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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia to-day
are for fair and warmer weather, fresh
southwesterly winds; and for Eastern
Florida, generally fair weather, except
local rains and thunderstorms in south
ern portions; light southwesterly winds.
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A contemporary suspects the Rev.
Mr. Leach of Chicago of having a
strong leaning towards Mahometanism.
Mr. Leach says there will be few men
and many women in Heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a prisoner
in the Ludlaw Street Jail, New York
city. He is charged with having stolen
*s.so from a letter, and has confessed
his guilt. Unfortunately for those who
worship names, young Emerson Is dis
tantly connected with the philosopher
who bore the same name.
An English paper a few days ago
printed the statement that John D.
Rockefeller would shortly leave the
United States and make England his
home. A representative of Mr. Rocke
feller has emphatically denied the
statement, upon authority. "America Is
good enough for Mr. Rockefeller,” s&ld
this representative. "It is the best
country in the world, and Mr. Rocke
feller has no Intention of leaving It.”
It certainly has been good to the
Standard Oil magnate and his house
hold.
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson
■wishes to head a list of subscriptions to
a fund to purchase a loving cup for
Admiral Cervera. The Spanish Admiral
is a fine and gallant old sailor; but
would he like to have a silver cup
from the American people? It may be
doubted. He. in common with all other
Spaniards, regards the war of 1898 as
monstrous and criminal. Holding that
opinion, would he submit to being pat
ronized by the victors and the humilia
tors of his country in the manner sug
gested ?
The British war office’s utter failure
to shut off the Daily Mail's source of
official news from South Africa is an
incident going to illustrate that fact
that public opinion governs in Great
Britain. Not even the government of
the great monarchy dares to muzzle
the press and withhold the facts from
the people. Had an editor under the
reign of George 111 offended the gov
ernment as Harmsworth of the Mail
did the other day, the chances are that
he would have been put into prison and
his plant confiscated or destroyed. But
the day for that sort of thing where
ever the English language is spoken is
past for all time.
It appears that there was a string
tied to some of the lands drawn in
the Kiowa and Comanche land lottery
the other day. Many young women
had registered for the drawing, and
one of them was the second person to
win a quarter-section. Immediately
she was besieged with offers of mar
riage. She already had a sweetheart,
however, and made inquiries to know
If she would be at liberty to marry him
and still hold her land. She was In
formed that If she married she would
forfeit her rights to the farm. She will
wait until her title has been perfected.
Another young woman winner In the
lottery didn't take the trouble to find
out what the consequences would be,
and got married right away. She was
a notified that she had lost her farm,
Kwhich is worth fU>,(KK>,
CUBA'S DEMAND FOR COTTON
GOODS.
Our Southern cotton mills are mak
ing extraordinary efforts to sell their
products in China. Why is it that they
make no effort to sell them in Cuba.
Is not this class of the trade of Cuba
worth having? It must be or England,
France, Germany and Spain would not
be making such efforts to hold on to It.
In the yeiy 1900 Cuba imported cotton
goods worth more than $6,000,000. Of
this trade England got $2,965,307 worth,
Germany $341,753 worth, France $651,-
973 worth and Spain $1,605,745 worth.
The United States got only $420,142
worth.
And Cuba is almost within sight of
the United States! Is It not Strange
that having the raw material and the
mills they are are able to get no larger
share of Cuba’s trade in cotton goods?
This condition of affairs show's that the
United States do not seek this trade,
or else there is a feeling In Cuba
hostile to Americans.
There Is no reason why there should
be a hostile feeling. The Americans
freed Cuba from the yoke of Spain.
There ought therefore to be among the
Cubans the most kindly feeling for
Americans.
The difficulty doubtless is that there
is no effort to meet the demands of the
Cuban trade. Cuba has been accus
tomed to cotton goods of certain di
mensions, patterns and weight and
packed in accordance with certain
rules. Her merchants are willing to
pay more for fabrics manufactured
and packed as they want them. There
fore our merchants thus far have not
been able to get much of a percentage
of the cotton goods trade of the island.
It would seem as if our manufac
turers here In the South would send
agents to Cuba and find out just what
the Cuban trade demands, and then
comply with these demands. In other
words, they should make a specialty of
that trade. It Is folly to let a trade
worth $6,000,000 a year go to Europe
when It could be easily had by our
own merchants and manufacturers.
We are talking all the time of the
necessity for having wider markets for
the products of our factories, but we
do not seem to be making the most
of our opportunities. We ought to
practically monopolize . the trade of
Central and South America, but, as a
matter of fact, we get very little of it.
The bulk of it goes to European coun
tries. If we want trade we must work
for it. It will not come to us simply
because we are the greatest nation In
the world.
KOCKEFELIiKR'S WEALTH.
Binc-e the New York paper* have be
gun to talk of rivalry in the financial
world between J. Pierpont Morgan and
John D. Rockefeller the most marvel
ous stories have been put in circulation
about the latter's wealth,
A year or so ago it was said that he
was the richest man in the world. At
that time it was estimated that he
could turn what he owned into cash
and have $300,000,000. Then it was
thought that certain great deals indi
cated that he had more wealth than
that, and so it was said that he had
as much as $500,000,000. Since the
statement that he and Mr. Morgan are
rivals for the control of Wall street
the assertion is made on the author
ity of a “well-known financier” that
he is worth at least $1,000,000,000.
Of course there is no way of verify
ing this assertion. Mr. Rockefeller
himself is not likely to tell the world
how much he is worth. It is certain
however, that he does not return sl.-
000,000,000 for taxation. Indeed, it is
doubtful if he returns $1,000,000.
But he is a very rich man. There is
no doubt about that. He is so much
richer than his tax returns indicate
that it is not to be wondered at that
there is a steadily growing hostility
against great fortunes and a noticeable
disposition to find a way to keep pri
vate wealth within Certain prescribed
bounds. If Mr. Rockefeller has a for
tune of $1,000,000,000 the tax rate of
New York city could be reduced very
considerably by assessing his property
somewhere near its true value.
INDIAN TEACHERS SOT FROM
INDIA.
A call made by the Secretary of War
on the Insular Bureau for teachers,
who had made a success in teaching
our Indians, for service in the Philip
pines, led an inquirer to send to a New
York newspaper a communication ask
ing why the government found it nec
essary to send to India for Mohamme
dan teachers for certain of the inhab
itants of the Philippines when it
thought that Protestant teachers of
any streak were good enough to teach
Catholic Filipinos.
It seems that this inquirer had the
Impression that the government had
sent to India for teachers for the Sulus.
Asa matter of fact it had done noth
ing of the kind. As already stated, it
had asked for teachers who had had
experience in teaching Indians on our
plains in the West.
It is stated that the government 1*
doing its utmost to divorce church and
state in the Philippines. According to
the Information given out It has been
Impartial in its selection of teachers.
Educational institutions In all parts of
the country. Catholic and Protestant,
have been asked to name a certain
number qf teachers for service in the
Philippines. It is not proposed to teach
religion In the public schools of the isl
ands, but it is probable that the teach
ers of the school will exert a certain
amount of religious influence.
Mr. Thomas W. Lawson of Boston is
very anxious to have his yacht, the
Independence, demonstrate her supe
riority over the Columbia. To spur his
skipper and crew to their very best
efforts, and If possible a little bit over,
it is said at the beginning of the races
he hung up a purse of SIOO,OOO which
he told the captain and crew would be
for them to divide in the event of the
Independence coming out victor. Mr.
Lawson is at least willing to pay for
his sport.
A Pennsylvania preacher Is advising
hiß followers not to take any part in
politics. “The polls are no fit place
for a Christian," he says. It would fce
safe to assert that he is one of the
most strenuous kickers against corrup
tion in politics. Nevertheless he ad
vises religious people, who might purify
politics, to have nothing to do with It.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1901.
DSD SH AFFER M AKE A MISTAKE f
It is difficult to understand just what
the situation of the steel workers’
strike is, but it begins to look as If
the strikers had lost the fight Into
which they entered so boldly and with
such promise of success. It is
known of course that Mr. Shaffer, the
president of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation, visited New York and had a
conference with Mr. Morgan, the head
of the United States Steel Corporation,
and that he carried back to Pittsburg
a proposition to the advisory board of
the Amalgamated Association to which
he had practically given his approval.
If the Association should accept this
preposition the strikers would gain
practically nothing, and eventually
might lose a great deal.
One report is that the advisory board
criticised President Shaffer severely,
going so far as to threaten to call for
his resignation. Be that as it may, it
is certain that Mr. Morgan’s propo
sition was not looked upon with favor,
and a request was made to him to
modify it in several important particu
lars, which if reports are true, he de
clined to do.
What the outcome of the strike will
be cannot now be foreseen, but it looks
as if the United States Steel Corpor
ation would not yield to the demands
of the strikers. It is in a better po
sition than the strikers thought it
would be. In the first place, though it
is a trust —the greatest trust in the
world—it has as much of the sympathy
of the public as the strikers have, and
for this reason: The Amalgamated As
sociation, after its scale for the union
mills had been signed, demanded that
the same scale be signed for the non
union mills. It thought itself strong
enough to enforce this demand. It
seems it was mistaken. The public did
not approve this demand, It looked up
on it as an arbitrary use of its power,
and therefore the Amalgamated Asso
ciation has not been able to get as
many men out of the mills as it ex
pected to. And it hesitates to call out
njen from other mills for fear that it
will disclose a weakness that would be
fatal to its contention.
Therefore it looks as if it would have
to declare the strike oft or continue the
strike Indefinitely. But it seems that
the corporation is operating some of
its mills that are making the same
kind of goods made by mills that have
been closed by the strike, and many of
the strikers are reported to be show
ing a restlessness that indicates that
they are inclined to go back to work.
The Amalgamated leaders also expect
ed that there would be a big drop in
the shares of the United States Steel
Corporation. In this they have been
disappointed. There appears to be a
vast amount of capital behind the
corporation for keeping up the price
of the shares. It is no doubt the wish
of the whole country that the strike
shall be speedily settled satisfactorily
to both sides. Such an outcome would
be followed probably by an adjustment
of the differences between capital and
labor in other parts of the country.
THE NEGRO IN MARYLAND.
The platform adopted by the Demo
cratic State Convention of Maryland
on Thursday means that if the Demo
crats are successful in the. next state
election a law will be enacted practical
ly eliminating the negro from politics
in that state. There are 60,000 negro
voters in Maryland, and if it were not
for the negro vote the Democrats
would carry the state by an over
whelming majority.
Most of the negroes are illiterate,
and it Is the opinion of the Democratic
leaders that the best interests of the
whole people require that the control
of public affairs shall be in the hands
of the intelligent white voters.
The issue in Maryland politics, there
fore, in the present campaign, is
whether or not the ballot shall be
taken from those who are illiterate.
According to our dispatches yesterday,
the proposition is to limit the ballot to
those who can read and write. This
would rule out some of the white voters,
but the great majority of those who
would be deprived of the elective fran
chise are black voters.
One great complaint that has been
made against the negro recently is that
the Republican school boards, under
the influence of negroes, have been im
porting negro teachers from Massachu
setts, Ohio and Colorado—teachers who
have brought with them ideas that are
not acceptable in Maryland. A leading
Democrat of Baltimore was quoted a
day or two ago as saying that there
are in Maryland educated negroes
enough to meet the demand for
negro teachers, and that there
is no necessity whatever for go
ing to other states for them.
The Importation of negro teach
ers seems to be the chief factor in the
movement to take the ballot away
from illiterate negroes.
Evidently with such an issue the
campaign is going to be a lively one.
It Is a safe assertion that every negro
vote will be polled by the Republicans.
But on such an' issue it is probable
that many Republicans will vote with
the Democrats. The understanding is
that there is a large number of Re
publicans who think the state would be
better off If Its negro citizens were kept
out of politics altogether.
The New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat
rejoices that Louisiana Is at last a
white stale, and with so overwhelming
a white majority that it is safe for all
time to come agatnst any possibility of
Africanization. According to the last
census, the state contains 729,612 whites
and 650,804 negroes, giving a white ma
jority of 78,808. But once before In the
history of the state, or rather from
the first census enumeration, has Lou
isiana shown a majority of white pop
ulation. That exception was in 1861,
on the eve of the Civil War, when
the white majority was 7,083. Other
enumerations have shown the negroes
in the majority, the surplus in their
favor ranging as high as 35,000. Only
ten years ago the blacks had a ma
jority of about 2,000.
Another specification has been added
to the indictment against the mosquito.
A Paris physician claims to have good
and sufficient evidence to establish the
fact that the mosquito transmits lep
rosy. as well as malaria, yellow fever
and typhoid.
Sir Thomas Lipton is not the only
owner of a first-class yacht to have
trouble with his crew. It is stated that
the captains of the Constitution, the
Columbia and the Independence have
had extreme difficulty in holding their
crews together and keeping them in
the best possible condition for quick
and accurate work. The difficulty with
the American crews seems to be princi
pally too much liberality on the part of
the owners, who scatter money and
beer and special privileges among the
men after each race. The consequence
is that the sailors look upon the whole
matter as a great frolic, and leave their
yachts at the most inopportune times
and to the great annoyance of the cap
tains. And the number of first-class
sailors is so limited that the captains
cannot enforce discipline by discharges.
It is said that some of the captains
have informed their owners that they
must not be so free with their money.
The other day somebody made com
plaint that the Brooklyn bridge was
carrying too much "dead weight" in
the shape of wires and pipes and rails.
In reply to this Bridge Commissioner
Shea says: “I want to say this Is not
so. We are carrying rails, a pneumatic
tube and wires, but all of these are In
constant use and are not dead weight."
Certainly not. Being in use, they are
"live weight," of course, as Mr. Shea
is ready to assert and defend. Shea,
with his distinction between dead
weight and Hve weight on the bridge,
is qualified to go into the category with
the health commissioner of New York
who had never heard of Prof. Robert
Koch.
PERSONAL.
--Elizabeth de Belle, an Atlanta (Ga.)
young woman, is making a name for
herself in law practice in Chicago. She
recently won a case involving real es
tate valued at SIOO,OOO.
—The Hon. Walter Campbell, who
has published a book of humorous
poems, illustrated by the Princess
Louise, is one of the best amateur re
citers and Scotch story tellers in Eng
lish society. He is a near relative of
the Duke of Argyle.
—Charles Benedict, one of the four
surviving veterans of the Seminole
war and an old Mason, is living at the
Masonic Home in Wallingford, Conn.
Two other survivors of this war are
Samuel Burt of Rockport, Mass., and
Samuel D. Calkins of Norwich, Mass.
—Austin Dobson, the English poet,
who has retired with a pension from
’ ’ "option as principal of a depart
ment of the London Board of Trade,
wanted to be an engineer and was be
ing prepared for that profession when
his parents persuaded him to choose
the civil service. He entered the Lon
don Board of Trade in 1856 as a clerk,
and the poems and biographical works
which have made him one of the lead
ing English writers of the day began
to appear soon thereafter in English
periodicals. In addition to the Board
of Trade pension he will receive,
through the efforts of Arthur Balfour,
an annual allowance of $1,250 from the
crown .as a recognition of “his distin
guished service to literature and his
eminence as a poet." Mr. Dobson was
61 years old on Jan. 18.
BRIGHT BITS,
—McCort— "You know something
about horse-racing. What is meant by
the favorite’?” Sport—“A favorite is
a horse that would surely win if peo
ple only wouldn’t bet on him.”—Phila
delphia Record.
—The Way of It —Mrs. Smith—“ K
atie, this watermelon isn’t cold at all.”
Katie—"Weil, 'tain't no fault o’ mine,
mum; Mr. Smith, he got sich a big
one that when I put it in th’ ice-chist,
I had ter take th’ ice out.”—Chicago
Record-Herald.
—These are the jocund vacation days,
when the man who has two weeks oft
rides forty miles in the sun on his bi
cycle, mops the perspiration off his
heated brow, pities his associates who
are sweltering in the office, and won
ders how they can stand the heat.—
Boston Transcripc.
—The Reason.—Mr. Frontpew—"l am.
glad you belong to our church choir,
my dear; it is such an orderly organ
ization; I never see you whispering to
one another during services.” Mrs.
Frontpew—"No, none of us are on
speaking terms.”—Ohio State Journal.
—“That was rather a—well, a tame
sermon of yours this morning, Mr.
Mildman,” said the rector. Just return
ed from a holiday. “Was it, sir?” re
sponded the curate. "It wasn't mine.
I've been too busy this week to write
one. and I took it from a bundle in your
handwriting out of the library.”—Tit-
Bits.
—Located. —Stranger—"Didn’t I un
derstand you to say you'd just come
from the Buffalo Exhibition? How did
you like it?” Chance Acquaintance—
" Pooh! It’s a poor little paltry two
penny-half-penny affair. Don't begin
to compare with ” Stranger—“ln
deed! By the way, how are things in
Chicago now?”—Puck.
CIKHHKT COMMEXT.
The Philadelphia Record (Pern.)
says: “The zeal and success with
which Federal officials have proceeded
against Carter finds a curious foil in
the utter inability of the government
to bring to Justice the contractors who
were the head" and front of the con
spiracy and the chief recipients of its
profits."
On the same subject the Baltimore
American (Rep.) says: “Of not nearly
so much importance as the punish
ment of Carter's conspirators is this
property. Two or three men are
known to have obtained the lion's
share of Carter's stealings. Their guilt
was proved in Carter’s trial, their
identity is known, their whereabouts is
not a secret; yet the government is
compelled to confess it cannot punish
them. Such a thing as an Imaginary
state line stands in the way. It Is
pitiable that this government must
confess its inability to punish these
men, hut such a confession must be
made." ''
The Galveston (Tex.) News (Dem.)
says: “A soldier from the Philippines
was prostrated by heat in Missouri a
few days ago. Prominent expansion
politicians of that state have all along
been declaring that the climate of the
Philippines is too hot for the white
man, hence that we are “pouring out
blood and wealth in vain." But this
soldier lived under the Philippine sun
for two years to be killed by Missouri
hot weather."
The Baltimore American says: “Mr.
Kennan may console himself for his
expulsion from Russia by reflecting
that he is 1n the proud position of a
man of whom an entire nation is
afraid, though his only weapon is his
pen. But it shows what sort of a
weapon the pen Is nowadays. It is the
one with which the real battles of the
world <M's fought and won,"
Mexico a —Good Thing.”
An American calling himself Dr. Lee,
who has been making a great deal of
money in the City of Mexico as a slate
writing medium and who has Just re
turned to this country, says the New
York Tribune, made this frank con
fession before leaving, for the benefit
of his dupes: "I feel sorry for the
poor innocefit mortals who come lip
here every day for readings, expecting
to receive messages from the nether
world: ’Oh, you poor fools, so you're
silly enough to come here and be hum
bugged, too, are you? All right, come
in. I’ll give it to you. I’ll humbug
you to a finish. But it grieves me
much to see gray hairs in a head with
so little sense.’ And the way I rattle
it off to those people is a wonder. They
never know what great people they are
until they come here and see me. I
give them a talk sometimes that is so
bloody crazy that I put on a. false face
when I go to the mirror to comb my
hair —which is very seldom. I’m
ashamed to look myself In the face. But
I believe in making everybody happy.
It’s a puddin’, this business of mine,
this spiritualist business. It’s a great
snap to marshal a bunch of freaks
from the spirit land. When I came to
Mexico I advertised that I would diag
nose and cure all diseases by simply
touching the patient—in the pocket. I
said that I would relieve them from all
burdens —in their pockets. I did. I
said I would make them all happy—for
what they had in their pockets. I
have. 1 don’t mind having people call
me a fakir. I admit it myself, but I
am proud of my profession, and when
people take the trouble to tell every
body that I am a fakir, I always like
them to add, if they are friends of
mine, that I am a clever fakir."
For a Minute.
During the siege of Mafeking, says
the Chicago News, the trenches had
grown very close to each other; in
fact, so near that conversations could
be shouted across the intervening
space. An Englishman called out:
“Hey! I say! One of you Boers stand
up and I’ll take a photograph of you.”
"Have you got a camera?” came back
the reply in good English.
"Yes.”
“On your honor?"
"Yes.”
“You won’t shoot me If I stand up,
upon your word?”
"No, we won’t shoot."
"Pass It down along the line.”
The word was passed down the line
and soon it was shouted back that it
was all right. At that a young Boer
about 23 rose out of the trenches and
stood buttoning his packet in full view.
Straightening his six feet three inches
he smiled pleasantly and said to- the
Englishman with the camera, who had
now stood up;
“How will you have it?”
"Turn a little more sideways. There!”
Click.
"Thanks."
"Send me a picture,” called the
young Boer as he Jumped back into the
trenches.
"What name?” asked the photogra
pher.
“Pretorius,” came the answer.
Nothing showed now above the
gsound for a few minutes, and then one
of the Englishmen lifted his hat on a
stick and promptly got a bullet
through it.
Too Realistic.
“Look here,” said a Suffolk farmer to
a friend, according to London Answers,
"I’m going to kill my pig, but I ow e so
much pork to my neighbors that I
shall have none left for myself if I pay
it all back. What would you do?”
“Quite easy to trick 'em,” said the
friend. “Kill your pig, and leave .t
hanging outside until late at night.
Bo's every one can see it. Then take it
in, and say someone stole it. Stick to
the tale, and you'll be all right.”
The farmer followed instructions, and
the kind friend watched his chance,and
stole the pig. The poor farmer came
round next morning to tell what had
happened.
“Somebody's stolen my pig!” he cried.
“Good!” said the friend. “Stick to it.
and the neighbors'll believe you sure
enough.”
"But it was stolen, I tell*you!”
“Excellent!” qouth the friend. “Just
you stick to the tale.”
“You confounded ass!” yelled the
farmer, "don't you understand? It was
really stolen!”
■'Superb!'' laughed the delighted
friend. You ought to have been an
actor, so you ought!”
That Suffolk farmer slammed the
doer, and went away fuming.
A Sexton’s Wit.
The sexton of a certain country
church usually makes the most of an
opportunity, and is not above giving
what he describes as “a gentle ’lnf*
to the sightseer, says Tit-Bits.
The other afternon he had conducted
a party round the church, and despite
the casual dropping of more than one
“gentle ’int,” it appeared as if the sex
ton was to go unrewarded.
In the porch the leader of the party
paused a moment, thanked the old sex
ton profusely, and wished him "good
afternoon."
"I suppose,” he added, "you’ve been
here many years?”
. "Forty,” replied the old man. "an’
its a werry strange thing, as whenever
I’m a-showing a party out o' the porch
they alius asks me that question, or''
(with emphasis) "the other ’n!”
"Indeed,” replied the visitor: "and
what may the other question be?”
"What I calls question No. 2,” re
plied the sexton calmly, "is jest this.
'SamißeW, is tips allowed?’ And Sami
well alius answers. 'Tips is allowed!’’’
"Samiwell” watched the party leave
with a lighter heart and a heavier
pocket.
He Got the Pm.
A story is told of a certain prominent
railway director who is equally re
nowned for his ability to make or take
a joke, says an exchange. An em
ploye, whose home is in the country,
applied to him for a pass to visit his
family.
“You are in the employ of the com
pany?” inquired the gentleman allud
ed to.
"Yes.”
“You receive your pay regularly?”
“Yes.”
“Well, now, supposing you Avere
working for a farmer instead of the
company, would you expect your em
ployer to take out his horses every 1
Saturday night and carry you home?”
This seemed a poser, but it wasn't.
"No," said the man, promptly, “I
would not expect that; but if the far
mer had his horses out and was go
ing my way, I should call him a very
mean fellow if he would not let me
ride.”
The employe came out three min
utes after with a pass good for twelve
months.
—Only two women In the United
States may use the mails without pay
ing for the privilege. These women are
widows of former Presidents. They are
Mrs. Julia D. Grant and Mrs. Lucretla
A. Garfield. All mail matter sent by
Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Grant under
their reg-pectlve written autograph sig
natures. and all mail matter sent to
these two ladies, will be carried free
during their lives. No signature or
marks are necessary to the free car
riage of mail matter to either of these
ladies, the address being sufficient.
Mrs. Garfield has enjoyed the privilege
since 1881, and Mrs. Grant since 1886.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The petrified forests of Arizona
were recently examined anew under
the direction of the general land of
fice. The silicified logs lie in the
greatest abundance within an area of
eight square miles in Apache county.
In some places, they lie more thickly
than they could have stood while liv
ing as trees, and it is thought that
they must have been carried there by
a swift current of water in the Meso
zoic age. Some of the agatlzed wood
was found to resemble the araucarian
pines of the Southern hemisphere.
—The bay of San Francisco is fa
mous for "earth hugging” cloulds. and
one of the scientists of the weather
bureau has been studying the subject
there to ascertain the cause. The re
markable topography of the region,
he says, makes it a regular laboratory
of nature, where daily experiments
are made in the condesation of watery
vapor. There is a peculiar juxtaposi
tion of ocean, bay, mountain, foothills
and valleys, and the arrangement of
bluffs and ridges forces the prevailing
westerly air current with Increased
velocity through the Golden Gate.
These are the causes of the heavy
fogs.
—While the Chinaman is usually
looked upon as non-tnventive, says the
Philadelphia Times, he certainly seems
to show picturesque originality when
it comes to making away with bimself
by request. The suicide details of sev
eral of the princes and officials who
were told some months ago by the Em
peror they had better take their lives,
have come out and do not by any means
lack pictorial features. One compass
ed his end by swallowing gold leaf,
which he washed down with opium.
Another took the silk cord his imperial
master sent him and artistically hang
ed himself In a neighboring temple,
while the third showed he had unique
ideas on the subject by eating earth
till it choked him. This latter method
is -very unusual and may have pro
ceeded from a misty notion that the
more of his native soil he absorbed
the less there would be for the foreign
er to confiscate.
—Aluminum is, at the present price,
the cheapest metal in the market, with
the exception of iron, zinc and lead,
says Electricity. The metal is now ex
tensively used in place of copper, brass,
tin and in some cases iron, especially
when the reduction of dead weight is
a question of great importance. Alum
inum is also beginning to be used very
largely a selectrical conductors, as it
gives nearly the same conductance as
copper, weights only half as much and
costs less. The progress made in the
use of aluminum in the past few yeurs
justifies the most sanguine expecta
tions. Twenty years ago the total out
put in the world did not exceed four
or five tons, and its price was $30,000
per ton; ten years ago its price was
reduced to about SIO,OOO per ton, and
the output increased to about thirty
tons per annum; now the price is $650
to S7OO per ton, and the output during
the last twelve months is reckoned at
5,000 tons.
—Under the dome of the building de
voted to ethnology at the Pan-Ameri
can Exposition is a gruesome exhibit,
yet one of particular value to the ar
chaeologist. Here upon a portion of
their native soil lie the mortal remains
of the inhabitants of the ancient vil
lage of “Baum.” This old site of ab
original culture was in Ross county,
Ohio, and its story was unraveled by
the researches of Professor Mills, of the
Ohio Archaeological and Historical So
ciety. More than eight hundred years
must have elapsed since Baum was
inhabited. The dwellers there were
the most skillful artificers in bone as
well as in stone, and the patience they
exhibited in the fashioning of bone fish
hooks and other utensils are a striking
object lesson to us to-day. One of the
most important discoveries is that of
the skulls of dogs very like a bulldog,
and of bones which were gnawed by
these same prehistoric canines. The
question of Indian dogs is still some
what obscure, and this is an import
ant contribution to our knowledge on
the subject.
—The ship which is to be used in the
coming South Polar expedition, organ
ized under the patronage of the Em
peror William, is now' being construct
ed at the Howaldt works at Kiel, says
the Engineering News. The boat is to
be 150 feet long and 36 feet maximum
width, and to be provided with a tri
ple covering of wood no less than 30
inches thick: this has been found neces
sary to resist the pressure of the ice.
It will have no port holes or windows.
At the start the coal provision will be
400 tons, and this is to be replenished
at Cape Town and Kerguelin by coal
ing vessels w'hirh wit! go to meet the
ship. A full rigging of sails will be pro
vided, besides the engine, and a speed
of 7 knots an hour is allowed for. The
expedition will include four scientific
men, and for these two laboratories
will be provided, which will be fitted
up with the best available instruments.
The personnel Includes five officers and
a crew of twenty men. The boat Is to
take along a captive balloon and fifty
Siberian dogs for the sleighs. The ken
nels for the dogs are placed on deck.
The expedition will start this summer.
—W. E. Porter has now discovered a
tree in Mexico, called by the natimes
the "chijol,” which is of a most re
markable nature, says an exchange. If
all that is alleged of this phenomenal
tree is correct it will some day revolu
tionize the stone trade. The "chijol,”
or the "stone tree,” as Mr. Porter des
ignates it, is of enormous proportions,
both in circumference and hight. It
has quite a number of branches,
-spreading out w'idely and carrying
leaves of a yellowish green color,
something like the myrtle. The wood
is extremely fine, and in a green state
Is easily worked, and is not given to
either warping or splitting. The won
derful part about it is that after being
cut the wood gets gradually harder,
and in the course Of a few years it is
absolutely petrified, whether left In the
open air or buried In the ground. As
the wood does not. even in its com
pletely petrified state, change either
it* color or its finely grained surface,
it offers indeed great possibilities for
new and artistic embellishments in the
style of our buildings both interiorly
and exteriorly, besides the advantage
of its being fireproof.
—A dispatch from Louisville, Ky.,
says: Adjt. Gen. David R. Murray has
just gone through one of the most novel
sensations that can possibly befall a
man. Mr. Murray has undergone prac
tically all the experience of dying with
out having the vital spark leave his
body. He thought he was dying, and
then passed Into a state he thought was
death. Finally he came to and was
greatly surprised to find himself still
alive. This experience was an incident
of a recent illness of Gen. Murray. He
had left Frankfort for his home at
Cloverport because he was not well. On
the train he was seised with nervous
prostration. "My condition became se
rious," said Gen. Murray, in describing
the affair. "Friends came to my as
sistance, but could do little. I gradu
ally lost consciousness. At first I
thought I told my wife and children
good-by. The most beautiful stars
scintillated before me. I did not suf
fer a particle, but on the contrary felt
fine. Then came the end; 1 thought I
was dead. It was a most pleasant sen
sation. I saw and knew what all my
friends were doing, but could not say
a word to them. I was the most sur
prised person In the world when I was
restored to consciousness and found I
was not dead.”
KHOOL* AND COLLEGES.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF
YOUNG LADIES.
TEACHERS—University trained and ex
perienced in all departments.
BUILDING®—New and modern, with
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CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC-Sepa
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ART—Teacher from Austria.
Laboratories. Library, Gymnasium, etc
Healthful, beautiful suburban location of
twenty acres.
Write for illustrated catalogue. Fail
term opens Sept. 19.
South Carolina
Military Academy,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
$250 per annum covers absolutely all ex
penses. including Clothing, Board.Tuition*
Books, Medical Attention. This is the
State Military College, a branch of State
University. U.S. Army Inspecting Offieera
describe Its military excellence as unsur
passed. For illustrated catalogue, with
full particulars, address
COL. ASBURY COWARD,
Superintendent S. C. M. A.,
. Charleston, S. C.
The Mount Washington Heminary
for Boys Under Thirteen,
The Mount Washington Seminary was eg
tabllshed In 1899. It is built on t v e same
grounds as the Mount St. Agnes college for
Young Women, about 7 miles from Baltimore
in a garden spot of beauty, remarkable lor its
hygienic advantages. It can be reached by
the local trains of the Northern Central K R.,
which pass the grounds, or by the cars of the
United Electric Line. The institution has two
departments- Elementary and the Prepara
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who pass creditably the prescribed six year*
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RECTRESS. Mount Washington Seminary.
LaGrange Female College,
This is a good institution for grla.
Advantages and surroundings fine.
Original and striking features.
For further information apply to
RUFUS W. SMITH, President,
LaGrange, Ga.
BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
A thoroughly equipped school, com
plete in its appointments, of high grade
for Boys and Young Men. For cata
logue or information apply to
W. R. ABBOT. Principal,
Bellevue P. 0., Va.
BETHEL MILITARY ACADEMY (ISC.).
Near Warrenton. Established 1865.
Location unsurpassed for health and so
cial influences. Prepares for business,
college and government academies. Ses
sion opens September 19th Address
THE PRINCIPAL.
Bethel Academy P. 0., Virginia.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. 1342 Vermont Ave
CHENOWETH
BOARDING SCHOOL FOR YOUNG
LADIES.
Principals:
Mrs. Mary D. Chenoweth-Tumer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cbenoweth-Sloan.
Notre Dame of Maryland.
College for Younr Women and Preparatory
School for Girls. Teacherg Specialists m every
department. Lecturers of national reputation
Svstem of education thorough and progressive
Regular and elective courses. Extensive
grounds Location unsurpassed. Suburb of
Baltimore. Spacious buildings, completely
equipped. Charles Street ave, Baltimore. Md.
Edgeworth Boarding Si Day School
For Girls. Re-opens Sept. 26. 39th year,
Mrs. H. P. LEFEBVRE,
Miss E. D. HUNTLEY.
Principals.
122 & 124 W. Franklin St.,Baltimore,Md
Mary Baldwin seminart—For Yoon*
Ladles. Term begins Sept. 4,1901. Located in
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Unsurpassed cli
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224 students past session from 27 States. Terms mod
erate. Pupils enter any time. Send for catalogue.
MISS E. C. WEIMAR, Prim, Staunton,Va.
PANTOPS ACADEMY
Neak CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
For boys. Fully equipped. Send for catalogue.
JOHN R. SAMPSON, A. M , Principal
TO-MORROW.
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week. Special reduction for July. Write
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controlling the Hotel Buckingham, the
Hotel Maflborough and the Hotel
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Rates $1 per day and upwards. Write
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Has just opened for the season, and
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Special rates to families. Address
WILL PARK, Proprietor.
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