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The Wvnther.
The Indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-ctyiy are /or
partly cloudy weather, with light, vari
able winds.
Is 1903 to be an unlucky year? Add
the figures together and see what they
m&ke. Thirteen! Isn’t that ominous?
It has been only a few years since
1/evi Z. Letter was a clerk In a country
store in Maryland at the wage of sl6
a month. It was Levi Z. Leiter’s
daughter, representing really a queen
in power, who rode at the head of the
procession In the Durbar ceremonies
in Delhi, India, the other day.
Mat'coni's wireless telegraphy is not
limited to crossing expanses of water.
It will operate on land quite as well as
over seas. He is now making arrange
ments to cross Canada with a line of
wireless stations, and within a few
months messages will be flashed
through the ether between the Atlantic
and the Pacific coa. ls.
A manufacturing company at Ni
agara Falls has succeeded in making
a good quality of soft and tough paper
from cotton seed hulls. It is believed
that a first rate quality of writing
paper can be made from the material.
This is a matter of much interest to
the South. If cotton seed hulls are
available for paper stock, it will mean
the enhancement of the value of the
South's great money crop.
New fangled notions don't go in
Easton, Pa., especially if they have to
do with religious ceremonies. Pastor
Keiffer* of the First Keformed Congre
gation wished to introduce individual
communion cups. He told his flock ull
about how dangerous it was for a
number yf people to drink from the
same vessel; how the terrible microbes
were transmitted from lip to lip by the
congregational cup, and all that sort
of thing. The Hock listened attentively,
but when it came to a test vote the
flock said that If the pastor didn’t like
the old-fashioned way of tuking cQm
munion he could draw' his pay and
quit. He says he will.
A month ago when a grandson was
born to Senator Clark of Montana and
the announcement wag made that the
Senator would present the child with
a fortune of $1,000,000 there was a
flood of congratulation poured out up
on the infant. "Happy baby; fortu
nate child!” was the chorus. Yet
before the little fellow has grown old
enough to understand, his mother is
taken away from him by death. Not
all the millions in the world could
compensate that baby for the price
less boon which he is destined never
to know—the inestimable treasure of a
mother’s love. The poorest laborer's
baby, who can pillow its head against
its mother’s breast, is infinitely richer
than the unfortunate little Clark child.
According to the figures of the Rail
way Age, a total of 5,549 miles of new
railway track was laid during 1902.
This was on 349 lines in forty-four
states and territories. This does not
include spur tracks and sidings or any
of the mileage of numerous private and
logging roads constructed during the
year. The Southw-estern states led In
the aggregate of mileage, with 2.5T0
miles. The South Atlantic states built
533 miles of new road. The whole
group of New England states built only
95 miles of new road during the twelve
months. In Georgia the new mileage
was 202, in Florida 106. in South Caro
lina 45, in Alabama 83 and in Louisiana
170. The greatest construction was In
and Texas, where 532 and 479
Jmiles respectively were tonstructed-
Ol R FOREIGN COMMERCE.
The falling off in our exports during
the last year and the increase in our
imports wore the subject of a good
deal of comment during the closing
days of the year. The impression got
abroad thut our foreign commerce was
declining, that our manufacturers
were not doing as well as they had
been and that we were not getting a
foothold in foreign markets as fast as
we thought we were a year ago.
Our exports fell ofT more than (100,-
000,000 and our imports increased about
(70,000.000 during the year that has
just closed, but when the facts are
known there appears to be no reason
for apprehension.
The falling off in our exports was
wholly In farm products. As Is well
known there was a failure of the corn
crop in 1901, and. consequently, there
v as a great falling off in corn exports.
There was also a falling off in the ex
ports of wheat and other grains be
cause, owing to the scarcity of corn,
there was need ut home of more
wheat, barley, oats, .etc. The shortage
In the value of coin exported In com
parison with the value of that export
ed the previous year was (43,000.000.
The value of cotton exported was (14,-
000,000 Jess than the value of that ex
ported the previous year. Going
through the list of our exports of
breadstuffs and provisions it is quick
ly apparent where the falling off in
our exports was to the value of more
than 5100,000,000.
If there had been a falling off in our
manufactured products there would
have been room for thinking there was
a - decline in our foreign trade. But
there was no falling off in our exports
of manufactured products. On the con
trary, there was a very marked in
crease. The increase was more than
$15,000,000. *
It is true there was a marked In
crease In our imports, but when the
character of these Importations is no
ticed it is found they consisted princi
pally of raw material—of silk and
fibers and other things needed in man
ufacturing. The increase in the im
ports therefore mean that the year was
one of unusual activity in manufac
turing. Resides, we imported a large
amount of iron and steel products be
cause our own mills were not able to
fill orders that were offered them.
No, there is no falling off In
our foreign commerce. It is increasing
all the time, and there is every reason
to think it will continue to increase.
Germany and England realize that we
are gradually taking the commerce of
the world away from them and for
that reason there is an undercurrent
of feeling in those countries against
us. To all appearances they are our
friends, but they wouldn’t grieve much
If misfortune of some sort w’ere to
check our material progress.
TOWN ANO COUNTRY.
In our Dublin, Ga., correspondence
a day or two ago it was noted that a
public spirited citizen, Dr. Duggun,
who lives eight miles In the country
and owns no property In the town, had
started a subscription for the purpose
of providing Dublin with a public li
bra -. The correspondent went on to
comment on the cordial relations exist
ing between the town and the country,
and asserted that "much of the growth
of Dublin is due to the loyalty to the
city displayed by the people of Lau
rens county whenever an opportunity
presents itself." This is as it should
be; and by this display of Interest In
and loyalty to their county seat, the
people of I.nurens have built up a
thriving little city that is destined to
see still greater things.
The spirit of friendship and reci
procity that exists between Dublin and
Laurens Is highly to be commended.
We wish that it existed In every coun
ty In the state as strongly as In Lau
rens. And we believe that the time Is
not far distant when the old-time ani
mosity between town and country will
be wiped out everywhere. There was a
time when the people of the country
regarded the people of the town as
"stuck-up,” proud and not to be trust
ed implicitly 'in business transactions.
And the people of the town were rath
er disposed to look down on the coun
try people ns being ignorant, uncouth
and boorish. All of that was due to
lack of a good mutual understanding
and n want of general education.
Means of communication were bad.
country life was isolated and people
were less broad-minded than at pres
ent. Good schools, good roads, the daily
newspaper, the telephone and other
Improvements Incident to modern life
have worked a big change. The family
on the farm Is no longer Isolated. It
keeps In touch with the outside world
and feels that It is a part of the vast
system of human affairs. The family
In town has become neighbors with the
family in the country Each under
stands the other better and there Is a
warmer sympathy and appreciation on
the part of both. The country and the
town have been brought to see that
their best interests are identical; that
the prosperity of one means the pros
perity of the other, the uplifting of
one the uplifting of the other. It Is a
happy community In which country
and town nre proud of each other and
work together for mutual benefit.
It Is taught In the koran that rulers
who desert the faith of Mohammed,
who dress in the garb of infidels or
who adopt the ways and manners of
the infidel dogs, shall surely loose
place and power. Therefore no good
Musselman is astonished at the troubles
of Mulai Abd-el-Azzlx, the sultan of
Morocco. Mulai owns an automobile.
Is a camera fiend, has several talking
machines and occasionally wears Eu
ropean dress. It Is. therefore, kismet
that he should be overthrown.
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Argentine, one of the best hehaved
and most prosperous of the South
American republics, had bad luck with
the crops for several years up to the
current harvest. This season, how
ever. there have been abundant rains,
and the harvest of both wheat and
corn will be among the largest on rec
ord. Argentine Is seldom heard of In
a political way, but commercially she
is repadily forging to first place
among the Southern sisterhood
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JANUARY 5. 190.3.
THE NEGROES GOT MORE.
We printed in our news columns a
few days ago extracts from a broad
minded, courteous and appreciative let
ter written by Prof. J. H. Council, head
of the Colored Normal School of Ala
bama, to Col. J. M. Kalkner of Bir
mingham, offering assistance to the
Confederate Soldjers’ Home. Prof.
Council, a negro and an ex-slave, ex
pressed the highest appreciation of
“those grand old men who followed
Lee’s tattered banners down to Appo
mattox,” and said that he and his
school would "be proud to assist” in
the effort to provide for their declining
years.
There are two points made in Prof.
Council's letter that are especially
worthy of notice. With reference to
the Confederate veterans he wrote; "I
feel that when they have passed away,
and when their old slaves have passed
away, in a measure the power of the
balance wheel of .Southern society will
be gone." Between masters and slaves
before the great war there ivas a
strong bond of sympathy and loyqlty.
To this day that bond exists between
ex-masters and ex-slaves. Each has
respect for the other, in numerous in
stances amounting to affection. This
mutual respect and consideration, be
tween the older members of the races
Is not to be found in the younger gen
erations. Cnder the old system the in
terests of master and man were close
ly interwoven; under the new, the in
terests of individuals of the races are
separate. The sympathy that comes
from clo*e personal association does
not exist, and the races are further
apart now than they ever were, with
the tendency towards a still greater
estrangement.
Prof. Council, fearing the possibility
of a misinterpretation of his proffer of
assistance, says: "The propriety of
this offer on my part may be called in
to question by those who do not meas
ure slavery as I do. I feel that the
slaves got more out of slavery than
their masters did, In that the slaves
were helped from the lowest level of
barbarism to Christian citizenship of
the greatest government the world ever
knew.” This Is a view of the matter
that Is seldom taken in the North or
by the negroes themselves. And yet it
is unquestionably a fact that but for
the enforced emigration of African
blacks to the United States, where they
were put through the school of slavery,
their descendants who are now enjoy
ing the benefits of a high civilization
and the protection of one of the great
Powers of the world, would be naked
barbarians in the forests of the dark
continent or the coolie laborers of en
terprising Europeans who are exploit
ing that country. The African native
has never been a colonizer or an ex
plorer. He seeks no new countries,
and has no higher ideals than a full
stomach and the worship of a fetich.
If in the old days the African negroes
had been left to their own devices
they would have remained in their
Jungles; and, for the sake of illustra
tion it may be said, even Profs. Coun
cil and Booker Washington, who show
the possibilities of the race under In
telligent guidance, might to-day be
roaming the forests clothed only
with ignorance and a ring through the
nose seeking whom or what they might
devour. Instead of this, these men
have reached, through a period of
slavery, positions of importance in the
midst of a nation of white men. And,
In the case of the race of Council and
Washington, its civilization has been
acquired in a few hundred years with
the aid of white men, while it took the
white race thousands of years to work
out the civilization which It is now
sharing with the blacks.
The Rev. Dr. Parker, the eminent
non-eonformlst preacher of London
whose death was chronicled in the dis
patches some days ago, once uttered
this fierce blast against the smoking of
tobacco: ”1 hate smoking. From one
end to the other it is a nuisance. It
ends in cancer, apoplexy, bad temper,
bankruptcy and almost in hydrophobia.
It Is an invention of the devil. It is
the devil. It is the pastime of perdi
tion. No dog smokes. No bird pines
for tobacco. No horse is a member of
a pipe club. No Intelligent person ever
puts a oigar in his mouth. The whole
idea and practice of smoking must be
condemned as athesttcal. agnostleal and
infinitely detestable.” It is hardly
worth while to point out that this la
wholly intemperate and partly false.
It is the utterance of a fanatic. The
list of great and "intelligent” men who
have smoked is very long, and includ
es even the name of the celebrated
Rev. Dr. Charles H. Spurgeon, also an
eminent divine of London, who on one
occasion said: "I smoke to the glory
of God.”
It would appear that ex-Representa
tive Bynum of Indiana is now a full
Hedged Republican. He is quoted as
having said a few days ago: "The ma
jority of the American people, I am
satisfied, favor the protection principle.
I am willing that the American pro
ducer and manufacturer shall be given
ample protection to compensate them
for the higher wages and every other
Increased expense in the cost of pro
duction.” For several years Mr. By
num has been trying tp get the Job of
member of the Board of General Ap
praisers at New York, as a Democrat.
This declaration of his puts him en
tirely outside the Democratic breast
works, and makes it possible for the
Republicans to take him up if they
want to.
The rich did not open their purses to
charity and benevolence last year to
quite the extent that they did the year
before. A contemporary that has kept
the account says that the total of gifts
to educational, charitable and religious
institutions last year aggregated $77,-
397,167, as against similar gift* of $123,-
888,732 during 1901. The greatest gift
of the year was that of W. S. Stratton,
of Colorado, who gave $15,000,000 to
charity. Mr. Carnegie's gifts during
the year amounted to $6,000,000. It was
stated somewhere the other day that
Mr. Carnegie had an assured income of
$18,000,000 a year. If that is true, he
will have to give more than $6,000,000 a
year if he hopes to escape dying dis
graced
A Connecticut paper says that Sen
ator Joseph R. Hawley of that state
will not resign, but will serve to the
end of his term, March 4, 190a. It has
been stated upon authority that Sena
tor Hawley is both mentally and phy
sically Incompetent to discharge the
duties of his office. His state, there
fore, must get along with the active
services of only one senator for two
years. The Senator’s condition, of
course, is his misfortune and not his
fault; yet it seems out of keeping with
the spirit of the age that an incapac
itated man should hold a seat and a
vote in “the most august deliberative
body in the world.” However, if all
the dead wood were pruned oft the
congressional tree there would be left
a numbers of gaps.
A New York man the other day
bought a parrot and carried it home to
see if It could out-talk his wife. Be
tween the Incessant chatter of the two,
the man was driven to drink and
wound up in a police court.
PERSONAL.
—One of the pathetic circumstances
that came to light In New York city
on Christmas Eve was that Pauline
Markham, once the queen of stage
beauties, is now earning scant sub
sistence by scrubbing floors in a Har
lem flat building. This is the woman
whose arms were once described as
"the lost arms of Venus” and to whom
Whittier indited an autograph letter
declaring her* to he ”a pearl among
pebbles.” She is old now and has lost
her beauty, but she retains some
pride, for she conceals her Identity be
hind a fictitious name.
t—Clarence Orr, formerly in Company
B, Seventh Infantry, has applied for
a pension, basing his claim on a re
markable set of circumstances. While
on guurd duty last year in the Phil
ippines he had trouble with a com
rade and both were taken before
Lieut. Bell. The latter ordered that
they settle their difficulty next morn
ing by a fist fight until one of them
could battle no more. Orr and the
other man obeyed, the former sustain
ing a compound fracture of the right
hand. He claims that had he refused
to fight he would have been guilty of
insubordination, and he is backed up
in this claim by pension lawyers and
military men.
—Mr. Bowen, the American minister
to Venezuela, has been in the consular
service for a dozen years. He is a son
of the late Henry C. Bowen of the
New York Independent. He was trans
ferred to his present post from Spain,
where, as consul at Barcelona, he got
a good insight into Spanish character.
Besides being a diplomat he is a poet,
a fighter and a linguist. speaking
French, Italian and Spanish. Born in
New York, he was educated in Ger
many, Italy and France before enter
ing Yale and the Law School of Co
lumbia University. When he was a
student at Yale he had a little difficul
ty with a tutor on matters not affect
ing his scholarship and he was grad
uated somewhat prematurely. Minister
Bowen has achieved an honorable dis
tictlon in the public service, besides
writing a book on international law
which is rated of standard quality.
BRIGHT HITS.
—Teacher—‘‘William, find the square
root of any number.” William—”l
thought they found them all last
term.”—Chicago Daily News.
—He—“l don't see how you can say
such terrible things about another
woman. She—“ You don't understand,
you silly. Why, Carrie is my dearest
friend.”—Boston Transcript.
—“l'm afraid brother didn’t enjoy
his Christmas dinner,” said the 'little
girl. "He seemed to eat heartily.”
"Yes. But he wasn’t as sick as usual
next day.”—Washington Star.
—Tess—“There's only one thing that
prevents her from making a cloak of
her religion." “Jess—"And what’s
that?” TesS'—“She doesn't consider
cloaks fashionable now.”—Philadelphia
Press.
—"lt’s a fact. Aunt Kate,” said the
young man. “Father says he will pay
my way through college, but after
that I'll have to stand on mv own
merits.” "Let us hope it will not be
so bad as that, Rodney,” soothingly
replied his eldpriy relative.—Chicago
Tribune.
—"She's a foolish little thing." "How
so?” "Why, she consented to be mar
ried during Christmas week.” "What
of it! Why, think what she loses! It
Jwst practically groups Christmas and
the wedding anniversary under one
date, and her husband will be able to
make one present do for both.”—Chi
cago Evening Post.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem) says:
“When some important private inter
est wants relief Congress can act
with wonderful expedition. This was
demonstrated the other day when it
became necessary to do something for
the tea importers, who W'ere likely to
suffer if the interpretation placed
upon the tariff laws by the treasury
and the courts were permitted to
stand. To help out this private in
terest a bill was rushed through both
Houses of Congress in a single day.
In this connection it is worth while to
note the fact that the tariff on coal has
not been touched and that there is not
the slightest prospect that it will be.”
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times
(Dem.) says: "The majority of the
alleged reformers of conditions in mills,
etc., that employ women and children,
are merely playing for notoriety and
what money they can get out of their
activities. If their W'ork has any ef
fect It is to set back progress. The
textile Industry in the South has been
a blessing to the Southern poor. It has
reached a helping hand to them. But
neither the masters nor their employes
have done as well as they might. Both
need 'regulating;’ they are material
for the missionary and the school
master. Time and the working of the
law of progress will measurably ele
vate them, but the degradation and
brutalization of centuries, are not to
be even greatly modified in a few
decades.”
The Pittsburg (Pa-) Post (Dem) of
Jan. 2. says: "More than 75,000.000
pounds of tea were released yesterday
from bonded warehouses, the duty of
10 cents per pound having been re
mitted and the article placed on the
free list. But a confidential whole
saler in Chicago frankly asserts that
tea will not drop in price. The result
of the release of duty will be to en,
courage the importation of cheaper
tea. But when asked why there would
not be a out in fine tea, he naively ex
plained that people would think a
lower price meant an inferior article
and hence the reduction would not be
made. If the tea drinking public would
understand that tea ought to be cheap
er the pride of the buyer would not
oppose some sacrifice on the part of
the grocer. The corner that was en
gineered In tea when this solitary tax
of Spanish war days was retained for
some months now has its profit dis
tribution."
Foot Minutes Long.
Bert Nortoni, of Macon, won a law
suit in the Federal Court at Han
nibal a few days ago in a way un
usual among lawyers—by silence, says
the Kansas City Journal. Mrs. Mar
tha B. Phipps, of Macon, sued the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
way Company for (15,000. She claimed
that a spark from one of Its engines
caused the burning of her deceased
husband's business property at Ethel.
The testimony showed that the Santa
Fe train stopped at Ethel four min
utes the night of the fire, but also that
the fire was well under way before the
train pulled out, and the road’s attor
neys argued that it was ridiculous to
maintain that a fire could be started
by a spark and get well under way in
such a short time. Mr. Nortoni de
voted practically his entire argument
to this point.
"He said,” says the Macon Republi
can. “if a young fellow was sitting on
a sofa, ‘playing hands’ with his girl,
time traveled like an express train,
but if you dumped a lot of engine
sparks on the pine roof of a dry build
ing in summer time four minutes were
ample to settle the fate of the struc
ture in spite of all efforts to save it.
There were some incredulous smiles at
this. The attorney took out his watch
and handed it to Juryman L. 8. Har
lan. a banker, of Clifton Hill, Ran
dolph county, and requested him to sig
nal when four minutes had passed.
The jurymen leaned over and looked
down at the watch. Then they got
tired and settled back in their seats.
Mr. Harlan lowered his hand and rest
ed it on Tils knee. The attorney, shift
ed his feet a few times, and sat down
in a chair. Judge Adams looked at
the clock and then out of the window.
“A deputy marshal put his head in
at the door to see what was the mat
ter and waited the result of the curi
ous scene. Nearly every man In the
room that had a watch was studying
its face. The speaker was sacrificing
four minutes of his allotted time, but
he felt that it was well invested. At
last Juror Harlan announced the four
minutes had expired and handed the
w'ateh back to Mr. Nortoni. Only four
minutes,, and yet to every man in the
room it had seemed, under the sup
pressed tension, to have been twice as
long. The court remarked after the
case had been decided that It appeared
fully fifteen minutes. The wearisome
suspense was an effective object les
son to the jury and was a startling
exposition of what might transpire in
that time. The jury found that the
defendant's engine had ample time in
four minutes to fire the restaurant
building, and they brought in a ver
dict for the plaintiff for $14,198.28—the
exact sum her proof showed her loss
to be,”
The case had been pending in the
courts ten years.
"Don’t Shoot," Said Secretary.
Secretary sYiaw went over to the
Treasury Department to read some of
his letters to-day, says the Washing
ton correspondence of the Baltimore
American. He took a friend from lowa
with him.
The Secretary found one long letter
that interested him. He leaned back in
his chair to read it. As he leaned back
he threw one foot up on the corner of
the desk. The friend from lowa sat
looking out of the window. Half a
minute after the Secretary put his foot
on the desk an excited man, with a big
pistol in each hand, burst into the
room.
He looked around and pointed both
the pistols at the friend from lowa.
‘‘Don’t shoot," yelled the lowa man
as he put both hands high In the air.
"What the ——,” shouted Mr. Shaw,
kicking his chair over and making a
wild leap ' for the other side of the
room.
“What’s the matter?” inquired the
man with the pistols. "Is this man
trying to rob you?” and he pointed
suggestively with one of his pistols.
"No,” shouted Mr. Shaw from his
vantage point on the other side of the
room. "That's no robber. That's my
friend. There’s some mistake.”
The Secretary was right. There was
■i mistake. When he put his foot on the
desk he pressed a button that calls a
watchman to his office in a hurry, and
the watchman came in a hurry just as
he was expected to.
Milliken Was In Earnest.
Many good stories are told in the
Worth street dry goods district about
that stalwart man, Seth Milliken, who
has now gone to his long home, says
the New York Times. One of the
best is related by A. D. Juilliard in
his inimitable style. It was during
a money famine and Seth Milliken
was dining one noonday with a few
feljow merchants. The conversation
turned upon the financial problem and
Mr. Milliken gave as his opinion that
times were not as hard as most peo
ple thought they were.
“Well,” said one of the diners, "I
don’t agree with you. Why. I’m will
ing to bet SIOO that you, Mr. Milliken,
with ail your resources, couldn’t raise
SIOO,OOO in cash within the next two
hours.”
"I’ll take that bet,” said Mr. Milli
ken and within the time specified he
exhibited a certified chc-ck for the
amount designated and demanded
payment of the SIOO.
“Why, L was only fooling,” said the
surprised friend.
"You may have been, but I wasn’t,”
came the reply. ”1 fool with children
sometimes, but with men, never.”
The friend paid the bet.
Why Johnny Wm Sent Home.
Western precocity was well exempli
fied in a story told in the lobby of
one of the big Washington hotels the
other night by John A. Deweese cf
Denver, says the New York Tribune.
"I used -to think.” said Mr. Deweese,
"that Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, as
well as Peck's Bad Boy, were interest
ing but fantastic creations. That was
before 1 acquired two boys of my own.
The other day, to my great horror, the
elder of my boys was sent home from
school in disgrace. Naturally I was
somewhat wroth at the youngster, and
sat in Judgment on his case.
“ ‘What’s the trouble, Johnny?” said
I, severely; 'what did you do?’
“ 'I don’t know, papa,’ said he.
“ ’Don't know?’ said I, incredulous
ly. 'What do you mean?’
“ ‘Well,’ he replied gravely, 'the
teacher asked the class what a strait
was, and when I put up my hand she
called on me.’ There was a little
pause.
“ ‘What did you tell her?’ I inter
jected, impatiently.
“ Ace, king, queen, jack, ten,’ said
he, without the shadow of a smile.
’Wasn’t that right, papa?”’
As to Two Evils,
Theodore Haliam, one of the most
celebrated of legal' practitioners, once
defended a burglar; and the case guve
him a story that he never tired of tell
ing, says the Philadelphia Ledger. The
prosecuting attorney was fighting vig
orously and had the defendant’s wife
on the stand.
“You are the wife of the prisoner?"
he asked her.
"Yes,” she replied.-
"Did you know his mode of life when
you married him?”
"I did. sir.”
‘ Will you tell us, then.” went on the
prosecutor, surprised by this admis
sion. "how you came to contract an
alliance with one of his kind?”
’’Well,’’ she answered, ingenuously
T was getting on, the other girls had
all been married, and I at last had no
choice but between him and a lawyer
who was courting me.*
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Japan is getting the bicycle craze;
it imported $2,700,000 worth of wheels
last year, mostly of the cheaper grades,
costing from sl2 to $25. They are
chiefly used for business purposes; also
In the army.
—Negroes at? £ood cooks in Africa as
well as in America. A recent tourist
declares that the average negro fam
ily In the Sudan enjoys much better
cooked meals than the average Amer
ican family. Palm oil and cayenne
pepper are an ingredient in most of
their dishes, and these are considered
almost a specific against dyspepsia.
—A society been organized in
Paris called “Les Jeux du Soldat,” the
object of which is to prevent the con
scripts at the French barracks from
forming bad habits. The society has
provided wholesome games for the
army—chess, cards, deck, quoits and
perhaps ping pong. So far I*o,ooo sol
diers have been provided with games.
—The Army Committee of the French
Senate has given the finishing touches
to the two years’ service bill. It re
jected as contrary to the principle of
equality Gen. Andre’s proposal to keep
a portion of the conscripts three years
during the period of transition in order
to maintain the effectives. Therefore,
it fixed the operation of the measure
for two years, instead of twelve
months, after its promulgation.
—A somewhat remarkable textbook
for- the use of young German soldiers
has just been published. It deliber
ately instructs soldiers to inform their
superiors of all kinds of offenses com
mitted by their comrades. Services of
this character are stated in the text
book to be a high duty and worthy
of commendation. If the soldier hears
anything derogatory of his officers or
the kaiser he is to fetch a policeman.
—The Russian Admiralty is now pre
paring plans for anew type of bat
tleship, which is to be laid down early
in 1903, and which will be the most
powerful in existence. The new ships
are expressly intended to surpass the
British King Edward class. They will
be of from 16,000 to 17,000 tons, and
will carry four twelve-inch guns and
sixteen eight-inch quick-firers, besides
a large number of smaller weapons.
They will be able to steam from Eu
rope to the Far East without recoal
ing.
—ln a lecture at the Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Science on dis
ease being carried by insects Dr. Henry
Skinner declared that the common
house fly was responsible for more
deaths during the Spanish-American
war than bullets. “There were 454
soldiers killed in the late war with
Spain,” said Dr. Skinner, "and 5,277
died of disease, nearly ail succumbing
to typhoid fever carried into the camp
by house flies. This death rate could
have been considerably modified by
protecting the tents from the flies and
proper sanitary arrangements."
—Notwithstanding the complaints
that the medical profession is over
crowded, young physicians and sur
geons seem to be unwilling to secure a
permanent career for themselves in the
army and navy! The navy has been
short-handed in this respect for years
past, and now the army authorities are
complaining. There are thirty-five
vancancies in the grade of assistant
surgeon in the army, and very little
prospect of filling them. The next
examination will be held in Washing
ton In April. Examinations are now be
ing conducted in the Philippines to fill
some of the places.
—ln the reign of Henry VIII a proc
lamation was Issued against almanac
makers encouraging the belief in saints
ruling the weather, says the London
Chronicle of November 25. Notwith
standing this and similar efforts to ex
plode a popular notion, certain saints'
days are, however, still supposed to as
sist in what may be called long dis
tance forecasts. St. Catharine, whose
festival falls on Nov. 25, is such a
saint, for "as at Catharine, foul or fair,
so will be the next February.” Yes
terday there were all sorts of weather,,
the elements being under the control
of a gale that was blustering in the
west. Halos, too, have recently been
seen round the moon, so that the omens
for a fair St. Catharine's Day was not
very satisfactory.
—The proprietor of the Falmouth Ho
tel in Portland. Me., has abolished his
public register and henceforth will use
a card system. Every card will be
numbered and a coupon bearing the
duplicate number given to the guest.
The card bearing his autograph win be
kept on file at the desk. When sev
eral hotel men in this city were asked
yesterday what they thought of the
idea, they said that it was useless, for
positively no advantage could be gain
ed by it, except secrecy as to W'ho was
at the hotel, which wasn't always de
sirable. If a hotel with the card sys
tem did any kind of business, it would
have to use a large number of cards,
which would be extremely cumbersome,
they thought. Frequently a hotel prof
ited by a man seeing the name of a
friend on the register. A reunion was
held, the proceeds of which went to
the bar. Large hotels use two or more
registers at the desk, so that if a vis
itor is examining one, the other can
be used for an incoming guest without
delay.
—The veterinary surgeon was vacci
nating a big Newfoundland dog. The
animal was muzzled and an assistant
held its head, says the Philadelphia
Record. A space the size of a silver
dollar was shaved clean on Its back,
and here the virus was being applied!
"I choose this spot to work on,” said
the surgeon, “because the dog can’t
scratch himself here. If I vaccinated
him on the leg he would be apt to Irri
tate the wound and make it very sore
The vaccination of dogs is new,” he
went on, “but it Is a very good thing.
I wonder that it was never tried before
this year. Many valuable dogs have
died from time to time of smallpox.
There have, Indeed, been cases where
w'hole packs of hounds have contracted
the distase, and their killing has been
necessary. I advocate every pup’s
vaccination. When dogs take small
pox they take it badly. Their death Is
nearly always bound to follow. When
they recover they are not disfigured
their hair hiding the pock marks, but
they so seldom recover that this fact
hardly counts for much. Vaccination
is the thing for valuable dogs.”
—An electric light arc telephone, an
ordinary street corner electric light
which talks, has been designed in the
Michigan Physical Laboratory by As
sistant Prof. K. E. Guthe. says the
Cincinnati Enquirer. This talking
electric light is the successor of the
“singing arc lamp,” designed in the
laboratory a year ago. The “singing
arc” was a mechanical toy, the light
telephone is a practical advance in
science. A telephone at one end of the
wire and a big arc light at the other
are the prime requisites of Pror
Guthe's phone. Every one has seen a
street lamp flicker and heard it sputter
The sputtering furnishes the principle
on wiiich the electric light is made a
telephone. The telephone transmitter
merely regulates the light’s spluttering
and makes it intelligible, exactly imi
tating the human voice. The street
lamp sputters because the strength of
the electric current changes. The
telephone constantly changes the
strength of the current in the light
thereby making the light vibrate in
exact accord with the vibrations of the
human voice at the telephone.
THE ONLY WAY
*You can argue
with some wom
your side of the
case and walk
away.
The only way we
can argue with
some men is to
Murray Hill
i Is the purest and
finest whisky on
earth, and leave
them to ponder.
This TRADE MARK
Particular
Brand for i
Particular
People-
SMITH BROS.,
Sole Controllers for Savannah.
Savannah Electric Cos.
Schedule Daily Except Sunday.
In Effect Friday, Nov. 7.
Subject to change without notice.
ISLE OF HOPE LINE. ~
Leave 4uth and Leave
and Whitaker sts. Isle of Hope,
A.M. P.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. P.M.
6:30 1:30 6:30 6:00 1:00 7:0(
7:30 2:30 7:30 7:00 2:00 8:06
8:30 3:30 830 8:00 3:00 9:06
9:30 4:30 9:30 ‘ 9:00 4:00 10:0<
10:30 5:30*11:15 10:00 .... 11:4J
11:30 11:00 6:00
•Goes to Montgomery on return trip
from Isle of Hope.
“ MONTGOMERY LINE.
Connecting at Sandfly with Isle ot
Hope Lena,
Leave 40th Leave
and Whitaker. Montgomery.
10:30 A.M. *5:50 A.M.
2:30 P.M. 6:50 A.M.
3:30 P.M. (2ff min. wait) 7:53 P.M.
6:30 P.M. t 9:53 A.M.
7:30 P.M. 3 1:45 P.M.
8:30 P.M. • 2:35 P.M.
••11:15P.M. 3:35 P.M.
1:30 P.M. t 5:53 P.M.
•Connects at Sandfly with parcel car
to city.
(Connects at Sandfly with parcel car
for Isle of Hope.
••Goes to Montgomery on return trip
from Isle of Hope.
MONTGOMERY A N iTTHUND ER*
BOLT LINE.
Leave Leave
Thunderbolt. Montgomery.
7:22 A.M. *5:50 A.M.
8:22 A.M. 6:50 A.M.
6:38 P.M. 7:53 A.M.
7:38 P.M. (9:53 A.M.
* 7:05 P.M.
•Connects at Sandfly with parcel car
for city.
(Connects at Sandfly with parcel car
for Isle of Hope. '
THUNDERBOLT LINE (Special).
City Market to Casino, via Bolton
Street Junction.
Beginning at 5:45 a. m., cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunderbolt
every 15 minutes until 11:30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction 15
minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 5:53 a. m., cars leave
Casino at Thunderbolt every 15 min
utes until 12:08 midnight.
~ COLLINSVILLE LINE.
(Fair Grounds and Dale Ave.)
Beginning at 6:00 a. m„ cars leave
Bolton and Ott streets every 15 min
utes; returning, cars leave Estill ave
nue and Waters road at 6:07 a. m. and
every 15 minutes thereafter, connecting
with cars on Thunderbolt line, until
12:00 o’clock midnight.
Through cars are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via Collins
ville and Dale avenue as follows:
Lv. Market. Lv. Thunderbolt.
6:45 a. m. 7:30 a. m.
6:45 p. m. 7:30 p. m.
WEST END LINE.
(Lincoln Park.)
Car leaves west side of City Market
for Lincoln Park 6:00 a. m. and every
40 minutes thereafter until 11:30 p. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market
6:20 a. m. and every 40 minutes there
after until 13:00 o’clock midnight.
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR
Leaves east side of City Market far
Thunderbolt, Cattle Park, Sandfly, Isl*
of Hope and all Intermediate points—
-9:15 a. m., 1:15 p. m. t 6:16 p. m.
Leaves Isle of Mope for Sandfly,
Cattle Park, Thunderbolt and all In
termediate points—6:oo a. ip., 11:00 a.
m.. 3:00 p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at
5:50.a. m. and 2:35 p. m., connecting at
Sandfly with regular parcel cae for
city
Parcel car from the city carries
freight to Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on
each trip for accommodation of pass
engers.
Any further Information regarding
passenger schedule or freight service
can he had by applying to
ri r> -y- <nr T? \f-> - - gpy.
KALOLA
Crystallized Mineral Water.
A combination of Crystals, con
taining the medicinal properties of
the waters of four Noted Mineral
Springs.
Guaranteed to cure Indigestion,
Dyspepsia, Stomach, Liver, Kidney
and Bladder troubles, and to build
up the nerve centres.
“Take KALOLA six days, and
eat anything you want.”
A teaspoonful dissolved in a
glass of water makes a delightful
and inexpensive morning aperient.
For sale at Drug Stores.
KALOLA COMPANY, SAVANNAH, GA.
Brennan & Go..
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Fruit, Produce,
Grain, etc.,
SB BAT STREET. WEST.
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