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WEUXKSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1901.
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Tlie NVenther.
Tha indications for Georgia to-day
axe fair weather, clearing in the early
morning in eastern portion, light north
erly winds; and for Eastern Florida
showers, light variable winds, becom
ing northerly.
There will probably be a let-up In
the building of submarine boats for the
navy. No recommendations for new
vessels of the class have been made
or will be made by the Secretary of
the Navy or any of his subordinates.
When the boats already authorized
have proved their usefulness there may
be anew demand for others like them.
Senator Vest of Missouri affirmed a
day or two ago the report that he had
definitely determined to retire to pri
vate life at the end of his present terms
The Senator Is seventy-one years old,
and says he feels it due to himself to
take a rest. He has been a leading
figure in the Senate for many years,
and when he retires he will be missed.
The dainty little Chinese maidens
who accompanied Mme. Wu on her re
turn to Washington are not to enter
society. Minister Wu says they are
merely official guests, and will remain
in seclusion In the embassy except
when they go out for an airing with
his Wife. Washington society, there
fore, misses what it had promised it
self would be a choice novelty.
In Wilmington, Del., there is a baby
aged twenty-one months that amuses
himself by reading the daily news
papers. The kid is the child of Prof.
Wilsey of the Bridgeville Academy.
Had such precocity manifested Itself
In Boston nobody would have thought
anything of it, but occurring in a Del
aware town the people are quite sure
that the youngster will live to shine
as a police court reporter.
For tbe second time the proposition
of Mr. Hardwick of Washington coun
ty to disfranchise the negro in Geor
gia went down in defeat yesterday in
the Legislature. However, on the sec
ond attempt the bill had more votes
than on the first. When It was first
voted on throe members supported it;
yesterday seventeen voted in favor of
it. At this rate of increase the bill
ought to get a majority in something
like ten or fifteen years.
Anew process for extracting gold
fiorn ore has been announced in Den
ver. It has the sanction of the brother
of Ktnalor Teller who Is an expert on
such matters. By the new process it
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THE NEW TREATY WITH GREAT
BRITAIN.
The new treaty with Great Britain
has been signed by Secretary Hay and
Ambassador Pauncefote, and now it is
for the Senate to say whether or not
it shall be accepted. It is fair to as
sume that it will be ratified, because
it is not probable that Secretary Hay
I would have agreed to a treaty that he
J had reason to think the Senate would
not ratify. He had before him. when
the treaty was being negotiated, the
objections to what was known as the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty. When the Sen
ate discusssed that treaty it made it
clear what it would accept and what
it would not. There is no reason for
thinking therefore that the new treaty
contains anything that the Benate will
consider as sufficient ground for its
rejection.
The text of the treaty will not of
course be made public until after it
is sent to the Senate, but it seems to
be pretty generally understood that it
practically abrogates the Clayton-Bul
wer treaty and that it grants all of the
concessions asked for by this country
in connection with the Nicaragua ca
nal. The English papers appear to be
rather pleased than otherwise that the
concessions have been made, though
some of them think, or pretend to
think, that their government should
have obtained something for them—
concessions along the Canadian boun
dary or colonial trade privileges. How
ever. they do not complain much. Per
haps they think that by yielding to
the wishes of this country in the mat
ter of the Nicaragua canal, the public
sentiment here, in favor of lending the
struggling Boers a helping hand, will
be prevented from becoming so de
monstrative as to influence the gov
ernment.
There is no doubt a very strong feel
ing among the American people in fa
vor of doing something to assist the
Boers. It would require very little
to excite enthusiastic demonstrations
in their behalf. /
A great pro-Boer movement in the
United States would start similar
movements, in all probability, in Ger
many, France, Holland and perhaps
Russia. It is of the utmost importance
to Great Britain therefore that she
shall retain the good will of the Amer.
ican people. That is of more Import
ance to her at this time than any con
cessions she cquld get in such a treaty
as that which has just been negotiat
ed. It is probable that the British pa
pers recognize that it Is, and therefore
they are not disposed to go further in
commenting upon the treaty than to
complain that the English government
obtained nothing for what they insist
upon regarding as very important and
valuable concessions. Asa matter of
fact, however, It is better for Eng
land's commercial welfare that the
Nicaragua canal should be built, even
If it is to be wholly under the control
of the United States, than that it
should not be built at all. Therefore,
outside of gaining our good will, she
will be benefited by the treaty. The
English papers haven't any reason to
complain, and it is safe to say that
they know they haven’t. It may be
that their complaints are intended to
create the impression that their gov
ernment has been extremely generous.
THE RECIPROCITY CONVENTION.
It is intimated that the reciprocity
convention, which met in Washing
ton yesterday, was called in the in
terest of the sugar trust. It is certain
that it was called through the efforts
of those who want an enlarged market
for manufactured products, and are
willing to open our markets to agri
cultural products of other countries in
order to get the concessions they want.
It is claimed that the sugar trust
wants raw sugar admitted free of duty
and the duty retained on the refined
product. That would give it a monop
oly of the American market and enable
it, perhaps, to export refined sugar.
To admit raw sugar free, however, the
government would have to give up
revenue amounting to more than $50.-
000,000 a year, and our sugar indus
try, both cane and beet, would be
ruined, because our sugar producers
could not compete successfully with
those of • Cuba and Europe.
In fact, the farmers do not appear
to be in sympathy with the Washing
ton reciprocity convention. As they
see it. the convention wants to pro
mote reciprocity at their expense. The
manufacturers concerned in it are will
ing that sugar, tobacco, wool, cotton
fruits and some other agricultural
products shall come into our (markets
free, provided their manufactured pro
ducts arq permitted to enter certain
foreign markets free.
When this question of reciprocity Is
viewed from all points It be
comes apparent that It Is one that is
not easy otf settlement. In order to
negotiate reciprocity treaties some In
terests have to be sacrificed. There
isn’t any interest that is going to per
mit itself to be sacrificed. It was de
monstrated in the last Congress that
the Senate was not likely to be In a
hurry to ratify reciprocity treaties.
If the convention that Is In session in
Washington is in the interest of the
sugar trust, it will not have a great
deal of influence with that body.
THE WRIGHT BILL HAS OPPONENTS
In an article in the Atlanta Journal
the Rev. Walker Lewis attacks the
Wright dispensary bill. Notwithstand
ing the fact that the author of the
bill Is a prohibitionist, and stands high
In the prohibition councils, and the
further fact that some of the warmest
supporters of the bill are either pro
hibitionists or temperance people the
extreme prohibitionists are against it—
at least, ws infer from some things ap
pearing In print that they are.
The Rev. Mr. Lewis seems to think
that the liquor men are behind the bill
for the reason that they do not seem
to be fighting it. It Is probable that
the breweries favor the bill simply be
cause they are tired of the liquor ques
tion agitation. They would like legis
lation Hurt would lasure pa<a between
the liquor interests end the prohibition
ists Resides, If the dlspeuaary bill
should become a law It I# probable
that they would be just aa well off.
as far as I heir business Is -vouci-rtred,
it uiy should be vets bushed, hut Uie
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1901.
| wholesale and retail liquor dealers
have no interest in having the bill
: passed. Indeed, it would injure the
| wholesale liquor dealers of the cities of
j the state, because dispensaries would
get their supplies direct from distillers,
j just as the South Carolina dispensaries
; do, and the wholesale dealers would
loee whatever of the Jug trade they
now have in counties which should
establish dispensaries.
As far as we are able to see there
fore the breweries may favor the 'bill,
but the liquor dealers do not. Our
understanding is that Mr. Wright pre
pared and introduced the bill because
he believed that the effect of it would
be to promote temperance. He has
about come to the conclusion, in all
probability, that prohibition does not
accomplish what is claimed for it, and
being an earnest temperance man, and
desirous of promoting temperance in
every way that he possibly can, he
has come to the conclusion, after giv
ing the subject very careful considera
tion, that some good in the direction
of temperance could be done by means
of dispensaries. It has seemed to us
that if there are counties that want
to try dispensaries they should be giv
en the opportunity to do so. It is cer
tain that a county with a well con
ducted dispensary would be better oft
than if It had “blind tigers” scattered
ail over it. The liquor evil in such a
county would certainly be less.
The Rev. Mr. Lewis presents his side
of the question with considerable feel
ing, but it seems to us that he does
not look at the question in a practical
way. He ignores some very important
facts.
CUBAN'S WANT TOO MUCH.
The Cubans want too much.. We
have given them Independence and
now they want their products admit
ted to our markets free of duty. It
is probable that those Cubans who are
on their way to Washington to urge
that the duty be taken oft of Cuban
sugar, and reduced on Cuban cigars,
cigarettes, tobacco, fruits, wines, etc.,
will meet with disappointment. If our
market were to be made free for Cu
ban sugar our own sugar interests
would suffer, and if our tariff on all
other Cuban products were to be reduc
ed, as the Cubans propose, our revenue
w’ould suffer considerable loss. If Cu
ba should get the advantage arising
from a free market for her products in
this country, she would be about as
well off, so far as her material Inter
ests were concerned, as if she were an
nexed. And she would get all of
these benefits without having to bear
any of the burden of supporting the
government which home producers
have to bear.
It is true she has something to offer
in return—her trade, but we get a
great deal of the trade of other coun
tries to which we do not grant the
freedom of our markets. England
buys from us much more than Cuba
is likely to buy within the next cen
tury, and Germany is a big customer
of ours. Germany would like to have
the privilege of getting her beet sugar
into our market free of duty.
If these Cuban gentlemen are grant
ed all they want it will be many a day
before the annexation sentiment in Cu
ba will be much greater than it is now.
It is probable that the visiting Cubans
will be told to wait awhile—at least
until Cuba is in shape to negotiate a
reciprocity treaty.
BLOCKING A RAILROAD DEAL.
Gov. Van Zant of Minnesota is quot
ed as saying that he intends to do
everything in his power to break up
the great railroad combination that
was formed in New' York city a week
or two ago by the creation of the
Northern Securities Company, incor
porated in New Jersey. This company
is to control the Great Northern,
Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, South
ern Pacific and the Burlington and
Quincy roads. The Great Northern
and Northern Pacific railroads are in
corporated under the laws of Minneso
ta, and hence that state has juris
diction of them. It is claimed that be
ing parallel lines they cannot be con
solidated under existing laws. Gov.
Van Zant is quoted as saying that if
there is not at present sufficient au
thority for preventing the two roads
in question from consolidating their
Interests he will call the Legislature
together, and have additional legisla
tion enacted. The people of Minnesota
appear to be stirred up in respect to
the matter.
It is probable, however, that it will
be foubd that the consolidation has
been made without violating any law.
It is not reasonable that such a tre*
mendous deal would have been under
taken unless it were well within the
law. The men who engineered it are
far too shrewd to run the risk of being
made ridiculous by having their work
torn to pieces before it is fairly com
pleted on the ground that it is con
trary to law. It is a safe assertion
that the law was well studied before
the deal was undertaken.
King Edward’s coronation is to be a
scintillating affair, literally speaking.
The manufacturing Jewelers are said to
be loaded down with orders for begem
med Jewelry. Diamonds are the favor
ite gems. The cables say that the rich
American women who will be in Lon
don at the time are exerting themselves
to outshine even royalty itself in the
number and magnificence of their jew
els. Mrs. Bradley-Marttn, formerly of
New York, is reported to have given an
order to a Paris manufacturer for a
tiara that is to cost no less than $1,250,-
000. It will be a replica of the diadem
which shone on the head of the Em
press Josephine. Queen Alexandra is
to wear the famous Koh-l-nor as the
center-piece of her crown, so that Mrs.
Bradley-Martln will find it rather diffi
cult to outshine her. The Duchess of
MurUMrough also is expected to make
a fine display of diamonds upqn the oc
casion.
Mine. Krnma Nevada, the grand op
era singer, speaks out boldly for "rag !
time” music Bile says U Is a good
ibtng. the people want It and ll ought
to stand, borne of the songs she tikes
very much, and they are so pretty she
thinks they will endure. Is this a j
pieiude to an announcement that Mine
Nevada has ceriaented to become the j
eufceeeoi Ml May IswiU, wfw is going
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An agent of the Russian national
railroad system is in this country for
the purpose of purchasing sleeping
cars for the line between Moscow and
Port Arthur. The cars are to be ship
ped in sections and put together at
Moscow. The reason American cars
are to be bought is that they can be
had more quickly and at better prices
than cars from European firms—the
reason which sends foreign purchasers
to the United States for locomotives
■when.they want good engines within a
short space of time. The Russian
agent said the time was not far dis
tant when a traveler would be able to
go from Moscow to Pekin In about two
weeks, without changing cars, and that
eventually the trip would be cut down
to about twelve days.
There is a movement in Virginia to
erect a memorial to John Smith, of
Jamestown colony and Pocahontas
fame. But our friends had better go
slowly. Are they quite sure there ever
was a John Smith? Recently there
has been an effort to convince Geor
gians that there never was such a per
son as Nancy Hart, whose memory we
have hitherto revered for her heroism
as set forth in history. If Nancy Hart
was a myth, as we have recently heard,
may It not be possible that the story of
Smith and the princess Is also the fig
ment of somebody's imagination? In
these days of Maclay, there Is nothing
like being sure of your history.
Every adult may love a baby, but
every husband does not like to see his
wife make an infant of herself; that is
why an interesting show at Englewood,
111., was cut short the other day. Four
young married women of the village
dressed themselves # as babies and im
personated "the Ormsby quadruplets’*
of Chicago, in a charity entertainment.
Their husbands saw the show, held a
consultation and demanded that their
wives Immediately and for all time
come out of swaddling clothes. They
obeyed, and the show was broken up.
A speed of 105 miles an hour has
been secured on the electric road be
tween Zossen and Marienfeld in Ger
many, and the engineers express the
conviction that the limit has not yet
been reached. This is said to be the
highest speed ever attained by any ob
ject mechanically propelled, except pro
jectiles fired from guns. It is not to
be understood that this great speed
was secured on regular schedules, but
in special experiments. It is predict
ed, however, that 100-miles an hour
schedules are within sight.
PERSONAL.
—Chicago is to have a memorial
building to Robert G. Ingersoll. Judge
C. B. Waite, the president of the In
gtreoll Memorial Association, has the
matter under consideration, and is now
preparing a plan which will be broubht
before the Executive Committee.
—A story is told of Sir John Tenniel.
the famous cartoonist. He was asked
why he had never married. "Well,” he
replied, "if I had married a girl she
would always have wanted to be going
about all over the place, and that
would not have suited me; while, on
the other hand, if I had married an
elderly lady, she would have worn a
shawl, and that 1 could not have
stood!”
—Sir M. Hicks-Beach is a splendid
example of the persistence of youth.
Fourteen years ago Sir Michael retired
temporarily from active political life on
account of ill-health. With the excep
tion of Lord Salisbury and the Duke
of Devonshire, he was an office holder
before ally member of the present Brit
ish cabinet. Sir Michael has been chan
cellor of the exchequer In two admin
istrations and three Parliaments.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Will Become a Boarder.—"Yes,''
said Meandering Mike, “I’m goin’ to
quit beggin’ fur a livin’.” “Are you
goin’ to git proud?” asked Plodding
Pete. “Nope. I'm goin’ to git arrest
ed.”—Washington Star.
—Major Quiz (ex-Confederate)—"Say,
Paddy, were you at Bull Run?” Paddv
—‘Ol was, sur.” Major Quiz—"And
did you run?" Paddy—" Faith. Oi did,
sur; and all that didn’t run are there
yet.’’—Harlem Life.
—After the Wedding.—>The Countess
—"You've no idea how embarrassed
the Count was when he proposed to
me,” The Dear Friend—“l heard it
took considerable of your father's
money to pay his debts."—Judge.
—Honors Easy.—German Student—“l
know dese scars my face on look not
pretty, but I proud of them am. I
get them in duels.” American Stud
ent—“ Huh! Wait till you see some
of our football champions.”—New York
Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.)
says: "The entire Dingley tariff is di
rected against the home customer,
handing profits over to the employer,
who Is expected,to divide with the em
ploye, but who forgets as a rule to do
anything of the kind. When the con
sumer becomes intelligent enough to
see the real nature of the Dingley tar
iff. there will be a change, but there
will be none before. In a full analy
sis tbe tariff will be found at the bot
tom of most of the recent advances in
the cost of living, while It has not in
creased wages In proportion.”
The New York World (Dem.) says:
“To fortify the canal means expensf
In time of peace and the diversion of
energy In war time that would be bet
ter employed in prosecuting the war
or defending our own coasts. And not
the least important, it would mean a
senseless defiance to Europe and a
most unwise irritation to all the sus
picious little republics to the south of
us. Why shouldn’t England be will
ing? Why should she discourage us
In squandering money on making our.
selves rldloutous and unpopular?"
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says:
“The whols system of tariff protection
la radically unjust. It is morally as
well as economically wrong just as
slavery was wrong—morally and every
other way. The only way to settle it
finally Is to dig it up by the roots and
cast It out utterly and forever. All
temporising and palliative schemas
will fall, because they will leave the
wrong unre<l leased, the multiform evil
unremedied." ,
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Flashes of Bowery Wit.
Along the Bowery, says the New
York Times, are dozens of windows
where are displayed unredeemed
: pledges, trinkets or valuables that have
I strayed from all quarters into these
eddies of commerce. Sometimes a mel
j ancholy interest attaches to these
i things, but the pawnbroker is a foe to
melancholy. Therefore he puts humor
ous placards upon his wares, to catch
j the eye and evoke a smile, for a good
humored man is a better customer than
a gloomy one.
One widow displays a cobwebbed
skull bearing a placard which says:
There are 1,000 skulls in exist
ence said to be Oliver
Cromwell's. This is
not one of them.
We never misrepresent.
Further along a skull is displayed
which is said to have belonged to
“Pliny, whose body was entirely con
sumed in Vesuvius.”
A large legbone is advertised as
“Good enough to do do for you if ever
yours is broken.”
Watches give the bowery humorist
a splendid field. One of them bears a
ticket bidding the passer “Buy me if
you haven't time." Another confesses
that “Siow horses did this—made him
pawn me for $25.”
One watch asks, boldly, "Don’t you
like my face?” while another closed
says, “I am ashamed to be here; take
me away!"
A pretentious notice points out that
"This watch has three hands, and the
third is the second hand!" A stop
whioh is said to have been used in
"timing the Great Human Race.”
On a bottle of snakes is hung this
solemn warning, “Don't look at me, if
drunk, for you will certainly see
things." Another bottle of the same
kind is labeled, “Scar aa bitem Sortes,
Grounduscrawlus.’’
A dealer whose frankness and disin
terested honesty are attractive adver
tises, “Guns that will shoot and guns
that won't." and puts a notice on one
of them that confesses. “This is not
much good as a gun. but it is 125 years
old.” Another gun is recommended as
"an excellent gun for killing time,"
and truly it looks all of that. It is a
muzzle loader with a match pan. One
placard declares that “This is not
Aaron Burr’s rifle; it is mine, but you
can have it for sl.”
A dealer declare his honesty thus,
"This looks like a thousand-dollar bill,
but I made it myself; I never misrep
resent,” but he casts discredit on the
statement by displaying some apple
seeds which he declares "belonged to
the notorious apple that got Eve into
trouble.”
A Business Romance.
He was an ambitious young man
who worked for a large corporation,
says the Chicago News. His salary
was good, but not sufficient, according
to his ideas, so he decided to do a lit
tle business for himself. He started in
selling investment securities to his
friends. This young man was new to
certain well established facts in the
business world, so he decided that he
would make a specialty of selling to
women, as they were so trusting. It
was really an honest thought, but the
young man had not had much experi
ence.
He showed a trusting young widow
a bond and told her how easy it was
to cut the coupons off every six months.
She looked it over carefully, liked the
coloring, the pretty little scrollwork
and the poster picture on it, and the
deal was closed.
Everything was lovely for one short
month. Then the widow called at the
office where the young man was em
ployed, and said she would like to raise
some money and wanted to dispose of
the bond.
"Mrs. Mayer, why don't you use some
of your cas.h instead of trying to sell
the bond now?” asked the young man.
“Trying? Why, what do you mean by
that? Isn't it worth what I paid for
it?" -
“Of course it is, but you may have
to wait a few days or weeks until we
can find a buyer.”
"Then I can't get my money now?"
"No; it will take some time. But if
you want to put your bond up as col
lateral I can get you a loan fqr almost
its face value.”
“I don't want a loan. I want to sell
that bond. If you had told me it was
not good I would not have bought the
old thing.” * '
"Now, don’t cry about it and make
a scene here. I will see if I can sell it
within a few days. I think I can.”
That evening the ambitious young
man interviewed a lhwyer friend.
"Well, you certainly are in a baa
scrape,” said the lawyer. “If your cus
tomer had been a man I could help you
out by giving good advice, but you
will have the pleasure of seeing that
young widow every day now until the
thing is sold. You might get another
position—something less public, some
thing out of town, would be the best.
Or you should Ynarry the widow. She
might allow you to manage her busi
ness affairs. If you must see her every
day she might as well do the cooking.
On careful consideration I do not hes
itate to gay that the best way would be
to propose marriage, exchange the
bond for furniture and pay her so
much weekly on that. She gets her
money back and you get your board.”
The marriage licenses was issued in
due time.
A Lay of Ancient Rome.
From the Harvard Lampoon.
Oh! the Roman was a rogue.
He erat, was, you bettum;
He ran his automobilis
And smoked his cigarettum;
He wore a diamond studibus,
An elegant cravattum,
A maxima cum laude shirt.
And such a stylish hattum!
He loved the luscious hic-haec-hock
And bet on games and equl;
At times he won; at others, tho,
He got it in the nequi;
He winked (quo usque tandem?
At puellas on the Forum,
And sometimes even made
Those goo-goo oculorum!
I
He frequently was seen
At combats gladiatorial.
And ate enough to feed
Ten boarders at Memorial:
He often went on sprees.
And said, on starting homus,
"Hie labor—opus est.
Oh, where’s my—hie—hie—domus?”
Altho he lived in Rome—
Of all the arts the middle—
He was (excuse the phrase)
A horrid indtvldT;
Ah! what a different thing
Was the homo (dative, hominy)
Of far-away B- C.
From ua of Anno Domini.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
From the New York Press.
It takes a double-dyed fool to think
that he ia the exception to the rule.
Maybe we love them so much be
cause there never seems to be eny rea
son why we should.
When a girl wishes she was young
enough to flirt with a man who things
she ia too old for that sort of thing,
•be calls him a little snip.
A woman has no faith in a man’s
Irn-e unless she feels she can wake him
up in ibe middle of ih* night to esk
him if he remembered to poet her let
ter.
No woman likes to have • men
stare at her as if she were a pb lure
he owned but she likes it better than
to have him m tike she wasn’t worth
broking si. j
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The Chicago Board of Local Im
provements has decided to use creo
soted block for pavements in the city.
Different kinds of material for paving
were looked into by the board* but the
decision was in favor of the wood. The
first order for this kind of pavement
will aggregate about fifteen miles of
•treats to be paved.
—Few as the saloon® are in Missis
sippi they pay nearly one-third of the
state's total Income from privileges.
Mississippi is regarded as one of the
most ultra of prohibition states, made
so by the anti-saloon sentiment in a
majority of the counties under the lo
cal option system. Fourteen of the
counties pay the bulk of the $150,000 re
ceived annually from this tax.
—A singular competition is reported
between two Italians who have devoted
their existence to collecting editions of
the “Divina Comedia.'’ One had dis
covered 214 editions, and his rival the
same number, but, determined not to
be beaten, the latter had a 215th edition
specially set up and printed in Paris,
taking care that only one copy of it
was printed.
—ln the High School in Sioux City,
la., the school board has undertaken
what is proving to be a very success
ful experiment in serving hot lunch to
the pupils at cheap prices. A lunch
room has been fitted up and there are
scholars can purchase many hot dishes
at minimum rates. Everything is sold
for checks, which can be obtained in
iots of 10 to 25 cents worth.
—The Fire and Lighting Committee
of the Council of New Orleans, La.,
has reported favorably on the passage
of an ordinance giving a franchise to
a telephone company which undertakes
to provide 'phones at very low rates.
The ordinance provides that .within 18
months 20,000 telephones are to be in
stalled in the city, free of cost, and
the rates are to be 2 cents for the use
of a ’phone for a period of five min
utes.
—At the present time there are seven
self-propelling fire engines in the coun
try. Those in the Boston (Mass.) de
partment have been in service since
1897 and have proved of great value.
Each weigh nearly nine tons, but are
easier to handle than those drawn by
horses. They answer second alarms
and are much better hill-climbers than
the horse engines. The largest size
engines throw an average of 870 gallons
a minute, about twice the amount of
water thrown by the average horse en
gines.
—A dispatch from Allentown,Pa..says:
The unique spectacle of a man crying
because he was not in jail was witness
ed in the Court House last evening. The
man who was so anxious to get behind
the prison bars was Walter Miller, who
had pleaded guilty of two charges of
larceny, and had been sentenced to
three months. The sentence was im
posed Just before the adjournment of
court, and Miller got lost in the crowd.
He wandered away, and finally landed
in the corridor of the Court House,
looking for a person to take him to
jail. District Attorney Groman hap
pened along and found Miller crying.
He asked what was the matter, and
was told by Miller that he had been
sentenced to prison, but didn’t know
where the jail was. Court Crier Dallas
Dillinger came along at this time and
showed Miller the way to prison. The
convicted man dried his tears and went
to jail rejoicing.
—Several* scientists connected with
the entomological department of the
Nebraska State University are engaged
in a detail study of the "jack rabbit,”
so-called, with a view to devising some
scheme for the rapid extermination of
the animal, which has now become a
pest in that section and threatens the
destruction of numerous crops. The
placing of a bounty on the scalps of
coyotes some years ago caused a gen
eral slaughter of those natural enemies
of the jack rabbit, and now the lat
ter have increased nearly fifty-fold.
There are two species that infest Ne
braska—the “black-tails” and the “sil
ver-tails''—but there is no appreciable
difference in their size, food or habits.
Prof. Lawrence state entomol
ogist, says that the Nebraska farmers
will have the jack rabbit pest to con
tend with for the next four years at
least.
—A writer in Science reviews the re
cent issue of“ Who's Who in America”
in the light of the distribution of ce
lebrity through the United States. The
book contains 11.551 names chosen out
of the 80,000,000 inhabitants of the
country. Of these 11,137 reside in the
United States, the rest in 47 foreign
countries. New York state is credited
with 2,849; Massachusetts with 1,010;
the District of Columbia with SB9;
Pennsylvania with 880; Illinois with
704; Ohio with 422; New Jersey with
314; California with 291; Connecticut
with 266; Missouri with 222; Maryland
with 205. All other states have less,
than 200 each. Of the 11.551 persons
biographed 8,141 cases give returns
that can be usefully classified as to
education. Of these, 5,775 are college
men and 4,810 are college graduates;
808 had a common school training only;
282 were privately educated, and 31
were self-taught. The summary is
distinctively in favor of higher educa
tion. and they reveal the country’s
unparalleled elemertt of strength in the
possibility of eminence open to those
whose training was attained in the
public schools alone.
—Speech is the result of a slow pro
cess of natural growth, and there is
"O human race that does not possess
\ says the New York Sun. If in the
present state of the world some philos
opher were to wonder how man ever
began to build those houses, palaces
and vessels which we see around u we
should answer that those were not the
things that man began with. The sav
age who first tied the branches of
shrubs to make himself a shelter was
not an architect and he who first float
ed on the trunk of a tree was not a
navigator. So it is with speech, which
grew from rude beginnings. All the
more intelligent animals can express
simple conditions of mind both by
sound and gesture. The dog can emit
four or five sounds each fully under
stood by its companions. The common
barnyard fowl has from nine to twelve
distinct vocal sounds, all of which are
comprehended by its chickens and by
other fowls. There can be no doubt
that the speech of man arose. In the
beginning, from similar sources. Ges
ture speech was frequent. Many
sounds were imitative. Purely con
ventional an non-imltative sounds were
adopted for convenience, Just as deaf
mutes now Invent arbitrary sounds to
stand for the names of friends, etc.
It Is not precisely true, then, to say
that "language begins where inter
jection ends.” However It originated, it
is the condition of progress. As Roma
nes said: “A manlike creature be
cains human by the power of speech."
When did speech originate? Romanes
thinks that our human ancestor may
have been In the age of flint when he
added to gesture, vocal tones and
facial grlmaoes the power of speech.
The foregoing sentences are a very free,
transcription of an address by Prof
Cunningham before the H. A. A. ft., in
WtUrh the general subject is discussed
in terms too cautious and too scientific
to be reproduced here Asa Scotchman
he might have quoted (and did not)
Lord leri Mgtitboddo'a famous dictum
that "language was Invented by a con
gress of Is4ied men assembled Car the
purpose. *
Extraordinary Cure
A Statement Given by Thos.
C. Hall of Beileview, Fla.,
the well known Merchant
and firm of Hall Bros.
This is to certify that I have been
afflicted with a very severe case of
stricture for the last twenjy years and
have suffered untold misery. I hav.
been treated by over fifty physicians
in the states of Florida and Georgia,
some of them recommended to me as
being the very best physicians in the
South. They have used all forms of
treatment, some of them even operat
ed upon me and came very near kill
ing me. At last they gave me up and
I started for New York to have a sur
gical operation performed by a spe
cialist who was recommended to me by
these different physicians. While in
Savannah I was recommended to con
sult Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, a spe
cialist of that city, before going to
New York. I did so but with little
faith. However, after talking with the
doctor I somehow felt as if he were the
man I had been looking for, as his con
fidence in his ability to cure me seem
ed to be sure and positive, so I placea
my case into his hands for treatment,
and to my surprise and delight in a
very few days I commenced to get bet
ter and after about two month’s treat
ment I was discharged thoroughly
cured and have not had any trouble
whatever since that time. The pleasant
part of the treatment was that I was
not under any surgical operation,
neither was there any amount of pain
caused by the treatment. This, I con
sider, wonderful, and I certainly be
lieve if all persons who are suffering
with stricture oould avail themselves
of the skill of Dr. Hathaway that they
would save themselves much suffering,
besides a great deal of expense. 1
was advised by a large number of reg
ular physicians that Dr. Hathaway
could not do anything for me, there
fore, while I had heard of his reputa
tion, I would not cme to see him be
cause of their statements. I wish,
however, now that I had gone to him
when I first heard of his reputation.
I write this testimoniay for pur
pose of benefiting humanity, regardless
of my personal feeling® in the case.
THOS. C. HALL.
Bellview, Fla.. Nov. 8, 1901.
The above oase is only one out of
hundreds that Dr. Hathaway is cur
ing where other doctors fail. Consult
him free at office or by mail, 25 East
Bryan street, Savannah, Ga.
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