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INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting'—Georgia Chapter No. S, R. A.
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Special Notices—Savannah Building
Supply Company; Andrew Hanley Com
pany; Notice to City Court. Jurors; Hotel
Tyhef, Now Open, Charles F. Graham,
Proprietor; Ta.hle d'Hote, Levan's Cafe
and Restaurant, Knowles and Hutobell,
Architects.
Business Notices—E. & W, Laundry.
For the Ice Cream—At Munster's.
The Great Big South End Restaurant
and Pavilion at Tytoee—Win. M. Bohan.
Proprietor.
Finanoia I—Haight & Freese Cos.
Excursion Tickets—To the Pan-Amerl
can Exposition via Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Auction Sale—Monday. June 10, by John
L. Arober, Auctioneer.
The Gas Stove—'Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
The Cleveland Bicycle—Wm. & H. H.
Latttmore.
Malt-Nutrine—Anheuser-Busch Brewing
Association.
Sure Enough Headquarters for Porch
Curtains. Awnings and Other Supplies—
Lindsay A 'Morgan.
Legal Notices—Notice of Debtors and
Creditors Estate Joseph E. Fulton, De-
Oaased.
The Celebrated (Dixie Mosquito Canopy
—Foye & Eckstein.
Poarltne—Jus. Pyle A Sons.
Whiskies—Dutfy'a Pure Malt Whiskey;
Mount Vernon Rye Whiskey.
Postum Food Coffee—Postum Cereal
Company.
Mineral Water—Hunyedi Janos.
Sauce—Lea A Perrins' Worcestershire
Sawco.
Medical—Hereford's Acid Phosphate;
Munyon 1 * Dyspepsia Cure; Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp Root: Dr. Hathaway Company;
Cantona; Mother's Friend; Stuart's Gin
and’ Buchu; Radway’s Pills; B. B. B.;
Hetskell's Ointment.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The IV cm tiler.
The Indications for Georgia to-day are
Xor fair weather, fresh southerly winds;
and for Eastern Florida, fair weather,
light to frewh southerly winds.
McLaurln has climbed back Into the
' boat. Tillman 1* still spluttering and
putting overboard, but toe. has on n life
preserver and will soon be on deck again,
too.
A day laborer at Hazleton, Pa., read
In a paper a few days ago of the Immense
■alary paid to President Charles M.
Schwab by the United States Steel Cor
poration. The laborer's pay was $1.06 per
day. With a pencil he figured out Jiow
long It-would take him to earn what Mr.
Schwab receives per year, and announced
to some frtends that it would require
Just 8.052 years, 9 months and 6 hours.
Then he went off and committed sui
cide.
As soon si it Is perfectly convenient to
them, the Cramps of Philadelphia are go
ing to start on that cruiser for the Sul
tan of Turkey. A representative of the
firm said a day or two ago that there
was no time limit to the contract, and
the construction would proceed at leisure.
The first payment has been made on the
contract—the payment possibly embody
ing the sum to be turned over to this gov
ernment In settlement of Its Indemnity
claim.
There may or may not be coal 041 under
the soli of Alabama. Many persons, how
wver, believe there Is. and thpjr are going
to ascertain whether or not the} - are
mistaken. Among those who have faith
in Alabama as an oil state is Copt. Lu
cas. who struck the first Texas gusher.
He has purchased lands in Morgan coun
ty, and l* going to do some boring there.
Several prospector* one In Washington
county, and many drills have been put
to work. !A vela of asphalt urn has been
struck in that notiony, and experienced
oil men from Psnnaylvanla are quoted
a* expressing the opinion that oil ■will be
tapped before a graat while. Speaking of
oil. by the way. a corps of engineers and
geologists from ttie University of Texas
who have been making an Invest gallon
of the eo-called oil pool In the Gulf of
Mexico off the coaat immediately south of
lk<.tmom. have declared that the sub
stance found in the poo) is not oil at all,
but is nothing more than lie new ooze
whioh oomes from tbs darompositlon of
animal mutter found in the bottom of the
GuSf under the poo!. This oozo when
stirred rise* to the surface and has the
sffsut of qua*ting be wave* the same as
oil. The pool ts now west of the Sabine
Jetty. It has mowed more than eight
| mbea within the last few years.
AK EXTRA SESSION I'.NNECBSS ARY.
The cabinet yesterday decided against
an extra session of Congress. After
listening to the opinion of the Attorney
General as to the effect and scope of the
Porto Rican decisions, and care
fully considering the situation.it was con
cluded that the Platt amendment gave
the President ample authority to do all
that was necessary for this government to
do in Cuba and that the Spooner reo
lutlon was sufficient to enable him to es
tablish civil government in the Philip
pines and to fix tariff rates for those
islands.
An extra session was not desired by the
President and his cabinet, and it : s safe
to assert that the country did not want
it. Still, it is probable that It would have
been called if it had been believed that
there was an urgent necessity for it, not
withstanding the fact that members of
both the Senate and the House are scat
tered all over the world and u.ive made
plans for the summer that they would not
like to abandon.
The situation in Cuba seems to have
had as much attention from the cabinet
as the condition of affairs 1 n the Phl'ip
pines. There Is no doubt that the Presi
dent and cabinet are determined that
the Cubans shall accept the Platt amend
ment without any reservations or expla
nations attached to It American troops
will remain on the island until that is
done. Congress authprized the President
to withdraw the troops when the amend
ment was accepted, and the Cubans are
only delaying the time when they will be
given control of their affairs by their
evasive course. What the United States
ask in return for what they have done for
them, and for undertaking to protect
them against foreign foes, Is very little,
and it looks as if they were inclined to be
ungrateful. If there were an intention to
withhold from them the right of self
government, or to take from them any
right essential to their welfare, there
would be some reason for their course
in respect to the Platt amendment, but
as far as we can see the amendment,
while it gives certain privileges to the
United States, is mainly for their benefit.
The Supreme Court decisions in the Porto
Rican cases will not, It is understood,
Change in the least the plans of the ad
ministration for the government of the
Philippines. Civil government will be es
tablished there as soon as the Taft Com
mission can arrange for It, and, until
that commission announces what the
tariff for the Islands should be, duties
under the Dlngley tariff will continue to
be collected.
It seems that there was some doubt
as to the extent of the authority of the
President under the Spooner resolution,
and as to the bearing the de
cisions in the Porto Rican cases
had upon the relutions between
the United States and the islands,
but It seems that the cabinet Is of the
opinion that the President's authority is
ample and that the decisions do not limit
It in any respect. Anyway, Congress Is
not to be called upon for additional legis
lation at this time. In the fall the Su
preme Court will decide the Philippine
case, and Congress will be In session in
December to do whatever It may deem
necessary at that lime to be done.
CHEAP HOI KS FOR EVERYBODY.
TVhen Edison and Tesla, and some
others of the scientists that might be
mentioned, give out a promise of what
they purpose doing for science and hu
manity, they make it good and strong.
Therefore, it is not in the least surpris
ing when Mr. Edison announces that he
will make it within the means of every
body to live in a browmstone house. It
is not to be a house with a brownstone
front and a brick body, like so many of
the so-called brownstones that embellish
the boulevards, but it is to be the same
material through and through. It is true
the brownstone will be a manufactured ar
ticle. and thus an imitation of the stone
that comes from the quarry, but since,
as Mr. Edison says, it will be better and
more lasting than the real thing, there
can be no complaint on that score.
Mr. Edison announces that he has dis
covered a way by which a "Portland ce
ment" can be produced at no greater
cost than $6 per ton- There is where we
get at the concrete kernel of his promise,
for with Portland cement at $5 per ton.
everybody can use It. A great quantity
of It is now used In preparing the founda
tions for bridges, houses, eta, where firm
ness and durability are required, but the
present cost of the stuff puts It out of
reach for general building purposes. At
the price named by Mr. Edison, however.
It would be cheaper than pine or
cypress lumber, and might become the
material for the humble cottage of the
poor, as well as the mansion of the rich.
The cement is to be mixed with three
parts of common, clean sand, or five parts
of broken stone. This combination will
give a concrete so cheap and durable, Mr.
Edison says, that It will supplant bricks,
stone and pine as building material. And,
instead of being "built," In the ordinary
acceptance of the word, the house will be
poured. A mold will be made, from any
sort of cheap lumber, or maybe from
steel or Iron sheets If a house of a com
mon type Is to be construoted. Into this
mold the concrete prejwration will be
poured. As it hardens the mold will be
removed, and lo! there will stand the
beautiful walls of artificial brownstone.
The walls tnay be constructed one section
at a lime, so that the mold material oan
be used over and over again, a few hun
dred feet sufficing for the molding of the
entire house. Should ornamentation be
desired, cut the fancy frills In the wooden
molds, and when the concrete has hard
ened, there will be your gargoyles and
cornices. Just If they had been carved.
When the "Wlsard of Menlo Park” has
Indeed given us these cheap houses, and
his cheap storage batteries for our auto
mobiles, we may all live like millionaires,
oven If we are not.
A Philadelphia woman who was an
noyed by the piano clatter in the house
next door to her home has paid $60.-
OuO for the privilege of giving her ears
a rest. She bought the house, turned
th* piano-torturing tenants out of doors,
and shut the place up. nor will she rent
the house to any person who will not
enter into an Iron-clad contract to kerg)
planes and other musical Instruments out
of M.
The Cluo.’)!s Brule likens the sena
torial situation in Houih Carolina to the
cat# of the two little boy* professedly
baitlgsrent, one of whom was badly Beared
and the other glad of 19
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1901.
SAVANNAH'S FAIR.
The Indications are that the State Fair
this fall will be so great a guccess that
It will be talked about long after it hag
been held. All debatable questions con
nected with It have been settled, and Its
affairs of detail are gradually getting into
shape. The grounds have been so laid
out that, however great the crowds may
be. there will be plenty of room for every
one to move about In comfort, and the
buildings are so located that the exhi
bitions on the race track clan be seen
from them as well as from the grand
stand.
The premium committee will complete
Its work, in all probability, this week,
and within a very few days thereafter
those who propose to exhibit will have
the opportunity of seeing how liberal Sa
vannah is in the matter of awards.
With the plan and Improvements of the
grounds and the premiums agreed upon
there will be a plenty of work for the
committees which have charge of other
features of the fair to do, and also an
opportunity for them to display the zeal
that is necessary to make the fair a suc
cess. If the anticipations of the State
Fair officials as to attendance are real
ized the financial part of the fair will
be fully up to expectations.
The HJJOO promised the State Agricul
ture Society, for the purpose of paying
its post due debts, ought to be paid by
the city, and thus relieve the Savannah
Fair Association of an obligation as
sumed before it was organized. The sub
scriptions foot up $28,000, and the ex
penses, Including buildings, salaries, etc.,
amount to $37,000. The difference between
these figures should be easily made up
from the sale of privileges, gate receipts
and entrance fee for races. A few thous
and dollars more in subscriptions, how
ever, would make it "easier sailing.” for
those upon whom has fallen the burden
of the fair. It would not be out of place
for a voluntary committee of citizens to
undertake to raise several thousand dol
lars more. The fair Is going to be held
and It will be a success. That it will be
a benefit, either directly or indirectly,
to every man in Savannah there is no
doubt. Every one who is charged with
any duty connected with it is at work,
or will be within another week.
A NEW SPECIE'S OF TRAMP.
Prof. George D. Herron is the sub
ject of a considerable amount of com
ment from Northern pulpit*. He is the
Oongregotionalist minister who poses as
a social reformer. In fact, he is one of
the socialistic leaders, and, with the wo
man who recently became his “comrade,”
he is the head of a socialistic colony In
New Jersey.
He does not believe In taking marriage
vows. He believes that marriage should
be simply a contract, and that the par
ties to It should separate as soon as they
cease to love each other.
Prof. Herron left the. wife he married
in early youth and she obtained a divorce
from him on the ground of cruel deser
tion. He left her to look out for herself,
although she had four children. The wo
man he took as a wife last week ap
proves of his views in regard to marriage
and all other matters. When they were,
married they took no vows, and each is
free to leave the other when love ceases.
It may be that Prof. Herron will leave
his present wife as he left his first one.
He certainly feels free to wander around
after new wives whenever the one he
has fails to interest him.
Dr. Louis Albert Banks of the Grace
Methodist Church, New York city, in
his sermon last Sunday night, spoke of
Prof. Herron as a companion piece of
“Weary Willie.” In other words, he said
that this social reformer was nothing
more than a well-groomed, well-dressed
tramp, who holds himself responsible to
no law, either religious or civil. Most
people who have fallowed his career will
no doubt accept the comparison as a cor
rect one.
ANOTHER TRUST SI UGESTED.
It seems that the president of one of
the greatest of the life insurance com
panies thinks that these companies should
get together In respect to certain matters
in which all of them are interested. For
instance, he thinks there should be an
Increase In rates in certain regions and
in certain occupations. He bases this
opinion upon the fact that there has been
too great cutting of rates in recent years.
Life companies should of course have
wide margins of safety. The number of
people interested in life insurance is very
large. The competition among the com
panies is fierce. All of them are doing
their utmost to get business, and it may
be that competition has forced rates low
er than they ought to be. While it is
true that those seeking insurance want
to get It as low as possible, they don't
want rates reduced below the safety
point.
The Income from securities is not as
great now as It was a few years ago. It
Is difficult to get a first -class bond
at par that pays three and a half per
cent. A dozen years ago it was easier to
get first-class bonds that paid five per
cent.
The railroads have had to combine, or
at least establish what ts called a "com
munity of Interest" to prevent rate cut
ting, which means financial ruin. They
couldn't stand the competition. And, as
pointed out, life Insurance companies are
thinking It advisable to get together and
take steps of some kind to protect them
selves against competition. They jot
along well enough as long ss the field
was not overworked, but now they find
that to get business concessions must he
made, and there Is no end to the conces
sions. No doubt iiollcy holders would see
with satisfaction steps being taken that
would, in a measure, ward off troubles
arising from . Ompetlrion.
Mentality ts now measured by a series
of questions when one appliro for a Job,
and the test Is often misleading. A great
blockhead may be able to answer a list
of questions satisfactorily, and afterwan.l*
prove to be of oo account. This sort of
thing, however, Is to be. done away with
by an Invention of Prof. Seaghore of
lowa, whose name, by the way, la sug
gestive of salt and seaserpents. The
Profeasor has perfected an apparatus
with which, ho claims, mental capacity
can be measured with mathcniatieaf ac
curacy. He has been testing It in hi*
school, and the machine ha* never failed
to pick out the brighter and the dullest
pupils. When it ha* been brought to
"commercial" perfection, the Heu shore
Mechanical Mind Tester will, of course,
be In the la reset demand. Every bank
and commercial house, every railroad of-
flee and steamship, every newspaper and
manufacturer, and the United States gov
ernment, will have to be provlfied with
, the apparatus. Then wnen a young man
steps up and asks for a Job. he will not
be asked, "What do you know? What
can you do," etc. The prospective em
ployer will simply seat him in a chair,
clamp the mechanical mind gauge unon
his head, read the figures on the dial, and
put him to work or send him packing out
of the door. Thus lots of time, annoy
ance and disappointments will be saved.
Meanwhile, we cannot help expressing
sympathy for the small army of csvtl ser
vice examiners that will find themselves
thrown out of employment.
Joseph E. Schwab has been appointed
assistant to President C. M. Schwab of
the billion-dollar steel trust, at a big sal
ary. The Schwabs are brothers. They were
both working for the Carnegie Company
some yeafs ago, when Charles was elect
ed to the presidency of that corporation.
One of hlB first acts was to send for Jo
seph and tell him he would have to get
out, as it might be said in the mills that
the President was favoring his brother
and thus cause dissatisfaction. Joseph
went, but told his brother he might ex
pect to see him back again. He accept
ed a place with a rival condern, and soon
made the competition so unpleasant that
Mr. Carnegie sent for him and had him
to come, back on his own terms.
Three natives of the Philippine Islands
tvho have been elected to the Spanish
parliament purpose raising in that body
the question of the present condition of
the Philippines, and will assert that it
is now worse than before the war. Sup
posing the allegation to be -true, for the
sake of making the point, what would,
or could, Spain do about it? Would she
assemble her armies to rescue the poor
Islands from the cruel gratsp of the ty
rant, as we did In the case of Cuba?
PERSONAL.
—The Finland Bulletin says that the
new Provincial Governor in Helsingfors,
the Russian General Kaigororloff, al
ready begun to display considerable zeal
in his attempts to fulfil what is evidently
Ills principal mission In his new post—the
Russification of that part of the grand
duchy within the sphere of his authority.
He has instructed his subordinates to use
Russian as the official language in docu
ments addressed to the Secretariat of
State for Finland, the Finnish Passport
office in St. Petersburg, the governor-gen
eral and his chancellery, and In commun
icating w'ith all Russian authorities, and
to add parallel translations into Russian
in corresponding with the Finnish Senate
as well as with other provincial gover
nors.
—Of all the good stories ever told about
the late Dr. Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford,
probably the following, which really is
authentic, is the best: Prior to 1888 he
was Bishop of Chester, and when the 3ee
of Oxford became vacant it was offered to
him,the fact of the offer being made pub
lic some days before he signified his In
tention of accepting translation. A local
reporter was sent up to Deeside to make
inquiries as to the Bishop's decision. "His
Lordship is engaged,” was the footmm's
reply to a request for the Bishop. "Might
I see Mrs. Stubbs?” "Mrs. Stubbs is en
gaged.” "I should like to see some mem
ber of the family.” And. finally, the re
porter was ushered Itjto the presence ot
Miss Stubbs, and delivered himself of his
Inquiry. “Well, you see, it’s this way,”
said the Bishop's daughter, “pa's upstairs
praying for guidance, but mamma has
begun to pack, so I suppose we are go
ing.”
BRIGHT BITS.
-One-Sided.—She: So this Is the end of
our engagement?
He: It may be for you, but It will take
me a year yet to pay the bills.—Brook
lyn Life.
—Teacher: And why should we endeav
or to rise by our own efforts?
Johnny Wise: 'Cause there's no tellln’
when the alarm clock will go wrong.
San Francisco News Letter.
—Amateur Gardener (to goat-fancying
neighbor): Hi, madam! One of your con
founded pets has got into my garden, and
is eating my bedding plants!
Neighbor: Good gracious! I trust they
are not poisonous!—Punch.
—Not Astonishing.—"lt Is astonishing
that a large fortune should be left to
him by a person who had only seen him
once.”
“In my opinion It would have been more
astonishing If R had been left to him af
ter the person had seen him twice.’’—Jew
ish Comment.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Charleston Post (Dem.) is far from
convinced that Tillman Is Invulnerable.
It pays: 'it has been general.}- accepted
outside this state and is believed wide
ly in South Carolina that in a contest
between Tillman and McLaurin the senior
senator would win an easy victory. With
out passing a final opinion on this ex
pectation, It Is yet instructive to con
sider, as we pointed out the other day,
that since his contest with M. C. But
ler In 1894. Tillman has not campaigned
the state against an opponent, nor has
he been vigorously and directiy attacked.
It is Impossible to give a correct esti
mate. therefore, of hie personal prowess
In a hand to hand (or mouth to mouth)
political contest. Moreover, the fact
must not be overlooked that It is now
eJevtm years since Tillman blade his
first success in South Carolina, which is
a long period of political supremacy in
this state. Hampton's sway departed
after fourteen years. It le possible that
Tillman's time has come."
Mr. John D. Rockefeller has endowed
an "Institute for Medical Research."
Commenting on the gift the New York
World says: “And- in no direction Is re
search more necessary than In the as yet
chaotic science! of medicine. The great
est doctors are the frankest in admit
ting how short a distance away from
downright Ignorance and sheer ‘guess'
medicine has got. The most of Its
knowledge consists In knowledge of what
Is not so which doctors used to think
was so. Mr. Rockefeller deserves a large
entry on the credit side of the ledger
account which the people have with him."
The Florida Tlmes-Unlon and Citizen
(Dem.) says: "The talk in Berlin about
American papers inflaming the public
mind lo a war with Germany. is all rub
bish. No one In this country Is think
ing shout a war with Germany or with
any other Power. There was more or
less feeling against Germany while un
pleasant relation* between the American
and German fleets in the Philippines ex
isted, but that ha* been so nearly for
gotten that it Iw only remembered as an
unimportant event of the past.”
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
“When Bryan hull* the President a*
F.in|>rot McKinley' he mean* more than
rone mud-slinging He mean* lo deOix
the Issue of Imperialism and put U be
fore the country in plain term*. (Jui'e
prohab.y. If he has any hand in the
shsidng of the next Democratic platform,
this will ha on* of ita main planks."
Salt as a Hoodoo
A number of Cleveland women had a
little discussion the other day over anew
form of hoodoo, at least it was new to
most of them, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. It is a species of applied incan
tation that is resorted to by tenants who
want to get even with the landlord or
the landlord's agent. When they leave,
after the last load is ready to start, they
throw salt behind the front door. That
hoodoos the house or the apartments.
"Why.” said one lady, “I know a case
where the outgoing tenant did that, and
they couldn't rent the room* for three
months That's right. Nobody seemed to
want them. The agent was constantly
kept busy running with prospective ten
ants, who came to lock at the apartments
only to refuse them.”
"I heard of a case,” said another lady,
"where the landlord raised the rent on a
family, and when they left they threw
salt behind the door, and you never heard
of such luck as the landlord had. He got
tenants in that wouldn’t pay, and he'd
have to sue 'em and put ’em out on the
sidewalk, and one tenant set the room on
fire with a gasoline stove, and the land
lord couldn't get any Insurance, and the
wives of two tenants presented their
husbands with two twins, and this cost
the landlord four months’ rent, ’cause he
couldn’t get ’em moved until they reached
the movable age. It was just awful!"
"Oh, there are lots of such cases,” said
the woman who had mentioned the hoo
doo first. "And they say there is but one
way to break the spell,"
"And how is that?" cried the other wo
men In chorus.
“The landlord,'* replied the hoodoo ex
pert, "must have the hinges of the front
door put on the opposite door post, so
that the door will swing the other way."
And there the discussion ended.
A French Novel.
"A Leave of Absence," by J. c. God
dard, is thus summarized by the Galves
ton News:
Ion—“I adore her!”
Narcisse—"X idolize her!”
"Ha, then we are rivals !’*
"Yes, but still friends!”
"Aye, friends till death!”
"Let us tell her.”
They tell her.
She says: - '
"Let us die.”
They buy six centimes’ worth of charcoal
They ignite It.
They inhale it.
They all die.
Vive l'amour!
A Confessed Tragedy.
After reading the "compressed trage
dies from the London Globe in the
Morning News yesterday, a correspond
ent sends this one:
Empty gun;
Only fun.
Gun popped;
Fun stopped.
Better Still.
During the (battle of Shiloh, says the
Buffalo Time*, an officer hurriedly rode
up to an aid and Inquired for Grant.
Ta at u S <h ® man ’ wlth the field-glass ”
said the aid. ’
Wheeling his horse aibout, the stranger
rode furiously at the General, and. touch
ing his cap, addressed him thus:
Shenera!, I vants to make one report:
Schwartz’s battery is took.”
“Ah!" said the General. “How was
that?” a
Veil, you see, Shenerql, der sheces
sionists flanked us, und der sehecesslon
ists come in der rear of us, und den
Schwartz’s pattery vas took."
’R ell, sir, you of course spiked the
guns."
“Vat!” exclaimed the Dutchman in as
tonishment. "Schipike dera guns! Schpike
dem pran new guns? Vy, it would spoil
aem!"
"Well,” said tha General sharply, "what
did you do?”
“Do? Py dam, ve took dem pack
again!”
No Longer Young.
From the. Indianapolis News.
While crow’s feet yet have spared the
face.
And rime of time has left no trace
Upon the locks which still with grace
Above our brows have clung.
We find our pace Is growing slow,
And, as we view the passing show,
There comes a time when we must know
That we’re no longer (young.
There comes a time when children born
Long since our childhood's locks were
shorn,
The victor's bays we missed, have worn
To praises freely sung;
And while these acclamations flow.
Truth's whisper in the ear sounds low
Tiiat it is time for us to know
That we're no longer young.
That it Is time to bear the pain
Of learning we must remain
Henceforth an exile from Youth's reign
In Age's desert flung—
But e'er we stagger from this blow.
Which adds to life another woe,
May Fortune grant us sense <o know
When we're no longer young!
He Got the Job.
The young man stood before the great
steal magnate, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. A moment later the latter looked
up.
He Stared at the rough clothing, the
muddied shoes and the unkempt hair of
the youth.
"Well?" he said.
The youth retained his presence of
mind. He wanted a job because he need
ed it. i
"Sir,” he said, "I have came”——
He got no further. A smile irradiated
the magnate's face.
"That's all right.” he said; "the Job is
yours. I was afraid at first that you
might be one of these worthless college
graduates.”
And when the youth, the valedictorian
of his class and the pride of the univer
sity, again faced his mirror he winked
expressively at his own reflection.
A Clergy man's glory.
A clergyman tells this story In the
Homiletic Review: "I was stationed in
the town of P during my early min
istry. and was profoundly impressed from
what 1 saw -that I ought to preach against
the rebellion againvt God's law. I selected
for a text Isaiah 1, 2: ‘I have nourished
and brought up children, and they have
rebelled against roe.' I had formally in
troduced the subject, and repeated the
text that the audience might see the con
nection between It and the first proposi
tion. when my little 2-year-old boy slip
ped out of his mother's arms and, tak
ing his stand directly hi front of the pul
pit, gave such a scream of defiance as
to startle the entire audience. It 1* need
les* to say that this, following immediate
ly th# quotation of the text, destroyed
the solemnity of the sermon, so far as the
audience was concerned.'*
KeMrrtlons of a Bachelor,
From th* New York Press.
Train up a child In the nay it should go,
and If It Is a girl wutch It.
If Eve had never fallen ll would have
been a terrible Joke on all the rest of us.
Poets are the only people who ever talk
about kissing women's feet, and they get
money for M.
The people who know the least about
this world aren’t always the one* who
(tnow the meet about the next.
You can almost always tell the amount
of reitelnn a girl has sot by the else of
the clocks on her stockings.
—The present lady mayareas of lean don
Is quite young and glrllsh-tooklng. with
s wealth of soft fair hslr. Her verse la
among the bast written by women for th*
contemporary English magaalnea
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The fact (hat arsenic Is liable to be
found in certain articles of clothing, and
that It Is capable of inducing skin ail
ments under certain circumstances, has
long been known to the medical world,
says the London Chronicle. The most
recent Information afforded to us on this
head is that supplied by Drs. Tunlcliffe
and Rosenheim on the amount of arsenic
which is liable to be contained In black
woolen stockings. The arsenic, it appears,
originally made Its appearance In connec
tion with analine dyes. On this account
a German law. I learn, forbids the use
of any dye of which arsenic forms a
component part. In Sweden and Austria
similar enactments prevail. At home no
such provisions exist, and even wallpa
pers may be colored with arsenical "dyes
without representing articles that
the law considers injurious to health. The
best classes of wallpapers are, of course,
non-arsenical, but it is to be feared that
many lower priced papers contain a more
than appreciable amount of the poison,
which is liable to tie volatilized by the
gas of a room. The authors from whom
1 quote remark that the analyses of black
silk socks and yellow stockings, “made In
Germany," showed a freedom from ar
senic.
—A refrigerating plant to cost about
SIOO,OOO Is to be put In at the Lucy fur
naces of the steel trust, says the Bir
mingham Age-Herald. This plant is de
signed for the purpose of depriving the
air of its moisture (by precipitating the
latter, or the greater part of It. and freez
ing It. The dry air is then heated and
sent by force into the fyrnaee. The oper
ators of blast furnaces have long been
aware that the dry crisp air of the win
ter season Is more favorable for iron
making than the moisture-laden air of
the summer season, and at Pittsburg the
managers of the trust propose to equalize
atmospheric conditions toy artlfiicial re
frigeration. What nature will not do they
propose to do. They will take the mois
ture out of it berfore sending into the
stores and thence Into the stacks. The
experimenters at Pittsburg hope to effect
a great saving in coke, for a part of the
coke in a stack goes at present to the of
fice of transforming the moisture in the
air into first steam and then Into hydro
gen and oxygen. It is proposed to gave
this part of the coke. These Pittsburg
furnace men liken the present use of air
on zs moist day tn a stack to the heating
of a room by a fire on which water is
constantly thrown. The room can be
heated under such circumstances by a
larger consumption of coal. So it is in
the stack. The introduction of moist air
has a smothering eflect, delaying the re
duction of the ore, and demanding more
coke in the process. The saving through
refrigeration promise* to Justify the large
expenditure at the Lucy furnaces, and it
may lead to similar plants at all other
furnaces.
—“I see by the St. Louis papers,” said
an old resident of the Mound City, ac
cording to the New Orleans Times-Demo
crat, “that eight feet of clay sediment was
found in the big city reservoir when that
basin was recently cleaned. This reminds
me of an odd happening in connection
with the former city reservoir, which dis
pensed saffron-colored water to St. Lou
isians many years ago. Tha present res
ervoir Is on Oompton Hill, the highest
point of the city, but before St. Louis had
aspired so high the reservoir was a large
clay-banked structure in the northern sec
tion of the city not far from the then
famous Kerry Patch. When the new
system was established, the water was
pumped out of the old reservoir, and. as
a quantity of mud was found in the bot
tom of the basin, it was left undisturbed.
In a few months it hardened thoroughly
and nobody paid any further attention to
the old plant. About ten years passed,
during which the city was growing like
asparagus, and someone took a notion to
level the old reservoir for a building site.
A contractor arrived with carts and pad
dles and work was begun. It took but
little time to cut through the old wall
of the reservoir, and then that neighbor
hood was given the surprise of its life.
Instead of producing the solid mass of
earth which everyone expected, ten years
had sufficed to dry a heavy crust on top
of the sediment, which, preventing fur
ther evaporation, preserved a thousand
carloads of loblolly. The mud burst out
and surged through the district like a
tidal wave, covering streets, sidewalks
and yards with slop the consistency of a
country road after a month's rain. Pe
destrians of both sexes were caught knee
deep In slime, and the contractor jumped
the game for fear of a lynching."
—"Almost all the bristles used in this
country In the manufacture of brushes
are imported, and notwithstanding the
Increased production of pork in this coun
try the supply of American bristles is
now even smaller than it formerly was."
said a manufacturer of brushes the other
day, according to the Washington Star.
"Hog* are fattened and killed young in
th* United States, and with the constant
and widespread improvement of bleeds
here the hogs have run less to bristles.
Some extensive packers collect bristles,
but the American supply is probably less
than one per cent, of the consumption.
The longest American bristles are about
four and a half inches In length. Im
ported bristles come from various part
of Ru*da, but most largely from Poland
and North Germany. Some finer, soft
bristles come from France. The bulk of
the supply come from cold countries
where the hogs are well protected by
thick coats, and many of the bristles
are those‘of wild hogs. The hogs shed
their coats as many other animals do,
and there are men who gather the bris
tles of wild hogs, knowing their haunts
and where the bristles are to be found.
Other bristles are collected In the usual
way when hogs are killed. The bristles
ere subjected to various processes of cur
ing end preparation before they become
commercial bristle* and ready for the
market. Imported bristles range from
throe and a half to seven and a half
inches in length. Various vegetable fibres
are now used extensively in the manu
facture of cheap brushes, but for the
best kinds of brushes only the finest im
ported bristle* are used, and their im
portation continue* steadily."
—The chief medical officer of Palputana
in a recent report say® that In a very un
usual season like that through which the
district has lately passed the people are
deprived of seeds and the succulent roots
of grasses and even of the green leaves
and shoots of plants and trees, nearly
everything of this sort found useful In a
normal year being hard and dried up,
says the London Times. Under these
very adverse condition* the bark of trees,
especially of Khejru (Phoaopls sptcltera).
and even ground-up rock* are resorted to,
principally to give bulk to the scanty
meal and thereby stay the pangs of hun
ger for a longer time. At present small
proportion* of ground Khejra hark are
In use nearly everywhere, and In the pro
porlion of about one part to twenty of
flour It does not impair the digestion of
the laboring classes, although It does so
If taken in excess. Indeed, small quanti
ties of this bark, well ground, are raid to
aid digestion and to make up to some ex
tent for the want of fresh A
soft stone, pilla Ghats, found on the
Rlkanen-Marwar border of Jaipur, is
largely used In that part of the country
to give hulk to the meal. This stone Is
fryable and easily ground into fine pow
der. It contain* an ole.iglno.is substance,
which has some nutritious qualities, and
the people have found that when finely
ground snl used In ihe proportion ob
about one-fourth to three-fourth* of four
It does not Impair digestion fur a ton- i
stderatde lime, but when It is ued to ex- ,
cess K soon gives rise to malnutrition,
emaciation, bowel disease, swollen ftet
and other signs of starvation. Other
barks add earthy sulstiaNi are ntur* in
■• ' ,
<lP~i, w hich was used vx'.ensively, had no
Mi-effects.
HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS.
HOTEL EMPIRE
BROADWAY AND 63d ST., N Y CITY
-ABSOLUTELY FIRE-PROOF- ’
MODERATE RATES.
From Grand Qentral Station take Broad,
way and 7th ave. cars, 7 minutes to Em"
PIRE. 1
From the Fall River boats take the 9th
ave. Elevated to 59th street, from which
hotel Is one minute's walk.
Within ten minutes of amusement and
shopping centers. All cars pass the Em
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Send postal for descriptive booklet.
Allenhurst Inn,
AND COTTAGES,
"From Lake to Ocean.”
ALLENHURST, N. J.
A delightful combination of
OCEAN, LAKE AND WOODLAND.
Finest Golf Course in America—Vardeti.
Both hotels under the management ot"
W. JOHNSON QUINN.
Hotel Normandie,
Broadway and 38th St., Sew York City.
ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
Located in the amusement and shopping
district, the liveliest and most interest,
tag part of the city.
Twenty principal places of amusement
within five minutes’ walk of the hotel.
Family and transient hotel.
C'HAS. A. ATKINS * CO.
Summer Resort, Ocean Hotel,
Anbury Park, R, J.
OLD POINT COMFORT,
VIRCINIA.
A CHARMING SUMMER RE
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Masino's Famous Ban!
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HOTEL CHAMBERLIN "
open until July Ist. when HVUEIA
it closes for improvements. HnTC .
Hygeia Hotel, now under- **" ItL
going repairs, opens July I——™.
Ist for summer season. Summer rates
$17.50 per week upward. GEO A
KEELER, Manager, Fort Monroe, Va
'" ' -
Thousand Island House, Alexandria
Bay, N. Y., among the tar-famed Thous
and Islands, will open for business on
June 22. For booklet and terms please
send two 2-eent stamps to STAPLES &
DeWITT, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.
Haywood White Snlphnr Springs Hotel,
WAYNE.SVILLE, N. C.
Situated tn the beautiful mountains of
North Carolina, on Murphy branch of
Southern Railway, 28 miles west of Ashe
ville, N. C., and about 700 feet higher, one
half mile from Court House at Wynes
vllle, N. C„ the highest railroad town east
of the Rocky Mountains. Nearly 8,000 feet
above sea.. Fine mineral springs, hot and
cold Sulphur Baths. The hotel and fur
nishings are new and modern, and in ail
of its appointments first class. The ser
vice and table are unexceptional. Sea
son opens May 20. For rates, etc., apply
to J. M. COPELIN, Proprietor.
THE WINOLA.
This modern hotel is beautifully sltut- I
ted with full lake view on an eminence I
of ground overlooking the main body of I
water 150 feet away. Pine grove of largi I
trees surrounds hotel. Orchestra will I
furnish music at stated Intervals during I
day and evening. Cuisine ftrst-clasi; I
rates reasonable. Located on the direct I
route to the Pan-American Exposition. ■
Illustrated booklet and other information ■
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Lake tVinola, Pa. I
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HOT STRINGS. N. C. 9
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