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There was nothing like "manana” in
Spain's reply to Uncle Sam’s ultimatum.
There was no “to-morrow” about it. The
reply seems to have been ready-made and
watting. The dons must be given credit for
promptness at least once.
A considerable proportion of the volun
teer afmy, which is to be organized under
the call of the President, will probably be
armed at once with the new Krag-Jorgen-
Ben rifles. The bureau of ordnance is said
to have on hand a stock of approximately
60,000 of these guns, with ammunition
enough to go with them.
The British subjects resident in New
Orleans have requested their home gov
ernment to send a war vessel to that port
to protect British shipping interests. It
may be that a number ol British ships
will be seen in American waters before a
great while, upon similar business. This
government will make no objection.
Senor Ramon Blanco, Captain General
of Cuba, is something of a word painter
himself. “A nation of nobodies,” is what
he call£ us. Can it be that he has never
heard of Fitzjiugh Lee, Nelson A. Miles,
William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott
Schley? Possibly he may have the pleas
ure of meeting them later; then he will
probably realize that there are a few
•'somebodies” in America.
Extraordinary war enthusiasm is said to
prevail in both Yale and Harvard univer
sities. In the former there is a movement
on foot to organize a battery to man eight
or ten rapid fire guns, and in the latter
many young men are preparing to enlist
and go to the front. Since these two col
leges have been honored by the navy de
partment In naming two of the auxiliary
cruisers in their honor, the college men
seem especially anxious to reciprocate by
ottering their service to the government.
It Is understood in Washington that
Fitzhugh Lee will not go into the field as
tbe commander of Southern troops alone;
It is proposed to give him a brigade in
which both the South and the North v.ill
be represented, in about equal proportions.
Lee's staff, also, it Is said,"will be com
posed of men from both sections, so that
there Will be nothing sectional In the or
ganization. "Yankee Doodle" and “Dixie”
under Fitz Lee will be a medley to the
tune of which the enemy will have to
dafice lively.
The Attorney General of Massachusetts
has held, In an official opinion, that in
surance companies capnot write "bom.
bardment Insurance” in that state under
their present privileges. They may Insure
ogalnst fire as a result of bombardment,
hut thai is as far as they can go. So
far as the Information goes, Boston Is the
only city which has made strenuous ef
forts to fortify itself against an enemy
with insurance policies; yet Boston Is one
•f. the best protected cities in the coun.
The Importance of Coni.
The lack of coal may compel Spain to
abandon Cuba without making a serious
effort far its defense. Several times we
have called attention to the fact that
Spain did not seem to be taking into con
sideration thai she would find it difficult,
it not impossible, to get caal for her war
ships on this side of the ocean. Still, it
•lid seem unreasonable that she should
he inviting a war with a great Power like
the United States vt ithout having arranged
for a coal supply.
Modern warships are of no account what
ever without coal. A nation might as well
be without them as to be without the
means of moving them and handling the
great guns with which they are provided.
Unless Spain can make arrangements for
getting coal on this side of the ocean, her
warships at Cadiz and Cape Verde will
have to remain where they are.
Spain evidently expected to get a supply
of coal from this country before hostili
ties began and hoped, probably, to get
what she needed after the beginning of
hostilities from Great Britain. That she
expected to get coal from our coal piles
is evident from the fact that tramp steam
ers were flocking into our coal ports for
cargoes of coal up to Thursday, when Con
gress made coal a contraband of war. One
cargo at Newport News was purchased
outright by the government to prevent it
from reaching the Spanish warships and
two other cargoes at Philadelphia will
hardly be permitted to ltave for their
destination. Spain will get no more coal
from this country, and the tone of our
dispatches yesterday indicated that she
would get none at the coaling stations of
Great Britain on this side of the Atlantic
or the other.
The possibility of the war between the
United States and Spain being decided by
the coal supply question which was sug
gested in our dispatches yesterday is
worthy of very thoughtful consideration.
It is clear that Spain, without coal, would
be at such a disadvantage In a war with
the United States that it would be ’folly
for her to engage lu it. She could, with
out loss of honor, say that, being unable
to move her fleets of warships or to mak
use of them if sent to Cuban waters, she
was compelled to abandon Cuba. Her min
istry might be severely criticised for not
having provided a stock of coal at Porto
Rico when it saw that war was probable,
and perhaps it would be, but the world
would say that she acted wisely in aban
doning a contest in which the chances lor
success were all against her.
Coal, being so important a factor In wtr,
will be, if it is riot already, regarded as
contraband of war. Congress has declared
it to be so. Therefore, our swift cruisers,
made out of our merchant ships, would
seize it on the high seas, whether carried
under Spanish or neutral flags, if it were
intended for Spanish warships. They
would search the ocean for ships load
ed with coal, and they would
take care that none of them reached
Spanish ports. Service of that kind would
be as effective as that rendered by arm
ored cruisers and battleships with their
great guns. It would be a service that
would make the enemy’s warships as
harmless as ocean derelicts.
Will They Touch the Button? 1
An unusually stupid story is published in
the New York Sun of April 21. The story
is told by Dr. Gonzalo Arostegua who ar
rived in New Y'ork on Wednesday from
Havana with his family. The story Is as
follows: "The Spanish will never leave the
City of Havana standing if they are com
pelled to evacuate Cuba. The entire city
is undermined, and there has been no ef
fort to conceal this fact in the Cuban
capital. The placing of the explosives
has been done during the hast few weeks,
and the Spanish openly assert that, if Ha
vana is taken by the United States, they
need only to touch a button and the cii.v
will be blown from the face of the earth.”
Now why should the Spanish wish to de
stroy their own property to the extent of
hundreds of millions of dollars. Are they
so foolish as to bite off their noses to
spite their faces? They know very well
that the United States don’t want Havana,
nor Cuba, and have no intention of taking
possession of the island with the view o'
keeping It. The property of Spaniards in
Havana will be more valuable after the
United States have pacified Cuba and
given it a good government than it is now.
To wreck and ruin Havana would not
gratify any feeding of revenge against the
American people, because the destruction
of that city would not hurt them, but It
would practically ruin the citizens of Ha
vana, who are either Spaniards or friend
ly to Spain. To destroy Havana to pre
vent its occupation by United States troops
would be so utterly foolish and stupid
that we cannot help thinking that Dr.
Arostegua was imposed upon by Spaniards
not in a position to speak respecting the
purposes of the Spanish people of Havana
or of the plans of the Spanish authorities.
There is no button, it is safe to say, by
means of which Havana can be changed
from a beautiful city into a pile of ruins.
The outcome of the Fulton county pri
mary election does not lack a great deal
of being really iaughahte. Some of the
active young political colts of Atlanta Im
agined that they could prance out and
kick the head off the old war horse, even
if he were hundreds of miles away. The
old charger, however, never whickered
once while the youngsters were throwing
their heels into the air; but, when the dust
had blown aside, it was found that the
ancient one was still munching oats In
Washington, where he will continue whh
his head in the crib for yet an indefinite
time. The moral of it all is that, while
the Hon. Leonidas Livingston may not lie
’'a statesman, he Is one of the smartest
practical politicians in this state, or any
other.
it seems likely that there will be some
burning of gunpowder in South America,
as well as further north, before a great
while. Chile and Argentina are seriously
discussing a boundary question, with little
prospects of coming to an amicable agree
ment. The latter suspects that the form
er Is trying to cheat her oui of a consid
erable slice of rich territory,
THE MOIiXING NEWS: SATURDAY. APRIL 23, 1898.
llnppy Hr. Livingston.
Avery broad smile must have occupied
Representative Livingston’s face ’Thurs
day night when he was informed that At
lanta and Fulton county hnd not taken se
riously the three gentlemen who thought
they would like to succeed him in Con
gress. These three gentlemen, Messrs.
Felder, Blackburn and Brannan, made a
lot of noise In Atlanta for several weeks.
One of them had the support of both the
Constitution and the Journal, and all of
them seemed to have the idea—judging
from their talk—that the people of Fulton
county were kept awake at night trying
to figure out which one of them ought to
be sent to Washington in place of Col.
Livingston. They must have felt rather
cheaply when the ballot box revealed the
fact that the people had not been thinking
of them at all, but had made up their
minds that Col. Livingston should be his
own successor.
The fact that Col. Livingston stayed at
his post in Washington and let his op
ponents abuse him to their heart's content,
seemed to satisfy the voters-that Qol. Liv
ingston was better congressional timber
than any one of those who sought his
place. And the people wtjo attended the
big mass meetings at which the throe
would-be congressmen abused each oiher,
and at which Col. Livingston's record was
held up to view, must have regarded the
meetings in the light of huge Jokes, fn view
of the fact that they intended to vote for
Col. Llvingslon. The three ambitious At
lantians are doubtless wiser, if sadder,
men than when they undertook t& buck
against such a shrewd old politician as Col.
Livingston.
It must be admitted that Col. Livingston
is held in higher esteem than he was a
few years ago when he sought to make
himself solid with the farmers by advo
cating the sub-treasury scheme, and,when
he thought the road to popularity and po
litical preferment was alongside of that
traveled by Mrs. Lease. His years in
Congress have broadened him and made
him realize that legislating for the happi
ness and welfare of 73,000,000 people'is se
rious business. If he can get out of the
minds of the people that he ha 9 something
of the demagogue in his composition, he
will have little difficulty of convincing
them that he has a great many of the
qualities of a stateman.
“Buekra.'t
A correspondent at Moultrie, Ga., writes
to the Morning News: “I see in your edi
torial columns of April 18 the word ’buck
ra,’ takfn evidently from th negro dialect.
Can you give me the derivation of the
word and its correct definition?”
It is hardly possible to comply’ literally
with the request. The common belief in
the South Is that the word is an importa
tion from the wilds of Africa, and that it
was brought over by natives captured and
sold'as slaves. That is the tradition, but it
cannot be traced back and verified, for the
reason that the slaves were drawn from
tribes without a literature or even a writ
ten language. Indeed, It would probably
be rather broad to call their means of
communicating ideas a language at all, in
the same sense that we call English,
French, German, etc., languages. The
story goes, however, that the term “buck
ra,” as applied to the white people by -**e
old-time negroes when talking among
themselves meant "thief,” or “devil,” and
that it was brought from the Guinea
coast. The special application of the
word is supposed to have referred to the
eircumstarice of the natives having been
stolen from their homes by white people
end sold into servitude. The Standard Dic
tionary, however, says that "buckra”
means white, or belonging to the white
man, hence‘good and strong; otherwise “a
white man, a master, or a powerful de
mon." Webster’s Dictionary gives the defi
nition of the word, which it says comes
from the Calabar coast, thus: “Demon, a
powerful and superior being; a white maty;
a term used by negroes of the African
coast, West Indies, etc.”
Before the war, in the coast country, the
term “buckra” was most often used by the
slaves with the prefix “poor," “poor buck
ra” meaning a white person who owned
no slaves. The slaveholders were seldom
referred to as "buckra.” (The term, by the
way, as used by the blacks is both singu
lar and plural in the form as written; they
say one “buckra” or “ten buckra,’.’ indis
criminately.) Owners of slaves—"people,”
as they called themselves—were held in
much higher esteem by the blacks than
those who owned no slaves.
If "buckra” was employed as a term of
opprobrium by the blacks of former
times, it seems now to have lost its sig
nificance in any such sense. It is largely
employed at the present time, but in near
ly every instance It means simply “white
person.” To the younger generation of
blacks the word has absolutely no other
significance than to express a difference
between colors of skins.
A MiKlit Indication of Trouble,
In financial and political circles there ore
slight rumors to the effect that some of
the senators have said that the Senate
will not authorize the issue of any bonds
to carry on the war which do not contain
a provision that they shall be payable in
silver. It is doubtful if the rumors have
any foundation. It would be an extraord
inary condition of affairs If the Senate,
which did Its Utmost to bring on the war
should, after the war has been begun,
bring forward the silver questiou, know
ing that it would divide the people and
draw their attention away from the pros
ecution of the war.
Sound sense would dictate that the
bonds should be issued with the same pro- 1
vision as to the kind of money in which
they are to be paid as are found in bonds
now in existence. If an effort were made*
to give silver greater recognition than it
now has in government bonds, the charge
would be made, and the impression would
exist, that the war was brought about, in
a large degree, with the hope of promoting
the cause of silver. Such an impression
would be regrettable. Better attend to
one thing at a time. When we get through
with the war It will be time enough to
take up the silver question again.
ut is ciearly understood that this gov
ernment, wiil not authorize privateering.
This stand on the part of the United
States will no doubt have good effect in
Europe. At the same time, there is a pos
sibility that some unpleasant circum
stances may arise because of privateering
under the flag of the alleged Cuban re
public. The constitution of that govern
ment authorizes privateering, and the un
derstanding Is that it is ready to issue
letters or marque to such persons as may
desire them. Since the United States oc
cupies the position of supporting the Cu
ban government, In the eyes of Europe,
this country might be held morally respon
sible for depredations committed by pri
vateers flying the Cuban flag. It is to be
expected, however, that complications will
arise from time to time. Meanwhile, since
this government’s purpose is strictly non
mercenary, and all of the Powers know
it to be highly honorable, there Is no rea.
son*to apprehend that there will be diffi
culty in speedily straightening out any
tangjes which may be encountered.
Chicago, Philadelphia and Brooklyn
should felicitate with San Francisco upon
the "honesty” of some of their public of
ficlals. The San Francisco official who
has latest been caught up with, however,
has been practicing a little more direct
method of thievery than has obtained in
the other cities mentioned for some time.
His name is Widber, and he is the city
treasurer. For several years he has been
systematically robbing the city treasury
by cutting open bags of gold coins in the
vaults, removing s2b gold pieces and sub
stituting silver dollars for them so as to
keep up the weight of the coin in the bags.
It Is suspected that the city has been vic
timized to the extent of anywhere be
tween $116,C00 and $200,(100. The treasurer’s
bond is for SIOO,OOO, hence there is a fine
prospect for the city to lose a large sum.
The perennial story of the escaiie ot
John Wilkes Booth from his pursuers,
after the murder of Lincoln, and his liv
ing many years afterward in security, Is
again going the rounds of the press, with
slight alterations in details. The story is,
of course, without foundation in fact.
There Is no room for a reasonable doubt
that Booth was killed in that now famous
barn; that his body was Identified and
that he was buried, precisely as the au
thentic accounts have it. The tragedy of
Ford’s Opera House was one of the most
romantic events of that terrible period of
our country’s history, and there will prob
ably be romances written of it for a long
time to come.
Every “yellow" journal in the country
knows precisely what the plan of cam
paign in Cuba ought to be, and how Spain
could he brought to her knees before the
end of a fortnight. Many,of these ponder
ous schemes of conquest are compiled by
warriors who, notwithstanding they dis
count Napoleon in strategy, Grant in per
severance and Pickett in brilliant daring,
are grinding th’eir lives away for the com
pensation of S2O or thereabouts per week
as desk men for tt#; “yellows.”
Hereafter the expression, “before the
war,” will have to be qualified. Up to this
time it has by common consent been ac
cepted as meaning the war of secession.
PERSONAL.
—Mr. John Stewart Crossy, the retired
commedian, has offered his large property
near Baltimore for the Establishment of a
school for the orphans and a home for the
widows of those who perished on the
Maine.
—President McKinley has consented to
deliver the oration at the unveiling of the
Key monument, at Frederick, Md., and,
to insure his attendance, the date of the
ceremony has been changed from June 14
to Aug. 9. i
—Mrs. Morse of California, a niece of the
President, is visiting the White House.
She is accompanied by her daughter, a
flaxen-haired fairy of about 2 years, who
since her arrival has become absolute au’o
crat of the Presidential mansion.
—A portrait of Gen. Albert Sidney John
ston has bfeen presented to the Confeder
ate bazar of Baltimore. It is from a
photograph, which was taken in San
Francisco, when Johnston was a colonel
in the United States army, stationed at
that place. He is represented in the
painting as wearing the uniform of a Con
federate general, and the work is a faith
ful likeness of the man as he appeared
two years before his death at the battle
of Shiloh.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Places on Lee’s SfnlT.
From the Birmingham News (Deni.).
If every man who has applied gets a
place on Fitzhugh Lee's staff there will be
no need for privates and line officers.
Mlßrk the Partisnn Politician.
From the Atlanta Journal (Dem.).,
The man who tries to play partisan pol
itics now In Congress or outside will be
accorded his proper pitjee in the estima
tion of the country.
Beautiful Optimism.
From the Wilmington (N. C.) Star (Dem.>.
We verily believe that Spain has no se
rious intention of making a real defense
of Havana, and that she has already de
cided to evacuate the island.
Better soldiers Than Ever.
From the Chicago Record (Ind.).
In fact, military training has become
very general in the United States during
the last two decades, and those who judge
the volunteers of 1898 by the volunteers
of 1861 are likely to bo surprised by the
superior knowledge of arms and camps
shown by the present generation.
lluw can She Do It?
From the New Y’ork Times (Dem ).
The whole situation on the eve of hos
tilities presents three conspicuous elements
—the abandonment of the naval defense of
Cuba and even of communication with it
by Spain; the Spanish land forces and
the loyalists in thb island shut up in the
coast towns with most inadequate sup
plies; rest of the island and the only
portions "affohWtlg fbod under the control
of the ihsurgents. “Spain.” says Senor
Sagasta, "will not lu low a bit of her ter
ritory to be taken ’from her with impun
ity.” How will she prevent II?” ,
(umr of a Hit Made lly Hill Kyr.
James Whitcomb Riley tells a quaint
story of his former lecturing partner. Bill
Nye. It was the opening of their joint
season; they had both been rusticating Uur.
ing the vacation and were brown as ber
ries. Nye looked much like an Othello in
his sunburnt make-up, and Riley suggest
ed to him the application of some “liquid
white,” a cosmetic much affected by the
gentler sex of the profession, says the De.
troit Free Press.
N'ye sent for the preparation and never
having used anything of the kind before
he filled the palm of his hand with it and
carefully smeared it over his countenance,
There was no mirror in his primitive
uressing room, and Riley was beautifying
himself on the other side of the stage.
The “liquid-white” dries out somewhat
like whitewash, and when Nye appeared
before the audience he was a sight to be
hold. His head looked like a frosted top
piece on a wedding cake. His face, white
as the driven snow, was expressionless and
blank. The audience shrieked, and when
he came off from his first selection they
demanded his reappearance. He obliged
them to howls of laughter; again he made
his exit, and again was re-demanded by
the upriorious audience.
Believing he had made a hit he was
about to return to the stage when he
was caught by the arm by Mrs. Nye, who
cried: "William Edgar Nye, what have
you got on your face?”
“Nothing but Us usual expression, my
dear.”
“Expression! Fiddlesticks! You’re a
fright,” cried his wife, and leading him
to where there was a piece of broken
looking-glass showed him how he looked.
Nye was mortified, and catching sight
of Riley, just about going on the stage,
he would have undoubtedly followed him
on and been revenged but for the inter
vention of Mrs. Nye.
His head was scraped, combed and wash
ed, and his next selection was read with
out “a hand” from the audience. More
over, the story is a fact and not a press
agent's concoction.
War Is Dreadful.
“Charlie says he wouldn’t be surprised
if we had war, after all,” said the first
one, according to Life.
“Does he? How awful! But then, he
wants it.”
“Oh, yes, he belongs to the naval re
serves.”
“He will go, of course.”
“Of course. He’s aching to. It would
be on the water, you known."
“Yes, I know that. Wouldn’t It be
grand if he could be a commodore or an
admiral, or—”
“But think o ! all the officers who would
have to be killed first.”.,
“I know it. That would be too bad.
What is the war about?”
“Don't you know?”.
“Well, of course I know what Charlie
says, but it isn’t quite clear.”
“Why, “those horrid Spaniards blew up
our battleship.’*
“But Charlie says it isn’t proved.”
“That doesn’t make any difference,
Someone did it.”
“That's, so. I never thought of that.”
"And then Cuba is to be free. I read it
In a paper."
“Why, I thought it was.”
"Oh, no. We have to declare it so first
Then it will be all right.” ”
“But what has that to do with Spain?”
"Oh, Spain belongs to Cuba, or else Cuba
belongs to Spain; I don’t know which. At
any rate, they’re connected in some way.’’
“Oh, I see. Well, if it comes, I do hope
It won’t last long.”
“So do I. Papa says business is at a
standstill, and I can t have another gown
this year.”
"How dreadful!”
“Isn’t it?”
The Warriors Six.
From the Boston Courier.
Nightly in the village store.
Hankerin’ for Spanish gore.
Chafin’, like they can’t hold in
For the combat to begin,
Ephra’m Guy and Gab’el Blare,
Hi’ an’ Hezekiah Dare,
Joshua Zeal and Zeb Maguire,
Snort their patriotic lira.
War’s proclaimed, no matter what
President McKinley's got
To declare about the thing,
For we’ve heered the eagle sing
Through the land’s official choir—
Joshua Zeal and Zeb Maguire,
Hi' an’ Hezekiah Dare,
Ephra’m Guy an’ Gab’el Blare.
War has got to come, by Jinks!
Carnage cut in sausage links
Is the pattern of remains
That is destined* to be Spain’s,
So hev screamed in frantic ire
Joshua Zeal and Zeb Maguire,
Hi’ an’ Hezekiah Dare,
Ephra’m Guy an’ Gab’el Blare.
An' when Freedom’s fires are lit,
An’ the fight is bein’ fit,
You will find in village store,
On the nail kegs, as before,
Far removed from combat dire,
Joshua Zeal and Zeb Maguire,
Ephra’m Guy an’ Gab’el Blare.
Hi’ an’ Hezekiah Dare,
How Wnllacc Saved the Day.
The fate of the battle hung in the bal
ance, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer
The commanders of the invading corps
looked anxious. The obstinate Spaniards
refused to be dislodged.
At that moment den. Lew Wallace spur
red to the front and saluted.
"Has the time come, general,” he hoarge
ly shouted, “for the dernier resort?”
The commander hesitated. Then he
shuddered, and nodded assent, and turned
away.
Ten minutes later the Wallace Annl-
Kilators, 4CO strong, swept on to the field.
The Spanish gunners looked In amaze
ment at this Intrepid band. So might the
Russian gunndu at Balaklava have looked
at the Light Brigade.
The Annihllators halted and coolly
dressed their lines.
"Attention!” roared the valiant Wallace
“One-two—three—all together!"
And then as one man those 400 elocu-
Tjonists began to briskly recite the
"Chariot race” from ■’Ben-Hur.”
The Spaniards never stopped running un
til they reached the extreme end of the
island, and then most of them plunged In
and struck out lustily for Porto Rico.
Down East Idea of McKinley.
They were telling a story In the Senate
cloak room this afternoon to Illustrate the
confidence which certain senators on the
Republican side have in the President, pays
the Washington correspondent of the' Chi
cago Record. Their faith is unbounded,
and their admiration almost equals idol
atry. Skid Mr. Vest: “A teacher In a
Sunday school down In Vermont, where
Procior comes from, asked his class one
day: .’Did any of you children ever know
or hear of aSaan who never committed a
sin in thought, word or deed?’
“A little boy over on one side of the
back seats lifted up his hand and exclaim
ed: ’I know?
"Well,” said the teacher, ’who was It?'
"William McKinley."
Whereupon Senator Tillman immediately
went ov.-r and repeated the yarn to Sen
ator Foraker, who has several times, tr.
a sarcastic way, referred to the President
as “omnipotent and infallible."
ITEMS OF* INTEREST.
—An eminent professor says that the age
of fish is almost unlimited. As to the
length of the life of fish, it is said that
the ordinary carp, if not interfered with,
would live about GOO years. The ordinary
goldfish has also been known to five over
100 years.
—The symptoms of sunstroke are known
to occur without any necessary* connec
tion with the rays of the sun or high
temperatures, but a somewhat novel view
of the cause of the malady has been
taken by Dr. Simbon. an Italian physician,
who believes the cause to be a specific
germ. According to Dr. Samhpn, “the spe
cific organism of siriasis" (sisiasis or ther
mic fever is so called from a connection
which is believed by certain people to ex
ist between Sirius, the dog stag and sun
stroke) “is probably spread in the super
ficial layers of the solid like other patho
genic micro-organisms, and may be con
veyed to man with dust blown by the
wind or thrown up under the tread of a
marching column. It is then inhaled into
the lungs or ingested into the alimentary
canal, w here it produces the virulent toxin
which probably, as in cholera, becomes
absorbed and sets up the symptoms of the
disease.”
—An experiment made last summer on
Staten Island demonstrated so well the
feasibility of destroying mosquitoes by
the use of oil that It is to be repeated
this year on a scale which is expected
to keep a large section of the island com
pletely free from the pests, says the Phil
adelphia Ledger. If this can be done in
one place, why not in another? It is a
very simple and by no means a costly pro
cess. It is merely to cover the stagnant
water in the affected locality with coal
oil. Crude oil or waste stuff will do, the
only requirement being that it shall form
a scum on the surface of the pool, which
will prevent the eggs of the mosquitoes,
which are always laid in stagnant water,
from hatching. The odor of the oi! is not
agreeable, but most persons would choose
it in preference to the buzzing and biting
of the insects; and, besides, in most cases,
the water is at such a distance from dwell
ings that the odor would not reach them.
\yhat makes the scheme still more feasible
is the fact that, unless carried by a
strong breeze, mosquitoes seldom go more
than a few hundred feet from the place
where they were hatched, so that a mere
ly local application of oil will give im
munity to that locality, whether other lo
cations join in to make the work general
or not.
—Peter the Great hated Moscow, and,
above all, that stronghold of oriental in
trigue and moral darkness, the Kremlin,
say's a writer in the Louisville Courier-
Journal. If I remember right, he never
inhabited the palace within its walls after
he was a child. The old palace is a net
work of incredibly small, low, ill-ventilated
rooms, some little bigger than closets,
painted in greens, blues, and reds, after
the Swedish fashion; rooms which seem,
even to-day, to reek of plots, intrigue and
murder. Napoleon, always a trifle theatri
cal, Insisted on sleeping in the bed of Peter
the Great when he occupied the Kremlin
in 1812. The bed of the boy Peter fitted the
hero of Austerlitz to a nicety. It is a
very abbreviated couch. In the very heart
of this oriental palace, with no window
which gives on the outer day and the
open air, is the terem, or women’s quar
ters. The terem was, to all intents and
purposes, a harem. The ladies, even the
Czartiza and the sisters of,the Czar, were
only permitted to look down into the hall
of coronation through a carved wooden
lattice, just as ladies do in every harem
in the East. They received no men ex
cept their husbands and' brothers, and
when they went out It was in a curtained
litter. When Peter mounted the throne
of the Czars, the women of Russia were
orientals, imprisoned far more rigorously
than the ladles of Constantinople to-day'.
A curious illustration of the power of
light matter to perforate more substantial
substances when driven at a high veloci
ty is stated by the Engineer,” as quoted
by Nature, “to have occurred in the royal
arsenal a few days ago. In the course'of
experiments on firing gas in mines, con
ducted by Capt. Cooper Key, R. A., under
the home office, a special gun is employed
to do duty for a borehole with a charge
of high explosive, and pressed cylinders
.of raw dry clay three inches long and
one and seven-eighths inches in diameter
are used to represent tamping. These
■shots’ are made to act In various mix
tures of air, coal-dust, gas, etc., and to
stop the course of plug, etc.; eventually
a cast-iron target-plate, one inch thick!
was placed 25 feet in front, at an Angie of
45 degrees, in order to break up every
thing into dust and throw' it upward. Af
tet* three or four shots with this qrrange
mor.t the clay plug, weighing seven and
one-half ounces, perforated the inch iron
plate, and the hole thus made has been
steadily extended since. The familiar
tallow candle passing through a door must
hide its head before a seven and one-half
ounce plug of clay perforating an Iron
plate an inch thick at an angle of 45 de
grees. Doubtless the velocity must be
tremendous. It is pointed out that the
velocity for a hard cylinder of this weight
and size to cut through an inch of
wrought iron at 45 degrees would be over
1,800 foot-seconds. With cast iron and clay
and the three or four ted blows ev
erything Is so greatly altered that there
is little more to be said than, that the
effect is remarkable and unexpected.”
—Great pride is taken by the Russians
in the ingenious devices by which travel
on their new Siberian railway will be made
comfortable, says the New York Times
Judging from their enthusiastic descrip
tions of the train that is to run from St
Petersburg to Tomsk In six days twice
a month, it is not ingenuity they have
show n, but wisdom—the wisdom of adopt
ing expedients long familiar in America,
but which Western Europe has been
strangely slow to copy. It was ou April
1 that what is called “this remarkable
train” first steamed out of the Moscow
railway station at St. Petersburg. “The
cars,” declares an enthusiastic correspond
ent. “are built on the most approved prin
ciples, and no shaking or rolling is felt
while the train is in motion; they are
connected by ’harmonica’ platforms, tnd
it is thus possible to pass from one wagbn
to another without the slightest danger
or inconvenience. The whole train is
lighted by electricity and heated by means
of hot water. The train is famished with
a buffet, a dining room and a library. The
latter contains a collection of books com
prising all that Is known about' Siberia
including a map which covers sixty print
ed sheets. This library Is in the ratoon
car. which serves also as a dining ear. In
this car are to be found a piano, chess
boards, writing materials and smokers’
requisites. In addition to the general elec
tric lamp in each compartment, there are
also portable electric lamps. In each car
there is also a small card table, and geo
graphical maps are Ijung along the corri
dors. In every car theTe are electric bells
communicating with the buffet and the
attendants. To each buffet is attached a
dressing room, which is filled up W |th
toilet requirements and gymnastic appli
ances- The train also boasts of a bath
room, which contains an ordinary bath
and a shower bath, together with a small
dispensary. The train numbers among its,
attendants several servants who speua
English and French.” In all this Ameri
cana will see nothing new except tie
substitution of the word “harmonica” for
“vestibule.” ,
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15 miles 35-pound steel rail, practically
new.
1 locomotive, 30-ton, Rogers build, first
class condition, boiler has been stripped
and thoroughly overhauled with new ma
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1 Baldwin Mogul locomotive, practically
new, first-class condition. Will furnish
specifications of both engines by request.
15 new logging carts, 7-foot wheels, 6-
inch tire, steel axles and rigging complete.
12 two-horse wagons, in first-class run
ning condition.
40 miles galvanized telephone wire,brack
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8 standard telephones, in first-class con
dition, used but few months.
Also 18 logging cars, 20,000 pounds ca
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1 Erie City stationery engine, 35-horse
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1 portable saw mill, carriage, 40 feet
long, all in first-class running condition.
1 cut off saw attached, and stave ma
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1 hand car, practically new, 2 sets black
smith tools.
Will sell all, or any part of the above to
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Molena, Ga., or Traders’ Hill, Ga.
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NEW YORK.
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Just telephone or drop us a postal when
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Also OAK and PINE WOOD.
Pine 75c; three cut 85c.
Mixed 90c: three cut 90c.
Oak 31.00; three cut 11.00.
J. P. CORDRAT.
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Roofing and Repairing.
Roof Painting.
Skylights.
Cornices,
Agent for Cortfight’s
Metal Shingles.
Telephone 2203. 135 Whitaker street
Wall Paper.
Newest designs, latest col
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Mantels, Tiling & Grates.
Brick, Lime, Cement.
Paints, Oils, Glass.
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Congress and Drayton Streets-
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And Up-to-Date Butchers.
Try a leg of Rice-field
Spring Lamb. Nothing
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year.
210 HENRY STREET, EAST.
’PHONE 2290.
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