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4 ibt laornitig ffrto#. Morning Nows Building, Savsnnsh. (>s FRIDAY, APRIL, 1, 1004. Registered at Postolllce In Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and served to •übseribers in the city, or sent by mail; ©ne week, 18 cents; one month, 70 cents; three months, $2.00; six months, $4.00; one year, SB.OO. THE MORNING NEWS, by mail, 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 tnall, one year. SI.OO. Subscriptions payable In advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mall fit risk of tender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements end classified column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch in depth—is the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements, 1 cent a word each inser tion. 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Nunnally Easter Candles—Living ston Pharmacy. Easter Ribbons and Laces —At the Bee Hive. Rest In Peace—Knight s Pharmacy Company. Auction Sales Splendid Building Lot, by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer. Medical—Herpieide; Plnkham Rem edy; Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip tion. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted, Employment Wanted. For Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal; Mis cellaneous. T*e Weather. The Indications for Georgia for to day are for showers in Interior, fair 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. 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