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The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24
THE BRYAN BOLTERs.
GroOt Made Temporary Chairman m
ana DIR. Davis Secretary.

Cleveland. July 2S.-At preliminary
meeting here OF the leaders of the bolt
among the Bryan Democrats. George
A. Groot of this city has been chosen
as temporary chairman of the state
convention 20 be held at Columbus July
81. Dr. Abner l.. Davis Of Findlay will
be- the temporary secretary.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24
A wATERsPoUT IN TEXAS.
Texas Central Train Wrecked ana
Engineer KILLED.

Dallas. Tex, July 23.-A dispatch
from Cisco reports a waterspout twen-
afternoon. Ten miles OF the track OF
the Texas central Railroad, between
LuederH and Albany and between Al
bany and Moran, was washed nWay.
An engine went through a bridge and
the engineer, Thomas beone, was kill
I'd.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24
ENvELoPED IN BLAZING OIL.
Fearful Holocaust Aboard American
Schooner in Stockholm HarbOr.

Stockholm. Sweden. July 23.-An ex-
plosion to-day Of petroleum on board
the American schooner Louise Adel.
aide, Captain Orr, which left Philadel-
phia April "a and Portland. Me-. June
4 for Stockholm, in the harbor here re-
suited in the death OF Captain Orr. ten
members of the schooner and four
Swedish customs officials. Two of the
crew were saved.
The explosion set the schooner afire
and the blazing petroleum enveloped
the vessel and those on board
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24
KnoxviIIe.s Maximum.

Knoxville. Tenn, July 23.-The max
imum temperature to-day was 9S de-
grees. This is the highest point for
the present year. There has been no
rain since July 5.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24

POrt-au- Prince. Haytl. July q -Fif-
~ houses were destroyed BY IRE 10.
day Many ~ the firemen received In
iuries The damage ~ estimated az
200, 900,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24
A TORNADO AT vIcKsBURG.
Great Damage Done 10 Trees, Build
ings and Electric wires.

vicksburg. Miss. July 23.-Hundreds
of shade trees were prostrated, many
roofs lifted and the walls OF half a
dozen buildings caved in by a tornado
which pasesd over the southern Sec
tion OF the city this afternoon. The
storm was accompanied by severe
thunder and lightning and a down
pour OF rain. Telephone, electric light
and car services are badly crippled.
The wind reached n velocity OF sixty
miles an hour. There were no casual
ties.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24
Need Hope Nothing From Europe.

Cape Town, July 23.-It is reported
that General Delarey has Informed the
KlerksdOrp commando that there is no
longer any chance of European inter-
vention and that they must fight the
war out 10 the bitter end entirely on
their own account.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24
FORFEITED IRIS DEPOSIT.
liverpool Company Knocked Out by
NicarnEunn Arbitrators.

Managua. Nicaragua. July 23.-The
arbitrators 10 whom the matter was
referred. decided that the Caribbean
Pacific Transit Company OF Liverpool
has forfeited It's deposit Of $4,000 gold
and the exclusive privileges OF steam
navigation Of Lake Nicaragua and the
San Juan river.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24
Memphis Breaks All Records.

Memphis, Tenn, July 23.-The OFF,
cial thermometer registered l02 degrees
here to-day. breaking all records.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24

fr.s NJ inquiry differs from n
O. .r... Oal in that it has no power
tentence. IL a. organized
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-24

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to sometimes split the end Of a wide
ribbon and adjust two crystal points
tipped with gold.
Crystal points are among the spring
novelties, TO be used with crystal but
tons and buckles in the decoration of
light silk and cotton gowns, but the
wonder over the bigness Of the buckles
themselves still grows. Those used for
belts are larger. more elaborate in de
sign and heavier than we remember TO
have seen them before, and mighty
serpent of gold twisted into belt or
nament measuring nine inches in length
is one of the longest seen, Another
beautiful imported Partisan design OF
an ivory face, about which was blown
d cloud Of gold hair and blue enam-
eled ribbons, was exactly as large in
circumference as the saucer of a break
fast coffee cup. The new stays that
have lengenthened the waist line OF the
twentieth century woman, and the
growing fashion for wearing these eN-
tensive ornaments rather at the side
and in the rear than at the back, is the
essential reason for their growth.
Women who wear only the final In
SEPARATIONS of the leading dressmakers
are having their new fOulaTds made
up for appearance at the southern re-
sOrts) built with doubled belts that are
finally fastened with drapery on the
bust. Such a belt calls for a glorious
and almost abnOTmally big rear buckle.
and a sketch is given to show how
these dTaped belts are arranged. A
length of goods and sometimes of chif-
fon serves as the girdle. which IS
pinned down close in front, passed TO
the back and through q huge circle Of
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Leaves of a Supreme Court Report and
Cholley was out in the other Room warm
ing uD to the Influential Clients and max
ing Dates for LuncheOus and Golf -Four
sO1ucS-
Within three months after they started
at the Office, William had read an the
spending three weeks at the Summer
Home of the President of Construction
Company. who was stuck ON thuliCy's
Dialect Stories and liked TO have him
around because he was such good Dr,5-
out at this Country Place it happened
that Cholley met a Girl who didn't know
how much she was worth, SO CUpllay
thought il would he an Act of Kindness
to help her find out When he sat out
with her in the cool of the Evening and
gave her the Burning Gaze and the low
enhancing Love Purr that ne had pTaC-
ticed for Four Years at the University
ished. and told him he need not work
Overtime. because he was the Boy for
Nellie She said she had had him Picked
out from the Moment that she noticed
how well his Coat set in the Back
In one Of the large Office Buildings OF
the City there is a Suite finished in Dark
ChOlIev. the handsome Lawyer, who Is
acquainted with all the Club Fellow,
Society Bucks and Golf Demons When
a Client comes in with knoltE QueS-
ton. CholIey calls in a Blonde stem
erapher to jot down all the rUIuts in the
Case. Then he and the Client roast a few
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rhiuestOnes or cOIored jewels, then
drawn up under the arms. and on the
bust is kn0tted deliberately. to let fall
end of ribbon. or a, jabOt-like drapery.
nearly to the knees
Stitched and braided belts Of goods
to accord with the body of the gown
is the rule with all the spring tailor
suits seen So far These belts are not
narrow and they are all shaped care
fully to accept the lines of the figure.
and hook i'm front i'm a. broad, Ratchet.
wedge. or diamOnd-shaped piece. Some
of them are trimmed smaTtly with rows
of tiny bright buttons One sees, i'm
the gradual influx of many pleasing cd
dities al this point when the fashions
of one season are giving place TO those
of another. The arrival and adoption
of black single faced velvet and paune
ribbon is noted. a belt of this sort
should be only five inches wide, crush
i'm narrowly about the waist, and tine
ends of the ribbon, but just meet in
front, having small paste or enameled
clasps to fasten them together
The young element among the we'll
dressed women wear in the morning
belts of duh black or patent leather.
in which small cahOchon stones Of
many COlOrs are embedded. and their
buckles are gem-studded nuello silver
or gun metal.
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George Ade'S Fable Ofhe
Bookworn7 and the Butterfly Who VentLnto theLaw


for his Fresh Ways. and he was known
as the best Dancer in the ii ii Chapter
Of the Gamma Oopsilan Greek Letter Fra
ternifv The reports sent home Indicated
that william was carTalllng the HonOrs
in scholarship and Cholley was getting
through each Exam Dy the SKIN OF his
TTeath but he had been elected a Yell
CAPTAIN and could do his 100 yards In ten
seconds Flat. Pa would write 10 1hol-
~ now and then and tell him TO Brace
I'm and give him a Hunch that Life was
fun of Sober Responsibilities ana there
fore he had better store MS mind with
Useful Knowledge ana Cncp all the E'rlV-
OILS and FOpperieS. WhereupOn ChOiley
would write back that he needed FIFTY by
Return Mail to pay for Chemicals Used
Nv the time that both were Seniors.
William had grown a fuzzy Climber in
front of each Ear ana was troubled with
Weak Eyes. He always had a volume of
Kant 1lndeT his arm and seemed to be in
a Brown Study as he Walked across the
Campus ChOlley kept himself Neat and
Nobbv and seemed always Cheerful, even
though he had two or three Conditions to
his discredit and had only an outside
chance of taking his Degree lie was
Manager Of the FoOtDaii 1edIn- having
been elected because OF his Qualities as
Mixer. and he had earned the dIIectlOn-
ate nickname of Rocks He was ii
great Hand to get acquainted with any
Girl VINO dared to show herself near the
Halls of Learning, ana by constant
Practice he had developed into Star
Chinner so that he could Talk Low to
almost any one of them and make her
believe that of all the Flowers that ever
bloOmed she was the one and Only SolCJJ
Wiiiiam Kept away from Hops and
Promenades because he remembered what
Pa had said about the Distracting InflU-
ence of FriDperies and the IwlttIe-Iatte
of Artificial Society The only Girl ne
knew was a Professor sister, aged u,
with whom he was wont TO discuss the
Theory of Unconscious CereDrdtton. Then
he would drink Cup OF Young HySOu
Tea and go home at SD p m ChOlley
at about that time would be starting out
in his Primrose and DOckstader Suit TO
write HIS name on Dance Cards and get
acquainted with the Real Folks
ON Commencement Day William TccCIv-
ed the CYRUS J. Blinker Prize of q Set of
Books for getting the HlghesI General
Average OF any GI q s- iue li. ts
lust r1auaEed 20 Squeeze Through The
Faculty gave him a Degree Tor lear That
if il didn't he might come back and stay
a Ter they had graduated, Pa gave them
another Talk. He said he was proud of
ANtt.1ar7 .5-t Cho lev D. or I'd l-.fi To
him Still he hoped it was not too late to
set the Bow on the Right Track He was
going to put both of them into 4 Law
for all they were worth ana not ne luItu
away from their Work by the GHlleIllS
Temptations Of Life in a Big CITY WIZ
liam said he was prepared TO READ Law
until he was Black in the race Cholley
said he wouldn't mind pacing a lew
and then, if he found that ne cOuid spare
the Time. The r- tr --'
and did not see much hope for Choltey-
When the two Sons became Fixtures lIi
the Office of an established Law FIRM,
William kept his Nose between the
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The
TASK Of Flax.
The
BY Sedmas MaCMapds.

miles long and broke the flax. then he
took a scratching handle seven miles
long. and a block seven miles wide and
scutched it; he then took Glove that
was seven miles long and cIoVed st.
and ne took q hacker that was seven
miles long and hacked it, and wheel
that was seven miles high and spun it,
and a reel that was seven miles round
and reeIed it, and a loom that was
seven miles wide and WOEe IT into
cloth.
And when he had all this done H.
gave "a comb that every time she would
put it into her hair would comb bag
of goiddust out of it.
Ia the morning early when the mother
came to the church to- see if she was
dead. she was astouished To find her
there alive and Wen. with all of her
task done and ali the flax made into
cloth, and to see her with this comb.
combiHg a bag of g0lddusJ out of her
hair.
She asked her how she 7ad worked an
the flax and now she had come by the
comb. and she told the steumOther thar
a ghost came and worked the flax for
her. and presented her with the comb
When the stepmOtber heard and saw
this she said she would give her own
daughter "a chance i'm the church that
night SO that she might set such a val
liable comb. too. SO ON the next night
she sent her own daughter TO the
church with a task of HaT.
The daughter hadn't been long sit
ting at her work when the wild big
ghost came in and sat down beside her
and asked her to wash his feet and
comb his hair. for it hadn't been done
for 200 wears before.
But she told him that she was mo-
sculIiou to wash his feet or comb his
hair, and that she would Dee very sorry
to do it. And the ghost struck her
down with his hand. and she was dead
When the mother came before day
had daWned in the morning to find if
she had done her work and got the
golden comb, the ghost was there wait
ing for her. and struck her down with
his hand, and left her dead beside her
daughter
But the good girl. who had been kind
To him. thriVed and Ur0~Uered from
that day, and it wasn't long till she
married q handsome ami beautiful
younE prince, and lived happy ever
after.
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in felt shoes, lantern in hand, but stood
and listened to the bell. No sound ever
moves the prison as that does, for the
angry message of the bell was this.
Prisoner escaped
1t was perfectly dark in the cells, so,
being mid July, j. could be nowhere
near the morning; who had got clear in
that short span Of darkness
Fairfax alone, perhaps, OWNED Alright.
Every Warder on night duty in every
hall glanced neTvOusly at the cells
around and above him. He knew that
in each of those cells a convict was sit
ting up wide-eyed, and with both ears
straining5 and whilst that bell was
changing, none could tell what next
might happen.
Happy the warder who could say, 1T
amt one of my biTds,'
No prisoner burst quit his hammock
no warder could leave his hall until the
door was unlocked from the other side
by the officer of the morning
But every hail was silent and secure,
yet still the bell kept shrieking, "PriS-
Oner escaped! Prisoner esCa-aped!"
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head Its when you turns the corner,
. and sees another bIoomin' five,"
/ FuI Yourself together" said Fair
. TAX You can't get out of LOngstaff.'
IT'S sad waste 90 time" unused
llt Remnant and if you come to
llllh, its rough on the pore old queen.
u" cost her OnC-and-eighJ a day,
----.eh. and she's s2J % tidy big family
10 md for"
Perhaps we should have thought of
that before we came upon her charity
II don't say but we should, maJey,
though it's never TOO late TO mend, as
me craaher told us this blessed sun
day moEiu'-"
"WeI" said Fairfax, now that
were In for IL. 7 fancy we had better
time she has been good enough TO i'm
pose it ON us"
ut don't seem quite the square
.llLE- She's EetJln' on i'm years. an
-gJ blame expensive family, an you
-L mes a-tdtLeulu' on her victuals-
IN putin ON flesh myself, and who's
H-Lee1n. me2 Whose table am rob
SO you're going to try it, then. Wen,
what's Your UIan2"
'I amt ezackly fitted out the eNpedi-
ton, natel, but I'm a-studyinB the
chart"
These Sunday talks have been dis
a-oWeo-perhaTs not quite without
. reason
Fairfax did not much believe in
olc' Remnants project. for the i'm
HleEnablity of LOuEStlff WAS a kind
off uroVerb In all H. N. prisons but
the face of that able burglar and
. prison breaker was very studiOUs as
DE sat ln his cell through the after
noon or sunday, with the Bible across
his knees.
"D.L' Remnant rsas aware that every
l1aI-e was against him, but he had
seen freedom i'm a vision, and he could
see nothing else. This fierce freedom
hunger is the chief disease of convict
prisons, and all the prison people know
II we'll from the governor down TO the
. colmQlCsL little sneak Of "a convict in
. ms keeping Lay and night the lag
hopes and pines for liberty. there Is
nothing but this longing. AID the dull
hope of its fulhlmenu that solaces his
bondage i or years DO not roll with
aim they trail and slug along. and
. seem pcrperually To lose their course. =
I II some cruel hand put back the clock
a little and little every day. But most
prisoners lack the energy, ard "a vet
greater number lacks the courage that
IS wanted fOI the great ATTEMPT. For
prison breaking is not what it was. 4
CelInl, Casanova a TreuCk, a Iatude
"a sheppard could scarcely eat his way
out OF the thin modern prison that is
patched and haunted at every point.
moment Dy moment. through every
hour OF the tWcnty-fOur. But-OId is
ons or new prison S-every prison has
IT'S master B2Stiie or ESund- there is
always enc genius who has the open
sesame
Old Remnant knew that he had tbs.
ireetom-hungeT very badly and knew
mat IL would get the better Of him.
" hen II gnawed like this, he had al
ways made his rush; and three times
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The Night Warder Of D

The new punishment cells were in the
southeast angle of the prison They had
been built against an outer wall of old
LOuEstaff castle ~ the has, of which,
some twenty feet below the level Of the
prison. ran the small, swift river Tene.
This outer wall, almost the sole up
standing portion Of the castle. was
fashioned OF enormous granite blocks,
and its thickness throughout was near
ly four feet.
The five new punishment cells Occu-
pied short corridor, one end of which
was enclosed, while at the other end an
iron wicket led into a little circular
yard with very high walls, where pris-
pnerS I'D close confinement were eX-
erclScd separately during one hour OF
the tWenty-four. This yard commUni-
Gated, by means of a stone passage and
two other Wickets. with = hall of the
prison, and the night wardcr in D pa
trolled the far corridor every fifteen
minutes.
That night warder had just discov-
cred that the dark cell into which
Old Remnant had been locked in the
morning was empty. He had seen him,
g. quarter OF an hour earlier. apparent
~ asleep on his plank. If this were
strange, stranger a hundred times was
the slght which the cell presented 1t
was HaWless in every partl Not a
brick had been displaced. the floor and
the ceiling were whole, the fdsteningS
of the door intact
II is little to say that the warder
Vas dumfounded. His feeling Of the
matter went DEEPER for he saw how
desperately black il looked against
himself Miracles suspended. a pris-
oner does not pass unaided out of a
double-proof cell and leave not a trace
behind him, he floats magicaily
through four feet Of granite wall or
somebody lets him out.
During twenty beats of his watch the
night rvarder passed in review his seven
years untarnished service, and reck-
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they would mind the Faculty and keep
away from the Cigarette Fiends who play
the Banjo and talk about Actresses. He
wanted them to stand high i'm their
Glasses and devote their Spare Moments
to Reading rather than to the WITNESSES
and Mimical FOOleries Of a University
Town.
William listened solemnly and promised
to behave. ChOlley fidgeted in his Chair
and said it was near Train Time
So they rode away on the Vanished
Cars, William reading about the GOths
and Vandals. and ChOlley playing Seven
N with q Shoe Drummer from Lowell,
who gave him several Yarns that he at
forward told as his own
At the University William remembered
what Pa had said, so he cOopeG himself
up in his Room and became a Dig and
soon enough was greatly desptSed as a
Pet of the Professors. -Cholley wore a
striped Jersey and joined the Track Team
and worked in the Glee Club. He went
to his Room when all the other Places
had closed up. Every time q Show struck
Town he was in the Front Row to guy
the Performers and pick uD some new
Gags. so as TO maintain his Reputation
as an Original Comic He went calling
on all the Town Girls who would stand
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Copyright. 1901. by Seumas AI5cMauus-)
There was once d mother who had a
very ugly and bad daughter of her own
that she was very fond of, and q very
beautiful and good stepdauEhter that
she hated and wanted to get rid of. but
she didn't know how in the world she
could get rid of her, so she went and
asked the hen-wife's advice.
The hen-Wife says. III tell you how
YOU can get rid of her. There's an old
church below and no one ever Yet spent
the night in it and came out of it alive.
You order your stepdaUghter To go and
sit up in it all night, working fax. and
she'll surely be dead in the morning
Home the mother went and she or
dered her Stepdaughter to get ready
and go off that night to work a task OF
flax in the old church. And for fear
that she might escape whatever should
happen to her in the church during the
night, she put very great task of flax
before her that fifty women couldn' { do
in one night. and threatened to have
her life in the morning il she WOuldn
have it done.
The poor girl took her wheel and all
with her that night, and went oft to the
church. and sat down and began her
work.
But she wasn't long sitting at her
work. when she heard a great noise
and in there comes q great, Wlld-lOok-
ing ghost. and he sat down on the seat
beside her. and said that he wanted his
feet washed and his hair COmbed, for
they hadn't been washed. or it hadn
been cOmbed. for seven hundred years
20, then, poor fellow" she says, I'm
sorry for you, and I'll surely help you
all I can.
SO she laid her flax aside, and she
washed his feet and COmbed his hair
very. very nicely indeed.
And when she had finished the ghost
said: In 200 years I've never met as
good d. girl as you. Can I do anything
for you2'
Well" said she, I've a stepmOtheT
who isn't good to me. and has put be
fore me this night a task that fifty WO-
men couldn't do. but I don't know
whether or not you could help me- I've
all that fax you see there TO work, and
have woven into cl-th before INC. ming.
Sit down at your ease. there says
the ghost, says he, and III soon do
this task for you
So he took Il braker that was seven
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= How Fairfax
e: Did Not Escape.
BV TfgLhe HOPKINS.
BY Tighe Hopkins.

himself that morning; he was sedately
ocular.
Enjoy your breakfas', maley?" he
inquired Of Fairfax.
eel always DO
All. Ever think Of a steak-and-on-
ions, matey2'
well not for breakfast"
HIM It's queer. but / thought this
mCrniu I cd do "A steak-and-Unions all
round the CIOck-brea<fas' lunch, arr
teruOOn tea, and seven-I-!rty dinner in
my nice white Ch0ker You aln't see
me i'm a white choker, matey. Now,
you're a chap that thinks, and 1 ex-
pect you've had dreams; believe in
dreams. matey2'
What sOrt2'
Never miudi 7 dreamed Of q steak
aud-oui0ns. matey. two nights before 1
got out of Eorstal'
You're q. that tack STILL are your
said FaiTfa--.
Ten years is q long stretch, matey-'
You've done five" said Fairfax.
Elves a stretch you can do on your
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oned up his very certain chances of
punishment. Then he did his duty, and
pressed his finger on the electric but
ton at the wicket.
On the heels Of the chief warder
came the governor and they both looked
askanCe at that clean cell out of which
-Old" Remnant had WhiSked himself in
fifteen minutes, with neither chip nor
filing to betray his flight.
1t was then that the big bell in the
tower laid its tongue to that roUsing
message of Prisoner Escaped
The night waTder, an cid salt with a
faUltless record in the navy. and
faultleSS one in LOngstaff. stool a little
on his dignity. The governor and the
chief warder knew him for very safe
hand; but-heTe was a strong cell with
not a stone displaced in it, from which
a prisoner had vanished in fifteen min
utes. Is prison broken and not a brick
IOOsened. not a bar severed? It is i'm
possible to credit miracles in the seSy-