TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEM8.
Comment and Criticism Baaed Upon
the Happcninira of the Umr Histori
cal aad News Note.
Man Ik of few dnya and full of con
densed CUl-gCljlt H8.
Always view a a.ene with a mule
In It from the foreground.
When told to take a back eat the
iverage man will take affront.
. Any one In, Purls la likely io bare-Santos-1
hmiont drop In on him.
A man's true friend keep quiet when
ome one Ih enumerating hla virtues.
Home women confide In men for the
purpose of extracting secrets from
theni.
What good will It do us If they have
found the smallpox germ? We didn't
lose blm.
The Chlncuo Invented firecracker;
but the Christians floured out the au
tomobile. Presently ho may go fourflushing
down the corridors ot time as King
iPeter Out.
The doctors gay fat babies ore not
henltliy. Is till to be construed h a
deadly blow to the nursing bottle?
Good advice hua a monetary value.
It's the other kind that In handed out
by those who are running a gift en
terprise. . While n nejjro and a Chinaman divid
ed claHS honors nt Yale, the athletic
(honors of the Institution are still held
by the whites.
Porto Rico held a flng day, at which
fifteen hundred American flags were
carried in procession. It seems as If
f b Is were a loyal colony.
While the easy-going Individual Is
trying to figure vut which Is the best
foot to put forward the strenuous man
gets there with bolli feet
Whet) King Peter arrived at H I
frnde the bands played the Servian na
tional anthem. The Servian national
anthem is ";od Help the King."
A scientist assures us that the earth
Is good for 20.oO0,0o0 years yet. Un
less, of course, Morgan and liner
should decide to take It with them.
The largest man In the world has
been discovered in Kustjak, Russia.
Jood! We have several unbeaten
specimens of the smallest right here.
It costs some young men' as high as
$26,000 each for a fouY years' course,
at Yale. Hut these young men would
spend the money even If they were not
at Yale.
To le sure the office should seek the
uiau, but any of our statesmen would
tell you that there Is no necessity of
hiding In the cellar when the office Is
going by the house.
An etnine.it scientist connected with
the agricultural bureau atates that the
world's demand for beans has passed
the supply. The roar of apprehension
In Boston papers sounds like a yard
ful of locomotives letting on" steam.
A pastor has preached against what
he Is pleased to call "the peekaboo
waist." The waist may lie Immodest,
but calling public attention to It comes
nearer to being Immoral than the gar
ment Itself. Itelovrd brethren, let us
think twice In f ore speaking three
times.
Freedom, home life and content of
heart" were some of the possessions
for which a former member of the
President's cabinet declared himself
thankful, when speaking at a public
dinner recently, He had been re
ferring to our multimillionaires, and
the blessings of which their great
wealth almost necessarily deprives
them, and "I am glad I am not a rich
man." he said. A grent many thought
ful people feel the same way especial
ly those who are able to add, "I am
glad I am not a poor man."
Home curious ersoii asked the late
Oliver Wendell Holmes about his age.
"Kcveiity-two years young" (not "old")
was hla reply. Some men are younger
at seventy than others arc at forty or
fifty. Rome men are never young.
Old age hovers over them lieforo they
reach mature years. They are rotten
aa aoon as they arc ripe. Home men
are never old, but carry to the latest
hours of their lives the buoyancy, the
blltheness of disposition, the faculty
for mental labor, the mwer of thought'
and expression, th susceptibility to
higher culture which marked their
growth from adoU-pceiice.
When It 1 hers remarked that the
male American is declaring symptoms
of damning effeminacy no occasion N
offered for Indignant reprobation. The
average American tins so much thor
ough masculinity that be ran spare
enough to dower a less vigorous peo
ple. What I meant lb that the natural
reaction to the paramountry of the
American girl lias set In. Aa she
shares the pursuits, the pleasures and
the liberties of her brother and Im
poses her commands upon them she
Iteronies more masculine, they more
feminine; ber shoulders square off,
theirs begin to slope.' Kb dom tbs
sweatr- and the blazer and wears bet
skirt r-lmrter and shorter; they Uikt
to p'nk shirtwaists and clocked open
work stockings, and their ever baggier
trousers, worn so loiijj that they have
to be turned up at t lie bottom, si-em
fashioned ou a seraglio pattern.
Servian government bonds, despitt
the precarious position of rulers and
people, have been rather more steady
In the receut fluctuations of European
public securities than those of other
states. Iurlug the Boer war period,
between !! and and 1!H2, when Brit
ish consols fell 20' points and German
Imperial 3 per cents 10, the extreme
decline in Servian 4s- was points.
What is more striking still, their price
at the opening of June, llMl, was high
er than tbe highest llgure reached in
the period from IK'.lg to Inclusive.
This did not result, however, from
blind confidence in Servia's willingness
or unwillingness to pay. Her via is
mortgaged to the bankers as tightly
as Turkey or Greece or Portugal or
China. There sits at Belgrade a so
called "autonomous administration of
monopolies," which, without reference
to the government, receives and ad
ministers for the benefit of Servia's
creditors, (It net earnings of various
state railways, (2) liquor licenses, (.'b
tobacco monopolies, (-1) customs duties.
() salt monopoly, and (ti) petroleum
monopoly. This has an interesting
Hound. It makes one wonder what
sort of figure n "trust plank" would
cut In the plat form of a Servian minor
ity party.
Once upon a time a boy drifted awaj
from the teachings of a good mother
and got Into bud company. It is a
strange characteristic of the tangle,
that he Is not satisfied with being
tough. lie wiints to spread the conta
gion, to extend his meanness to make
oty-r boys as bad as himself. And
he finds many converts. So the boy
who figures iu this editorial learned to
He, to pilfer, to drink, to curse and all
these things were hailed as virtues in
the srnall circle In which lie had been
Initiated. At heart he wasn't a had
fellow, but he was weak. Finally, hi:
wag caught stealing, and was sent to
the penitentiary for one year. He did
a lot of thinking. In his little stone
cell he discovered that the way of the
transgressor is always hard, and the
one mighty-resolve he made was, "I
will be good." He meant It, too. He
had a foolish notion that he could walk
out of prison one day, begin at the spot
where he took the wrong road, look
the world in the face and start anew.
When the term was ended lie walked
out Into God's sunlight and went to
work. The bad thoughts were gone,
the bad living was only a memory, and
he went to work almost happy. He
got a Job as hrakeman, and did his
duty as a man who owed society noth
ing beyond what had been paid behind
the gray walls of the great prison.
Society, as a whole, never quite for
gives a human being for a crime.
There is always a some one to give
the struggling man a kick In the face
when he needs a helping hand. Tbe
anoyiiious letter writer got in his dead
ly work. "You have an ex-convict In
your employ," was the burden of the
missive, and it reached the mark and
lost the young brakemau his place.
Men do not like to work with ex-con-vlcts.
If they know it. There is a
sneaking feeling that tbe fellow who
has been In the "pen" isn't fit to as
sociate with free men, and nobody
cares to go Into details. Yes, they dis
charged the penitentiary hrakeman,
and lu the books of hell a long fiery
credit mark was set down to the cur
who wrote the anonymous letter. The
young man? The last heard of him
he was idle, trying to remain honest
with the road to ruin wide open and
the narrow way to respectability al
most barred.
OLD MASON AND DIXON
LINE BEING RESURVEVED
The work of restoring and remark
ln( the Mason arid Itixon line Is rap
idly Hearing eompl tlon, und.tr the su
pervision of competent engineers it
pointed Jointly by the States of Mary
land and Pennsylvania. In April,
1001, each Stjte appropriated $.o,M
for the purpose.
No question of territory is Involved
In the reconstruct Ion, but the hl-itorlc
OX TilR IIOl NDARV LINK.
Int?ret In this imaginary division of
Norfh and South, warranted a remark
ing of the line marked out by Ma:-on
and Dixon In 17)0.
Keck mid earth mounds uied nt tbif
time are still In existence to demon
ctrate the thoroughness of the original
survey. An erroneous Impression ob
tain that the line Is thirty feet wide,
but the fact Is that the line Is I rang
J nary.
The false Idea la due to tbe fact that
the original surrey nercMHitnted a Iblr
ty-foot path through tbe wlldemitis,
signs of which still remain.
Tbe national bd hnlilt Is not sleal
lug, drinking, milling or louiiug, hut
plain, every -day eiaggrinllou.
TURKEY TO BLAftE
IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MACEDO
NIAN UPRISING. HAS MADE
TERRIBLE RECORD-
fofla, Bulgaria, Aug. 17. The
Bulgarian government has presented
a memorandom to the powers settlor
out at great length the condition of
ITair Curing the 1 ast three months
in Macedonia since the Spanish gov
ernment underto iL to inaugurate the
promised reforms. 1 be mo-it precise
deta Is, dut' S, places and names of
persons are given in me.uoraadum.
the who'e constituting, terrible cte
gory of murder, torture, incendurism,
pillage and general oppression com
mitted by the Ottomon soldiers and
ofllcia's.
Thes particulars were obtained en
tirely on official tourers, such us the
reports of the Bulgarian consuls and
agents of the Bulgarian government,
and In many Instances the reports
made by the Turkish authorities.
The Bulgarian government tuar
rantees the a'solute truth of every
statement and challenge the porte to
disprove a single c ar e made n the
memorandum. The memorandum be
gins by stating that during the past
three mouths the Ottoman govern
ment has taken a soiiis of measures
with the alleged Intention of in ugur
ating the era of pr mised reform and
of assuring peace and tranquility to
to the Bulgarian lopuIaMnn of
E'Tifcan Turkey, hut which have
had the contrary effect of further ex
asp r 'iig this population and reviv
ing the revolutionary movement in
stead of p occcriing solely against per
sons guilty of breaches of the pub lo
Older. The military and civil author
ities have Fought every possible pre
tex' to prosecuie, terroize and ruin
the Bulgarian inhabl an s, alike id
the large cities and In the small vll -ages.
Wholesale mafsicres, Individual
murders, the destruction of villages,
the pillaging and so ting tire to houses'
the arrests, ill-treatmen', tor tires, ar
bitrary imp-isonment and banish
men, the closing and disorganizing of
churches and Rcliefil, the ruining of
mTchun's he col ectlon of taxes fur
nany years lu advance such, pro
ceeds the memorandum, are among
theactsof the Ottoman administra
tion of the vilayets of Sal-mica, Mona
Ulr, Uskub, and Adrianople.
No Evidence of Oil.
Washington, Aug. "7. During the
spring of the present year, Mr. ' W.
Vaughn, of the United States geolog
ical survey, made a trip into Georgia
for the purpose of looking into the
probabilities of the eiccurrance sof p
trolem In that state, One of the lo
calities vlsi ed by him was the vicin
Ity of Albany, Dougherty county.
Drlng the preceding year (190?)
Mr l ."ghn spent a month In mak
ing geoogical reconnaissance from
the edge of the crystalline rocks near
Macon as far south as Albany. The
object of his work was to ascertain
whether the geological conditions
gave any ind cation of the occurrence
of pero'em. The geology is extremely
simple, and there were no Indications
of the geological structure, usually
associated with oil pools. There ms
an entire absence of any of the sur
face manifestations in the way of gas
oil, sulphur, etc., which are or llnary
accompaniments of o'l in al1 regions
Mr. Vaughn Is of the opinion, there
fore! that no oil will be found In
western Georgia In the strip of coun
try extending fiom Macon through
Montezuma, Ainerlcus, and Albany,
that is. from Bibb county through
Crawford, Houston, Macon, Dooly,
Sumter, Lee and Dougherty counties.
K. microns miscellaneous measure
ments are made In California each
year by the hulr 'graphic branch ol
the United States geei'oglcal survey,
tin the strean s that rise In the Sierra
Nevada. Measurements were recent,
lvmade by Mr. S. 0. Bennct, hydro
rapber, 0 1 the tributaries of the
upper Merced river, which will he of
liilcres- to maiy persons wh i have
looked upon the waters of these
streams as they 1 0 ir over the brink ol
the granite Wdlls that form the
boundar. of the Y seml.e valley, and
have asked what Is the volume or
water flowing over the different fal's.
This is ailillcult question to answer,
as the amount varus from season to
season, from day to day, and even
form hour to hour, according to the
amount of snow and the state of the
weather on tbe high mountains
where these streams rise.
Fatal'y Miot By Mayor,
I'ralrle Du Chlen, Wis., Aug. 17
R. D. lieorge was shot at McGregor
by Mayor John W. Walters during a
quar cl over the Corbe-tt-JelTrles fight.
The vb tlm, although still alive, will
probably out live till night.
Bid Americans Defiance.
Mn!, Aug. 17, M J r Robert L
B-dUrd has demanded relrens from
Sub an Deren, the tribal leader ot the
Moroa. Although profswing a warm
friendship (or Americana, the sultan
recently surrounded a itnall detach
ment of United Statss troops, paying
him a (rlndlr visit, and with a strong
lore of warrior, offer d bulls, hla
men in olUngly beirirrg sn American
flsg. So lar tbs only r-ply has ben
a'eflaaea.
REVItW OF NAVY
TWENTT-OHE WAHSIlll'S AT OTSTLB
H A V.
GLITTER IN THE SUNSHINE
Him PA R A I.I.EI. COLUMNS A MIL!
LO.VU IS THB SIGHT THAT
GKEETg THE PRESIDENT
BRIGHT AS A DOLLAR
tplmdlrt Wra'hrr Vnharau fa
Eel Day At Oyalar Bay
8alut- Kind and Ae-kuewltdg-ad.
Oyter Bay, N. Y , Aug. 18-Twen-ty-oue
warships drawn up In four par
allel columns a mile long and Includ
ing tome of the best fighting ehlps
of tha Uni ed States navy, resting on
the gossy surface of Long Island
sound, composed the picture which
lay spread out before Presidcut Roose
velt when he stepped out on the ver
anda of his boai at Sagamore Hill
early yfsterday.
Their brasswork shining under the
slanting rays of the mornini; sun gave
evidence that every ship was spick
and span for this, the flrt naval re
view a. the nation's lumnur capitol
and piob.bly the hist ever held for
the exclusive purpose of presidential
honors.
Commanded b Ecsr Admiral Bar
ker ar d three o'her naval ot'ic is of
slmi'ar rnk, het fleet, comnrisinL' two
squadrons each of two divi Ions, be
sides a llotiila or torpedo boat cestroy
eis, included a representative of
nearly every type of fighting craft
from the ponderous Iliinois'o the lean
destroyers. Two parallel columns of
battleships and cruisers headed by the
Kearsarge, Rear Admiial Barker's
flagsh p, flanked by tiles of destroyers,
composing the north Atlantic fleet,
covered the ulacld sound for two miles
off s o c fr m p'c'u esque Lloyd's
Xeck and blockading the mouth of
Oyster Bay, presented a splendid ma
rine spectacle, abundantly suggestive
of a massive po'ver.
Bulgaria Free for Action.
Rome, Aug. 18. The momorandum
of the Bulgarian government to the
powers regarding the situation in
Macedonia has produced a great effect
here. The general Impression is that
the Bulgarian government Is no longer
to bold back popular feeing, which
unless it is repressed, in time will lead
to a war with Turkey. The fate of
Bulgaria in that event, it Is thought,
w .uld probably be the same as that of
Greece In the last war with Turkey.
The Italian government li exchang
ing views on the subject with Vienna
and London.
S ifia, Bulgaria, Aug. 18. Orders
have been issued for the mobilization
tomorrow of two divisions of reserves.
It was rumored that they will be em
ployed in strengthlng the forces on
the frontier to prevent the passage of
Bulgarian bands into Macedonia. The
officials, however, state that the
rumor Is unfounded, and that the re
ervrs were called out to undergo
their cus omary training for fifteen
dajs.
A dispatch received here from Us
kub says that six hundred Bashl
Bizoukas, under the command ol
Aloanlan chiefs, who are ntitorlously
cruel '.ave pillaged and destroyed a
number of Christian vl lages In the
cl'St ricts of Dehre and Okrlda. The
Turkish authorities, it is added, con
nived at the outrages and furnished
the Bahl I!a.(W,s, with eild uniforms,
in order that they might appear to be
regular se;Mlers.
Street car Smsah-up
Kansas City,; Mo. Aug. 18 In s
rear end co llson of two tiolleiy crf
on the lndependence-Kensas City
line, two poisons were fatally Injured,
four seriously hurt and half a dozec
0 hers sustained minor brusics' and
cuts. The fatally Injured;
Krlc Col b, aged thirty.
illls Wo' d, aged sixteen.
The cars were returning t Kansat
City from Forest talk anc
were crowded with pas-cngcrs. Tbf
car was running at a rapid rate.
Government Clerk a Suicide.
Washington, Aug, 18 Stephen E,
Hall of Aurora, 111 , a piotege of Sen
ator Albert J. Hopkins, killed him'
self In his room here yesterday. Hal1
shortly before ending his life had suf
fered great pain due to some stomact)
rrou-le and had applied at a nearbt
drug store for a certain mndlclne
which the druggist wai unable to
suppl .
Five Dead In Ship Wreck.
Quebeck, Aug. 17 The steam tug
M-rza feiundered em Wednesday night
near Cutarde shoal, about fourteen
miles from here. The tug left here
Sunday afterritwn for Seven Snoals,
but had to put back because of some
defect In the b' Her She s arted gale
Monday and pwed Rlmotisky two
Ja later. Nothing was heard of net
until a Mspatch was received her,
saying she bad founder! and of tbe
eight men aboard, Ave wen drvwaetl
REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS
CHRISTIANS OF USKU3. TURKEY'
FEAR MASSACRE.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Au?. 19. A rein of
terror is reported to prevail at Uskub,
where the Christian Inhabitants are
afraid to leave their houses. The vali
has Lssued the strictest orders to the
Musselman population to remain
q iletand not molest their Christian
neighbors, but the Mussel mans, meet
ing in the mtqueb, have resolved at a
given signal to massacre tne whole
Christian population immediately tbe
5rst insurgent band .appears near
Us kub or on any other pretext. The
Christians are terroized. The Turk
is! troops who are their only protec
tion, do not show the tlightest dispo
sition to aid them. Tbe attitude of
tbe Turkisb troops was recently
plainly manifested wben a train load
of soldiers, shortly after leaving
Uskub fired on the Bulgarian work
men who were repairing the track.
Three of tbe workman were killed and
their bodies wer eftlying on tbe
line.
Tli graphic commu dcatioi between
Soda and Constanti ople is interrupt
ed, the wires having been cut be
twee 1 Adrianapole and Constantino
ple. Jio telegrams from Constantino
ple have been received here since 6
o'clock Monday evening. The Turkish
1 fll Is at Adrianople refuse to stat
here t ie break oacured. Fears are
expressed here regarding the safety of
the railroad between A U'ianople aid
Constantinople. -
Chinese Warship Sunk.
Hong Kong, Aug, 19 The Canad
ian Pacific's steamer, Emnress of In
dia from Vancouver, B. 0 July 27,
and YoKOhami, Aug. 10, for Hon
Kong colli 'ed near this port teiday
with the Chinese cruis r Huang-Tai.
The warship sank an hour after th;
coll sion. Express of lu liasivei 170
of the crew tf the cruiser. The cap
tain Huang-Tai, who refused to leave
his ship and thirteen of the crew were
drowned. Eon press of India was bad
ly d maed amid ships.
ITnanj,' Tai was a tender to the na
val nglneering college of the south
ern Chinese squadron at Nanking, 260
feet of 2,110 tons displacement, 260
feet lonp, had thirty-six feet beam
a:id drew twenty feet cf water. Tne
cruisir was bu It in England.
Its ar.na-nent consisted of three
seven-inch Krupp guns seven lorty
pou .ders and six small rifle guns and
was fitted with two torpedo tubes. It
bad a completemcrit of 300 men.
Empress of India als--, constructed
I In England, is one of the finest vessels
of the Canadian Pacitlc lliilroad com
pany. It ia 410 feet long and over
3,000 ;ons net register.
Portland, Ore., Aug. 19, Tiie Em
press of India carried twenty-five ci
bio passengers and 250 s tea rage pas
sengers, the latter being mo sy Chi
nese. She was under command ol
Lieut. O. P. Marshall.
Boys Must Quit the nines.
Birmingham, Ala., vug. 19 In
the course testimony introduced be
fore the arbitration commission on
behalf of the miners yesterday, it de
veloped under crs-examination that
many of the miners were in the habit
of taking their boys Into the minos tc
work with them, each boy being al
lowed half a turn on cars, although
his coal output went under the fath
er's check.
Controversy over th responslbilitj
of ibis class of labor led to an agree
ment between the miners and the
principal operators involved in the
arblrra i n that the commission in
Its findings should make a ruh thai
no boys under fourteen years of age
shut Id be allowed to enter the mlnet
in this dtatrict.
The testimony to-day s'fowed tnat
any miner working twenty dart a
month could earn S100 a month.
Desertions From Ships.
London, Aug. 19. The British con
sul at Portland, Ore., James Laldlaw
emphas'zlng in the aonual report the
Increase In the number of desertloni
from British ships In ports within the
Jurisdiction, complain that the own
ers and captains make no stand
against the "crimps," and rarely show
a disposition to assist tlu local au
authorities in proseoutlng persons
guilty of infractions of the law and,
he adds In th absence of proper evi
dence, little is done.
Mr. Laldlaw th-n criticises the law,
recently passed, Hocusing, sailors,
lardin houses, siylng-
"The clause rising the legal rate Tor
furnishing seaman from ten to thirty
dollars Is very obJetlon.ble. It acts
ax a premium on crimping, S -ange
as It may seem the most notorious
crimping firm Is the only one that bs
received licenses."
Great Forest Fire Racing
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 13. A great
forest tire la raging near Elk, about
twenty miles north of this city. It Is
reported that 1,000 ac es In a belt of
white pine and cedir has been burnd
over a-ready and unlets rain fall the
lo will be very heuvy, A hundred
sen have been fighting tbe fire since
Sunday night, bnt they are powerless
to control it It Is estimated that
from twelve to fifteen million feet of
'uvaber have been destroyed .
MEN MASSACREED
MACEDONIAN MALE INHAB
ITANTS KILLED
THE VILLAGE DESTROYED
LIVES OF TWO HUNDRED MEN ARE
BLOTTED OUT
T0ARCH IS BEING APPLIED
KiiMia and Italy Have Sent Squadrons to
Turkii.li Waiera tlftaen Towna
Dcatrujrad.
Sofia. Aug. 19- Reports from Mon
astir say 200 women who have arrived
there from the Bulgarian village of
iiakavo have presented 1 etltions t
the Russian and Austrian consuls and
to Ililmi Pasha, the inspector general,
setting forth that their village baa
been burned and that all the male!
or the population have been massa
cred. Fifteen villages In the dis
trict of Okrida, three in the d strict
of Lerin and three in the district ol
Rezeu have been destroyed.
Further details of the fighting at
Kr-iBh show that the insurgents re
tired t a p hit in the vicinity of tbe
ton af er lo iog sixty men kl led and
twelve wounded. The Turkish loss
was 250 men killed or wounded.
A band of seventy insutgents, near
K -j iie, in the vilayet of Uskub,
fought a detachment of Turks all "Jay
Nine of the insurgents were killed.
The Turkish losses are not known,
on the following day a party of Basbi
Fazouks entered the village and
s aughtcred all the inhabitants.
Vienna, Aug. 20 A telegram from
B iris S-irafoS, the active l'ader of
the Macedonian insurgen s t the
management of the oriental railroad,
is published here. Sarafotf says
that "the general s'aff of the revolu
tionary committee at Macedonia and
Adrianople announces that in conse
quence of the rising of tbe Christian
population of Macedonia for libera
tion from Turkish rule they will ne
cessarily have to commit outrages on
railways," and he begs the manage
ment, from humane consideration,
to accept no passengers in order that
there may be no unnecessary sacri
fices to deplore.
Another bomb outrage is reported
to have occurred at Philipolis. A
boom was thrown into the house of a
merchant there and three person!
were killed.
London, Aug. 20. Tbe Italian am
bassador here today received a dis
patch from Rome announcing tbat
an Italian squadron bad been ordered
to Macedonian waters to "watch
events." No explanation was given
of tbe reasons underlying tbe orders,
and tbe embassy officials are unable
to say whether it was tbe result ol
Russia sending a squadron to Turk
ish waters. It was regarded as pro
bably that the foreign office at Rome
had received advices, showing tbat
Italian interests, whioi are Import
ant at Saloniea and in its neighbor
hood, are menaced, and it was deem
ed w se to have a strong f iree bar.
dy to emvince the Turks of the lo
ad visibility of affecting sueb inter
ests by any hostle act. It was added
that the presence of the Italian fleet
would also deter tbe Tutks from
committing outrages on iaofJ.nsive
Cnristians.
Yacht Kaces Begin Today.
New York, Aug 20. Over thi
ocean race course outside of Pandy
Hook Sir Thnmas Llpton's third chal
lenger, Shamrock 111., will tomorrow
try conclusions with the new defend
er of tbe Americans cup.the Reliance.
Both yachts are moeired to-night In
id -audy Hook reatfy for tbe race to
morrow. B;th were given their final
trial spins today Despite tbe big
time aliowanc: whlcb the dcfendei
must concede iu tbe ballenger the
friends of Reliance are confident tbat
SirThomas is again doomed to defeat,
ani tlie conlldocice Id the Amcricar
boat is reflected in the betting, when
the odds are 2 to 1 on Reliance.
Friends of tbe Bri ish boat, on the
other hand, profess tbe greatest faitb
In the ability of Fife's greatest ere
tlon to "lift the cup,"
According to tbs rales, tbe first
rice will be fifteen nautical miles U
windward or leewar J and return, de
pending upon the direction of tbe
wind. After that each alternate raw
will he over a triangular course, tec
miles to the leg
Tunnels Must be Lighted
Ber'ln, Aug. 20 Lessons caugbt bj
the recent disaster on tbe Paris undr
groind railway are being applied
the minister of pub Ic works. Orders
have been issu d to the official ol
the Berlin underground and overhead
railway to light all tunnels by wii
wholly disconnected with the motot
current and to Install apparatus en
abling tra-ti hands to brea the traffic
urrent am w ere and thus op train
spproiching tbe scene of m accident.