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4 jjffr: Jttofniwfl ffetog. Jklomlng >rm Building. Savannah. Ua SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1901. Registered at the Poitofflc* In Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS is published every day In the year, and nerved to subscribers In the city, or sent by mall, at 70 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, SO.OO. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two Issues a week, (Monday and Thursday) by mall, one year, SI.OO. • 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 notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents 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 made by mall or by telephone No. 110. Any irregularity in delivery should be Immediately reported. Letters and tblegrams should be ad dressed ••MORNING NEWS,” Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York city, H, C. Faulkner, Manager. 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 Chang's; Listen, Scott & l>avis; John Funk, Butcher; Strawberries at 20c, at M. S. Gardner's. Business Notices—Sweet Blossom Peas, A. M. A- C. W. West. Auction Sale—Old Hoss Sale, Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company, by I. D. Laßoche, Auctioneer. Legal Notices—Petitions for Incorpora tion of the Recola Company. Extra Values for Saturday's Selling— At the Bee-Hive. Baking Powder—Royal Baking Powder. Beer—Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso ciation. Hotel—Victoria Hotel, New York. Mineral Water—Hunyadl Janos. Whiskey—Yellow Label Whiskey; Duf fy’s Pure Malt Whiskey. Grape-Nuts—Postum Cereal Company. Medical—Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Pills; Femlnina; Pond's Extract; Moth er's Friend; Tutt’s Pills; Dr. Hathaway Company; Parker’s Hair Balsam; Stuart's Catarrh Tablets. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; 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.” A TEXAS WONDER Hall'a Great Discovery. One small bottle of Hall's Great D's covery cures all kidney and bladder trou bles, removes gravel, cures diabetes B em Inal emissions, weak and lame backs rheumatism and all irregularities of the kidneys and bladder in both men and wo men. regulates bladder troubles in chil dren. If not sold by your druggist will mail on re(!ei Pt of *l. One small oottie is two months' treatment, and will cure any case above mentioned. Dr. E. D. Hail, sole manufacturer, P. O. Box Sm k L ° U,S ' Mo ' Send for testimonials bold by all druggists and Solomons Cos Savannah, Ga. ’ Read This. Dothen, Ala.. July 13, 1899. -£ r ' w Hal1 ' Sl Louls ' Mo—Dear We h ave been se j lin g your Texas Wonder, Hails Great Discovery, for two years and reeommend it to any one suf fering with any kidney trouble as being the best remedy we ever sold. Yours truly, J. R. YOUNG. hill OF BOPF H’f AND G. g & jf 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. 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