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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1901.
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ISDEX 10 m ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Ancient Landmark Lodge No.
231, F. A A. M.; Savannah Lodge No. 183,
B. P. O. Elks; DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O.
O. F.
Special Notices—Savannah Building Sup
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Bonds Executed, Dearing & Hull; Ship
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iff; Notice to Superior Court Jurors.
Business Notices—Dr. Bouvier’s Buchu
Gin; Gordon & Dilworth's Goods, A. M. &
C. W. West; The Flour to Eat, the S. W.
Branch Cos.
Amusements Matinee To-day and
“Mugg’s Landing” To-night.
Grand Millinery Opening—At Gutman s.
Don’t Forget the Days—Leopold Adler.
Whatever Is Newest In Patterns of
Sterling Silver—Hunter and Van Keuren.
Irfgal Notices—Citation from the Court
of Ordinary of Chatham County.
Steamship Schedule—Merchants and
Miners' Transportation Company.
Cigars— Henry George Cigars.
Whiskey—Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey;
Yellow Label Whiskey; Murray Hill Club
Whiskey.
Medical—Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable
Pills; 8. S. S'.; P. P. F.; Peruna; Tutt’s
Pills; Castoria; La Creole Hair Restorer;
Pond's Extract; Smith’s Chill and Fever
Tonic; Pyramid Pile Cure; Wilcox Tansy
Pills.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day are
for fair weather, rising temperature in
northwest half, northwesterly winds,
fresh on the coast; and for Eastern Flor
7da. fair weather, colder .in southeast
portion, variable winds, generally north
erly, fresh on the coast.
A Chicago man is suing the county
authorities for $20,000 because he was
forced to take a bath. Chicago is no
place for that man. He ought to go to
Charleston.
l* * 1
Gov. Samford of Alabama has vetoed
the bill providing for the purchase by
the State of the old Jefferson Davis man
sion in Montgomery, the first White
House of the Confederacy, and itg pre
servation as a Confederate museum.
The receipts from file sale of tickets
to the inaugural ball, supper and con
cert, it is said, will foot up a total of
about SI,OOO above the cost of the prepara ■
tiona for the occasion. This extra SI,OOO
will be donated to charities in the Dis
trict of Columbia. It requres some pret
ty shrewd financiering to make such a
great public function pay for itself.
Tha tradition that sleep walkers are Im
mune from injury by falling 1 or other ac
cident was shattered in New York the
other night. A woman sleep walker
climbed out on a third-story Are escape
and jumped. According to the traditions
she should luive gathered herself up un
hurt and gonto back to bed. But she
didn't. Her ekhll was fractured and she
died. *
Ad odd case of abnormal growth le re
ported trom Islip, I-. 1., where a youth of
nineteen years has grown four inches
during an illness lasting six weeks. When
taken ill, of a fever, the young man meas
ured five feet ten. Presently it was noted
that the bed was too short for him to
stretch himself out straight. He was
measured and to the astonishment of ail
present he was found to have grown to
be six feet two. The physician says he
can account for it in no way except that
the muscles have relaxed, rules* the
muscles contract when the young man
gou up he will find himself too big for
his breeches.
The white dove of peace hovers over
the New York Olty Chapter of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution, and
every daughter is happy. At the Wash
ington convention of recent date, Mrs.
Daniel Manning is alleged to have ad
ministered a severe snub to Mrs. Donald
McLean, regent of the New York City
Chapteribut all memory of the bitterness
of that incident was wiped out at Sherry's
the other afternoon when the New York
City Chapter presented Mrs. McLean
with a beautiful golden bowl, suitably in
scribed with legends of love and loyalty.
In presenting the gift tire spokeswoman
said to Mrs. McLean: “We have seen
you tried recently as perhaps no woman
was ever tried before,'' referring to the
Washington Incident, 'and through It all
you have stood nobly, an ideal for ell of
ns to look up to end strive to atteln. ‘
ponderous gravity with which tin
women a club eontemplsies II
|f! “ UIU.4, ■. I 11. UI..J l
TO TRY FOR A THIRD TERM.
The statement is being made In the
Washington correspondence of at least
one of the New York papers that Presi
dent McKinley is planning for a third
term, and that J. Pierpont Morgan, the
great promoter of giant industrial combi
nations, is giving him all the encourage
ment in his power.
It may be that Mr. McKinley is ambi
| tious to be a candidate of his party for
President in 1904, but the probabilities are
that he has not given the, matter any at
tention whatever, and that there is not a
leader of his party who is of the opinion
that he will even he considered in the
next Republican National Convention.
The American people seem disposed to
abide by the custom that there shall be no
third presidential terms, and even if Mr.
McKinley should be as popular at the end
of his second term as he was at the end
of his first, it is almost certain that his
party would not make him its candidate
again, simply on the #round that the peo
ple are against a third term.
No doubt Mr. McKinley would like to
have a third term, and he, would like to
be the first President elected for a third
term, but the people will not consult him
about the matter. And there is nothing to
indicate that he Is planning for a third
term. Thera lias been nothing in his
speeches or his actions which justifies a
suspicion that he is planning to capture
the nomination of his party again. The
statement that there is a movement, of
which he is the Inspiration to give him
another term beyond the present one, is
sensationalism pure and simple. And the
fact that in the same, correspondence it
is slated that there is a probability that
Mr, Cleveland wiil lie the presidential
nominee of the Democratic party in 1904
justifies the conclusion that the entire
story is without substantial foundation.
It is true that Mr. McKinley will have
extraordinary power during the next
three years. He will also have the ap
pointment of many men to office, partic
ularly if the pacification of the Plrilippines
occurs soon, but he will not have enough
power or enough appointments to get
himself elected lo the presidency again.
His political career will end with his pres
ent term.
WILL THE CUBANS ACCEPT.
In our dispatches yesterday It was
stated that the radical element of the
Cuban Constitutional Convention still
showed no Intention of accepting the
Platt amendments, and that some of the
leading papers were urging the people to
take a firm stand against them so as to
moke the convention feel that It was
supported In standing out for oomplete
freedom for Cuba.
The President and Ms cabinet, on the
other hand, if dispatches from Washing
ton contain the truth, have no doubt
that after a resonable period of resist
ance. simply to show the people that it
did not act hurriedly, but only after due
deliberation and for the best interests of
the island, the convention will accept
the amendments and that the work of
establishing a stable government on the
island will go right ahead.
The President and his advisers may be
right. The probability Is they are. The
Ctihans are wise enough to see that they
have the very best terms they are likely
to get. The Democrats of Congress got
those terms for them, by threatening to
force an extra session if some conces
sions wore not made.
In this Congress the Republicans are
stronger than they were in the last, and
therefore If the Cubans do not accept
the Platt amendments they may have to
accept something less agreeable. There
fore It is likely that the amendments
will be accepted after there has been a
little more discussion of them.
A FIGHT FOR MILLIONS.
George Francis Oilman, an old New
York tea merchant, died at his home in
Bridgeport, Conn., the other day and left
a fortune variously estimated all the way
from $10,000,000 to $73,000,000. As far as
known he left no will, and no immediate
family. He was so afraid of death that
he did not like to think about anything
connected with or that suggested death.
Therefore, he made no will, and his half
brothers and his nephews and their law
yers will have a lively time fighting over
the old tea merchant’s millions.
It Is doubtful It there were many peo
ple who knew he was so wealthy. He
seems to have had very few friends, though
his acquaintance among young people was
large. He had a great mansion near
Bridgeport, which Is valued at a million
dollars. He had nothing to do with the
people of that town, however, and
seldom had any communication with
ftny of his neighbors. He kept
his great mansion full of people from
New York—mostly young people of both
sexes. They were free to enjoy all that
the place afforded. Indeed, It seemed to
be his pleasure to entertain young people
who had no means of returning his cour
tesies.
But what pleasure could it have been
lor him to accumulate money If he did not
Intend it to goto those whom he loved or
to charities or public Institutions of one
kind and another? He must have known
that If he made no will there would be
a costly legal war over his estate. It
seem* to be the understanding that he
did not like his half-brothers and never
offered to assist them in any way. It
was supposed (hat a favorite nephew
would be his heir. If this supposition Is
correct then the feur of death that con
tinually haunted the old teu merchant de
prived the nephew of a great fortune.
And It seems that the woman who kept
house for the millionaire now claims that
she was his adopted daughter. It would
not be surprising In these days of sensa
tional happenings If one or more women
came forward claiming to be his widows.
The will contest Is likely to be full of
surprises and sensations.
ll is now proposed In Washington that
a national directory, compiled from the
data of the census, shall be published.
The directory Is to give the name, address
•and occupation of every person in the
United States, us shown by the censua
oflioe returns. This, however, canjiot b"
done without a special act of Congress, as
all personal Information gathered for the
census is t>up|K>*cd to be kept secret. It
Is Uk'dy that an effort will be made
to huva the proposed directory published
as a private enterprise. A private dim. It is
said, could take the dwia and make the
Irook for less than 1100 06S, To |trepire
such ■ directory would com several mil
lion dollars, were It not for the fact that
much of the work has been dour
by jibe census ununu tatui o.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1001.
LABOR IN THE COTTON MILLS.
The Legislature of North Carolina has
followed the policy of the Legislature of
South Carolina in the matter of labor
in cotton mills. It has decided not to
interfere between the mill employers and
their employes. In both stales there is
a pretty strong sentiment in favor of
laws regulating child labor in the mills.
It is said that in some of the mills chil
dren are put at work at too tender an
age, and that they are kept at work so
continuously that not only is their health
impaired but they are given no chance to
acquire a common school education.
The mill owners have entered Into an
agreement with the Legislature, which
seems to satisfy the Legislature, that
children under a certain age shall not bo
employed in the mills, and that the chil
dren that are employed shall attend
school a certain portion of each year.
The mill owners also undertake to pro
vide school facilities at the mills—that is
some of the mill owners do—and also li
braries.
It is probable that the Legislature In
< ach state took this method of getting
rid of a very unpleasant subject for the
time being. The parents of children are
making no complaints and the mill own
ers are not, of course, making any. Both
parties want to be let alone. The par
ents can keep their children out of mills
if they want to, but they don't want
to. Their aim is to get the earnings of
their children, and it sometimes happens,
it is said, that parents themselves waste
their time in idleness and live off their
children's earnings.
The mill owners are quiet about 4he
matter because child labor Is cheaper
than that of adults. And It is safe tt
assume that some of the mill owners
will not observe the agreement that has
been entered into—that is not strictly.
They will make a pretense of complying
with It.
The children look to the state for
protection,, and It is to its interest that
they shall be protected. The state can
not afford to have a large number of Its
children growing up in ignorance and un
der conditions which hinder their phys
ical development and tend to make them
Invalids. The matter is one with which
the Legislature In each of the states,
and, tn fact, in all of the cotton states,
will have to deal sooner or later, and
tile sooner it is dealt with the better it
will be for the state and the children.
U.IWMM STATES HIS POSITION.
Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, the millionaire
copper king of Boston, who is having the
yacht Independence built at an expense to
himself of about $150,000, with the view
of having her chosen, to defend the
America's cup in the contest with, Sir
Thomas Upton's yacht Shamrock, has
taken part in the controversy as to
whether there is a chance for Ills yacht
to be chosen as ithe cup defender. The
opinion has been expressed that as he is
not a member of the New York Yacht
Club his boat cannot sail In the trial
races, unless she is placed under the flag
of a member of the club, and that Mr.
Lawson cannot become a member of the
club, because there Is opposition to him,
and he cannot be Invited to take part
In the trial races because the club on one
occasion refused to receive him as a mem
ber. In his statement to the jiubllc Mr.
Lawson says that he did not intend to
take part In the controversy at 'this time,
but yielded to the advice of friends.
What he says is, in brief, that he intends
to sail his yacht under his own name and
under his own colors. He sees no reason
why his yacht should not meet lit a con
test the Columbia, the defender of the cup
last year, and the new yacht which the
Herreshofts are building to defend the
cup this year. The American people want
the best boat to be the defender of the
cup, and If he has that boat he does r.ot
see why It should not be chosen. He
doesn't want to be a member of the Now
York Yacht Club and has never asked to
be. He regards the members of the club
as honorable, straightforward men. and he
does not doubt that they will do exact
Justice in dealing with his desire to have
his yacht win the position of defender of
the cup. When his boat Is finished he will
announce that he desires to race any boat
In American waters, the Columbia and the
new Herreehoff boat preferred. If his
boat is beaten he will retire without a
murmur and will do whait he can to aid
the yacht chosen as the defender to be
successful.
Mr. Lawson's position seems to be a
fair one. It is doubtful if the New York
Yacht Club will permit any technicalities
to stand in the way of the best boat be
ing chosen to defend the cup There may
be some members of the New York Yacht
Club who will endeavor to Ignore Mr.
Lawson and his boat, simply because he
Is not a member of the club, but It Is
doubtful if tho majority of the club will
take that course. As Americans they will
be more anxious to have the best Ameri
can boat chosen to meet the British boat
than that the rules of their dub shall be
observed in every particular.
Chicago Is referred to as a "dead sea of
pauperism" in a statement Just issued by
the officers of the Bureau of Charities. It
is asserted that hundreds of dependents
and insane persons are sent to Chicago
from nil parts of the country every week,
to become a burden on the taxpayers.
Asa result, the city and county institu
tions are constantly overcrowded, and the
demands made upon the charity organiza
tions are excessive. Chicago's experi
ence in this matter, by the way. iS prob
ably that of about every other city in
the country. We know that Savannah
suffers in a similar maimer. It is made
a dumping ground for the sick, afflicted
and indigent for miles and miles around.
And not only are these unloaded upon the
taxpayers of Savannah, but it often oc
curs that this city is called upon to pay
the cost of educating tho children of
outlying towns and surrounding Territory.
There are numerous persons and inter
ests that apparently look upon the cities
as legitimate prey. They contribute noth
ing to the support of the cities, or of the
state government, but get all out of both
that they possibly can,
A law that was passed during the last
days of Congress wus that providing for
the establishment of a standardizing bu
reau under government supervision. Tho
woik of the bureau will be to test,
standardize and seal scientific apparatus,
weights, measures, etc., thus establish
ing u uniform scute for the country.
IRrtofore the United Matos have had
no suclt buiewu, and U has been neces
sary to ship delicate instruments lo Oer
uiaiiy (or verification of their standards.
The Duchess of Marlborough and the
Prince of Monaco have passed their com
pliments upon each other. The DUohess
is at Monte Carlo with the Vanderbilt
party. The other day she received an in
vitation from the Prince to accept a box
at an entertainment and to dine on his
yacht. She did not deign to reply, but
sent regrets through her secretary. Later
the Prince demanded an explanation
through the Marchioness of Anglesey, a
friend of both parties. "Tell him,” eaid
the American Duchess, “that, Prince
though he is, there are some persons who
object to associating with a gambling
hell keeper.” The Prince was within ear
shot, and heard the message. Turning
upon his heel, he exclaimed, "What a silly
little parvenu this girl is!" The inci
dent lias set the toadying American eie
mant agog. They do not know whether
to cut the Vanderbilts or by maintaining
relations with them to offend the Prince.
The I'tah Senate has passed an act le
galizing polygamy, In so far as plural
marriages already contracted are concern
ed. The federal laws prevent the cele
bration of other plural marriages. The
purpose of the Utah lawmakers, it is said,
is to legalize the children of plural mar
riages contracted years agf>, and to per
mit husbands to take care of wives
"sealed” to them before polygamy was
outlawed. Should the bill be passed by
the House and signed by the Governor, it
is alleged many men would resume their
polygamous relations, and no process at
law would lie against them.
The Republican clubs of Philadelphia
are preparing to hold a two days’ Jolli
fication in honor of Senator Quay. There
cannot be any question that Quay has
more loyal friends and more bitter ene
mies than any other man in Pennsylvania.
PERSONAL.
—The city of Paris has bought for
the Carnavalet Museum the frescos from
the staircase of the palace of the Duke
of Luynes and Chevreuse, in the Fau
bourg St. Germain. They were painted
by order of the famous Duchese de
Chevreuse, who was Anne of Austria's
friend and conspired against Richelieu,
and is one of the heroines in Duma's
“Three Musketeers” romances.
—Judge Elbridge Hanecy, of the Cir
cuit Court of Cook county, 111., the Re
publican candidates for the mayoralty of
Chicago, was born in Trenton, Wis.,
forty-nine years ago, and was educat
ed in the public schools of that state
and the University of Wisconsin. He
went to Chicago in 1806, and was admit
ted to the bar six years thereafter. As
a young man he read law with the firm
of .Hervey, Anthony & Galt, at that
time one of the best known and ablest
law firms in the city. Later he became
senior member of the law firm of Hanecy
A Merrick. He Is a member of the Union
League Club, the Chicago Athletic As
sociation, the Veteran Union league and
the Washington Park Club, of Chicago.
—M. Bartholdi, the sculptor, is the
plaintiff in an action now being heard at
Marseilles, which raises the question of
artistio copyright in anew and Interest
ing form. A monumental fountain and
other buildings stand on the Plateau de
Longcharnpa In the city, bn a slab of
stone in one of the edifices, the Palais de
1-ongchamps, is inscribed the name Ea
perandieu as that of the designer of the
monument. M. Burtholdl now seeks to
compel to city of Marseiles to inscribe
his own name beside, that of Ksperandieu.
His case is that, although the monument
was built by the latter architect, now de
ceased, it was in reality constructed af
ter a design drawn by the plaintiff.
BRIGHT BITS.
—''The boy,” concluded the oculist, "Is
color blind.”
“Then what do you think we should
put him at?”
"Well, what's the matter with making
an impressionistic painter of him?”—
Philadelphia Times.
—A Tramp's Work.—" Hello, 'Walker.
What y’ up to now'-days?”
“Well, Lazy, I’m lookin' fer a chance
t’ work—"
■"Aw, come off! You don't expect me to
believe that?"
"Cert. It's de truth. I'm lookin’ fer a
chance t’ work some soft guy fer the
price of a drink.''—Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin.
—<A Blow.—'“Darling,” he said, “there is
a dark spot in my past life which I am
afraid you will not overlook.”
“Do not despair," she replied. “I will
marry you. no matter how dissipated you
have been.”
The man at her side shuddered.
“Alas!” he cried. "It Is not that. But
I was once a member of the Y. M. C.
A.”—Life.
—Easing Her Burden.—Mrs. Polkadot:
She Is a fine nurse. Isn’t she?
Mrs. Puhducah: Ideal! Why, I can go
for days without even seeing the chil
dren.—Brooklyn Life.
—lndifferent Luck.—First Hunter (Adi
rondacks): Any luck to-day?
Second Hunter: No. I saw a guide, but
I was to the windward of him, so I
couldn't get near enough to shoot.—Puck.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
(Ind.) says: “When President McKin
ley kissed the open Bible in taking the
oath of office it is said that his lips
touched these verses In the sixteenth
chapter of Proverbs:
“ 'He that liandleth a matter wisely
shall find good; and whoso trusteth in
the Lord, happy la he.
" 'The wise In heart shall be called pru
dent: and the sweetness of the lips in
creaseth learning.'
“Very pat. indeed, but another piece
of McKinley luck, no doubt, in missing
some of the other passages in which the
Book of Proverbs abounds. For example:
“ 'lt is an abomination to kings to com
mit wickedness, for the throne is estab
lished by righteousness.
‘There Is a way that seemeth right
unto man, but the end thereof are the
ways of death.
“ 'Remove not the ancient landmark
which thy father# have set.
“And of the seven abominations unto
the Lord:
“‘A proud look, a lying tongue and
hands that shed innocent blood.' ”
The New Yorld World (Dem.) says:
“Mr. Charles R. Flint, In the February
North American Review, makes a sur
prising discovery. Noting the fact that
the United States exports for 1900 were
over $600.0(0,000 more In value than Us
imports, and that the aggregate value of
the Imports of Groat Britain. Germany
and France exceeded by over $1,(00,000.<X)3
the agrregate value of their exports for
the same year, Mr. Flint says:
" Tt t* us though four houses were do
ing business side by side. One of those
houses—the United States—after paying
all Its ruiydng expenses, Ims a balance
In the bank of six hundred millions In
round numbers, while the other three
houses have an aggregate loss to write
irnat the end of each year amounting to
oil 6 thou- ind million dollars
“If this be really so. and our three
leading European customers are suffer
ing an annual log# of sl,ooo.(ls#,wo, how
many years will It be before thsy become
bankrupt and unable to trad* with us
at al4f*
The Point Was In the Bluff.
A pokeT story from the Chicago Tribune
which has been going the rounds as a
good one runs in part as follows;
"Manxy warn one of the best poker play
ers I ever saw. He was a good winner
and a good loser. He played his cards all
the time for everything they were worth,
and then some more, and he played a
game that was simply insoluble.
"I will never forget the night he took
Carter into camp. Carter was a good
cool, nervy player, too. One night as it
was getting toward daylight we agreed to
have one last consolation jackpot, with no
limit but the roof and So to come in. Car
ter raised the come in to S2O, and every
body dropped out except Maxy and one
other player. Maxy called for three
cards, showing that he had only one pair
or nothing at all; the other man took two
cards, indicating that he must have three
of a kind, or else he wouldn’t have paid
S2O for the privilege of playing any longer,
and Carter sfood pat.
"Carter's standing pat argued that he
had fours or else a straight or a flush. He
had betrayed a nervous start when he
first picked up his hand, and it argued
that he had seen something awfully good.
Now, Manxy had seen the start and had
come to the conclusion that Carter had a
straight Hush, and the fact of the matter
was- that a straight flush in spades, king
high, was just exactly what Carter had
seen in his five cards when he picked mem
up.
“Manxy deliberated a long time before
he came in with his S2O, but he was out
$7.1 or SIOO on the game, arid, as it was
the last pot, he determined to stand a
good bit of money ip the hopes of making
a recoup. He had drawn to a pair of tens
and caught one more. Manxy started the
betting with a ten dollar bill. The other
man dropped out. and Carter saw 'the $lO
and raised $26. That looked as though
Manxy's surmise about the straight flush
which he thought Carter was holding was
good. He deliberated for some time. Then
he said:
‘Carter, I ’think, and everybody around
here thinks, you’ve got something better
than fours. I was playing you for that.
But now I'll tell you, Carter, what I’m go
ing to do. I’ve noticed that your eyesight
is laid and that tobacco smoke, when it is
right in. front of your face, always inter
feres for a moment or two with your vis
ion. Just as you picked up your cards I
smoke out of your mouth and that the
cloud of smoke was in your eyes when
you looked at your cards. Now, I believe
that you think you have a straight flush.
But I don't believe that you read your
cards correctly. I am going to do some
thing that may seem to be bad poker, con
sidering the hand I have. But I am go
ing to play you for your poor eyesight. I
see your bet of $23 and raise it $25 more
on the ground that your eyes deceive you.
You'd better study your cards before you
see my raise.’
"We alt waited in breathless silence for
a moment. Then Carter quietly thew his
cards face upward on the table.
” 'You’re right,’ he said quietly. 'I
thought I had a spade straight flush, king
high, in my hand. What I thought was a
nine of spades was a nine of clubs. I
lose.’ ”
That is the end of the story, that has
been copied and recopied, but: It Will be
remembered that Manxy had three tens
and Carter, though he did not have a
straight flush, had certainly a straight.
He could have seen the raise and called
and won. which it seems that any man
would do against a three-card draw with
so much of his money on the table.
Short Cats.
Oratory may be thought to be such a
matter of native temperament and natur
al inspiration that no one needs to do
any plodding in order to attain it, writes
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler In the Christian
Endeavor World. Henry Clay was in his
day the prince of American orators; he
swayed senates and popular assemblies
alike to his bidding. Clay’s testimony
was: “I owe my success chiefly to one
circumstance. When a young man. I
commenced and continued for years the
process of dally reading and speaking up
of the contents of some historical or
scientific book. These off-hand efforts
were made sometimes in a corn-field, at
others In a forest, and not unfrequently
in a barn with a horse and ox for my
audience. It is to this early practice of
the art of all arts that I am indebeted for
what has shaped my whole subsequent
destiny.” In like manner young Abra
ham Lincoln, plodding away alone over
his foolscap sheets of paper, was con
structing a style that has made his writ
ings an American classic.
There Is now and then an exception to
general rules; but I venture to suggest
that a young Christian of ardent zeal
may make a serious mistake by trying to
take a short cut into the gospel ministry.
Spurgeon is no example to the contrary;
he was a born preacher with marvelous
gifts; and, if he began to preach at 17,
he was an Intensely Industrious student
clear on to his dying day. A short cut in
to the ministry commonly means a short
allowance of scholarship, a short equip
ment In theology and Bible knowledge,
and a short career afterward. A most
excellent brother of my acquaintance,
whd felt impelled to become a minister
when he was past 30 and Sad no colle
giate training, has had to make up by
doing a tremendous amount of plodding
since hie ordination.
Wanted flux a to Have Fun.
A good many years ago, when the son
of Hetty Green, the richest woman in the
world, was a small boy, she paid a visit
to Chicago and stopped at one of the
principal hotels. Her son accompanied
her, relates the Chicago Chronicle. He
was much like other boys. In spite of his
mother's wealth, and found that pillow
fighting was just the thing to work off
his surplus energy. With some other
young boys who were at the hotel as com
panions he used to go up to one of the
top floors for a romp with the pillows In
various rooms that were unoccupied.
The housekeeper was willing to let tho
boys have a good time, but she couldn't
be responsible for the destruction of the
hotel property. Bristling with Indigna
tion, she went with her comploint to Het
ty Green, and began excitedly:
"Y'our boy has been Just ruining the
pillows up on the sixth floor, and I wish
you would stop his foolish pranks up
there. I won't stand it.”
“Why, what's the trouble?” inquired
Mrs. Green.
"Trouble!" exclaimed the Irate house
keeper. “Why, he has injured and utter
ly destroyed nearly all the pillows so that
they are unlit for use.”
"Well." dryly remarked Hetty Green,
“how many did he destroy?"
“About a dozen," replied the house,
keeper.
"Well, you go out and order a dozen
new pillows, aiijl send the bill to me,"
said the woman of millions, with a com
placent smile. "When they are disabled
buy some more, and keep up the supply
at my expense. That boy is growing, and
he needs the exercise."
VYliut \\ ushlngtou Missed.
From tha Chicago Times-Herald.
He never swung o driver at the tee—
Poor old George;
He never heard of 'Marshal Waldersee—
Poor old George;
There wasn't any Kansan in hts day.
No mighty liners steamed across the
seas;
He never heard a gentle maiden say:
"The line is busy— stop your ringing,
please!"—
Poor old George!
He never heard of Bill of Germane#—
Poor old George!
Or tried lo make a tropic Island free—
Poor old Oeorge!
He never saw a train go like a streak
Of lightning through a whirling cloud
of dust;
He H*vrr cleared a million every week.
Never g>' within the circle of g trust-.
4*oor old George!
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—An analyst who has lately been
turning his attention to tobacco says that
20 per cent, of the total weight of cigars
remains in he ash, says an exchange.
The stump contains four time* as much
nicotine as the smoke, and as the average
cigar contains only 1.12 per cent, of nico
tine, comparatively little of that alkaloid
ever reaches the mouth. This analyst
found that the only constituents that
could be harmful were carbon monoxide
and an etherlal oil. The former can prob
ably be ruled out. The latter, consisting
of pyridine, a phenol, and probably fur
furol, but very difficult of analysis, is
highly |x>isonous. causing symptoms com
monly associated with tobacco.
—Hardly any story about a dog can as
tonish those who really know dogs, but
here is one which will tax the Credulity
of many readers, not because the reason
ing involved in more than any intelligent
dog is capable of. but because it is hard
to believe the dog could find pleasure in
the performance. The story is told by a
correspondent of the New York Evening
Post, and runs thus; A black cocker
spaniel of my acquaintance has hit upon
a pleasure so novel in canine society that
it deserves recording. A young lady of
the family to which he belongs once
teased him by scuffling about the rugs of
her home until she could give an electric
spark of considerable snap, and then dis
charging it upon the nose of her pet, the
spaniel. Not long after this abuse the
dog was observed to roll upon the rugs,
entirely of his own accord, and then to
run to the brass bedsteads and obtain a
spark. This he continues to do, and his
own observations seem to have taught
him that he must approach metal in or
der to receive the spark. In one room
he runs to the bedstead; in another to the
register, and as he licks his nose after
the pricking of the spark he never fails
to wag the remains of his tail, and his
face assumes a decided expression of
pleasure.
—A few months ago, says La Nature,
Mr. H. Benest, an English geographer,
published an interesting study of streams
of fresh water flowing beneath the sur
face of the sea. Disasters to ocean tele
graph cables first called attention to this
subject. On several occasions, about
1895, anew and well-made cable between
Cape Verde and Brazil broke. Soundings
were made to discover whether these
breakings were due to the state of the
sea bottom, and it was found that the
place In question was near the submarine
mouth of a subterranean river; the allu
vial material transported by this fresh
water stream encountered the cable and
finally succeeded in breaking it. The fact
is that a river that flows Into the lagoons
of Yof, on the coast of Senegal, is finally
lost In the sand. It undoubtedly has taken
the invisible course to the sea, and it is
this river that has been discovered in the
deep hollow of more than 1,300 meters
(4,270 feet) that Is traversed by the Bra
zilian cable. Also, while the cable was
being repaired at a point twenty-four kilo
meters (fifteen miles) from the shore the
repair ship was surrounded one day by
orange skins, calabashes and bits of cloth
which could not have come from the
mouth of the Senegal river, 140 kilometers
.ninety miles) distant.
—lf the beer-drinker has been of late
threatened in certain quarters with over
doses of arsenic, it would seem that he
has yet another source of complaint in
the fact that selenium and Its compounds
are apt to figure in the list of adulterants
of his beverage. Dr. Tunnlcliffe and a
colleague have found selenium in beer,
and they point out that thia substance is
derived from the pyrites from which sul
phuric add Is made. The selenium com
pounds, therefore, pass into the sugar
used in brewing, as does the arsenic con
tained in the Impure acid. Selenium' is
an injurious substance, and it Is suggest
ed by the investigators named that cases
of poisoning in which the quantity of
arsenic consumed was very small may be
explained on the supposition that the se
lenium compounds themselves represent
ed the real cau.se of the illness. There
are, however, differences in the symptoms,
for Dr. Tunnlcliffe and his fellow-investi
gators tell us that wasting occurs in cases
of chronic poisoning by selenium, while it
is not seen in similar instances in which
arsenic represents the injurious element.
Also in animals there is exhibited a cer
tain amount of toleration to the action of
arsenic, whereas no such aspect of physi
logical use and wont is present when sele
nium is concerned. From which it follows
that in addition to ridding sulphuric acid
of the one poison chemists will require to
insure its freedom from the other also.
—The uses to which platinum is put
are very multifarious, says an exchange.
It is employed to-day in the electric In
candescent lamp as a fine wire for con
veying the electric current through the
glass walls of the bulb to the light-giving
carbon filament within; in telegraph, tel
ephone and other electric apparatus for
pon-corrodtng contact points; in warfare
in the form of fine wires for exploding tor
pedoes and submarine mines; in pyro
meters for the measurement of the tem
perature of b!ast furnaces and for determ
ining the fusing point of other metals;
in the X-ray tube as leading-in wires and
as a source of excitation of the X-rays,
and in photography in the production of
platinotypes, noted for the artistic effects
produced and the permanency of prints
attained. These are but a few of the.
many applications of this metal and its
salts, says Engineering, but enough are
enumerated to Illustrated Its wide and
varied applications. It Is of some sig
nificance that the world depends for about
95 per cent, of its annual supply upon
Russia alone, and were that country to
fail us the position would be serious.
Happily Russia's output has increased
steadily, and has just about kept pace
with the enhanced demand. For last year
tho total was 13,212 pounds, a growth of
more than 100 per cent, since 1890. Nearly
the whole of the annual production comes
to the United Kingdom, the German tak
ings, which were in excess f our own in
1884, having gradually fallen since then
to only about 900 pounds a year.
—By refusing to do what so many other
towns have done recently—by refusing,
that Is, to ask Mr. Carnegie to build for
It the library which Its citizens can per
fectly well afford to build for them
selves if they really want one—New
Brunswick, N. J., excites our sincerest
commendation, justifies warm- self-con
gratulation on the part of its self-respect
ing citizens, and cams the highly honor
ific enmity of nil the equally solvent
towns that have not hesitated to .ap
proach the lavish ironmaster with dint
In hand and uttering the beggar's whine.
That Mr. Carnegie, says the New York
Times, should found libraries and other
beneficent public institutions in places in
which he hus an internet either as a cit
izen or as a philanthropist is all right In
every way, and such places are in no
sense disgraced or humiliated because
they are the beneficiaries of his gener
osity, but it is quite another thing when
a well-to-do community, with no other
excuse thun that It wants to get nome
thing for nothing, "strikes" the million
aire for as many thousand dollar* as It
think- he will “give up.” One Mayor—
that of Syracuse—ls etlll boasting of his
sui ess ,1 a mendicant, and it is both
significant and consistent that his exul
tation finds expression in the urgot used
by tramps. His achievement Mayor
Williamson of New Brunswick wua eager
to emulate, but the trustees of the city
had the decency to repress the Mayor *
ambition. They declared, most properly
that if New Brunswick wanted a better
library than it now i>oM*nses, there was
nothing to prevent the taxpayers from ex-
V vctHg from their own pockets what
• vet cash the gratlltcallon of their liter
ary appetite detnumlsd New Jeisey
ought to Its promid of New Brunswick
•ml no doubt ft is
*Eacr One
To His Taste.
Give the Dainty his
wine* from over the
Give Pierre le Bon ton
his “ divine Eau de
Give Don Pedro his
Otard and Sandy hi*
Murray Hill
Is the liquor for me. Pure, Mellow
and Wholesome.
For sale
JOS. A. MAGNUS & CO.
CINCINNATI. O.
M XI. Of HOPE RY AND G. 8 l RJ
SCHEDULE.
For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder
bolt, Cattle Park and West End.
Daily except Sundays. Subject *o
change without notice.
ISLE OF HOPE.
Lv. City for I. of H.l Lv. Isle of Hop-7 -
630 am from 40th 600 am for' Bolton "
7 30 am from 40th 6 00 am for 40th
8 30 am from 40th 7 00 am for 40th
9 15 am from Bolton 8 00 am for 40th
10 30 am from 40th 10 00 am for 40th
12 00 n’n from 40th 11 00 am for Bolton
1 15 pm from Bolton 11 30 am for 40th
2 30 pm from 40th 2 00 pm for 40th
3 30 pm from 40th 2 40 pm for Bolton
4 30 pm from 40th 3 00 pm for 4Cth
5 15 pm from Bolton 4 00 pm for 40th
5 30 pm from 40th 6 00 pm for 40th
6 30 pm from 40th 7 00 pm for 40th
7 30 pm from 40th 8 00 pm for 40th
8 30 pm from 40th 9 00 pm for 40th
9 30 pm from 40th 10 00 pm for 40th
10 30 pm from 40th 11 00 pm for 40th
MONTGOMERY.
Lv. city for Mong’y-I Lv. Montiomery. *
830 am from 40th |7 16 am for 40th "
230 pm from 40th j 1 15 pm for 40th
630 pm from 40th | 600 pm for 40th
CATTLE PARK
Lv city for C.Par’k., Lv. Cattle Para.
6 30 am from Bolton; 7 00 am for Bolton
7 30 am from Bolton| 8 00 am for Bolton
1 00 pm from Boltoni 1 30 pm for Bolton
2 30 pm from Bolton] 3 00 pm for Bolton
7 00 pm from Bolton| 7 30 pm for Bolton
8 00 pm from Boltoni 8 30 pm for Bolton
THUNDERBOLT.
Car leaves Bolton street Junction 5:30
a m. and every thirty minutes thereafter
until 11:30 p. m.
Car leaves Thunderbolt at 6:00 a. m.
and every thirty minutes thereafter until
12:00 midnight, for Bolton street Junc
tion.
FREIGT AND PARCEL CAR.
This car carries trailer for passengers
on all trips and leaves east side of city
market for Isle of Hope, Thunderbolt
and all intermediate points at 9:00 a. m.
1:00 p. m., 5:00 p. m.
Leaves Isle of Hope for Thunderbolt,
City Market and all intermediate points
at 6:00 a. m., 11:00 a. m., 2:40 p. m.
WEST END CAR.
Car leaves west side of City
for West End 6:00 a. m. and every 40
minutes thereafter during the day until
11:30 p. m.
Leaves West End at 6:20 a. m. and ev
ery 40 minutes thereafter during the day
until 12:00 o’clock midnight.
LUCIEN McINTYRE. Gen. Manager.
TAKE
SMITH’S
Chill and Fever
TONIC
manufactured by
COLUMBIA DRUG COMPANY,
SAVANNAH, GA.
GUARANTEED
And For Sale By
ALL DRUCCISTS,
Price 50 Cents.
The St. James
Is the leading hotel in Jacksonville; its
location the beet in the city, facing the
St. James Pork, and having a southern
exposure, its piazzaa are always attrac
tive, while the interior appointments are
those beiohging to a really first-class
hotel. Music morning and evening.
J. R. CAMPBELL, Manager,
Jacksonville, Fla.
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