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The price of wire has gone up $2 per ton
recently, and a trust has got hold of the
production; nevertheless there Is no di
minution of the amount of wire-pulling
that is going on nt Harrisburg and other
capitals where senatorial contests ore on.
A joint resolution introduced Into the
Booth Carolina Legislature proposes that
the field of the state flag shall be changed
from blue to purple. Purple it the imper
ial color. Is this proposed change a deli
cate compliment to the imperialist move
ment?
It ifc told of Joseph H. Choate, the new
ambassador to England, that he has been
embarrassed hut once during hts long ca
reer. On that occasion he had represented
In court an unctuous and rotund black
woman, and had won the case for her. 11l
the excess of her gratitude she ran to him
to bestow a kiss.
Have we got an army scandal—a Drey
fus case—of our own? Shall we presently
bear mobs rushing around the Washing
ton departments shouting: "Viva, Ea
gan!" “Viva, Miles!” "A bas Miles!” "A
bas Eagan!" “Conspuez Miles; conspufz
Eagan; conspuez the beared and embalm
ed beef; conspuez everything!”
New York has selected Dr. Depew to he
a senator. Private John Allen of Missis
sippi is a candidate for the Senate. Should
this pair of jokers be adiled to "Bidy”
Mason, already a member and making
three of a kind, how would that most au
gust deliberative body in the world ever
be able to attend to serious business?
Distinguished army officers have sent to
the war department a recommendation
that Miss Margaret Livingston Chanler of
NrW York and AHss Anna Bouiigny of
New Orleans be granted medals of honor
for their services to the soldiers during
the war. Together they founded a hospi
tal in Porto Kico for the soldiers, and
ttervfcd in it In person nursing the sick.
Miss Chanler Is the great-great-grand
daughter of the original John Jacob As
tor; Miss Bouiigny is a lady of wealth
olid culture of the Crescent City.
The town fathers of Laurel, In Prince
George county, Maryland, have lately
been reading a good deal about municipali
ties adopting curfew laws. If the curfew
was a good thing for other places, why
would it not be good for Laurel? they
osked themselves. And finding no nega
tive reason, they proceeded to adopt the
curfew. The new law in Laurel, there
fore, is that upon the ringing of the bell
at 1 a. m„ residents and visitors will be
expected to be in-<loors and to put out
their lights and go to bed.
the mii.ks-eagan controversy'.
If what Inspector General Breekenridge
Fays Is eorreet. the trouble between Gen.
Milts and Gen. Eagan may result in a
much needed reform. In an inlervi- w pub
lished In our Washington dispatches yes
terday Gen. Breekenridge was quoted as
saying that in every war in which this
country has engaged a lack of harmony
hgs> been developed between a small coterie
of men who have places In the
War department and the rank and file of
the army. From what Gen. Breekenridge
says these men in the war department
spare no efforts to increase their own pow
er an.l importance. They ore at the elbow
of the Secretary of War all of the time,
and they undertake to inap out' the cam
paigns and direct the army through the
Secretary of War. Very naturally the gen
ual of the army feels that the entire con
trol of the army should lx- Oeft In his
hands. The country holds him responsi
ble for whatever mistakes are maile and
is re. llly to give him credit for the victories
that are won. Unless he Is free to do
as his judgment dictates he ought not to
be held responsible for disasters which
may occur.
In what Gen. Breekenridge said in his
interview is to be fqund the primary
cause of the trouble between Gen. Miles
and Gen. Eagan, and it Is also the cause
of the 111-feeling between Gen. Miles and
the Secretary of War. It seems to be
the very general understanding that Gen.
Miles was practically ignored in the war
with Spain. The Secretary of War, as
sisted by the men in the war de
partment, directed the operations of the
army without consulting Gen. Miles. Gen.
Miles felt that he was cutting a rather,
sorry figure before the country, because
the fact that he was not directing the
army, although the senior major general,
was frequently published and commented
upon. It was said that he did nol ft el
kindly towards the Secretary of War, and
it is probable that he did feel bitterly to
wards that official and also jowards a'll
of the men who were a part of
the force of the war department and who
were practically directing all of the af
fairs of the army through the Secre
tary.
Gen. Breekenridge probably expressed the
feelings of Gen. Miles as well as his own
when he said: "What we need in the war
department is a set of gentlemen.” These
men In the war department to whom Gen.
Breekenridge referred undertake, we are
given to understand, to run their respec
tive departments Independently of the
general of the army. Having access to
the Secretary of War at all times they
feel safe in doing pretty much as they
please—in fact, they get authority from
the secretary to do what they want to do,
and it gives them profound satisfaction
to thwart the general commanding if they
do not happen to like him. The Secretary
of War not knowing much about military
matters they do not find much difficulty
to get him to follow their advice.
Assuming that the foregoing Is a pretty
fair statement of the situation, is it not
about time for Congress to inaugurate a
reform? In framing the new army bill
should not care be taken to prevent such
eonflicts of authority as those pointed out
by Gen. Breekenridge? It seems that Gen.
Eagan refused on various occasions lo re
ceive orders from Gen. Miles, and even
declined to accede to requests made by
him. Naturally Gen. Miles became very
bitter towards Gen. Eagan, and when the
"beef”' Inquiry began he did not hesitate
to make an insinuation which may nol
have been warranted by any facts In his
possession. That insinuation provoked a
quarrel which injures the army in the
estimation of the country and may great
ly damage one of the country's most im
portant industries^
But the real cause of the trouble exists
in the organization of the army. Is It not
the duty of Congress to remove that cause
and thus prevent similar trouble In the fu
ture? However great the martial spirit
of our soldiers might be, it would be im
possible to wage a euecessful war with cne
of the great nations of Europe if there
were a lack of harmony between the lead
ing officers of the army and those who
run the war department. Now Is the time
to remove the obstacles to harmony.
Gi ll EXPOSITION SPACE.
There is cropping out in this country and
England a very bitter feeling among those
who purpose to have exhibits at the Paris
Exposition against the exposition manage
ment. It is alleged that the greater part
of the limited space of the exposition has
been awarded to home exhibitors. In view
of the fact that the success of the ex
position will depend largely on the for
eign exhibits, it is difficult to understand
the policy of the exposition managers in
awarding so little space to foreigners.
It seems that space has been arranged
for at Vincennes for the overflow exhibits,
und in this overflow, it is supposed, will
be included most of the English and Amer
ican exhibits which belong lo the trans
port department. In both this country and
in England there is talk of withdrawing
many of the exhibits which occupy a large
amount of space. If that should be done
the exposition would be shorn of some of
its most attractive features—attractive to
those who will visit the exposition for the
purpose of studying the world's progress.
Vincennes is six and a half miles from
the exposition grounds. It would be use
less to send them there. Nobody would
see them.
Many are the comments on the differ
ence between the treatment accorded to
foreign exhibitors at Chicago and that
which they are receiving at Paris. At
Chicago the foreign exhibitors were grant
ed qjl they asked. At Paris the foreign
exhibitors will have to be saiislied with
what the domestic exhibitors don't want.
Mr. Beveridge, whom the Republicans
of Indiana have nominated to succeed
Senator Turpie, is only 35 years old. He
was born on a farm, and been a plow
boy, a railroad laborer and a lumber camp
boss. He worked his way through col
lege, and read law at his own expense.
The legislature will elect him next Tues
day. His career illustrates the possibili
ties of a poor boy in this country.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. JANUARY 14. 189 ft
DIVIDED BY %N “A.”
The harmless little A that once stood
for apple-pie In the nursery rhyme now
stands for ax; and New York and £hi
cago are each trying lo land it upon Ihe
neck of tbe other. The trouble originated
ji\ the sound which certain representative
persons of the two cities give to the vow
el, and the light waxes hot. It came about
In this way. The resignation of Ihe Rev.
Dr. Lyman Abbott leaves a vacancy in the
pulpit of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn—Mr.
Beecher's old church. The Plymouth con
gregation is seeking anew pastor; a large,
handsome man, of much erudition and elo
quence. Ii came to the attention of the
Plymouth people that there was in Chi
cago such a preacher as they might Tike
to have, a Dr. Hillis. A delegate from Ply
mouth was sent on to Chicago to hear 'Dr.
Hillis preach, and to judge of his pulchi
irude and persuasive powers. “Deacon”
M'hite was the delegate. The deacon is
known far and wide, not only for his piety,
but for his activity id Wall street, and as
u “fan” at base ball games. It now goes
Into the records that, in addition to bis
other accomplishments, he Is a purist in
language or rather pronunciation. For up
on the deacon's return from Chicago he
announced that while Mr. Hillis was a
well-favored man and he knew a good deal,
his accent made the deacon "creep.” ‘He
flattened his 'a' In the true Western style,”
said Deacon White. That is to say. the
preacher called it "vase,” with the "a” as
in "face,” instead of calling it "vaws,” as
they say in New York.
The deacon's report just naturally riled
Chicago, and she got up and howled back
that New York was affected, pedantic, an
ape of British pronunciation; that she
thought It fine to pattern after the Brit
ishers in pink teas and golf and strange
clothes, and to say "bawth,” and "pawst,”
and the* like, which disclosed her snobbery
and lack of real culture. New York, of
course, "went back at" Chicago, und said
some sharp things about people rolling
their "r's” and putting "r's” where, none
should be, and chewing words, and grunt
ing words. And thus the controversy goes
on.
Meantime, both Chicago and New York
are probably off on their pronunciation and
accent. Both have been contaminated by
the great Influx of foreign immigration,
and their break-heck speed in dollar chas
ing. Purity of spoken English is to be
found in this country in the South. To hear
the language at its best the Chicago and
New York disputant should oome South
and hear it from the, lips of some patrician
maid (or young widow), where the soft
moonbeams filter through foliage gently
stired by fragrant breezes. And then
they would know what they were talking
about.
EARNINGS OF out RAILROADS.
There is some little complaint by the
railroads which have their headquarters
in this city, that the earnings thus far this
year are not quite so good from the ordi
nary business as they were during the
fitst weeks of last year. The farmers are
not buying supplies as freely as they did
last year. Particularly is this the case in
the matter of commercial fertilizers.
There is a reason, however, whv the move
ment of fertilisers has been light thus far
this year. The season Is late, and farmers
are not fully prepared to use
them. Still, it Is probable that
the sales of ferlilizers will not
he as large as they were a year
ago. The fact is the farmers are not as
well supplied with money as they were
last year, owing to the extremely low
price of cotton which has prevailed from
the beginning of the cotton season.
And the outlook for a better price for
cotton is not encouraging. Too much
cotton is planted. All cotton growers
now admit that the cause of the low price
of cotton is overproduction. Texas, this
year, will produce almost as much cotton
as the entire cotton belt produced prior to
the war of secession. And cotton can be
produced in that state at less cost than
in the older cotton states. The reason is
that the land is new and does not need
fertilizers. And Texas will be able to
grow cotton profitably, at prevailing
prices, a good many years without ferti
lizers. This being the case cotton grow
ers in this and other states which need
commercial fertilizer for that crop,
ought to think seriously of turning
their attention to other crops. Instead
of trying to Induce cotton planters to re
duce the cotton acreage, when they meet
In conventions to see what can be done
towards bringing about an increase In the
price of cotton, they should try to find out
what crops they can substitute profitably
for It.
In this state there Is a splendid field for
stock raising. Cattle and hogs would pay
far better than cotton. There is no doubt
that catlle can be raised with profit.
Dairy farming and fruit growing would
also pay. It is a matter of wonder that
our farmers pay so little attention -to
chickens and eggs. There is not enough
of any kind of poultry produced in this
state to supply the demand of the home
market. And as for eggs, the most of
those which reach this city come from
Tennessee.
There are farmers who think that it is
a waste of time to give attention to milk,
butter, eggs and poultry, but that is be
cause they don’t know anything about
that kind of farming. Asa matter of
fact the farmers who devote their time to
chickens and eggs and butter and milk are
far more prosperous than those who give
all of their attention to cotton. Some set
tlers who have lately come into this state
Intend to see what can be done in the way
of stock raising. We predict that Ihey will
be eminently successful. They may make
some mistakes at first, but if they stick
to it they wifi find themsleves pros
perous in the course of a very few years.
Grain and hay with which to feed the cat
tle can be grown as successfully in this
state as in any other. And in most parts
of the state grass can be grown In abund
ance.
The continued low price of cotton has
become a very serious matter for most of
the farmers In this state and the Caro
llnas. They will become poorer year after
year if they continue to make cotton their
chief crop. It is a favorite argument
With many of the cotton farmer.- that
they know better than their would-be ad
visers how jo manage their farms. That is
what they said when the newspapers ad
vised them to raise at home what they
needed for their families and their stock.
Finally, however, ihey acted on the ad
vice, and they huvre never regretted having
done so. If this state and others in the
cotton belt are to prosper they must turn
their attention largely to cattle, fruits,
liouitry and dairy products.
Most of the bills so far introducer! into
the South Carolina Legislature, it is state
ed, have for their purpose the repealing
of laws now upon the statute books. This
is one fruit of annual sessions. When
meetings of the legislature are frequent,
ill-digested laws get upon the statute
books. The legislators say, “Oh, well,
let’s pass this bill; if It isn't all right,
we can repeal it at Ihe next session.”
And with the see-sawing of factional poli
tics, each annual session is kept busy re
pealing laws passed shortly before, and
passing others to he repealed by the ses
sion coming after. Not only that, but eorae
really good laws enacted by one session
are either butchered or emasculated by
the next session, before the law has beer
in operation long enough to determine its
real value. In Georgia it is the same as
in South Carolina: and the taxpayers
have to foot the bills. In this slate a ses
sion of the /egislatdre costs about $70,000,
and in South Carolina the cost is about
$50,000. Biennial sessions would save the
taxpayers at least those sums each two
years.
A Peoria court the other day had an odd
application for an injunction before it.
The petitioner desired a stay against
death. Some person had predicted that
he would die on the 15th day of the pres
ent month. It occurred that the prophet
of evil had made quite a local reputation
for forecasting events correctly, hence
when the prediction of early demise was
made, the prospective victim was much
worried. In his application to the court
the petitioner staled that while he knew
he had to die some time, still Jan. 15
was not a convenient date for him. There
were a number of matters he wished to
attend to before shuffling off; therefore, if
the court would kind.y restrain the pro
phet from making the date Jan. 15, the pe
titioner would “ever pray, etc.,” as such
papers have it. The court was compelled
to admit that while it had many powers,
it was not competent to put the shackles
Upon the grim destroyer.
Stories of friction between American
commanders in Cuba continue to reach
this country. In a Havana cable to the
Herald, Gen. Pitzhugh Lee is quoted as
being displeased with the way things have
been going. When he w 7 as sent to Cuba
he was told he would have command of
all the troops In Havana province. "Now,”
his reported interview goes on, “a depart
ment has been treated for Ludlow, and I
am left with an inactive and useless army
of 14,660 met}." If is certainly to be hoped
that there will be an end to conflicting
authority and jealousies, which should not
be permitted to interfere with the plans of
the United States in giving Cuba a satis
factory' and independent government at an
early day. |
It is not remarkable that Spanish news
papers should urge the government to dis
criminate against American petroleum in
favor of the Russian product, and against
Cuban tobacco. The Spaniards are very
sore now, and for the time being feel
that they will never, never again like us
or permit us to make a dollar of profit
out of them. But time is a great salve. It
will not be long before the Spaniards will
be purchasing in the best markets, with
out paying much attention to whether it
Is American or Russian.
In the matter to changing the numbers
of the streets south of Anderson, as sug
gested in the Morning News yesterday,
it should have been stated that by count
ing from Bay street to Anderson, and
leaving out River street, which is under
the bluff and does not necessarily figure
in the arrangement, there are thirty
streets, and that what is now known as
First street should, therefore, be changed
to Thirty-first, and so on throughout the
streets south of Anderson.
Chicago has followed the example of
New York and placed a penalty upon mar
riage, in so far as women school teachers
are concerned. Hereafter no married wo
man will be employed in the capacity of
teacher in the Chicago schools. President
Graham of the school board says that to
permit married women to teach was
equivalent to "encouraging male para
sites."
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Charleston Evening Post thus en
lightens us upon the origin of a text which
we recently quoted and commended: "The
Savannah Morning News thinks that the
Manufacturers' Record had In mind the
Charleston Newj) and Courier when It
formulated the text "no city can perma
nently thrive upon tbe policy of slurring
a rival.” A few months ago we offered
some friendly counsel lo the News and
Courier anent its foolish policy of abuse
of Savannah, saying that no good could
come to Charleston through such abuse.
The Manufacturers' Record commended
the advice to consideration of all Southern
cities. We have no doubt that from this
suggestion grew the text put forth among
the collection offered for the new year
and the Morning News Is literally correct
in concluding that the News and Courier
furnished the inspiration for it.”
Senator Quay's fight for re-election with
an indictment for a serious crime hanging
over his head, continues to receive general
attention. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
<D*m.) say's: “If the election can be post
poned until after the trial and Mr. Quay
is acquitted, he may yet be chosen to suc
ceed himself, but hardly otherwise. The
fact that he has used every device prac
ticable to stave off a trial until after his
election to the Senate has'prejudiced his
chances f election and also created an
unfavorable impression as to his case in
court."
—Military Matters.—Drill Master (to
awkward squad)—A Mauser bullet will go
through eighteen inches of solid wood.
Remember that, you blockheads!—Puck.
Street Cnr No Place for Sentiment.
It was iate Saturday night, says the
Cleveland I'laia Dealer. The conductor
noticed one of the oldest patrons of the
line in the car. As he took his fare he
smiled and said:
‘'ll ippy New Year, sir."
"Eh ' said ihe paoyo.
“Happy Mew Year," repeated the conduc
tor.
“Why, I paid you once,*' raid the patron.
The conductor grew red. /
He began to realize that the patron was
decidedly deaf.
“1 said Happy New Year, sir!” he
roared.
Whereat all the passengers laughed.
"What’s the matter with It?” inquired
the deaf "Hole in it?”
The conductor braced himself and
shrieked: “I wish you a happy—New
Year!”
“Oh. transfers?" said the passenger with
a smile. “No, not this evening."
And the conductor went back to his
platform with haggard eyes.
An Omnipotent Congressman.
Sometimes a representative's reputation
for being able to accomplish things causes
all sorts of strange people to make strange
requests of him. So It has been with
Representative “Dave” Mercer, o' Ne
braska, who has built up a reputation for
efficiency that extends for beyond the
bounds of his own state. He had always
been doing chores well for his constituents,
one of fits successes being an appropriation
for many thousands of dollars for ihe
Trans-Mississippi Exposition just closed,
when everybody predicted that it could
not be done, says the Washington Post.
The same constituents have just evinced
their appreciation by returning him for a
fourth term by an unprecedented major
ity.
The other day Mr. Mercer received in his
mail a letter addressed in feminine hand,
“I hear you are able to do anything you
set out to do,” she wrote. “I have three
houses and a vacant lot that I want very
much to dispose of. Now, won’t you please
sell them for me?”
Saw the Point Himself.
The following story isltold of a Philadel
phia millionaire, who Has been dead some
years, says the Youth’s Companion. A
young man came to him one day and asked
pecuniary aid to start him in business.
“Do you drink?”
“Once in a while.”
“Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then
come and see me." The young man broke
off the habit at once, and at the end of
the year came to see the millionaire again.
“Do you smoke?” asked the successful
man. %
“Now and then.”
“Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then
come and see me again.
The young man went home and broke
away from thg habit. It took him some
time, but finally he worried through the
year, and presented himself again.
“Do you chew?’’ asked tba philanthrop
ist.
"Yes, I do,” was the desperate reply.
“Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then
come and see me ugain.”
The young man stopped chewing, but he
never went back again. When asked by
his anxious friends why he never called
on the millionaire again, he replied that he
knew exactly what the man was driving
at. “He'd have told me that now that 1
have stopped drinking, and smoking, and
chewifig, I must have saved enough to
start myself in business. And I have.”
Tile Sultan and the CleyU.
As the Sultan was driving to the Ytldiz
Kiosk on his return from bidding his Ger
man imperial guests good-by a few weeks
ago, says the Chicago Record, a poorly
clad Turk stole through the double cordon
of soldiers that lined the streets traversed
by the imperial notch, cast a big linen
bound parcel at his sublime majesty's feet,
burst through the line's and tried to es
cape. The bundle began to cry.
“Allah!" yelled Prince Abdul Ka<ler,
who was seated at the Sultan’s side. “The
dogs would murder my father. An adju
tant snatched the bundle from the car
riage. “Arrest the ruffian!” he cried, while
the Sultan, in his turn, ordered the pack
age untied. “There is nothing in it but
a child,” he said.
Meanwhile the father of the child—for
the bundle contained a boy of 3 years—
had been caught, and he was brought be
fore the pontiff of Mussulmans and Father
of the Faithful for examination. “Your
majesty." he said, “I am a government
c lerk. For months I have received no sal
ary. My children are crying for bread.
Oh! Padisba, emtr-ul-muminin, wilt thou
not take compassion on this, my starving
child?”
The clerk’s arrears of salary were paid
to him that very day, and by his majes
ty’s orders the child, in his new character
of “son of the Sultan,” was admitted to
the “dareh,” or household, of Prince Ab
dul Kader.
The Expansionist to Incle Sam.
You're getting too big for your breeches,
Sam;
You'll have to let out some more stitches,
Sam;
Those old fogies of yrre—like Mason and
Hoar t
Thought your Seventy-six garments
should last evermore.
You started at thirteen, you're now forty
five,
So let out your stitches for those to i r
rive.
Hawaii you've cornered with saccharine
ski!),
A for Wall street with grist for
your mill!
Porto,Rico, by conquest, fairly was won,
Antr Cuba for Cubans, we'll see if e’er
done.
Manila, your prospects look threatlngly
blue.
For there's widespread dissensions—be
tween me and you.
See the gleam from afar thwart our West
ern lines.
’Tis the star of the East from the bright
Philippines,
With islands in blocks parcell’d ready for
, sale,
To tempt Europeans—wholesale or re
tail.
There's Luzon, Iloilo, Zebu and Gulm
aras,
Enough then to Satisfy, If not embarrass.
Review our swift progress on land, sea
and shore
With telegraphs and telephones and trol
leys at our door;
With men like Morse and Edison, rich
in electric lore,
With Flaglers, Goulds. Rock’fellers and
Vanderbilts galore.
Shall we renounce this glorious grab
and not increase our store?
Expansion! Expansion! is the order of the
day,
Imperialism, if you will—provided that it
pay.
The foolish fossil follies of a hundred years
ago
With ihe legendary halo attached to old
Monroe
Were smothered In oblivion when San
tiago fell,
And scattered and shattered by Dewey’s
shot and shell.
What! lose our twenty million? By the
eternal! No!
Sam! Hold your grip upon the archi
pelago! Paul Pry.
Savannah, Jan. 13, 1899 ,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Peace Commissioner Whitelaw Reid
says his trip to France proved most bene
ficial to his health, and adds that be has
returned feeling better than he has done
for some years.
—ln recognition of the late Senator Mor
rill's great interest in the improvement
of the city of Washington, a newspaper
of that city suggests that the new Su
preme Court building be made a memo
rial to him.
—A curious example of the reward of ex
cessive virtue, which is often it* own un
doing. is thus given: The English pickle
manufacturers have beeD making their
pint*bottles hold a little more than a pint,
to be on the safe side of an English law
on the subject. But when they sent these
pint bottles to Canada they ran against a
law which provides that any package
measuring more than a pint must pay
duty as a quart.
—lf the thefts are committed by the
men sent by an employer to the premises!
of a customer, to there do some work, is
the employer responsible? A London court
held that if the employer had used due
diligence and prudence in hiring his work
men he was not responsible for their dis
honesty. On the other hand, if he had
carelessly sent a man of thievish propen
sities he would have been held liable for
the losses of the customer.
—The Spanish in their Mausers possess
a rifle that has hardly an equal. Il is
said that Germany would adopt it in the
place of the Mannlicher but for the ex
pense entailed. The Krag-Jorgenson,
used in the American army, is to be fur
nished with a “clip" containing five car
tridges, to be inserted with a single mo
tion. This saving of seconds would be
important in repelling a charge. At other
times deliberatienese of fire is a
the prevention of the waste of cartridges
a necessity. At present the American army
rifle cartridges are inserted one at a time.
—A woman shoplifter was caught sealing
an umbrella the other day in a Philadel
phia dry goods store. But it was decided
not to prosecute her if she would pay for
the umbrella, valued al $2.50, which she
did. The next day she returned and re
quested to see the manager. When that
surprised person could recover himself
sufficiently to ask her business the woman
calmly told him that she had been pricing
umbrellas in other stores and found she
cotlld purchase one like her own for $2,
and she wanted to know If he wouldn’t
refund her SO cents. Asa tribute to her
monumental nerve the 50 cents was handed
her in silence.
The Hartford Courant of recent date, con
tained the following: "In the Courant, of
March 16, 1784, we printed the following
queer story, which our readers will par
don us for repeating. Some of them may
have forgotten it: Hebron, Feb, 15,. 1784.
This day departed this life Mrs- Lydia
Peters, the wife of Colonel John Peters
and second daughter of Joseph Phelps,
Esq. She was married at the *age of 15,
and lived with her consort three tim “9
fifteen years and had fifteen living child
ren, thirteen now alive, and the youngest
15 years old. She hath had three times
fifteen grandchildren. She was sick fif
teen months and died the 15th day of the
month aged four times fifteen years.”
—The American Baptist Publication So
ciety%now operates five chapel car*. Each
car is constructed especially for the pur
pose of holding meetings, with an audito
rium capacity of seating 160 persons, a
pulpit, organ and library, and also apart
ments for living rooms. A man and his
wife are put in charge of each car and the
car is sent out for missionary work. It
is sidetracked at some small settlement,
and kept there until there are a number
of conversions. One car travels along the
railroad lines in the grain-growing re
gions of the northern part of the United
States. Another has as its territory the
Pacific coast. Another is the far south
west—Arizona, New Mexico, etc. A
fourth is in Texas and a fifth in Kansas.
The railroads have willingly given free
transportation to the chapel cars.
—"I want to go to Manila,” said the
tall man with the gray beard, according
to the New York Mail and Express. “I
want to go first class and by the Quickest
routes. How much will the trip cost me?"
The tourist agent grabbed up a handful
of papers, ran them over quickly, and af
ter a minute or so, said: “The only way to
get to Manila is by way of Hong Kong,
China. The fare to Hong Kong from this
city is $303.50 in American money. From
Hong Kong to Manila, a journey of three
days or a little more, the cost of trans
portation is $75 in Mexican money. You
have the choice of half a dozen railway
routes across the continent to the Pacific
coast, and this journey can be made in
five, days, if necessary. From the west
coast there is a choice of two routes to
Hong Kong by some of the finest and
fastest steamers on the Pacific. * * * The
journey from San Francisco to Hong Kong
averages about twenty-nine days, divid
ed as follows: From San Francisco to
Honolulu, seven days; to Yokohama,
twelve more; to Hiogo, two; to Nagasaki,
about the same lime; to Shanghai, three
days. Hong Kong is three days’ journey
from Shanghai. There is another way to
go, but the way I quote is the best. The
regulation amount of baggage is allowed,
the accommodations are equal to
those found on the Atlantic. There are
first-class banks and business houses both
at Hong Kong and Manila, so that a trav
eler need not worry about drafts, cables or
the like. One could make a round trip
to Manila and meet ail reasonable expenses
for between SBOO ands 1,000.”
—A Boston dispatch to the New York
Times, dated Jan. 10, says: The theory that
the sun is growing hotter was advanced
by Prof. T. J. J. See in a lecture on “Sid
ereal Astronomy," in the Lowell Institute
course at Huntington Hall to-night. Prof.
See said that his interesting discovery was
founded on a law of nature as irrevocable
as the law of gravity, which is that gas
eous bodies are constantly contracting, and
that In contracting ihe heat grows fiercer
until a solid is formed. Then the heat dis
appears and the body becomes cold and
dark. In the distant future, according to
this theory, the sun win become a solid
and will then go out, leaving the solar sys
tem in darkness. The heat of the sun is
not, as the ancients thought, derived from
combustion. If that were •i’d, the solar
mass would have been consumed long ago.
The theory that the heat is produced bv
the fall of many meleors into the sun
cannot be accepted. We must believe that
the heat of the sun is caused by the energy
given up by the particles under the action
of gravity. The discovery of this fact,
while in a measure anticipated by several
astronomers, has never been practically
shown. The work, howqycr, has not de
tracted from my discovery." *lVe fact is.
however, the speaker explained, that in
past ages the earth received more heat
from the sun than It does now. The sun,
being larger, gave the earth more heat
though it was not in itself at such a high
temperature. Geologists, he believed, were
almost unanimous in declaring that the
heat of the earth formerly was greater
than now. When (he sun grows cold the
earth will become a lifeless, unluhabitaßle
ball of ice. That will be some millions of
years hence, however, so there is no cause
for immediate anxiety.
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