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cellaneous.
Tlie Weather.
The indications for Georgia and Eas
tern Florida for to-day are for fair
weather, with light southwest winds.
An army officer just returned from
the Philippines claims that Manila is
now the cleanest city, of its size, on
earth. Unless we are mistaken, about
the same claim has been made with re
spect to Havana and Santiago de Cuba
as a consequence of the American oc
cupation. And they may all be true,
since Manila, Havana and Santiago are
of different sizes.
After two trials, Roland B. Molineux
was declared not guilty of the crime of
murder on the person of Mrs. Kath
erine Adams, in New York. Neverthe
less Molineux's picture and Bertillion
measurements remain in the records of
the state prison. Through his attor
ney Molineux has instituted pro
cedeings to force the state
prison authorities to remove his
picture and measurements from
the ‘'rouges’ gallery,” on the ground
that records of an innocent man should
have no place in such a collection..
Prince Henry of Prussia, it is said,
will shortly make another trip to the
United States. He will visit the
World’s Fair at St. Louis next year.
When he comes again, however, it will
be in the character of a private citizen
and not in his official capacity as rep
resentative of the German crown. He
does not wish to be dined and feted,
but desires to see the country as any
other touriest would. There is also
renewed talk in Berlin of the probabil
ity of the Crown Prince visiting this
country during the Exposition.
The town of Rutland, Vt., 1b in a
tutmoil. For a year President YVoodfln
of the Lincoln Iron Works has been
under the ban of the labor unions. His
men went on strike a year ago, and
they are out yet. In sympathy with
the strikers, the central labor union is
sued an order prohibiting all union men
from doing any work for Mr. Woodfin.
The order was a blanket one, and Mr.
Woodfln soon found it Impossible to get
his houses painted, his horses shod or
his hair cut in Rutland. Being a man
of pride in his appearance, he was in
the habit of having his hair trimmed
frequently, hence it became annoying
to him to have to ride tifty-seven mites
every time he wanted the services of
a barber. Last week he announced
that he was "tired of the foolishness"
and that he proposed to have his hair
cut in Rutland, whether the unions
liked it or not; and sure enough he ap
peared on the streets the next dsy with
his hair nestiy trimmed, without hav
ing been out of town. At once there
w# consternation, and the union men
are now searching for the "Irsdlor"
| who cut WoodAn's hair.
THE TIT.LOCH CHARGES.
After thinking the matter over Post
master General Payne seems to regard
the Tulloch charges as being more se
rious than he was at first inclined to
think they were, particularly those
against the auditor and controller. The
charges have been dissected and the
matter relating to the different
branches of the service referred to the
bureaus having jurisdiction.
It will doubtless be some time before
a report will be made on them. In
the meantime those to whom they refer
will doubtless undertake to prepare a
defense. As far as can be gathered,
besides many irregularities, there was
a great deal of downright wrong-doing.
To what extent the government was a
loser is of course unknown, but It is
probable that there will be vouchers
found for all of the money which was
paid out. The question, however, is,
was the money that was distributed
with such a lavish hand spent for the
good of the public service or was it
simply given away under the forms of
law to political heelers and politicians
having a pull? The people will not be
satisfied unless the investigation Is
thorough.
From some things wiich appear in
the charges it seems that a great deal
of money was epent in sending inspec
tors to Porto Rico, when there was no
need for inspection there. It is said
that some Indiana politicians were
sent on inspection tours simply that
they might enjoy the trip, it not being
expected that the service they would
render would amount to anything.
They were allowed handsome salaries,
all of their expenses were paid and
they were continued on the pay roll
long after their return. At least that
is one of the charges.
No doubt it will be found that there
were many irregularities, to call them
by no harsher name, In the spending
of the public moneys during the Span
ish-Amerlcan War, and for months
thereafter. As to whether or not the
Tulloch charges will be sustained it Is
impossible to say, but it would not be
surprising if they should be. There Is
doubtless enough in them to make the
people feel that It Is about time there
was a change in the government at
Washington. Unless we are greatly
mistaken the charges will play an Im
portant part in the presidential cam
paign next year.
THE METCALFE LETTER.
The letter which Richard Lee Met
calfe, editor of the Omaha World-Her
ald, has written Norman E, Mack, edi
tor of the Buffalo Times, and national
committeeman for New York, is at
tracting considerable interest in politi
cal circles, mainly because Mr. Met
calfe is Mr. Bryan’s closest political
friend, and it is the understanding that
the letter expresses Mr. Bryan’s views.
The letter is in reply to one written
by Mr. Mack recently, In which he ex
pressed a desire for harmony in the
Democratic party—said, in fact, that
he thought the two wings of the party
could get together.
The purport of Mr. Metcalfe’s letter
is that the two factions of the party
cannot get together except upon the
Kansas City platform—that in discuss
ing the question of harmony, attention
has been given to candidates and not
to the platform. He thinks that if
agreement can be reached in regard to
the platform there will be no great dif
ficulty about getting a candidate.
According to Jis view the bimetallists
will not give up the silver plank in
the Kansas City platform. On this
point he says: "Do you think that a
Democratic platform that fails to make
explicit reference to the money ques
tion would command the respect either
of bimetallists or of single gold stand
ard advocates?”
From the foregoing it seems that Mr.
Metcalfe thinks the tw r o factions could
not harmonize because they couldn’t
agree upon a declaration o'n the money
question. In view’ of the fact that that
question is practically settled—is no
longer an issue—we do not see why the
two factions could not get together. If
they couldn't it would be because of
the determination of each to stand by
the position it jias heretofore occupied
and not because of anything depending
upon the platform’s declaration in re
spect to the money question. There
doesn’t appear to be any demand for
the free coinage of silver at present.
If there should be it would be time
enough then to make a point about the
platform declaration in regard to it.
NOT IN THE "SMART SET”.
A London cable, dated iMay 16, states
that Mr. Carnegie had left that city
for Sklbo, Scotland, and that during
his stay in London nothing aroused
him so much as a suggestion that he
belonged to the "smart set” in Amer
ica. He declared that he wanted it
distinctly understood that he had no
sympathy with those who make up
that set. Speaking to some friends he
is reported to have asked: “Do you
think I would belong to the 'smart
set?’ ’’ Further along In his talk
he said: "No man of real
influence In America takes those
people seriously. All that Raw
Pork, Jr., and the ‘smart set'
achieve is to make themselves ridicu
lous by playing at caste and by aping
the European aristocracy. We laugh at
them. They count for absolutely noth
ing in the life of our nation. In Amer
ica more than anywhere else it is ‘three
generations from shirt sleeves to shirt
sleeves.' There Is no single hereditary
fortune in America which is not being
split up. Aristocracy cannot exist with
out primogeniture and entail, and our
laws know' neither."
Of course there is nothing new in
all of this, but it is refreshing to have
a man of Mr. Carnegie’s calibre speak
so plainly about a class of people who
play so Important a part in newspaper
accounts of the social life of New
York. Mr. Carnegie hasn't had much
time to give to what Is called society,
and none at all to give to the amuse
ments of those whose whole life is giv
en up to seeking amusement. His has
been the strenuous life. In making
himself the greatest Iron master of
the age he had to keep his mind busy
with problems that required the in
tense*! thought. If he had had his eye
on the “smart set” he wouldn't now be
giving away millions of dollara every
year. And why should any class of peo
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. MAY 20, 1903.
pie in this country ape the aristocracy
of Europe? The specimens that come
to this country to get heiresses for
wives are not to be envied. It is not
to be wondered at that Mr. Carnegie
did not feel complimented by the sug
gestion that he belonged to the “smart
set" in this country.
QI'ADREN’NIAL SESSION'S.
It seems to us that the Florida Sen
ate showed wisdom In passing the bill
providing for quadrennial sessions of
the Legislature. The opinion is ex
pressed in our dispatches that the bill
will fail in the House, notwithstanding
the fact that it is favored by the peo
ple. There is time enough for the peo
ple to be heard from in regard to it.
They ought to hold mass meetings and
let the Legislature understand how
they feel about the matter.
There Is altogether too much legis
lation in all of the states, and there
is a vast amount of mgney wasted on
Legislatures that could be spent in
others ways to much better advantage.
A session once in four years would
give the people of Florida all the
laws they need. If an imperative de
mand should arise for legislation to
meet new conditions an extra session
could be called, and a brief session held
without a great deal of expense. The
people of the states which have quad
rennial sessions seem to have all the
legislation they want. They are not
clamoring to go back to annual ses
sions or even to biennial sessions.
Florida has a very small debt and
she has a low tax rate—a rate that is
going to be still further reduced. A low
tax rate is one of the best advertise
ments she can have, provided the rate
gives her an ample inpome. With
quadrennial sessions it will be possible
to cut down the rate considerably, be
sides preventing a great mass of ut
terly useless legislation.
We have been trying in this state
for a long time to have the Legislature
submit the question of biennial ses
sions to the people, but for some rea
son or other it seems to think they
dont get too much legislation. The
present Legislature appears to think
there ought to be much more. It is
to hold three sessions instead of two.
Of course that means a good many
more thousands of dollars will go for
legislation than has been the case with
other Legislatures.
The Florida House ought to give the
matter a very careful consideration—
the matter of quadrennial sessions—
before deciding against the proposed
change.
THE NEGRO'S OPPORTUNITIES
PASSING.
Mr. Otis Ashmore, superintendent of
public instruction in thiq county, is the
author of a very interesting and in
structive article on the “Solution of the
Negro Problem,” which appeared in
the Philadelphia Ledger last Sunday.
As the article Is two columns In length
vre can do no more than refer to two
or three of its leading points.
It is Mr. Ashmore’s opinion that the
negro's opportunities for bettering his
material condition and for taking a
higher position 'as a citizen are rapidly
passing. He refers of course to his fail
ure to acquire lands while they are
cheap. The white population is In
creasing rapidly In all of the Southern
states, and it is taking up the lands.
Soon there will be no cheap lands for
the negroes. If they were thrifty, pro
gressive and ambitious tens of thou
sands of them would now Wave their
little farms, where only hundreds have
them. Instead of renting land as most
of those who are farmers do, they
would be land owners, and feel the re
sponsibilities that accompany the own
ership of property.
Of course Mr. Ashmore agrees with
the great majority of the white people
of the South that a mistake was made
when the ballot was given to the negro
—given to him at a time when he was
utterly unprepared even to take care
of himself, much less to direct the af
fairs of the state.
Much of the education the negro is
now receiving, is, says Mr. Ashmore, of
no possible value to him—that part of
it relating to the professions and to
commerce. His salvation "lies in ihe
soil and the mechanic arts.” His best
employment is now and will continue
to be "in the industrial lines of activ
ity.” Of course Mr. Ashmore is right
about this. It would be a blessing to
both races if the negro would accept
this idea. There are ample rewards
and happiness in the industrial field.
The trouble is that only a few negroes
comparatively are willing to prepare
themselves for either skilled or un
skilled work. Not one in a dozen of
either the men or the women who earn
a living as servants is competent.
A gentleman farmer of Long Island
says he has discovered that he can
get two crops a year from his land by
running a mild current of electricity
through the ground near the roots of
the plants. The electrical current, he
says, makes the plants grow just twice
as fast as they would naturally. In
this section of the South there are
many farmers—just ordinary, every
day farmers, without the "gentleman”
prefix—who make two and sometimes
three crops a year on the same land,
without the necessity of going to the
trouble and expense of running cur
rents of electricity through the ground.
Japan has not so much faith in Rus
sian assurances as some of the other
Powers. While Russia is protesting
her good intentions, and meanwhile
strengthening herself in Manchuria,
Japan is working overtime at increas
ing her navy in anticipation of what
she seems to regard as an inevitable
conflict. The Japanese government a
few days ago presented to Parliament
a bill providing at once 150,000,000 for
new warships and 155,000,000 for the
running expenses of construction for a
period of twelve years.
Gov. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania
may possibly be the first victim of the
libel law that he signed the other day.
In his explanation of bis action he re
ferred to an artist, Mr. Nelan, who has
caricatured bint, as a “vagabond” and
an "outcast.” Mr Nelan haa an
nounced that he will bring action
against Ihe Governor for libel under
the new law.
Two x-ray experimenters in New
York make interesting announcements.
One says he can duplicate with x-ray
apparatus many of the miracles men
tioned In the Bible, among them the
descent of the Holy Ghost In a pillar
of tlame. He demonstrated this by
placing a man on a glass plate and
then causing electrical flashes to com
pletely enwrap him so that he appear
ed to be in flame from head to foot.
When the current was turned off the
man had not sustained the slightest in
convenience. Another demonstration
was the producing of a brilliant halo of
flame above the head of a priest. The
other experimenter has discovered that
rays of light emanate from the human
body. They are not visible to the hu
man eye, though they are powerful
enough to make a print on a sensitive
plate. He believes that there are ani
mals of the lower orders to whose eyes
the rays are visible.
Does advertising a certain amount of
reward obligate the person who makes
the announcement to pay that amount?
It seems the matter is to be tested in
the New York courts. Some weeks
ago a rich New York woman dropped
a (25,000 string of pearls in the gutter
cn one of the shopping streets. She ad
vertised a reward of SSOO for the return
of the gems. Subsequently the reward
was Increased to (5,000. Two or three
days after the. loss of the pearls they
were found by a poor shop girl. As
soon as she ascertained that they were
real pearls and learned who the owner
was, she returned them. The husband
of the woman who lost them gave the
girl (100. The father of the girl has
placed the matter in the hands of a
lawyer, who declares that he can,
through the courts, collect for the girl
the full amount of the reward adver
tised.
The Florida House seems to have no
fear of the Dick bill, but rather to like
it. That body has indorsed the new
military law by making an appropria
tion of $30,000 for a state military en
campment that will be held under it.
In all likelihood the Senate will also
pass the bill.
PERSONAL.
—Joseph Vallot, the French scien
tist, whose observatory is located on
Mount Blanc, has the highest home In
the world, being 14,000 feet above the
sea level.
—The busiest man in London is said
to be W. T. R. Preston, the Canadian
emigration commissioner, whose work
in that position for the four years he
has held office has given great satis
faction to the Dominion government. In
early life, Mr. Preston was a news
paper man.
—Edison has made but one speech In
his life; it was not a brilliant one. He
had agreed to lecture on electricity be
fore a girls’ seminary and had engaged
a friend named Adams to work the ap
paratus while he talked. But when the
inventor arose to address his audience
he felt so dazed that he simply said:
“Ladles, Mr. Adams will now address
you on electricity and I will demon
strate what he has to say with the ap
paratus."
—Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia Is
very fond of a joke and in spite of his
multifarious duties finds time for
many amusing quips. When Bishop
Spalding of Peoria visdted the arch
bishop some time ago it was arranged
that the Western man should be en
tertained by a lady prominent in social
and charitable affairs. The archbishop
wrote him. giving some details regard
ing his prospective hostess, and ended
his letter thus: “The lady who has all
these virtues treats her husband like
a brute. P. S.—She is very fond of
brutes, being an officer of the Society
for the Prevention ol Cruelty to
Animals.”
HRIGHT HITS.
—First Picket—“ What’s this strike
about, anyway—more pay, less work?
What’s It for?” Second Picket—”Nah!
The boss didn’t take his hat off or take
his cig’ outen his mouth when de walk
in’ delegate went in ter see him.”—
J udge.
—“Did my wife’s singing disturb you,
last night?” asked the flat dweller of
his neighbor. “Oh, was that your wife
singing we heard last night?” said the
other. “We thought she was having
trouble with the cook.”—Yonkers
Statesman.
—Mistress—"Did you tell those ladles
at the door that I was out, as I told
you?” New Servant —“Yis, mum.”
Mistress—’'Did they seem disappoint
ed?” New Servant—"Yis, mum. Wan
av thim sed: 'How forchunit!”’—Chi
cago Daily News.
—"Don’t you think that people pay
too much attention to money nowa
days?” "No, I don’t,” answered Sen
ator Sorghum. "Time was when a SSO
bill looked as big as a farm to a mem
ber of the Legislature. Now he won’t
pay any attention to it whatever.”—
Washington Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The New York Commercial (Ind.)
.says: “We buy and eell 100,000,000
bales of cotton a year in New York
and New Orleans and raise only 10.-
000,000 bales. We could raise more, but
it would kbep us so busy we wouldn’t
have time to buy and sell as much as
we do.”
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says:
“If the Southern brethren think they
are worrying Mr. Payne any by chas
ing negro mail carriers Into the next
county they are a good deal mistaken.
These occurrences enable the Post
master General to divert public atten
tion from other matters connected with
his department which worry him a
heap more.”
The New York World (Dem.) says:
"Thus far Africa’s competition in cot
ton has not been seriously felt, al
though Its production is an established
industry in Egypt and has been else
where carried on with some success.
But if our speculators play such tricks
with the market as they are playing
now they will ferce European manu
facturers to look for new sources of
raw material, and that will mean a se
rious effort to develop Africa’s capabil
ities. Great Britain. France. Germany
and Belgium, the great cotton manu
facturing countries of Europe, have
vast colonies in Africa, and If they
could make them supply the material
they need the situation that would be
crewed for us would be very serious.
We now produce five-sixths of the raw
cotton of the world. Cotton Is our
largest single item of export. We send
about tMO.OQO.4M worth abroad every
year. Omitting those sales, our total
Imports In most yaars ha vs exceeded
our exports The poselbtllty of loelng
such a national asset ought to have
a sobering influent a even upon tbs I
gamblers of ihe Cotton Exchange,”
The Kaiser Was Ready.
An amusing story is told in the Eng
lish papers about Kaiser Wilhelm’s
fondness for surprising his army and
his navy. When the squadron was at
Kiel, some time ago, the officers at
tended a court function in Berlin. A
young naval commander, while ming
gllng with the crowd of gayly uni
formed courtiers, thought he espied an
other naval friend in front of him. His
friend’s back was turned toward him,
so he pushed up to him. and, placing
his hand on his shoulder, he said:
“How are you, old fellow? Come, let
us go and surprise the aquarium to
night.” His supposed friend turned
around, and, to his horror, the naval
commander found that he had clapped
Admiral Wilhelm on the back. The
commander stood aghast, but the
Kaiser saw’ the joke. "Excellent idea!”
he said. "Keep quiet, and we will start
at once.” And the biggest kind of
torpedo raid was the result, and, to
the Kaiser's great glee, he was able
to torpedo every battleship and cruiser
in port that night.
Miles and the Irishman.
Gen. Miles is quoted by a fellow offi
cer as telling the following story on
himself, says the New York Tribune.
“It was during our pursuit of Chief
Joseph,” said the general. “One ex
ceedingly stormy night we encountered
on our march in the Bearpaw moun
tains a few woodchoppers’ cabins. The
woodsmen were not inclined to be very
hospitable, but we finally induced them
to share with us the protection their
huts afforded.
“They consented, however, only upon
condition that they should not under
any circumstances be compelled to give
up their beds. It fell to my lot to share
the bunk of the boss, a very stem Irish
man, who was not delighted with his
guest.
"Hoping to establish an entente cor
diale, I said banterlngly, as we were
preparing to retire:
" ‘Come now, Patrick, you know
you’d be a long time in Ireland before
you’d get a chance to sleep with a gen
eral.’
“ ‘And it’s Ol that am thinking,’ he
instantly retorted, “that you’d be a
long time in Ireland before you'd iver
be made a gineral.’ ”
A Symposium.
“What is the secret of success?”
askdfi the Sphinx, says Life.
“Push,” said the Button.
“Take pains,” said the Window.
“Never be led,’’ said the Pencil.
“Be up to date,” said the Calendar.
“Always keep cool,” said the Ice.
“Do business on tick,” said the Clock.
“Never lose your head,” said the
Barrel.
“Do a driving business,” said the
Hammer.
“Aspire to great things,” said the
Nutmeg.
“Make light of everything,” said the
Fire.
“Make much of small things,” said
the Microscope.
“Never do anything offhand,” said
the Glove.
"Spend much time in reflection," said
the Mirror.
“Do the work you are suited for,”
said the Flue.
"Get a good pull with the ring,” said
the Doorbell.
"Be sharp in all your dealings,” said
the Knife.
"Find a good thing and stick to it,”
said the Glue.
“Trust to your stars for success,”
said the Night.
"Strive to make a good impression,”
said the Seal.
When the Broker Stumbled,
A Third street broker was telling the
other day of how a young thing, re
cently married to a colleague of his
on the exchange, discovered that her
hubby had been indulging a little too
freely in the cup that cheers, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. At first she held
her breath, she was that frightened.
Then followed a long period of sus
pense, wherein she determined to find
out beyond ail possible doubt whether
her suspicions were well founded. To a
dear friend she confided the source
of her trouble: and from this friend
she learned that it had always been
said that a man even slightly Intoxi
cated cannot pronounce words of any
length. Whereupon the young wife
decided that it would be a good plan
to try.
When next the friend met the young
wife she was in state of great agita
tion. When asked if the suspicions
had been verified, the young girl burst
into tears and said they had.
"I handed him this list,” she said
between sobs, fishing from her bag a
paper which she gave to her friend,
and which contained the following
words:
“Phthisis, photochrony, hypochon
driasis, parachronism, phenakisto
scope, plesiosaurus, antimonianism,
pseudaesthesia.
“And,” she continued, while her
friend read the list, “he missed nearly
half of them.”
The Hiuintrd Main.
Frank Lillie Polllck in Youth’s Com
panion.
There’s a tide of dreams and stories
drifting up the bitter main.
Strewn with wreck of ruined glories,
salt with streams of ancient pain,
Through the fog walls split in sunder,
from the seas of sun and thunder,
And the Carib isles of wonder dream
ing still of scarlet Spain.
Of the galleons burned or taken, sack
ed and sunken hull and mast.
When the iSouthern seas were shaken
by the corsair cannon blast,
And the lordly ports affrighted
throbbed with panic when they
sighted
Black-hulled ships from seaboards
blighted where the death’s-head
flag had passed.
There the strength of Spain was shat
tered by those sons of dark re
nown,
And the Spanish treasure scattered
careiess-handed up and down,
When from ravage red, inglorious,
came the buccaneers victorious,
And the reeking crows uproarious rev
eled in Port Royal town.
Red Port Royal!—fathoms under now
lie rotting fort and pier,
Drunk with crime and gorged with
plunder, swallowed by the sea
gulfs sheer;
And the sea that scourged with
slaughter, mindless of the woe
they wrought her,
Lulls beneath her quiet water picaroon
and privateer.
Stately don and English rover, long
ago they paid the debt,
And the sunny tides sweep over their
white bones with coral set;
But above the towns their raided, of
the golden shores invaded,
Broods the memory unfaded of their
dark vendetta yet.
Massacres and ambuscadoes, rich ar
madas laid aboard,
Iron-hearted desperadoes, seas of gold
and blood outpoured—
Of these things the ports are keeping
vengeful memory unsleeping
From the years of wrath and weep,
ing when they lay beneath the
sword.
Still they smile, the Windward, Lee
ward Islands of the haunted
main;
But when siopm drives in from sea
ward, through the midnight hur
ricane
Rides a spectre grim and gory, i-ent
and red with feud and foray—
O'er the waves of eavage story sweeps
the ghost of slaughtered tfpaiu.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The coffee-chewing habit is increas
ing alarmingly. It Is easily contracted,
because of the pleasant taste of the
fresh-roasted berries, and the exhila
ration from the active principles of
coffee being similar to that from the
alcohol in beer and whisky, the habit
is hard to break. The effects of cof
fee-eating are much more marked than
those from tobacco using. It wrecks
the nerves, yellows the skin, and de
stroys the appetite.
—Some ten or twelve Australians who
went to South Africa to invest about
(150,000 In farming lands, not as a syn
dicate, but as separate settlers, have
returned in disgust to their , own land.
The general complaint is that the land
is held by the British government at
too high a figure. This is due to the
fact that enormous prices were paid
to the Dutch for the land by the im
perial government, which is finding it
correspondingly hard to get rjd of.
—Canada is about to become the chief
source of the world’s supply of arsenic.
The arsenic which for many years bar
filed the gold miners of Hastings coun
ty. Ontario, in their efforts to extract
the precious metal from Its matrlce
has become the more profitable of the
two minerals. This strange turn of
the wheel of fortune has been caused
by the virtual exhaustion of the for
mer chief source of supply of arsenic
in Germany and England, together with
the superior quality and purity of the
Canadian product.
—ln Ethiopia and # the Soudan the
work of development and exploitation
is progressing. The treaty recently
concluded between King Menelik and
the British government probably means
the early construction of the Berber-
Suakin railroad via Kassaia (costing
some $15,000,000) and the subsequent
extension of the Kassaia line south
ward to Lake Rudolph, where eventu
ally it will form a junction with the
Uganda railway, at the same time
marking a long step toward the re
alization of the Cape-to-Cairo scheme.
—The new electric trolley line be
tween Shepherd’s Bush and Hampton
Court, London, is to be equipped, ac
cording to a proposed plan, with tea
and luncheon cars, so that refresh
ments may be serve* along the way
without loss of time. This. *t appears,
Is a concession to the large number
of Americans, principally tourists, who
will use the line in sightseeing. The
Londoners, to judge from the papers,
seem to think that this development
of the trolley car is much further along
in this country than is really the
case.
-“Paper gloves and stockings are
now being manufactured in Europe. As
to the manner in which the former are
made little is known, but the stockings
have been carefully examined by ex
perts, and they are loud in their praise
of them. It Is claimed that they will
last almost as long as ordinary stock
ings. The reason, they point out, is
because the paper of which they are
made, was during the process of manu
facture transformed Into a substance
closely resembling wool, and was then
woven and otherwise treated as ordi
nary wool.
—The Transvaal is likely to become
again the popular resort of big game
hunters. There has, indeed, since the
war, been such an influx of big game
into the northwestern districts as to
constitute a record in their modern
history. This is due to prolonged
drought, and the consequent destruc
tion of the pastures in Western Afri
ca. Even the eland and the wild
beeste. which have for many years
been very rare in the Transvaal, have
made their appearance. However, the
majority of the new arrivals are bucks.
The authorities are doing all they can
to induct the game to remain in their
newly sought fields.
—A few days ago M. Lecuier of
Sugny, in the Ardennes, an old pen
sioner, who was wounded on the field
of battle during the Franco-German
war and suffered from a tumor caused
by a shot in the leg, underwent an op
eration. The bullet had been extracted
in 1870, but the tumor continued, and
finally Lecuier could not walk. The
surgeons were greatly surprised in the
course of the operation to find imbed
ded in the wound a coin of 10 cen
times (a penny), bearing the effigy of
Napoleon 111, .and the date 1856. The
penny is believed to have been carried
into the thigh by a German bullet
which had first struck the soldiers
purse. The coin was bent in two and
covered with powder on one side. It
will be placed in the local museum.
—The following coroner’s verdict was
recently rendered in one of the coun
ties of Indiana: “After having care
fully examined the body, seen, heard
and inspected the evidence adduced in
the premises, I do not find that the true
and lawful name of said person is as
above given, to wit: Andrew Mitz, that
his age at the time of his death was
53 years, 5 feet and 10 inches high,
Black hair and dark complexion, and
that he came to his death as follows:
After having the proper witnesses,
which was a son of the deceased. I
find that on the 14th day of February,
A. D., 1903, and about 3 o’clock p. m.,
Mr. Mitz, having seen some water in
his cellar, thought he would walk out
to the end of the cellar Drean, which
was perhaps a hundred yards away.
After seeing the water coming out of
the tile apparently alright, upon look
ing around he saw a rabbit sitting and
went to the house after his gun, when
he returned, the Rabbit had gone. So
he went hack and just before entering
the house thought he would take the
loaded shell from the gun, when by
some means the gun went off. It kick
ed back and the stock of the gun hit
him near the Groin causing a severe
merorage. He managed to get Into the
house and took his bed and died from
the effects about 30 hours later. The
accident was peculiar but fatal.”
—When you are writing about the
camel, the proper thing to do is to
call him the ship of the desert and
quote a verse or two of Kipling’s
“Oonts,” says the Brooklyn Eagle.
Call him a ship while you can, for the
time is coining when you can’t with
any likelihood of folks knowing what
you mean, for the motor truck Is go
ing to displace him as a peripatetic
freighter on the sandy wastes. You
may, however, quote from “Oonts”
indefinitely, or until armies give up us
ing camels for transport service in the
East, which is likely to be a long
while yet. The motor car? Oh, yes. It’s
this way: Two ingenious English in
ventors, George Winter and Jesse El
lis, have constructed a devil wagon for
desert travel that appears to have the
camel beat to a finish. The great dif
ficulty was, of course, to design a
wheel that would not sink deep into
the sand beneath the weight of the
carriage and its cargo- Messrs. Win
ter and Ellis have made such a wheel,
however, and it haa proven equal to
every teat to which It haa yet been
subjected. It Is a broad, flat tire, with
a flange in the center to throw up the
sand on either aide and ao make a bed
for the flat part of the wheel. With the
wheel problem aolved. the Winter-Bills
carte will carry forty men acroaa the
desert at the rate of five miles an
hour—not very fast going, but still
quicker in the long run, beside being
more economical than camel traveling.
Winter and Ellis have been experi
menting under the direct authorlaa
tkgi of the Ltfypihui goveiiuuvuL
No Gripe, Pain
Or discomfort, no llHUtlon of the in.
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Approved and endorsed by leading
chemists and physicians.
The continued popularity of our
brands and the future prosperity of
our business is not dependent upon the
passage of so-called pure food laws.
Intended to suppress competition.
We sell our products on their merits
and we lefy competition.
Our old and relentless enemy, the
Baking Powder Trust, has just met
complete exposure and their bribery of
Missouri legislators is now known to
the world.
When you buy a can of trust made
Baking Powder, you contribute to a
fund which is being used to corrupt
legislators and destroy competition.
Buy honest goods at legitimate
prices and help to promote home in
dustry.
Our Baking Powder, Soda, Cans and
Cases are all made in Savannah.
MOREHOUSE MFG. CO.
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in this city:
M. B. Ehrlicher, West Broad and
Liberty.
J. D. Seim, Jones and Purse.
Peter Handrenos, West Broad, be
tween Charlton and Jones.
W. H. Eskedor, Wayne and West
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tion. No sore noses of any sort —from
eyeglasses. And yet no slipping or tip
ping or shaking or falling of the
glasses. This is the kind we will fit to
you with our finest lenses. Our exami
nation, which is free, is the same as
Is used by the leading eye specialists
of New York and London. Remember
all glasses are guaranteed that are
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HINES OPTICAL CO.
DR. LEWIS A. HINES, Refractlonlst,
148 Whitaker st„ near Oglethorpe ave.
PIANOS
Steinway
Chickering
Knabe
Fischer
We have In our parlors a full
and complete line of the above
make PIANOS, direct from the
factories, with all the very latest
improvements in Piano-fort
construction.
PHILLIPS & GREW
COMPANY,
JOHN S. BANKS, Manager.
Parlors, 19 Perry street, west.
POLISHED PLATE GLASS.
We have now the largest stock o t
Polished Plate Glass in our ware
house in Atlanta there is In the South.
We meet any prices.
WINDOW GLASS, lots of It, all
sizes, single and double, at our ware
houses both In Savannah and in At
lanta. Dowell Pins, Blind Staples,
Glaziers Diamonds, Putty and Points.
Mall orders promptly shipped.
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SAVANNAH. ATLANTA.
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