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4 fflonting fCrtujS. MerviitK Nri Ha.triiac savannah, THIHMHV >o\l *llll II 1.1. IK"'. t the I'o-laftlff li. Savanrnh THC HOR*IMi K I* purll-hed •very dav In the year. *n* *'i*ed lJ siabecrirer* in th* rli*. t*r sent by tna.l, • i 70 rtDt. a month. M >• for m month*, and $y 0© for on* year. I HI. Mull MM. NEM’I by mill. *t* timra a w<ek (without Sunday laaue), three month*. tl Si'. *l* month*. |3.W>. osk year H.ou. 1111 MEt.KI.I MIH * mo biun t week (Monday *i.<l Thutsday) by mill, on* year. 1 Suiecilptiorn, payable In advance ll*- m.t b> money order, eh*. It or regtsfred loiter. Currency eent by man at tlk of aender / Tianl*nt advertisement*, other thin special column, local or readme n tl-*a amusement* and .‘heap or **anl olumn, 10 rente a line. Fourteen line* ol anal* tvpe-equal to one In. h in depth 1* *h aiand.trd of measurement Contract ra’ee artd discounts made known on app.leailon at buelnee* offl e. Order* for .lellvery of the Morn tie New* to either realdenee or place of burin*** can be mad* by mall or by t*le phone No 210. Any Irregular ty In deliv ery ahould la* immedtalely r*i**r|e I Letter. and telegram* en.-uid he ad dressed Mult>lM. u:* Hatannah On. KAMI lit 1 OITIIE 23 T’trk Row Now York city. 11. C. Faulkner. Manager. UkDli 10 MW iintKTiSLJILSIS. Meeting*—Solomon * l/>lge No 1. F. & A. 41 . Golden Rule iaalge No. 12. 1. O. O. F., Teutonia lundge No 7. K of P.; Kx celalor Lodge No . K. of P. 1 Alee Temp)* A A O N M 8.. Haupt Lodx* No. 11. I O. O. F. 1 Fore*! City Lodge No. 1. K of I’ , Savannah Golf dub. Plvl-.on No. 1. A O. H.. Division No. 4. A. O H Ocean CHy Lavlge No. 6. Aimour Lodge No ]. O. 1' of O K special Noth e*—Buwane* Spring* \V .- ter; Door*. B*h. Blind*. Andrew Han.ey Company Snip Noth* Sira han A Cos.. I'oeialgnee*. Notice a* to liquor Licenses, Jauk Savannah Building Supply Com pany; Ship Notice, Capl. Slabb. Itrltiah Sleamahlp Saint Quentin; Tribune lll cycle*, R. V. Connerat, Notice, M. J O’Leary. Notice, Floyd A Cos.; Ship No tice. J. F. Mini* ft Cos, Consignee*. It uatnee* Notice*—Show Cities. Henry Solomon ft Son. Amuaetneiit*— Busco ft Holland'* Big Mlnatrel Festival Friday Night, at The ater. Eat-Well—Eat-Well Salud Dressing Auction Sale*—Barge Livingstone, by J. D. I-aßorhe, Auctioneer Orape-Nuts— Poetum Cereal Company. Cheroot*—Old Virginia Cheroot* Legal Notice*—Notice to liebtor* and Creditor* Krtate Exra H. Kent, Deceased, Pub!nations—The Smart Set for De cember. Washing Powder— Penrlln*. Whisky—Yellow lailiel Whisky; Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky. Mlm-r.il Water—Buff no Llthta Water Medical—Peruna; 8. 8 S.; Hood's Sar saparilla: Ly lla E. Plnkharn’s Vegetable Pills; World's Dlsprnsury Preparations; Castorta; Ayer's Hair Vigor; J. Newton Hathaway Company; Tutl'a Pill*; Stu art's Catarrh Tablet*. Wine of t'nrdul. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale. Lost. Personal, Miscellaneous. 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.** PURE, PALATABLE, PURCHASABLE § 111 HI Aw nil A. Magnus D Cincinnati, O. Ocean Sceamsfiio Gj. -FOR IView York, Boston -AND THE EAST. Unsucra** 1 cabin accommodations A the comfort# of a modern hotel. Ele tr.: Lghts. I’nexcelLd table Tickets indult meals and berths ab *ard : hip Fares irom Saranoh. TO NEW YORK—FIRST CABIN L FIRST CAiUN iiOl'ND TRII*. It. IN TL UNI EDI ATE CABIN. SIN. INTERME DIATE - CABIN KOI ND TRII'. U STEERAOE, $K TO BOSTON—FIRST CABIN. IT FIRST CABIN Hul ND TRIP. I*> IN TEH.MKDIATK CABIN. SIT; INTEHML DIATE CABIN BOUND TRIP. U STEERAGE. 11l 7: Th* ,|. ami*hip- of th: lln— r> appointed lo Mill from Savannah. (MMh) meridian Unit. * follow*; M.IVA.VVWI TO MAt YORK. tTY OF AI’GUSTA. Capt. DagfMi. THURSDAY. Not IN. US' a. m CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capi. Btr FRIDAY Nov IS. U Jit p m NACOOCHEF C.ip;. Snillh. BATURDAT. Nov. 17. 1 :jn p tn KANSAS CITY. Capt. Flshrr, TUES DAY, Nov !0. 33m p m. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Asklna. TIIUBA DAY. Nov. 22 4 .V> p. m CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Dm:*!, SATURDAY Nov. 24. <! oft |>. m NACtXMTHEE. C.ipt, Smith. TUESrAT. Nov. 27. p m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Pr* THURSDAY Nov. 2!>. 1:00 m KANSAS CITY. 'Apt. Flaher. THURS DAY. Nov 2S. in <v m. NOTICE-Sipum-hip City of P:rrr.irr ham will not rarry na*^pn*pr*. KKW YttHK TO IIOSTOh. CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage. MON DAY. Nov. 19. 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage FRI DAY. Nov. 23. at 11:00 noon. CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage, WED NF.SPAY. Nov. 24, ITN) noon. This company reserve* the right to etiangr I'.* saillnß* without notlre and without liability or accountability there ( ■ Balling* N- w York for Savantmh Tue*- lav*. Thur*duyi* and Saturday* f> p m \V G BREWER. City Tl ket an I IM* fngcr Agent, H>7 Bull *tret, Savannah. Ga. E. W SMITH. Contracting F *nt Agent. Savannah. Ga R G. TRKZEVANT. Agent. Savannah. □a WALTER HAWKINS. General Ae*nt TralTlc Dep't. —I W. Bay street, Jackson ville. Fla E II HINTON, Traffic Manager, Sv vannah. Go r i: LE FEVHR. Manager New Pier l r .. North river. New York. N T Merclionls S Miners L r ansporlGli9n Go Steamship Lines To Baltimore &, Philadelphia Tickets on Sale to All Point* Norm ■ * West. Fimt-cUiO tickets Include mel* ,n<> berth* Savannah to Baltimore at i Tni.* del phis. Accommodations und cui^ M till* qua led. 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