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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1901.
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IXDEX 10 MW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—Notice to Contractors,
Savannah Union Station Company; Wed
nesday Is the Time, C. H. Dorsett, You
mans & Demmond, Auctioneers; Read
This List, Jas. J. Joyce; Best Meal, at
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Auction Sale—Old Hoss Sale, Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway Company,
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Legal Notices—Petitions for Incorpora
tion of the Recola Company.
Extra Values for Saturday's Selling—
At the Bee-Hive.
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ciation.
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Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
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For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The 'Weather.
The Indications for Georgia and Eastern
Florida to-day are for fair weathA-. west
to northwest winds, fresh on the coast.
"Addlcks or nothing," was the tauto
logical war cry of the gas man In Dela
ware.
Mr. Cleveland Is the only living ex-
President. This country has never been
rich in ex-Presidents. The chief execu
tives as a general thing do not live long
after leaving the White House.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler says that soldier
ing Is harder work nowadays than It was
during the war between the states. In
the sixties there were not so many auto
graph hunters, photographers and news
paper Interviewers.
The legislature of Missouri has passed
a compulsory education law. When the
St. Louis schools were opened for the last
term there were not accommodations for
the number of children that applied for
admission. The legislature has not yet
made any provision for the surplus of
children In St. Louis.
It must not be lost sight of that the
affair between Bonl Castellane and Edi
tor de Rodays was strictly genteel. Bonl
committed the assault In the most gen
tlemanly manner, and after de Rodays’
face had been slapped he saw his assail
ant to the door and bowed him out with
all the grace that Is characteristic of the
race.
MaJ. Martin, the executive clerk In
North Carolina whose accounts have been
found short In the sum of about 14,000,
says he took the money, but did not use
it for his own account. He gave it to
the 'church and to charity, he declares.
Was he trying to steal a march on the
Recording Angel, and purchase himself a
front seat in the celestial choir with stolen
money?
i 1 * 1
A recent report from Count von Walder
see In China gives an account of whnt
must have been a very interesting fight.
It says that one German soldier was
“slightly wounded,” while the Chinese
“left 250 dead on the field.” A force of
cavalry with four quick-firing guns pur
sued the fleeing Chinese for twenty miles.
The Chinese were, presumably, on foot,
hende there Is every reason for thinking
that during the pursuit of twenty miles
there were other casualties on the part
of the heathens. This kind of "Chris
tian” warfare ought to Impress itself up
on the "persons sitting in darkness” in
ths Orient.
New custom house regulations at New
York prohibit friends from meeting pas
sengers returning from Europe at the
piers until the examinations shall have
been made and the baggage passed. Pas
sengers complain that they are treated
like a lot of smugglers and pickpockets.
Asa matter of fact the new regulations
ware Instituted for the purpose of pre
venting smuggling. Experience has
taught the customs officials that In a
very great many Instances the consciences
of otherwise irreproachable persons be
corns very elastic when it Is a matter of
beating the government out of Its
charges. They *em to think It Is rather
clever and commm\u hie to chest the gov
ernment. and have no compunction* about
Concealing valuable laces, silks, Jewels,
With the purpo. e of nil iggllllg them
threuftb
ILLITERATES BARRED OCT.
It is practically certain that the bill
| pending In the Maryland Legislature, tak
ing the ballot away from illiterates, will
become a law. It has passed both houses,
and is again before the House on some
minor amendments made by the Senate.
The Governor will sign it, being very
much in favor of It.
Most of the Illiterates in the state are
negroes. It is estimated that the bill
will take about 45,000 votes away
from the Republican party, and
consequently, that party has fought
the bill at every stage. Under
the direction of ex-Senator Gorman,
however, the bill has been pushed through
the Legislature. It is pretty certain
that it will boa long time before the Re
publican party will carry the state again.
The bill makes no distinction between
white and black illiterates, though the
Republicans claim that It contains pro
visions which will enable the Demo
cratic county supervisors to discriminate
against the black Illiterates. That is only
a party cry, however, and does not make
much impression on the public mind.
The bill does practically what the Mas
sachusetts law against Illiterates does.
One point the Republicans make, how
ever, seems to be a good one, and that is
that when the Massachusetts law was
enacted it was provided that Illiterates on
the voting lists at that time should re
main there, and only illiterates coming of
age after the enactment of the law
should be denied the ballot. The Mary
land law takes the ballot from illiterates
at once.
It is said that the prospect of the en
actment of such a law has stimulated the
negroes of the state wonderfully In their
efforts to learn to read and write. It is
predicted that a yir hence there will not
be nearly as many negroes who cannot
read and write as there are now. The
law may prove to be a good thing for all
illiterates In the state, although the Re
publicans complain bitterly of it.
TWO STORIES.
Many things get into print the truth
of which there Is reason to doubt. Not
long ago there was a story extensively
circulated to the effect that because the
late ex-President Harrison took a posi
tion against the administration on the
Philippine question his son Russell was
mustered out of the army months before
there was any good reason for doing so.
The inference from this story was that
there was the kindest relations between
the ex-Presldent and his son.
Aa a matter of fact there is reason,
from recent publications, to doubt that
'.here was such kindly feeling between
‘.hem as would induce the administration
to deal harshly with the son simply to
gtatify a feeling of bitterness against the
father. At the time of the ex-Prestdent's
marriage it was widely published that
his son and daughter objected 4o their
father marrying again. Indeed, it was
said that they objected so strongly that
the daughter left her father’s house, and,
It is asserted that the son did not visit
his father after the marriage. A Lou
isville Judge Is given as authority for
the statement that ex-Presldent Harri
son, believing there was some Justice
In the position taken by his children re
garding his second marriage, divided all
his property between them, except his
house In Indianapolis, and said that any
property he might accumulate after his
marriage should go to his wife and chil
dren, If there should be any children.
This Louisville Judge is also quoted as
paying that the amount he divided be
tween his son and daughter was about
3100,000. It represented what he had saved
from his law practice and his salary
as President. The report Is that his es
tate will amount to fully $250,000. This
he lias accumulated since his second
marriage, and it will go to his wife and
daughter. The children by liis first mar-
says the Louisville judge, are
not mentioned In the ex-President’s will.
There may be some truth In these
stories or there may not be. Tf it should
turn out that there is no mention in
• tie will of the children by the first mar
riage there will be some ground for
thinking there is foundation for the
stories, so far as • the distribution of
the ex-President’s property is concerned
but it can be safely assumed that the
ex-President did not feel agrieved by his
son's discharge from the army, or that
his son was discharged from the army
because the administration wanted to
punish his father for differing with It on
matters pertaining to the Philippines.
One of the last acta of William E.
Chandler of New Hampshire before retir
ing from the Senate was .to make a caus
tic speech aguinst William A. Clark, who
has been elected a Senator from Montana.
In this speech Mr. Chandler presented an
Itemized account which purported to show
that Mr. Clark had spent $2,059,850 in his
two campaigns in corrupting the Legisla
ture of Montana in order to compass his
election to the Senate. Clark and his
friends laugh at Chandler’s statement, and
some of the latter allege that the reason
he made It was that he was In the pay
of the Daly faction. They go so far as
to assert that the late Marcus Daly not
only paid Chandler’s campaign expenses
in New Hampshire, but gave him $100,005
In cash, the consideration being his oppo
sition to Clark in the Senate. Each story
is given for what Is worth. Neither Is
worth much, In all probability.
The battleship Kearsarge Is fitted with
the superposed or two-story style of tur
rets, of which Admiral Sampson is one
of the originators and strongest advocat
ors. Two eight-inch guns are mounted in a
turret superposed upon the turret of the
thirteen-inch guns. Recently during a
trial trip of the Kearsarge one of the
thirteen-inch guns sustained an accident
of a nature so serious os -to disable it.
The gun will therefore have to be removed
and replaced with anew one. In order
to remove It the eight-inch turret must In
displaced entirely and Jhe top of the
larger turret must be taken off. The op
eration will consume several months, and
the ship will be out of commission dur
ing that time. Opponent* of the netv style
turret point to tills incident as Illustrat
ing h serious objection to adopting It for
other ships.
"Papa" Zimmerman of Ohio, father of
the Duchesw of Manchester, has disman
tle,! his home In Cincinnati, sold his brlc
a-brac ami furnishings, and will go to
Ireland to live with hts daughter and
son-in-law. If It were not for the fact
Hurt "Papa" Molds the purse strings, Mon
chestir might remind the old man that
h* did hot marry the faintly.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. MARCH 16, 1901.
THE POLYGAMY BILL VETOED.
The veto of the polygamy bill recently
j passed by the Legislature of Utah will
be very generally approved. It must have
j been thought by the Legislature that the
Governor would sign the bill, or so much
trouble to pass it would not have been
taketi. What was it that caused the Gov
ernor to change his mind, assuming that
jhe did change 11? Was It the very gen-
I eral opposition to the bill that began to
show itself in all parts of the country and
which foreshadowed legislation by Con
gress that would have been injurious to
Utah, or was it the belief that, offer all,
the bill would benefit only a few and
i injure the many, as he points out In his
I veto message?
The ostensible purpose of the bill was
to prevent those Mormons, who had a
number of wives before the present con
stitution of the state was adopted, and
which makes polygamy unlawful, from
being prosecuted in cases where they
have not complied with the law by putting
away all of their wives but one. It is
believed, however, that it had another
purpose, and that was to protect any who
might become polygamists. It is asserted
that there are a great many Mormons
who have not given up polygamy. TJiey
hope the time will come when the Mor
mon Church will be free to do as It pleases
In regard to that matter. No doubt when
it was agreed to abandon polygamy In
order to get Into the Union there was a
belief on the part of a pretty large per
centage of the Mormons that after becom
ing a state the Federal government could
not prevent polygamy from being prac
ticed, but care was taken to have it pro
vided in the constitution of the state that
the provision of that instrument In re
gard to polygamy should not be changed
without the consent of the United States.
It is certain, therefore, that if an effort
should be made to resume the practioe of
polygamy the United States would Inter
fere.
The polygamy bill was Intended no
doubt to get around, and practically nulli
fy, the law prohibiting polygamy In a
way that would leave no opening for the
United States to interfere. That It
would have provoked trouble for Utah
there is no doubt and Gov. Wells acted
wisely in vetoing it.
A NATURALLY FAVORED CtTV.
Savannah's natural advantages are man
ifold. It Is blessed with a climate among
tho most salubrious and equable in the
world. There are, to be sure, a few cold,
wet and disagreeable days in winter, and
a few hot days in summer; but the aver
age of uncomfortable days for the year is
very small indeed. Persons who have
visited Italy, Spain and the South of
France in search of a genial atmosphere
and bright skies, either for pleasure or
health, have frequently asserted that they
found there no more salubrious climate
than that of the South Atlantic section of
the United States. Nature, truly, has
done much for this section*. Man has done
but little.
Savannah, practically central in the
South Atlantic section, is peculiarly for
tunate in location and environments. On
one side, a few miles away, is the broad
Atlantic, while on the other side is the
pine land breathing its balmy fragrance.
The situation for a pleasant and health
ful place of residence is ideal. The city Is
on a high plateau, where it receives both
the breezes of the ocean and those from
tho pines, alternately. Its ground-plan,
too, is in advance of that of most cities.
Its streets are very wide and well shaded,
and intersect numerous squares or parks.
And the drainage is now being perfected.
There is, however, an unfinished ap
pearance to the major portion of the city,
which mars its attractiveness as a whole.
It is in the sad lack of paving. Much
good -work has been done in that direction,
but a very great deal more remains to be
done. What has been accomplished hardly
more than accentuates tho contrast with
that which is needed.
The demand is for a better city. We
have a water supply unsurpassed any
where; we have a sanitary drainage sys
tem of the most modern type; we have
an underground electric wire system that
will compare favorably with those of
larger municipalities; we have an excel
lent fire department, and adequate elec
tric lighting. What we lade Is paving.
The majority of our streets are beds of
sand in dry weather and a succession of
puddles In wet; To supply the deficiency,
and make Savannah one of the most beau
tiful and healthful cities in the world.
Is comparatively a simple question. The
answer may be given in three words;
Pave the streets. How is the paving to
be paid for? On the instalment plan-,
stretching payments over a period of
five to ten years. That would make the
cost fall lightly on all property owners.
And the benefit to be derived would be
almost incalculable.
An odd dontest involving a man’s right
to use his own name for business pur
poses has come up In New York. There
is an old firm in Wall street doing busi
ness under the style of Vermllye & Cos.
There is, however, no man of the name
of Vermllye connected with the establish
ment. The founder of the house died
years ago, but the firm name has gone on
unchanged. Recently a young Mr. Ver
mllye, on of the founder of the old
house, formed a copartnership and start
ed to do business under the name of Ver
mllye & Cos. The old house at once ob
jected, and began to make trouble for the
young man and his partners. The prob
abilities are that it will require a lawsuit
to determine whether the young Mr. Ver
mllye Is at liberty to use his own name
in business, or whether the old firm,
with no Vermllye in it, has a monopoly
of the name.
The sleeping car fare from Calais to
Paris, eighty miles, Is twenty-three
francs, or about $4.60 in American money.
In this country the sleeper fare Is rurely
over II per hundred miles, and in many
Instances one can ride 300 miles In a
sleeper for $2. The European sleepers arc
notoriously uncomfortable, as compart'd
with those of the United States. There
has been much talk lately of introducing
the American type of aleeping car iu
England, Germany and Prance.
Richard Mansfield, the actor, Is It de
votee of realism on the stage. The other
night In Philadelphia, when his "busi
ness" required him to spear a soldier, he
went about It with such earnestness that
he actually stuck Ids property spear into
the scalp of the mimic soldier, and the
man was painfully hurt. A cult at law
was brought by the Injured man, which
Mansfield stopped with a s!Atu cUautL
Maj. Gorgas, the sanitary officer of Ha
vana. (takes much pleasure, in sending
out his report of vital statistics for Feb
ruary, in calling attention to the fact
•that the death rate for the month was
only 19.32 per 1,006—a lower rate than that
of Boston, Newark or New Orleans. The
last February of Spanish rule, that of
1898, showed a death rate of 52.32 per 1,000.
Compared with that rate, the reduction
under American domination has been
something phenomenal. The time Is ap
proaching, Maj. Gorgas thinks, when, so
far from certain American cities being
obliged to guard against contagion from
Havana, the latter city will have to be
on her guard against them.
The young men of the United States do
not seem to be much in fear of imperial
ism and militarism. There are 610 army
places to be bestowed by the President
under the* new army bill. For these
places there are more than 7,000 appli
cants. Senators Quay and Penrose of
Pennsylvania are said to have endorsed
more than 2,000 applicants for army com
missions.
PERSONAL.
—The will of the late Lord Armstrong
has been proved, the estate being valued
at £1,399,000; the bulk of the property Is
bequeathed to His Lordship’s nephew,
Mr. Watson-Artnstrong.
—Rear Admiral Melville denies the pub
lished statement that he contemplates ap
plying for retirement before the time fix
ed for his retirement by law. He will
retire for age Jan. 10, 1903, and expects
to serve until that date.
—Senator Bailey of Texas is the young
est member of the new Senate and also
one of the ablest. He was bom Oct. 6,
1863, and takes the honor of being the
youngest senator away from Beveridge
of Indiana, who was born just one year
earlier, on Oct. 6, 1862.
—Graham Coghlan, the second officer of
the wrecked Rio de Janeiro, who was
recommended for his bravery in saving
the lives of others at the time of the dis
aster, is a son of Capt. J. B. Coghlan,
who won fame on his return from Manila
by reciting “Hoch der Kaiser."
—lbsen, the great Norwegian dramatist,
Is said to be unable to write unless he
has on the table in front of him a tray
containing a number of grotesque figures
—a wooden bear, a tiny image of Mepnts
topheles, two or three cats (one playing
the fiddle), and some rabbits.
’—Francis Valentine Woodhouse, who
died a few years ago at the age of 96,
was the last surviving apostle of the or
iginal twelve of the Catholic Apostolic
Church founded by Edward Irving. Mr.
Woodhouse was also one of the oldest
English barristers, having been called to
the bar In 1826.
—Dr. Oliver Lodge, principal of Bir
mingham University, recently described
“the antiquated system of teaching math
ematics which prevailed in British schools
as a monument of modern educational
folly.” He wished someone would advo
cate teaching Greek methods of arithmetic
as well as geometry, for then surely a
rebellion would set in. Euclid’s work, he
said, was splendid for its day and genera
tion, but it bad had its day, and for ele
mentary and popular purposes should
cease to be.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Blind Bill (who has Just received a
copper)— "Thankee, sir; thankee. I noo
as you wouldn’t fergit the poor blind man
drectly I see yer come round the cor
ner.”—Tit-Bits.
—"George, dear, you and I would get
on better if there were a little more give
and take between us.” "Humph! A lit
tle more give on my part and a little more
take on yours, I suppose.”—Brooklyn
Life.
—Feminine Feeling.—Mias Gush—"lsn’t
Mr. Freshleigh a dear! He told me yes
terday that he loves me!" Miss Thrust—
“l’m not surprised; he wouldn’t wound
any one’s feelings for the world by tell
ing them the truth.’’—Ohio State Jour
nal.
—lt Would Save Trouble.—"Oh, dear!"
she sighted, “X wish It would get to be
the fashion to write letters in dialect.”
"Why?” "Then I could reply to those
Boston cousins of mine without taking a
course In the dictionary every time.”—
Chicago Times-Herald.
—He’d Settle Old Scores.— Tommy—"Oh!
Ouch! Stop that!" Mamma—“Why, Tom
my, aren’t you ashamed? I wouldn’t cry
that way if it was my hair that was be
ing combed.” Tommy (fiercely)—'Til bet
you would. If I was doin’ the combing."—
Philadelphia Press.
—A Moral Lecture.—Miss TJpperten—
"They say there is a tjreat deal of misery
among the poor." Miss Gotrox—"Well, It’s
their own fault. There is Reggy Van
Pelt, for instance, with only ten thous
and a year, trying to keep a yacht and a
stable of horses—no wonder he's miser
able!"—Puck.’
—Quite a Relief.—Husband—"What do
you do when you hit your thumb with a
hammer? Tou can’t swear.” Wife—"No;
but I can think, with all my might and
main, what a perfectly horrid, mean, in
considerate, selfish brute you are not to
drive the nails yourself.”—New' York
Weekly.
OIBHFAT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record( Dent.) says:
’.‘A great many shallow rated theorists
affected to believe that the way to make
people good and to keep them good Is
by fencing them In with prohibitory stat
utes. When anything goes wrong these
worthies shout: "Let us ' amend the
Constitution:” If sututory regulation
were effective the Ton Commandments
would pretty well cover the ground.
They have an authority that cannot be
given to merely human regulations; but
though backed up by statutory pains
and penalties they are still violated. It
Is personal amendment, not statutory
amendment, that keeps life sweet and
wholesome. The world Is governed too
much.”
The Aoston Herald, (Ind.) says:
"Senator MeL/aurin, of South Carolina,
elected as a Democrat from a state In
which there Is no Republican party or
ganization, even, that amounts to any
thing, has Joined the Republican party.
Tills, on Its face, looks like a sacrifice
made for principle; its disinterestedness,
however. Is somewhat lessened by the
statement that Mr. McLcurln expects a
Judgeship from President McKinley."
The Nashville American, (Dem.) says
" Georgia requires the Insurance com
panies doing bustness-within Its border*
to publish a semi-annual statement of
their condition. Hlx failed to comply wPh
the law recently—presumably because
they were too shaky to make public
showing -and their charters were revok
ed In consequent;*. Till* l a protection
to the people of the state of Georgia.’
The Washington Post. (Ind.) says:
“Bhoutd m-nator McLaurln go Isms |n
the Mouth Carolina primaries the admin
istration will doubtless see to It that
h< Is given proper tr<atment by R* quick
injured corps
Drastic Treatment for Hiccoughs.
A Binghamton man began to hiccough
last Saturday, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. He hiccoughed up all day and all
night, and was hard at It Sunday -morn
ing. Every remedy that his alarmed
friends gave him seemed to accelerate the
hies. People sent in from all over totvn
and recommended sore cures. And he
steadily grew worse.
Then a wise neighbor had a bright idea.
He thought It all out himself, He went
over to the hiccougher’s home, and was
ushered into the room where the afflicted
one was fast hiccoughing his life away.
"Hullo!'’ said the neighbor, In a light
and cheerful tone; "how's the old soak
this morning?"
The sufferer rolled his eyes at the neigh
bor in a pained surprise.
' Don't give me any of your crocodile
glances,” snorted the friend. "If you'd
quit drinkqig when I told you to you
wouldn't be in this shameful condition.”
"Wha-hic-at's th-hic-at?” gasped the
sick man.
“Oh, don’t come any of your innocent
business on me!” cried the neighbor. “I
know you, you old sponge!”
The hfccougher’s face turned red.
"What-hic-did you-hic-call me?” he
stuttered.
"Called you a sponge, you lobster?" bel
lowed the neighbor. "You're a pretty ob
ject lesson for your unfortnuate children,
ain’t you, you gulping old hypocrite?”
"Get out of my-hic-house!” roared the
sick man.
“Go to blazes!” yelled the neighbor.
“I'm going to stay right here and see the
last of you. The people on the street sent
me over. 'Walt until the old wolf's gone,'
they said, 'and then waive a flag out o'
the window.’ They're going to have a jol
lification supper and fireworks to-night—
and don't you dare to disappoint ’em!”
This was too much for the hiccougher.
He said several very bad words as he
made a dash at the neighbor, and they
raced around the room a half dozen times,
the hiccougher getting madder at every
jump, and then the neighbor darted
through the door and escaped.
The sick man flung a flower pot at him
as he raced down the yard, and then he
suddenly realized that his hiccoughs had
gone.
For that was a part of the neighbor’s
theory, you see. He believed if he could
get the dying man real excited and angry
the affliction would leave him. And he
proved he was right.
Stranger's Rase Did Not Work.
Secretary Gage is a benevolent-looking
person, with a pleasant mode of speech
and a genial manner. But confidence op
erators who trade too far on these ap
pearances and attempt to impose upon
his good nature soon find that there is a
pretty solid stratum of worldly wisdom
beneath his gracious exterior, relates the
Saturday Evening Post. The other day,
as he was returning from a cabinet meet
ing, he was warmly greeted near the door
of the treasury by a well dressed man of
middle age. Mr. Gage, assuming at a
first glance that the stranger was one of
the multitude he has met in Washington,
and whose names he cannot hope to re
member, returned the salutation and
shook the hand held out to him.
"I trust you will pardon me, Mr. Secre
tary,” the man began, "but I represent
a London illustrated newspaper which
has commissioned me to obtain a set of
photographs of your country seat. Have
you any objection to my taking a few
views there?”
“None in the world,” answered the Sec
retary, amiably, “if you will tell me where
my country seat is. I never knew I had
one.”
“Ah!” exclaimed the stranger, “I must
have been misinformed. Then, would you
consent to my taking some pictures of
the interior of your mansion in Wash
ington?”
“With all the pleasure In life, if there
were any house in the city that I could
call my own. I live in a rented dwelling,
and my landlord has notified me that I
must get out of that in a few weeks.”
Fair for n Wind Story.
They were talking of high winds, and
the sailor told of a gale that broke a
bare mast off short, .says the Chicago
Post.
"Not a bit of canvas on if, you under
stand,” he. said, “just a bare pole, and
the wind snapped it.”
The soldier told of a wind that so de
flected a ball 11 red from a rifle that It
went sideways faster and farther than it
went in the direction in which the gun
was aimed.
Then they looked' at the musician.
“The highest wind I ever encountered,”
he said, “was during a parade, and that
wasn't so bad after we of the band got
used to it.”
"How strong was it?” they asked.
"Weil, I don't know what it’s velocity
was, but when we were marching against
it we could not get a single note out of
the wind instruments.”
"Why not?”
"Our lungs weren't strong enough. The
wind simply blew the music down our
throats, and I got so many bass notes
tangled up in my stomach that it gave me
indigestion.”
"There was no music, then?"
“Oh. yes (there was. Just as soon as we
got the angle of the thing we turned the
mouths of our instruments toward the
wind and simply played the stops. The
gale did all the necessary blowing.”
That Old Story Again.
“Yeas," said the man in the corner, ac
cording to the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
”1 know all about how Tom Jefferson was
inaugurated a hundred years ago. I hear
that ratty old story every four years,
just as sure as March 4 comes around.
"Well, supposing you have,” said the
man who was trying to do all the talk
ing, “supposing you have. It was a
noble evample of democratic simplicity
wasn't It?”
"It was—lt certainly was," said the
man In the corner. "Old Tom came
ridln’ down the avenue -..'“nted on one
horse. Why? 'Cause this wasn’t scarcely
a one-hoss country at that time. Do
you suppose If Tom had been Inaugurated
last Monday that one horse would have
satisfied him? Not on yolir life! You fel
lows make me tired. Just because our
first parents didn’t wear evening clothes
In the garden. I suppose you'll contend
that It was another case of democratic
simplicity. Suppose Tom Jefferson did
get off his horse and tie him to a fence
and go in and be Inaugurated. What of
It? He had to tie the horse somewhere—
dldft't he? He couldn’t ride him right
Into the capltol—could he? I suppose he
might have tied himself to the fence and
let the horse go In and get Inaugurated.
Or he might have tied the fence to the
Inauguration and let the horse run loose.
Democratic simplicity! Oh, you do make
me tired!"
Amenable to hiiKitestlnns.
When Roosevelt first presided over the
Senate he spoke with a still, small voice
that was hardly audible across the cham
ber. says the Pittsburg Dispatch. It was
as gentle as the whispering zephyr.
"Mr. President,” remarked Senator Fo
rnker, meeting Mr. Roosevelt in the cor
ridor, “you tulk Just a little hit too low. ’
The next day there was a revolution—if
transformation. The Vice President's
voice resounded through the Senate
chamber like the explosion of a 13-Inch
gun. It woke the echoes In the galleries
and revrreberated out through the corri
dors until It went tolling down the ave
nues of time
"Mr. President,” said Senator ixxjge to
Mr. Roosevelt, aa they pasted each oh*r
ill tile corridor, “you talk Just a little bit
too loud ”
Roosevelt threw up both hand* With
out Bsvlna a word lie disappeared | n |,|, t
private offiva.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Patrick Henry of Brandon, Miss., who
has been a representative in Congress
from the Seventh district of that state,
went out with the late Congress, and
Patrick Henry of Vicksburg comes in
as the representative of the Third Missis
sippi district in the next.
—Albert Woods of the Department of Ag
riculture has carried out a research on
the mosaic disease of tobacco, to be print
ed as a bulletin of the Department. The
author's observations show that this dis
ease may be artificially produced by cut
ting back the'plants during any stage of
their active growth, thus removing most
of the reserve foods, and stimulating the
growth of lateral buds; the plant seldom
recovers under such circumstances. The
same disease may be induced in like man
ner in tomato, potato, petunia, violet,
and other plants. The disease may also
be produced by repotting or transplanting
a plant in active growth, thus stimulating
a rapid root-development. New leaves
forming at this time often become dis
eased. Finally, the disease may be pro
duced by injecting the sterile juice of
diseased plants into the growing bud, or
by pouring it over the root of the healthy
plant, thus proving the Infectious nature
of tho disease. The author concludes that
in growing cells there exists af state of
balance between the oxidizing power of
the enzymes and the reserve food mate
rial of the plant, and that if either of
these be interfered with, the disease sup
ervenes.
—The description of the naval arch
which the committee, headed by Park
Benjamin, plan shall take the place of
the abandoned Dewey arch project ap
pears very attractive. The description ha*
been prepared by Ernest Fiagg. This
arch will not be a land, but a marine,
monument. It will stand, not In Madi
son Square, as the Dewey arch did, but
on the Battery sea wall, with steps lead
ing down to the water. It will be erect
ed not to the great admiral now living,
but to the American navy. The name of
no living man will appear on It, but
spaces will be left for the sculptured
facts of any one now living whom a fu
ture generation shall judge worthy of the
honor. While the arch will be built on
the Battery sea wall, it will be so placed
as to terminate the vista of Broadway
looking south, just as Grace Church ter
minates it looking north. The arch, or
water gate, as it might more properly be
called, Is to be built of white marble, on
a base of granite. The proposed dimen
sions are 125 feet in width and hight.
These may be increased to 150 feet each,
if sufficient funds are provided, which
would make the structure as large as the
Arc de L'Etoile, In Paris.
—A discovery consequent upon the
X-rays, and intimately allied with them,
is that of the Bequerel rays emitted by
uranium and its salts. A mechanism) de
vised by Bequerel for measuring their in
tensity has proved in the hands of M.
and Mme. Curie an instrument for the
discovery of two new elements, radium,
allied) to barium, and polonium, allied
to bismuth. The final proof of the ele
mental nature of polonium has Just been
submitted by G. Berndt, who has discov
ered and measured no lees than fifteen
lines of the polonium spectrum. Its ex
istence is, therefore, no longer question
able. His method of working was based
on that of Runge in fusing the salt Into
a spiral platinum coil and using It thus
as the anode for a spark-gap. The salt
used was bismuth nitrate rich in Bequerel
rays. He has also by the same method
succeeded in gteatly extending the
known spectrum of radium, using active
barium chloride and bromide. The spark
was furnished by two Leyden jars charg
ed by a large induction-coil, and the plat
inum spiral containing the salt was kept
in a state of incandescence. Under these
circumstances the space between the elec
trodes was filled by the vapor of the salt,
and the platinum and air lines were faint.
—Every one will recall the Aesopie story
of the lion and the mouse; how Ihe Ilf*
of the mighty monarch was saved by the
small creature whom he once had spared,
says George S. Hillman in the March At
lantic. To our recognition in this story
of a truth universal in its human applica
tion is due. almost entirely, our interest
in the mouse and the lion. In our eyes
they are not a mouse and a lion, but two
men teaching the lessons that the mighty
shall be humbled, that nothing is too in
significant to be of some service, and that
it is good to cast bread upon the waters.
We do not stop to consider whether a
lion understands the mouse language, or
whether a mouse is given to gratitude.
They are merely convenient forms, essen
tially human, and they show anlm3l char
acteristics only very secondarily, when at
all. In tho Indian tales where animals
figure as chief characters, the method is
the same, though there is often the added
purpose of doctrinal Instruction, feasible
because of the Buddhistic belief in the
transmigration of men’s souls into the
bodies of beasts. The Bible shows a sim
ilar use; and perhaps in all literature
there is not a nobler instance of the In
troduction of animals to teach ethical
truth than is to be found in the parable of
the lost sheep.
—The commercial production of cal
cium carbide, the parent substance of
acetylene, has attracted so much atten
tion that the existence of other carbides
has been almost overlooked. Prof. Mois
san has just presented to the Academic
des Sciences a report dealing with the
production of some of the carbides of the
rare earth elements, neodymium, praseo
dymium, and samarium. The preparation
of samarium carbide may be taken as typ
ical of the class. Samarium, oxide and
burnt-sugar carbon are reduced to a fine
powder and agglomerated by pressure
The mixture so obtained' is then placed
dn an electric furnace, and, after four
minutes heating with a current of 900
amperes and a force of 45 volte, a melted
mass of samarium carbide Is obtained
Small fragments of the carbide show a
yellow color and are transparent. It is
about six times as heavy as water, and
is irreducible by hydrogen at 1,000 de
grees. It burns In oxygen at 400 degrees
and becomes Incandescent with chlorine
at a low temperature. I n Us action on
water eamarlum carbide differs from cal
cium carbide In yielding In addition to
ayetylene, hydrogen and other hydro
carbons; while in the energy of Its ac
tion It is equally violent. Hydrochloric
acid acts on the substance, causing bril
liant incandescence, and yielding a black
product, which occupies a space much
greater than the original carbide.
-An average American husband does
not seem to be able to get it through hts
well-meaning but halting mind that noth
ing on God’s earth humiliates a wife more
than to be compelled to ask her husband
for money,” writes Edward Bok of "The
Wife and Her Money,” in the Ladles’
Home Journal. "She Instinctively hesi
tates to do it, and ofttlmes she goes with
out rather than ask. Every wife should
be given all that It Is possible for the hus
band to allow for household expenses, and
It snould not be doled out to her In drib
bles nor given to her as a favor, but as
her right and without question. Over such
a shore she should have Independent sway
to do with a* she sees fit for the wisest
Interests of her home and children. That
Is one rightful step. Hut there Is still
another. She should have an allow.™ •#
of her own apart from the family share
of the Income. I have no hesitation in
saying that If the truth were known It Is
Just this humiliating dependence upon
mun for every little trifle that a woman
needs that Is making thousands of women
restless and anxious for outside careers
This is the only fair excuse I have ever
been able to see for the hysterical rant
ing* of the modern advanced woman In
that particular she Is right, and Is abso
lutely Justified In filing a protest. A wife
Is too great and Important a factor In the
life of her husband to ba made a financial
dependent.”
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SCHEDULE.
For Isle of Hope. Montgomery, Thunder
bolt, Cattle Park and West End
Daily except Sundays. Subject' to
change without notice.
ISLE OF HOPE.
Lv- City for I. of H.l Lv. Isle of Hope "
630 am from 40th ~ 600 am for” Bolton ~
i3O am from 40th 600 am for 40tli
Bso am from 40th 700 am for 40th
9 lb am from Bolton 8 00 am for 40th
10 30 am from 40th 110 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
230 pm from 40th 200 pm for 40th
330 pm from 40th 240 pm for Boltoa
430 pm from 40th 300 pm for 40th
5 15 pm from Bolton 4 00 pm for 40th
5 30 pm from 40th 6 00 pm for 40th
630 pm from 40th 700 pm for 40th
730 pm from 40th 800 pm for 40th >"
830 pm from 40th 900 pm for 40th J '
930 pm from 40th 10 00 pm for 40th
10 30 pm from 40th 11 00 pm for 40tb
MONTGOMERY^
Lv. city for Mong' y.| ““LyT Montgomery^
830 am from 40t h | 7 15~am~ for~4otb
230 pm from 40th j 1 15 pm for 40th
630 pm from 40th | 600 pm for 40th
CATTLE PARK' ’
Lv city for C.. Park., Lv. Cattle~Parn.
6 30 am from Bolton; 7 6o am for Bolton
7 30 am from Bolton| 8 00 am for Bolton
1 00 pm from Bolton| l 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 Boltoii| 8 30 pm for Bolton
THUNDERBOLT.
Car leaves Bolton street Junction 5:99
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 poimj
at 6:00 a. m„ 11:00 a. m., 2:40 p. tn.
’ 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.
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.
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