21. I Story. MUNYON’S DYSPEPSIA...Joe Walcott, the pugilist, hats de-clared that he will never...
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Washing Powder—Peatline. Medical —Cascarets; Castoria; Mun- yon's Dyspepsia Cure; Dr. Hathaway Cos.; Hostetter's Stomach Bitters; Pyr- amid Pile Cure; Dead Shot Vermifuge; Mother's Friend; Stuart’s Dyspepsia Cure; Paine's Celery Compound. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent, For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis- cellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia to-day are increasing cloudiness, with rain ill west portion, warmer near the coast, fresh winds, mostly southerly; and for Eastern Florida, partly cloudy weather in extreme north portion, probably showers In east central portions, va- riable winds, mostly fresh, east to south. Joe Walcott, the pugilist, hats de- clared that he will never again fight a negro. The funny part about the announcement is that Walcott is him- self a negro, and a very black one. It seems to be getting the color line down pretty tine when a negro prise fighter draws it against his own race. David Bispham, the famous singer, suffered a peculiar accident at Wor- cester, Mass., the other night. He had sung two or three songs and was in the midst of another when his voice suddenly "snapped” and he became practically speechless. After several hours’ treatment he was able to artic- ulate, but could not utter a musical sound. His physician, however, says his voice will be restored. “Marconi gram” is rather an un- wieldly word, but it seems to have been tacitly accepted by the newspa- pers as the name to be bestowed upon messages transmitted by wireless tele- graphy. But will it do for all such messages? The German Emperor, a Berlin cable says, has ordered that the ships of his fleet be equipped with the wireless apparatus of one of Marconi's competitors, with a view to preventing Marconi from securing a world nu- uopoly of wireless messages. Will the messages sent and received by these ships be “marconigrajns” ? Poultney Bigelow, who went to school with the German Emperor, and has written some books and things, arrived In New York the other day. He was met at the pier by the in- formation that his wife had sued him for divorce. He declined to discuss the matter, referring to it as "a trifle,” saying he had a bigger message to deliver to the American people in a book he was writing on colonial ex- pansion. The reporters were not sur- prised to And the man who went to school with the German Emperor still too high up in the cLouds to bother about ‘‘trifles.’’ It is understood that Gen. Miles’ plan to end the war in the Philippines without further loss of life, as sub- mitted to the War Department and the President and by them rejected, was to inaugurate a campaign of edu- cation among the Filipinos. Gen. Miles was to select six Porto Ricans and six Cubans and take them with him to the Philippines, where they would mingle freely with the Filipinos and tell them of the beneficence of Ameri- can rule. Then a number of Filipinos were to be brought to the United States to meet the American people and learn their ways. Gen. Miles asserted that the Filipinos could be effectually paci- fied In this way, without further loss ®* life and at insignificant cost. NOT PLEASING TO DEMOCRATS. The position taken by Mr. Bryan in regard to the Crumpacker resolution is far from satisfactory to Southern Democrats. In a dispatch to the Wash- ington Post he said that there would be no particular harm In an Investi- gation of the suffrage. North as well as South. Representative Bartlett of this state is quoted in the Post as saying that Mr. Bryan made a great mistake in that statement. “We of the South,” said Mr. Bartlett, "are opposed to an investigation of any Southern state, and also of any other state —New York or Pennsylvania. If the provisions of the constitutions of Alabama, Louisi- ana and North Carolina are unconsti- tutional as to suffrage, the Supreme Court of the United States will so de- clare, and the people of those states will abide by the decision. But If the court upholds the constitutions of those states in respect to suffrage, then It is not for ether people to com- plain.” Representative Livingston ex- pressed. similar views. He declared that the programme proposed by the House Republicans would not do any- body good. Representative Underwood of Ala- bama said that It seemed to him that Mr. Bryan did not understand the im- port of the Crumpacker resolution. Mr. Bryan appeared to be under the impression, said Mr. Underwood, that the purpose of it was to investigate fraudulent election practices in the different states. It would be strange indeed if Mr. Bryan did not know the meaning -of it. It has been widely discussed for a long time, and Mr. Bryan makes it his business to keep posted on all mat- ters in Congress which have political significance. If, however, he sent his dispatch under a misapprehension of the real character of the resolution he ought to make a correction at the ear- liest practical moment. Unless a cor- rection is forthcoming he will lose friends in the South. The purpose of the resolution is of course to take from those Southern states which have abridged the suf- frage—have eliminated the illiterate negro vote—a portion of their repre- sentation in the Electoral College and in Congress. In fact, the investigation may be 1 an opening wedge for other legislation of a partisan character. It is therefore difficult to understand why it should have Mr. Bryan’s approval. EMPLOYES IN WASHINGTON. A census office statement shows that the number of government em- ployes In Washington is 27,605. This is approximately the size of the standing army of the United States at the time of the breaking out of the war with Spain. These employes serve the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the government. There are 20,109 men and 7,496 women. One hundred years ago Thomas Jef- ferson sent a message to Congress giving the total number of persons employed by the government In the several departments in Washington. There were just 115 of them. That number was so large as to astonish some of the statesmen, and several of them made speeches directed against the “wasteful extravagance” of hav- ing so many clerks and messengers in the service. During the first eighteen years of the last century the rolls of employes grew very slowly. Then Congress began to be more lib- eral with the departments, and the liberality has been progressive ever since. At the present time the Senate lias about four employe® to every sen- ator, ami the cost of the senatorial help is about twice the salaries of the senators. The staff of the House is also very large, but it is not as large in proportion as that of the Senate. And each succeeding Con- gress creates new offices. The cur- rent congress has created anew Cab- inet portfolio, carrying with it a num- ber of clerkships, etc., as well as a permanent census bureau with a great many places attached. These are merely the big office-making bills. No doubt a’ number of minor bills have contained provisions for other numbers of employes. Does the public service demand all of this army of employes? It is per- fectly safe to answer in the negative. It is said that there are clerks to committees in Washington drawing $1,200 a year whose committees do not meet more than once or twice in a year, if at all. The sessions of some of these committees, when they do meet, last only for an hour or two. It appears, further, according to statements recently made, that there are employe® on the rolia whose sole function consists in drawing their salaries. In some of the departments the helpers are so numerous that they have difficulty in keeping out of each others way. The country has grown rapidly, but the army of em- ployes in Washington has far out- stripped it. Who is responsible? Why. Congress. The politicians demand places for themselves and their friends at the public feeding trougli and the congressmen are compelled to provide them, under penalty of losing their seats. Congress lacks the moral courage to place the public service on a business basis. An interesting and exciting village election was held in North Tarrytown, N. Y., a few days ago. One ticket was backed by John D. Rockefeller and the other by the People's Party. The Rockefeller ticket was victorious by a majority of 100. A dispatch says: “Nearly 200 Italians and negroes from the Rockefeller plate were sent to the polls as soon as they were opened, and by 9a. m. all had voted.” The Rocke- feller ticket was headed by a saloon- keeper. notwithstanding Mr. Rockefel- ler's promineneb as a church member and worker. Of the six Republican senators who voted with the Democrats against the ship subsidy bill, three, Allison of lowa. Proctor of Vermont and Spoon- 'er of Wisconsin, may be said to prac- tically control the Republican party of their respective Mates. At all events, they lead the party and it al- ways follow them. These three states have twenty-three votes in the House. i THE FRY RILL IN THE HOI'SE. There is a great deal of speculation regarding the prospects of the ship subsidy bill in the House. The fact that six of the most prominent of the Republican senators voted against It, and that several Republican senators did not vote at all, is taken as an in- dication that there will be many Re- publican votes against it in the House enough, some think, to defeat It. Views differ greatly as to whether or not it will be taken up for action at the present session. Mr. Grosvenor, the chairman of the Committee on Mer- chant Marine, says that his committee will report the bill to the House at an early day, and he expresses the opin- ion that it will be passed by a much larger majority than it received in the Senate. There are other Republicans, however, who are of the opinion that Mr. Grosvenor is not as well informed in regard to thb matter as he will be later on. They say that the House will not undertake to consider tfie bill until next winter, for the reason that there is a strong sentiment against it throughout the West, among Repub- licans as well as Democrats, and that if it should be passed at the present session the chances are that the Re- publicans would lose a number of con- gressional districts. It is pointed out that both of the lowa senators voted against it, and that fact is sufficient to w-arn the Re- publican leaders that lowa Republi- cans are against it. It is not known what the attitude of the Speaker is in regard to the bijl, but he has al- ready lost some of his popularity by the position he has taken on the Cu- ban reciprocity question and cannot afford to take the unpopular side on the ship subsidy bill. It is probable there- fore that he will follow the lead of the two senators from his state, and oppose the bill. Without his co-operation it would be practically impossible to get the bill before the House at this ses- sion. It is a safe statement that it will be permitted to go over to the next session, notwithstanding the assertion of Gen. Grosvenor that it will be passed at the present session. The congressional elections will be over then and Republican representatives will feel freer to vote for the bill if the party leaders insist that it shall be passed. A REMARKABI.K DISAPPEARANCE. Strange as it may be there seems to be nobody who can tell what became of $26,000,000 of the common stock of the American Steel and Wire Company of New Jersey. The fact of the disap- pearance of this stock was brought out on Tuesday last, in a case that is being tried in a New York court. The case is that of John S. Parks against John W. Gates for $7,500,000. Parks claims that he was a partner of Gates in certain transactions—the formation of trusts—in which $15,000,- 000 was made, and that Gates refused to turn over to him his share. Gates' defense is that nothing was made out of the scheme in whioh Parks was a partner, that the millions which he has, and of ivhich Parks is trying to get a share, were made in transactions in Which the latter was not concerned. The features of the case which are interesting to the public, however, are Gates’ rapid rise to wealth and the disappearance of $26,000,000 of the stock of a great corporation. Nobody pretends to know how much Gates is worth now. Probably he does not know himself. On the witness stand he said that when he began combining steel and wire plants he had $1,000,000 in cash, and that at the end of the first year he had $5,000,000. That was making money pretty fast, but it is certain that somebody was the los- er to the extent to which Gates was the gainer. Since he made $4,000,000 in one year he has accumulated many other millions in the forming of trusts. It seems that Gates was one of the underwriters of the American Steel and Wire Company of New Jersey, and, according to his own account, made a great deal of money out of that position. The preferred stock of the company was $40,000,000 and the common stock $50,000,000. In the suit in which Gates is a defendant the pre- ferred stock and $24,000,000 of the common stock are accounted for, but the lawyers can get no trace of the missing $26,000,000 of common stock. In his testimony Gates said that he did not know what became of it • and that he did not get a share of it. Of course somebody got that stock. Does it not seem remarkable that ca- pable lawyers cannot find out what became of it? If what was done ap- parently in the case of the American Steel and Wire Company is done in the case of the formation of other trusts it is not a difficult matter to account for the rapid accumulation of some of the enormous fortunes held in this country. A board of government experts has discovered that there is no such thing as a burglar-proof safe, and that a scientific burglar can crack any safe made. The Treasury Department, therefore, is going to abandon its burglar-proof safe system and substi- tute a novel electric alarm system. Assistant Secretary Taylor says the only way to protect money properly against thieves is to have a man there with a gun, and with the proposed elec- tric alarm system the man with the gun will be in the treasury at the point of danger mighty soon after the alarm is given. Safes are to be em- ployed only for protection against fire; the alarm and the man with the gun will be depended upon to take care of the burglar. The uproar in the Austrian Reich- srath a day or two ago between the Pan-Germans and the Czechs, during which the former cheered for the Hoh- enzollerns and shouted that they were in favor of political union with Ger- many, was merely an echo of w hat is going on pretty much throughout Austria all the time. Austria is a ripe plum all but ready to drop into the iap of the Hohenzollerns. The life of Francis Joseph is the slender stem that holds the plum to the branch, and that cannot hold out much longer. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. MARCH 21. 1902. Senator Tillman of South Carolina is wearing a satisfied smile these days. He has received a professional opinion of the blow he struck Senator Mc- Laurin in the Senate recently, and the opinion is favorable. The senator, who puts in a good deal of his time traveling about the country delivering lectures, was in Worcester, Mass., the other night. He and Terry McGov- ern stopped at the same hotel. The two fighters soon scraped an acquaint- ance, and Tillman had “Terrible Terry” in hts room for half an hour. There Tillman related the circum- stances of his mill in the Senate cham- ber and illustrated to Terry how he had given McLaurin a straight-arm punch. He said that his arm was still sore from the effect of the blow. Terry said the blow must have been a ’’beaut,” and gave the senatorial scrapper some liniment with which to rub his arm. Miss Lottie Greenup, the Kentucky girl who is attempting to fiddle her father into Congress and has a fair prospect of succeeding, is receiving letters from all parts of the country from men who wish to take her as a partner for life. One Minnesota chap wrote her that if she would send him railway tickets he would come on at once and marry her, and he felt sure they would be happy. Miss Lottie, however, it not in a marrying humor just now. She is only seventeen, and says she wants to see her father seat- ed in Congress before she gives any thought to her ow n affairs. The latest suffrage qualification to be considered in the Virginia Consti- tutional Convention limits the elective franchise to persons otherwise quali- fied to vote provided they own S2OO worth of property on w’hich they pay taxes, with exemptions only to ex- Confederate soldiers, their sons and their grandsons. It seems that there must be some sort of a grandfather clause in about every proposition sub- mitted. PERSONAL. —Citizens of Albemarle county, Vir- ginia, have organized the Jefferson Me- morial Road Association for the pur- pose of building a public boulevard between Charlottesville and Monticello, where President Jefferson lies buried. The road will be two miles long, and Is expected to cost $20,000. —St. Paul, it appears, does not ap- prove of the stall saloon Mavor Smith, of that city, has just signed an ordinance which provides for the re- moval of doors and curtains from every wine room and stall in the city. Full view of the interior is one of the re- quirements. —A boom in the use of mechanical motors throughout South Africa will ensue immediately on the termination of the war. No real development of its boundless resources can be accomplish- ed so long as the primitive method of transportation by ox wagon in districts remote from railways is adhered to. BRIGHT BITS. —Mrs. Noosens—“My daughter's be- coming more proficient. She plays regular pieces, now. You don’t notice her playing exercises now as much as she did.” Mrs. Naybor—"No. but I no- tice her playing exercises my husband as much as ever it did.”—Philadelphia Record. —Two Great Events—Amos Corn- shuck—“l seen by the paper that they’re talkin’ of connectin’ Ameriky with the Philippines by one o’ them there cables.” Hiram Clod—“ This has been a great century fer Improve- ments. I’m thinkin’ of puttin’ a new' barb wire fence clean across thet low- er eighty-acre lot.” —Leslie’s Weekly. —A Great Success —The Medical Ex- pert—“l’m sure your baby show's what our modern methods will do. Did you follow my directions?” Mother—"Oh, yes. First, I skimmed the milk, and added two parts of hygienic water and two parts of your celebrated modifier. Then I carefully sterilized the whole.” “And then?” “I threw it out of the w indow and gave the baby the cream.” —Life. CURRENT COMMENT. The New York Evening Post (Ind.) says; “It is long since the Democrats have had an issue upon which they could show a united front and could appeal to the people with a good pros- pect of success. But they have it now. On a platform of subsidies for the rich, their opponents w'ill be heavily handicapped In the fall campaign. How the Senate Republicans could give this advantage to their enemies is a mys- tery, unless they fancy that millions and millionaires have become so com- mon that the public eye is blurred and dazzled in beholding them, and has ceased to apply either business princi- ples or the ordinary rules of mortality to them. We are perhaps in the way of finding out whether this is true or not.” The Philadelphia Times (Dem.) says of the vote on the subsidy bill: “It is creditable to the senators from lowa, Wisconsin and Vermont that they had the moral courage to vote against a party measure which was obnoxious to their convictions of sound national policy. Allison, Spooner and Proctor, with their colleagues, form a very dis- tinguished group. It would be hard to pick six senators from the forty-two voting for the subsidy bill who would carry more solid weight. Among these forty-two there must have been many who disapproved the whole idea of , subsidies to ship owners, but party | discipline constrained them, and they j put themselves on the level of the men i whose views of statesmanship are ! framed to accord with campaign con- tributions.” The Washington Post (Ind.) says: “It is borne in upon us that, what- ever Mr. Prumpaoker himself may have in mind, the machinery he is about to set in motion will work for mischief and demoralization. The ac- tivities of the committee contemplated in his resolution cannot possibly ben- efit In an equal degree both the coun- try and the Republican party. They are bound to reinstate a deplorable re- gime and to set in motion again those practices which, because of their evil results, were dismissed and rebuked 1 by public opinion more than a quarter | of a century ago. They will bring tur- 1 moil and disorder in their train—per- | haps worse; who knows? Have the Republicans learned nothing from ex- perience? Is it possible that, after the terrible and tragic futilities of the reconstruction and the oarpet-bag ! eras, they still contemplate a return to the blunders, the calamities, and the crimes of thirty years ago? Shall we usher in the deluge, merely to enable ! the Republicans to capture the ngro ; vote in certain close districts of the I West?” 1 I Depew’s Stork Story. “And why, may I inquire,” said Sen- ator Burrows to Senator Penrose, ac- j cording to the Washington correspond- ence of the Philadelphia North Ameri- can, "did you introduce that amend- ment to the proposition to elect sena- t tors by the direct vote of the people?” 1 “Merely to make it more difficult,” said Mr. Penrose. “That reminds me," said Senator De- pew, “of the Englishman who had been at several club gatherings in this coun- try, where wits were assembled, and thought it incumbent on him to do something for their entertainment next time they met. He sat down, and with much labor composed a conundrum, “Next time he got to the club he aired his production: ‘What is it,’ he asked, ’that has feathers, a long beak, builds its nests on chimneys, stands on one leg in the water and barks like a dog?’ “Nobody could guess. Then the Eng- lishman gravely announced that the answer was ‘a stork.’ “ 'But you bally ass,’ one of the hear- ers said, ‘a stork doesn’t bark like a dog.’ “‘I know that,’ he replied. ‘I only put that in to make it more difficult.' Placed on (he Teacher'* Desk. School teachers get some curious writen excuses for absence, says the New York Tribune. One of them reads: "Mister, sir, my Jason had to be late to-day. It is his bizness to milk our cow. She kicked Jase in the back to-day when he wasn't looking or thinking of her actin’, so he thot his back was broke, but it ain’t. But it is black and blue, and the pane kept him late. We would get rid of that cow of we could. This is the fourth time she kicked Jase, but never kicked him late before. So excuse him for me.” A girl absent for half a day brought the following satisfactory ex- cuse: “Miss teacher —My dotter’s ab- sents yesterday was unavodable. Her shoes had to be half-soled, and she had a sore throte. Her konstltushun is delikit and if she is absent any more you can knew that it is en acount of unavodabel sickness or something else.” A boy absent for half a day laid the following explanation on his master's desk: “Dear sir, please ex- cuse Henry. He went to grandpapa's funeral with me this afternoon. 1 have been promising him for several weeks that he might if he was good, and he has been very good, so I kept my word.” GriKs* Makes a Point. Representative Sulzer of New York, has come to the conclusion that this is a white man's country, and the con- clusion was forced upon him at the McKinley memorial services held in the House at which Prince Henry was present, says the Washington corre- spondence of the Philadelphia North American. Sulzer and Griggs of Geor- gia, sat together, and Griggs whisper- ed: “Look at the galleries, do you see anything unusual?” “No," said Sulzer. “Look around and see if you can see a colored person anywhere.” Sulzer looked, but not a dark skin was visible. “Just, as we have always claimed in the South,” said Griggs. "You North- erners only pretend to have affection for the negroes.” The tickets of admission to the gal- leries had been distributed by members of the House and Senate, and not one of them from the East, West, North or South had presented a ticket to a ne- gro. Why Church YVua Crowded. A certain little Flemish watering place much frequented by English and American visitors has two attractions, a Presbyterian church and a roulette table, says the New York Tribune. At a recent service in the church it oc- curred to one of the “pillars” that it might be lucky to play the number of the hymns after the service at the roulette table. So he stole out of the church and did so. It happened that the number of the hymn did turn up, and the lucky coup became the talk of the village for the rest of the week. Next Sunday the church was crammed to the door. The pious pastor was re- joiced in heart. After a powerful ad- dress he gave out "Hymn No. 27.” The moment the words left his lips, to his consternation, there was a rush to the door, and he was left with a faithful handful to upraise their agi- tated strain of praise. As for the rest, they made a beeline from the house of prayer- to the house of play. It is said that their little adventure cost them all very dear. Wanted ‘‘Ed” Pointed Oat. Before making millions, says the New York World, ex-Senator Edward O. Wolcott and his brother established a law and real estate office in George- town, Col. Henry Wolpott ran the re.al estate business and did fairly well, but there was nothing doing in the law and the ex-Senator became discouraged and decided to move to an adjoining camp, where a silver lead had been struck. He packed hts be- longings on a donkey. Just as he was leaving he remembered his first sign, reading “Ed Wolcott & Bro.” “You don’t want that sign, do you, Henry?” asked the ex-Senator. "No, Ed; take It -along,” replied Henry. Edward packed the sign on the don- key and arrived at the new’ mining camp the next afternoon about dusk. The miners came up and looked him over. One of them read the sign strapped on the donkey’s back and asked: "Which of you is Ed?” Reflections of a Bachelor. From the New York Press. Getting on in the world means get- ting around the people of the world. The man who doesn’t owe some of his success to some woman hasn’t had any. Mirrors would be a bad thing to have in a theater, because the women in the audience are expected to look at the people on the stage. Women admire the heroes of fiction, because there was never a novel w’here one of them found fault with the way the cook got the breakfast. It is queer that no matter how rich you are you can't buy happiness, but no matter how poor you are, you can get all the unhappiness you want for nothing. —Miss Flora Shaw, the well known correspondent of the London Times, was once traveling through Africa in a bullock wagon. The sun was blazing, the bullocks wore slow, the dust was indescribable. She was making for a frontier town, where she anticipated the comforts of a bath. At the en- trance to the place. Miss Shaw, dead beat, dusty and irritable, found her- self confronted with the ordeal of a public reception. The officials read her a welcome' she was as civil as she could be; then she bolted for the hotel. She gave but one order, "Hot water, quick!" She sat on the edge of the bed and waited. Some minutes passed. At last a black servant entered with a tin vessel, in which there was some- thing steaming. Seizing it. Miss Shaw poured out a milky, odoriferous liquid. She turned to the servant for an ex- planation. The hotel was very short of water: as a distinguished guest, a point had been stretched for her. They had sent her the water in which the fish had just been boiled! ITEMS OE .INTEREST. —An English patent medicine firm offers a seat to view the coronation procession to every one who will And a hundred purchasers for its remedy for rheumatism. —“The churches," says an advertis- ing man quoted by the Philadelphia Record, “seem more and more inclined to take space in the newspapers. Spe- cial services of various kinds are of- ten quite generously advertised on Sat- urdays, and in some cities, notably Boston, the church advertisements oc- cupy considerable space, and are at- tractively set in display type. I dare say we shall live to see the time when the church Avill have its press agent, just as the theater has, when the re- ligious editor will gauge the volume of advance notices by the amount of advertising space taken, and when the church critic will vie with the dra- matic critic in dissecting the logic of a sermon and praising or condemning the eloquence and oratory of the preacher. Wait and see if I am not right.” —The question of the ancient astron- omical instruments which the Genmans carried off from Pekin, and which the Chinese authorities refused to take back again when the captors tried to rid themselves of the responsibility, cam,e up in the Reichstag the other day, and caused Chancellor von Bue- low an uncomfortable quarter of an hour, says the New York Post. He explained that they had not been re- stored because the Chinese govern- ment attached no importance to their possession, and in reply to German in- quiries, had placed them at the dispo- sition of the German government. An- other consideration was that, owing to the peculiar views of the Chinese, the great mass of the people would have supposed that the instruments were restored by order of the Chinese gov- ernment, which would have been a serious blow to German pres-tlge in East Asia. Moreover, added the Chan- cellor, the Dowager Empress of China, a very clever women, wljo understood the political situation, would have been much offended if the instruments had been returned, while the masse® would have thought that Germany had sustained some terrible defeats. He then went on to say that the proper light in which to regard these articles was a present from one friendly gov- ernment to another, for which there was abundant precedent. This sug- gestion provoked much irreverent hi- larity, but the president rang his bell, and the incident was allowed to drop. —The automobile question is becom- ing a turning one in Great Britain, where a prejudice still exists against permitting locomotives to run at pleas- ure, wild-cat, on the public highways, says the New York Post. A protest signed by many interested manufac- turers and capitalists is published in the daily newspapers. It complains that the whole industry Is paralyzed by existing regulations, and maintains that the motor-car is infinitely safer for pedestrians than a horse carriage, because it can be stopped so much more quickly. A motor-car going at seventeen miles an hour, it says, can be stopped within twice its own length. What happens under these circum- stances to the passengers is not stat- ed. In spite of this capacity, the pro- test goes on to say, motor-cars in Eng- land may only travel at twelve miles an hour, with the result that their use is greatly restricted, and that man- ufacturers w’ill not embark money on their production. What cripples the industry still worse is the fact that heavy motor-cars—i. e., motors suit- able for carrying country produce—are practically not allowed on the roads. In conclusion, the signatories of the appeal ask that the present regula- tions should be taken off, and that Instead means should be taken for the identification of cars so as to prevent reckless driving. One of the special grievances of the English automobil- ists is that they have no chance with the country magistrates, who are bit- terly opposed to them on principle, and invariably decide against them when- ever they are called upon to answer a complaint. They are getting tired of having to pay damages, and want to have the chance of appealing from the local magnates to a higher and more disinterested court. —At a meeting of the Cymmrodorion Society, Mr T. E. Morris, barrister- at-law, lectured before a representative audience on the inconvenience and confusion arising from the paucity of distinctive surnames in AVales, says the London Chronicle. In Liverpool alone, he said 430 Welshmen rejoiced in the name of John Jones, and at an inquiry held at Westminster into the Countv Council water scheme sixteen witnesses bore the same simple cogno- men. Before the Welsh Land Commis- sion, out of 134 witnesses'in one ooun- ty who gave evidence 109 shared 14 sur- names between them, and of the 109 as many as 65 bore proportionately, the names of Jones, Evans and Davies. Recently at the Corwen Board of Guar- dians, owing to the numerous Joneses who are members of' that body, it was decided to enter in the minutes each man’s house and parish, as his full name was not sufficiently distinctive To remedy this state of things Mr Morris advocated the liberal adoption of the beautiful place names which abound in Wales, as was done in Scot- land and Norway, and the revival of the characteristic “Ap” with personal surnames. He pointed out that the law allowed any man to change his surname, provided that it was done honestly and without any fraudulent purpose, and his suggestion was that a short act of Parliament should be passed enabling any person to register a change of his name with the district registrar on payment of a small fee. In this wav an authentic and official record of the change would be made at the time. —A dispatch from Washington says: “There is no such thing as a burglar proof vault or safe, according to a re- port that was submitted to-day by treasury experts to Assistant Secretary Taylor. The best tempered steel, no matter how thick, is not proof against anew chemical compound which up to date professional cracksmen have learned to use. This compound, called thermite, when mixed with magnesium powder, will destroy the hardness in the metal and rob it of its temper enabling a burglar with ordinary tools to cut into it as though it were lead For this reason Mr. Taylor believes the treasury ought not to continue to | expend large sums of money in the I construction of so-called burglar proof j \ aults and strong boxes in which to store away government funds. The investigation of the real security af- forded by these steel structures was made by J. E. Powell, the chief me- chanical and electrical engineer of the treasury, and John P. Bergin, vault i ! nt VJ OCk expert ' These men went to Chicago and other cities and made experiments with thermite and also with electricity. They have ♦ n’T .!? ack t 0 Wash *ngrton convinced that the present value of safes and vaults as against burglars is very eati T ted - An application of thermite and magnesium made to a steel plate of the highest temper and fne-eighths of an inch in thick- reduced the metal to a condition rendering it possible to cut a hole The U pv,J t t W ! th ttn ordlna ry chisel. ?s V X . pe,tP have recommended that the best means of security against pro- . MUNYON’S DYSPEPSIA CURE When Prof Munyon uyi his T> JS p,.. u r will cure indigestion end all form, trouble he simply tells the truth It win** ° m *th stomach that hat been abused by i over-drinkir.g. 'lt will cure a stomach * ni been weakened by old-style drugs. 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The Weather.The indications for Georgia to-day
are increasing cloudiness, with rain illwest portion, warmer near the coast,fresh winds, mostly southerly; and forEastern Florida, partly cloudy weatherin extreme north portion, probablyshowers In east central portions, va-riable winds, mostly fresh, east tosouth.
Joe Walcott, the pugilist, hats de-clared that he will never again fighta negro. The funny part about theannouncement is that Walcott is him-self a negro, and a very black one.It seems to be getting the color linedown pretty tine when a negro prisefighter draws it against his own race.
David Bispham, the famous singer,suffered a peculiar accident at Wor-cester, Mass., the other night. He hadsung two or three songs and was inthe midst of another when his voicesuddenly "snapped” and he becamepractically speechless. After severalhours’ treatment he was able to artic-ulate, but could not utter a musicalsound. His physician, however, sayshis voice will be restored.
“Marconigram” is rather an un-wieldly word, but it seems to havebeen tacitly accepted by the newspa-pers as the name to be bestowed uponmessages transmitted by wireless tele-graphy. But will it do for all suchmessages? The German Emperor, aBerlin cable says, has ordered that theships of his fleet be equipped with thewireless apparatus of one of Marconi'scompetitors, with a view to preventingMarconi from securing a world nu-uopoly of wireless messages. Will themessages sent and received by theseships be “marconigrajns” ?
Poultney Bigelow, who went toschool with the German Emperor, andhas written some books and things,arrived In New York the other day.He was met at the pier by the in-formation that his wife had sued himfor divorce. He declined to discussthe matter, referring to it as "a trifle,”saying he had a bigger message todeliver to the American people in abook he was writing on colonial ex-pansion. The reporters were not sur-prised to And the man who went toschool with the German Emperor stilltoo high up in the cLouds to botherabout ‘‘trifles.’’
It is understood that Gen. Miles’plan to end the war in the Philippineswithout further loss of life, as sub-mitted to the War Department andthe President and by them rejected,was to inaugurate a campaign of edu-cation among the Filipinos. Gen. Mileswas to select six Porto Ricans andsix Cubans and take them with himto the Philippines, where they wouldmingle freely with the Filipinos andtell them of the beneficence of Ameri-can rule. Then a number of Filipinoswere to be brought to the United Statesto meet the American people and learntheir ways. Gen. Miles asserted thatthe Filipinos could be effectually paci-fied In this way, without further loss®* life and at insignificant cost.
NOT PLEASING TO DEMOCRATS.The position taken by Mr. Bryan in
regard to the Crumpacker resolutionis far from satisfactory to SouthernDemocrats. In a dispatch to the Wash-ington Post he said that there wouldbe no particular harm In an Investi-gation of the suffrage. North as wellas South.
Representative Bartlett of this stateis quoted in the Post as saying thatMr. Bryan made a great mistake inthat statement. “We of the South,”said Mr. Bartlett, "are opposed to aninvestigation of any Southern state,and also of any other state—New Yorkor Pennsylvania. If the provisions ofthe constitutions of Alabama, Louisi-ana and North Carolina are unconsti-tutional as to suffrage, the SupremeCourt of the United States will so de-clare, and the people of those stateswill abide by the decision. But Ifthe court upholds the constitutions ofthose states in respect to suffrage,then It is not for ether people to com-plain.” Representative Livingston ex-pressed. similar views. He declaredthat the programme proposed by theHouse Republicans would not do any-body good.
Representative Underwood of Ala-bama said that It seemed to him thatMr. Bryan did not understand the im-port of the Crumpacker resolution.Mr. Bryan appeared to be under theimpression, said Mr. Underwood, thatthe purpose of it was to investigatefraudulent election practices in thedifferent states.It would be strange indeed if Mr.
Bryan did not know the meaning -ofit. It has been widely discussed for along time, and Mr. Bryan makes it hisbusiness to keep posted on all mat-
ters in Congress which have politicalsignificance. If, however, he sent hisdispatch under a misapprehension ofthe real character of the resolution heought to make a correction at the ear-liest practical moment. Unless a cor-rection is forthcoming he will losefriends in the South.
The purpose of the resolution is ofcourse to take from those Southernstates which have abridged the suf-frage—have eliminated the illiteratenegro vote—a portion of their repre-sentation in the Electoral College andin Congress. In fact, the investigationmay be 1 an opening wedge for otherlegislation of a partisan character. It
is therefore difficult to understand why
it should have Mr. Bryan’s approval.
EMPLOYES IN WASHINGTON.A census office statement shows
that the number of government em-ployes In Washington is 27,605. Thisis approximately the size of thestanding army of the United States atthe time of the breaking out of thewar with Spain. These employesserve the executive, legislative andjudicial branches of the government.There are 20,109 men and 7,496 women.
One hundred years ago Thomas Jef-ferson sent a message to Congress
giving the total number of personsemployed by the government In theseveral departments in Washington.There were just 115 of them. Thatnumber was so large as to astonishsome of the statesmen, and several ofthem made speeches directed against
the “wasteful extravagance” of hav-ing so many clerks and messengersin the service. During the firsteighteen years of the last century therolls of employes grew very slowly.Then Congress began to be more lib-eral with the departments, and theliberality has been progressive eversince. At the present time the Senatelias about four employe® to every sen-ator, ami the cost of the senatorialhelp is about twice the salaries ofthe senators. The staff of the Houseis also very large, but it is not aslarge in proportion as that of theSenate. And each succeeding Con-gress creates new offices. The cur-rent congress has created anew Cab-inet portfolio, carrying with it a num-ber of clerkships, etc., as well as apermanent census bureau with agreat many places attached. Theseare merely the big office-making bills.No doubt a’ number of minor billshave contained provisions for othernumbers of employes.
Does the public service demand allof this army of employes? It is per-fectly safe to answer in the negative.It is said that there are clerks tocommittees in Washington drawing$1,200 a year whose committees donot meet more than once or twice ina year, if at all. The sessions of someof these committees, when they domeet, last only for an hour or two.It appears, further, according tostatements recently made, that thereare employe® on the rolia whose solefunction consists in drawing theirsalaries. In some of the departmentsthe helpers are so numerous that theyhave difficulty in keeping out of eachothers way. The country hasgrown rapidly, but the army of em-ployes in Washington has far out-stripped it. Who is responsible? Why.Congress. The politicians demandplaces for themselves and theirfriends at the public feeding trougliand the congressmen are compelledto provide them, under penalty oflosing their seats. Congress lacksthe moral courage to place the publicservice on a business basis.
An interesting and exciting villageelection was held in North Tarrytown,N. Y., a few days ago. One ticketwas backed by John D. Rockefellerand the other by the People's Party.The Rockefeller ticket was victoriousby a majority of 100. A dispatch says:“Nearly 200 Italians and negroes fromthe Rockefeller plate were sent to thepolls as soon as they were opened, andby 9a. m. all had voted.” The Rocke-feller ticket was headed by a saloon-keeper. notwithstanding Mr. Rockefel-ler's promineneb as a church memberand worker.
Of the six Republican senators whovoted with the Democrats against theship subsidy bill, three, Allison oflowa. Proctor of Vermont and Spoon-'er of Wisconsin, may be said to prac-tically control the Republican partyof their respective Mates. At allevents, they lead the party and it al-ways follow them. These three stateshave twenty-three votes in the House.
i THE FRY RILL IN THE HOI'SE.There is a great deal of speculation
regarding the prospects of the shipsubsidy bill in the House. The factthat six of the most prominent of theRepublican senators voted against It,and that several Republican senatorsdid not vote at all, is taken as an in-dication that there will be many Re-publican votes against it in the Houseenough, some think, to defeat It.
Views differ greatly as to whetheror not it will be taken up for actionat the present session. Mr. Grosvenor,the chairman of the Committee on Mer-chant Marine, says that his committeewill report the bill to the House at anearly day, and he expresses the opin-ion that it will be passed by a muchlarger majority than it received in theSenate. There are other Republicans,however, who are of the opinion thatMr. Grosvenor is not as well informedin regard to thb matter as he will belater on. They say that the Housewill not undertake to consider tfie billuntil next winter, for the reason thatthere is a strong sentiment against itthroughout the West, among Repub-licans as well as Democrats, and thatif it should be passed at the presentsession the chances are that the Re-publicans would lose a number of con-gressional districts.It is pointed out that both of the
lowa senators voted against it, andthat fact is sufficient to w-arn the Re-publican leaders that lowa Republi-cans are against it. It is not knownwhat the attitude of the Speaker isin regard to the bijl, but he has al-ready lost some of his popularity bythe position he has taken on the Cu-ban reciprocity question and cannotafford to take the unpopular side on theship subsidy bill. It is probable there-fore that he will follow the lead of thetwo senators from his state, and opposethe bill. Without his co-operation itwould be practically impossible to getthe bill before the House at this ses-sion.
It is a safe statement that it willbe permitted to go over to the nextsession, notwithstanding the assertionof Gen. Grosvenor that it will bepassed at the present session. Thecongressional elections will be overthen and Republican representativeswill feel freer to vote for the bill ifthe party leaders insist that it shallbe passed.
A REMARKABI.K DISAPPEARANCE.Strange as it may be there seems to
be nobody who can tell what becameof $26,000,000 of the common stock ofthe American Steel and Wire Companyof New Jersey. The fact of the disap-pearance of this stock was broughtout on Tuesday last, in a case that isbeing tried in a New York court. Thecase is that of John S. Parks againstJohn W. Gates for $7,500,000.
Parks claims that he was a partnerof Gates in certain transactions—theformation of trusts—in which $15,000,-000 was made, and that Gates refusedto turn over to him his share. Gates'defense is that nothing was made outof the scheme in whioh Parks was apartner, that the millions which hehas, and of ivhich Parks is trying toget a share, were made in transactionsin Which the latter was not concerned.
The features of the case which areinteresting to the public, however, areGates’ rapid rise to wealth and thedisappearance of $26,000,000 of thestock of a great corporation.
Nobody pretends to know how muchGates is worth now. Probably he doesnot know himself. On the witnessstand he said that when he begancombining steel and wire plants he had$1,000,000 in cash, and that at the endof the first year he had $5,000,000. Thatwas making money pretty fast, but itis certain that somebody was the los-er to the extent to which Gates wasthe gainer. Since he made $4,000,000in one year he has accumulated manyother millions in the forming oftrusts.
It seems that Gates was one of theunderwriters of the American Steeland Wire Company of New Jersey,and, according to his own account,made a great deal of money out ofthat position. The preferred stock ofthe company was $40,000,000 and thecommon stock $50,000,000. In the suit inwhich Gates is a defendant the pre-ferred stock and $24,000,000 of thecommon stock are accounted for, butthe lawyers can get no trace of themissing $26,000,000 of common stock.In his testimony Gates said that hedid not know what became of it • andthat he did not get a share of it.
Of course somebody got that stock.Does it not seem remarkable that ca-pable lawyers cannot find out whatbecame of it? If what was done ap-parently in the case of the AmericanSteel and Wire Company is done inthe case of the formation of othertrusts it is not a difficult matter toaccount for the rapid accumulation ofsome of the enormous fortunes held inthis country.
A board of government experts hasdiscovered that there is no such thingas a burglar-proof safe, and that ascientific burglar can crack any safemade. The Treasury Department,therefore, is going to abandon itsburglar-proof safe system and substi-tute a novel electric alarm system.Assistant Secretary Taylor says theonly way to protect money properlyagainst thieves is to have a man therewith a gun, and with the proposed elec-tric alarm system the man with thegun will be in the treasury at thepoint of danger mighty soon after thealarm is given. Safes are to be em-ployed only for protection againstfire; the alarm and the man with thegun will be depended upon to take careof the burglar.
The uproar in the Austrian Reich-srath a day or two ago between thePan-Germans and the Czechs, duringwhich the former cheered for the Hoh-enzollerns and shouted that they werein favor of political union with Ger-many, was merely an echo of w hat isgoing on pretty much throughoutAustria all the time. Austria is a ripeplum all but ready to drop into theiap of the Hohenzollerns. The life ofFrancis Joseph is the slender stemthat holds the plum to the branch, andthat cannot hold out much longer.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. MARCH 21. 1902.Senator Tillman of South Carolina
is wearing a satisfied smile these days.He has received a professional opinionof the blow he struck Senator Mc-Laurin in the Senate recently, and theopinion is favorable. The senator,who puts in a good deal of his timetraveling about the country deliveringlectures, was in Worcester, Mass., theother night. He and Terry McGov-ern stopped at the same hotel. Thetwo fighters soon scraped an acquaint-
ance, and Tillman had “TerribleTerry” in hts room for half an hour.There Tillman related the circum-stances of his mill in the Senate cham-ber and illustrated to Terry how hehad given McLaurin a straight-armpunch. He said that his arm wasstill sore from the effect of the blow.Terry said the blow must have beena ’’beaut,” and gave the senatorialscrapper some liniment with which torub his arm.
Miss Lottie Greenup, the Kentuckygirl who is attempting to fiddle herfather into Congress and has a fairprospect of succeeding, is receivingletters from all parts of the countryfrom men who wish to take her as apartner for life. One Minnesota chapwrote her that if she would send himrailway tickets he would come on atonce and marry her, and he felt surethey would be happy. Miss Lottie,however, it not in a marrying humorjust now. She is only seventeen, andsays she wants to see her father seat-ed in Congress before she gives anythought to her own affairs.
The latest suffrage qualification tobe considered in the Virginia Consti-tutional Convention limits the electivefranchise to persons otherwise quali-fied to vote provided they own S2OOworth of property on w’hich they paytaxes, with exemptions only to ex-Confederate soldiers, their sons andtheir grandsons. It seems that theremust be some sort of a grandfatherclause in about every proposition sub-mitted.
PERSONAL.
—Citizens of Albemarle county, Vir-ginia, have organized the Jefferson Me-morial Road Association for the pur-pose of building a public boulevardbetween Charlottesville and Monticello,where President Jefferson lies buried.The road will be two miles long, and Isexpected to cost $20,000.
—St. Paul, it appears, does not ap-prove of the stall saloon MavorSmith, of that city, has just signed anordinance which provides for the re-moval of doors and curtains from everywine room and stall in the city. Fullview of the interior is one of the re-quirements.
—A boom in the use of mechanicalmotors throughout South Africa willensue immediately on the terminationof the war. No real development of itsboundless resources can be accomplish-ed so long as the primitive method oftransportation by ox wagon in districtsremote from railways is adhered to.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Mrs. Noosens—“My daughter's be-coming more proficient. She playsregular pieces, now. You don’t noticeher playing exercises now as much asshe did.” Mrs. Naybor—"No. but I no-tice her playing exercises my husbandas much as ever it did.”—PhiladelphiaRecord.
—Two Great Events—Amos Corn-shuck—“l seen by the paper thatthey’re talkin’ of connectin’ Amerikywith the Philippines by one o’ themthere cables.” Hiram Clod—“This hasbeen a great century fer Improve-ments. I’m thinkin’ of puttin’ a new'barb wire fence clean across thet low-er eighty-acre lot.”—Leslie’s Weekly.
—A Great Success—The Medical Ex-pert—“l’m sure your baby show's whatour modern methods will do. Did youfollow my directions?” Mother—"Oh,yes. First, I skimmed the milk, andadded two parts of hygienic water andtwo parts of your celebrated modifier.Then I carefully sterilized the whole.”“And then?” “I threw it out of thew indow and gave the baby the cream.”—Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The New York Evening Post (Ind.)says; “It is long since the Democratshave had an issue upon which theycould show a united front and couldappeal to the people with a good pros-pect of success. But they have it now.On a platform of subsidies for therich, their opponents w'ill be heavilyhandicapped In the fall campaign. Howthe Senate Republicans could give thisadvantage to their enemies is a mys-tery, unless they fancy that millionsand millionaires have become so com-mon that the public eye is blurred anddazzled in beholding them, and hasceased to apply either business princi-ples or the ordinary rules of mortalityto them. We are perhaps in the wayof finding out whether this is true ornot.”
The Philadelphia Times (Dem.) saysof the vote on the subsidy bill: “It iscreditable to the senators from lowa,Wisconsin and Vermont that they hadthe moral courage to vote against aparty measure which was obnoxious totheir convictions of sound nationalpolicy. Allison, Spooner and Proctor,with their colleagues, form a very dis-tinguished group. It would be hardto pick six senators from the forty-twovoting for the subsidy bill who wouldcarry more solid weight. Among theseforty-two there must have been manywho disapproved the whole idea of ,subsidies to ship owners, but party |discipline constrained them, and they jput themselves on the level of the men iwhose views of statesmanship are !framed to accord with campaign con-tributions.”
The Washington Post (Ind.) says:“It is borne in upon us that, what-ever Mr. Prumpaoker himself mayhave in mind, the machinery he isabout to set in motion will work formischief and demoralization. The ac-tivities of the committee contemplatedin his resolution cannot possibly ben-efit In an equal degree both the coun-try and the Republican party. Theyare bound to reinstate a deplorable re-gime and to set in motion again thosepractices which, because of their evilresults, were dismissed and rebuked 1by public opinion more than a quarter |of a century ago. They will bring tur- 1moil and disorder in their train—per- |haps worse; who knows? Have theRepublicans learned nothing from ex-perience? Is it possible that, after theterrible and tragic futilities of thereconstruction and the oarpet-bag !eras, they still contemplate a return tothe blunders, the calamities, and thecrimes of thirty years ago? Shall weusher in the deluge, merely to enable !the Republicans to capture the ngro ;vote in certain close districts of the IWest?” 1
I Depew’s Stork Story.
“And why, may I inquire,” said Sen-ator Burrows to Senator Penrose, ac-
j cording to the Washington correspond-ence of the Philadelphia North Ameri-can, "did you introduce that amend-ment to the proposition to elect sena-
t tors by the direct vote of the people?”1 • “Merely to make it more difficult,”said Mr. Penrose.
“That reminds me," said Senator De-pew, “of the Englishman who had beenat several club gatherings in this coun-try, where wits were assembled, andthought it incumbent on him to dosomething for their entertainment nexttime they met. He sat down, and withmuch labor composed a conundrum,
“Next time he got to the club heaired his production: ‘What is it,’ heasked, ’that has feathers, a long beak,builds its nests on chimneys, stands onone leg in the water and barks like adog?’
“Nobody could guess. Then the Eng-lishman gravely announced that theanswer was ‘a stork.’
“ 'But you bally ass,’ one of the hear-ers said, ‘a stork doesn’t bark like adog.’“‘I know that,’ he replied. ‘I only
put that in to make it more difficult.'Placed on (he Teacher'* Desk.
School teachers get some curiouswriten excuses for absence, says theNew York Tribune. One of themreads: "Mister, sir, my Jason had tobe late to-day. It is his bizness tomilk our cow. She kicked Jase in theback to-day when he wasn't lookingor thinking of her actin’, so he thothis back was broke, but it ain’t. Butit is black and blue, and the pane kepthim late. We would get rid of thatcow of we could. This is the fourthtime she kicked Jase, but never kickedhim late before. So excuse him forme.” A girl absent for half a daybrought the following satisfactory ex-cuse: “Miss teacher—My dotter’s ab-sents yesterday was unavodable. Hershoes had to be half-soled, and she hada sore throte. Her konstltushun isdelikit and if she is absent any moreyou can knew that it is en acount ofunavodabel sickness or somethingelse.” A boy absent for half a daylaid the following explanation on hismaster's desk: “Dear sir, please ex-cuse Henry. He went to grandpapa'sfuneral with me this afternoon. 1 havebeen promising him for several weeksthat he might if he was good, and hehas been very good, so I kept myword.”
GriKs* Makes a Point.Representative Sulzer of New York,
has come to the conclusion that this isa white man's country, and the con-clusion was forced upon him at theMcKinley memorial services held inthe House at which Prince Henry waspresent, says the Washington corre-spondence of the Philadelphia NorthAmerican. Sulzer and Griggs of Geor-gia, sat together, and Griggs whisper-ed: “Look at the galleries, do you seeanything unusual?”
“No," said Sulzer.“Look around and see if you can see
a colored person anywhere.”Sulzer looked, but not a dark skin
was visible.“Just, as we have always claimed in
the South,” said Griggs. "You North-erners only pretend to have affectionfor the negroes.”
The tickets of admission to the gal-leries had been distributed by membersof the House and Senate, and not oneof them from the East, West, North orSouth had presented a ticket to a ne-gro.
Why Church YVua Crowded.A certain little Flemish watering
place much frequented by English andAmerican visitors has two attractions,a Presbyterian church and a roulettetable, says the New York Tribune. Ata recent service in the church it oc-curred to one of the “pillars” that itmight be lucky to play the number ofthe hymns after the service at theroulette table. So he stole out of thechurch and did so. It happened thatthe number of the hymn did turn up,and the lucky coup became the talkof the village for the rest of the week.Next Sunday the church was crammedto the door. The pious pastor was re-joiced in heart. After a powerful ad-dress he gave out "Hymn No. 27.”The moment the words left his lips,to his consternation, there was a rushto the door, and he was left with afaithful handful to upraise their agi-tated strain of praise. As for the rest,they made a beeline from the houseof prayer- to the house of play. It issaid that their little adventure costthem all very dear.
Wanted ‘‘Ed” Pointed Oat.Before making millions, says the New
York World, ex-Senator Edward O.Wolcott and his brother established alaw and real estate office in George-town, Col. Henry Wolpott ran there.al estate business and did fairlywell, but there was nothing doing inthe law and the ex-Senator becamediscouraged and decided to move to anadjoining camp, where a silver leadhad been struck. He packed hts be-longings on a donkey. Just as he wasleaving he remembered his first sign,reading “Ed Wolcott & Bro.”
“You don’t want that sign, do you,Henry?” asked the ex-Senator.
"No, Ed; take It -along,” repliedHenry.
Edward packed the sign on the don-key and arrived at the new’ miningcamp the next afternoon about dusk.The miners came up and looked himover. One of them read the signstrapped on the donkey’s back andasked:
"Which of you is Ed?”
Reflections of a Bachelor.From the New York Press.
Getting on in the world means get-ting around the people of the world.
The man who doesn’t owe some ofhis success to some woman hasn’t hadany.
Mirrors would be a bad thing to havein a theater, because the women in theaudience are expected to look at thepeople on the stage.
Women admire the heroes of fiction,because there was never a novel w’hereone of them found fault with the waythe cook got the breakfast.
It is queer that no matter how richyou are you can't buy happiness, butno matter how poor you are, you canget all the unhappiness you want fornothing.
—Miss Flora Shaw, the well knowncorrespondent of the London Times,was once traveling through Africa ina bullock wagon. The sun was blazing,the bullocks wore slow, the dust wasindescribable. She was making for afrontier town, where she anticipatedthe comforts of a bath. At the en-trance to the place. Miss Shaw, deadbeat, dusty and irritable, found her-self confronted with the ordeal of apublic reception. The officials read hera welcome' she was as civil as shecould be; then she bolted for the hotel.She gave but one order, "Hot water,quick!" She sat on the edge of thebed and waited. Some minutes passed.At last a black servant entered witha tin vessel, in which there was some-thing steaming. Seizing it. Miss Shawpoured out a milky, odoriferous liquid.She turned to the servant for an ex-planation. The hotel was very shortof water: as a distinguished guest, apoint had been stretched for her. Theyhad sent her the water in which thefish had just been boiled!
ITEMS OE .INTEREST.
—An English patent medicine firmoffers a seat to view the coronationprocession to every one who will Anda hundred purchasers for its remedyfor rheumatism.
—“The churches," says an advertis-ing man quoted by the PhiladelphiaRecord, “seem more and more inclinedto take space in the newspapers. Spe-cial services of various kinds are of-ten quite generously advertised on Sat-urdays, and in some cities, notablyBoston, the church advertisements oc-cupy considerable space, and are at-tractively set in display type. I daresay we shall live to see the time whenthe church Avill have its press agent,just as the theater has, when the re-ligious editor will gauge the volumeof advance notices by the amount ofadvertising space taken, and when thechurch critic will vie with the dra-matic critic in dissecting the logic ofa sermon and praising or condemningthe eloquence and oratory of thepreacher. Wait and see if I am notright.”
—The question of the ancient astron-omical instruments which the Genmanscarried off from Pekin, and which theChinese authorities refused to takeback again when the captors tried torid themselves of the responsibility,cam,e up in the Reichstag the otherday, and caused Chancellor von Bue-low an uncomfortable quarter of anhour, says the New York Post. Heexplained that they had not been re-stored because the Chinese govern-ment attached no importance to theirpossession, and in reply to German in-quiries, had placed them at the dispo-sition of the German government. An-other consideration was that, owing tothe peculiar views of the Chinese, thegreat mass of the people would havesupposed that the instruments wererestored by order of the Chinese gov-ernment, which would have been aserious blow to German pres-tlge inEast Asia. Moreover, added the Chan-cellor, the Dowager Empress of China,a very clever women, wljo understoodthe political situation, would havebeen much offended if the instrumentshad been returned, while the masse®would have thought that Germany hadsustained some terrible defeats. Hethen went on to say that the properlight in which to regard these articleswas a present from one friendly gov-ernment to another, for which therewas abundant precedent. This sug-gestion provoked much irreverent hi-larity, but the president rang his bell,and the incident was allowed to drop.
—The automobile question is becom-ing a turning one in Great Britain,where a prejudice still exists againstpermitting locomotives to run at pleas-ure, wild-cat, on the public highways,says the New York Post. A protestsigned by many interested manufac-turers and capitalists is published inthe daily newspapers. It complainsthat the whole industry Is paralyzedby existing regulations, and maintainsthat the motor-car is infinitely saferfor pedestrians than a horse carriage,because it can be stopped so muchmore quickly. A motor-car going atseventeen miles an hour, it says, canbe stopped within twice its own length.What happens under these circum-stances to the passengers is not stat-ed. In spite of this capacity, the pro-test goes on to say, motor-cars in Eng-land may only travel at twelve milesan hour, with the result that theiruse is greatly restricted, and that man-ufacturers w’ill not embark money ontheir production. What cripples theindustry still worse is the fact thatheavy motor-cars—i. e., motors suit-able for carrying country produce—arepractically not allowed on the roads.In conclusion, the signatories of theappeal ask that the present regula-tions should be taken off, and thatInstead means should be taken for theidentification of cars so as to preventreckless driving. One of the specialgrievances of the English automobil-ists is that they have no chance withthe country magistrates, who are bit-terly opposed to them on principle, andinvariably decide against them when-ever they are called upon to answera complaint. They are getting tiredof having to pay damages, and wantto have the chance of appealing fromthe local magnates to a higherand more disinterested court.
—At a meeting of the CymmrodorionSociety, Mr T. E. Morris, barrister-at-law, lectured before a representativeaudience on the inconvenience andconfusion arising from the paucity ofdistinctive surnames in AVales, saysthe London Chronicle. In Liverpoolalone, he said 430 Welshmen rejoicedin the name of John Jones, and at aninquiry held at Westminster into theCountv Council water scheme sixteenwitnesses bore the same simple cogno-men. Before the Welsh Land Commis-sion, out of 134 witnesses'in one ooun-ty who gave evidence 109 shared 14 sur-names between them, and of the 109as many as 65 bore proportionately, thenames of Jones, Evans and Davies.Recently at the Corwen Board of Guar-dians, owing to the numerous Joneseswho are members of' that body, it wasdecided to enter in the minutes eachman’s house and parish, as his fullname was not sufficiently distinctiveTo remedy this state of things MrMorris advocated the liberal adoptionof the beautiful place names whichabound in Wales, as was done in Scot-land and Norway, and the revival ofthe characteristic “Ap” with personalsurnames. He pointed out that thelaw allowed any man to change hissurname, provided that it was donehonestly and without any fraudulentpurpose, and his suggestion was thata short act of Parliament should bepassed enabling any person to registera change of his name with the districtregistrar on payment of a small fee.In this wav an authentic and officialrecord of the change would be made atthe time.
—A dispatch from Washington says:“There is no such thing as a burglarproof vault or safe, according to a re-port that was submitted to-day bytreasury experts to Assistant SecretaryTaylor. The best tempered steel, nomatter how thick, is not proof againstanew chemical compound which up todate professional cracksmen havelearned to use. This compound, calledthermite, when mixed with magnesiumpowder, will destroy the hardness inthe metal and rob it of its temperenabling a burglar with ordinary toolsto cut into it as though it were leadFor this reason Mr. Taylor believesthe treasury ought not to continue to
| expend large sums of money in theI construction of so-called burglar proofj \aults and strong boxes in which tostore away government funds. Theinvestigation of the real security af-forded by these steel structures wasmade by J. E. Powell, the chief me-chanical and electrical engineer of thetreasury, and John P. Bergin, vault
i! ntVJOCk expert ' These menwent to Chicago and other cities andmade experiments with thermite andalso with electricity. They have♦n’T .!?ack t 0 Wash*ngrton convincedthat the present value of safes andvaults as against burglars is very
eatiTted - An applicationof thermite and magnesium made toa steel plate of the highest temperand fne-eighths of an inch in thick-reduced the metal to a conditionrendering it possible to cut a holeThe
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