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Newspaper Page Text4 gj)£ jßoTninfl ffetoft Morning Nen Building Smannsb, Ga SUNDAY, JUNE S, 1902, Registered at Postofflce In Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS i s published every day In the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mall, a* 70 cents a month, {4.00 tor six months, and {B.OO for one year. THE MORNING NEWS, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $1.00; six months, {3.00; one year, {6.00. , THE WEEKLY NEW’S, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year, {I.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading no tices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch in depth— is the standard of measure ment. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. Orders for delivery of the Morning News to either residence or place of business can be made by mail or by telephone No. 210. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately report ed. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed "MORNING NEW'S," Savannah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York City, H. C. Faulkner, Man ager. 28 PACES. IMILX 10 MVt ADVERTISE2EITS Meeting—Armour Lodge, No. 1884, G. U. O. P. O. F. Special Notices—Fine Business Op portunity, John W. Dickey, Augusta; Imported and Domestic Woolens, J. H. Hicks, Tailor; Vulcanizing, J. H. Green; Roadsters and Outfit for Sale, H. P. Smart; Annual Picnic, Savannah Council No. 1, O. A. F.; 100 Shares. Merchants' and Mechanics' Land Stock Wanted, E. G. Black; To the Public, Geo. M. Gadsden, Director of Public Works; Annual Picnic German Volun teers, Tybee Island, June 12; It's a Good Sign, Wm. Taylor; Electric Ma chine, the Savannah Electric Com pany; Police Benevolent Association Picnic, at Tybee. June 17; Cathedral Sunday-School Picnic, Tuesday, June 10; Sewer Connections,Cornwell & Chip man; Headquarters, Jas. J. Joyce; Ice Creams and Sherbets, Jerry George; Union Station Restaurant Bill of Fare; Wanted, 100 Men to Purchase High Grade Suits, Finnlnger & Cos.; Schutzen Festival To-day, June 8; A Card to the Public, K. G. McFerran, Proprietor Russian and Turkish Baths: First An nual Picnic Henry W. Grady Council No. 8, J. O. U. A. M.; At the Casino To-day. Business Notices—Cash Buyers, At tention, John T. Evans & Cos.; lee trie Fans, Electric Supply Company; Car bonated Coca-Cola. Dayton Fans—Abrahams & Putzel. Men Marvel at the Suit Sale Be gun Yesterday Morning—B. 41. Levy & Bro. The Gas Range*—Mutual Gas Light Company. Great Sacrifice Sale —Metzger & Brunson. Values That Have Positively Never Been Equalled—At Hogan's. Financial —New York Turf Syndi cate, New York. A Proposal—The Ray Cos. A Grand Sale and Showing of Cloth ing for Men and Boys—Leopold Adler. Mineral Water—Harris Lithia Wa ter. Tuesday Next—At Geil & Quint’s. A Drug Store in Every Home—Row- Unskt's Latest Attraction. Men's Suits—Metropolitan Clothing Company. Cotton, Rubber and Wire Wound Rubber Hose —Edward Lovell’s Sons. Red Seal Shoes—J. K. Orr Shoe Com pany. A Real Auto Bargain—T. A. Bryson, Columbia Agent. Now That Summer Is Here—Thos. West & Cos. At the South End To-day—Mr. Bo han, Proprietor. Monday—At Lattlmore’s. Succe&s Proves Public Faith In the Great Mill End Sale—Leopold Adler. Buy the Best, Not the Cheapest— Globe Shoe Company. Patrician Shoes for Women—Leopold Adler. .. "Wdl Second Week of Our Alteration Sale —At Gutman's. Laundries—E. & W. Laundry; Red Crosg Laundry. Stock Taking Sale Now in Full Blast —Gustave Eckstein & Cos. Our Method—Llvlngsjon's Pharmacy. Only Exclusive Family Liquor Store in the City—Belsinger & Cos. Bargains for This Week—S. Bern stein. Correcting an Error—B. H. Levy & Bro. Real Estate—Rivers * Gibbes. Auction Sales—Monday's Auction Sale, by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer. Patent Oxfords—At Byck's. Garden Hose and Sprinklers—Leo Frank. • The Pierce Motorette—R. V. Conne rat. Pierce Bicycles—R. V. Connerat. Paste—Stearns’ Electric Paste. Not How Little, But How Much—At the Bee-Hive. To the Graduate and School Girl— Walsh & Meyer. Down They Go —At Collat’s. Annual Inventory Sale—At Jack son's. Cheap Column Advertisements —Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis cellaneous. The W eal Iter. The Indications for Georgia, to-day are partly cloudy weather, with thun derstorms in east portions, fresh noith wlnda, and for Eastern Florida, partly cloudy weather, light to fresh east winds. TROUBLE AHEAD FOR ENGLAND. It is freely predicted by men well acquainted with British politics that there is trouble ahead for Great Britain in South Africa, and It will not be caused by the Boers. It will come from the gold mines of the Transvaal and the diamond mine* of the Orange Free State, the millionaire mine owners who were largely respon sible for the South African war. It was agreed in the terms of peace that the farms of the Boers should not be taxed to pay the expenses of the war. On the contrary, the British govern ment promised to rebuild the homes and restock the farms of the Boers. But it is clearly the intention of the government that some part of the war expenses shall be borne by the t\JB South African dependencies. It was announced the other day by Mr. Chamberlain, the Colonial Secre tary, and Sir Michael Hlcks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that it remained to be determined what part of the war expenses should be paid by the mine owners. This an nouncement looks something like retri butive Justice. It will be recalled tjiat the war between the Boers and the British was hastened, if not actually caused, by the hostility of these mine owners to the Boer government. They wanted to get rid of that government, because it subsisted almost wholly upon taxes it levied upon the mines and mining machinery and materials. The mine owners wanted to pocket ail the profits from the mines, and so they plotted against the Boer government. It is said that Mr. Chamberlain wag in sympathy with them. It is certain that they had the support of a large number of influential people in Eng land who held shares in the gold and diamond mines. They thought if the Boer government could be overthrown the dividends on their shares would be larger. Now it seems that instead of taxing the farms of the Boers for war ex penses the mines are to be taxed and heavily taxed. The millionaire mine owners, in bringing about the war, jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. - And now it is freely predicted that these mine owners will give the Brit ish government further trouble. They gobbled up all the rich properties that were sold during the year for non payment of taxes, and they own all of the influential newspapers in South Africa. It is alleged that they are ab solutely their only purpose being to fill their pockets. In this they will be assisted by a large .following in England who own “Kaf firs.” the name for shares In South African mines. The aim will bet 6 embarrass the government of South Africa, with the view of having the heavy taxes removed from the mines. The Boers will be In a position to view with comparative indifference whatever contest takes place between the millionaire mine owning syndi cates and the British government. MR. BRYAN TO THE PRESIDENT. In on open letter, published in Fri day’s issue of his paper, The Common er, Mr. Bryan asks the President why he hesitates to begin a criminal action against the members of the beef trust. He tells the President that he believes he has the courage to take such a step, and that he has shown that he be lieves the members of the trust are guilty by beginning a civil suit against them. In the course of his letter he says; It is publicly stated that some of the capitalists have condemned you for at tempting to enforce the anti-trust law, even by civil process. It Is even hint ed that they threaten to oppose your renomination if you show the strenu ousness in this direction that you have shown toward the Filipinos, but can you be scared by such threats? You have shown physical courage and bravery upon the battle field. You were not afraid of bullets when any one of them might have taken your life. Will you now fear to face concentrated wealth? Civil siuits may annoy the captains of industry, but if you are going to shackle cunning you will have to shackle it with criminal laws. The letter is calculated to put the President in a very embarrassing posi— tion. He has of course expressed his belief in the guilt of the member* of the beef trust by ordering a civil suit to be begun against them. There does not seem therefore to be any good rea son why he should not order a criminal suit begun, if he is really in earnest in his efforts to “down” the trust. It is hardly probable that the Pres ident will follow the course marked out by Mr. Bryan. It is a safe statement that he did not begtn the suits against the .railroad trust and the beef trust until he was satisfied that his party would be Injured unless he did so. It isn't the question of courage, as Mr. Bryan seems to intimate, but a ques tion of politics. He doesn't want to In jure his friends, the trusts, and he can be depended upon not to do so unless it becomes a question of party neces sity. He can now point to his action against the railroad trust and the beef trust and claim that his party ig op posed to all trusts which oppress the people, though the claim will not have much to rest upon. It may be enough, however, to enable It to make some sort of a srfowing when attacked dur ing the pending congressional campaign for not protecting the people against trusts. Did England’s amnesty extend to those British subjects of Irish birth who fought in the Doer army? We shall probably goon have a deliverance on the subject.' Col. Arthur Lynch, who fought in the Irish regiment on the Boer side, and who was recently elected to Parliament from Galway, de clares that he means to appear in Lon don shortly to claim his seat. It has been said that Col. Lynch would be arrested on the charge of treason as soon as he appeared in London. If he keeps his word he will appear there early this week. Then there may (or may not) be fun. ♦ i If South Carolina is truly apprecia tive of the work of Capt. F. W. Wag ener in giving her one of the greatest expositions ever undertaken in the South, why does she not honor him, and at the same time put an end to a rather tiresome controversy, by invit j Ing him to occupy that seat In the l United States Senate? SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JUNE 8. 1902. WOMAN AND CRIME. In the midst of an address deliv ered in Detroit recently. Bishop Spald ing of the Catholic diocese of Peoria said: "If the women of the land were more large-minded, more thoughtful, more Intelligent, three-fourths of the depravity and sin that curse the pres ent day life would disappear.” This at first would appear to be a severe arraignment of the sex. To charge the women with three-fourths of the evil in the world and leave the men to shoulder only one-fourth would seem to smack very strongly of the idea that Adam originated and the French have put into a proverb. “The wo man tempted me,” said the original sinner. “Search for the woman,” says the French when a crime has been committed. It is altogether unlikely, however, that Bishop Spalding meant to charge directly that women were more per verse than men. Certainly not* even the most confirmed woman-hater would assert that women are worse than men in the ratio of three to one. The very suggestion is not only false, but monstrous. What the Bishop had in mind, no doubt, is the fact that women, the mothers of the households, have in their charge the rearing and the molding of the character of the children who are to be the men and women of the future. In this matter the responsibilities of the women are very much greater than those of the men. The father of the family rushes off to business early in the morning and does not return until night. Dur ing the interval the mother must be the mentor and guide of the children. It is she who must give them moral fiber, and mold the characters of the coming citizens. It was this great re sponsibility that the Bishop meant to emphasize when he uttered the words quoted above. As to the relative depravity of the sexes, if the question were reduced to its last analysis there can be no doubt that ’man, egotistical man, would be found responsible not only for three fourths of the sin in the world, but nine-tenths of it. Woman is “the weaker vessel.” Where there is a wayward woman. It is pretty apt to be the case that man’s treachery, selfish ness, perfidy and brutality has brought her to it. The thoughtless, flighty, careless woman Is pretty sure to show some of the characteristics of her father. The truth is the women —the mothers —have been the salvation of the race from degeneracy and ruin. It is pos sible that if the women were nearer perfect—nothing human is perfect— that there would be less of sin and sorrow in the world. On the other hand, it Is quite sure that if the women were no better than the men, affairs would be in a most deplorable condition. INSTRUCTIONS TO TAFT. The instructions Which the War De partment issued to Gov. Taft, to guide him in his negotiations with the Vatican for the possession of the friars' lands in the Philippines, are to the point. Apparently there is but one thing for the Vatican to do, and that is to sell the lands to the United States. The case, as stated In the instructions, makes it clear that the lands are of no further value to the friars, and the religious orders in whose names they stand would do well to get rid of them at the earliest possible moment and for the best possible price. As a matter of fact the price is the only question at issue. If the Vatican should decide not to sell the lands, how could they get a revenue from them? The Filipinos will not pay rent als for them voluntarily and there is no way except through the civil gov ernment of the islands to collect the rentals. As painted out in the in structions under the American system there is entire separation of church and state. Under the system that pre vailed in the Philippines under Spanish rule there was close connection be tween church and state, the friars ex ercising great authority in state af fairs. That has now ceased, and the civil government at present there is entirely disconnected with the church. That does not of course mean that there is any interference in church matters by the government. On the contrary, the church has as much liberty as it has in this country, but no more. It is expected that Gov. Taft will have no trouble whatever in arranging for the purchase of the lands. The Pope is a clear headed man and no doubt will deal with the matter in a business like way, and that is to sell the lands for the best price that can be obtained for them. The Filipinos it is understood, are against the friars. It would be a mistake, if such is the case, to attempt to reinstate the friars. Our government could make good use of the lands. It would sell them out to home seekers and collect the purchase price In installments. Thus a troublesome question would be set tled. Pittsburg is going to make a.great Fourth of July demonstration. Presi dent Roosevelt is to be the principal pin-wheel of th# occasion, and some brilliant sparks are in prospect. To give the picture a more gorgeous set ting. President Schwab of the Billion Dollar Trust has contributed {5,000 for decorations. The item will doubtless go into the trust's incidental expense account. The fire marshals of the District of Columbia have asserted that the Cap itol at Washington might easily be set on fire. Here, then, is an exceptional opportunity for some rising young or ator who has butted his way into Con gress. Let him set the Capitol on fire with his eloquence, and win fame in a day. Mark Twain and Mark Hanna re ceived their degrees of LL. D. on the same day. Mark Twain got his in Missouri. In recognition of his literary attainments. Mark Hanna’s was con ferred in Pennsylvania, a state in Which "practical politics" is regarded as one of the liberal art*. Burn- amino I* evidently trying hard to wheedle a good job out of the peo t pie in Washington. THANKS) MANY THANKS. To My Fellow Citizens and Supporters: I have replied by wire and mail to many of my friends who have congrat ulated me on the race I made in the recent state primary, but there are thousands to whom I am indebted for assistance and support In the cam paign. These friends are scattered from the mountains to the sea, and it is impossible to write to each of them. I therefore take this means of return ing to all of them my sincere thanks, assuring them of my deep appreciation of their good will and efforts. I had nothing to offer these friends beyond my promise to faithfully discharge the duties of the high and honorable office to which I aspired, and they accepted that promise and voted for me. It was not their fault that I did not win the honor sought. I trust this brief acknowledgment of my grateful indebtedness will be ac cepted in the spirit it is made—as com ing straight from the heart. To my friends and fellow citizens of my dear Savannah I wish to say an additional word. I have lived among you from early boyhood. My life has been as an open book before you. You know my “incomings and outgoings." And in this, the first time I have asked for consideration at your hands, you nobly gave me your hearty support. This was, indeed, one of the exceptions to the biblicdl rule that a “prophet it not without honor save in his own country.” You, my friends, have hon ored me beyond any other of my peo ple. While I should have appreciated most highly the honor of being Gov ernor of the Empire State of the South, had it been so ordered, I have no re grets for having entered the contest for the nomination. It afforded me the opportunity that comes to but few men, of visiting nearly all sections of the state, becoming acquainted with its resources and meeting its people. There is no greater state than Georgia and no better people exist than those who dwell upon its mountain slopes, its plains and its seaboard. Any man honored with its governorship needs no further honor, and if he does his duty and endeavors to advance the inter ests of the whole people, and not his own interests and those of a few po litical friends, he has a trust which, if {veil discharged, will entitle him to an honorable place in the history of his state. I return my thanks to those of my brethren of the newspaper fraternity who helped me in the canvass and cheered me in my efforts. The good words written by them, and those spoken by other friends, are in them selves sufficient to repay me for what labor and anxiety I endured in my campaign. With heartfelt thanks to all, I am tile grateful friend of my friends. J. H. ESTILL. PERSONAL. 0 —King Edward will visit the Cork exhibition in the autumn. —Gen. Lew Wallace has purchased an electric vehicle, and an expert op erator is giving him instructions as to its use. —Charles S. Onderdonk of Lamy, N. M„ owns the largest goat ranch in the world. He has as high as 20,000 goats on his 28,000 acre ranch at one tnme. —Charles Francis Adams of Boston will speak before students of the Uni versity of Chicago, on June 17, on “Shall Cromwell have a Monument.” —F. N. Finney of Milwaukee, Wis., has purchased the famous rug known as the Empress Eugenie’s prayer rug. It is made of silk and was given to the consort of Napoleon 111 by the Shah of Persia. —Dr. Henry Lummis of the Law rence University, Applelon, Wis., has just celebrated his 77th birthday and is the oldest instructor in the institu tion. He is a native of New Jersey and a graduate of Wesleyan. —Francis Varga, who. as advocate general under Louis Kossuth, in the struggle for the enfranchisement of 40,000,000 serfs in Hungary, sentenced 260 persons to death, many of them no blemen, has just died at Leon, la, CURRENT COMMENT. The Indianapolis (Ind.) News (Dem.) says: "Now that the Democratic party in this State has dropped Bryan and free over-confidence of the Republicans is bound to suffer a skrinkage. The Democrats have great recuperative powers.” The Buffalo (N. Y.) Times (Dem.) says: “Why do the Republican news papers wax so enthusiastic every time a Democratic conventioft neglects to endorse the last national platform of its party? In this because they be lieve such action will redound to the benefit of the Democrats, or to that of the Republicans?” The Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal (Dem.) Quotes and Comments: “ ‘We denounce,’ says the Indiana Democratic platform, "the Dingley tariff law as the breeder of trusts, and demand that tariff duties shall be levied for the purposes of revenue only and lim ited needs of the Government honestly and economically administered.' It sounds mighty good to hear that sort of Democratic doctrine these days. It is the true music, and it has always been the music of which the Demo cratic party since the war has marched to victory.” The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says; "The Democrats of Indiana make Tariff Reform the issue against the Trusts and the Republican party. Insteadiof making the Republican pre tense of a resort to more or less futile Federal and State Anti-Trust laws nnd injunctions, the Indiana Demo cracy denounces the Dingley tariff law as the breeder of Trust* and demands that tariff duties shall be levied for revenue only. In the coming elections for Congress In the West there can be no popular misapprehension In re. gard to this plain issue with monlpoly, it* baneticiarles and Ha champion*." Mary and Her Mother. Here*?* a typical bit from William J. Lampton’s story in the June Era; Mary was smiling when she came home in the evening. "Mamma," she said without waiting. "Well,” her mother greeted her, “I’m glad to see you in better humor than you were last night.” "I have reason to be.” she replied mysteriously. "I'm sure Mr. Dobbins has no reason to think kindly of the way you treated him last night. I think he is one of the best men I ever knew, and you had no right to slight him as you did,” com mented Mrs. Williams. “And still,” continued Mary, more mysteriously, “he never was so nice to me as he was to-day.” “Did he propose?” asked Mrs. Wil liams. “He told me last night he had something to say to you, and asked my permission to say it. Of course, I gave it gladly.” “How perfectly lovely of you, you dear old Mom,” exclaimed Mary, throwing her arms around her mother. "But you haven’t said whether he proposed or not. Did he?” Mrs. Wil liams anxiously insisted. “What did he say?” Mary was very deliberate at this juncture. “He said,” she slowly responded to her mother's appeal, “a whole 10. about a happy home and a wife to cheer him, and the loneliness of a bachelor’s life, and then he came out plumply and ask ed me—if I thought you would marry him.” "Me?” gasped Mrs. Williams, almost falling over. “Me?” "Yes, you,” said Mary, “and I told him I thought you would, and It would be just too lovely for anything, and he’s coming up this evening to ask you himself. He said he never could have done it if it hadn't been for me.” “Well, I declare,” cried Mrs. Wil liam*, trying to be calm, “if that isn't Mr. Dobbins all over then I want to know,” and she kissed her daughter, adding a rapturous hug that would have brought Mr. Dobbins thither an hour earlier if he had been a witness to it. To Prove Ilin Gratitode. The late William J. Florence is said to have known both parties to the tale of a gentleman in London who loaned a poor Celt the money for passage to this country, says the Philadelphia Times. He received several letters af ter the Irishman’s arrival, all filled with expressions of gratitude and as surances that the debt would be paid. No letter reached him for so long a time that, if he thought of the matter at all, it was to suppose the benefici ary had died or been imprisoned. Then along came a letter in which the Irish man was somewhat doleful. He had been out of work, and was converted from his aboriginal notion that the streets here were paved with gold. “However, sir,” the letter read, “if I die before I’m able to pay you back for your kindness, we’ll meet in Heaven, and by my presence there you'll know my failure was one of in ability rather than dishonesty.” But there was a postscrip that effectually dispelled any idea the gentleman may have had that the immigrant was not willing. It read: "P. S.—ls there anybody in this coun try who ever did anything to injure you, sir? Or to offend you in any way? Because if there is, and you, sir, should wish anything done to him or them, you have only to say the word, and I’ll do it, letting you know the results, God and the police permitting.” How He Kept His I'nnainn White. The number of Panama or alleged Panama hats to be seen everywhere this season, says the New York Trib une, reminded an old gentleman from Boston of a story the other day, which he proceeded to tell to another man in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, holding his own genuine Panama in his hand: “I suppose you 'have never heard of old Dr. Ellis down here,” he said. “But a generation or two ago he was a well known figure in Boston, being one of our fmous Unitarian ministers,a friend of many of the He used always to wear a white Panama hat, which at that time was much more of a luxury than I judge it is to day. The same hat did him season after season, yet it never seemed to lose any of its fresh whiteness. “One day a minister of the old per suasion, and very pronounced in his orthodoxy, asked Dr. Ellis how he kept his hat so white. “ ’That is easy,’ said the doctor, ’for it has been Calvinized.’ ’’ ‘What?’ said the other minister. ‘How do you galvanize a hat?’ “ ‘I said Galvanized,’ replied the Uni tarian. ” ’But What do you mean by that?’ " ’Dipped in brimstone,’ said Dr. El lis.” The Game of Cricket. A German school girl, according to the New York Tribune, thus describes the English game of cricket: “It is very good for the exercising of the limbs, besides they learn to obey or ders and not to quarrel. The cricket court consists of a great lawn and a little tents, Where the players repose themselves, or where are the places of the audience, which has to pay a lit tle money before they are permitted to regard the elevens. * * * Now the bailer sends a ball, the batter who is standing before the wicket has to send it abroad. * * * if the ball knocks down the wickets, the bailer and the backstop make their runs, etc.” But the gem of the article is the moral re flection made at the end of it by the juvenile essayist; “When they are thirsty they go into the tents to drink a glass of brandy, then they are drunk, and their parents scolds; poor boys. I would not allow my, children to play such a stupid game.” • I - Universal Heart. From the Era. Since hoary-headed Time was young; Since Art and Music found a tongue; Since the first rose, with dew lm pearled, This heart has throbbed through all the world. It bleeds for freedom and for love— Dreams of beatitudes above— And yearns with everlasting pain For those who never come again. It thrills to genius and to worth. Yet loves the lowliest thing on Earth— Is scarred with sin, and rent by grief, And stripped of bloom like autumn's leaf. Coeval with the rolling spheres. It holds the burden of the years. And beats like pulses of the sea. This great heart of Humanity. —William Hamilton Hayne. Heinarknble Memory. At a little dinner the other night the statement was made that the oolored race had longer memories than white folk, says the New York Times. Mark Twain, who was present, agreed with the remark, and to prove it told the following. "Some years ago, when South. I met an old colored man who claimed ’to have known George Washington. I asked him if he was in the boat when Gen. Washington crossed the Delaware, and he Instantly replied, ’Lor’, Maas a. 1 steered dat boat,' ’’ ’Well,’ said I, ’do you remember when George took the hack at the cherry tree?” "He looked worried for a minute, and then, with a beaming smile, said: ’ Why amah, Mass*, 1 dun drove dat hack myself.* ” ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Eavesdropping at the telephone is much more prevalent than It ever was at the keyhole—detection being so much less probable. It is said that one sign of eavesdropping is the reced ing tone of a speakers voice. Someone has “cut in." Acting on this hint, a woman who had her suspicions aroused said to her friend suddenly: "Some one is listening.” Instantly, from no where in particular, in a strange voice, came an indignant exclamation; “I’m not doing any such thing.” The gov ernment telephone exchange at Stock holm, Sweden, for the last year has been experimenting with a contrivance the object of which is to Indicate to the subscriber whether or not the cen tral station operator is listening to the conversation. —Vaccination in Egypt is compulsory. The antis do not control the Egyptian government, much to the benefit of the Egyptian people. Take as an example Port Said, containing 35,000 natives and 12,500 Europeans, the natives, of course, living in a sad state of insanitation as compared with Europeans. Is the death rate from smallpox greater among the native Egyptians than among the Eu ropeans? Not at all; it is six times as great among the Europeans. Among the 35,000 natives there were 18 deaths during the year, while among the 12,- 500 whites there were 38 deaths. "It is possible,” writes Lord Cromer, “to enforce vaccination among the native population, but among the Europeans, though by the laws of the country vac cination is compulsory, it is impossible to enforce It.” —Wood is to be the newest food, says Heinrich Reh, a professor of chemistry in Berlin, according to Loudon An swers. He has secured a patent upon a form of animal fodder, which has sawdust as Its chief ingredient. He argues that animals have a decided lik ing for young shoots, roots of shrubs, tree bark, and other heavy food of the sanfte nature, and, since experiments have proved that the nutriment con tained in such growth remains in it even after it has become wood, he ob serves that with a little salt and water added to.it the sawdust will prove to be a highly nourishing diet. He has statistics to prove it. Pine, birch, pop lar, alder accacia, beech, and walnut woods and straw have been analyzed chemically by him, and he finds that the wood has vastly more albumen, nitrogen, and fatty substance than the straw. The inventor claims “a very cheap cattle food can be prepared in this manner, to which may be added potato peelings, cornhusks, and shells of grain, and the residue from the sugar beet after the sugar has been ex tracted.” —The Department of Agriculture is preparing to fight the ravages of the San Jose scale throughout the country with Us natural enemy, the ladybug, brought from the interior of China. Assistant Botanist Marlatt has just returned from the Orient, where he sought the original home of the dread ed scale. Far in the interior of the latter country, where European plants has not penetrated, he found the scales and also the ladybugs, which keep the scales in subjection and permit the na tive plants to flourish. Mr. Marlatt started home with a good supply of these ladybugs, but only sixteen sur vived on arrival in this country and fourteen of them subsequently died. The two remaining, however, were nursed carefully by the government, with a .view to fighting the scale in the same manner as in China. There are not fifty of them, requiring the constant gathering of scales from the department grounds for food. While not expecting the scales to be exter minated from this country, experts are planning to attack them with the in creasing breed of their natural ene mies. —British soldiers are to be provided with boiled water for drinking, says the Hospital. “The water will first of all be clarified by a kind of rough fil tration through charcoal containing a certain amount of potassium perman ganate and will then be ‘sterilized’ either by filtration or by heat, after which it will be distributed to the troops by means of water carts re served for ‘safe’ water only. So far as the method of sterilization by boil ing is concerned, the War Office has adopted a form of apparatus which is very economical of heat, being so ar ranged that the incoming water ab sorbs the heat from that which has been through the boiler, and this so effectually that although the water is raised to boiling temperature it flows out only 4% degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it entered the apparatus. By this process active pathogenic organisms are destroyed, although a few of such as happen to be present in the form of spores may escape. * * Having got the apparatus, the question now is, What will the British army do with it? This depends, not upon the medical de partment, but upon the extent to which commanding officers can be brought to see the necessity of insisting upon boil ed water alone being used for drink ing purposes.” —The economy studied by King Vic tor Emmanuel of Italy in his court and much applauded by the world has brought about a ludicrous situation. It is reported that the 450 men and wo men making up the King’s retinue have declared that they will no longer stand the bad cooking and short rations of the court, and will resign in a body if matters in the royal kitchen are not improved. The King has, it is said, tried to shift the blame on the chefs, who have defended their position by declaring that they are not responsible when ordered to have garlic substi tuted for caviar, pea soup for turtle, and are allowed only 50 cents per head daily for the meals of the King's guests and‘retainers. The head of the royal kitchen is quoted as saying in a pub lished statement; “Fifty cents for three meals! Hoy can they be good and wholesome? I would occasionally fur nish a better menu, even ir I lost money by doing so, but the King cut my sal ary down, giving me one-half what his father used to pay.” The King of Italy recently disposed at auction of eighty of the horses in the royal stables, and now some Roman tradesmen are calling him a niggard. —Grim, forbidding old Newgate pris on, which in the course of its century and a half of existence has housed so many men and women condemned to destruction, says the Chicago Chron icle. has been condemned to destruction itself so many times and still remain ed undisturbed in all its ugliness and dinginess that it would not be surpris ing if any further announcement of the historic prison’s impending doom were received with polite incredulity similar to that which greeted the young man’s cry of “Wolf!” However, such an announcement must be made, for it has now been .decided definitely that the long-deferred destruction and rebuilding of the famous jail shall be gin May 24. Already the wardens are beginning to move. Temporary cells are being built in the "Old Bailey”— the scarcely less famous court house, which adjoins Newgate—where the prisoners now awaiting trial can be kept, and on the day mentioned the soot-blackened Jail house where Jona than Wild, Jack Sheppard, Mrs. Brown rigg and many other criminals almost as famous were confined and executed will be attacked hy an army of work men, the great blocks of granite of which it Is built will be loosened one by one, end so one of the most inter esting remains of old London will pass away. HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS. 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