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Genuine Bona fide Clearance Sale —J.
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New Silk and Woolen Dress Goods—
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Men’s Overcoats That Combine
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Savannah Theater —"A Chinese Hon
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Town Talk Flour—Dougan & Shef
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Win on the Races—Ryan’s Bureau,
New York.
Chronic Diseases a Specialty—Dr. J.
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The Difference In Price—B. H. Levy
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Educational—Morton’s School for
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A Box of Warburinea—Rowllnskl,
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Dentists Are Nearly Unanimous-
Gamble's Tooth Powder.
Should You Ask a Patron—Savannah
Steam Laundry.
The Goods Have Made the Name—
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Our Special Piano Bale a Success—
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Lighten Woman’s Work—Allen Bros.
Auction Sales—Planters’ Rice Mill
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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, wtth winds
snlfting to high northwest. Eastern
Florida partly cloudy and warmer, with
winds shifting to brisk and high .west.
MR. CLEVELAND’S DETERMINATION
In discussing men available for the
Democratic nomination (or President
there Is no further occasion for con
sidering Mr. Cleveland. His announced
determination not to be the nominee
under any circumstances takes him out
of the list of those who have been con
sidered in connection with the nomi
nation. His very emphatic statement
to the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Is
characteristic of him. He had made
up his mind as to the course he ought
to pursue and he did not hesitate to
pursue It.
There is no doubt that Mr. Cleveland
has a remarkably strong hold upon his
party. And there is a very large ele
ment outside of his party that would
support him if he were a candidate for
President. The reason is that he is
regarded as a strong and safe man,
and there is a feeling throughout the
country that there is now, and will be
during the next four years, need for a
man of forceful character and of ex
ceptionally good Judgment In the
White House. Mr. Cleveland is such
a man.
But Mr. Cleveland sees that if he
were to accept the nomination he
wouldn’t receive the hearty support of
one faction of his party, and there
fore the chances of being elected would
be against him. He wants his party
to win the election. Therefore he took
the opportunity to say to those who
would gladly work for his nomination
that they must not consider him as a
factor in the political situation. And
he undoubtedly meant what he said.
No doubt some of the newspapers
commenting on his statement will as
sert that he was led to make it by tha
talk of some Southern congressmen
that he was not popular in their sec
tion. We published a straw vote from
a small town in Georgia the other day
which showed beyond question that
these congressmen were mistaken. He
may not be popular with certain poli
ticians, but that he is popular with the
Southern people there Isn't any doubt.
It Is doubtful if Mr. Cleveland has
ever desired to be the nominee. He
has been twice President, and three
times a presidential candidate. He has
had a great career and will figure In
history as one of the great Presidents.
There is no reason why he should run
the risk of dimming his fame by again
entering the political arena. Ho is
well along in years and doubtless finds
more satisfaction in the quiet life he
is leading at Princeton than he would
in the worry and turmoil of political
life.
GEN. REYES' PROPOSITION.
The proposition which Gen, Reyes,
the special representative of Colombia,
makes to our government in respect
to concessions for the isthmian canal
Is a most astounding one. It is that
Colombia will grant all the concessions
■which the United States need for the
construction of the Panama canal with
out any compensation Whatever.
Evidently Colombia has been doing
a great deal of thinking since she re
jected the Hay-Herran treaty by which
she w-as to receive *10,000,000 for canal
concessions and an annual canal rental
of *250,000 a year. Gen. Reyes says
that the treaty was rejected because
of certain political complications grow
ing out of the revolution which was
recently settled, but that these com
plications have now disappeared.
This is a very shrewd move on the
part of Colombia, but it is probable
that it is made too late. There Is no
honorable way 1n Which the United
States can take a backward step In
the relations into which they have
entered with the republic of Panama.
It is true if Panama were to consent
to the restoration of her status as it
was before she inaugurated the move
ment for independence the way would
be open for an understanding with
Colombia, but it is a safe proposition
■that Panama will consent to nothing
of the kind, provided she is assured
the United States will stand by her
in the event Colombia undertakes to
restore her authority over her. Pan
ama is much better off as an independ
ent state than she was or would be
as a part of the republic of Colombia.
There is no doubt that if the United
States were to stand aloof and let Pan
ama fight her own battles it wouldn’t
take Colombia long to re-establish her
authority within Panama’s limits, but
the evidence is conclusive that the
United States intend to see to it that
Panama isn’t bothered by Colombia.
It losks therefore as if a disappoint
ment were in store for Gen. Reyes and
Colombia.
There isn’t any doubt of course that
Gen. Reyes is acting in good faith,
but he isn’t in a position to say that
the Colombian Congress would approve
the proposition he is offering for the
acceptance of the United States. He
Is Simply speaking for the President
of Colombia, and that official isn't
clothed with authority to give away
franchises for which the United States
have offered *10,000,000 and for which
the Colombian Congress wanted *20,-
000,000.
The mistake which Colombia made
in rejecting the Hay-Herran treaty is
one that she will not in all probability
be able to correct. If it was due to
political complications, as Gen. Reyes
says, it was her misfortune. Perhaps
Gen. Reyes would have trouble, how
ever, in satisfying our government that
the rejection of the Hay-Herran treaty
was the result of political complica
tions and not a deliberate attempt to
"hold up” the United Slates for an
additional *10,000,000.
ANOTHER PHASE OF THE CARTER
CASE.
Former Capt. Carter Is now a free
man and announces that It is his pur
pose to show that he was wrongfully
convicted and imprisoned and to re
cover possession of the money which
the government seized as being a part
of that which, it is alleged, he, Capt.
Greene and Col. Gaynor unlawfully
took from the government. Mr. Car
ter claims that the money is rightfully
his, that it was given to him by the
late Mr. Westcott, his father-in-law.
The action involving this money is
a civil proceeding, and Is pending In
a Chicago court. It will doubtless be
an Interesting case. Mr. Carter may
have some new evidence to present In
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1903.
support of his claim, but It is doubt
ful if he has. There has been a report
that evidence found among the pa
pers of the late Mr. Westcott will es
tablish Mr. Carter’s right to the mon
ey. Such evidence may be forthcom
ing. but is Is certain that the United
States district attorney, who has
charge of the case for the govern
ment, feels sure that he will be able
to show that the government has made
no mistake in seizing the money.
The amount is between *400,000 and
*500,000. That isn’t all that Mr. Car
ter was charged with having got from
his connection with the contractors
Greene and Gaynor, but it is all the
government has been able to find. The
amount it is alleged he unlawfully ob
tained is more than *700,000.
The persistency with which Mr. Car
ter asserts his innocence has no doubt
had the effect of making many think
he is not guilty of the charges made
against him, and for which he has
suffered over four years of imprison
ment. When he was arrested and
when he was tried he vigorously and
persistently asserted his innocence,
and on his release from prison, almost
his first utterance was a declaration of
innocence.
There is no doubt that on his trial
the evidence was overwhelmingly
against him, but it may be that in
the civil case for the possession of the
money that is in dispute he will be
able to bring out some facts that he
could not at the time of his trial.
GRAVY VINDICATED.
Senator Pettus of Alabama declares
that he did not say "gravy,” but "con
diments." The original story was that
a friend had asked the venerable sena
tor to what he attributed his age and
vigor, and he had replied that he at
tributed his longevity to the fact that
he always ate good, plain food and
avoided gravy. Following the publica
tion of the story, making Senator Pet
tus a gravy prohibitionist, there were
murmurs of dissent and disapproval.
The people of Alabama could not un
derstand how a man, raised In an at
mosphere of ham gravy, chicken gravy
and sausage gravy, could “go back on
his raisin’s” and so roundly condemn
an article of staple diet throughout the
South.
The Sentor’s explanation makes it
all right. The person who reported the
incident probably got “gravy,” “con
diments” and "sauces" mixed. Nor
was that so very peculiar, either, since
no less a person that the famous Tal
leyrand once fell into a similar error,
when he described the United States as
a country having 100 religions and one
sauce. He meant gravy, or the juice
of meats extracted in the process of
cooking. He meant to say something
smart about our extreme piety in con
trast with our very simple menus.
Gravy is not a sauce, though it may
be made the base of many fine sauces.
It is what the colored mauma-cook
calls “de essence” of the meat being
prepared for the table, combined with
the melted fat that exudes from the
joint or steak or chops. With various
flavorings added gravy may be man
ufactured into a sauce, but considered
in themselves gravy and sauce are as
distinctively different from each other
as lemonade and artillery punch.
Gravy, as Senator Pettus would no
doubt willingly testify from experience,
and as everybody familiar with South
ern cookery knows, is a healthful, ap
petizing side-dish used as a dressing
for meats, bread and cereals. In some
parts of Alabama, we believe, it Is
called "sop,” under which name it has
been Immortalized by Sut Lovingood in
his poetical tribute to the delights of
"sop and ’tater." Still, by whatever
local name it may be known, it is a
worthy companion to the “staff of life,”
which it not infrequently accompanies.
With “condiments" it is different. They
are highly spiced. Many of them are
ustrlngent, checking the flow of the
salivary Juices. Gravy, on the other
hand, is an aid to digestion, combining
as it does just enough of saline mat
ter, meat juices and water to stimu
late the salivary flow. Generally speak
ing all gravies are made in the same
way, hut they vary greatly In taste.
There are persons who will assert that
nothing of finer flavor goes on the table
than ’possum gravy with the seasoning
of a few herbs when eaten with baked
potatoes. There are others who are
partial to turkey gravy, when the bird
has been stuffed with nuts or oysters.
And thus it goes. Instead of having
too much gravy, we do not have enough
of It. We have too much "condi
ments.”
THE DRAMA IN HARD LUCK.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
country seems to be in a prosperous
condition there are some things which
are Incompatible with prosperity. For
instance, there is a constantly increas
ing difference between the current re
ceipts and expenses of the government,
the receipts showing a very considera
ble falling off in comparison with those
for the same period last year. The de
cline in the revenues is from the cus
toms receipts, showing that the peo
ple are not spending so much money
on luxuries.
Again, theater managers are com
plaining that their business is far from
good. This is true of theaters In New
York and other large cities and com
panies on the road. Managers say
they are unable to interest the public
and they do not know the reason. The
plays they are presenting are as good,
on the average, as those presented In
former years, and yet It is stated that
already this season ten dramatic com
panies in New York, presenting plays
of various kinds, have come to grief.
In this city the attendance has not
been as good as it was last year,
though the plays presented have been
fully as good. If not better. And the
companies which visit here all tell the
same story of declining business. Two
very good companies have disbanded
and returned to New York from this
point within the last week or two.
Various explanations for this condi
tion of affairs are offered, but no one
of them seems to be satisfactory. If
poor business were being done in only
one section of the country a solution
of the mystery could easily be arrived
at, but when the conditions are sim
ilar throughout the entire country It
A'ould seem as if there was a lack of
prosperity, or else the public had sud-
denly lost its taste for the drama. As
already stated the country seems to be
prosperous. The South is certainly in
as good financial condition as it has
been at any previous time within many
years. Is then the other solution the
correct one, namely, that the public
is losing its taste for the drama?
That this solution isn’t correct seems
to be proven by the fact that the pop
ular price theaters in New York and
elsewhere are doing a good business.
But If the country were prosperous
there wouldn't be any hesitation in
paying to see first-class attractions.
Can it be possible that the shrinkage
that has taken place in securities is
causing people to economize?
How rapidly the Colombian army
grows—on paper! When Gen. Reyes
was in New Orleans he announced that
his country could put an army of 100,-
000 armed men in the field. When he
reached Atlanta, en route to Washing
ton, his prospective army had reached
500,000. Now that he is in Washing
ton he will probably soon announce
that he has 1,000,000 men eager to take
up arms for the honor of their coun
try,
A Thanksgiving celebration that de
serves to be commended and patterned
after was held in Detroit on Thursday.
It was a union service at the ope.ra
house, and was participated in by Con
gregationalists, Catholics, Episcopal
ians, Jews, Presbyterians, Baptists,
Universalists, and Unitarians. Putting
aside sectarian prejudices, they met on
common ground and gave thanks as
one people. Such services strengthen
the bond of human brotherhood.
The other day 165 members of the
New York Cotton Exchange submit
ted estimates of the cotton crop. They
ranged from 9.875,000 bales, the esti
mate of Atwood Violett, to 11,500,000
bales, the estimate of E. M. Weld. The
average of the guesses was 10,724,000
bales.
PERSONAL.
—Fred Landis, the new congressman
from Indiana, is very thin. He was
sitting in a Washington street car when
a fat man came in and absent-mind
edly sat down on his knee. The stout
party apologized and Mr. Landis said:
“It's all right, but tell tne, did you
think I was painted on this seat?”
—Under the firm name of Barbee &
Woodside Miss Daisy D. Barbee and
Miss Gratia E. Woodside of St. Louis
have hung out their shingle as law
yers. The senior partner has been
practicing for several years and has
gained considerable prominence. Miss
Woodside is the daughter of Circuit
Court Judge Woodside of Salem, Mo.,
and recently graduated from Colum
bia Law School.
—Many aspirants have arisen for the
place made vacant by the death of Dr.
Mllburn, late chaplain of the Senate.
Among the applicants is Prof. T. N.
Haskell of Colorado, famous all
through the Rocky mountain section.
Dr. Haskell has written a letter ap
pealing for the place on the ground
that he was a schoolmate of the late
President Garfield and that he is “a
firm believer in Republican prayers.”
Another applicant is a stalwart color
ed divine, who went to the Senate a
few days ago and introdqced himself
to Mr. Frye, vice president pro. tern.,
ns "Rev. Mr. Wilson of lowa.” He
exhibited a letter from Secretary
Shaw, but Mr. Frye turned him down,
saying that already there were over a
dozen others ahead of him.
BRIGHT BITS.
—A man may be won by flattery; he
can be retained only by cookery.—Life.
—Mrs. Homeleigh—"Your husband is
at his club a good deal. Isn’t he?”
Lady G'adabout —“Yes. The poor boy
hates being at home alone, you
known.” —Punch.
—Citizen—"Thev tell me Puller at
the last election bought votes right
and left.” Politician—"So I have
heard; but he’s too honest to pay for
them.”—Boston Transcript.
—The Fellow—“ That’s Miss Dresser,
isn’t it? Can’t you pick her out down
there by the side-lines?” The Girl—
"Oh, they're all right. What I don’t
like is the way it fits in the back.”—
Harvard Lampoon.
—“Of course, there is considerable
difference between the hotels conduct
ed on the European plan and those
on the American plan.” “Oh, yes! On
the European plan you merely pay
for what vou want, and ” "And
on the American plan you pay for
what you don't get.”—Philadelphia
Ledger.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Chattanooga Times (Dem.) says:
"President Roosevelt has never ex
plained nor attempted to explain how
he avoided the ‘shall proceed to the
Niearaugua route’ in the Spooner bill
■after the treaty with Colombia failed,
and Inasmuch as he has proceeded
with the help of revolution and re
bellion to force the Panama route, it
is pretty clear that he doesn't intend
to explain, but regards himself some
what larger than Congress.”
The Chicago Chronicle says: "An
edifying social economy prevails at
Washington. The ensemble of wed
dings is the first thought of those im
mediately concerned. If the selected
wearer o( any gown deemed essential
to the nuptial picture drama is com
pelled for any reason to be absent the
essential gown is worn by a substi
tute possessing a like figure. Thus
Miss Roosevelt’s dress will appear at
a coming event, although she will not,
and another expected participant will
send her dress on another back. Thus
does art for art’s sake accommodate
Itself to expediency.”
The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.)
says: “ ‘lnteresting, but not satisfy
ing’ is the way the Savannah News
spoke of the Tillman lecture in that
city. We thought one of his lectures
would satisfy any audience so thor
oughly that they would want no more.”
The New- York Times (Dem.) says:
"Has President Roosevelt lost political
strength in the West? Undoubtedly
he has lost strength in the East. New
England’s enthusiasm for him seems
to have taken on a wintry quality.
That he has lost In New York is plain
to everybody who listens to the speech
of people Unless there is a marked
change in the dispositions of voters
he will not carry this state next fall—
should he be nominated. Gov. Odell,
now the recognized Republican leader,
Is credited with the Intention of re
organizing the party In this city. Re
organization implies displacement.
Displacement produces soreness, and
that yields factional difference. Party
reorganization on the eve of a presi
dential contest is either bad tactics
or a distressing symptom. A uniting
Democratic candidate will carry New
York against Mr. Roosevelt, 1 *
Couldn't Organise Him.
A bunch of congressmen was dis
cussing men and things on the floor
of the House the other day. Some were
old war horses, while others were new
to congressional honors, says the
Washington Post.
“Adamson,” said Representative
Humphreys, of Mississippi, address
ing the Georgia congressman from the
Fourth district, "who is that standing
over theYe talking to Col. Cowardin?”
"Why, that,” replied the Georgian,
from the mantling hights of a longer
experience, “is Bob Henry of Texas.
Don’t you know Bob?”
"Certainly,” came the response, “and
my failure to recognize him reminds
me of an experience of a friend of
mine down in Mississippi. He had
bought him a boat in Louisville and
was bringing it down the river and the
bayous in the direction of Vicksburg,
when, one day, he saw an old negro
woman standing on the bayou. True
to his instinct, he saluted her.
“ ‘Hello, Aunt Becky,’ he called, and
by some chance managed to get her
name correctly. The old negress stop
ped in startled surprise. She came up
to my friend and began to inspect him
closely.
” ‘Who’s dls?’ she said, and, deter
mined to humor the joke, my friend In
sisted that she had forgotten one by
whom every consideration of gratitude
and affection ought to have enabled
her to recognize on sight.
" ‘Why, you must remember me,
Aunt Becky,’ he said.
” ‘Well,’ said the old woman, after
a long and searching inspection, ’you
do look similar, but I declar to good
ness I cyarn't organize you.'
"And that is the way,” said Repre
sentative Humphreys, "with me and
Bob Henry. Somehow I didn't organ
ize him at first sight.”
"It’s rather like a story they tell
about Pat Henry of Mississippi, and
Gov. Hogg of Texas,” said Represen
tative Adamson. “They met one day
and the large and corpulent Texas
statesman, unmindful of Henry's rep
utation for quick response, thought it
an admirable time to become a little
funny himself.
“ ’I suppose,’ he said to the man from
Mississippi, "that this is the original
Patrick Henry?’
“ ‘No,’ said Henry, 'you’re wrong. ‘I
presume this is the original Hogg.’ ’’
A Modest Beginning.
Senator Arthur Pue Gorman, of Mary
land, a little while before the adjourn
ment of the United States Senate last
March, says Success, heard Senator
Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Isfand,
scolding a page for carelessness in de
livering cards.
“I will have you dismissed,” said
Senator Aldrich to the boy, "this card
was given to you to deliver more than
two hours ago and I have been here
in my seat all the time. What is your
name?"
“Gently, gently, Aldrich,” Senator
Gorman interrupted, laying his hand on
the angry Rhode Islander’s shoulder;
"give the boy a show. I often made
the same mistake myself. Let it pass
this time.”
"You often made the same mistake!”
echoed Senator Aldrich.
“Often,” Senator Gorman replied.
“Don't you know that I first entered
the Senate as a page nearly fifty years
ago? I have never forgotten those
days. You have no idea what hard
time a page has, with a half dozen
Senators calling him at the same time
and all of them in a hurry. He is
bound to make mistakes. If I had been
dismissed for a little delay in deliver
ing a card, I should not, probably, be
in the Senate to-day.”
New York Market.
Apropos of the recent sale of an ear
in New York, the Chicago Tribune re
ports this condition of the market:
Ears—Small to medium, $5,000; med
ium to large, $6,000; extra large and
odd shaped, $7,500 to $9,000.
Scalps—Whole, $10,000; thin spot, $9,-
850; good bald spot, $6,000 to $7,000;
fringed, $235.
Noses—Roman, Greek or ancient
Egyptian, $12,675; pugs, in half dozen
lots $5,000; singly, $1,000; patrician, $15,-
•000.
Eyes—Matched pairs, $20,000; run of
stock, SIO,OOO the pair; startled fawn,
sloelike, azure, dreamy, goo goo, and
other remantic varieties going well at
$8,750 the pair; not sold singly; black
eyes, no demand, but many takers, no
quotations.
Lips—Coral, $5,600; ruby, $7,400; Mo
bile, Savannah and New Orleans, $3,-
333; compressed, expressive, tempting
and alluring varieties much sought.
Cheek —No dem'and, market supplied.
Hearts—Marble, $3.25; noble, $1.75;
true, 50 cents; ducal $1,000,000 to $40,-
000,000.
Feet—All styles, $2,680 the pair, $2
extra for breaking a pair.
Hands—Heiresses, great demand,
shortage in supply, no figures quoted;
poker, 25 cents to $10,000; theatrical,
10, 20 and 30.—Chicago Tribune.
The Nong of the Freight Cor.
From the Chicago Tribune.
I’m a bumped and battered freight car
on a sidetrack in the yard;
I am resting—resting gladly, for my
life is cruel hard,
And I seldom find an hour when I’m
idle or at home.
For I'm usually loaded and am out up
on the roam.
I’ve been shunted in Seattle, I've been
switched in Boston town;
I've been stranded in St. Louis, where
I saw the train crew drown.
I’ve been snowed in up by Denver, I
was wrecked at Council Bluffs,
When the strike was in Chicago I
was stoned by savage roughs.
I’ve hauled lumber in Wisconsin, I
have helped move Kansas wheat;
I have camped within the stockyards
till they filled me up with meat;
I have brought green watermelons
from the sunny, sunny South,
While the darkies gazing at me 'gan
to water at the mouth.
I have rumbled o’er the Coast Line on
the California shore,
I have hauled the Lompoc mustard
crop and Santa Aana ore.
I have been from Manitoba down to
Matagorda Bay,
While on every trip I’ve traveled by
the longest, slowest way.
I have hauled the toil-scared hobo by
.the dozens and by ones;
I have carried honest poor men in my
longer westward runs;
I have carried fleeing criminals deep
buried ’neath the corn
That from off the rustling ranches to
the greedy mills was borne,
I have carried knaves from justice, I
have carried fools to wealth.
Hauled the hopeless home to perish,
hauled the invalid to health.
I have stood between the tourist and
the scenery he thought
Should be seen from sleeper window,
when a ‘guide book" he had
bought.
I have often lost an axle when the
train was wrecked, and stood
For a week until the workmen found
the time to make it good.
I’ve been everywhere, seen all things,
been in sunshine, rain and snow.
I’ve been idle for a fortnight, then for
months upon the go.
I’m a bumped and battered freight
car on a sidetrack in the yard;
There are chalk marks on my body
these my only calling card.
But I see the pony engine coming for
me on the fly—
No idea where I’m going or what for
but—bump—good-by!
—W, V. Nesblt,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Compilers of ancient calendars de
clare that Nov. 5 was the day on which
It began to rain when Noah’s dood
resulted from the steady downpour.
—An instance of a curious marriage
custom is that of the Algerian bride
who enters her husband's home with
her fingers placed upon the blade of a
knife held by the bridegroom himself,
who crosses the threshold backwards.
In other parts of Algeria it is part of
the proceedings, too. that the left
thumbs of the bridal couple are tied to
gether during the ceremony.
—There is a peculiar dialect In Eng
land called the Pogmoor dialect. Here
is a sample: "Fred Munjest wor passin
t'Three Pidgins wun day, wen t’lan’-
lord happhin to see him, sez: “Ah've
putten two tickets dahn ta thee. Wer
havvin a raffle for a poor wumman o’
Chresmas eve.’- ‘Nooan for me, thenk
yo’, sez Fred, shakin’s heead. ’Ah
shudn’t knaw Wot ta do wi’ a poor
wumman, if ah wun her.’ ”
—Count Solone di Campello, presi
dent of II Circolo Italiano, of which
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is honorary
president, has been admitted to the
bar of Boston. Since he came to that
city Count of Campello has done
much excellent work in a sociological
way in behalf of Italian residents of
this city. Before he came to America
he practiced in his native land as a
member of the bar of Rome.
—Says a French contemporary: Na
polean I, like other people, had several
hats of various hights, and one of
these, the one he wore through the
Russian campaign. Is again in the mar
ket. This hat has a history. It was
given by Napoleon to his valet, who
died in 1852. After his death it was
sold for *750 to a Mme. Evrard. Next
it was sold In 1878, at the Hotel Drout,
to Dummaresque, for sls, and now it
is hoped that it will realize at least
SI,OOO.
—A strange story of the discovery
of an unsuspected art treasure comes
from Canada. A Montreal art dealer
was playing golf and drove a ball
through a window of a cottage. It
struck a picture on the wall. The deal
er paid handsome compensation and
also acquired the injured picture. It
turned out, after cleaning and exam
ination, to be a Dutch interior by Ten
iers, of the value of $2,500. Half of this
sum the dealer gave to the original
owner, to her great surprise.
—Herr von Moser, the celebrated Ger
man poet, whose body has just been
cremated at Gotha, had in his posses
sion some years before his death a
miniature coffin made of crystal des
tined to receive his ashes. In this
coffin were contained a number of
withered leaves of laurel, rtich of which
had been plucked from one or other of
the wreaths offered to him by admir
ers. The explanation of this was to be
found in the often-repeated jest of the
poet: "I shall repose upon my laurels.”
This prophecy has now been actually
realized.
—An entertainer who visited the Fiji
Islands and gave his performance be
fore the natives had. the following re
ceipts for one night: Four sucking
pigs, 800 cocoanuts, 1,000 of a common
class of moonstone collected on the
beach, forty pearls, twenty-three mod
el canoes. 200 yards of native cloth,
forty-two Fiji costumes, three whale’s
teeth, hundreds of sharks' teeth, one
or two cartloads of beautiful coral,
war implements, such as spears, knob
sticks and knives, native mats and
pillows and seven grog bowls.
—A report from Cuba says that a
parcel of the dearest cigars in the
world, 1,500 in number, has just been
dispatched from the famous Vueto-
Abajo tobacco fields In Cuba, for the
consumption of an American multi
millionaire smoker. The price of one
of these cigars is equal to $4.50. None
but the most faultless leaves are used
in thoir production. The making of
them is restricted to the most experi
enced workers, who can only make a
few cigars a day. Every cigar is wrap
ped in fine Japanese paper, and en
closed in a small air-tight box of per
fumed wood.
—According to Prof. Garner, the en
tire language of the chimpanzee dan
be summed up in from twenty-five to
fifty words. Ten of these words, he
says, he has learned himself, so that
he can make himself understood by
our simian relatives. In tone, pitch
and modulation the sounds are within
the compass of the human voice, but
two of the sounds are much greater in
volume than it is possible for the hu
man lungs to reach. Ecgk is monkey
for "look out,” and "cheny” means
"drink.” The professor has proved to
his own satisfaction that many mon
keys have acute faculties of perception
of form, color, number and dimensions.
—More than thirteen years ago a
guide named Andre Untersteiner was
lost in the Austrian Alps. It was sup
posed that he had fallen into a crevasse,
but all attempts to find his body prov
ed unavailing. Meanwhile the glaciers
slowly slipped downward into the v*al
ley and a short time ago, near the
village of Grossvenediger, a body was
discovered frozen hard in the ice at
the foot of a glacier. John Unter
steiner recognized the body as that of
his long-lost brother, Andre, and it
was with some difficulty that the re
mains of the unfortunate guide were
extiheted from the ice which had
intombed them for so long.
—A few years ago accommodations In
the highlands of Scotland were very
primitive. It is related that a young
Duchess of Gordon, on Inquiring how
the late duchess managed to entertain
so much company at Kinrara, where
there seemed no room, was told by the
butler that for weeks at a time he had
slept on the top of the kitchen dresser.
A niece and two other young ladies
were known to have slept in the duch
ess bedroom, which probably was not
large, (or they were sent out to wash
In the neighboring brook. Miss Mac
donell of Glengarry, who told this,
said also that there was a waterfall
near Ochtertyre which the late Sir
William Murray and his brothers used
as their shower bath.
—One of the most extraordinary per
sons In Paris at the present moment
is the barrister, who is known at the
Palais de Justice as the “avooat a
la pipe,” says the London Telegraph.
This man, wearing his lawyer's clap and
gown, has for some time past been
going daily about the lobbies of the
Pafais smoking a curved wooden pipe.
He actually blows clouds of Caporal
tobacco smoke into the faces of emi
nent Judges, reading counsel, and im
portant clients. Nobody seems to have
troubled overmiw-h about the pipe
smoking advocate until the other day,
when, after having robed himself in
the usual place, he turned wildly to
ward a group of' lawyers and called
them bandits. Then he went up to
one barrister and said to him, "Espece
d'imbeeile.” The advocate thus ad
dressed held out his card to the pipe
smoker, who refused to receive it.
Later on the “avocat ala pipe,” was
struck by somebody, whereupon he as
sumed a French pugilistic attitude and
used both his fists and his feet. He
next went through the Salle des Paa
Perdu*, shouting that all the lawyers
there were robbers and that he propos
ed to unmask them, though, after all
this. It is very likely that the "avocat
ala pipe,” will be rigidly excluded
from the law courts and their pre
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