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NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA’S CAPITAL
MORRIS SAYS THAT CLAY
WAS largely responsible FOR
HIS defe at.
Certain Leading Politician* at
Washington. Mr Morris Says.
Wanted l.ober Elected Judge.
Their Influence A\ as Thrown to
Gober and His Election Was
There!*? Accomplished Morris
ilotes 10 Committee's Ruling.
Atlanta. M,y 7.—Hon X. A Morn?
•who was defeat -d for the nomination
for the judgeship of the Bine Ridge
circuit by Judge Georg- F. Gober. to
day give out the first -• it-it -ru he
La? made since the r-■ • ’ - 'on of
the Executive Comm ’t--e which estab
lished the result a. *rd m the re
turns. Mr M rr!*. -T r thanking his
friends and sti’ :g th.t he win ,r: y
the matter no furtht h->* this to s*y
"I wish you would aay
ovr the ?’ n.at Ii Judge Gober
beaten by f •; i. ■*' to . rr. ijoritv
■when •h- 1 •’i-.n w • '-'rived
at in W.i*;.,r.gt 'O D by certain
leading pe.'.t. other interests
that figure po.:t: ? this stjt-.
that it w I.e -?.-vtry that 1 shoui i
be defeat* i. Senator Clay came down
about ten days before the eb-cTor and
proceeded to use h - entire influence
to compass my defeat. H remained
ar.d actively canvassed against me un
til the election was over.
"In addition to this, during the last
i• • .
of money were d.sb ,-■* 1 or behalf of
Judge Outer's eie. :ion through jt the
cirtuit. After the primary ad pend
ing my contest before the Executive
Committee these s .me influence* that
started this movement in Washington
continued their fight, and but for this
I am satisfied that the reset would
have been different.”
Parker Club business Slow.
Contrary to the general impression
the two Parker clubs, which,have be .
operating in Atlanta for seme weeks,
have not gone out of business, but are
still occupying the same expensiv
quarters in the Kimball House Only
the stenographers in ea< h club are
*'or. guard." and a visitor :s a rarity.
The stenographers in both clubs say
they are doing nothing, and visitors ,r
-few and far between. It is s’ated
however, that the two 'iubs will keep
their headquarters open until fter the
state convention meets on June 1.
• hm.il (toad* lie- I-km t**-
Gov. Terrell to-day appointed dele
gate to the national and international
good roads convention, to be held in
S’ Louis May 14 to 21 Five delegate?
were name-: from ea-h congress.anal
C”rict, those from the firs*, district
being Judge John C. Coieman.
Sw ainsboro: Hon. F M Cates.
■Waynesbcirc Judge B F. Alexander,
ReMsviUe; Maj. G. M Ryals. favan
r.ah; Hen. William Cliftor.. Darien.
Out of Work. V anted to Die.
W. A. Barker. 33 years old. a white
man of education and refinement, at
tempted suicide to-day by drinking a
bottle of laudanum. He was found on
the outsit.r’s of the city and tas.-n to
the hospital where he was revived. H
wiil be held at the police barracks, and
an effort wifi b made to get work for
him. He said he tried to commit sui
cide because he could find no honest
employment. He ha* been a furniture
salesman.
Ball’s *nlt Aot Cos nr! acted.
The suit of Chief of Police John Ball,
against Justice of the Peace Walter
Ormond for injunction to prevent the
Justice from trying him for contempt
of court, was argued before Judge
Lumpkin in the Superior Court to-day.
but was not concluded. It will be
taken up again next Saturday. Jus
tice Ormond wanted to try Chief Ball
for contempt. be< ause he did not hold
a certain prisoner who was being car
ried to Cincinnati on a requisition. The
chief secured an injunction, and the
case is pemimg in that shape.
Oa the Torrent System,
The special commission ap,pointed to
Investigate and report on the Torrens
system of registration of land titles,
appointed under legislative resolution,
met at the Capitol to-day and contin
ued its investigations. The commis
sion. of which Hon. Washington Dc-s
-sau, is chairman, has not arrived at
any definite conclusion,’ as to a satis
factory system for Georgia, but it will
be ready to report at the coming ses
sion of the Legislature.
STRIKE FOR NEW ENGLAND.
All th* Hnkem In Thai Section May
Quit Work.
Boston. May 7.—A convention of th
union bakers of all the New England
states has been called for this city for
to-morrow to consider the advisability
of ordering a genera' strike of bakers
Jn New England.
The un.ons believe that the only way
to stop bread coming into Boston to
supply bakeries where the men are out
ts to order a general strike. The In
ternational Union, it is said, is pre
pared to send $25,000 to New England
to assist the bakers should they leave
work.
About 6,000 journeymen bakers would
be affected in case of a genera! strike.
Bakers' Strike Settled.
Chicago. May 7.—The bakers’ strike
■was settled to-night. The union yield
ed its demand that no work be per
formed during the five Jegal holidays
of the year, agreed to the usual holi
days’ work, w:;h pay for the hours of
work only, and not for a full day, irre
spective of the amount of work per-,
formed. When this concession was
made by the men, five of the large
bakeries in which men struck, signed
the scale. Two bakeries which have a
full complement of non-union men
would not sign the scale.
Sum Parks' funeral.
New York. May 7.—Sam Parks, the
former labor leader, who died a con
vict in Sing Sing prison, was buried to
day from the home of his wife in East
Eighty-seventh street. His body was
followed to the grave with all the
marks of honor and distinction his
former associates could show.
Itetorm Constitution.
Mexico City, Mtiy 7.—Til- reform con
stitution creating the office of vice
president of the republic and providing
that the incumbent of such office shall
be chosen by popular vote was pro
mulgated to-day. Foreign Minister
Ignacio Mariseal is looked upon as .t
probable candidate for the new office.
Terres ns Consul.
Washington. May 7.—John B. Terr s
has been appointed United States con
sul at Port Au Prince, Huyti. Terre*
was born in North Carolina and ap
pointed twenty years ago from New
York as vice consul genera) at ' Port
Au Prince,
WILL KEEP IN TOUCH
WITH PORT ARTHUR.
Continued /rum First Page.
i end of the peninsula Trained carrier
pigeons were also sent to Port Arthur
some time , t go and through one means
1 or anothr tne Ru.-*:in authorities hope
| to retain commur.: c m.
Tne - cy it. possession of
spe :fdc information to the effect that
the harbor of Port Arthur is open.
FRANCE IS DISTRESSED
BY ALLY’S REVERSES.
Paris. Mav 7.—The critical situation
of Russia's land and sea forces excites
feverish Interest. Russian reverses
causing almost as much depression
here as at Ft Petersburg.
The official view is that Russia has
suffered a serious but rot an irrepara
ble t v. The foreign office had not
received to-night’ official confirmation
th t Port Arthur w.-.s completely in
vested by land and sea, but a leading
official said:
We a ept the investment as an ac
complished fa t, for even if the har
bor is not completely blocked an in
vestment exists t r ail pra. ti .il pur
-1 -e* The landing is considered mere
ly preliminary to a supreme struggle
which will soon occur near Mukden.
Upon that will largely depend the out
come of the war."
The diplomatic negotiations during
the week tool: .i definuc- form to re
strain Chir.u from Joining Japan or
otherwise breaking neutrality.
Th- French minister at Pekin, and it
is understood the ministers of all the
powers, including th- United States.
Joined in the representation. The re
sults have been satisfactory, th* im
pend government giving a positive
premise not to vary from a rigid ob
servance of neutrality.
Officials are somewhat doubtful of
Chinese promises, as they recall that
after a former declaration of neutral
ly Chine permitted Black Flags to
assail French interests. However.
Chin s positive dec;,ration kd by
the identnal position of the Powers is
considered a? reducing China's partic
ipation to a minimum.
JAPANESE HAVE LOST
NO VESSEL OF WAR.
Tokio. May 7. 2 p. m.—Vice Admiral
Togo reports that the entrance to the
Port Arthur harbor is blocked com
pletely to ail vessels except small
boats. H” adds that the Japanese
have not lost . single war vessel, al
though the attack resulted in consider
able loss of l.fe.
CHINESE BRIGANDS"HAVE
MALTREATED THE WOUNDED.
St- Peter-burg. M-y 7.—A dispatch i
has been received by the Red Cross j
S ciety here stating that Chinese i
brigands h -.e alts ked and maltreated i
Russians who were wounded in the !
fight at Ksulien Cheng.
To lirrall Vlexieft.
Paris. May 7.—The St. Petersburg
correspondent of the Journal says he
is assured that Viceroy Alexieff will
be reej.:;ed -ji the instar, e of Vice Ad
miral Skry iloT and Gtr,. Kuropatkin.
and that the Emperors cousin. Grand
Duke Nicholas Nicolaivitch. will re
place him.
HOLD-1 I** AT PORT NORFOLK.
Posse Is Pnrsning Negroes Utility 01
Killing .Another.
Norfolk, Va„ May B.—Two despera
does shot one man to death, fatally
wounded another, and held up a third
on the streets of Port Norfolk last
night. They escaped, but a posse is
pursuing them. There is no clue to
their identity, but some bundles found
beside the dead body of C. Richardson,
a negro, have been identified by a
storekeeper as the same he had sold
an hour before the shooting to a negro
by the name of Fregere. This negro
is missing.
The three hold ups followed in such
rapidity and with.n such a short dis
tance that the village was in a furor
of excitement before the forms of the
bandits had vanished in the darkness
after the Ist affair. Pursuit wag be
gun at once and at an early hour this
morning Town Marshal Rodman with
a posse of citizens is. close upon the
desperadoes.
Cotton Exhibit Completed.
World's Fair Grobnd, St. Louis. Mo.,
May 7.—The special cotton exhibit, lo
cated in the Agricultural Building and
covering more th. n 10.000 square feet
has been completed. The purpose of
the exhibit, which is participated in
by all the cotton growing states, Is to
present an epitome of the cotton in
dustry.
Richmond t,unno Fire.
Richmond, Va., May 7.—The mill
sheds of the plant of the Richmond
Guano Company, below the city, were
burned to-day. The loss is $125,000,
covered by insurance. The fire was ac
cidental. ■
NECESSARY.
People May Go Wit limit Food for Bays
But Not Without Sleep.
pasters have gone without food for
many days a: a time, but no one can
go without sleep. "For a long time I
have not been sleeping well, often lying
awake for two or three hours during
the night up to three weeks ago. but
notv I sleep sound every night and
wake up refreshed and vigorous,” says
a California woman.
"Do you know why? It's becavise I
used to drink coffee, but three weeks
ago I rut off the ooffet* and began us
ing Postutn. Twice since then I have
drank coffee and both times I passed
a sleepleess night, and so I am doubly
convinced coffee caused the trouble and
Postum removed it.
“My brother has been in the habit of
drinking coffee three times a day. He
has been troubled with sour stomach
and I often would notice him getting
soda from the can to relieve the dis
tress in his stomach: lately hardly a
day passed without a dose of soda for
relief.
"About two weeks ago he asked me
for a cup of Postum—-said he liked it
well enough to give up coffee and since
then has been drinking Postum three
times a day and says he has not once
been troubled with sout stomach."
Name given by Postum Cos., Battle
Creek, Mich.
I Even after this lady's experience
with coffee her brother did not suspect
coffee was causing his sour stomach.
but easily proved it.
Coffee is not suspected in thousands
of cases just like this, but it's easily
proved. A 10 days’ trial works won
ders md of course “there's a reason."
Look in each package for the famous
little book, "The Road to Wellvllle."
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. MAY 8. 1904.
Prescribed Duffy's 25 Years
Dr. L It. Bow ne Says Patients in Con sumption. Pneumonia. Grip and All
Weakening. Wa-iin*. lUsca~.il Condition- Never Fail to Respond Fa
vorably to Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey — “ Taken As
Directed It Is Round to Cure.’*
.
DR. E. H. HOW.N'E.
“F.r more th3n twenty-five years I have been prescribing Duffy's Pure
Malt Wl take; is .j tonic and stimulant in cases where the physical activi
ties we r e low. the system weakened and the patient wasted away. I have
found that in pneumonia, grip and other exhausting diseases my patients
never fail to respond favorably to your medicine. 1 have observed its effects
;n a large number of cases of consumption, and can say that Duffy’s Pure
M It Whiskey taken as directed is bound to result in relief and permanent
• ure,
I know of my own personal knowledge that It is a pure stimulant,
absolutely free from fusel oil, ar.d that it is the only whiskey that should
be used by people with a tendency to kidneys. This is a matter of
paramount importance to ajj those who are suffering from disease.''
DR. E. H. BOWNE. Kingston, N. J.. March 18. 1!>04.
Dr K -vne is but one of over 7.000 doctors who use and prescribe Duffy's
i>u ,! A 'I '! whiskey whenever gentle tonic, stimulant and invigorator is
■ for Two thousand hospitals employ it exclusively. It builds up tis
sues. stimulates the hear’ s action, soothes the nerves, enriches the blood
-r.d quickens the circulation. It kills the disease germs, and drives them
out. and tones up and strengthens the whole system. Every testimonial is
published in good faith an* guaranteed.
DUFFY’S PURE MALT WHISKEY
BFII.DS I P SHATTERED HEALTH.
cures coughs, colds, catarrh, bronchitis, consumption and all lung trou
• l-s. indigestion, dys; ?p*~.a and every form of stomach disease; nervous
ness malaria and ail low fevers. It promotes health and long life. Makes
the old young and the young strong.
, For fifty • .- the most rigid and far-searching tests have found Duf
•' s Pure Malt Whiskey aiw.-ys absolutely pure and free from fusel oil. It
s ’““ only whiskey recognized by the government as a medicine. This is a
guarantee.
'AT rr ’ N' When you ask for Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey’ be sure you
get -he genuine. Sold in sealed bottles only: never in flask or bulk. Look
for 'he trade-mark, the “Old Chemist," on the label, and be sure the seal
over the ork Is unbroken.
All druggists and grocers, or direct, $l.OO a bottle. Medical booklet free.
Duffy Malt Whiskey Company. Rochester. N. Y.
RUSSIA. AFTER ALL.
DECIDES TO EXHIBIT.
St. Louis May 7.—A cablegram was
received from St. Petersburg to-day by
Director of Exhibits Skiff of the
World's Fair, stating that Russia will
make an elaborate exhibit at the Louis
iana Purchase Exposition.
Russia, before the war with Japan,
had planned to be represented at the
fair, but recently decided to abandon
its proposed exhibit. The cablegram to
day telling of Russia's decision caused
surprise to the exposition officials. The
Russians will take 20.f‘00 square feet
in the varied Industries building, and
will also be represented in the liberal
and fine arts.
..... ,_jj
DEATHS.
— Died.-at his residence. 210
Thirty-fourth street, west, at 12:05 a.
m.. May 8. James M. Smith, Funeral
notice later.
OBITUARY.
Governor Villi.la. Mexico,
Mexico City, May 7.—Gov. Villida of
the state of Mexico died yesterday at
Toluca, capital of that state, after four
days illness from pneumonia. He wa3
born in Mexico City in 1841, and took
an active part in the war against the
French, and Imperialists, winning suc
cessive promotions for skill and gal
lantry
After his campaigning days were
over he became a newspaper editor
here, and in 1892 was elected governor
of the state of Mexico. His adminis
tration h‘as been progressive and sat
isfactory.
.IninCM M. Smith.
Mr. James M. Smith died at 12 03
o’clock this morning at his home. No.
210 Thirtv-fourth street, west, after a
long illness. He was 73 years oid and
leaves a wife, one son, James M. Smith.
Jr., and two daughters, Mrs. \V. C.
Petty of Savannah and Mrs. Frank
Goodman of New York city. Mr.
Smith was a Confederate Veteran, and
a member of the Confederate Veterans’
Association.
Andrew McNally. Chicago.
Chicago. May 7. —A, dispatch to the
Chronicle from Los Angeles, Cal., an
nounces the death at Passadena, Cal.,
of Andrew McNally, head of the pub
lishing house of Rand. McNally & Cos.
Mr. McNally had not been in good
health for some time, but his death
which was due to heart disease, was
sudden and unexpected. Mr. McNally
was one of Chicago’s w ealthy men and
was rated well up among the city’s
millionaires.
Frank G. Parnell, Darien.
Darien. May 7.—Frank G. Parnell
died suddenly at his home last night.
He was about 48 years old and a na
tive of Canada, but had lived in Da
rien the greater part of his life. Mr.
Parnell was for a number of years
marshal and deputy marshal of Da
rien. He resigned last year to go
into business. He is survived by his j
wife and one sister, Mrs. James Town- I
send of this place.
President Cunilumo, Peru.
Lima, Peru. May 7.—President Can- |
da mo. who had been ill for some time
at Arequipa. died to-day.
The President's death is deeply re- I
gretted as all political elements re
garded him as an honorable man. de
voted to the true interests of the
country.
Gillian Sloan.
Lillian, the only child of F. H.
Sloan, died last night at No. GlO
Abercorn street, from pneumonia. She
was only 3 years of age. The funer
al will take place to-morrow morning
at 11 o'clock.
WITH AUTO AND BIKE
It is the consensus of opinion in au- '
temobile circles that the Vanderb lt
Cup race should be onen to the world.
All the events in Europe are open to
American drivers. Automobile author
ities favor the open race as the best
test for America, believeing that the
open event will force the Americans to
do their best, both in building and in
the racing of their cars.
The date and course of the race will
be finally settled when William K.
Vanderbilt, Jr., returns from the West.
The Australian War Department has
been making experiments in the carry
ing of dispatches by motor cycles. The
route was over rough ground ISO miles
long. With four relays eight hours and
twenty-eight minutes was required
against about twenty hours for cavalry
relays.
"Electricity now beats petroleum," is
the heading in a recent copy of the
New York Herald, telling how automo
biles of the former type are taking
the lead for city use. The dispatch,
which is from Paris, says that:
"Electric automobiles bid fair to
eclipse petroleum vehicles for town lo
comotion. Manufacturers are selling
them as rapidly as they can produce
them. At the Societe Francaise des
Electromobiles it is almost impossible
to hire a machine. Recent purchasers
are Mrs. Van Dussen Reid, Mrs. Kings
land. the Duke of Roxburghe, the Due
de Bassano. Mme. Breval and Mr.
Lombard."
Salt Lake City’s track xvill promote
bicycle racing again this year, and
the owners are trying to get some
riders from the East to visit the oval
In Utah. J. E. Achorn of New York
will go there this season, while others
scheduled to appear are Saxon Wil
liams of New Haven, W. M. Samuei
son. the unpaced record holder: N. C.
Hopper, Carl and Ivor Redman.
One of the Australian bicycle papers
states that F. A. McFarland’s chief
backer took $15,000 out of the betting
ring on the occasion of the Austral
wheel race. Incidentally it states that
thirty bookies paid SSO each for the
privilege of "making book” at the meet
ing.
Reports from the various parts of
the country show that the plan origi
nated by the Bostonians of having
old time wheelmen's runs are being
emulated with excellent success. De
troit has had a run of more, than 500
riders, Winnipeg, in Canada, is arrang
ing for an evening parade, while the
enthusiasts of other cities are getting
cyclists in line, with a view of show
ing the numerical strength of those
who love the wheel.
Interest •is growing in the interna
tional cun race for automobiles which
is to be held in Germany on June 17,
and in which America is expected to
have one or more representatives. An
nouncement of the drivers for the
elimination trials abroad shows that
forty-eight men are striving for the
honor of representing their countries
in the long, hard Journey of 320 miles
over the winding course.
The Board of Public Safety of Cleve
land. 0., at Us last meeting, propos
ed that several motorcycles be pur
chased for policemen who are seeking
to suppress the reckless drivers of au
tomobiles. The matter will come up
again for a vote and is quite likely
to pass, as trials have demonstrated
the superiority of motorcycles for use
by guardians of the peace.
With the advent of the automobile
comes a demand for the hotels and
inns such as flourished in the palmy
days of cycling, and now, especially
close to big cities, model hotels are
being prepared for touring motorists.
Vale Crew Won.
Annapolis. Md.. May 7.—The Yale
Second-Naval Academy boat race was
won by Yale by half a length. Time
Yale 10:29, Navy 10:31%.
BURIAL CUSTOMS.
Golnic to Fnnfrnl*—Th. Hight of
Style—Funeral* in Pari,.
From the New York Press.
The habit of going to funerals grows
upon one so that it becomes virtually
ineradicable if properly encouraged.
Such funerals as those of Grant and
Sherman are grandly solemn. Mourn
ing gives place to morbid curiosity to
witness the spectacle and listen to the
lofty strains of brass bands in dead
marches. There is something deeply
impressive about a military funeral. As
for the every-day funeral, with its real
crape and grief, nothing is so grew
some. I hope I never shall be obliged
to attend any but my own, and the
thought of doing that is not cheering.
I am willing to leave funerals to those
who dearly love them.
It Is the fashion In New York to
have a house on the Highlands of Fifth
avenue and a family vault in Green
wood or Woodlawn. In Pans one to
be in the higher style must have a
house in the Champs Elysees and a
mausoleum in Pere La Chaise. The
three important cemeteries of the City
of I. ght are Montparnasse. Mont
martre and Pere La Chaise. They are
now reserved for the inhabitants of
the city who have permanent conces
sions. The cemeteries outside the walls
—Bagneux. Batignolles, Ivry, Pantin,
St. Ouen and others—are used for or
dinary burials, and also give a last
resting place to the destitute in the
"fosse commune,” or general grave,
gratuitously. Pere La Chaise is part
of the high life of Paris.
Parisians incline to sumptuous fun
erals. The coffins of persons of the
most modest means are often entirely
hidden by wreaths and bouquets. No
visitor fails to notice in the streets
chose long, lugubrious processions of
ark-like coaches, blacker within and
without than crows, drawn by heavy
black horses in coal black harness and
piumes, and guided by drivers in the
same sombre livery; the "tout ensem
ble" affording the greatest conceivable
contrast to the brilliant equipages go
rapidly circulating about them. As
they trail through the streets with slow
and solemn pace they appear to be so
many clumsily-carved masses of jet.
overspread with palls and animated
with just sufficient life to grope their
way blindly back to the dark mine
whence they issued.
In their presence the sunlight seems
to scowl and shine askant. The gay
crowd look at them as birds of evil
omen; but respectfully make, as they
pass, the only bows that do not call
for a return. At all hours they are
to be seen, sometimes singly, standing
like solitary crows In la cornfield be
fore the entrance of some poverty
marked habitation; at others ir. long
and pompous files stretching from be
fore a church door draped with cost
ly tokens of death far down the neigh
boring street. . In the first instance a
poor man has died, and the under
taker for a few francs only gives a
few francs' worth of conventional re
spect to the mortal remains he un
ceremoniously hurries to Its cheap
grave. In the second instance the de
ceased has left enough to pay for a
pompous funeral which law and cus
tom force the family to accept from
the sole com [/any that has the mono
poly of interment in the city of Paris.
The name of the funeral trust is
“Compagnie des Pompes Funebres,”
with headquarters at No. 104 d'Auber
villiers. Its charges are regulated by
law. It pays a handsome sum for
the burying privilege, and in return
can irfake dying a very expensive af
fair in Paris. The corpse belongs,
not to friends, but to this company,
until the worms claim their preroga
tive. A funeral in France is always
a spectacle, and a dismal spectacle, too.
The brack Is an intensified black, and
the skull and crossbones are of the
most appalling patterns and colors. All
that can make the ceremony chilling
and hollow is liberally provided.
In all there are seven classes of
burials, the largest and most expensive
requirf/tg an outlay of not less than
$2,000 for the journey from the church
to the cemetery. The third class is
most in vogue. The charges are made
in the shape of a printed bill half the
size of a page of the Press, with the
price affixed to each article or person
required, with blank spaces for the
sums roil. The department of "reli
gious i monies” is divided into thir
ty-one distinct charges, embracing a
total of $56 for the church, which drives
a pretty good bargain with the dead.
The company’s share amounts to $247.
The charges are about as follows:
Expenses to the dead-house. 115
francs; to the church. 715 francs; for
the cortege, 404 francs. Tolling the bell
costs five francs A deacon and sub
deacon cost twelve francs. The black
cloth over the entrance of the house
costs ten sous a yard; thirty mourn
ing chairs cost a franc and a half
each: a black foot-carpet is ten sous a
yard; eight men in mourning are eight
francs each: twelve torches cost three
francs each; the hearse, with mourning
for the horses, fringed with silver,
plumes, etc., is 120 francs, and each
black coach costs fifteen francs. There
are twenty-nine distinct charges at the
dead-house of from one to fifty francs.
It is cheaper to live than die in
Paris. Among the charges are four
allegorical statues representing religion
and the theological virtues—2oo francs.
Cockades, grand liveries, a war horse,
equerries for war horse, dress for do
mestics. a pair of women weening in
fine linen, a pair of fine crape,' a pair
in comoran crape, escutcheons and ci
phers in velvet and silver, crow'ns and
bouquets of orange flowers, cloth for
the poor, stand for holy water, em
bracing candles, sepulchral lamps,
clerks, chanters, red-capped boys, bea
dles. Suisses, carriers of the cross, and
a long list of other articles swell the
expense and pageantry. Vicars cost
three francs each and priests two and
one-quarter francs each.
FIGHTS AT CHICAGO.
Chicago, May 7.—Billy Meilody of
Boston was given the decision over
George Memsic of Chicago to-night at
the end of six rounds.
In the preliminaries Jack O'Brien of
Boston was given the decision over
"Kid” Taylor of Chicago; Pinkty
Evans of Boston knocked out Tommy
Scully of Chicago in the first round
and Billy Finucane of Chicago knocked
out Jack Flannagan of Boston in the
third round.
What Chinese Names Mean.
From the Boston Transcript.
A few definitions of Chinese geo
graphical prefixes and suffixes may be
of service in elucidating the nomencla
ture of current war news. First, pre
fixes: Ta, as in Taku, means great,
and also, as in Siao-Ping-Thou. means
small. Pei or pe. nan, tung and si are
respectively north, south, east and
west. Thus the Pei-Ho is the North
river, etc. Shang and hai are upper
and lower. Pal. hei and whang are
white, black and yellow. Suffixes are
more numerous and familiar. Kiang,
ho tchuan, uia. muren and tobu each
and all mean river. Thus Yaiu Kiang
and Liao Ho are simply Yaiu river
and Liao river. Shui, kou, thsuan,
khi. gol and ussu are unfamiliar terms,
meaning a brook or small river. Hu,
nor and oroo mean lake, as in the
well known Lob Nor and Kosso Gol.
Po. tse and tien mean a small lake or
swamp, or a town situated near such
a place. Hai means sea; thus NVhang-
Hai is the Yellow sea. Thung-Hai is
the Eastern sea ami Nan Hai is the
Southern sea. Tao and sometimes shad
means island, hut shan more often
means a mountain range. Ling is a
pass over a mountain range.
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PERUVIANS ARE READY
TO FIGHT BRAZILIANS.
War I* Threatened Between Sonth
American Republics.
Lima, Peru, May 7.—The general
staff has ordered two line battalions
and one battery of machine guns to
proceed to Alto Jurua by way of the
river Amueya to repulse any Brazilian
troops there may be* in that territory,
and one battalion, with two machine
guns, has been ordered to Chandless on
the river Purus, to sustain Peruvian
sovereignty there.
The general staff has also ordered
that Iquitos be placed in a state of de
fense, that the harbor be mined and
that a division be formed there of 3,-
000 men, which shall, under certain cir
cumstances, occupy Tabatinga and
Manos. Brazialian towns on the Ama
zon.
LEOPARD SHOOTING.
An Exciting Scrimmage in a Grove
of Mango Trees.
From the London Globe.
Leopard shooting is often productive
of exciting incidents, and the recollec
tions of one day's sport, as recorded by
"Raoul” in the Indian Sporting Times,
are full of interest. He and a friend,
whom he calls "M..” as soon as they
got to the place of rendezvous, were
met by the usual motley crowd of vil
lagers. They then pointed out to us,
says the writer, a rather heavy looking
bit of cover in a ravine consisting
mostly of azaleas and wild cardamons.
The villagers were positive the leopard
was still in what appeared to be his
stronghold; that it was from there that
he had delivered his last attacks. Close
to the cover the leopard was said to
be in was a grove ofonango trees, and
thither M. and I took our stand, while
we sent up a couple of the more active
among the spectators to climb a tree
that partly overlooked the jungle. The
men had taken up with them a good
supply of clods. They had not thrown
in many of these missiles when tljere
was a roar and out charged a splendid
looking leopard, who, finding the coast
clear, as the men had now retired to a
safe distance, broke away toward the
south. We had a couple of snapshots
but evidently missed. Just when our
attention was taken up by this brute,
another leopard broke away toward
Uncle Mingo on the Woes
of the Persecuted Debtor.
BY W. T. WILLIAMS.
A pair of peripatetic musicians with
banjo and mandolin regaled the guests
at the restaurant with sundry selec
tions during dinner.
Among other songs the vocalist sang
the old one concerning the troubles of
the persecuted debtor, and he rendered
it about as folows:
"Out, John! out, John!
Wot is you erbout, John!
If you don't say out at once,
You'll make de feller doubt, John.
Say X'se out, whoebber calls,
An' hide my hat an' cane, John;
Say you'se not de leas’ idee
W en I’ll git back again, John.
Tell de fellers leabe dei bills.
But say dey needn’t call, John;
Say I'se courtin' Miss Gotrox,
An' means to pay dem all, John.
“Ho, John! go, John!
Dere’s Noodle's knock I know, John;
Tell him dal but yistiddy
I sarehed him high an’ low, John.
Tell him as you hear him knock,
You see me mount de hill, John;
Say you tink I've only gone
To pay his leetle bill, John;
Tell him also dat you tink,
Een fact, you hear me say, John,
Dat I’ll be sho' to drop right een
W'en nex' 1 pass dat way, John.
"Run, John! run, John!
Dere's anudder dun, John;
If it's Podger bid him call
To-morrer week at one, John.
If he say he see me at
De winder w'en he knock. John,
Make a face and shake your head,
An’ say dat you is shock, John;
Take your pocket-han'kieher,
An' put it to your eye. John;
Say your boss is not de man
To make you tell a lie, John!
"Hie, John! fly John!
An' I will tell you w'y, John!
If dere is not Grinshaw at
De corner may I die, John!
He won’t hear ob no excuse.
He's sho' to sarch de house, John;
Peepin 'eento corners wot
Would hardly hide a mouse, John.
Ax him take a cheer an' wait.
At dat he can’t complain, John;
I’ll pop out de leetle gate.
Dat opens on de lane. John!”
"Well," said Uncle Mingo, when the
song was finished, "dere's mo' trut'
dan poetry een dat song. Wen a feller
git een a fix Were he owe money wot
he can’t pay, an' dey gits to perse
cutin' him. he jis as well be dead at
once, an’ den don't let de feller doubt,
John, any mo'. ”
"Wv. Uncle." said the waiter laugh
ing. "you talks een a feelin' way on
de subject, like you done been dere
yourself."
"O no, not at all,’’ said Uncle Min-
the north, and the men on the trees,
who had seen it. said it wag a much
smaller one than the first. They told
us also that they had marked it down
In a small, but thick bit of cover a
couple of hundred paces or so off. This
cover consisted of a stunted seesum
tree thickly overgrown with wild con
volvulus, with a good deal of under
growth underneath it. As we got
nearer M. swore he could see some
thing move on the tree. Closer in
spection revealed the fact that this
was really the case. Kneeling down
and taking a careful aim as to where
I thought I had seen the creepers move,
I pulled the trigger. This was imme
diately answered by a muffled sort of
growl, followed by the loud thud of a
heavy body falling. Seeing no further
movements in the undergrow th we cau
tiously approached it. and one of our
followers, bolder than the rest, soon
eaino across the body of the leopard,
extended on its side and quite dead. It
was soon hauled out in the open, and
it proved to be a three-quarter grown
cub, measuring 5 feet 3 inches as it lay.
This shot fired at random proved a
wonderful fluke, for the bullet had
gone through the right eye of the leop
ard, killing it on the spot. We w-r*
wondering as to w here the other coul i
have got to when we were suddenly
startled by the cry of “Pheo:'' repeated
several times. This cry of distress
from some roving jackal appeared to
be coming from some mulberry planta
tions a short distance off and to the
north. 1V at once made our way
thither, followed by a motley crowd of
j villagers, headed by the village 'tah
sildar,” rent collector, and other nota
bles.
In order not to let the men run the
risk of being mauled, we gave strict
orders that no one was to get among
the mulberry, but to throw clods from
the outside. The cover was at first
drawn blank, when the crowd, em
boldened by the non-appearance of
Master Spots, entered the plantation
pelimell. We were ourselves retracing
our footsteps and were on our way
back, when we suddenly, heard an an
gry growl, followed by a succession of
guttural coughs. On looking around
| we found the leopard bounding away
j with tail on end,, and as it cleared the
ditch round the plantation it met the
crowd of sightseers, with the head man
of the village leading. A most excit
ing and wonderful sight met our gaze
now. The “tahsildar." or rent collec
tor. was the first Spot's eyes met and
was on him in a twinkling, and knock
ing him over actually knocked over
no lees than seven other men, one after
! another, without even touching the
ground. The brute seemed to literally
fly from one victim to another, most
of whom were clawed on the back as
they turned around to get out of the
way.
It was simply Impossible to think of
firing in this melee, and while the
scrimmage lasted we marked down our
now fully roused foe in a small piece
of thatching grass. The difficulty nmv
was how to get at the brute. The
crowd of sightseers had nearly com
pletely vanished, carrying away with
them all those that were put hors de
combat. Close to the patch of grass
which the leopard had taken shelter
in was a mango sapling. I suggested
to M. that, being the lighter and more
active of the two of us. he should climb
into the tree, from which vantage po
sition he might easily see everything
in the grass. We cautiously advanced
to the tree, and M. was soon up one
of its branches, some eight to ten feet
or so off the ground. Having handed
M. his gun. I at once withdrew to a
safer place and took my stand behind
a small thorny bush, from where I
could fairly well see all that was going
on in front. M. had not been very
long up when he shouted to me that
he could see something moving and at
once fred. This was immediately an
swered by the leopard charging out and
making a dash for the tree. Fortu
nately for M. the brute sprang somo
three feet short. We found afterward
that the first shot had disabled it con
siderably, thus preventing it from mak
ing good its spring. It was now my
turn to have my share of the fun, for
spots, on catching sight of me, made
straight for where I was standing. I
just managed to get behind the bush
when something yellow flashed past
me. Just as it flashed past me I had
a couple of snapshots, the brute going
head over heels, and after a couple of
somersaults fell dead. Contrary to
our expectations the leopard was not
what we had at first expected it to be,
i.e., the mother of the cub we had al
ready shot, but was a big male.
go, “not at all. I don’t owe nothin'
wort' talkin' bout. I owe maybe a little
on a place I is rentin', an’ I owes a
little to de grocer, an' I be'lieve sump
in for shoes an' sieh. an' a little bill
for fertilizer sence year befo' las’ wen
de crop was po'. Sousin' dat, I don't
owe nothin', 'cept' some money I bor
rer from de Kunnel, an' sumpin’ to de
doctor an' two or tree little bills here
een town.
No, I wag relatin' to de fac's as I
gedders from wat I hears an' reads.
“Een de old times dey say dey use
to hang a feller, or chop off his head
or drown him or udderwise settle his
hash if he fail to settle his debts. Aft
er a wile, de worl' git a heap mo' civ
ilized. an' dey lowed it was too bad
to kill people for debt, so dey restric*
dem to shettin' dem up enn jail to
starbe an' rot to death Mumbye. we
gits still mo' higher cibilized, an’ dey
stops puttin' a feller een prison for
debt. But for all dat. de feller wot s
at de mussy ob de creditors, ain't so
much better off dan dey use to be een
former times.
I was nodin de udder day how up
een New York de lan' lords all ob a
sudden gone an' make a big raise een
de rent ob dem po' folks wot lib een
dem crowded tenements. De people
was jis barely able to git on befo',
an dey jis ’zac'ly couldn’t met de raise,
cause dey hadn't git no itrise een deir
w ages. So out dey had to go een de
street, een de cole an' rain womens
an' chileen. wid ail dur little bit o'
furniture an’ tings. I hear ob one
case were de tenant say to de lan'
lord dat one ob hys chilleen was wer
ry sick an' to please 'low him time
nough to git unudder place to mobe to.
De kin’-hearted lan’ lord say de sick
ness wasn't none ob his lookout, an’
for de fambly to git out right away.
So dey had to git. an' I b’lieve de 'spos
ure kill de chile. 'Pears like dem kin'
o lan' lords gits mo’ business dan any
udder kin', cause.de owners ob de prop
erty gits better returns, —een dis worl'.
anyhow.
"Ebble day or two you see w'are
some o' de sto'-keeper trus’ gits to
gedder an’ argys how dey kin man
age to tighten up de screws a leetle
mo'. An' ebble now an' den you see
Were some feller drops out een de
bankrup’ cots,—can't stan' de racket.
Den dey raise a yue an* a cry 'bouc
de weektt bankrup’ law. den pass a
resolution demandin’ de promp' repeal
Ob de same.
“It would be a good joke if one o’
dese days de udder fellers, de pusse
c-uted class, was to git togedder an'
form a debtor's, trus’! I really don't see
wy dey don't do It: ebble udder class
an' kin' is leagued een concert toged
der, an' dere dey is, de werry ones who
stans mos' eeen need, a blunderin'
along, ebble feller for himself, an' de
debbll take 'em aUl’*