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SIDNEY HERBERT’S LETTER.
VEST foist men taken from
SOUTHERN COLLEGES.
Son* Who Have Carried the Honor
ed Name* of Their Father* Back
Into the Regular Army—The Sinn
WettrTnv a Gray Salt in the Mc-
Kinley Fictnre* Identified—Report
That Gen. Wheeler I* to Bea Can
didate for the Senate From Alu
haiua—Some Aeeonnt of a Lake
City, Fin., Veteran—Some Error*
of t'areie** W riter*—The Whole,
*nle Delivery of Degrees at Yale.
The Surviving Widow* of Presi
dent*—Other flatter* of General
Interest.
Pine Crest Villa. Maitland, Fla., Dec.
.. —I have no desire to hasten the “de
mise” of good old Rev. George G.
Smith, and therefore state that I wrote
it “denial” in last Sunday's letter.
“May he live long and prosper." * *
♦ The Rev. Dr. J. William Jones, the
Confederate historian, writes to the
Confederate Veteran, in correction, as
he supposes, of a roster of generals,
and says: “B. M. Thomas should be
K. L, Thomas.” Not so, my dear doctor,
Gen. Ed. L. Thomas died out West a
few years ago, and was a Mexican
war hero from Georgia, but Gen. Bry
an M. Thomas, another Georgian and
“West Pointer and old army officer,
lives at Dalton, Ga., where he is, or
was, superintendent of education for
that -country. Dr. Jones also says:
“William Mcßae of North Carolina,
was killed in battle.” If this is true,
which I doubt, he came to life again
and died years ago in Atlanta, Ga,,
where he was the efficient general su
perintendent of the Western and At
lantic Railroad.
The Chictoamauga National Park
took Lieut. Gen. Andrew P. Stewart
away from the head of the University
of Mississippi, and now the new Vicks
burg National Park has robbed the
Mississippi Agricultural College of
Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee. Both these
gentlemen are West Pointers and old
army officers, as well as distinguished
Confederate generals, and while they
were able educators they are now in
positions in which their military train
ing and experience enables them to do
more valuable service as Park Com
missioners. The work of Gen. Lee at
Vicksburg National Park has been
highly commended by visiting offi
cers of both armies who were in that
battle. He asks that Georgia be rep
resented ip the monuments and mark
ers being erected there.
I have frequently spoken of Capt.
Joe - Wheeler, Jr., Lieut. Fitz Lee,
Jr., and Capt. Robert H. Anderson,
Jr., sons of old West Pointers and
army officers who carried their fath
ers’ honored names back into the reg
ular army. But the fathers of the
former two are themselves back in
the army as retired brigadier generals
of the Spanish-American war; but the
gallant father of the last named, Maj.
Gen. Robert He Anderson, C. S. A., has
been in his grave many years. And
now comes the sad news of the death,
by disease, in the Philippines, of his
biwe-son, - Capt. Robert H. Anderson,
of £is father's old regiment. . The
Georgia Legislature did a graceful act
in passing resolutions of respect on the
death ol this gallant young officer.
There have been three. ft. H. Ander
sons In the regular army, all fine sol
diers. . , ’ .
In nearly all the newspaper and mag
azine pictures of the late President Mc-
Kinley. especially those taken in Cal
ifornia, in Buffalo, and Niagara Falls,
there can be seen a chunky sort of a
man weariug a grayish business suit
and a Derby hat, who bears a striking
likeness to Capt. Billy Shaw of the
old Savannah Cadets. This man is the
chief detective or guard detailed to pro
tect the President. In one picture in
front of the Milburn house he stands
directly back of the carriage, but in
the Niagara Falls picture hi; Is seen
standing beside the President, and dur
ing the ride about that city he sat with
the driver on the carriage next to the
President. Put wherever you see him,
in any picture, he was absolutely use
less as a protector of the life of the
chief magistrate of the Nation. He
could be of some service, as he was,
after the assassination, which his
close proximity did not prevent. Nor
will the abandonment of public recep
tions, and hand-shaking in any way
protect President Roosevelt, should any
assaesin desire to take his life.
A recent writer on war topics in the
Atlanta Journal referred to his old
commander as Gen. "Findlay,” which
should have been Gen. Jesse J. Finley,
of Lake City, Fla., ex-judge, ex-con
gressman and ex-state senator. He was
born In Tennessee, In 1812, and com
manded a company of volunteers from
that state in the Florida Seminole war,
with such gallantry ac to win the bre
vet of major. He then settled here, and
the people have always delighted to
honor him in civil and military posi
tions. Going into the Civil War as a
private, he soon rose to a captaincy
and then became colonel of the Sixth
Florida Infantry, from which he was
promoted to be a brigadier general.
After a long life of great usefulness
Gen. Finley, In his ninetieth year. Is
living quietly with his son, Editor
Chas. A. Finley, at Lake City. Among
the first pi'ominent citizens whom I met
in Jacksonville over twenty-five years
ago, was Gen. Finley, for whom I have
always retained a high regard.
A doubtful report is abroad frim his
eld home In Alabama that Gen. Joe
Wheeler, U. S. A. (retired), Is to be
put forward as a candidate to succeed
Gen. E. W. Pettus in the United States
Senate. But "Toga vice Shoulder
Straps” is not a proper heading for
such a report, as Gen. Wheeler is a
retired army officer and as such can
wear both the "Toga” of a senator
and the "Shoulder Straps” of an army
officer. That Is one of the serious de
fects in our army, navy and judicial
systems. Able-bodied men capable of
years of good service ahead of them,
are “retired” simply because of “age”
or “service.” If Gen. Wheeler Is able
*o be a congressman, a senator or the
President of a gun manufactory, as
reported, he Is able—ns 1 know he Is
willing—to serve his country as a sol
dier. The “retired" list, civil and mil
itary, of this nation is a 'burden that
the taxpayers ought to protest against.
Let disabled soldiers and Judges, and
other officials, be “retired,” but not
able-bodied or active ones.
Careless writing Is more to blame
than Ignorance of facts for half the
errors and blunders found In books,
magazines and newspapers. For ex
ample, the programme for "G. A. R.
Day" at the Pan-American announced
•s one of the speakers, Past Comman
der-In-Chief John P. Rea of Minneso
ta, who died May 28, 1800, over a vear
.and a half ago. A similar error oc
curred' at the u. C. V. reunion at
Louisville, Ky., when Lieut. Gen. Ju
bal A. Early was announced ns being
one of the distinguished guests to be
present, although he had been dead
several years. In both these cases a
moment's rsreful thought would have
prevented the serious and Inexcusable
errors r/uuie. When a. Georgia editor,
a graduate of the State University, re
fers to "William” C\ Wluttirop as the
monument orator, instead
Ki„r.^° bert ' hlB on,y e *cse for the
blunder must be carelessness in writ
ing. It is this carelessness in military
matters that gives us “McClelland” for
n ‘ ant * "Haines” for Hains,
and 'Raines" for Rains, and "Johnson”
for Johnston, and “Rhodes” for Rodes,
an “ “Stewart” for Steuart or Stuart,
and “Bassinger" for Basinger, and
"Jessup” for Jesup, errors of frequent
occurrence in current literature.
It seems to me that Mrs. Sallie John
son Hagan of the “Social Season,”
the swell society paper of Atlanta, has
given the "Wlmberley” dinner, by Coi.
Lstill, the best notice yet printed. Her
tribute to Savannah's select but gen
erous hospitality is a beautiful piece
of word painting. She closes her ar
ticle with the remarks made to her by
Mrs. Estill in favor of her husband's
candidacy for governor, which she
heartily endorses. lam reminded by
it of Mrs. McKinley's tender and beau
tiful tribute to her husband, given to
a newspaper reporter in New Orleans
during the trip to California. The
testimony of a good wife in favor of a
devoted husband ought to count for
much in the estimation .of the general
public. When Col. W. J. Northen
started out on a personal canvass for
governor, as Col. Estill has done, his
noble wife became active with her pen
and tongue in behalf of his candidacy,
and no little of his success was due
to her persistent efforts to secure his
nomination. Mrs. Gen. John B. Gor
don, Mrs. Gen. Alfred H. Colquitt, and
Mrs. Dr. W. H. Felton have also been
active in the past campaigns of their
husbands, and Mrs. Estill may safely
follow the example of these distin
guished ladies and aid her husband's
popular candidacy.
I read "Mr. Dooley” on “The Cele
bration at Yale” with considerable
pleasure, and I can indorse his humor
ous comments on the wholesale man
ner in which degrees were shoveled
out to all conditions of men, home and
foreign-born. "Degrees,” says “Doo
ley,” sarcastically, “(like deuth) is a
good thing because they llvils all ranks.
* ” * Some of the thriftiest uni
versities la & degree Theatre--
native lv a fine—ss or a docthor iv
laws.” If there is one senseless hum
bug bigger than another, in our col
leges and universities, it is this un
bridled and indiscriminate bestowal of
degrees. I often wonder why some men
are doctors of divinity and others not;
and the same as to doctor of laws.
The folly of making an admiral or a
general an LL. D. simply because he
has won a victory in battle should be
frowned upon. If such men must be
thus honored let the degree of M. S.
D. be created for military and naval
heroes who deserve to be honored with
the degree of Doctor of Military Sci
ence.
Chancellor Walter B. Rill, of the
University of Georgia, writes me that
he greatly enjoyed the bi-centennial at
Yale, and my venerable neighbor, Hon.
Andrew Richmond, an alumnus, tells
me the same thing. It was, with all
its profusion of degrees, a grand affair
no doubt. I shall always have a warm
place In my heart for old Yale, as she
once highly honored me in my early
manhood with an Invitation to address
the students and faculty, and my par
tial friends considered it the “greatest
effort of my life.” I, however, count
It as “second best,” placing an address
in the big Union depot at Troy, N. Y.,
to over ten thousand people as the
“greatest effort” and highest honor.
And yet there is really greater satis
faction in more quiet, restricted labors
for .God .And .man, .of which the world
at large never hears. There is more
satisfaction in living so th'at you can
“Count that day lost whose low de
scending Sun
Views from.thy hand no worthy action
done.” ~
Of the four surviving widows of
Presidents of the United States, who
are Mrs. U- S. Grant, Mrs. J. A. Gar
field, Mrs. Benj. Harrison and Mrs.
William McKinley, three are invalids,
the exception being the young second
wife of ex-President Harrison. Mrs.
Grant is quite old and in bad health
at her home in Washington. D. C.. and
Mrs. Garfield, who spent last winter
mostly at DeLand, Fla., has gone to
California this season in a vain search,
no doubt, of renewed health, while
Mrs. McKinley, always feeble in health,
is still an invalid at her old home in
Canton, O. All of the above named
are soldiers' widows, Grant, Garfield
and Harrison having been generals,
and McKinley a major in the Civil
War. Mrs. Garfield's home Is in Men
tor, 0., and Mrs. Harrison lives in In
dianapolis, Ind. Having married Gen.
Harrison in recent years she is barred
from a pension unless it be given to
her by special congressional enact
ment.
The law cutting off newly married
widows enacted because so many
young women were marrying old sol
diers in order to become pensioners
when they died. The newspapers nev
er tired of telling about soldiers’ wid
ows who seemed to never die, nor grow
less in numbers. Take, for example,
some old Confederate generals—Long
street, "Tige” Anderson, George P.
Harrison, Jr., C. A. Evans and E. P.
Alexander —all married again to young
wives, and Anderson died leaving one
or two children by this marriage. The
Southern states will need a "cut oft”
pension law of this kind one of these
days.' X see that the family of Presi
dent Harrison's first wife are to op
pose granting the usual $5,000 pension
to his second wife, now a presidential
widow. And as Mrs. McKinley is
now rich, there is talk of opposing
the grant of $5,000 to her. It seems
wrong to pension well-to-do people
when so many poor soldiers' widows
suffer for lack of the common com
forts of life. Sidney Herbert.
ADVICE OF KEEPHO POSITION.
Fit Yourself to Its Mold So as to
Kill Every Crevice of It.
James J. Hill In Success.
You can hold your position If you
will fit yourself to Its mold so as to
fill every crevice. Be like a cake. At
first it is soft, spongy dough, and Is
poured into a mold which It but half
fills. As it bakes, it rises, and crowds
every dent in the mold. Not content
ed, It bulges over the top; it makes
a cake larger than the mold will hold.
So, young man and young woman, be
larger than your mold. After you have
filled every crease and crevice of your
position to advantage, work out at the
top. It is the largest cake that brings
the most money.
Always keep your promise. Your
employer will never ask you to do
more than Is possible. Remember that
an unfilled promise Is as bad as a
downright untruth. Live within your
means. Never let a month pass that
you do not put something In the bank.
Saving Is the first great basic prin
ciple In the foundation of success.
Dress neatly and plainly, for an em
ployer marks a man as a fool who
apparels himself with extravagance
and glaring colors. Never try to win
the favor of your employer by slander
ing your fallow workers. Slander al
ways sticks. Show kindness to your
fellow employes, but do not let It be
forced kindness, for that deserves no
thanks. Resolve slowly, and act
quickly. Remember, It Is better to
be alone than In bad company: that
you cannot give your employer or your
self full value If you try to work after |
a night of dissipation; that silence, ;
like cleanliness, is akin to godliness, j
and that a clear conscience gives sound
sleep and good digestion, and clothes
one In an Impregnable coat of mall. ,
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER S. 190 T.
SOME QUEER WEAPONS.
WHAT THE VARiOCS CLASSES USE
IN OFFENSE AND DEFENSE.
Gambler* Worst Offender* a* Con
cealed Weapon Bearer*, but Leant
Dangeron* Class—ltalian* Prefer
the illude and V*e it on F.aeli
Other—Negroe* nnd Unborn Rec
ognise the Razor a* Their Official
Wenpon— hinnmen Drop Brinks
on Head* of Victim*—The I.ntin
Race* Operate Den illy Canen—Wo
men of tlie Street AttaeW With the
Hatpin—C'urionn Form* of Metal
Knneklr*. Bluek .lurk* aud “Lift
Preserver*.”
New York, Nov. 6.—Every considera
ble city in this country to a greater
or less extent, enforces ordinances
relative to the carrying of deadly
weapons. Any person In whose posses
sion Is found a dagger, dirk, danger
ous knife, slung shot, billy, sand club,
loaded cane, or metal knuckles is
liable to arrest. A revolver may be
carried .but only by special permit, un
less the owner is a city, state or federal
official of certain classes. Permits are
issued with great care, and mostly to
night watchmen and bank or express
messengers. Notwithstanding these re
strictions, the carrying of concealed
weapons in the large cities, east and
west, is a constantly spreading evil.
The police of New York estimate that
JS.QOO private citizens habitually go
armed. In Boston and Philadelphia the
percentage is somewhat smaller; in
Chicago, Cincinnati, San Francisco and
St. Louis it is much larger. In Buffalo,
Cleveland, Rochester and other cities
of the second class in magnitude the
percentage is about the same as in
New York. More weapons are carried
in the South than in the North, and
in the West than in the East, general
ly speaking.
Most professional gamblers of the
small fry class go armed. Every raid
on a low class gambling hell fills up the
police station desk with revolvers, for
your cheap sport commonly “wears a
gun.” Some few carry black-jacks,
“life preservers.” or metal knuckles,
but they are, from the very fact, sus
pected of being more thieves than
gamblers, or of being “snide” men,
such as thimble riggers, three card
monte throwers, and swindlers of that
ilk who make the rounds of country
fairs, seeking the “wads” of the inno
cent. The straight-out buckers of the
faro bank and the roulette wheel ap
parently carry their revolvers very
largely as a sort of badge of their high
profession, Time .was when shooting
affrays in gambling places in the cities
were common, and in the small west
ern towns they are not rare. But in
the big, prosperous, well conducted
gambling dens of the cities such affairs
are about as infrequent as similar
fracases in church. The proprietors dis
courage them as being productive of
undesirable notoriety. So the gamblers,
while perhaps the most numerous, are
probably the least dangerous class of
weapon bearers. " *
In proportion to their numbers the
Italians carry more weapons than any
other immigrant race. The arm is the
blade-dagger, stilletto7 or knife, and it
is carried, not for ornament or the
pride of possession. In nineteen oases
out of a hundred the weapon is used
upon another man of the same race.
Regular duels between Italians are by
no means unknown. In New York’s
little Italy not iong ago two Italians
who had quarreled selected seconds,
(not to see fair play, for all Is fair In
a stabbing duel, but to prevent Inter
ruption by the police,) and went in to
fight by the flickering light of a lamp
post. When it was over one of the men
had crawled into a basement to die,
and the police had no difficulty in
tracking the other by the trail of blood
ho left. The knives most favored by
the Italians are curiously formed,
with a terminal twist to the handle,
designed to set against the fleshy out
side muscle of the hand and insure a
firm grip, for the true Italian knife
tighter lunges as with a foil, holding
the palm of the hand up and guarding
with his other arm held across his
chest.
Much in vogue among the Italian
rag picking women is a very thin stll
letto, sharpened to a razor keenness
on both edges. So small is the mark
left by this terrible weapon that there
is a record of one case where a doctor
Issued a certificate of death by heart
disease, and Issued it in good faith, for
a man whose heart had been split by
the thrust from one of these slender
blades. Further investigations follow
ing an accusation against the woman
who had struck the blow showed that
the flesh had closed around the wound,
leaving a barely perceptible mark.
That familiar comic paper joke about
the negro “spoht" and his "razzah”
is not a baseless Action. If the tough
negro of the cities carries any weapon
at all it is a razor. In use It Is held
with the blade doubled back across
the knuckles, and the approved method
is a long, drawing sweep with the hand
held palm downward. Fatalities are few
but the mutilations are frightful, the
BLOOD POISON j
CURED FOREVER. L**jj
I have long alnce demonstrated that Blood Poison Is a curable
disease. My treatment Is successful because It differs from that
given by the average physician who doses his patient on drastic f
I'i-ugs which permanently Injure the system. There is no putch
Ivork about my treatment It cures to stay cured. .iitgSfiSw. .
This is a disease which has puzzled the medical profession and there v *-'
are few doctors who can stay its ravaging progress. It may be heredita- V/
|y or contracted. Once the system Is tainted with It the disease may '‘l \
Ilanlfest Itself In the form of scrofula, eczema, rheumatic pains, stiff or *
swollen joints, eruptions or copper-colored spots on face or body, little u ATM A WAV
ulcers in the mouth or on the tongue, sore throat, swollen tonsils, falling WW. n A I nAffAY,
out of the hair or eyebrows and finally a leprous decay of the flesh and There is No Patch-Work'About
Patients are constantly applying to me for treatment who have been My Treatment,
experimented upon by the patch-work treatment of so-called specialists,
patent medicines, etc., which can make no permanent-Impression upon this dreadful disease. Blood poison requires
positive treatment to arrest its destructive progress and cleunsc the system of all taint My original method of treat
ing this disease has proven successful In some of the worst cases on record. My treatment is thorough and cures the
disease to stay cured. Primary symptoms, sores, pimples, eruptions, etc., are promptly arrested, and every vestige
of the vile poison Is thoroughly eliminated from the system. The cure le permanent and there is no breaking out
again, as is tlie case when this disease la treated by those who have not made Its treatment a specialty for years, as
I have done. I h?ve studied and treated blood poison for 20 years, and there are few, If any, physlcluns in the United
States who have had as much experience with the disease as I have.
| also permanently cure Varicocele, Mtrlctnre, \ervoas Debility, Kidney null flladdrr Disease., Ele„ Elr.
MY LEGAL OUARANTEE-r-To fulfill every promise I make Is given to all patients when desired—a guarantee
which means something and Is backed by my financial responsibility, which can be certified to by the leading banks
and commercial agencies.
HOME TREATMENT—If you cannot call in person, write me a complete account of your ailment or send for
symptom.blanks to-day. Thousands have been restored to health by correspondence. All I expect is a reasonable
amount of co-operation and a compliance with the Instructions which I Issue to every patient.
Examination free and private. Consultation and correspondence strictly confidential.:
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, Ml. D.
25 A. BRYAN ST., SAVANNAH, GA.
Office Hours; 9a. m. to 12 m; 2 to S, 7 to 9p. m. Sundays, 10 a. m. to Ip. m.
point of attack, being almost always
the nook and face. A razor is one of
the deadly weapons that can be car
ried with impunity, as the man who is
arrested with one in his pocket can al
ways plead that he was taking it to
the barber shop to be sharpened. The
only other class besides the negroes
which carries the razor as a weapon
is the hobo, or professional tramp. It
is the recognized arm of hobodom, and
no tramp regards himself as fully
equipped for the road until he possesses
a razor. Joaiah Flynt, himself a tramp
of many years' standing, in his book on
tramp life instances a duel with razors
between two hoboes at a tramps' re
sort in New Jersey, in which one of
the contestants was killed.
John Chinaman rarely goes armed.
If he wants to “do up" an enemy he
does not sally forth to look for him,
but with characteristic racial patience
sits in his own window and waits for
the victim to pass. When he passes
John drops a brick on him. or per
chance a flower pot. and legal prose
cution is unavailing, because John is
always ready to swear that he happen
ed at that particular moment, and
by 111-luck chanced to dislodge the
brick or flower pot resting on the sill.
In the contracted quarters of China
town opportunities to take advantage
of the law of gravity are common.
Persons experienced in the ways of the
Chinese asserts that the habit of wear
ing the pigtail coiled upon the top of
tlie head is not so much a fashion as
a method of self-preservation.
Deadly canes, sflch as sword, dagger,
pistol and loaded canes are character
istic of the French. Spanish and Cu
ban residents in our cities, but these
weapons are seldom used, and it is
rarely that one of them comes into
the hands of tlie police. Those who
carry them invariably plead ignorance
of the law, explaining that they carry
the cane as a mark of caste. Other
nationalities do not characteristically
carry arms. The Irishman tights with
the hands God gave him, unless it
happens to be his wife that he Is fight
ing, in which cui>e he takes the house
hold furniture. The Swede seldom
dghts, but when drunk he wilt use hj
a weapon anything that is wdthin his
reach, from his pocket knife to an
ax, if he can lay his hands on one, and
he fights to the death. The Germans
and the Jews are peaceful. The Greeks
are cowardly, and some of them carry
knives. The Armenians and Turks pre
fer arbitration by their priests or by
law to open force. What few Japanese
there are herebauts will go far to avoid
trouble, but once having gone into the
encounter they fight like whirlwinds,
and often with disaster to their op
ponents, as they are expert with any
kind of stick or blade, and also masters
of strange wrestling tricks that wrench
and dislocate joints. The native born
American, on tlie average, minds his
own business and keeps out of trouble.
If he get into it, his hands are gener
ally his only available implements of
defense.
No list of weapons would be com
plete without mention of the hatpin.
Every policeman knows the dangers
of this dagger, and is on the lookout
for it when he arrests or arraings a
woman of the streets. It is the weapon
par excellent of the prostitute. While
the prick with a pin sounds inconsider
able. it must be remembered that the
pin is six inches long, and that the
wielder of It aims for the eye. If it
goes true it may pierce the brain and
kill.
What the police call freak weapons
occasionally turn up in the pawn shops.
One of these is an Ingenious combina
tion of brass knuckles, dagger and
pistol, so compact that It can easily
be concealed in a pocket. Another
strange an formidable weapon, for use
at dose quarters, consists of two short,
scimeter-like blades, connected by a
wooden handle. The grip is between the
blades, so that the wielder has play for
his weapon on both sides of his hand,
the curved and sharpened edges of
the blades being, of course, turned out
ward. In a little shop in Boston recent
ly a gentleman picked up a silver case,
curiously depressed at the center so
that it fitted to the grasp of his hand.
He chanced to press a very small
spring at the side of the box, and there
darted from the top of the box -two
slender and extremely sharp daggers
which snapped into place by another
spring. At the same time a little curv
ed blade slipped out and fitted over
the knuckles in such a manner as to
not only shield them, but to present
a slashing edge for auxiliary use to
the daggers. So ingeniously was the
contrivance put together that In spite
of these unexpected occupants of the
interior, there was still room for half
a dozen cigars. Within a few
years a large department store In
Chicago sold in its harness department
the most effective leather “life pre
server" ever known to the criminal ele
ment. Ostensibly the Implement was for
another purpose. At that time Chicago
was infested with highwaymen, and
so many of these “life preservers” with
the mark of the firm were found In
the possession of suspects arrested for
holding up citizens that the police
finally put a stop to their sale. Few
metal knuckles, black Jacks, sand
clubs or “life preservers" are pow
carried, however, even by professional
criminals, as they are of little act
ual use; and it Is probably that the
carrying of them formerly was In
spired more by bravado than from
any practical consideration.
Elias Lisle.
STORY OF A KEY.
How a Strange One t hanred to He
Found In a Llbertj Door.
Members of a Liberty street house
hold are trying to account for a key
that was recently found in the front
door. It was a latchkey of much the
ordinary shape and size, and the onb
remarkable thing about it was that it
was Jammed into what was once a key
nole. Had there been any other evi- |
denee, it might have been suspected ,
that there had been burglars about the
house during the night, but save for i
the key, there was naught to lend color
to the suspicion.
Two, or, rather, one young man, j
could throw some light upon the mys
tery. He has not been talking very
much about it, but the occupants of |
the house might welcome its elucida
tion through tn|s story. If the other— j
he about whose ability to explain the I
occurrence there is question, was really
correct in a declaration he dwelt upon I
with elaborate and positive insistence,
he may find it hard lines to live longer
in the household.
One of the two —the one who tells the
story, was wulking home even later \
than the witching hour. Traffic had I
stilled its wheels, and not even a soil- I
tary nighthawk was prowling slowly |
through the deserted streets, for they
had gone to sleep In their usual man- i
ner. Pedestrians were not to be seen, i
and the stillness of the night was over
the city.
Reaching Madison square, the late
wanderer's attention was attracted by
some dark object lying on one of the
grass plots. It looked suspiciously like
the figure of a man. Curious to know
whether there had been a murder, with
the gruesome evidence before him, but
more suspicious that the sleeper had
only imbibed too freely of the cup that
inebriates while jt cheers, the wayfarer
approached the out-stretched figure
There w as no rigor of death in its lines,
but rather those of deep slumber,
bending over, he scrutinized the “fea
tures of the sleeper and discovered that
they were those of a young chap he
knew. With sundry kicks and shakes
and verbal efforts, the chance comer
sought to arouse the sleeper, but there
was nothing doing. Only inarticulate
rejoinders could be secured.
Finally concluding that it was a bad
Job. the Samaritan decided that about
the only service he could do the victim
of a good time would be to forestall
seme less scrupulous passer-by and re
lieve him of what valuables he might
ha\e on his person. Half suspecting
that the quest might prove bootless, as
devotees of Bacchus, as a usual thing
when they have reached so delicious a
state of rest through worship of the
wine-cup, have little of this world's
goods left upon their persons, the Sam
aritan started to dig. He went through
pocket after pocket and then counted
UP. The total was $3.
Then he determined to leave the
Inebriate to Providence, which is most
kind to drunks, and the night dews.
That thought of the night dews, how
*ye/' restrained him. He had implicit
faith in good offices of Providence in
cases of in vini extremis. Again he es
sayed to arouse the sleeper, and this
I dint of even more vigorous
kicking and more stentorian shouts, he
Induced the subject to find his feet.
Encouraged, the Samaritan asked the
young rounder where he lived. To the
forty-sfeverith repetition of the ques
tion, the answer that it was at —Lib
erty street, west, was forthcoming.
Then a walk for that number started.
It was presumably but just around the
corner, and the destination was soon
reached, though wulking was no easy
.matter for the Samaritan, who was do
ing it for two.
Arrrived at the alleged residence of
the inebriate, his friend asked him for
his night key. Finally he got it and
climbed the stoop, while the inebriate
promptly took advantage of the op
portunity to go looking for that sleep
he had lost. The Samaritan tried the
door. It was. of course, locked. Then
he tried to slip the key into the lock.
It wouldn't go. Evidently It had nev
er seen the lock before, and the latter
would not permit an Introduction,
Then the Samaritan went down and
said things to the Inebriate, waking
him up to make him listen. The in
ebriate was insistent. He was inform
ed that the house was not number ,
to which he alcohollcally replied that
it was supposed to be Hat number,
anyhow. It was where he lived, what
ever the blooming number might be,
anyhow.
So the Samaritan went up against
the door again, and the Inebriate went
after that sleep. There was another old
keyhole In the door, and Into It, in des
peration, went the key. It stuck. It
wouldn't turn or come out. Disgusted,
the Samaritan decided he would shake
the "good.” Leaving the key in the
lock, he went back to the sleeper,
steered him to a nighthawk, waked
up the driver, piled In the Inebriate
and told the driver to take him to a
hotel, giving him the $5 of which he
had relieved him. That's how the key
happened to be there.
—The dining car has made its en
try Into Japan. Four of these cars,
built exactly on the lines of the famil
iar American pattern, have been turn
ed out In the local government shops,
and are now running between Toklo
and Kobe.
GREAT EXPOSITION
—at—
CHARLESTON, S. C.,
OPEN SUNDAY, DEC. I, 1901.
(Continues Six Months.)
Special Train Service
Via PLANT SYSTEM.
Leave Savannah 2:30 a. m., 8:30 a. m., 2:05 p. m. (city time;.
Arrive Charleston 6:40 a. m.. 12:30 p m„ 5:10 p. m.
RETURNING
Leave Charleston 11:35 p. m. t 5:30 p. ra. 6:10 a. m.
Arrive Savannah 3:00 a. m., 8:30 p. m., 8:10 a. m. (slow time).
Pullmhn Sleepers on night trains. Parlor cars on day trains.
WARD CLARK, Ticket Agent, De Soto Hotel. Both Phones 73.
R. C. BLATTNER, D. T. A. Georgia Phone 911.
B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager.
EXCELLENT TRAIN SERVICE
-BETWEEN
SAVANNAH
—and—■
BRUNSWICK.
LESS THAN 3 HOURS.
Via PLANT SYSTEM
Through Coaches.
Leave Savannah.. 6:10 am 4:15 pm (City time)
Arrive Bruswick... 9:10 am 6:10 pm (Central time)
Leave Brunswick.. 9:05 pm 6:00 am “ “
Arrive Savannah.. 12:10night 9:00 am “
Through Coaches between Savannah and Brunswick without change.
For further information apply to
WARD CLARK, Ticket Agent, De Soto Hotel. Both Phones 73.
R. C. BLATTNER, D. T. A. Georgia Phone 911.
B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager.
r V THE / The Up toUate
PLANT Planf S Y stem •
-g Commencing
December 1,1901,
Pullman Dining Cars
Leave Savannah Daily 2:05 p. m„ City Time.
Arrive Washington, Daily, 7:59 a. m.
Arrive New York 1:43 p. m.
LESS THAN 24 HOURS.
This train carries Pullman Sleeping and Drawing Room Cars
and Day Coaches; also U. S. Mail Cars,
Another comfortable train, with through Pullman Sleeping Cars,
leaves Savannah 1:30 a. m.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations and other information, see
ticket agents.
WARD CLARK, T. A., De Soto Hotel. Both Phones Not TJ.
R. C. BLATTNER, D. T. A. Georgia Phone 911.
J. H. D. SHELLMAN. T. P. A.
B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager.
23 Hoars and 48 Minutes
SAVANNAH to NEW YORK
—VIA—
Southern Railway
Leave Savannah (City or Eastern time).. 1:55 p. m.
Arrive Washington (Eastern time) 7:35 a. m.
Arrive New York (Eastern time) 1.43 p. m.
In Pullman Sleepers through without change.
Dining Cars all the way.
Best Route. Superior Service.
E. G. THOMSON, C. P. & T. A., 141 Bull St.
: NEW YORK. BOSTON AND THE EAST. •
♦ •
Unsurpassed cabin accommodations. All the comforts of a modern hotel. *
•Electric lights. Unexcelled table. Tickets Include meals and berths aboard ship *
• PASSENGER FARES FROM SAVANNAH. *
• TO NEW lWha-M.i, '-oa* 1 *. u . First Cabin, ruuuu trip, (32; Intermediate*
• cabin, |U; Intermediate Cabin, round trip, (24. Steerage, (It •
• TO BOSTON—First Cabin, (22; Flret Cabin, round trip, (3t; Intermediate Ceb-*
•in, 117) Intermediate Cabin, round trip. (21; Steerage, su.7(. *
• The expreae ateamahlps of this line are appointed to call from Savannah.!
.Central ttOth meridian time) ae follows: .
• SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK. nflilBSSI *
\ CI J,^ NrSwN, A V. at ’ 8TA ’ Capt> U *** et M TALLAHASSEE. Capt. Asklns, BUN-!
• v,?V NDAY ' D#c - *' at 3:00 P- m I DAY, Dec. 15, at g;00 a. rn. .
• na< ;DO<’HKK. ( apt. Smith, TUEB-I‘CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. I,ewle,e
• DAY. Dec. 10. at 4:30 p. m. | TUESDAY, Dec. 17, at 10.00 a. m. •
• KANSAS CITY, Capt Fisher,THURH-[ CITY OK AUOUHTA. Capt. Daggett.*
• U et ' 12 > 111 5:30 • m - I THURSDAY, Dec. 19. at 12:00 noon.*
• C nTn,£ > f v . HI J! IMINaHAM ' C “ pt Bur * NAC °Ot HEIO. Capt. Smith, FRI-!
. FRIDAY, Dec. 13, at :00 p. m. | DAY, Dec. 20. at 12:00 noon. •
, *eiaiw>iup whatlahoocuea win carry orat cabin peoaengsre om. ♦
• Steamship City of Macon, <?apt. Savage, will leave New York for Boston *
•at4p. m. every Saturday, and leave Boston for New York at 11 a m. *
• ; very Wednesday. Sellings New Tor k for Savannah. Tueid tys. Thurs- !
days, Saturdays, and Fridays, Dec. , is, 20 and 27 at 5:00 p. m .
.This company reserves the right to cnagga Its sailings without i>otlta and without*
.liability or accountability therefor. * nonce .no wiuieu^
• W. G. BREWER, C. T. AP. A., 107 Bull llmt,, Savannah •
U M. ERSKINE. Arent, B. W SMITH. Soliciting Frt A* Savannah
• WALTER HAWKINS, G. Agt Traf. D .pt ,2M W Bay iaokT"*** Fla *
! PE. D.FEVRE, Manager. WH. PLEASANTS. Tr.f Mogr N Pl*!' RK,!
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