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IMitl 10 ADVERIISEMENIS
Meetings—Clinton Lodge No. 54. F.
& A. M.; Armour Lodge No. 1884,
G. U. O. of O. F.
Special Notices—School for Girls.
Miss Alice West; Notice to Superior
Court Jurors; School for Girls, Miss
Pace.
Business Notices—Private Dining
Rooms, Sommers' Cafe; Newport Bicy
cle, Walter F. Higgins.
Amusements—Baseball To-dav. Sa
vannah, vs. Charleston.
Third Day of Great Rebuilding Sale
—B. H. Levy, Bro. & Cos.
Here's Something in the Way—Con
nor & Sullivan.
Pierce Bicycle—At Lattimore's.
Oxyganor—Knight's Pharmacy.
Jersey Shrub Syrup—Henry Solomon
& Son.
Every Housekeeper Can Save Money
—E. A W. Laundry.
Foods —Force; Postum Food Coffee.
Olive Oils—The Delmonico Cos.
It Is Always Beneficial—The Solo
mons Cos.
Take Warburines for Malaria—Row
linski. Druggist.
I.egal Notices—ln the Matter of
George Cooper and James O’Keefe, of
Chatham. Bankrupts.
Knowledge of the Drug Business-
Masonic Temple Pharmacy.
Medical —Ozomulsion; Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery; Vinol; Her
piclde; Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky;
Cuticura.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
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calanlous.
The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with fresh
northwest winds. Eastern Florida,
fair weather, with fresh west winds.
We do not know how It Is In Rus
sia, but the people of this country
would never have been able to "re
member the Petropavlovsk” if she
hadn't been blown up. As it is, they
will not be able to remember her long.
An American correspondent in the
Far East telegraphs: "I have arrived
at New Chwang and been ordered
• way. There Is no change in the situ
ation.” That sounds enough like Rich
ard Harding Davis to be the man him
self. If it is he, the war will now
move forward.
Russia, It seems, desires It under
stood that there is to be no confer
ence of the Powers for the purpose of
interfering in her war with Japan,
either to settle the matter or to ar
range peace terms. Meanwhile It will
be recalled that Russia eagerly went
Into a conference of the Powers for
the purpose of taking from Japan the
fruits ot her victory over China; and
Russia is now occupying territory that
would have been Japanese except for
that Interference.
The sentiment In favor of John
Sharp Williams for the vice presi
dential nomination seems to be tak
ing well in all parts of the country.
Every Democratic paper, both North
and South, that has commented on it,
so far as we have seen, has had some
thing favorable to say with respect
to It. It would be a graceful thing
on the part of the Northern and West
ern Democrats to work up a Williams
boom and put the brilliant Southerner
on the ticket with Judge Parker. Such
a ticket would arouse enthusiasm by
showing conclusively that sectional
lines have at length been wholly oblit
erated.
Gov. Murphy of New Jersey having
sailed away for Europe, where he will
remain for some week*, talk has now
turned to Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island as chairman of the Republican
National Committee. Senator Aldrich
would be a good man for the position.
He is a mainstay, of the protection
principle and one of the ablest of the
defenders of the trusts, in addition to
which his family and that of John D.
Rockefeller, the colossus of the Stand
ard Oil Company, are related by mar
riage. With Aldrich as national chair
man. there wouldn’t have to be any
guessing as to what the Republican
.party stood for in relation to the
fcconey power.
B A COX AGAINST BATTLESHIPS.
Senator Bacon of this state is put
in the position by the Washington dis
patches as saying that battleships
will soon be out of date. The con
ference report on the naval appropria
tion bill came up In the Senate Mon
day, and Senator Hale, in comment
ing on it, criticised the modern bat
tleship, and suggested that it would
be advisable to give the subject fur
ther and more careful consideration be
fore deciding to build mure great bat
tleships. It was while the foregoing
report was being considered that Sen
ator Bacon said battleships would soon
be out of date.
There is no doubt that the opera
tions of the Japanese at Port Arthur
have had a wonderful effect upon the
public mind the world over In respect
to the usefulness of battleships in
naval warfare. The Russian fleet at
Port Arthur has been badly crippled,
it has not been practically destroyed,
by mines and torpedo boats operated
by the Japanese. There has been no
engagement between the big ships, and
it wouldn't be surprising if there
shouldn't be any, and yet there has
been, and doubtless will continue to
be, very active naval operations by
both the Russians and the Japanese.
The naval bill that was before the
Senate yesterday in a conference re
port, carries an appropriation for sev
eral great warships. The cost of some
of these ships is enormous. In the
last five years the cost of the battle
ships and cruisers which Congress has
authorized is fully $160,000,000, and the
policy of the Navy Department seems
to he to go on recommending the con
struction of these great, costly fort
resses.
But suppose it is a fact, as seems
to be demonstrated at Port Arthur,
that these ships are no match for tor
pedoes, torpedo boats and mines? Is
it not the part of wisdom to settle
this question before constructing any
more battleships? It would certainly
seem so.
It hasn't been so very long since
our country held the second, if not the
first, place so far as submarine boats
were concerned, but we seem to have
come to the conclusion that but little
reliance is to be placed upon them.
And we are not building as many
terpedo boats as we did awhile back.
At the time Congress began to look
with more favor upon battleships than
upon submarine and torpedo boats it
must have had good reasons for doing
so, but In the light of current events
would it not be advisable for It to
go over the whole matter again 7 We
are sure that Senators Bacon and
Hale wouldn't be so positive in their
opinions respecting the modern bat
tleship if they were not well satis
fied that money was being wasted in
the construction of so many of them.
THE FOI.K BOOM.
The mention which Bourke Cockran
of Joseph W. Folk of St. Louis,
in the debate in the House on Satur
day, as an available man for the Dem
ocratic nomination for President, Is
being eagerly seized upon by the Re
publican papers as an indication that
the great majority of the Democratic
leaders don’t want Judge Parker. As
far as we have been able to observe It
is- only the Republican papers that
have discovered that Democrats are
falling away from Judge Parker and
are now talking of the probability of
the nomination of Mr. Folk.
Mr. Cockran is Tammany's mouth
piece and Tammany is not pleased
with the. prospect of the nomination
of Judge Parker. That organization is
bent on beating Mr. Hill. The only
objection It has to Judge Parker is
that Mr. Hill Is managing his cam
paign for him. Mr. Cockran had no In
tention of bringing Mr. Folk forward
as a candidate for the nomination
when hq mentioned his name on Sat
urday. His only purpose was to show
that Tammany was not yet willing to
accept Judge Parker. Mr. Cockran
may mention Senator Gorman or
Judge Grey in his next speech. His
purpose Is to create the Impression
that the Democrats have not settled
upon Judge Parker.
Asa matter of Mr. Folk will not
be eligible until next October. He is
not yet 35 years of age. Besides, he has
no experience In public life. He
has won a reputation as the prosecutor
of bribe-taking aldermen of St. Louis.
The outlook is that he will be the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Missouri, and if his reputation con
tinues to grow he may be a presiden
tial possibility in 1908. It is very
doubtful, however, if he will, be men
tioned In the St. Louis Convention.
The movement in favor of the nomi
nation of Judge Parker is gaining
strength all the time. He is satisfac
tory to the conservative element of
the party and the adherents of Mr.
Bryan are not finding any fault with
him. Of course Mr. Bryan, is object
ing to him, but it is well understood
that he is going to object to any can
didate who is not in thorough sympa
thy with the Kansas City platform.
Mr. Folk may be talked of for a day
or two, but he Is not ii\ the list of the
candidates for the nomination. No
body is urging his nomination—not
even Mr. Cockran. who is responsible
for the talk there is of him as a pres
idential candidate.
Miss Pauline Hardin, state librarian
of Kentucky, and said to be one of
the moat successful women politicians
In the United States, is to be married
shortly to Mr. Van Meter of Lexington.
Miss Hardin has been actively In pol
itics since 1896. In her new relation
it is to be presumed that she will in
sist on holding the chairmanship of
the committee on ways and means,
leaving to the minority the actual la
bor of the raising of the funds.
In Chicago the other day Mr. Bryan
was asked the hypothetical question,
"Suppose the St. Louis convention
should be controlled by the •reorgani
zers,' Is there any possibility of a
bolt?” To which he replied, "That
proposition Is too Improbable to be
talked about.” Mr. Bryan classes the
forces behind Judge Parker as being
made up of '‘reorganisers." Is it a fact
that control of the convention by that
element It "too Improbable to be talk
ed about?”
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. APRIL 27. 1904.
BETTER TIMES FOR THE COTTOS
FARMER,
Mr. Daniel J. Sully, who won no
toriety as a speculator In the cotton
market, and who recently failed for
$2,000,000 or $3,000,000, says that he is
now going to give his time and ener
gies to assisting the cotton farmer to
get better returns for his cotton. He
is going to introduce methods of cul
tivation that will bring a larger yield,
and of handling that will prevent
waste and get the cotton to market
In better condition.
These promises will of course be re
ceived by cotton farmers with feel
ings of gratitude. They are always
glad to receive assistance that will
enable them to get a better net profit
out of their crop. But what is It
that Mr. Sully proposes to do? It will
be recalled that not long ago he said
one reason the yield of cotton per
acre was not larger was that the seed
was deteriorating. His contention was
that the best grade of the seed was
sent to the cotton oil mills and the
Inferior grades were planted. We made
Inquiries as to the correctness of this
statement, and the answers we re
ceived did not sustain Mr. Sully. Still,
our inquiries covered a very small paYt
of the cotton belt, and it may be a. fact
that in many parts of the South the
farmers make the mistake of plant
ing inferior seed. It would be in
teresting to know what the fact Is.
But what is it that Mr. Sully Is
going to do to help the cotton farmer?
We see it stated in the dispatches
that he is going to manufacture an
improved machine for baling cotton
and anew cotton gin for which he
has secured the patent. The company
that is going to manufacture these
machines has a capital of $5,000,000
and is to be operated under a New
Jersey charter. The principle offices
of the company are to be In New
York.
From the foregoing we infer that
Mr. Sully hopes to help the cotton
farmer by means of these machines,
which he will sell them doubtless at
a reasonable profit. Will he sell them
to dealers in machines of that sort
or will he distribute them through
agents, so as to prevent a cut in the
prices of them? We ask this question
because from the answer to it some
idea may be obtained as to whether
he is as much interested in promot
ing the welfare of the cotton farmer
as he is in advancing his own ma
terial fortunes.
Both the baling machine and the
cotton gin may be Improvements upon
those at present in existence, but, as
yet, we do not see that Mr. Sully Is
any more desirous of helping the cot
ton farmer than others are who have
something they want to sell him. It
may turn out, howover, that this view
Isn't quite Just to him. He may have
plans for helping the cotton farmer
that he has not yet disclosed, and
he may be much more disinterested
than would seem to be the case from
what is appearing in the newspapers.
DEMORALIZED REPTBLICANS.
The President is anxious that Con
gress shall adjourn as soon ns passible.
The leadership of the House doesn't
please him, and some of the adminis
tration organs are saying that the ma
jority Is not nearly as ably lead as the
minority. John Sharp Williams, the
leader of the minority, has surprised his
opponents by his skill, ability and ag
gressiveness. In fact, the Republicans
are so badly demoralized that the
President is afraid they will make
blunders that will seriously handicap
him in hts campaign for the presi
dency.
The Republican leaders of the House
made two bad breaks last week. One
was the letting of two anti-trust reso
lutions out of the Judiciary Commit
tee. They were outgeneraled in that
matter by Mr. Williams. They had de
cided to have no further trust agita
tion at this session of Congress.
The other blunder was the charge
against Bourke Cockran. that for prof
it he supported Mr. McKinley In the
last presidential campaign. Mr. Dal
zell of Pennsylvania, who, It la alleged,
was put forward to make the charge,
was so utterly overwhelmed and hu
miliated that the Republicans became
thoroughly demoralized. The folly of
making such a charge without proof
should, it is thought, have been ap
parent to men of as much sense as
the. Republican leaders of the House
are supposed to be, but it wasn’t, and
they had to suffer the consequences.
The fighting spirit which the Demo
crats In Congress are showing Is hav
ing the effect on both parties through
out the country. The Republicans are
showing signs of uneasiness. They are
not so confident of the outcome of
the presidential campaign as they were
awhile ago. On the other hand, the
Democrats are beginning to feel that
they can win the presidency. Hence
there is growing anxiety that harmony
shall prevail at St. Louis. With a
platform on which all Democrats can
stand and a ticket having the approval
of both factions success will be within
their reach.
J. Pierpont Morgan is in Paris hav
ing a good time. A foolish rumor that
got abroad in the French capital some
days ago must have afforded the
American financier a good deal of
amusement. The story, was that, ow
ing to a slump in securities in
which Mr. Morgan was interested, he
had become financially embarrassed;
whereupon the Paris shopkeepers be
gan sending his purchases to his hotel
marked C. O. D. One florist, it is
said, refused to leave a bunch of lilies
that Mr. Morgan had ordered until the
cash for them had been paid.
In Charlotte. N. C., there is a mat
tress maker who keeps an open ac
count with the city, against which
his fines for being drunk and disor
derly are charged. He supplies the
jail wKh mattresses. When he has a
few dollars to his credit on the city’s
books he goes on a "toot." Th& next
morning when the recorder fines him,
he tells the clerk to charge tt to hts
account.
One of the beet indications that
Judge Parker is of hopeful, sunny dis
position is the fact that he thinks Mr.
Bryan will soon fall into line.
Some twenty-five years ago the
name of Gen. Thomas T. Brady of In
diana was one to conjure with in
Republican national politics. A few
days ago Gen. Thomas T. Brady died
and his funeral was held in Jersey
City without attracting more than lo
cal attention. Brady was an Indiana
brigadier during the Civil War and
had a good record. After the war he
went into politics and became notorious
during the reconstruction era. A lit
tle more than two decades ago he
was regarded as available presidential
timber and stood among the first, along
with Blaine and Dorsey, in the lead
ership of his party. He was one of
the leading schemers to have Hayes
declared elected President over Tilden,
and probably had as much to do with
that infamy as any man connected with
it. He was also connected with the
Star Route frauds and when that scan
dal became public he was one of those
that went into obscurity with other
of the schemers. He became embit
tered against Blaine, Dorsey and other
of the Republican leaders for deserting
him in his time of trouble, and wrote
a book "exposing” the inside work
ings of the political ring of those days.
But the book was never published. Its
suppression is believed to have been
secured by party leaders. Asa re
ward for his services in the Hayes
matter, Brady was appointed second
Assistant Postmaster General, in
which position he was useful to the
Star Route people. The expose of the
Star Route frauds drove Brady from
office and from public life.
A breach of promise case of un
usual Interest Is on trial in Indianapo
lis. The parties to it had been twice
married to each other and twice di
vorced. The woman alleges that the
man proposed to her for a third time
and was a third time accepted, but
after all failed to keep his agreement.
The man denies the third proposal,
saying he had tried married life with
the woman twice and found it a fail
ure, and was not fool enough to sug
gest a third trial.
The Petropavlovsk was the treasure
ship of the Port Arthur fleet of the
Russians, it seems. A cable story says
that she had on board at the time she
was lost something like $12,000,000 In
gold and sliver, all of which went down
with her. A few years from now, in
all probability, this lost treasure will
be estimated at $100,000,000.
PERSONAL.
—Speaker Cannon does not trust the
great clock, which hangs on the beau
tifully paneled wall above the marble
rostrum. He prefers to open the House
by the old-fashioned timepiece that he
carries in his own waistcoat pocket.
One day last week he entered the
chamber just before 12. “Ah,” said he,
as he took out his watch and gazed up
ward at the clock, "I see the old clock
is right again to-day.” Then he took
his stand and let the gavel fall. "Mr,
Chaplain," he added. In an undertone,
"you may go ahead.”
.-—Washington takes much Interest In
Countess Marguerite Cassini and when
ever she drives out iri her brougham
there is much staring. The Russian
girl's self-conscience is Bupreme. She
walks into shops with the air of a
queen. Her accent is foreign, but she
speaks English charmingly. Countess
Marguerite likes horse racing and she
has driven out to the Benning track
several times. She always shows start
ling effects in clothes, such as a long
tan coat, with pearl buttons almost as
big as saucers. With the diplomats
she la a great favorite.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Manager—“How long have you been
on the stage?” Applicant—" Seventeen
years." Manager—“And do you still
hope to become an actor?"—Chicago
Daily News.
—Husband-in-waitlng—"l must take
you to see the woman lightning-change
artist at the Halls.” Wife—“ls she
good?” Husband—" Great! She puts
on her hat in less than fifteen minutes. - ’
—Punch.
—"Yes,” he said, “I studied in a col
lege of pharmacy and now I am read
ing "The Bartender's Guide.' ” "What's
your object?” "Why. I expect to get
a Job as a drug clerk in a prohibition
district.”—Chicago Evening Post.
—"My old man threatens to cut down
my allowance If I don’t study more.”
"What a silly Idea!" ”Yes, Isn't it?
He doesn't seem, to appreciate the fact
that my text-books last me twice as
long as anybody else’s." —Harper's Ba
zaar.
CI RItEXT COMMENT.
The Birmingham News (Dem.) says:
"The South is not in favor of gal
vanizing dead issues. It wants a clean,
safe Democrat with a clear party rec
ord and it favors a conservative plat
form. This is the course to victory,
and the party is not to be swayed by
Mr. Bryan or anybody else from fol
lowing a path at once so sure and so
inviting."
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
(Dem.) says: "Mr. Bryan states sev
eral objections to the New York plat
form, but we have epitomized them
In the single one that it does not re
affirm the Kansas City platform and
does Indorse Judge Parker. Had it in
dorsed the last national platform that
would be an indorsement of Mr. Bry
an, and as it Ignored that instrument
It therefore Ignored Mr. Bryan. He Is
pugnaciously opposed to being ignored,
and those who treat him as if he was
not, become objects of his wrath and
contempt."
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: "Notwithstanding the vociferous
demand that Judge Parker shall talk,
he refuses to forget what Is due to
his position as chief justice of the
Court of Appeals, and he does not fall
to remember that It Is better that the
office should seek the man than the
man the office. In this behalf the
conduct of Judge Parker is In fine
contrast with that of President Roose
velt, who, from the time he reached
the White House after the death of
McKinley, has let no occasion or op
portunity pass to push his candidacy
for a second term.”
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
“Mr. Bryan is not a good loser; nor is
he an attractive figure as a declared
wrecker and detainer of the party
which gave him its highest honors,
and which he twice led lo Ignominious
defeat. Having failed to rule, he is
now evidently resolved to ruin It. But
though he may not know it he is
doing the party and the country more
valuable service than he ever rendered
either by separating himself as far as
possible from the real Democracy. Well
rid of Bryan and Bryanlsm, the party
may rise on the stepping stone of its
dead self to anew career of distinc
tion and usefulness as an aggressive
party ta opposition.”
Short Personal Stories.
Justice Harlan Is a member of the
faculty of the Columbia Law School
and a night or two ago was talking
at the school with Judge Peele of the
District Court of Crimes. "I wish,
Mr. Justice,” said Judge Peele, "that
you would have your clerk send me
copies of some of the recent decisions
of the Supreme Court.'" "All right,"
Justice Harlan replied. Then he asked
abruptly: "Do you want those cases
in which I rendered dissenting opin
ions?" "I assume some of the casses
come under that head,” said Judge
Peele. “You frequently do dissent, you
know.” “I shall not send them” snort
ed Justice Harlan. “1 shall not be
responsible for the dissemination of
such law as apepars In those majority
opinions to which I have dissented.”
Apropos of the retirement of Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, at the close of his
present term in March, 1905, the story
tellers at the Capitol ay this is the
be3t anecdote about him: Years ago
a colleague, exasperated by some ac
tion of the late Senator Plumb of
Kansas, came to Stewart and said:
"Don’t you think Plumb is the mean
est, most contemptible, most ornery,
most useless and altogether cussedest
man in the Senate?” “No, sir!” thund
ered Stewart. “I do not. I am com
mitted to John Sherman on all those
propositions.”
Secretary Taft is strongly of opinion
that there is too much sentimental pity
in the world. He holds that even the
poorest and fnost wretched persons are
happier than most others suppose. In
HlSustration of this idea. Mil Taft
tells of two sailors who were at work
In the rigging one winter night, their
clothing almost frozen to their bodies.
"I'll tell you wot. Bill,” said one of
them, "just think o’ the poor devils
ashore caught at a picnic in weather
like this.” "You bet, Tom," said the
other.
Now that Sir Michael Hieks-Beach
has retired from public life, English
papers are telling stories of his career.
One relates an incident when Sir
Michael was Chancellor of the Ex
chequer. At that time the House in
cluded a legal member who took tre
mendously high moral ground regard
ing everything he touched. He was
very unpopular, largely perhaps be
cause of the attitude named. One aft
ernoon the gentleman sought and ob
tained an interview with the Chancel
lor. On arriving in the house some
time later, Sir Michael sat for a long
while apparently lost in gloomy medi
tation. Presently he woke as from a
reverie, and turning to his next door
neighbor said: "My dear friend, I
want your opiinon. Do you consider
that it is within the rights of the
leader of the House to call a private
member, however insignificant, 'a
d—d canting attorney’? ”
Not for Mr. Williams.
John Sharp Williams, Democratic
leader of the House of Representatives,
who has been mentioned as a presi
dential possibility, has given up all
thought of the presidency. This in
terview in the New York Telegraph
explains his action:
"Why,” replied Mr. Williams, "the
correspondent of a Western paper
asked me that question yesterday,
"Are you a candidate for the presi
dency, Mr. Williams?’ asked he.
“Well, I looked the young man over
and I saw he was in earnest.
“'I was,’ I told him. ‘At least I
saw a good deal about it in the pa
pers. Then I commenced to hear from
my constituents. The municipal coun
cil Bit Yazoo passed resolutions to
the effect that the municipality pre
ferred that I should remain In my
present proud position In the legisla
tive branch, and not aspire to execu
tive honors.’
“ 'Then I heard from the intelligent
voters of Shubuta. Then Narkeeta
spoke; then Stein’s Siding. They were
all vehemently against my running for
President.’
“ ‘Then you are not a candidate?’
put in the correspondent.
” ‘Oh, I think I could fix those fel
lows down in Mississippi all right.’
‘ 'Then you are not a candidate?’
“ 'No-o. Fact is, about that time
Mrs. Williams came up to Washing
ton city, and I took her for a drive.
We were passing the White House
when she turned to me and said:
"What's this I hear about you running
for President, Mr. Williams?”
“ ‘ “Oh, nothing much," says I.
“ ‘ “Well,” says Mrs. Williams, “I
don’t want to hear any more about
it. You know perfectly well, John,
that with my sick headaches I couldn’t
possibly live in that big white house
over yonder. I must have the Yazoo
air."
“ ‘So,’ I says to the correspondent,
'I guess I’ll have to give up the pres
idency.’ ”
The Velne of Appenrnncee.
A captain on one of the ferryboats
plying in this harbor tells the follow
ing story of the value of a coat of
paint, says the New York Post:
“Some years ago I owned a small
sailing vessel engaged in the coast and
West Indian trade. While we were
lying at an East River pier taking on
a cargo for the West Indies, a stranger
approached, and, after critically eyeing
my craft, asked:
“ ‘What’ll vou take for that boat?’
" ‘One thousand eight hundred will
buy her.’ I told him.
" ’l'll give you thirteen hundred,’
replied the stranger. 'She is an old
boat, and not worth any more.’
"I refused his offer, and he soon dis
appeared, but I made up my mind
that I would spend a little money for
white lead and oil. and when I was
lying in port, unloading the cargo, I
would have my men paint up the boat
and improve her appearance. When
I sailed into this port again she look
ed as good as new. After reaching
my pier, I saw the same fellow walk
ing about looking the craft over. Soon
he approached me and asked:
” ’Excuse me, sir, but how much
will you sell her for?'
" ‘You can have her for $2,500,' I
told him.
" ‘Call it $2,300 and I’ll take her,’
he replied, and it didn’t take me long
to accept the offer. I calculated I
made about a thousand on S2O worth
of paint.”
The Dollar as the Cabby Knew It.
An old gray-bearded, we'll-to-do
farmer from up the state on a visit to
this city had a queer opinion of the
English language before he was here
an hour, says the Philadelphia Press.
Arriving at Broad street station, he
accosted a cabman and Inquired what
it would cost for a trip to League
Island and back.
"Two plunks,” replied the cabby.
"Two what?”
"Plunks—bones—cases can't you
understand?”
"I asked you what It would cost for
the trip, and I'm not here to be made
a fool of,” replied the farmer with
some heat.
"That's what I am trying to tell
you. Two daddies. See?”
"Excuse me, but I don't seem to
catch what you mean.”
"Well, haven't I tried to tell you five
or six times already? Two bucks,
two cartwheels.”
It was then the up state man seem
ed to grasp the meaning of what the
cabby was trying to tell him. and he
said In the meekest of voices: “You
don't mean $2?”
"Yep. that's what I have told you
already a half a dozen times.”
At that the farmer climbed aboard
and the cabby mounted the box aad
drove in the direction named.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The cost of operating electric rail
way trains is 8 per cent, less than that
for steam trains of like seating capac
ity, as shown by the experience of Ger
man railways.
—Statistics for the last year show
that 36 310 native Germans left their
country to live abroad. The vast ma
jority came to this country. This is a
considerable increase over 1902 and
1901.
—The current in some parts of the
Tigris river is so strong that the Brit
ish steamboats running on it sometimes
can make no headway for hours, and
are occasionally turned around com
pletely.
—The French astronomer Touchet, by
using an Ingenious method first em
ployed by Warren de la Rue, has suc
ceeded in making stereoscopic pictures
of Neptune, the planet farthest from
the earth.
—Although Bogota is 800 miles from
the Atlantic and only 250 from the Pa
cific, it is less accessible from the Pa
cific because of the Andes. The town
is situated 8,760 feet above the sea level,
and the weather is springlike all the
year around.
—A Toklo newspaper sold many ex
tres the other day on the headline,
"Mobilization of the Staff.” Purchas
ers of the extras found that the staff
referred to was that of the paper,
which was to be Increased In view of
the great demand for news.
Snail gardens are getting to be' al
most as common In Germany as in
France. The snails are gathered in
July, and fed till autumn, when they
get their shells. The dealers pay for
them at the rate of 20 to 25 cents per
hundred, and a hundred make a
meal.
—The use of Roentgen rays in the
hospitals of Germany has opened up a
new field of work for women. The
service of nurse for patients treated
by X-rays and as assistants at the
use of them is of a very delicate na
ture, and in Berlin courses of instruc
tion for X-ray nurses are to be in
stituted.
—Hundreds of boys from the Denver
Juvenile Court will be sent into the
sugar beet fields near Longmont, Col.,
to work this summer. The boys will
be sent out in parties of twenty-five
each, in charge of a probation officer,
and will be equipped with tents and
camping outfits. They can earn from
$1.20 to $2 a day each.
—The Chamber of Commerce, at
Denver, Col., is considering a propo
sition to bore one and an eighth miles
into the earth at a point fourteen
miles east of the city, in search of
natural gas, oil and coal. The cost is
estimated at $30,000, but the plan is
considered feasible by experts who
have investigated the geological for
mations.
—ln 1891 an old woman left to the
British Lifeboat Institution the sum
of $2,000 to be paid on the death of a
lnvorlte kitten which had survived
her and which was to be provided for
with the interest. In 1902 the cat dis
appeared and the courts have now de
cided to assume its death and let the
Institution have the money, on giving
a bond to provide for the cat in case
it should come back.
—According to the United States
consul at Callao, Peru, that country
has many rich, large mineral deposits
of gold, sliver, copper, mercury, lead
sulphur, coal, salt and petroleum, not
to name those of less Importance. He
further states that the only things
necessary to develop these vast de
posits are capital and labor, which
would make the republic as renowned
for its mineral wealth as California
Australia and South Africa.
—The rise of the Easter lily is one
of the most sensational features of
greenhouse floriculture in America
during the last quarter of a century.
American florists raise about 5,000,000
Easter lilies a year. Assuming that
only half of these plants are sold;
that each bears only two flowers fa
good plant should have six to eight)
and that the public pays 50 cents a
bud, it would seem that the American
people spend at least $2,500,000 for
Easter lilies every year.
Three men in Paris, whose names
are well known In the scientific world,
are said to be projecting a balloon
voyage across the Atlantic. They are
Capassa, the aeronaut; Berget Sor
honne and M. Reclus, the famous ge
ographer. They propose to start from
the Canary Islands in the month of
May, when the trades will favor them
and will attempt to make land at
Trinidad, in the British West Indes
The voyage, in their opinion, will last
about four or five days only.
L. Alalln of Marseilles, France,
has devised a method for a chemical
purification of water which is said to
have given excellent results. lodine
which is a powerful antiseptic, Is add
ed in proportions of one part to 100 -
000, and in most cases destroys ba
cilli within a quarter of an hour. To
make the water palatable, the free lo
dine is then neutralized by sodium
hyposulphite. The water is then fil
tered through charcoal, and is claimed
to come out limpid, colorless and
tasteless.
—A bill to prevent persons being
buried alive having been Introduced
In the Legislature of Massachusetts,
has attracted public attention to the
possibility, remote as it is, of that ac
cident. There are several ways of de
termining if death has occurred: Tie
% cord tightly around a Anger; if the
end becomes swollen and red, life is
not extinct. Inject a few drops of
aqua ammonia under the skin; If life
still exists, a red or purple spot will
form. Insert a bright steel needle into
the Aesh; allow it to remain half an
hour; if life is extinct it will tarnish
by oxidation. Place the surface of a
cold mirror over the mouth; if mois
ture condenses on the surface respi
ration has not ceased. In from twelve
to eighteen hours ater death eyeballs
become soft, inelastic, feel Aaccid. In
from eight to twelve hours after death
hypostasis, or congestion, or blood In
capillaries begins to form In all de
pending parts of the body. Putrefac
tion is positive proof of death, and
takes place by the end of the third
day.
—Wonderful stories are often related
of the loss of precious articles and their
marvellous recovery, such as the drop
ping of a watch overboard while Ashing
and later recovering it from the stom
ach of a olke; dissecting gold rings
from the inwards of trout which snap
ped the glittering toy before it reached
bottom; digging a set of false teeth,
lost when bathing, from the stomach of
a cat Ash, etc., says the Detroit Tri
bune. But truth is stranger than Ac
tion. Anybody who will can lie, but
here is a true story of James H. Pren
tiss, of Ann Arbor, who while Ashing at
Zukey Lake lost the 1200 setting to his
diamond ring. Hoping that the glitter
might have attracted a bite from a
pickerel, which grabs greedily for a
hashing spoonhook. every Ash caught
was carefully dissected, and Prentiss
had just about given up hope of be
holding his S2OO sparkler again, whon
as the last Ash had been ripped up the
front, be hanged if the gem warn't
found wedged between two boards in
the bottom of the boat.
After Dinner
To assist digestion, relieve distress
after eating or drinking too heartily,
to prevent constipation, take
Hood's Pills
Sold everywhere. 25 cents.
The Geneva Ophthalmoscope lg
an instrument for looking in the back
of the eye for diseases. The Retin
oscope is an instrument for testing
the eyes by the shadow test for
glasses without asking a question.
The Hardy Ophthalmometer is for
testing for astigmatism; this is the
only sure test. Get your glasses from
us and have them absolutely accurate.
Our store and dark room is the most
modern in the South. No one else in
Savannah has these instruments.
HINES OPTICAL CO.,
DR. LEWIS A. HINES. Refractionist.
Bull Street and Oglethorpe Ave.
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COLD KRIjS THE GERM.
Lieut. Perry Says There Are No Bald
Heads in the Arctic Region.
The people who come back from
Klondike testify to the fact that no
native bald heads are there. The evi
dence is that the cold climate kills the
germs that eat the hair off at the root.
Lieut. Perry, who went to the Arctic
Regions, gives the same evidence.
Newbro’s Herpieide has the same ef
fect as the cold climate. It kills the
germ that eats the hair off at the
roots, and the hair grows again. Her
pioide is the first hair remedy built
upon the principle of destroying the
germ that eats the hair off. Its phe
nomenal sale demonstrates the cor
rectness of the scalp germ theory. Sold
by leading druggists. Send 10c in
stamps for sample to The Herpieide
Cos., Detroit, Mich.
Livingston’s Pharmacy, Special
Agents.
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PROPOSALS WiHTBO.
FORT DE SOTO, FLA., APRIL IS,
1904; sealed proposals in triplicate for
constructing one set officers quarters:
one set. N. C. O. quarters, and post
exchange here, and one set officers
quarters, one set N. C. O. quarters,
post exchange, and mess room with
kitchen at Fort Dade, Fla., will be
received at either post until 5 p. m..
May 17, 1904; United States reserves
the right to reject or accept any or
all proposals or any part thereof; in
formation furnished on application;
envelopes containing proposals will be
addressed “Proposals for Constructing
Buildings at Forts Dade and De Soto,
Fla. Frank S. Long. A. Q. M.
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