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4 gjp JEofning fern#. Moronic News Bulletin*:, Savannah. Gs THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904. Registered at Postoffice in Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS Is published every day in the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, one week. 18 cents; one month, T 6 cents; three months. $2.00; six months. $4.00; one year. SB.OO. THE MORNING NEWS, by mall, six wlmes a week (without Sunday issue), one month. 50 cents; three months, $1.50; six months, $3.00; one year, $6.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year. SI.OO. Subscriptions payable tn advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sect by mad at risk of tender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements and classified column. 10 cents a Uae. Fourteen lines cf agate type equal to one inch in depth—as the standard of measurement CSassiAed cc.umn ad vertisements. 1 cent a word each inser tion. Every word aad ftgur? counted— No advertisement accepted for iess than 15 cents week -iav*. 3 cents Sundays. Contract rates sad discounts made known on appucatloa at busi ness office. Orders for delivery of the Morning News to either residence or place of business can be made by mail or by telephone No. $lO. Any irregularity in delivery should be Immediately re ported. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS,” Savan nah, Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York City, H. C. Faulkner, Man ager ]M)tX 1U m ADVERTiSEMESTS Meetings—Georgia Council No. 2, R. & S. M. Special Notices Ship Notice, gtrachan & Cos., Consignees; Flowers and Plants, A. C. Oelschig; Notice to City Court Jurors. Business Notices—You Can Dine In Privacy at Sommers' Cafe; Riley Auto Robes, I. H. Freedman & Cos.; Ballard's Obelisk Flour, at Munster's; A Pleas ure,, A. M. & C. W. West. The Observed of All Observers—Byck Bros. There Are Others—Connor & Sulli van. Savannah Theater—“ The Schooll Mis tress.” by the Dramatic Club, Monday, April 4. There's One Kind That Cleanses the Teeth Thoroughly—Gamble's Tooth Powder. Warburines Put Your System in Good Running Order —Rowlinski. Neat and Clean—The Savannah- Georgia Laundry. Dr. Bouvier's Buchu Gin—Henry 1 Sol omon & Son. Ladies, It Might Interest You—B. H. Levy, Bro. & Cos. Legal Sales—City Marshal Sale. Potato Bugs Now on War Path—J. T. Shuptrine, Drugs and Seeds. Get a Passbook To-day—The Del monico Cos. Baseball Goods—At Lattimore's. Sites For Desirable Homes —Savan- nah Investment Cos. Cotton Broker—W. S. Daffin, New' Orleans, La. Medical—Swamp Root; Peruna; Wine of Cardui; Herpicide. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted. Employment Wanted, For Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Miscel laneous. 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. 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