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4 gbc jMofniwfl ffetoft Meriting >i Builtling >ianniih. Un. WEDNESDAY. NIARCH 13, 101. Registered at the Postofflce In Savannah. THE MORNING INEAVS la published every day In the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mall, at JO cents a month, $4.00 for six months, and SB.OO for one year. THE MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday Issue), three months, $1.50; six months, $3.00; one year. $6.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two Issues a week, (Monday and Thursday) by mail, one year, SI.OO. Susbscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by money order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mall at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than special column. local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch In depth—is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. Orders for delivery of the Morning News to either residence or place of business can be made by mail or by telephone No. SlO. Any Irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS,” Savannah, Oa. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row. Now York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. I&DEI 10 kEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Clinton Lodge No. 51, F. & A. M.; Mass Meeting in 'the Interest of Capt. Henry MeAipin for Ordinary. Special Notices—Savannah Building Sup ply Company; Andrew Hanley Company; Large Flat to Rent, W. A. Pigman; Divi dend No. 15, People's Savings and Loan Company; Suwanee Springs Water; John Funk, City Market. Business Notices—E. & W. Inundry. Amusements—Peters Comedy Company, at Theater. To-day's the Day—Leopold Adler. We Retire From Business Aug. 1.--Geo. W. Allen & Cos. Legal Notices—Application for Exemp tion of Personalty. Our Spring Hats Are Ready—B. H. Levy & Bro. A Public Reception—At Foye & Eck stein's. Malt-Nutrine—Anheuser-Busch Beer As sociation. Grand Opening—At Gustave Eckstein & Co.’s. Uneeda Biscuit—National Biscuit Com l>any. $1.50 for a Cook Stove—Mutual Gas Light Company. It Will Be Treat to the Ladies to Visit Our Store—B. H. Levy & Bro. Postum Food Coffee—Postum Cereal Company, Sauce—Lea & Perrin’s Worcestershire Sauce. Beef— Liebig's Extract of Beef. White Cottolene—N. K. Fairbanks Cos. Medical—World’s Dispensary Prepar ations; Cutleura Remedies; Castoria; Steu art’s Dyspepsia Tablets; Cascarets. Steamship Schedules—Merchants' and Miners Transportation Company’s Steam ships. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The Wrathrr. The Indications fop Georgia to-day are for cloudiness and occasional rains; warmer weather in extreme eastern por tion; fresh to brisk southeast to south winds; and for Eastern Florida, occasion al rains probable in northern and central portions, warmer in extreme northern portion, fresh southerly winds. Lieut. Edle of the United States Navy wHI be remembered in Washington his tory as the man who was once engaged to tho niece of Senator Depew. It's odd about those Spanish warships, sunk *t Cavite by Admiral Dewey. A year ago It was announced that they had been raised and put under the Amer ican flag. Then Lieut. Hobson was or dered to Manila to raise them; and now the information comes that a contract for raising them has been let. Fix-President Cleveland Is In the sixty fourth year of his age, nevertheless If the stories of his duck shooting which come from Norfolk are true his eye must be as clear and his nerve as steady as those of a man half his age. It Is said that the other day out of 100 chances to shoot he bagged seventy-five ducks, a record of which any hunter might well be proud. The queer story Is teld in a London dispatch that Sir Alfred Milner, tho Gov ernor of the Transvaal, was born In Ger many and has never been naturalized a British subject He finished his educa tion at Oxford, and for many years has been In the service of the British gov ernment, but It is said that no record ex ists of his ever having become a British citizen. Senator Hanna denounces as "stuff and nonsense" the report that the President is planning for a third nomination. In 1904. 'The man who will be the next can didate of the Republican party," said the Senator, "mas -be In sight, but the finger Of destiny Is not yet pointing In his di rection." Incidentally the Senator did not think much Importance was o Ire attach ed to the rumors of certain Senators be ing candidates for the nomination. “The Senate," he said, “has never been a suc cessful incubator for presidential chicks." It was announced upon authority In New York a Cwy or two ago that the sal ary of Charles M, Schwab as president of the Untied States Steel Corporation is to be, not ptoo.tMi a year u< at first re ported, but a round 11,(1 uu,w per annum, or at about the rale of about 19 per min ute, waking and sleeping. A man con nected with tiie oorporetluu declared that Mr, Schwab would earn every cent of tin fabulous salary paid him, a!no* by Ida know-iadga of the vast buslneaa be woutd the corporation at trail >a Mr, Mvtiwab lisa a contract with me corporaUtta wovwuig a period | Sow rears ENGLAND'S ANSWER. England's answer to the Senate's amendments, refusing to accede to them. Is not materially different from what it was expected it would be, though there was a report in circulation a couple of weeks or so ago that she would agree to them with some minor modifications. She does not say that she will not consider other propositions along the same line, but she makes it clear that for any con cessions she may make she will expect compensation. What will the next step of our govern ment be? It is clear from whai England says that she regards the Clayton-Bulwer treaty as binding as it was the day it was made. That being the ease, it cannot be abrogated without her consent, except by running the risk of a disruption of our friendly relations with her. It takes two parties to make a treaty, and it takes two to set it oeide without disturbing the friendly relations between the parties to it. The Senate undertook to set aside the Clayton-Bulwer treaty without consulting England. Naturally England reseoted the Senate's net, though her resentment is not shown in her answer. It is evident from the answer, however, that if the Hepburn Nicaragua bill had been passed, and steps had been taken to construct the canal in accordance with its provisions, England would have taken offense. It may be said that it would have been of very little consequence to us if she had, but as a matter of fact it would have been a great deal of consequence to us. We might have had to engage In a war with iier that whuld have cost twice as much as the building of the canal, and the buiiding of the canal might have been delayed a great deal longer than it will be under existing conditions. Tlie question which presents itself now Is, What course will our government pur sue? Will It undertake to negotiate anew treaty, having for its main object the abrogation of the Clayton-Buiwer treaty, and tlie right, to fortify the Nicaragua canal? It is probable that England would engage in negotiations having these ob jects in view r , but we should have to pay pretty dearly for any concessions which wo might obtain. Indeed, it is doubtful if either the Senate or the American peo ple would agree to the terms which Eng land would demand. In that event, the construction of the canal would be put Off indefinitely. May it not come to pass that those who killed the Hay-Pauncefote treaty will be willing to admit that they made a mis take—that is, if they were really in favor of the prompt construction of the Nica ragua canal? They must have known that England would not agree to the amendments which they insisted upon making to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, and they must also have known that the Hep burn Nicaragua canal bill could not be passed while the obstacles in tlie way of building the canal, which the treaty re moved, remained. And, after all, is it to our Interest to have the right to fortify the canal? Would it not be better, all things consid ered, to have the canal neutralized as was provided for in the Hoy-Pauncefote treaty? It would, of course, be gratifying to our pride to say that we not only owned the canal but that we had the right to close it to other nations when we felt that It was for our interest to do so, but would it not be practically impossible to protect it against the attacks of an enemy? Would it not take a large army to pro tect It throughout Its entire length? It must not be forgotten that one man with a quantity of dynamite could, at a thou sand points along the. route, render It im passable. If It were not neutralized it would become a point of attudk for an enemy, and could easily be rendered use less. It may turn out therefore that the con clusion will be reached that the Senate In rejecting the Hay-Pauncefote treaty— or practically rejecting it by making amendments to it which it was almost cer tain England would not accept—made a mistake. It certainly delayed the building of the canal. Without intending to do so it played into the bands of the great truns-continentul railroad combination. II %\\A RESPONSIBLE FOR ADDICKS. Among luir-mlnded Republicans there seems o be no doubt that Senator Hanna is responsible for llr. J. Edward Addicks who prevents Delaware from having any representation, in the Senate. Addicks is a man who made money In gas some where, and squatted In Delaware with the avowed purpose of breaking into the Senate. According to the published ac counts he is depending upon his money to carry him to success. He lias been figuring in Delaware poli tics for several years, his aim all the time being to get to the Senate. Until the meeting of the Republican National Convention 1t was thought that hts politi cal career In Delaware was about at an end, but at that Convention Senator Han na, for some purpose of his own, recog nized the Addicks following and made Addicks the national committeeman from Delaware. That gave Addicks renewed hope of getting into the Senate, and he went back to Delaware with the de termination of having a majority sent to the Legislature that would favor him for the Senate. He was not as successful as he hoped to be. There were seven Republican mem bers of the Legislature who refused to vote for him under any circumstances. So the Legislature did not elect any senator, although there were two vacancies. Mr. Addicks has been trying, it is said, to get the President to appoint to Fed eral offices in Delaware only those whb will work for him. It 4s understood the President has refused to do anything of the sort, and that, In consequence, Mr. Addicks has determined that there shall be no senator front Delaware during the next two years. If the President were to comply with Addicks' request he would alienate the powerful 'Dupont faction of the Republicans, and the chances are the Republican party would lose Its grip on the stale. it would be the best thing that Gould happen to Detawure If that parly should lose Its grip on the state. The Democrat* are far better qualified to manage Its po litical nlTalra. There are no such men a* Addicks among them. The late denator Mage of Pittsburg was devoted to his mother It Was hts purpiate to build a large hospital as a memorial to her, but ill health overtook lilin ic ton, be took! catty out his plans Ila left a laig* cstala, and a Will direct ing that Ilia bulk of till fortune be used to bond. luinlsl* MM MialntalM lb* Itae vAdlgl, THE MOKNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. MARCH 13, 1901. McLAI RI.VS RAD BREAK. It seems that Senator McLaurin of South Carolina has cut loose from the ; Democratic party. At least he has de cided not to affiliate with the Democrats of the Senate. Accoding to published re ports he has notified Senator Jones that he does not consider that he Is sufficient ly a party man to attend the caucuses of the Democratic senators. Does he intend to join the Republican j party or to take the position of an lnde ; pendent? It Is worthy of notice that he j voted with the Republicans on party j measures during the latter part of the last Congress, and it is fair to presume that it is his intention to continue to do so during the remainder of his senatorial term, which will expire March 4, 1903. It is doubtful if he hopes for a re-elec tion. He certainly will not attempt to se cure a re-election as a Democrat. What chance is there for his re-election as an Independent or as a Republican? It is doubtful if there is any. There is, of course, a very considerable sentiment in South Carolina that sympathises with Senator McLaurin in the position he has taken. Will it grow stronger? That is a question that cannot be very well an swered at this time. It is a safe state ment that it will not grow strong enough by the time Senator McLaurin’s succes sor must be elected to return him to the Senate. That is the point of chief in terest at this time. What tlie strength of this sentiment will eventually be will no doubt depend upon events between now ond the next presidential election. It is significant that the South Carolina Legislature refused to consure Senator McLaurin for his course at Washington. The interpretation placed upon that re fusal Is that there is a large element in that state that approves of his course in respect to the Philippine legislation. Is this interpretation correct? There are sons for thinking it is. The manufactur ing interest of the state is large and growing, and It favors the attitude of the Republican party respecting the Phil ippines. Hotv great its influence will be in state politics remains to be deter mined, but it looks as if Senator McLau rin thought it would, in the course of a few years, be the dominating influence. If this is his view It will no doubt prove to be a mistaken one. Senator McLaurin is quoted as saying that in voting with the Republicans he acted in accordance with his convictions. No one probably will doubt that, but hav ing been elected as a Democrat ought he not resign his position and go before the people of his stute and find out whether or not they approve his course? Perhaps he thinks it will be time enough to find out what his constituents think of his liolitical course when the campaign for the election of his successor begins. But would it not be the better course to make the issue prominent at once by resigning? THI-1 TWO LETTERS. The letters of Mr. Cleveland and ex- Senator Hill to the Crescent Democratic Club of Baltimore, which appeared in our dispatches yesterday, were no doubt read with lively interest by all who take an in terest In politics. Mr. Hill's was by far the more satisfying because it was more practical. Mr. Cleveland's was a good one, but it dealt almost wholly in general ties. It did noit make it clear just what he would have the Democratic party do. He said it was necessary to get back to gen uine Democratic doctrines, but there ate questions before the country which are somewhat different from those which oc cupied the party's attention when he was its leader. Mr. -Hill seemed to understand the sort of talk the party needed and his letter was that of a practical politician. He touched upon matters which Democrats in all parts of ithe country are discusshisf. He was particularly careful to speak of the great Industrial combinations which are being formed. What makes these two letters of special interest at this time is the fact that both Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hill are being talked of in connection with the next presidential nomination of the Democratic party. Of course, very few think it at all probable that Mr. Cleveland will have any prominence as o candidate. Re has been twice President, and, besides, ho has too many enemies in his own party to be a popular candidate. It Ss doubtful if he has a thought that he is likely to be asked to lead his party again. He likes, however, to give his party advice, and it is probable that he will do a good deal of letter writing on political subjects dur ing the next three years, if he lives and has his health. , Mr. Hill, however, notwithstanding his recent statement that he is not seeking the nomination, is regarded as being anx ious to be the party’s candidate In ISKH. Therefore it is probable that he will be heard from pretty regularly until the meeting of the Democratic National con vention, and what he says will have a tendency to turn the attention of Demo crats in different purts of the country towards himself. Just now it looks as if his chances for getting the nomination were better than those ot any other one of the party's leaders. There appears to be some doubt in the public mind respecting the scope of the war revenue reduction bill that was pass ed by Congress shortly before Its ad journment. The bill provides for a re duction in the taxes on beer, stock trans actions. tobacco and foreign bills of ex change, and repeals the taxes on com mercial brokers, checks, certificates of deposits, notes, money orders, bills of lading, express receipts, telegrams, tele phone messages, life insurance, leases, mortgages, passage tickets, warehouse receipts, mortgages, proprietary medi cines, perfumery, cosmetics and chewing gum. The reductions In nearly all cases will go into effect on July 1, next. It is estimated that the reduction in revenues will l>e approximately 140,Out),**) per an num. There are on tiie market many so c.dltd "blight cures" fer frul4 tru*s. The Coloiada experiment station has Just is sued a bulletin In which It describes ex periments with a certain "cure" tried by It on (a-ar and apple trees. The bulletin *ays that tiie directions were followed 10 the letter, and after ■ whole season of the use of tlis “cure” It was not possible to “delsot in any way the slightest ben < fit to ths trees as a result of the use of tliess nralvrluls." It aitpears, ht-rrfore, that appl* and pear blight have not yet '** usaiqusisd by the ovmpoumlcr* of > M*u4-.air. , Senator Hanna is on record as saying he believes a closure rule will be adopted in the Senate at the next session of Con gress. Such a rule would be in violation of the traditions and the precedents of the Senate, where courtesy demands that every Senator shall be heard as long as he has anything to say. It may be doubted that the old members, even on the Repub lican side, would consent to any such vio lent departure from custom as a closure rule would be. In the town of Severy, Kan., a hot mu nicipal light has jus* come to an end. There was no such issue as the smash ing of saloons or the suppression of joints; the contest was upon the question of whether chickens should be permitted to run at large in the streets. After a spir ited contest the chickens won, and may now roam a* will over city streets and pri vate gardens. PERSONAL. —John D. Rockefeller has given $5,000 and Senator Hanna $3,000 toward the pay ment of a $15,000 debt on the Huron Street Hospital, in Cleveland. —Ricciotti Garibaldi, a son of the famous leader and a lieutenant in the Italian navy, will attend the unveiling in Chicago, on September 20, of the monument to his father. —Lord Salisbury says that he speafcs the best when he can rest his elbow on some thing. In the House of Lords he usually piles up some books on the corner of the table for an arm rest. On one occasion somebody removed one of these books—a work of reference—and he was visibly em barrassed in. his speech until it was re turned. —Although Bishop Clark of Rhode Isl and, the presiding bishop of the Episco pal Church, is somewhat feeble, his friends indignantly deny that his mind is impaired, or that he allows Dr. McVicker, the bishop coadjutor, to transact the du ties incident to the office of presiding bishop. In point of fact he is in full pos session of his faculties and keeps com pletely Informed of what is going on in the church. —The late ex-King of Servia, says a correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Deal er. was a great favorite in Carlsbad. Dur ing the last five years he appeared regu larly iti Hie city. Last season he was to be seen dally in the race track, surround ed by the most distinguished members of the nobility. Whatever adverse criticism may be made of the late ex-King, he will be greatly miesed by the poor of Carls bad, to whom he was lavish in his charity. —Th© Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus tria has appointed Prince Khevenhuller- Metscli to represent him at the dedication of a memorial chapel to his brother on the spot at Queretaro where Maximilian was shot in 1867. BRIGHT BITS. —"Did you hear Vognerlist execute that Beethoven Sonata?” Yes, I knew It was o case of horrible assault, but I didn’t know that he had killed the piece.”—Kan sas City Star. —“Say, O'Shaunnessy, are you making any fast day sacrifice?" "Yes; Tim Grady touched me for the loan of ten, and I gave it to him. Sure, you can call that a Lenten, sacrifice—that is, if you know Tim.”—Kansas City Star. They haven’t caught you yet, De Wet; Their failure makes them fret, De Wet; They wildly throw the baited net; They gayly cry, “He’s ours, you bet!” And. lo! they’re fooled again, * De Wet; —Cleveland Plain Dealer. —"People ought to be mighty careful about tho way they educate thedr chil dren," said Senator Sorghum. "I suppose there are many things you would arrange differently ir you could go back and superintend your own child hood?" "Yes. For Instance, my thoughtless teachers sat me down in front of a copy book and made me write 'honesty is the best policy’ over and over again. They dtnned it into me so hard that my young spirit revolted, and I have had an aver sion to that motto ever since.”—Washing ton Star. —"I have come, sir, to ask you for your daughter’s hand,” said the young man boldly. The old gentleman looked at him sharp ly for a minute as if undecided what to do. "Suppose I refuse it?” he said at last. “Then, sir,” answered the young man, “wo will abide by your decision.” At this the old gentleman started vio lently. "You will not elope?" he asked. "No, sir; wo will not,” replied the young man. "We know too well what is due to us in an affair of this description. Custom puts certain obligations upon you in the waV of providing a proper wed ding, and if you think you can escape that by giving an Imitation of the obsti nate-father act you are grievously mis taken.” "Foiled!” sighed the old gentleman, as he made a mental calculation of the cost of the wedding. ’’Take her, my boy; take her and be happy.”—Chicago Evening Post. CURRENT COMMENT. The Chattanooga Times, (Dera.) says: "Aguinaldo hasn't been heard from di rectly for nearly a year, so it is stated, and the belief is becoming general that he is dead. It would be well, however, to await an official announcement before putting too much confidence in this con jecture. Aguinaldo is a very shrewd man, and while it does not appear Just now exactly what he expected to accom plish by remaining in hiding for so long a time, it may be safely said tha’ he is hatching something. In the meantime, his supporters seem to be gradually drop ping away from him, and it really ap pears now that the Insurgent army con sists simply of a few bands of marnudlng guerrillas, whose chief delight. In addition to robbing the natives, is the slaughter of Americans wherever they can find them.” The New York World, (Dem.) says: “Mrs. Botha is the woman of the hour in South Africa. Site will render her country a great service if she succeeds In her mission as a peacemaker. The fighting between the Boers and the Brit ish for many mouths past has only de stroyed a great deal of human life and property without the faintest chance that any conqiensuting advantages would be thereby gained for the Boers. Mrs. Botha ts wiser than the brave but mistaken Boer leaders who want to continue a use less warfare." The Philadelphia Ledger. (Ind.) says: "HD Journalistic experience has already taught M< Bryan how- to joke. III* re mark that the railroads opposed the Nlc. ttragua canal because ‘they were afr>ld that If the wuter wa* used for the canal there would not be enough left for their stock*,’ had quite a gleam of wit 111 It, likewise a spice of truth." The Nashville American, (Dem.) say*: "('handler, of New Hatnpalilre, fall* from the cushioned Renata on fo a luxurious feallnr tad. When a New Englander connect* with Hie iMlblifl of ID only death sepal at aa him from It." ‘•Baby is Siclt.” The state of Kansas has for long years been nominally a prohibition state, says the London Chronicle, and the law has been enforced perhaps as well as such drastic laws can bo. Spirits are allowed to lie sold only as "medicine,'' and that is how the following, story dame to be told. A bronzed and stalwart cowboy planted a "two-gallon demijohn" on the counter of a chemist’s shop. “Fill her up," he said, "baby’s sick.” One of Mr. Evarts’ Jokes. Premising that in law to ‘‘divert a watercourse" is so to use your own land as to change or stop the natural flow of water over the adjoining land, to the injury of its owner, says a W'riter in the Boston Ttranscript. I will tell you a story of Mr. Evarts. He and the late R. IT. Dana and Judge Hoar, (who told it to me,) were driving together along .he banks of the upper Connecticut, when they crossed a pretty little stream, and Dana quoted something about the “laugh ing brook.’’ Evarts exclaimed; “Laugh ing brook? If It be right for a brook to laugh, how can it be wrong to divert a water course?” Merry .lest of Bright Colonel. An amusing story illustrating British officialism comes from South Africa, and will bear repeating, says the Near York Herald. The colonel of a pioneer regi ment, repairing the railroad after one of Gen. DeVVet's many breakages, discovered a fine empty house, which he proceeded to occupy as headquarters. When the news of the Colonel’s com fortable quarters reached Bloemfontein he received a telegram which read: "G. T. M. warns house.” The colonel was unable to make out what "G. T. M.” meant, and Inquired of officers, who translated it "General Traffic Manager." "All right,’ said the Colonel. "If he can use hieroglyphics so can I.” So he wired back: "G .T. M. can Cl. T. H." two days later he received a dispatch from Bloemfontein ordering him to attend a board of inquiry. On appearing in due course he was asked what he meant by sending such p.n insulting message ito a superior officer. "Insulting," repeated the Colonel, inno cently; “it was nothing of the kind.” “But what do you mean,” demanded his superior, "by telling me I can ‘G. T. H.?’ " “It was elmply an abbreviation." replied the Colonel, "u. T. M. (general traffic manager) can G. T. H. (get the house).” A Rutiled Collector. Collectors of autographs, post cards, etc. are not always conscious of the impor tunacy of their demands, and the follow ing anecdote, which comes from Trieste, gives a striking example of their failing and of the humorous way In which the intended victim treated his tormentor, says the London Telegraph. An Italian painter received a letter in the following terms: "Dear Sir—l should like to ask you a great favor, and hope you will ex cuse the liberty I take. I am muking a collection of painted post cards, and should feel myself highly flattered if you would kindly send me one with a little picture painted on it by yourself. It will certainly be the most treasured card of my collection, as I should be able to say that you were one of the first to honor me in this way. Hoping to receive one, I beg to thank you in advance.” The artist replied: "Dear Sir—l should like to ask you a great favor, and hope you will ex cuse the liberty I take. I am making a collection of thousand-franc notes, and should feel myself highly flattered if you would kindly send me one. It will cer tainly be the most highly treasured thousand-franc note of my collection, as I should be able to say that you were one of the first to honor me in this way. Hoping to receive one, I beg to thank you In advance." We are not told what the sequel of the correspondence was, but it is presumable that the picture post card collector stopped writing in the above strain to artists. Accidents of Speech. The eons of Erin have long labored un der the imputation of making more "breaks" with their tongues than any of their fellow mortals, but from the follow ing it would seem that the "bull” is not necessarily indigenous to Irish soil, says the Chicago Record. It was a Frenchman who in writing to an acquaintance said: "I left my knife at your office yesterday. If you find it, please send it to me. Yours, Le Roque. "P. S.—l Since writing this I have found my knife, so you need not trouble to.send it.” The same individual sent a present of some fruit to a friend, and in the bottom of the basket he placed a note, the post script to which read: "you will find this note in the bottom of the basket, but if you do not, let me know immediately.” It was a Scotchman who said: "The butcher in our town does such a small business that he only has to kill half a beef at a time." A German, in advertising for a lost pig, said: "It has no earmarks except its tail, which is missing.” A British magistrate, on being Informed by a vagabond that he had no wife, re sponded: "Well, that’s a lucky thing for her.” At a prayer meeting in Vermont a pious old deacon invoked a blessing on a “poor young man whose father Is a drunkard and whose mother is a widow.” At a negro ball the doorkeeper, on being asked what "Not transferable” on the tickets meant, replied: “It means dat no gentleman am admitted 'less he come lilsself.” The Old Country Band. From the Philadelphia Ledger. I mean the band of olden time, when you and I were boys; When music, to be sweet to us, must drown all other nplse. When marital airs entranced our ears, and every fee’.lng fired; When uniforms with golden braid were all our hearts desired. Oh, how those fellows marched about on every holiday! The “Square” was filled with music sweet, the streets with bright array, The town folks stood upon their steps, the country folks, discreet. With horses prancing to the tunes, drove up some other street. The boys? Well, you can easy guess—we shall not try to hide It, Whenever that old band was out, we fel lows morehed beside it. We kept the step the bandmen did, and kepi It quite as well,* And always held our corner up when it was time to yell. Perhaps they made some discords—per haps the side horns blew About three times as strong and loud as they by right should do; Perhaps the cymbals didn't clang exactly with the base Perhaps the "H-fluts" missed some notes and tooted out of place. But what cared we when we were boys?— to our uncultured breast "The Girl I Left Behind Ms" was as good He Sousa’s best; Our little back* would straighten up, our tboughts would soar away— The some of our earthly bliss—to play a horn some day. I’ve heard full many bands since then, and paid lo get <4 seal; I've heard them play their loudest airs, wild softly, sadly sweet; But never has my being thrilled with rapture mote comp.ct* Than when 1 heard old Dtrasburg Baud go mulching down the aireei. —J. L. dUrojr, Skin-Tortured Babies AND TIRED MOTHERS Find Comfort in Coticnra Instant Relief and refreshing sleep for Skin-tortured Babies and rest for Tired Mothers in a warm bath with CuncußA Soap and a single anointing with Cuticura,' the great skin cure and purest of emollients. This is the purest, sweetest, most speedy, permanent, and economical treatment for torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humors, with loss of hair, of infants and children. 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ITEMS OF INTEREST. —A remarkable statement has Just been telegraphed from Kiel that Dr. E. von Oppoizer has discovered a variation in brightness of the newly discovered planet Eros. This variation, It seems, amounts to about one magnitude, and the change takes place in a few hours. Dr. von Oppoizer requests telescoplsts to verify his observation, and from the strange character of the observation, it apparent ly needs it; for a variable planet is rather an anomaly. —The Revue d’Artillerle gives a long no tice of Joseph Cugnot, for whom it claims the invention of automobile locomotion. He was born at Viod, in Lorraine, in 1725, and gave his attention chiefly to military matters. In 1770 he constructed a steam automobile for artillery transport. It was tried In the presence of the Duke de Choi seul and others and was, on teh whole, satisfactory. Another vehicle was finish ed in 1771, but was not used, owing to the change of ministry. Gen. Bonaparte ex amined it in 1793 and communicated a no tice of it to the institute, but his interest went no further at the time. After Bon aparte's return from Egypt a pension of 1.000 francs was granted by him to the in ventor, who died in 1804. —There is a lively mayoralty campaign going on in Topeka, Kan. The rival can didates are Col. Hughes and Col. War ner, and. although they are both noted for their goodness and religious zeal, the friends of each say that their candidate has the better record In this respect. The supporters of Col. Hughes the other day put forth the statement that he had not once missed a wekly prayer meeting in the last eighteen years, and they conclud ed by asking: "Can Col. Warner say as much?" “It is true,” retorted Col. War ner, "that during eighteen years I have been absent from prayer meeting twice, but what are the facts? I can prove that I had malaria, and could not leave my bed. Nothing but severe illness would have kept me from weekly prayer meet ing, and Col. Hughes knows it.” This explanation evidently Impressed the pub lic, and the Warnerites followed it up by declaring that during the last eighteen years Col. Warner had entertained preach ers at his house thirty times, including the Bishop on two occasions. In addition, he had entertained ninety-two delegates to Sunday-school conventions, whereas Col. Hughes has always been backward In doing his duty In this respect, saying that his house was too small, whereas it is generally known that his house is larger than that of Col. Warner. —The history of the bicycle reads like a fairy tale. Ten thousand years hence the plainest statement of the facts of its origin, development, uses it serves, and the place it occupies in our civilization will be regarded by the scholars of that time as we of 'to-day regard Plato’s story of Atlantis or the fable of Deucalion. That men and women could sit balanced on a wheel of wire, braced and corded like a spider's circular miracle which it fashions in the witching hours of night, and on it sitting, outrun the horse, out speed the dog. and go flying down wooded lanes with the flight of a bird, will be reckoned as a myth that haunts the im agination and laughs at the guessing of the wise. What, for improbability, can equal this strange and weird creation of man's inventiveness. Or what so elusive- Jy mock human belief when once it has passed into oblivion and .losing all record as a fact, has become merely a vague tradition? And if amid the ruins of some old library a fragment of a manuscript should be discovered which told how it was used by rich and poor alike, how it was adopted into armies, added to the splendor of great public pageants, obliter ated castes so that princes and peasants rode side by side in public parks, con tributing to popular health and happiness beyond any other single invention of the world, what wonder and astonishment that old-time, long-burled document would cause among the then existing peoples on the earth.—Leslie's Weekly. An article in Nature of Jan. 10, 1901. treats this interesting topic at some length and point out that while zoolo lsts deserve our gratitude for their stud ies during the century, they have not ef fectively Interfered to prevent the disap pearance of certain species. India has the best record in this respect, for during the past century not a single species of mam mal. bird or reptile has been extermi nated, although the Indian lion has be come extremely rate. The Persian lion is, however, still abundant.. In 1615 the last living aphanapterlx, or flightless rail, was seen at Mauritius, and the last dodo was seen alive In 1681. The great northern sea cow was only discovered on the Islands of Bering Sea in 1741, and yet it had en tirely disnppenred by about 1767. The great tortoise of Reunion dlsaiqieared there be fore the nineteenth century began. But the disappearance of the great auk can be laid to the century Just closed. It be came extinct on the American sl<ie of the Atlantic about 1840, and In Europe about 1844. The South African quagga dissp peured about IS7K owing to the saugliter by hide-hunters. The thin-shelled tortoise of the Galapagos Islands b*came extinct In all probability about 1*75. The black emeu of South Australia wus also exterm inated during the century, though It was abundant in lISKi. The great cormorant (Balias cormorant) was last swn alive about ISJU. and many olher |>cclr* of birds, from all parts of th* world, have likewise been exterminated In the Dan ish West India Islands, for example, out of fourteen slashes cntslogued In 17*} un |y *4* •JMi ealet; and a similar history can j it* told of many other localities I SL. IH. OF BOPt R’T AND & 5 l BT SCHEDULE. For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder, bolt. Cattle Park and West End. Daily except Sundays. Subject I* change without notice. ISLE OF HOPE. Lv. City for I. of H.| Lv, Isle of Hope7~ 630 am from 40th 600 anT forßolton " 7 30 am from 40th 6 00 am for 40th 8 30 am from 40th 7 00 am for 4Cth 9 15 am from Bolton 8 00 am for 40th 10 30 am from 40th jlO 00 am for 40th 12 00 n'n from 40th 11 00 am for Bolton 1 15 pm from Bolton|ll ao 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 40th 5 15 pm from Bolton 4 00 pm for 40tli 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 930 pm from 40th 10 00 pm for 10th 10 30 pm from 40th 11 00 pm for 40th MONTGOMERY. Lv. city for Mong"y.| Lv. Montgomery.^ 8 30 am from 40th |- 7 15 am for 40th 230 pm from 40th | 1 15 pm for 40th 630 pm from 40th | 600 pm for 40th CATTLE PARE Lv city for C.. Park., Lv. Cattle Pars. 6 30 am from Bolton; 7 00 am for Bolion 7 30 am from Boltoni 8 00 am for Bolton 1 00 pm from Bolton| 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 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 pointa at 6:00 a. m., 11:00 a. m., 2:40 p. m. WEST END CAR. Car leaves west side of City Market for West End 6:00 a. m. and every 40 minutes thereafter during the day until 11:30 p. m. 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