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Light Company.
How About Those Trousers—Metropoli
tan Clothing Company.
Amusements—Air. Louis James at the
Theater, March 4, and “The Girl I Left
Behind Me,” March 5; "A Night Off” at
the Theater, March 3. •
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Medical—World’s Dispensary Prepara
tions; Terraline; Hood’s Pills; Cuticura
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For Sale; Lost;"Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Chicogo woman who murdered a
man with a hat pin was not strictly origi
nal in her choice of weapons. A hat pin is
nothing more than on enlarged and eyeless
needle, and Ihc Borgias employed needles,
with poisoned points, in some of their ar
tistic murders.
Some months ago the Morning News
jlrintcd an item with regard to the estab
lishment of a plant in Maine for the pur-*
pose of extracting gold from sea water.
If the reports with regard to the opera
tions of the plant for the past four weeks
are strictly reliable, there Is a Klondike
at the door of every man who lives near
salt water. The managers of the concern
say their machines have extracted gold at
the rate of $125 worth, and silver at the.
rate of $65 worth per day every working
day for the past month. Their pUurt cost,
tpey say, $50,000, and they think $l9O per
day is fairly good interest on the invest
ment. They are now operating twelve
“gold machines,” and assert that they
will increase (♦ ir plant to 1,000 machines
during the spring. With (he ocean to draw
upon for gold, the battle of the standards
ought to lie quickly settled.
It is frequently asserted by persons who
discuss the Maine affair and the Cuban
situation, that a war would do this coun
try good; that it would make work more
plentiful. War does not seem to have
had that effect upon Spain, notwithstand
ing heavy drafts of men have been made
for service in Cuba. During the past sev
eral days our dispatches have contained
accounts of bread riots at Salamanca, and
other points, because of a lack of work.
If war makes work, and work brings the
means of livelihood, there would not be
thousands of men and women In Spain
clamoring for something to eat, and break
ing down the doors of public buildings to
"secure bread. We should not. of course,
have such scenes in this country in the
•vent of a war with Spain, but the prob
abilities are that we should have a great
deal of suffering from lack of work and a
consequent lack of bread.
How much the course of events may be
changed by a misdirected kick! The other
day at Pittsburg Nat Goodwin and his
new wife and their pet dog boarded a
train. On the train they met a Mr. Fry
wrllh his new wife and their pet dog. Mr.
Goodwin, wife and dog were strangers to
Mr. Fry, wife und dog. The dogs proceed
ed to strike up an acquaintance. In two
seconds they were lighting. Mr. Fry tried
to kick them apart. He declares he meant
It to be an evenly divided kick, but it
wasn’t. Now there isn’t any question that
if Fry's kick had landed on Fry's dog.
Goodwin would have .regarded him as a
hero and Insisted in opening several smalt
bottles In his honor. But the kick struck
Goodwin’s dog; whereupon the suave and
plpasing Nat fell upon Fry and smote him
soundly upon the Jaw, and for his pains
received a beautiful black eye and a
bloody nose. Bui Nat did not care a great
deal for that; he had vindicated human
nature.
Vot in Their I’lnlforms.
The reports from New York Indicate
that there is a strong and growing senti
ment in that state in favor of biennial
sessions of the Legislature. The chances
for the passage of the bill, pending in the
Legislature, providing for biennial ses
sions. are regarded as excellent. The bill
is a Republican measure, but it has the
support of a great many leading Demo
crats. Mr. Croker regards it with favor
and Senator Hill, it is understood, thinks
it ought to be passed. With both Demo
cratic anti Republican supi>ort there ought
to be no doubt about its passage.
The candidates for the Democratic nom
ination for Governor in this slate, while
Insisting. In their respective platforms
that the tax rate Is too high, and declar
ing they are in favor of reducing the rate,
have nothing whatever to say about cut
ting down the expenses of the Legislature
by having only one session of the Legis
lature every two years. They must know
that a great deal of money could be saved
to the people by means of biennial ses
sions, and yet not one of them has the
courage to take a bold stand against an
nual sessions. What is the reason? Are
they afraid of the little politicians who
hang around the court houses and run
political meetings? Col. Candler says the
tax rate is too high and so does Judge At
kinson. Neither of them, however, pro
poses that the appropriations for pensions
and “.jhools shall be reduced. Col. Candler
doesn’t say how he proposes that the tax
rate shall be lowered, and Judge Atkinson
proposes that it shall be lowered by as
sessing property which now escapes taxa
tion. It is evident that neither of them
has any definite plan for lessening the bur
den of taxation.
It is true that when the law providing
for biennial sessions was in force the Leg
islature held extra sessions and the ex
pense was just about as much as it is
under the annual sessions plan, but extra
sessions should not be permitted under the
biennial sessions plan except when there
Is absolute necessity for them. ,
About the only way to cut down theV“x
penses of legislation is to pass a law giv
ing a legislator a lump sum for the two
years for which he is elected. He now
gets $4 a day and traveling exi>ense. T/et
him lie paid $l2O and traveling expenses
for his term. If there were such a law
there would be only one session of thirty
days or less every two years.
It Is claimed by the politicians that nec
essary legislation cannot be attended to
properly in a session of thirty days every
two years. In that time all the laws the
people need could be passed. There would
not, of course, be time for much speech
making or for considering bills which had
been defeated in previous Legislatures, or
which have no real merit, but there would
be plenty of time for doing what the best
interests of the people require should be
done. Now there is too much legislation,
not only in this slate but also in every
other. The public interests are injured
by it.
If Col. Candler, Judge Atkinson and Mr.
Berner were to try to create a public senti
ment in favor of biennial sessions during
ihetr campaigns for the Gubernatorial
nomination they would do more towards
lowering the rate of taxation than by dis
cussing their respective platforms.
Only Rumors.
The public is beginning to urfilerstand
that very little, if any, reliance, is to be
placed upon the sensational dispatches re
specting the Maine disaster which appear
in the “yellow” newspapers. Those news
papers were certain, a day or two after
the Maine was destroyed that their Ha
vana dispatches contained all there was
to be known about the cause of the battle
ship's destruction. They are not now so
certain as they were a week ago as to
what the disaster was dues Asa matter of
fact their information about that tragedy
will not be obtained in advance of that of
the conservative papers of the country.
Even the government will not know the
result of the investigation of the disaster
until the board which is conducting the
investigation makes its report.
Thus far the government has been very
frank in dealing with the public. It has
given out promptly all the news It has re
ceived from Havana, and the understand
ing is it will continue to do so, and from
that source will come, in all probability,
the first reliable news as to the cause of
the destruction of the Maine.
It may be a week of more before the
Secretary of the Navy will be ready to
give out the report of the board engaged
in making the investigation. The board
has not yet completed its work and it can
not be predicted with any degree, of cer
lalnty when it will complete it. It has a
good deal of work to do yet. After all the
testimony is In it may take several days
to make up its report. In the meantime
doubtless the “yellow” journals will pre
tend to have inside information as to what
the decision will be. They may guess
correctly, but whatever they publish on
that point will be only a guess.
The fact that the government is making
preparations for war does not mean that
it expects lhat the report of the investi
gating committee will be of a character
to make war necessary. It simple means
that it intends to he ready for any emer
gency that may arise. Being prepared for
war may avert war. Spain would much
more readily accede to a demand upon her
if the United States were In a condition
to enforce the demand than if they were
not.
Nothing the “yellow” Journals can pub
lish relative to the Maine Incident, before
the report of the Investigation is made,
will influence public sentiment to an ap
preciable extent. Therefore, there Is not
likely to be any more war excitement be
fore it is known what the investigation
shows to be the cause of the destruction of
the Maine.
"Old Aunt ’Liza” Wallen of Trenton, N.
J.. was a human exemplification of the
deacon’s “wonderful one-hoss- shay,”
which ran "a hundred years to a day.”
Sho died the other day upon her one hun
dredth birthday, and up to almost the
time of her death had been bright and
lively.
THE MORNING NEWS; WEDNESDAY', MARCH 2, 189S.
Dautcers of Railway Traveling.
Mr. H. G. Prout, editor of the Railroad
Gazette, is the author of a very interesting
article, published in the New Y'ork Times,
on "Railroad Accidents.” He calls atten
tion to the fact that rhe danger of travel
ing on a railroad is not nearly so great as
it appears to be from reading accounts of
railroad accidents which appear in the
public prints. It is true, that a good
many people, in the course of a year, are
killed and injured on the railroads of this
country, but only a small portion of them
are passengers. The most of them have
no connection whatever with the railroads.
A few days ago the annual report of the
Interstate Commerce Commission was is
sued. According to I hat report the num
ber of killed in railway accidents in the
United States for the year ending June
30, 1890, was 6,448 and the number of injur
ed was 33.000. At the battle of Gettysburg
the killed in both armies were 5,500 and
the wounded were 26,000. Such a com
parison is apt to create the impression
that it is extremely dangerous to travel
on a railway. An examination of the fig
ures, howe-ver, shows that such is not the
case.
Comparatively few travelers on railways
are killed. Mr. Prout says that during the
last nine years the killed have averaged
283 a year and the injured 2,600. But the
283 were not all killed, nor were the 2,600
all injured, by what are called train acci
dents. Some were killed ‘or injured at
stations,others were killed or injured while
sticking their heads or hands out of car
windows, the trains being in motion, and
still others met with mishaps while on
their way to stations. It is estimated
that, as a matter of fact, only about 142
people are killed in train accidents yearly
in this country and 1,300 Injured.
When It is remembered how many mill
ions of people are transported annually on
railways in this country the list of casual
ties by train accidents is remarkably
small.
According to Mr. Prout, the employes
killed per year in the last nine years were
2,210 and the “other persons" • were 3,9.11.
The employes were killed in various ways.
About one-fourth of them were killed by
falling from trains, 19 per cent, in train
accidents, 10 per cent, from overhead ob
structions, 12 per cent, while coupling cars,
and 34 per cent, from “other causes.”
The 3,951 “other persons” killed on rail
ways per year are made up of persons who
ate killed at highway crossings, at sta
tions and in various other ways. They
are picked off, one by one, in different
parts of the country at the rate of about
eleven a day all the year around.
From the foregoing it will be seen that
while a great many employes and “other
persons” are killed on the railways every
year the number of passengers killed is
very small.
Coal, Gas anil Telephones.
The fact that Mr. Croker, the leader of
the New York City Democracy, is talking
about the feeling among the people
against great trusts and monopolies—
against the coal trust, and the gas and
telephone monopolies—is understood as
meaning that the silver question will be
pushed as far in the background as possi
ble in the campaign in that state this
year. In New York the Republicans
hoped that the Democrats would make
the 16 to 1 idea the leading feature of their
state and Congressional campaigns, be
cause they thought they could win easlly
if they did. The Democrats are altogether
too shrewd to do anything of the kind.
They know what the sentiment in New
Y’ork in respect to silver is.
Mr. Croker conducted the mayoralty
campaign in New York city last fall for
the Democrats, and he was very success
ful. The Democrats also carried the
state. In neither the city nor the state
did they have anything to say in liehalf
of silver. If they had been less discreet,
they might have been less successful. It
does well enough to advocate the 16 to 1
idea in the South and far West, but the
political leader who should conduct his
campaign on the 16 to 1 idea in New York
would be regarded as a fit subject for a
lunatic asylum.
Mr. Croker can make a good deal of
political capital out of a war on trusts
and monopolies. It is undoubtedly true
that there is much feeling against them,
not so much because of their actions as
because of their vast accummulations of
wealth. Mr. Croker thinks that gas
ought to be supplied in New York city
at SI.OO per 1,000 feet, that coal ought to
be much cheaper than It Is, and that the
prices for telephones are altogether too
high. Doubtless he is right, and if he can
make the people believe that the Demo
cratic party can bring down prices for
the articles mentioned, that party will
stand an excellent chance for winning by
a larger majority than it did last year.
Periodically for a number of years Sa
vannah has discussed the building of
an auditorium for the accommodation of
gatherings of more than ordinary size,
nevertheless the auditorium is as yet so
far in the future that no one can foresee
when it will materialize. The need of such
a building is recognized and conceded, but
that is as far as we have gotten towards
erecting one. Meantime the lively little city
of Albany has gone right ahead of us, and
is building an auditorium of 100 by 190 feet,
for the accommodation of the South Geor
gia Chautauqua, and other organizations
and conventions which may care to use It.
This will be a first rate advertisement for
Albany. It will attract meetings, and draw
the attention of strangers to the fact that
Albany is an energetic, public spirited, up
to-date, growing city.
The question of the status of ocean tele
graphic cables In time of war is one which
is receiving considerable attention. There
is doubt whether such property would be
regarded os neutral, or whether the cables
would be destroyed by the party to the
war which might conceive them to be a
menace to Us interests. While the question
Is pending, the manager of one of the
great cable companies says his company
would lake steps to fully protect Its prop
erty. There has been no Important naval
hattle since the cables were laid, hence
there are no precedents fixing tile status of
them.
Representative Dingley, chairman of the
House committee on ways and means, is
thp president of the Congress Temperance
Society, an organization which has, to a
regreuabie degree, been hiding its light
under a bushel. The purposes of the or
der. it appears from reports concerning a
recent meeting, are to induce Congress to
prohibit the sate of liquors in the capitol,
to secure the upsetting of the custom of
cracking a bottle of wine over the* bow of
a ship at the launching, to defend the
good name of congressmen unjustly ac
cused of looking upon the wine when it is
red, and, incidentally, to keep its mem
bers in tile middle of the road. Its defen
ses of unjustly accused congressional
brethren, however, are somewhat tardy,
as witness the fact that the society has
only Just taken official notice of Tom Wat
son’s accusation against Congressman
Cobb of Alabama, w ho is alleged to have
propounded the famous query, “Where am
I at?” It w'as stated In open meeting the
other day that Congressman Cobb was
positively not under the Influence of liquor
at the time, but was merely tired. Pres
ident Dingley ordered the remarks to be
spread upon the minutes.
The cheekiest drummer on the road is
said to be doing a flourishing business in
Texas. He is said to closely resemble
William J. Br in and to be turnin’g that
resemblance to account in a queslionable
manner. He wears a sombrero trimmed
with a little gold and a great deal of sil
ver, and. passes himself off as the late
candidate of the Democracy for the Pres
idency, saying he has temporarily retired
from politics and has taken up drumming
because there is more money in it; but
that he may return to politics when he has
accumulated enough to pay his expenses
and defy the money power. The drum
mer is said to have all of the stock argu
ments in favor of free silver down pat,
and to roll them out with a degree of elo
quence which is really creditable to the
gentleman whose name he has assumed.
Ills popularity is said to be phenomenal,
and he is selling about all of the ghods
that his house can ship.
The disabled French liner, La Chain
page, which was towed to port the other
day, will be sued for salvage in a good
round sum by the rescuing steamer. The
value of the succored steamer and her
cargo will be taken into consideration, and
a board of arbitration will say what sum
shall be paid for relieving her. There
Were hundreds of human beings on board,
and their lives were, of course, infinitely
more valuable than ship and cargo; but
the saving of human lives will cut no
figure whatsoever in the suit for salvage.
Not a cent will be asked or received for
that service. The broad and universal law
of humanity provides that human cargoes
shall be saved at all hazards whenever
there is a possibility of doing it, without
expectation of pecuniary reward.
BRIGHT BITS.
—“But,” said the neighbor who likes to
argue over politics, “you surely don’t
want a paternal government.”
“Well,” replied Farmer Corntossel, “not
literally, of course. An’ yit I dunno but
it ud be a good thing, if some folks could
be tupk out to the wood shed an’ brought
to see the error of their ways, jes’ the
same as if they was small boys.”—Wash
ington Star.
—An Aggrived Class.—"l suppose,” said
Mr. Frankstown, as he handed a dime to a
tramp, “that you find people more willing
to give now then theye were a year ago,
when times were much harder?” “Well,
sir,” replied the trttmp, “you will scarcely
believe it, but the return of prosperity is
very hard on us.” "How can that be?"
“They offer us work now, A year ago
they didn’t.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele
graph.
—How They Get Them.—Managing Edi
tof— Mr. Quill, you will at once send out
mid secure for the office the following list
of’articles: , Two lengths of stovepipe,
a broken stove, a wash boiler,
two clothes fines, three buggy
wheels, a lot of assorted gas-pipe, and a
thousand feet of mixed lumber. City Ed
itor-And may J ask what this truck is
for? Managing Editor—Heaven, what stu
pidity! Listen, sir. The staff photogra
pher is to pose it, sir, as a taken-on-the
spot photograph of the submerged Maine.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Cl BRENT COMMENT.
New* Like tlie CimirK,
From the Nashville American (Dem.).
A great deal of the Havana news that
comes to us these days bears a family re
semblance to the Havana cigars made from
Tennessee tobacco. *'
Where Are thr Privates?
From the Knoxtville Tribune (Dem.).
Several patriotic persons hove publicly
offered their services as captains, colonels
or generals in case of war with Spain, or
without regard to whether there will be
any war, but if any man has offered his
services to the country, through any Gov
ernor ‘or the President, as a private, his
name has not been made public. All these
volunteers want *o lie officers. If we tight
Spain it will be with an army of officers.
Tlie Journalism of the Day.
From the Philadelphia Times (Dem.).
The public journalism of to-day should
be the conservator of violence in every ex
pression and action, and above all it should
teach the public that Its columns can he
relied upon as giving the truth mid only
the truth, us fully as it can be ascertain
ed. Altogether it looks as if yellow-kid
journalism had inflicted a fatal wound
upon itself by its unexampled extrava
gance in utterly false sensational Avar
stqries. /
Truth Worth Waiting; For.
From the Jacksonville Metropolis (Dem.),
First and foremost of all things, we
want the truth about,the destruction of the
ship. We want what cannot he had by
mischievous vociferation in Congress or.
by invs|v>nsihle and vicious outcry in the
newspapers. The one thing needful to our
dignity and righteousness, as a people is
thn; which the naval commission has been
seeking at Havana. We can wait for this.
Tho truth is always worth waiting for.
and when, as In the present case, the lives,
the fortunes, tho welfare of millions of
people, fo say nothing of the honor of our
flag, are at stake, the obligation of pa
tience and self-control is as sacred as an
edict from Mount Siani.
Humor in the Supreme Court.
There is a good deal more fun conceal
ed under the imposing solemnity of the
Supreme Court than the public would
imagine, and several of the justices, par
ticularly Justice Brewer and Justice Shi
ras, are great wits, says W. E. Curtis
in the Chicago Record. The jokes they
make and the stories they tell in the con
stitution room would qj.ike an interesting
volume If its secrets could be penetrated.
But the world only knows what transpires
in the courtroom, and much ot that is
concealed by the rujes of etiquette and
decorum. Although the chief justice and
his associates unite to protect the dignity
of that great bulwark of the constitution
which Ihty represent, there is often a
good deal of suppressed fun in their ef
forts to defend it against ignorant or
irreverent attorneys. They all agree that
the most amusing incident that ever
brightened the solemnity of the Supreme
Court chancier occurred several years
ago, when Justice Miller undertook to
arrest the flow of eloquence of an attor
ney who was arguing his first case, an ap.
peal from the Circuit Court of a Western
state. The young lawyer was declaiming
at the rate of 150 words a minute on some
of the simplest principles of law. which
every attorney should fully understand be
fore he gets his diploma, and, becoming
weary after awhile, Justice Miller inter
rupted the speaker in a sarcastic tone,
inquiring. “I hope the learned counsel
•will give the court the credit of knowing
the rudiments of law.”
"1 beg the pardon of your honor,” re
plied the attorney, in the blandest man
ner, “but I made that mistake in the low
er court.”
A similar incident occurred more recent
ly, when a young attorney from the South
became entangled in complications of his
own creating and was floundering along
in a hopeless attempt to extricate himself.
Justice Brewer, who is very kind-hearted
and always helps a fellow-mortal out of
difficulty when he is able to do so, under
took to play the part of a good Samar
itan and brought upon himself a shaft that
his associates on the bench will never al
low him to forget. Thinking that he flight
relieve the embarrassment of the counsel
and give him a chance to make a fresh
start, Judge Brewer interrupted him and
said :
"I don’t quite follow the learned counsel
in his argument. (Perhaps if he will go
back and repeat a little of what he has
already said I may understand him better.
I haven’t been able to follow the thread
of his argument.”
“I noticed you couldn’t,” retorted the un
abashed attorney. “It is a very compli
cated point of law, but if you will give me
your close attention I will try to make it
so clear that you can understand it.”
Born in n Snuff Mill.
Gilbert Stuart, the artist, who made so
familiar to Americans the features of
Washington and his wife, was once visited
by two Philadelphia artists, says the
Y’outh’s Companion. The visit was nota
ble from the fact that Stuart imitated the
inebriate who always concluded his exhor
tation against drinking spirits with, “Do
as I tell yon, not as I do.”
One of the artists asked Stuart for a
pinch of snuff from the box in which he
was inserting a thumb and finger every
few minutes, and then applying them to
his nostrils.
“I will give it to you,” said Stuart, prof
fering the box, “but I advise you not to
take it. Snuff-taking is a vile habit, and'
should be avoided.”
“Your practice contradicts your precept.
Mr. Stuart,” answered the gentleman.
"Sir. I can’t help it,” replied Stuart. “Let
me tell you a story. Once I was traveling
during a very dark night, and coachee
dumped us in a ditch. We scrambled up,
and on finding by examination that our
legs and arms were unbroken, thought of
the poor fellow shut up in the basket with
the baggage. Ho was found senseless and
his neck twisted awry.
“A passenger began to untwist the man’s
neck that he might set his head straight
on his shoulders. The senseless 'man, re
covered by the wrench, roared out:
“ 'Let me alone! Let me alone! I’m not
hurt! I was born so!’ Gentlemen,” added
Stuart. “I was born so. I was born in a
snuff-mill,’V and he emphasized the re
mark by taking an enormous pinch of
snuff.
“This,” says the author of “Heirlooms in
Miniature,” “was literally true, as Gilbert
Stuart’s father, a Scotchman, built the
first snuff-mill ever erected in New Eng
land.”
Hoodooed by a Black Hen.
“There goes my Jonah,” said Capt. Card-
Well, the Louisvilje and Nashville conduc
tor, one day as the O. and N. passenger
train was entering the yards at Central
City, says the Louisville Post. When
asked what he referred to, the popular
old railroader said:
“I mean that old black hen you saw fly
across the track in front of the engine
back in the edge of town. .She is a bird of
ill omen if ever there was one, and every
time she flies across this track in front of
my train I have bad luck before I finish
the trip.
“I first noticed the hen about three
years ago on the trip over from Russell
ville to Owensboro, and we stuck in a
snowdrift before we got back, and were
held out nearly all night. The next time
the evil portent worked its bad effect on
me was when the large tunnel at Twin
Tunnels caved in, compelling us to trans
fer passengers and baggage, and stay out
all ugiht. Again she appeared, and I fell
from the train later on, spraining my an
kle. So it w'as on every occasion when
‘old Mackey,' as I used to call her, ap
peared upon the scene. She belongs to an
old negro woman, and after trying in vain
to kill her I tried to buy her, but the hen’s
owner said, ‘Naw, suh; dut’s a pet an’ she
wuldn’t hahm nobuddy.’ But I always
felt a strange fear seize me when my train
approached Central, after I found what a
bad luck bringer ’oid blackey’ was.”
Not Tlicir Exact Words,
The general tendency to look at the ac.
tions of others through one’s own partic
ular spectacles is frequently observed, says
the Youth's Companion. Perhaps not so
often noticed, however, is the habit of un
consciously rendering another's speech in
to one's own language.
A Boston girl who had been taking her
first lesson in bicycle riding expressed her
satisfaction at home at the result of the
experiment.
“Tlie man said.” she repeated, "that I
had made most satisfactory progress for
a novice.”
“Why, did he really say that?" was
the surprised query.
•;Well, no',” answered the Boston young
woman, after a moment’s reflection, “wha.
he did say was, 'You’ll do fust-rate for a
new beginner!’ ”
A friend of the poet Bryant chanced to
be alone in his study when a cabinet
maker brought home a chair that had been
altered. When Mr. Bryant returned, he
asked.
“Miss Robbins, what did the man say
about my chair?"
“ He said." answered the visitor, "thai
tho equilibrium is now admirably ad
justed.”
“What a fine fellow!” said Mr. Bryant,
laughing. “I never heard him talk like
that. Were those his exact words?”
“Well, he said. ‘lt Joggles just right!’ ’•
repeated Miss Robbins.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Two young women of McKeesport, Pa.,
have brought an action against n photo
grapher to enjoin him from exhibiting
iheir photographs on the streets and from
making copies of them to be used in an}'
public manner, and another action against
a weekly newspaper in the form of a libel
suit for $10,600 damages for publishing their
liknesses without their consent. The court
of common pleas at Pittsburg granted the
injunction against the photographer, with
costs, to lie paid by the defendant. The li
bel suit is yet to be tried.
—A little less.than two years ago a rich
grain merchant of Odessa died, leaving a
fortune of 4,000.000 rubles to his three
daughters, under peculiar conditions. They
were only to Inherit the money on condi
tion that they became servants, washer
women or farmworkers for eighteen
months. The time has just passed, and
the young women have come into their
fortune. Two of them wore chamber
maids, and the third a girl of all work,
in Odessa houses. They did not have much
trouble in securing situations. In (he
course of their servitude the two younger
daughters received each more than five
hundred proposals of marriage, and the
eldest four hundred and fifty. They de
clined all, and now assert that they will
continue to live in single-blessedness.
—Hubner’s Statistical and Geographical
tables, as a result of the latest investiga
tions, give the population of the world at
1,533,000,000. This is an increase over the
figures of 1596 fit 23,000,060. To this in
crease Europe is credited with contribut
ing 5,700,000; Asia, 6,200,009; Africa, 7,500,020;
America, 3,200,000. The United States, with
its great growth, estimated by this au
thority at 2,800,000, and its present papu
lation, placed at 72,300,000, represents more
than 53 per cent, of the entire population
of North and South America—a circum
stance adduced as highly significant, and
occurring in no other part of the earth.
The i>opulation of Europe was increased
to 378,600,000, which is about a quarter of
the entire population of the earth.
—lt may surprise many to learn that
there actually exist a large number of ani
mals and birds which derive almost as
much enjoyment as human cyclists from
trips on the bicycle, says the London Cy
cle. Of course, considerable time and pa
tience were necessary to educate them up
to the appreciation of the finest health
giving pastime on earth. As might be ex
peeled, monkeys take an easy first place
after mankind in their regard ot tne wheel.
Besides these, dogs have been trained to
ride cycles. Members of the feathered
world have proved apt pupils in cycling,
and there are at least two cockatoos whose
command of the bicycle is as perfect as it
is wonderful. One belongs to the Bellonis,
the owners of a very talented family of
birds, and, besides ordinary riding, it gives
an aerial performance, riding a tight wire.
The other clever cockatoo was trained by
Mile. Irma Orbasono, and rides a tricycle.
But these birds use their beaks for the
purpose of steering their machines and pe
dal with their claws.
—“For five months of the year the Si
berian man of fashion lives in the open
air, either at the mining camp or in the
hunting field,” says Thomas G. Allen,
Jr., writing of “Fashionable Life in Si
beria,” in the Ladies' Home Journal. “He
is an early bird under all circumstances,
and invariably rises between 7 and 8
o’clock, although he may have had but a
couple of hours’ rest. Nearly every meal
is succeeded by a nap. However, dressing
operations do not take very long, foi
when he retires the Siberian only divests
himself of his coat and boots. Shirts are
unknown in Siberia, and in many houses
beds also. The samovar is set on the din
ing room table at 8 a. m., together with
eggs, black and white bread, sardines, jam
and cakes, etc. Breakfast is eaten ana
washed down byj five or six glasses of tea
stirred up with sugar, cream and some
times jam. At 1 o’clock dinner is served,
and at 5 in the afternoon another small
meal, much like that of the morning, is
taken. A meat supper follows at 9
o'clock.”
—The work of restoring the famous spire
and turrets of Salisbury Cathedral, Eng
land, which has been in progress during
the past two years, is now almost com
pleted, and it i3 expected that the scaf
folding will soon be removed. The work
has been carried out under the direction
of Sir A. Blomfield, and in a recent re
port to the special committee he informed
them that the turret at the northwest of
the Cathedral was in such a bad state
that it was necessary to take it down.
It has now been rebuilt. The work. Sir A.
Blomfield said, was one of great difficulty,
but has been accomplished in the most
workmanlike and satisfactory manner.
Every stone that could be reused appears
again in its proper pla6e, new stones be
ing introduced only where the original
stone-work had been' crushed, broken or
composed of such small stones as to be
unsafe. The turret stair cases at the four
angles of which have to sup
port so much of the enormous thrust of
the spire, have been thoroughly repaired
and strengthened. On all four sides defect
ive masonry has been taken out and re
placed by new stones weighing in some,
cases more than a ton. The foundations
of the south aisle and of the west side
of the south transept have yet to be re
paired. Altogether, the cost of the work
will be about £15,000, a sum w'hieh the
dean and chapter are securing with diffi
culty. The deficit at present amounts to
about £1,500, and contributions to that
amount are awaited with some anxiety.
—When it is considered that the body is
made up very largely of water it can read
ily be understood how important to health
is a constant supply of this fluid, says the
Youth’s Companion. Many people have a
notion that ihe drinking of water in any
amount beyond that actually necessary to
quench thirst is injurious, and, acting on
this beiief, they endeavor to drink as lit
tle as possible. The notion, however, is
wide of the truth. Drinking freely’ of
pure water is a most efficacious means not
only of preserving health, but often of re
storing it when failing. All the tissues
of the body need water, and water in
abundance is necessary also for the proper
performance of every vital function.
Cleanliness of the tissues within the body
is as necessary to health and comfort as
cleanliness of the skin, and water tends
to insure the one as truly as it does the
other. It dissolves the waste material,
which would otherwise collect in the body'
and removes it in the various excretions!
These waste materials are often rheumat'c
pains atnl aches, many sleepless nights and
listless days and many attacks of the
"blues” are due solely to the circulation
in the blood or deposit in the tissues of
these waste matters, which cannot be got
rid of because of an insufficient supply of
water. Water is accused of making fat
and people with a tendency to corpulence
avoid it for that reason. But this is not
strictly true. It does undoubtedly often
increase, the weight, but It does so be
cause it improves the digestion and !
therefore more of the food eaten '
is utilized and turned Into fat |
and flesh. But excessive fat, which
we call corpulence. Is not a sign of health
but of faulty digestion and assimilation
and systematic water drinking is often
employed as a means of reducing the su
perfluous fat—which it sometimes does
with astonishing rapidity.
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and painful P® l ™. shapeless nail.,
oily.mmhyakAf o !*’ P ‘” P '“’ blackheads,
inn scalv sealoT’. 1 . an ' 1 fall >ng hair, Itch-
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ITCHING HU Mis ißrtantlr I
1 '*■' tx-Ticuiu Remedies.
Excursion ? Jamaica
The Snnland the world. &
Ihe Plant Line st^ s hjp Mascotte, ik.
the Plant Steamshipfei e , wiu sall rrom
Port Tampa, on Mari, i ß9 s, for an ex .
cursion to the Island Jamaica
The ship will toucljit Key Vest on
evening of March 6.
Lauding at Jamaica he made at Po-t
Antonio, from which fint rail can he
taken to Spanish Town.Ungston and oth
er Southside ports.
Departure will be ma, from Monteg,-.
Bay, which is reached b.raij. The trip by
rail from Port Antonio Montego Bay
covers almost the entireengih of the in
land, and is through th most beautiful
tropical scenery of the w>Jd.
Four days will be alloud on the island
RATES}
Port Tampa to Port Aifcnio s4(l oo
Port Tampa to Kingston 4-511
Port Tampa to Klngstd and re
turn 4 75 00
Montego Bay to Port Uinpa .... 40 00
The one-way rate to Kngston include*
rail transportation from Pori Antonio to
Kingston. The round-trii rate to Kiras,
ton includes rail iransporiation from Port
Antonio to Kingston and Kingston to Mon
tego B3y.
For reservations ipply to
f. H. M 11,1 k. Ticket Agent,
Tampa Ba| Hotel, Tampa, Fla.
B. W. AVRENN,
. Passengr Traffic Manager.
B. B. Neal, f. p. Millard.
President. Vice President.
NEAL-MILLARD CO.
Bay and Whitaker Streets.
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Steamboat and Mill Supplies,
Sash, Doors and Blinds,
Lime, Cement and Plaster,
—AND
BUILCERS’ HARDWARE.
SAVANNAH, GA.
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219 Henry, East.
If you get your Groceries,
Meats and Vegetables here
you may know they are
good, for the best the mark
et affords is always in stock.
Orders filled and sent to any
part of the city.
’Phone 2296.
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Congress and Drayton Streets.
Brick, Lime, Cement, Wail Paper, PaiQti
Glass, Mantels, Fireplace Fixtures.
BUILDING SUPPLIES GENERALLY.
Every stroke of the paint brush, every
broken glass replaced, every worn out grate
fixed means
Money Well In vested
You select the material, we furnish it and do
the work.
Happy New Year
will be ail the happier if you don’t let
small things trouble you. Just telephone
or drop us a postal when you want oil or
gasoline and you will be nurprised how
quick we will serve you.
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P. O. Box 19. Telephone 461.
Also OAK and PINE WOOD.
Pine 75c; three cut 80c.
Mixed 90e: three cut 90c.
Oak 81.00; three cut JI.OO.
J. P. CORDRAY,
Broughton and Price.
E. C, PACETTI & SON.
Roofing and Repairing.
Roof Painting.
Skylights.
Cornices,
Agent for Cortright’s
Metal Shingles.
Telephone 2203. 136 Whitaker street.
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