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DUBLIN’S SWEEPING LAW.
sainnnah I>rusjjist' Opinions of
It.
An ordinance passed several days
ago by the City Council of Dublin, re
stricting the sale of patent medicines
or tonics containing alcohol, caused
some comment among the druggists
and others here. The Dublin alder
men have given the driiggists notice
that after Jan. 1, the sales of patent
medicines of any kind or drugs, which
If drank to excess will produce in
toxication, is prohibited.
Savannah druggists say that while
the ordinance covers all patent medi
cines, It was passed to cover an en
tirely different condition of affairs. It
is a game In dry 90unties for drug
stores to dish out tonics that are al
most entirely alcohol. This Is looked
upon as an easy way to evade the
liquor law, and the thirsty man in a
dry county that can boast of a drug
-tore has no trouble in getting what
he wants usually. It is claimed by
Dublin’s Council that three-fourths of
the drunks arrrested in that city be
ome intoxicated by drinking so-called
tonics.
Health Officer W. F. Brunner read
the notice in the Morning News of the
action of the Dublin aldermen with in
terest. Dr. Brunner stated that
white the ordinance was probably
passed in order to stop the sale of alco
hol under another name it in reality
covers quite a number of patent ton
ics. Dr. Brunner has observed that
quite.a number of these tonics of one
sort or another contain a per cent, of
alcohol, and says that if enough of
the stuff is taken intoxication could be
produced. In the legitimate tonics
however, the per cent, of alcohol is
small as compared with those specially
fixed up for dry counties and prohibi
tion states. Under the Dublin ordi
nance, however, those tonics contain
ing alcohol are prohibited and the re
sult promises to be interesting.
THE AFRICAN METHODISTS.
Georgia Conference Will Meet lu
Brunswick This Week.
To-day is the last Sunday of the con
ference year in the African Methodist
Episcopal Church. The Georgia Con
ference will convene at Brunswick next
Wednesday. Bishop H. M. Turner will
preside. There are seven or eight A.
M. E. churches in Savannah and the
pastors will submit to-day the reports
of their year’s work. Rev. C. C. Cargile
of St. Phillips will report a very sat
isfactory increase in membership of
his church and also in the condition
of the church’s finances. The other
churches will also make satisfactory
reports. The pastors and delegates to
the conference will leave for Bruns
wick Tuesday. It is expected there will
be a number of changes in pastors for
the coming year.
RESIGNED F ROM RAILROAD.
J. Ralston Cargill to Enter Manu
facturing Business.
Mr. J. Ralston Cargill, for twelve
years connected with the Central of
Georgia, for the last five and a half
\ oars as storekeeper, has tendered his
resignation to take effect Jan. 1. His
successor has not yet been appointed.
Mr. Cargill leaves the railroad to en
ter the manufacturing business, having
with Mr. J. T. Pearce and other gen
tlemen formed the Pearce-Cargill Cos,,
with a capital stock cf $50,000 for the
manufacture of candy, the reboiling
and refining of syrup, etc.
CITY BREVITIES.
The Central Railroad is distributing
calendars for 1902.
Mr. F. C. Stone of the Standard Oil
Company, left last night for Atlanta.
Fdvvorth Wilson, colored, was ar
rested yesterday by Detective Murphy
on a charge of burglary.
Heflry Williams, colored, was arrest
ed yesterday by Patrolman Jernigm for
the larceny of a dress from Ella Watts.
Misses May and Clara Cole of St.
Louis, Mo., will spend the winter at
♦ heir brother's suburban home, Oak
View.
The International Association of
Machinists will give its annual enter
ts.lr.ment and ball at Odd Fellows’ Hall
Tuesday night.
The police have been unable to leani
anything of W. W. Williams, the col
lector who disappeared from his home
on the East Side about two weeks ago.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
will have a meeting in Confederate
Hall to-morrow afternoon, to make ar
rangements for the ball that they will
give New Year's eve.
The Bulletin, journal published in
Nashville in the interests of Hoo-Hoo,
in its last issue, notices at length the
recent concatenation held in Savan
nah, Nov. 12, by Vicegerent George V.
Denny.
There will be a meeting of the King's
Daughters in the Sunday-school room
of the Independent Presbyterian
♦ 'hurch to-morrow afternoon at 4
o'clock. Nominations for officers for
the ensuing year will be made. .
In the Court of Ordinary yesterday
William C. Fripp, county administra
tor, was appointed administrator and
granted temporary letters of admin
istration upon the estate of Joseph
Seabrook, late of Chatham county.
Supt. Maguire of the fire department
says that with no bad luck he will
have about S3OO of this year's appro
priation left over. The surplus of 6
cents mentioned, the supe -intendent
says, refers to the special appropriation
for No. 6 fire station.
A negro who gave his name as Step
ney Barnard, and claiming to be from
' Charleston, was arresetd at an early
hour this morning by Patrolman God
bold on a charge of highway robbery.
Another negro is the complainant and
the crime is alleged to have been com
mitted near Liberty and Wh,taker
streets. The prisoner pretended to
be drunk when arrested.
A delegation of colored ministers
called on Mayor Myers at the City Ex
change yesterday to ask the city for
an appropriation for the Chatity Hos
pital,, In the southwestern section of
the city. Mr. Myers received the com
m'ttee pleasantly, and advised them
that to put their cialm through the
proper channel they would have to
address a petition to Council.
The St. Andrew's Society has lost
one of its relics. The gavel which had
been the president's symbol of author
ity for over half a century, and which
"as brought from Scotland, was used
b' President McAlpin at the society’s
recent 151st anniversary dinner. Dur
ing or after the dinner it was mis
placed and the president and stewards
°f the society have been unable to get
any trace of it.
Irving Ail.ludwrd Insane.
Monroe A. Irving was adjudged in
sane by a Jury from the Court of Or
dinary yesterday. A lunacy warrant
had been sworn out against Irving by
one of hie relatives and the evidence
showed that he had been guilty of va
rious offenses sufficient .to indicate
that he was not in possession of hie
right senses. The verdict of the Jury
fallowed as a matter of course. „ _
FRED H. ELLIS’ PROMOTION.
Made General Baggnge Agent of
Burlington Railroad System.
Mr. Fred H. Ellis, formerly of this
city, has been appointed general bag
gage agent of the Burlington system
comprising the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad, Hannibal and
St. Joseph Railroad, Kansas City, St.
Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad,
St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern
Railroad, and Chicago, Burlington and
Kansas City Railroad. The circulars
announcing the appointment have re
ceived in Savannah.
The position is one of great responsi
bility and one of the best in the sys
tem. Mr. Ellis left Savannah about
eight years ago and most of the time
sihee then he has been connected with
the Burlington system. Just prior to
leaving Savannah Mr. Ellis was con
nected with the city department of the
Morning News and did excellent work.
His friends here will be glad to know
of his success in the railroad world.
IN POLICE COURT.
Only Three Prisoners Were Before
Recorder Myrlck.
Yesterday’s session of Police Court
was brief and Recorder Myrick *went
through the docket in short order.
Only three arrests had been made by
the police and the case against one
of the prisoners was continued.
Detective Wail asked for a post
ponement in the case against Willie
Davis, a negro charged with larceny.
Davis, w r ho is a well versed thief, ac
cord to the detectives, is charged with
the larceny of a pair of bicycle pedals
from the store of Wm. & H. 11. Latti
more. Davis was arresetd opposite
police headquarters after a lively
chase.
Willie Pollard, a negro charged
with throwing rocks in the street, was
fined $5 or ten days.
Fred Jones, a white man charged
with being drunk and cursing in the
street, was fined $lO or thirty days.
LAY IN SNOW FOR HOURS.
Sad Accident to Aged Lady at
Athens.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 7.—Mrs. W. A.
England, an old lady living just be
yond the city limits of Athens, was
the victim of a serious accident yes
terday. She had been to see her daugh
ter and was returning home through
the woods, when she slipped in the
snow and fell to the ground, breaking
one of her arms and lacerating her
face badly upon' a rock. In addition
to these injuries, she was badly bruis
ed; and, being an old woman, the
shock was great. She was unable to
regain her feet, and laid in the snow
for several hours in the extremely in
clement weather before any one passed
along the road. When found she was
unconscious. She was taken to a
house near by and is now in a pre
carious condition.
VISITED NAVAL STATION SITE.
Navy Officers Commend Selection at
Charleston.
Charleston, Dec. 7.—Capt. Brownson,
Capt. Manney, and the other officers
of the warships Alabama and Massa
chusettes and the training ship Lan
caster, visited the site of the naval sta
tion on Cooper river to-day. They ipn
mediately recognized its many advant
ages and warmly commended the se
lection of so admirable a site. They
were afterwards entertained at the
Charleston Country Club, formerly the
colonial home of the family of Admi
ral Shubrick.
The warships Alabama and Massa
chusetts sail for Havana to-morrow
morning.
Funeral of F. Itnokh.
The funeral of the late F. Ruekh will
take place from the First Presbyterian
Churcch at 3 o’clock this afternoon.
The services will be conducted by Rev.
W. C. Schaeffer of the Lutheran
Church of the Ascension, assisted by
Rev. W. P. McCorkle.
—Difference. —“They differ as to re
ligion.” “Why, I didn’t suppose that
either of them cared a rap about re
ligion!” "Well, they didn't until they
found out that they differed as to it!”
—Life.
FEW PEOPLE REALIZE
Tbe Danger In That Common Dis
ease. Catarrh.
Because catarrhal diseases are so
common and because catarrh is not
rapidly fatal, people too often over
look and neglect lt until some incura
ble ailment develops as a result of the
neglect.
The inflamed condition of the mem
brane of the nose and throat makes a
fertile soil for the germs of Pneumonia
and Consumption, in fact catarhal
pneumonia and catarrhal consumption
are the most common forms of these
dreaded diseases which annually cause
more than one quarter of the deaths
in this country.
Remedies for catarrh are almost as
numerous as catarrh sufferers but very
few have any actual merit as a cure,
the only good derived being simply a
temporary relief.
There is, however, a very effective
remedy reeenty discovered which is
rapidly becoming famous for its great
value in relieveing and permanently
curing all forms of catarrhal diseases,
whether located inu the head, throat,
lungs or stomach.
This new catarrh cure is principally
composed of a gum delved from the
Eucoiyptus tree, and this gum pos
sesses extraordinary healing and anti
septic properties. It is takefi Internally
in the form of a lozenge or tablet,
pleasant to the taste and so harmless
that little children take them with
safety and benefit,
Eucoiyptus oil and the bark are
sometimes used, but are not so conven
ient nor so palatable as the gum.
Undoubtedly the best quality is found
in Stuart's Catarrh Tablets which may
be found in any drug store and any
catarrh sufferer who has tried douches,
inhalers and liquid medicines, will be
surprised at the rapid improvement
after a fosv days use of Stuart's Ca
tarrh Tablets which are composed of
the gum of the Eucoiyptus tree, com
bined with other antiseptics which de
stroy the germs of catarrh in the blood
and expel the catarrhal poison from
the system.
Dr. Ramsdell In speaking of Catarrh
and Its cure says: "After many ex
periments I have given up the Idea
of curing catarrh by the use of In
halers, washes, salves or liquid medi
cines. T have always had the best re
sults from Stuart's Catarrh Tablets;
the red gum and other valuable anti
septics contain* and in these tablets make
them, in my opinion, far superior to
any of the numerous catarrh remedies
so extensively advertised. The fact that
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets are sold In
drug stores, under protection of a
trademark, should not prejudice con
scientious physicians against them be
cause their undoubted merit and harm
less character make them a remedy
which every catarrh sufferer may use
with perfect safety and the prospect of
a permanent cure.
For cold* in the head, for coughs, ca
tarrhal deafness and catarrh of the
stomach and liver, people who have
tried them say that Stuart's Catarrh
Tablets are a household necessity,
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1901.
THE WEATHER.
Morning News thermometer at
11 p. m 42
Morning News barometer at 11
p. m 30.16
Forecast for Sunday and Monday;
Georgia and South Carolina: Fair
Sunday, except rain in western portion;
warmer. Monday, rain and colder;
light variable winds, becoming fresh
southeasterly.
Eastern Florida: Fair, except rain
Sunday in northwest portion. Monday,
rain and colder; fresh northeasterly
winds, becoming northwesterly Monday
afternoon.
Western Florida: Rain Sunday and
probably Monday; colder Monday;
fresh southeasterly winds, becoming
northwesterly.
Yesterday's Weather at Savannah—
Maximum temperature 3 p.
m 53 degrees
Minimum temperature 8 a.
m 32 degrees
Mean temperature 42 degrees
Normal temperature 53 degrees
Deficiency of temperature.. 11 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Dec. 1 13 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. 1 421 degrees
Rainfall .*OO inch
Normal 10 inch
Deficiency since Deo. 1 ,34 inch
Deficiency since Jan. 1 ....13.24 inches
River Report—The bight of the Sa
vannah river at Augusta at 8 a. m.
(75th meridian time) yesterday was 8.8
feet, a fall of 0.5 foot during the pre
ceding twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same mo
ment of time, Dec. 7, 1901, 8 p. m., 75th
meridian time:
Name of Station. | T. | V. | R.
Norfolk, clear 36 8 .00
Hatteras, clear 42 14 .00
Wilmington, clear . 40 Lt -tOO
Charlotte, Tlear 38 Lt .00
Raleigh, clear 38 Lt .00
Charleston, clear 46 8 | .00
Atlanta, clear 42 12 .00
Augusta, clear ,42 Lt .00
Savannah, clear 46 Lt ' .00
Jacksonville, clear 50 Lt ! .00
Jupiter, pt. cloudy 68 14 .00
Key West, clear 68 14 .00
Tampa, clear 62 6 .00
Mobile, cloudy 56 Lt .00
Montgomery, clear 48 6 .00
New Orleans, cloudy 58 8 .00
Galveston, clear 66 12 .00
Corpus Christi, cloudy .... 72 14 .00
Palestine, clear 70 12 .00
H. B. Boyer,
Local Forecast Official.
RETURN THE MONEY.
(Continued from First Page.)
Appropriations were made to several
colleges and schools.
Every report showed a wonderful
increase.
The reports of the pastors of the
Mcßae, Waycross, Dublin and Val
dosta districts were received, and after
being read Bishop Galloway passed
their characters. These four reports
completed the reports of the preachers,
which have been called during each
morning’s session.
When Bishop Galloway asked where
the thirty-sixth annual conference
would be held, there was a stir among
the delegates, as each was anxious to
nominate his place first.
Meet Siext nt Thomasville.
The following cities were announced:
Swainsboro. Waynesboro, Columbus,
Waycross, Brunswick, Thomasville and
Moultrie. On the first ballot the vote
was as follows: Thomasville, 44; Co
lumbus, 35; Moultrie, 10; Brunswick,
7: Waycross, 4, Waynesboro, 31, and
Swainsbdro, 1. As neither city receiv
ed a sufficient number of votes, an
other ballot was taken. Waycross,
Brunswick and Swainsboro withdrew,
and Thomasville was chosen by a
vote of 65 over Columbus, which re
ceived a vote of 42.
Dr. J. L. White, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Macon, Rev. Mr.
Morris of the North Georgia Confer
ence, Dr. J. W. Heidt, associate edi
tor and business manager of the Wes
leyan Christian Advocate; Mrs. J. C.
Hinton, secretary of the Woman’s
Home Mission Society of Macon, and
Mrs. J. B. Cobb, state secretary of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society,
were introduced to the members of
the conference.
The Women Missionaries.
Mrs. J. B. Cobb made a very able ad
dress before the conference on the
great good that is being done by the
ladies of Georgia in foreign countries
Miss Mary Knowles of Macon, Miss
White of Macon and Miss Carson of
Savannah are doing great work as mis
sionaries in China, where they have
spent the past two years teaching
Christianity to the heathen. The wo
men of the South Georgia Conference
support all of the missionaries and
have raised this year for that purpose
$4,500. Mrs. White is from tbe South
Macon district, and is supported by
that district. Miss Knowles is from
the First Street Methodist Church of
Macon, and is supported by that
church. The Savannah churches should
support Miss Carson, who is from that
city. Mr. J. G. Harrison of Macon is
now engaged in raising a sufficient sum
to send an organ to China, which has
been donated to foreign missions. The
progress that has been made during
the last decade of years in foreign
missions is wonderful. There has been
in China alone 81,000 converts.
After Mrs. Cobb concluded her ad
dress Rev. Mr. McGehee introduced a
resolution pledging the Woman's For
eign Missionary Society the support of
the conference. The resolution was
adopted.
Assessinenls for Kdneatioi).
An assessment of $5,000 for educa
tion, apportioned as follows, was re
commended: To Emory College $1,200;
to Wesleyan College, $1,200: Andrew
Female College $800; South Georgia
College, $800; Paine Institute, $500; con
ference board S6O; general board, $440.
The presiding Bishop was requested to
appoint Dr. C. E. Dowman president
of Emory College, Rev. Homer Bush
president of Andrew Female College
and Rev. Homer M. Woodward pres
ident of Nannie Lou Warthen Insti
tute. The conference subscribed $2,105
to Emory College.
The report of the secretary of Sun
day-schools in the South Georgia con
ference Is as follows: Number of
schools, 573; Increase, 12. Numbr of pu
pils. 31,921; increase. 992. Officers and
teachers, 3,072; Increase 37. Collections
in Sunday-school, $8,101.85; increase
$1,274.32. Collections for missions in
Sunday-school. $3,485.45; children's day
collection, $263.26; for other purposes,
$2,445.94; total collected In Sunday
schools for the year $13,847.09.
The Epworth League report showed a
big Increase In membership ahd money
raised for various purposes.
■ LUGEOXS’ MASKS.
A X'ew Method of Protecting Wounds
From Infection.
From the Baltimore American.
Several tests of what is known as
the surgeon's mask, an article Intended
to give fredom from the dangrer of
wound infection, have rectntly taken
place abroad, and the results are said
to have been most gratifying. As far
a known, these masks have not a*
yet been used In this city or even on
this side of the Atlantic, but If the
mask provldee as much additional pro
tsctlon to a subject as is claimed, it
A Familiar Song
>~Ty To Our Swell Savannah dressers has our Clothing
HL Refrain become, so much so that in view of topics in
yfimM a lighter vein, below, we will content ourselves with
feA I |1 the reminder that we alone offer in this city the ab
mmm solutely perfect accomplishments of the mostaccom
||H plished Men’s Manufacturing Tailors in the world .
pi t Business and Dress Suits.
11 Dress and Business Overcoats
'* “Price” alone does not constitute Leadership. “Qual
ity” and “Pleased Customers” are the real keys to pocket friendship ....
The Holiday Season II
Not only brings thoughts of others, hot also re- jjf
minds ns that we may spend a little specially ®
good treatment on ourselves--little necessaries, little luxuries.
It also affords US the opportunity of emphasising the bright
ness, cheerfulness and comfortableness of our seasonable
selections.
*STIITTGARTER PURE WOOL UNDERWEAR.
Union Suits, Night Shirts, all Weights.
KNEE WARMERS AND ABDOMINAL BANDS.
Millers, Etc. Bath Robes,
- \ 1 S/lk Suspenders
Opera Hats. Silk Hats. 1 lov , es ’ n
Complete assortment of White and Nat- Tettle-Downand
urarMerino UNDERWEAR 25c. to Outing
The Best Fleece Underwear, FLANNEL NIGHT SHIRTS,
Both Silk and Cotton. . NICE PATTERNS.
Hardifold Hygiene Underwear. Holiday Neckwear .
(Patented) wont shrink. Manhattan Shirts .
Fine selections in all silk underwear. Fine Handkerchiefs .
B. H. LEVY & BRO.
will undoubtedly soon play an import
ant part in every operation.
In the general move for perfection in
antiseptics, in which such great steps
have besn taken in the last ten or fif
teen years, the danger of causing infec
tion during an operation has been
greatly minimized. To those who have
studied the subject carefully a promi
nent obstacle to this (end has been the
danger from the breath of the surgeon
and his assistant. In the hospitals of
Bultiniore, as elsewhere, the instru
ments usjd are carefully washed in an
tiseptic solutions, and the gowns worn
by the surgeon, his assistants and the
students present are all sterilized, but
in spite of these and other precautions
Infection does figure to quite a large
extent.
The new mask now being experiment
ed with in Europe is of fine gauze.
It tightly covers the mouth and nose
and hampers in no way the sight, the
hearing, or even berfeet breathing. The
gauze is merely intended to prevent the
spread of gern.s and consequent wound
poisoning. Some time ago many sur
geons came to the conclusion that
beards were fruitful sources of Infec
tion, and many now shave closely or
trim thetr heards quite short, and, in
addition. Lake pains to dlsinlfect them
before entering the operating arena.
In regard to the breath. It has been
* laimed that the presence of many stu
dents in an operating room adds to th
danger. Movements along this line may
yet end In curtailing the number of stu
dents and spectators In clinics. In the
North the placing of the students be
hind a plate glass partition has been
tried, and is said to have been benefic
ial.
In the experiments in Europe In con
nection with the gauze mask, tests
were made to determine the effect of
sneezing, coughing or talking while
stooping over a patient. Trays con
taining glycerine-agar, covering an
area usually exposed in a serious oper
ation, were placed ilpon the table. The
surgeon and his attendants then leaned
over this, exactly as they would when
at work on a patient, and the sneeze,
the cough and the ordinary breath were
given above the traps. Then the ex
periment was repeated with the gauze
masks on. When the trays were car
ried Into the laboratory, after an ex
posure varying from fifteen to thirty
minutes, three distinct varieties of vir
ulent germe are said to have been
found on the plates where no mask wae
used, while in the other case hardly
any were found. The masks were eo
full of germs tha’ three rabbits that
were inoculated with them died. v
The idea of wearing a mask would
have probably been laughed to acorn by
surgeons not many years ago. as
would the many other precautions now
taken. The operating rooms of former
days were nothing more than butcher
shops in appearance, and' the condi
tions were so nauseating that the sur
geons themselves could hardly stand
them. Now, however, ail is changed,
and the rough system has been replac
ed by a wonderfully precise and pains
taking one.
Some twenty-four hours before an
operation is to be performed the pa
tient is placed on a light diet. A hot
bath Is given, and the part to be op
erated on is shaved, and then scrub
bed with bichloride of mercury or a
similar powerful antiseptic, and often
green surgical soap is used. Next fol
lows a bandage, over the surface of
the part, thut excludes all air. Ten
hours or so before the operation the
food is often stopped. The patient is
removed from the bed a short while
before the surgeon is ready, and the
washing process gone over again, the
part being scrubbed with antiseptics
for an hour in some cases, where blood
poisoning is feared. Every part of the
body save thut Is be operated on Is
wrapped in rolls of linen, sterilized by
baking.
While the patient Is being given eth
er the surgeons and nurses take their
gowns (after thoroughly cleansing the
hands and faces with antiseptic scrub
bing) from big Jars, where the cloth
ing is kept after being made sterile.
The patient on the table in*an uncon
scious state, the surgeon starts his
work, his hands often dripping with
an antiseptic solution, unless he uses
white rubber gloves. The Instruments
lie in shallow dishes in antiseptic solu
tions, the whole often covered with
a sterilized towel, and these are hand
ed by the nurses and attendants as
needed, the surgeon hardly glancing
up. What blood may flow is sponged
by a nurse with a sponge taken from
a sealed Jar, and as they are filled the
sponges are thrown In a bucket of dis
infectant, to be used no more—ln strik
ing contrast to methods of former
times.
The fingers even of the surgeon very
seldom touch the body, instruments
being used. The arteries are caught
with instruments, and where the .op
eration is of any considerable extent
the patient appears to bristle with
curious pins and needles. The opera
tion over and the wound drained, the
gut and silver wire sutures, taken
from glass Jars, are used to close the
cuts. The nurses bring carbolic dress
ing and sterile plasters, and soon all
le bound down with bandages and the
patient, who has been allowed to
gradually regain consciousness by the
person administering ether, is removed
to the ward to recover from the shock
and other Ills.
•SMOKES IX A CIIADLB.
Chicago Kid, Aged Four, Likes
Strung. Black Cigars.
From the Chcago Record-Herald.
A smoker of cigars at 2 years of
age, connoisseur of tobaccos at 4
this is the remarkable record of Rus
sell J. Henry, the little son of Joe
Henry, proprietor of the buffet at
112 Dearborn street. The boy has just
entered a kindergarten school, but he
knows more about fine brands of
Havana then he does about his A B
Cs or the making of paper “pretties.”
Little Russell sat on a rocking horse
yesterday at his home, 3637 State
street, puffing a big black cigar and
discoursing upon the merits of various
tobaccos.
"I like strong cigars best,” he said,
"because they sweeter, and then
you don't need so many of them. You
don’t get much out of a mild Havana.
They burn up too quick. Porto Rican
cigars are good, though.
"I like a pipe now and then for a
change, too. I’ve got a lot of pipes.
Most of them I bought with my pen
nies. Some of them were given to me.
X don’t care for cigarettes. I don’t see
why anybody wants to smoke them.”
Russell is a bright-faced boy with
light hair and clear brown eyes. His
cheeks are rosy and he is the picture
of health In spite cf his early indul
gence in tobacco. There are no marks
of precocity about him that would at
tract anyone's attention. In fact, with
the exception of his remarkable appe
tite for tobacco, he seems a most or
dinary child.
His parents have humored him by
allowing him to smoke and have had
no fear of the consequences. They be
lieve he will lose his liking for tobacco
before any evil consequences result.
The father consulted a physician once
and was told that there Was little
danger of the child hurting himself.
“We are unable to explain the boy’s
liking for tobacco,” said the senior
Henry yesterday. "I have never been
a heavy smoker myself, and do not see
how the youngster could have In
herited hi* taste for tobacco. Before
he wae able to taik or walk he would
always reach out hie little hand when
he eaw a cigar. One day, when he was
2 years old, bis uncle gave him one,
and, when the little fellow went to
puffing away like a smoker, someone
lighted the cigar. Russell took a mouth
ful of smoke, held It a second, and
then blew it out, laughing all oyer.
Then he took another puff. I never saw
a child so well pleased. He had dis
covered anew pleasure that seemed to
beat anything he had ever known be
fore.
“Krom that day on the boy was a
smoker. He would sit in his cradle, and
puff a cigar with the utmost delight,
and it nA'er made him sick. He was
Just a born smoker. The doctors said
that since he had the craving It was
probably just as well to let him smoke.
"The boy has always liked pipes.
Ever since he could walk he would
rather have a pipe than anything else
to play with. He has a collection now
of nearly a hundred that he has got in
different ways, and he thoroughly en
joys smoking the strongest one In the
lot.”
When Russell started to kindergar
ten school a month ago he promised
his mother and his teacher that he
would stop smoking, and since then he
has been "tapering off.” Three cigars
a day Is now his limit, and he often
goes several days at a time without
smoking at all.
Sleeping Car Service
Between Savannah and Montgomery on
Seaboard Air lAne Railway. Train
leaves Savannah B*3o p. m., railroad
time, arrives Montgomery 8:00 a. m.,
making dose connection with lines di
verging for all points West.—ad.
"Winter Homen in Sommer Lands.**
Is the title of a very neat and attract
tlve folder Just Issued by the South
ern Railway, giving complete Infor
mation regarding the various winter
resorts of health and pleasure on, and
reached by Its lines, with list of ho
tels and boarding-houses, their pro
prietors, rates, capacities, stc.
This booklet will prove valuable to
anyone contemplating a trip for the
winter.
A copy may be had by calling on or
sending two cent stamp to E. Q. Thom
son, city passenger and ticket agent,
141 Bull street.—ad.
—The sexagenarian, M. Goubet. who
Is popularly dubbed the “father of sub
marines,” Is going to receive a prise of
*20,000, offered by a philanthropist, M.
Osiris, for the most notable Invention
shown at the last Paris exhibition. As
nothing there was considered worthy,
the prise was handed to the Paris Press
Association, whose choice will tell on
M. Goubet.
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