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Auction Sales—Fine Tybee Lots, by C.
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To-day (Saturday) A\ r e Offer All Our
Ready-to-AVear Goods at Special Prices—
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Sunday Excursions to Charleston—A r li
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First Anniversary Sale—At the Bee-
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Whiskey—Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey.
Oil Cook Stoves—Palmer Hardware Cos.
Men’s Blue Serge Suits—The Metropoli
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Publications—Smart Set for June.
Attractive Prfces This Day—At Mun
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White Cotbolene—N. K. Falrbank Cos.
Grape-Nuts Food—Postum Cereal Com
pany.
Financial—Allls-Chalmers Company.
Legal Notice—ln the Matter of J. W.
Parker, Bankrupt.
Hotela—Hotel Victoria, New York; An
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ham, Proprietor.
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ciation.
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Medical—'Thacher's Liver and Blood
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ford's Acid Phosphate; Tuft’s Liver Pills;
Paine’s Celery Compound.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
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Tot Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day are
for cloudy weather, with occasional show
ers, fresh southwesterly winds; and for
Eastern Florida, generally fair weather,
except showers In extreme northern por
tion, warmer in northern portion, varia
ble winds, mostly light westerly.
This is the season of the year when
those who are tn a position to do so be
gin to collect tha "dough" for a summer
vacation.
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A New York gambler has been sent to
the penitentiary for ono year. The Sa
vannah fraternity must be glad that they
do not live In New York.
John W. Gates, the steel and wire mag
nate, has been refused membership in the
New York Yacht Club. It is gratifying
to know that there is in New York one
organisation where millions do not mean
Everything.
Even Dr. Hlllls of Brooklyn may some
times be wrong. He said the other day
that there was no difference between the
newsboys who flip coins 1n the alleys and
the men who gamble in stocks in Wall
street on margins. But. indeed, there is
this difference; the boys have an even
chance.
In an address before the students of
the University of Pennsylvania, Senator
Depew the other night said, among other
things: "Speaking from forty years' ex
perience I say, do not take political of
fice until you are independent of it. There
is nothing so cruel as politics The great
est misfortune that can happen to a
young man who has only character and
education and no capital for a career Is
to accept office.”
The police owe It to themselves, as well
as to the city, to maintain better order
•round the tabernacle in which the Revs.
Messrs. Jones and Stuart are holding
their meetings. It Is Impossible for all
of the attendants to get Inside of the
betiding, and there is usually a fringe
ten to fifteen feet deep around the out
side. Every night there has been a
mouthy and restless element about th •
building who do not cars to hear, but
prevent other people from hearing what
is being said. In addition there have been
111-mannerod youngsters, both white and
black, playing hide-and-seek among ths
crowd, setting dogs on each other, throw
ing rocks on the roof of th tabernacle,
and otherwise making themselves nuis
ances. All of this reflects upon the good
Intentions and efficiency of the police de
partment. It should not be necessary to
call attention to th s matter again
M'LAIRIK ON REORGANIZATION.
Senator McLaurlu of South Carolina has
an article in the current number of the
Independent (New York) In which he
gives Ills ideas with respect to "the New
Southern Democracy.” By way of intro
duction he tells what he thinks Is the
matter with the “old ' Southern Demo
cracy, if that characterization may lie
applied to the party of the two last pres
idential campaigns The party, he says,
has been "mongrelized” hy the Infusion
Into it of ‘populism, socialism, Ttllman
ism, sectionalism, and all the other Isms
of the day." In this connection It Is not
to be lost sight of that Senator McLau
rln himself came Into political existence
as one result of ’'Tillmanlsm” In the
South Carolina Democracy, an “ism"
with which he now finds himself In oppo
sition. Continuing the Senator says the
great cardinal doctrines of the party have
been lost sight of In the scramble for
Democratic success, while the party Itself
has degenerated into an oligarchy for the
election to the presidency of W. J Bryan.
The party leaders, he says, have aimed to
commit the Democracy to no vital Issue
in national politics, but to keep it In
opposition and obstruction to any policies
favored by the Republican party.
The Senator next asserts that no great
national political party can hope for suc
cess by remaining always a negative
force. It must have positive policies,
definite aims and progressive ideas. As
conditions advance, the party must ad
vance with them. The South, he points
out, has made and Is making wonderful
progress in manufacturing and kindred
Industries. It is beginning to see "that the
great American questions which have
grown out of the national events of the
last Jffiree years have exerted a potential
Influence," and that In them are “the
fruits of the upbuilding of our whole
country—of making us one of the groat
powers of the earth—of opening remun
erative foreign markets to us as the lead
ing exporting nation, and of extending the
Influence and blessings of our Republican
Institutions."
He does not, however, believe tn the
destruction of the Southern Democracy.
He would, he says, preserve and revital
ize it. He would get rid of the "Isms,"
and the hybrid character which Is fruit
ful of dissensions. If, for the purpose of
revivifying the party, it becomes necessary
to adopt policies that have the indorse
ment of the Republican party, what of
It, if the policies are for the public good?
"The people are becoming tired of th?
vagaries of Bryan Democracy.” he says.
"They see In them no promise of party
success, and much that Is Inimical to the
best Interests of the South.” The fear of
negro domination having been eliminated,
the Democratic party should -yvise Its
platform, retaining Its cardinal doctrines,
and adapt itself to the new economic con
ditions. The people of the South, says the
Senator, "believe a revision of the po
litical creed of the Democratic party and
the advocacy by it of live issues In a
progressive and aggressive way will re
store it to public confidence and give it
victory.”
Senator McLaurin is to make a speech
in Greenville shortly, tn which it is said
he will outline the plan he has in mind
for reorganizing the party in the South,
and particularly in his state. With ref
erence to the latter, he will, of course,
be under the necessity of advocating the
retirement from power of Senator Till
man, since he is one of the disorganizing
Influences named. To persuade the Caro
linians to throw Tillman over will be a
difficult task, and it will be interesting t o
watch the effects of the advocacy of that
policy. |
A RIVAL OF THE GOVERNMENT.
While political reformers are advocating
municipal ownership of public utilities and
government ownership of the railway,
telephone and telegraph lines a company
has been started in Omaha. Neb., in op
position o the postoffice department. This
company carries only letters.
It carries them for one half the rate
charged hy the government, and delivers
them much quicker. Thus far it has con
fined its operations to Omaha, but it is
preparing to extend Its business *o all of
the larger cities of the West.
That there is money in carrying letters
for one cent each there Is no doubt. The
government could make money—a big
amount of it—if It carried nothing bu let
ters. As it is, there is a big deficit In
the postofflee department every year. If
costs great deal more to carry se.bnd
class and third class matter fhan is re
ceived from It.
The government has looked Into the
business of the letter carrying company
with the view of stopping Its business,
but it found on investigation that it was
doing nothing illegal. If it should estab
lish definite routes It would make itself
liable to prosecution, hut it is probable
that it is well advised, and will take care
not to get into the clutches of the govern
ment.
The postofflee department is greatly
stirred up over the matter. If the letter
carrying company should greatly extend
Its business It would cut deeply Into the
receipts of the postofflee department. No
doubt there will be a big fight in the next
Congress over the question of making cer
tain kinds of matter pay more postngr.
The government cannot afford to have a
private company take away the only part
of the postofflee business that pays a
proflt.
One of the queerest of the new “reli
gion" mushrooms that have sprung up
in and around Chicago of late years Is
• hat founded by "Dr." John Alexander
Dowle. It Is a sort of admixture of faith
cure, socialism nnd commercialism. Dowle
established a "Zion" a few miles out of
Chicago, proclaimed himself a second Eli
jah, professed to perform miracles in heal
ing the sick, and set up several manu
facturing enterprises run on the mutual
benefit plan. Dowle succeeded In acquir
ing a considerable following, and a
"church" property worth millions of dol
lars. Now there has come diasentlon into
"Zion." Borne of the "elders” declare
that Dowle Is an old fraud; that he start
ed his “religion” in order to get labor
cheap, and that he is looking after the
dollars only.
Col. A E. Ruck, of this state. Minister
to Japan, has so far recovered from his
recent Illness that he will start on his re
turn trip to the Orient the first of next
week. This does not look much like the
Minister is to lose his job. If he were
slated for retirement, the State Depart
ment would hardly permit him to make
th* long and expensive trip.
THE MORNING NEWS; SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1901.
; RELIEF WORK IN JACKSONVILLE.
The Jacksonville .Relief Committee is
feeding between 3,000 and 4,000 people a
day, and it is evident that the relief
work will have to be kept up for a large
part of the summer. The help the city is
receiving is not nearly as much as It was
expected it would be. and not enough to
prevent a great deal of suffering. Of
course there are enough supplies and
money on hand to meet immediate de
mands upon the Relief Committee, but
unless there is a more generous response
to the appeal for assistance than there
has yet been, there will be many Instances
of actual want within the next few weeks.
It seems to us that Jacksonville made
a mistake immediately after the fire tn
letting the Impression get out that she
would not ask for aid. That was a cred
itable position for her to take, but as It
turns out, not a wise one. She did nor
know of course what the conditions would
be in the course of a couple of weeks—
did not know how completely thousands
of her citizens had been stripped of thfeir
possessions.
Comparatively few cities have been
heard from yet, however, and many of
them have not been awakened to a real
ization of the magnitude of the disaster
from which Jacksonville is suffering. The
appeals which are now being sent out for
help will no doubt meet with a prompt
and generous response.
The standing of those who have charge
of the relief woflk Is a guarantee that
whatever contributions are made will be
■applied where they are absolutely need
ed. There will be nothing wasted or mis
appropriated. The one feature of the sit
uation that affords some satisfaction is
that very soon there will be a chance for
ail who are able to work to earn some
thing. There will be a vast amount of
building going on all the time until the
city is practically rebuilt.
GASTON STREET PAVING QUESTION
That is a rather curious statement
which the Mayor makes relative to the
ordinance for the paving of Gaston street.
Our understanding of what he says is
that ten of the Council were pledged to
vote for the ordinance. It is presumed
that these ten will vote for the ordinance
again if the Mayor should veto it, thus
passing it over bis veto.
But why should ten of the Council
pledge themselves to vote to pave with
vitrified brick a street which the proper
ty owners of the street do not want
paved? Are not property owners to have
a voice in such a matter?
The only reasons we have heard ad
vanced for paving the street with brick
are that it will cost the city considerable
money to put the street in repair, and
that a shell pavement is a costly one to
keep in good condition. But the property
owners of the street are not to blame for
Its present condition. The city tore
' up for the purpose of putting
..own a sewer. It is its duty to
put it In as good condition as It
found it. It may be that a shell pave
ment Is a costly one, but the property
owners are not to blame for the street
being paved with shells. The city is to
blame for that. It looks therefore as if
the city were in fault all along the line.
There is a question whether property
holders can be made to pay for a brick
pavement after having paid for a shell
pavement. That question is now pending
In the courts. It is probable that it
would not be advisable for the city to
give an opportunity for that question to
be raised in connection with Savannfch
pavements.
If there Were not other streets in need
of paving, streets which have never been
paved, and which property owners want
paved, it would not be so difficult to un
derstand why theCouncll is so determined
to repave Gaston street with a mate
rial different from that with Which it is
now paved.
Let members of Council take a look at
Henry street, west, from Jefferson. They
will find a section of a street there that
needs paving badly. True, It Is the road
to the cemetery—a road over which many
dead men pass, men who have no votes—
but it is much traveled, especially by
mourners, and they should have some
consideration shown them.
Having paid for one pavement it is a
hardship on Gaston street property holders
to have to pay for another, at a lime when
they are being pretty heavily taxed for
making connections between their resi
dences and the new drainage system. An
overtaxed and unecessartly taxed people
are a dissatisfied people. The Mayor
should veto the ordiance and give the ten
councllmen a chance to take a second
thought about the matter.
The beginning of Chicago's career as
an ocean port was not auspicious. The
Northwestern, the first steamer to clear
from the lake city for Europe, had much
trouble in the canal locks, and finally
grounded in the St. Lawrence river, not
withstanding it was the most favorable
season of the year for river shipping, tn
winter the navigation of the lower St.
laiwrenee Is attended with many difficul
ties and dangers, hence if it is so hard
to get a ship through In the warm sei
son, It will be much worse when the
tveather grows cold. The grounding of
the ship had led to a demand for an all-
American canal from the lakes to tide
water sufficient to float ocean-going craft,
but the chances are that It will be many
yeans before such a canal Is constructed.
The railroads are In the carrying busi
ness between the lake region and th
coast, and they win not let Congress for
get it.
Supposing Senator Hanna.should consent
to be a candidate for the presidency, what
would his platform be. ship subsidies?
He Is more closely connected with that
scheme than any other. And it is not
likely that ship subsidies will ever get
through Congress. The recent purchase
of a great fleet of English ships by Amer
ican capitalists, and the consolidation of
ship building Interests, have convinced
the Americnn public that the shipping in
terests db not need government pap. Be
fore Senator Hanna can become a candi
date, therefore, the main plank of hi*
prospective platform will have become a
dead Issue.
Nobody believes the silly stories that are
abroad, to the effect that Memphis pro
poses to "fleece" the veterans whf attend
the great reunion. Memphis has raised
four times ss much as Nashville and three
limes as much as Louisville did to enter
tatn the old soldiers, besides which the
Commercial-Appeal says every ittlsen will
spend from $lO to SIOO in the entertainment
of visitors.
Gen. Mercier of the French army prob
ably read the speech of Mr. Balfour In the
House of Commons the other day with
mingled feelings of regret and self-re
proach. Palfour said that towards the end
of 1899 there were in'Vjreat Britain only
3,300 rounds of small-arms ammunition,
and no reserve artillery ammunition ex
cept what was actually with the guns re
tained at home. Along about that time,
It will be remembered, Gen. .Merrier made
some observations with respect to how
easy it would be for the French army to
invade England and capture London.
Why didn’t he persuade the French army
to do it? The feat would have made him
famous, and France would have won glory
enough to last for ages! Now the oppor
tunity Is gone, and it may never be re
peated. for the hard-headed Britishers will
see to it that they are not caught without
powder arid shot again.
The evangelical churches of Toledo, O ,
are to form a trust. The plan has been
approved by the. Pastors’ Union. The ob
ject is to economize force, concentrate ef
fort and present a solid front against
municipal, public end private evil. The
erection of unnecessary churches will be
opposed, and expenses will be reduced
wherever possible. It is believed that
every evangelical church in the city will
enter the combination.
PERSONAL.
—The late William, Stubbs, Bishop of
Oxford, found his greatest amusement in
the making out of pedigrees and was
probably the greatest authority of the day
On the subject of English genealogies.
—Dr. Enno Littman of Oldenburg, Ger
many, who has been called to Princeton
to deliver courses In the Semitic lan
guages, will be officially ranked as an
Instructor In the college and a member of
the library staff.
—Sara Bernhardt, In an interview on
America and Americans, says that the
only thing she has really to complain of
concerning this country is its weather.
She rpet, she said, more storms during
her last trip here than she has known
abroad in year*.
—Prof. Albert H. Smith of Haverford,
Penn., will sail on June 1 for Scotland,
to attend the celebration of the 450th an
niversary of the founding of Glasgow
University. He goes as official represen
tative of the American Philosophical So
ciety. of Philadelphia, the oldest learned
society in America, and he will deliver •
Latin oration In behalf of that body.
—Lord Edward Cecil, Lord Salisbury's
soldier son. having obtained his brevet
majority in May, 1898, for his services In
the Dongola expedition, and the D.S.O.
for the expedition to Khartum, has been’
promoted to a brevet lieutenant colonel
cy-while still a cpataln in the Grenadier
Guards—as a reward for his good work
at Mafeklng, where he was Maj. Gen.
Baden-Powell's right-hand man through
out the investment. Lord Edward is not
yet 34.
BRIGHT BITS.
—A Foregone Conclusion.—“ You think
she loves you then?” “Think! My dear
boy, how can she help it?’’—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
—Jim—“Wot are yer larfin' at, Bill?"
Bill—" Why, the ole woman started ter
Jaw that copper what kyme ter lock me
up. an' I'm Mowed if ’e ain’t run ’er In,
an’ left me!"—Glasgow Evening Times.
—Fortified.—Mrs. Hatterson—"l am go
ing to meet my husband at one o’clock to
select some decorations for the drawing
room." Mrs. Crifterson—“What do you
want him with you for?” "Well, in case
they don't turn out right, I can say it is
his fault.”—Life.
—A Drain on Him.—"l’ve often won
dered,” said Cholly, how so many fellahs
I know manage to get well off, while I’m
always poor.” "Perhaps,” replied Miss
Peppery’. "It’s because so many people
amuse themselves at your expense.”—
Philadelphia Press.
—The Cloud.—He—"There, dear, after
toiling and planning for years, we have
al last been able to buy a beautiful home,
nnd yon ought to be perfectly happy.”
She—"But I’m not." He—" What's the
matter?" She—"l know we shall never
be able to sell it.”—Harper’s Bazar.
—Vacancy Needed.—“Do you think it
would improve my style," inquired the
'varsity man, who had got into the crew
through favoritism, "If I were to acquire
a fast stroke?" "It would improve the
crew.” replied the candid trainer, "If you
got a lightning stroke."—Philadelphia
Times.
—Poodle and the Proposals.—Mr. Simp
son (showing agitation)—"Miss Lucia,
there is a communic'ation—that is—l may
say—there are words which I feel com
lulled to utter.” Miss Lucia—" O—don’t
let me interrupt you, Mr. Simpson—but
wait till I put poodle out—he gets awfully
mad if anybody—that is—he’s so excit
able.”—Chicsgo Record-Herald.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Louisville Courier-Journal (hem.)
says: "Speaking of recent American pur
chases of English sleamshlps, the London
Telegraph mournfully observes that
‘America has superseded our agriculture,
beaten our coal output, left us far behind
in the production of iron and steel and
passed us at last in the total volume of
exports. She has only commenced her on
slaught on our carrying trade. Is the
whole Brlaish empire to be bought up by
American millionaires?’ Two items m this
account overlooked by the Telegraph are
the number of English noblemen bought
by American girls, and the mortgage
taken on Great Britain hy American
money-lenders. We used to hear of Brit
ish gold buying up everything In America,
Hut now It is American gold that Is ac
tive In England. As long as we have
gone into the Island business we might
as well have the ’tight litle’ with the
rest.”
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem ) says:
"It being admitted that we have no
friends among other nations, it behooves
us to make preparations lo defend the
Monroe doctrine. As long as foreign Pow
ers find It unsafe to attack us our con
tention with respect to Latln-Amertca will
be respected, hut as soon as one of I hem
believes that we can he at'Rcked with Im
punity we will have to resort to arms.
The arbitration of questions arising un
der the Monroe doctrine Is entirely out
of the question in the very nature of
things."
The Galveston News (Dem.) says: "The
recent visit of representative Cubans
seems to have opened the eyes of the dele
gates and to have had a telling effect
on the people. The anexatlonlsts are evi
dently growing in numbers and Influence.
This Is a logical result. Annexation will
prave of benefit to both countries; but
that is not all. There la really no other
way out of It. We have Cuba on our
hands. There Is only one thing to do
with it."
The Atlanta Journal (Deni ) says: "Mr.
Bryan does not appear to be able to make
much out of the recent panic. It took
place and wns over with between the
Commoner’s publication days."
A Question of Preference.
Walden was ah' the dinner the other
night, says the Saturday Evening Post.
He is a tall, thin, red-bearded Yankee,
who looks more like Don Quixote than
any one has a right to look. To see him
side by side with Whistler is a liberal
education. We were talking of England.
"England." said Whistler, "rules the
world simply because the Englishman
takes what he wants.”
We were rapidly losing ourselves in a
fog of politics and natural psychology
when Mr. Walden lifted part of his red
mustache and said: “That’s right, all
right.”
It was the first time he had spoken
(hat evening, so we stopped our argu
ments and listened. Calmly and slowly
he said: “I was down at Cernay list
summer—with Faulkner—painting. You
know the little tavern there and the old
woman who keeps it. There wsrs an
Englishman there who eat next to me at
table. Well, the landlady gave us straw
berries one night for dinner. For a dol
lar a day that was pretty good. The ser
vant girl passed the strawberries around.
When it came to the Englishman’s turn
to help himself he emptied the whole dish
of strawberries on his plate. So I said
to him:
’Say, my friend, I like strawberries,
too.’
Not so much as I do,’ said my Eng
lishman, calmly, and went on eating.”
Air. Bryan and a “Newyorkitis."
Dr. John H. Girdner of this city, known
popularly as the friend of William J.
Bryan and of Richard Croker, has writ
ten a book entitled "Newyoritis,” which
he considers an appropriate name for a
number of mental and physical affections,
chiefly nervous, from which he says the
people of this city suffer, says the New
A'ork Evening Post. In this book he
tells the following story, evidently of the
recent presidential candidate:
On a certain Sunday morning I invited
Mr. 8., who was my guest, and who hails
from another city, to attend Dr. ——’s
church with me. Mr. B. is not a New
yorkitic, nor is he popular with New
yorkitios. His daily work and conversa
tion, however, show him to be an humble
follower of the Master. He is an official
in his own church at home. After the
service was over, and while the doxology
was being sung, a note was passed to me,
I receiving it from the gentleman who
occupied the pew immediately behind me.
The note was signed by an official of the
church, a man of education and wealth—
presumably a Christian and a gentleman.
The note said in substance: "There are
photographers outside on the street. Get
Mr. B. away from the church before they
snap-shot him, for we don’t want the
church In the same picture with him.” In
other words: “Remove the ‘corpse;’ we
don’t want the church polluted."
Yerke'a First Venture.
Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago street
railway magnate, who is now building
electric lines in London, showed early
appreciation of the theory of buying and
selling to advantage, says the Chicago
Chronicle. He tells how as a boy he fre
quented a salesroom near hts home.
“One day,” said Mr. Yerkes, "I noticed
several boxes of soap of a certain brand
which 1 had often been sent to buy at
the corner grocery. I thought to myself,
’That will go cheap,’ so I straightway
ran to the corner grocery, and, after
drawing from the grocer a promise to
pay a certain price for as many boxes
of that soap as I could furnish (he, of
course, never I would supply
them), I returned to the salesroom. A
box of the soap was about to be knock
ed down to the highest bidder when I
called out from my corner another hid.
The box was declared sold to me and my
name demanded.
“ ‘Charles T. Yerkes. Jr.,” I piped out
in a shrill voice—l was only 11 years old.
“The bystanders were amused, but their
laughter gave place to amazement when
I bid In the entire lot of twenty-two
boxes. I promptly delivered them to
the corner grocery and received the price
agreed upon.”
Where He Fell Down,
The young man drew himself up to his
full hight, says Judge.
“I have,” ho cried, “an unsullied char
acter, an ardent heart, a versatile mind,
and strenuous biceps.”
The young girl yawned and seemed in
terested.
He was quick to push his advantage.
"I am the possessor of a town and
country house, a yacht, a stable of thor
oughbreds and a box at the opera.”
She hesitated, and a slight flush be
trayed that she was listening.
"I have got,” he continued with a cer
tain fierceness, "thirty servants, forty
pairs of trousers, fifty ancestors, three au
tomobiles, six prize bull pups and an army
commission.’ '
Ah! she' had found her tongue at last.
"And how many golf medals?” she
Msped.
• The young man shuddered.
He felt that he had lost. He had played
nervlly and high, but she was above his
limit.
Some English Anecdotes.
Some more stories are told In a book of
memoirs that has Just bqen published,
says the London Globe. One of them
concerns a well-known Bishop. He was
starting on a railway Journey from Ches
ter Station when the station master came
up to him and said, referring to his lug
gage: "How many articles are there, my
Lord?” "Thirty-nine,” was the reply. "I
can only find sixteen,” answered the
other. "Then,” raid the Bishop, “you
must be a Dissenter.”
Another amusing story is told which
bears upon a case of mistaken identity.
A man went up to an acquaintance and
began to talk to him. In the epurse of
conversation he said: "I heard your fa
ther make such an excellent speech tn
the House of Lords." "I am so glad,”
wns the reply: "we lost him about ten
years ago, and I am highly gratified to
hear that he baa gone to so respectable
a place."
The Hnhhlt’a Nose.
Some light may be thrown upon the
rabbit and the wabbling of its nose, savs
the Norfolk Landmark, by the following
admirable Jest, which comes to us from
an unknown, but evidently very intelli
gent source:
“In order to decide a long-standing con
troversy.” said the squirrel, "would you
mind telling me why you wabble your
nose?”
"To show that I have something else
lo do with it besides sticking It Into other
people’s affairs," frigidly answered the
rabbit.
We fear, however, that If this squirrel
was like its human lmltut&rs it didn't
see the point. Some people pay so much
attention to other people’s business that
they lose their own.
HeHecllona of n nnehelor.
From the New York Press.
You can't keep a down man good.
Every married man could get- up a
rummage sale out of stuff his wife hus
liought and feel happier afterward.
Give the average woman anew kind of
perfumery and she will act like a city cat
the first time It ever smells catnip.
A woman who looks prettier In a shirt
waist Is about as rare as a man who
looks more Intellectual In a monocle.
—The London paper* still contain a
good deal of gossip about the death of
Queen Victoria which they were not al
lowed to print at the time of that event.
The latest of these Is that the Queen or
dered that the wedding ring should not
lie removed from the linger after death
and that thjs wish was respected. She had
not removed the ring from the day of her
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—M. Bethelot has lately had occasion
to study an Egyptian clue, covered with
hieoglyphies. This object was found at
Thebes and dates from the seventh cen
tury before Christ. It is not only re
markable as a work of art, but for the
presence of platinum which analysis has
detected. The eminent chemist thinks
that platinum was extremely rare in
Egypt and that the metal workers treat
ed it as they would treat silver or gold,
beating It out by hammers into very thin
leaves and applying it in decoration in
the same fashion.
—ln Berlin a very perfect system of
milk purification on a large scale has
been established. In 1871 the Berlin es
tablishment distributed 500,000 gallons of
milk; to-day it supplies 7,000,000 gallons,
this amount being consumed by 50,000
families. By means of special apparatus
all the milk which is received is pasteur
ized; while other products—such as but
ter, cream cheese and the like —are made
under equally stringent regulations as
to their purity. The effect of these meas
ures on the infant mortality of Berlin
has been excellent. In 1871 the mortallty
per 100 children born was 30; in ten years
it fell to 27.1. and in 1899 decreased to 23.4.
The University of Pennsylvania is about
to erect, at a cost of more than $500,000,
exclusive of grounds andi equipment, a
medical laboratory building which will be
unexcelled in every respect. The trustees
are also contemplating the erection, in
the future, of anew medical hall, anatom
ical building and auxiliary buildings,
which will adjoin the new laboratory
about to be erected, and which will form
one of the most extensive systems of
buildings devoted exclusively to the teach
ing of medicine In Europe or America. The
new medical laboratory building which
will be erected at once, will be quad
rangular in shape and will be located on
the south side of Hamilton walk, between
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh streets.
The building will be two stories in hight
above a high basement and measures 340
feet front by nearly 200 feet in depth. The
long front faces north, securing a maxi
mum amount of the beet light for lab
oratory purposes. All along the front
are arranged small rooms for research,
rooms for professors and their assistants,
a library, etc.—these open into a private
corridor, so that men employed in these
rooms may pursue their work without in
terruption from students passing through
the math halls.
—Prof. David Shepard Holman of Phil
adelphia, the inventor of the Holman life
slides and other accessories to the micro
scope, died on Monday, although to a
great extent self-educated, and with
out the advantage of a scien
tific training, was a skillful mlcro
scoplst, and devoted many years
of his life In this city to the Invention
of devices for illustrating with the mi
crosope the vital forces. In 1870 he be
came connected with the Franklin Insti
tute, and the following year he was elect
ed actuary of the society, which position
he held until 1885. During this time he
perfected many of his devices and inven
tions, delivered lectures and, forseeing the
great advantages of the typewriting ma
chine, he established a school of stenog
raphy and typewriting at the institute,
which was very successful. He afterward
taught stenography and typewriting at
Girard College. He was a member of
the Academy of Natural Sciences. After
leaving the Franklin Institute he identi
fied himself with the Atlantic Refining
Company, and for a number of years was
in charge of the laboratory for testing the
viscosity of oil. In this connection also
his inventive genius led him to devising
the “viscosimeter.”
—The visitor to the national capital who
has seen the Washington monument only
once has just begun to see it, says the
New York Evening Post. A plain, un
adorned obelisk, it would appear the sim
plest object in the world, but, in fact, it
is as changeable as the clouds. Never
is it twice the same. Every change in
the point of view reveals the monument
in anew phase. It is a chameleon to
the weather. Go close to it. and its walls
seem to rise abruptly to a hight that is
overpowering. Sail down the Potomac,
and the thinly gleaming white shaft seems
to be waving a graceful farewell. Often
it is gray and solemn, a part of the
every-day world of work and duty. Some
times in the varying lights it loses its
perspective and Is a flat outline against
the sky: again, each line will stand forth
with Ihe crisp clearness of an intensified
photograph. In the early morning It is
beautiful in the first rays of the rising
run; on a moonlighted night It is like a
thing from another world, cold, gleam
ing, unreal. Many times in the course
of a season the sharp point is lost in
clouds, and the shaft rises like a pillar
supporting the firmament. The setting sun
paints the monument with its most bril
liant hues, and its last rays are reflected
from (he gleaming tip. At night, under
the starlight, the shaft is solemn like a
sentinel. In storm it stands as a type
of all that is steadfast. In the clearness
of a bright summer day it seems tremu
lous in the pulsing air. Always the same,
yet always different. It is like a thing
with life, a personality to be known and
loved. It has relatively little for the pass
ing stranger, but many confidences for
the old acquaintance.
—A demonstration was given In Pimlico
of the practical applications of Dr. Hans
Goldschmidt's process for Ihe production
of high temperatures by the combustion
of aluminium, says the London Times.
This process, which has already been re
ferred to In the Times, depends on the
Intense heat developed hy the chemical
reaction when a mixture of finely powder
ed aluminium and oxide of Iron la ignited.
This reaction Is very easily started, but
It does not take place If the mixture,
which has been named "thermite," is wet,
nor does it occur spontaneously or by
tiercusslon. But when once begun It pro
ceeds with extreme, rapidity, and in the
course of a few seconds a mass of molten
Iron and corundum i obtained, the tem
perature of which may tie 3,000 degrees
Cent. Yesterday the application of ther
mite to welding steel tubes nnd rails was
Illustrated. The ttibes—which may be of
any size up to six or seven inches—have
their ends cut square and pressed togeth
er by clamps. The place to be welded
Is then Inclosed in a small sheet Iron box
with a Jacket of wet sand, and the ther
mite. Ignited in a crucible, is poured into
the box. The result Is that the ends of
the two pipes nre quickly heated up to
the welding temperature and thus united,
the clamps being slightly tightened at
this stnge to force the ends more firmly
together. The pipes are then removed
from the clamps, and the ring of metal
and si ig that encircles the Joint is knock
ed off. a perfectly clean Joint being left.
The whole operation takes only a minute
or two. In a similar manner the welding
of steel rails for railways or tramways
can be effected. The demonstration was
carried otrt under the dtrectlon of the
Allebelne-Thermlt Oesellsehaft of Essen,
the owner* of the patents, and It I* In
tended forthwith to form n company to
work the patenta In the United Kingdom.
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