Newspaper Page Text
4
gflje Jfflnfning
MuruiDK Vcwk Building. hanaHh, Un.
SATT'RDAY, ABOIiT ark lf*oo.
Regt*iere<s at the PostofHc* in Savannah.
The MORNING NEWS is publiahed
even- day In tba year, and is served to
6Ubsorib*rs In the city, or sent by man.
at 70e a month. *4 Ott for six months, and
sß.o if t or one year.
The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six
times a weelt (without Sunday issue),
three months, {1.50; six months {3.00; one
year $6 00.
Tbe WEEKLY NEWS, 2 lseues a week.
Monday and Thursday, toy mail, one year,
$1 00.
Subscriptions payable In advance. Re
mit by postal order, check or registered
letter. Currency 6ent by mail at rik ot
tenders.
Trane lent advertisements, other than
special column, local or reading notices,
amusements and cheap or want column.
10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate
type—equal to one inch square in depth—
is the standard of measurement. Contract
rales and discount made known on appli
cation at business office.
Orders for delivery of the MORNING
News to either residence or place of
business may be made by postal card or
through telephone No. 210. Any irregular
ity in delivery should be immediately re
ported to the office of publication.
Letters and telegrams should be ad
dressed “MORNING NEWS,” Savannah,
Ga.
EASTERN OFFICE. 23 Fark Row, New
York city, H. C. Faulkner, Manager.
15DEX 10 KEI ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices —Notice, William P.
Bailey, Clerk of Counoil: Fine Goode at
Low Prices, C. A. Drayton Grocery Com
pany; Richard Baughn on Suwanee
Springs Water for Rheumatism; Fancy
and Re-Pressed Brick, Savannah Build
ing Supply Company; Mantels, Grates and
Tiling. Andrew Hanley Company; As
Usual, the Very Best at Funk's; Ship
Notice, Strachan & Cos., Consignees; Le
van’s Table d'Hote.
Business Notices—Henry Solomon &
Son Control the Genuine Old Grotv Whis
key; Groceries, The S. W. Branch Com
pany.
Butter—At Munster's.
Corsets Thomson's "Glove-Fitting'’
Corsets.
Offlaial—City Ordinances.
Railway and Mill Supplies—W. Ross
Gravener, Manufacturers’ Agent.
Electric Paste—Steam’s Electric Paste.
Men’s Furnishing Goods—The Bee Hive.
Proposals—Sale of U. S. Vessels Nan
tucket and Cheyenne.
Postum Food and Grape-Nuts—PoStum
Cereal Company.
Cheroots—Old Virginia Cheroots.
Amusements —Guy Woodward at Thea
ter, Week Commencing Aug. 27; Her
mann, the Great, at Theater. Aug. 28.
MedioaJ— Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable
Pills; Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Tutt’s Pills.
Cheap Column Advertisement—Help
Wanted, Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia to-day arc
for generally fair weather; warmer In
Interior, with light southwesterly winds;
and for Eastern Florida generally fair
weather; warmer in central and northern
portion, with light southeasterly winds.
Maybe ex-Gav. Northen's appearance In
a shirtwaist will make the farmers less
backward about coming to town In a
Cos too shirt with “one gallus
1 a
Hr. Hanna s demand for the perpetua
tion of the present administration, made
In bis Asbury Park speech, was hardly
inadvertent. It is not denied that his
efforts are directed toward the perpetua
tion of the imperialistic policy.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has himself net
at rest the report that he was to return
to America to old Mr. Bryan’s campaign.
Mr. Carnegie may be strongly opposed toe
the imperialistic policy, but it is not like
ly that his opposition there i so strong
as is hie advocacy f trusts.
Street car conductors will have to be
ware, if a decision of a Washington po
lice oourt Justice holds good. Profanity,
this Justice declared, is excusable under
great provocation, and upon this view
o' the case he dismissed a defendant
charged with swearing trt a street car
conductor, who had refused to give him
a transfer. Perhaps the Justice had had
some similar provocation himself.
If Mr. Hanna's agents aro violating the
civil service law with reference to levy
ing assessments upon public officials for
campaign purposes, it must be that they
are doing It with his connivance and con
sent. It is a general principle In law that
the principal is more guilty than the ac
cessory. If ouch campaign assessments
are being levied, as Is stated, why would
it not be a good idea for the civil service
officials to make a test case of Mr.
Hanna?
Every now and then It is made apparent
that IxMidon business methods are some
wnat behind rhe times, in spite of that
city's great etgv. The threatened inva
sion of London by the American .depart
ment store is already causing much talk
of adverse legislation, and with Us ad
vent there is no doubt that the small
shop keepers will rise up in urms ugoinst
it. There was some talk of anti-depart
ment store legislation in the I'nlted Stales
a short time ago, btrt the department store
continues to exist and increases in num
ber.
The Joy of the Republicans over the re
turn of Senator Stewart to their |>arty is
sufficiently great to justify the conclu
sion that they really feel .they are in
noed of recruits. The Senator is one
of the most tiresome ruen in public life.
It was supposed he left flie Republican
party because he was largely Interested
in silv-r mines. He joined ills political
fortunes to those of the Silver Repub
licans. He must have made up Ida mind
that the silver Issue was tlead or else h*
would never hove gone back to the Re
publican party. His going back will in
crease Senator Hanna's difficulties in try
ing to got the people to believe that the
•liver question 1 the paramount one In
the campaign. The desertion of the Sil
ver Republican party by Senator Slew-art
will convince - large percentage of people
that that question U practically settled.
WHY XOT WITHDRAW FROM
CHI* A?
It is a caue for satisfaction that no more
American troops are to be sent to China
unless there are developments there which
demand additional troops to properly pro
tect our interests. Troops which hud been
ordered there, but which have not yet
reached their destination, will go to Ma
nila. With those 1 which have about reach
ed China Gen. Chaffee will have 5,000 men
under his command. A® far as can be
seen now, he will not have need for a
larger number than that. l*ut would it
not be advisable for the United States to
withdraw their army from China t
once? What reason have they for keep
ing an armed force on Chinese soil, now
that the purpose of sending an army to
China has been accomplished? They have
not declared war against China, and they
are not making any demand on that em
pire with which it refuses to comply.
Li Hung Chang has asked that the
United States appoint at once someone
with authority to negotiate terms of peace.
The reply of our government to that re
quest, it seems to us, was a very proper
one. It was that it did not appear that
Li Hung Chang had authority to make
such a request—that it could not consider
a request of that kind unless it came from
the recognized head of the Chinese gov
ernment. Doubtless Li Hung Chang will
get the authority which it is necessary
he shall possess In order to represent his
government in peace negotiations.
It may be that there are excellent rea
sons why the United States should keep
an army at Pekin for the present—reasons
which the government thinks it unwise to
make public—but the people fail to see any.
The sentiment of the entire country seems
to be that our troops ought to be with
drawn at once. A number of senators
have been Interviewed in regard to the
matter and the most of them have taken
the position that the sooner the United
States get their troops out of China the
better it will be for them.
There is no good reason to doubt that
several of the Powers are preparing to
take possession of Chinese territory, and
it may be to set government at Pekin
under their protection. The Ameri
can people don’t want any Chinese
territory', nor do they want their govern
ment to enter Into any arrangemni for
sotting up a government for China. They’
know that their army can be recalled now
w'ith honor to the country and without en
tangling the government In any' schemes
for despoiling China which the Powers of
Europe may have in. view. Therefore the
President and his advisers will make a
mistake if they insist upon keeping an
army in Pekin, unless there are reasons
for doing so which the great majority of
the people would approve.
The question of indemnity can be settled
without the presence of an armed force on
Chinese soil. If the Chinese government*
should refuse to make a just settlement
of our claims growing out of the attack on
our minister at Pekin, a couple of war
ships could get close to one of the Chi
nese ports, and, under threats of bom
bardment, compel a settlement. The
thing to do now, as far as can be seen, is
to withdraw our army* from Pekin and, in
fact, from China.
OMAHA’S ItLAt'K. EYE.
It is evident that Omaha, Nob., has not
gone backward, and yet the census re|Kirt
shows that she has. The enumeration
this year gives her 102,555 Inhabitants. The
enumeration of 18K> gave her a population
of 140,152. Seemingly, therefore, she has
lost 37.897 inhabitants In the last ten years
—a los of 26.98 per cent. There are, how
ever, no signs of a loss of population. On
the contrary, a great many new buildings
have been erected.
It was said, immediately after the enum
eration of 1890. that Omaha’s returns were
padded. Thousands of people were cred
ited to that city who had no residence
there. It was the hope o< the city that
a big showing of population would be a
great advertisement for her. It probably
did help her a little, hut not nearly as
much as was expected. •
But the showTng she makes this year
will do her far more harm than the false
return of ten years ago did her good. Peo
ple are not anxious to invest in a town
that is apparently going backward, and
the census figures indicate, though not
truthfully, that Omaha is going backward.
The most dissatisfied of all ot the cities,
whose populations under the present census
have been made public, Is Chicago, and yet
ehe shows a percentage of gain larger
than thatof any other. The census gives her
1.698,575 inhabitants. That is about a half
a million more than she had in IS9O. Her
newspapers are insisting, however, that
she has more than 2,000,000 within her lim
its. The city has had three censuses tak
en on her own account recently, namely,
a postolfice census, a directory census and
a school census. The most favorable of
these gave her 2,015,000, and the least favor
able 2,007,000.
The chances ere that the Federal census
is pretty close to the truth, notwithstand
ing the fan that her newspapers are In
sisting that there was gross carelessness
In taking it. The fact Is Chicago would
rot have iteen- satisfied if the census had
given her 2,000.000 inhabitants. She It is an
ambition to be the biggest city of the
country—an ambition that is not likely to
be satisfied In many years, if ever.
The muddle in the Neely cave appear*
to he growing thicker. Nobody doubts
Neely’s guilt of wrongfully appropriating
Cuban funds, and yet there appears to
be what might be called u legu. conspira
cy in his favor. The courts, of course,
are not lo he hlamcd for construing the
law as they understand it. hut it appear*
that there is an unnecessary amount of
red tai>e to be gone through with before
the desired end is arrived nt. There Is
Utile doubt that it will' end In the extra
dition of Neely, but before It does t i.
according to present progress, it may he
that Cuba will have been given her In
dependence. and Neely's trial will be un
der a different regime.
ty trolley line fritn Boston to Wash
ington is the latest gigantic rnpll a Italic
s-heme tn fool. A syndicate lie de I by
a number of East rn capitalist-, has sue.
eroded in a curing f anchi es that will
permit the construction of a trolley line
from New Y rk city io Harrisburg. Pa .
the olij ct belrg to extin I it ultimately
■t, othir direction so ns lo connec Bos
ton and Washington. Th syndicate al
ready owrs tiolley lll.es covering all lint
forty-fix milts of the distance lad ween
New Yrrk and Harrisburg, and arrange
ment* have ate lit be n made lo complete
It for th# liuUmee of tfi distance.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1900.
SOI 111 < tHOLIA A*S CAMPAIGN.
The state campaign in South Carolina,
one of the most interesting in that state’s
history, and one of those unique affairs
for which the state is famous, was con
cluded Thursday at Columbia, and the
Democrats are now ready for the battle
of ballots at the primary' on Tuesday.
Aug. 28. The South Carolina campaign
consists essentially of stump debates be
tween all the candidate® within the
party. They go together from place to
place and extol their own virtues and lay
bare their enemies’ errors. It is possi
ble under these circumstances to inject •
a considerable amount of bitterness into
a campaign, and the candidates in this in
stance have not failed to do tso. Sena
tor Tillman, w r ho is striving for the elec
tion of a Legislature that will return
him to the United States Senate, was re
ponsible for much of this, though there
were one or two bitter encounters be
tween candidates for Governor in which
4 he Senator appeared in the role of peace
maker. Senator Tillman’s chances for
re-election, it is claimed, are more in
doubt now than when the campaign be
gan. His bitter antagonism of the pul
pit has arrayed the ministers of the
whole state against him, and they are
fighting him with a severity' that is like
ly to prove telling when the result is
known.
The dispensary' has, of course, been
the most important and Interesting factor
in the fight between the candidates for
Governor and the other state offices. Gov.
McSweeney’s administration ha® been at
tacked on the alleged ground that he has
not enforced the dispensary law. He has
reduced the number of liquor constables,
but has given a careful and a quiet ad
ministration, not hunting for violations of
the law where they do not exist, and
hence has not displayed the skyrocket
qualifies of tome of his predecessors. As
a candidate for election to the governor
ship he has avoided adding to the bitter
ness of campaign, and there is a be
lief in many quarters that he will be
made the party’ nominee. Col. Hoyt, as
the representative of the prohibition ele
ment, has made a strong fight, and has
held up his end well. While the prohibi
tion element is a rather powerful one this
year, it does not appear that the state
is ready- juet yet to accept prohibition as
the proper remedy. Gary, too, has made
a good tight, though he has been attacked
on the ground that too many of his fam
ily have held office, while Whitman and
Patterson have not lagged behind in the
procession. With five gubernatorial can
didate* in the field it Is difficult to pre
dict w'hat will be the outcome, and so
far as is known, no prediction has been
attempted by any thoroughly unprejudiced
authority. The chances are, however,
that the dispensary’ will hold on for some
time to come.
The candidates for railroad commis
sioner, lieutenant governor, adjutant
general and other state offices, while they
have been following the campaign from
point to point, have been given less at
tention than Tillman and the candidates
for Governor, for the reason that little
is involved in their fight outside of
tehir personal desire for election. The
liquor question has been the main issue
and on that ground the contest has been
, fought out. Tillmanlsm in a more or less
modified form will undoubtedly prevail,
whether the Senator succeeds in being re
elected or not.
THE, HANNA ASSESSMENT.
It Is probable that Senator Hanna is
not asking each Federal office-holder to
make a eontributMn to the campaign
fund of the Republican party, but each
office-holder—especialy each one that af
filiates with the Republican party—knows
that it he fails to make a contribution
the chances are that an excuse will be
found for dropping him from the pay
rolls. Therefore, In getting oontributlons
for the Republican campaign fund the
law against assessing office-holders for
political purposes Is not actually violat
ed. The spirit of it, however, is, and it
ought to be so amended as to prevent em
ployes of the government contributing to
campaign funds of political parties.
It seems to be the understanding that
Senator Hanna is not having much suc
cess in collecting campaign funds. That
is the reason he is saying that the Re
publicans are apathetic this year. It has
seemed strange lo many why Senator
Hanna went to New Jersey to deliver a
political speech, when It was well known
that his health was such- that he ought
not to make any extraordinary exertion.
No doubt his purpose was to give the
trusts a hint, that If they know what is
best for their Interests they will not de
lay long in making liberal campaign con
tributions. New Jersey is the home of
the trusts. More of them are incorpor
ated under the laws of that state than un
der the laws of all of the other states to
gether. By going to that state and an
nouncing that It wnecessary tor the
Republicans-to "wake up" If they wanted
to win the election this year, he practi
cally told the trusts that the time hod
arrived for them to come up with their
campaign offerings.
And their offerings will have to be
large to satisfy Senator Hapna. He real
izes that the Republicans have an up
hill tight on hand. The feeiing through
out the country against imperialism is
very strong, and Mr. Bryan, by his ad
mirable speeches is making It stronger.
Senator Hanna and tho other Repub
lican leaders have been doing their best
to bring tile silver question to the front,
but they have met with no success. The
people are Interested In Imperialism, and
it iooks as if the .bmoalgn would have
to be fought on that Issue.and that means
Democratic success.
It I haid (o believe that the Republi
cans intend to make a cam al n orntor
: out of Minis cr c ng. r whose rescue from
I is p< rilous position has Just been aceom
p Ished, y. t lit. Chicago Tlmee-Heiald Is
reqonslble for the report# that he will
n, ,k a f w speech for McKinley and
Roosevelt, if he can gel home in time.
Perhaps litis Is on* rf "Boss” Hanna s
I l<; s since he counsels that the Repub
i IBans, this year, mutt not ”mlst a
trick.”
Mr. Bryan and Chairman Jones have
ve ry wisely decided o keep hands oIT in
state Pcm era tic affairs In New York.
They wII lak' no stand eitier for or
•■gainst the rotrltfttlun of Mr. Coer, and
both factions Jin r r be. n so no'lfled. The
C'tltcst In New York Is putely a local
one, and has •v. n las tearing on the
nattornl sleetl'ii than do lh results of
local ‘dec Ins In sc m. of the ler# popu
ious stats.
The statement made at the Farmers’ '
National Congress by’ Dairy’ Commission
er Whittaker of Massachusetts, that the j
annual value of dairy product* of the j
United States is, in round figures, SSOO,- J
000.000, is somewhat startling. At that fig- j
ure it is greater than the cotton crop, j
the staple of the South. To equal in value j
the dairy- products of the country’ a 10-
000,000 bale crop of cotton would have to j
sell at ten cents a pound. With that j
enormous production of the dairies there j
is seldom heard a cry that the dairymen
are receiving less for their products than j
it costs to make them.
One of the leaders of New York and
Newport society, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish,
entertained the ‘‘4oo“ the other night at
a “harvest festival dance,” at her New
port villa. The feature of this interest
ing function was its rusticity’. The pro
duct® and the costumes of the farm, but
on a magnificent scale, of course, formed
the decorations of the villa and the
adornment of tile guests. The extent to
which wealthy’ New-port society will go
for originality’ Is not surprising, though
it is rather strange that the rural and
the rustic should be drawn upon to se
cure it.
It is now considered practically certain
that Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., will be nom
inated as the Republican Candida*® for
Governor of New York state. Odell is
well-known as a machine man and is un
questionably satisfactory’ to Senator Platt.
Bird S. Coler. too, is a machine man,’ but
he docs not appear to be the kind of a
machine man that Chief Croker wants.
Strange Id say it has bcn stated very
forcibly that Mr. Croker would rather
see a machine Republican elected, than
to take chances on Mr. Coler’s getting into
the gubernatorial chair.
Judging from the reply of the Russian
general commanding the forces in China,
when the rest of the Powers decided not
to lire upon the Imperial Chinese palace,
Russia is at war with the Chinese. If
this is true, it is difficult to see how r the
other Powers which have maintained
that they were not making war upon that
country-, can continue to join issues -with
Russia, unless they place themselves In
the same attitude. It will be interesting
to know what view- Count von Waldersee
will take of this matter when he gets
there and takes charge.
Tammany Hall is not very anx
ious to “cut any more ice,”
at least not so far as the
New York ice trust is concerned. Richard
Croker announces that he has sold ill
of his ice stock, and it is likely that Mayor
Van Wyck will do the same thing. Cro
ker eays the Republicans have made a
great mistake in the ice trust agitation on
account of the fact that ell of the offi
cials and directors of the trust are Re
publicans. He thinks, the shoe Is on the
other foot, and -that it will do some
pinching.
The first American soldier to scale the
Chinese wall and enter the city of Pekin
tvas Calvin P. Titus, an army musician,
and a former member of the Salvation
Army. He is not yet twenty years old,
arid when he desired to enlist as a regular
he pawned hie watch to pay for guardian
ship papers so that he could secure proper
permission to go into the army. He was
wounded slightly as he went over the
wali, but not sufficiently to prevent his
being heard from again, as he undoubted
ly will be.
PERSON AM.
The Queen of Spain has announced
that in the event of the marriage of the
Princess of the Asturias to Prince
Charles of Bourbon no dowry will he ask
ed for from Parliament.
—Mrs. Deliah George of Lancaster, N.
Y., is said to be the oldest woman in that
stale outside of New- York city. The other
day she celebrated her 104th birthday In
full possession of her health and faculties.
—Gov. Crane of Massachusetts is so
much of a reader that he never goes about
without several small books In his pockets.
Talking on almost any topic he will say:
"Apropos of that, I’ve just been reading"—
and will dive into a pocket and bring out
a book, find that is not the volume he is
in searcli of and go for another pocket,
and so on until he gets the book he hap
pens to have In mind. In every pocket,
however, there seems to be a book of
some sort.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The" Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) gives
tho people of the North this interesting
bit of encouragement: "The summer is
not yet over. Anew hot wave, with tem
peratures as high as HX) degrees in the
shade, has been scorching Kansas and
other trans-Mississippi states for several
days, and on Tuesday it had advanced
as fur eastward at Si. Louis. It is not
likely to bring its extreme severity to this
section—neither hot nor cold waves ever
do—but it may well be hot enough to
causa discomfort, not positive suffer
ing and d.-nth. Augusi does not epd the
summer season in this latitude; we un
apt to have a spell of extremely hot
weather in September.” •
The Washington Post (Ind.) says: ”Our
trade with China is not in danger. Least
of all, will we have to fight to retain
what we already possess. The extension
of our commerce Is not ’to be pUEfhaxed
at the price of war. If such a dreadful
contingency sivould bo really threatened,
we might w ll pause and wonder if it
were worth the cost. It Is not, however,
even n remote possibility. The time has
not'yet come, thank heaven, when, for
the United States, armed conflict anil
trade extension must needs go hhnd in
hand."
The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) says of
Mr. Bryan us a campaigner: “Mr. Bry
an's speeches do not netd Interpretation
or explanation. They are direct and to
the point. They are alive. They are
more than eloquent. They deal in man
to-man find lieurt-to^heari stylo with Is
sues that are immediate and vital. The
citizen of the United State*—especially If
he Is a Democrat of any shade of belief—
who expresses doubt about Mr. Bryan
wli bout having read his Indianapolis
speech, does himself a rank injustice.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says:
"What In the matter with Hanna? The
cry of alarm which he emitted In his
speech at Asbury Park on Tuesday even
ing last betokens slow subscriptions to
lhe Republican campaign fund. He talks
about a lock of patriotism: but patriot
ism and cash tire ail one In the Hanna
vocabulary. What he really lacks Is ready
cash.”
The Springfield Republican (Ind.) says:
"If China ennnot pay a money Indem
nity to tho United Ktales, why uot let
'hat nntlon take the Philippines instead,
suggests Henaior Money of Mississippi.
And, Indeed. In n etrlotly financial view,
what gieuter or more profitable indem
nity could we possibly exactV
Hail a Close Call.
“An officer often has to risk his life to
protect i prisoner,” remarked an old rail
road detective last evening, according to
the New Orleans Times-Democrat, “but
generally a little strategy will outwit n
mob. The queerest case of that kind I
ever heard of happened years ago, out In
Colorado, at a place called Carbonvllle.
It was a pretty tough mining camp, and
one night* In a brawl, the town marshal
was shot dead by a gambler named Con
nors. The mufderer was n stranger in
the place and managed to make his es
cape, but the marshal had been very pop
ular, and the miners swore all kinds of
vengeance. About a week later a couple
of deputy sheriffs captured Connors at a
place some thirty miles away and decided
to take him to the next county seat for
safe keeping. The road ran through Car
bonville, and, as the news of the arrest
had already reached the camp and stirred
it to fever pitch, they calculated, very
correctly, that there was likely to be
trouble when they showed up. At last one
of the deputies, a reckless sort of chap
named Jake Higgins, suggested a scheme.
I look a good deal like Connors,’ he said,
‘and those folks over there hardly know
hint. Suppose I play prisoner, while we
send an officer with our man through
town by a back road. They ain’t going to
hang me right away sudden, and while
they are pow-wowing about it Connors
will be through and gone. Then we can
tell ’em who I am, show ’em our badges
and papers, have the laugh on the gang
and follow on behind.’ This brilliant idea,
which w’ould have occurred to noSody but
a scatter-brained lunatic like Higgins, was
promptly adopted. He was handcuffed,
put in a wagon between two deputies, and
the real prisoner brought up the rear with
another officer in a buggy.
“It was about dusk when the wagon
reached Carbonville,” continued the detec
tive, and, “just as they had expected, a
crowd of tough citizens were in waiting.
They promptly held up the team, and the
spokesman told the officer® that the good
citizens of the camp had decided it wasn’t
worth while to waste any money giving
Connors a regular trial. The only thing
that was needed, he said, was a short
piece of hemp, and they brought a section
of shaft rope, all ready for the ceremony.
The deputy began to expostulate to gain
time, but they cut him short and started
to drag Higgins out of the wagon, while
some of the others threw the loose end of
the rope over n near-by limb. That looked
critical, and the deputy got rattled. ‘Hold
on, boys!’ he yelled, ‘this isn’t the man!’
And with that lie blurted out the whole
story as fast as hi 9 tongue could wag.
As they might have anticipated, if they
had had any sense, the explanation was
received with jeers. Y'ou see, Connors had
been in camp only a few hours before he
got into the shooting scrape, and Higgins
was himself a stranger in that locality;
so it whs easy to confuse them, especially
as they really did look alike. A dozen
men in the crowd declared positively that
the deputy was the real murderer, and
they simply laugned nt his papers and
star. ‘lt’s too thin!’ said the leader; ‘We’ll
give you a couple of minutes to say your
prayers, and then up you go!’ At that
stage, when Higgins’ life wasn’t worth an
old button, a minor came rushing up with
the news that two men had been badly
hurt in a runaway on the edge of comp,
and that one of them was handcuffed.
That started the crowd, and they sus
pended proceedings to investigate. It
seemed that the other officer with the
bona tide prisoner had attempted to cut
around town at top speed and ran the
buggy into a little gulch. He had his col
lar bone broken and Connors fractured his
leg. When they carried them info a bar
it was seen at once that there had been a
mistake, and, somehow or other, the idea
that they had come within an ace of
stringing up the wrong man took nil the
lynching spirit out of the mob. Connors
was allowed to go through, spent six
months in jail, got a change of venue and
was actually acquitted on trial. I don’t
know what became of him. Higgins died
a year or so ago. That’s n true story,
boys, and the very closest call In my mem
ory.”
lee Served at a Dinner,
"Speaking of the use and abuse of Ice,’’
said the old engineer, according to the
New York Mail and Express,. "I remem
ber an experience of mine down in Mex
ico in the early eighties. I was one of
a party of civil engineers engaged In lay
ing the Mexican Central Railroad from
(he City of Mexico to Paso del Norte.
We began at the Mexican capital and
worked North. We couldn’t buy anything
worth having in the city, and our supplies
were brought down by steamer from San
Francisco to Vera Cruz and then carted
inland.
“It was fearfully hot and one day I
conceived the brilliant idea of having our
supply steamer bring down several tons
of ice on her next trip. The matter was
evisily arranged and some weeks later X
found myself tyith all the ice I could pos
sibly use and some to give away besides.
”1 had been invited out to dine the day
the ice came and I decided to send a cake
or two to my hostess. I don't know what
she imagined it was, but I do know that
one of the courses served at the dinner
was a big piece of ice brought in on a
tray, like a brick of ice cream, and still
covered with the sawdust in which it had
been packed.
"That was bad enough, but I nearly fell
off my chair when the servant placed the
tray in front of me and the hostess said
in Spanish: ‘I thank you for your gift.
We thought it would be better if you
served it as you do in the States.’
"I gave a gasp and then asked for a
hammer. With this I broke the cake Into
little pieces and passed the fragments
around. The .Mexicans seemed afraid of
the stuff, but following the lead of their
hostess they nibbled away as if they en
joyed it thoroughly. It was a hard posi
tion to put a man in, and I don't moke
any more presents to my Evi
dently Ice was a Northern product of
which they knew'little and cared less.”
Should Not lack a Name,
Kate's place was in the dining-room.
She was pot the cook, but she had a
fine talent for desstr:s, and often went
into the kitchen Yo make up some special
dair.ty, says the Worcester Gazette.
So it tiappn. and that when the mistress
had a clerical dinner, with the bishop and
two or thiee other churchmen. Kate was
author of the pudding. She was very
much pleased when th> Bishop praised
tin dish and the olher clergymen echoed
his opinion, but she masked her ertjoy
m nt cf ihe situation behind the solemn
face which she always wore when wait
ing on tile table.
"Pray iell me,” said the Bishop, "what
is the t ame of this wend' rful pudding?"
"t really don’t kt.ow,” said the mistress.
"Whit Is the name of B, Kate?’
Kate, very proud of the Importance l>e
s'nwHi Ujon her, but with features un
movi and, sail: "Well, ma’am, to tell ye
the truth I've been so buy t.i-day that
I hadn’t t me to nune it, but, sure, with
so many of the reverend'el, rgy here this
evinin' it'll not be long befote 'tls chris
tened.”
lie Rail n Whole Edition.
There were many tales topi In the days
. f old of s .aiding wives and henpecked
husbands, says the Scottlih-American
Evidently the ladies are becoming more
equable In their temp, rs,or thrir husbands
may have got the "upper hall’." There
Is a story told of a |ioor man who was
sorely tried lay his wife's temp r. On one
occasion a friend asked him If he had
ever seen a famous little look which
bote the lit s “The afflict and Man's Corn
put Ion.”
“I hne an edeet'on o't In rna aln hoose,"
said lie.
"Man, I wtd like to see't." aatd his
frl< iid
"ft me In bye. than” he esld. At the
flis-sde sat his wife. Pointing to her, he
raid "That's my copy o' The Afflicted
Man's Comi aiilcn, *•
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Most bald people are found to lead In
door lives, and almost all of them belong
to the intellectual class. Usually the loss
of hair begin* before the thirtieth year.
In woman it usually constitutes a general
thinning; in man it affects the top of the
head. Diseases that affect the general
nutrition of the body are likely to thin the
hair.
—Philip Eilithorp, a farmer of Hitch
cock, S. D., has demonstrated that sugar
cane can be grown in that section. He
experimented w-ith twelve acres of whut
is commonly called “sorghum cane” and
is more than gratified’ with the result.
It Is rank in growth, ha® large and very
juicy stalks, equal in every respect to
that grown in lowa, and from it a line
quality of sorghum molasses can be made.
Mr. Eilithorp will cut the crop for fod
der. believing it superior to the best corn
fodder, cattle taking to it ravenously.
—“Brother Jonathon” was Gov.' Jona
than Trumbull cf Connecticut, to whom
Washington often applied fer aid ar.d ad
vice during the Revolution, and Uncle
Sam was Samuel Wilson, a government
inspector at Troy, N. Y., during the war
of 1832, wlo was accustomed to mark
packages he had inspected and passed
with the initials “E. A.—U. S.” E. A.
stood for Ebert Anderson, the government
contractor, and a local wag started the
s;ory that U. S.. original’y intended lor
United States, meant “Uncle 3am," in
playful alius on to the inspector’s first
name. Mr. Wilson died in 1854.
—The foreign demand for American
com is rapidly increasing. Until wifthin
recent years Europe failed to recognize
the superiority and economy of corYi as a
cheap food for animals, but they are now
awakening to that fact. Indeed, the in
crease in the export observed in the last
five years has been the most striking fea
ture of our foreign commerce, the increase
observed during that period being equal
to about 254 per cent. The maximum tvas
reached in the last fiscal year, when the
exports attained the unprecedented total
of 209,348.273 bushels, valued et $85,206,389.
This figure represents but one-tenth of
the total value of our corn crop.
The shah of Persia, though he disgusted
i e French people with his unclean per
sonal habits, he proved a profitable shop
per, and he returned home with a ship
load of purchases. In the list of the lat
ter American products figure to the follow
ing extent: Sixty bicycles, fifteen lawn
mowers, ten washing machines, ten naph
tha launches, ten windmills, five well
boring machines, three motor cars, twen
ty baby carriages, three phonographs, ten
sewing machines, ten furnaces and cne
private railroad car. And his majesty se
lected these only after a careful compari
son of the makes from every other na
tion represented at the Paris Exposition.
—The average man’s coat picks up a
vast quantity of bacteria in the course
of a day, and these are delivered by him
in his own home when he returns from
labor, says the New York Press. He has
rubbed and brushed up against seats in
cars that but a moment before were oc
cupied by reasty, germ-breeding gutter
snipes. He has leaned his elbows on pol
luted tables and bars, his back on pillars
and posts, all oozing with microbes. Only
the rich and fantastic change for dinner.
Nearly every one beneath the upper ten
dom of swells and strut* lounges about
the house in the same old clothes w’ith
which he wipes up the office. How he es
capes infection I cannot imagine.
—William Creiger of Northville, Mich.,
has on his right cheek a wart which acts
as barometer for the entire neighborhood,
and in the matter of accuracy is declared
to be for ahead of the weather bureau.
During dry weather 1-t is small and rather
dry. When a storm in coming twenty
hours’ notice is given Mr. C. by this wart
swelling to two or three times it? nor
mal size. During the late drought Mr.
Creiger was the object of much prom
inence, as everybody wanted to know
when rain would come In order to save
their corn end potatoes. The day before
the. rain did come the wart began grow
ing larger and Creiger was pure the
drought would be broken, and it was.
—Perhaps there Is a lesson for a good
many Americans in the fact that Spain
seems to have been mu-h benefited by
the less of her colonies, savs the Chicago
Chronicle. For a number of y ere the na
tion was dr line 1 of her young me i in
order to ke*p up (he warfare on Cubans
and Fi ipinos the m r.e/ of which
was about SIOO/93 000 anm a'ly. Now', ac
cording to a Spanish financial journal,
Spain is progressing more raoid’v than
it has at anytime within the la*t century
The government loan of s2o>/0M)0 was
oversubscribed three times. Industries
which have dormant for years are
being revived and electr o traction is
making is way into Spani h cities. Ppain
Is still r ceivlng a large share of the
products of what were once her colonies
and is buying heavily of machinery from
the United States.
—Touching the hump continues to be re
garded as a sure means of wooing Mis
tress Fortune, says a writer in the New
York Press. Two young mew who appear
ed to be in moderate circumstances, judg
ing by their dress, walked through Mail
street yesterday just at the time when a
hunchback grasped his horse by the head
and backed him toward the wholesale end
of the Postoffice. The situation did not
warrant either in Jostling the malformed
creature, but they sidled up over toward
him until one rubbed his arm against the
protuberance of spine. It seemed to be
accidental, of course, and no harm was
done. The leprechaun paid no attention
They passed on a little distance, when
the one who had rubbed against the de
formity whispered: "Everything goes yny
way to-day. I touched his hump.” The
smile of .serene satisfaction indicated a
positive faith in lhe enterprise.
"The ‘moving train’ illusion is some
thing the cyelorama experts have been nt
work on for v ars,” said an old showmnn,
talking about tricks of lhe trade, accord
ing to the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
"The idea is to present the same effect
one gets in looking out of the window of
a passenger car moving at full speed,
an.l the thing suggested itself almost ns
soon as the modern cyelorama was in
vented. In the abstract it seems very sim
ple—merely a matter of seating the spec
tators in a dummy car and then reeling a
long panorama of landscape past the win
dows. Nine people out of ten would say
such a contrivance would produce an il
lusion of motion; but it doesn’t do any
thing of the kind. If you will stop fo
think about it you will remember that a
real landscape, seen through a ear win
dow, appears to he moving past you at
different rates of spe*>d. The foreground,
nearest the trnin, whizzes by like light
ning; the middle distance glides away
less rapidly, and the horizon line recedes
very gradually front view. In order lo
secure the same Illusion it Is necessary to
observe the same graduations in spied,
and that was apparently such a compli
cated problem that, most of the cyclo
rama people gave it up in despair. But I
hear that It has finally been solved in
Paris, in the big Silurian Railroad pano
rama, and people who have seen the thing
lell me that the effect is so reallstls that
It is almost impossible lo believe that one
Is not actually on a moving train The
landscape Is represented by three long
rolls of canvass of different bights, the
first and lowest showing ihe rocks nn.l
bushes of the foreground, the second the
middle distance and the third the back
ground and sky. They move at speeds of
20. S'A and 3 miles an hour, and the spec
tator* nr.- seated in ordlnury parlor cars
which are given n alight rocking motion
by machinery tibder the trucks. The re.
suit 1* the hest illusion in the hietory of
eycloramas up in the present day. I un
derstand the show will he brought to this
ountry after lb* exposition is over,”
DR. STEOfWS
Teething Powders
The Famous Aid to Safe and
Painless Teething.
Used by mothers the world over for nearly so year*
DR. RTEDMAN having opened a branch offic%i!i
A meric*, considerably reduces theooatof tfceae JuatlJ
celebrated powders. They are put up In yellow w iai
pers. The trade mark, a gum luncet, *
TRADF <^IS^ MARK
Is on every packet and on every powder, without
which none is genuine. A packet containing nine
powders, 25 cents. At your druggist's, or mailed
postpaid on receipt of price. Send for booklet--
“Dr. .sted man's Nursery Doctor .” Address
J. fc. MneU ALTER,
West Johnson St., Ucrrauntown, Phi]*., I**,
Sold by LIPPMAN BROS.. Savannah. Ot.
WATCH ~
EVENTS IN
CHINA.
Yen can do it, too, with nnti*fiutioa
if you consult
RAND=McNALLY
■ Hill!
OP THE WORLD.
91 COLORED MAPS.
97 PAGES OF READING MATTES.
And you’ll have it ready for ALL OTH
ER WARS if they take place anywhere
else ON THIS BIG EARTH.
A Big Little Thing
Convenient in she and arrange*
meat. Will help to till the niches in
your geographical knowledge. Will
take hut n small apace on your desk
or shelf. But will show what you
This Dollar Atlas
CONTAINS •
MAPS of every State, Territory, Con.
Canadian Province, Foreign Coun
t: y. Our New Possessions, Mexico, Cen
tral America, etc.
All front new plates, handsomely en
graved and printed
PRINTED MATTER relating to His.
tory, Area, Physical Features, Forestry,
Climate. Agriculture. Live Stock. Fish
eries, Manufactures, Commerce, Minerals,
Populations, Railways, Legal Govern
ment, Education, Pol,tics, etc.
It seems small, but will show what you
are looking for, and Its convenient elza
Is one of its strot gest points.
The Dollar Atlas is Sold
Everywhere for sl,
But If You Are a
Subscriber to the
Morning News
the cost to you will be only
40c
The Atlas Is now on sa!e at the Busl
r.ees Office of the Morning News. If At
lf\® is to be mailed add 10 cents for post
making 50 cents for the Atlas de
livered.
MORNING NEWS.
Savannah, Ga
8.. 18 LOf mi rt IN) G. 8 S. R’t •
SCUEDLLK
For Isle of Hope. Montgomery, Thunder
bolt, Cattle Park and West End.
Dally except Sundays. Subject to change
without notice.
ISLE OF HOPE
Lv. City (OI I. of H. : Lv. Isle ol Hope^
6 30 am from Tenth [VvO am for T’olion
730 am from Tenth cOO am for Tenth
830 am from Tenth 700 am for Tenlh
*ls am from Bolton 800 am for Tenth
10 30 am from Tenth 10 00 atn for Tenth
12 00 n'n from Tenth 11 Oil am for Boltoh
1 IS pm from Boiton 11 30 am for Tenth
230 pm from Tenth 2CO pm for Tenth
*BO pm from Tenth 240 ptn for BePoS
430 pm from Tenth 300 pm for T-nth
610 pm from Tenth 400 pm for Tenth
630 pm from Tenth 6<o pm for Tenth
730 pm from Tenth 700 pm for Tenth
830 pm from Tenth BCO pm for Tenth
9SO pm from Tenth | 900 pm for Tenth
10 SO pm from Tenth |lO 00 pm for Tenlh
jll 00 pm for Tenth
MONTGOMERY.
Lv city for Mong'ry. | Lv. Montgomery
830 am from Tenth |715 am for Tenth
230 pm from Tenth | 115 pm for Tenth
630 pm from Tenth | 600 pm for Tenth
CATTLE PARK.
Lv city for Cut.parkl Lv. Cattle Park~
6 30 am from Bolton | 700 am for Bolton
7 30 am from Bolton | 8 00 am for Bolton
1 00 pm from Bolton i 1 30 pm for Bolton
2 30 pm from Bolton j 3 00 pm for Bolton
7 00 pm from Bolton | 7 30 pm for Bolton
8 00 pm from Bolton | 8 30-pm for Bolton
THUNDERBOLT.
Car leaves Bolton street Junction
a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter
until 11:30 p. nt.
Car leaves Thunderbolt at 6:00 a. m. and
every thirty minutes thereafter until
12:00 midnight, for Bolton street juno
-11
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR.
This car carries trailer for passenger*
on all trips and leaves west side of city
market for Isle of Hope, Thunderbolt
and all Intermediate points at 9:00 a. m.,
1:00 p. m., 6:00 p. m.
Leaves Isle of Hope for Thunderbolt.
City Market and all intermediate point*
at 6:00 a. m . 11:00 a. m., 2:40 p. m.
WEST END CAR.
Car leaves west side of city market tor
West End 6:00 a. in. and every 40 minute*
thereafter during the day until 11:30 p. m-
Leaves West End nt 6:20 " m. and ev
ery 40 minutes thereafter during the 0r
until 12,00 o'clock midnight.
U. M. LOFTON, Oen. Vgr.