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4 gibe JBfltfninfl Morning News Building Savannah, Ga SATI’RDAY, MAT IS, 1001. Registered at the Postofflee In Savannah. THE MORNING NEAVS Is published every day in the year, and served to subscribers In the city, or ent by mall, at 70 cents a month, $4 00 for six months, end SB.OO for one year. THE MORNING NEAVS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three monthe, $1.80; six mouths, $3.00; one year, $6.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two Issues a week, (Monday and Thursday) by mall, one year, SLOO. Subscription* payable In advance. Re mit by money order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of .sender. Transient advertisements, other than ■pedal column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, IP cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch In depth—ls the stalndard of measurement. Contract rates andl discounts made known on application at tiuslness office. OrOers for delivery of the Morning News to either residence or place of business can be made by mall or by telephone No. 210. Any Irregularity In delivery should be immediately reported. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS,” Savannah. Ga EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York city, H. C. Faulkner. Manager. lIiDEX TO MW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Savannah Building Supply Company; Andrew Hanley Com pany; 100 Men's Suits, at Collat's; Notice of Dissolution, Bond, Harrison & Cos.; No tice, Allen Bond; Corned Beef, M. S. Gardner; Scott & Davis; Get a Square Meal at San Francisco Restaurant; Jas. J. Joyce; Mrs. Norre's Delicatessen; What We Have for To-day, C. A. Drayton Gro cery Cos.; Ship Notice, Strachan &. Cos., Consignees; Fine Lamb and Veal, John Funk, City Market; Prise Drill With Sa ber, at Tybee Pavilion To-day; Notice to Contractors, Hon. B. F. Alexander, Or dinary, Reidsvllle, Tattnall county, Geor gia. Business Notices—Georgia Milled Water Ground Meal, A. M. & C. W. AVest. Auction Sales—Fine Tybee Lots, by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer. To-day (Saturday) A\ r e Offer All Our Ready-to-AVear Goods at Special Prices— Eckstein & Cos. Sunday Excursions to Charleston—A r li Plant System. First Anniversary Sale—At the Bee- Hive. Whiskey—Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. Oil Cook Stoves—Palmer Hardware Cos. Men’s Blue Serge Suits—The Metropoli tan Clothing Company. Publications—Smart Set for June. Attractive Prfces This Day—At Mun ster’s. 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 nouncement, Hotel Tybee, Chas. F. Gra ham, Proprietor. Beers—Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso ciation. Watches—Waltham AVatches. Mineral Water—Hunyadl Janos. Medical—'Thacher's Liver and Blood Syrup; Dr. Hathaway Company; Hots ford's Acid Phosphate; Tuft’s Liver Pills; Paine’s Celery Compound. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; 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. I 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 marriage. | FOR NERVOUS HEADACHE take Horsford’s rt Acid Phosphate Soothes and strengthens the nerves, gives restful sleep, perfect digestion and a good appetite.— Nourishes and invigorates the entire system. MOmTMt GENUINE BEARS THE NAME •• HORSFORD’S" ON LABEL. Mi ITEMS OF INTEREST. —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. 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