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UPEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Confederate Veterans Associa
tion, Camp 756.
Special Notices—Proposals for Feed,
Harry Willink, Commissioner; Public
Works; SIOO Reward, John Carr.
Their Underwear Snaps—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Legal Notices—Notice to Debtors and
Creditors Estate, Marie Mahoney; Libel
for Divorce. Edward J. Seymour vs.
Louisa L. Seymour; Application to Sell
Beal Estate, Sigmund Elsinger, Deceased;
Citations from the Clerk of the Court of
Ordinary of Chatham County.
Mineral Water—Apenta.
Excursions—To Beaufort Wednesday,
Steamer Gov. Safford.
A Christmas Gift—Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Medical—World's Dispensary Prepara
tions.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
LI iHung Chang is said to be the richest
man in the world; which leads the Balti
more Herald to observe that he would
make a dandy vice presidential candidate.
The Vermont state election will be held
to-day. It Is doubtful if the result will
offer any indication as to the drift of po
litclal sentiment. In the election of 1834
the republicans polled 42.663 votes against
14,142 for the democrats and 740 for the
populists. The republican strength was
about 73 per cent, of tue whole. Senator
Proctor, tn an Interview a few days ago,
said he would be disappointed if the state
did not return an increased republican
majority.
Advices from Florida are to the effect
that Senator Call is having the hardest
pace of Iris life this time. The Citizen
says that counties which have supported
Senator Call solidly for fifteen years are
now nominating mem opposed to his re
eleotlon to the Senate. St. Johns, here
tofore one of the strongest Call counties
in the state, has selected an anti-Call
man for the state Senate, and Marion,
previously always steadfast to Call, has
repudiated him at the primaries.
Heretofore the government crop re
ports have been given out at an hour
which, owing to the difference in time,
permitted of the Liverpool cotton ex
change making use of the information
contained in the reports ahead of the
American exchanges. This, however, is
to be changed, by an order Issued a few
days ago. Hereafter the reports will be
made public at 1 o’clock, New York time,
and put upon the telegraph wires at
once. The report, therefore, will reach
the exchanges about a quarter past 1,
which will enable the American markets
to derive whatever advantage there Is to
be had from the Information gathered
by the government's weather crop bul
letin service.
The number of immigrants that arrived
In this country during the fiscal year end
ing June 30 last was 73,000 greater than
for the year preceding. Of every 100 en
tering 25 were from Italy, 20 from Aus
tria-Hungary and 18 from Russia. Nearly
one-half of the Italian immigrants were
unable to read or write, and the pro
portion of Illiterate Huns and Russians
was almost an great. Probably one-third
of the total number that came in—264,000
—might be classed as undesirable. A year
or two ago there was a considerable move
ment of Italians and Hungarians from
the middle western states to Europe. It
seems, however, that that reflex tide has
been checked, and that the flow of
the undesirable surplus population of Eu.
rope has once more set toward these
shores.
Mrs. Lease says if Tom Watson is a
gentleman, he will got out of Sewall's
way, and let the regular democratic ticket
win. If he does not get out of <h way,
she says the people will have grounds for
the belief that he has been purchased by
republican money, for as things are go
ing now Watson la positively a menace
to the success-of the “reform ticket,’’
and the republicans could afford to pay
handsomely to have that ticket de
feated by and through Watson. It would
appear that the woman orator had start
ed out to hang Watson's scalp alongside
*hat of Ingalls at her belt. She Is going
to make a stumping tour of several states
and it may transpire that she will come
down Into Watson’s own bailiwick and in
gist upon his getting out of the middle of
the road.
A Direct Line of Steamers.
The coming of Marshall Stevens, the
manager of the Manchester Ship Canal
Company, who is expected here within
the next few days, promises to be a
quite important event In Savannah's com
mercial history. The purpose of Mr.
Stevens’ visit has been explained al
ready In our local columns. He wants to
make himself acquainted with our har
bor, our commerce and our facilities for
bringing products to the seaboard with
the view of putting on a line of steam
ships between this port and Manchester,
England.
Mr. Stevens has not, of course, commit
ted himself to the undertaking. He will
probably'visit other South Atlantic port3
and will select as the American terminal
of his line the port which promises the
best results.
We arc satisfied, however, that If the
line Is established Savannah will be one
of Its terminals because of her excellent
harbor, her railroad advantages and the
magnitude of her commerce. Mr. Stevens
has been informed of Savannah's advant
ages and when he arrives he will find
that they have not been exaggerated.
It is the purpose of the city of Man
chester to make the Manchester ship
canal a success financially. It is admir
ably suited for the purpose for which it
was constructed and answer” satisfactor
ily every demand upon it. Mr. Stevens
is one of the original promoters of it, and
the purpose of his visit to this country
is to advance Its interests.
Lines of steamers now connect Man
chester with many of the most important
ports of the world, and the number of
the ports Is being steadily increased. From
the data at hand it would appear to be
greatly to Savannah’s interests to be con
nected by a direct line of steamers with
Manchester. The cost of sending goods
intended for Manchester to Manchester by
way of the canal is much less than send
ing them by way of Liverpool. The dif
ference is so great that a considerably
cheaper freight rate would be possible
by way of the canal.
However, Mr. Stevens will be here
shortly, and no doubt will make a lull
and satisfactory explanation of whatever
undertaking he has In view. We can only
say that Savannah will give every rea
sonable encouragement to anything that
promises to promote her commercial in
terests.
Costa Rica's Opportunity.
The government of Costa Rica sees in
Cuba’s misfortunes an opening for the
benefit of its own country, and it appears
to be determined to make the most of it.
The government has abolished its tobacco
monopoly, and will permit of the free cul
tivation of tobacco in the entire area of the
republic. It will also favor and welcome
American investments, it Is announced,
and will prohibit all undesirable immigra
tion, such as Chinese, or will confine such
immigration within certain limits.
Costa Rioa raises a fine quality of tobac
co. It is said the conditions of climate and
soil are favorable to the production of as
fine tobacco as that produced in Cuba. The
war in the latter country has about des
troyed its tobacco business, as well as its
fruit exporting trade. And there is no
telling how much longer the war may be
continued. The Costa Ricans evidently
think that if they go into the business at
once they may be able to secure a con
siderable share of the trade that Cuba has
enjoyed, and that once having secured it,
they will be able to hold it.
Banana culture in Costa Rloa Is said to
be very profitable. Some cultivators derive
an income of from S3OO to S4OO
per acre from it. There is an
abundance of land suitable for banana
culture that is to be had upon favorable
terms. There is not an abundance of de
sirable labor at But the government
will aid in bringing In such immigration
as would be suitable on banana and tobac
co plantations. It will pay to the planter
for every immigrant, except those of the
nationalities proscribed, the cost of the
passage of such immigrant and the freight
on his equipment. The distance from Costa
Rioa to the markets is considerably fur
ther than from Cuba. But in these days
of swift steam vessels of light tonnage in
the fruit trade the difference is not a se
rious matter.
The people of Key Wes* appear to be
quite serious In the matter of the pro
posed secession of the keys from the
State of Florida. They continue to hold
small mootings and discuss the project,
and to advocate the movement In the
newspapers. One striking; argument they
use is that Key West is as far removed
from the seat of State government as Sa
vannah is from Richmond, or Baltimore Is
from Ottawa, and that it is divided from
the main land by many miles of naviga
ble water. The twelfth port of the union
in revenues from imports is on the keys,
yet they are denied local self government,
and the necessary Judicial machinery. It
really look£ as if Florida would have to
make some concessions to her dissatisfied
offspring.
Many Tampa tobacconists are the own
ers of largo quantities of tobacco in
Cuba. Weyler has forbidden the tobacco
to be exported. But it is pretty generally
understood that his orders will be ignored.
It is said to be much easier to
bring a cargo of tobacco away
from Cuba than to carry a car
go of arms there; and there are lots
of arms being carried there, it Is believed,
from time to time. The tobacco will be
loaded on sailing craft, which will dodge
the sleepy Spanish blockading ships
and stand out to sea. Once
outside of Spanish Jurisdiction the
tobacco laden craft will sail bold
ly to the nearest American port, pay the
duty and land their cargoes.
It is understood that Mr. Cobb will
make the race for congress in the Fifth
district as an independent, against both
Col. Livingston and Col. Peek. There
is no reason why he should not do so if
he feels so Inclined. The Fifth district
Is a pretty big place, and dozens of men
might run around in It all autumn without
colliding with any especial Interest.
THE MORNING NEWS: TI'ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1896.
England's Markets.
England, owing to her system of plant
| Ing colonies, has markets In all parts of
| the world—markets which she controls
j almost absolutely. Mr. Joseph Chamber
i lain, who Is the head of the colonial de
! partment of the British government, and
who will arrive in this country to-day or
to-morrow, has, it Is said, vast schemes of
British expansion in various parts of the
world. He says that Africa before long
will be one of England’s greatest markets,
and, that, too, without any material help
of consequence on the part of England.
Already England has a big hold there,
and she Is steadily extending her Influ
ence and control. Mr. Chamberlain has
sent engineers to South Africa to make
surveys with the view of determining the
practicability of constructing railroads
there. It Is believed that it is also his
Intention to send engineers to British
Guiana for the same purpose. It is pretty
well understood that the Venezuela
boundary dispute would be much nearer
settlement than It is If It were not for
Mr. Chamberlain’s hesitation in submit
ting to arbitration the ownership of dis
puted territory occupied by British sub
Jeots.
There come dull periods In trade In Eng
land, Just as in this and every other
commercial country, and at such times
English manufacturers have some diffi
culty In disposing of the products of their
mills. A Bay street cotton merchant,
who visited England this summer, relates
a little story which illustrates the pol
icy of England when a condition of affairs
like that exists. An Englishman and an
American were discussing the trade con
ditions in their respective countries, and
the American asked the Englishman what
the English manufacturers did when they
had more of their products on hand than
they could sell. The Englishman said that
the government sent its warships to a sav
age country, conquered the natives and
compelled them to wear clothes, thU3
opening anew market for British factory
•products.
It has been the British policy for a
long time to open new markets for her
manufactured goods by subduing savages
and teaching them to wear clothes, and
it is the policy which Mr. Joseph Cham
berlain Is now engaged tn carrying out.
Mr. Bryan’s Frankness.
The thorough honesty of Mr. Bryan is
shown by his references to the democrats
who are opposed to the free coinage of
silver. He does not beg them to remain
with the regular democratic party or to
vote for him. Long before the meeting
of the Chicago convention he predicted
that if the democratic party declared for
free and unlimited coinage of stiver the
gold standard democrats would not vote
for the nominees of that convention, ant
he declared that they ought not to do
so. The position he occupied then in re
spect to this matter he occupies now.
He virtually says that the gold standard
democrats ought not to vote/for him.
In fact, he advises the people to vote In
accordance with their convictions in re
spect to the Issues before the country.
Mr. Bryan is so firmly convinced that
he is right, and that the platform on
which he stands is for the best interests
of the country, that he believes a ma
jority of the people will accept his views
on the silver question before the cam
paign is finished. Indeed, it is probable
that he feels certain that a majority
agrees with him now.
The Indianapolis convention, therefore,
does not worry him. Ho knows It will
cost him some votes, but he would rather
lose them than to ask support from those
who differ with him on the Issues of the
campaign.
Mr. Bryan regards it the duty of every
citizen to study public questions, and
then to vote in accordance with their con
victions. In almost every speech he de
livers he makes this point, and it is ap
plauded. Of course, Mr. Bryan wants
all the votes he can get, but he asks only
those to vote for him who believe the
declarations of the platform on which he
stands.
The Boston papers have long dispatches
from Bath, Me., to the effect that a most
determined effort is to be made by the
populists to force Mr. Sewall off the dem
ocratic ticket. It is said that Mr. Bate
man. who is secretary of the populist
notification committee, has a letter from
Senator Butler, chairman of the populist
national committee, In which the
tor intimates that “it will be possible
to make the democratic national commit
tee take Mr. Sewall off the ticket.” The
intimation is thrown out by Senator But
ler that the national democratic commit
tee has about determined to get rid of
Mr. Sewall and put Mr. Watson in his
place "when the right moment arrives.”
All this talk amounts to nothing. Mr.
Sewall is on the democratic ticket to
stay. To force him off In favor of Mr.
Watson would be a confession of weak
ness that would be fatal. Besides the
great bulk of the democratic party would
not consent to have the ticket changed.
Therefore, the populists might as well
make up their minds to vote for Mr. Sew
all and let Mr. Watson wait until some
other year for a vice presidential nomina
tion.
The republicans of Louisiana hftve about
ceased to be a menace, to democratic suc
cess in that state. There are already two
sets of republican electors in the field,
and the prospects are that there will be
two republican candidates for congress in
each of the districts of that state. The
republicans are so busy fighting and de
stroying each other that the democrats
are paying but little attention to them.
And very similar conditions prevail in
Florida, where factional fights have about
destroyed whatever strength the repub
licans may have had.
A gratifying evidence of the progress
of the negroes of Texas was offered In
the "Afro-American fair and exposition"
at Houston, which has just closed. The
exhibits embraced specimens of agricul
tural and horticultural products, archi
tectural designs, mechanical appliances
and machinery, etc., all the products of
negro skill and enterprise. The exposi
tion continued through several days, and
was a success. It was encouraged and
liberally patronized by the white peo
ple.
PERSONAL
—A French priest. Father Martin, ad
vances an extraordinary theory about Zo
la in a religious review. He thinks that
the directing principle of Zola's life Is his
love of animals. He shows a monstrous
and even a sacrilegious sympathy for cats
and dogs. They are, he feels, his kin
dred. This accounts for hts dwelling, as
he does, on the lowest instincts of man.
He can see the beast in him, but not the
angel.
—Baron Rothschild's pet charity Is the
largest free school In the world. It Is of
course In the East End of London and Its
3,500 scholars are taken from the poorest
class of Russian Jews. One hundred
teachers do the instructing; breakfasts
are provided each morning and each child
gets a suit of clothes and two pairs of
shoes a year. There is a savings bank In
connection, where sums up to SSO may be
deposited and which pays the young mon
ey-makers 10 per cent.
—The late Sir John Millais was a grace
ful speaker, but his speeches cost him a
great deal of time and labor. The London
Dally News says that when a dinner was
given at the arts club on ap
pointment as president, Millais was tn the
chair. He made an admirable speech—so
frank, so sympathetic, so eloquent, so un
studied. They congratulated him on It,
saying they had no idea he had that gift
of oratory, or could speak so well and so
spontaneously. ‘“Spontaneous," he said,
"why that wretched speech has kept me
rhe last five weeks!”
new evangelists who are looming
up In the west are just now holding a pe
culiar revival in Chicago. They call them
selves the Rev. Morrill twins. They look
so much alike that they cannot be told
apart. In appearance they suggest a pair
of song-and-dance men ready to do a
“turn" In a continuous-performance house
and some of their methods are more akin
to the variety hall titan to the church.
They charge an admission fee, the scale
of prices being announced as “ten, twent,
and thlrt," and their addresses are lib
erally sprinkled with coarse slang. One
of the features of their meetings is a re
ligious stereoptlcon entertainment.
BRIGHT BITS.
—The Explanation.—Tenderfoot: I don’t
understand the epitaph on this tombstone.
It says: “He Talked Hisself to Death.”
How’s that?
Broncho Pete: That's right. He called
Alkali Ike a liar.-v-C'hicago Tribune.
—“Oi’m afraid," said Mr. Dolan, “that
Dinny Is not Industrious.”
“He's ambitious enough,” Mrs. Dolan
replied.
"Yis, but thryln’ Is better ner promisin'.
Oi loike ty see a young man put 'is besht
fut forward. But he’ll niver make head
way if he laves it there to be admoired,
inshtid o' brtngln’ the other fut along up
wtd It.”—Washington Star.
—A Patriot.—First Citizen—The solution
of this question is international bimet
allism.
Second Citizen—What's that?
First Citizen—An agreement between the
United States and the leading European
nations to coin gold and silver at a
ratio to be agreed upon.
Second Citizen—l'll bet the United States
would coin more than all of 'em put to
gether.—Puck.
—Overlooked.—“lt's jes like our furglt
fulness," he said regretfully, as Jje strokeo
his long white beard and gazed at the
gaudy proclamation on the billboards.
"We've met an’ adjourned an' It’s too
late."
“What Is too late?” asked the man who
was with htmc • t
"Ter put in another clause. We’ve de
clared fur free silver, an’ free speech, an’
free ridtn’ on the cars, and free lunch,
an' I thort when we got through we
hadn't left out nothin'. An’ here I find
thet wd’ve left out one o' the most Im
portant items. We furgot ter say a sin
gle thing 'bout free tickets ter the theay
ters.”—Washington Star.
Cl RRKXT COMMENT.
The Political Event.
From the Baltimore Herald (Dem.).
One of the principal events of the past
week was the fact that Mr. Tom Wat
son was not notified of his nomination.
Is Li a Mugwump f
From the Wilmington (N. C.) Star (Dem.).
The Chinese in Richmond are not stuck
on Li Hung Chang, whom some of them
hate “ailee samee hellee’ because he is
a Yokka. We do not know what a Yokka
is, but we suppose it is a sort of mug
wump Chinaman.
Business Hotter Than Politics.
From the Birmingham News (Dem.).
Business is improving in spite of the
politician. Heavy gold imports are com
ing in, which is the most hopeful sign
that has yet appeared. Bright spots can
be seen all over the country in trade
and commerce. Cotton Is holding up well
and the outlook is growing more en
couraging every day. But for politics
business would be booming.
Services of the Railroads.
From the Macon Telegraph (Dem.).
The railroad corporations are lending
their aid in giving publicity to the value
of the south's resources and putting
themselves in line to aid in the work of
development. The policy they nave adopt
ed is a wise one. They can render a great
service to every section traversed by their
lines, and in doing so they make busi
ness by aiding to create it.
What the Matter Is With Hanna.
From the New Orleans States (Dem.).
One wing of the republican party is
eagr to make the tarifT the leading issue
of the campaign, while the other is equally
determined to push the financial question
to the front. This keeps Mr. Hanna in
a constant state of trepidation. He is
afraid that too great prominence of the
first will drive off sound money demo
crats from McKinley, while to relegate
It to the rear will give mortal offense to
the manufacturing barons, and they will
refuse to further submit to the frying
process. Hence Mr. Hanna's tears.
The Indlnnnpolts Convention.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun (Dem.).
The Indianapolis convention will accom
plish nothing. The ticket It names can
not possibly be elected, and the result
of putting It in the field will be to with
draw more votes from McKiniey than
from Bryan. The men who will attend
this convention and those jvho support
the ticket it names would. If no such
ticket was in the field, cast their votes
for McKinley in preference to Bryan, and
Bryan will not be the loser by it. The
convention will not Injure .the prospects
of the democratic nominees, but it would
be better for the party If it was not held,
and If all democrats would stand true
to the party. If the party has gone wrong
It would be much wiser to stay Inside
the ranks and help to set her right than
to stray off after independent organiza
tion.
A Showman's Stratagem.
“Your story about calling tor a doctor
in the circus," said a retired showman,
according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
“reminds me of the way we broke up a
nuisance in a good-sized Pennsylvania
town. I was on the road
with a farce comedy company,
and we put in two weeks at the
town in question, there being a big mili
tary encampment there and a county fair
'to boot. We drew good houses all through
the engagement, and were booked for an
early return. I don't tihink we had been
there more than one night before the doc
tor nuisance began. There would come
a hurried messenger from the box office
to the stage manager with a request 'that
he ask if Dr. Bolus, or whatever his name
happened to be, was In the house, and if
he u-as to send him 'to the box office at
once. Of course the stage manager
couldn't well refuse, and general atten
tion was directed to the medical man,
much 'to his satisfaction. We soon found
out that the doctors who were so much
in demand were very small medical fry,
and there wasn’t any doubt that they had
themselves called for In order to secure
the consequent notoriety.
“WeH, we stood it for a few nights, and
then an idea occurred to me. I took a
walk up the main street 4tntil I came to
a certain sign hanging over a stairway.
I went up to the office indicated, and had
a brief conversation with Its inmate, end
ing it 'by handing him reserved-seat tick
ets.
‘Tha't evening, immediately after tlhe
first act and before any messenger from
the box office had a chance to arrive, 1
stepped out in front of 'the curtain and
held up my hand. Then in my gravest
tones I asked:
“ ‘ls Dr. Chizziold in the house?'
“Immediately a very tall colored man,
with a bushy white head and huge sil
ver-mounted spectacles, arose in the au
dience and said:
“ ‘Heah I is, saih.'
“The audience tittered, but I kept my
gravity.
“ 'You are wanted at the box office at
once, doctor, in a case which requires
your immediate professional attention.’
“As the aged darky ducked to me and
hobbled from the room the audience broke
into a wild roar.
"Perhaps you will understand the cause
of this merriment when I add that the old
man was a corn doctor and probably the
best known, eccentric Character in town.
There were no more doctors called for
from that stage during our engagement.”
Contentment.
My 'Old friend. Rush Strong, one of the
big merchants of Tennessee, with money
to burn, got his start in life by a neat
trick that advertised his business all over
the south, says a writer in the New
York Press. The county was about to
hold a fair, and each merchant offered a
prize for the best of something in his
line. A offered $lO for the finest pound
of butter, B $lO for the finest dozen eggs,
etc. When it came Strong’s turn he said
that he wanted all night to think it over,
as he felt very poor. The next day he
sent to the committee this proposition:
“Rush Strong will give half the entire
stock in his store to the man or woman
who is contented with his or her lot In
life.”
It was published in the pamphlet of the
fair association, and caused a laugh all
over the state. One day the president
said to Strong: “Look here, Strong: we’ve
been fooling about this thing long enough
and now it’s getting serious. You’d bet
ter stop it right now and tell everybody
that you were only joking, because there's
a chap down here in Blount county who’s
a-goin’ to take you up, and he’s got
half a dozen neighbors ready to swear
that he's absolutely contented with his
lot in life.”
Strong vowed that he meant business and
would leave the decision in the com
mittee’s hands; the stock was ready to
be divided. Pleading was in vain. The
man appeared with his witnesses, de
claring that he was going to get the
prize. He made out a good case, and the
committee were about to decide in his
favor, when Strong arose and asked qui
etly:
•'Gentlemen, if this man is contented
with his lot in life, what on earth does
he want with the half of my stock?”
The committee grasped the situation at
once, and the contented man was laugh
ed out of Knoxville.
A Bullet's Travels.
A story of how a forgotten shot came
back to a hunter was related recently by
one sportsman to another on a train bound
northward to the Adirondack mountains,
says the Chicago Chronicle. Four years
ago a New Yorker took down his small
caliber rifle from the rack on which it had
hung ever since the previous fajl, clean
ed it, and the next day took it on a deer
hunt to the Moose river regions of the
Adirondaeks. He got to camp and the next
day took his stand at the natural dam
runaway. A deer came in, a small buck,
and two shots were fired at it, one of
which drew a little blood. The trail was
lost and the deer forgotten in the success
that attended the next day’s hunt.
Last spring the sportsman was talking
with a woodsman about hunting experien
ces, and the woodsman showed him a bul
let, battered by the force of Its impact.
In the head of the bullet was the mark
of a knife blade. In spite of its battered
condition, the New Yorker identified it as
the one he had fired at the small buck
four years before, for he had cut a crease
Into the bullet’s flat point to make it
spread ■well should it hit a deer.
The woodsman told how he found the
bullet two years ago in the spring. It was
lying on a flat rook a mile from the natu
ral dam. as if someone had laid it there.
It was evident that the wounded deer had
fled and died back in the woods. Its car
cass had been torn by wood creatures, its
bones gnawed by mice, and the bullet had
fallen on the rock, borne there by some
fox, perhaps, since it was a good table.
The New Yorker bought the bullet for sl,
and it now hangs on the rifle that fired it.
The Empty Sleeve.
Hamilton Jay in the Florida Times-Union.
’Tis a badge of honor, the empty sleeve.
No matter who wears it, the Blue or Gray,
It speaks of the thrill and clamor of fray
Where Death’s grim loom in the Shadows
weave.
It tells of the lessons written in steel,
Of the flag's wild waving, the gun's fierce
roar;
Of comrades whose elbows shall touch no
more,
And of dear ties broken that were so leal.
It speaks of great clouds of sulphurous
smoke.
Through which fitfully gleamed red shafts
of light.
The charge of wild demons, daring all
might,
And the quick stern music of saber stroke.
It pictures the picket, the lonely night.
The eampflres's blaze and the jubilant
cheer,
The bugle’s singing so far and so near.
The desperate rally, the stubborn fight.
God bless him who wears it! A hero he,
Although unknown to the fickle jade,
Fame,
On a higher scroll it is written, his name,
In the heart of a nation his laurels be.
Nor does it matter if his shoulder bear
No star, nor eagle, nor the leaf, nor bar,
For the empty sleeve, it speaks louder far
Than the honors that chance may often
wear.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Dr. H. Radcilffe Crocker reports It
the Lancet for August 8 two cases of lep
rosey in which very marked improvement
followed deep injections on one-fifth of a
grain of corrosive sublimate made once
a week for a long period.
—According to the Chinese consul at San
Francisco, there are not more than 12,000
subjects of the Chinese emperor now liv
ing in that city, anrl they are leaving at
the rate of 3,000 to 4,000 a year. The pro
portion of those who return to those who
depart is small. Evidently the almond
eyed knights of the tub in ’Frisco have
ibid aside enough good American dollars
to see them comfortably through a long
spell of rainy weather.
—Siberia will soon lose Us terrors in the
popular mind. The opening of the Si
berian railroad has caused a rush of
Russian peasants for the plentiful and
cheaper lands in Siberia, and whole vil
lages In Russia are being left without
inhabitants. So far this year 145,000
peasants have emigrated, and in the mid
dle of May there wore 13,000 persons
encamped at Tchelyabursk, awaiting
transportation. It is reported that the
government will stop banishing criminals
to Siberia, and will use only the island
of Saghalien, the northern provinces and
the prison districts as receptacles for con
victs.
No one is permitted to practise medicine
in the republic of Hawaii without a li
cense. says the Medical Record. A person
wishing a license must pass an examina
tion before the board of medical examin
ers, and if this is done successfully the
board of health is notified, and recom
mends the minister of the interior to issue
a license. All applicants must pay to the
minister of the interior a fee of $lO. Any
violation of this act entails a punishment
by fine of not more than $250. A license
may be revoked at any time by the minis
ter of the interior for professional miscon
duct, gross carelessness, or manifest in
capacity.
—'Billiard 'balls must be well seasoned
before they are used for play. Manufac
turers have incubators in which to store
them that they may undergo the drying
process. Some incubators will hold fully
3,000 balls. When they are first made
they are “green.” Sold ivory is the only
satisfactory material of which to make
them; "artificial halls” (those made of
composition are much 'heavier and do
not wear well. English makers, to give
the red balls perfect color, steep them
in a decoction that is sometimes describ
ed as the “guardsman’s bath.” This is
extracted from the old coats of “Tommy
Atkins” and for billiard balls it is the
finest scarlet known.
—Dr. Drysdale, writing to*the British
Medial Journal, apropos of certain re
cently published statistics of smokers
among the students of American col
leges, recalls some facts discovered by Ber
tillon in 1855. He found on inquiry made
by him concerning the pupils of the Poly
technic School of Paris that 108 of the
pupils smoked and 52 did not smoke. He
then arranged the 160 pupils into eight
divisions, according to the place they held
in examination, 20 in each rank, and found
that of the 20 who stood highest, six were
smokers and fourteen non-smokers. Of
the next 20, 10 were smokers and 10 non
smokers; of the next 20, 11 smoked and 9
did not smoke; thus showing how much
higher the non-smoker stood intellectu
ally than the habitual smokers. He also
found that the mean rank of the smoker,
as compared with that of the non-smoker,
deteriorated from their entering to their
leaving the school. Asa result of Ber
tillcn’s Inquiry, the minister of public in
struction of France issued a circular, ad
dressed to the directors of schools ar.d
colleges, forbidding the use of tobacco and
cigars to students.
—There is a woman in the county of
Cornwall, England, who speaks a lan
guage known by no other person in the
world, says the New York Journal. It is
the ancient language of Cornwall and
once was spoken by hundreds of people.
Dolly Pentreath is the woman in ques
tion. and she lives in the town of Mon
shale, in Cornwall. She was born in :<>n6.
Notwithstanding this fact, she is very
vigorous, and her memory is good. The
Cornish language is a branch of the Cel
tic tongue, which was once widely spoken
throughout the European world. It be
gan to decline about the first quarter of
the last century, being superseded by the
English language. At the beginning of
this century there were no more than two
heads of families who could speak the
language. The father of Dolly Pentreath
was one of them. He was a fisherman by
occupaton. Up to her twentieth year she
could speak only Cornish fluently, while
her English was just about intelligible.
When she grew up there was no one with
whom she could converse in Cornish ex
cept her father, and after his death, in
1830, she was the sole one in all Cornwall,
in fact, the whole world, who could con
verse in that language.
—While mankind was suffering during
the recent warm weather, says the New
5 ork Tribune, the ants and other Insects
in the Greater New York were very ac
tive, for 93 degrees is considered by them
a most enjoyable temperature. During the
hot day 4 ant wars were not of uncommon
occurrence, and the red slave-making ants
might be seen bringing home their cap
tives, which, strangely enough, are black
of color. One afternoon a long column of
these ants was observed at Arrochar on
Staten Island. They had already van
quished the blacks, whose net was under
a stone about 300 feet awav, and were
engaged in carrying the partly developed
young ants to their own nest, there to be
brought up as slaves. Many of the ants
come home empty handed, or empty jaw
ed. for they transport everything in their
mandibles. Now and then one would be
seen carrying a companion, who, perhaps
had been taken ill or injured in the war
Running about the red ants’ nest there
were a number of blacks that had been
captured when they were young and were
now serving their masters. They often
relieved the warriors of their burdens, car
ried them into the nests, and thus assist
ed in the further enslavement of their
kind. This does not seem a pleasant fea
ture of ant civilization of which philoso
phers talk, but their wonderful thrift and
untiring efforts for the general good of
the colony are admirable traits
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WHAT IS THIS DISEASE CALLED
DYSPEPSIA?
Like a thief at night, it steals In upon u ,
unawares. The patients have pains about
the chest and sides, and sometimes in th a
back. They feel dull and sleepy; t hs
mouth has a bad taste, especially in th
morning. A sort of sticky slime collect,
about the teeth. The appetite is poor
There is feeling like a heavy load on thj
stomach; sometimes a faint, all-gone sen
sation at the pit of the stomach which
food does not satisfy. Eyes are sunken
the hands and feet become cold and feei
clammy. After awhile a cough sets in, at
first dry, but after a few months it is at
tended with a greenish colored expecto-a!
tion. The patient feels tired all the
while, and sleep does not seem to afford
any rest. After a time he becomes nerv
ous, irritable and gloomy, and has evil
forebodings. There is a giddiness, a sort
of whirling sensation in the head when
rising up suddenly. The bowels become
costive; the skin is dry and hot at times
the blood becomes thick and stagnant’
the whites of the eyes become tinged
with yellow; the urine is scanty and high
colored, depositing a sediment after
standing. There is frequency a spitting up
of the food, sometimes with a sour taste
and sometimes with a sweetish taste
this is frequently attended with palpita
tion of the heart; the vision becomes im
paired with spots before the eyes; there i,
a feeling of great prostration and weak
ness. All of these symptoms are in turn
present. It is thought that nearly one
third of our population has this dise-isa
in some of its varied forms. It has been
found that medical men have mistaken
the nature of this disease. Some have
treated it for a Liver Complaint some
for Dyspepsia, others for Kidney Dis
ease, etc., etc., but none of the various
kinds of treatment have been attended
with spccess.
Now ’,^ Shaker Digestive Cordial
causes the food eaten to be digested This
will cause an appetite for more food and
this being digested will result in an In
crease of strength, an increase of flesh
and an increase of nerve power.
The tired, weary feeling will give wav
to vigor and courage. The pale, thin and
emaciated will recover their color and
plumpness, because red blood and fat are
the result of properly digested food.
A ten cent trial bottle will produce a re
sult. Its good effect will he realized at
once. You will not have to take a dozen
bottles to find out if it is doing you anv
good. Try it, and then give praise to the
Shakers of Mount Lebanon, New York
for the relief that you obtain.
September
Here.
People are returning and It Is
necessary to put the honse In order.
HOW ARE YOUR LINENS?
You will need them all the year,
and we want to tempt you into bay
ing now. The prices are as attrac
tive as the change in the weather.
Hemmed Huck Towels 15c each; worth
20c.
Hemmed Huck Towels, 24 by 46 inches,
25c each; worth 37%c.
Everything else in Linens at reduced
prices.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
IVe have a very attractive line In
this department, bought very eheap,
and to l,e sold at remarkably low
figures. Here Is the way the prices
rnn:
Ladies' Pure Linen, Plain Hemstitched,
Vt, Vz and 1-inch hem, 20c each.
About 100 dozen Ladies’ Embroidered,
Hemstitched and Scolloped edge, 20c each.
A line of
MOTHERS’ FRIEND
BOYS’ SHIRT WAISTS.
Ton know all about this brand—
there In nothing; better—and we of
fer the 65 cents Waist at 45 cents.
SHIRT WAISTS
Left on hand are to go this week
at “Quick SaleiiV Prices. No mistake
in the lowness of these
They are way below cost. Look at
the tlarnres, see the waists, examine
tlieir quality, style and finish and
buy while you can.
Percales, Lawn and Sateen Waists, Bish
op sleeves, double yokes, collars and cuffs,
interlined, laundry work flrst-class, at 60c,
73c and 99c.
Daniel Hogan,
The corner Broughton and Barnard sts.
CITY AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY.
Summer Scheontc—June 3, 18110.
Leave
Leave From Isle of Into
City. Hope.
600 am Bolton street. 600 am Bolton street
7CO air. Bolton street 710 am Bolton street
9 00 am Second ave 8 10 am Second ave.
10 37 am Bolton street 945 am Bolton street
1 45 pm Second ave. 12 20 pm Second ava
230 pm Bolton street 230 pm Bolton street
330 pm Bolton street 830 pm Bolton street
4 15 pm Second ave. 4 30 pm Bolton street
430 pm Bolton street 445 pm Second ave.
5 15 pm Second aver 5 30 pm Bolton street
530 pm Bolton street 545 pm Second ave.
6 15 pm Second ave. 6 30 pm Bolton streot
630 pm Bolton street 730 pm Bolton street
730 pm Bolton street 830 pm Bolton street
830 pm Bolton street 920 pm Bolton street
930 pm Bolton street. 10 X) pm Second ave.
Saturday night only, 11:00 p. m., from Bol
ton street
Cars leaving Bolton street and returning
into Bolton change at Thunderbolt
For Montgomery—9:oo and 10:37 a m.. 2:30
6:15 p. m : change at Sandfly. Leave Monlr
gomery—7:3o a. m., 1:45. 5:50 p. m.
For Thunderbolt—Cars leave Bolton Street
depot on every hour and ball hour during tn'i
day and evening.
HOTELS AND RESORTS.
Metropolitan Hotel,
[European Planl
Broadway, corner 27th atreet,
Near Madison square, New York.
200 rooms. $1 per day and upward.
Interior ttltings entirely new.
STOCKTON HOTEL. CAPE MAY, N. J.~
Most elegant and spacious on the Atlanti j
coast. Open from June 6th to September 30ta
Send for illustrated pamphlet.
HORACE M. CAKE, Prop-
The Normandie, Washington, D. u