The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, November 25, 1901, Image 4

The Savannah morning news., November 25, 1901, Page 4, Image 4

About The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1901)

Page of 8

Prev Issue Next Issue

Text PDF JP2 (4.8 MB) Clip/Print Image

Page of 8

Prev Issue Next Issue

Return to Top

Newspaper Page Text4 j£()c IHpfwing jCctogi. Morning News Building Savannah, (ia. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1901. Registered at the Poetofflce In Savannah. TUB MORNING NEWS ia published •very day in the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, at 70 cents a month, 14,00 for sis months, and SB.OO for one year. THE MORNING NEWS, by mail, el* times a week (without Sunday Issue), three months, $1.30; six months, $3.00; one year. $6.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year. SI.OO. Subscriptions payable In advance. Re mit by money order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mall at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements end cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—etjual to one inch In depth la the standard of measurement. Contract rates snd discounts made known on application at business office. Orders for delivery of the Morning News to either residence or place of business can be made by mall or by telephone No. SlO. Any Irregularity In delivery should be immediately reported. letters and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS,” Savannah, Ga- IC ASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York City, H. C. Faulkner, Manager. Mil 10 MVi ADVERTISEMENTS* Mooting's—Stockholders Edison Elec tric Illuminating Company. Special Notices Andrew Hanley Company; Savannah Building Supply Company; Savannah Merchants, Amer icas Herald; Notice of Intention to Transfer Stock, Estate Maria H. Gam mell. Business Notices —Younger's Scotch Ale; E. & W. Laundry. Great Exposition at Charleston, S. C. —Via Plant System. Plant System—Excellent Train Serv ice Between Savannah and Brunswick. Amusements—Una Clayton and Com pany in "Little Miss Military” To-night at Theater; "A Runaway Girl" at The ater To-morrow Night. Railroad Schedule—The Southern Railway. • Kennedy's Oywterettee American Biscuit Company. Pear line—Jas. Pyle & Son, New York. MedieaJ —Hetskell’s Ointment; Cas toria; Dr. Hathaway Company; Dr. tV right’s Pills; Hoetetter's Stomach Bitters. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted: For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis cellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia to-day are fair weather, fresh west to north winds; and for Eastern Florida fair weather, colder In Interior, light south erly winds becoming variable. The new Holland submarine torpedo boat Is the wonder of all naval men. It was given a trial on Friday at Green Point, L. I. It is named the Fulton. Shipbuilder Nixon says It is “a great steel fish. In which are used all of the mechanical developments of the past few years and over whose movements a man exacts as perfect and Instant obedience to his will as if the fish had brains.” In his opinion a harbor de fended by two such boats could not be bottled up as was Santiago. There Is something like consterna tion In rich American circles tn Lon don caused by the announcement that King Edward has decreed that only British subjects may be present at the coronation ceremonies in Westminster Abbey, except in an official capacity. The Americans think there must cer tainly be some -mistake about this. They have been making elaborate prep arations to grace the occasion with their diamonds and brocades, and feel sure that the King could not desire otherwise than that the scene should he made rich and scintillating, to which 'they would contribute greatly. Oalway elected Col. Lynch to Parlia ment, in all probability,not because she was very fond of the Colonel, be cause he had shown himself to be "agin the government” by fighting in South Afrioa In the Boer army. Col. Lynch is an Australian by birth, but a Western Irishman by connection and descent. He is a newspaper man by profession. He ran for Parliament in Galway once before, but was beaten. When the war broke out in South Africa he joined the Boers and was appointed colonel In the Second Irish Regiment. He is now in Paris. It is regarded as doubtful If he will appear to take the seat to which he has been elected. Again there Is talk of the establish ing of an "American Monte Carlo.” This time the scene of the alleged pro ject is Miami, Fla Tom Costigan is at the head of the promoters of the enter prise. A tract of twenty-five acres has been purchased, and club houses and a race truck are to be commenced at once. According to the prospectus, the place Is to be ready for business in January next. However, It is well enough to wait and hear what Gov. Jennings and the other Florida author ities have to say with respect to the matter. Florida desires visitors in large numbers, but It may be doubted that she would care to offer a "Monte Oarlo” as an attraction. Judge Tlllniun of Quitman mentions sw incident which goea to show how giving publicity to the advantages and resources of Georgia advances the prosperity of the individual. He says: "The • wrier of 10,000 gr** placed the land wit It me for sale a couple of months ago at It per acre, a few Jays sta<a its cams to me to withdraw It, saying Ire had sold a part of the tract at It per act* and would not take leas Uuut lib for Use i email d**r. He m fsmsed oat that some of ins fuigtibor# had islwas* fit owned not over |<* acrsa I said to U why low the land adcam.o p pi Ice* If Is answer u FLORIDA OR ANGE GROWERS El - Florida has a crop of oranges this year that makes the orange growers of that state think the time is near at hand when the annual shipment of oranges will approximate that imme diately before the great freeze of 1895. It will be recalled that during the sea son before the freeze pretty nearly 5,- 000,000 boxes were shipped out of the state. The estimate for this season is 1,100,- 000 boxes. Next year, if nothing in terferes to injure the trees or the fruit, the crop will be very much larger. The trees that were saved from the freeze are just now coming into bearing, and every year they will have an increased yield. In the meantime new trees, mostly ' planted below what is thought to be | the frost line, are coming on rapidly, and in the course of two or three years more will be in bearing. It is a pret ty safe prediction that within six years Florida will be producing 5,000,000 boxes a year again, and. judging from the number of trees now being plant ed, it will not be more than ten years before crop will be double that number of boxes. It is estimated that the number of trees that were planted iri Florida last winter approx imated 1,000,000. And there isn't going to be any let up in tree planting. There are vast areas of land south of the frost line suitable for orange growing, and the planting of it in trees will go on steadily. There is no fear that the oranges of California, Cuba or Porto Rico will supplant those of Florida in popular favor. Indeed, there is no orange In the world that equals that of Florida. The cool weather of the late fall and winter seems to give it a coloring and flavor finer than that of any other orange. There has al ways been, and, it is safe to say. al ways will be, a greater demand for the Florida product than for that from any other section of the world. It may cost more to grow the Florida orange, but it commands a better price. NEGROES IN VILLAGES. In the November number of the Southern Workman, published at Hampton Institute, Va., there is an ar ticle on "The Housing of the Negro.” The! idea of the writer seems to be that the negro village is a sort of clearing house for the negro—that is, that negroes go from the farms to the villages, and that under the quickening influences they find there some are benefitted and seek a wider field of en deavor in the large cities while others succumb to the vices with which they come in contact and become loafers and sink Into the slums. It is a question if, of the negroes go ing from the country—that Is from the farms—to the villages, the percentage of those who improve morally, intel lectually and materially is very large. The farther the negroes are removed from the white people the less their inclination seiyns to be to Improve their condition. It is stated by observers that In this state the negroes of villages which are not in close contact with white settlements show signs of re turning to barbarism. There are negro villages not a hun dred miles from this city where the negroes are far less thrifty than they were a quarter of a century ago. Their only ambition is to get enough to eat and sufficient clothes to cover their nakedness. Their homes are only huts, although they have opportunities for becoming well-to-do farmers on a small scale. They have permitted the public roads to become mere cow paths, their houses are dropping to pieces and everything about their premises has a dilapidated appearance. Unless a change takes place it will not be many years before these village ne groes will be without homes altogether. They will be living In thg woods again, as it were, just as their ancestors In Africa did. It Is contact with the white people that holds the negroes up. Put a thousand of them on one of the sea islands and cut them oft from frequent communication with the main land and they would be savages In a couple of generations. They are lacking in am bition to Improve their condition. Here In the South there are oppor tunities Innumerable for them to be come a prosperous people. In this coun ty, for Instance, there are tens of thousands of acres of good land which they could obtain at a very low price per acre, and on easy terms, for farm - ing purposes. This city would afford them a market for much they could raise, and what they could not market here they could send elsewhere. There j are very few negro farmers In the county, however, and there is no prom ise that the number will be increased to any great extent iq. the near future. There are thousands of negroes in tills city who would rather lead a thriftless, half-starved life In town than to make an effort to better their condition In the country. The negroes are nowhere so well oft as on the farm. There they have fairly comfortable homes, wholesome food and, because of the influence of their white neighbors, are superior in every way to negroes who live in villages which are not in close communication with white settlements. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has seised a lot of the trappings of the horses of the swell sovietv folks of New York. The social swells desirs to have thetr horses appear to be spirited and fret ful animals, and to secure the required amount of nervousness they have beep subjecting the horses to the torture of the "burr bit." The burr In Its com monest form ts a small piece of leath er set with stiff bristles which is placed on the bit just Inside the horse’s mouth, pressing into the tender Dps and keeping the animal In a • oustsnt state of Irritation. Therefore the an imat (lump# throws his head about and tn appearance la "stylish" snd spirited. "feP-rnetimes," s#y# the Times, "nails end brass screws are substi tuted for Uo bristles " Mu* h t fool ish prides demand upon bwinsriKF Th sw* Its are willing to prscHu* ru •dtp Upon S helpless dumb beast and psu peltate a lake upon 'rttarn -n lew j the ask* of *pp* sj tng 'stylish " THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 25,190 T. WHICH WILL WIN! Profound Interest is felt in the threatened struggle between the com bination of Governors of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington and the great railroad combination composed of the Great Northern. Northern Pacific, Union Pa cific, Southern Pacific, and the Chi* cago, Burlington and Quincy railroads. The Governors of the foregoing states are interested in preventing a combi nation of only two of the roads in question, namely, the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific. These roads are parallel lines, and traverse the states which, it is expected, will take steps to have the railroad combina tion declared unlawful. This railroad combination is the big gest trust in the world. It represents capital amounting to $1,082,000,000 —$64,- 000,000 more than the United Steel Corporation, known as the bil lion dollar trust. It is by no means certain that the Governors can agree upon the course that ought to be pursued in fighting the railroad trust. It may be that all of their states haven’t laws pro hibiting the consolidation of parallel lines by railroads. If they haven’t, and they expect to have such laws en acted, the chances are that they will suffer defeat. The railroads are pow erful and influential and have friends in the Legislatures. The struggle to defeat this great combination of capital, the greatest the world has ever known, will attract the attention of the entire country, and it may become a factor in the question as to whether the government shall take control of interstate rail roads, to tire ~ exnnrt ar~superivsing their rates. INCREASED COST OF LIVING. In our dispatches the other day, on the authority of Dun’s Review, it was stated that the root of living had reached the highest point in the de cade, and was 7 per cent, higher than at the corresponding period of last year. It did not need the report of a commercial agency to inform house wives that the cost of filling the mar ket basket had increased considerably during the past year or two. They have found meats and potatoes espe cially to be higher than usual, and the cost of the necessaries of life generally to be higher than the aver age for some time past. Will this higher level prove only temporary? The consumer ardently hopes so; but there is nothing to be done but wait and see. This matter of the higher cost of liv ing, without a corresponding increase in the earning capacity of the consum ing masses, has direct bearing upon two very important questions relating to our national governmental policy, namely, the tariff and immigration. A defect in the tariff to which the Democratic party has continually call ed attention is the fact that it utterly ignores the consumer. It assumes that the protected manufacturer, out of the goodness of his heart and se cure in fine profits, will divide his pros perity with the man who is working for him by paying the best wages in the world. There was somb show of reason for this expectation when in dustries were under individual man agement, because of the sentimental connection between employer and em ployes. But is there any sentiment in the trust system as it exists now? There is a tariff on meats of 2 to 5 cents a pound. Who profits by it, the raisers of cattle and stock, or the great meat trust? Of pretty nearly every agricultural product that Is "protect ed” by the tariff, we raise a surplus which must be exported; does such "protection" do the producers the least bit of good ? And there are the immigration laws. While the American workingman, whose dinner pail has been a text up on which Republican sermons without number have been preached, is now paying more for his living than for many years, there is a flood of cheap labor being poured in. from Europe. The immigration last year was heavier than for a number of years; and there is pressure being brought to bear upon the government for a still freer im portation of cheap labor, upon the ex piration of the existing Chinese exclu sion law. Is there any promise of full dinner palls held out in any such prop osition? One of the most important resolu tions passed by the North Georgia Con ference of the Methodist Church last week was that ordering the money paid back that had been collected from the government for the church’s print ing house in Nashville destroyed dur ing the civil war. The amount allow ed was $228,000, and out of this a fee of $125,000 to the attorneys who man aged the claim was paid. It will be recalled that the Church was censured for the manner In which the allowance of its claim was obtained. If we are not mistaken there was a charge that there was a great real of lobbying done. Of course the Church knew nothing of this, and it seems that the conference has ordered the money paid back to the government rather than have any reflections cast upon the church. It is owing to an odd twist of for tune that P. H. Anderson of Kansas is now a millionaire, instead of a poor country school teacher. He applied for a certificate to -teach school and was turned down. Then he went to Alaska as a missionary. During his ministra tions there he discovered a gold mine worth $1,000,000. He sold out, cams back to the states, married a nice girl, gava a fortune to a school, and Is now on a tour to Europe with his bride. Except for his failure to got s teach er’s certificate he would no doubt now be drilling the "three It's” Into thick heads In Kansas. M. Kept os Dumont, who has won fame aa an aeronaut having obtained the DvuUti h |n *e for doubling the Eiffel Tower In his balloon ia now talking about rroaaiiig <h Atlantic tn that • onveysn*• He says th*- truss n a of that ocean In a balloon la only a question of multiply ntig tin • spsctry and powers of bis pi < sent airship It Is piobebie that It will be a good white bcfoie hr will IKhMm lake U‘h S P t iiwu* *M> . #*. . It was officially announced the other day that the details of the new Hav- Pauncefote treaty would not be made public until it had been presented to the Senate and that body itself re moved the obligation of secrecy; never theless the day after it was signed by the Secretary of State and the British Ambassador a New York paper print ed what purported to be the complete text of the document. And it seems that the article was really the rough draft from which the finished treaty was drawn. The State Department has started an investigation to ascer tain how the draft got out of the of fice and into the hands of the news paper, alleging that the paper was stolen, and that the theft was an of fense involving a penitentiary sen tence. The department is determined to get at the bottom of the matter and see that the offender is punished to the extent of the law. This, by the way, is but an incident illustrat ing the methods of the "yellow" jour nal, which respects no confidences and is ever ready to corrupt public or private servants in order to secure information desired. It is difficult to grasp the fact that the railroad, as we see it to-day, has been developed during the span of one man’s life time; yet such is the case. There died in St. Louis the other day an aged gentleman who assisted Stev enson in constructing the first locomo tive, and who was the engineer of the first railway locomotive in the United States. This man saw the railroad grow from a few miles of strap-track, diminutive engines and rickety coaches to the magnificent modern sys tfemwith immense engines capable of drawing a long'train of palatial coaches at the rate of a mile a min ute, and having a trackage of nearly half a million miles. The rapidity with which this evolution and devel opment has taken place is pne of the most marvelous incidents of history. At last we have official authority for the existence of the sea serpent. Henry H. Neligan, one of the regular observers of the Hydrographic office, and third officer on the steamer Irada. is the man who vouches for the ser pent. His report containing an ac count of it was received at the Hydro graphic office in Washington on Fri day. Neligan teas on his way from Galveston to Liverpool. He saw the creature, which, he says, was about 100 feet long, in the Gulf of Mexico, about 125 miles southeast from the mouth of the Mississippi river. It seems that Neligan is a temperance man, and therefore the most implicit confidence is placed in his report. As a usual thing the sea serpent is seen off Atlantic City about the time that summer boarders flock to that resort. PERSONAL. —The sole surviving officer of the Old Guard of the First Napoleon Is said to be living at Warsaw in pov erty. He is a Pole named Markiewicz, and is now 107 years old. He receives a small pension from the Russian gov ernment. —Maj. John Page, of the Confed erate army, father of Thomas Nelson Page, the novelist, died last Wednes day at Oaklands, the family home, in Hanover county, Virginia, where he was born, at the age of 80. He was a soldier through the Civil War, and from private rose to be major of ar tillery. —Thomas A. Edison Is very deal. Owing to a playful pleasantry he has invented a sort of shorthand speech, among which is his greeting to the older hands in his shop and laboratory. When he sees one of these men, “Boo!” says Mr. Edison, which has come to mean good morning, or good afternoon or good night. The laboratory men have picked up the peculiar greeting, so that when the “boss” appears In the morning he is greeted in his own shorthand speech: “800, Mr. Edlpon.” BRIGHT BITS. —lnformation ’Wanted.—Miss Rural: And were you never In the country during the season for husking bees, Mr. Sappy? Sappy: No. The Idea! How do you husk a bee, anyway?—Philadelphia Press. —Sharpe: On his birthday before their marriage she gave him a book entitled “A Perfect Gentleman." Whealton: Any change after a year of married life? Sharpe: Yes; on his last birthday she gave him a book entitled, “Wild Animals I Have Met."—Chicago News. —He Didn't Count.—Lady of the House; Bridget, didn't you tell me when you came here that you would have no male friends coming around the house, and now I find a man in tne kitchen almost every evening? Bridget: Shore, mum, thot ain’t no male friend of moine at all—he’s me husband. —Town and Country. CURRENT COMMENT. The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says: “It is to be hoped Gov. Hunt of Porto Rico does not exaggerate when he says that the people of -that Island are be coming enthusiastically American, and that an era of prosperity has set in there. The latter assertion, he says, he can prove by figures, and -the former Is likely enough, since It will be re membered that the Porto Ricans hail ed the change of their dominion from Spain to the United States with Joy, and were delighted with the prospect of annexation to this country. If we treat them right, no doubt they will become as good American# as the rest of us.” The Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) says: “While Mr. Roosevelt was Governor of New York he had a gymnasium In the executive mansion, and employed a wrestler named Michael Dwyer to as sist In the muscular training of til* children. It is said he occasionally tried to "take a fall" out of Dwyer himself. Mike Dwyer has been superseded In the Roosevelt establishment. The peo ple are looking anxiously to sse if "Ter rible Teddy" < an get a Nelson lock on Mark Hanna " The New York World <Deni ) says. "Joseph Ghambei lain seems to hsv* a •!>•" ia! gift for saying things that wrr* better Irft unsaid All Germany Is holding anti-Brfflah demons! rations be* a use of bu awkward reference to alleged severH lea by the Gel man at my during the war a Hit Frame" Tie Washington Bust find) aaye "What S hoe view admiral ('apt < lark Would brake 'I hie I# g suggestion I 'on grMrs would do well to .oiisidci And then liael r IS 4 apt 'o ah a tro Is g I*l Sc e tighter and a .tin* syuigag trf Aheresii manhood,” Why the Drum Was Silent. Here is a delicious story of war times that has an unmistakable air of fresh ness and human interest, says the Bal timore Sun: The torn and tattered remnant of a Confederate regiment one day toward the close of the war was lined up by its colonel and told that the command ing general was to pay a "visit of in spection" on the following day. The soldiers were admonished to "do their prettiest.” "Just brace up as though your clothes were brand new uniforms and as though you had the best on earth to eat and plenty of it. We haven't any bugles left, but Smith there has got a drum, and it’s a plumb fine one—big an a barrel. Now, Smith, when I give you the word to-morrow you let her go for all she’s worth.” Thus spoke the colonel. The next day came the general to “inspect” the poor half-starved fight ers, and as he appeared in the distance the colonel gave the order to “line up.” As the commanding officer drew near, the colonel shouted: “Now, Smith, let her go!” and turned to salute the gen eral. But not a note came from the big barrel drum. The colonel, red in the face, turned toward the drummer and again shout ed his order for "music.” But still the drum remained as mute as the harp of Tara Hall fame. Infuriated at this open disobedience of orders and in the presence of his commanding officer, too, the colonel rode down the line, and as he reached the refractory drummer, cried out; “Say, Smith, what in and do you mean by not beating that blanke ty- blank drum?” “X can't, colonel,” whispered Smith. "The old drum is full of chickens, and half of 'em are for you.” The colonel paused but a moment before he shouted so that the general and the soldiers might hear: "All right, Smith, but if you were too sick to play Hie —drum, why in and didn't you say so?” Promised to Keep It Secret. Judge Jerome early in his famous whirlwind campaign of last month against Tammany showed that he had little patience with the so-called po litical "striker.” He sized these fel lows up pretty quickly, whether they offered him the support of "fake” newspapers on condition that he should order a few thousand copies or wheth er they asked him for a simple loan, which was virtually a gift. Some who dreaded the judge’s keen eye too much to approach him in person, put their requests into begging letters. It is said by th New' York Tribune that one man wrote reminding Judge Jerome of college days spent together, con fessing that since leaving college he had wasted his life and ending up with an appeal for a gift of $5, protesting that only a dire stroke of ill fortune could have driven him to such degra dation as to beg. He closed the letter. It is said, something like this: “1 am overwhelmed with shame as, in my mind's eye, I see you reading these words." The judge, who recognized the dead beat under the whiner’s cloak, and who also has a keen sense of humor, wrote back, so it is related: “Don’t let your shame entirely over whelm you. I have spared your blushes by not reading your letter, and have ordered my secretary not to say anything to me about it.” Still He Doubted. An old German was on his death bed, says Lippincott’s. In his earliest years he had led a wild life, but since the death of Schneider, one of his boon companions, he had reformed and giten up his bad habits. This Schneider in his day had been a mighty drinker, famous for his capacity and his ca rouses. The priest was ministering to the dying man, consoling him with visions of the paradise he would soon enter telling him that he would meet there his old friends and what a joy it would be to see them all again. The dying man asked feebly; “Will Schneider be there, your reverence?” Thinking to give him pleasure, the priest replied: "Yes, Schneider will be there.” Ach, said the other, “dot is very bad! “All dose dringings and eadings and fighdings all over again; all dot beer and whisky.” "But there will be no drinking in heaven,” said the priest. "But you said Schneider w'ould be there.” "So he will," was the priest’s re ply. And there won't be no dringings, you dink? Ach, you don’t know Schnei der.” Hard W'ny of Hardening. Theophilus Kent is a small mortal, scant of shank and narrow of shoul der; his ambition is by far the most robust feature of his make-up, says the Albany Journal. In spite of his spare physique, which reminds one of a thin bantam which had been pluck ed, Kent wanders about in summer jeans and without an overcoat in the early morn to toughen his constitu tion. He wandered one day; he wan dered two; the third he received a chill which was so attentive that several portions of "Hunter” merely tempor arily checked it. Kent consulted a physician, and while his teeth ground their edges off, chattered but not chat ted of his ailment to the man of medi cine. • "I wan-w-want,” said Kent, “I w want-t-to-to-g-get-hardened." The doctor eyed him. “You are like a cake of ice now-, my friend. If you want good health, consult a tailor Three-fifty, please, and take these once an hour.” He extended a box of licorice tablets and held out a huge hand for his fee. A brilliant Clerk. A certain hardware store in this city recently employed as a clerk a genuine 18-karat genius, says the Sy racuse Herald. They did not know it at the time, but they are firmly con vinced of it now. A few days ago a country customer came in to buy some powder to use on a hunting trip. The new man wait ed on him. and, not being thoroughly "on to the ropes," gave him blasting powder by mistake. The next day the purchaser brought back the lumpy blasting powder to ex change for what he originally asked for. Here is where the new clerk's genius displayed itself. Instead of tak ing back the blasting powder on th* spot he tried to argue the country customer into buying a coffee grinder, with which the blasting powder might be ground to the requisite fineness had to relaU he failed, but he mad* a great bit with bis employers never theless. _ < blid'e Idea of Beerrlerr l.ug. A true story that emuaes Mi* friends of Kecrefary Isung and 'apf fait) Judge Advocate General of the navy canoamd liuie if isa le-mly, who regards bar father a# about the btggest man In the country, ae>s the Washing Cud cor - i eepolidarce of tile Ptikadelptlla H* ■ ■ lice srusuol teacher, in a talk to *■- scholar* on * uffro even* I *, resed if arrytme *ou!4 tell who u hr, i *rac y wf Idle h’uV'l Mule Mtae l#c mil 's hand was r ale**d at on- * Ihr he* i utas | of the hs*| " aha ' w, and Is a Utah who work* In a*| fa thu e ofih#' 1 ITEMS OF INTEREST. King Edward of England wears a No. 7 hat, while the German Emoeror is fitted with a 6% and the Duke of Cornwall a 6%. —English papers report a serio-comic incident which occurred at Shakes peare’s Church, Stratford-on-Avon .on a recent Sunday. Upon the conclu sion of morning service nearly 100 vis itors, principally Americans, proceeded to the chancel to inspect the tomb of the poet. Shortly after were Joined by the vicar, the Rev. G. Ar buthnot, who, displaying a small American coin, expressed the pain and annoyance he felt at finding several similar coins included in the morning's offertory. They represented, he said, the smallest possible value in Ameri ca, and were utterly worthless In Eng land. He concluded by offering to re store the coins to their contributors, but, strange to relate, none of the vis itors seemed anxious to claim them. —Prairie dogs are becoming an un mitigated pest in the West, and their extermination is ardently desired, but difficult of accomplishment, says the Springfield Republican. Prof. Lantz of the Kansas State Agricultural College, In a communication to Gov. Stanley, says that the prairie fiogs are destroy ing the ranges in Western Kansas and Nebraska and Eastern Colorado, cattle preferring to go without grass to eat ing that which has been run over by the dogs. In Kansas alone the prairie dogs occupy a million and a quarter acres. Prof. Lantz, who had charge of the expenditure of $5,000 appropriat ed by the last Kansas Legislature to be used in finding some means to kill off the pests, has experimented with poisons for six months, but as yet has failed to find any that is successful. —Minister Pow r ell whites from Port au Prince to call the attention of United States manufacturers of chemical fire engines to the market in Hayti. He says: In this capital, as well as in all of the principal cities of the Republic, the houses are chiefly constructed of wood, which in this climate soon be comes like tinder, needing but a match to start a large and destructive con flagration, that sometimes sw'eeps half the city before the flames are mas tered. The cities have some good en gines, but on account of the limited supply of water, they are practically useless. The loss from fire is so great —ranging from $50,000 to SIOO,OO0 —that insurance companies have refused to accept risks anywhere in the republic. I will be glad to aid our manufactur ers in any w'ay by calling the atten tion of the government to the benefits to be derived from chemical fire en gines. > —The Interesting and important fact is imparted to us by the Philadelphia newspapers, says the Pittsburg Dis patch, that the Bethlehem hornets are building their nests in that gauzy, tis sue-paper style which predicts an open winter. We call the fact important because by the rule of construction ex perienced last winter this sign if cor roborated by the other prophetic nat ural phenomena permits a safe conclu sion by the rule of contraries. Last winter the hornets’ nests, goose bones, muskrats' holes and so on all agreed that the winter was to be severe and shut In by snow drifts. Yet it had less snow’ and less zero weather than any winter for years. Now if the Bethlehem hornets are corroborated by the Berks county goose bone and the Connecticut river muskrats to the ef fect that it is going to be an open Win ter the people will be on the safe side by getting their ulsters ready and lay ing in an extra stock of coal. —An Interesting jubilee has been re cently held in Vienna by the Armenian Mechitar congregation to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of their foundation by the Abbot Mechitar. Their wanderings before they settled in Vienna were manifold. The abbot first established himself with his fol lowers in Constantinople, where he printed religious works. After two years he removed to the Morea, but as, eleven years later, war broke out between the Turks and the Venetian Republic, he took refuse at Venice. Hearing that a flourishing Armenian colony had established itself at Am sterdam, he removed with his scholars to that place, w’here he published the entire Bible in the Armenian language. He died in 1749 at the age of 74. After his death a part of the congregation removed to Trieste, whence they were driven by Napoleon, who regarded them as Austrians. They fled to Vi enna, where Francis I bestowed upon them an ancient monastery. In 1837 they rebuilt it, and are now engaged In decorating and restoring their church. —A Berlin cable says: To teach the masses how to fight tuberculosis, which annually kills 100,000 Germans, the Imperial Department of Health is circulating millions of leaflets explain ing the best methods of prevention. The Imperial authorities lay the usual stress on the advisability of boiling meat and sterilizing milk. They as sert that the surest safeguard against tuberculosis consists in strengthening the body and making it germ proof by the use of substantial food and absti nence from Intoxicating liquors. Ath letic exercises are named as Invalua ble, football and bicycling being espe cially recommended. Women are warned to cast aside tight corsets and belts and dresses with trains. All per sons are advised to go to bed earlv, and to use the best apartments in the house for bedrooms, which should be cold. Beer, strong tea, coffee and in veterate smoking are tabooed. Kissing Is declared a pernicious habit. A smoke-laden atmosphere is named named among the conditions which foster bacteria. According to the report of the com missioners of fisheries, game, and for ests of the state of New York, lob sters grow very slowly, and when eat ing lobster we are consuming the pro duction of several years of develop ment. says the Spectator. From two inches to three Inches is the maximum growth of the first year. In two years this has Increased to five Inches or sev en inches if food Is plentiful. At the end of five years the lobster may be ten Inches long. It is also fairly cer tain that the female lobster only lays eggs once in two years, because It moults in the alternate years, and has no spare energy left for reproduction. In lobster-catching circles there Is con siderable doubt as to the age to which the creatures may possibly live. There* seems no particular reason why a lob ster rhould ever die of old age, though it often finds it difficult to escape its enemy, the Urge cuttlefish, which crushes and eats it wherever It may be, even in Its own hols In the rocks. Hut there is no doubt that they do die of old age, because they have been found In artlcuio mortis apparently for no other reason. It Is well known that sea animals often tome to the shore when lit or dying Not long ago a very Urge a*cl very old iohater was found in • shallow pool off the |,in< oinshirw coast, evidently dying of general de <ay ft was covered with aaa shells and parasites, and was blind and vary fas hi- The Ist* of Wight flsheimen aay that when mature a lobster * sg may b* guessed from its weight he. it half pound represents year Perhaps the hugest Igle of W tffii' lobster was arte of • gh' pound* • si'gpt under lbs steps of the Needle# l,,gt ihouse This would raptessnt an sg‘ ol alstasu /*<# The l**rg*-es iohai* t yet rs*otb 0 as laharr to the f mted Ptststg wegiirstd dl pounds 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 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 fadth. 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 plaeea 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 could avail themselves of the skill of Dr. Hathaway that they would save themselves much suffering, besides a great deal of expense. { 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 mail, 26 East Bryan street. Savannah. Ga. BMlsloodv ' ! h ’ mun’sCirsat Remedy carts •is 'A M poison* primary and *eoondarr CsvlGiV Ml P. P. P Cures Rhea fJ \. ISCI mutism, Scrofula, weak nerve*, / A debility, malaria, pains in tha W/tfr / Wv -J back and kidnay*. if/EL P P. P. is the best M IWrm general tonic in the world. Cure* Hi /// /r 11 Dyspopnia and indigaotion, which nV j I* 1j is simply a disorder of the stomach ftA -\ P. P. P, Cures female SyjnM /j JjS irreg ularities. Purify your blood fCTuI MX v£//i and disease will vanish Tap the jtr,l j y77 Ilk root of tha disease by using J Llppman’s Great Remedy Ja thus purifying your blood, and \S £23 th# causo •• removed ; and tha TYS/ cure is prompt and permanent P P P. is the greatest 'r blood purifier in the world, and J the best tome known, ao sure, so certain and so prompt fi /(I® flCEttJa P. P. P For Health is v tha saying of thousands. 1 fH> LIPPMAN BROS.^Drugglsti, Lippmsn’s Blk,Savannah , Ga. Heiskell’s Ointment Heeds the Skin. Provo it on a stubborn case of pimples, eczema tetter, erysipelas, ulcere, or any eruption The cure its permanent. 60 cents a box, at druggist* or by mail, postpaid. Back up its good work with Heiskeirs Medicated Soap. 25 cents. JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY A CO., 681 Commerce 6L, Philadelphia. I “Inured tetter of 15 gears' standing with youf Ointment, in four weeks."—W. F. Herndon, Klmendorf. Bexar Cos., lex. 16,000 Awarded at Paris / Qulna \ LAROCHE 1 WINE CORDIAL I \\ Hlchest recommendations for cure of Poorness / \ or Blood. Stomach troubles and General De- y V blllty. Increases the appetite, strengthens y \ the nerves and builds up the entire system, j \ *9 rue Drouot / V PARIS / \v 15. Fowgera A Cos. K.Y. Southern Pacific Cos. Union Pacific Cos. ORECON SHORT LINE. To all points in Texas, Indian and Oklahoma Territories, Kansas, Ne braska, Wyoming, Colorado and all points west of.the Rocky Mountains, also Mexico and trans-Paciflc points by fastest trains and steamers. Un surpassed accommodations at lowest rates. For further particulars address C. W. Murphey, Traveling Passenger Agent, 10 N. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. Send 10 cents In stamps for copy So. Pa^RlceßookjContalnlngWOrecelpts. Brennan & Go., —WHOI JadAI.B— Fruit, Produce, Grain, etc., IB BAT OTREKT. WEST, lslspboos ut JOHN G. BUTLER. -ptr.Abfc.lt r;t— Ptslnu. Ohs and Glass. Sash. Das**. blinds sad bunders' Supplies, FlalS sad IrsesowUvs Walt f -per, Forslgs andi Da* as sail* t’smsats, Usw Plaster sad Malr. gals 4gsi far Attest me Osid Watm PaMH. ■ Cangress siisrt, srs*l. aad I* Nb It*** street west J.l). Wl£KI)&Ca hats Mitktii Utltt M COlT’t PATENT FIREARMS.