to l>a-e rejiresen
tailon on the votee cast mi the i*r**eilentlHl
election Ii ee-m that there are a great
many KepubUe m# w ho favor this plan of
Mxlng repr*Mentation in Congreiw. Why
they are Is well understood. There was a
very exciting campaign conducted In all
of the Northern stales, and a very large
vote was cast In the the vote in
every one of the stales was smll. No
effort wa# made to get out m big vote.
There was no oo nsion for doing to. be.
sides, there was no great amount of n
-thusiasm. Kven In TVxas Mr Ilryan’s
vole wns W.QQO I* s than h wts four f. e.irs
ago, and the Democratic candidate for
Governor ran ahead of him 40.000 voles.
The vote of the Kouth w.is not cast, and It
would t*- rank Injustice to her to base
representation on the \otes cast for l*res
id* nt at the last election. An apportlotr
ment on such a basis would give her but
an inflinliltunl place In (*ongrs# and the
electoral roll* . Uti llt i* iM glnning to
look aa If a bid providfng for that latels
of representation vnuild be lntroluce| and
supported hy some of the m*ist active of
the Republican leaders. It Is not thought,
however, that the President would sign
It if it were sent to him
THE I l 11. ll) OF *LA\G.
Thooe college ghl# In Ghtcago who re
cently rebuke. 1 a professor in a set of
re#A>lutlon for the u#e of elang In hi#
lecture# tnmy have di*<ouraged an elymo
logh al iirtd ldillologli .il p.oneer who would
later have enrich©*! Ih<* languag*' hy the
addition of i© rdful un i expre##lve word#
There 1# no ext\j#© to lie o<T©re*i for the
employment by any e*lucated person of
the low. roaree language of the gutter#
But it kHs not apix'Mr that the proff'vor
In question did any euch thing. Ilia uw
of #lng wa not In wanton disregard of
the proprieties.but for the purf>o#e of mak
ing hi# k*rture more lucid. By the occa
sional employment of what I# railed a
slant expre##lon. he rotild make hi# point
more clear than if he had adhered religi
ously to the "autbonxed' word# in the
dictionaries.
What Is the purpose of language? To
express Idea* What la she most perfect
language” Manifestly that whlrh the
most succinctly and clearly conveys ideas.
I* n living language to in, bound by the
Iron fetter* of custom and forbidden to
expand? Certainly not; that 1* Impossi
ble. If that had been the case, we should
still be sptakiitg and wrlilng In tho stilt
ed style of two centuries ago Indeed,
we might be chattering In the limited vo
cabulary of our simian ancestor*.
Notwithstanding the growth and expan.
sion of the language are results of the
natural law of supply and demand, every
new word that make* Its appearance Is
forthwith written down as slang and ta
booed hy the purists, who must first ret
a word In the dictionary and have the
derivation of It from some foreign lan
guage tiefor# ihey will perm!* themselves
to utter tt. And this notwithstanding the
(act that what they call r.ang to-day may
be good English to-morrow The word
"slang" Itself was once slang It 1* an
ahbrwi lalion of a Norwegian expression
nooning "to sling the Jaw." otherwise to
cast epithets, to * old, etc According to
Webster, slang Is "low. vulgar unauthor
ised language; a popular but unauthorised
word, phrase or mode of expression "
Would any sane modern writer now ob
ject to such word* a* "humbug." "boy
cott," "mugwump." and other* of the
klrd that have come Into the language
during the i>a*t few years? They were
slang within the no mory of person* not
j yet old.
All slang, of couse, I* not to he sccept
ed Muc.i cf It—the most cl li -is low
and reprehensible Neither should a,I of
It be condemned. Some of It can he made
I good and serviceable. For new idea* we
must have new words The vocabulary of
slang I* the reservoir from which these
n, w words must !•• drawn.
We predicted wok* ago that there
■ would he no fight Iteiween Winston
4#
Churchill and Lord Hosslyn !•• nisi ol thi
latter* charging certain British troop*
In South Africa with cowardice We felt
ur# that somebody would ■ take water"
with respect to the mailer They do not
fight duels In England thi -e day*
, !to**lyn has taken It all Iwck and begged
| pardon for hating said It. finis nlvcri,-,-
ing himself n* a person willing lo - t<r,i.J
| even the most <!amgtnr reports without
I having any good foundation (or them.
THE MOKMKG NEWS: THURSDAY; NOVEMBER 15, WOO.
lilt. tUII-lht TAXOI-t.
The . Hon tkn by the A.aUarmi Lcgi
iature doe# no* mnke it certain that there
will h* no trouble over the governorship
i hat seat** A* is wed known Col. W
J. bum ford, of Opeiika. was alerted gov
ernor at the la*t state election He i*
rritlcady til ai hi* hom* ti.ough with n
the last few days h has hown signs f
improvement The tme for hi* inaugura
tion lr> Df 1 Thr have been and st 1
.ire fear# that he aid not live until that
time The law mak* no provision
for hi# aArcesaor in m event of hi# letn
tv fore hts inauguration It provides that
tn the event of the -both or disability of
the governor th* Pf • lent of the B rate
shall become governor But Col. Bamford
will not u < n.. governor until r* 1.
the date o* the expiration of the term of
Oov. Johnston. If he should die before
that time Gov. Johnston, would in the
opinion of om* of the abiei lawyers of
the state, retain the otftct until his u
cessor was elected and qua lift e<l.
It was to me*-f this - void It ion of affairs
that th** L#*gj-lot tire anva##* and the vot*
an soon as It conv#n#*l last Monday and
declared Sam ford fleeted, and had the
..*•! nf off ■ administered to him But
I*m that overcome th difficult) '* If t’oi
S*mf**rd shmi and die tefore De’. 1. would
not the question of whether the present 1
governor would Yioid over or the president
of th* Senate become g*ivetiwr have to
determined I>> that da*e?
Gov Johnston has riipi no point about ,
the swearing In of <’ol Samford be
fore the time provided by law i
for that ceremony, but It I* hard,
ly probable that he would leave
the gubernatorial oihc© until the
question of hi# successor was fully and
satisfa torilly ##ttl*d. The question
would pretty certainly find it# wv into
the court# If Col. imford should live
and ba sworn lit again on Deo. 1 that
would of course leave no room for con
troversy. bu if he ahould die between
now and that date there would pretty
certainly be complications, notwithstand
ing the st.-ps which the Legislature ha.*
taken to avoid them.
THR l i:\ lT.lt oP IHIPI LVrtO*.
In the last ten years, a# shown by the
cn>ua of the center of population
ha move,! northward and westward
Immediately after th** jxqulut*on of the
country was made known by the Census
Bureau some of the Northern paper# ex
pressed th? opinion that *t had ceased to
move towards the West It seem#, how
ever. that they were mistaken. Accord
ing to a Washington dispatch in the
Times-Herald of <'hlcago'the movement
of the center of population, since HIM. to
gether with the number miles moved
each !* de, ha.# been a# follows.
1790—Twenty-three miles tw#t of Bal
timore, Md.
1900—K ghteen mile# weat of Baltimore,
Md 41
ISIO Forty mile# northwest by west
of Washington. P C 3*>
IS3>—Hlxteeu miles north of Woodstock,
Y 50
I*3o—Nineteen mile# wst-j'OUthWeet of
Moorefhf.l. W Va. ..
lMO—ftlxteen mile# smith of Clarkes
btirg W Va 55
IKoO —Twenty-three mile# southeast of
Parkersburg, W. Va. ST
IMb—Twenty mil*'# south of Ch’llicothe.
Ohio M
1170— Forty-eight mile# east by north
of Cincinnati, Ohio 42
ISO--Kight mile# west by south *f f*ln
clnnatl. Ohio 58
lStt—Twenty mile# east of Cdlumbus,
Trnl 44
1900—S*ven mile# north of Colprnbus,
Ind 20
The center of population doe# not de
pend wholly on the increase of population
in any particular section. From the meth
od of finding T. 41 might happen that It
would move westward, although the In
crease in the population In the Fast wa#
greater than that in the West. According
! to the foregoing dispatch the center of
1 the population of the ‘Tnlted State# J#
ascertained by an assumption that the
whole area of the country I# a plane, like
a board, and that every unit counts the
• nme ns every’ other unit, except for IU
distance from the as-urn***l center. Where
is the pivotal |oint at which the plane
could b** supported with all of ths people
of the T’nlted Btate# exn'tly counterbal
ancing one another, and keeping the
idane at a perfect horixontalT’ There i*
the center of population.
There t* a growing belief that the next
ten years will show a tremendous immi
gration to the Southern states. If this
belief should prove to be correct we
1 might reasonably rxjMct that the center
of population, when the next census la
taken, would b© shown to have move*!
southward agd westward.
Wallace Heed writes to the Macon Tel
egraph from Atlanta that be hear* It on
all sides that Gov Candler will not con
test the senatorshlp with Senator ('lay
Hi til there Ia good deal of discussion of
KOmt popular Georgian making the rice
against Mr. Ulav. "I have heard both
Henry O Turner and Hoke Smith sun
gested many times." say* Mr Reed, ''but
the latter Is determined not to re-enter
politics, at bast for some time to come
Whether Mr. Turner would consent to I
a candidate for the sen it rshtp Is an open
question; but theic Isn't any question '.hat
Georgia would honor herself In requesting
him to accept the (>ostilofi Mr Turner
Is one of the few real statesmen devel
oped by post-bellum politic*. His re-entry
Into public Ilf* would he viewed with sat
isfaction by the country at large.
Il |* to be hoped that the fa mer* of
Georgia tire watching ihe prh . n of egg.
and butter Kgge are now retailing
around 23 eenls a dozen, with tHe cro*-
peel folr that they will no higher n-<
Thanksgiving and Chrt'tm,* ipproach
And butter has taken a Jump upward.
I* there any good rea-on why our sun
piles ot egg.- ami butter sioull not li ■
raised right at home? It must make
Georg a farmer., leel many keen pangs
of regret to know that thousands an t
then and* of dollar* are going out of til
sian- for egg* and butter which better
than not might he going into thetr pock
rt*. We need a million m re hen* an I
a hundred ihcusind more high grade
erws in Georgia
R I* announced from Ch It ago th.i
Charles A. Towne. Senator Pettigrew and
one or two other* will shortly take ateps
to organise a free sliver party, In order
lo prevent the sixticn-to-onc Issue, from
becoming obsolete. Well, leg thim or
ganize their party If they want to It t*
their privilege to do *o If they and sire
iml n-dtody will -try to hinder them. Bin
ert.tfler the Democratic party will ad
Here to the old landmarks and Kate tin
"isms" to th* UAiikx
Dr. Mudd, of the District of Columbia
br ; ves that low-burning oil kmf© In
room# at r.igtit cause imsumptlon and
h* irt trouble Th* fufi * n.atcd by low
iminf larr.ps and 0.. c*o**- he hay- are
deadly, tnough they do not aff- t idults
it mu* h ## children. It t* his theory that
’monoxide ga atui at i doxlde gas from
. ftar;e* iwk** up t oxygen tn she rjom
and form poison ’ Dr Mudd asserts that
tn Ids practice he hi- lately found a num
her of 4a- of heart and I .ng troubles
which he luh bn. ,ml# to Ira © to the
btirning of of! lamp or oil stoves in the
• eepit.g rixtn* at night In the oil refined
•!%’#, he m\t there is a property
w ich was nt prefer;! years ago, and
a hicb | destructive of health.
It l‘ bel.evrd n At lama that Gov. ('an
dl-r # r* omna ndation wtth respect to
i in.!. *ry appiopi Union this year will be
•J.rr* warded by the Legislature A bill
< Im it g prepared to give the military 12'*.-
•* It will be Introduced within a few
•i*\# by Mr Howard of IreKaib. Already
strong support for the bill ba# been en
hated, and there is said to l*> a fair proe
peej of passing IT.
Some Republican newspaper#, with d*,s
l*i a *le ituui< louiiii** have daring th
jw few d.tys bm giving publl ity to ibe*
report that during ih** r**cent
Mr Bryan received in* for his sDctvhe*
In a tci*grsm to the Baltimore Bun Mr
Bryan -ays there I# no word of truth in
• ich stories, or bs! of truth upon which
to found them. And that will be accepted
a* conclusive.
rERJtO\ %l*.
—Father John <’rons f alt is a Rus
sian priest, to whom his countrymen have
attributed miraculous powers. lie has im
press'd himself no dcpjy upon the b -
iief of the Russian people that he is not
only sought by the lowest of the popu
lation. but was summon'd to the death
b*d >f the late Csar and is constantly con
sulted hy the highest personage*.
—Na line former, l*ettei known In Weil
ern Texas, Ml Million, owns and
it snag # a line catih* ranch not far from
Waco A few year* ago when teaching
s* bool in Ohio she wa- adopted by a
wealthy Texan, who w t- klil*d hy bclns
thrown from his horse His rnn h wa# fut
up for sale and Mi-.- Farmer bought It.
with the 7*n cattle her benefactor ha4l
owned. Now her herd# are Increased enor
mously In nlimbers
—lt might almost he said tloit at pr*-
ent the Cecil family Is running the Itrit
th empire. Lord Sollsbury. head of the
l*e. || family, will rontlnu** to ho prime
minister Lord Cianl*ourne, hi# jtn. under
>*‘crcfar for foreign affairs; Lord Bt I
buurne. his son-m-law at th© head of the
admiralty; Arthur Ha.four. Id* nephew,
flist lord of the treasury a*id leader of
the House of Commons, an*) Gerald Bal
f4>ur. soother n phew, secretary of Ire
land
—"J4oon after I arrived In this country
on my present visit." says Bishop Part
ridge (Kpi#< opal), < f Kioto. Japan, who
I# n graduate of Yale. "1 was lnvlterl to
a University Club dinner, and W** told
that I was to six*ak to the toast of ’Yale
I‘nlverslty.’ When I arose in my turn my
fellow banqueters cri! vociferously.
•Never miml Yale, old man—talk to us in
Chinese.' 1 entered Into their spirit, and
for twenty-five minutes I orated In Chi
nese. What did 1 say? Suffice it to >•>•
hat I spoke only the court dialect. Th©
mrange*t part about It Is that aii pres
ent seemed to enjoy it even more than l
did."
KNIGHT KIT*.
—The Eternal Feminine.—"lt ! you
women who make all the trouble In life."
"Yes. and who make life worth the
trouble."—Life.
—A Reaction —"My husband always
eats extravagant lunches down town."
"How do you know?" "The minute he
gel* bom.- in the evening he begins try
ing to diei the family."—Chicago Record.
—Brown (slapping total Btrnnger on
back)—Hullo, oil man, haven't seen you
for tn pgc. Don't you remember me?
Btrang-r—l don't remember your face,
but your manner's very familiar —Punch.
—Cheap Religion.—Mrs Jones—'Tho true
disciples of Confucius go to church twice
every day. Mr*. Smith—Well, they can
afford to. They have coin* In China worth
only one-tenth of a cent!—Puck.
—Splitting the Difference.—Book Re
viewer—! don't know Just what lo say
about this new fiction writer. Magazine
Editor—W, il. goodness, don't come to me
for help! Say he reminds you a little of
Gertrude Atherton und a little of George
Eliot —lndiana toll* Journal.
—Proved —"lt Jes' gar's to show." wild
Mr Erastus _ Plnkly. ruefully. “It Jes
goes to show " "Wtiat are you nil talkin'
about?" "Pe election. It's de fus' time I
ever voted. De man h“ offered me two
dollahs an' I took It. My uncle haa been
froo a lot o' campaigns, an' he made ‘im
gib up five. It Jr*' g'*' to show dat dir
aln" no chance ad mo' foh de woung man
in politics "-M ushlngton St ir.
11 hhu vr < oxitiuvr.
The New York World (Dim), ays:
"The guerilla warlare will go on Indefi
nitely unless Mr. McKinley can show that
high courage whlrh I* not afraid lo ad
mit an error and correct It. and deal w th
the Filipino* ns he has dealt wi h th”
Cul>m. And the Treasury Department
experts cutlm.iie our current Philippine
expenditure .i about 19.1tu.0t9 a m nth
Why should the American i copie ,arry
this burden fur In w, or ten tears
to come whn R could be a\ot,l#d hy
simply adop’.mr the natutal Ameilcin
policy of Inviting the Fi ll* no*. we
have Invixd t;.e Cuban* io get ready to
; asm themse ves? Is our pr *p. rit\
gi. i thai W'- can iiff.-r l to throw wly
li;., anmnlly for many a year t>
coni ■ In pros-cuting this tin ecssary a*
weil a unjust war In Aria?"
The I'll a (N. TANARUS.) Observer (D> m).
•os "If Croker I* to be remov-d as a
IKiliiaal loss It must he done by Demo
, rair. iis Democrat* under the lesderahlp
of Tilde,; smi-liel Twee,l The Hepubll
in party cann > small Crokr If -he
ll- p i jll, are attack h;ni he will slmplv
eftti u|**n h|4 ivirty to sustain' Im against
assault by the common enemy, and Tim
mat > will respond But tf > i- .!*,, k -I
in a \ Igorous way by Democrats of ever
ige and per-l-iency. who will tight to the
finish. It" will have none to ci I io a-stst
hi- personal aslherents and and fa and ints In
Tammany.”
The New Orleans Picayune says; "It
depend* on our |>e>p!e to app e late a> and
utll.se the grand option unit I* vhi h
hern t- our, es pie-ei'.t. Ate- th v
c li tia’ •• shewn < pr iier sense of th* r
,i.us-. , ip:l*l from the outside e 111 !.
a 4,-, an ruled Hut w<- must proa-, our
own fatfh ,n.| confidence In our local re
-,il,ccs and ctvangstrs s Iwforc we can ex
pe -i Mrangers to da so "
Tii* Memphis I'omms ctal-Appc.il
IVm I. *a>* "A brainy Georg.a I gsa
t -r wishes io el *<■ th<- public s >o <-f
(1> otsl i for an < n Ire y. ar ll* pro , b y
want* an otq* r unity to ,#uh up with
the pituiary grade.”
Hug for Hurled Treasure.
"Boys, I guess y'e beer o' Bill Kid—
Gap n BUI Kid the buckin' plrut wat
rampaged most outrageous 'long these yere
fortiddin' shor*-s. eh’" askrd o.d m n
Bedel. Sm the s a ehrewd -l iil
farmer, of thr**** lusty rity youngster#
who were spending a few weeks'
lirai uti the bmtlher* p.ace. aa Rum Botfit.
Just out-Pie the village of Free;o r t says
the New York Mall and Rxpr?i
"Course w** have Ever loiy knows
•bout Capt Kid the plrste" answered
Willie Burgess the eld* r of the boys.
"An dldn* h' bury hi# treasure on Ix>ng
Is.and**'* eawerlv asked Davie Deanes
".4ure he did ” replied the old man. "an*
thet # Jest th’ pint o’ th' observation# I'm
gotn* C nvike 1 "
"Don* w.mt ro oh**valiant; t II u* a
*ory ’bout Car*t. Kid. when h" sailed
when he !><l ’ like they sav In the
s- nff" Interruptiil loavir D itv *.
"Well th -h yere Cap’n Kidd an’ hi#
heath t Ish •r> w went s!ohlng round th‘
8 anl-h nan and iwn yor.d r r f n N w
York bay. an’ met up with m o win fox
hou I what hoi acme n.lroad p evident
on lion and Om o* them presidents wux a
man b© th' rime o’ Gold "
"You mean Gould I read his name *n
the Long Island Observer." chipped .n
lavie Deane#
"Vo 1 don't T mean Jl#t what I say
Hl# name war. G*'d. same a McKinley
morxn and gold, and money wm In his
p*>cke a on' ha versa k In most scrum**
tlou q'MintliP* Well, after a-stinlin*
Mr Gobi on h4** bead an' snakin' o t the
mcne> in* Jew h on th' deck o* the Ag
gl© Ann whi’h win ih' name o‘ th* plrut
ship. Cipn Kld'l he ”
"I kn*w |i|c*4 the lrre>re##tb> Dsvle
Deane#, "he made *em walk the plank”
“No he didn't either * continued Be
dell Rmltber# "Cap'n Kidd, be led Mr
Gold up t* * th’ rnil an give b'm a #hove
Mr Gold, he tried to walk m air fur a
w h’l but he wux too he ivy and fell
through "
"F* !. through th© dir*"
"Yep. Fell right through th’ atmos
pherc Y* see. the air wux that thin It
couldn’t hold Mm up He droppol a# fur
a# th* water an' he broke through that
•use It wux a llttl© shy o’ rail, an* not
verv strong
"• it-'ii Kidd an* hie erew they sail** I
an' they * died, like song ha# It. on
til they kem to Hem-stead bay. JIG back
here "
"I- it far to the Bi>anih main?*’ asked
Davie Deane*
"!>' v know* where (UMtthVnV# groc’rv
where D ih’ Spanish main, an’ It'# no use
A-tMiing you. Cap’n Kidd an* hie wl kel
• rew carried th’ gold in' Jewelery u> ?h'
ll*m>*ad Bond til! they kum to Capn'
Dsn Rhotd's corner, tight over there
’bout '• yard# from this very spot Th'*y
wux s**en to < om*- down th lane to thla
jot with Jl#t load * uv treasure n their
shoulders. n’ they dumped It on th*
groun* right here or herenhouts."
The old man paused, aid sucked furi
ously at hi* day p:i e Davie Dean*# be
came Impatient.
"Whit’d they do then**" he asked.
"Well, then, u Hood kem over the mo >n
n* you’ll have to guess at the balance ’
"I know; they burled th* treasure on
this farm, arid you don’t want any one
to know it ’’
Davie Deane* was a bright lad; ro de
nying that. Th oth*r by#, follow leg
hi# lead, hurried to the tool house, grab
bed picks and spade*, am! started to dig
ging for buried tr asure In ih* comrtdl
J>M min Qedell Bmlther# watched them
with an amused smll*- n Is far*'.
"Hum!'* h mu#ed That field r art Inly
lo neel spadin', an’ them hoys ml.'ht ns
well do the work as a hired man. Least
wise. eaves me th' wage* o* two mm
#long as they work."
AoUtiss a A derail.
The car was slopped for a woman at
Broadway and Twenty-seventh stress,
say* the New York Press. The hour was
>3O p m Five other women hurried to
stef* on the pisiform, pushing carelessly
aside a big. tall, heavy man on crutches.
With his hind on the hell ssrap, the con
ductor looked threateningly at the iron
gray hair and mtlstarh, the crutches and
the one leg. With great dignity and de
liberation the cripple ascended the iwo
short steps, and the Inst int his fool rested
on the platform, raised his right hand to
take . firm grasp of the railing. The re
leased crutch, tottering as the car regained
headway, felt backward Three passen
* : I ■ ' * ■ * ■I ' ", ~ . . t ~. [
it to the owner, who had been assisted
to a seat inside A perfunctory "Thank
you." wis muttered, undone of the res
cuers whispered: "Know ’im? Thai*
IWin Slckies" "Of course." replies)
another. "And he's got 7100 pair* of
crutches at home which he drop* In the
same way when be gets on a car, always
with the assurance that aomebody will
pick 'em up "
——s — l —
Drew the l.lne.
"Speaking of press agents,” said David
Henderson the other day to a New York
Telegraph man, "I never knew a man who
hand them more than old John Knapp
of the 8i land- Republican. ll* was al
ways afraid he would elv* somebody n
free puff or print something for nothing.
He never would publish a lawyer's or a
doctor - * name If he jiosslbly could avoid
It. for fear ho would advertise them gratis
One morning a mention was made In the
Republican—they call It the HepuhiP now
—of a man having died of Bright's dis
ease Old man Knapp hunted up the proof
reader an*l call'd him into hi* private
office.
" 'Why d'd vnu let that get into the
paper?' asked the old man, Indicating with
his forefinger the objectionable para
graph
" 'I don't see but that's all right." Wild
the render.
" 'You don't eh?' snapped old man
Knapp "You don't, eh? Do you think to
want to advertise that man Bright tor
nothing? He never had an 'ad.' In this
isiper In his life."
The Spe.-ctic* Re Unit \ol Hade.
The late Richard Power, an Irish states
man of eminence, possessed all the native
wit of hL r ice, soys th# Chicago Chron
icle. He was on* of the hand of Irish
Nationalist members, but he was liked
,* much by English, Scotch and Welsh
member.- us by his own isuntrymen. and
that Is saying n great deal. He rod*
splendidly lo hounds—Parnell and We had
Inn r, putafion of being the two boldest
r.ds r* in Ireland und. aft hough he was
not fond of making speeches, he rould
make a capital #[>4‘#ch whenever It be
came necessary to take part In a debate
When speaking one evening at a public
dinner he made nidi .on lo Thackeray's
famous saying about ihe brilliant repar
tees that one make# when driving home
alone at night in one’s hansom cab Then
h< went on to say:
"1 can assure this ,i*. mhly -that not
Pitt nor Fox nor Bright nor Gladstone
has ever re els iii h eloquent speeches In
Ihe Horn* of Commons as some which 1
have not made there!"
hot il as n tranter.
When th# conductor on s Tenth street
trolley car came through to collect hi*
fares yesterday morning, a well-dressed
woman handed him a blue ticket which
•he had abstracted from the side pocket
of her coat. **ya the Philadelphia Record
The conductor *,an,c<i at i and tpmdcd
it bark, with a bread grin, - lying ' Tha
lon'i goon thl* line, mi lam The worn
an then sow that she had given him a
text card reading "Blessed are the poor
In splrtl. for they shall Inherit the earth '
The card was one of u number that sh-
Had p ared in h< r pocket, int nding t.,
Ilstrlt ut, them among ;hs pu|d s r an
Italian mission In which she Is Inter-st
ed. In her confusion she gave th.- cm
.'urtor a nickel, and a mutm-nt later
found the missing a ham* Uekrt. which
she tore up In mistake lor th* In con
'gruous text.
ITRM9 Or IYTKREBT.
-XiOrd Roberts* recommendation that
the returning foldler# lie welcomed with
gifts of tobacco Insiead of liquor calls
out a singular Indorsement from The
Lun- et, which a- rUires that 8 4
with due moderatUan. Is second only in
value to food Itself in -the case of men
.nduring long labors on short rations.
—Th© Governor of German East Africa
r. jH>r:s to the foreign office In Berlin that
whilst elephants have almost disappear .J
from the district under hi* control, hippo
potami. lions and leopard# of every spe
cies abound, lie says that the plantation
emp.oyea have to take the greatest care
In prote ting themselves against night at
tacks of these animals.
—Holy Trinity Church (situated close to
the Tower of London j. In which Is the
tomb of one of Wa hiugton's ancestor*,
bearing coat of urni- which Is supposed
to b* the origin of the Star# and Btripe#,
is threatened with destruction unles# (200
1# subscribed for its ispalr. What makes
the church of Interest to Americans is th©
tablet erected to tne memory of Col.
L gge—who married Eltxa Washington,
and who died In ICT*> surmounted by the
W#hlngton arms, constsieng of five al
|f*rn King bar# of red and white, above
which nre five-pointed red stars These. It
Ih said, suggested to <©ore Washington
the American National flag.
—Some time ago. the Philadelphia Rec
ord says, a Philadelphia man moved to
the suburbs, and determined to keep
hens. He we nt personally to a dealer
and picked out h number of hrge, fine
looking one#, thinking wtth pleasure of
the nice now 1 ild eggs that he would
->on enjoy. Several week# passed, nml
there were no egg*, although nil the
members of the houhold wore aroused at
dawn every morn.ng by the Incessant
crowing of the chickens. This went on
for some time, and the new suburbanite
became alarmed. "I've been chested."
he thought. Then he calle l In a neighbor,
and was very much a mazed when told
that hi# chickens were ail roosters.
—A cable from Brussels to the Chicago
Record says; The fwstle offered to ex-
Prriddem Kruger by M Oswald d’Au
merle, a Belgian of Dutch origin. I# situ
ated at -Anderlecht, a suburb of Brussel*.
It was built by the monk# three cen
turies ago, end u##*d ns a convent In
I*4o it belonged to the burgomaster of
Anderlecht. This oflleial had the honor
of entertaining Leopold L. who j* nt two
night# In the castle. A f**w years ago It
was bought by M d'Aumerle. aw althv
amateur artist, who rcGor©d it to it#
former *j>leudor u iU jk-1 mtxlern Improve
n.cnts If ex-Pr#*H!U i.t Kruger inteisls
to reside in Brussels a wing of tiie castle
will be set apart for him. The castle,
which is of the Gothic style, is surround
ed hy a splendid park.
—Jones, a Methodist of GentryvllU*. Mo .
a few years ago bet a wo-months-old
ulf against a colt owned by Smith, 11
Baptist, of the same town, that th*
prophet Jonah was a Methodist The hot
was finally decided In favor of Smhh. on
the ground that Jonuh was Imm r#©d
The Mtno two men made another curlou#
w*ig©r before election. If Docker\
received a majority of 50.<00 or !•## Hmith
agree*! to become a member of the Meth
odist (’hurch for one year; If Dockery’s
majority ran anywhere from 50,000 to 7<*.-
UflO, Jones wa# *to become a Bantlst for
cue year If the majority was over 70. W
all bets were to be off In the contract
they agreed not only to attend the oth'-r
chureh in case the bet wi# lo#i, but to
go through all the ceremonies necessary
to Join. Jone* agreed, on becoming a
Baptist, to be immersed, and Smith
agreed to be sprinkled when th© baptis
mal rite was performed.
—The National Greek Theater, which Is
now completed, was made 1 possible
through the liberality of the King, who
will have control of It# adminDlration In
return for his liberality. Th most mod
ern appliances have been used In th© new
building, and the stage. illumined by
electric light, was designed by the stage
engineer of the llofburg. In Vienna. Th©
theater is ready to be opened, bui the nec
essary actors have not yet bc©n found.
For various reason# the well-known act
ors of the day in Greece are not consid
ers* I desirable for the new state theater,
#0 a# few* a# posslM© of th-m will be ©n
gag©*!. A royal college of acting has been
opened under the direction of th© King
and twenty-four pupil# are 10 be prepared
for the stage tinder the direction of u
teacher who ha* re*eiv©d hi- education n
leondon and Paris. Fencing, declamation,
pantomime. anl other branch©# of their
art are to be taught to these young per
sons by Greek# who have midied In
Franca end Germany. Every year twentv
flvo pupil* will be taken, and the new na
tion il theater expects to be #upplie 1 with
a lot of new national actors within a very
©hort time.
—According to the latest rep>rt* fr-m
France the coal crisis In that country
Is rapidly approaching the acute stag ■.
says the New York Evening I’os* The
rise In price l* already eonsderable, and
with the winter close at hind, the ict
look Is serious. One of the railway com
panies has been forced to order M.'hl
tons from America, in order to replenish
the reserve stock, which his become *>
low that only eighteen days' supply was
available. In the event of a moMltzatlan
of troops, tt would have i*e *n impo? .-*:*'-,
It I* said, to have found fuel for the
number of trains required The North* n
Hallway Company his also been com
pelled to Import coal, and Is said to have
.lost l.fS'O.pyi francs by the rise In p | ■•#.
Hut railroads are not the only sufferers
latundrle*. washhouses and baths are In
an especially bad wav. on a- ouni of ’he
great Increase In working expenses It Is
feared that a great number of t ee
estaollshmrnt# will have to clos , thiow-
Ing hundreds of persons out • f <*m ,;o- -
iiv • r
tentlon of the Faria municipal council
ha* been directed to till* lmpor*am ques
tion. and certain member* h ive -ngie let
the iholltlon of octroi dues on * oal Whit
with dutv. octroi dues and tie fr li>
coal In I’arl* is dearer, a: least by 31
francs, than at the pit s niou h If the
octroi duty, whlcn Is very heavy, on ll
be removed, or reduced, even temporarily,
the relief to the great nia-s gif |oor r
consumers would lie great.
—A laindon correspondent of the Chi
cago Post writes. "I recently wen: with
a party of English and American friends
to see one of the cnrntval* 1 felt w sud
den thrill of happiness and homelikemss
corn** over mm sort of dated feeling of
reality, mixed wtth unreality—and I closed
my eyes for 1 mmu;e to try so collect
what seeniod to be mv far scattered
sense*. Whut wae the music coming from
that band in the wake of those khnkl clod
warriors’ Surely, It In-longed to th*
words *Oh. say, eon yon see!* Rut this
was Ix>nd- n and those were Britain's sol
dler*! We A merit ins looked a one nn
other wooderloglv. and then, the bond
coming nearer, there burst forth unmis
takably the music that went with ' 'Tin
th* star-spangled banner; oh. Krug may
It wave" Alone went the hand and the
sweet must die,! *w.i\ More wagons,
mo'* pus's m re idv-rttamen's, and then
mother hand with 'Brlion* Never Shall
Re Slaves' and Th* March of Rob* '
Again we Americans started and looked
around. Irving to o*eiire ourselves we were
not in I/ondon it- all. hut In Milwaukee nr
< hl-agu. for she star* and Stripes In
silk and hunting an-l - heap 'cotton cal
ico' greeted our eyes along With the royal
•tan lard and the r n , oll j„ k - Ttll , otl(rh|
to he- fine" s*M one of the American
mn in our crowd 'I suppose It will lie
wrt it the} call a proeesslKi of all un
ion* Hut he wti* ni -taken. A’alnly
>te I-u-4> -i fr, r |e rM ,c|y German Ital
-an and other flag*. Thera wer. none
'll <h,n !. ! h * r ' v T '*'' H * |l > foreign' etn >lem
dlseemlble among the banner* waa that
°* ue United Slates.**
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