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ilitX 10 HEW ADVERTISEMEKIS.
Meeting—Stockholders United Hy
draulic Cotton Press Company.
Special Notices —Steamer Clifton to
Bell Buoy, Sunday; Picnic of A. O. H.,
No. 2 at Tybee, Aug. 8, at Bohan’s Pa
vilion; Notice of Temporary Removal,
Mackall & Anderson; Notice of Remov
al Barrow & Barrow; the First Floor
of Old State Bank Building For Rent;
Notice, S. Fleishman; Special Notice,
Youmans & Demmond; Hotel Tybee
This Afternon; Notice to City Court
Jurors; Notice IJutler, Stevens & Cos.;
Notice to City Court Jurors; Notice to
Superior Court Jurors; Notice to Mem
bers of the Bar; Notice, Mrs. Bertha
Buckley; Levan's Table d’Hote; Sa
vannah Steam Dye Works; An Ener
getic Lady Wanted; We Have Decided
to Sell Out, C. A. Drayton Grocery Cos.;
David Clark; At Joyce’s.
Business Notices—Electric Fans,
Electric Supply Company; Rambler Bi
cycles, Daniel A. Holland; Tribune Bi
cycles, R. V. Connerat; "An Iridescent
Dream,” R. Van Keuren & Cos., Jewel
ers.
August Cut Price Shoe Sale—At
Marks.
Amusements—Two Star Boxing Con
tests, Savannah Athletic Club, Theater,
Aug. 6.
Laundries—E. & W. Laundry; Red
Cross Laundry; Savannah Steam
Laundry.
Sunday Shiner—M. Wilensky.
Gas Ranges—Mutual Gas Ligljt
Cos.
Financial —W. R. Vermilye & Cos.,
New York.
We Cut the Prices—The Metropoli
tan Clothing Cos.
Lncandescent Vapor Light—Miss
Alice A. Barnes, Sole Agent.
Seasonable Goods at Reasonable
Prices—At the Bee Hive.
Lincoln Sale—Byck Bros.
We Are in the Storage Business—
Gutman’s. ‘ -H
A Fair Division—B. H. Levy A Bro.
Take Your Pencil—B. H. Levy A
Bro.
Shopper Need Go No Further Than
Here—Leopold Adler.
An Unparalleled Bargain Opportu
nity—Foye A Eckstein.
Geuine Bargains Feast—Daniel Ho
gan.
Cool Summer Wear—Walsh A Meyer.
Midsummer Bargains—At Gustave
Eckstein A Co.’s.
Educational—Emory College, Oxford,
Ga.
August Cut Price Shoe Sale—At
Marks’.
Cigars—Cortez Cigars.
Summer Resorts—The Manor, Albe
marle Park, Asheville, N. C.
Looking for Speed—T. A. Bryson, Co
lumbia Agent.
Special Spot Cash Sale—Cohen-Kul
man Carriage and Wagon Company.
Regular $2.50 Ege-glasses for sl—Dr.
R. M. Harris.
August Cut Prices Shoe Sale—Charles
Marks.
All Kinds of Gin Roller Coverings,
Etc.—Leo Frank.
If Wheat Is Worth sl.oo—The Globe
Shoe Store.
Now Is the Time—Allen Bros.
Children’s Grand Ball—At Hotel Ty
bee, Wednesday Afternoon.
By All Means—Be at the South End
To-day.
Ice Cream Freezers, Etc.—Thos.
West & Cos.
Eye-Glases and Spectacles for Jl—At
Llvingtson's Pharmacy Cos.
Auction Sales—Valuable Land for
Subdivision, by Youmans & Demmond,
Auctioneers; Peremptory Sale Furni
ture. Desks, etc., by C. H. Dorsett,
Auctioneer.
See Them and Marvel—M. Dryfus.
Paste—Stearns’ Electric Paste.
Whiskeys—Murray Hill Club Whis
key; Old Quaker Rye Whiskey.
Postum Food Coffee —Postum Cereal
Cos.
Beef— Liebig's Extract of Beef.
Medical—S. S. S.; Abbey's Efferves
cent Salt: Cuticura Remedies; R. R.
R.; B. B. B.; Stuart's Gin and Buchu;
J. N. Hathaway Cos.; Dr. W. N. Van
Brederode's Cure for Malaria, Etc.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia to-day
are for fair weather, warmer in the
interior, light variable winds, mostly
southerly on the coast; and for East
ern Florida, fair weather in northern
portion, showers In central and south
ern portions, warmer on the west coast,
light southeasterly, .winds, 4V " r *
PROTECTION FOR CON'S! HERS.
Notwithstanding the abuse that has
been heaped upon him by leaders and
newspapers of his own party, Repre
sentative Babcock of Wisconsin stands
by the bill he Introduced Into the House
during the last Congress for the re
duction of the tariff on certain articles.
In a recent statement to a constituent
he said; “After we have butlded so
well, and many of these Industries have
become giants such as the world has
never before known, shall we continue
a tariff on articles that yield no reve
nue, need no protection, and that, in
fact, like the products of our farms,
are articles of export? How can such
a policy be defended? If Congress main
tains a tariff on such articles the whole
theory of protection falls to the ground,
and it simply inures to the benefit of
those who may secure the control of
such commodity, since by its aid they
can fix exorbitant prices in the domes
tic market. I maintain that it is a
part of the policy of. protection to pro
tect consumers.”
This idea of protecting consumers is
anew one to a protectionist, such as
Mr. Babcock claims to be. In every
tariff discussion, however, which has
taken place in Congress during the last
twenty years the Democrats have
pointed out that consumers were be
ing neglected by the protective system
insisted upon by the Republicans. For
instance, they pointed out time and
time again that all sorts of agricultural
machinery and implements were being
sold at lower prices in foreign markets
than in the domestic markets. The
Democrats therefore always contended
that the consumers should be given
some consideration in framing a tariff
law. The Republicans would not con
sent. Their plea was that the demands
of labor required such a tariff as they
proposed. All the while, however, their
effort was to benefit monopolies, not
labor.
And now they are calling Representa
tive Babcock an apostate and are
threatening him with all sorts of pun
ishment for trying to get some relief
for consumers. He knows what he is
about, however. He has heard the
mutterings in the West, and he has
made up his mind to heed them. He
realizes that consumers of the West,
in fact, of all parts of the country,
do not intend to be robbed by trusts
if there is any way to protect them
selves. They know that the trusts are
selling their products at prices which
are much lower in foreign markets
than they are in the domestic mar
kets. The steel trust, for instance, is
selling rails, billets and other steel
products at prices fully a third less
in Europe than in this country, and
they are able to do this because our
protective tariff keeps similar products
of England out of our market.
Mr. Babcock is right. The tariff ought
to be so revised as to protect con
sumers from the grasping greed of the
trusts. Th% power to force American
consumers to pay prices a third or half
greater for trust products than are
paid by foreign consumers ought to be
taken from the trusts.
A CLEAN PRIMARY WANTED.
Everybody is in favor of a primary in
the contest for ordinary, but the indi
cations are that a primary will not
settle the contest. It is true that a pri
mary will, in all probability, indicate
who the ordinary will be, but its choice,
from the present indications, will not
feel that he can rest on his oars at the
regular election.
It would be a relief to the public If
the contest could be entirely settled by
a primary. There have been so many
elections within the last year or two
that the voters have become tired of
them. Besides, at some of the elections
there were scenes calculated to keep
voters who like law, order and decency
away from the polls.
It is a pretty safe prediction, how
ever, that the primary for ordinary
will be free from the objectionable
features that attracted so much atten
tion at the ordinary’s primary some
months ago. There is a disposition to
hold voters to a stricter accountability,
and candidates and their workers will
be watched for evidences of violations
of the election latfs.
The primary will be an interesting
,one If all of the candidates submit
their claims to it. And it will be an in
teresting one even if one or two of the
candidates decide not to enter it. The
office Is one worth having, and every
one of the candidates has enthusiastic
friends. While therefore the use of im
proper methods to secure votes will be
discountenanced there will be no lack
of enthusiasm. Even now, at the very
beginning of the campaign, every citi
zen who desires an honest election
should let it be understood that he will
not vote for or assist any candidate
who is known to be using, or who con
templates using money in the purchase
of votes. A clean election is what is
wanted.
MRS. EDDY ATTACKED.
The enemies of Mrs. Mary Baker G.
Eddy, the founder of Christian
Science, seem determined to talk, write
and lecture her into still greater prom
inence. They assert that her teachings
are erroneous, and that she is a char
latan, and they continually assail her
in the public prints and from the ros
trum, as if they did not know that
the constant agitation of the matter
would direct attention to her and her
work, and win sympathy for both. II
Christian Science is a “craze,” as has
been alleged, the best way to treat it
is to leave it alone; then it will die
finally of Inanition. Only truth can sur
vive in the long run; error must per
ish. Hut constant agitation will keep
even error alive for a long time.
One of the latest and most severe
assailants of Mrs. Eddy Is a Boston
lawyer of the name of Peabody. He de
livered a lecture in Tremont Temple
the other night on Christian Science,
in the course of which he not only de
nounced the cult as a fraud, and Mrs.
Eddy as a humbug whose chief purpose
was money-making, but asserted that
Christian Science was hardly more
than a reversion to the old Salem
witchcraft superstitions.
On* point that he made, and which
will be new to most readers, was that
in the matter of disease, Chrietian
Science claims to work both ways; that
is, that it can not only cure disease,
tout cause disease, This latter power is
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1901.
| called "malicious animal magnetism.”
! and Lawyer Peabody asserted that
Mrs. Eddy herself attempted to use
I that power against a man of the name
j of Daniel Spofford. Spofford, it seems,
had at one time been a Christian
: Scientist, but finally repudiated the
| cult. Then, according to Peabody. Mrs.
| Eddy conceived the idea that he was
i her enemy and solicited person after
; person among the Christian Scientists
to employ his or her mind to cause
disease to Daniel Spofford. It does not
seem that Daniel suffered any incon
venience from the mental endeavor to
cause him to become ill, however.
Therefore, there is a lack of any evi
dence, even from Lawyer Peabody, that
the "malicious animal magnetism” In
the Christian Scientists Is a source of
great danger.
A CHANCE FOR TEXAS OIL.
The petroleum at Beaumont, Tex.,
does not contain a large percentage of
lllumiatlng oil. It is a fuel oil. But
if a dispatch from Marien, Ind., con
tains a correct statement of an inven
tion that has been made by J. C. Clark
of that town, the Texas product will
be as valuable as that which contains
a high percentage of illuminating oil.
According to the dispatch this man
Clerk, five years ago, dreamed of a
machine by which gas could be made
from petroleum. He told his sons of
it. They laughed at him, in fact ridi
culed him and his dream. A second
and a third time he had the same
dream. He was so impressed that he set
about making a model of the machine
he had seen in hjs dreams. A year or
so ago he perfected it. and took out
patents on it. Then the difficulty of get
ting the necessary means for making a
machine after his model arose. He had
some means of his own and two capi
talists furnished the balance. The
machine was set up and tried in Sum
mittville last Saturday, and, as stated
in the dispatr*i, was a complete suc
cess. Gas was made in accordance
with Mr. Clark’s dream.
A large number of manufacturers
were present to witness the test, and so
satisfied were they with its success
that they at once contracted with Mr.
Clark for machines. They intend to
run their plants with gas manufac
tured from petroleum. They are glass
and iron manufacturers. The gas has
four times the heating power of
natural gas and can be manufactured
at a cost of 2 cents per 1,000 feet.
Plants are to be installed at once in
Marion and other nearby towns for
the manufacture of the gas. It Is
claimed that the gas thus made is cer
tain to take the place of natural gas,
coke and coal.
If the foregoing is true, the demand
for the product of the oil fields of
Texas will be greatly stimulated. In
terest in coal lands will decline and
that in oil lands will advance. Manu
facturing will be revolutionized. Water
power will no longer be the cheapest
power. But is the story of the Indiana
man's dream and invention true? It
would be well to await developments.
THE GRANDFATHER CLAUSE.
Alabama has decided to follow
Louisiana on the suffrage question. Her
constitutional convention is convinced
that her white people want illiterate
negroes deprived of the ballot while
granting the elective franchise to il
literate whites. It has therefore adopt
ed what is known as the grandfather
clause. Is that clause in their consti
tutions going to make trouble for those
states which have adopted it—Louisi
ana, North Carolina and Alabama? It
certainly looks so. It. is doubtful ir
the Republican party will make a po
litical issue out of it, for the reason
which we have stated a number of
times, namely, that that party will
stand a better chance for getting a
foothold in the Southern states without
the black vote than with It.
But the blacks are going to make
a fight against the grandfather clause.
They have already started a move
ment to have It declared unconstitu
tional. Some of the ablest of the
Louisiana lawyers have held it to be
unconstitutional, and the chances arc
that the Supreme Court would have
to declare it to be, if the question were
squarely presented to it. If it should
be declared unconstitutional the states
having constitutions containing it
would have to abandon it or give up a
part of their representation in Con
gress and the Electoral college. In Al
abama the grandfather clause was
adopted against the advice of some of
the ablest mhn in the state.
LOWERING THE RECORD.
This is a record-lowering age. The
other day we announced that the
Transatlantic steamer Deutschland, in
her last trip from Europe to this coun
try, had made the remarkable record
of 601 knots a day, during the entire
voyage—that is, an average of 601
knots. A quarter of a century ago
such a record in ocean travel was
thought to be unattainable. Now four
day and even three-day ships between
this country and Europe are talked of.
Friday the celebrated trotting horse
Cresceus, on the race course at Colum
bus, 0., made anew record for trot
ters. He trotted a mile In 2:0214. It
took many years to reach that record—
a century or more. In ISO 6it was
thought that Yankee was a wonder
when he made a mile in 2:59. Fifty
years later Flora Temple was the talk
of the trotting world when she made
a record of 2:1914- It was a quarter of
a century later when Maud S. trotted
a mile in 2:08%, and horsemen said
that her record would never be beat
en. But it was beaten by AHx and
The Abbot, and now we have Cresceus,
a wonder in horseflesh, who, it is be
lieved, will trot a mile in 2 minutes in
the very near future.
If that record is made will we then
begin to talk of the minute and three
quarter horse, just as we are now talk
ing of the four-day ship? It Is prob
able. The world will never be satis
fied to stand still. But the limit, when
will it be reached?
There are so many improvements go
ing on in and around the city that a
day might be spent profitably and In
terestingly in taking a look at them.
At the western end of Gwinnett street
the work of building the embankment
on which will be laid the tracks of the
railroads entering the new depot loops
up from the lowlands of Springfield
plantation, .while on West Broad street
the erecting of the union depot Itself
is going forward. In the eastern sub
urbs the buildings of the State Fair
are going up. Go where one may, new
houses and other improvements are to
be seen. This is truly a busy summer;
probably the busiest that Savannah
has ever known. The old "dull sum
mer months” have become a memory
only. Savannah may have months in
which business is not so brisk as in
other months, but she doesn’t have
"dull” months any more.
i .
Telephone girls everywhere ought to
rejoice in the good luck of Miss Mat
tie Helen Beals of Wichita. Miss
Beals was earning $3 per week as a
night girl In the Wichita exchange
when she registered for the land draw
ing in the Indian reservation. Her
name was one of the first to come out
of the box, and she got a farm worth
$40,000. As soon as she makes legal en
try upon the land it will become hers,
hard and fast; and then she is going to
get married. Nor will she marry a
fortune hunter. When she was poor a
trolley car conductor loved her for her
self. Now that she has become rich
she will make the trolley conductor
happy.
In Hartford, Conn., there is a faith
healer of the name of Bartlett. He
had until within a few days a patient
of the name of Sherman, an old man
who came from somewhere up in Mrs.
Eddy’s state. New Hampshire, and who
was a firm believer In the faith cure.
Sherman visited Bartlett’s office daily
for faith treatment. On Thursday the
old man Sherman had a hemorrhage
in Bartlett’s office, and the "healer”
forgot all of his precepts and ran post
haste to get a doctor. The patient,
however, was so far gone that he died
shortly.
PERSONAL.
—Gen. Charles King said in a recent
interview: "Three generals of the
Army of the Cumberland in the War
of Secession have been Presidents; ex
cept Gen. Miles every commanding gen
eral of the United States army since
the war served in the Army of the
Cumberland; seventeen members of
that body have served in presidential
cabinets, thirty-eight have been sena
tors and 300 have been congressmen."
—Lord Roberts’ dispatches from South
Africa are said to have been written
by Lieut. Col. 11. V. Cowen, his assist
ant military secretary. Apropos, it is
recalled that the Duke of Wellington
was once told that his wonderfully
pithy war dispatches would live long
as models for that kind of correspond
ence. “Yes,” said the Iron Duke, “I
didn’t think Gurwood had it in him,”
referring to his secretary.
Mr. McHugh, a member of the Brit
ish Parliament, who is in prison for six
months in Kilmainham jail for sedi
tious articles in his paper, the Sligo
Champion, takes a commendably cheer
ful view of the situation. To his Irish
colleagues in the Institute of Journal
ism he lately wrote: “None but the
experienced can fully appreciate the
charms of solitude, and I don’t think
a press man's life can be regarded as
perfect without some such experience
as that I am now enjoying."
BRIGHT BITS.
—One Result. —First Martian —“What
is the cause of the hideous discord
whlclj rises from the earth?” Second
Martian —“Didn't you know? Carnegie
has provided every Scotch boy and girl
with a university education, and they'-
re practising dialect college-hoots.”
—Judge.
—An Alibi.—“ Has my Willie been in
swimming here to-day?” asked Wil
lie’s angry father. “No, sir,” replied
the biggest boy in the water. “Are
you sure?” “Sure. Why. it was as
much as he could do to keep from
drownin’, but we got him out all right.
He’s restin’ over there in the bushes
now.”—Philadelphia Press.
—A Philosopher.—Wife—"There’s a
burglar down in the cellar, Henry.”
Husband—“ Well, my dear, we ought to
he thankful that we are up stairs.”
Wife —“But he'll come up here.” Hus
band—“Then we'll go down in the cel
lar, my dear. Surely a ten-room house
ought to be big enough to hold three
people without crowding.”—Boston
Traveller.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says:
"Members of the Cuban Constitutional
Convention in preparing an electoral
bill have copied two American ideas,
which experience has shown to be un
desirable. One is minority representa
tion and the other is the plan of choos
ing the President and Vice President
by means of an electoral college. Mi
norities are best represented under the
district system. Cumulative voting for
the purpose of bringing in one minority
representative In each district does not
at its best imjrove upon the other ar
rangement. and at its worst it is easy
of abuse and in practice generally re
sults In corrupt trades which cannot
fail to have an evil Influence upon leg
islation. So far as the electoral college
is concerned, it is a useless and cum
bersome method at the best, and at the
worst it may be employed to thwart
the popular will. In adopting these dis
credited Americanisms the Cubans were
ill advised.”
The Hartford (Conn.) Times (Dem.)
says: "The failure of Mr. McKinley
to continue the work of removing the
civil service from politics nnd making
it business-like and economical is well
known to all who follow the history
of the country. He has yielded to the
pressure of politicians, but he is not
by temperament or habit fitted to ad
vance a reform of this kind. His natu
ral sympathy is with the old system
which provides for political friends and
lets others whistle for them.”
The Galveston (Tex.) News (Dem.)
says: “And now the Democratic lead
ers of Indiana are talking as If the
party in that state were going to do
Just like Ohio Democrats did. If the
Virginia Democratc should do the
same thing it will then be admitted by
even the stout-hearted that if the party
has not been reorganized it has flopped
in a marvelous manner.”
The Washington Post (Ind.) says;
“The Hon Leonidas Felix Livingston
is by no means a pussy-footed Indi
vidual. The Georgia representative
right ups and says he believes the sil
ver question Is dying. There arc other
statesmen who have been so precipitate
as to declare that they have actually
heard the death rattle of the ’rasho.’ "
The Wheeling (W. Va.) Register
says: "The most cruel thrust at Ar
mtral Sampson's pretensions Is Admiral
Cervera's courteous and Innocent decli
nation to make any criticism of that of
ficer on the ground that ‘I don't know
Admiral Sampson.’ Sampson wasn’t at
the battle of Santiago in time for (be
Spaniards to get an introduction,’? >
Stories Told by Topeka Men.
One day this week a dozen or more
Topeka men were gathered beneath a
rotary fan and began to talk politics,
•says the Kansas City Star. One thing
led to another, until somebody men
tioned D. W. Mulvane’s loyalty tp J.
R. Burton in the latter’s three or four
campaigns for United States senator.
It is a legend of Kansas politics that
Burton originally owed the Mulvane
bank some money, and so when the
subject came up Hiram Dillon good
naturedly interjected, “Save the red
headed man.” Mulvane, who is modest
as a girl, blushed, some laughed and
others wondered. For the information
of the latter Dillon consented to tell
the story.
He said that once upon a time a
steamboat blew up in a river. Instant
ly men, women and children were
struggling in the water. Soon a man
appeared on the bank of the stream,
angu%h written upon his face. “Save
the red-headed man!” he cried; “save
the red-headed man!” Sure enough,
far out on the edge of the struggling
mass of heads was a red-headed man.
“Save the red-headed man!” the man
on the bank repeated, wringing his
hands —“the red-headed man!”
The man’s distress was not assumed.
It was real. A man with a boat put out
to save the red-headed man.
A little girl put up her arms to be
saved. The man on the bank shouted
to save the red-headed man and the
boatman pushed on.
He saved the red-headed man and
brought him to the river’ bank.
“Some kin of yours, I suppose,” the
boatman said, kindly, to the man on
the shore.
“No," the man replied, "but he owes
me $2.”
The crowd laughed, including Mul
vane, who proceeded to tell a story In
turn.
Once a boat sprang a leak at sea and
passengers and all were called to man
the pumps. They worked hard and
barely beat the inflow of water.
One man said to his fellow passen
gers: . “We have to beat this water,
for I have a wife and family depend
ing on me.”
Another said: "And I am promised
to marry next month; I must get
home.”
A third said: “I have an old father
and mother looking for me. We must
beat this water.”
One man had said nothing. He Just
kept on pumping. “Well, Jones,” was
asked of him, “what are you pumping
for?”
"Golly,” he replied, increasing his
strokes at the pump, "I am pumping
for Jones.”
Clievrenl’s Old Age.
The recent unveiling in Paris of the
statue of the centenarian savant, Chev
reul, has served to Justify the reprint
ing of an interview with him in 1886,
when he attained his hundredth year,
says the New York Evening Post. Ask
ed by the reporter for the secret of his
long life, he replied gravely: “I can
give it to you in four words: ‘Keep in
good health.’ That is my whole secret.”
What were his recreations? Fishing,
though he hated the taste of fish, and
never himself sampled the trophies of
his line. He was Also born without a
“sense” for wine, which was not only
"indifferent” to him, but positively ab
horrent —“a pure question of an often •
sive odor,” he explained. But what did
he do when he was fatigued
“Fatigue? I do not know what the
word means. Work is the way to rest.”
“But there are surely limits to human
power, and, besides, when one is ill ”
“111? I do not know what that word
means either. I do not remember ever
to have been ill.”
Thus the rule for living a hundred
years comes down to the simple direc
tion always to live in firm health.
Chevreul’s idea of age was strikingly
brought out at the dinner given him
In honor of his centenary by the*Paris
ian press. His son was present, and
undertook to correct his father’s mem
ory of a certain ancient menu. “Tais
toi, gamin!” cried out the old gentle
man with paternal authority. The
gamin, be it observed, was then six
ty-six years old!
Expecting More Company.
An Irish servant girl of recent Im
portation was preparing the ice cream,
tea and cakes for a Brooklyn evening
party, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser, when her employer remark
ed to her daughter Jocularly, apropos
of the heat:
“I’m afraid those mosquitoes will
come in to-night over the back fence.”
Going downstairs to the kitchen lat
er she was surprised to find several
gallons of tea more than she needed al
ready made.
“You’ve made too much tea. Norah,”
she said. “I told you the big kettle
full would be quite enough.”
“Sure, that's so, ma’am,” replied the
girl, “but that was before you said
anything about the other gists.”
“What other guests?” Inquired the
hostess in astonishment.
“Why, the Mosquitoes, ma’am, you
said were cornin’ over the back flnee.”
Brought to the Point,
He was slow, painfully slow, says
London Answers. Last autumn, when
the figured velvet drawing-room suite
was new, he sat on one chair, she on
another, and talked —simply talked.
During the winter they burned papa’s
gas, and sat side by side on the
lounge exchanging confidences. When
spring came they used the same chair
and whispered; but there was never a
whisper of that one question she was
so longing to hear. Now. summertide
was with them, and the figured velvet
was showing signs of wear.
A knock at the front door was heard.
“Callers,” she remarked.
"Bother!” said he. “Say you’re out,
Kate.”
“Oh, Jack. I couldn't! that would be
a fib,” she murmered. “I can say, I'm
—l'm engaged, If you like.”
And Jack was captured.
Effective Hypnotism.
A German professor recently gave a
lecture on "Hypnotism” to a scientific
audience in Askrigg, says London An
swers.
"Hypnotism, my friends,” said he. “Is
a hooch interference mit der Imagina
tion, unt der principal ingredlences vos
mate of ft fool unt a rascal.
“Fife sosusant years ago a Greek
philosopher hypnotised a. rooster chick
en mit a straight chalk-mark on a
c rooked floor, unt now in 1901 der scien
tific peoples discofer zat zey can hyp
notise hooman beinks If zey ain't got
no more brains as zot rooster.
“As for me. my friends. I can hyp
notise zis class more expedishoosly mit
a klub!” _
Reflections of a Bachelor.
From the New York Press.
There are mighty few people who
don't dtp a kind word In gall before
they utter it.
A woman will forgive a man for
abusing her. but she will hate him with
undying hatred for not noticing her.
Warm weather doesn't bother the
woman very much who knows she has
a pair of pretty shoulders to show
through an open-work waist.
When a woman can’t account for her
husband's ugly mood in any other way,
she decides his nnderwear is either‘too
heavy or too light.
If the average man gave as much at
tention to having his domestic affairs
in proper shape as he does to having
his pipes draw well marriage would be
.quoted higher than Standard Oil,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Prince Alfonso of Bavaria has re
ceived his discharge from the army of
that country, a thing which he applied
, for because of his superior's criticism
upon his handling of his cavalry at
last toll’s maneuvers. He was a ma
jor general, Is but 38 years old, a good
sportsman and generally very popular.
—A new rifle has been ordered for
the English army, that is to say 1,000
of them have been ordered for experi
mental demonstration. The chief new
feature of the weapon is that it is
five Inches shorter than their Lee-En
fleld, and the barrel is encased in wood
to within one Inch of the muzzle, the
idea being to enable the user to grasp
the gun anywhere without inconven
ience from the heat generated by firing.
Other alterations affect the sights and
the trigger, which has a short idle
movement before the action Is engaged,
and In the loading arrangement, which
is of the carrier type.
—The world to-day gives honor to
Louis Pasteur, says the New York Tri
bune. It has hitherto done so in no un
certain manner. Long ago its best
judgment enrolled his name among
those of its great beneficent geniuses.
But to-day, in a peculiar and especial
it pays him a peculiar and es
pecial tribute, which is none the less
marked because it is not ostensibly in
tended. What was practically an in
ternational tuberculosis congress was
last week in session in Lqndon. It
was attended by some of the foremost
physicians and scientists of the world.
Its purpose was to devise means of
mitigating, if not of w’holly extirpat
ing, the greatest physical scourge of
the human race. And it acted In every
step on lines laid down by Louis Pas
teur. We may not say it would never
have met had It not been for him.
America might have been discovered
and colonized had there been no Co
lumbus. But withoutiiesitation it may
be said that the congress merely con
tinued and elaborated the work of
which he more than any other man
was the founder.
—lt has been officially reported that
there are nearly 900 lepers in the Unit
ed States, says the Philadelphia In
quirer, and it appears from the ex
pressions of opinion which this state
ment has elicited that the circum
stance thus disclosed is generally re
garded with surprise and with a feel
ing not far removed from consterna
tion. There is no justification for
either sentiment. Leprosy, which is
one of the most ancient of human
maladies, exists in every quarter of the
world. Its place of origin has always
been a subject of dispute, but whether
it came, as some insist, from the val
ley of the Nile or from Far Eastern
Asia, it has always been most preva
lent in the Orient, and it is from there
that the contagion has proceeded. It
had reached Europe early in the Chris
tian era and it had lost much of its
virulence and extension when its dis
semination was enormously stimulated
as a consequence of the crusades. Af
ter that it became terribly prevalent,
and it is a well authenticated fact that
in France alone in the year 1226 there
were 4,000 leproseries or establish
ments where lepers were confined and
treated.
—The recent law passed in Austria
regulating the fees of lawyers would,
if applied in this country, make every
limb-o-th-law seek some other channel
in which to exercise his earning ca
pacities. There woultl be nothing in the
business; none of those juicy pickings
such as make the average layman wish
that he had made Blackstone his dear
est companion. Under this new law the
lawyers may charge a maximum fee of
$1.25 on all cases involving less than
what is approximately in our money
s2l. This includes all the legal services
except the actual trial, for which law
yers are paid so much per diem. On
lawsuits involving more than S2O and
less than $406, the lawyers are allowed
$5.41. Then up the charges increase at
the rate of 41 cents for every addition
al $406 in the value of the amount in
volved up to a total of $20,833. Above
that total the rate of increase is 20
cents for each additional S2OB. Provision
is made by which additional fees may
be paid, but they must be agreed upon
in writing before the case is taken up
to court and submitted to the judge,
who has the power to rescind them. Al
ready an organization has been formed
in Vienna to break the law or break the
government.
—ln this country last year there was
one horse for every five inhabitants
(men, women and children), one milch
cow for every four inhabitants, one
mule for every thirty-five inhabitants,
one ox for every three inhabitants and
one sheep for every one and two-third3
inhabitants. Including swine with
those already mentioned there was a
value of farm animals of S3OO for every
man, woman and child in the country.
The average value of all the mules
in the country was $lO a head more
than the average value of horses. The
average value of milch cows was $7 a
head more than the average value of
oxen and other cattle. The average
value of sheep was $22 a head less than
that of oxen and $1.50 less than that
of swine. Every man, woman
and child In the United States
consumed four and three-quarters
bushels of wheat and wheat
flour and sixty-five pounds of
sugar, nine and three-quarters pounds
of coffee and a pound of tea. The per
capita consumption of liquors was:
Distilled spirits, 1.27 gallons; malt li
quors. 16.01 gallons, and wines, .40 gal
lon. For every man, women and child
in the country there was in circulation
in lawful money $26.93. The per capita
debt of the government was $14.52. The
per capita interes on the public debt
was 44 cents. To maintain the public
schools of the country costs every man,
wamon and child a little more than $9.
—The news that “The Marseillaise"
was played by a German band at Ber
lin when M. Fournier, the winner of
the motor-car race, arrived at the win
ning post adds a present interst to Mr.
Karl Blind's article on the strajige
origin of “The Marseillaise” in the
July number of the Nineteenth Cen
tury, says the London Globe. The or
dinary legend is that Rouget de ITsle
wrote both words and music of the
famous chant at Strasbourg, but it ap
pears that the melody was really com
posed in Germany, and was the tune
of the "Credo” of an old mass. The
mass in question was written in 1776
by Holtzmann, the kapellmeister of the
Palatinate, and the original was dis
covered by Mr. Harnma in the musical
library of the town's church at Meers
burg. From the Palatinate, where
llolizmann composed the sir, It is not
a far cry to Alsace; and from Alsace
the music easily got into other parts of
France. It appears, then, that Rouget
de ITsle only wrote the words of “The
Marseillaise” and set them to the old
mass tune, introducing a quickened
tempo for the purpose of martial effect
in a battle song. Mr. G. A. Sala, about
eight years ago. wrote in a London
paper that the eminent French musical
critic M. Castile-Biaze, in his work en
titled “Moliere, Muslclen.’ published in
1852, absolutely denies that Rouget de
ITsle wrote the music of “The Mar
seillaise.” He asserts that it is a Ger
man canticle, imported into France by
Jullien the elder, who played it in 1782
at the concerts of Mme. de Montessor.
By altering the tempt church airs and
secular airs are often interchanged,
but it is a curious thing that the great
battle and revolutionary song of
France should really have been com
posed in Germany,
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
Mortof's hool Tir Boys,
13-17 East Macon.
The only private school in this city on
whose certificate boys enter the State
University without entrance examination
Excellent preparation for those wishing
to enter the United States academies or
any technological school. Enjoys a larger
patronage than any other private school
in Savannah. The following assistants
have been engaged for the coming session-
R. C. Sommerville, M. A., B. S., first as
sistant; Mrs. Annie J. Waring, second
assistant; Miss Edith Johnston, third as
sistant. Next session commences Oct. 1.
For catalogue and other Information, ad
dress J. R. MORTON. M. A., Principal.
Bell telephone 1588.
Woodberry Forest High School
For Boys. Piedmont region of Vir
ginia. Five miles from any town or vil
lage. Telephone and daily mails; tes
timonials as to conduct and habits re
quired of every applicant.
Best Equipped Preparatory School
In tlie South.
A Lower School has been established
for small boys not prepared to enter
the High School. For catalogues, ad
dress Woodberry Forest High School.
Orange. Va. J. Carter Walker, M. A..
Head Master. 1
THE KLINDWORTH CONSERVA
TORY OF MUSIC,
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Thorugh Instruction In Piano, Voice
Culture, Violin, Pipe Organ, Harmony,
Counterpoint, Composition. Musical His
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Orchestra, Ladies’ Chorus, etc. Students
can board nt conservatory. For catalogue
address Kurt Mueller, P. O. Box No
228, Atlanta. Ga.
WASHINGTON SEMINARY?
Peachtree St. and North ave., Atlanta,Ga,
FOR GIRLS.
Boarding Department Strictly Limited.
Usual courses, but small classes and Indi
vidual training. Our certificate admits
students to Vassar, Weliesly,Cornell,Ran
dolph-Macon. Baltimore Woman's Col
lege. 23d session begins Sept. 6.
Mrs. W. T. CHANDLER. Principal.
L. D. SCOTT, Associate Principal.
LaGrange Female College,
This Is a good institution for grls.
Advantages and surroundings fine.
Original and striking features.
For further Information apply to
RUFUS W. SMITH, President.
LaGrange, Ga.
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL.
Near ALEXANDRIA, VA.
A Preparatory
SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
The 63rd year opens September 25, 1901,
Catalogue on application.
L. M. BLACKFORD, M. A., Principal.
HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS.
CAFE MAY, N. J.
Largest and most spacious on the ooost;
every modern comfort and facility. Or
chestra, 16 pieces, billiards, tenpins,
shuffleboards. lawn tennis, golf, magnifi
cent beach front driveway and promen
ade three miles long. Rooms with private
baths when desired. Rates sls to $35 per
week. Special reduction for July. Writ*
for booklet. H. M. CAKE.
Also Hotel Normandie, Washlngton.D.C.
Saratoga,
The Grand Union
For terms and circulars address
WOOLLEY a GKKKANS, Proprietors,
Saratoga Springs, New York.
Greenbrier ifbiie soiobiir springs,
WEST VIRGINIA.
The representative resort of th* South.
Open June 15 to Sept. 15. New lights, sew
erage and private baths. Also sulphur,
Turkish, Russian and spout baths, in
charge of professional. Orchestra of 14
pieces. Write fbr illustrated booklet.
HARRINGTON MILLS, Mgr.
Ffloguier viute Mr springs. Virginia.
Elegant modern brick hotel and cot
tages, with baths and sanitary plumbing.
Fine livery, golf finks, boating and fish
ing. Large, beautiful grounds; good or
chestra. Special rate In cottages, $52.50
month. For booklet, address,
E. B. MOORE.
WILLARD nOUSE,
Tallulah Falls, Ga.
Has Just opened for the season, and
will be open until December. Rates
$5 to $lO per week, $lB to S3O per month.
Special rates to families. Address
WILL PARK, Proprietor,
THE MANOR,
Alberniarle Park, Asheville, N. C.
A private inn of particularly attrac
tive design. Write for leaflet to AL
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