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Special Notices-—Dividend Notice,
•Macon Railway and Light Company;
Something No One Else Has, M. S.
Gardner; Our Own Cow Feed, Collins,
Grayson & Cos.; “The Worth of a
Man,” Lecture at Lawton Memorial,
March 29; Notice to Superior Court
Jurors.
Business Notices —Seasonable Goods,
A. M. & C. W. AVest; Good Eating,
Sommers’ Cafe; Delicious Sliced
Fruits, at Munster’s.
Publications —"Sir Mortimer,” by
{Mary Johnston, Harper & Bra.
Savannah Theater—" The Wizard of
fc>z,” To-night.
Coal—Allan Bond & Cos.
Ococo—Henry Solomon & Son.
Warburinea—Rowlinski, Druggist.
’Antiseptic Tooth Powder—Gamble’s.
No More Laundry Troubles—Savan
ttah-Georgia Laundry.
Tennis Goods—At Lattimore’s.
All Kinds of Spring Songs—Ludden
16 Bates S. M. H.
Gas Is Cheaper Now —Savannah Gas
Company.
Thunderbolt Park—W. H. Labb.
Auction Sales—Those Dollar a
Month Lots; by John L. Archer, Auc
tioneer.
Medical—Doan’s Kidney Pills;
{Swamp Root; Thatcher Medicine Cos.;
Tonita; Herpidde; Plnkham Remedy.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with fresh
east to southeast winds. Eastern
Florida, partly cloudy weather with
showers in south portion, with fresh
northeast winds. t
The “co-eds” of the Chicago North
western University have adopted a
code of moral laws under which they
are bound to the truth six days of the
week, but on the seventh day, which
In this instance is to be Thursday,
they will permit themselves the privi
lege of indulging their imagina
tions. The girls have frankly
named Thursday "liars' day,” and all
persons whom may concern have
been warned to carry salt in their
pockets to take with the girls’ stories
on that day.
Representative Baker of New York
' is coming to be known as the “infant
terrible" of the House of Representa
tives. The other day he tried to get
into an appropriation bill an amend
ment providing for the reimbursement
of the railroads for the cost of carry
ing the President around the country
in special trains and furnishing him
with food, wines, cigars, etc., on his
trips. Mr. Baker had got well along
Into the reading of his amendment be
fore the Republicans became aware of
•what was going on, then a dozen of
them popped up and proceeded to
aquelch him.
Philadelphia has adopted a system
by which the city will carry its own
Are insurance. According to the plan,
the conversion into cash of the per
petual policies now in force will fur
nish the nucleus of a fund which will
be added to, from year to year, by the
appropriation of the sums now paid In
premiums, until it shall grow into an
Adequate reserve, and the present cost
of insurance may then be devoted to
the maintenance of the property.
“This system,” says the Philadelphia
Ledger, "is only practicable—or only
can be said to constitute Insurance—
where a large number of different and
widely separated properties are held
by one owner. The burning Of one
gchool house, for example, would not
endanger another, and the city has so
many properties among which to dis
tribute the risk that It can form s
mutual Are t*.surer. ie company of its
*B, and riot only enjoy the profits,
but save the large sum it annually
far*, not for insurance, but In com
missions, The new arrangement rut*
off quite an Important piece of graft.* **
The wonder la how the Philadelphia
pvdtpai ring reme to permit any piece
0f ''graft" to he tdtenioabsd.
HRYAN IS AGAINST PARKER.
. It is probable that Mr. Bryan would
support Judge Parker if the latter
should be the nominee of the Demo
cratic party for president, because he
would hardly dare to bolt. He still
has hope of being President, and. theie
fore, will stand by his party even if
the ticket and platform are not satis
factory Ao him. But he does not favor
the nomination of Judge Parker. That
is' plain to be seen.
In an interview In New York on Sat
urday, in answer to the question
whether or not he favored the Parker
movement, he said he would like very
much to know where Judge Parker
stood on some important questions.
Among other things he said; “We
should very much like to know now
whether Judge Parker, if elected Pres
ident, would appoint justices of the
United States Supreme Court after
the stamp of the men that Cleveland
appointed, or if he would appoint men
who would aid in the destruction of
trusts and Illegal combinations of cap
ital. That certainly is a vital question
at this time, and one on which I should
like to hear Judge Parker.”
In other words, Mr. Bryan wants a
President who would appoint justices
of the Supreme Court who, instead of
interpreting the law as they under
stood it, would do the bidding of the
man who appointed them. He wants
a packed Supreme Court. It would be
an unhappy day for the country if a
man should be elected President who
would pack the Supreme Court for any
purpose, for a Supreme Court that
would respond to the wish of the
man In the White House In one case
would respond to it in another. There
would be -no protection for individual
liberty or rights of property. The will
of the President would be practically
supreme.
It is a safe statement that Mr.
Cleveland did not ask the men he ap
pointed to the Supreme Ibench whether
or not they would smash the trusts if
they had the opportunity to do so. He
satisfied himself that they were hon
orable men and good lawyers. Natur
ally he appointed men of the party to
which he belonged. He took it for
granted that they would render de
cisions in accordance with the law —
the law as they understood it. He did
not hunt for men who would interpret
the law as he might want it interpret
ed. If he had done such ;a thing he
would have been deserving of Im-
neachmant.
What would be thought of Judge
Parker if he should say that if elected
President he would, if the duty of fill
ing vacancies on the Supreme Court
bench should devolve upon him, ap
point men who would interpret the
laws in a certain way? He
would be generally condemned. And
yet this is what Mr. Bryan would have
him do if he is correctly quoted.
All of those who are making the
point against Judge Parker that they
do not know where he stands on pub
lic questions are not friendly to him.
They are simply seeking opportunities
to attack him. He is therefore right
In remaining silent. It is known of all
men that he is a Democrat, and that
since he has been a voter he has al
ways voted the Democratic ticket. He
has been in office for many years and
has always been the nominee of the
Democratic party or appointed by
Democratic authority., It is practically
impossible, therefore, to question his
democracy. It has never been ques
tioned. Why, then, should Mr. Bryan
think it necessary for him to state
where he stands on public questions?
Has Mr. Bryan any other reason than a
desire for an opportunity to attack him
and try to prevent his nomination?
THE BHYA3-BEJISETT CASE.
It is expected that the trial of the
Bryan-Bennett will case will be begun
in New Haven to-day. Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan are there, and both of them,
it is expected, will be witnesses in the
case.
The main features of the case are
generally known. Mr. Philo S. Ben
nett, a merchant of New Haven, had
great admiration for Mr. Bryan and
his political principles. So great was
this admiration that on several occa
sions he contributed money to his cam
paign fund. He also went to Lincoln,
Neb., and paid a visit to Mr. Bryan.
While a guest in Mr. Bryan's house
he made a will, Mr. Bryan writing it
and Mrs. Bryan copying It on a type
writer. In the will Mr. Bryan Was
given $50,000. The amount was actual
ly bequeathed to Mrs. Bennett, but she
was directed to dispose of it in ac
cordance with the terms of a letter
which was to be seen by no one but
hersfclf and Mr. Bryan.
The widow objecting, the surrogate
at New Haven wouldn't admit this let
ter as a part of the will. The trial
to-day is to settle two points, namely,
whether or not Mr. Bryan exerted un
due Influence on Mr. Bennett, as
charged by the widow Bennett, and
whether the letter shouldn't be filed
as a part of the will. Unless the let
ter is made a part of the will Mr.
Bryan will not get his $50,000.
The trial is expected to be an in
teresting one. Mr. Charles Towne,
whom the Silver Republicans in 1900
named for Vice President, is to argue
Mr. Bryan's case for him, and Mr.
Bryan is expected to make such a
good witness for himself that the Jury
will be convinced he ought to have the
money. It begins to look as it it
would cost Mr. Bryan pretty nearly
the whole amount of it to get it.
Not since IM3 has Congress adjourn
ed in summer, in a presidential elec
tion year, earlier than June 7. One
time, in 1388, the session ran along un
til October 20. This year the Presi
dent wants a record made in early
adjournments, and, ao far as good re
sults are concerned tht>fe stems to be
no reason why he shouldn't have his
wlah.
An Albany, N. TANARUS, dispatch says
j that, In the event of his nomination,
| Judge Parker will Immediately re
j eign from the bench, “ao that he
i amf eprsk out am the issues of the
j day hi no uncertain manner " He
keeps silent now *o .' la said, hmeuse
he dues got IhMa It would he right for
, a judge (e pasth spate us pstitUei die
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. MARCH 29. 1904.
A WARNING TO CONGRESSMEN.
The verdict in the case of Senator
Burton of Kansas isn't a surprise to
those who followed the evidence.
There was no doubt that he accepted
a fee from a get-rich-quick concern.
The contention of the government was
that he was to use his influence as
senator to keep the concern out of
(trouble with the Postofflce Depart
ment and to get its officers excused, if
possible, in the event they were called
to account by the department for im
proper use of the mails. Senator
Burton tried to show that he acted
simply as the attorney of the concern,
and that at no time did he use hts In
fluence as senator in its behalf.
The evidence showed, however, that
soon after he became the concern's at
torney he went to see the postoffice
authorities in behalf of its previous
president. He found that complaint
had been made against that indi
vidual, and in writing to the local at
torney about it he said that no action
would be taken against the concern
without his beihg advised about it and
that he would be informed in regard
to any hearing before the department
in matters affecting it or its officials.
In conclusion he asked for his first
month’s salary.
From this it would seem that he
was hardly acting as an attorney, but
was depending rather upon his in
fluence as a senator to assist the con
cern. At least that is the view which
the jury seems to have taken of the
matter. Doubtless some of the sen
ators in their desire to make fees find
it rather difficult to draw the line de
fining where the influence of a senator
ends and that of an attorney begins
when they are filling both positions in
matters before the departments. If
their vision were not obscured some
what by the fee the probabilities are
they wouldn’t be troubled by this diffi
culty.
The indications are that a good
many congressmen have been perilous
ly near breaking the laws in recent
years, if in fact they have not actually
broken them in their dealings with the
departments. Senator Deitrich had a
nasty charge lodged against him, and
escaped a trial only because it ap
peared that he hadn’t taken the oath
as senator at the time the act was
done which was the basis of the
charge against him, and Congressman
Littauer was in danger of having
charges preferred against hiim in con
nection with glove contracts, but it
was found that the statute of limita
tions was in his favor. The shaking
up tha* has been given the Postoffice
Department has had a disturbing ef
fect upon congressmen as well as on
postofflce officials.
In Kansas it seems the verdict in
the Burton case 4s accepted as creat
ing a vacancy in the Senate from that
state. Even if the verdict should be
set aside by a higher court the Sen
ator's political career is looked upon
,as ended.
A GRATIFYING FORT EXHIBIT.
r 111 another columi) we publish some
figures of exports by principal ports o£
shipment during the year 1903, show
ing increases and decreases as com
pared With the figures of 1893. The
figures are from a report of the United
States Department of Commerce and
Labor, and are official. They show
that at the po>rt of Savannah the In
crease, in the ten-year period, amount
ed to thevery handsome sum of $35,-
000,060. With the exception of New
York, no other Atlantic port shows so
large an increase. New York, New
Orleans and GalVeston alone, of all
American ports, show larger increases
than Savannah. This is, indeed, a
most gratifying exhibit.
In connection with this comparison
of figures it is not out of place to di
rect attention to the fact that while
there are ports where a great deal of
money has been spent by the govern
ment to secure deeper water, none has
been spent at any port that can show
greater results for the outlay . than
Savannah. In some places the ex
penditures have been followed by no
marked improvements in rivers and
harbors, and in other places the gov
ernment's work has produced good re
sults in so far as deeper water is con
cerned but no increase in the volume
of commerce has followed. But what
has been expended on the improve
ments for Savannah has given all that
the engineers’ estimates called for,
and the figures of the Department of
Commerce and Labor show that a
large increase in the business of the
port has followed. The forecast of
greater commerce to result from river
and harbor improvements has been
fulfilled.
Sir Henry Irving, who has com
pleted his tour of the United States
and sailed for Europe, differs with
Mme. Patti as to American apprecia
tion of genius and art Patti, It will
be remembered, said America had
deteriorated and that she was glad
to leave the country. Her latest fare
well tour had proved a failure. Sir
Henry expressed the opinion that there
had been considerable art growth In
the United States. He was carrying
back with him a good-sized keg of
gold, the profits of his American sea
son. It all depends on the point of
view.
Dr. Henry Altshul has an article In
the New York Medical Record In
which he suggests lodide of potassium
as an unfailing specific for pneumonia.
He says he has treated slxty-two
cases of pneumonia In twelve years,
using lodide of potassium, without a
death directly attributable to the dis
ease. Colleagues of his have treated
three times that number of esses with
lodide of potassium during the same
period. with results approximately
similar.
The announcement Is made in Lon
don that Mr Thomas Llpton will again
attempt to “lift the bloomin' mug. ‘ It
is 100 late for • challenge and race
this year, hut nest summer he will
corns over with • new rrsck-g-jsrk
yacht, as full as svsr of pluck and 4s.
termination And the new boot wtii
be motker tthamiork. the fourth of
the name Mr Watson, M Is gold, will
dwigt, bee Mm n wtgle the Her re
•hod# ore still doing business st tbs old
stsr.d, In Lneitui
The passage by the Maryland Leg
islature of the so-ialted "Jim Crow','
car law has caused a portion of the
press of the North and West to once
more disclose its Ignorance of and its
prejudice against the South. Many of
these Northern, and Western newspa
per writers apparently assume that a
"Jim Crow” car is an abandoned cat
tle or swine car, painted black and put
into service for the transportation of
colored people. We have recently seen
the cars referred to as "unfit for a
white man’s dog,” and "abominable in
the extreme.” Those who made these
assertions did not know, of course,
what they were talking about, but they
transferred their own errors to the
minds of their readers. A “Jim Crow”
car in the South is merely a separate
coach provided for the accommodation
of colored travelers. The laws requir
ing the separation of the races are
carefully drawn and provided that the
accommodation provided for one race
shall be just as good as that provided
for the other. Take the placards off a
"Jim Crow” cur and a “white” car,
and nobody could tell them apart, for
the reason there is no difference. The
negro who objects to riding in a car
labeled “Colored Only” does so not be
cause the accommodations are infe
rior, but because he wants to fide with
the white people. ‘
Anew racing- automobile, just turn
ed out from a shop in Massachusetts,
has eight cylinders. Under brake test
the engine has developed 100 horse
power, but it. is said to be capable of
increasing this considerably. In gen
eral appearance the machine is said to
be not unlike the Winton Bullet, which
was recently seen in this city, except
that it is of longer body and sits low
er to the ground. It will be entered
in the races of the coming summer.
Next winter, in all probability, it will
be brought South, to this city and
Forida. The development and concen
tration of power in a small compass
that has taken place during the past
few years, in connection with automo
bile building, has been wpnderful. In
the case of this machine, for instance,
enough power to run a sawmill or a
large river steamer has been' installed
in a space over which a man may
Stretch his arm, and engine, .carriage
and all weigh only 2,800 pounds.
PERSONAL.
—Aecordign td Paris newspapers the
surgeons are now dressing wounds
with silver leaf. The silver is simply
placed on the wound or ulcer, and as
It sticks closely to the surface a little
cotton soaked In collodln is sufficient
to keep it in place. The effects of
this sheet of silver are said to be very
remarkable. ?
—Henry Labouchere, that stormy
petral of British journalism, has just
fought his i forty-fourth action
for libel and he lost, being
condemned to pay $5,000 dam
ages for sayir.g that certain phy
sician was not'duly qualified and that
he was a quack. This is the heaviest
verdict ever brought against the editor
of Truth, but as he is a very rich man
it is possible he thinks the fun worth the
money. Of the fbrty-four suits he won
nineteen, lost eight, in two the juries
failed to. agree/ live were settled out of
court and ten ware withdrawn by plain
tiffs who did not care to face trial.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Poverty is no crime—but it is an
incentive.—Harvard Lampoon.
—“ls he a litterateur?” "Oh, dear, no.
Why, he's able to sell the stuff he
writes.”—Chicago Evening Post.
—At the Senator’s Birthplace.—“l
see as how Senator Binks hez refus
ed ter be instructed.” "Jes like him'.
He’s been that way ever since he wuz
a boy!”—New Orleans Times-Demo
crat.
—Borem (11 p. m.) —“Yes, I’m a per
fect martyr to insomnia. I’ve tried
everything I ever heard of, but I sim.
ply can’t get to sleep at night.” Miss
Cutting (suppressing a yawn)—“Did
you ever try talking to yourself after
going to bed?” —Chicago Daily News.
—Political Manager—“l can't con
sent to open bribery in this campaign.
We've got to pay some outward atten
tion, at least, to the ethics.” Ward
Heeler —“That's a crowd I never heard
of, but I'm willin’ to bet a hundred dol
lars they can't swing hajf a dozen votes
in the whole dog-goned county.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.)
says; “Of course a Republican Con
gress refuses to allow an Investigation
of a rotten Republican Postofflce De
partment on the eve of a presidential
election. If it should become absolute
ly necessary to do something the Re-,
publican President can round up the
department and deliver to it one of
his lectures on the Ten Command
ments.”
The Mobile Register (Dem.) says:
"It Is asserted that the labor vote
is solid for Mr. Hearst. There is no
such thing as the labor vote.,., ;Work
ing men are, as a rule, about as in
telligent as the general run df man
kind and they know that the Heaxst
propositions of great friendship for
labor are but ‘springes to catch wood
cocks.’ Besides, there is no political
organization in the labor world and no
man can conSrol the votes of the work
ingmen.”
The New York World (Dem.) says:
"Divorce, except for very good cause,
used to be considered disreputable. A
divorcee was a declassee. There are
many people who care nothing for the
laws of the church or the laws of mo
rality, but who are <>vory sensitive to
the laws of society. When they can
change partners as lightly in matri
mony as in a cotillon, and still be re
ceived as cordially as ever in the so
cial circles whose sentiments form the
only public opinion they recognize, they
do not hesitate to follow their inclina
tion. Let the ministers reform so
ciety. and society will reform di
vorce.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: “At the same time that thre
are loud denunciations of cotton specu
latlon, and cotton manufacturers if!
Europs are seeking some means by
which concerted action may suppress
It, the prop' sit ion is made in , this
country to list pig iron warrants on
the exchanges. The extreme fluctua
tions In the price of pig iron have
been traced directly to the fact that
there is not s constantly open mark*!
for the commodity. Pig iron warrants
•re dealt In In Orest Britain, and the
fluctuations of prices are much more
moderate there then here Grain, pro
visions end cotton, in splter of ores
stone I corners, do not undergo such
wide variations In price as iron does
Tire! the price of pig Iron would be
much steedler If there were dealing in
futures has been argued with strong
support from market statistics.”
Conutrjmnn Turned Hie Tables.
A traveling man who makes head
quarters in this city tells how the
country “jay” who is so frequently
made the butt of ridicule iri the news
papers and elsewhere occasionally gets
even in showing up the ignorance of
the city man, says the Philadelphia
Record. It was a tiny village up the
state, and among the people gathered
around the stove in the “hotel” office
for the regular evening session was
one young fellow, a visitor from the
city, whose clothes were so correct as
to be almost beyond the point of good
taste, and who showed by his conver
sation that there was nothing in city
life he did not know all about.
The young fellow talked a long
monologue loaded with sophistication,
ar.d showing every now and then a
covert sneer for the ignorance and
awkwardness of the country-bred per
son. But he was listened to with
irfucli politeness, and even interest,
until he seemed to have talked him
self out. When he paused at last‘a
little dried-up fellow, with sufficient
wrinkles in his face to suggest the
map of the theater of war betweeti
Russia and Japan, said:
“Wall, stranger, that's all right
about the city, but how many teeth
has a cow?”
“I can't say,” said the city youth,
looking around nervously to see if he
was being “guyed.”
“Huh! Well, why is the front
wheels of a wagon smaller than .the
hind ones?”
“I give that up, too.”
“How long does it take a hog to
hatch out its young?”
"‘Hatch? I never knew.”
“Which end of a horse gets up
first?”
“I—l never saw it happen?”
By this time the spectators of the
cross-examination had drawn close
with interest.
“Wall,” said the man of wrinkles,
“I suppose it’s all right fer you to run
around in the city, 'cause there the
petlice can take keer of yer, but be
fore yer come to the country agin yer
tyanter git hold of someone thet’s
got the time to teach yer, so's yer can
learn a thing or two.”
Men's Ways With Watches.
"A watch ought to be cleaned once
in say eighteen months or two years,”
said the jeweler, according to the New
York Sun; “but how often it would
need to be cleaned and how often a
man's watch might stand in need of
repairs would depend a good deal on
the man himself; on how he used it.”
“On how he used It? Doesn't a man
just put his watch in his pocket and
carry it? Is there any difference in
the ways in which men use their
watches?”
“Why, there's all the difference in
the world, just as there is in the ways
in which men use their clothes or any
other of their belongings. One man,
for instance, will put on anew over
coat and have it looking like an old
one in a month, and another man
would wear the same overcoat two
seasons and come out with it at the
end of the season looking fresh and in
good order. And one man will make a
new watch look like an old one in no
time, and another will in some way
and without carrying it in a chamois
bag or anything of that sort, always
have his watch looking new and in
good condition. One man will take his
watch to look at the time anywhere,
when the wind is blowing dust along
the street, or in the rain or the snow,
while another man will be thoughtful
of such things and not get out his
watch to look at it -where it would be
exposed to the possibility of injury
from such a 'cause. And he would
keep the' ’•fbeket in- which he carried
it free from dust and lint, and would
be careful of it generally.
“Oh, yes, there’s all the difference in
the world In the way in which men
use their watehes,- just as there is In
all their ways.”
• Halve* and Quarter*.
Joseph M. Edwards, who travels for
a Baltimore dry goods house, told the
following at the Grand the other even
ing, says the New Vork Globe:
“In Baltimore there’s an old bache
lor I’m acquainted with who’s a bit
of a wit in his way. He lives, or,
jather, did before the fire, as it burn
ed him out, in a Very dilapidated house
and his rooms were always in great
disorder.
“ 'Why don’t you get married?' I
said to him one day. ‘Then you would
have someone to keep the place tidy,
and make it homelike.’
“ ‘The fact is. I’ve never thought of
it,’ he replied, ‘but it seems quite feas
ible that a' better half would want
better quarters.’
“Sine? the fire I have not seen the
old fellow, and no one seems to know
of his present whereabouts.”
Children's Children.
J. D. Crimmins, who made last
month a visit to Rome, is never more
delightful than when he is telling an
ecdotes of children, says the New York
News.
"A little girl of 7,” Mr. Crimmins
said, “came to me after church on
Sunday morning and asked:
“ ‘Have I any children?’
“I dropped my newspaper and re
garded hep with amazement,
“ ‘Have I any children?’ she repeat
ed.
•• ’Well, I should hope not,’ I ex
claimed. ‘Why on earth do you-ask
me such a question as that?'
“ ‘Why, in church this morning,’ said
the little girl, the clergyman preached
about children’s children, and I won
dered if I had any.’ ”
Logical Deduction.
Senator W. B. Plunkett'of Adams,
Mass., related this story at the Gre
gorian the other day, says the New York
Globe:
“A friend of mine up in my state
has an 8-year-old son who is as bright
as radium. One day recently he asked
his dad. ‘l’m a chip of the old block,
ain’t I. pa?'
" ‘Yes, my son,' replied the father.
“ ‘An’ you’re the head of the fam
ily, ain't you pa?’ t
“ ’Yes. my son.’
“ ‘Then you're a blockhead, ain’t you,
*a?’
“I don’t recalj Just what it was the
father said in reply to his son’s logical
deduction.”
The Microbe Victim.
From the Chicago News.
He lived in daily dread of It,
Such awful things they said of it.
It Ailed him with despair.
All night he lay and dreamed of it;
So very much there seemed of it
It Ailed the very air.
It poisoned all the food he ate,
Bo In a fearful mood he ate:
To drink he was afraid.
Avery frugal fare he took;
The very utmost care he took
The horror to evade.
No wonder that It frightened him.
For aome one had enlightened him
With pictures on the acreen.
It was a fearsome sight to see—
A creepy, grewsome fright to see—
That microbe was, I ween.
And ao what with the dP'ad of It
And what the doetore said of it,
He feared to draw his breath.
And. tieed of sterilising. I>
le really not surprising it
*uite h4< him war mne death,
■eChlosgo l/aiiy News
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—An extensive and rich deposit -of
chromic iron ore has been found on the
coast of Cuba, thirty miles from Ba
racoa. It aggregates from eight to
twelve feet in thickness.
—According to advices from Johan
nesburg, the recent petition to admit
Chinese' laborers to South Africa had
the signatures of 45,000 men, represent
ing 70 per cent.' of the white popula
tion.
—Money is being raised in London
for the erection of a monument in
memory of the 127 Jewish soldiers who
fell in the. ranks of the British army
during the South African War. There
were 2,000 Jewish soldiers in the army
that took part in that campaign. Their
percentage of loss was very heavy.
I —ln connection with the naval con
flicts now proceeding in the Far East
it is interesting to recall that certain
islands off the Japanese coast are tra
ditionally haunted by the ghosts of
Japanese slain in naval battles. Even
to-day the Chousen peasant fancies he
sees ghostly armies bailing out the sea
With bottomless dippers, condemned
thus to cleanse the ocean of the slain
of centuries ago.
—There are more John Browns than
any other name in the new city direc
tor of Philadelphia, but they lead the
John Smiths by only one. There are
316 John Browns and 315 John Smiths.
Among the 500,000 name* recorded are
1,200 Whites, 450 Blacks, 9 Greens, 1
Red, 17 Blues, and 5 Lavenders. In
the bird line there are Canary, Robin,
Eagle, Crow, Hawk, Sparrow, Buz
zard, Peacock and Bantam.
—A remarkable industry of Paraguay
is the preparation of essence of orange
leaves. More than 150 years ago the
Jesuit priests, who then ruled that se
cluded country, imported orange seeds
and planted groves, which have now
become immense forests, filled with
small establishments for extracting the
essence which Is exported to France
and the United States for use in soap
and perfumery making. It is also em
ployed by the natives in Paraguay as
a healing ointment and a hair tonic.
—Among other interesting results of
the discoveries regarding argon, helium
and radium, and the popular interest
in them, has been a crop of scientific
jokes, of which the following are fair
examples; We . ijave all. heard how
Sir W. Ramsay “ran helium to earth;”
and when he was commenting on the
fact that .there seemed to be no argon
in the sun—“there is lets of helium;
where is the argon?” the prompt reply
was; "It's a'gone!” When the mar
velous properties of radium were' ex
plained to a Frenchman he remarked:
“C’est tres Curi-ux!” These are, need
less to say, of British origin.
—According to a recent writer, the
watchman in a Turkish city has a very
mediaeval time of it. “At night, lan
tern in hand, he explores the black
chasms of the streets. Packs of dogs
hang around him, baying like wolves.
Their teeth flash and snap, for they
do not perceive the atmosphere of the
faithful. Should the wind put out his
spark of light they would surely de
vour him. The watchman challenges
and holds his rifle ready. Mysterious
houses with barricaded doors hang
their stories over his head. As he
marvels at their beauty one leg
plunges knee-deep into a mudhole in
the middle of the street. A shower
of slops descends upon him from those
melodramatic windows and he breathes
the very spirit .of mediaevalism and
the Arabian Nights.”
—The recent kite observations of
temperatures ''existing at ”*> different
heights above the edrth’s jiilrfafce have
confirmed the usual statement to be
found in the textbooks that an eleva
tion of 300 feet produces a change of
one degree Fahrenheit. It has been
determined In this same manner that
the air on the top of Ben Nevis, in
Scotland, is several degrees cooler than
free air at an equal altitude. During
some seventy-one ascensiohs off the
west coast of Scotland made by kites
carrying recording instruments, a small
tug being used to “run” with the kite
when the wind was not strong enough,
an average hight of 5,900 feet was
reached. On one occasion a hight of
12,000 feet was passed and once 15,-
000 feet, but this record was lost, as
the highest kite, carrying the record
ing instruments, broke away.
—Not less than ninety-three fortified
places of modem type, some of them
being nearly impregnable, guard at
present the French frontier from Dun
kirk to Nice. Most of them have been
built since the Franco-Prussian War
at a cost of $400,000,000. France has
to appropriate annually about $1,000,-
000 for the maintenance of these for
tresses. Of late there are not a‘ few
military men, and among them Gen.
Plerron, the former commander of the
Fifth Army Corps, who express grave
doubts as to the value of this chain of
fortifications in time of war. They
point to the fact that it would take
about 600,000 men to garrison all the
fortresses, including Paris and Lyons,
an army which would undoubtedly be
of more value in the field. Gen. Pier
ron predicts a “total collapse” in case
of anew war with Germany if the
numerous fortifications are to be re
tained. •
—The ex-Queen of Italy also belongs
to the list of famous people who ave
superstitious, says Leslie’s Weekly. She
is so strong a believer in the ill-luck
of sitting down thirteen to table that
she will not make one of a party of
that number; and when she held court,
the second aide-de-camp In waiting had
always to be ready to obviate the ne
cessity of having the fatal number.
For this purpose he was summoned crie
evening to attend the royal table, and
did so. but meanwhile one of the In
vited guests had met With an acci
dent and was prevented from coming,
so the number was once more reduced
to thirteen. The aide-de-camp was,
accordingly, leaving the. room, when
the king exclaimed, angrily, “Return
to your place! When once any one
has taken his seat at my table he eats
his dinner there!” It is to be Inferred
from this that the King did not share
the. superstition of his royal partner,
and thirteen actually partook of the
dinnei.
—lt takes an Immense quantity of
bulbs every year to satisfy the love
of the Americans for the most delight
ful flowers that grow from them, says
Country Life in America. Most of
our bulbs are Imported. We get an
nunciation lilies and Roman hyacinths
from France. Easter lilies from Bermu
da, narcissi from England, and prac
tically all of the ‘’Dutch bulbs." par
ticularly hyacinths and tulips, from
Holland. For centuries the Dutch gar
deners have almost monopolized the
bulb-growing Industry of the world. In
1902 we paid Holland nearly *500,000
for bulbs, and we gave another *500,000
to the bulb-growers of other countries.
It needs only a little Yankee shrewd
ness to see why American gardeners
are discovering that there is enough
first-class bulb land In Western Wash
ington alone to supply the world with
bums. and. undoubtedly, many part*
of Oregon and British Columbia are
equally suitable for the business. Ther*
is no question whatever but whst it I*
possible to grow them In the Puget
Wound country which are superior to
th* best Holland stock Biifh grow
ing offers attractive considers)ln* to
those who with to earn a living out
of-door*, It will probably grow to g
groat induet ry In thie country.
Distress
After Eating
Nausea between meals, belching, vom
iting, flatulence, fits of nervous head
ache, pain in the stomach, arO all
symptoms of dyspepsia, and the longer
it is neglected the harder it is to cure it.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Radically and permanently cure it—
•trengthen and tone the stomach and
other digestive organs for the natural
performance of their functions.
Accept no substitute for Hood’s.
“I had dyspepsia twenty-five years and
loot different medicines but got no help
Until I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Have taken four bottles of this medicine
ahd can now eat almost anything, sleep
well, have no cramps in my stomach, no
burning and no distress.” Mu. William
G. BAamrrr, 14 Olney St„ Providence, R. I
Hood’s Sarsaparilla promises to
Cura mr** the promise.
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convenient to the shopping, theater
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all modern luxuries and conveniences,
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CHARLES L. WETHERBEE,
Proprietor. ?-
THE PE SOTO,
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SAVANNAH, GA„
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too cold-**
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-Table a specialty. t ail*'*
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JUNES OPTICAL CO. have moved
their store from 148 Whitaker street
to corner Bull and Oglethorpe Aye,,
where they will be pleased to sea
their friends. They are better pre
pared to serve the public than ever.
They correct every known error of re
fraction in the human eye and’allevi
ate all bad results. Remember the
location, 157 Bull street.
KEEP YOUR HEAD UNCOVERED.
The Constant .Wearing of a Hat Prop
ogates Dandruff Germs.
There are many men who wear their
hats practically all the time when
awakej and are blessed, with-a, heavy
shock of hair; yet if -the scalps of
these same men once became infested
with dandruff germs 1 the parasites
would multiply all the quicker for
lack of air. Baldness would ensue as
the final result. Newbro’s Herplclde
kills these germs and- stimulates un
healthy hair to abundant growth.
Herplclde is a pleasant hair dressing
as well as a dandruff cure- and con
tains not-an atom of sub
stance. Sold by leading druggists.
Send 10c in stamps for sample to The
Herplclde Cos., Detroit, Mich, .-i
Livingston's Pharmacy Cos., Special
Agents.
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Telephone 888.
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