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4 gfc Ulofniwfl geeto£ lUruiut >fwi Buildiiic lTMnaabi G\ PRIPAY, MARCH 15, 1901. Registered at the Fostofflc* In Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS la published every day in the year, and served to subscribers In the city, or Bent by mall, at 70 cente a month, 14 00 Tor six months, and IS.OO for one year. THE MORNING NEWS, by mall, six times a seek (without Sunday Issue), three months, 11.50; six months. 13.00; one year, K.CO. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two Issue* a week, (Monday and Thursday) by mail, one year, 11.00, Subscriptions 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 notice*, amusements and cheap or want column, 19 cent* a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one Inch In depth—ls 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 mede by mall or by telephone No. 110. Any Irregularity in delivery should be Immediately reported. Letter* and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS," Savannah. Os. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner. Manager. IS DEI 10 KEti ADYERIISEMESTS. Meetings—Landrum Lodge, No. IS, F. A A. M. Legal Notices—Ship Notice. J. F. Minis A Cos., Consignees; For 9t. Patrick's Day, at the Bee-Hive; First Installment Sa vannah Fair Association; Ship Notices, Spanish Steamships Ida and Niceto. Business Notices—E. & W. Laundry. Amusements—" Finnegan's Luck," at Matinee and “A Dashing Widow," at Theater at Night. These Are “Opening Days” and Show Days For the New Easter Millinery Suita. Etc —Foye A Eckstein. If You Have Been Sending Away For Your Bboes—Byck Bros. Bale of Muslin Underwear—B. H. Levy A Bro. Our Sale To-morrow—Geo. W. Allen & Cos. A Prixe Picture Puxzle—Ward Drug Cos.. New York Uneeda Biscuit—National Biscuit Com pany Cigars—Henry George Cigars. Pearilne—Ja*. Pyle A Sons. Medical—Car carets; Munyon's Reme dies; Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters; Stu art's Dyspepsia Tablets; Dr. Hathaway Company. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Tor Sale; Loet, Personal; Miscellaneous. The Weather. The Indications for Georgia to-day are foe tair weather, fresh to northwest winds; and for Eastern Florida, showers, except In extreme northern portions, fresh west to northwest winds. •'I have Just begun to fight,” said John Pul Jones upon a memorable occasion. ”1 have Just begun to give,” said Andrew Carnegie, as he passed out $5,000,000 to Pittsburg if Carnegie continues to give as Jonea continued to fight he will make his name Imperishable. Senator Frye is going to San Domingo. H# will leave for the Island next week, and may not return for six weeks. What he is going for is not known. He Is a member of the foreign relations commit tee. Possibly he has it in mind for this country to buy and "benevolently assim ilate” the island, and thus prevent the Haitians and San Domlgans from shoot ing and cutting each other as they have been threatening to do. Senator Cockerell and Lieut. Oen. Miles have gone to Cuba, and Senator Prootor, who Is visiting Senator Tillman, will fol low them. Senator Proctor announces that there Is no political significance In bis trip; that he Is going on business. Something about tombstones or marble contracts, no doubt. (Jen. Miles Is going down to show the natives what a mag nificent personage an American lieuten ant general can be, when he knows how. The Cubans will no doubt be properly impressed. Mils Ruth Williams of Jefferson. Ky., made a vow that she would not speak during Lent. The other night after she had gone to her room and donned her night clothes an oil lamp turned over and set fire to the carpet. Remembering her vow, she would not call for help, but tried to extinguish the flame. Her cloth ing caught fire and she wa* soon a living blaze. Still she would not call for help, and was eo badly burned that she died shortly in great agony. That was the cost of one foolish Lenten vow. ■• ♦ • Mr. Bryan was In Philadelphia the other night. Benor Slxto Lopez, the Filipino, was there at the same time and made a speech in a public hall. The Philadelphia Press says that Mr. Bryan and some friends went around to the Filipino's hall, and that a note was sent up to the speaker of the evening. Lopez read the note and put it into his pocket. Directly another note was sent to him, and that followed the first Into the Filipino's pocket. But no reply ever came back. Then, after a few moments, Mr. Bryan and his friends went away. The idea suggested by the story is that Mr. Bryan was anubbed by the lit tle brown mn from over the seas. It Is the standing custom In Bt. George's Hundred, Delaware, that when friends meet near a saloon they shall go in and take a drink together. Lawyer Clayton and one of the Jurors In a case In Wil mington were from Bt. George’s Hundred, end when they met near a saloon they followed the custom. Later the Jury re turned a verdict for Lawyer Clayton's client. The opposition appealed for anew trial on the grounda of the drinking epi sode The court, however, denied the ap peal, aaytng that. wt)llc attorneys and Jurora drinking together wa* reprehensi ble, he would take cognizance of the cus tom of W. George a Hundred and pss Use matter. THE RE CIPRO CITY TREATIES. With the adjournment of the Senate all of the reciprocity treaties—ten or a dozer j —which had been negotiated by Mr. Kas -1 son failed, and Mr. Kasson resigned, for the reason, apparently, that he saw that I there was r.o prospect that the Senate I would ratify any treaties of that kind. It would be interesting to know what j the policy of the Senate is with regard to j our foreign commerce. We now have cotn , mercial treaties with the principle com- J mercial nations, but they will expire wlth- I in two years. They are of very great ad i vantage to us—so great that it is al most certain that the nations with which we have these treaties will not renew them on the terms contained In the trea ties that failed. Without su£h treaties we may find It extremely difficult to find markets for the surplus of our manufactured product. Without markets for it there would be a very distressing condition of affairs In this country. It would not be possible for our workmen to find steady work. The reciprocity treaties, which are permitted by the Dlngley tariff act. were Intended to take the place of the commercial treaties. The basis of them is the provision in the Dlngley tariff act which provides that there may be a reduction of twenty per cent, of our tariff duties on imports from countries which make a similar conces sion to us. It is the understanding that the President favors making these treat ies, but for some reason or other the Sen ate does not regard them with sufficient favor to ratify them. There is, of course, opposition to them by those whose inter, ests are affected adversely, but ft is not possible to negotiate a treaty of any kind to which there would be no opposition. A reciprocity treaty was being negotiat ed with Russia when the Secretary of the Treasury imposed the countervailing duty on Russian sugar. That put a stop to the negotiation*. Had that treaty been negotiated there would not now be trou ble of a commercial character between Russia and the United States. A war with fleeta and armiea would do the United State* less harm than a great commercial war. and there are unmistak able signs of such a war. The proposi tion to unite all of the countries of Eu rope In a commercial war against the United State* has been made more than once in the leading newspapers of Eng land and the continent. There are fears in ail of the countries of Europe that they are not able to itompete successfully with this country in manufacturing, and it la probable that the most of them would like to see tariff bars put up against It. Some of the interests that are being hurt by the action of Russia, in retalia tion for the order of the Secretary of the Treasury placing a countervailing duty on Russian sugar, are trying to create the impression that the sugar trust is respon sible not only for the countervailing duty on Russian sugar but also for the failure of all of the reciprocity treaties. It may be that It la, but there ought to be cer tainty in respect to the matter before mak ing such a charge. It does not seem to be possible that the administration and the Senate would sacrifice vast interests of the Dountry simply to advance the In terest! of the sugar trust. The question as to whether or not the sugar trust Is responsible as charged ought to be Inves tigated, and If found to be true not only should there be the most severe legisla tion against the sugar trust, but the ad ministration should be condemned. GAMBLING IN HOMES, The raid on the gambling rooms In New York Is being followed in that city by & crusade against grambling In pri vate houses. In a sermon before the New England Society In Grace Church lat Sunday afternoon the Rev. Dr. William R. Huntington talked at con siderable length about gambling among women of high social position. He refer red to society women of New York. His remarks have been the subject of a great many newspaper articles. In his sermon he did not openly charge that there was a vast amount of gambling among women of that class, but what he said left the Impression that there was. On Tuesday last he was asked why he had not been more personal In his re marks. He said .that he particularly wanted to avoid a controversy, while at the same time so awakening the con sciences of the people that there would be a public sentiment against the evil that would put a stop to It. It seems from what Is said about the matter that, during the past winter in the homes of wealthy and fashion able New Yorkers, there has been a sort of craze about bridge whist. The game Is played for money, and It seems that It has been the cause of a great deal of money changing hands. Btorles are told of young men losing In the parlors of their lady friends as much as $1,500 In an evening and of young women sqaun derlng their whole month’s allowance In a very few hours. If such Is the state of affairs. Dr. Huntington did wisely In calling attention to the evil from the pulpit. If gambling Is permitted or even en couraged In Christian homes where is the excuse for attacking the evil In public places? If gambling goes on in the parlors of Fifth avenue homes there can never be a public opinion In New York that will be sufficiently strong to shut up the gambling houses. Secretary Cage doe* not fear a tariff war. “Who is (coin# to start one?" he asks. “So far as Germany end other countries are concerned, they make their laws and we make ours. Germany con ship goods here subject to our regula tions or keep them at home, and so can we;" But it chances that we do not want to keep all of our goods at home. We must sell a considerable proportion of our production abroad, or many of ou mill* will stop. Meanwhile, the fact re mains fhot the Secretary of the Treasury doea not make the laws. Congress makes them, and the Secretary must enforce them as he flnda them. If the laws pre cipitate a tariff war. the Secretary U not the one to be held responsible. When President McKinley goes West on hi* forthcoming trip he will virtually take the capital of the country with him. He will be accompanied by his cabinet, and regular cabinet meetings will be hdd on Tuesdays and Fridays. There will also be a large force of clerks, tel egraphers, etc., so that the puMlc bus iness will be attended to dally Just as If the executive were in the White Houee. THE MOKNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 190 L BEGINNING THE PRESIDF.NTIAL CONTEST. According to Perry Belmont, who two years ego was a supporter of Mr. Cro ker but who is now against him, the mayoralty contest In New York city next fall will be the beginning of the presi dential contest of RAM. The way he fig ures It out is this; If Mr. Croker is beaten In the mayoralty contest he will be out of politics forever. If he is successful he will most likely control the Demo cratic committee of the state for a num ber of years, and will have a great deal to say about the New York delegation to the next Democratic National Con vention. Mr. Croker controlled the delegation at the last Democratic National Convention and he permitted the silver plank to be placed In the platform, and the cense quent nomination of Mr. Bryan. Had a different man controlled the delegation the chances are that there would have tieen no silver plank in the platform, Mr. Bryan would not have been nominated and the Democratic party would have stood an excellent chance of electing its ticket. Taking this view of the matter it does look as If there were some connection between the New York mayorality con test and the next presidential contest, but It Is doubtful If anything Mr. Belmont says will have the effect of strengthen ing the opposition to Mr. Croker. He Is regarded as being controlled by his likes and dislikes In this matter. He knew just as well two years ago as he does now what Crokerism means for New York city, and yet he permitted himself to be elected president of Mr. Croker's Democratic Club. The truth is. there are too few men in New York who really care for the city's Interest. All they want is to be pro tected in carrying out their own selfish schemes. They are not ready to make sacrifices for the public welfare. Mr. Belmont is against Mr. Croker now be cause, doubtless, he has been disap pointed In getting something he wanted. Mr. Croker has crossed him in some way, and so he wants Mr. Croker beaten. But it might turn out before the election comes around that Mr. Belmont would prefer to hare him. successful. Such a man cannot lead. A NEW TREATY'. It Is said to be the purpose of the ad ministration to Invite negotiations at once with Great Britain for the abroga tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, or such a modification of it as will permit of the construction of the Nicaragua canai on such conditions as will be satisfactory to the people of the United States and not offensive to the government of Great Britain. There Is no doubt that Great Britain Is willing to enter Into negotia tions, and to make such modifications of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty as will be sat isfactory to this country, but she will de mand concessions. It may be accepted as certain that we shall not get as good terms as we got In the Hay-Pauncefote treaty without paying for them. When Secretary Hay drafted that treaty Great Britain was not on very good terms with Germany and she was threatened with intervention in South Africa. Therefore, she was particularly anxious to have the United States for a friend. She Is not so anxiouß now. Bhe Is on good terms with Germany and she has no fear of intervention in South Africa. It Is probable that remembering the service Canada has rendered In the South Africa trouble she will demand certain concessions on the Alaskan border—con cessions which Canada is very desirous of having. It Is doubtful If the American people would regard with favor conces sions In that locality. That being the case. It Is pretty certain that anew treaty will not be- negotiated as easily as the Hay-Paunoefote treaty was. It Is not Improbable that the Senate’s refusal to ratify that treaty will come to be re garded bb a great blunder. NOT MICH OF A SENSATION. It seems that a settlement of the differ ences of the claimants of the Gilman es tate. has been effected. For rtwo or three days the New York papers—especially those of the yellow stripe—thought they had in the Gilman case the most remark able sensation of the year. An old man, a tea merchant of New York city, with a residence at Bridgeport, Conn., had died leaving a fortune which they estimated all the way from $10,000,000 to $30,000,000 and no will. The fortune was claimed by a woman who lived -In his Bridgeport house, though she refused 1 to say on what she based her claim. The heirs consisted of bfothers, half brothers—one of them being n resident of Atlanta—and nep’hews. It turns out that the estate Is not any where near as large as it was reported to be—the Atlanta heir estimating 1t at s2,soo.ooo—and it seems that the woman and the heirs have agreed to take the very sensible course of dividing the estate without going to law over It. Each one of the heirs Is to have $125,000, the woman taking the same amount that an heir gets. If they had gone into the courts the chances are that there would have been no settlement In many years, and that the estate would have been wasted by careless management and eaten up by legal ex penses and lawyers’ fees. What, according to the sensational Jour nals, promised to be a most sensational case, turned out to be a quite common place one. It Is now said that St. Louis will not be ready to hold her great fair In 1903, the date of the centennial of the Louis iana Purchase, and that an effort will be made to postpone the event until 1904 or 1905. To do this It will be necessary to have the consent of Congress, since that liody has appropriated $5,000,000 for the exposition. When the matter comes up before Congress next winter an effort wifi probably be made by the opponents of St. Louis to have the appropriation repealed, on the ground that It was se cured by false representations and that It was never Intended to hold the fair In 1903. Meanwhile it will not be for gotten that Chicago's Columbian exposi tion, In commemoration of the four hun dredth annlversars of the discovery of America, was not held until a year after the actual date of the anniversary of the discovery. The evolution of Mr*. Nation goes on. Hhe has now expanded Into a political l>arty. and lias nominated the Kev F. W. Emerson for Mayor of Topeka. This ac tion, It is said, will split the "law and order” vote and permit one of the old line politico ns to be elected- The express steamships have not yet got through bringing from Europe the great numbers of American tourists who went across last season; nevertheless the new season, which opens next month, bids fair to be one of the most prosperous on record. Already the bookings are heavy. Borne of the lines have their accommo dations practically all sold for several trips. The American line's ship the Phila delphia, that was formerly the Paris, of Hi luck, will go on the Southampton line next month. Since the Paris went ashore on the English coast she has been practi cally rebuilt The Texas Legislature has been get ting after the raxor-back lawyers with a sharp stick. It has passed a barratry act which prohibits attorneys from fo menting litigation or soliciting business in any way. The same legislature has adopted a flower to be known hereafter as the floral emblem of the state. It is called locally the "blue bonnet." Just what good purpose a state floral emblem serves nobody has yet been able to ex plain very clearly; still a good many per sons seem to think that every state ought to hare one. PERSONAL. —The Rev. John L. Sewall, pastor of the First Congregational Church in North Brookfield. Mass., has announced to his parishioners that he will accept a reduction of 10 per cent, of his salary of *1,500 a year. Inasmuch as many of the congregation are facing a 10 per cent, reduction In their wages earned in the local shoe-shop. —On the occasion of his recent visit to Washington Lord Mtnto, Governor Gen eral of Canada, presented Ambassador Pauircefote with an overcoat lined with the most costly of Canadian furs. Secre tary Hay has a similar garment, and the two diplomats met the other dlay, each wrapped in his splendid coat. An observ er remarked that they looked like ad vance agents of rival minstrel shows. —Justice Wilis, or.e of the most capa ble and popular Judges on the English bench. Is a great stickler for the dignity of the court. On one occasion an assize verdict was received with considerable applause, and his lordship, pointing to the ladles' gallery, Instructed the police to "bring down that lady in the red dress.” The lady, In the midst of a chilly silence In court, was brought before him and sternly rebuked for clapping her hands, Madame," said Justice Wills, "do you think this Is a theater?” —President McKinley has been more or less pestered during his term of office by the visits of some indiscreet clergymen, who have bought to improve each shin ing hour by delivering homilies upon the grave responsibilities and duties of the nation's chief executive. One day, accord ing to a Washington man's story, he re ceived courteously a clergyman who had been brought in to him. Finally he said; "I am now ready to hear what you have to say.” "Oh, bless you, sfr,” said the visitor, "I have nothing especially to say. I merely called to pay my respects to you, and, as one of the million, to as sure you of my hearty sympathy and support." "My dear sir,” said the Presi dent, rising promptly, his face showing instant relief, and with both hands grasping that of his visitor, "X am very glad to see you, indeed! I thought you had come to preach to me.” BRIGHT BITS. —•'l am so glad your sister enjoyed her visit to us, Mr. Smith.” "Oh, well, you know, she is the sort of girl who can en joy herself anywhere, you know."—Tlt- Blts. —Horrid Brute—She—"Don't you agree with me that the romantic drama is pref erable to tragedy?" Htb-"Oh, X don't know. I'd just as soon have snivel as drivel."—lndianapolis Press. —He—"My wife asked me to atop for a pound of tea." Grocer—" What does she want—black or green?” He—" Why, it seems to me it's a light cream color she uses.”—Philadelphia Recbrd. —Cruel Girl—"Ah, Mirabelle!" he sighed. "May I not hope thr t you will be mine for ever and for ever?” “If you wish to hope that long, Mr. Sophtle," ehe replied, "I don't suppose I could stop you.”—Phil adelphia Press. —He Meant Well—Mrs. Galloupe—“Be sure and come Mr. Gibble. I promise you you shall meet, oh, quite a number of pretty women." Gibble—"How can I re fuse you, my dear madam? It will not be for the pretty women, however, but for you that I shall come.”—Brooklyn Life. —Nervous Visitor (who is being taken out for a drive by his host’s daughter)— "Isn’t It very unsafe going so fast down hill. Miss Daisy? And—and—to hold the reins so-so loosely?” Miss Daisy (light heartedly enjoying herself)—“ls it? I’ve never driven before. Papa won't let me when he’s at home. Says I'm so reck less." (Clicks whip.) "Come up, old man!"—Punch. —Domestic Tragedy—“ This Is a strange looklng dish, Keturah." "Yes'm, and I had to go all over town to get enough of 'em, too. Nobody’d ever heard of their bein’ cooked and ett." "What are you talking about. Keturah?” "Them guinea pigs, ma'am.” (With a gasp) "Do you mean to say these are guinea pigs?" "Yes’m. What else?” “You hideous thing! I told you to get guinea hens!”— Tableau.—Chicago Tribune. < ♦ ■ I CIRHBVr COMMENT. The Charleston Post (Dem.) says: “Col. Bryan says that his newspaper business is promising. 'I started small,’ he de clares, ‘but I am ready to expand.' That Is a proposition applied personally which Col. Bryan denies to the nation at large. If the individual seeks to expand his busi ness and his influence and to increase his wealth and power thereby, as Col. Bryan declares he Is ready to do, why should not the nation? That Is n question for Col. Bryan to answer. The American peo ple have already replied to It by declar ing that the nation can and will do Just what every level-headed business man tries to do.” The New York Commercial (Ind.) says: "The Alabama Legislature, by resolution, has Just called the attention of Congress to the importance of a Florida ship canal, with a view, presumably, to ultimately securing government aid for It. This is out of the question. I-et private enter prise construct Florida ship canal, if need be. The government of the United State* has now all the canal business on hand that it can transact properly in the next twenty years.” The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) says: "The indications that Russia desires to gobble up a large slice of Chinese terri tory are 100 plain to be restated. And It was the Czar who proposed the Peace Conference at The Hague. And now all the Powers, including our own 'world Power.' are building more warships, and In other re|>ect making active prepara tion* for blood-letting." The Norfolk (Va.) landmark (Dem.) says: "We desire to call President Mc- Ktnley'a attention to the fact that the existent* of a monarchlat plot is sus pected in lit.i*ll. Why not benevolently nestmllate Jlraßil In order to aav* her from the possibility of tyranny!" , The Stereotyped Hero. “You are wounded!" exclaims Lady Jcseiy Leigh, in "To Have and to Hold," when her lover appears with a supposedly blood-stained bandage tied about his sleeve, says the New York Mail and Ex press. "A scratch," replies Capt. Percy r.on chajantly; and the sophisticated audience smiles in the place where Percy wears his bandage, and says to Itself, "Where have I heard (hose words before?” It is high time that stage heroes ceased to have "a mere scratch." The phrase Is really used up, and even its old age does not entitle It to respect. The expression seems to have a particular penchant for hanging about the dramatized novel (which it is itself likely to be a mere theatrical scratch), and ne one looks back upon the mock heroes of the season It Is difficult to discover one that has not suf fered more or less successfully with “a mere scratch” six nishts a week, not to speak of matinees. Richard Carvel was scratched, if the writers memory serves him well, and Charles Fownes was scratched in "Janice Meredith." In “When Knighthood Was in Flower" Charles Brandon manages to contribute his scratch to the list, and if Bertie Cecil is not scratched In "Under Two Flags" it is only for fear of demoral izing the horse ridden nightly to large box office receipts by Blanche Bates. If Bertie were scratched, the intelligent graduate of the stable of acting would have the whole track to himself, with no Incentive to work. As things stand, there Is keen competition between them. Instead of being “scratched,” the car dinal in "In the Palace of the King" is "merely stunned by the fall.” This is a commendable effort for originality. Actors who use the phrase "a mere scratch” are furthermore open to a charge of unfriend liness to James K. Hackett, whose sole property it really is. E. H. Sothern for some time shared with Mr. Hackett the f*ght to he "scratched," but has waived his title to half the "scratch" in favor of his brother-actor. On the whole, there is no one who can be "scratched” to better advantage that Mr. Hackett, and it Is onl> fair that he should be allowed a clear field in this particular. The rights to the other exclamation: "My God! You are wounded!" should be made out in blank, to be filled In with the name of Mr, Hackett’s leading woman. Cuvier and the Ghost. Too exclusive a study of scientific facts is sometimes thought to Injury the Im aginative faculties, says the Youth's Companion. It 13 certainly true that the great naturalist, Charles Darwin, observ ing himself with the same impartial hon esty w ith which he would have observed a fly or an earthworm, noted and de plored In later life a decline in his own powers of appreciating the poetic, fanci ful and mysterious which he had been able keenly to enjoy in youth. But an anecdote related of his great predecessor in the field of natural history, Cuvier, suggests that such a loss may have its compensations. At least, If a scientist ceases to take pleasure in fairies, nymphs and muses, he can no longer be terrified by ghosts and monsters. •Cuvier was the first ’naturalist to make a study of the prehistoric beasts, bird sand reptiles which once inhabited the globe, and to attempt restorations of their complete selves from stray bones and fossil footprints. Most unpleasant and terrific animals many of them turned out to be; and the Idea occurred to a Jocular student of the university that it would be good fun to appear at Cuvier’s bedside at midnight in the character of the outraged and venge ful ghost of one of them, displeased at the efforts of a puny man to recon struct Its remains. So said, so done. The clever youth arrayed himself in a frightful costume, with scales and tails and glaring eyes and horns and hoofs, and secretly effect ing an entranoe into the naturalist's house stole softly to his chamber. He was sleeping peacefully. The Intruder wakened him by setting two hideous fore hoofs upon the counterpane; then, as he stirred, blinked and started up, it remarked in hoarse and ghostly tones: “Cuvier! Cuvier! I've come to eat you!” But not even when half asleep could Cuvier be mistaken In the distinguishing characteristics of a carnivorous animal. He looked at the monstrous thing again. “Humph!” he muttered, with sleepy contem pt "Horn s—hoofs—gra mini vorou s. You can’t!” The extinct monster retired, more ex tinct than ever, and the scientist return ed triumphantly to his slumbers. Cleveland'* Stubbornness. Grover Cleveland, writing in the third person of hie own career, says, in the Saturday Evening Post: “I knew' a young man who, when quite young, determined to acquire a college ed ucation and enter the lpgal profession. "The door to a college education was inexorably closed against him. "He at once set his heart on studying law without collegiate training. When it soon appeared that even this must be postponed, he quite cheerfully set about finding any kind of honest work. “After an unsuccessful quest for em ployment near home he started for the West. He had adversity In abundance. "He had plenty of willingness to work, plenty of faith and a fair stock of per severance in reserve. He had no misgiv ings. "After securing a temporary job he was handed Blaekstone’s Commentaries and turned loose to browse in the library of a law office. "When on the first day of his study all the partners and clerks forgot he was In a corner of the library and locked film in during the dinner hour he merely said to himself, ‘Some day I will be better re membered.’ "He actually enjoyed the adversities. "Even then he was called stubborn. After he had beoome President of the United States he was sttll called stub born. and he is accused of stubbomess to this very day.” A I-nit I crons Telegraph Blander. The vagaries of the telegraph service have caused any number of serious and amusing errors in the transmission nf messages, says an English monthly. One of the most ludicrous mistakes ever made by ithe telegraph was caused by the loss of a single dot In a telgram from Brisbane to n London news agency. As It reached London It read thus: "Governor-General twins first son,” which the news agency "edited" and sent around to the papers In the following form: “Lady Kennedy, the wife of Sir Arthur Kennedy. Governor General of Queensland, yesterday gave birth at Government House, Brisbane, to twins, the first bom being a son." The telegram arriving In the small hours of the morning, there was no time to refer (o any books, and it was published by most of the newspapere in London and tile provinces and caused an unexpected sen aatlon. Sir Arthur's friends pointed out with conclusive force that someone had blundered, as there never was a Lady Kennedy, Sir Arthur being a bachelor. The repented message which followed read: "Governor General turns first nod," referring to a railway ceremony. O. 11. II Ill's Hoodoo. A lawyer who recently argued a case before the Court of Appeals says that the hoodoo of sixteen to one Is upon David It Hill, hii s tlie New York dun When Mr. Hill argued the Manhattan Railway tax case he opened his address to the court with this statement: ' Sixteen times I hast' appeared before this honorable court and sixteen times I have won the case of my edenta.” The tax ease was i decided against the company, and when Mr. Hill heard of th* doclsion it is said 1 he remarked to a friend" The ittrse of ! alxtacn u one seems u pursue iut.” j ITEMS OF INTEREST. —What Is declared to be the finest log ging season every known in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan is nearing a close. The work done is phenomenal and unusually prosperous times are looked for this spring. —The man in Mississippi who does not pay a poll tax cannot vote or serve on juries, and official returns show that 29,- 731 white citizens have neglected to pay up this year. This neglect disfranchises them for two years. —lmitations of American products are being sold in Sweden in large quantities. One wholesale hardware dealer has dis posed of a big lot of forks, which are represented as American manufacture, and which are sold at a very low price. —lmitation thunderstorms, with the electricity generated by Niagara Falls, will be one of the features of the Buff alo'Exhibitlon. The thunder is produced by means of large glass condensers, and, while realistic, is warranted to be harm less. —The state authorities of Nebraska contemplate rebuilding the state prison In Lincoln, and meantime wish to hoard out a lot of their convicts. Gov. Shaw of lowa, has been asked it the hawkeye state can accommodate a lot of the guests. —James Gordon Benett has sold his yacht, the Namouna, to the Venezuelan government for SIOO,OOO, and his new yacht, the Lysistrata, which realizes many Ideas gathered by Mr. Bennett dur ing his lifelong career as a yachtman, has just made her trial trip. —Every conductor on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit railroads must now give a bond. Each man is backed for SSOO by a surety company to guarantee his hon esty. It costs the men $1 a year. The railroad company has been forced to such action by wholesale knocking down of fares. —Snow in the Maine lumber camps north of Bangor is five feet deep, and tbe fodder for the horses has been ex hausted. Asa consequence, the animals rre slowly starving to death, and It is feared large numbers will die. It is pro posed to shoot them and thus put an end to their sufferings. —Last week the Thirty-seventh Volun teer Infantry landed in San Francisco af ter two years’ service in the Philippines. There was nothing in the nature of a public reception—no crowds, no cheering, no flag waving. When the first volunteers returned eighteen months ago there was a tremendous public turnout. —Elroy, Wis., had a scare the other evening, when five stalwart females Car rie Natloned the saloons of the place. The unwelcome visitors were thoroughly dis guised and threatened all sorts of things unless the saloon-keepers promised to close their places of business. There tvas great excitement until it was discovered that the supposed women were well known men of the place, including an ex mayor. —At a meeting of the Paris Academy of Medicine Dr. Jarre announced the discov ery of a remedy for the foot and mouth disease, which is so fatal to sheep. He says he hae successfully used the remedy In 1.500 cases in two years. It consists of a concentrated solution of chromic acid, chemically pure at 33 per cent. This Is applied as a caustic to the sore. The cure Is rapid and certain. —A monument estimated to cost SIOO,OOO will be erected In Montreal in Joint com memoration of the fact that in 1899 Can ada for the first time took a hand in the wars of the British empire and of Lord Salisbury’s patriotism in equipping at his own expense a force of rough riders for service in South Africa. Separate mem orials had been planned, but it was deem ed expedient to unite them. —A queer instance of improper influence said to have been exerted upon Juryman comes from New Haven. The Jury in a certain civil case went to -Falrhaven to visit the house of the defendants. There, according to the counsel for the plaintiff, one of the parties to the suit gave one of ’the jurors a piece of pie. This piece of pie is the ground upon which a motion to set aside the verdict is founded. —One of the biggest mortgages on re cord has been filed In Marshalltown, la. It Is for $6,000,000, and Is given by the American Linseed Oil Company to the Morton Trust Company. The document is printed In book form, and covers sev enty-nine pages of small print. It will require 100 pages of record and three days work to record the mortgage, and the fee will be SSO. —A queer English law, called the "Tip ping act of 1751,” provides that an Inn keeper cannot recover for debts for liquor amounting to more than $5. The son of an eminent English throat specialist lately ran Up a bill of $250 t an English public house, and based a refusal to pay upon the validity of this act. As the stat ute was still on the books the Judge was obliged to acknowledge its force. —A Washington traction company re ports that Its system of allowing the con ductors to retain from their daily receipts the amount of their dally salaries, as well as that of their motormen, is working quite satisfactorily to the men and the company alike. Each conductor in mak ing up his dally report, deducts a sum sufficient to cover his own and the moter man’s salary, so that the company is thus relieved of the expense and trouble of making up a large pay roll. —Jake Bradshaw, a woodsman employed In a lumber camp near Williamsport, Pa., is a strapping big fellow and also re sourceful. The other evening—this is Jake's own story—he was returning home through the forest when he got Into a difficulty with a big black bear. They clinched and rolled down a hill until Jake, watching his opportunity, squirted a mouthful of tobacco juice Into bruin's eye. Just which eye Jake does not know. Anyhow, the immediate effect was that the bear let go and the woodsman was able to make his escape. —The Philadelphia Record tells a story of a hen with one leg that was in the habit of following Its mistrese, a kind hearted Irishwoman, wherever she went. The Irishwoman died the other day, nnd the faithful fowl hopped on one leg along side the funeral procession two miles to the Baptist Church, and dropped dead on the church steps. Some said it died of a broken heart, others thought that the great exertion of hopping so far on one leg and the small amount of food It had I*oloo caused the vital exhaustion. At any rate, kindly hands burled it Just out side the church fence, by the roadside. -A furrier is thus quoted in the Phil adelphla Record; "The styles in sealskin coats change so often that women are constantly having them made over. Few people realize Just what this means to us. Of course, it means an Increase In busi ness, but I don't mean that. The cut ting of sealskin is an art In Itself, and the men who do It are experts, and get experts' salaries. The work of a sealskin cutter must tie almost as delicate as that of a diamond cutler. This may sound like nn exaggeration, but It Isn't—at least, not so much as you might think. The slightest error on the part of the workman who Is liandllng an expensive skin Is nothing short of a catastrophe These men are mostly Germans The au tomobile. by the way, has indirectly boom 'd the fur business. We have made up quile s number of men's fur eutomobile suits this winter-cost, waistcoat, r*p and even trousers. Three are for the egtrem let*.* A TEXAS WONDER Hull** Great Discovery. One small bottle of’Hall's Great D'. covery cure* all kidney and bladder trou ,removes gravel, cures diabetes, sem inal emissions, weak and lame backs rheumatism and all irregularities of th kidneys and bladder In both men and wo men, regulates bladder troubles in chii hl* n ' . u not 801,1 by your druggist wifi he sent by mail on receipt of sl. One small oottle Is two months' treatment, ar.d will cure any case above mentioned. Dr. E ' J 1 ® 11 ' 8016 manufacturer, P. O. Box fir.! i S k Jl °- Send for testimonials. Bold by all druggists and Solomons Cos Savannah, Ga. ' Rend This. _ _ Dothen, Ala., July 13, 189 J. r ‘ Hall, S *' Lou l *. Mo—Dear We have been selling your Texas wonder. Hall's Great Discovery, for two years and recommend it to any one suf ferlng with any kidney trouble as being the best remedy we ever sold. Yours <ruly ' J. R. YOUNG. M XL OF BOPfc ITT /HID G. II Rf SCHEDULE. . For Isle of Hope. Montgomery, Thunder bolt, Cattle Park and West End Daily except Sundays. Subject to change without notice. ISLE OF HOPE. Jl v '_£ Hy for Lot H ! Lv - Isle of Hope7~ S *0 am from 40th~fi 00 am for Bolton' i3O am from 40th |6OO am for 4>’tb Bso am from 40th j7OO am for 40th 9 15 am from Bolton’ 8 00 am for'4oth 10 30 am from 40th 10 00 am for 40th 12 00 n'n from 40th 11 00 am for Bolion 1 15 pm from Bolton 11 30 am for 40th 230 pm from 40th 300 pm for 40th 330 pm from 40th 240 pm for Bolton 4 30 pm from 40th 3 00 pm for 40th 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 930 pm from 40th 10 00 pm for 40th 10 30 pm from 40th 11 00 pm for 40th MONTGOMERY' ~ Lv. city for Mong y.| Lv7 Montgomery.' 830 am from 40thi |- 7IS am'for 40th ~ 230 pm from 40th j 1 15 pm for 40th 630 pm from 40th j 600 pm for 40th CATTLE PARK' ~~ Lv city for C.. Park., Lv7 Cattle'Par a 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 Bolton; 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 foi; 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 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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