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The Weutller.
The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for fair
weather, with light to fresh north
winds.
It is announced in Chicago that sev
eral proprietors of fashionable restau
rants have “cut out the catgut." That
is the vernacular for "have dispensed
with music at dinner.” It seems that
between the quarrels and strikes of the
musicians, and the grumblings of pa
trons with regard to the class of music
served with soups and roasts, the pro
prietors have determined to grab both
horns of the dilemma and do away
with the music altogether.
Several patents having recently been
issued for automatic guns, the maga
zine "Recreation" is out with a protest
against their use and an appeal to
sportsmen to discourage their manu
facture. The automatic gun is one that
can be discharged several times per
second. A covey of partridges getting
up before a marksman armed with such
a gun would be decimated before it
could get to cover. It is argued that
hunting with such a gun is more in the
nature of going out for slaughter than
for sport. There ought to be state
laws prohibiting the U3e of such guns
in hunting birds or other game.
There are two James Lane Allens.
One is the author of "The Choir In
visible,” and the other is his cousin, a
Chicago real estate dealer. The other
day it was announced that James Lane
Allen had made $2,000,000 in a Texas
oil land deal, and the author began to
receive congratulations. Previous to
that time the land agent had read and
iaughted over sundry criticisms of
"his” book. It was the real estate Al
ien who made the lucky strike in oil,
but the author Allen says he some
times feels that he ought to go out and
buy anew overcoat on credit on the
strength of his supposed good fortune.
Two or three years ago William
Zeigler, the baking powder millionaire,
financed a polar expedition headed by
Evelyn B. Baldwin. The expedition
was a failure. Zeigler and Baldwin
quarreled. Two weeks ago Zeigler was
indicted in Missouri on a charge of
bribery in connection with baking pow
der legislation, and it is alleged Bald
win gave the grand jury the testi
mony that incriminated him. Now an
attorney of Zeigler is in St. Louis look
ing up evidence on which a prosecution
against Baldwin may be brought. The
Arctic expedition quarrel, it seems, is
to be fought in the courts on a baking
powder basis.
< "Colorado men are going back to the
old method of a vigilance committee
in their determination to stop train
wrecking and similar unwarrantable
outrages,” says the Philadelphia
Press. What, by the way, is a “war
rantable outrage?" And, is it not singu
lar that some newspapers can find ex
cuses for th£ dealing of summary jus
tice to persons who commit outrages
against property, while they have only
the harshest condemnation for the
dealing of summary justice to those
who commit outrages against the per
son? The Press can understand why a
“vigilance committee'* should lynch a
train wrecker, but it cannot understand
why a “mob" should lynch a brute who
commits the worst of crimes.
THE PIVOTAL STATE.
It is now known why Gov. Odell of
New York was called to Washington
by the President the other day in such
hot haste. He had received informa
tion that there were two dangers
threatening his political life. One was
dissensions in his party in New York
that made it doubtful if the
delegation from that state to
the Republican National Con
vention would favor his nomina
tion, and the other was that even If
nominated, he wouldn't carry the state
because of the apathy In the party.
It appears that Senator Piatt Wasn't
giving entire satisfaction as the par
ty's leader in New York. Gov. Odell,
for instance, did not seem to have any
lniluence at Washington, all of the
federal appointments going to Platt
men. The President therefore called
a meeting of the New York leaders.
Just what he promised in order to
bring about harmony isn’t known, but
it is known that Senator Platt was
deposed as the boss of the party and
Gov. Odell was put in his place. The
senator is still permitted to hold him
self out as the boss, but he hasn't any
power. The party workers now look
to Gov. Odell for orders and rewards.
On his return from Washington Gov.
Odell gave put an Interview in width,
among other things, he said he re
garded New York as the pivitol state.
He spoke of the contention that Mr.
Roosevelt could be elected without
that state as nonsense.
It is evident from the change of lead
ership of the Republican party in New
York that the President also regards
New York as the pivotal state, not only
as regards his nomination, but also his
chances of election in the event of his
nomination.
And what are Mr. Roosevelt’s
chances for carx-ying New York? It
is stated in some of the letters and dis
patches sent out from New York that
no less an authority than Louis Payne,
a noted Republican politician of that
stiite, said that unless there were bet
ter leadership In New York Mr. Roose
velt, if a good Democrat were nomi
nated against him, a Democrat whose
head was not.filled with vagaries,
would be beaten in the Empire State
of the North by at ileast 100,000 ma
jority.
It is evident that the President had
reason to be alarmed. It isn't to be
wondered at that he sent for Gov.
Odell in hot haste and that he used all
of his iniiuence to get Senator Platt
out of the way, so that the Governor
could be put in charge of the cam
paign.
But it is a long way from certain
that Gov. Odell can save the state for
the President. It is evident that there
sire forces, in his own party at work
there and elsewhere to prevent his
nomination. If he succeeds in having
himself nominated the efforts that
were made to defeat his nomination
will increase the difficulties in the way
of his election.
It is stilted that it has just been dis
covered that there is a widespread ef
fox-t to make Senator Fairbanks of In
diana the Republican nominee for
President. It is the understanding,
according to the dispatches, that men
who were supposed to be friendly to
Mr. Roosevelt, are among those who
are in tlv^Fairbanks’ movement.
It is evident therefore that every
thing isn’t plain sailing for the Presi
dent. If he succeeds himself it will
be only after one of the hardest fought
political battles "that' h'as ever taken
place in this country.
HELIMMi C'H AM BKRI, Al,\.
The attack which Senator Hale of
Maine made upon Joseph Chamber
lain the other day. in his speech in the
Senate, is calculated to help Mr. Cham
berlain in his efforts to have England
adopt a system of differential tariffs.
Senator Hale referred to Mr. Cham
berlain as the “most adventurous poli
tician in colonial experience.”
There is jk> doubt that Mr. Cham
berlain is making a remarkable fight
for the policy which he is advocating,
and for the purpose of advocating,
which he i'dU the British cabinet.
When he proposed it the wage-earners
very generally opposed it on the ground
that it would make food dearer.
Strange to say. that class of people
appears to be accepting his views to
such an extent that it is attracting a
great deal of attention. He seeriis to
be convincing them that the wage
earner would not have to pay more
for what he eats under the protective
system than he does now. and that
his chances of earning better wages
would be greatly improved.
Recently he called for contributions
to help along his cause, and the re
sponses exceeded all expectations.
They ranged all the way from $5,000
to a few shillings. Some of the small
contributors wrote that they were not
able to give much, but that they
wanted to say they were not afraid of
the “dear loaf” bogy.
There is no doubt of course that if
Mr. Chamberlain should be successful
we should have a commercial war with
Great Britain. It was while speak
ing of the possibility of such a war
that Senator Hale made the foregoing
remark about Mr. Chamberlain. He
also said that a commercial war with
Great Britain would, in all probability,
result in the annexation of Canada to
the United States. No one can fore
cast with any degree of certainty the
outcome of the tariff movement which
Mr. Chamberlain has inaugurated in
England.
An interesting case went to a Bos
ton court the other day from an apart
ment house on Beacon street, in the
exclusive and very swell Back Bay
district. A family who rented apart
ments in the building sought to have
their lease annulled, on the ground
that the place was infested with those
creatures which, having no wings at
all, get there all the same. Owing
to the presence of these permanent
dwellers, said the lessee, his family’s
peace and comfort had been destroyed;
both sleeping and waking they were
annoyed, and they could not find rest
under that roof. But the court de
clined to relieve the householder from
his obligation. "The bedbugs go with
(the kjase,” ruled the court and ordered
the jfhhuppy householder to pay the
rent. An appeal has been taken.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 28. 1903.
THE HO AII IIIESTION TO THE
HIOitT.
It Is announced that the new British
ambassador, Sir Henry Mortimer Du
rand, will reach Washington to-day,
and that the first matter to which he
will give his attention is the protest of
the British holders of the bonds of Co
lombia, in which the claim is made that
Panama should assume a part of Co
lombia's debt. What the British am
bassador can do in the matter beyond
asking our government to use its influ
ence with Panama in favor of the
bondholders isn’t apparent.
Panama has practically said through
her junta that she wouldn't pay a cent
of Colombia's debt, mainly for the rea
son that she had never received any
benefits from the money for which the
bonds were given. Suppose Panama
bolds to that position, will Great Brit
ain undertake to use coercive meas
ures? Will she lend Colombia a help
ing hand if the latter should make an
effort to recover control of Panama?
It looks as If there were a chance
for complications with Great Britain
in regard to this matter of bonds. That
Power hasn’t yet recognized the repub
lic of Panama, and evidently doesn’t
intend to do so until she gets satis
faction respecting this bond question.
If Great Britain should give encour
agement and aid to Colombia in the
latter's effort to restore the integrity
of her territory, what position would
our government take? Would it go to
the aid of Panama? And Holland, too,
wants Panama to assume a share of
Colombia’s debt. Some of her citi
zens own Colombia bonds. She is in
sympathy with the position which Great
Britain has taken in the matter.
It would go hard with the men who
compose the Panama junta to give up
any portion of the $10,000,000 which
the United States propose to pay her
for canal concessions. They are look
ing with greedy eyes upon that pile
of American gold. They are so eager
to get their hands upon it that they
have agreed to ratify the canal treaty,
which their minister at Washington has
negotiated with'our government, with
out ever having seen it. Doubtless
they would give away the entire isth
mus rather than miss getting posses
sion of that gold.
But it will be some time before they
will be permitted to look upon it. The
money for canal concessions will not
be paid until all questions affecting
Panama’s status are settled. British
diplomacy is slow and our Senate will
not be in a hurry to ratify the treaty.
As the situation now presents itself it
will be some months before questions
affecting Panama, which are now pre
senting themselves, will be adjusted.
I’kIUE VS. CASH.
A day or two ago we called atten
tion to the struggle going on between
the House and the Senate as to which
should dominate in matters where joint
action was required. Heretofore the
Senate has calmly assumed a superior
ity that has been exasperating to the
House. It has, in effect, said: We
will lead the way, you follow.
Congress was called together in ex-
session for the purpose of acting
, dn the bill to put in operation the Cu
bjlri reciprocity treaty. Tint House
promptly passed the bill and the Sen
ate, after discussing it for a brief
period, decided to take a vote upon it
on Dec. 16. It then indicated its de
sire to adjourn. The House declined
to adjourn the extra session until the
business for which the session was
called was transacted.
The Senate said nothing, but waited
in silence. It made no effort to change
its programme. It probably knew
that the members of the Housa would
bfegin to get uneasy within a day or
two and would to protest to the Speak
er that it Was useless to continue the
session longer; that it was clearly the
purpose of the Senate to do nothing.
And a big pressure is being brought
to bear upon the Speaker to consent
to an adjournment. Of -course the
House would like to compel the Sen
ate to recede from its position and act
upon the Cuban bill. It would feel a
pride in a victory of that kind, but
it looks as if the Senate meant to sit
it out until the regular meeting of
Congress on Dec. 7.
That is just what the House doesn't
want it to do. It wants to adjourn,
because unless Congress does adjourn
before the time for it to meet in reg
ular session its members will not be
able to draw mileage for going to
Washington from their respective
homes.
For many of the members mileage
is a pretty big item. One member
draws as much as $2,000 for each ses
sion. As twenty cents a mile is al
lowed to each member for every mile
he travels from his home to the Cap
itol it can be readily seen that mileage
is well worth looking after. Those
who live the furtherest away from
Washington, of course, draw the larg
est amounts. Quite a number, it is
said, are paid more than SI,OOO each.
It looks, therefore, as if the Speaker
will lose some of his popularity if he
doesn't yield to the Senate and permit
an adjournment. The House seems
willing to pocket its pride if. by so do
ing, it can at the same time pocket a
very desirable amount of cash.
To tell how old Ann is constitutes
disorderly conduct in New York, un
der certain circumstances. The chest
nut is a stock joke at one of the music
halls. The other night after everybody
on the stage had "given it up," ac
cording to schedule, a young man in an
orchestra chair arose and answered
that Ann was eighteen years old, and
began to quote algebraic formula to
prove it. A policeman took him out
and locked him up, and the next morn
ing he was fined $5. Now he say3
he doesn’t care how old Ann may be;
that he will never tell another soul,
even though the inquirer burst with ig
norance.
Pension Commissioner Wure says
that ninety days in the office he holds
is enough for the education of any man
in public office holding. He is holding
on a little more than that time be
cause he has got to, not that he wants
to. No man of independence and a de
sire to hold the scales of justice evenly
between the government and the pen
sioners. says Mr. Ware, can hold the
office longer than ninety days without
being disgusted with It.
A pretty little incident occurred in
Washington a day or tw’o ago. Among
the applicants for appointment to a
vacant judgeship on the bench o< the
federal court in Kansas was Judge J.
C. Pollock. It’ had been charged by
the political enemies of Judge Pollock
that he played poker. The President
had notified the Kansas delegation that
they must settle the judgeship question
among themselves, and they were in
the act of taking the twelfth ballot for
a candidate when the information came
to them that they need ballot no longer,
as the President had made a choice.
It seems that an investigation info 'the
poker charges against Judge Fdllock
had been made, showing him' guiltless,
and that the President had been shown
a letter from the judge's little daugh
ter, aged 15, in which she wrote: "Dear
Papa: Why don’t you go to the Presi
dent and tell him about it? If he
sees your face he will never believe
those nasty charges.” The result of
the investigation and the letter com
bined to make up the President’s mind.
And he sent a rose to the little girl
with the message: “I like q. little girl
who has that kind of faith in her
father.”
The “Two Teddies” campaign button
has made its rfppearance in Chicago.
The tw’o “Teddies” are Theodore Roose
velt and Judge Theodore Breritane,
whom the buttons name for President
and Vice President respectively. With
out disparagement to Judge Brentano,
a Chicago jurist of whom little is
known outside of his own bailiwick,
it may be observed that two “Te'ddies”
at one and the same time would be
altogether too much. One of them has
proved almost as puzzling as a basket
of monkeys.
The other day a Pennsylvania post
office was I'obbed. But in this instance
there will be no investigation by the
Postmaster General or by a commit
tee of Congress. The $2,000 missing
was taken by plain, ordinary, every
day burgiai's, of whom such things
are expected, and not by persons in
the employ of the postal establishment;
which makes the robbery somewhat out
of the ordinary at this time.
PERSONAL.
—Albert Negahnquet, .a full-blooded
Pottawatomie’lndian, is the first man
of his race to be consecrated a priest
of the Roman Catholic Church. The
ceremony was performed in Rome
some time ago and Father Negahnquet
is now doing missionary work among
the people in Indian territory, being
assistant pastor of a church in Mus
kogee. lie was born on a Pottawa
tomie reservation in Kansas twenty
nine years ago.
—Senator Gibfebn of Montana, 73
year's old and a widower, is being sug
gested as the next of fhe elderly so
lons to take unto himself a wife.
Chauncey Depew declares, that,Cupid
ir running riot ,in the “upper house,’’
and it may be that Mr. Gibson mn> be
driven into mattimbny. His colleague,
Mr. Clark, 64 wears old, is a widower
also, as is Millard of Nebraska, 67;
Daniel of Virginia, 61; piilingham of
Vermont, 60, and Warren of Wyom
ing, 59. 4 " ai
—lt is expected thatduring the com
ing season in Washington the Ger
man embassy will be a scene of much
social interest, as Barohess von Stern
burg, wife of the ambassador, is a
most charming hostess. The embassy,
under his direction, ha st been embel
lished in admirable fashion, much of
the decoration having been ,d,onje un
der the immediate supervision of Mias
Violet Langham; ’Sister of the baroness
and an artist of ability. A younger
sister, Miss Ivy gingham, will proba
bly be a member of the ambassador’s
family during thd winter.
liRIGHT HITS.
—He—“Did you enjoy yourself at the
horse show?" She —“Not a bit. There
was such a crowd that I couldn't see
how a Eingle dress was made.”—Cin
cinnati Times-Star.
—“Do you drink?” inquired the
young woman's mother. The young
man hesitated. “Do you drink?” the
lady repeated.,.. “If you insist,” re
plied tin* modest young man.—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
—“Don’t you sometimes feel as if
you had betrayed your trust?” “Cer
tainly not.” answered Senator Sorghum.
'There’s no one who can say I didn't
stand by any trust that did business
with me.” —Washington Star.
—"I know his fiancee is plain, be
cause he says She’s sensible." “But
you can’t be sure of it.” “Oh, yes.
No girl is pretty who is spoken of as
‘sensible.’ ” "But how can she be sen
sible? Isn’t she engaged to him?"—
Philadelphia Ledger.
Cl RREVr COMMENT.
The Washington Post (Ind.) says:
“Representative Hardwick proposes to
use the law in preventing the sale of
political influence. A more popular
measure with the politicians would be
a law to protect a man from losing
political inlluert.ce.”
The Houston Post (Dem.) says; “Rec
iprocity with Canada, if carried out.
along broad, honest, Democratic lines,
would perhaps g>e popular in this coun
try. If, however, those who wish to
see if brought about use the same tac
tics as have prevailed in the Cuban
negotiations, then there can be little
doubt that serious opposition would de
velop and that in the end the thing
might have to be whipped through as
the Cuban matter has been."
The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.)
says; "Another big strike—that of the
Chicago street car employes—has gone
the way of most strikes, against the
strikers. And. considering the demands
ot the strikers, it was bound to go
that way. No employer, individual or
corporation, is fit to conduct a business
if he turns it over completely not
merely to the employes, but to an or
ganization of the employes controlled
by outsiders. The first requisite for the
success of union labor Is the, acquisi
tion by its leaders of a little common
sense." ' - ' X
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The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says:
“Some of our learned contemporaries
who are trying to make fish of seces
sion at home and tiesh of secession
abroad are laboring to prove that Pan
ama had a right to secede which South
Carolina did not have. The right of
an American state to secede was sus
tained by a large portion of the people,
and by eminent constitutional lawyers
from the tune, the coustßution was
adopted till the fight of secession went
down in the defeat of arms at Appo
mattox. Besides the resolutions of 1798,
and many individual expressions, the
voice of New England was raised to
the same purpose when Mr. Quincy ot
Massachusetts, in 1811, predicted that
the carving of states out of the Louis
iana purchase would destroy the as
cendancy of his section of the country
and compel it to secede, us a measure
of self-defense."
Washington Stories.
Representative Bowie of Alabama
has a little daughter to whom life in
the National Capital has been a dis
appointment, says the Washington
Post. In her Alabama home she has
as her playground expansive lawns
and fields filled with flowers, and her
freedom-loving spirit rebels against
the asphalt streets and granolithic
sidewalks of Washington.
A few days ago she approached her
father with' disgust and weariness writ
ten all over her tiny features.
"Papa,” she said, “let's go out of
Congress and go back to Alabama to
live.”
“Why, daughter,” exclaimed Mr.
Bowie, "don’t you like Washington?
It is the most beautiful city in the
land.”
“ ’Tain’t,” responded the small girl
with conviction. “It's a Tiorrid place.
“Why, papa,” she continued, the light
of triumphant argument in her eyes.
“There isn’t mud enough in ail Wash
ington to make a single pie.”
Representative Morris Sheppard ar
rived one afternoon last summer in a
small Texas town, where he was billed
to make a speech that evening. A
colored hotel porter was at the station,
and together they started to walk to
the hostlery.
“How far is it -to the hotel?" asked
Mr. Sheppard, who was too tired to
enjoy the prospect of a long walk.
"That's the hotel, cap’en, that big
house just up the river,” the darky
answered politeiy.
Anxious to secure a few pointers for
his speech, Mr. Sheppard continued the
conversation. “What is the popula
tion here.” he asked.
“Only $2 a day, sah, only $2 a day,”
the negro hastened to give assurance,
fearful that his hotel was about to
lose a customer.
Senator -McCreary of Kentucky is an
authority on historical incidents of the
Mexican war, of which he has been an
interested student. A tribute to the
courage of Jefferson Davis he is fond
of relating.
“It was during the Mexican war,”
he said. “As you know, Jefferson Da
vis had previously eloped with the
daughter of Taylor, who was then in
command on the Texan border, and
not in close touch with the White
House, just as Dewey was out of reach
by cable at Manila. The American
troops cx-ossed the border. The Mexi
cans made trouble and Taylor went
ahead, and the victories of Palo Alto
and Monterey were won. In the fam
ous battle in which Bragg was told
to ‘Loud your cannon with grape, sir!’
Davis, who was then under command
of Taylor, went ahead and won a not
able victory in a certain part of the
field. When he returned Taylor grasp
ed his hand cordially and, after con
gratulating him, said: ‘Let me tell
you, sir, that you displayed better
judgment in the selection of a husband
for my daughter than. I did myself.”
Drinks Were on Mr. Cannon.
Representative Joseph G. Cannon of
Illinois is one of the most talked-of
men in Congress. His conspicuous po
sition in the chair of Randall, Car
lisle, Reed and Crisp rivets attention
upon his sturdy and good-natured per
sonality, developing some of the best
stories of the cloak rooms.
One story told by a Western mem
ber is thoroughly characteristic of
"Uncle Joe.” It is not generally known
outside the Capitol that for three years
prior to the election of Mr. Cannon for
the i speakership he was not on speak
ing terms with Representative William
P. Hepburn, one of the strong men on
the Republican side, and the man who
matje the speech in the Republican
caucus placing the name of Cannon in
,noniihuuqn for the speakership. The
,estrangement between the two lead
ers dated back to a lively debate, dur
ing which Cannon and Hepburn crossed
swords. Becoming intense, Cannon
said:
“The gentleman from lowa, with all
of his vehemence, is still insincere.”
The retort came from the lowan
quickly:
"The gentleman from Illinois, with
all of his vehemence, states what he
knows-is not true."
The reply of Hepburn settled it with
“Uncle Joe." who did not relish the
idea of being called a liar in parlia
mentary language. Hepburn, too, was
stubborn, and refused to have the re
mark expunged from the Congressional
Record. The result was that the two
leaders reluctantly noticed each other
as they passed during three sessions of
Congress.
Some time after it became evident
that Canrton would be the Speaker of
the present Congress, Representative
James R. Mann of Illinois made an ap
pointment for Mr. Cannon to meet him
at the Metropolitan Club at 2:30 p. m.
Representative James A. Tawney of
Minnesota made an appointment to
meet Representative Hepburn at the
same place and hour. The engage
ments were kept. The estranged con
gressmen entered the club almost si
multaneously, to find Representatives
Tawney and Mann already exploding
with laughter. “Uncle Joe" took in the
situation at a glance, and, looking to
ward Hepburn, said, "Col. Pete, the
drinks are on me. Shake’.’’ The for
mer friendship of the two men was
renewed that afternoon, and when the
lamps were lighted the two congress
men were still pleasantly chatting over
a table.
A High t'lnsM Convict.
A minister was in the county jail hav
ing a talk with the prisoners. He is a
kind-hearted old gentleman, and he
wandered about shaking hands with
the unfortunates, at the same time
giving each a word of encouragement,
says the Pittsburg Press.
Finally the minister reached the top
tier, and there he found a darky doing
some work along the range. As it was
Sunday the minister asked him why he
was working on that day. The d'arky
replied that the work had to be done
and he thought he would do it when he
had a good opportunity.
"How long will you be here?” asked
the man in the ministerial garb.
"Well. I dunno, boss,” replied the col
ored man, continuing his work.
"Do you think it will be long?”
"iso, a guess not, boss.”
“Are you serving time for disorderly
conduct?"
The darky drew himself up to his full
hight and replied, with considerable
dignity: "No, sah, I’sq no common
criminal; I'se a highw'ay robber."
Satisfied With His Job.
A Philadelphia clergyman recently
visited an old schoolmate who is lo
cated in Montana, shys the Philadel
phia Ledger. One Sunday they held
revival services in a large . camp of
Swedish miners, and at one of the meet
ings the minister from the Quaker City,
looking straight at a big, powerful
looking man who sat in front, said to
him:
"My friend, don’t you want to work
for the Lord?”
The Swede thought a few seconds and
replied slowly:
“No; I tank not; de Norden Pacific'
fallers is party good to work for.”
—A rare honor for one of hi* age
has been conferred on Stanley M. Cox,
the 12-year-old son of Arthur M. Cox
of Brooklyn, by the Humane Society
of Massachusetts in awarding him a
bronze medal for bravery in saving
life. Stanley saved the life of Frank
Deveau. a boy of 8, at East Glouces
ter on Aug. 13 last. Both boys became
unconscious when they were taken
from the water. COx soon recovered,
but the Deveau lad was believed to be
dead and was not revived for an hour.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—On the occasion of the recent 80th
birthday of the German author, Rudolf
von Gottschall, the Emperor sent him
a letter of congratulation, with the an
nouncement that he was to receive an
annual pension of SSOO.
—The botanical expedition sent to
Venezuela in June by Harvard Uni
versity has returned with more than
4,500 specimens of mosses, lichens, flow
ers and fungi, secured on the Island of
Margarita, forty miles off the main
land.
—The annual consumption of calcin
ed plasters and wall plaster cannot be
estimated, but it is very large. Most
Chinese houses are built of cheap
brick, and are plastered both inside and
out. Large quantities of plaster are
also used for the making of Chinese
graves, almost all of them being en
tirely covered with it.
—One of the greatest joys that fell
to the lot of the late Prof. Mommsen
was the award to him last ye’ar of a
Nobel prize of 150,000 marks. “To think
that I should become a rich man even
in my old days!” he exclaimed. He
promptly donated 5,000 to the libraries
in Charlottenburg and 1,000 to the Uni
versity of Leipsic for its papyrus col
lections.
—Dr. Schweninger, who used to be
Bismarck’s physician, relates, that one
time, when there whs an epidemic of
cholera in Marseilles, the Chancellor re
ceived from that city a package which,
on being opened, was found to contain
innumerable cholera germs. The mat
ter was kept secret at the time, but
when Bismarck afterwards heard of it
he simply laughed.
—D. L. Deering, a dentist of Kan
sas City, Mo., is the inventor of a gag
or gasoline engine of the turbine type
which is very simple and compact and
is said to greatly simplify the con
struction of automobiles. It is a very
trivial matter, says the doctor, fpr the
owner of a carriage of the ordinary
type to place one of these engines In
it and propel it by power.
—lt is only natural that the trade
between Canada and the United States
should be extensive. We cultivate sim
ilar soil; we draw riches from the
same great lakes and rivers; we delve
into the same mountain ranges for our
minerals; we are very much alike in
customs and habits; we have the same
system of weights, measures and
money; we have similar methods of
keeping accounts and of transacting
business—hence our nearness to each
other must ever induce extensive trade.
—The Journal of Tropical Medicine
tells of an apparently harmless bever
age which is the sole stay and stimu
lant of the working classes in Para
guay and the Argentine republic. It is
often known as Paraguay tea or mate.
It is usually drunk as a hot infusion,
thi-ough a metal tube, but may be
taken like tea, with milk and sugar.
Workmen take it with them wherever
they go and sip it occasionally. Wood
cutters will work on it for five or six
hours before breakfast, and the writer
of the article declares that, taken at
night, it makes nursing, study or what
doctors call "night work” real pleas
ure. Analysis does not explain these
results and lifelong and persistent use
appears to have no evil consequences.
—Adelaide enjoys the distinction of
being the oldest municipality in Aus
tralia. It was named after the Queen
of William IV, in whose reign it was
founded, and its principal thoroughfare
bears the name of King William street.
Its oldest newspaper, the South Aus
tralia Register, was first published in
London as the organ of the South Aus
tralian association, the body under
whose auspices the pioneer settlers and
founders of Adelaide were dispatched
from England. The pioneer colonists
were in sore straits, when valuable cop
per mines were luckily discovered near
Adelaide. The late Sir George Grey,
who was appointed its governor at the
early age of 29, materially helped to
pull the place out of the slough of de
spond and rescued the infant settle
ment from imminent bankruptcy.
—There is at least one man in Eng
land who makes money out of his re
creation, and that man is the octoge
narian Duke of Rochester—Dean Hole.
Combining deep learning with a large
fund of bright wit and broad humor,
he can spare time from his heavy ec
clesiastical duties to add $5,000 a year
to his income by growing roses in the
musty old town so well known to the
lovers of Dickens. For sixty years the
dean has been studying the national
flower of England, and during that
time as many as 500 varieties have
passed through his hands. He is his
own gardener, even at his present ad
vanced age. As early as 7 o’clock in
the morning he may be seen in his
garden looking after his pets, and his
method of disposing of his growing is
through a London wholesale florist,
who cuts them at Rochester under the
critical eye of the Dean and removes
them to Covent Garden market.
Many of the varieties are rare and it is
no uncommon thing for a single bloom
to fetch as much as $2.
—A well known Akron (O.) horseman
brought out an electric battery for use
on horses some years ago, the first trial
of the same on the Cleveland tracks
taking place at Rockport, where it was
used on a mare called Annabelle, a
pacer which would rush out in front
and lead to the three-quarters pole,
where she would fade away and usual
ly finish behind the flag. It was used
on this mare with splendid effect, the
battery being carried in the driver’s
coat pocket, the wires being fastened
under the reins and being attached to
the crupper, so that when the “juce”
was applied the shock would take full
effect on the animal’s spinal column.
In this particular race the mare was
out in front, as usual, but about the
time the crowd expected to see her
fall back into the ruck they were as
tonished to see the mare flatten her
ears on her neck and come on to the
wire like a scared Jack rabbit. A pro
test was made as to the use of the
battery and the matter was referred to
the local humane authorities, the latter
ruling that the battery, applied in mod
eration, was more humane than the
use of the whip.
—There seems to be no limits to the
strange ideas which the new principle
of radio-activity may compel us to
accept, says an English expert.
Rutherford has recently shown that
radium compounds project atoms into
surrounding space with a velocity of
20,000 miles a second, a speed which
no other form of matter has' been
known to reach. A train going at sixty
miles an hour—a mile a minute —trav-
els one-sixtieth of a mile per second;
so that the radium emanation flies
one million two hundredth thousand
(1,200,000) times as fast as an express
train. Nevertheless, we are not yet
prepared Jor the view that radio-active
emanations from the sun give poor
mortals on this planet headache. More
likely is the cause business worries,
want of fresh air and the fiscal ques
tion, public and private. But perhaps
the most advanced conception is that
of M. Gustave le Bon. the French
Physicist, who, after discussing the
"Energy Intra-Atomic” of atoms, fore
sees a millennium when “an illimitable
source of power will be placed at the
service of humanity, wiithout pricei
and man will no longer need to work
for it. The poor will then he equal to
the rich, and the social question will
trouble us no more”—unless, possibly,
which M. le Bon seems to have over
looked, some Yankee trust got hold of
the whole supply. We fancy a few
thousand years may elapse before
mankind has yoked the atoms to his
machines.
Scrofula
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Pale, weak, puny children an
afflicted with it in nine cases ont of
ten, and many adults suffer from it.
Common indications are bunches in
the neck, abscesses, cutaneous erup.
tiona, inflamed eyelids, sore ears,
rickets, catarrh, wasting, and genera]
debility.
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