TOFICS OF THE TJ MES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTERESTING -
ESTING ITEMS.
Comments and Criticism * Baaed Upon
the Happening of the Dy Histori
cal and Newa Notcv.
Man is of few days and full-of con
densed cussedncss.
Always view a scene with a mule
in it from the foreground.
When told to take a back seat the
average man -will take affront.
Any one in Paris is likely to have
Sahtos-Dumout dr"op in on him.
A man's true friends keep quiet when
some one is enumerating nls virtues.
Some women confide In men for the
purpose of extracting secrets from
ithem.
What good will it do us if they have
found the smallpox germ ? We didn't
lose him.
The Chinese invented firecrackers ;
but the Christians figured out the au
tomobile.
Presently he muy go fourfluslung
down the corridors of time as King
jPeter Out.
i * > The doctors say fat babies are not
I "healthy. Is this to be construed as a
deadly blow to the nursing bottleV
Good advice has a monetary value.
It's the other kind that is handed out
by those who are running a gift en-
While a negro and a Chinaman divid-
7ed class honors at Yale , the athletic
ihouors of the institution are still held
by the whites.
Porto Rico held a flag day , at which
fifteen hundred American flags were
carried in procession. It seems as if
this -were a loyal colony.
"While the easy-going individual is
trying to figure out which Is the best
foot to put forward the strenuous man
gets there with botli feet
"When King Peter arrived at Bel
grade the bands played the Servian na
tional anthem. The Servian national
anthem is "God Help the King. "
A scientist assures us that the earth
is good for 20.000,000 years yet. Un
less , of course , Morgan and Baer
should decide to take it with them.
The largest man in the world has
been discovered in Kustjak , Russia.
GoodI We have several unbeaten
specimens of the smallest right here.
It costs some young men as high as
$25,000 each for a four years' course
at Yale. But these young men would
pend the money even if they were not
at Yale.
To be sure the office should seek the
man , but any of our statesmen would
tell you that there is no necessity of
aiding in the cellar when the office is
going by the house.
An eminent scientist connected with
the agricultural bureau states that the
world's demand for beans has passed
tlie supply. The roar of apprehension
in Boston papers sounds like a yard-
ful of locomotives letting off steam.
A pastor has preached against what
he is pleased to call "the peekaboo
waist. " The waist may be immodest ,
but calling public attention to it comes
nearer to being immoral than the gar
ment itself. Beloved brethren , let us
think twice before 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 great 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. "
Some curious person asked the late
Oliver Wendell Holmes about his age.
"Seventy-two years young" ( not "old" )
was his reply. Some men are younger
at seventy than others are at forty or
fifty. Some men are never young.
Old age hovers over them before they
reach mature years. They are rotten
as soon as they are ripe. Some men
are never old , but carry to the latest
hours of their lives the buoyancy , the
blitheness of disposition , the faculty
for mental labor , the power of thought
and expression , the susceptibility to
higher culture which marked their
-growth from adolescence.
When it is here remarked that the
male American is declaring symptoms
of dawning effeminacy no occasion is '
offered for indignant reprobation. The
average American has so much thor
ough masculinity that he can spare
enough to dower a less vigorous pee
ple. What is meant is that the natural
reaction to the paramountcy of the
American girl has set in. As she
shares the pursuits , the pleasures and
the liberties of her brothers and im
poses her commands upon them she
becomes more masculine , they more
feminine ; her shoulders square off ,
llieirs .begin to slope. She dons the
sweater and the blazer and wears he ?
skirts nhortor and shorter ; they tak <
to pfnk shirtwaists and docked oper
work stockings , and their ever baggier
trousers , worn so long that they have
to be turned up at the bottom , seem
fashioned on .a seraglio pattern.
Servian government bonds , despite
the precarious position of rulers and
people , have been rather more steady
in the recent fluctuations of European
public securities than those of other
states. During the Boer war period ,
between 1899 and and 1902 , when Brit
ish consols fell 20 points and German
imperial 3 per cents 10 , the extreme
decline in Servian 4s was 8 points.
What is more striking still , their price
at the opening of June , 1908. was high
er than the highest figure reached In
the period from 1S98 to 1902 inclusive.
This did not result , however , from
blind confidence in Servians willingness
or unwillingness to pay. Servia 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 , (1) ( ) net earnings of various
state railways , (2) ( ) liquor licenses , (3) ( )
tobacco monopolies , (4) customs duties ,
(5) ( ) salt monopoly , and ( G ) petroleum
monopoly. This has an interesting
sound. It makes one wonder what
sort of figure a "trust plank" would-
cut in the platform of a Servian minor
ity party.
Once upon a time a boy drifted away
from the teachings of a good mother
and got into bad company. It is a
strange characteristic of the tangle
that he is not satisfied with being
tough. He wants to spread the conta
gion , to extend his meanness to make
otW boys as bad as himself. And
he finds many converts. So the boy
who figures in this editorial learned to
lie , to pilfer , to drink , to curse and all
these things were hailed as virtues in
the small circle in which he had been
initiated. At heart he wasn't a bad
fellow , but he was weak. Finally , he
was 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 he 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 brakeman , 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. The
anoymous 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 brakeman his place.
Men do not like to work with ex-con
victs , if they know it. There is a
sneaking feeling that the 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 brakeman ,
and in 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 RESURVEYED
The work of restoring and remark
ing , the Mason and Dixon line is rap
idly nearing completion , uudjr the su
pervision of competent engineers 'ap
pointed jointly by the States of Mary
land and Pennsylvania. In April ,
1901 , each State appropriated JM , < .KJO
for the purpose.
No question of territory is involved'
In the reconstruction , but the historic
ON THE BOUNDARY LINK.
interest in this imaginary division of
North and South , warranted a remark
ing of the line marked out by Macon
and Dixon in 17G3.
Rock and earth mounds used at that
time are still in existence to demon
strate the thoroughness of the original
.survey. An erroneous impression ob
tains that the line is thirty feet wide ,
but the fact Is that the line is Imag
inary.
The false idea is due to the fact that
the original survey necessitated a thir
ty-foot path through the wilderness ,
signs of which still remain.
The national bad habit Is not steal
ing , drinking , gambling or loafing , but
plain , every-day exaggeration.
TURKEY TO BLAME
IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MACEDO
NIAN UPRISING. HAS MADE
TERRIBLE RECORD.
Fofia , Bulgaria , Aug. 17. Th
Bulgarian government ! has presents
a memorandom to the powers settin
out at great length the condition o
affairs during the past three month
in Macedonia since the Spanish gov
srnment undertook to inaugurate th' '
promised reforms. Ihe most precis
details , dates , places and names o
persons are given in memorandum
the whole constituting a terrible c e
gory of murder , torture , incendarism
pillage and general oppression com
mitted by the Ottomon soldiers am
officials.
Thes ° particulars were obtained en
tirely on official sources , such as tin
reports of the Bulgarian consuls ane
agents of the Bulgarian government
and in many instances the report !
made by the Turkish authorities
The Bulgarian government cuar
rantees the absolute truth of ever ]
statement and challenged the porte t <
disprove a single c'.ar.e made n th <
memorandum. The memorandum be
gins by stating that during the pasi
three mouths the Ottoman govern
ment has taken a seiics of measure !
with the alleged intention of in ugur
ating the era of prmisrd reform anc
of assuring peace and tranquilty ! tc
to the Bulgarian population o
European Turkey , but which have
had the contrary effpct of further ex
asp r-'iig ' this population and reviv
ing the revolutionary movement in
stead of p oceeding solely against per
sons eruilty of breaches of the pub'ic
order. The military and civil author
Mies have sought every possible pre
text to prosecute , terroize and ruin
the Bulgarian inbabi an's , alike in
thelarge ci'ies and in the small vtl-
agcs.
agcs.Wholesale
Wholesale massacres , individual
murders , the-destruction of villages ,
the pillaging and se-ting fire to houses'
the arrests , ill-treat men1 , tor ures. ar
bitrary imprisonment and banish-
menf , Ihe closing and disorganizing of
3hureb.es and schools , the ruining of
median's thecolectinn of taxes for
many years in advance such , pro
ceeds the memorandum , are among
theactsof the Ottoman administra-
iion of the vilayets of Salnnica , Mona-
; tir , Uskub , and Adrianople.
No Evidence of Oil.
Washington , Aug. ' 7. During the
spring of the present year , Mr. T' W.
Vaughn , of the United States geolog-
cal survey , made a trip into Georgia
! or the purpose of looking into the
probabilities of the occurrance iof ps-
irolem in that state. One of the lo-
jalities visi ed by him was the vicin
ty of Albany , Dougherty county.
During the proceeding year (1902) ( )
Mr ri ghn spent a month in mak-
ng a gee ogical reconnaissance from
ihe edge of the crystalline rocks near
Macon as far south as Albany. The
) bject of his work was to ascertain
vhether the geological conditions
ave any ind cation of the occurrence
> f petro'em. The geology is extremely
iiinple , and there were no indications
f the geological structure usually
issociated with oil pools. There WHS
in entire absence of any of the sur-
ace manifestations in the \vay of gas
lil , sulphur , etc. , which are ordinary
Lccompaniments of oil in all regions
klr. Vaughn is of the opinion , there-
ore , that no oil will be found in
vestern Georgia in the strip of coun-
ry extending fiom Macon through
tfontezuma , Americus , and Albany ,
.hat . is. from Bibb county through
3rawford , Houston , Macon. Douly ,
sumter , Lee and Dougherty counties.
Numerous miscellaneous measure-
nentsare made in California each
rear by the dr.graphic branch of
he United States geo'ogical survej' ,
in the streatrs that rise in the Sierra
Nevada. Measurements were recent.
v made by Mr. S. G , Bennet , hyclrog-
apner , o i the tributaries of the
ipper Merced river , which will be of
nteres1 to many persons who have
Doked upon the waters of these
Lreams as they { o ir over the brink o !
he granite walls that form the
toundar , of the Y semiie valley , and
lave asked what is the volume of
t-ater flowing over the different fal's.
This is a difficult question to answer ,
s the amount vanes from season to
easoi , from day to day , and even
orm hour to hour , according to the
mount of snow and the stte of the
/eather on the high mountains
rhere these streams rise.
Faial'y Shot By Mayor.
Prairie Du Chien , Wis. , Aug. 17
i. D. George was shot at McGregor
y Mayor John W. Walters during a
uar el over the Corbett-Jeffries fight ,
'he victim , although still alive , will
rubably not live till night.
Bid Americans Defiance.
Manila , Aug. 17. M pr Robert L
tillard has demanded redress from
ultan Dezen , the tribal leader ot the
loros. Although profe3aing a warm
iendship for Americans , the sultan
2cently surrounded a email detach-
lent of United States troops , payinp
im a friendly visit , and with a strong
> rce of warrior0 , offered buttle , his
ien in-ultingly benring an American
ag. So far the only r .ply has been
B fiance.
REVIEW OF WAV !
TWENTT-ONE WARSHIPS AT OTSTE ]
BAY.
GLITTER IN THE SUNSHINI
tOUR TARAtLEI COLUMNS A Mil , ]
LONG IS THE SIGHT THAT
GKEETS T1IE PRESIDENT
BRIGHT AS A DOLLA !
Splendid Weather Ushoreo In fin
Fete Day Ac Ojster Bay
Saint * * Fired and Ac
knowledged.
Oyster Bay , N. Y , Aug. 18 Twen
ly-oiie warships drawn up in four par
allel columns a mile long and includ
ing pome of the best fi-ghling ehipj
of the Uni ed States navy , resting or
the p'oesy surface of Long Islanc
sound , composed the picture whict
lay spread out before Presideut Roosevelt
velt when he stepped out on the ver
andaof his homjs at Sagao-ore Hill
early yesterday.
Their brasswork shining under the
slanting rays of the morning sun gave
evidence that every ship was spich
and span for this , the first naval re
view a the nation's yimmer capitol
and piob.ibly the nist ever held for
the exclusive purpose of presidential
honors.
Commanded by Eear Admiral Bar-
cer arid three oiher naval offic is of
slmi'ar ' nnk , hei fleet , comprising two
squadrons each of two divi-ions , be
sides a flotilla of torpedo boat destroy
ers , included a representative of
nearly every type of fighting craft
'rom the ponderous Illinois 'o the lean
destroyers. Two parallel columns of
battleships and cruise-s headed by the
Kearsarge , Rear Admiial Barker's
flagsh p , flanked by files of destroyer ? ,
composing the north Atlantic fleet ,
covered the placid sound for two miles
nil s' o e fr m pic'u esque Lloyd's
Neck and blockading the mouth of
Oyster Bay , presented a splendid ma
rine spectacle , abundantly suggestive
of a massive power.
Bulgaria Free for Action.
Rome , Aug. 18. The memorandum
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 hold back popular fee ing , which
unless it is repressed , in time will lead
to a war with Turkey. The fate of
Bulgaria in that event , it is thought ,
would probably be the same as that of
Greece in the last war with Turkey.
The Italian government n exchang
ing views on the subject with Vienna
and London.
Sofia , 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 strengthing 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
-ervcs were called out to undergo
their cus ornary training for fifteen
dajs.
A dispatch received here from Us
kub says that six hundred Bashi
Bazoukas , under the command o !
Albanian chiefs , who are notoriously
cruel ' -ave pillaged and destroyed a
number of Christian vi lages in the
districts of Debre and Oknda. The
Turkish authorities , it is added , con
nived at the outrages and furnished
the Bashi Bazou s , with old uniforms ,
in order that they might appear to bf
regular soldiers.
Street car Smnsh-up
Kansas City , : Mo. Aug. 18 In 2
rear end co'lison of two tiollery cars
an the Independence-K-insas City
line , ' two pcisons were fatally injured ,
four seriously hurt and half a dozec
D hers sustained minor brusies and
; uts. The fatally injured ;
Eric Co b , aged thirty.
\\illis Word , aged sixteen.
The cars were returning ti Kansas
Uity from Forest Tark anc
vere crowded with pas-.engers. Thf
: ar was running at a rapid late.
Government Clerk a Suicide.
Washington , Aug. 18 Stephen E.
3all of Aurora , 111. , a piotege of Sen-
itor Albert J.Hopkins , killed him
self in his room here yesterday. Hall ,
shortly before ending his life had suf
'ered great pain due to some stomacb
rouble and had applied at a nearbj
Irug store for a certain mndicine
vhich the druggist was unable to
iuppl .
Five Dead in Ship Wreck.
'
Quebeck , Ang. 17 The steam tug
yl rza foundered on Wednesday night
lear Cutarde shoal , about fourteen
niles from here. The tug left here
Sunday afternoon for Seven Shoale ,
mt had to put back because of some
lefect in the boiler She s arted s-gain
Monday and passed Rimousky two
la s later. Nothing was heard of hei
mtil a c'ispatch was received here ,
aying she had foundered and of the
sight men aboard , five were drowaed
REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS
CHRISTIANS OF USKU3. TURKEY
FEAR MASSACRE.
SoQa , Bulgaria. Aug. 19. A reign 01
terror is reported to prevail at Uskub
where the Christian inhabitants arc
afraid to leave their houses. The vali
has issued the strictest orders to the
Musselman population to remair
qiiet arid not molest their Christiar
neighbors , but the Mussel mans , meet'
ing in the mosques , have resolved at a
given signal to massacre tne whole
Christian population immediately the
first insurgent band appears neai
Us kub or on any other pretext. The
Christians are terroized. The Turk
ish troops who are their only protec
tion , do not show the slightest dispo
sition to aid them. The attitude ol
the Turkish troops was recently
plainly manifested when a train load
of soldiers , shortly after leaving
Uskub fired on the Bulgarian work
men who were repairing the track.
Three of the workman were killed and
their bodies wers | ieft | ! ying oa the
line.
line.Teh
Teh graphic commu licatioa betweec
Sofia and Constant ! ople is interrupt
ed , the wires having been cut be *
twee i Adriauapoleaod Constantinople
ple , "fro telegrams from Constantinople
ple have been received here since 6
o'clock Monday evening. The Turkish
< ffl. . ; Is at Adrianople refuse to state
w here t'le break occured. Fears are
expressed here regarding the safety ol
the railroad between Adrianople and
Constantinople.
Chinese Warship Sunk.
Hong Kong , Aug , 19 The Canad
ian Pacific's steamer , Emt > rt-ss of In
dia from Vancouver , B. C' , July 27 ,
and Yokohama , Aug. 10 , for Hon'f
Kong colli < ed near this port todaj
with the Chinese cru's r fluang-Tai.
The warship sank an hour after th
coll'sion. ' Empress of In lia saved 170
of the crew of the cruiser. The cap
tain Huang-Tai , who refused to leave
his ship and thirteen of the crew were
drowned. Empress of India was bad
ly d maged amid ships.
Huang Tai was a tender to the na
val engineering college of the southern -
ern Chinese squadron at Nanking , 260
feet of 2,110 tons displacement , 26C
feet long , had thirty-six feet beam
and drew twenty feet cf water. The
cruisar was bu It in England.
Its armament consisted of three
seven-inch Krupp guns seven forty-
pou-'ders and six small rifle guns and
was fitted with two torpedo tubes. It
had a completement of 300 men.
Empress of India als , constructed
/in / England , is one of the finest vessels
of the Canadian Pacific Railroad com
pany. It ia 440 feet long and over
3,000 tons net register.
Portland. Ore. , Aug. 19 , The Em-
rpress of India carried twenty-five ca
bin passengers and 250 stearage paa-
sengers , the latter being motsy Chi
nese. She was under command oJ
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 cross-examination that
many of the miners were in the habit
of taking their boys into the mines 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 the responsibilitj
of this class of labor led to an agreement -
ment between the miners and the
principal operators involved in the
arbitration that the commission in
its findings should make a ruls thai
no boys under fourteen rears of age
should be allowed to enter the mines
in this district.
The testimony to-day sVowed cnat
any miner working twenty days a
month could earn $100 a month.
Desertions From Ships.
London , Aug. 19. The British con
sul at Portland , Ore. . . James Laidlaw
emphaszing in theaanual report the
increase in the number of desertion !
from British ships in ports within the
jurisdiction , complain * that the own
ers and captains mike ; no stand
against the "crimps , " and rarely show
a disposition to assist tlu local au-
authorities in prosecuting persons
guilty of infractions of the law and ,
he adds in the absence of proper evi
dence , little is done.
Mr. Laidlaw thsn criticises the tow ,
recently passed , licensing , sailors ,
boarding houses , saying-
"The clause rising the * legal rate tor
furnishing seaman from ten to thirty
dollars is very objectionable. It acts
as a premium on crimping , Sange
as it may seem the most notorious
sri mping firm is the only one that has
received licenses. "
Great Forest Fire Raging
Spokane , Wash. , Aug. 19. A great
forest , nre is raging near Elk , about
iwenty miles north of this city. It is
reported that 1,000 ac'es in a belt of
Yhite pine and ced ir has been burned
> ver already and unless rain fall- , the
o s will be very heiivy. A hundred
ren have been fighting the fire since
Sunday night , bnt they are powerless
a control it. It is estimated that
rom twelve to fifteen million feet of
uraber have been destroyed.
\
MEN MASSACREED-
1
MACEDON N MALE I N H A B- '
IJ-ANTS KILLED
THE VILLAGE DESTROYED. .
LIVES OF TWO HUNDRED MEN ARE.
BLOTTED OUT
TO ARCH IS BEING APPLIED
Ititvila and 'It ly Hare Sent Squadrons to
TarkUh Waters. * If teen Towns
Destroyed. \
\
dotia , Aug 19 Reports from Mon-
aatir say 200 women who have arrived
there from the Bulgarian village of ,
Rakavo have presented j etitions t
the Russian and Austrian consuls and
to Ililmi Pasha , the inspector general ,
setting forth that their village has
been burned and that all the males .
of 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 distiict-o (
Rezen have been destroyed.
Further details of the fighting at ,
KruSh show that the insurgents re
tired ta p int in the vicinity of the \j
to-vn af er lo ing sixty men ki led and '
twelve wounded The Turkish -loss
was 250 men killed \\ounded. . s
A band of seventy insuigents , near
K-i ie , in the vilayet of Uskub ,
f ; uglr. a detachment of Turks all "Jay"
Nine of the insurgents were killed.
The Turkish losses are not known ,
1 > n the following day a party of I3ashi
Ra/ouks entered the village and
saughteredaU the inhabitants.
Vienna , Aug. 20 A telegram from
B-iris Sarafoir , the active leader of
the Macedonian insurgen s t ) the
management of the oriental railroad ,
is published here. Sarafoff says
that "the general s'all of the revolu
tionary committee at Macedonia and
Adrianople announces that in consequence
quence of the rising of the Christian
p puation ! of Macedonia for libera
tion from Turkish rule they will ne
cessarily have to commit outrages o
railways. " and he begs the manage
ment , from humane consideration ,
to accept no passengers in order that
there may be n > i unnecessary sacri- ,
dees 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 persons
were killed.
London , Aug. 20. The Italian am
bassador here today received a dis
patch from Rome announcing that
an Italian squadron had been ordered
to Macedonian waters tD "watcb
events. " No explanation was given
of the reasons underlying the orders ,
and the embassy officials are unable
to say whether it was the 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 that
Italian interests , whic'i are import
ant at Salonica and in its neighbor
hood , are menaced , and it was deem
ed vv se to have a strong f jrce han
dy to cmvince the Turks of the in-
ad visibility uf affecting such inte--
esls by imy hostle act. It was adued
that the presence of the Italian fleet
would also deter the Turks from
committing outrages on inoffensive
Cnristuns
Yacht Races Begin Today.
New York. Aug 20. Over thi
ocean race course outside of Sandy
Hook Sir Thomas Lipton's third chal-
ieoger , Shamrock III. , will tomorrow
try conclusions with the new defend
er uf the Americans cup.the Reliance.
Both yachts are moored to-night in-
idandy Hook ready for the race to
morrow. Bth were given their final
trial spins today Despite the big
time allowance- which the defendei
must concede to the : hallenger the
friends of Reliance are confident that
Sir Thomas is again doomed to defeat ,
in I the confidence in the Americac
boat is reflected in the betting , where
bhe odds are 2 to 1 on Reliance.
Friends of the Bri-ish boat , on the
ather hand , profess the greatest , faitfe
in the ability of Fife's greatest cre-
tion to "lift the cup , "
According to the rules , the first'
race will be fifteen nautical milea t < ;
windward or leewarJ and return , de
pending upon the directiou of the
wind. After that each alternate race
ivillbe < over a triangular course , teq
miles to the leg.
Tunnels Must be Lighted
Ber'in , Aug. 20. Lessons eaught by
: he recent disaster on the Paris under
go md railway are being applied oy
he minister of public works. Orders
jave been issu d to the officials cl
: he Berlin underground and oveihead
ailway to light all tunnels by wiies
wholly disconnected with the motoi
mrrent and to install apparatus en-
ibling tram hands to brea < tihe t raffle
urrent an w'eere and thus s op trains
ipproachine the scene of an accident :
