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Thp Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for showers, with fresh south
east to south winds. Eastern Florida,
fair weather, with fresh east to north
east winds.
Senator Bard of California has intro
duced into Congress a bill carrying an
appropriation of 1150,000 to be divided
into two prizes, which are to be paid
to whomsoever may discover the physi
cal basis of meteorology and the laws
which govern the weather. In other
words. Senator Bard wants to know
what causes weather, and how its vari
ations may be predicted accurately.
Uncle Sam could well afford to pay
$150,000 for the information.
Dr. Darling of the Baltimore City
Hospital believes that he has isolated
and cultivated the germ of mumps. If
the doctor has any doubt about it, let
him feed the germs on vinegar and
watch them. Any boy who has ever
had the ailment knows that vinegar
and mumps are deadly enemies. Dr.
Darling says, by the way, that the
mumps germ is somewhat similar in
appearance to that of typhoid, except
that it is shorter and appears in pairs.
It is thicker than the germ of con
sumption.
It is sincerely to be hoped that the
State Department of Agriculture will
be able to assure the farmers of Pike
county that the specimens of bugs
sent them from that county are not
cotton boll weevils. It is hardly to
be supposed that the weevils would,
or could, jump from the banks of the
Mississippi river into the interior of
Georgia, without showing themselves
elsewhere between the two points. Be
sides, there are many kinds of harmless
little beetles that are to be found in
cotton fields.
Walter 'Wellman, the well-known
Washington correspondent, has been
watching Mr. Hearst’s campaign quite
closely. He writes to the Philadelphia
Press, under date of March 25, that
Mr. Hearst tried without effect to at
tach Henry Watterson to his staff, and
gives these details with respect to the
attempt:
Hearst offered Henry Watterson. the
brilliant editor of the Louisville Cou
rier-Journal, $25,000 to spend this win
ter in Washington and write occasional
letters to Hearst’s papers. Mr. Wat
terson declined as politely as he could.
Mistaking the politeness for wavering,
Hearst came back with a renewal of
the offer.
This time Mr. Watterson declined,
still politely, but with a little more
posltlveneiss of expression. He said he
could see no more reason why he
should write for Hearst'* paper than
why Mr. Bennett, or Mr. Luffnn, or
W’hltelaw Reid, or any editor, should
do the some thing, and ndvised Mi.
Hearer to try noire of those gentle
men, atiU unable to understand, Hearst
tor the third time renewed hi* offer.
And this time Col. Watterson* reply
was io this eff./t
"V*eur Ale You haven't m sough
money tn ynur family and never will
have. le juduce iia to wilts one ha#
(or you.”
COLOMBIA OPPOSING THE CANAL.
What is the purpose of Warren R.
Wilson, the Chicago attorney, who
has b-gun an equity suit In the Su
preme Court of the District of Colum
bia to stop the construction of the
Panama canal, and who are the par
ties behind him? He says he is act
ing on his own responsibility, but that
statement will hardly be accepted.
What possible interest can he have
In preventing the construction of the
canal? As far as the world knows he
has no interests which w'ould be in
juriously affected by the building of it.
It may be that he represents the Pa
cific Railroads or the Colombian gov
ernment. Of course, the Pacific Rail
roads do not want the canal built, but
If they were opposing its construction
it is hardly reasonable to suppose they
would engage a comparatively un
known Chicago attorney to bring a suit
for them—a suit that, if It were in
tended to amount to anything, would
be entrusted to some of the ablest law
yers in the country.
The dispatches say that Lawyer Wil
son has clients in Colombia and it
wouldn’t be surprising if some of them,
acting in the interests of the Colom
bian government, had employed him
to bring the suit.
It is a safe proposition that Colom
bia isn’t yet reconciled to the loss of
Panama, and the $10,000,Q0, together
with the 8250.000 a year rental which
she was to have received if she
accepted the Hay-Herran treaty. Her
first thought was to recover possession
of Panama by force, but she soon saw
that that plan was impracticable. She
recalled the troops she had dispatch
ed on an expedition to Panama, and
set about discovering other ways to
obstruct the canal until she received
what she thought was proper com
pensation for her consent to its con
struction.
She has brought two suits in Paris,
one to prevent the French government
from consenting to the transfer of the
property of the Panama Canal Com
pany to the United States, and the
other to have herself recognized as a
stockholder in that company. At first
our government didn't think there was
much in these suits, but recently It
appears to have regarded them metre
seriously, since it has sent two promi
nent lawyers to Paris to look after
its interests in them.
This suit which has just been begun
in the District of Colombia may not
raise any questions which threaten to
interfere with the government’s plan
in respect to the canal, but ,it may
cause delay. If Colombia is behind
the suit the purpose may be to force
our government to propose a com
promise of some sort rather than have
the work of construction interfered
with. Some pretty big questions are
raised In the suit, and if these ques
tions can be carried to the United
States Supreme Court months may
elapse before a decision of them can
be obtained. Doubtless the true in
wardness of the suit, together with
the parties behind it, will be made
known within a few weeks.
PARTY LINES IN THE SNVAYNE
CASE.
The statement given out in regard
to the case of Judge Swayne of the
Northern District of Florida by ex-
Senator Chandler, of New Hempshlre.
and ex-Senator Higgins, of Delaware,
is an extraordinary one to say the least
of it. It seems to be the purpose of it
to arouse party feeling, and thus pre
vent the impeachment of Judge
Swayne, or, if impeached, to prevent
a verdict against him.
These eminent Republicans ask a
suspension of judgment In the case.
They say they participated in the dis
cussion when his nomination was be
fore the Senate, and that they are sat
isfied that his conduct as a judge has
been above reproach and that there
exists no just cause for Impeaching
him. They also say they are sure that
he will appear to the House to “be
completely justified as to any and every
transaction which may be called in
question by the majority report” of
the Judiciary Committee. These gen
tlemen say further that In their opin
ion he will appear deserving of high
praise for "his just and courageous
action In connection with subjects
which have been most criticised.”
If Mr. Chandler and Mr. Higgins are
right In this matter then the majority
of the Judiciary Committee of the
House are mighty poor judges of the
weight of testimony. The committee
heard testimony for as well as against
Judge Swayne, and although a major
ity of It are Republicans a majority
found against him.
Perhaps the subjects to which Mr.
Chandler and Mr. Higgins refer are
of a political nature. Unless we are
greatly mistaken the things for which
the committee thinks. Judge Swayne
ought to be impeached have nothing
to do with politics. Probably the ef
fort will be made to show that the
prosecution is political in its nature.
If that is done it will be for the pur
pose of drawing party lines and in
fluencing the House to refuse to vote
to impeach Judge Swayne. It looks
now as if nothing would be done in
the case before the next session of
Congress, or If the House sustains the
majority report the chances are the
trial will not take place at this sess
sion.
Evidently Judge Swayne depends
upon partisan feeling to get him out
of the trouble in which he finds him
self. Otherwise two such partisans as
Mr. Chandler and Mr. Higgins wouldn’t
have published a card expresetng the
opinion that it will be found that he
deserves praise rather than blame for
the things for which he ta criticised.
W’e do not undertake to say whether
Judge Swayne should be Impeached or
not, not having seen alt of the testi
mony. but it does seem that the House
in passing upon the committee’s re
port should he guided by the facts
rather than by partisan feeling.
An exchange oaya; ”A Colorado
man claims to have invented a pro
cess by which en Indian’s skin may
he tanned into the finest leather.” This
ought to be Interesting Information to
those agents of the government out
West who have for years been en
gaged in sllr:Mtns **>• Indiana, a* it
opens up anew satires of revenue ta
i them.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY.MARCH 30. 1904.
THE RALE QIESTION IN THE
HOI SE.
Representative Gillette of Massachu
setts. who is disposed to be fair-mind
ed when discussing matters pertaining
to the South, expressed himself pretty
freely on the race question in a speech
in the House on Monday. He admitted
that the feeling against the negro Is
stronger in the North than tn the
South, that is, there is a stronger nat
ural repugnance to the negro, but he
declared that the Northern people don't
recognize "this preposterous talk about
social quality and inequality.”
It doubtless Is true that they don’t
have as much to say along the lines of
social equality and Inequality, and the
reason is plain. It is that the percent
age of the black population is so very
much smaller In the North than it is in
the South that there is but little appre
hension there arising from the efforts
of the blacks to cross the line dividing
the races. Make the percentage of the
black population in the North as great
as It Is in the South and the same talk
of social equality and inequality that
is heard In the South would be heard
In the North. Indeed, as the natural
repugnance to the negro is greater in
the North, the probability is that thi3
talk would be greater there. If in the
North the natural repugnance to the
negro Is greater, as Mr. Gillette says,
why shouldn't the apprehension of the
evils arising from an excessive negro
population be greater there than here ?
The trouble with Mr. Gillette and
other apparently fair-minded Northern
men is that they do not tty to put
themselves In the place of a Southern
er when discussing the race question.
Mr. Gillette admits thav among the
rougher element in the North the senti
ment that favors lynching a negro for
certain crimes is present, but says that
it Is present among the better element
in the South. The reason doubtless is
that the rougher element in the North
feelg the pressure of the negro element
of the population to a greater degree
than the better element does. Let the
negro population in the North increase
until it is as great, in proportion to the
whole population, as it is in the South,
and it is probable that Mr. Gillette
would see the lynching sentiment as
strong in the better element there as
it is In the rougher element.
Mr. Gillette says that the North
doesn’t favor black domination in the
South, but he wants the blacks edu
cated to a point where they will be
qualified voters and good citizens. But
when they become qualified to handle
the ballot what is to hinder them from
dominating wherever they are in the
majority? And there are states in
which they are in the majority. But
Mr. Gillette would doubtless answer
that they wouldn’t ever want to domi
nate, that they would divide on public
questions, just as the white people do.
That Is Mr. Gillette’s opinion. An
appeal to race feeling would unite
them, and there would be demagogues
who would appeal to that feeling. In
Utah the religious sentiment unites the
Mormon voters. The Mormon vote is
cast where it will do the most good foj
the Mormon Church. Retigfous feeling
is no stronger than race feeling.
Mr. Gillette lives In a section that
isn't troubled by the race problem, but
it is a section that wants to settle that
problem. As yet it hasn’t presented a
solution that would be acceptable to
its own people if the problem were a
local one. The Southern people de
plore lynchinge as much as the people
of the North do, and their officials do
what they can to check them. A way
to stop them hasn’t been found yet,
either in the South or the North.
It is difficult to keep posted as to
the political situation in New York,
so far as it relates to the Democratic
party of that state. For instance, we
have it from one source that ex-Sena
tor Hill is using Judge Parker to get
back Into political power. One faction
says he would be Parker’s Secretary of
State in the event of the latter’s elec
tion. Another faction says he is work
ing to succeed Mr. Depew in the Sen
ate. Is there anybody who knows what
Mr. Hill is after? And in connection
with these reports there is one from
Washington that Mr. Hill is prov
ing a heavy burden for Judge
Parker to carry. But what about Mr.
Murphy, the Tammany leader? Ac
cording to a report in the Herald, he
is at heart a Hearst man. This is,
of course, stoutly denied. Anyway, it
is admitted that Mr. Hearst called on
Senator McCarren of Brooklyn—McCar
ren is the boss of the Brooklyn De
mocracy—and endeavored to get him to
agree to an uninstructed delegation
from New York. He left the impres
sion on Senator McCarren's mind that
Mr. Murphy was favorable to his can
didacy. It seems that Senator Mc-
Carren spurned this request of Mr.
Hearst. He stated that it was neces
sary for Judge Parker’s success to
have the New York delegation to St.
Ix>uis instructed, and that he should
do all he could to have the delegation
instructed. Dally there is anew crop
of rumors. There will be but little re
lief from them until after the meeting
of the New York State Convention,
when the delegates will be chosen.
The civilized world will bo pleased
to hear more of Lieut. Krinitski, of
the Russian torpedo boat Silni. He
is one of the dashing heroes so far
developed by the war in the Far East,
and the probabilities are that his exploit
will not be overshadowed by any future
occurrence during the war. It was
he who took the frail little cruft out
of Port Arthur the other morning and,
single handed, fought off the attack
ing Japanese torpedo fleet and saved
the harbor from being bottled up.
Notwithstanding the overwhelming
odds against him he dashed fiercely
into range of his country's foes and
handled hla few guns so effectively that
the dummy ships the Japs proposed to
•Ink In the harbor entrance wer# driv
en out of their course and sunk where
they could do no harm. Krinitski
lost seven men kilted and twelve
wounded, and hia llttls host was so
badly pounded that she foundered
shortly after returning to the harbor,
but It la a genuine pleasure to record
that the brave and daring officer •.
caps* unhurt out of ths vary jaws of
wrhat appeared Inevitable death.
It was In ancient Rome, at an un
certain date, B. C. A vast throng had
assembled to witness the thrilling and
stage-elevating spectacle of two gladi
ators hacking each other into mince
meat in the amphitheater. The pros
pective combatants were renowned for
their skill and pluck. Each had filled
a private graveyard, hence everybody
wanted to get a good view of them.
There tvas as much curiosity over mur
derers in those days as in these. The
ancient Roman ladies were decked out
in new spring hats, with immense
plumes and ribbons—the latest crea
tions from Paris and New York, and
not one of which cost less than 100
drachmas of silver. There was a mur
mur In the rear seats. “Shoot the
hats!” called out the disgusted citi
zens in the rear, who had given up
good money for their seats and wanted
at least a look-in at the show. The
ladies with the hats only curled their
lips and thought unpleasant
things about the kickers. But the dis
satisfaction in the rear grew apace, un
til the gentlemanly ushers and the
equally gentlemanly manager could no
longer disregard it. The protest against
the hats had /-become an uproar. At
this juncture the manager straightened
himself in his Tuxedo, made a rapid
pass over the '‘headlight” in his shirt
bosom, walked down to the front,
cleared his throat, and said; “Ladies
will please remove their hats.” Not
a hat came off. “I mean, of course,
that old ladies and bald-headed ladies
are excepted, and need not remove
their hats,” he continued. Instantly
every hat in the vast audience was
doffed. The story has just reached
Charleston, and they are laughing
heartily over it there.
After the first day of next month
the boss plumbers of Alton, 111., will
not be permitted to do any work, save
to hustle around and get jobs and pay
their men their wages. The plumbers’
union of Alton has adopted a resolu
tion requiring the bosses to keep hands
off of all jobs, and, to assist the bosses
in keeping hands off, the resolution
requires that they shall wear white
shirts, starched stiff, all the while
during business hours. In a blue flan
nel shirt a boss plumber might be
tempted to take hold with his own
hands and stop a leak or solder a joint,
but with a “boiled” shirt on, he would
not run the risk of getting his linen
soiled. After April X, therefore, the
bosses must wear white shirts, on pain
of having their men go on strike.
A comparison of data of automobile
accidents and railway accidents would
doubtess show that more people are
killed or crippled by the former than
the latter. Almost every day there are
reports of automobile accidents in
some part of the country. In New York
a day or two ago a woman was thrown
out of an automobile and killed, and
in another case four people narrowly
escaped death by reason of the chauf
feur being hit in the eye with a mar
ble thrown by a boy. The chauffeur’s
sudden pain caused him to lose con
trol of the maphine, which ran into a
wall and was wrecked.
PERSONAL.
—President Eliot of Harvard, recom
mends the following plan for a stu
dent's day: Ten hours for study,
eight for sleep, two for exercise, and
four for social duties.
—Rather a dramatic wedding cere
mony is reported from Fort Scott,
Kans. Some months ago Mr. and Mrs.
H. L. Hallowell Were divorced because
of incompatibility. They had one child,
a small lad, and the youngster refused
to adjust himself to the changed con
ditions. At last, on his account, the
couple decided to remarry. As they
stood before the Probate judge for the
ceremony the boy took his station be
tween them, holding tight to a hand of
each.
PERSONAL.
—Brown—“l understand your SSOO
didn’t go very far in that grain deal."
Green—“l should say not. It was mere-,
ly a drop in the bucket shop.”—Chica
go Daily News.
—“He had a play produced by an
amateur company the other night, I
believe. Who was the hero of it, do
you know?” "I was one. I sat through
it." —Philadelphia Ledger.
—"Did you go into that speculation
you were talking to me about?” "Yes."
“What do you expect to realize , from
it?” “Just at present there’s a strong
prospect that I will realize what a fool
I was.”—Philadelphia Press.
—“Do you believe,” she asked, “that
a genius can possibly be a good hus
band?” “Well," he modestly replied, “I
would prefer not to answer that ques
tion. But my wife ought to be able
to tell you.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
CI RRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.)
says: “The compact between Mr.
Sully and his partners in the cotton
corner appears to have been a ‘gen
tlemen’s agreement’—the kind that
only holds when it wins.”
The Nashville American (Dem.) says:
“While Mr. Cleveland need not be
considered in connection with the
Democratic nomination, the number of
Democrats in Tennessee who are out
spoken for him, and the manifestation
of Cleveland sentiment in the state
must be something of a surprise to
the demagogues who have imagined
it the proper thing to denounce and
abuse him.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: “Both the two-thirds rule and
the unit rule are obnoxious to the
majority principle, which should gov
ern in the deliberations of Democratic
nominating conventions. In fact, the
unit rule has its occasion in the ef
fort of political leaders to escape from
the dangers incident to the operation
of the two-thirds rule, which has of
ten enabled an active minority to over
turn the will of the majority, thus
compelling the i>arty to ’dark horse'
and doubtful selection. In view of the
extensive and unusually active effort
to make outright purchaae of dele
gs es 'io the next Democratic Ni
tionul Convention, with a view to the
mlschlevoue utilisation of the standing
two-thirds rule, it Is now conceded to
he important that instructions shall
be vcged for candidates whom the
party might hope to elect if they
should be nominated If. however,
there should arise objection to In
structions for candidates every stste
convention should nevertheless instiuct
Its delegatee to vote solidly against
the further application of the iwo
ehirde rule. It ta not Democratic It
Is daagereate It has not worked t#
( advantage. le t tire major) / >
Why the Tiger Spared Him.
“I hear all you fellers telling stories,"
said the conjurer, who is in league with
all the evil spirits, including dialect,
according to the New York Telegraph,
"und I want to tell von myseluf. There
Was a feller in Chicago, he is Dutch
und he ain’t got no place to go und
nothing to eat. He is poor, and he is
Dutch.
"So what does he do Von • day he
comes down der screed and meets a
friendstershis is coming down der streed
too.
“So he sayes to himself. ‘Here _is
vhere I should gedt a chenst to get
someding to eat and a place to sleep.’
“So he sayes to his friendstershis,
’Give me someding to eat, fifty cents;
I get also a place to sleep.’
"His friendesayes: ’Such a business!
I am tickettaker down to Hagenback's
animals.’
“So he sayes: ‘What do I care hel
about Hagenback’s animals? I want
fifty cents for supper and a bed.'
“So he sayes: ‘Here is fifty cents;
also you should get two dollars a day
to be a bear. The bear is dead.’
“So he sayes; ‘l’ll done ft,’ and he
gets into a bearskin and he is the
bear for two dollars a day und every
ding is good. Plenty to eat und a
place to sleep.
“They prod him with Iron sticks mit
prongs, und he goes:
,f ’U-r-ggg-rrrh!’ Such a noise.
“But one day the fool lecturer puds
him in der cage mit der tiger.
“Der tiger is coming mit der nails
ouidt to smeck him so he will die.
“ ‘Dunt smeck me!’ he says, ‘I aind’t
a bear. I'm only a poor Dutch.’
“ ‘Dund be afriad,’ said the tiger. ‘I
vund hurt you. I am a Dutch my
self.’ ”
Barrett’s Loguacity Has a Limit.
John Barrett, recently minister to
Argentina, who is now being trans
ferred to Panama, has many accom
plishments. but Spanish is not one of
them, says the Washington corre
spondent of the New York Tribune.
When Mr. Barrett was sent to Bue
nos Ayres a few months ago he bought
a Spanish grammar and phrase book,
and devoted several hours a day to
“cramming” Castilian on his way down
the South Atlantic.' But fluency in a
foreign tongue does not cotne in a
minute, even to the Characteristically
fluent, and the diplomatist would have
been much at sea still had it not been
for capable interpreters in the employ
of the legation at Buenos Ayres.
An American who attended a public
function at which Mr. Barrett was a
guest in Buenos Ayres last month re
cites the following monologue which
Mr. Barrett delivered to a prominent
Spanish woman who opened a conver
sation with him In her own tongue:
“Spanish I no talk. I study Spanish.
Get along well. Think speak Spanish
soon. Very fond of Spanish. Delight
ful language. So easy. So simple. So
much like French and Latin. Sweet
sounding tongue. So musical. Charm
ing language. So easy.”
Better Tlinn That.
Henry M. Earle, the lawyer, Is tell
ing his friends of a conversation be
tween two of his office boys which he
overheard last week, says the New
York Times. The lads are hard work
ers, ambitious, and on more than one
occasion have given evidence of pre
cocity. Mr. Earle was reading in the
library, the stenographers were out to
lunch ar.d it was unusually quiet. The
boys were in the adjoining room, and
the door stood ajar.
“Let’s get out of this law business
and make some money,” said the
younger, who is about, 14.
“What’ll we do?” said his associate,
a boy of the same age.
“Oh,.start, a batik.”
“What on,, in heaven's name?"
"Well, a good front.”
Mr. Earle thought that the young
man who understood the value of a
good front was in a fair way to suc
ceed, when he heard the other lad
say;
“Don’t you think a good backing
would be better?”
I'mlecided.
One day a certain professor of math
ematics at Ohio University prepared to
set out on a short journey on horse
back, says Lippincott's. He was an
absent-minded person, and while sad
dling the animal was thinking out
some intricate problem. Some students
stood near and watched him abstract
edly place the saddle on hind-part-be
fore.
“Oh professor,” exclaimed one of the
group, “you are putting the wrong end
of your saddle foremost.”
“Young man,” replied the professor
with some tartness, “you are entirely
too smart. How do you know it Is
wrong, when I have not yet told you
in which direction I Intend to go?”
Race Prejudice.
The Japanese soldier was faint with
loss of blood and abstinence from rice,
says the Baltimore American.
The Red Cross nurse held a bottle to
his lips.
“What is it?” feebly whispered the
soldier. ,
“Whisky,” replied the nurse.
Resolutely he turned his lips away
from the tempting bottle.
“No,” he murmured. “I don’t like
the last three letters of the word.
They are undoubtedly Russian.”
Seeing that he was determined, the
nurse gave him a large swig of brandy
out of the same bottle, and he was
soon himself again.
Some Balia.
A correspondent at Birr, Ireland, de
scribes a lady being killed while hunt
ing, and adds: “The deceased met
with a similar accident on a previous
occasion.” Another “had been in the
Transvaal between six and seven
times;” and still another correspond
ent declares, with a spirit which only
does him credit, that he has "never
put his name to an anonymous letter.”
‘This evening's performance cannot
take place; it will be repeated to-mor
row night,” is a provincial anonunce
ment.
Military Bookkeeping.
From the London News.
(The Russians report that the Japa
nese vessels bombarded Vladivostok
from a distance too great for shots to
take effect, at a cost to themselves of
about £20,000.)
The foe came proudly to the fight.
His gun’s loud thunder shook the
main.
While we, secured by space—and
right—
Were wrapped in undisguised dis
dain.
We saw them come, by Folly led.
And calmly we retired to bed.
But our accountants were alert.
We gave to each a little slate.
And. on their reckoning, assert
The foe’a expenditure was great;
We valued every shot and shell
That abort of our entrenchment# fell.
A trigger pulled—there * fourpenee
went’
A barrel heated nlnepence there;
The shot--there sev'ral pound* wer#
•cent.
To be dispersed upon the air.
Ten piston stroke* si twopence each—
And thus the total coat we eeach.
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lIEMS OF INTEREST.
—There are now forty college grad
uates In Sing Sing, serving sentences.
—Peru contributes more young men
to American universities than any
other South American republic. About
500 are now attending our institutions
of learning. ,
—Yale will send with Its exhibit at
the St. Louis Exposition a reproduc
tion of the Y'ale campus, with build
ings, gates and fences. The model
will be exact on the scale of twelve
feet to an inch.
—The British Admiralty is about to
try the experiment of giving a premium
to the workmen in its service who fin
ish a job in the quickest time. Those
who do work in the ordinary time will
receive the ordinary wages.
—The London Daily News wants to
know whether the Napoleon statue in
Washington will represent the Corsi
can in his uniform as a general of the
republic or in the iniform.he designed
for himself when "the pear was ripe”
and fie overturned the republic.
—Alexander Hume Ford, in an arti
cle in Pearson’s, attributes the intense
patriotism of the Japanese to the fact
that they are Shintoists. They believe
that the power of the Emperor is de
rived direct from God and that his
commands are to be implicity obeyed.
Imbued with this idea they hesitate
at no task that is set them by the Mi
kado.
—The Illinois Shiloh Battlefield Com
mission has decided to dedicate the
monuments to Illinois soldiers who fell
at Shiloh on April 12 and 13. Gov.
Yates will deliver an address turning
over the monuments to the Federal
government, which will have represen
tatives there to receive them. Adjt.
Gen. Scott will ship a number of tents
to Shiloh for the accommodation of Il
linois ■ veterans.
—So much currency has been obtain
ed In the press by a story that the
Emperor of Korea had married an
American woman named Emily Brown
that United States Minister Allen, at
Seoul, has been obliged to print iden
tical replies to a number of women cor
respondents, denying the truth of the
story and declaring that there is no
room in Korea for foreign female
nurses, governesses, companions and
the like.
—Some French’ publishers have- be
gun to issue not only the classics but
works of current literature for a franc
each, Instead of the time-honored 3f.,
50c. The book trade has suffered se
verely during the last few years, and
it is believed by bringing literature
within reach of everybody It may be
revived. The cheap books are as well
made up in the matter of paper, pic
tures and printing as the more expen
sive ones.
—According to a weekly paper pub
lished at Wlnamac, Pulaski county,
Indiana, the United States has a new
born son. The announcement reads
as follows: "Born to United States
and wife, Feb. 18, 1904, a son.” This
may seem strange, but there is a negro
in Pulaski county so named, and this
being their first child, United States
and his wife issued cards to their
friends to attend the christening of
the new son on March 5.
—The force exercised by growing
vegetation has received many illustra
tions. No incident illustrates this
power more forcibly than one which
was noted recently in England. A few
weeks ago some half-hardy annuals
w.ere sown in a frame just cleared of
a winter'crop in the gardens’of Kil
sey Park, Beckenham, and the lights
closed to hasten germination. Some
days afterward signs of c-racking were
Observed in the brick (vork, and grad
ually a block weighing in the aggre
gate one and one-half hundredweight
was pushed out of position. After
cutting out several bricks a mass of
mushrooms was found, three pounds
three ounces in weight, growing in
the center of (he wall. ’ The myce
lium had run freely in the mortar
and on the inner face of the bricks.
—Don’t jump up the first thing your
eyes are open, says a medical journal.
Remember, that while you sleep the
vital organs are at rest. The vitality
Is lowered and the circulation not so
strong. A sudden spring out of bed
is a shock to these organs, especially
to the heart, as It starts to pumping
the blood suddenly. Take your time
in getting up. Yawn and stretch.
Wake up slowly. Give the vital or
gans a chance to resume their work
gradually. Notice how a baby wakes
up. It stretches its arms and legs,
rubs its eyes and yawns and wakes up
slowly. Watch a kitten wake up. First
It stretches out one leg, then another,
rubs its face, rolls over and stretches
the whole body. The birds do not wake
up and-fly as soon as their eyes are
open; they shake out their wings and
stretch their legs—waking up slowly.
This is the natural way to wake up.
Don’t jump up suddenly. Don’t be In
such a hurry. But stretch and yawn
and yawn and stretch. Stretch the
arms and the legs, stretch the whole
body. A good yawn and stretch is
better even than a cold bath. It will
get you thoroughly awake, and then
you will enjoy the bath all the more.
Wake up like the baby, like the kitten.
Stretch every muscle in your body.
Roll over and yawn and stretch, and
stretch and yawn, and you will get up
feeling wide awake and the heart and
the lungs and the stomach will resume
their work without shock or jar, and
the bodily functions start off In a nor
mal, healthful manner.
—Pew people have any idea of the
vast areas given over wholly to the
cultivation of opium. The consump
tion and the manufacture of this drug,
far from being on the decline, are on
the increase to an almost incredible
extent, says the Scientific American.
The greed for gold is far more pre
dominant In the human makeup than
is the philanthropic spirit which seeks
to elevate mankind, though its purse
may suffer in so doing. England reaps
more benefit from the cultivation of
opium than all other nations put to
gether. In the district of Bengal alone
there are nearly 1,000,000 acres devoted
exclusively to the cultivation of the
poppy. Its cultivation is legalized and
in every way encouraged by the Brit
ish government, which has an absolute
monopoly of this industry in India.
The two principal districts are pre
sided over by and under the direct con
trol of English officials residing at
Patna and Ghazlpur. The Bahar
agency embraces an opium field of
about 600,000 acres and that pf Benares
Is a close second with 473,500 acres.
There is a Here* dispute going on Just
now as to the relative merits or de
merits of opium. Many eminent men
In the scientific world openly declare
that opium i a Messing. The gov
ernment expert* in the country where
it grow* go #o far as to say that opi
um is a blessing Instead of being u
eurse to the natives. Ho waver, the
vast majority of mankind will long be
ot tha undivided opinion that opium
la the most all-crushing curse that af
flict* man. The enthusiast#, or, rather,
extremists, of the International Anti
opium Hot lei y picture the condition of
India under the bait of opium In the
most dreadful manner posnlble. Ac
cord log to one of l bees men, ail of I
lbs rvtfi.noo/joo of human Mings In Asia
era c*|—**d l the evils of the opium
trade as legalised by the British gov-1
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