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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia to-day
are partly cloudy weather, showers at
night, variable winds; and for Eastern
Florida, partly cloudy weather, proba
bly showers In southern portion, light
to fresh easterly winds.
It is said to be practically settled
that Admiral Dewey will go to King
Edward's coronation with a fleet of
warships, and that the Olympia will
be his flagship.
Secretary of State Hay Is quoted In
an interview as expressing the opinion
that "yellow Journalism” had much to
do with the attempt upon the Presi
dent’s life. The "yellows” truly have
many sins to answer for.
The city of Paterson, N. J., Is ac
quiring a most unsavory and unenvia
ble reputation, with its anarchists, its
Bosschieter crimes, etc. And the state
of New Jersey with its trusts, anar
chists and mosquitoes, is attracting
unfavorable attention.
The United Daughters of the Con
federacy announce their intention to
have the monument to Jefferson Davis
In Richmond, Va., completed and un
veiled In 1903. The organization now
has $35,000 of the fund required, and
purposes to raise $40,000 more.
Ex-Secretary Sterling Morton is go
ing to deliver a speech in Chicago this
evening on the subject, “Some laws
that ought to be repealed.” Should the
ex-Secretary attempt to cover the
whole field It would take him all night
to read the titles of the laws that
ought to be repealed.
In Newton, Mass., the other day a
policeman publicly Indorsed the act Of
the anarchist who shot the President.
He was called before the authorities,
evidence was taken to substantiate
the fact, and his shield was taken away
and he was discharged from the force
in disgrace. He got his deserts. No
man who sympathizes with the act of
an assassin and publicly commends
his cowardly crime is fit to wear the
badge and uniform of the police of any
city. _
The tender pathos of the first Inter
view between the President and hl3
wife after the shooting will appeal
powerfully to husbands and wives
everywhere. Clasping her hand he
said: “This is not our first battle. We
have won more desperate cases than
this. And, though conditions may be
critical, if there were only one chance
in a thousand I would accept that
chance and, for your sake, hope to
win.” What a world of tenderness and
love there is In the brief statement!
Cabin John Bridge, seven miles from
Washington, is the largest single-arch
stone bridge in the world, the arch be
ing 220 feet. It; was constructed in 1853,
when Franklin Pierce was President,
and Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War,
and the engineering was under direc
tion of Mr. Davis. A tablet was placed
on the structure containing the names
of the President and Secretary of War
and the date of the completion of the
bridge. During the Civil War some un
known person chiseled the name of
Mr. Davis off the tablet. There is now
a movement afoot to have the name
restored, aa a simple act of Justice long
delayed.
A SENSELESS CUSTOM!
Mr. M. F. Tighe, who, next to Presi
dent Shaffer, is the most prominent
man In the strike of the steel and tin
workers, in speaking on Saturday of
the esteem in which the tollers of the
country held President McKinley, said:
"But why do the American people not
do away with the senseless custom of
crowding up to shake hands with their
President?” It may be a senseless
custom, but it is one dear to the heart
of the people. While they know of
course that the President is the serv
ant of the people they also recognize
that he is the head of the nation, and
they regard it as a great honor and
privilege to greet him by shaking
hands with him. They don’t want
their President to feel that he is too
good to greet them just as he would
greet his most intimate friends or per
sons of the highest social rank. They
don’t want the idea to be encouraged
that he is so much above the plain peo
ple that they cannot approach him.
Ours is a government of the people,
and the people would feel aggrieved if
the right to give a friendly greeting
and hand shake to the man chosen to
be their chief magistrate were denied
them.
And because President McKinley was
shot while about to shake hands with
the man who tried to assassinate him
it doesn't follow that other attempts
will be made upon the lives of future
Presidents under similar circumstances.
A president is just as likely to be at
tacked in his house, on the streets, in
his carriage, in fact, anywhere, as
when he is shaking hands with the
multitude.
President Lincoln was assassinated
in his box in a theater and President
Garfield was shot in a railway station
while on his way to take a train. The
hand-shaking custom does not expose a
president to assassination any more
than dozens of other things he does. In
order to avoid assasination altogether
a President would have to shut him
self up from the public altogether, as
the Sultan of Turkey does. That is
something that would not be tolerated
in this country, and something that no
President would do. On yesterday
Vice President Roosevelt was asked by
a colored laborer in the street if he
were not afraid that the Anarchists
would shoot him, and he answered In
dignantly that he was not. He did
not like the imputation conveyed in
the colored man’s question, that it was
not advisable for him to be abroad In
the streets alone. When the President
ceases to shake the hands of the peo
ple on great occasions it will be when
the presidential term is much longer
than four years.
WAR ON ANARCHISTS.
The attempt to assassinate President
McKinley has started a movement to
crush out anarchists and anarchism in
this country. It is a movement that will
have the support of the people—th“
whole people, except the few groups of
anarchists in various parts of the
country. It would be an easy matter
now to raise such a storm against an
archists that all of them would have
to find a home speedily under another
flag.
And there is no reason why any con
sideration should be shown them. They
are against organized government and
organized society. They are not enti
tled therefore to live under and enjoy
the protection of a government which
they would destroy if they could.
It was in August, 1894, that Hon.
David B. Hill, then a United States
Senator, introduced a bill into the Sen
ate not only to prevent alien anarchists
from landing in this country, but also
to send out of the country any alien
anarchists who might be found —that
is, any alien anarchists who threaten
ed to be a source of trouble.
That bill was passed promptly and
sent to the House. It was referred to
the Judiciary Committee. There were
two members of that committee who
objected to it on the ground that it
was too sweeping; that under its pro
visions Injustice to Innocent men might
be done. The outcome was that Con
gress adjourned before anything was
done by the House with the bill, and
at the next session it was not taken
up.
There are good reasons for thinking
that the bill was not too radical. In
order to protect innocent men provision
was made for the writ of habeas cor
pus. It may be that if the bill had be
come a law anarchism would have
been pressed so closely that there
would not have been enough of it left
in the United States to inspire the at
tack on President McKinley.
A bill, similar to this one of Mr.
Hill's, but perhaps more radical, will
be introduced into Congress in Decem
ber, and it is a safe prediction that
there will be so little opposition to it
that it will be passed promptly. It
would be a source of satisfaction to
the American people to know that
every anarchist had been driven out of
the country.
EMMA GOLDMAN.
In his confession the assassin Czol
gosz asserts that he was inspired by
Emma Goldman to attempt the life of
the President. Her harangues against
wealth and authority had filled him
with a burning desire to kill a ruler,
and he chose the President as his vic
tim. This is the second attempt at
murder for which this woman is re
sponsible. What other seeds of anar
chistic deviltry she has sown remain
to be seen. Three or four jjears ago,
it will be remembered, an anarchist of
the name of Alexander Berkmann shot
and seriously wounded Mr. Henry C.
Frick at the Carnegie works in Pitts
burg. It was developed at that time
that Berkmann was consorting with
Emma Goldman and that she had in
spired him to commit the crime.
It is within the understanding of the
average person how a man may be
brought to do a foolish or a criminal
thing by a beautiful or brilliant wo
man. But Emma Oolman Is neither.
She is said to be just the opposite of
both. Instead of being personally at
tractive, she iH repulsive. Her features
and her manners are coarse, while her
tongue is foul. She is the daughter of
a Russian tailor, who has long since
repudiated her, and Is about thirty-five
years old. At the age of seventeen she
came to this country and shortly there
after married a man named Green
, baurn or Gruenebaum. After living
with him a year and a half she ran off
with an anarchist named Bernstein.
1 Shortly she became prominent as an
anarchist agitator and speaker. Tir
ing of Bernstein she left him for an
other man, and then came Berkmann,
who shot Frick. Following Berkmann
the woman has had a number of con
sorts, for it is her boast that she ac
j c-epts no human law, and least of all
the statutes regulating marriage. She
advocates "free love,” and is a living
example of her doctrine.
Not only does she lack personal
comeliness, but mentally she is quite
as dAcient. She has no education,
though she speaks a smattering of sev
eral languages picked up in the gutters
and among the anarchists of Europe
and this country. She has a gift of
gab and denunciation, but there is
nether logic nor rhetoric in her har
angues. All she does is to pour out in
vectives of the most villainous sort up
on those who have money and position,
or are representatives of lawful govern
ment. She appeals only to ignorance
and passion and prejudice, and never
to reason. Her flow of language is like
that of a scolding fishwife in its vitri
olic volume, but is does no't appeal to
intelligence. Several times she has
been arrested for Inciting to riot, and
once served a term on Blackwell’s Is!-
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and, New York.
Czolgosz must have had an eye to his
defense when he asserted that he had
been influenced by Emma Goldman. No
mentally sound mkn would ever have
taken an impression or suggestion from
her. Morally she is a leper, and men
tally a degenerate. She is repugnant
and despisable to every well-balanced
person. Nevertheless she is a danger
ous woman among degenerates, and
should be placed where she can do no
more harm.
MR. GLENN’S REPORT.
There are a number of things in the
annual report to tfce Legislature of
State Shool Commissioner Glenn that
are entitled to very careful considera
tion by the people of the state, but
there are two to which we desire to
call special attention at this time. One
is the failure to pay the teachers in
the rural districts promptly, and the
other is the importance of local taxa
tion for school purposes.
One of the things which it is diffi
cult to understand is the apparent in
difference of the Legislature to the
hardships imposed on the teachers in
country districts by the failure to pay
them their salaries when due. We
mention the country teachers, because
those in the cities get their money
promptly. The salaries of the country
teachers are very small—scarcely large
enough to afford them more than the
bare necessaries of life—and yet, many
of the teachers are forced by pressing
obligations to sell their school war
rants at a heavy discount.
Is it not in the power of the Legis
lature to remedy this outrageous con
dition of affairs? It certainly is,
or the State School Commissioner
would not be continually urging
that body to do something for
the relief of the teachers. It
is worthy of notice that the Legisla
ture Is careful to provide the means
for paying its own members promptly,
and, also, for paying the salaries of
the State House officers. If money can
be obtained for paying these officials
it certainly can be found for paying
the school teachers. If any of those
who are dependent upon the state for
their incomes have to wait for their
money it should be those who get
large salaries. It certainly should not
be those who get, on an average, only
$l3O a year.
We shall never have good schools all
over the state until the amount of the
school fund received by each county
is supplemented by a local tax fund
for school purposes. It Is not to be ex
pected that the state will provide the
means for a term of nine months each
year in each county. The most it can
do Is to provide for a term of three
months. In this county, and quite a
number of the other counties, the
school year consists of nine months,
but each of these counties provides for
six months of the time by local taxa
tion. And it Is a fact that these very
counties contribute a great deal more
to the state school fund than they get
from it. Indeed, they practically pay
the cost of the schools in a great
many of the counties. This Is a bur
den they ought not to be required to
bear.
Those counties which do not pay into
the state school fund as much as they
draw out of it seem to think they are
too poor to tax themselves locally for
school purposes, but unless they do
something towards providing better
schools they will never be any better
off. People will not seek homes in
counties In which there are not good
schools. Mr. Glenn calls attention to
the fact that only those counties are
showing progress and improvement
which have provided themselves with
good schools. In those counties the ad
vance in the value of lands has been
remarkable.
Those counties which refuse to make
an effort for better schools are stand
ing in their own light. They will stay
poor, and their children will remain
without the advantages of education
as long as they neglect to provide bet
ter schools. It would be far better for
tfiem from every point of view to prac
tice the greatest economy for a num
ber of years, and tax themselves for
schools. By pursuing that course
they would find themselves able very
soon to maintain schools of which they
would be proud, and that, too, without
imposing a burden upon themselves
that would be harder to bear than
the burden they are now bearing. They
would have to pay a larger school tax
of course, but they would be far bet
ter able to pay it.
A Polander resident in Savannah
says that as near as the English
tongue can say it the name of the
President's assailant is pronounced
“Zolgoose." with a hiss at the begin
ning and ending of it. The name is
appropriate. It will be a hiss in the
mouths of Americans forever.
♦'
At all events, there seems to be
enough of James B. Parker, the negro
who knocked Czolgosz down, to go
around among several Southern cities.
The political speculators are already
guessing at what Roosevelt would do
if, through the unhappy demise of
President McKinley, he should be call
ed to the executive chair. It has been
predicted that one of the first things
to occur would be the deposing of Sen
ator Hanna from his high position of
advisor of the administration. Then
the headß of several cabinet ministers
would fall, and Roosevelt would begin
at once to construct a powerful politi
cal machine for himself in anticipation
of 1904. All of that is guesswork, to
be sure, but there may be some foun
dation for it. What the public would
like to know Is, how would Senator
Platt figure in the Roosevelt machine?
Platt is the Republican boss of New
York, and Roosevelt would not be apt
to cut loose from him if he could help
it. And the public would just as soon
have Hanna as the adviser of the ad
ministration as Platt.
Another unhappy International mar
riage has come to light through the
appearance on the stage in New York
of "Miss Maude Roosevelt,” in a play
at Wallack’s. The lady in question is
none other than the Baroness Mumm
von Schwarzenstein, wife of the pres
ent German rtiinister to China as suc
cessor to the murdered Von Ketteler
who was formerly connected with the
German embassy in Washington. The
Baroness was formerly Miss Maude
Roosevelt Le Vinsen, a cousin of Vice
President Roosevelt and a society wo
man of New York. She was married
tc the Baron in May, IS9B, and they
separated in the winter of the same
year.
Lady Sarah Wilson has arrived In
New York for the yacht races. Lady
Sarah will be remembered as the wo
man correspondent who was in Mafe
king during the siege, and gave Baden-
Powell almost as much trouble as the
Boers. Between the Boer gun practice
and Lady Sarah’s imperious demands
and fault finding, poor old ”B-P” lost
about 25 per cent, of his avoirduDols.
PERSONAL.
—The collection of drawings by Vic
tor Hugo which Paul Meurice —w
the poet referred to in his letters as
his most faithful and devoted friend—
intends to give to the city of Paris, to
gether with the other contents of his
Hugo museum, belonged at first to
Mme. Drouet. At her death they were
bequeathed to her nephew, a German
philologist named Koch. Hugo tried
repeatedly to buy them back, but Koch
refused to part with them. Paul Meu
rice attempted the same thing, and af
ter fifteen years he succeeded. These
drawings show that Victor Hugo had
considerable talent as ,a caricaturist.
—Many Alpine accidents are due to
the eagerness of tourists, as well as na
tives, to get specimens of edelweiss and
other rare flowers that grow in danger
ous places. Prof. Karl Odorfer of
Pressburg is one of the latest victims
of this folly. With some friends he was
making the ascent, from Veldes, of a
peak 4,500 feet high, when he saw some
edelweiss flowers at the edge of a pre
cipice. He stooped to pick them. He
slipped, exclaimed jocularly, "Hopla!”
and tried to seize a bush. He missed
It, however, and fell down 1,500 feet
into an abyss, where his body was
found in a terribly mutilated condition.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Miss Poplin—“ How lucky of Maud
Pritzer to capture the only man here.
At the end of two days she was engag
ed to him.” Miss Pinkerly—"What
caused the delay?”—Tit-Bits.
—Cleverly Planned—“Mamma, I’ve
asked Jimmy Blue to come over, and
won't you please let us have that
candy?” “But I don’t think there is
enough for both of you.” “That's all
right, mamma, Jimmy’s got the mumps
and can’t eat.”—Cleveland Plain Deal
er.
—The Chief Objection—"So you object
to piano playing.” "I do,” answered
the boarder who wears a continuous
scowl. "What is your principal objec
tion to It?” “The fact that it is not
dangerous to the performer, like bicy
cling or automobiling.”—Washington
Star.
—He Wanted to Know—George—
"Papa, how deep is the ocean?” Papa—
"Very deep. dear. They have never
been able to fathom some parts of it.”
George (after a moment’s hesitation)—
"Papa, I would like to have been there
when they were digging it out.”—Phil
adelphia Evening Bulletin.
—Mr. Horatio Horakle (who on the
previous evening has given a reading
of ‘Eugene Aram’ at the Churchward
ens’ entertainment)—“And how did you
like the entertainment at the Parish
Hall last night, Mary?” Mary—“Oh,
lovely, sir! The dumb-bell ringers was
beautiful!”—Puck.
Cl/HREVr COMMENT.
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.)
says: "So far as Colonel Roosevelt
has appeared prominently before the
American people, it has been with a
theatrical sort of display. He seems
to be radical in his views and self
assertive in his manner, and appears
to be wholly lacking in conservatism,
and there is widespread anxiety lest
he should initiate his administration
as chief magistrate with radical meas
ures and extreme views, which will
most seriously disturb the conservat
ism of the existing order, and, apart
from the earnest hope that the Presi
dent will be spared to serve out his
term, there is the apprehension that
the administration of Mr. Roosevelt
would be sensational and unsettling in
the extreme."
The Louisville Courier-Journal
(Dem.) says: "The message of con
dolence sent to the stricken President
and Mrs. McKinley by Gen. John B.
(Jordon, Commander-in-Chief of the
United Confederate Veterans, was a
model of good tatste. It may proper
ly be set off in satisfaction of the
brutal remark of Senator Wellington
that he had nothing good to say of
Mr. McKinley, and did not care under
the circumstances to say anything
bad."
The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.)
says: “Sending Prince Chun to Ger
many to humllate himself before* the
Emperor, on account of the murder of
the German representative in China,
seemed to be an almost ridiculous end
ing of a melancholy Incident. Just
what to do In such oases almost tests
the limit of wisdom.”
The New York Herald (Ind.)
"Death, speedy and sure, should be the
penalty of law and justtce for attempt
ed assassination, and It should be
promptly meted out not only to the
assassin himself but to all his accom
plices. The diabolical tragedy at
Buffalo is a warning that It Is high
time to call a decisive halt on such in
fernal business,”
The En#ei-prii hr Burglar.
“It isn’t up to me,” said the retired
burglar to a Record-Herald
representative, “to tell where to hide
your valuables so that you cannot have
them stolen, but I can tell you where
not to hide them, and save you lots
of trouble in giving them up. Here Is
a list of hiding places to avoid:
“Grandfather’s clock. (Burglars hide
in them often).
“In the mattresses.
"Under the carpets. (Easily located
in sneak shoes.)
“In the rag bag or waste basket.
"In an unused grate or up a chim
ney.
“In sofa pillows or furniture.
"It certainly is not a compliment to
the ability of a professional to secrete
goods in any of those places and not
expect him to find them without half
an effort. The seooped-out volume of
Dickens or Thackeray is as easily lo
cated, and the diamonds or roll of
money which takes the place of liter
ature is a familiar find. The piano of
ten yields a fair harvest, and the shoes
worn the day before, left standing at
right angles in the middle of a bed
room floor. Once —in my salad days—
I confiscated a pair of such shoes, and
as they fit neatly kept them for my
own use. One shoe always pinched me,
and one day I sat down and dug out
a fifty-dollar bill out of the toe of that
shoe. Why, it might have crippled me
in time.
“And one night I slept in the guest
chamber of a gentleman who was out
of town with his family. I never slept
so badly—in an elegant room and on
a mattress filled with forty pounds of
white hair. I had horrible dreams, and
in the morning there was a lump in
my side as big as an apple. Now,
what do you think? I had lain all
night on a diamond sunburst that had
given me all those bad dreams and
nearly broke a rib. Such methods of
hiding valuables are barbarous.”
The retired burglar looked thought
ful for a moment, then he said in a
prophetic voice:
“I may be wrong, but the time is
coming when there will be a Burglars’
Union, which will insure safety for
both the owners of valuables and the
man w'ho lives by his wits and steals
in the dark in disguise, when his bet
ters steal in the daytime unmasked. If
a man can sleep with his doors and
windows open without fear of burglar
ious intruders by paying a moderate
assessment in his superfluous luxuries
I believe it would be for the good of
the commonwealth. Some time I will
draft a constitution and by-laws from
my point of view. You see I have had
experience.”
Stories of Gen. Ludlow.
Among the anecdotes of the late Gen.
Ludlow there are two that illustrate
his courage, says the Springfield Re
publican. The first one relates that at
the battle of El Caney he wore a white
yachting cap in the most exposed posi
tions and thus made himself a conspic
uous target for the enemy. It was the
only thht he happened to have, so that
the wearing of it on the battlefield can
not be considered mere bravado. The
other anecdote reveals a different kind
of courage, and it must be said, a no
bler and higher kind. Once when Gen.
Ludlow, then a colonel of engineers,
was in charge of some important gov
ernment contracts, a contractor came
into his office and slipped into his hand
a bill of a large denomination and at
the same time spoke of the size of his
bid for certain government work. Col.
Ludlow at once made the contractor
feel at home by smiling and inviting
him to take a chair. Then he handed
the contractor a cigar. The visitor by
this time was in high feather over the
apparent success of his attempt at
bribery, but his idea of Ludlow' w r as
suddenly changed. “Won’t you have a
light, too?” asked the Colonel, and
stepping to th# fireplace with the bill
he lighted it and politely handed it in
a flame to the contractor’s cigar, where
he held it until it was entirely con
sumed. It is related that there was a
deep silence: then the contractor went
away gloomily and never returned.
Gen. Ludlow's physical courage at El
Caney makes a good story, but his mo
ral courage in the face of a corrupt
contractor makes a better one.
Man Who Took All the Strawberries.
A writer in the Saturday Evening
Post relates his experience at a dinner
recently in company with Artists Wal
den and "Whistler, when England w'as
the topic of conversation. “England.”
said Mr. Whistler, “rules the world
simply because the Englishman takes
what he wants.”
We were rapidly losing ourselves In
a fog of politics and natural psychol
ogy, when Mr. Walden lifted part of
his red mustache and said: “That’s
right, all right.”
It was the first time he had spoken
that evening, so we stopped our argu
ments and listened. Calmly and slowly
he said:
“I was down at Cernay last summer
—with Faulkner —painting. You know
the little tavern there and the old wo
man who keeps it. There was an Eng
lishman there who sat next to met at
table. Well, the landlady gave us straw
berries one night for dinner. For a dol
lar a day that w'as pretty good. The
servant girl passed the strawberries
round. When it came to the English
man's turn to help himself he emptied
the whole dish of strawberries into his
plate. So I said to him:
“ 'Say, my friend, I like strawberries,
too.’
“ ‘Not so much as I do,’ said my Eng
lishman calmly, and went on eating.”
As to Politeness.
From the Baltimore American.
It is very irritating,
When a lady, hesitating,
Jabs you fiercely in the waistcoat
with her dainty parasol.
But it’s harder when she, turning.
Begs you with repentance yearning
To excuse her. .and you have to say.
“Don’t mention it at all.”
It is very aggravating,
Not to say excruciating,
When a heavy individual steps on
your tender toe.
When he asks you for your pardon,
Then your heart and conscience hard
en,
And you tell him not to worry—but
you never mean it, though.
It Is positively trying,
When the heroine is dying
At the theater—and you are blight
ed by some mammoth hat,
To be asked by the fair maiden
If the hat she is arrayed in
Shuts your view off, and you tell her
that it isn’t doing that.
Yes, but wouldn't it be shocking,
If, all false pretences mocking,
We should simply voice our think
ings on occasions such as these?
Um-m-m. It would create some wonder
And might be a dreadful blunder,
So we’d better go on lying when they
say "Excuse me, please.”
Josh Wink.
Gen. Ilirrmnn'a Answer.
Gen. Sherman was one of the most
approachable men who ever command
ed a great army, writes E. P. Howe in
Lipplncott’s. During his famous
"March to the Sea” both North and
South were completely mystified as to
what point he was striking for, and
one’ day an old Georgia planter, who
had called at his headquarters and en
joyed his good cheer, asked him plump
ly if he had any objection to telling
where his army was bound. “Not in
the least,” said Sherman. Then, lean
ing over, he whispered in his guest's
ear. but so loudly that everybody else
in the tent overheard it. “We are go
ing pretty much where we damn
please.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The fiftieth anniversary of the
death of the Russian author Gogol is
to be celebrated at Moscow on March
2, 1902, by the unveiling of a monument
in his memory. Three prizes for mod
els have been offered.
—ln the earthquake which on the 2nd
of February, 1703, took place at Yeddo
(or Jeddo), the chief city of Japan, the
plsrf-e was almost destroyed jtod 200,000
people were killed. One hiuprred thou
sand people were killed earth
quake at Pekin, the capital 'city of
China, on the 30th of November, 1731.
Eighty thousand people were killed by
an earthquake at Schamaki in 1667,
and 100,000 ,by an earthquake in Sicily
in September, 1693. The cities of Are
quipa, Iquique, Tacna and Chencha,
besides many other smaller towns in
Peru and Ecuador were destroyed and
25,000 people killed by an earthquake
in August, 1868, while other 30,000 peo
ple were rendered homeless and the
loss and damage to property was esti
mated at £60,000,000.
—About sixteen miles south of Cro
mer, on the sea coast of England, is
the little village of Eccles, and here,
actually upon the beach amid the sand
hills, stood until four or five years ago
the tower of the old parish church. It
formed a sufficiently striking object, in
weird isolation on the lonely shore, the
sand silted up round its crumbling
w-all and the wdnd whistling through
its hollow, dismantled belfry. Three
hundred years ago Eccles was a large
and flourishing fishing village with an
acreage of 2,000. To-day barely 250
acres and fourteen houses remain, for
the sea has swallowed all the rest. A
terrible inundation fn 1605 swept away
from the parish several hundred acres,
sixty-six houses and the church, all
but the tower. This, too, has now
fallen and strewn the beach wl{h its
broken masonry.
—Bad water supply has caused much
sickness in Jerusalem for many yeai-s.
Thirty years ago Lady Burdett-Coutts
offered to give $250,000 to bring water
from Ain Arroub, but the Turkish gov
ernment barred the way. At last, how
ever, at the suggestion of Mohammed
Djjevad Pasha, recently installed gov
ernor of Jerusalem, the Sultan has
given permission to carry out a plan
submitted by Franghia Effendi, one of
his engineers. A ten centimeter iron
pipe will bring water from Ain Salab
(the sealed fountain) along the bed of
the old aqueduct which Solomon built.
On July 5 was held the opening cere
mony, in the presence of representa
tives of the Greek church, Roman
Catholic, Turks and other communi
ties. In two months’ time, at a cost
of $25,000, water will be available for
all the people of Jerusalem.
—The natives of Tutuila, one of the
islands of Oceanica, have a peculiar
method of catching fish. At a given
signal all the inhabitants of the vil
lage assemble on the seashore, to the
number of about 200 persons, each one
carrying a branch of the cocoa palm.
With these in their hands they plunge
into the water and swim a certain dis
tance from the shore, when they turn,
forming a compact semi-circle, each
one holding his palm perpendicular in
the water, thus making a sort of seive.
The leader of the party then gives a
signal, and the fishers all approach
the sea shore gradually in perfect or
der, driving before them a multitude
of fishes that are cast on the sands
and killed with sticks. The fish are
then cooked over hot coals and served
with bananas and coaconut milk. The
scene is most picturesque and interest
ing, the effect being hightened by the
appearance of the natives, who usually
have their hair powdered white, the
warriors in the tribe having theirs
powdered red.
—lf the experiments recently tried
abroad are to be regarded as conclu
sive,and there is every reason to sup
pose that they may, the tickets to be
placed against the bronze statues in
our museums will bear the words,
"Please touch!’’ Those experiments
show tht handling preserves them. It
was observed in Berlin that those parts
of bronze figures that had been sur
reptitiously handled by visitors were
brighter and looked in a better state
of preservation than the other por
tions. Inquiries of antiquarians and
experts revealed the fact that the
Greeks made a practice of polishing
their bronze by rubbing with the bare
hand from time to time, and that the
oil exuded from the human hand was
good for the metal. An experiment
was tried with four bronzes for a cer
tain period: one way polished with oil
occasionally, another was rubbed by
hand, a third was wiped with a mix
ture of oil and a chemical preparation,
and the fourth was left untouched. The
last suffered most, while the bronze
polished with oil took first place, and
the hand-rubbed one came second.
—Pavir* experiments are to made in
Havana with vitrified bricks, granite
squares and sandstone blocks. The
most durable materials will, of course,
be used in the streets in which heavy
vehicles are most numerous. After
Havana gets substantial pavements in
its business quarters the city govern
ment should take care that the road
ways be torn up as rarely as possible.
Here in New York our pavements are
almost like the tides of the sea, in a
condition of perpetual unrest. They
are broken open, split apart and toss
ed about so often that they get no
peace, and when they are put together
again the work is botched, and gaps
and rifts and htlls and hollows abound.
—This is an era of experiments in
food. Scientific investigators in Eu
rope, after thorough tests of a horse
flesh diet, say that this sort of meat,
when the use of it is continued for
a time, tends to lessen the weight of
the consumer, whether man or beast.
These physiological sages have come
to the conclusion that the choicest
steaks and roasts from the fattest
colts and fillies are inferior to beef or
veal, mutton, lamb or ham in sustain
ing vital force and preventing a decline
in strength. This is puzzling, because
horses are as clean feeders as cattle
or sheep, and much cleaner than pigs,
How can it be accounted for?
—The usual idea that a drowning
man 15 stretching out his hands for
aid, or "catching at straws,” is not
altogether satisfactory. A possible ex
planation has lately been suggested,
and this supposes that the drowning
man, losing all his acquired habits,
and even some of those inherited from
more recent parents, in his terror goes
back to the instinctive movements of
his arboreal ancestors, and the move
ments of the drowning man are those
of a frightened ape seeking safety by
clinging to the nearest tree. The move
ment is certainly instinctive, for it can
only be eliminated by considerable
training and voluntary effort, and yet
it, is fatal to the individual, for the
specific gravity of the human body is
so nearly that of water that the re
moval of the arms from the support
ing fluid at once sinks the face be
neath the surface. In cases of so-call
ed “cramps" the victim, often a high
ly-trained swimmer, general throws up
the hands, but these cases are prob
ably due to heart failure, and a simi
lar movement takes place on land,
when the subject receives a fatal heart
wound; and it is even a common ex
pression of shock or astonishment. The
ordinary movement of walking or run
ning would keep a man's face above
water, but these curious climbing
movements of both hands and feet
make floating impossible, and are re
sponsible for many deaths by drown
ing.
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