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24 PACES.
SSI 10 SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—South Side League.
Special Notices —Oelschtg. the Flor
ist; Steamer Clifton for Old Ocean;
Andrew Hanley Company; Savannah
Building Supply Company; Rooms and
Board at 121 Liberty Street, West; Sell
ing Out, Bernard Brady; Investors' Op
portunity, W. J. Miscally, Jr.; Invest
ment Property For Sale, W. J. Mis
cally, Jr.; Better Than Ever, at Mrs.
Norre's; At Gardner's; Jas. J. Joyce;
At Helmken's Cafe; Notice to Superior
Court Petit Jurors; Levan’s Table
d’Hote.
Business Notices—Electric Supply
Company; Red Cross Laundry; Listen,
Cohen-Kulman Carriage and Wagon
Company; We Set the Pace, D. A.
Holland; R. Van Keuren & Cos., Jew
elers; The S. W. Branch Company;
Cocoa; Chocolates, at Munster’s.
Reliable Goods at Reasonable Prices
—At the Bee-Hive.
Mothers Preparing Their Children
for the Fall School Term -Walsh &
Meyer.
Boys' Fall Clothing—Metropolitan
Clothing Company.
Dress Goods, the Very Best —At Gust
tave Eckstein A Co.'s.
A Store With a New Experience—
Byck Bros.
Advance Fall Shoe Sale—Charles
Marks.
Better Heed! —B. H. Levy A Bro.
Dress Goods and Silks—At Gutman's.
Amusements— Music Hall;
The Idol's Eye at Theater, Matinee and
Night, Sept. 14; Dance and Cake Walk,
Isle of Hope. Sept. 10.
Financial —Statement of the Condi
tion of the Savannah Bank and Trust
Company.
That Boy Who Had the Crowd, Men's
Shoes—The Globe Shoe Cos.
Galvanized Poultry Netting, Etc.—
Edw. Lovell’s Sons.
Auction Sale—Tobacco, Groceries,
Etc., by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer.
Laundry—Savannah Steam Laundry.
Steam's Bicycles—R. V. Connerat.
Last Week of the Special Drive in
Dinner Sets—Thos. West A Cos.
Railroad Schedules—Central of Geor
gia Railway; 8. A. L.
Mineral Water —Harris’ Llthia Wa
ter.
Whiskeys—Old Quaker Rye Whiskey;
Murray Hill Club Whiskey.
Insurance —The Equitable Life As
surance Society.
Columbia Wheels—T. A. Bryson, Co
lumbia Agent.
Beef—Liebig's Extract of Beef.
Buy a Gaa Range—Mutual Gaa Light
Company.
Wedding Invitations—Lycett, Sta
tioners, Baltimore, Md.
Medical—Haggard Specific Tablets
S. S. S.; R. R. R.; Stuart’s Gin and'
Buchu; Abbey’s Effervescent Salt; Dr.
Hathaway Company; Mother's Friend.
Cheap Column Advertisements —Help
"Wanted; Employment "Wanted; For
Rent: For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day
are fair weather in western portion;
showers in eastern portion; light va
riable winds, and for Eastern Florida,
occasional showers, light to fresh
northerly winds.
Mrs. Eliza Williams died In Wash
ington, D. C., a day or two ago at the
age of 112 years. She had seen and
spoken to George Washington, and it
is said the first President once predict
ed that she would die young, because
of the delicacy of her health.
The report gained currency recently
that Miss Anna Morgan, daughter of
J. Pierpont Morgan, would shortly wed
a member of the English nobility. Miss
Morgan, who has just been hunting big
game In Colorado, was asked about the
rumor. She declared there was no
truth In it, and added: "I would rather
be known as the daughter of J. Pier
pont Morgan than to share any throne
In Europe." A good American senti
ment.
Gen. A. S. Burt, of the regular army,
who has just arrived in this country
from the Philippines, says he does not
expect to live to see the end of the
war In the islands; not that he contem
plates early death, since he is hale and
hearty, but hte says it is destined to be
a long war. There are thousands of
Filipinos, he says, who would prefer
the life of bandits and guerillas to a
life of industry and labor. Many of
them have gone into the mountains,
where they will remain, emerging only
' to glUage and plunder.
THE PRESIDENT’S CONDITION.
There appears to be a hopeful tone
In the bulletins from the sick room
of the President. It is to be expected,
of course, that the physicians and
those friends of the President who are
nearest to him will encourage a hope
ful feeling in respect to his condition
as long as there Is a ’basis for hope,
but as far as can be gathered from
the reports given out for publication
there is reason to think the President
will recover.
Of course, he is in very great dan
ger, Complications may occur at any
hour that will have a fatal result, but
the signs of them have not yet ap
peared, or had not at midnight last
night. The bulletins last evening were
more favorable than those In the af
ternoon. The President's pulse was less
rapid, and there was a slight rise In
hin temperature. It Is said that the
very high pulse unaccompanied by a
correspondingly high temperature was
the cause of some uneasiness.
The missing bullet has not been lo
cated yet. An attempt to locate it Is
to be made this morning with an X
ray apparatus. The men of science are
supposed to know what is best to be
done, and doubtless it is their idea that
the bullet should be found and remov
ed. There are those, however, who are
of the opinion that in cases in which
the bullet does not appear to be doing
any harm, it is better to let It alone.
A patient's life is sometimes sacrificed
by too much cutting and probing.
Unless the hurt from which the
President suffers is much more serious
than it is believed to be, his chances
for recovering are good. He is not an
old man yet and he has a remarkably
strong constitution. He is a temperate
man—temperate in both eating and
drinking. In fact, if we are not mistak
en, he does not drink either wine,
whisky or beer. He has been -a very
healthy man and the danger of serious
complications are much less therefore
than it would otherwise be.
The whole country Is waiting anx
iously for the sick room bulletins, hop
ing that each one will show that the
President's condition is improving. In
the meantime the feeling against the
assassin, and anarchists generally, is
becoming more bitter. The resolutions
adopted at the mass meeting'at Macon
last night Is an Illustration of the sen
timent that is cropping out all over the
country.
GRACE BEFORE MEAT.
One of the most charming domestic
pictures that can be imagined is that
in which the family is gathered about
the board for the morning, mid-day or
evening meal, while the head of the
household stretches forth his hands
and with bowed head and humble voice
asks the blessing of heaven upon the
food about to be partaken of. The
custom of "saying grace," once well
’nigh universal in American house
holds, is apparently falling largely in
to disuse, especially In the cities. In
the hurly-burly of modern business,
men "haven't time" to pause for a few
moments'before the meal to thank God
for his benefactions; and no doubt
many of them are so egotistical as to
imagine that divine providence has
had very little to do with supplying
the jneal, taking the credit to them
selves.
According to a New York newspaper,
grace before meat is practically un
known in a majority of the private
houses of that city, and altogether
unknown In the public eating places.
Modern hotel and restaurant life Is
not conducive to ceremonials, espe
cially those of a religious nature. At
practically all such places the rule is
either to eat quickly and get out, or
to sit long over wines and rich viands
that are rather the benefactions of
Mammon. Should a clergyman chance
to be one of a dinner party, he Is ask
ed to "say grace," as a courtesy to his
cloth, not as an act of gratitude to the
Most High for his favors. And It Is
quite likely that this observation ap
plies to a very great many private
households, not only In New York, but
various other parts of the country.
It Is risking nothing to say that In
the South the custom of grace before
meat is observed more largely than
elsewhere in the United States, and in
the South it is more general In the ru
ral than In the urban districts. It Is
the exception rather than the rule to
find a farmer's family In the South In
which there is not a strong religious
bent and a pretty strict adherence to
the religious conventions —Sabbath ob
servance, family prayers and grace be
fore meat included. It is this survival
of the Christian spirit on the farms
that sends so many farmers’ boys into
the world strong men to fight the bat
tles of life.
Capt. Barr of the Columbia Is known
as one of the most aggressive sailing
masters In the buslness.'He takes ev
erything that he can get in jockeying
for the start, and puts his competitor
to disadvantage whenever he can le
gitimately. Sometimes, Indeed, he
pushes legitimacy to the limit and
leaves himself open to the charge ol
technical unfairness. However, the
Morgans, who own the boat, uphold
him In his dashing and close maneu
vering. Lipton has a pair of smart
sea Jockeys aboard his boat, and the
Columbia people say Barr has got to
be as good as the Englishmen at theli
own game.
The Shamrock II is a larger boat
than the Columbia. The official
measurements of the boats have not
yet been taken, but roughly estimated
the Shamrock will have to give the
Columbia something more than a min
ute time allowance over a thirty-mile
course. The Shamrock carries close on
to 15,000 square feet of canvass, or
about 350 feet more than her competi
tor. In shape of underbody the chal
lenger and the defender are very simi
lar. It has been said that If they were
painted precisely alike, It would be dif
ficult to distinguish one from the
other.
Mr. Thomas W. Lawson wants a
race between his yacht Independence
and the discarded Constitution. He says
if the owners of the Constitution will
agree to a race over the challenge
course, he will rush his boat back into
trim and be ready for the match. There
would be a little interest In such a race,
i but not much, ,
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1901.
THE STATE TAX RATE.
We have no objection of course to
our expressions of opinion being criti
cised, but it would be Interesting to
know why the Macon Telegraph went
back to Aug. 25, and picked out an
editorial of ours for comment. It Is
all right for the Telegraph or any other
paper to go back a year or more. If It
wants to find matter for comment In
the columns of the Morning Nears, but
to do so without some special reason
would seem to be prompted by a desire
to accomplish a special purpose.
But what Is It that the Telegraph
complains of? It seems it doesn't
agree with us that the Legislature Is
responsible for the Increased rate of
taxation for the present year. We said,
in substance, that it was responsible
because at Its last session It made ap
propriations which exceeded the state's
revenue about $400,000. To meet this
extraordinary state of affairs an in
creased tax rate became necessary.
In the course of our article we said
the Governor was not to he blamed for
not keeping down the tax rate—that
It would not have been advisable for
him to veto the appropriation bill. We
also said the Legislature ought not to
have adjourned until the appropriations
were brought within the revenue.
The Telegraph thinks. In making
these suggestions, we showed a lack
of familiarity with the constitution,
because the Governor has the right to
veto any particular appropriation, as
well as the entire appropriation bill,
and because the Legislature Is ad
journed by limitation.
It may be that we were not as fresh
from reading the constitution as the
Telegraph was when It published Its
criticism, but It does not seem to us
that we made, any misleading mistake.
We did not suggest that the Governor
could veto a particular appropriation
because there was no occasion for do
ing so. There was no appropriation, as
far as we know, that could have been
stricken out of the bill without doing
Injustice to some great Interest. The
Items of the bill—those which could
best stand scaling—should have been
scaled down until the appropriations
were within the state's revenue. The
Legislature could do this scaling; the
Governor could not. Hence we put the
blame for the higher tax rate on the
Legislature, and we think we cannot
justly be charged with a lack of fa
miliarity with the constitution for do
ing so.
It is true that the session of the
Legislature expires by limitation, and
last year it may have continued for
the full number of days, but If
the limit had been reached before an
appropriation bill had been passed the
Governor would have called an extra
session Immediately. Therefore our
statement that the Legislature ought
to have brought the appropriations
within the revenue before adjourning
was not far out of the way—was, In
fact, permissible under the circum
stances. That It was so Is supported
by the failure of the Telegraph to take
exception to It until our article had
been published about ten days.
If the Telegraph makes no more se
rious breaks in dealing with constitu
tional questions than the Morning
News does it will In the course of
time have the reputation of being a
pretty good constitutional lawyer.
It seems that the Atlanta Constitu
tion has taken occasion to express its
opinion as to where the responsibility
rests for the increase In the tax rate.
It says that the Telegraph places It
upon the Governor, the Morning News
upon the Legislature, but that, as a
matter of fact, the people are respon
sible, “because they voted SIOO,OOO ad
ditional annually for pensions. We
still Insist, however, that we made no
mistake in saying that the Legislature
should not have appropriated more
money that the amount of the state’s
revenue.
THE HONEYMOON ATTACKED.
Is the iconoclasm of modern progress
to leave none of our dear old Institu
tions Intact? How the marriage cus
toms, for instance, have changed with
in the memory of those not yet old!
Formerly there were "weddings,” sur
rounded with pomp and circumstance,
and romance and pies; now there is
seldom more than a "marriage,” with
a quick lunch, and an immediate re
sumption of business. In the old days
there was seldom less than a week of
festivities and good cheer, and often
the celebration ran Anger. First there
was the “reception” the day before the
ceremony joining the happy couple,
then the marriage Itself with Its feast
ing and dancing and happy congratu
lations, then the wedding tour of
greater or less length, according to the
circumstances, of the families of the
contracting parties, and finally the "in
fare” at the home of the bridegroom,
where the bride was received with cere
mony, and pantries and tables contain
ed good things for all of the neighbors
and invited guests. The honeymoon
began, of course, with the first day of
the wedded life and ran through a full
month, during which time the cooing
doves were expected to do nothing else
than coo and enjoy each other’s pres
ence.
In these days, however, practically
everything has been cut out of the mar
riage customs except the reading of
the ceremony, and occasionally the
honeymoon, including a flying trip to
some exposition or watering place or
city. And now comes along an Eng
lish devotee to materialism who wishes
to dispense with the last vestige of
idealism and romance that surrounds
the newly wedded couple. Cut out the
honeymoon altogether, he says. “It
may be true," asserts this Iconoclast,
(a writer In the London Daily Express.)
"that all the world loves a lover, but
there is such a thing as carrying the
honeymoon Idea too far. It is better to
spread the honeymoon out thin and
make It last a lifetime. The Illusion
that the bride Is a star-eyed angel, and
that the bridegroom Is 50 per cent.
Apollo and the rest equal portions of
Sandow, Napoleon and Beau Brummel,
may be maintained much longer If the
honeymoon Is terminated at the end of
the forty-eight hours. We are an easi
ly bored people. A sudden fatigue
comes to us even If we contemplate
ourselves too long. Two days should
be enough for a tete-a-tete with a star
eyed goddess or a blonde god. So
! three cheers for the short honeymoon!
The shorter the better. Then there is
less time to find each other out, and
to realize what a couple of very ordi
nary people have been to the parson.”
What a shocking cynic the fellow Is,
to be sure! There Is not a bride-to-be
anywhere in the broad land that will
agree with him. Instead of contract
ing the joy-season, they will agree, It
ought to be expanded, and the honey
moon ought to be made obligatory. It
is the only time of life In which hap
piness is unalloyed and the young
dream of love is realized. The hard
realities come later, and quite soon
enough at best. Let the honeymoon re
main, therefore. And long may It be
an Institution, to gladden the partici
pants in it during youth, and afford a
sweet memory for their old age.
_Mr. William Waldorf Astor says he
was driven from this country to be
come an English citizen by certain of
the New York newspapers. “It Is the
crudest calumny," said Mr. Astor to
a London correspondent, “to state that
I sought citizenship in England be
cause I lost my love for the country ot
my birth. I emphatically repeat that
I was driven to do so by a persistent
onslaught of venomous treatment on
the part of certain American newspa
pers. Otherwise I would have been
heart and sojil an American, in life and
death.” Mr. Astor must be a little
thin-skinned. No man has ever been
attacked more savagely in the news
papers than Grover Cleveland, Mark
Hanna, John D. Rockefeller and the
late Collis P. Huntington, yet nobody
ever heard of either of them even
thinking of expatriating himself to es
cape his critics.
PERSONAL.
—President James B. Angell, of the
University of Michigan, is a graduate
of Brown University and says that his
four years there cost him only *6OO.
—Henry Dickens, son of Charles
Dickens, Is In this country with his
two daughters, Misses Elaine and
Olive, and is staying at Lake Cham
plain.
—Zodac Khan, chief rabbi of France,
has been promoted by the French Min
ister of the Interior to the rank of an
officer of the Order of the Legion of
Honor.
—Andrew D. White, the United
States minister to Berlin, has returned
to that city and taken up his work
again, having completely recovered
frem his recent Indisposition.
—Rev. Thomas H. Miles, one of the
most prominent Jesuits In this coun
try, has Just celebrated at St. Louis
University the fiftieth anniversary of
his entry Into the Jesuit order.
—Gen. Garcia Velez, inspector gener
al of prisons in Havana, and son of
famous Gen. Garcia is in Boston
for the purpose of studying American
methods of prison government.
—Dr. J. H. Hollander, treasurer of
Porto Rico, has resigned that office and
will soon return to his former post, as
professor of economics and finance in
Johns Hopkins University.
—The Berlin branch of the German
Association of Engineers has placed a
memorial tablet on the house In Hel
born, where Robert Mayer, who first
formulated the law of conservation of
energy, was born in 1814.
BRIGHT BITS.
—"Was he on his knees when he
proposed to you?” “No, X was!”—Life.
—All the More Reason.—She—"Let’s
sit out the next one.” He-" Why, I
thought you were fond of dancing.”
She —"I am.”—Detroit Free Press.
—Almost Saw Her.—"l think I
haven’t seen you for more than a
year,” remarked the caller, shaking
hands with Tommy. "Nome,” said
Tommy, "but I come mighty near see
ing you down town the other day. I
saw somebody that looked almost ex
actly like you.”—Chicago Tribune.
—Doctor —"Well, Johnnie, don't you
feel better since I gave you the med
icine?” Johnnie —"Yes: I forgot all
about being ill.” Doctor—" That’s
what I thought: and it wasn’t hard
to take, was it?” Johnnie—" Well, it
was rather, for it took two of us boys
to hold Carlo while we gave it to him.”
-Tit-Bits.
—An Opportunity.—" Supposing I give
you your supper,” said the tired-look
ing woman, "What will you do to earn
it?” "Madam,” said Meandering Mile,
"I’ll give you de opportunity of seein’
a man go t'roo a whole meal wlt’out
findln’ fault wit’ a single t’ing.” The
woman thought a minute, and then
told him to come in and she'd set the
table. —Washington Star.
—George’s Duplicity.—" Did George
write to you evefy day while he was
traveling around?” “Yes, every day.”
“What regularity!” "Yes, But I dis
covered that every one of the letters
was written here in his office before he
started, and all he had to do was to
drop one in the postofflce wherever he
chanced to be.” "And how did you find
that out?” “The 'e' in his office type
writer is broken.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
CIRREJfT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: "Money in the Federal treasury
is dead money. In so far as the
amount exceeds the needs of the gov
ernment it creates unnecessary strin
gency in the money market. The
growing surplus should serve to ad
monish Congress of the necessity of
further tax reduction. An overfull
treasury has the double disadvantage
of obstructing business operations and
at the same time encouraging wasteful
expenditures.”
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Metropolis
(Dem.) says: "Dupont Guerry, candi
date for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Georgia, is an anti-rail
road man. and says he wants laws
passed preventing ‘the dominating of
state politics and state government by
railroads.' This kind of stuff was
preached in Florida for years, and died
an Ignominious death, and the same
thing will probably happen in Geor
gia. It has proven a poor ladder on
which to climb to fame.”
The Nashville (Tenn.) American
(Dem.) says: “The South has soil, It
has climate, it has fuel, it has water.
The sun never shone upon a fairer
empire. Now. fully recovered from
the blight of war, its advancement, its
progress and its possibilities are among
the marvels of the age, and are en
gaging the attention of the commer
cial world.”
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
(Dem.) says: "If Mr. Bryan Isn’t
careful, he will be denounced as a plu
tocrat. He has just bought a Wash
ington paper for five dollars.”
The Leftover Revenue Stamps.
Robinson was “stuck” with four two
cent revenue stamps when the stamp
act went out of force on July 1, says
the Chicago Tribune. He had Just
mapped out the route by which. In con
nection with another errand, he would
drop into the collector’s office to have
them redeemed, when he saw a notice
that stamps only In amounts to exceed
$2 would be redeemed.
Since that moment Robinson has
been getting red-headed In the effort to
play even with his government.
“Robbery!” he has been reiterating,
hotly, to everybody that would listen.
“If a milkman should sell me *1 worth
of tickets and refuse to redeem four
of them when I wanted to move out of
town I could have him soaked before
a justice of the peace. ‘You can’t have
something for nothing* is an axiom
from the common law, and yet here I
am soaked eight cents for a strip of
sticky pink paper that won’t go.”
But Robinson has had his revenge
and his money’s worth at the same
time.
He had written a manifold letter,
directed to the dead letter office of the
pcstoffice at Washington, as follows:
“Red Tape Bureau, U. S. P. 0.,
Washington, D. C.: There's nobody of
this name anywhere. This letter was
serit in order to get value received 'out
of some pink paper for pale people, is
sued by a measly government at two
cents a throw. You’re it. Sincerely,
"Rob Robinson.”
Four copies of this letter were direct
ed to mythical personages In towns in
Maine, Florida, Texas and Oregon re
spectively, and dropped Into a postof
fice box.
"I see their finish,” grips Robinson,
rubbing his hands. “When some dub in
the postofflce runs against them he’ll
get busy throwing fits. Then he’ll take
them up' to the next muck-a-muck
above him, and somebody will be told
to mail those fool cards to each man I
addressed, explaining that If he will
send a two-cent stamp the letter will
be forwarded.
“By the time four of these cards get
to the four corners of the country
and are not answered and the letters
are sent on to "Washington, to be open
ed by the dead letter office, It will look
as if something had been doing, won’t
it?”
New Jersey Thrift.
Here is a little story 9! the thrift of
one of those stern dispensers of “Jer
sey Justice” that adorn the bench of
that state, says an exchange. A couple
of months ago a gentleman living near
Paterson was sued by a butcher in the
sum of *350, though he held receipts of
the butcher for the full amount of his
alleged indebtedness.
The resident of suburban Paterson
was waited upon by the sheriff and
hauled before a justice. Before the case
was to be called the victim of New
Jersey legal methods went to the judge,
who was a personal friend, showed him
his receipts, and asked what he should
do about it.
The Judge looked the documents
over and realized that the case must
be thrown out of court. The gentleman
explained that it would mean a serious
loss to him if he must give his personal
attention to the case, and fhat he did
not feel Inclined to retain a lawyer to
no purpose.
“I’ll look after the matter,” said the
Judge.
Some days later the gentleman who
had been sued met the judge and ask
ed him about the case.
“Oh,” said the judge, "I threw the
case out of court and made the butcher
pay the costs—and, by the way,” pull
ing the bill bearing the butcher’s sig
nature for its payment from his pock
et, "I see you are paying 2 cents less
for loin chops than I do—and that ham
is but 22 cents a pound, while we pay
olny 23 for it down there. I’m going to
trade with that sun of a gun after
this.”
Thnt Fatul “Therefore.”
Sergt. Kelly of the Irish bar, In the
early years .of the nineteenth century,
used to indulge in a picturesque elo
quence, racy of the soil, says the Green
Bag, but, unfortunately, he would
sometimes forget the line of argument,
and would always fall back on the
word "therefore,” which generally led
his mind back to what he had Intended
saying. Sometimes, however, the ef
fect was almost disastrous. One time
he had been complimenting the jury,
assuring them that they were men of
extraordinary intelligence, and then
branched off into a statement of his
case. With a wave of his hand and a
smile on his face he proceeded:
“This is so clear a case, gentlemen,
that I am convinced you felt it so the
very moment I stated it. I should pay
men of intelligence a poor compliment
to dwell on It for a minute, therefore,
I shall proceed to explain it to you as
minutely as possible.”
Military Orthography.
A British soldier, who is at this mo
ment serving in South Africa, recent
ly sent a letter to the war office con
taining a word that baffled the imag
ination of every.clerk and official to
whom the submitted, says
the London King. The mysterious
word was spelled "yfe.” It was re
peated several times, and seemed, in
deed, to be the main subject of his
communication. At length it occurred
to one of the clerks to consult the
hall porter—a grizzled veteran quite
unhampered by board school accom
plishments.
"Can you tell us the meaning of this
word, Simpson?” asked the brilliant
clerk.
"I should think I could,” replied the
veteran, with mild contempt. “Y-f-e
spells wife, of course. What else could
it spell, sir?”
A Suggestion to Genius.
They had just seated themselves In
a shady nook by the roadside after a
cut across country, and a conflict with
multiple .farm barriers on the way,
says the Boston Courier. After a
pause he glanced at the telegraph wires
overhead and remarked:
"I have no doubt that It will not
be many years before the perfection
of wireless telegraphy will do away
with all those unsightly blurs on our
rural landscapes.”
"I hope so,” she replied. Then, with
a rueful glance at her tattered skirt,
she added: “And I further hope that
the same genius will go on making
•progress in that line until we are
blessed with an era of wireless fences.”
A Cbnmeleon by Name.
From the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser.
He wasn’t of the colored race,
Yet, when his rent fell due.
He wrote his chum: "Pleas# send me
ten:”
And signed It “Mr. Blue.”
He meddled once in politics— _
His party turned him down;
He sent his wife this telegram:
"Done up,” and signed it “Brown.”
A sharper took him in one day—
The smoothest ever seen;
And when he found it out he kicked
His shins and groaned, "I’m Green!”
A train he took collided with
A train of furnace slack —
And when they dug him out, they said:
"Who is he? Isn’t he Black?”
—Aloysius Coll.
-Ex-President Grover Cleveland has
consented to deliver the oration on
Founder's Day of the Carnegie Insti
tute, In Pittsburg, on November 7,
ITEMS OF INTEREST*
—Thomas Meehan of Philadelphia
has been awarded the Veitch memorial
medal. Thomas Veitch, for whom the
medal was named, was an eminent
English botanist. Thus far eight medals
have been bestowed, of which three
have come to Americans —Prof. Sar
gent of the Arnold Arboretum, Brook
lyn; Prof. L. H. Bailey of Cornell Uni
versity; and Thomas Moehagi.
—There are now In London and Its
Immediate neighborhood 360 public re
creation grounds, varying in size from
Epping Forest, which, with W&nstead
Flats, is over 5,000 acres in extent, to
little city gardens and playgrounds
measuring an eighth or a tenth of an
acre. These include 100 plots of ground
which have been used for Interment,
parish churchyards, and other disused
burial grounds, of which the largest is
eleven acres and the smallest a few
yards square.
—There are some things which seem
household necessities In the United
States for which there is no market
whatever in France or Southern Eu
rope. One of these is the range with
a hot water back, another is the refrig
erator, and a third is the rocking chair.
Americans living abroad often want
these articles so badly that they even
send home for them, but among the
French there is no demand for them
whatever and American manufactur
ers only waste energy In trying to cre
ate a market for them. France will
cling to the old-fashioned chairs for
another hundred years.
—lf anything Russia excels even
Germany in the matter of uniforms,
writes a correspondent in the Chicago
Tribune. On the sidewalks of any of
the large cities, and more especially at
railway stations, it is safe to assert
that at least 25 per cent, of all male
adults are in uniform. It is a puzzle
to the tourist to identify the bearers of
such distinctive garbs, consequently
the different branches of the govern
ment service are often wrongly Inter
preted. The gaudy uniform does not
always indicate a high official, as an
officer of high rank may appear in
a plain uniform and one of low rank
not Infrequently parades the streets
with more fuss and feathers than his
commander.
—The question when were elephants
first exhibited here, says the Boston
Transcript, has been much discussed,
but the following advertisement ap
parently settles the matter. It Is from
the Columbian Centinel of Jan. 10, 1818:
"The elephant Columbus, To be seen
in the avenue opposite the Old South
Meeting House. The elephant is not
only the largest and most sagacious
animal in the world, but from the pe
culiar manner in which it takes Its
food and drink of every kind, with its
trunk, is acknowledged to be the great
est natural curiosity ever offered to
the public. The one now offered to the
curious is a male, and the only one
ever exhibited in America. He is 6
years old, upward of 7 feet high, 10
feet 8 inches round the body, 16 feet
6 inches from the end of his trunk to
his tail; his ears 2 feet and 1 inch In
length. Attendance, 25 cents; children
one-half price. Hours of exhibition,
from 9 in the morning until 9 In the
evening, Sundays excepted.”
—TVs live In a much moved world,
says the London Telegraph. M. Flam
marion enumerates in the French As
tronomical Bulletin twelve separate
movements to which this planet of
ours is subjected. It revolves every
twenty-four hours; it journeys round
the sun every year; every 25,765 years
it accomplishes precession of the equi
noxes; it is affected by the moon’s rev
olution round it every twenty-eight
days; its axis oscillates slightly in a
period of eighteen and a half years;
the obliquity of the ecliptic varies
some forty-seven seconds every hun
dred years; every 21,000 years the
points of extreme and least distance
from the sun have gone completely
round the orbit; then the planets are
all pulling our globe in different di
rections at each minute, the center of
gravity of the solar system in the same
way is always shifting, and the earth,
like the rest of the planets, is being
whirled through space with the sun, we
know not why or whither. All these
movements are going on simultaneous
ly, and we feel not one of them.
—Jean Jacques Rousseau was not
troubled greatly by conscientious
scruples, yet he possessed the rare
virtue of a broad, human sympathy
in an eminent degree, says an ex
change. Perhaps it was the conscious
ness of his own weaknesses that made
him so sympathetic toward others.
An anecdote is related of him which
places this virtue of his In a strong
light. On one occasion he had com
posed an opera, which was performed
before the King, Louis XV, and met
with the royal approval. The King
sent for him and if he had put In an
appearance he would probably have
obtained a pension. He was, however,
of a retiring disposition and could not
bring himself to face the court. To his
friends he gave as a reason his re
publican opinions, but his real reason
was his shyness. Accordingly he fled
from the court and sought the privacy
of a country 4un. While he was there
a man came In, who began telling the
company that he was the celebrated
Rousseau, and preceded to give an ac
count of his opera, which, he said, had
been performed before the King with
great success. Most men in Rousseau’s
position would have felt nothing hut
contempt for the impostor, but this
extraordinary man felt only pity and
shame. “I trembled and blushed so.” v
he tells us In his Confessions,” “for
fear the man should be found out. that
It might have been thought that I was
the Impostor.” He was afraid that
somebody might con\e in who knew
him and expose the pretender. At last
he could bear it no longer and slipped
out unobserved. Very few people would
treat an Impostor like that.
—The chemist and the prevention of
sale of adulterated and impure food
have'put their rejected brands on an
other favorite beverage, says the Chi
cago Inter Ocean. Patrons of the
soda fountain who have been taught
to ask for lemon on vanilla flavoring,
for the alleged reason that those
syrups were less liable than others to
adulteration, will be surprised at the
assertion that there is no extract for
which substitutes are more often used
than vanilla. This is salt! on the au
thority of the Massachusetts Board of
Health. The true vanilla bean coses
from sl2 to sl6 per pound, and were
there no substitute it could not be
used so freely and so extensively as at
present. Vanillin, the active property
of the extract, can be made from other
substances at a cost of about $2 per
gallon. The artificial compound is
chemically identical with the vanillin
found in the true vanilla extract and
therefore has come to be used exten
sively by manufacturers and dealers.
It has been made for commercial pur
poses from turpentine, but more satis
factory results are obtained from oil
of cloves or benzoic acid, and it is now
extracted chiefly from these. It is
considered harmless when taken in
small quantities and has been found
to possess certain medicinal properties.
Experiments on frogs with large quan
tities have, however, caused spinal
convulsions. There is some comfort
for contlrmed soda water drinkers, and
a general warning for others, in the
further statement by the Massachu
setts authorities that the metallic con
tamination of the water used in a glass
of soda Is far more detrimental to
health than any adulteration of the
flavoring syrup.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
** The Equitable Life Assur
ance Society paid to pollcyhold
I ers in 1900 dividends of *3,481 -
640.65, which Is more than was
paid by any other company.
The Equitable paid to pol
icyholders during past five
years dividends of *14,366 -
024.03, which was more than
that paid by any other com
pany for same time.
The Equitable paid to pol
icyholders during the past ten
years dividends of *23,896,-
297.58, which was more than
that paid by any other com
pany for same period.
The Equitable has paid more
dividends to policyholders
since its organization than
any other company in the
world.
i
The Equitable still holds a
surplus of over *66,000,000.00,
from which future dividends
are to be paid, this surplus or
“Dividend Fund” being larger
than that held by any other
company.
"Strongest In the World.”
TISON & SHEPARD,
General Agents,
130 Bay Street, east,
Savannah, Ga.
ICHOOU AND COLLEUES.
toti^lchoonoTloy^
13-17 East Macon Street.
Prepares for college, flt3 for business.
No slipshod work done here. Its grad
uates never fail to make good records.
Hence they are received into the Uni
versity of Georgia, the University of
Virginia, Hampden-Sidney College, Va,.
Davidson College, North Carolina, and
other schools and colleges without en
trance examinations.
No other private school In this city
enjoys as large a patronage. It offers
splendid preparation for the United
States academies or any technological
school.
Four of the best teachers In the state
compose Its faculty.
The fifteenth session commences Oct.
1. Tuition reasonable. For catalogues
or other Information, address
J. R. MORTON, M. A., Principal.
Woodberry Forest High School
For Boys. Piedmont region of Vir
ginia. Five miles from any town or vil
lage. Telephone and dally mails; tes
timonials as to conduct and habits re
quired of every applicant.
Btst Equipped Preparatory School
in the Sooth.
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.
SACRED HEART ACADEMY,
Conducted by the Sisters of Mercy,
Belmont, Gaston, County, N. C.
The academy Is situated in a thor
oughly healthy and mild climate. Is
furnished with all modern improve
ments, steam heating, electric lights,
etc., and offers to young ladies and lit
tle girls a complete course of English.
Art Music and Elocution extra Fall
session opens Sept. 12. Catalogue on
application. Address
MOTH ER SUPERIOR.
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL
Near ALEXANDRIA, VA.
A Preparatory
SCHOOL FOH BOYS.
The 63rd year opens September 25, 1961.
Catalogue on application.
L. M. BLACKFORD. M. A., Principal.
School for Girls,
MISS PAPE AND MISS WEST,
Opens Oct. 2.
Full course. Advanced methods.
Circulars at Solomons' Uptown Drug
Store.
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