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MONDAY, MARCH 10. 1902.
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IMJLX TO SEW ADVERIISEMESIS.
Meetings—Georgia Chapter No. 3, R.
A. M.; German Friendly Society.
Special Notices —Andrew Hanley
Company.
Business Notices—Bucfiu Gin; E. &
W. Laundry.
Remember, You Have Dear Ones at
Home—Lindsay & Morgan.
Financial—Statement of the Con
dition of the Citizens’ Bank of Savan
nah: Statement of the Condition of
the Germania Bank.
Bankruptcy Notice —In the Matter of
IV. O. Paxson. Bankrupt.
Beer—Pabst Beer.
Amusements—Mr. Josef Hofmann at
Lawton Memorial, March 18, Under
Auspices of Savannah Music Club;
Jules Grau Opera Company To-night in
"El Capitan.”
Paper-Hanging. Etc. —Jas. F. Butler.
Watches—Waltham Watches.
Vneeda Biscuit —American Biscuit
Company.
Washing Powder—Pearline.
Medical—Dr. Hathaway Company;
Castoria; Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters;
Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills; Alli
gator Liniment.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair weather, variable winds; and
for Eastern Florida, fair weather,
light to fresh east to southeast winds.
March 17 has been fixed as the day
for the vote in the Senate on the ship
subsidy bill. It is predicted that the
bill will be passed. It would be inter
esting to know why the Senators de
sire to bring Patrick's Day into dis
repute.
The Republican leaders of Congress
are beginning, to look forward to an
adjournment in June. Senator Hale
sees no reason why Congress should
not be ready for adjurnment on June
1. Some other Republicans think June
15 about the date that may be counted
on.
A bill has been introduced into the
Maryland Legislature authorizing the
city of Baltimore to acquire and oper
ate the city’s street railways. It is
proposed to submit the matter to a vote
of the people. If they ratify the prop
osition, Baltimore is to be authorized
to experiment with municipal owner
-Bh‘-
An exchange calls attention to the
fact that Delaware has had no repre
sentation In the Senate since Senator
Kenney went out on March 4 last, and
that she had but one senator for some
years previous to that time. It is an
open question whether Delaware of
right ought to have more than one sen
ator. She is hardly bigger than a
fish ball; yet the constitution gives her
representation* in the Senate equal to
that of the most populous state in the
Union.
There were thirty-one beet sugar
factories in the United States in 1900,
and forty-two in 1901. The total pro
duction of beet sugar in 1901 was 185,-
000 tons, an increase of 108,000 tons over
the year preceding. Nine factories are
now In course of erection. The lead
ing beet sugar state is Michigan, with
twenty-eight factories and an invested
capital of 814,900,000. Colorado comes
next with seven factories and an in
vested capital of 85.000.000. Fifteen
states have factories and investments
averaging over 81.000,000 each. The
very great majority of the beet sugar
is manufactured in the West. Of the
Eastern states New York has one man
ufactory, New Jersey one, Ohio three
and Pennsylvania one. According to
' the estimate of a special agent, the
sugar beet crop is worth to the far
mers approximately 814.000.000 a year.
The Metropolitan Street Railway of
New York has instituted a pension
system, which is to go into effect on
July 1, next. This is said to be the
first pension system ever established
by a street railway company. It pro
vides for voluntary and involuntary
retirement of all employees between
the ages of 65 and 70 years of age who
have been fontinuously in the s.erviee
of the company for twenty-five years.
Those whose employment has been for
thirty-five years or more will receive
40 per cent, of the annual average
wages of the ten previous years; thirty
years’ service will carry a pension of
30 per cent., and twenty-five years of
25 per cent. The fund is to be supplied
by the company. The employees will
not be asked to contribute to It. The
Pennsylvania Railroad has a some-
THE PLEA OF Gl AM.
Guam has become tired of occupying
the position of a military station un
der the Navy Department. She may
be little, but so are Monaco and Rhode
Island, and she thinks she has as much
right to an autonomous government as
either of those commonwealths and
others that might be mentioned. Guam
doesn't object to being American; in
deed. she rather likes it and means to
continue to float the Stars and Stripes
and play the Star Spangled Banner.
But she asserts that military rule is
not the proper thing for a self-re
specting American island that is giv
ing no trouble and has no intention of
giving any.
The Secretary of the Navy the oth
er day transmitted to Congress the
memorial of the people of Guam pray
ing for relief from military rule and
the establishment of a government in
which they would have a voice. They
haven't any complaint to make of the
Governor of the island, Commander
Sohroeder. They honor and respect
him and he fills the office as nearly to
their satisfaction as anyone-'could. But
they pray for "the establishment of
a permanent government that will en
able us to mold our institutions to the
American standard, and prepare our
selves and our children for the obliga
tions and the enjoyment of the rights
and privileges to which we as loyal
citizens of the United States feel our
selves rightfully entitled.”
Guam’s present government is an
exemplification of the one-man power.
How a former governor made and en
forced marriage and property and la
bor laws, and in anany instances
knocked precedents of centuries into
a cocked hat, without consulting the
people to be governed, will be recalled
by newspaper readers. And then came
another Governor, who reversed some
of his predecessor's rulings and es
tablished new rules of his own. The
same sort of thing is likely to occur
every time there is a change of Gov
ernors at Guam. The government is
not permanent. The natives do not
know "where they arc at." Let them
run their island themselves, under
proper restrictions and supervision,
they say, and they will get along much
better. There is nothing unreasonable
in the request. It Guam is not to be
used as an anarchist colony, as was
suggested some time ago, it is well
enough to give it the machinery of a
satisfactory government.
THE METRIC SYSTEM.
The House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures lias before it
a bill to fix the standard of weights
and measures by the adoption of the
metric system. The metric system is
used in France, Germany and other
European countries, and its advocates
claim that its adoption in the United
States would tend to simplify calcula
tions to a very considerable extent.
It is pointed out that under present
arrangements three systems are em
ployed in the mints of this country;
avoirdupois weight for the purchasing
of supplies, troy weight for coinage,
and the metric system for scientific
work. At the custom houses, foreign
invoices are calculated by the metric
system, whereas the tariff charges on
imports must be calculated by the sys
tems of weights and measures that ob
tain in this country. This necessitates
a considerable amount of work in the
custom house, and often more or less
confusion on the part of importers, who
are compelled to buy under one system
of weights and measures and sell un
der another.
It will not be denied that the metric
system has some advantages over our
mixed system. But it would re
quire a long time and cost a lot df
money to make the change from the
present standards to the one proposed.
All of our people are now familiar with
ounces and pounds, and inches and
yards. An ounce or an inch means
a definite thing to them. Some few
of them may have an idea respecting
grams and metres, but -the idea always
takes into consideration the relation
of ounces and inches to these units.
All of our conceptions of distance,
weight and capacity are based upon
the standards with which we have be
come familiar. They are now, and
always have been, taught in our
schools. To change the standards
would require the “unlearning” of all
that we know about such things and
learning a system that is entirely new
to the mass of the people.
The difficulty of learning and adopt
ing the new method of calculation
would be far frbm the only obstacle in
the way. Our lands have been bought
and sold by feet, rods and acres; our
machinery has been constructed on the
scale cf inches, feet and pounds, as
have also our ships and railway cars.
The manufacturers have drawn their
models and patterns in accordance
with the old scales, and contractors
and builders base their calculations
upon the same. Interior merchants
and farmers buy and sell by the old
rules, with which they are familiar and
satisfied. Is it a good idea to discom
mode, if not actually embarrass for
a greater or less length of time, all of
these interests for the sake of aiding
the scientists and the custom houses
to easier calculations? That seems to
be pretty nearly the sum of advan
tages that are to be brought about by
the proposed change.
Gov. Dole of Hawaii has been sum
moned to Washington to explain the
charges that have been made against
his administration. Asa result of the
hearing of the complaints against
Judge Humphreys, charges have been
hied against Dole. The Bulletin of
Honolulu, for some, months has been
roasting the Dole government and al
leging against it about all of the sins
in the catalogue. The anti-Dole peo
ple will now have a chance of proving
what they have charged.
During the time that Delaware has
been without full representation in the
Senate, public documents to the credit
of the Delaware senators accumulated
to the extent that three carloads of
them were hauled out of Washington
the other day and consigned to the
state officials at Dover. Asa matter of
flidt, a very great sum of the public
money is every year wasted in printing
“pub. docs.” that are never read by
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. MARCH 10. 1902.
CH ANGES IN M ASSAC’HI SETTS.
Ben Butler predicted that It would
not be a great many years before
Massachusetts would be a Democratic
: state, by reason of the rapidly increas
ing population of foreign extraction.
Recently published vital statistics of
the state seem to indicate that Gen.
Butler was something of a prophet;
that is, assuming that foreigners and
their offspring in America become
Democrats. The latest census figures
show that somewhere about one-third
of the people in Massachusetts are of
foreign birth. Nevertheless the vital
i statistics for the year 1900 show that
of the babies born in Massachusetts
23,006 were of native parentage and
36,062 of foreign parentage. The mar
riage rate among the native and
foreign elements had been about iu
proportion to their relation to the pop
ulation; that is, about two native mar
riages to one foreign. The native ele
ment, therefore, according to the Bos
ton Herald, had neglected the biblical
injunction to increase and multiply,
while the foreigners had obeyed it to
the letter. Of the births the foreigners
led the natives by more than two to
one.
The Herald takes a rather pessimistic
view of the situation, in view of these
facts. It fears the disappearance of
the New England type. The Chicago
Inter Ocean says it means the "deyan
keeizing of Massachusetts,” and that
the day is not far distant when ”a gen
uine Yankee will be as much of a cur
iosity as a buffalo in a section where
Sant Lawsons used to be as plentiful
as blackberries.” The Boston Trans
cript sees a menacing relative disap
pearance of "the old American stock,”
not only by reason of the increase in
the foreign birth rate and decrease in
the native, but because native born
young men and women are leaving
Massachusetts in large numbers every
year to try their fortunes elsewhere.
And really one cannot blame the na
tives to get away at the earlies op
portunity. Massachusetts may be a
good enough place to bd born in—
though the figures do not bear It out
with respect to the natives—‘and a good
enough place to die in; but why
anyone who can get away should be
content to live there is an enigma. Its
ground is mostly rocky and unproduc
tive, its open season short and its
closed or winter season long and rigor
been called the "pneumonia, belt,” and
a common salutation among its people
is, “‘How’s your cough?” It is not sur
prising, therefore, to find a consider
able native emigration to the more gen
erous West and the most generous
South where climates are propitious
and there is fruitfulness in fields and
families.
AS SEEN BY AN ENGLISHMAN.
Mr. J. Stephen Jeans of London,
secretary of the British Iron Trade
Association, has given close personal
attention to the development of indus
tries in the United States for a num
ber of years. Summarizing his ob
servations to date in an article in a
recent number of the Manufacturers'
Record, he says: "If I were seeking
an investment for my children and
myself, If I had been a young man, I
think I would vary Horace Greeley’s
injunction and ’Go South.’ ”
The reasons that lead to Mr. Jeans
to this conclusion are clearly and suc
cinctly stated. While the whole ter
ritory of the United States, he says,
is richly endowed with natural re
sources, he knows of no section with
its cup of blessing fresh from nature’s
hand so overflowing as the Southern
states, which have not only gold, lead,
copper, iron, coal and other minerals,
but which in respect to agricultural
products, including cotton, are at least
equal to if they do not exceed, any
equally large area of the earth’s sur
face with which he has become ac
quainted during the course of very
considerable travels in four continents.
He points out that the present center
of the iron industry of the United
States is hardly where it should be
naturally, since it is necessary to haul
coal and ores over long distances to
that center, while "in the South the
cost of producing pig iron is admittedly
cheaper than In any other locality
within the wide folds of the United
States, and can possibly be brought
down to a figure that would make
it cheaper than that of any locality
in the W'orld.”
Th e South, however, has been ham
pered by various adverse circum
stances, the greatest being lack of cap
ital. One strong reason why it has
been hard to interest foreign capital
in the South, he says, is that it has
been difficult to secure perfect titles
to property. He relates an incident in
which the late Duke of Marlborough
had about perfected arrangements to
invest largely in Southern properties,
but was "choked off on the question
of titles.” There are probably numer
ous instances in which promising
schemes have fallen through from this
same cause. Investors do not care to
buy worry, uncertainty, litigation and
distraction with their investments.
However, there is less and less of this
drawback every year, and the South
is gradually, surely forging to the
front.
Mr. Jeans does not think the South
should be in feverish haste. It is rich
enough to wait for a normal develop
ment. "The natural resources of cli
mate, soil and mineral wealth which
it possesses do not, like the riches of
some more mushroom districts, or
places built on more artificial founda
tions, threaten to ‘take wings.’ If
they cannot be utilized with advan
tage and profit to-day, they can keep,
and in the process of keeping the value
will increase. There are not many
Alabamas in the world; there is no
other in the United States.” And the
same observation applies to some
other mineral districts in the South.
Nikola Tesla says the fact that the
signal corps of the army telephoned
without wires over a distance of 480
I feet the other day is nothing remark
! able, and insists that as much as two
! years ago he talked through the air
j with a person eight miles away. It
' is beyond the power of the average
| person to keep up with the wonders
There are in course of construction
in a shipyard at New London, Conn.,
two of the greatest freight carrying
steamships ever built in this country.
It required no subsidy to insure their
construction. They are owned by the
Great Northern Railway, of which
James J. Hill is president, and are
designed to carry freights between
this continent*and the Orient. They
are .American owned and American
built vessels; but. oddly enough, they
are to be sailed under a foreign flag.
Some foreign governments are not so
particular as we are about where the
ships that fly their flags are built. What
those governments want is the mer
chant. marine, and they are willing
that the ships shall be built wherever
the owners please. It is stated, upon
w'hat authority cannot be said, that
the new monsters of the Great North
ern are to fly the German flag, for the
reason that the German navigation
laws are the most liberal and favor
able to ownqrrs of such ships. Mr.
Frye's subsidy bill does not seem to
meet the case of these American ships
going under a foreign flag.
Prince Henry has now been in this
country a little better than two
weeks. He has swung around the cir
cle of his Southern and Western tour
and returned to New York. All of
the time he has been in pretty close
touch with the people, and the people
have had the opportunity of forming
an opinion of him. Tfiat opinion can
not be otherwise than favorable. On
every occasion Henry has shown him
self to be a man of warm heart and
good common sense. His speeches
have been models of frankness and
good taste. He has made no "bad
break,” nor has he said one word bet
ter left unsaid. The impressions he
has created is decidedly to the advan
tage of himself and his imperial
brother.
PERSONAL.
—Archibald Roosevelt discussed the
Prince with great vigor to some of his
schoolmates the other day. “Why,”
he said, “he ain’t like any prince I
ever heard of. He didn’t come up in
a chariot drawn by white horses at all.
He rode in a carriage just like ours.
J don’t think he's much of a prince,”
the small boy sniffed. "He looks just
like any other man-made of meat,
you know.”
—The Pope’s confidence in his longev
ity is illustrated by a couple of stories.
Some eighteen months ago a young
journalist who had gone to Rome se
cured the privilege of being presented
to the Pope. Leo XIII inquired, "Are
you a Catholic?” “Your holiness. I am
not,” replied the journalist. “Then,”
queried the Pope, "what may it be
that attracts you to the Eternal City?”
The journalist blurted out: “I am here
to prepare for the Conclave.” The
Pope’s features fell, hut after a mo
ment’s musing a smile came over his
face as he remarked: "Then you may
take a long holiday, for there’s going
to be no Conclave for a good time to
cornel” A French bishop was In Rome,
some eight years back, on his visit ad
limina. On taking leave of the Pope
he said sadly; “Holy Father! I fear
greatly that this is my last farewell;
for at your great age I can hardly
hope to see you more.” “And when
do you hope to come to us again?”
asked the Pope. “Alas, Holy Father!”
replied the prelate, "it may not be till
seven whole years are past.” "If so,
God spare your life, my brother,” re
joined Leo gravely, "come back in
seven years’ time: you will find me
here!” Only a few weeks ago the
bishop came again.
— t
BRIGHT BITS.
—Blobbs—“l shall have to wear
glasses.” Slobbs—"Are you troubled
with your eyes?" Blobbs —"What did
you think I was going to wear them
for—bun tons ?”—Philadelphia Record.
—Too Lalte.—"When I was your age
I didn’t have the advantages you
have,” said the rather sagely. “Well,
father,” replied the son, “it's too late
to kick about it now. You should have
thought about those things at the
time.” —Ohio State Journal.
—Equally Exciting.—Prince Henry
(looking about him) —"This is your
Senate chamber, is it?" Washington
Guide—“ Yes, your Highness, I am sor
ry we have no fist fight between sen
ators to show you to-day, but if your
Highness will step into the hall in the
other tving of the building you will
probably hear Mr. Wheeler of Ken
tucky make a speech.”—Chicago Tri
bune.
—ln Washington.—Down Pennsylva
nia avenue came a tattered and torn
man. His eyes were blacked, his nose
was bleeding, and his cheeks were
bruised: while he limped painfully,
and had one arm in a sling. Did the
astute detective who observed him
stop him and ask which direction the
footpads had taken? Not he. He said:
“Good morning, Senator.” —Baltimore
American.
Cl H REST COMMEJiT.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.)
says: “Gen. Funston doesn't call those
Philippine scrimmages war. He inti
mates that such a designation sadly
belittles the term. There isn't even
any respectable guerilla warfare,
though how guerilla warfare can be
made respectable is something of a
puzzle.”
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says:
“Gov. Van Sant's too vigorous behav
ior recently in Chicago justifies the
presumption that he mistook Prince
Henry for a railroad merger. Poking
a prince in the ribs is not a diplomatic
mode of greeting. .Judging by the fre
quency with which the prince was
suddenly summoned to the rear plat
form to make a speech or change cars,
he must consider himself a railroad
ejnerger.”
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
“Prince Henry 'came to this country
incidentally to be present at the
launching of the Emperor's yacht,
and chiefly, as he frankly avows, to
strengthen the friendly relations ex
isting between two powerful nations.
There is no reason to credit him or
the Emperor with any ulterior pur
pose, and until Germany does under
take to*infringe the Monroe policy and
seize territory in the Caribbean sea
there is no occasion for the people of
the United States or the newspapers
to become unduly excited.”
The Philadelphia Times (Dem.)
says: “Senator McLaurln's proposed
amendment to the ship subsidy bill is
wholly in the line of true public pol
icy. It provides that a sworm list of
all who are interested in a proprie
tary way in vessels that are subsi
dized shall be published periodically
and that no considerable officer of the
government shall be among them. If
this amendment should be opposed by
the men who are urging the subsidy
bill in Congress, and can be fully de
bated, it will be rather curious to note
what kind of reasons they may be able
A Street In Chicago.
A Chicago man who lives in Goethe
street, gets off the car at Schiller
street, two blocks away, because no
conductor can understand his pronun
ciation of Goethe, says the New York
Tribune. "I had practised on the pro
nunciation for a week.” he says, "and
I had the sound of the ’umlaut’ down
fine. I sprung it on the conductor the
first evening. He looked at me blank
ly, and replied: ‘Huh?’ I repeated it
over once or twice, and finally a great
light broke over him. ’Oh, yes. you
nc?an Go-the. Why didn't you say
so?’ The next evening the conductor
called it Go-eeth. The third time up it
was Go-e-the. Then there was a raw
Irishman in charge of one of the trains
who spoke of it as Go-tay, with the
accent on the last syllable. One morn
ing I left an order for my wife at the
grocer’s. He looked at me in silence
for a minute after I had given our ad
dress. ‘Oh, yes.’ he said, ’you mean
Gertie street.’ The butcher calls it
Gaytie, the laundryman pronounces it
Gay-tuh, and the man who delivers
coil alludes to it as Goth street. I
have a woman friend, who prides her
self on her culture, who speaks feel
ingly of Gutter street. But the de
voted thoroughfare doesn’t really
it in the neck’ until you hear the jani
tor talk. He calls it Goitre.”
Their Relationship.
"There are some queer couples in
the world, remarked an estate agent
recently, says the Boston Advertiser.
The other day a man and woman called
to see me about renting a house. The
woman did all the talking and turned
to the man for confirmation or cor
roboration. He always agreed with
her. and did it very meekly.
"Well." said the woman, "I’ll give
you 825 for the house.’ Won't we,
John?”
John—Yes.
"And I’ll pay my rent promptly, too;
won’t we, John?”
“Yes.”
"And I'll take good care of the house;
won't we, John?”
“Y’es.”
"And I'll take It for three years;
won’t we, John?”
"Yes.”
"But,” I inquired, as Is usual in
such cases, “are you man and wife?”
"Man and wife,” exclaimed the wo
man sharply. “Indeed, we are not; are
we, John?”
"No, my dear.”
"What?” said I. “Not man and
wife ?”
“Not mqch,” she retorted. “I’d have
you know, too, that in this family we
are wife and man; that's so, isn’t it,
John?”
And John meekly agreed.
Hoar's Pathetic Story.
Senator Hoar was talking to some of
his friends, says the Philadelphia
Times. "The most pathetic story I
have ever heard,” he said, "was told by
Prof. Gallaudet. The professor has a
favorite pupil—a little deaf mute boy,
exceptionally bright. Mr. Gallaudet
asked him if he knew the story of
George Washington and the cherry
tree. With his nimble fingers the little
fellow said he did, and then he pro
ceeded to repeat it. The noiseless ges
ticulations continued until the boy had
informed the professor of the elder
Washington’s discovery of the mutilat
ed tree and of his quest for the mu
tilator.
"When George's father asked him
who hacked his favorite cherry tree,
signaled the voiceless child, ‘George
put his hatchet in his left hand—’
“ ‘Stop,’ interrupted the professor.
‘Where did you get your authority for
saying he took the hatchet in his left
hand?’
" 'Why,' responded the boy, ‘he need
ed his right hand to tell his father that
he cut the tree.”
Culberson's Diplomacy.
There are many cautious statesmen
in both branches of Congress, but a
story told by Judge Culberson, father
of the present senator from Texas,
shows a degree of reserve seldom, if
ever, equaled, says the Washington
correspondence of the Philadelphia
North American.
One of Judge Culberson's constitu
ents had wagered that he could get a
definite and decided opinion from the
old man, a proposition so unlikely
that it created no little excitement in
the Texas town in which the Judge
resided. It had been stipulated that
the bet should be decided in front of
a livery stable, where Judge Culber
son liked to spend some of his leisure
hours.
A crowd collected, and as they dis
cussed the state of the weather and
the condition of the crops a newly
sheared flock of sheep was driven by.
"Judge,” said the man who had
made the wager, “those sheep have
been sheared, haven’t they?”
“It looks like it on this side,” replied
the Judge.
Important Amendment.
The Senate was considering the bill
to ratify the treaty with the Crow
Indians in Montana, says the Washing
ton Post.
“Are there any amendments?” asked
the presiding officer.
“The committee amendment will be
reported,” said Mr. Frye.
Amid dignified silence the clerk read
as follows:
"Strike out ‘two jackasses’ and insert
'one stallion.’ ”
The amendment sounded so ludicrous
that the senators burst out laughing.
Senator Platt of Connecticut almost
rolled out of his chair.
She Was a Daisy.
Teacher in Sunday-school, expatiat
ing to her class on the wondrous
works of God, according to the New
York Commercial:
“Little children, do you know how
great God is, how marvelous are his
works? Little children, do you know
God made the universe? He made >he
earth and all that therein is. He made
the sun to shine by day and the moon
and stars to shine by night. He
made the hills, the great rivers, the
trees, the grass. He made the lion,
and the lamb, the birds, the flowers;
He made you, little children; He
made me: He made a daisy.”
Slightly Kervom,
Everything was in readiness, says
the Philadelphia Times. The groom,
the best man and the minister were
gathered in the vestry. The organist
began to play and the minister start
ed for the door.
“Wait one moment, doctor,” called
the nervous groom. "Is it the right or
left hand the ring goes on?”
“The left,” hurriedly replied the
minister.
“And. doctor, is—is it kisstermary to
cuss the bride?”
But the minister had fled.
An Irtnli Story.
There is a good fishing story in an
Irish contemporary, says the London
Globe. Two enthusiastic anglers ar
ranged a fishing match to decide the
respective merits of the worm and the
minnow as bait. Four hours they sat
patiently on a hank without getting
so much as a nibble. At last the
proorietor of the worm suddenly said
thaTTie had got a bite, and, jerking
his line out o' the water, discovered
at the end of It the other man's min
now. which, haying by this time
grown hungry, Tiad devoured his
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—There is a dearth of school teachers
in England.
—There is a demand for gutta per
cha 600 times greater than the sup
ply. v
—A dromedary race between Biskra
and Tagurta, Algeria, is being ar
ranged. The distance to be covered is
140 miles.
—Lord Kitchener is said to save
England 82.500,000 a month by his
management of the field canteens in
South Africa.
—London papers, which recently an
nounced the death of Admiral Monto
jo, Dewey’s rival at Manila, mistook
him for Vice Admiral Montoso.
—The Duchess of Cleveland has de
cided to sell the ancient and decorative
furniture in Battle Abbey, England’s
most famous residence, which was re
cently disposed of.
—An English sailor who had been re
fused 820 of his pay asserted in court
that the money was stopped because
he would not wear a heavy uniform cap
that made-his head ache.
—Great Britain’s exports to its col
onies, according to recent returns, in
creased in 1901 by 851.365,000. Its ex
ports to foreign countries, in the same
period, decreased |lO4, 830,000.
—The vibration in the London “tup
penny tube,” which has shaken build
ings along the route, is to be obviated
as much as possible by using an in
creased number of springs for support
ing the cars and engines.
—The up to date collector collects
watches. This is even more fashionable
than to collect fans, which some time
ago superseded stamps, coins and book
plates. A collection of watches may in
clude clocks of small size.
—Three handcuffed, native convicts
jumped off a mail train in Bengal while
it was going at forty miles an hour.
Two- Sikh warders Jumped after then).
Two of the convicts were killed and
one of the warders Injured.
—English society has been exercised
over whether it was proper to honor
the toast to the Queen standing, like
that to the King. The King has set
tled the doubt by announcing that both
should be honored while standing.
—There are 751 newspapers And
periodicals in Sweden, including fifty
two dailies. Stockholm has twelve
dailies, seven published in the morn
ing and five in the evening, which is a
large number for a city of 350,000 in
habitants.
—ln 1900 there were in the United
Slates 372 boiler explosions, by which
263 persons were killed and 520 wound
ed. In Great Britain during the same
period only twenty-four persons were
killed and sixty-five wounded by boiler
explosions.
South Wales coal operators are about
to sue the miners’ unions for $350,000
for loss sustained by the union order
ing work stopped upon three days, with
the purpose of curtailing the output.
The amount to be asked averages 25
cents a ton for each miner.
—The women of Galveston, Tex., the
city so nearly destroyed by the terri
ble storm a few years ago, have or
ganized to beautify the town. They
give entertainments to raise funds, and
with the proceeds buy and plant trees
along the streets and in the parks.
—News from St. Petersburg, Russia,
states that the art dealers and book
sellers of that olty have been com
pelled to give a pledge in writing that
they will not exhibit portraits of Count
Tolstoi. All postal cards bearing his
picture have been confiscated.
—There are 154 lawyers in the city of
Manila, as shown by the register in
the Supreme Court. Of these fifty-nine
are other than Spanish and Filipino,
being mostly Americans. Many of
both classes hold salaried positions un
der the government in the legal work
of the departments.
—Charles Bellamy, a Burlington Rail
road fireman, in eleven years of faith
ful service, has traveled 606,840 miles
and shoveled 32,501 tons of coal on the
way. He never lost a trip or received
a scratch through accident. Railroad
men say that it is a case of physical
endurance never equaled.
—The milk trade attracts aristo
crats. Lord Rayleigh is a milkman,
and owns one of the finest businesses in
the home counties. Every morning
special trains loaded With cans of milk
from his dairy leave the stations at
Hatfield Peverel for London. He owns
a herd of over 1,000 cows.
—Two ingenious cyclists have collab
orated to turn the handle bar into a
gas generator for an acetylene lamp.
The handle bar is divided into a wa
ter chamber and a carbide chamber,
the two being connected by a pipe, and
the flow of water being controlled by
a valve from outside. In the center is
a gas chamber, having an outlet to
feed the lamp.
—A bill to make voting at elections
compulsory, which Is to be introduced
into the French Chamber by M.
Georges Berry, provides that any per
son abstaining from voting at elections
shall have his name displayed on the
door of the Town Hall, pay a fine of
from 5 to 10 francs and be dis
franchised and rendered ineligible for
any public office.
—The skin of the monster elephant
Charlie, for nearly forty years the
great attraction at the Crystal Pal
ace, London, will shortly be mounted
by a taxidermist. The skin weighs a
ton, one-fourth of the total weight of
the animal alive, which stood ten feet
three inches in higbt. Charlie killed his
keeper not long ago and was shot
while on a wild ramapage in the Crys
tal Palace. The animal was valued at
*IOO.OOO.
—A St. Louis druggist recently ad
vertised for “an accurate, registered,
thin drug clerk, with a mustache.”
When asked why he wanted an assist
ant with these special qualifications
the druggist explained that experience
had taught him that a young and at
tractive clerk was of more value in
selling to women, particularly those
buying soda water. Corpulent clerks,
he added, are specially to he avoided
on this account.
—“lt is commonly believed,” says
the Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Post, “that the Vatican has never
touched any part of the money allotted
it by the Italian government. This
belief is mistaken. Soon after the Ital
ians entered Rome Cardinal Antonelll
informed the Italian financial dele
gate that he had Issued drafts for the
payment of the usual monthly outlav
of the Holy See, about £IO,OOO in all,
and asked if the government intended
to honor the drafts. The Italian reply
was in the affirmative, and the sun
was paid by the Italian treasury.
When it became known abroad that
the Vatican was in receipt of Italian
money such an outcry was raised that
the Vatican was forced to refuse fur-
Jher instalments."
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SAVANNAH ELECTRIC~Co7
For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thun
derbolt, Cattle Park and West End
Daily except Sundays. Subject in
change without notice.
City for l. of H.|lAr. isle Of Hope.'"'
630 am from 40th 600 am for Bolton
730 am from 40th 600 am for 40th
830 am from 40th 700 am for 40th
915 am from Bolton 8 00 am for 40th
10 30 am from 40th 10 00 am for 40th
12 00 n’n from 40th 11 00 am for Bolton
1 15 pm frt^ißolton 11 30 am for t ■
230 pm from 40th 200 pm for 40th
330 pm from 40th 240 pm for Bolton
430 pm from 40th 300 pm for 40th
115. pm from Bolton 400 pm for 40 t h
530 pm from 40th 600 pm for 40th
630 pm from 40th 700 pm for 40th
730 pm from 40th 800 pm for 40th
530 pm from 40th 900 pm for 4<Hh
930 pm from 40th 10 00 pm for 40th
10 30 pm from 40th 11 00 pm for 40th
MONTGOMERY. -
Lv.City for Mong’y.j Lv. Montgomery
3 30 am from 40th 7 15 am for 40th ~~
2 30 pm from 40th 1 15 pm for 40th
6 30 pm from 40th 6 00 pm for 40th
Lv._City for C. Park| Lv. Cattle Park.
630 am from Bolton 700 am for Bolton
730 am from Bolton 800 am for Bolton
100 pm from Boltor 130 pm for Bolton
230 pm from Bolton 3 00 pm for Boltun
700 pm from Bolton 730 pm for Bolton
800 pm from Bolton 8 30pm for Bolton
THUNDERBOLT.
Car leaves Bolton street junction 5 30
a. m. and every thirty minutes there
after until 11:30 p. m.
Car leaves Thunderbolt at 6:00 a m
and every thirty minutes thereafter
until 12:00 midnight, for Bolton street
junction.
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR.
This car carries trailer for passengers
on all trips and leaves east side of
city market for Isle of Hope, Thun
derbolt and aH intermediate points at
9:00 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 5:00 p. m.
Leaves Isle of Hope for Thunderbolt,
City Market and all intermediate
points at 6:00 a. m., 11:00 a. m., 2.4a
p. m.
WEST END CAR.
Car leaves west side of City Market
for West End 6:00 a. m. and every 40
minutes thereafter during the day u#-
til 11:30 p. m.
Leaves West End at 6:20 a. m. and
every 40 minutes thereafter during the
day until 12:00 o’clock midnight.
G. O. NAGLE, Manager.
GILL
NETTING
AND
FISHING
TACKLE.
EDWARD LOVELL’S SONS,
113 BROUGHTON ST., WEST.
DE SOTO HOTEL, Savannah, Ga.
Accommodations for 500 guests, 10®
rooms with bath. Tourists will nnd
Savannah an ideal winter resort. Beau
tiful drives and roads for automoblling
and bicycling. Golf and outside sports.
Write for illustr’d description booklet.
WATSON & POWERS, Props.
THE RAMON,
NEW, ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF
APARTMENT HOTEL.
340 WEST 57TH ST. NEW YORK
Most delightful and convenient location m
New York. , h ...
Owing to latenes* of opening a few cnoice
furnished apartments, two and three room
with bath' to suit by month. Excellent resteu
rant, table de hote or ala carte. Reasoname
rates for sumtner seasoß
Brennan & Go.,
—WHOLKBALE—
Fruit, Produce,
Grain, etc.,
122 BAT STREET. WEST.
Telephone *Bl.
SEED CORN AND SEED PEAS
Our Own Cow Feed*
The Greatest Milk Producer Known.
Hay. Grain and Feed of All Kinds.
Poultry Supplies-
Bone Meal and Nitrate of Soda.
T. J. DAVIS,
’Phone 223. 118 West Bay Street.
“ALL WRIOHT FOR MORE THAN HALP A CENTU^
WRi? H p T |US
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WRIGHT'S INDIAN VEGETABLE PILL CO., New
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