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Moronic News Bulletin*:, Savannah. Gs
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904.
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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to-day
are for fair weather, except showers
in north portion, with fresh southeast
winds. Eastern Florida fair weather,
with fresh east to southeast winds.
A Western woman claims that her
husband rubbed poison on his lips and
then tried to kiss her, w’herefore she
prays a divorce. Inasmuch as the
poison did not hurt the man. he must
have made a discovery in the art of
poisoning worthy of a Borgia.
A New York paper says that during
the fire in lower Broadway the other
day “the w’ork of the firemen was
greatly hampered by the great clouds
of dense smoke from the engines.’*
Fire engines burn soft coal because
it makes steam quickly. But why is it
not possible to evolve a smokeless Are
engine, using some other kind of
quick-burning fuel?
Dr. Gorgas, who has sailed for Pan
ama with the Canal Commission, Is
an expert in yellow and other tropi
cal fevers. He was for some time
after the American occupation of Cuba
stationed in Havana in connection with
the sanitary work In that city, and
latterly had charge of that work until
the Americans turned the island over
to the Cubans. Under his regime Dr.
Gorgas had the satisfaction of seeing
yellow fever entirely disappear from
the Cuban capital.
Robert Hilliard and Thomas Maguire
played parts In a pathetic scene In
New York the other day. It was at
a hospital. Maguire held out his hand
to his close friend Hilliard and said:
“Good-by. old man; hold my hand;
these are the last words I shall ever
speak." Then he laid himself upon a
surgeon's table and his tongue was cut
out, because the organ was diseased
with cancer. Hilliard sat by and held
his hand while the doctors made his
friend silent for life.
In the course of his sermon last
Sunday, Rev. R. A. ED wood of wil
inlngton, Del., said with reference t/>
J. B. Addicks- “If the honest men
of the stele will rise up in righteous
indignation and stand to ass justice
dons they will see this man and his
checkbook running for safety to a mors
enjoyable Mr. El wood will be
recalled as the minister wins preached
the pro lynefttf.g aermss the day ha*
fosa the negro While wee burned a*
the atak* near Wilmington,
GETTING IX LIXE FOR PARKER.
The primaries held in New York on
Tuesday made it certain that Judge
Parker is the choice of the Democrats
of New York for President. The dele
gates who favor him will control the
Democratic Convention of that state
by a large majority. The convention
will be held on April 18, and there is
no doubt that the delegation to the
St. Louis Convention will be instruct
ed for him.
In most of the other states the Dem
ocrats have been waiting for the Dem
ocrats of New York to Indicate their
preference. By general consent It was
admitted that as the Democratic ticket
couldn't be elected without the elec
toral vote of that state New York
Democrats should be allowed to name
the candidate they thought could get
that vote. There is no need for Demo
crats of other states to wait any
longer upon the Democrats of New
York. The latter have practically in
dicated their choice. And it is doubt
ful if a wiser choice could have been
made. Judge Parker hasn't made ene
mies in either the Cleveland or the
Bryan faction. He has been a regu
lar in his relations to his party —that
he has always voted the Democratic
ticket. It may be that he didn't be
lieve in the free and unlimited coinage
of silver, but that fact didn't deter
him from standing by the tickets and
platforms of his party in 1896 and 1900.
There is no doubt that Mr. Cleve
land will give him a hearty indorse
ment, and so will the great majority
of those who supported Mr. Bryan.
But Mr. Bryan is against him. He says
he doesn't know what he stands for.
That isn't a satisfactory reason. 11l
view of the fact that Judge Parker
has been a consistent Democrat and a
strict party man all his life, there can
be no doubt that he stands for Demo
cratic principles. It is doubtful if it was
as generally known what Mr. Bryan
stood for three months before he was
nominated as it is what Judge Parker
stands for.
It Is true, of course, that Judge
Parker hasn’t been an active politician
since he became chief justice of the
Court of Appeals of his state, and it
is much to his credit that he hasn’t.
If he had done so he wouldn’t have
been fitted for the high place he fills
so acceptably. Besides, he wouldn’t
now' be so available a candidate as he
is. He would have antagonized one
or the other of the factions of his par
ty. As it Is, neither can have any rea
sonable objection to him. He is Just
the kind of a candidate needed to
bring the two wings of the party to
gether. He can bring out the full
strength of the party. The extreme ele
ment of the Bryan wing wouldn't sup
port Mr. Cleveland, and it is certain
that the extreme men of the Cleve
land element wouldn't support the kind
of a man that Mr. Bryan wants nomi
nated. If the party is to stand a
chance of winning the election, there
fore, a man like Judge Parker, a man
acceptable to both factions, must be
nominated.
But because he is acceptable to both
factions it doesn't follow that he is
lacking in force. He is the reverse
of that. If he were not a man
of unusual strength of character he
wouldn't have reached his present
high position. In fact, he wouldn’t
be able to hold that position. In all
the various places he has filled he has
shown the qualities which mark the
successful man—successful in the best
sense of the word. There isn’t any
doubt that the South will support him
for the nomination, and she will not
make a mistake in doing so.
SI'LLY’S ALLEGED PARTNERS.
The impression prevails In cotton
circles In New York that Mr. Sully, the
recent king of the cotton market, will
soon be doing business again on the
Cotton Exchange. His creditors appear
to be pretty well satisfied that he is
disposed to give up all the property he
has for the payment of his debts, but
they are not satisfied with the attitude
assumed by his alleged partners In
some of his cotton deals. These alleged
partners are said to be Edwin Hawley
and Frank Ray, both reputed to be
very rich men. Hawley and Ray have
been summoned to appear before a
special examiner in bankruptcy pro
ceedings to-morrow. Ostensibly the
purpose ot calling them as witnesses is
to find out if Mr. Sully has assets other
than those which he has disclosed, but
really the purpose Is to find out what
relation they held to Mr. Sully in the
recent cotton deal which brought about
the failure of Mr. Sully's firm.
Mr. Bully’s creditors appear to have
no doubt that they will be able to show
that Hawley and Ray were partners
of Sully in that deal. If partners,
they will be held for their share of
the debt* of the firm in so far as that
deal is concerned.
Bully's obligations are placed at
about $3,000,000. He has offered to turn
over cash to the amount of $1,100,000
and It is hoped that $1,200,000 can be
obtained from the alleged partners. If
this plan is successful the creditors witl
get about 70 cents on the dollar for
their claims.
The impression gained from the re
ports that are appearing in the news
papers is that there will be sensational
developments at the examination of
Messrs. Hawley and Ray. If reports
are true they both claim they were not
partners of Mr. Sully in any of his cot
ton pools, but were simply customers
of hts firm. The understanding is that
Mr. Sully claims they were in a pool
with him. It will go much against the
grain with them if they have to give
up about $600,000 apiece. The probab
ilities are, however, that they made
more than the amounts claimed from
them in their cotton deals with Sully,
assuming, of course, that they were
partners with him In the moat success
ful of the pools which he has engin
eered. The testimony of Messrs. Haw
ley and Ray Is swstted with much In
terest in cotton circles In New York,
end. in fset, by cotton men generally
throughout the country.
Meneter Ih<k of Ohio Is the first
"veteran" of the Spanish-American
Wsr to enter the United Utatee Men
ete. Nut those "veterans” have al
ready bei dm prominent in public Hfe
One of ikent la tn the While Mouee
| end there ere several in the Mouse of
| Kepreser>tsiivee,
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. MARCH 31. 1904.
THE COTTON-GROWING OITLOOK.
Representative Lovering of Massa
chusetts is one of the best posted men
in the country on the cotton situation.
He has been actively engaged in cotton
manufacturing nearly all his life, and
has made an exhaustive and long-con
tinued study of the supply and demand
of the raw material along with other
details of the business. Mr. Lovering
expresses the conviction that the day is
not far away when the cotton belt of
the United States will be called upon
to supply an annual crop of not less
than 13.000.000 bales of cotton. The
world will want that amount of Ameri
can cotton, and will be willing to pay
a fair price for it. Furthermore, Mr.
Lovering thinks there is no place In
the world where cotton can be grown
so cheaply and to so good advantage
as in this country. Many of the Eu
ropean governments are seeking to de
velop new sources of supply of raw
cotton, but the climatic and other ad
vantages of the United States are so
great that it is within the power of
American planters to maintain their
supremacy in the markets of the world.
With the increasing demand for raw
cotton from the South, the question
arises, who is going to grow it? Who
Is going to cultivate the land and har
vest the crops? There has already
been noted a tendency towards scarcity
of farm labor in the cotton belt. In
some sections the scarcity has become
rather acute. Mr. Lovering gives some
statistics from the census reports that
may indicate a reply to the questions.
He finds that in 1876, 40 per cent, of the
cotton crop was made by white people
and 60 per cent, by negroes, whereas
in 1900 the proportion had been exactly
reversed, 60 per cent, of the crop being
raised by white people and 40 per cent,
by negroes. The census figures further
show that, while it is the tendency of
the whole population to become more
urban and less rural, the movement
from farms to towns in the cotton
growing countries of the South
ern states is in greater pro
portion among the blacks than the
whites. Another fact from the census
is that the white population of the
South is increasing more rapidly
than the black. Should these con
ditions continue, as they undoubtedly
will, it will not be a very great while
before two-thirds of the population of
the cotton belt will be w'hite, and white
farmers will be raising three-fourths to
seven-eighths of the crop. The facts
and deductions of Mr. Lovering ought
to arrest the attention of Mr. Andrew
Carnegie, who some short while ago de
clared the South ought to thank God
for the negro, because he produced the
cotton crop!
If the South, as Mr. Lovering says,
must prepare to produce 15,000,000 bales
of cotton a. year, she must have a con
siderable increase in the white farming
population; immigration not neces
sarily from abroad, but from other
parts of the country. The movement of
such newcomers is already under way.
Georgia, Alabama, Texas and other
states have felt the Impulse of it and
are hoping for Its Increase. There hag
been some movement of white foreign
ers into the Gulf section, too, that
promises well.
DEALS WITH MILLIONS IN THEM.
The testimony which Thomas W.
Lawson of Boston, Mass., has been
giving in an equity suit in one of the
courts of that city, is attracting con
siderable attention. The suit deals
with the Boston gas combination. In
Mr. Lawson's testimony millions of
dollars were spoken of as lightly as
the general run of men would speak of
hundreds of dollars. Mr. Lawson
himself is a millionaire many times
over, at least, he has that reputation,
and it is a fact that he spends money
as if he had it in quantities. Some of
the statements he made about profits
in deals surpassed belief, and doubt
less would not have been credited if he
had not made them under oath.
For instance, In answer to a ques
tion as to the terms on which he was
with Mr. Rogers, one of the group of
the Standard Oil millionaires, he said;
“For nine years we have been contin
uously on very Intimate terms. Busi
ness transactions aggregating over
$100,000,000 have been carried on with
out any writing having passed between
us concerning them. We had one deal
which netted more than $46,000,000
profit, concerning which no writing
ever passed between us.”
Think of one deal, made by two men,
netting $46,000,000! Mr. Lawson didn’t
say how long it took to complete the
deal, but presumably not many months,
but It appears fro;| Mr. Lawson's tes
timony that he wasn't always treated
fairly. On one occasion $1,000,000 in
the stock of a gas and coke company
was set apart for him, and the tman to
whom it was entrusted for delivery
didn't give it to him, but he didn’t
seem to feel that he ought to make
an outcry about the matter.
Much of the wealth that is piled up
in great fortunes is the product of cor
porations, which have as their basis
franchises which the Legislatures have
given them. It is said that there are
a dozen bills now pending in the New
York Legislature which call for fran
chises that are easily worth $200,000,000,
or will be in the course of a very few
years, and the probabilities are that all
of them will be passed. The wealth
that will be represented by these cor
porations will go into a few pockets.
It is not to be wondered at that there
is a growing feeling of dissatisfaction
among the people on account of the ac
cumulation of vast fortunes in a few
bands. _
The term “landsmen" In the navy
ts an anomaly that Rear Admiral Wise
thinks should be abolished. There is
really no aurh thing aa a landsman In
the navy, and the term Is employed
by the seasoned sailors more In the
way of derision of the new men than
anything elae. It has been suggested
that “apprentice seamen" should la*
substituted for “landsmen.” There la
a tang of salt about that.
Chile and Argentina are preparing
to sail three and two ships, respective
ly, of their nevtos. But that doesn’t
mean they ore going to disarm They
ore merely goiitg to unload some of
their old stock and the money they
receive ie to be put into hewer and
more powerful ships. ,
In Maine there is a railroad which
depends for its revenues mainly on
people who hunt and fish and camp
out. In less than two years, the man
ager says, such people put the line
on a paying basis, and they had been
Induced to seek Maine attractions by
advertising, in the newspapers and
otherwise. These paying patrons of
the road were people seeking recrea
tion, amusement and sport. They had
a certain amount of time on their
hands each year to give up to pleas
ure and money to spend to further
their desires. Maine is a summer and
early autumn resort; South Georgia,
Savannah particularly, is an all-the
year resort. Last summer we had peo
ple coming here from Philadelphia to
‘‘get cool;" ddring the winter just
ended we had some from the same
city coming here to "get warm." Fol
lowing the example of Maine, we need
to develop our outing resources and
let the people know about them. The
proposed automobile speedway is a de
tail in that direction, and quite a good,
big one.
The newly discovered tin mines at
Gaffney, S. C., of which we made men
tion some time ago, bid fair to prove
much richer than was at first thought.
Shafts have been sunk to a depth of
fifty feet, and the report is that “the
deeper the shaft goes, the richer the
deposit is found to be.” One expert
expresses the opinion that the mines
will prove to be the richest of their
kind in the world. Machinery is be
ing established for the working of sev
eral tdns of ores per day. We con
gratulate our neighboring state upon
this unexpected source of fortune, and
hope soon to see one or more flourish
ing tin mills near the mines. Charles
ton and Columbia ought not to be con
tent to see the ores sent abroad and
the finished metal worked up In Penn
sylvania and elsewhere outside of Caro
lina. Alabama is manufacturing her
iron ores; why should not South Caro
lina do the same with her tin ores?
A Pennsylvania poker player de
clined to swear off from the game for
all time, but took an oath to abstain
from It for ninety-nine years.
PERSONAL.
—Mayor McClellan of New York was
discussing munfcpal matters with a
Tammany man who holds that business
men are out of place in politics. “In
fact,” he said, "such a combination is
anomalous. What can a business man
know of politics?’’ “Seems to me,” an
swered the Mayor reflectively, “that
he can easily know as much about pol
itics as some politicians know about
business. It would be difficult to find a
business man who could be induced to
sell a $1,000,000 franchise for a thousand
or tivo, don’t you think?’’ The Tam
many man changed the subject.
—Judge William D- Dickey of the
New York Supreme Court took occa
sion the other day severely to con
demn clergymen and Justices who mar
ry minors. While holding court in
Middleton Judge Dickey granted an in
terlocutory decred annulling the mar
riage of a 16-yearfold boy and girl who
had eloped a year ago and were mar
ried by a Justice in Narrowsburg. In
issuing the decree Ms honor said it was
a shame that ministers of the gospel
and justices of the peace, could be per
suaded to marry children jfor the sake
of a $2 fee. Several cases of that kind
had come to his notice of late and he
thought the Legislature should take
speedy action to stop the practice.
BRIGHT BITS.
—"An elephant must be a pretty ex
pensive animal!” “Yes, I wish I had
enough money to buy one.” "What
do you want with an elephant?” “I
don’t. I merely expressed a wish for
the money."—Philadelphia Press.
—“I understand that prlma donna
failed to give her farewell concert be
cause she had a cold.” “Yes.” answer
ed the manager. “How did she con
tract it?” "Well, it wasn't an ordi
nary cold. It is what Is technically
known as a box-office chill.”—Wash
ington Star.
—Before the Russian spy was shot,
the officer who had captured him in
sisted on a heart-to-heart talk. “Yoin
say you have swallowed a number of
plans, rather than be caught with
them in your possession,” he remark
ed. "Isn’t eating paper in such quan
tities rather hard on the stomach?”
“Oh, no,” replied the Russian, “I used
to be the official taster in a breakfast
food factory."—Cincinnati Tlmes-Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Providence (R. I.) Journal (Rep.)
says: “Of course, the Addicks dele
gates from Delaware are going to Chi
cago Instructed for Roosevelt. The
President did not handle that pitch for
nothing.”
The Cincinnati Inquirer (Dem.) says:
"Mr. Roosevelt is an ‘accidental’ Pres
ident. A good many people hold that
he will be an ‘accident’ still if elected
next fall —an accident which comes
from the mistakes of Democrats."
The Brooklyn Eagle (Dem ) says:
“Some newspapers are saying that the
best way to beat the two-thirds rule
is to abolish the state unit rule in the
Democratic National Convention. That
cannot be abolished by the next Demo
cratic National Convention, though
that convention might abolish it for
the future. The states are now choos
ing and instructing their delegations
and are binding them to the unit rule.
Their present instructions cannot be
disturbed by the next National Con
vention, to which they are chosen.
Moreover, the Democracy feels, acts
and works through and by states. Con
gressional districts in that party are
merely changeable expressions of leg
islation."
The New York Post (Ind.) says:
"The President is displaying his usual
belated sensitiveness after a rash act—
this time in connection with his pen
sion ruling. He has found out that it
is of doubtful legality and of an un
popularity not at all doubtful; conse
quently he is about to rise to explain,
so the Washington dispatches infortn
us. Certain precedents are to be cited,
it appears, but the chief defence is
that this lesser evil was accepted only
to avoid a greater, That is to say,
the movement for a general service
pension act was getting to be for
midable. Congress felt itself ton weak
to withstand it; the heroic President
himself distrusted his own ability to
oppose a demoralising and ruinous
messure. Ko the plsn wee devleed of
squandering |U,000,000 in order lo pre
vent the squandering of M 0.000.000. The
idea that it la the duty of the chief
executive to prevent all aquanderlng
la, of course obsolete, go. apparent
ly. is alao the proverb that. If you
glva certain people an Inch, they will
taka an ell. Certainly, the eop which
the President has thrown to the pen
sum lobbyists will, Instead of satisfy
ing them, only whet their ej-pattig for
more"
One of C arnegie'a Stories.
When on one of his visits to New
York, while he was still a resident of
Pennsylvania, Mr. Carnegie had a bit
ter experience with a messenger boy,
whose tardiness in delivering a busi
ness message came near upsetting a
deal of great importance, says the
Rochester Herald. Referring to this
incident while at dinner with friends,
that evening Mr. Carnegie told of an
office boy who worked for him many
years ago.
“James,’’ said Mr. Carnegie, “was a
willing boy, but his ability as a stut
terer was simply wonderful, and I oft
en found it more convenient to attend
to little errands myself than wait for
his explanations. One day a neighbor
wanted to send a note clear across the
city and I permitted James to carry
it for him.
“The trip was a long one and James
was gone quite three hours. When he
returned I asked him how much he
had charged for his services.
" ‘Fi-fi-fi-fi-fi-fi-fifteen cents,’ was the
gasping reply.
" 'Why didn’t you make it a quar
ter?’ I asked.
*!’ ‘I c-c-c-c-rouldn’t s-s-s-say it,' he
replied, with tears as well as hypens in
his voice.
"Right then I made up my mind
never to give anyone my services with
out first making sure that I could re
cite my price without stuttering, and
I never have.”
Two Epitaphs.
Representative Gregg of Texas de
scribes an inscription on a tombstone
which he saw in an Arkansas grave
yard, says the Washington correspond
ence of the Philadelphia Ledger. It
reads; “This stone is sakred to the
memry of William Hardy, who comes
to his death by fooling with a colt
revolver on one of the old brass mount
ed, and of such is the kingdom of
heaven.”
This reminded Representative John
son of South Carolina of a queer in
scription on a headstone in his own
state. "It is all a matter of punctua
tion,” said Johnson. “There is in my
state a tombstone which reads, ‘Erect
ed to the memory of John Dawson who
was accidentally shot as a mark of af
fection by his brother.’ In telling this
to one of my representative friends,”
continued Johnson, “he remarked,
'You people in the South have pecu
liar ways of showing affection.’ ’’
Engineer’s Mistake.
Lynn, Mass., was favored not long
ago with a visit from Representative J.
Adam Bede as a banquet guest there,
says the Washington Post. He was fa
cetious, as usual, and in the course of
his post-prandial remarks spoke about
the folly of jumping at conclusions.
“Let me Illustrate,” Mr. Bede con
tinued. “I never knew’ but one locomo
tive engineer who had a long, flowing
beard. He was a friend of mine, and
lived in a certain Western state. One
day he was running about sixty miles
an hour, with a straight track stretch
ing ahead.
“This engineer poked his head out of
the cab and the wind whisked his long
beard back in his face. Obeying his
first thought, that it was a haystack,
he called for down brakes,” and while
his audience was laughing at this Mr.
Bede sprinted away to another ludi
crous observation.
What He Learned.
Bishop Potter was preaching one
Sunday evening in a small town in
the Adirondacks, where he has a sum
mer camp, says the New York Times.
When the services were over a tall,
gaflnt man with the air ofi a back
woddsniatt came up to the Bishop with
outstretched hand.
"I’ve heerd ye preach twice afore
this,” he said, “an’ I like yer preach
in’. I alluz Tarn somethin’ new from
ye. I rid ten mile to-night to hear ye,
an' I'd a’ rid ten more, fer as usual,
I heerd somethin’ new to-night that I
never knowed afore.”
“Well, I’m glad of that,” said the
Bishop, shaking the outstretched hand,
“and what was it you learned to
night?”
"Why, Bishop, I found out fer the
fust time in my life that Sodom and
Gomorrah wasn’t twins.”
No Fourth Part.
A farmer tells of an old Irishman
in his employ whom he once permit
ted to make use of certain land for
farming purposes on condition that
Pat should give him one-fourth of the
crop he raised, says an exchange.
At the harvesting of the crop the
farmer was amazed to find the Irish
man had not kept his part of the
agreement, for while he hauled away
three wagon loads of produce, he had
not sent a single load to his master's
barn.
The farmer called Pat’s attention to
the fact that he had taken the entire
crop, asking:
“Now, how’s that, Pat? Wasn’t I
to receive a fourth of the crop?”
“You was, sir—you was,” excitedly
exclaimed the Irishman, “but there's
only three loads; only three loads.”
Correct Statement.
Francis Trevelyan, the turf writer,
who has just returned from a brief
visit to England, tells of a conversa
tion he heard before he departed from
the other side, says the New York
Times. A farmer, who had bought a
horse from a dealer, said:
“That horse you sold me balks, bites,
kicks, runs away and tries to batter
down the sides of his stall.”
“Well, I can’t help that,” was the
calm answer.
“But you told me if I got him once
I wouldn't part with him for £500.”
“That’s right—l don’t think you
will.”
Saint Smith.
From the Chicago Record-Herald.
Forty-two times he has run for the
doctor,
Forty-two times he’s gone forth In
the night.
Nervously fastening on his suspenders,
Hoping as never a bachelor might.
Forty-two times he has wondered and
waited.
Pacing the floor with his head in a
whirl*
Forty-two times he has heard the an
nouncement!
“It is a boy,” or “It’s only a girl."
Forty-two times the grim nurse has
denied him
Rights that he proudly supposed were
his own;
Forty-two times he has harbored emo
tions
Such as the childless man never has
known.
Forty-two times he has bounded up,
hearing
The first shrill cry of a strange little
guest;
Forty-two time* he has gone in the
morning.
Boasting and bragging and swelling
his cheat.
Forty-two times ha has paid for frail
ribbons.
Paid for soft laces and fluffy af.
falrt.
Paid for the bolt lea and what Is pul
In them:
Forty-two times he hsa ah -uldered
new (srae,
Forty-two limes ha has board tb* gtsd
meseas*
“Everything * lovely come In—lt * I
all light *
Forty-two I lines ho baa gone for th*
4 m tor.
Buttoning up aa ha ruabed iknuiii, i
the night
ITEMS OF IXTEREST.
—During the last forty-nlna years as
many as 31,271 persons perished from
shipwreck on or near the coasts of the
United Kingdom. During the same
period the number of lives saved by
the Koyal National Lifeboat Institution
totaled 23,900.
—The Chemical Committee of the
British Royal Agricultural Society in
vestigated some new "food” stuff which
purported to be rice meal, and was sold
at .the rate of $20.60 a ton, and found
it to consist of the ground-up husks
of the rice grain, and not worth $2.50
a ton.
—ln the case of some English peo
ple sympathy with Japan has taken
the form of drinking Japanese sake,
which is a kind of beer made from rice.
It intoxicates very quickly and has the
additional advantage, so to speak, that
the intoxication it produces does not
last long.
—ln spite of the reduction of trans
portation charges of 10 cents a ton,
the receipts from the traffic of the Suez
canal for the year 1903 are only a lit
tle less than those of the previous year,
so tl\at a further considerable increase
of traffic can be stated. The receipts
were $20,700,000, or $20,000 less than in
1902.
—The discovery is announced of
nickeltferous copper in large quanti
ties in Cape Breton Island. The ore
body is reported to be between 270 and
280 feet wide, carries gold and silver,
and contains high values in copper
and gold. It Is said the property will
prove to be among the largest copper
mines in the world.
—The idea that fish nourishes the
brain is a popular fallacy, says the
Lancet, London., It is doubtful wheth
er any given food in common use con
tains constituents which have a selec
tive action, or the property of minis
tering to any one part of the body
more than another. It is often said
that fish is a food which ministers
particularly to The needs of the brain
because it contains phosphorus. Asa
matter of fact, fish does not contain it
in the free state. The notion that fish
contains phosphorus had, no doubt, its
origin in the glowing or phosphores
cence in the dark. This phospheres
cence is due to phosphorus at all,
but to Micro, organisms.
—A working model has lately been
shown in London of the proposed mo
norail between Liverpool and Man
chester. The model, which is going to
the St. Louie exhibition, is one-six
teenth of the actual size, and demon
strated the fact that a monorail train
will not jump the track. The running
wheels are in the center of the train,
straddling a Roman "A” shaped struc
ture, at the apex of which is the rail.
The under works of the carriage hang
down on either side, and there is an
ingenious arrangement of horizontal
wheels which runs along the guide rails
half way down the sides of the Roman
“A” with flanges beneath. When the
train takes a curve the pressure falls
upon these horizontal wheels, and there
is thus practically no more risk in
turning curves than running straight.
Mr. Behr, the inventor, said the speed
of the railway to be built from the
model will be one hundred and ten
miles an hour.
—Some sensitive essayist should
take the smell of place as subject, says
the London Chronicle. Paris, for ex
ample, is lightly pervaded with the
odor of burning charcoal, and coming
from Paris to London, one is newly as
sailed by the appeal of soot. Cologne
has a reputation, long undeserved, for
smells other than that of its famous
“water,” and it has been said that in
years of old a blind man could find his
way about Cologne by following his
nose. Moscow has an odd perfume
of its own. It suggests cranberries of
peculiar pungency. And it never leaves
the nose. Garlic, of course, is the basic
smell that greets the stranger who
lands at Calais. But the most curious
of smells of place is that of St. Peters
burg. The present writer had often
wondered what it was, having detect
ed it even between the sheets of his
bed at the most exorbitant hotel. On
his third visit he was driving in a
droschky from the station with a fresh
young English girl, who had never
been away from Kent before. “Now,
do you smell anything?" he asked.
“Yes,” said the girl. “Old boots.”
That is the smell of St. Petersburg.
Centenarian shoe leather.
—A writer in the National Geograph
ic Magazine attempts to paint the
Philippines as they are, for the bene
fit of the adventuresome. The picture
of this iand of promise is not engag
ing, says the Philadelphia Ledger. If
the Caucasian, or the native, for that
matter, would avoid cholera and dys
entery, he must either boil or prefer
ably distill all drinking water, and the
government maintains a distilling
plant in Manila for the benefit of the
government employes. The slim diet
of rice and vegetables which suffices
for the native will not sustain the
American, who must eke out a sub
sistence on canned goods and frozen
meat from Australia or Chicago. As
there are but a half dozen milch cows
in all Manila, condensed milk and
canned cream must he used. Rents are
almost prohibitive. Huts of four rooms,
built of nipa, rent for $36 American
gold a month, the annual rent being
more than twice the cost of the build
ing. Everything that the American
wants and must have is extraordinarily
dear, and the mere cost of a bare sub
sistence is at an unimaginable alti
tude. Manila is evidently not the
place for the poor adventurer, because
there are many places in this country
where food is relatively cheap, the cli
mate good and work at high wages
plentiful. The man with capital may
find opportunities in the Philippines;
but the man with capital can find an
opportunity anywhere.
—When dynamite explodes it leaves
little to mark the spot where it has
lain save evidences of its destructive
ness, says an exchange. Two interest
ing exhibits of its force are shown in
the Stevens Institute of Technology at
Hoboken, N. J. They are steel blocks,
six inches in diameter and four inches
thick, showing respectively the impres
sion of an oak leaf and the Imprint of
the headline of a western newspaper.
It was during a test of high explosives
that a cartridge of dynamite was plac
ed on a newspaper covering the block
of steel, the object being to see how
much dynamite would be required to
split the metal. The dynamite was
••red without Injury to the steel, but
to the surprise of the experimenter the
print of the newspaper wus deeply
pressed Into the metal. The experi
ment was repeated, with the same re
sult, and then was elaborated by try
ing the charge on an oak leaf placed
between the block and the dynamite.
This time the stein and the ribs of
the leaf were deeply Impressed In the
metal. "What happens Is this.” said
the expert In charge. "Unlike most
other explosives, dynamite exerts prae
tl'Sliy oil its crushing force down
ward and not In a general direction.
Hr. Inconceivably quick and forceful |*
the discharge of this powder that the
Imprint of tha riba of an oak leaf are
made befote the leaf has lime to be
blown to atoms. In the rase of the I
newspaper It appear* that where
printer s ink touches the paper the
psper la hardened and more capable
tf ree.etaii'e than In other plecee, and
eo it la thet before the paper Is de
stroyed the printing on it w fmued
deep into the metal"
Scrofula
It is commonly inherited.
Few are entirely free from it.
Pale, weak, puny children
afflicted with it in nine cases oat of
ten, and many adults suffer from it.
Common indications are bunches in
the neck, abscesses, cutaneous erup
tions, inflamed eyelids, sore ears,
rickets, catarrh, wasting, and general
debility.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Eradicate it, positively and absolute*
ly. This statement is based on the
thousands of permanent cures these
medicines have wrought.
“ My daughter had scrofula, with eleven
■ores on her neck and about her ears. Hood’s
Sarsaparilla was highly recommended and
■he took it and was cured. She Is now In
good health.” Mas. J. H. Jones, Parker
City, Ind.
Hood’B Sarsaparilla promises te
wre and keeps the promise.
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THE DE SOTO.
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where they will be pleased to see
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