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The dangers of city life were peculiarly
Illustrated in Pittsburg a day or two ago.
A plumber’s assistant was crossing a
street railway track with a long piece of
gas pipe on his shoulder. The pipe touch
ed the trolley wire overhead, and he was
instantly electrocuted.
The local authorities of Lake City, S.
C., and Ada, Ga., have it in their power
to disarm federal interference in the ex
amination into the outrages at those
places. The onus of looking Into the af
fairs and bringing the guilty parties to
justice is upon the local authorities. If
they discharge their duties without fear
or favor, the federal authorities will be
satisfied.
It may be that the Maine court of in
quiry will have to return a Scotch verdict
of “not proven.” The wreck, it is said,
has been sinking into the mud of the har
bor steadily ever since it went down. In
thp event of failure to raise the wreck,
It will manifestly be impossible to inves
tigate the bottom of it, embedded as it is
in several feet of the horrid mud and
ooze of the harbor.
The new battle ship Kearsarge, which
takes its name Indirectly from a mountain
in sterile, puritanical New England, is to
be christened with wdn?, white the Ken
tucky, which takes its name from the
rich and fruitful blue grass state where
wine and beauty are appreciated to the
fullest, is to be christened with spring wa
ter. Thus do affairs sometimes go by con.
traries.
•A unique feature of the debate between
Cornell and the University of Pennsyl
vania at Ithaca yesterday was the pres,
ence of a woman as one of the debaters.
This is the first time that a Portia
has been admitted to the programme of
special exercises by the greater colleges
In this country. The young woman. Miss
Laughlin, defended the Cornell side, and
will graduate in law next June.
tine of the first Americans that Senator
Proctor met in Havana was Dr. Brunner.
The Doctor was delighted to see his fel
low countryman. “Good morning. Sena
tor,” said he, “have you been vaccina
ted?” The Senator had not. Vaccination
Is compulsory in Havana Just now. Those
who know Dr. Brunner need noj be told
what occurred. The Senator and his par.
ty continued their investigations Just as
soon as Dr. Brunner was satisfied that
the vaccine had “took.”
The purpose of the Ixiud postal bill,
which was Indefinitely postponed 4, the
House on Thursday, was, briefly, to re
strict the second class or cheap pound
rate privilege to *he original intent of
the law, namely, to newspapers and pe
riodicals of regular, bona-fide circulation,
specifically excluding the yellow-back sen
sational literature which has proven such
a burden to the mail service and of no
benefit to the public. It is estimated that
the passage of the bill would have wiped
out half ot the postal deficiency.
Ho Henson for Rejoicing.
The fact that there was a surplus of sl,-
973,108 of Federal revenue for February is
not a cause for rejoicing. But It seems
that Mr. Dingley, the author of the tariff
which hears his name, and the particular
friends of that tariff, are pointing to the
February surplus with expressions of sat
isfaction. But why should they rejoice?
Do they wish it to be understood that, in
their opinion, the government's income
will fully equal Us expenditures in future?
Admitting that it is true that last Feb
ruary was the first February since 1893 in
which there was a surplus of revenue, and
that the revenue for that month was larg
er than for any previous February since
the panic year, it doesn't follow that there
will be no further deficit In the treasury
even if there should be no extraordinary
expenses.
One reason why there was a surplus last
February Is that there was a reduction
in expenses for that month, of $2,2004*00
that is, the expenditures were that much
less than they were for February, 1897. If
the expenditures had been as great as
they were for the previous February, there
would have been a deficit instead of a
surplus.
The Dingley tariff will have been in op
eration pretty nearly a year by the end
of the present fiscal year, and a conserva
tive estimate is that the deficit for the fis
cal year will be between $40,000,000 and $50,-
000,000. That does not look as if the Ding
ley tariff were such a great success.
The Republican leaders are cutting down
expenses wherever they can without injury
to their party, with the hope of prevent
ing such a deficit as would offer their po
litical opponents an oppoVtunity for mak
ing political capital out of the Republican
tariff. They are adhering to their policy
of economy so closely that they are sub
jecting their party to the charge of caring
more for making a favorable showing for
the Dingley tariff than they are for the
honor of the country.
For instance, the big four of Maine—
namely, Senator Hale, chairman o*f the
Senate committee on naval affairs; Repre
sentative Boutelle, chairman of the House
committee on naval affairs; Representative
Dingley, chairman of the ways and means
committee, and Speaker Reed, are ail rep
resented as being opposed to spending upon
the navy an amount of money that would
make it as efficient as it should be in the
event of war with Spain. White It is true
that there is no good reason for thinking
that there will be war w-ith Spain, still
the situation is such that the government
would not show ordinary prudence if it
did not make the necessary preparations
for it. Our relations with Spain, although
friendly, are strained, and a state of af
fairs that would precipitate war might
arise at any time. If war should come
it would come so quickly that there would
tie no time to prepare for it. Besides,
Spain w-ould be much less likely to seek
a w-ar with us if we were thoroughly pre
pared for it. It is better, therefore, from
every point of view, to spend a few mill
ions of dollars In making ourselves so
strong that Spain would not attack us than
it is to risk having a war that might cost
several hundred millions of dollars.
It may be of great Importance to the Re
publican party that the Dingley tariff shall
appear to yield a revenue sufficient for the
government’s expenditures, but It is of the
highest importance to the whole coun
try that we shall be prepared for war.
A Sign ot Peace.
What is the meaning of Senator Proc
tor’s visit to Cuba? The dispatches say
that he is gathering Information respect
ing the condition of affairs there for the
President, and that he will have some
thing to say about Cuban in the
Senate, and that what he will say will
have weight, because he will speak from
personal observation. * But is it not ex
tremely probable that his visit to Cuba
means that he has information which
leaves him to think that peace is close
at hand and that Cuba offers a fine field
for investment? The senator Is one of
the rich men of New England and is
known for his shrewdness and thrlfll
ness. Having been Secretary of War during
Gen. Harrison's administration, he is
pretty c!oe to the President and knows,
in all probability, the administration’s
purpose In respect to Cuba. Ho may have
inside information to the effect that the
administration intends to support Spain’s
plan of autonomy—a government of Cu
bans, but not a Cuban government— and
that therefore peace is almost in sight.
Assuming that such is the case, he is
in Cuba, in all probability, not for the
President nor to gather material for a
speech in the Senate, but to spy out the
land and see what the chances for good
investments are. City property and sugar
and tobacco plantations are doubtless
very cheap now, and offer a splendid
chance for speculation, provided peace
is restored soon.
Gen. Hyde, of the Bath, Me., Iron
works, another rich and shrewd New Eng
lander, is with Senator Proctor. Thej’
are not trying to find out to what extent
the suffering people of Cuba need relief.
They know there are others better quali
fied than they are to find that out. Nor
are they trying to discover whether the
Maine was destroyed by design or acci
dent. Their visit means, it is pretty safe
to say, that they see peace close at hand
and mean to put some of their money
in depreciated Cuban real estate with the
expectation that their investment will
yield them a big return within a very
short time.
Rabbi H. Pereira Mendez of New York
advances an original idea with regard to
the matter of settling international dis
putes by arbitration. "Asa Jew.” he
says, “I hope the time will come when an
international court of arbitration will be
established in Zion, under the auspices
of the re-established Jewish nation, the
only nation with no political aspirations
beyond its borders, and, therefore, always
able to give an unbiased verdict.” The
scheme of such a court of arbitration, he
says, “would be the fullfilmcnt of the
Zionist’s dream," and would save the
other nations of the world ineetimubie
expenditures of blood and treasure.
THE MOItNING NEWS: SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1898.
A Greater Savannah.
The Morning News has frequently sug
gested the idea of the lands south of the
city limits being surveyed ami plotted in
anticipation of the future growih of the
city, and in order that that growth may
tie in uniform lines, and not be left to the
vagaries of chance settlers or forced to
conform to old property lines. The costli
ness of neglecting to provide for the
growth of the city is strongly In evidence
in the lack of regularity of the streets in
the southern section. The unprepossessing
outcome of a want of system in building is
strikingly illustrated in those sections for
merly known as Currytown and Rolierts
ville. In that section between Anderson
and Twelfth streets, however, the present
City Council is doing ail it can to rectify
the errors and oversights of its prede
cessors. But the irregularities of street
lines which are to be noted must be con
tinued as the city extends Itself southward,
unless some plan Is devised for laying cut
and setting aside the extended and new
streets, which, in all probability, will foe
within the city limits during the life time
of the present generation.
A public-spirited citizen, Mr. W. J. De-
Renne, who owns a large tract of land
south of the city, has had County Engi
neer Thomas survey and map out the
lands between the Waters road and the
line of Barnard street extended south of
Estill avenue. On this map are laid down
prospective streets running north ar.d
south on the lines of the present streets,
with cross streets and squares on the
plan of the older section of the city. An
exception Is to be noted, however, in the
fact that on this map there are fewer
cross streets. This, by the way. is an im
provement upon the Idea of Gen. Ogle
thorpe. If the owners of the lesser prop
erties which are included In Mr. De-
Renne’s plan would unite with that gen
tleman in a binding agreement touching
the growth of the city southward and the
provision for a uniform extension of
streets, the several property owners would
become public benefactors.
A copy of the inap will no doubt be sent
to the city authorities, and to the property
owners, and it is to be hoped that it will
receive that attention which it deserves.
It certainly illustrates a movement in the
right direction.
llavvall’H Friends Disappointed.
It is practically admitted by the friends of
the Hawaiian annexation scheme that the
treaty of annexation stands no chance of
being ratified. At least ten votes aye need
ed to make up the necessary two-thirds
majority. It is understood that the com
mittee on foreign relations will meet to
day, and consider the advisability of sub
stituting for the treaty a bill or joint res
olution providing for annexation. A bill
of that sort would have to be passed by
the House as well as the Senate, but it
would require only a majority to pass it.
It is not certain by any means that the
bill could be,got through Congress at this
session. The opponents of annexation
would throw every possible obstacle in its
way. They say they could prevent its pas
sage at this session because the appropria
tion bills now demand pretty nearly all
the time of the Senate. They would dis
cuss it until the majority became tired and
expressed a willingness to adjourn.
But even if a bill providing for annexa
tion should get through the Senate it
would be difficult, if not impossible, to get
it through the House. In the latter body
there is great opposition to annexation,
and an annexation bill would inaugurate
a debate which would last for weeks, per
haps for a month or more. Speaker Reed
is anxious that Congress shall adjourn by
May 1. It is not probable that a vote
could be obtained on a Hawaiian bill by
that time and the Speaker would not use
his influence to hold Congress together
after that date simply to discuss Hawaiian
annexation.
It is a matter of serious doubt if the
Secretary of the Navy ought to accept the
contribution of SSOO sent by Pres
ident Dote of Hawaii for the fund
to be employed for the relief
of the victims of the Maine. President
Dote is not a private citizen; he is not
merely the head of a friendly government
seeking to express sympathy in a practi
cal way. He is a lobbyist, who only late
ly quitted Washington where he had been
for the purpose of attempting to influence
legislation. He is the representative of a
company of filibusters who hope to profit
by legislation now pending in Congress.
His contribution to the Maine fund, there
fore, has the appearance of a bid for favor
at Washington. He would, upon the faxte
of the matter, turn the appallng disaster
in Havana harbor to the advantage of his
annexation scheme by the use of money.
It may be, of course, that Mr. Dote ten
dered his contribution with the purest mo
tives; hut if he did he chose a mighty poor
time for doing it. The annexation treaty
is to be considered in committee to-day,
and Dote has dropped his cheek at pre
cisely the time to have public and sena
torial attention directed to it.
A great deal-of stress has been laid up
on the fact that a number of canisters
of unexploded powder huve been taken
from the wreck of the Maine, and pre
sumably from the forward magazine. Thjs,
however, settles nothing, according to
Lieut. Totten of New Haven, an author
ity on explosives. He says that less than
half of the powder put into the charge
of a gun, naked and designed to be ex
ploded, Is burned during the detonation.
More titan half of it is blown out of the
gun unburned and virtually in an un
changed condition; therefore, if the mag
azine had exploded it does not follow
that all of the packages of powder in it
would have been burned. Expert opin
ion? like this are arguments against
reaching a conclusion upon half knowl
edge.
A contemporary draw’s attention to the
fact that white the rest of the country is
discussing the probabilities of war, Massa
chusetts has actually begun hostilities. She
has employed an army of some 200 men to
go out with squirt guns and fight the gip
sy moths
A statement made by President Charles
Betts of the .National Lumber Dealers’
Association, ot Cleveland. 0., ihe other
day is of interest to the country at large,
and of significance to the South. It was
to the effect that the annual output of
lumber In this country exceeds in value
“all of the gold, silver, coal, iron and
wheat.” The special significance of the
South is in the fact that nearly, if not
quite, one-hnlf of the standing forest of
the United States is in the South. This
section, therefore, will henceforth be in a
position to do approximately one-half of
the lumber business of the country.
It must be that we are at war with Spain,
notwithstanding the most of us do not
know it. The Chicago Tribune says such
is the case, and the cables report that the
Madrid Pais coincides in the opinion. The
conflict, it seems. Is roaring up and down
in the news columns of these newspapers,
and reverberating in the cavernous depths
of their editorial pages. Blood is flowing
in stream between the column rules, and
puddling at the foot slugs. After all, pos
sibly that is about the best way for us to
fight Spain just now, until we have some
thing to fight about.
PERSON A 1,.
—For the first time in history Queen Vic
toria has held a reception for some of her
sailors. After the return of the cruiser
St. George from a three years’ stay in
South Africa twenty-four officers and 284
men were presented to the Queen person
ally.
—ln a recent Interview Dr. Creighton,
the Bishop of London, said: “I shall
never finish the ’History of Papacy,’ and
I shall write no more. It is impossible to
do one-half the work of this stupendous
diocese, leaving out the question of writ
ing any book.”
—Mr. Gladstone has found music a great
relief during the suffering of the last few
weeks. Miss Geraldine Liddell Is, it ap
pears, the performer who charms his neu
ralgia. She Is an exquisite musician and
has a w’ay of playing long-drawn-out
chords which has a peculiarly soothing ef
fect.
—SiKtaking of ex-President Frey of
Switzerland, D. Leroy Dibble of Kansas
City says: “I lived in Switzerland nearly
two years, and had the pleasure of talking
over old war days with the President of
the republic. When a young man he came
to this country, in 1857, and settled in Illi
nois. When the war broke out young
Frey enlisted in an Illinois rpgiment as a
private and he served with distinction, be
ing promted to lieutenant. Frey was cap
tured and was confined for a long time in
Andersonville prison and was one of the
three men who escaped. Soon after this
his father died and he returned to Switzer
land to manage the property. He after
ward became President of the republic.”
BRIGHT BITS.
—Teacher (of juvenile class)—Johnnie,
what was the first thing the Puritans did
when they landed at Plymouth rock?
Johnnie—They fell on their knees.
Teacher—That’s right. Now, Tommy,
what was the next thing they did?
Tommy—Fell on the aborigines.—Chica
go News.
—On the Stump.—“ln the day’s of the
Whigd I was a Tory; in the days of the
Liberals I am a Conservative. I have al
ways been consistent, Indeed,” said the
political candidate.
“You have, indeed,” said his rival. “But,
gentlemen,” he added, “I have been equal
ly consistent, though I am not a Con
servatory.”
And then he wondered why everybody
smiled.—Harlem Life.
—Shifting the Responsibility.—“lt has
been proved by half-a-dozen witnesses,”
said the police magistrate, “that you are
selling bread under weight. Have you any
explanation to offer?”
"The flour’s so bad these days, your
honor,” replied the honest baker, looking
the magistrate fearlessly in the eye, “that
my conscience won’t let me sell it to the
people in great quantities than I can help.”
—Cleveland Leader.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Alger’s Reindeer Expedition.
Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
In the meantime, will not the Klondik
ers, whose sufferings this winter the rein,
deer plan was to relieve, kindly postpone
their sufferings until we can get the rein
deer through to them some time next
summer?
Tlie Cotton Mills of the South.
From the Nashville American (Dem.).
The cotton mill at Huntsville, Ala., has
doubted its force of operatives and is run
ning night and day. This is another strik
ing contrast with the condition in New
England, where mills are closed on ac
count of strikes and reduced pay.
Hntlor 1* Disgusted.
From the Raleigh Post (Dem.).
Mr. Chairman Butter w’rites that he
Is greatly disgusted with the fusion ar
rangements he made with the Democrats
in the presidential contest in 1896, and de
clares he will consent to nothing of the
sort again. It is to be sincerely hoped,
for the good of decency and Democracy,
that he will not be asked to do so any
more.
Decided by tlie Corbett Case.
From Ihe Chicago Chronicle (Dem.).
The two points of constitutional con
struction decided in this are: First, the
neglect of a legislature to choose a sena
tor does not cause a vacancy to “happen”
—is not a chance event, like the resigna
tion or death of a serAtor, when the Gov
ernor is empowered to appoint a senator;
second, if a state refuses to choose a sen
ator and the legislature adjourns, leaving
a vacancy, it is assumed that the state
consents to the loss of its equal suffrage
in the Senate.
A Stubborn Fact.
From the Richmond Dispatch (Dem.).
President McKinley and his cabinet may
discuss the question of “outrages upon
negro postmasters in the South” until
doomsday, and they cannot get away
from the fact that their party cannot cast
the first stone. They cannot get away
from the fact that had their party profited
by experience, had regard for an Instinct
which is common to the white man the
world over, and shown true consideration
for the welfare of the negro there would
have been no outrages to discuss. This
is recognized a well by the fqJr-minded
press of the North as by the
Xuecs. ’ ■■
Hooley nn<l tlie Prince.
Deridtd in speech and in print on ac
count of his appalling vulgarity, which has
been condemned as even still more of
fensive and intolerable than that of those
other multi-millionaires, the late Barney
Barnato and “Col.” North, the “Nitrate
King,” Mr. Hooley, Whose most lavish
offerings to the cause of charity have ex
cited nothing but ridicule and contempt,
has at length received the hall mark of
ills future King, has been the guest at
Sandringham, and has broken bread not
only with the Prince of Wales, but like
wise with the Princess and iter daughters,
says a writer in the Washington Post.
It is probable that the Prince has never
up to this moment done anything that is
calculated to irritate the vast majority of
his future subjects more than this invi
tation of Mr. Hooley, whose unpopularity
among all classes of the population is
simply phenomenal. And what adds to the
universal condemnation of the action of
the Prince is the knowledge that his sole
object in asking Mr. Hooljy to Bandring
ham was for the purpose of inducing him
to pay big prices for horse flesh, bred on
the Prince’s estates.
For years past the Prince has been
breeding hackneys, thoroughbreds, and
shire horses. For a long time the enter
prise was of a most costly and unremuner
ative character, and it is only during the
last three or four years that it has begun
to pay. And if it has beoome profitable it
is entirely due to the practice inaugurated
by the Prince of inviting multi-million
aire parvenus and vulgarians, to stay at
Sandringham as guests of the Princess of
Wales and himself on the tacit under
standing that they are to bid largely at
the annual spring auction of horse flesh
held on the estate.
The bidding is preceded by a luncheon in
a tent, adjoining that in which the auction
is held, and as the hospitality of the Prince
is generous, the champagne flows in quan
tities, the buyers are naturally impelled
to extravagance, any tendency which they
might entertain to economy being re
pressed by the knowledge that the Prin
cess and her daughters are present, care
fully watching the prices offered, and keen
—so at any rate the parvenu believes—to
take note of any tendency on his part to
haggle or to drive a bargain.
This plan has proved immensely suc
cessful from a financial point of view. In
fact, the average prices which the Prince
has obtained during the last three years
for his horses is double, and almost treble,
that which he received in the early nineties
before he had inaugurated the scheme of
inviting new fledged millionaires
to bid under his own eyes and those of the
Princess, that is to say, under the eyes of
those w r ho have It in their power above ev
ery one else in the United Kingdom to mar
or make the social position of a person,
no matter what the birth, source of wealth
manners, or antecedents of the Individual,
mate or female, may happen to be.
The year before last the “Nitrate
King,’ 'North, a man who dropped hta
h’s,” and who drank like a fish, was the
richest of the guests invited, Maple, the
miilionarie retail cheap furniture dealer, of
Tottenham Court Road, in London, coming
in second line. Last year the millionaires
invited by the Prince for the horse sate,
comprised Robinson, Ihe South African
Croesus, and William Waldorf Astor, who
had never up to that time been honored
with an invitation to Sandringham. This
year it is Mr. Hooley. who responded nobly
to the expectations of the Prnce, not only
bidding very heavily himself, but likewise
running up the prices to phenomenal alti
tudes in cases where he did not remain the
ultimate purchaser.
From this it will be seen that the best
road to social success in England is to
make i known that one is disposed to be
a large and generous buyer of horse flesh.
That is sufficient apparently to secure an
invitation on the part of the Prince or
Wales to Sandringham, no matter what
the antecedents of the guest, or no matter
how his fortune has been acquired.
It is really a pity that the Prince and
Princess, neither of whom appreciate vul
garity, which, on the contrary, jars upon
them more than upon most people, should
foe driven to such straits as this owing to
the niggardliness of the crown and of
Parliament in providing in an adequate
manner for the maintenance of that state
which the heir apparent is required by his
future subjects to maintain, irrespective
of his own tastes.
There has been much abuse leveled at
the Prince in connection with his alleged
extravagance, and it has been calculated
that in one way and another he has man
aged to digest no less than $50,000,000 since
he came of age, having nothing now but
debts to show for it. But it must be borne
in mind that he would come in for a
great deal more abuse were he to save,
and any reference to the English news
papers of the fifties will show how fon<l
people were then of railing against his
father, the Prince Consort, on account of
his saving propensities.
She Changed Her Opinion.
She was angry.
The boy had been in trouble again, says
the Chicago Post. The boy usually was in
trouble of some kind, and even a mother’s
patience will give out In time.
“You’re the worst-behaved boy in the
neighborhood,” she said.
The boy’s father looked up from his pa
per, as if somewhat astonished, but one
glance was sufficient to convince him that
he didn’t care to get mixed up tn the af
fair.
“You're always In some kind of a
scrape,” she went on. “I don't see why
you can’t act like other boys.”
The boy had nothing to say. A boy
learns early in life that there are times
when there is nothing for him to do but
hold his peace, and the lesson stands him
in good stead later in life when he mar
ries.
"I never hear of Willie tong throwing
snowballs at the little girls when they are
coming home from Sunday school,” she
continued in earnest tones. “I never see
Jack Billings throwing stones Into mud
puddles to splatter people, and Tommy
Tucker never talks back to his elders or
speaks disrespectfully to his mother.”
“I haven’t said a word,” protested the
boy.
. "Not to-day,” admitted his mother, “but
yesterday I was actually ashamed of you
because of your impertinence, and to-day
I saw you swinging on the Browns’ gate
when you have been repeatedly told not
to, because It pulls off the hinges. You
have had a fight with Harry Jones, too
I'm sure I don't know what to do with
you (o make you behave properly.”
This scorned to be an opportune time for
the boy's father to chip in, so he suggest
ed:
"I quite agree with you, my dear. I
think we ought to do something to im
prove Georgie's manners. He's too rough
and noisy and regardless of the rights of
others. He seems to have acquires! re|) _
utation as the worst-behaved boy in the
neighborhood, and "
“Who says he's the worst-behaved
the neighborhood?” demanded his mother
promptly. "It was probably that man Bil
lings that- you go to town with in the
morning, and I want to say right now trot
his Jack Is as bad as two of our Georgie.
Or maybe the Longs have been talking
If our Georgie was as rough and unman
nerly ns their Willie, they would nave
reason to talk, and you can just tell Mr
Long so the next time you see him. Worst!
hehaved lwy in the neighborhood! Well,
I >1 Just like to have somebody try to tell
sue that.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The legend of Romulus and Remus be
ing suckled by a she wolk passes for a fa
ble, but the researches of naturalists lend
it color. In India native children have
been nursed by wolves and lived with
them. Negroes aver that anthropoid apes
have suckled babies. Romanes has cited
as a fact the suckling of three young rats
by a cat whose kittens had been taken
from her.
—Mexico is richly endowed with prec
ious stones. The opals of Queretaro, San
Juan del Rio, and Tequisquapan are fa
mous for their changing tires. They are
found in crusts on the calcareous rocks,
which are easy to work, also in the gran
ite, which has to be blasted, and this often
breaks the gems. The opal beds are sel
dom more than ten or twelve feet below
the surface.
—The Prince of Monaco continues his re
searches on the fauna of the Mediterra
nean and the Atlantic at great depths.
Near the Azores he has discovered a vol
canic bank fifty mites long, and a Portu
guese captain has discovered a second bank
close by. These banks are the resort of
numberless fishes. The Prince is having
anew vessels of 1,400 tons built for further
explorations.
—Prof. Ray Lankester, in a recent lec
ture in England, gave a clear and easily
understood explanation of how inoculations
of mild disease w’iil cure or prevent the
severer kinds. Protoplasm, he said, had
the capacity for being taught to tolerate
a chemical action from which it naturally
shrank. A mass of protoplasm attracted
in the direction of a solution of sulphate of
iron would at first grow down to the edge
of it and then draw back, but in a little
time would plunge boldly through end
across it, and this protoplasm thenceforth
would have no fear of sulphate of iron.
The amoeboid corpuscles of the blood are
attracted by what is called “ehemotaxis”
to the germs of disease entering the body
and swallow them up; but these bacteria
in their turn produce a poison W’hich re
pels the corpuscles. The latter, however,
can be taught by gradually increasing
doses to tolerate the poison, and In this
way the body can acquire an immunity
against even the full strength of the dis
ease.
—The supremacy of American-made ma
chinery and tools was strikingly displayed,
says a writer in a London mechanical
journal, in the recent Stanley cycle show.
The well-known English firms, he says,
were all conspicuous by their absence, and
with but three or four exceptions, the
stands occupied were not those of manu
facturers, but those of the English agents
of American firms. This feature, in truth,
has become so common that one expects
it and looks for it. But it is not credita
ble to British manufacturers, nor does it
augur well for the business of the future.
Here is a huge national industry, which
has grown up during, say, about twenty
years; there are scores of factories, and
many thousands of hands engaged in the
manufacture of cycles, yet the best equip
ped of these factories, the most mod
ern, the most successful, are equip,
ped wholly, or almost wholly, not with En
glish, but with American machine tools.
The American lathe, he says, has also
gone into the English market to stay, and
he declares that it is much handier for
use than the standard English makes.
—When drawing attention about a year
ago to the bipedal movements of certain
Australian lizards, notably the comical
little chlamydosaurus, or “frilled lizard,”
whose photograph is now familiar, Mr. Ba
ville-Kent referred to an unconfirmed ru
mor that the Mexican iguanoid lizard also
possesses the power of running on its hind
tegs, being led to this by the correspond
ence in general structure of the creatures,
especially the abnormal length of the hind
limbs. In Nature he publishes a letter
from a gentleman living in the West In
dies, which shows that there also all the
lizards, from the large tree Iguana, five
feet long, down to the tiniest mites which
scamper about among the stones, are ac
customed to run erect on their hind legs
when hurried. The correspondent adds the
interesting information that on the rocks
about the watershed of the Guiana are
old drawings of lizards running erect. Mr.
Saville-Kent points out that this peculiar
ity, w’hieh a year ago was doubted by
many naturalists, but which has now been
shown to be common to so many different
species of lizards, deserves attention as
pointing to’bipedal locomotion in some re
mote ancestor.
—Rapid-test soundings were required in
some work on a railway line between Paris
and Havre, where th? cast-iron viaduct, of
Bezons was replaced by an arch bridge
alongside. The old foundations for six
channel piers were removed to the bottom
of the river. It was required that the river
bed should be carefully leveled. After it
had been dredged the bottom was explored
by means of a horizontal bar of iron about
twenty feet long, W’hieh was suspended at
each end from a framework uniting two
flat boats in catamaran fashion. This beam
was lowered close to the bottom and the
boats were gradually moved along in the
direction transverse to the length of the
bar. When the scraper encountered no
irregularity, the suspending chains hung
vertically, but as soon as either end was
deflected by contact with any obstruction
an electric circuit was closed, which caus
ed an alarm to be rung. The boat was
stopped, and the obstruction located by
means of sounding poles. In this way,
small stones, jown to a diameter of four
inches, were easily located, and the bed
of the river was leveled to within that
amount of irregularity. This method
proved rapid and successful.
—The common salutation in England and
America is: “How do you do?” The Ger
mans say: “How do you find yourself?”
In some parts of Germany brothers kiss
each other every time they meet. The
Chinese inquire of equals: “Have you eat
en your rice?” The answer is: “Thanks
to your abundant felicity." The Japanese,
when they meet a superior, remove their
sandals and exclaim: "Hurt me not!” A
Moor will ride at full speed towards a
friend or a stranger, stop suddenly, fire
a pistolAover his head, and then consider
that he has been very courteous. Holland
ers salute their friends by asking: “Have
you had a good dinner?” The Burmese
rub their noses against each other’s cheeas
and say: “Give me a smell.” On the 'Af
rican coasts negro Kings salute each other
by snapping the middle finger three times.
The natives of the Phillippine Islands take
a friend’s hand or foot and rug it over
their faces. In Egypt the usual words of
salutation are: “How do you perspire?”
Arabs of distinction kiss each other's
cheeks and say: “God grant thee His fa
vor and give health to thy family.” “How
do you stand?" inquires the Italian when
he meets a friend. In Lapland friends sa
lute by pressing their noses together.
“Peace be with you," say the Mohamme
dans, and the response Is: “On you be
peace, and the blessings and mercy of
God.” Tire Polish salute by asking; 'How
do you have yourself?” Persian friends
cross necks, rub cheeks and say: “May
thy shadow never grow less.” “Go with
God, Senor,” is the Spanish salutation
The French ask: “How do vout carry
yourself?” The Turk crosses 'his ban,ls
upon his breast, and makes a profound
obeisance when he meets a friend. Prus
sians-salute by asking: “How do vou live
on?” The Ottomans say; “Be under the
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