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6 WAYCROSS MEWS NOTES. Hon. S. W. Hitch C'omeo Out for City Court .Indgeslilp. Waycross, Ga., May 16.—County School Commissioner T. R. Bennett has opened his office in the Reed building, occupying the offices with lion. John VV. and Col. J. Walter Bennett. He gives notice that a genera! examina tion for teachers’ license to teach in the public schools of Ware, will be held on Saturday, June 3, at the court house. It will be necessary for those holding tem porary license and those who contemplate teaching to stand this examination. Esther Rebekah Bodge No. 6 has elected Fast Noble Grand Mrs. John W. Bennett as representative to the Grand I>odge, 1. O. O. F., which mets in llacon May 21-23. Messrs. J. B. Nunez and D. A. McGee were elected to represent the subordinate lodge, while Mr. Fred Ficken will attend in his official position as grand senior warden. Several others front Waycross will attend the Giand Bodge in Macon, and an as sembly of Rebekalt lodges is to be formed there. The Democratic primary for the nomi nation of a candidate for clerk of the Su perior Court, to succeed H. E. McVeigh, will he held at the various voting pre cincts on Saturday, May 25. There has been a great deal of talk recently about Ware county’s poor farm. It will be remembered that the last grand jury recommended its abolishment, claim ing it was an expensive experftrfsnt. The County Commissioners at their re cent session failed to take any action in regard to the matter, and it is under stood that they have no expectation of abolishing the farm. N. B. Bocklier of Hasty has a cabhage growing in his garden whit'll measures forty-six and ono-half inches across. At a meeting of the Waycross Rifles last night the resignation of First Bieut. J C. Brewer and Second Bieut. J. P. Ulmer were handed to the company and accept ed. These two officers have been mem bers of the Rifles for nearly ten years *nd are two of the most popular men who ever belonged to the company. They will retain their present rank as retired offi cers, which entitles them to parade with the company at all times and to become active members again if they should de sire. It is rumored that Mr. Ulmer may reconsider his resignations and go back Into his company An election will be held soon to fill the vacancies caused by these resignations. Hon. Simon W. Hitch, a leading Way cross attorney, has announced that he is a candidate for judge of the City Court of Waycross. This will add life and in terest to the contest, which is now a three-cornered affair. The other candi dates are Judge J. S. Williams, the pres ent incumbent, and J. C. Reynolds, Esq. There are only two candidates for solic itor general, viz.: J. Bee Crawley, the present solicitor, and Col. J. Walter Ben irett. The revival meeting at Trinity Church is progressing very nicely. The meetings are held at night, preaching at 8 o’clock, preceded by a song service of thirty min utes. Rev. W. C. Glenn of Bake Park preached last night to a fairly good con gregation. and the sermon made a good impression. Mr. J. M. Herron of Charlotte, N. C., has been employed as superintendent of the pants factory to be established by the Jones Manufacturing Company. MORGAN AND HILL'S PLANS. A Great Transportation System En circling the Globe. St. Paul. May 16.—The Pioneer Press to morrow will say: Plans for a transportation system com pletely encircling the globe are credited to President James J. Hill of the Great Northern and J. Pierpont Morgan of New York. It Is stated that but a link to the chain is lacking, and that before Mr. Morgan’s return from Europe, within a week or two. it will be supplied. The great factors in the new system are the Great Northern, the Great North ern Steamship Company, Mr. Hill’s trans pacific line, soon to he in operation, and the Beyland lines recently purchased by Mr. Morgan. The acquisition of these lines and the one missing link, a line be tween Alexandria, Egypt and Hong Kong. China, is said to have been Mr. Morgan's special purpose in visiting Europe. The system will be of vast benefit to Minnesota and the entire territory trav ersed by the Great Northern, since it will throw the most of the Asiatic east-bound shipments to the United States and Eu rope- through Duluth and St. Paul gate ways. It was said by a person conversant with the plans that the new system will be operative as soon as Mr. Hill's steam ships are commissioned. O’BRIEN ON A RAMPAGE. i Assails Secretary AVy ndlinni In Irish People. Dublin, May 16.—The Irish People, William O'Brien’s paper, contains a nine column attack on Mr. Wyndham, the Irish secretary, for the recent seizure of the paper because of its Insulting refer ences to King Edward. The general pol icy of Mr. Wyndam is also assailed. Some of the sub-heads are the follow ing: "Fools or Assassins or Both;” "Better Castle Lawlessness Than Castle Cant,” and "The Meanness of the Rascals.” "Villainy,” "treachery,” "hypocrisy," "mendacity” are frequently used with reference to Mr. Wyndam, who, In con clusion. is called "a liar, sneak and backbiter.” Nothing is said against the King. M. CAM BON AT CHICAGO. French Ambassador Made Much of In Windy City. , Chicago, May 16.—M. Jules Cambon, the Ftench ambassador to the United States, was the guest of Chicago to-day and front the time of his arrival until late in the evening, when a banquet given in his honor at the Union League Club was concluded, he was the central flgurp in a series of receptions and feasts. >!. Cambon came to the city officially to rec ognize in behalf of the republic of France the union of the Alliance Francals with the University of Chicago. The purpose cf the n'l sm s is to increase the use and study of the French language in all countries. HYPNOTIC SI HJECT KILLED. Chair Gave Wny anil Heavy Atone Fell on His Head. Woonsockctt, R. 1., May 16.—During an exhibition of hynotism given by Prof. Frank Farnsworth and wife of Fitchburg, at the opera house to-night, one of the subject, Thomas Bolton, also of Fitch burg, was killed. Mr. Bolton watt ren ting between two chairs with a 60n-pound stone on his body. A local blacksmith, Clifford Trask, attempted to break the stone with a slcdhammer. The chulr on which Bolton's head rested gave way and the subject fell to the floor, the stone crushing his head. He died shortly after. Machinists Strike nt Rif-hniontl. Richmond, Vs., May J6.—Some eight or ten of the machinii*tn employed at the Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works struck to-day. About twenty-live men engaged in making small tools had been laid off and the strike, It Is said, is due to that action CONGER ON EXPANSION. Heards Tlint Ship Subsidy Bill Did Not Uec*onio a l-W. New York, May 16.—Edwin H. Conger, minister to China, was the guest of honor to-night at the third annual banquet of the American Asiatic Association given at Delmonlcos. Minister Conger spoke of the progress made in the commercialism of this coun try in the Orient. Recent developments in the Philippines, he said, hid given cour age to the merchant and the missionary alike, both looking for increasing results, especially in the empire of China. “It is to be regretted,” said the speak er, “that some sort of measure in add of American shipping did not pass the last Congress. In my Judgment this is not a political, but a patriotic measure, and is demanded in order to fairly meet the competition of shipping, subsidized by otn. er governments. This is being done all over the world, and unless our people take advantage of the conditions created by the expansion policy of the last three years, they will soon be pre-empted by foreign companies and lost to us forever.” FLORIDA'S DISPENSARY BILL. Will Effect n Decided Change, Should It Become n l.nw. Tallahassee, Fla., May 16.—The dispen sary bill now- pending in the. Florida Leg islature provides that it shall become ef fective Jan. 1, 1902. The Governor, At torney General and Controller are made a state board of control. The Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, shall appoint a state commissioner, and shall make all subsequent appointments for carrying the act into effect, all ap pointees to be total abstainers, and of good moral character. The commissioner is to reside at the capital, be purchasing agent for state, received $3,000 a year, and give bond for SIO,OOO, holding the office for four years. All liquors are to be tested by state chemist, and only those pronounced pure are to be sold. All money must be paid into the state treasury, and from there disbursed to* the state school fund, after paying expenses of operating dispensary. The commissioner must report quarterly. Adequate penalties are provided for all violations of the law. The state board shall. appoint county boards, liquor to be sold only in day time, and packages shall not be opened on premises where sold. All clubs are prohibited. Dispensers may be appointed in cities or country for a term of tVo years. Ten days’ notice shall be given of pur pose to locate a dispensary, and a major ity vote of citizens shall determine the matter. In dry counties one-fourth of the citizens may petition for a dispensary, and a majority vote shall determine the matter. The clerk of the Circuit Court shall be clerk of the county board at a stated sal ary. Only the state commissioner may ship Into or out of the state, or from one place to another In the state, under penalty of confiscation and a fine of SSOO. Liquor shall not be sod to minors or to persons known to be addicted to the habit of drinking to excess. For changing name or brand or adulterating liquorf a fine of S2OO or six months in jail is lnipbsed. Li censed druggists may buy liquor from dis pensary at an advance of 10 per cent., and alcohol by the barrel at cost. Keepers of tourist hotels may give bond, buy from state commissioner, and serve liquor to guests under prescribed regulation. Makers of wine from domestic fruits may sell their product through dispen sary. Transportation companies shall incur a penalty of thrlble the invoice price if liquor is lost or stolen in transit.. The Governor shall have authority to appoint state constables, a chief constable with a salary of $3 per <!ay, and others to receive |2 a day when on duty. The attorney general or any state attor ney may prosecute persons violating the law. The dispensary law would revolutionize the financial machinery of the state as to taxation and revenue. MRS. A. J. CROVATT DEAD. One of Rrnns wick's Mont Charming Women Passes Away. Brunswick, Ga.. May 17.—Brunswick was saddened to-day by the news of the death of one of its noblest women, Mrs. A. J. Crovatt. Reared in Brunswick, Miss Mary Lee Schlatter was one of Brunswick’s most popular and beautiful girls, reigning as a belle, until her marriage in October, 1880, to Judge A. J. Crovatt. After her marriage Mrs. Crovatt became and con tinued to be until her illness, one of the most brilliant women and most popular and charming matrons Brunswick society has ever known. Mrs. Crovatt was sent by her physicians first to Atlanta and then to the Johns Hopkins In Baltimore, but her case was pronounced hopeless, end she returned to spend her last days with her husband and her three children. The funeral will occur to-day from St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Rev. W. H. Reaney officiating. THE IIRAM H I*OSTOEKICKS. Personal Aeeonnti Will Not Help Su perintendents and Clerks. Washington. May 16.—First Assistant Postmaster General Johnson has issued a general order announcing that superin tends and clerks of branch stations must understand that their revenue cannot be increased through their personal accounts at the expense of other branch stations or postofllces. A disregard of these In structions will he regarded as sufficient for removal. WORKING 1111 l HS REDICED. AVrsttiighnuae 1 nmpany Tnkcs Ac* lion of Its Own Alotlon. nttsburg, May 16.—The Westlnghouec Machine Company to-day. a* a voluntary movement, posted notices announcing that commencing to-morrow its 1.400 employes will work but nine hours a day Instead of ten as heretofore. The week’s work will be 54 hours and all over time will be paid for at the rate of time and a half. COLORADO MINE CLOSED. Trouble AN Hh 1 nlnn Knocks TOO Men Out of AA ork. Colorado Springs, Col.. May 16.—The Portland mine, employing 700 men. was closed Indefinitely to-day, owing to tnou. hie between the company and the miners’ unions, over the employment of non-union men. It is not believed the trouble will spread to other mines In the Cripple? Creek district. Union Hn> Two Kinc Runners. Boston. May 16.—Thomas A\ r . Lawson to-day bought Draughtsman and Ronken. komo. the steeplechasers, and will make his debut as an owner of runners at the Country Club meeting on May 30. Krnnce Want* nn Jalnnil. London. May 17.—“1t Is understood that France Is negotiating with Ecuador," says the Sydney correspondent of the Dally Mall, "for the purchase of one of the Galapagos Islands." Strike Hints In lliisstiiii Mills. Bt. Petersburg. May 17.—Strike riots have occurred In the cotton mills on the Viboy side of the Neva It la reported that niuny have been killed. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 17, 1901. HEADED FOR SAVANNAH f Objectionable Parties Driven From Beaufort Said to Be Coming: Here. Beaufort, S. C., May 16.—Further de velopments regaling the recent white cap raid organized here to drive two white government employes at the Port Royal naval station out of this section have leaked out. The two men have been living with two notorious negro women in open defiance of public opinion, and it now appears that when the masked citi zens repaired to the house occupied by the objectionable persons they found the premises deserted, whereupon they pro cured a boat and proceeded to Paris Isl and, wehre they located their men in a negro dive near the government reserva tion. Their demands for an entrance were answered by the propretress of the Joint, who refused to admit them, but acknowl edged that both men were within. The citizens did not attempt to force an en trance, but informed the men that they were determined to rid the community of their presence, and gave them until the following day to get out or suffer the consequences. One of them replied that they would leave on the following morning, and the mob. after emphasizing their demands by several volleys from their pistols fired into the air. retired. The next morning the men tendered their resignations to the commandant of the naval station and left on the first train. The whereabouts of the women is not known, but it is rumored that they went to Savannah, Ga., where the two men will rejoin them. CAN MAINTAIN BLACK LIST. Chicago Judge So Holds in Annie Condon's Case. Chicago, May 16.—1n the Superior Court to-day Judge Baker decided that it is legal for employers to maintain a black list. The ruling was in the case of Annie Condon against several stock yard's packing firms. The plaintiff was a labeller and can-painter and joined a strike last year against a reduction in wages. Since that time, she claims, she has been unable to secure employment. The court ruled that the various firms had a right to take protective measures against persons who had quit the em ployment of other firms without valid reasons. THE C., It. A: S. SALE RATIFIED. Mr. Kinibell Gets l’ar Value In Cash for IIIn $7,000 Stock. Rome, Ga., May 16.—The sale of the Chattanooga. Rome and Southern Rail way to the Central of Georgia was rati fied here to-day. Stockholder J. B. Kim bell withdrawing his objections. Mr. Klmbell, who enjoined the consoli dation yesterday, was given bond and se curity for his $7,C00 in stock—receiving par value in money. The Centra 1 of Geor gia officials left at once for Chickamau ga, Ga., where the stockholders of the Durham Railroad are expected to trans fer their holdings to the Central people. THIRTY-TWO PERISHED. Steamer Federal Went Down With All Her Crew Off Ynstralinn Coast. Victoria, B. C., May 16.—News has been received by the steamer Moana of the loss of the steamer Federal off the Australian c'oast during the heavy gale at the end of March. Thirty-two persons perished with her. Six bodies were recovered with a boat, but no other wreckage was found, and it is believed that the vessel founder ed near the coast. When the bodies were found wild dogs were eating them and were driven away with difficulty. KING EDWARD'S BIRTHDAY’. Will Celebrate Ilia Mother’s tiny ‘>4. and Riot His Own. London, May 16.—King Edward, who was born Nov. 9, 1841, has decided that his birthday shall be celebrated May 24 each year, thus perpetuating the holiday hitherto observed by all the public de partments—Queen Victoria’s birthday— and giving an impetus to the colonial movement to observe the date as Empire Day. To Reform llritlsh War Office. London, May 16.—1 t is understood that the commission which the government appointed early in th© year under the chairmanship of Clinton E. Dawkins to consider war office reforms has reported In favor of a scheme of reorganization that is almost revolutionary. Machinists Gel nn Advance. St. Joseph, Mo., May 16.—Six hundrgd machinists In the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway shops, located here, were to-day granted an advance from 27 to 29 cents an hour with additional half pay for all over time. A WHITE HOUSE INDUSTRY. Mrs. McKinley's Pleasure In One of Her Chosen Evocations. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Washington, April 22.—A recent visitor at the White House found the wife of the President busy as usual knitting the woollen toils to slipper soles. A pleasant protest that the first lady of the land should so steadily employ herself was well answered. Why shouldn't she knit the slippers? It was about alt she could do in her state of health. Perhaps the good ac complished was more than the caller ap preciated. And then the gentle lady told with un disguised satisfaction of the sale of a pair of her slippers at a New Kngland fair for a good purpose. The slippers had brought *350, which had gone for the benefit of the cause. If there existed a desire for the possession of a |>alr of slippers knit ted by the -wife of the President meas ured by such a sum. why should she not try to meet It and thereby extend help to worthy objects. Mrs. McKinley defend ed her vocation admitab>y. Frequent re quests for some handiwork of the Presi dent's wife, to be utilized for the benefit of charity or church, ctmw to the White House. None Is refused so Jong us Mrs. McKinley has the strength to fulfill them. Relating to the leather soles of these slippers there Is a story which enhances their value. Mrs. McKinley told It re cently. On one occasion, eurly In the first term, Vice President Hobert came Into the presence of the lady while she had her knitting In hand. He picket* up from a table near by a sole upon which work had not begun. "Where do you get these?" be asked, when he had learned of the charitable purpose of the Industry. Mrs. McKlniey replied that she bought the soles by the dozen. "Well." ssld the Vlre President, "these are made at my factory. J wiM see that hereafter you are supplied with the soles for the slippers without cost. That shall be my contribution to the good work." From that day, so long as he lived, Vice President Hobart saw that the stock of soles so often ns It run low through Mrs. McKinley's Industry was rep.entshed. And since the death of the Vloe President Mrs. Hobart has kept up the contribution from the factory. It Is a matter of pride with the wife of the Presklent that her rxpertness with the needles enables her on days of average strength to complete one slipper belweeu sncrnlng and night DEVOTION IN BRUTES. <*n ATITL'DE OF ANIMALS SAVED FROM SEA BY SANDY HOOK CLAM MFRS. Become MnMcotn of Honu-Catw, Dogs, Wounded Birds and Even Rats Adopted In Thin Way Good Stories of the Intelligence of Some of the Pet*. From the New York Mail and Express. It is not at all improbable that many of the dogs and cats and even rats which have been denied a residence in this city, and have been consigned to sup posed watery graves in the lower bay by way of some coal barge or schooner, are to-day pacing the decks of the clam diggers’ fleet, “masters of all they sur vey.” The obliging persons who assume the role of self-appointed executioners art* fncM always particular how j their condemned prisoners reach the water, and very often these animals, after a much-needed bath, are rescued by the kind-hearted clammers, and at once in stalled as mascots of their craft. Only the strange things which are raked up from the bottom of the bay can rival in appearance the animals which the clam mers find, in all stages of abject misery, either on the wave or along some un frequented shore. As there is almost no limit to the number of mascots which one boat can carry, a person can often see an em bryonic menagerie surrounding the mas ter of one of these small crafts, unless, perchance, mascot “No. 1” proves him self exceptionally vicious and kills off his rivals as fast as they come aboard. Dogs of every conceivable breed are prominent memibers of the clammer's ships company. Year in and year out, they pace the quarterdeck, and now and then take a nap in the lee of the deck house. They are good sailors, too. No one can take a trick at the “dog watch” better then they; and this often means a great deal to the master when “clam pirates” are about. % Newfoundland'* Devotion. it hi in the last two years no less than ten dogs, fhe 'writer’s knowledge, have been picked up off Sandy Hook, either swimming bravely for shore or eNe clinging to some wreckage, crying piteoqsly. Very recently a large New foundland dog was picked up in this w'ay. His case is n rather remarkable one, and shows the attachment of these animals for their old masters. This dog jumped from a vessel into the bay find swam a quarter of a mile to his mas ter’s boat, from which he had become separated the day before at the West- Tenth street market. The dog had been stolen in this city by another boat’s crew, and held in captivity until the open waters of the bay were reached, when all danger of an escape were sup posed to be over. The master was overjoyed when he heard a scratching on the side of his boat and saw that it was the lost dog returned. He says that he orignally found tne dog floating nt see In a large box, evidently having fallen from some vessel. “The dog has always seemed to ap preciate his rescue.” the captain addded. "On one occasion he plunged overboard after me when I accidentally fell over the side of my boat.” The elammer has great faith In the theory that the cat has nine lives. It is only necessary for one to take a run down the bay and see the cats and kit tens creeping stealthily about the decks of the clam fleet t<s be convinced that the elammer Is probably right, and that the majority of the recent "feline drown ing excursions” to the river front were cases of the cat coming baefc—to the surface, at least. Their rescuers say that pussy Is often pretty far gone when found on a drifting plank or In the re cesses of some old hulk, but alive never theless. One elammer down the bay has a cat which finds its own meat, and requires absolutely no attention. The old man only wishes that It was not quite so easy for his “mate” to make a living, for the "critter" thrives on the rate which are honeycombing the dilapidated craft and causing Capt. Tom many wake ful nights as they gambol about the deck or take observations from the mast head and the “ratlines.” Rats, bedbugs and roaches are brands of the mascot that the elammer does not seek, yet seems unable to get along without; for they will. In the majority of cases, take possession of the ship sooner or later. Three Accomplished lints. Capt. Tom has a friend, however, who really loves rats, at least, the three par eleuliar rats he owns. They were picked up by him In a little wooden cage, which was Inside a box found about a mile west of Sandy Hook last summer. To day they have full run of his fifty-foot sloop, and seem almost to understand his bidding. These rats are very methodical In their habits, the captain says. Every' morning before breakfast they take a constitutional up and down the main mast. followed by a promenade out on the anchor cable. The rest of the day they spend curled up on some extra canvas In the sail locker, or sniffing abotltl fhe newlyj-caught clams. The captain asserts that ever since he picked up these “three men In a boat,” they have been affectionate to him, and al ways either creep into his pockets when he starts to go ashore, or else stand on the rail three in a row and squeak fare well. There arc many crippled birds, too. on the elammers' boats. These are often the victims of the sportsman's rifle, which ha\e either fluttered to the decks and received the ministration of the tender hearted skipper or have been picked up by him from some floating driftwood, or rescued while floundering helplessly In the wnter. These ducks, crows, fish hawks and sometimes snipe make the best of sailors, and soon becoming ac customed to their surroundings, seldom leaving them. In fair weather they perch In the shrouds, and when the storm rages they seek the warmth and shelter of the cabin. One old clanrmer Is very pround of n crow with n broken wing, which he says Is a wonderful weather prophet. The poor bird, although continually used us a barometer, does not object. He un failingly warns the ship's company of a storm by a peculiar flutter of his dis abled “proi>eller." The captain explains this phenomenon on the ground that the injured wing is very sensitive /to damp ness. The crow's nest on this vessel is not near the masthead, but In a snug little corner under the captain's berth. There are two elammers in Sandy Hook Bay credited with the distinction of hav ing rescued two animals from the sea one day. which were out of the question as tnasects. hut which proved of great value On shore. Due to accident or design on an out going cattle steamer, a calf, Just old enough to look like anything else but Its mother, went over the side. Sandy Hook was close at hand, and the oner getle youngster was bravely striking out for the bench when he was Intercepted by a clumboat. Closely follovgtng the Incident a horse was lost overboard from another steamer, and he, too, fell into the hands of friends. The proposition of getting the calf ashore was not a difficult one. but with the horse It was another matter. The r*!f was hoisted aboard with a block and fall, and the forward deck whs used as a barnyard. The animal made two nr three attempts to pull out the vessel's mast, to which It was tied, and effect an escape, but he was finally Induced to remain, and waa triumphantly landed. The crew- of the boat, after several vain The Orleans-Beaumont Oil and Land Go. OF NEW ORLEANS, L/\. Chartered under the laws of the state of Louisiana, U. S. A. Authorized Capital, - 31*000,000. President —A. BRITTIN. Second Vice President —G. E. DICKINSON, First Vice President —J. W. FAIRFAX. Third Vice President —WM. P. ENO. Secretary and Treasurer —C. P. ELLIS. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: A. BRITTIN, New Orleans, La., of A. Brittin & Cos., Cotton Merchants. J. W. FAIRFAX, New Orleans, Ba., of J. W. Fairfax & Cos., Stock Brokers. G. E. DICKINSON, Savannah. Ga„ Cotton Broker. WILLIAM P. ENO, New York city. Capitalist. C. P. ELLIS, New Orleans, La., of C. P. Ellis & Cos., Cotton Merchants. S. P. WALMSLEY, New Orleans, La., Cotton Factor, President New Orleans Cotton Exchange. FELIX COUTURIE, New Orleans, La„ Cotton Exporter. This company presents to the public a business proposition, managed by business men. Its properties have been care fully selected, surrounding the gushers from six points of the compass, and most of it in the PROVEN OIL FIELD em bracing the following exceptionally valuable tracts: (A) 10 acVes, due north, 1,701 yards from the flowing wells. * (B) 10 acres, northeast, 2,000 yards from the flowing wells. <C) 4 acres, northwest, 2,500 yards from the flowing wells. (D) 3 acres, northwest, 2,300 yards from the flowing wells. - (E 15 acres, southwest of the Lucus Gusher. (F) acres, southwest of the Lucus Gusher. (G) 1 acre, south and 800 yards from the Lucus Gusher. Negotiations are now pending for the purchase of several outlying properties. A contract has been entered Into for on# well with a thoroughly trustworthy driller, who has successfully brought in four of the twelve gushers in the Beaumont field, and work will commence not later than June 1. The company is negotiating for two other wells, and contracts will be placed so soon as practicable. Meanwhile own ers of adjacent lands have begun boring ing ror oil and this company’s holdings arc thus being daily enhanced in value Half of the authorized capital has been subscribed for. and while the company has a large balance now in the treas ury. it is desired to sell SIOO,OOO of the treasury stock, the proceeds to be devoted to the acquirement of further land the drilling of wells; the building of storage tanks, tank cars, pipe lines, etc. The shares are SI.OO par value, full paid and non assessable. A limited amount can be had through GUERARD & DE/WERE, 1 Brokers, 104 Bay Street, East. The company reserves the right to withdraw the sale of stock at any time without notice. attempts to get the terrified horse aboard, gave up the Job, and lashed the animal, more dead than alive, to the vessel’s side by a compllcted system of slings and guy lines. It was a great team that the idle loungers on the dock saw put on the beach that day. Without incident, the horse was dropped from his sling Into shallow water, and the proud captain, amid the cheers of his fellows, led the animal ashore, and there and then be came the first owner of a horse In Clam ville. A WALL STREET STORY. I How a Greenhorn Rushed in Where It C’osls *70.000 to Tread. From the New York Press. The regular Wall street representatives of the several newspares were hard pressed last week, and appeals for assist ance were made to the city editors. Among the men sent down from a certain office was a bright chap whose career In journalism was but a few weeks old. He had never been in Wall street and, like Jim Hill, was never inside of a Stock Ex change; but he thought he could do de scriptive work. "All right," said the finan cial' editor, in despair, “you just go down to the exchange and watch the row. Pick up all the points you can and report to the city editor.” It was Thursday morn ing. At half past 3 he was reporting to , the city editor. “I didn't think it neces sary to remain in the exchange after the chairman signalled the close.” he said. “Besides, when I left the floor the ex cltment was about over.” "The floor!" gasped the city editor; "the floor!” “Yes; I mean down in the enclosure among the brokers." “Among the brokers'. You down among the brokers?” The financial ediotr dropped in as the city editor sat motionless, staring into vacancy. "On the floor! Down among the brokers!” Looking at the new re porter he asked what was the matter, and at the sound of his voice his chief, return ing from Mars, said; “This man tells me he has been among the brokers on the floor of the Stock Exchange.” It was the financial editor’s turn to gaze and gasp. For ten years he had tried to get on the floor, hut was always stopped before he had gone six feet. ”1 Just walked in,” explained the latest wonder. "No one interfered with me. I stayed In <he crowd most of the time, but occasionally stood in front of the chair man's desk to see the fun. I was there when the gong sounded.” It was explain ed to this remarkable creature that it costs $70,000 to walk across the floor, and that to do so without holding e member ship might cost him his life, and certain ly would cost him his clothes and a severe pummellng. When I mentioned the Incident to some brokers at the uptown exchange (Waldorf- Astoria) last night they were greatly amused, but expressed no surprise. "We were 100 excited to notice anything," one said, "and the doorkeepers were out of their minds. Members who had not shown their faces on the floor for ten years Joined the regulars in the mad whirlpool. Some were stopped at the door and re quired to produce their credentials, be cause the attendants did not know them, but after awhile, when the panic was at its hight, anybody might have walked on the floor without question. It was an op portunity missed by the financial writers of all the papers. But it’s the old adage, ’Fools rush In where angels fear to tread.’ Y’our reporter is a long way from being a fool. What I mean is that his Ignorance of the rules enabled him to do something that the oldest and ablest financial writ ers would not dare to do.” K YNSAB, THE TENTH MUSE. Y\ hy Vie Make* ns Much Noise ns a "Mm,n Full of Meteors on a Tin Iloof." William Allen White, in the St. Louis Mirror. There is a foolish English tytestion or conundrum which runs, "Why Is a mouse when It spins?” There Is no answer to It. It Is only a silly combination of words, and in this same spirit and by the same token one might ask, “Why la Carrie Nation when she smashes?” Why is she? Heaven knows! Why does all the world stop Its busi ness and stand agape while this fat little old woman who until weeks ago had lived sixty eminently respectable years goes about waving her hatchet and talking in loud and excite|l tones? As the world has rolled along any number of Indies and gentlemen have risen with nxes or adzes or clubs and have lammed the daylights out of people who disagree with them. Saloon smash ing has been done, and In recent years, by women who have been persecuted by the mm fiend. The matter lias caused some neighborhood comment. It has even got Into the day's dispatches. But the story was unimportant and trivial and “really of no consequence." But here comes this Kansas woman, from Medicine 1-odge, Kan., the home of Jerry Simpson, and also of Congress man Chester I. Long, whose speech on IPETER HELLWEGE, New Orleans, Ga., of Hellwege & Cos., Cotton and Stock Brokers. BERTRAND BEER, New Orleans, La., of H. & B. Beer, Cotton Merchants. W. F. PINCHARD, New Orleans, La., of Pinchard & Meyer, Cotton Merchants. E. PERRIN, New Orleans, La., of A. Brittin & Cos., Cotton Merchants, Presi dent Orleans Railroad Cos. I. E. GLENNY, New Orleans, La., of Glenny & Cos., Cotton Merchants. SAMUEL HYMAN, New Orleans, La., of H. & C. Newman, Limited, Cotton. RESORT FOLDERS AND RAILROAD PRINTING We buy our material direct from the mills. We can handle large quantities of this work, and are doing it. We work both from our lithograph and job print ing departments. We have our own staff of artists and work can be turned out satisfactorily and quickly. In one color or a dozen. We will be glad to call upon you with estimates. THE MORNING NEWS JOB DEPARTMENT, J. H. ESTILL, President, > Savannah, Ga. the Porto Rican tariff was used more than any other speech on the subject by the Republican National Committe last year—here comes this little old Kansas woman and throws a rock heard around the world. Why does It resound? Would It have crashed through the glass doors of the House of Fame if Mrs. Nation had thrown that rock at Springfield, Mo., or Wheeling W. Va., or Charleston, S. C., or Walla Walla, Wash., or Laramie, Wyo., or Ilion, N. Y.? “No!” as the Fourth of July orator would say, “No, ten thousand times no!” The rock that Carrie Nation aimed at the Rum Fiend’s slats rattled around the world like a moon full of meteors falling on a tin roof solely and only be cause Carrie Nation threw the rock in Kansas. Kansas is the tenth muse—the muse of advertising. There have been socialists in America for a century, but until the Kansas Populists appeared the socialists were without force or effect. There have been cyclones in the world since the morning stars sang together, but until the Kan sas cyclone appeared the cyclone was without distinction or influence. God made grasshoppers before he made man, hut until the grasshoppers became hyphenated with Kansas he was a lowly bug, less known than the bedbug or the flea. Ivansas refuses to allow her wares to become shopworn. She advertises. It is in the blood. When she found she had in Ingalls the best living American stylist, what did she do? Did she hide him in a college, as Massachusetts would have done? Did she start a magazine with him, as New York would have done? Did she send him to the court of St. Jame's as Ohio would have done? No, gentle reader. Kansas found the best billboard on earth, and put old John J. Ingalls to writing advertising on Kansas there. Kansas sent Ingalls to the Senate. Kansas gets advertising out of every thing. Good fortune and calamity, riches or adversity, famine or feast—all times and seasons are reserved in the contract for top-of-column-next-to- reading-matter advertising for Kansas. Kansas Is a wonderful State. If some night an earthquake should drop the whole ever blooming State into the bot tomless pit, before morning the inclosure would he fenced up with a billboard ten miles high, covered with a story of the glory of Kansas, and every night from the crater of'the pit the same enlivening and diverting, withal profitable, Kansas tale would be wigwagged from the blazes below upon the dome of the eternal stars. The Fall of Constantlaople. 1453. From the Catholic World. Ti Turks entered Constantinople one hour after midnight. May 29, 1453. The Greeks fled In defeat, ami spread lOnstcr mutlon everywhere through the city. In a moment the streets were tilled with a crowd half-maddened with fear and Hlnrm. According to a widespread belief, the Turk's would be crushed by thunder bolts from heaven If they attempted to pass the column of the cross. An angel would descend with a sword and would hand this sword to an old man, saying. "Avenge God's people." The enemy would be then put to flight, end the Greeks would pursue them, strewing the road with their dead bodies, as far as Monaderes on the Persian frontier. The affrighted multitude hastened to St. So phia. In a short time more than one hundred thousand people filled the vast edifice. Soldiers, senators, priests, vir gins who had left their monasteries, the women of the lower class, children, patri cian families, all thronged into the body W. p. RICHARDSON. New Orleans, La., of Richardson & May, Cotton Fa. 1 tors. LAWRENCE FABACHER, New Or. leans. La., President Jackson Brewtr; Company. C. A. JOHNSTON, Columbus, Mis?, President First State Bank. M. N. WISDOM, New Orleans, La., agent Equitable Life Insurance Cos. J. A. GAUCHE, New Orleans, La., Stock Broker. T. P. THOMPSON, agent Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, New Orleans. JAS, DU BUYS, New Orleans, of Du Buys & Labouisse, Cotton Brokers. and galleries of the church, making the building resound with their piercing cries and lamentations. When there was no more room the doors were closed and fast ened. Now a frightful state of helpless ness and inaction succeeded to the weep ing and crying of the people. Those who climbed up to the Interior groundwork of the huge dome spied the approaJh of dan ger from the windows, while one hundred thousand pallid faces listened attentively for the leasit sound. The massed army of the invaders marched through the desert, ed streets of the city, and their objective point was, doubtless. St. Sophia. It was slavery, worse than death, that advanced. The exterminating angel did not halt the soldiers at the column of the cross. Di vine wrath, so long staid, was falling with certainty on Byzantium. The crowds trembled and women fainted. In a trice the doors of St. Sophia were battered down by Ottoman arms. 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