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FRIDAY, .NOVEMBER 22, 1001.
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Our 15th Friday Hour Bargain Sale—
Leopold Adler.
Amusements—“ Two Little Vagrants"
at Theater To-morrow Matinee and
Night-
Pearli ne—Jas. Pyle & Son, New York.
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cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair, warmer weather, fresh north
to east winds; and for Eastern Florida
fair weather, warmer in northern por
tion, probably showers at night, fresh
northeasterly winds.
A brother of the late Col. George E.
Waring is being pushed for Commis
sioner of Street Cleaning of New York.
Many persons beiieve, however, that
the appointment will go to Capt. F. M.
Gibson, formerly an officer in the reg
ular army and at one time attached to
Cueter's cavalry.
It is probably a good thing for the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and her
$7,000,000 shipment of gold that Sir Wal
ter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and
several other eminent and celebrated
gentlemen are dead. It used to be their
pleasure and profit to waylay treasure
laden galleons on the Spanish Main and
relieve them of their yellow' metal and
suoh other valuables as they might
chance to have ’tween decks. No gal
leons ever carried such wealth at the
big German flyer; but the Raleighs and
Drakes and Kidds and Ronnetts have
gone out of business.
Admiral Schley continues to be
handicapped by some very foolish
friends. The story that he bad 6pent
his entire fortune to vindicate himself
before the court of inquiry was no
doubt told with the purpose in view of
winning sympathy for him, but when
people began to inquire, “How could
he have spent $20,000 on the trial?” and
to doubt If there had been any such
expenditure, the effect on the public
mind was hardly In Schley’s favor.
The Admiral, however, has promptly
set himself right by declaring there is
no foundation for the report and de
clining to receive contributions from
his friends.
Immdiately following the recent elec
flon in New York it w'as stated that
pretty nearly a clean sweep of office
holders had been made, and that the
Democrats who held their offices by
appointment would be speedily weeded
out. It appears, however, from a state
ment issued by the Civil Service Re
form Association of that city that
Mayor Low will have comparatively
few offices to bestow, and that if the
heads of departments whom he will
name had all of the subordinate places
under them vacant and needing to be
filled, there would still be only 2*B ap
pointments. It was the belief that there
would be several thousand places to be
filled, and Mr. Low’s mail has been
burdened ever since his el not lon with
applications for places.
The other day the Morning News
clipped from an exchange a paragraph
reading: "An industrious seeker of the
curious has discovered that President
Roosevelt is the first occupant of the
White House in whose name the letter
*a’ does not occur.” A correspondent,
who is evidently a closer student of
Oj history of our country than the
alleged “industrious seeker of the cu
rious," writes us "How about John
Tyler?" The criticism, we submit Is
unanswerable Savannah Morning
News. Ths “closer student" forgot
JsCsrwn, Monroe, Fillmore, Lincoln
and McKlnlejr.—Macon Telegraph
The name* of ih* Presidents referred
to by the Telegisph were Thomas J*f.
•arson games Monroe, Millard Fill
more, Abraham Lincoln and William
McKinley Will our Mletaied >ontem
notary undertake to spell either or all
•f these ns mse without tb* emgioyoeeai
of on ’•eP'
A LAME CONCLISIOX.
The resolutions adopted by the re
ciprocity conference, that met In
Washington on Wednesday and ad
journed on Thursday night, amount
to nothing. A lot of papers and a num
ber of speeches were made, all / of
which showed such a divergence of
■ views that it was evident that no con
elusion could be reached that would aid
Congress in solving the question of
I finding additional markets for the pro
ducts of American factories. The con
ference, finding that it could do noth
ing to advance the object for which it
was convened, recommended that a
new office be created —the office of "the
department of commerce and indus
tries”—and that the occupant of It be
given a place in the cabinet. No doubt
Congress will receive the recommenda
tion with favor. The politicians of that
body are always ready to create new
offices, every one of them being Inspir
ed by the hope of getting the office
himself or having one of his friends ap
pointed to it.
But what was the resolution which
the conference adopted? It was, in ef
fect, that the principle of protection
be maintained and that reciprocity
treaties be negotiated, but that care
should be taken not to injure any home
interest of manufacturing, commerce
or farming. If Congress follows that
resolution there will be no reciprocity
treaties.
Any attempt to take any one of the
articles off the dutiable list would be
strongly resisted. It doesn't need a de
partment of commerce and industries,
together with a reciprocity commission,
to find out if there are articles on
which the duties can be reduced or re
moved so as to form a basis for reeip
rocity treaties. Let some capable maiL_
like Mr. Kasson i’jr instance, negotiate
a few reciprocity treaties, and Congress
will not be long In doubt as to wheth
er or not the Interests affected are in
jured or not, and whether the protec
tive principle has beer) respected or
not. There were a half dozen of these
treaties, negotiated by Mr. Kasson,
pending in the Senate last winter, and
it was impossible to get that body to
do anything with them, for the reason
that the Interests afteced put up such
a stout fight that the Senators became
frightened—at least, the Republican
senators did.
The reciprocity conference did not
advance the cause of commercial and
industrial reciprocity a single step.
GOLD EXPORTS.
It ought not to be difficult for Wall
street financiers to give an explana
tion of the gold exports. No one of
them, however, seems to be able to do
so. All sorts of explanations are ap
pearing in the newspapers. To an im
partial observer it seems curious that
with a trade balance of $600,000,000 in
our favor for the past year gold should
be going to Europe. One reason ad
vanced is that the rate of interest in
Europe is higher than in this country,
and that therefore It pays to send mon
ey abroad to be loaned there. Another
is that there Is need for gold in Ger
many and France, and that those
countries are making it profitable to
send gold to them. Still another ex
planation Is thait last May, when the
fight for the control of the Northern
Pacific w'as going on, immense blocks
of the slock of that road were purchas
ed in Europe, but were not paid for
in cash sent from this country. Bills
of exchange were drawn which were
discounted by European bankers. The
bills are now due, arid the gold is be
ing sent abroad to pay them.
This may be the true explanation, but
it does not seem to be a reasonable
one. If It be tme that there is a big
balance due us in Europe, why not
draw against it? Why send gold while
there is money there that could be
used to pay the debt which the pur
chasers of the Northern Pacific stock
owe. If, in fact, they owe anything?
But it is urged that our exports have
fallen off considerably during the last
month or trwo, and that therefore oui
balance is not so large as It was. Still,
if the statistics relative to our exports
and imports, wihich the Treasury De
partment has been giving to the pub
lic from time to time, are correct, there
ought to be many millions of dollars
to our credit in Europe. The truth
doubtless is that those Who are under
taking to explain why gold is going
abroad know little or nothing about the
matter. .
If it be true, as some authorities as
sert, that the higher rate of interest
abroad is causing these exports, why
is it that our Treasury Department is
doing what it cam to facilitate them?
It is buying bonds at 140—bonds which
it sold a few years ago at 104 V s—in or
der to ease tihe money market and
bring about a lower rate of interest.
It Is paying gold for ths bonds and the
gold is being shipped abroad. If it did
not buy bonds the rate for money
would remain so high that it would not
be profitable to export gold to Europe.
It seems therefore that the Treasury j
Department Is encouraging the export
movement of gold.
One gold shipment last Tuesday
amounted to $7,000,000, of which $5,000,-
000 went to France and $2,000,000 to
Germany. Up to that time the total
shipments, since the outward move
ment of gold began, were nearly $lB,-
000,000, and it was the understanding
that between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000
would be shipped yesterday. In Wall i
street the impression prevails that the
outflow will continue for several weeks,
and that probably $35,000,000 or $40,-
000,000 will be exported in all.
The country has an abundance of
gold, and can spare that amount, and
more, without causing any monetary :
disturbance, but the public would like
to know why gold Is going abroad in
the face of the Immense balance of
trade In our favor. They would like an j
explanation that la satisfactory to ev- j
evrybody— the truat explanation.
Mra. Carrie Nation appeared at $1 a- !
rietta, 0., thf other day under the au- ■
apicee of a saloon keeper and a prize \
fghtef, She explained that the reason
of It was that the W. C. T. V, and tb*
rburches would have nothing to do
with her. Mra. Nation, however, la ao
fond of notoriety that If the temper
ance people will net give her a i hence
I to he ***n and heard she will penult
i iter self to tsuoa pi advertisement for i
I th* opposite interest a. j
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1901.
HOW TO BULD GOOD ROADS.
Bulletin No. 8 of the Geological Sur
vey of Georgia, which .is lately from
the press, ought to find its way speed
ily into the office of every board of
county commissioners in the state, as
well as into the hands of every pro
gressive person of public spirit who Is
willing to aid In the work of building
up his section by giving it that great
i desideratum, improved and permanent
!ly hardened highways. The bulletin,
prepared by Assistant Geologist Mc-
Callie, covers the subject thoroughly,
and gives just such information as the
community having good roads in pros
pect desires to have. It tells how to
open and grade the roads, where to
get the material for finishing, how to
prepare it, how to put it down, how
■to protect It, how to repair it, etc.
And then there are estimates of cost,
of the respective wearing capacity of
the different materials, of the traction
value of different sorts of roads, and
so on. In short the bulletin is a hand
book on road-making that contains just
about everything one could wish to
know. It is illustrated with views of
goods roads in various parts of the
state, Chatham county Included, and
has pictures of various road-making
appliances and of the native stones
best adapted for paving. This serves
to elucidate the text and give a quick
er and more lasting impression re
specting the matter under considera.
tion.
There is one especially striking pic
ture in the back of the bulletin. It
shows a wagon load of cotton on the
road from Augusta to the Inman com
press. The road is one of the im
proved sort, therefore it is possible
for the two ordinary plantation mules
-Jiilrhcd to ths-waggn to-dxaix—Qxer it
with ease the twelve 500-pound bales
piled on the vehicle. On an ordinary
dirt road the same team of mules
would have found three bales the limit
of their hauling capacity, and they
would have made much slower time
than with the twelve bales on the
good road. The good road, therefore,
multiplies the working capacity of
the team by four, besides reducing the
lime in which the work may be accom
plished. That picture presents a whole
lesson to the Georgia farmer,
and one which should result in the
building of hundreds of miles of good
roads. It is an unanswerable argu
ment.
A LONG MESSAGE.
It is stated In the Washington dis
patches that the President’s message
will be several columns longer than the
average presidential message. Mr.
Roosevelt has the reputation of being
a reformer. He ought to show that
this reputation is genuine by institut
ing a reform in respect to the annual
presidential message.
Mr. Roosevelt is a writer of books
and magazine articles. He doubtless
know's that bulky books and long
articles are not in favor with editors
and publishers, simply because they
axe not popular with the public. In
these days the public wants everything
condensed. People refuse to give time
to reading lengthy essays.
It is no doubt the wish of Mr. Roose
velt that his message shall be very
generally read. That being the case,
he ought to condense what he has to
say Into not more than 6,000 words.
There is no good reason why he should
repeat in his message the principal
features of the report of each of the
departments. Let the report of each
department speak for itself. Those
who want to know' what, the head of a
department has to say should seek the
information In his report. They should
not expect to find it in the President’s
message.
The number of the readers of presi
dential messages would be more than
double what it is if the messages were
only half as long. No doubt most men
glance through the President's mes
sage, read a paragraph here and there
and then put the paper aside with the
intention of reading the entire message
at some future time, but that time
never comes in the case of the great
majority of them. If the President de
sires that his message shall be gen
erally read let him cut it short.
According to the New York Journal,
more than 1,000 postmasters in all parts
of the country have lately been bun
coed out of sums ranging from $250 to
SI,OOO, by smooth confidence men in
New York. It appears the old ’’green
goods” game was played, except that
postage stamps were substituted for
bills of money. It was alleged that
the postage stamps to be sold to
the postmasters had been printed from
"undestroyed plates of the govern
ment” and that they would be sold at
very low cost. Dishonest postmasters
bit at the tyalt and went to New York
to meet the man with the cheap
stamps. In that city the old trick of
substituting packages was worked on
them. Because of their official posi
tions, it Is said, the postmasters have
not dared to complain of the fraud
practiced upon them. It is to be hoped
that the Postoffloe Department will be
able to ascertain who these postmas
ters are. If they are willing to swindle
the government by the purchase and
sale of counterfeit stamps, they are
quite capable of defrauding the govern
ment In about any other manner, and
deserve to be summarily discharged.
And now the boys of the West are
playing "Miss Stone and the Brig
ands." The other day half a dozen
youngsters in Seattle caught the editor
of the Star and ex-Gov. Knapp of
Alaska in an old boiler-iron standpipe,
of the discarded water-works, that
stood on a high hill, and locked the
door on them. The men had climbed
to the top to see the fine view. It was
cold at the top, and they soon decided
to come down. But on reaching the
bottom they found themeelvea prison
ers and met the demand from the boys
that they pay a ransom. The demand
was refused After several hours In
their cold. Iron prison the men found
an old pick-axe and broke their way
out.
Bishop Fit tg era Id of Ki, Louis plays
chess and like# the game. The othei
day some of the Methodists of Fitts
burg leer nod that he indulged In sheas,
end roundly lesouivd trim for per*
, i. ipoiii'g ui “ungodly ' a p*gtku*
Mr. Croker does not take his defeat
cheerfully. He feels that the over
throw of Tammany was a personal af
front to himself. The opposition per
sistently attacked him and Devery,
and could hardly be brought to talk
about anything else. "Every charge
mafle against me during the campaign
is a lie. and I challenge the proof of
them." said Mr. Croker to a gather
ing of his lieutenants the other day.
Further, he invited his hearers to
make known then and there any crit
icisms they had to pass upon his man
agement of the campaign; and they
cheered him to the echo. And unless
the newly elected District Attorney.
Mr. Jerome, succeeds in proving some
of the corruption that he so freely
charged during the campaign, there is
going to be a good deal of disappoint
ment in New York.
Lady Swansea of England is sponsor
for anew regiment of British troops
that is to be "composed entirely ot
gentlemen.” No ladies need apply.
PERSONAL.
—Dr. J. J. Lafferty of Richmond, Va.,
possesses a remarkable cane. At the
time of the burial of Gen. Stonewall
Jackson someone placed a twig upon
the grave. It grew to be a sapling
several Inches in diameter. Friends
of the Jackson family had it removed.
They found that the root of the sap
ling had entwined itself about his skel
eton. It was taken up, and a cane
wes made of a part of It. This cane
was artistically carved and given to
Dr. Lafferty. ,
—Lord Rosebery possesses the cost
liest collection of snuff boxes in the
world. Many of them are of solid gold,
and some are set with brilliants. A
curiously inlaid enamel snuffbox was
at one time the property of Napoleon
Bonaparte. A small black box, studded
with three diamonds, belonged to the
statesman Pitt, wfiile another, plainly
inlaid with fine gold, was used by Fox.
Although the collection comprises only
twenty-two boxes altogether. Its esti
mated value is 8175,000.
—William Drew Washburn, who was
recently elected president of the Uni
versallst general convention, is one of
the wealthiest manufacturers of Min
neapolis. In 1861 he was appointed
United States surveyor general of Min
nesota. He was subsequently elected
to Congress for three terms, and in
1889 was chosen United States senator,
his term expiring in 1895. Like his
late associate in business, former Gov.
Pillsbury, Mr. Washburn was born in
New England and spent his early years
in a hard struggle for success. He set
tled in Minnesota in 1857, and took a
large part in the railway construction
of the Northwest.
—Francis Galton, the well known
writer on heredity and evolution, re
cently enfolded to a gathering of prom
inent scientists a novel plan for the
ultimate regeneration of society. He
would have philanthropy and the state
give bonuses and diplomas to physical
ly and intellectually perfect young
people who marry. Mr. Galton be
lieves that young men and women of
high character, intellect, energy and
physique should be encouraged to mar
ry, for the good effects it would have
on coming generations. The state
would hold examinations and award
diplomas to those who qualified. When
a young man’s Intentions to a young
woman had reached the point of a pro
posal of marriage an examination of
their respective diplomas would be in
order. If each had one, then they
would apply for a subsidy.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Sympathetic.—“Why does she use
mourning stationery?”
“Oh. she’s done that ever since one
of her epistles went to the dead-letter
office." —Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
—Mr. Stutson; They tell me Neigh
bor Harris’ cat is dead.
Mrs. Stutson: Oh, I’m so sorry! It
used to take up Fido’s time so pleas
antly barking at her! —Boston Tran
script.
—Of Interest to Him. —“Did you no
tice, Miss Sharp, that an idiot has been
restored to his right mind by a clevah
surgeon?”
”Yes, Mr. Flutterby. I noticed the
item and was just going to call your
attention to It.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
—Sure to Come.—Jack: So George
has married Dora, eh? Look out for
a divorce.
Dick: You don’t mean it!
Jack: Sure to come. It is one of
those matches in which the relatives
on both sides are perfectly satisfied.—
New York Weekly.
—She Was Boss.—Elsie: All right.
We’ll play grand opera, and I'll be the
boss.
Willie: No, you can't. It takes a
man to be the manager.
Elsie: Oh, you can be the manager,
but I’ll be what they call the bella
donna.—Philadelphia Press.
—A Clydebank laddie was a visitor
to a Langside laddie the other day. and
as laddies will they began to boast
about the qualities of their respective
residences. The Clydebank youngster
held his own very well till the Glas
gow laddie asked, “Do ye hae an in
firmary?”
“No," reluctantly said the Clydebank
boy.
“Do ye hae electric cars?”
“No yet,” said the Clydebank boy,
more brightly, “but we’re getting
them!”
“Ah, weel. when ye get the cars ye'll
j sune get an infirmary," said the Glas
gow boy, reflectively, “for ye'll need
It.” —Glasgow Evening Times.
CIBHENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: “It becomes every day more ev
ident that President Roosevelt Is rap
idly widening the gulf that lies between
him and the spoilsmen of his party. He
has actually had the hardihood to
adopt the recommendation of Secre
tary of War Root placing 1.500 posi
tions in the Quartermaster's Medical
Department, the Ordmance Department
! and the Engineer Department in the
| o Iwlft“d (lvil service. Promotion will
hereafter be governed by merit, and not
j by favor. There is hope in this presi
dential order for young men striving
to make their way at soldiering—and
grief for political promoters."
The Louisville Courier-Journal
(Dem.) says: “One of the Wall street
calamity howlers argues that there Is
not enough business for our ships now;
therefore we must secure more ships
| by means of a subsidy. If our hunters
) would quit shooting each other long
j enough to take a tour through Wall
street, the strange things they would
see would eo astonish them that they
j would forget they had guns ”
The Chattanooga Times ( Dem.i says;
j "A man killed another al Utica, N Y ,
' for applauding the art of the saeasaln
I In killing President McKinley, ands
jury acquitted him. which shows that
sent imant later in the state of New
1 York isn’t always on the side of the
i enforcement of lan,”
I’uncluulity Won.
A life insurance agent who resides
in this place deserves great credit not
only for the energy and persistence
with which he pushes his business, but
for his punctuality in keeping engage
ments, says the Punxsutawney Spirit.
He had been after a man who resides
in Anita for the past two years, and
had received some encouragement. He
called one day last week, and when
the man saw the insurance agent ap
proaching he ran and hid. But the
insurance agent had caught a glimpse
of his fleeting form and was not to be
foiled. He finally smoked his man out
and told him he had come to talk in
surance.
“I am too busv>’ said the man, “call
again when I have more time.”
"When may I call, then? Set your
own time, and I’ll be there."
The man thought a moment, then
made reply;
“You may call next Friday morning
at 2 o’clock.”
"I will be on time.”
When the appointed day arrived our
Indefatigable insurance man arose at
1:30 o’clock, and walked to Anita, a
distance of nearly five miles, arriving
there at 2:55. He sat down on the
porch and waited until precisely 3
o’clock, then rang the doorbell.
"What's wanted?” inquired a female
voice from an upstairs window.
Is Mr. Jones at home?”
"He is.”
“Tell him to come down right away.
I have some very important business
with him.”
Mr. Jones hustled downstairs in his
night shirt, and there was the life in
surance agent!
“I have called,” he began, “as you
requested, to talke life insurance.”
Jones was somewhat astonished and
bewildered, but realizing that he was
up against it, said:
“Such punctuality deserves to be re
warded, I surrender.
And he gave him his application for
a policy.
Won by a Nose.
“One of the smoothest political tricks
-aver played,” said Mr. Henry C. Ed
gerton of Baltimore, at the Barton, ac
cording to the Washington Post, “was
that pulled off in Talbot county, on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, some years
ago, when about 200 negroes voted the
wrong ticket without knowing it be
fore our side found out that anything
was going wrong. The county was
very close that year, and the Repub
licans had to count upon the votes ot
the negroes to win. Few of these cit
izens could read, but they had been
instructed to put their cross-mark on
the Australian ballot in front of Massa
Lincoln’s nose. They had shown that
they could at least do this much, and
the Republicans considered everything
well in hand.
“But the Democrats were in control
of the 1 county, and the ‘Jackson and
Liberty’ emblem had first place on the
ballot, the Democrats also having
charge ot all the election printing.
When the official sample ballots were
published not one Republican in the
county, for some strange reason, notic
ed that Lincoln’s head in the Republi
can emblem was turned to the left in
stead of to the right, as had always
been the custom. The result was nat
urally that all the Illiterate negroes
who voted ‘in front of Lincoln’s nose’
marked their crosses to the right of
•Jackson and Liberty,’ thereby voting
the straight Democratic ticket. About
II a. m. some backwoods Republican
noticed that Lincoln’s face was turned
the wrong way and reported to th*
managers. Then there were doings.
“It was thought ait first by the Re
publicans that the whole Democratic
party had cooked up the scheme, but
it developed that It had all been ar
ranged by one man, who had made a
change in the woodcuts which were
sent to the official printer."
Site Had a Bet.
“For a week or two before the late
election," said a Detroiter the other
day, according to the Free Press, “my
wife seemed to pay more than usual
attention to politics. In fact, she sur
prised me by asking questions touch
ing on the situation, and when I tried
to find out what she was driving at
she simply put on a knowing look and
had nothing to say. The morning af
ter election I got up fully an hour
ahead of time to see the paper, as I
had a little wager on the result. I was
too late. My wife had the sheet, and
her face was fairly beaming as she
lc oked at the returns. I expressed my
astonishment at her interest, and she
replied.
"I didn’t want to say anything to
you till I saw how things came out,
but I had a bet on election.”
“You don’t mean it?” I gasped in as
tonishment.
“But I do. I had a $5 bet with Mrs.
Baker, and, oh, I’m so tickled I don’t
know what to do. It’s my first bet, you
know.”
“And was your candidate elected?" I
asked as soon as I could get ray
breath.”
“I—l guess not.”
“Was he defeated?”
“I—l think so.”
“Then what tickles you?”
“Why, he came within 9,000 of being
elected. Just think of it, Richard. If
he could have got 9,000 more votes he’d
have gone in flying and I’d had money
to burn, and none of the women*!.round
here would have dared to bet with me
again! I'll bet you that the very next
time I make a wager my candidate
won't be beaten by over 4,000!"
Told of Eugene Field.
The recent marriage of Eugene
Field’s daughter recalled to an old
school chum of Mrs. Field’s—that chum
being now the wife of a prominent
New York attorney—a hitherto unpub
lished story of the erratic Western
genius, says the New York Times.
There were visitors in prospect one
afternoon in the Field household and a
strike in the culinary department. Mis
chief was at flood tide, and Mrs. Field
was vainly endeavoring to be every
where at once, when the man of
“Sharps and Flats” appeared in the
kitchen doorway with a portfolio in his
hand.
“Oh, won't you watch those pies tor
me while I run upstairs an instant?”
his wife exclaimed. “Be sure not to let
the meringue scorch—lt would ruin
them—you’d better give me that book
or they’ll be burned to a crisp.” With
mock meekness Mr. Field allowed her
to carry off his treasure. On returning
she was horrified to find the over door
wide open and the rich, fluffy meringue
fiat, tough and leather-like.
“They're ruined!” she exclaimed in
dismay. “Why didn’t you keep the oven
door shut?”
"Keep the door shut?” Mr. Field re
peated in very genuine amazement.
"Why. you told me to watch them ev
ery instant, and I’d like to know how
1 could do that with the oven door
shut!" _
The Coining and the Going.
From the Era
I heard a mother croon to her child
A song as I wandered by,
A song that would sing the stars to
sleep
In the cradle of the sky.
188
I saw an old man close his eyes
in restful sleep-<lod send
As sweet a rest for my weary frame
When I con* to my journey’s end.
And I thought of the years that lay
tie! s eon—
< f th<- darkness and the doubt.
But God Is good— liter* Is p tuxm at the
gate.
When g soul goes It; or out
—Joan Mohr.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
—ln a notice of a recently published
biography of the eminent chemist
Schoenbein, a writer in Science says.
No one of the discoveries made by
Schoenbein made him more popularly
known than that of gun cotton, des
tined to play so Important a role in in
ternational, as well as industrial enter
prises. This dates from 1846. Its value
as a substitute for gunpowder was at
once perceived, and experiments with
fireafms -were Instituted as early as
May of the same year. It is a sad com
mentary on the unprofitableness of pure
science from the money point of view
that this prime discovery brought to
Schoenbein only SIB,OOO to $20,000, while
Alfred Nobel gained through it more
than $10,000,000.
—Prof. Eric Doolittle of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, in his recent pub
lic lecture in this city on "Double
Star Astronomy" introduced a very
clever and useful representation of the
comparative size of our solar system.
He said that if a globe two feet in di
ameter be taken to represent the sun
the earth on the same scale would be
represented by a very small pea, plac
ed in a circular path 215 fetet distant
from it. The moon would in the same
immature system be represented by a
small shot moving about the pea and
six inches from it. There would be
even other particles revolving about the
large globe, the seven otha* planets,
but these are not considered in the
model. But, and then comes the incon
ceivable magnitude of the heavens, the
nearest fixed star would be represented
by another large globe placed 8,000
miles away.
—According to the London Electrical
Engineer, Thomas Baret, of Sydney,
New South Wales, has recently ob
tained a patent for an invention by
v/hich the actual length of the time
that a telephone Is used on any occas
ion can be measured, “so that the
company may charge the subscriber
only for the actual service he has had.”
A subscriber who, in the course of a
day, should use the telephone for an
hour would pay-far that length of time,
and not the same amount as another
subscriber would pay who would per
haps use his telephone several hours
each day. The “telephone meter”
consists of a clockwork mechanism
which is quiet when the telephone is
not. in use, but which begins to move
the moment the receiver is lifted from
the hook, and so registers the length
of time the instrument is employed.
The apparatus is so arranged that the
up-and-down movement of the lever
switch winds up the clockwork. A di
al plate indicates how long the tele
phone has been in use.
—That wireless telegraphy is neither
the exclusive invention of any one in
dividual nor protected by fundamental
basic patents appears evident from a
study of the several systems used by
the different naval Powers of the
world. For instance, in the Naval An
na! it is reported that Italy, Chile and
England have adopted the Marconi
system, and are using it practically on
their war vessels. The British Admi
malty, however, has equipped JO or 12
of its vessels with the system devised
by Capt. Jackson. France has pinned
her faith on the Popoff-Ducretet ap
paratus, and has installed it on her
Mediterranean and northern squad
rons. Lieut. Tissot and M. Rochefort
are reported to have made considerable
improvements in the apparatus of this
type. Russia has also adopted M.
Popoff’s system for ship and shore
use, and has gone a step
further to experiment with
a system for infantry field
use. While successful, its utility is
counterbalanced by the excessive
weight of the apparatus. Germany
and Sweden have singled out the Slaby-
Arco system as the most efficient, re
liable and available. It is also the
cheapest. Spain is reported to be de
voting considerable attention to a sys
tem developed by Colonel Cevera ,of
the Spanish Engineers. For the Unit
ed States the investigation of the new
method of communicating intelligence
through space is in the efficient hands
of the Weather Bureau, but as yet no
report on the subject has been made
public.
—Extraordinary inconvenience has
been caused throughout European
Russia in consequence of the difficul
ties of this year’s navigation of the
Volga. At the h-aost accounts from
Astrakhan, no fewer than 15,000,000
poods of oil alone were lying in barges
In the lower reaches of the river be
tween Astrakan and Saratoff, with lit
tle hope of getting the barges even
half-way up the liver this year. Scores
of towns along the Volga, from Sara*
toff northward to Kazan, Nizhni Nov
gorod, Kostroma, Jaroslaw, and Rvbln
ski. not to mention hundreds of place®
along the banks of the river, which are
dependent to a considerable extent, on
the naphtha supplies for their prosper
ity during the coming winter and
spring, are already face to face with
serious difficulty, owing to their sup
plies of naphtha and ostatki having
given out. An additional 40.000,000 poods
of oil, principally ostatki, destined
for the higher reaches of the river, are
lying at Astrakhan, and fears are en
tertained that it will be Impossible to
get it even as far as Kazan this year.
A shortage of water in the higher
reaches of the Volga is a common oc
currence, and specially built light-draft
vessels run north of Kazan during the
whole of the navigation period of each
year, but such a deficiency as that of
this year in the lower reaches of the
river has not been known for a very
long time. For a considerable distance
north of Astrakhan vessels of moder
ate draft find it possible to run as a
rule, up to November. This year, how
ever, they have been blocked, and sev
eral cases of vessels sticking on sand
banks and breaking in two have oc
curred.
—The ancient astronomical instru
ments so unceremoniously looted by
the German troops from Pekin Observ
atory are interesting scientific relics,
says the New York Commercial. They
were constructed by Father Verblest,
one of the Jesuit missionaries who
made their way into China in the sev
enteenth century, and were erected in
a pre-existing observatory on the east
ern wall of the city in the year 1673.
They consisted of a sextant, quadrant,
azimuth, circle, armillary sphere and
revolving sidereal globe, copies of the
instruments contrived and used by Ty
cho Brahe, which did not include a
telescope. Another azimuth instrument
was added later, which differs from
the older ones in being devoid of the
profuse ornamentation of dragons and
serpents with which they were decor
ated. At the four comers of a tower on
the platform of the observatory were
stationed tour mandarins charged with
observing and recording dally the
weather, meteors and all other atmo
spheric phenomena. The new Instru
ments displaced two older ones, which
have an equally interesting history.
They were erected, according to na
tive authorities, In the year 1279 In the
reign of Kublai Khan, the grandson of
Jenghls Khan, by the astronomer Kow
Show-King, appointed by him to the
control of the waterways of the Em
pire, and later, in 1276. to revise the
existing system of chronology. Two of
the Instruments used by him were kept
In a cloeed building in the courtyard
of the observatory and special Interest
attaches u> the description of them aa
cne was an equatorial armllla show
ing that the Chinese astronomers had
anticipated invention of Tycho Brahe
'Mj years The second tn*trumen! urn
eisted of a double de- llnation drcUr on
which the degrees and minutes were
majked by pronuiieht studs of u on,
wbuh could he felt in the dark
Extraordinary Cure
A Statement Given by Thos.
C. Hall of Belleview, 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 twenty years and
have suffered untold misery. I have
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
failth. 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 placet
my case into his hands for treatment,
and to my surprise and delight in \
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 patri
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 theimselves much suffering,
besides a great deal of expense i
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 come 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 feelings in the case
THOS. C. HALL.
Bellview, Fla.. Nov. 8, 1901.
The above case is only one out of
hundreds that Dr. Hathaway is cur
ing where other doctors fail. Consult
him free at office or by mall, 25 East
Bryan street. Savanna*, Ga.
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