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IMJU 10 1 m ADVEEIISfcMEarS
Special Notices—Notice to Superior
Court Jurors.
Business Notices—Restaurant. Thun
derbolt Casino; A Good Place to Eat,
Sommers' Cafe.
Rebuilding Sale —B. H. Levy, Bro. &
Cos.
Porches Can Be Made Into Summer
Parlors—Lindsay & Morgan.
Warburines Tone the Lazy Liver —
Itowlinski, Druggist.
Exact Examinations Dr. M.
Schwab’s Son.
Publications—McClure's Magazine for
May.
The Cleanest Laundry In the South—
E. & W. Laundry.
Legal Notices—Libel Against the
Dredge Rough Rider.
Brokers—Curran & Co* Savannah,
Ga.
Railroads—The Short Line to New
York, Seaboard Air Line; Sunday Ex
cursions. Seaboard Air Line.
Summer Things—At Lattimores.
Oxygenor—Knight's Pharmacy..
Chancellor Cigars—Henry Solomon &
Bon.
Auction Sales —Shoes, Show Cases,
Furniture, Etc., by C. H. Dorsett, Auc
tioneer.
Kekay’s AlubmenJzed Food—The
Solomons Cos.
Blanke Coffee Pots—The Delmonico
Cos.
Medical—Vlnol; Herpieide.
Under New Management—Masonic
Temple Pharmacy.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal. Mis
cellaneous.
The Went her.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, except show
ers in north portion, with fresh, south
■winds. Eastern Florida, fair weather,
with fresh southeast to south winds.
Secretary of War Taft says the Fil
ipino is constitutionally lazy, and one
of the greatest tasks before the Ameri
cans in the islands is to teach the na
tives to work.
A distinguished New York physician
says that about 32 per cent, of the
left-handed people are criminals. That
doctor must have seen some of those
‘‘south-paw twirlers” shut out his fav
orite baseball team.
Mr. Jobes, the Kansas City banker
■who startled Wall street the other day
by bidding for and securing the entire
new issue of Philippine bonds, when a
Wall street syndicate wanted them, is
said to have sold nut his holding, and
at his own price. He was "not greedy,
however, and took a modest profit of
$20,000 on his Investment that lasted
about a week. And a funny feature of
it Is that Wall street men bought the
bonds of Mr. Jobes, paying his price.
These Westerners, with their breeches
tucked in the tops of their boots, are
sometimes deceptive.
A New York paper says that John
D. Rockefeller has been stung into
a defense of his business methods.
Smarting under the attacks of Miss
Tarbell's articles on the Standard Oil
Company, Mr. Rockefeller has caused
to be published a book under the title
of "The Rise and Progress of the
Standard Oil Company.” In this book
Mr. Rockefeller's methods are justified.
A Philadelphia dispatch to the New
York Press says: "Nearly every
preacher in this section has received
a copy of the book, and it is said
that every minister in the United
States—there are 150,000 of them—will
receive a free copy for review’.”
teome well meaning organizations in
New Jersey are exerting themselves to
save a woman in that state from the
gallows. There seems to be not the
slightest shadow of doubt that she
committed the murder of which she
has been convicted and sentenced to
death, and that it was a cold-blood
ed, premeditated crime. The only ex
tenuating circumstance, so far as the
Information goes, is in the fact that
she is a murderess and not a mur
derer. Her sex is depended upon to
save her. In other words, it is pro
posed that, because she is a woman,
she shall be punished less severely than
a man would be under similar circum
stances.
THE PRESIDENT'S OPPORTUNITY.
The President is reported to have
said on one occasion that he would
rather be the governor of the Philip
pines than to be President, because
he would be free to do about as he
pleased. It is a well known fact that
he dislikes to be hampered in any
way when he wants to do anything.
If the Senate agrees with the House,
relative to the government of the canal
zone on the Isthmus of Panama, there
will be one place on the face of the
globe where he will be able to gov
ern without having to consult laws
or legislative bodies.
The Senate framed a very elaborate
bill for the government of the canal
zone, providing for courts, police, san
itary officials and about everything
else which it thought might be neces
sary for the preservation of health
and order and the administration of
Justice on the zone. The House struck
out everything in the bill except the
enacting clause, and Inserted the sec
ond section of the act of 1803 for the
government of the territory acquired
under the Tomseaud purchase. Under
ihat section the President would be
free to govern the zone as he pleased.
The House took the position that it
had no information as to the require
ments of the zone and that it would
likely make grave mistakes if it fixed
up governmental machinery without it.
It thought that at the next session
more would be known as to the gov
ernmental needs of the zone. Hence
it proposed to let the President gov
ern it until the end of the present
Congress.
There is no doubt the President
would gladly assume the responsibil
ity. He would like nothing better than
to show the world what he can do in
the way of governing without the aid
of Congress, courts and politicians.
He isn't the sort of man that Thomas
Jefferson who governed the Louisiana
purchase was—he hasn't the same re
gard for precedents and constitutional
limitations —but it is thought he
couldn’t do a great deal of harm dur
ing the remainder of this Congress.
The country needn’t be surprised, how
ever, if he should do some things that
Congress would hesitate to do. It re
mains to be seen, how ever, whether the
Senate is willing to trust him to the
extent that the House Is.
HOW TO BI'ILD IP SAVANNAH.
"The enormous truck farming indus
try of the South, now worth millions
of dollars, is almost wholly the growth
of the last eighteen years,” says a
writer In the New York Evening Post
of recent date. While that Is true,
it Is furthermore a fact that the in
dustry is so far from being fully de
veloped that in many sections of the
South the people do not raise enough
truck and vegetables to supply their
local markets the year around. Only
a few days ago we published several
interviews and our comments on the
fact that Irish potatoes were being
Imported to Savannah from Ireland and
Scotland, notwithstanding we have here
in Chatham county everything needful
to the growing of potatoes In great
est abundance, for our own consump
tion and to ship to less favored sec
tions. Not only do we buy potatoes
from the North and abroad, but sea
son after season we bring In thous
ands of dollars worth of turnips, cab
bages, onions, beets, canned corn, peas,
l|f>ans, tomatoes and similar truck.
Is there any good reason why this
should be so? If there is, we have
never heard of it.
Soil, climate and seasons in the neigh
borhood of Savannah are all that
could be desired for the truck grow
ing industry; and there are tens of
thousands of acres of good lands that
are available for that industry. With
in fifty miles of Savannah there are
hundreds of thousands of acres of fine
farming lands awaiting development
by thrifty, energetic farmers. And
the market for the products of these
lands is ready-made and waiting.
There is a large market right here at
home, In addition to which the best
of transportation facilities are avail
able for shipments to Northern mar
kets.
What is wanted Is some agency,
some means, by which the vacant and
idle lands in Chatham county and in
the other counties adjacent to Chat
ham can be settled up by desirable
white truck farmers and other agri
culturists. During recent years there
has been a gratifying movement of
Northern and Western farmers Into
colonies in the South. Such colonies
have been planted in the Carolinas,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi
ana and Texas. So far as our In
formation goes, not one of them that
has been managed on business
principles has met with other
than success. In many instances
the colonies have proved pros
perous from the first, and the
settlers could not now be Induced
to leave their Southern homes and
return to the land of long and hard
winters. Why can we not do some
colonizing in Chatham and the ad
joining counties? We have as much
to offer inQhe way of productive lands,
good w’ater, fine climate and health
ful surroundings as any other sec
tion, and more in the way of markets
and transportation facilities than many
other sections that have attracted col
onists. A syndicate, or syndicates, to
buy up vacant land in large quanti
ties. sub-divide it into small farms
and sell it on reasonable terms, might
do much towards bringing In the de-
sired immigration. The matter is de
serving the attention of progressive,
public spirited people. The develop
ment of the back country will build
up Savannah.
A tearful tale comes from Seoul. The
Emperor of Korea is disconsolate and
refuses to be comforted. Not that he
cares a rap that his palace was burned
some days ago, or that hordes of for
eign soldiers are making war in his
country. The \rouble is that when his
palace was burned certain snakes were
cremated, and their untimely death
overwhelms him with grief. However,
if the Japanese officers know their
business, they will ply his majesty
with "sake” until he sees more snakes
than were ever domiciled in the royai
palace In its happiest days.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. APRIL 25. 1904.
SIXTY YEARS OF TELEGRAPHY.
Many newspaper readers of the
younger generations will probably be
somewhat startled upon being told —or
rather reminded, since thy must have
seen the date in their school books —
that the telegraph is only sixty years
old, the first message by magnetic
telegraph having been transmitted in
May, 1844, between Halt'more and
Washington. So common lias telegraphy
become, reaching into the four corners
of the world with its wires and its
cables and transmitting intelligence al
most instantaneously from one point
to another, that we have ceased to
think of the system as a thing paving
age. It is here, a part of the every
day routine of life, and we do not both
er our brains to think back to a lime
when it was not here. And yet the
telegraph is no older than many a man
now living in the enjoyment of robust
health and vigor. It is only six yrtirs
older than the Morning News, which
in January, 1900, celebrated its fiftieth
birthday.
Morse’s first long distance working
line was about forty miles in length,
between Washington and Baltimore.
Among the first messages transmitted
over it was the announcement of the
nomination of Henry C?ay for Presi
dent by the Whig National Conven
tion. Last year the two great tele-
graph companies of the United States
owned and had in operation not less
than 1,700,000 miles of wire and cables,
over which more than 100,000,000 mes
sages were transmitted. Telegi'aph
figures for the country are now about
all counted in millions—miles, mes
sages, receipts, expenditures, etc. The
telegraph has made a number of mil
lionaires, and is likely to make more.
Yet Samuel F. B. Morse offered to sell
his Invention to the government for
a paltry sloo,ooo—which offer the gov
ernment declined, as Congress and
the administration doubtless had little
faith in the seemingly preposterous as
sertion that the thing could ever
amount to a great deal.
When Morse's telegraph was first
publicly demonstrated, it took a let
ter a week or more to reach Wash
ington from Savanrtah, and eight or
nine days to make the distance to New
York, even by pony express. Foreign
news was always a month or more old
before it was published in this coun
try. Waterloo had been fought five
weeks before the people in New York
heard of it, and it took another week
tor the news to reach Savannah. When
Russia's great battleship, the Petropav
lovsk, was destroyed in far off Cathay
the other day, the news flew around
the world and to all civilized parts
thereof, and everybody within reach of
a newspaper was informed of the dis
aster within a few hours after its oc
currence. The reporting of Waterloo
and Port Arthur may be taken as il
lustrating the progress that has been
made possible by the growth of our
sixty-year old friend, the telegraph.
A I’Oft LIST TICKET.
The Populist party has not attracted
a great deal of attention during the
last year or two. Its following has
gradually dropped away and returned
to the old parties from which it was
originally recruited. It may be doubted
that the strength of the party is now
more than one-fourth what it was in
1896, and much less than in 1900. Nev
ertheless the information comes from
Washington, on the authority of ex-
Senator Marion Butler of North Caro
lina, the head of what is left of the
Populist party, that the Populists will
hold a national convention in St. Louis
on July 4, at which time a presiden
tial ticket will be nominated. The
date set is two days in advance of
the time for the holding of the Dem
ocratic National Convention.
What is the purpose of the Popu
lists? Do they hope to influence the
Democratic convention? On a former
occasion they held their convention
ahead of the Democrats, and nominat
ed a candidate for President that was
subsequently nominated by the Dem
ocrats. But a similar outcome is
hardly to be thought of this year.
Judge Parker is hardly the sort of
man to appeal to Populistic sentiment;
he is too conservative for that party.
If there were any possibility of the
nomination of Mr. Hearst by the Dem
ocratic convention it might be thought
that the Populists had it in mind to
help along his boom by nominating
him first. But what for convenience
may be called the radical wing of the
Democratic party will not be in control
this year. "Safe and sane” conserva
tism will dominate the convention.
There is one point, by the way, that
is worthy of consideration. It is that
Chairman Butler is alleged to be now
acting with the Republican party.
Lately he has paid number of visits
to the White House. His announce
ment that the Populists will hold a
national convention and nominate a
ticket was made immediately after he
had left the White House some few
days ago. Have Mr. Butler and the
President a political understanding
with each other? Are leading Repub
licans boosting along the Populist
party in the hope that it may be the
means of embarrassing the Democrats
at St. Louis? If that is the plan, it
will doubtless meet with disappoint
ment. The Democracy this year will
not be led away from Us purpose on
any wild goose chase.
After a lapse of several years, pro
fessional baseball will be revived in
this city to-morrow. That the game
is great sport is not to be questioned.
That the people of Savannah are
"ripe” for baseball of the right sort
is also beyond question. It now
remains for the management to sup
ply baseball of the right sort—a clean,
snappy game that will hold the in
terest that has been aroused. There
must be no squabbling, no rowdyism,
on the grounds; no quarreling among
the players and no "mobbing” of the
umpire. High-class ball will be well
patronized; the other kind will not be.
A government department is sup
posed to be investigating the beet
trust, but it is not likely that there
will be any "running. amuck” against
that trust, or any other, just at the
time when the Republican party is
passing the hat for campaign con
tributions.
One of the finest buildings of its
kind in the world Is the Congressional
Library at Washington. It covers four
.acres of ground. No expense was
spared in making it worthy of the
nation and the great purpose to which
it is dedicated. It is a triumph of archi
tecture and decorative art. Its cost
was $6,000,000. And yet this magnifi
cent building cost $2,000,000 less than
the amount of money it is proposed in
a pending naval bill to put into a sin
ble battleship. Eight million dollars is
the sum proposed for a ship in the bill
referred to. The war In the Far East
has shown that even the heaviest ships
are not invulnerable to the attacks of
those little wasps of the sea, the tor
pedo boats. A $50,(M)0 torpedo boat
armed with a SIO,OOO torpedo might
easily destroy the $8,000,000 battleship
in two minutes. Do we need more
heavy ships rather than more torpedo
boats?
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada during the first three
months of the current year amounted
to $123,043,350, as compared with a lit
tle more than $39,000,000 during the
corresponding period of last year. The
present month, too, will go into the
records as one of heavy losses, on
account of the $12,000,000 fire in Toron
to the other day. Insurance people
calculate that the first four months
of the year will show losses of not
less than $150,000,000 —a sum well cal
culated to make the underwriters feel
blue. The great fires of Baltimore,
Rochester, Paterson and Toronto dealt
the insurance companies a heavy
blow.
The United States Department of Ag
riculture has arranged to exchange
•with the leading governments of Eu
rope official monthly reports of crop
conditions. It is calculated that this
exchange of official data will render
corners in grain and c*her food stuffs
practically impossible, as the informa
tion will be collated and made public
as soon as it is received. Secretary
Wilson is said to be counting on most
important results from the exchange
of crop reports.
Caleb Powers, formerly Secretary of
State of Kentucky under Gov. Taylor,
now under sentence of death for the
murder of Gov. Goebel, is writing a
book concerning his personal experi
ences during the troublous days pre
ceding the Goebel homicide. If Powers
tells in his book all that he knows, it
ought to make "mighty interesting
reading,” and there may be other peo
ple who will seek protection under the
sheltering wing of the Governor of In
diana,
Those persons who object to the
theory that they descended from the
monkey now have the alternative of
accepting a reptile as an ancestor. Prof.
Osborne, of Columbia College, holds
that man as a mammal with a single
arch on the side of his skull is unmis
takably descended from that class of
reptiles known as Lynapida, which has
only one arch. The man who is refer
red to as a "snake in the grass” mere
ly inherited his characteristics, there
fore.
Admiral SkrydlofT, who is to succeed
the late Admiral Makaroff at Port Ar
thur, is said to be a man who believes
in aggressive action. In that event he
will be somewhat handicapped by rea
son of the fact that he will not have a
great deal with which to be aggressive.
PERSONAL.
—The French government has Just
purchased for the national gallery of
the Luxembourg two pictures by
American artists, Edwin Lord Weeks
of Boston and Walter Gay of New
York.
—Dr. Ingram, bishop of London, con
veys the idea of a man born to com
mand. It has been said of him that
in olden days he probably would have
enforced his especial brand ot theology
with a battle ax. In his ordinary
clothes he irresistibly reminds one of
Sherlock Holmes on the trail—a long
aquiline nose, piercing gray eyes, lean,
strong jaw and thin, curving lips. But
with his smile all this vanishes and the
bishop becomes a genial humorist—a
large-hearted, warm-blooded man.
BRIGHT BITS.
—How to Collect a Library.—Never
buy to lend, but borrow to keep.—
Cleveland Leader.
—Conductor —“l got your fare before,
sir.” Passenger—“l know. This nick
el is lor the company.”—Judge.
—"I don’t know about a crowing
hen,” says the Manayunk philosopher,
"but a whistling girl) can’t stop a trol
ley car.” —Philadelphia Record.
—Mrs. Sparrow—“ This is an awfully
small nest; there won’t be room for all
the eggs.” Mr. Sparrow—‘T know it,
my dear, but what do you expect In
Harlem?”—Harper's Bazarfr.
CIRREXT COMMENT.
The Galveston News (Dem.) says:
“Mr. Williams, the Democratic leader
of the House, with his able assistants,
succeeded in saddling the pension steal
under an executive order squarely upon
the Republican party. The Grand Old
Party now stands committed to this
desperate method of raising funds.
More than this, the Democrats in Con
gress succeeded in making the Repub
licans admit as plainly as any unwill
ing confession could be made that the
order was unlawful.”
The Houston Post (Dem.) says;
"Judge Parker can win. He will easily
defeat Roosevelt In New York, New
Jersey. Connecticut, Maryland and
West Virginia. Rhode Island and Dei
aware will probably line up in the
Democratic column. Massachusetts
can be won over. Indiana and Illinois
are good fighting groand, and lowa
and Nebraska* are possible. No other
candidate is so strong in the East and
Middle West, and none is so free from
factional opposition. St. Louis will
ratify the nomination. It ought to
be made unanimous.”
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
“The development of the mineral re
sources of the Southern states in the
past twenty-two years constitutes a
record which has never before been
equaled by any section of the globe,
and which reads 'like a miracle. Be
tween ISSO and 1902 the value of the
mineral products of sixteen states
classed as ’Squthern’ Increased from
$35,416,787 to $253,226,823, nearly seven
fold. In other branches of industry,
chiefiy in textile manufacturing and
in the manufactures of wood, the rec
ord of growth, while not so large in
value, has been larger even in per
cents;:' 1 .”
At the Race Tracks,
A young woman who frequented the
race tracks was enthusiastic over her
favorite thoroughbred, says the New
York Sun.
She said;
"Just see Daisy Dick in the dope!
At New Orleans they never heard his
hoofs till he was gone, at Sheepshead
he spread-eagled his field and gallop
ed in with a record, at Gravesend he
w‘as the main cakewalker in the horse
cotillon. I liked him every time to
the post, but have never bet on him,
owing to inside information which I
was obliged to play because it came
from total strangers. But now I am
wise, for they always touted me on to
dead ones. This time I mean to beat
it.”
Accordingly she called a commission
er and instructed him to bet on Daisy
Dick.
The commissioner Was anew
appointee whom she had never seen
before.
He said:
"Daisy Dick can't win, ma'am. He
is No. 8 to-day and he never could
run with that number. Besides, I hear
that the darkey who rubs him down
has lost the official rabbit foot be
longing to the stable and it is hoodoo
ed. Morever, it is rumored that Daisy
Dick has been bit by a spider. Take
my advice and bet on Lively Lou, which
a fortune teller's seventh cousin had a
dream about.”
She eagerly did so, and Daisy Dick
romped.
Moral: The excitement of horse
racing is due to the information sur
rounding it.
A Republican’s Dream.
Republican State Chairman Akins, of
Missouri, tells this story of a campaign
er in his state, says the Washington
correspondence of the New York World.
Sam George was the man's name,
and he said he dreamed he died and
went to heaven and that St. Peter
met him at the gate.
"What have you been doing late
ly, Sam?" St. Peter asked him.
"Campaigning for the Republican
party,” he answered.
"Well, come right in,” St. Peter told
him. "There is only one requirement
we will make of you. You must mount
those stairs leading to the Beautiful
City ‘and with (his box of chalk I
give you write on each step the mis
takes of your party.”
Sam George took the chalk and be
gan the climb. He thought of all the
Republican party had done as he climb
ed, but could think of no mistakes it
had made. He had thought over all
its acts when he h*ad reached within
a step or two of the top. He saw a
man coming down again. Looking at
him he saw the man was William Jen
nings Bryan.
‘How are you, Mr. Bryan?” George
said to him. “I’m glad to see you
here.”
',‘ Yes '” Geor^e steys Mr. Bryan said,
"I’m glad to get here where there is
no political strife.”
“But why are you turning back?”
George asked him, “when all the
others are pushing upward and on
ward."
“Oh, I'm out of chalk,” Bryan
answered, according to Sam George.
Somewhat Surprising.
“John,” remarked Mrs. Bifkins, cold
ly, at the breakfast taible, according to
the Smart Set, "you were saying some
rather queer things in your sleep last
right. You mentioned something
about Kittie and a full house and a
show-down and a few other things
along that line. What were you talk
ing about?"
Did Mr. 6ifklns tell his wife that
Kittie was the name of the woman
who cleaned out the office and that he
was probably dreaming about the full
house down at the show the other
night? The funny papers would have
you believe that he did. But he did
not.
"I was probably dreaming of the
poker game I sat In that r.ight,” he
replied without batting an eye. “I
lost $37.15 in that game, by the way,
so I can’t let you have that $19.98 for
that spring hat for a couple of weeks."
Did Mrs. Bifkins scream and burst
into tears and call him a brute and go
right straight back to her mother?
The comic writers and the joke-smiths
would have you think she did. But
she didn't.
"You must be a bum pokerist, John,”
she said, scornfully; "I don't believe
you know a straight-up from a four
flush. I believe I could give you three
kings and beat you to the jackpot my
self. What did you think you were
doing—digging post-holes or playing
ping-pong?"
Ail Vnusnnl Question,
Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw, with her
daughters. Miss Erma and Miss Enid,
visited San Francisco last month, and
many social functions were given
there in honor of the Secretary of
the Treasury’s family, says the New
Orleans State.
At a tea one afternoon, Mrs. Shaw,
smiling toward her daughters, said:
“When Enid was 4 or 5 years old
she used to repeat at night the little
prayer, ’Now I lay me.'
”1 suppose that millions of children
have said 'Now I lay me’ millions of
times, but I doubt if the simple and
charming words of the prayer ever
suggested a question so unusual as
they did lo Enid.
“She one night repeated the prayer
reverently and then asked me, with
a puzzled frown:
“ ‘Mother, if I should die before I
wake, how would I know I was
dead?' ”
Alanril to Think of.
"No,” said Col. Stillwell, according
to the Washington Star, "these new
flying machine devices, however in
teresting in theory, will never be of
practical use.”
"Why not?”
“How is a man going to think of
words like aerodrome and tetrahedral
kite when he wants to get home from
the club after midnight? What civil
ization will continue to demand is
Ipomething simple and incisive, like
’cab.’ ”
Snmc RpMultn.
Lowell Otus Reese, in San Francisco
Bulletin.
When I was courtin’ Emeline
And was so mortal shy
1 couldn’t muster pluck enough
To tell her of it, why
Fate kindly took the matter up;
And cornin' home from church,
Fate made old Dobbin run away.
Made my old buggy lurch.
Piled both of us out in fhe road—
My sweetheart in a swoon,
Me huggin’ her with lovin' arms
Beneath the harvest moon.
And as old Dobbin disappeared
I blessed his timely faults,
While I revived my Emeline
With good old smelling salts.
But now, when the shy lover goes
A-courtin’, why he rides
In a big automobile which
Like some ghost wagon glides;
But still old Fate gets In her work;
And often there’s a smash
That throws two shy but yearnin'
hearts
Together with a crash—
She, white an’ still an’ angel-like,
A-layln' in a swoon:
Him huggin' her with lovin' arms
Beneath the harvest moon.
No very great big difference,
So far as 1 have seen;
Where I revived with smellln' salts,
HE uses gasoline.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Wild dogs are becoming a nuisance
and danger in the Jungles of India.
Even the tiger and panther slink away
when the wild dog comes along.
—British manufacturers appear to be
steadily losing ground as regards agri
cultural machinery in Russia, says the
Mechanical Review of Londan, while
America and Germany are continually
increasing their output to that dis
trict.
—ln Cuba, two hours before a paper
is distributed, a copy must be sent,with
the editor's name, to the government
and one to the censor. When the pa
per is returned with the censor's in
dorsement the paper may go to the
public.
—Belgium exports annually $6,500,000
worth of eggs. The shipments are al
most entirely to England, where the
demand is for eggs which run 754 to
the pound. The Mediterranean breeds
—Leghorns, Spanish Minorcas and An
dalusians—are the most popular.
—Dr. Jaques Bertillon, the famous
chief of the statistical bureau of Ba
ris, has written a volume entitled "Al
coholism and the Way to Fight It.”
Drink, he declares, is likely to prove the
ruin of the French race, unless some
thing is done to overcome the habit.
—A big parade called the “Parade
of People and Beasts,” will be a fea
ture of Pike day at the World's Fair,
June 4. Six thousand natives from
all climes, speaking thirty tongues,
will take part. Thirty thousand dol
lars will be spent on the demonstra
tion.
—ln 1903 Minnesota showed an In
crease in the total number of wage
earners of 11.91 per cent, over 1902;
that of the male adults was 12.67 per
cent.; that of the female adults 0.36
per cent., and of children a decrease
from last year's number of 9.58 per
cent.
—The total value of all merchandise
imported into Canada for consumption
during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1903, was $233,790,516, of which $136,-
796,665 was dutiable and $96,964,451 was
non-dutiable, the dutiable goods pay
ing $37,110,354, based on a 27.1 per cent,
duty.
—Five hundred Greeley potatoes,
which will weigh one ton, will be one’
of the Colorado exhibits at the World’s
Fair. Another fine collection of tubers,
four of which, placed lengthwise, cov
er a space the length of a yardstick
will be sent from the Centennial State
to St. Louis.
—From 1876 to 1880 there was a gain
of 800,000 in the popular vote for Pres
ident; from 1880 to 1884, a gain of 1,-
000,000; from 1884 to 1888, a gain of 1,-
300,000; from 1888 to 1892, a gain of
500,000; from 1892 to 1896, a gain of 1,-
900,000, and from 1896 to 1900, a gain
of 37,551.
—ln the last twenty years, according
to the figures of the Labor Bureau at
Washington, there have been more
than 22.000 strikes, involving a loss to
employes and employers of over $400,-
000,000. The loss to the workmen
themselves has been more than twice
that of their employers.
—One voting machine was used in
the late municipal election in Chicago,
and registered twenty votes in one
minute and forty seconds after the
polls were opened. It was the first
time such a machine had been used in
that city, and its results were pro
nounced good at the close of the elec
tion.
—A Eerlin inventor has patented a
speed indicator for automobiles. By
means of an application of centrifugal
force, discs, each of a separate color,
appear before the driver of the motor
car, the color differing according to
the pace at which the vehicle is going.
Each disc represents a different group
of speeds.
—Dr. Wamsley, an Englishman, who
recently investigated our technical
schools, reports that he found in six
teen of our prominent Institutions J,-
371 students in engineering courses who
had been more than three years in at
tendance. while the latest available re
port in Great Britain showed but fifty
six students in the corresponding class.
—lt can be understood to what a
nicety the mechanism of a gasoline en
gine is adjusted when it is stated that
to make 1,000 revolutions a minute
means that in a four-cycle engine there
are 500 sprays of gasoline forced into
the cylinder, 500 times the electric bat
tery makes a spark, and 500 times
the escape valve is opened to let the
gas out.
—Dr. Cecilio Baez, the newly ap
pointed minister to the United States
from Paraguay, is familiar with this
country from touring through it after
having served as his country’s repre
sentative at the Pan-American con
ference in Mexico three years ago.
Dr. Baez is one of the most influen
tial politicians and statesmen in his
own country and is, besides, a jour
nalist litterateur and lawyer of prom
inence. _
—Wasps have a great fondness for
overripe fruit, especially pears, plums
and sweet apples. The sugar of these
fruits has a tendency to pass into a
kind of alcohol in the ordinary process
of rotting, and after imbibing large
quantities of this liquid in the wasps
become outrageously intoxicated. They
crawl away in the grass in a semi
somnolent condition and remain till
the effects have passed off, when they
will go at it again. It is while in this
condition that they do their worst
stinging. A person receiving a sting
from one of these intoxicated wasps
will suffer severely from nerve poison
ing for days.
—lt has been said that few men die
of old age and that almost all per
sons die of disappointment, personal,
mental or bodily toil, or accident, says
Health Culture. The passions kill men
sometimes even suddenly. The com
mon expression, "choked with rage,”
has little exaggeration in it, for even
though not suddenly fatal, strong pas
sions shorten life. Strong-bodied men
often die young, weak men live longer
than the strong, for the strong use their
strength and the weak have none to
use—the latter take care of themselves,
the former do not. As it is with the
body so it is with the mind and the
temper; the strong are apt to break, or,
like the candle, run; the weak burn out.
The inferior animals, which live tem
perate lives, have generally their pre
scribed term of years. Thus the horse
lives 25 years, the ox 15 to 20. the lion
about 20, the hog 10 or 12. the rabbit
8, the guinea pig or 6 or 7. The num
bers all bear proportion to the time
the animal to grow its full size.
But man, of all animals, is one that
seldom comes up to the average. He
ought to live a hundred years, accord
ing to the physiological law, for five
times 20 are. 100, but instead of that
he scarcely reaches an average of four
times the growing period. The reason
is obvious —man is not only the most
irregular and most intemperate, Dut
the most laborious and hard-working
of all animals. He is always the most
irritable, and there is reason to' believe,
though we cajinot tell what an animal
secretly feels, that, more than any oth
er animal, man cherishes wrath to
keep it warm, and consumes himself
with the fire of his own reflections.
Hood's Pills
Do not gripe nor Irritate the alimen
tary canal. They act gently yet
promptly, cleanse effectually and
Give Comfort
Sold by all druggists. 25 cents.
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strain; right glasses will relieve it. We
fit glasses—properly, accurately,scien
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OFFICIAL.
FACTORY SITES FOB SALE.
The Committee of Council on City
Lots invites bids until noon of April
25th, reserving the right to reject any
or all bids, for any or all of the fol
lowing lots of the old water works
tract, well located for manufacturing
purposes. Plats can be had on appli
cation to the city engineer:
Lot No. 5, containing 4.7 acres.
Lot No. 7. containing 5.2 acres.
Lot No. 8, containing 5.2 acres
Lot No. 9, containing 4.2 acres
Lot No. 10, containing 4.2 acres
Lot No. 11, containing 4.5 acres.
Lot No. 12, containing 4.5 acres.
Portions of these lots are rented;
possession can be had on sixty days'
notice.
Lot No. 2, containing 6.1 acres. The
railroad track can be removed on
thirty days' notice. The city reserves
the use, control and access to its wells
and the conduits therewith connected.
Lot No. 3, containing 4.3 acres. The
Northwest portion of this lot, 100 feet
by 100 feet, is lented at SSO per an
num until April 1, 1908. Lease can be
terminated by owner on one year's
notice. Other portion is rented; pos
session can be had on sixty days' no
tice. The city reserves the use, control
and_ access to its well and conduit
therewith connected.
Lots Nos. 4 and 6, containing 9
acres; five acres of which are leased
until March 25, 1912, with right of re
newal for five years at $250 per an
num. Other portion is rented; posses
sion can be had on sixty days' notice.
J. ROBT. CREAMER,
Clerk of Council.
Cotton,
Rubber and
Wire Wound
GARDEN HOSE
Reels
And a Fine Lot of
Lawn Sprinklers.
Edward Lovell Sons.
IIS Broughton St., West.
LEGAL. SALES.
CirV^MTuinitAL^SALE!
City Marshal’s Office, Savannah, Ga„
April It, 1904.—Under direction of the
Committee on City Lots and Opening
Streets, and according to a resolution
of Council, passed April 13, 1904, I
will offer for sale, at public outcry, to
the highest and best bidder, in front
of the Court House in the city of Sa
vannah, Chatham county, state of
Georgia, on the THIRD DAY OP
MAY, 1904, same being the FIRST
TUESDAY of the month, and between
the legal hours of sale, the following
described property of the City of Sa
vannah, to-wit:
Lots Nos. 25 and 26, Thomas ward,
minimum appraised price for each lot
($2,500) twenty-five hundred dollars.
Lot No. 27. Thomas ward, minimum
appraised price ($3,000) three thou
sand dollars; also
Lot No. 95. Solomons ward, mini
mum appraised price ($3,500) thirty
five hundred dollars.
Terms cash purchasers paying for
titles. HENRY E. DREESON, ■
City Marshal.
BRENNAN & CO.,
WHOLESALE
Fruit, Produce,
Hay, Grain, Etc.
\22 Bay Street, West.
Telephone 888.