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on the coast, with fresh southwest to
south winds. Eastern Florida fair
weather, with light, variable winds.
The "solid South" is rapidly solidi
fying on Parker for President.
Senator Burton of Kansas ts an In
diana man; but the Hoosier State Is
probably not proud of it.
The April fools will not be more nu
merous to-day than at any other time
during the month; they will only come
more prominently into notice.
Meanwhile the Hon. Joseph R. Bur
ton of Kansas remains a member of
the United States Senate, enjoying
full rights, privileges and perquisites.
The Senate will take no action with
respect to his case until the court of
last resort shall have passed upon It.
Last January an explosion occurred
in the Harwlek mine, near Pittsburg,
In which 178 lives were snuffed out.
A coroner’s jury is now Investigating
the matter. A day or two ago the
mine superintendent, Mr. Snowden,
testified that six months prior to the
explosion there had been a quarrel be
tween himself and Mine Foreman
Brown, one of the victims of the ac
cident, as to which of them wm tn
author 1 ty at the works. Following the
quarrel, Mr. Snowden said, Brown had
made no written entry In the record
book as to the condition of the mine.
Owing to this neglect on the part of
Brown, Snowden said it was Impos
sible for him to have a comprehensive
knowledge of conditions inside the
mtne. From this quarrel of bosses,
therefore, there may have arisen the
conditions that led to the explosion
and the killing of so many men.
ROOOSEVELT AS AN ISStE.
Representative Williams of Illinois,
in a speech In the House a day or two
ago that had the approval of the lead
er of the minority, said that if he had
to select an Issue upon which all Dem
ocrats could unite in the presidential
campaign, he would say, "Roosevelt
must be defeated."
It look* very much as if the Demo
crats intend to make Roosevelt and
his administration an issue. Repre
sentative Cochran has introduced into
tfie House a resolution relative to the
administration’s recent order creating
a service pension. He will make a
speech oti the resolution, and there is
every reason for thinking It will be of
such a character that it will be used
as a campaign document. It is expect
ed that he will go so far as to say
that the House ought to seriously in
quire whether the President ought not
to be censured, the Secretary of the
Interior impeached and the Pension
Commissioner removed for infringing
the rights of Congress in issuing that
pension order.
In his speech Mr. Williams was par
ticularly severe on the administration
for securing a judgment In one trust
ease and then saying, in effect, to the
other trusts that they need have no
apprehensions of being interfered with,
the inference being that the adminis
tration would not disturb them pro
vided proper consideration were shown
the Republican ticket in the presiden
tial campaign. Mr. Williams took the
ground that tf the trusts were vio
lating the law the prosecution of them
should be continued, and it should be
vigorous. He also called attention to
the refusal of the administration to
permit an investigation of the Post
office Department—at least he pointed
out that the administration took the
position that It had already made all
the investigation that was necessary,
and that position is sustained by the
Republican majority In Congress.
Another strong point made by Mr.
Williams against the administration
was that although the President had
been paraded about the country as
the "trust buster” he was against any
reduction of the tariff, notwithstand
ing the fact that the trusts found
their strongest protection in the almost
prohibitive tariff schedules. Indeed
the President is so timid in respect to
the tariff that he was afraid to refer
to It in his last message. From now
until the adjournment of Congress the
Democrats will continue to attack the
President and they will come pretty
near making him the chief Issue of the
campaign. And the issue will he a
popular one because of the feeling that
the President Is liable at any time to
do something that would get the coun
try into trouble. The aggressive cam
paign which the Democrats will make
will Intensify this feeling until the
conviction will fasten itself in the pub
lic mind that Mr. Roosevelt isn't the
kind of a man that ought to be in the
White House.
MR. BRYAN FOR THE .SENATE.
In Nebraska the impression prevails
that Mr. Bryan is a candidate for the
United States Senate. The Legislature
to be chosen this year wtli elect the
successor of Senator Deitrich, who
was recently in trouble on account of
charges of bribery In connection with
some post office appointments. The
case against Senator Deitrich was
prosecuted by United States District
Attorney Summers. Mr. Deitrich nat
urally hates Summers, and Is object
ing to his reappointment. Joined in
this opposition is National Committee
man Rosewater.
On the other hand Senator Millard
is a friend of Summers, but isn’t in
sisting upon his reappointment. He
does, however, insist that if Summers
isn’t reappointed a man named Gur
ley shall be appointed. Gurley Is as
objectionable to Deitrich as Summers
is. The President doesn't know what
to do in the matter. He doesn't want
to offend the Deitrich-Rosewater fac
tion and he cannot afford to offend
Senator Millard and his friends. It
is said the Republican party of Ne
braska is divided into two factions in
regard to the United States District
attorneyship, and that the factions are
getting so bitter that the chances are
very much in favor of a Democratic
Legislature being elected. In the
event of the Democrats getting the
Legislature it is almost certain that
Mr. Bryan will be sent to the Senate.
It is probable that Mr. Bryan would
make quite an impression in the Sen
ate. He is a great talker, and would
be one of the show senators—that is,
one of the senators pointed out to
visitors and one that would draw a
crowd to the capital when it was
known he was going to make a speech.
Besides, Mr. Bryan is still hopeful" of
being President. The Senate would be
a good place from which to keep him
self before the country.
The landing of Mr. Bryan in the
Senate would be an interesting out
come of the sensational charges
against Senator Deitrich. And yet
less important things than the
charges against Senator Deitrich have
had a greater political effect than the
sending of Mr. Bryan to the Senate
would be.
A ship that sailed from New York
for Panama the other day is said to
hare had among her passengers no less
than forty “bug-killers.” In some way
it became noised abroad that the gov
ernment would pay a large reward to
the scientist or inventor who would
find some way of ridding Panama of
the bugs that infest the canal route.
In response to this alleged offer, the
origin of which nobody seems to be
able to trace, a large company oi "bug
killers” have gone to the isthmus, arm
ed with all sorts of apparatus design
ed for insect extermination.
Among the Christians prominent in
Japanese affairs are the following: One
member of the. Imperial cabinet, two
Judges of the Supreme Court, three
vice presidents of state and thirteen
members of Parliament. In the aiyny
there are 155 Christian officers. Two
battleships are commanded by Chris
tians. In Toklo there are three dally
newspapers edited by Ohrtsffans. Many
minor officials of the government are
(..iristians.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. APRIL 1. 1904.
WHY SULLY FAILED.
Mr. Theodore H. Price, who is about
as well known in the cotton market as
Mr. Sully is, lectured on Tuesday night
to a class in the New York University
on "The Cotton Market, Its Ramifica
tions and Importance.” Mr. Price un
dertook to corner the cotton market
once and failed. His failure was for
a larger amount than that for which
Mr. Sully failed. It is probable, all
things considered, that he Is better ac
quainted with cotton and the cotton
market than most of the men who op
erate on the New York Cotton Ex
change.
In speaking of Mr. Bully’s failure
he said; "The speculator in cotton
needs to possess real Information as
to conditions which is not known to
every one, but there are very few
minds able to deal with these problems
successfully. I do not look upon such
speculation as gambling. To be a suc
cessful speculator in cotton, like an
artist, you must be born, not made. I
don’t want to be personal, but because
of the recent sensations in the cotton
market I can express the opinion that
Mr. Sully simply had the experience
which has always been that of those
who try to force, instead of follow, the
law of supply and demand.”
The Inference from the foregoing is
that Mr. Sully was mistaken in sup
posing that the supply of cotton isn't
anywhere near equal to the demand.
He tried to force the price to 29 cents
a pound on the theory that, the supply
was less than it really was, and that
the demand was steadily increasing. In
other words, Mr. Price thinks Mr.
Sully didn't understand the situation,
didn't have correct information.
Mr. Price says that he doesn't think
speculating in cotton is gambling, for
the reason that the successful specu
lator must have a vast amount of in
formation about the cotton crop, and
must be guided by this information in
his dealings in the market, but, assum
ing that this view is correct, are not
those who, having no information to
guide them, speculate in cotton, gam
blers? It would seem so. According
to Mr. Price the leader of a bull or
a bear movement isn’t a gambler, be
cause he buys or sells on the basis of
information which he regards as re
liable, and which leads him to believe
the supply of cotton will be scarce or
plentiful as the case may be, but all
the little dealers in the future market
who have no such information, but
who take the chances of the market
going up or down, are gamblers pure
and simple.
Sully has lost all he made this season,
and perhaps the greater part of that
which he made last season, and if the
truth were known, it would probably
appear that the great majority of those
here in the South, who speculated in
cotton last season, or who have spec
ulated in it this season, have lost a
great deal more titan they have made.
THE PIKE COUNTY BI GS.
It is a source of satisfaction that
the bug found In Pike and Spalding
counties, and thought by the farmers
of those counties to be the dreaded boll
weevil, is a different insect altogether.
For a few days there was a feeling
of uneasiness throughout the state, be
cause of the possibility that the boll
weevil had in some mysterious way got
into Georgia cotton fields, and yet it
wasn’t conceivable, from the known
habits of the weevil, how it had passed
over such a stretch of country and
found a lodgment in Pike and Spalding
counties.
Our information is that the boll wee
vil doesn't Jump great sections of coun
try. It moves along like an army de
stroying as it goes, leaving no part of
the country on its line of march un
touahed.
The insect had its starting point in
Mexico. When it got into Texas it
proceeded to cross that state to the
Louisiana ltne. In its movement to
wards Louisiana it hasn’t skipped any
counties. There was pretty good
ground for thinking therefore that it
hadn’t reached the cotton fields of Pike
and Spalding counties.
It seems the insect found in those
counties and which was thought to be
the boll weevil, is much like that wee
vil in appearance, though easily dis
tinguishable from It when the two are
brought together. The insect found
in Pike and Spalding counties is not
an enemy to cotton, though it seems
to be the opinion of the cotton farm
ers of those counties that it is. Prob
ably some other insect is troubling
their cotton. It might be advisable for
them to make a further investigation
of the matter. It is gratifying, how
ever, to know that the boll weevil
hasn’t reached Georgia. It is to be
hoped it never will.
The administration’s new pension
ruling assumes that a man Is senile at
70 years and Incapable of earning a
living; but here comes a dispatch from
Dedham, Mass., telling of one Sander
son. who at the age of 70, has courted,
won and eloped with a woman of 28.
The unreliability of a small child's
testimony under oath was illustrated
in Chicago a few da'ys ago. Five men
were under indictment for murder.
There was certain circumstantial evi
dence against them which, taken in
connection with the testimony of a
little girl, made a perfect and conclu
sive case. The child swore that she
saw the murder committed and de
scribed in detail how and by whom it
had been done. Later, however, she
confessed that she had falsified and
that the story she had told under oath
had been told her by the wife of the
man who had been killed. Upon
learning this the prosecution dropped
the case and the accused men were
discharged. Except for the child’s
timely confession of falsehood the men
would probably have been bung.
The outcome of the “sealed letter”
Incident of the Bennett-Bryan will
case in New Haven would appear to
indicate that, w’hile Mr. Bryan may be
,a good politician, he is not so good a
lawyer. Mrs. Bryan, also. Is a lawyer,
and took a band in the drawing of the
Bennett will. But both Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan seem to have overlooked certain
legal prerequisites necessary to the
making of a bequest lawful and bind
ing.
Upon how slight a point fortune
sometimes turns! Several years ago
Denman Thompson was walking along
a street in New York. A newsboy, with
a bunch of wet and ink-smelling pa
pers under his arm, rushed towards
him. "Paper, sir?” sang out the
boy. That was all he said. Mr.
Thompson stopped short, looked at
the boy and reflected a moment. To
himself he said: "There is the making
of a great singer in that voice.” Act
ing on the impulse of the moment Mr.
Thompson entered into conversation
with the "kid” and as an outcome en
gaged him to become a member of the
Denman Thompson Theatrical Com
pany. For six years the boy remain
ed with the company, during which
time Mr. Thompson saw to it that he
had musical training. Last Sunday
Johnnie Quigley, Denman Thompson's
"newsboy tenor,” sang "The Palms’’ in
one of the largest of New York’s
churches. He is now known as one of
the country's sweetest ballad singers.
In the New Jersey Methodist Con
ference at Newark the other day
Bishop Cranston told of an experi
ence he once had in Russia while try
ing to get a passport from the Czar's
officials. He said that the annoyance
to which he was subjected by the Rus
sian officials was great, and that the
Russians were too narrow-minded for
the age. In conclusion he said: *T
hope they will get licked.” In re
sponse to this, a dispatch says, "there
was prolonged applause by nearly
everybody in the church.” On a dozen
occasions recently we have heard of
ministers of the gospel, servants of
and spokesmen for the Prince pf Peace,
speaking in martial manner about the
conflict in the Far East and hoping
that the Russians would get licked.
Why are the preachers so ‘soured"
with respect to Russia? The Czar’s
is a Christian nation, while Japan
keeps "open shop” with respect to re
ligion.
The steamship Nebraskan arrived at
New York the other day from San
Diego, Cal., having steamed the dis
tance of 12,724 nautical miles under
power generated by crude petroleum.
The Nebraskan is said to be the first
steam vessel to make this trip with
out stopping en route for fuel. The
consumption of oil was 9,300 barrels,
and it is estimated that the cost of
fuel was about one-half what it would
have been under cpal consumption.
Officers of the navy are investigating
the Nebraskan's performance and
equipment.
Some of our Republican contempor
aries, notably the Philadelphia Press,
are going to a great deal of trouble to
explain that Judge George Gray of
Delaware would make ever so much
better a Democratic candidate than
Judge Alton B. Parker of New York.
But why are these Republican papers
interested in providing for the Demo
cratic party a stronger candidate
than Judge Parker would be?
A company has been formed in Bos
ton to serve music to householders
pretty much as water and gas are
served. All the householder will have
to do will be to turn a faucet, or press
a button, or something of the kind,
and “rag-time” or classical music will
be on tap. It will be served from a
central office over telephone wires.
One cannot help admiring the splen
did egotism of Herbert Spencer. He
found Horace tiresome, Ruskin ab
surd and Carlyle incoherent. When
his autobiography shall have become
public it will doubtless be found that
he considered Shakespeare a stage car
penter, and Huxley, Tyndal and Dar
win shallowc
The City Council of Pittsburg recent
ly granted, gratis, a street railway
franchise to a promoter of that city.
And now the story Is told that this
promoter has sold his franchise for $2,-
000,000. In short, the Council made
him a present of $2,000,000. Mr. Lin
coln Steffens ought to pay a visit to
Pittsburg.
PERSONAL.
—The Stockholm court has pro
nounced the Arctic explorer Andree to
be dead in law, the legal term of dis
appearance having Just expired. An
dree left Spitsbergen on July 11, 1897,
with two companions in a balloon with
the object of reaching the North pole.
—Daniel Larzelere of Quincy, Mich.,
is believed to be the oidost grain
dealer in the country. He began trad
ing in 1848 and is still active in the
business, hale and hearty at 83. He
has been at his present station in
Quincy for twenty-seven years, per
sonally taking in all the grain he pur
chases.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Nashville American (Dem.) says
of Judge Parker: “Although a sound
money man, w hen so many of his party
were enamored of free silver, he voted
the ticket. All Democrats ought to
be able to unite on him. The chances
are that he will be the next Demo
cratic nominee.’’
The Columbia State (Dem.) says:
"Georgia, we believe, is the only state
which Judge Parker has visited lately
in a public way, and even on his
Georgia trip he held aloof from poli
tics, yet it is the first state to organize
a Parker movement of substantial and
respectable proportions. If Mr. Par
ker would take to the stump, just
‘swing around the circle,’ Teddy might
lose a little sleep.”
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
"Notwithstanding the policy of sup
pression which the administration
forces in Congress have adopted with
regard to the postal scandal, the thing
continues to grow. The conviction of
Senator Burton of Kansas by a Jury in
a Federal District Court, on the charge
of receiving compensation for using his
influence with the Postoffice Depart
ment, takes ’the lid off' again.”
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
“The Democrats long floundered in
their efforts to decide upon an availa
ble standard-bearer for their presi
dential campaign. At last, however,
they seem to have sagaciously elimi
nated the weakest, and have apparent
ly agreed upon the strongest. In the
absence of Mr. Cleveland, whose decli
nation of the honor was absolute
judge Parker of New York. If the
party unites on Parker and presents a
solid front—though in view of Bryan’s
actions this now seems Improbable—
the result would be by no means a
foregone conclusion."
An 111 to ng lit Duel.
This was a good many years ago.
when Eugene Field and I worked in
one little box stall in the Chicago News
office and “Bob” Peattie and his charm
ing wife, now known to literary fame
as Ella W. Peattie, worked in the
next, writes Willis Brooks in the
Brooklyn Eagle. Stanley Waterloo had
not yet written those excellent novels
which have since brought fame and
fortune to him. He was then editor
of the Chicago Tribune's Sunday edi
tion.
It happened that one day I wrote
something nonsensical about a picture
which had appeared in the Sunday
Tribune. I had no idea who made it,
but I soon found out, for he was a
fiery Hungarian artist, who took him
self and me so seriously that nothing
but blood could wash away the ter
rible insult he thought I had offered
to him in poking fun at his picture.
Waterloo not only encouraged him in
his purpose to challenge me, but even
offered his services as the artist's
“friend” in the deadly enterprise. The
upshot of it was that Stanley came
over to the News office with an elabo
rate document addressed to me and
demanding satisfaction on the field of
honor.
After grave consultation with Field
and Mr. and Mrs. Peattie, during
which Waterloo gave us the benefit of
his recently acquired knowledge of
“the code,” I engaged Mrs. Peattie as
my second. She was singularly well
fitted for the duties of this sanguinary
office—as dainty, modest, pretty-man
iiered a morsel of femininity as ever
bewitched a man—and she wrote my
answer in red ink with her own deli
cate hand. It said that I. being the
challenged party, had the right to
choose ten-inch bowie knives and would
fight him in a dark room, nine feet
square, on the eighth floor of a cer
tain building, at midnight; that the
window sashes were to be removed,
our right wrists were to he bound
together, and we were to fight to the
death.
Waterloo took my answer back to
the waiting artist and in all serious
ness told him that these were the best
arrangements he could make.
“Mine Gott!” exclaimed the Hun
garian, whose fires seemed suddenly
to have cooled down. “Do you call
diss a duel?”
“It is the American way,” said
Waterloo deprecatingly.
“V’y does he vant to fight mit bowie
knives?”
“Because he is an expert with them.
He always fights with a knife.”
“V’y does he want our right wrists
tied togedder?”
“Because he is left-handed.”
"V’y does he vant der window sash
taken oud?”
“I suspect,” said Waterloo, “that if
you should chance to give him a death
thrust he will try to throw you from
the window, so that both may go
down to death together. He is a pow
erful fellow and very desperate.”
“Mine Gott! Diss iss not duelling.
Dlss iss butchery. Dey vould not tol
erate sooch a ding in Europe.”
“I know,” Waterloo admitted; "but
here in America—especially in the West
—they don’t value life very highly. A
duel here is always to the death.”
The poor artist was fairly quaking
in his shoes. ”1 vill not fight mit
sooch a mans,” he finally said. “He iss
beneath ine. I am a nobleman at
home, und I vill not fight mit a
butcher.”
“But you have challenged him. If
you do not fight he will be warranted
in thrashing you every time he meets
you. It will be very awkward.”
The next time 1 met Waterloo he
thanked me for helping him to get rid
of a very annoying artist, who had
been foisted on him. The Hungarian
was gone,' nobody knew whither. From
that day to this I have never heard
of him.
Much Advice Hut No Money.
A man who had had relatives visit
ing him from the country dropped into
his office chair and heaved a long sigh,
says the New York correspondent of
the Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Thank heavens, they’ve gone,” he
exclaimed, and he sighed again.
“Whose gone?” someone asked.
"My relatives from the country."
"You don’t seem to be overfond of
your folks.” *
“Oh, 1 like them well enough, but
the way I've had to shell out for a
week was enough to break the Bank
of England. You see, my sister and
her' husband ran down for a few days
to make us a visit and see some of
the sights. They live in a little place
w here the greatest excitement the town
ever gets up to is a euchre party or
a lecture on the ’Land of the Midnight
Sun’ or some such thing, and when
they got here the way they wanted to
go to the theater every night, to din
ners at hotels and restaurants, auto
mobile riding, doing the slums and ev
erything else was 3imply awful. At
home they would think if they went
out and spent $2 frivolously that they
had committed a sin. Here they sat
around coolly and watched me put up
$lO a night for theater tickets for four
of us, S2O for a bite at Sherry’s, Del
monico’s or the Waldorf, ten a day for
cab hire and all that sort of thing,
and every night, too. But it wouldn’t
have been half so rough if they had
seen anything that suited them. There
wasn't a thing in this whole city that
could hold a candle to their dinky, one
horse place. And then when they were
going away, what do you suppose my
brother-in-law said to me? Why, he
had the gall to suggest that I save
my money for a rainy day. Gee!
Wouldn’t that make you weary?”
Not a Frightful Mein.
The merger decision having been
rendered, there are of course many
stories related in connection with the
case. Here is one which Gov. Van Sant
of Minnesota tells on himself, accord
ing to the Troy Times. A tall, lank
resident of Otter Tail county walked
into his office recently, and, accidental
ly meeting him at the door of the pri
vate executive office, asked for the
Governor. Gov. Van Sant is of some
what less than the average hight,
stockily built and rotund. His ap
pearance is that of a prosperous busi
ness man. “You the Governor?” the
visitor asked. "Yes,” Gov. Van Sant
responded. “You fit the merger?” the
man asked, doubtfully. “Our state
was concerned in the fight,” the Gov
ernor replied. "Waal,” the stranger
retorted, "I walked In ninety-one miles
to git a look at you. I Jes' want to say,
though, that if that merger had ever
got a look at you they wouldn't ever
been any victory. They’d a Jes’ stom
pled ’long about their business. You
ain’t big enough to buck even a wood
saw.”
Betrayed.
MaJ. Wheatley, erstwhile warrior,
now married, but still well known
along the Rialto, had a surprise in
store for him on Broadway the other
night, says the New York Times.
A swarthy man, dressed in Hindu
garb, appeared on the Milky Way and
began to illustrate the workings of a
mysterious Oriental puzzle which he
was selling for five cents. Every unie
he sold a puzzle he bowed in true
Oriental fashion, at the same time
muttering:
"Saladm all kum!"
MaJ. Wheatley stopped to see what
was doing. Almost immediately hi*
eyes encountered those of the Hindu
Juggler, who stared hard at him.
"If I’m not mistaken,” said the ma
jor. “that man comes from my old
home in Georgia.”
At the same moment the “Hindu"
Juggler’s face expanded in a broad
grtn.
“Lawd!" he cried, "ef ’taln’t Marse
Wheatley!"
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A man who lives on the little isl
and of Trenton, off the Maine coast,
bought a fine collection of rare foxes
some time ago and started a fox farm.
He trusted to the sea to keep the ani
mals on the island, but it recently
froze between the island and the
coast, and the foxes escaped.
—A New Orleans friend of the Sal
vation Army has offered to give to
that organization a centrally located
three-story building in the Crescent
City for a workingwomen's hotel and
emergency home. The benefactor is a
practicing physician who has been
much interested in the work of the
Salvation Army.
—Colorado Springs, Col., has the
purest water of any city in the United
States. The supply is derived from
reservoirs and lakes on the side of
Pike’s Peak, which are fed by springs
and melting snow. Chemical analyses
of the water have repeatedly shown it
to be purer than that of any other
city in the country, due to the fact
that the supply is derived at such an
altitude as to make contamination im
possible.
—A severe windstorm in Whitesboro,
Ky., last Thursday picked up a hive of
bees and dashed it through a farm
house window. The hive was de
molished, and the liberated bees soon
made it so uncomfortable for the hu
man occupants of the house that they
were compelled to vacate it and rush
out in the storm. Lightning struck a
tree in the orchard under which were
several other hives, and all the bees
were shocked to death and the honey
in one hive melted by the heat of the
electric discharge.
—Prof. John Trowbridge of Harvard
University, says that some recent ex
periments he has made in the Jeffer
son Physical Laboratory show that
“the astounding noise of a lightning
discharge is largely due to the dis
sociation of water vapor,” through the
explosion of the hydrogen and oxygen
gases produced by such dissociation.
In his mimic iightning experiments
Prof. Trowbridge produced a torrent
of huge electric sparks. The noise of
the discharge was so great that the
operator had to stop his ears with cot
ton and then wrap a heavy cloth
around them.
—Not less than ninety-three fortified
places of modern type, some of them
being nearly impregnable, guard at
present the French frontier from Dun
kirk to Nice. Most of them have been
built since the Franco-Prussian war
at a cost of $400,000,000. France has
to appropriate annually about $1,000,-
000 for the maintenance of these for
tresses. Recently not a few military
men, and among them Gen. Pierron,
the former commander of the Fifth
Army Corps,, have expressed grave
doubts as to the value of this chain
of fortifications in time of war. They
point to the fact that it would take
about 600,000 men to garrison all the
fortresses, including Paris and Lyons,
an army which would undoubtedly be
of more value in the field. Gen. Pier
ren predicts a “total collapse” in case
of anew war with Germany if the
numerous fortifications are to be re
tained.
—A statistician says that taking 1,-
000,000 as a basis of calculation there
will still survive at the end of sev
enty years 312,000 out of the 1,000,000
persons, says the New York Sun. At
the expiration of eighty years .there
will be 107,000 survivors of the original
1,000,000. When it comes to ninety
years of existence, there is a terrible
thinning out of the ranks. Only 8,841
out of the 1,000,000 or 1 in 115, will
live to that age. At 97, but 244, or 1
in 4,100, will be alive. At 98, half of
these will have dropped out, leaving
only 119 souls alive out of the original
1,000,000. One's chances to reach 98,
according to these tables, is about 1
in 8,400. “Of the original 1,000,000 only
54 will be alive to see 99 years, or
about 1 person out of 18,500,” he con
tinues. “The century mark will be
reached by only 23 out of the 1,000,000.
Only 1 in 1,000,000 persons will reach
the age of 104 years; just 1 in 1,000,000
can be expected to see 105 birthdays;
and as to living to be 106 years old,
these tables place that contingency as
out of the range of practical calcula
tions. Possibly one human being out
of the 1,000,000 who shall have seen the
light for the first time in 1904 will be
alive in 2010.”
—A deplorable condition of indus
trial life in Spain is reported to the
State Department by United States
Consul General Lay, stationed at Bar
celona, says an exchange. He shows
that the daily wage of a skilled artisan
was 53 cents per day in 1827, about
the same in 1868 and only 48 cents
a day in 1902. There was, therefore,
in the period of seventy-five years an
actual decrease of 5 cents a day.
Meantime there has been an increase
in the price of food. Samples of the
increase of the food prices are given
by Mr. Lay as follows: Bread, 1827,
4 cents; 1902, 6 cents; meat, 1827, 13
cents; 1902, 37 cents; bacon, 1827, 20
cents; 1902, 30 cents; rice, 1827, 9 cents;
1902, 10 cents. These are based on
the amount charged for a kilogram
of each of the articles mentioned.
Commenting upon this condition of af
fairs, Consul Lay says: “It should be
noted that the values given for the
year 1902 are for the lowest qualities,
whereas in the case of 1827 they re
fer to the average cost. Thus we see
that during the seventy-five years the
cost of these necessaries of life has
vastly increased, apd that in reality
(he position of the laboring classes
has become worse, the purchasing
power of the silver peseta having
steadily declined. It is this fact that
lies at the root of the perpetual labor
troubles in this country.” The labor
ing class would welcome a change in
rulers as a possible means to a better
condition.
—Even in the unhappy ages when
people knew nothing of the bath and
its rejuvenating properties noted beau
ties found out the secret of preserv
ing their loveliness by ablutionary
aids, says an exchange. Isabeau of
Bavaria heard that chlckweed was
good for the skin, and had enormous
decoctions brewed thereof and bathed
In them daily. Liana of Polctiers was
another of the cleanly coquettes and
plunged Into a tub of rain water every
morning. The eighteenth century beau
ties likewise believed in bathing, says
Woman's Life, but they put all sorts
of odd infusions Into the water to
improve the skin, such as the bouillon
In which veal had been boiled, water
distilled from the honey extracted
from roses, a preparation of almonds,
melon Juice, the milky juices of green
barley and linseed distilled with Mex
ican balm dissolved by the yolk of
an egg. These remarkable decoctions
w'ere freely used by the ladies who
sunned themselves at the courts of
Louis, before the revolution. Queen
Marie Antoinette made liberal use of
a “tub,” putting Into the water wild
thyme, laurel leaves, marjoram and
a little sea salt. Marls Czetwerty
norka, a Russ.an beauty who exer
cised great infiuer.ee over Czar Alex
ander I, used to bathe in Malaga wine.
The Marechale Dacoust, Princess Eck
muhl was at 85 renowned for her
queenly carriage, superb eyes and
beautiful color, her skin being so white
as to rival the snow of her abundant
locks, fche had never used anything
but pure water on her face, and she
always kept to a very simple diet,
even when her table was loaded with
good cheer for her guests.
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