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INDLX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I, O.
O. F.; Alee Temple; Teutonia Lodge
No. 7, K. of P.
Special Notices—For $25; Finninger;
Merchant Tailor; Andrew Hanley Com
pany; Savannah Building Supply Com
pany; Notice to City Court Jurors,
Schafer’s Celebrated Fruit and Pound
Cakes; Valentine Abt, Mandollnist; To
the Public, Hack Owners; The Artistic
Quality, Theus Bros.; For Sale, John
L. Archer; Candescent Light, at Brod
erick's; Jas. J. Joyce; Masonic Temple
Pharmacy; A Pulling Proposition,
Union Transfer Company; Savannah
Steam Dye Works; Annual Ball, Inter
national Association of Machinists,
Dec. 10; Ship Notice, Chr. G. Dahl &
(Jo., Consignees; Thonnesen’s Art
Store.
. Business Notices—Electric Supply
Company; Here We Are Again to Talk.
Trapani & Branan; Bicycles, Daniel
A. Holland; Cohen-Kulmjan Carriage
Wagon Company.
Laundries—E. & W. Laundry; Red
Cross Laundry.
Another Toledo Steam Carriage Sold
—'T. A. Byson, Agent.
Tc Tell of All the Beauty—Thos West
& Cos.
Don’t Put Your Hat on With a Shoe
Horn—Globe Shoe Company.
Plant System of Railways—Change
of Schedule.
Select Your Christmas Gifts—Allen
Bros.
Auction Sale—Oak and Walnut Fur
niture. by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer.
Weather Strips—Edward Lovell’s
Sons.
Mathushck Pianos —Luden & Bates
Southern Music House.
Pierce Bicycles—R. V. Connnerat,
Locomobiles—R. V. Connerat.
Amusements—“ Foxy Qulller," at
Theater, Dec. 17; all the Favorites In
’’The Belle of New York,” at the The
ater, Wednesduy Night.
If You Are Looking for Christmas
Gifts, Take in—The Bee-Hive.
Toys and Holiday Goods—At Eck
stein’s.
The Finishing Touch —M. Dryfus.
Christmas Pianos—McArthur Sons &
Cos.
Seventeen Days Oft Is Christmas—T.
A. Bryson, Columbia Agent.
Vlci Kid Bluchers—Geil & Quint,
Right Now —Leopold Adler.
Tempting Morsels—At Collat’s.
A Familiar Song—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Suit Starters —B. H. Levy & Bro.
Sixteen More Days to Christmas—
The Metropolitan Clothing Company.
Dermatologist—Mrs. Ella R. Berry.
Right Now—Leopold Adler.
Cuban Splits—Lee Roy Myers & Cos.
Postum Food Coffee—Postuni Cereal
Company.
Whiskeys—Old Quaker Rye Whiskey;
Murray Hill Club Whiskey.
$1.50 Gas Heater—Mutual Gas Light
Company.
Modern Fables —George Ade.
Beef—Liebig's Extract of Beief.
Medical—Peruna; Cascarets; S. S. 9.;
Dr. Hathaway Cos.; Abbey’s Efferves
cent Salt; Mother’s Friend; ”77” for
Grip; Wine of Cardui; Stuart’s Ca
tarrh Tablets; Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tab
lets; Pyramid Pile Cure.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Wonthtr,
The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair weather, except rain In west
ern portion, warmer, light variable
winds, becoming fresh southeasterly;
and for Eastern Florida, fair weather,
except rain in northwest portion, fresh
northwesterly winds,
Representative AYeeks of Michigan,
who was a member of the recent con
gressional Junket to the Philippines,
was much disappointed In Agulnaldo.
“I saw Aguinaldo,” he says, “and spent
half a day with him. He is not an in
telligent man and I think that he feels
that he is Inferior to the intellect of
the Americans.” Weeks Is not magnan
imous. No doubt he measured the lit
tle Filipino by his own altitudlnous
and ponderous intelligence. He possi
bly imagined that Agulnaldo would
compare with an American congress
man—himself; and when the Asiatic
failed to touch the standard he was
disappointed. Really, Weeks was ex
k peeling too much. It may be doubted
| that even Michigan, not to mention
r Luzon, turns out many such brilliant
examples aa he, ,
A PHILIPPINE TANGLE.
The Republicans appear to be hope
! ful of passing an act providing a tariff
I for the Philippines before the holidays.
I Unless all signs fail the Lodge bill,
providing for such a tariff, and the
bill which the Ways and Means Com
mittee is expected to introduce into
the House within the next day or two
on the same subject, will provoke a
long discussion. If the proposed tariff
legislation is enacted before the holi
days it will be because the Democrats
decide to offer very little opposition to
it. The chances are, however, that
they will take the opportunity which
will present itself to bring to the front
the entire Philippine question, in which
event the debate may last many weeks.
From all accounts the Republican
leaders on this matter are not as har
monious as they would like to have the
public think. It seems that Senator
Lodge did not consult other leaders of
his party In the Senate before he in
troduced his bill, and the Republican
leaders of the House think a Philip
pine tariff measure ought to have been
introduced into the House first, as it
is a bill to raise revenue. It is prob
able, however, that the Republicans
will smooth over their difference and
present a solid front to the Democrats,
if the latter undertake to bring for
ward the whole Philippine question.
The opportunity for bringing it for
ward is an excellent one, and it may
be decided to make it the leading one
in the congressional campaign.
The Lodge bill recognizes the legal
ity of the tariff legislation of the Phil
ippine Commission. That legislation
applies to merchandise imported into
the Philippines. The Lodge bill also
makes the Dingley tariff apply to goods
imported into the United States from
the Philippines. It is probable that the
bill which the Ways and Means Com
mittee will Introduce into the House
will be practically a copy of the Lodge
bill. It is not certain of course that the
tariff adopted by the Philippine Com
mission is binding. The point is made
that Congress could not delegate its
legislative powers. Such powers are
supposed to have been conferred by the
Spooner act.
The whole matter is in a tangle and
it will be surprising if Congress does
not devote a good deal of time to it.
The Democrats may take the position
that Congress has no authority to im
pose duties on Philippine products
coming into the United States, or on
imports from the United States into
the Philippines. Doubtless the Repub
licans will succeed In enacting the leg
islation which they propose. Manila,
which was full of joyous people when
the recent decision of the Supreme
Court was announced declaring free
trade between the United States and
the Philippines, will not be so happy
when Congress has finished its tariff
legislation for those islands.
WILBBLMIHA’t HUSBAND.
The illusion that Wllhelmina’s was a
genuine love match has been shattered.
It is now well known that her husband,
Prince Henry, has not only been very
rude to her, but has pinked with his
sword two gentlemen of the court who
dared to question his conduct. And, as
one consequence, Henry has been se
verely criticised and roundly denounc
ed. The common opinion has been that
he ought to consider himself a very
lucky fellow, to be the husband of so
sweet and pretty a little wife and
queen, and govern himself with most
exact propriety and appreciation. It
seems, however, that Henry does not
lcok at matters quite in that light.
The unpleasant dinner incident at
Het Loo has brought out the fact that
the marriage of Queen WUhelmlna was
very largely a political affair, as most
royal marriages are apt to be. The
Emperor of Germany is credited with
having been the matchmaker. He de
sired to increase the German influences
in Holland. For more than thirty years
♦ here has been a very strong suspicion
in Holland that Germany has an eye
upon that country with a view to an
nexation. When Wilhelmina chose a
German prince as her consort, in ac
cordance with the wish of the German
Emperor, the Hutch court and people
immediately conceived a strong antip
athy to that prince. They imagined
they could see in the occurrence the
strategy of the Germans leading on to
the final obliteration of the Dutch na
tionality. It is strongly suspected that
even Queen Wilhelmina and her moth
er, the Dowager, shared to some ex
tent in this prejudice against the young
German Prince. Nevertheless, Wilhel
mina dutifully married him, accepting
the least objectionable on the list of
eligible young men who might become
her husband. And Henry, on his part,
could not decline when the Queen of
Holland had proposed to him.
Henry was not an unknown quantity
when he became Prince Consort It was
an open secret that he was a hot-head
ed young fellow, '•with abundant debts
and a duelling record. And at the very
beginning the thrifty young Queen re
fused to pay his debts. Being true
Dutch, she had knowledge of the value
of money and did not propose to give
up any that she didn't have to. Then
Henry was thrust Into a decidedly
frigid atmosphere. On every hand he
was met with suspicion and distrust,
and no doubt there were abundant an
noying details about his dally life.
None of these things, nor ail of them,
afford an excuse for the young man to
treat his wife rudely; still they should
not be lost sight of if Justice is to be
done all around. It is safe to say that
Prince Henry did not act in a repre
hensible manner from "pure cussed
ness,” as Mark Twain calls it. There
is a oonsiderable chance that he was
"nagged;” and “nagging” counts for
about as much in a royal household as
any other.
What the outcome of It all will be
Is yet to be seen. It may be that
the cloud3 will roll by, and that they
will "live happily ever afterwards," as
pretty young queens and handsome
princes do in the story books. It may
or not be true that the time of German
domination of the Netherlands has
been advanced by the marriage ol’ Hen
ry to Wilhelmina. The feet remains,
nevertheless, that In pratty nearly
every German breast there abides the
conviction that at no very distant day
i the German standard will float not
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 8. 190 E
only in The Hague but in Vienna, and
that Holland and Austria will be Ger
man states.
CAMPAIGN TACTICS.
Evidence is cropping out that the po
litical ring is beginning to show its
hand in the campaign for the guber
natorial nomination. Its plan seems to
be to keep lower Georgia from con
centrating its strength in support of
one candidate and to destroy the
chances for success of anew candidate
in upper Georgia.
Some of this evidence is as follows:
A communication, signed "A North
Georgia Admirer,” appeared In a
South Georgia paper a day or two ago
in which it was suggested that as
Hon. Henry G. Turner was out of the
gubernatorial race, Hon. Robert G.
Mitchell of Thomasville be the South
Georgia candidate.
There is of course no better or abler
citizen in Georgia than Mr. Mitchell.
There Is no doubt he would make as
good a governor as ever occupied the
gubernatorial office, but it is doubtful
if, at this stage of the campaign, he
could get the promise of sufficient sup
port to justify him in entering the con
test. Nothing would please the politi
cal ring better than to have several
lower Georgia candidates in the con
test so as to scatter the opposition with
which its candidate has to contend.
In upper Georgia the ring, if our view
of the situation is right, is pursuing the
opposite tactics. It doesn’t want any
more candidates in that section. There
fore a story is floating about in the
state papers that H'on. James M.
Smith of Oglethorpe county, who re
cently announced ktnself as a candi
date, is willing to spend one-half of
his $200,000 fortune to get the nomi
nation.
The suggestion that Col. Smith is
ready and willing to buy the guberna
torial nomination is preposterous. He
isn’t that kind of a man. No one who
is acquainted with him believes for an
instant that he would have the gov
ernorship if he had to buy it. He is
a man of too high a character to think
of using money to get votes, but no
doubt there are many in all parts of
the state who, knowing him only by
reputation, would be influenced
against him by such a story.
Col. Smith is perhaps the greatest
farmer in the state. He has been a
mfember of the Legislature time and
time again, and is acknowledged to be
a man of great executive ability, but It
seems that he is in the way of the
plans of the ring, and therefore, must
be killed off. So the story that he is
willing to buy his way into the office
of governor is set afloat. Probably no
better way to ruin his political pros
pects could have been adopted, be
cause the people of Georgia would not
support any one suspected of corrupt
political practices.
From articles which are appearing in
some of the newspapers, it is evident
that there is a political news bureau
in Atlanta whose business it is, in
part, to praise and whoop-up all im
probable and Impossible candidates
and belittle all who block the way of
the ring's candidate.
REPORT IN THE SCHLEY CASE.
No doubt we shall have many state
ments of what the Board of Inquiry
in the Schley case has decided before
the decision is made public. The New
York Herald on Friday gave a fore
cast of the finding, saying that the
board had about completed its
work and that in the best informed cir
cles of the navy it was conceded that
the finding would be against Schley on
five points and for him on six points.
The Herald undertook to give the
points on which the board would find
for and against him.
In our dispatches yesterday it was
stated that Admiral Dewey had denied
that there was any truth in the story
that the board had found against
Schley on five points. In fact, the
dispatch said that there was nothing
known to outsiders as to what the
finding, would be.
And It is a safe prediction that noth
ing will be known until the report is
given out for publication. There may
be some shrewd guesses, but there will
be no authentic information. The pa
pers which pretend to have information
as to the "conclusions which the board
has reached are simply trying to create
the impression that they have advance
information.
STRANGE COUPLES.
A curious thing in connection with
the remarkable disappearance of Miss
Nell Cropsey from Elizabeth City, N.
C., her home, is the number of couples
wandering about the country who do
not want to give an account of them
selves, and who seem to have about
them an air of mystery. From state
ments in the public prints it appears
that as many as a half a dozen couples
have been either arrested or shadow
ed, since the search for Miss Cropsey
began, on the ground that the woman
of each couple was the missing girl.
The woman of one of the couples ar
rested, in an interior town of North
Carolina, bore such a striking likeness
to Miss Cropsey that a young wo
mun who had been the latter’s school
mate claimed to recognize her. It was
soon definitely determined, however,
that she was not the girl that was
wanted, but, strange to say, she was
not inclined to give an account of her
self.
Another couple stopped at a Phila
delphia hotel, and acted so queerly that
the hotel people were certain that they
had Miss Cropsey under their roof,
but it turned out that they hadn't.
Other couples have been arrested or
shadowed in other parts of the coun
try, and in each Instance there was
objection on the part of the suspected
parties to give information about them
selves. The inference Is that all the
time there are couples drifting about
the country who are not disposed to
have their affairs Inquired into. They
are not erlmlnals, but their positions
would not be improved by publicity.
The office of receiver of taxes at
Port Chester, N. Y., has been in ex
istence about ten years. During that
time six occupants of it have died.
There Is now a vacancy In the office,
with no applicants, notwithstanding
politicians are plentiful in the town.
The opinion has got abroad that the
office is hoo-dooed.
An exchange remarks upon the fact
that a baseball pitcher has been signed
to work four months for a salary of
$5,500, and makes this comment: ”A
college professor is in luck if he can
get SI,BOO for working twelve months,
every day in the month and eighteen
hours a day. Yet some people wonder
why young men do not yearn for high
er education.” The simple fact of the
business is that the market is long of
college professors and short of first
class baseball pitchers. Almost any
man of sound mind may become edu
cated to thq point where he is com
petent to be a college professor, but
there are few who can ever acquire
the knack of twirling a twister over
the home plate that will fool the most
accomplished batter. Meanwhile, even
baseball pitchers have their ups and
downs. Amos Ruste, one of the most
phenomenal pitchers that the New
York club ever discovered, and who
used to count his monthly salary in
the thousands, is now working as a
day laborer in Muncie, Ind., at $1.50
per diem. That is not quite so good as
lecturing to a college class at. SI,BOO
per annum.
The New Jersey State Board of
Health has made the rather startling
discovery that cancer was responsible
for more deaths in that state last year
than any other ailment. The deaths
from cartcer amounted to 1,001, or
nearly twice as many as those from
smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever and
typhoid combined. The report of the
board does not attempt to explain the
prevalence of this disease, but merely
points to the fact that cancer cases
have become alarmingly numerous.
PERSONAL.
—Senator Sewell of New Jersey has
been forced by continued bad health
to abandon his plans for spending the
winter in the South. He will return to
his home in Camden, and remain there.
AVhen asked the other day as tp
the question he raised concerning the
syntactical number of the United
States, ex-Secretary John W. Foster,
said: “I think, after all, the best an
swer is that of the oartoOnist: ‘Between
ourselves the United States are plural,
but between ourselves and any other
nation the United States is singular.’ ”
—There is a little story about Prince
Edward of Wales in the British Week
ly. He said, the other day, to a lady
who was visiting the royal children In
their nursery, “Do you think that great
grandmamma Is quite happy in heav
en?” "Yes, dear.” replied the lady
"don’t you think so?” “Well, I am not
quite sure.” answered he. “You see, she
have to walk behind the angels
there, and here she always walked in
front.”
—The St. Petersburg correspondent
of the London Times, commenting on
the reports of the illness, death, and
burial of Count Tolstoi which have re
cently appeared, contradicts them on
the best authority. He says that Count
ToUtoi is suffering from a severe cold
and fatigue, resulting from overindul
gence In his favorite exercise, riding.
The circulation of the reports, he says
was caused by the widespread belief
To J stoi does dl ”' the news
will be kept from the public by the
censorship as long as possible. The
ecclesiastical authorities cannot accord
Christian burial to him, as they have
recently denounced him as a heretic
fheVh* r w fU f^L t 0 n,lnw the rites of
the Church at the grave is sure to pro
,outburst of indignation all
over Russia.
BRIGHT hits.
-A Practical View.-Struggllng Pas
tor—" The collections ha'e fallen off
terribly." Practical Wife—"lt’s that
new vestryman who pisses the pHte.
He never watches what people put in "
—New York Weekly.
A Delicate Choice of Terms.—"l am
told." said the friend, "that the man
ager you have left was paying von a
3tormineto lar n ? " No '” answer e<l Mr.
Kt ” ® anles : “not fabulous
imaginary. —Washington Star.
-Heading Him Ofr.-Biggs-"i want
to give you a piece of good advice.”
—Diggs—"All right; but first let me
% Plece "Blggs-“Well, what
is it Diggs— Follow the good ad
'■'c® y “ u are eoing to give me."-Chi
cago News.
-Parson-Why, John, what are yQU
doing there?
Jnhn—B b e too wet to work, sur.
Parson—Well, if it’s too wet to work
tvh.v don t you go home? “’
Jaw oh so~-Pul; c h my ° ,d '° man ’ she *
-A Noble Aim She—Have you heard
anything about the Woman’s Reform
Yes, its object seems to be to rp
Brooklyn Life. comers.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says; "The reciprocity that would be
good for Cuba ought not to be de
nied the Philippines. The Cubans are
our wards for the time being but the
Inhabitants of the Philippines have ad!
mitted constitutional rights that p\pn
'- bOUnd ‘° - -‘
mg them the liberty of our markka
we should give them the best and most
tlons.” 6 Pro ° f ° f ° Ur good inten-
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.)
says "This country has done more for
Cuba than the people of that island
nave deserved. If we are to give th
the . freedom of our markets
which is about all that they would
value from us, it would be infinitely
bet er to annex the island at once, as
In that event we would have at least
some territorial asset in return for
the privilege of the freedom of our
great markets."
The Washington Post find.) says
"Mr Depew’s revised and elongated
congressional biography says he was
married in December. 1901, to Miss
May Palmerl ' Mr Depew is evidently
of the opinion that when a man is toil
ed off to be married he is as good
as wed. We believe there is some
thing of that sort In ’The Mikado’
with the exception that it doesn’t per
tain exactly to marriage."
The Nashville (Tenn.) American
(Dem.) says: "The Democrats In the
Senate should be very sure of their
ground before they oppose the canal
treaty because it' does not give the
United States'the power to ’fortify,’ in
stead of ‘police’ the waterway. The
Democrats want to be right on this
treaty, of course, but Great Britain
has given up practically everything
asked by this nation, and the chance to
get the canal should not be Jeopardized
by factious opposition. There is not
much reason for allowing the Re
publicans all credit for inaugurating
Ahis grand enterprise.”
Tales of a Lord Chief Jantlee.
Lord Russell of Klllowen, who was
one of England’s most brilliant lord
chief justices, was a man of indefatig
able industry and marked eccentricity,
says the Chicago News. He was essen
tially a man of action, and great as he
was at the bar it is possible that lie
would have been greater still as a gen
eral. He did not read up his law.AVhen
ever he was not working he was walk
ing or riding or playing cards or bil
liards. One day he came into the rob
ing room at St. George’s hall, Liver
pool. Several members of the Junior
bar were standing round the fire. ”AA r hy
are you loafing here?” he said. "Why
don't you do something?” “We have
nothing to do,” said the junior bar.
“Why don’t you go to the races?” he
rejoined; “do something,” laying great
emphasis on the “do.”
What helped Russell more than all
his other qualities was his immense de
termination. He relied less on finesse
and skill than on directness and force.
He once explained his method to Mr.
O’Brien. With an English jury, he said,
the great thing is to "go straight at the
witness and at the point;, throw your
cards on the table.” He had also the
gift of being able to use other men s
brains. One day a barrister went into
a law library. He saw a friend at work
and asked what he was about. “Work
ing up cases for Russell,” was the an
swer. Other men were also at work.
They all gave the same answer. “Yes,”
said the sixth man, “there are six of
us doing the work of one man in order
that one man may do the work of six.”
The defect of Russell’s quality of in
tense force was an overbearing man
ner. A consultation with Russell was
an experience not to be forgotten. His
language was strong. One day in court
the clie.,t in a case turned round and
made some suggestion to Russell. "Who
is that unpleasant-looking man who
spoke to me?” said Russell with a
frown to the solicitor. “That’s your
client.” "Then tel!-him to go to some
part ot the court where I cannot see
him.”
Here is a curious instance of Rus
sell's attention to details. He was re
tained for a young lady in a breach-of
promise case. “Take her to the dress
maker,” he said to the solicitor, “and
order a perfectly plain dress of a soft
gray color, fitting closely to the figure,
without any trimming, and a big black
hat, also as simple as possible.” His
advocacy or the costume, secured $50,-
000 damages. In divorce cases he ex
pected his lady clients to be dressed in
black. He used to say that at least they
ought to pretend to be sorry.
Supreme Court Justice Abnshed.
The days of whispered conferences
in the White House are past. The
President sees most of his visitors in
the big reception room. He goes from
one to another and says what he has
to say in a voice that reaches to ev
ery part of the room.
A day or two ago, says the Balti
more News, a Justice of the Supreme
Court came in with his son. The Jus
tice presented the son. Then he lean
ed over and whispered a few words to
the President’s ear.
“I am sorry,” said the President—
and fifty people heard him rasp it out
—“I am sorry, but it cannot be done.
All promotions must be on merit.”
Avery much abashed Justice of the
Supreme Court, with his son in tow.
left the White House hurriedly.
This absolute refusal of the President
to get chummy and talk in whispers
amazes the gum-shoe statesmen, who
have been going around talking under
• heir breaths for 60 years. They want
to be mysterious. They think all pol
itics always should be talked sub rosa.
Uncle Shelby Cullom, who even stops
a street car In a whisper, and who
moves about so softly that his oppo
nents never can keep track of him, is
puzzled.
“Getting the President’s ear,” he siid
the other night, “is like opening a
window and shouting at the wide, wide
world. He talks too loud.” And there
was a plaintive note in the Illinois
statesman’s voice.
Her Heasons Why.
“Ah, yes," sobbed Christabei: "I
confess I love you. but it can never
be—we can never marry. I feel that
mother is right; that social distinc
tions must be observed, however much
they may interfere with the inclina
tions of our hearts. Go, Harry Haw
lum! The chasm that yawns between
us is too wide.”
"I will go,” said the young man, ac
cording to Leslie's Weekly, his voice
trembling with emotion: “but would
you mind telling me where this chasm
comes in? I always thought that our
families were on about the same so
cial footing. Has anybody left you a
fortune lately?”
"No,” wailed Christabei; “it is not
that. It is—it is—but, oh, Harry! why
should I pain you?”
"Never mind the pain,” said the
young man, now thoroughly aroused.
"I must know why you consider me
beneath you socially.”
“Then hear it!” cried the maiden.
“We have mantel mirrors and gas logs
in our new flat. Have you these things
in your flat? Answer me, Harry Haw
lum!”
But there was no answer. The young
man had lived all his life in Harlem,
and he knew its social distinctions but
too well. With a groan of despair
he fled to his old-fashioned flat and
sat down and cursed the inventors of
mantel mirrors and gas logs.
Equal to tile Occasion.
Quite recently an Irishman in Liv
erpool having only a penny, and feel
ing very thirsty, was wondering how
he would get a drink, says Tit Bits.
After a minute’s reflection, he entered
a public house with the intent of ask
ing for a penny’s worth of beer. Just
as he went in a man called for a pint
of beer and, having got it, was about
drinking it when the Irishman stepped
to him and said:
"I’ll bet you a penny, sir, that I’d
put that beer into my stomach with
out letting it down my throat.”
“All right,” said the other, producing
his penny.
Pat took up the mug and drank the
contents at a draught. Then pushing
over the bets he said: "I’ve lost, and
you can have my penny.”
In December.
From Alnslee’s Magazine.
"From the cold gTay of morning’s
frosty edge
To evening’s rim obscured by
whirling sleet.
The rough winds shake the stiff ana
rusted sedge
Until it points the dusky waters meet
With shrill, wet whispers, where the
shore slants low.
Like ghosts of kisses only June could
know.
“As far as blooming of the damask
rose
And daisies on the hillside are from
these —
The muffling fog, the blank of uncrush
ed snows,
And hailstones beating through the
sodden trees,
So far are we apart, my love, and yet.
The spring is coming—let us not for*
get.”
—Hattie Whitney*.
—A Few Y’ears Hence.—"Anythin*
going on this evening?” "Yes; thereb
to be a performance at the Athleth
Gardens. A fellow will undertake t>
subdue an automobile that has a rec
ord of having killed six men. He's u
do it in one hour or forfeit a thuus ,nq
dollars.”—Chicago Tribune,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—K. B. Koch finds that lightning
conductors whose connections have be
come imperfect through rusting or
otherwise act, nevertheless, in quite an
efficient manner in a thunderstorm.
This is due to the oscilating character
of lightning discharges. Electromag
netic waves are produced, which act
upon the imperfect connections as up
on a coherer, restoring their conduc
tivity for a more or less long period.
Lightning has hitherto been considered
a continuous discharge, which often
becomes apparently oscillatory by
quick repetition.
—Two hundred years ago next month
Bienville, under direction of Iberville,
founded Fort Louis, that being the or
igin of the French colony of Louisiana,
and of its capital, Mobile. The citizens
of that Alabama city will, therefore,
celebrate its “bi-centennial on Jan. 11
and 12. They will have parades, ora
tions, music and addresses by visiting
Governors. On the second day Twen
ty-seven Mile Bluff will be visited, and
a memorial stone will be erected there
to mark the site of Fort St. Louis. As
is usual in Southern celebrations, the
women will have a special part, and
at an evening reception the bravery
of the South’s pioneer women will be
appropriately extolled.
—Medical records contain many ref
erences to the “human ostrich," but the
latest case, hailing from the New Jer
sey State Insane Hospital, should be
printed in upper-case letters. The post
mortem examination evolved the fact
that the patient’s stomach contained
three teaspoons, six dessert spoon han
dles, three tin cup handles, two trouser
buckles, three suspender buckles, two
pieces of tin, one brass back of a comb,
twenty-six pieces of glass, twenty
eight stones, a piece of slate and twen
ty-seven pieces of wire—in all 102 arti
cles. The doctors ascribe the patient’s
death to gastritis; to the ordinary lay
man it looks rather like an abortive
attempt to convert his “innards" into
a junk store. But the scientific frater
nity never seems to be happy unless it
Is-wallowing in crack-jaw terms when
good, plain Anglo-Saxon would fill the
bill to a nicety.
—Under the new contract made by
the postoffice officials the time of trans
it of winter mails between Seattle,
Wash., and Nome, Alaska, will be cut
down from sixty and sixty-five days
each way to twenty-four days, with
corresponding expedition for interme
diate points. The service will be per
formed by anew western route, avoid
ing the usual winter route via the Up
per Yukon region. The new service
is via Valdez, Alaska, liiamna bay, on
Cook's inlet, St. Michael, and Golovin,
to Nome, 2,567 miles in all, with two
round trips a month during this win
ter. Steamers will sail from Seattle
about the 7th and 25th of each month,
beginning with December. The con
tract compensation is $3,000 per round
trip, the contractor being the North
ern Commercial Company for the
ocean part and the Trans-Alaska Com
pany for the overland part of the route.
The weight of mail for the overland
part of this route is limited to 250
pounds per single trip, and preference
wtll be given first to letter mail and
second to separately addressed news
papers.
—Beer is the staple product of Mil
waukee. and is regarded by the ma
jority of Its citizens as having been
the prime factor in promoting Its
growth. There is a minority, however,
and a strong one, which objects to the
shoving of the barley juice before the
outside public on every possible oc
casion. The proposition to give the
new bridge, which is shortly to be
opened with all kinds of formal cere
monies, a good send-off by breaking
a bottle of the juice on the structure
is creating considerable opposition. It
Is contended that there are other sorts
of business in the city besides the
brewing interests, and that the smash
ing of the bottle could verv well be
dispensed with. The minority is hard
ly likely to succeed, for the other side
seems to have disarmed opposition in
the only direction which would have
had any weight—the breweries them
selves—for the bottle will be made
up of samples from all the establish
ments in the city. It may be all very
well to advertise the city by the beer,
but to spread the virtues of somebody’s
treble X bock or lager is not to be tol
erated. For once, mixing the drinks
seems likely to promote good feeling.
—The drink habits of Canadians are
gradually changing, resulting in an In
creased consumption of beer and a de
creased drinking of wine and liquors.
During the past fiscal year Canadians
consumed 4,737 gallons of beer per
head, as against 2,290 gallons in 1869.
Since confederation the per capita con
sumption of beer has, therefore, more
than doubled. This has been accom
panied by a considerable decrease in
the drinking of liquor. Last year the
consumption of spirits per head was
.765, or about three-quarters of a gal
lon for every man, woman and child.
In 1869 Canadians used 1.124 gallons.
Very slight is the change in the na
tional wine bill. The Canadians are
now drinking .100 of a gallon per head,
whereas thirty-two years ago they con
sumed .115 of a gallon. The average
consumption of wine since confedera
tion was .124 of a gallon, which is
about one-fifth larger than the demand
last year. A comparison of these re
turns with those of other countries
goes to show that the Canadians are
sober people, "if the teetotalers were
counted,” the Toronto Mail and Em
pire says, "it would probably be found
hat in proportion to population, they
are more numerous in Canada than
anywhere else in the civilized world.”
—Some fishes do not have sharp
weapons with which to keep off their
enemies or to use in catching other
fishes for themselves; so nature, which
looks after all things, teaches them
little tricks which they use to great
advantage, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. There is one fish who hides
himself in the mud at the bottom of
the big rivers in India, where he makes
his home, and just peeps his head out
to see what is going on. Now, this
fish has a kind of beard growing on
his lips. The hairs of the beard keep
wiggling about in the water, and the
little fishes think that surely they are
worms. All little fishes are very
greedy, so when they see these hairs
they say to themselves: ’’Oh, here are
some fine worms; let's have a party.”
Up they swim and begin to nibble at
the hairs; but the fish who is in the
mud gobbles them up, and the little
ones do not have any party. There is
another kind of fish who shoots flies
and little bugs. He twists his mouth
until It is Just like a popgun, and he
uses a drop of water instead of a bul
let. When he sees a fly sitting on a
leaf near the water’s edge, he takes
aim very carefully, then pop! and Mr.
Fly finds himself knocked Into the wa
ter, only to be eaten by the fish who
has shot him. Still another strange
fish lives in the sea. He is called the
sucking fish. When he sees anySiing
he likes very much, he simply fastens
himself to it by means of a kind of
plate on his head. He is so strong that
nothing can pull him away. The peo
ple who live near the coast of Africa
use this fish to catch turtles. They tie
a strong cord to his tall and put him
In the water near the place where the
turtle is asleep. If they go too near
the turtle will wake up and swim
away, but the sucking fish always
catches him and holds so hard that
the men In ,the boat pull In fish, turtle
and all. go you see this flsh Is very
Useful
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