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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for fair
weather, with light variable winds.
Adrian Iselin of New York carried a
$300,000 accident policy. He is also
the owner of a fast automobile. Doubt
less the automobile and the policy oc
cupy towards each other the relation
of cause and effect.
Both Thomas W. Lawson of Boston
and F. A. Helnze of Montana have
declared war against the Standard Oil
Company, but o far as the informa
tion goes John D. Rockefeller has not
given an order for the construction of
a bomb-proof.
The closing of the Hearst head
quarters at the Hoffman House, New
York, some days ago was taken in
certain quarters to mean that he had
given up the fight for the St. Louis
nomination, but it seems that his
agents are still hustling for dele
gates.
The Republicans are not going to in
vestigate Bourke Cockran. Of course
not. They are not in favor of Investi
gating anything that is in the least
likely to prove a boomerang against
their own heads. They are very free
in making charges against Democrats,
but when a "show-down” is demanded
they take refuge behind technicalities,
or the statute of limitations, or some
thing of the sort.
Everybody in town will be quite will
ing to agree to the proposition that the
shelled streets are in poor condition,
and that shell paving in the city is a
mistake. For a month there has been
considerable breeze stirring, and every
draught of air has carried with it from
the shelled streets clouds of stifling, dir
ty dust. Pretty nearly all of the streets,
as a matter of tact, have been dis
agreeably dusty, but the shelled streets
have been the worst.
Ferry boats in New York harbor all
carry two pilots, as a precaution
against accident to the “man at the
wheel.” That two men are needed in
the engine room as well as In the pilot
house was illustrated a day or two ago,
as told in our dispatches, when the
engineer of the ferry boat America fell
dead at his post and the boat ran at
full speed into the dock. That nobody
was killed was a freak of fortune. Dur
ing the past few years there have been
frequent accidents on the railroads due
to the death or sudden disability of the
engineer on duty in the cab, and re
cently there wag talk of requiring all
railroads to send out two engineers on
each of their passenger locomotives, but
that seems to have died out. Modern
high-speed travel, whether on land or
water, is so full of risks that it seems
against wisdom to risk the driving or,
directing machinery under charge of
one, solitary man.
I COMPLAINT OF THR COTTON MILL
MEN.
A larger supply of cotton Is what
the cotton mill men want. In his an
nual address on Wednesday in Boston,
before the New England Cotton Manu
facturers' Association, Mr. Herbert
E. Walmsley, president of the asso
ciation, said that the cotton trade was
likely to be the victim frequently of
just such disasters as that of the past
year as long as the supply of cotton
was insufficient. The short cotton
crop, he said, opened the way for the
wildest kind of speculation in cotton,
and the result was that prices were
pushed up so high that the cotton
trade was Jeopardized.
In the course of his address he dis
cussed the labor problem in the
South. He pointed out that the mar
gin of profit in the manufacture of
cotton goods was so small that the
Southern mills could make a profit
when the Northern mills would lose
money, simply because the hours of la
bor were longer in the South. But
the point on which Mr. Walmsley dwelt
chiefly was the need of a larger crop
of cotton, and he discussed the ways
and means of developing the resources
of the cotton belt to Its fullest extent.
He said that the economic demand
might become so pressing that it would
be necessary to bring labor from Asia,
and suggested that the Japanese would
make good workers in the cotton fields.
It is hardly probable that the Japa
nese would be welcomed in this coun
try as laborers. There would soon be
aroused a prejudice against them as
there was against the Chinese, but
why shouldn't the Italians answer the
needs of the South for additional labor
in her cotton fields? There is no doubt
of course that the South, with suffi
cient labor, could produce 20,000,000
bales of cotton a year just as easily
as she produces 10,000,000. There are
millions of acres of good cotton lands
that are unoccupied, and those that
are under cultivation do not yield more
than half what they are capable of
yielding. Most of the lauds are not
cultivated as they should be —that is,
they are not properly fertilized. If the
intensive system of fanning were gen
erally practiced the output of cotton
would be far greater than it is, even
if the acreage were reduced.
It is true of course that the labor
problem at present is one that is giv
ing the cotton fanners a great deal of
trouble. Avery large percentage of
the negro labor has gone to the rail
roads, the mines, the turpentine farms
and to other industries, which have
been called into existence by the
steady increase in the South’s pros
perity.
Asa matter of fact, however, the
greater part of the cotton crop is now
made by white labor, and the increase
in this kind of labor is very steady.
The time isn't distant. If present in
dications are to be relied upon, when
pretty near the entire cotton crop will
be the product of white labor.
Some weeks ago we called attention
to the movement of Italians to Louis
iana. That movement isn't confined
to that state. In an article 111 the
current number of the Southern Farm
Magazine it is stated that Italians are
extensively employed on the cotton
plantations of Arkansas and Missis
sippi. Hon. Le Roy Percey, a lawyer
and planter of Greenville, Miss., who
has large planting interests in those
states, is quoted in the foregoing arti
cle as saying that the available labor
In his section is entirely insufficient,
notwithstanding the fact that there
is an Increase in the number of the
negro laborers. In the course of his
talk he said:
My observation Is that Italians Im
ported, not from the Southern part of
Italy or from Sicily, but from the
northern agricultural districts of Italy,
are excellently adapted to the needs
of the delta. In conjunction with my
partner, Mr. O. B. Crittenden, I have
had for six years the management and
control of what is known as the Aus
tin Corbin planting property, situated
in Chicot county, Arkansas, of which
something more than 4,000 acres are in
cultivation, and more than one-half of
this property is worked by Italian la
bor. Some of them have been upon
the property for years, and the number
has increased each year during our
connection with the property, we ad
vancing to the Italians upon the prop
erty during the past year $4,000 or $5,-
000, with which they brought over
friends and relatives from Italy, and
all of which was paid back by them out
of the past crop.
Mr. Percy Is of the opinion that the
Italian Is very much superior to the
negro as a worker In the cotton field.
This being the case there isn't any
reason why an abundance of labor
shouldn’t be obtained from Northern
Italy. The Italians would eventually
become acceptable citizens. The Japa
nese couldn't be assimilated, and
hence would be a source of Irritation.
There is no doubt that this country
has got to consider seriously the
question of Increasing the supply of
cotton. The cotton manufacturing
countries of Europe are making un
precedented efforts to open cotton
fields in their own domains, and it is
by no means certain they will not suc
ceed. New fields and cheap labor
might make the situation very un
pleasant for the cotton farmer of the
Southern States.
THE WORK OK mmiREM.
The President doubtless feels very
much more comfortable now that Con
gress has adjourned. He was afraid
that it would do something that would
lessen his chances for succeeding him
self, and hence he was anxious for
an early adjournment. The fact that
there were bills pending that ought
to have consideration was a matter
of little consequence to him in com
parison with his political fortunes.
At the fast session of Congress It
was admitted, even by the leaders of
the Republicans in the Senate and
the House, that there was urgent ne
cessity for currency legislation and for
a revision of the tariff. It was ex
pected that at the first session of the
present Congress the tariff question
would be taken up. Asa matter of
fact this Congress has done nothing
of sny Importance beyond passing the
appropriation bills. It had to pass
them In order to keep the government
moving. Doubtless the Republican or
gans wRI tell the people what a vast
amount of work was done, but they
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. APRIL 29, 1904.
will take care not to mention of
what the work consisted.
There was no particular reason why
Congress should have adjourned so
soon. The session just closed was the
long one, the one In which the greater
part of its work ought to have been
done. The next session will close on
the 4th of March. Counting out the
holidays it will be less than three
months in length. It is practically
certain therefore that little or nothing
will be done beyond passing the ap
propriation bills. There will be no
tariff legislation and no financial legis
lation. Indeed it is a question whether
there will be time in which to frame
and pass a satisfactory river and har
bor hill.
Probably the Republican organs will
point to the partial investigation of
the Smoot and Swayne cases as evi
dence of work done during the session
just closed, but the question that will
present Itself will be, why didn't Con
gress remain In session and dispose
of these cases instead of putting them
off until the next session? Of course
it is well understood that all legisla
tion except the appropriation bills was
postponed for political reasons, but do
senators and representatives feel that
the people will be satisfied to have the
public business neglected for such
reasons? Is the majority getting
too timid to do anything on the eve
of elections because of the danger of
making a mistake that might injure the
majority party? If so the outlook for
passing important measures isn’t very
promising.
It is certain that the people have
no reason for thinking that the Fifty
eighth Congress is zealous in caring
for their interests.
COMPLETING THE REPUBLICAN
TICKET.
It seems that the President has de
cided that Speaker Cannon would ntake
a popular running mate for him, and
so the impression prevails in the ranks
of the Republican party that the ticket
will be Roosevelt and Cannon. There
is one thing that can be said in favor
of the tail of the ticket, if the fore
going should be the ticket, namely,
that it will be more popular with the
leaders of the party than the head of it
is.
The statement is frequently made
that there are not a dozen men in Con
gress that are sincere and warm
friends of President Roosevelt. He has
a following among the people, however,
and therefore doesn't care whether or
not Congress likes him.
On the other hand, Mr. Cannon is
popular with congressmen and with
the people. In the West, particularly,
he has a great following among the
plain people. There is no doubt he
would be a help to the ticket.
It is the understanding, however, that
Mr. Cannon doesn’t want the nomina
tion for Vice-President. He would much
tather remain at the head of the House
and take hia chances of being re
elected, in the event the Republicans
elect the next House. The office he
now holds Is second in importance
only to that of the presidency.
If he should be elected Vice-Presi
dent he would be only a figure head.
It is certain Mr. Roosevelt wouldn’t
consult him about anything. Neither
would he permit him to exercise any
influence in the administration. Mr.
Cannon knows that, and, hence, doesn't
want the nomination.
But he may have to take it whether
he wants it or not. The President
seems to be having his way in all
llarty matters, and if he wants Mr.
Cannon on the ticket with him, it is
probable that the latter will have to
yield. It will be recalled that Mr.
Roosevelt didn’t want the nomination
for Vice-President—at least he said he
didn't. He was nominated by the party
leaders who wanted to get rid of him.
Instead of getting rid of him they got
their hands full of him.
The movement to nominate Mr.
Cannon, however, isn’t based upon a
desire to get riil of him. The party
leaders and Mr. Roosevelt know he
would strengthen the ticket, and would
make a satisfactory Vice-President.
The indications are, therefore, that the
Republican ticket will be Roosevelt and
Cannon.
THE CRI M CASK.
It is doubtful if Dr. Crum will ever
be fonfirmeU as collector of the port of
Charleston. The Republican senators
seem to be Indifferent In regard to the
matter —at least that is the Impression
gained from the Washington dispatches.
The President wanted the nomination
of Dr. Crum confirmed because there
are colored votes to be had in doubt
ful Northern states. These colored vot
ers have been sending petitions to the
President Insisting that the nomination
be confirmed. Of course the President
wanted it confirmed or he wouldn’t
have sent it to the Senate, but he was
anxious for the Senate to act upon the
nomination before It adjourned so that
he would be in a position to say to the
colored voters In the Northern states
that he did all he could to have a col
ored man made collector of Charles
ton.
Of course he will appoint Dr. Crum
again. He wouldn't dare to drop him
even If he wanted to. The colored vot
ers hold the balance of power in sev
eral states, or at least their votes in
the presidential election may settle the
contest one wav or the other, and the
President is going to do in the Crum
case just what these voters want done.
Of course they want Dr. Crum reap
pointed. It wouldn't be surprising if
Dr. Crum were Inspiring them to send
petitions to the President asking for
his reappointment.
If the truth were known It would prob
ably appear that leading colored men
of the country are assisting Dr. Crum
to make his fight. It is a race question
with them and they intend to be victo
rious In the fight they are making, If
they can. It may be that the Repub
lican senators are beginning to under
stand the spirit that is behind Dr.
Crum, and are therefore taking less
Interest In It than they did.
The outlook Is now that Dr. Crum
will be reappointed and will hold his
otfice until the end of this Congress. It
Is probable he will not be confirmed,
and, hence, will not be reappointed
again. By the end of the present Con
gress the President will be convinced
probably that the Senate doesn't in
tend to confirm hts nomination, and. If
he should be re-elected he can drop Dr.
Crum without any danger to his politi
cal fortunes. If he shouldn't be re
elected he and Dr. Crum would drop
out of official life together.
Throughout the forty years of her
life. Miss Mary Lalor and her father,
of Fordham. N. Y., had been devoted
companions. Some weeks ago Mr. La
lor celebrated his 74th birthday. Upon
that occasion Miss Lalor, his eldest
born, said to him: “When you die,
father, I want to die. too:" to which
the old gentleman affectionately re
plied: "I should not care to live if
you were gone, my child.'’ A few days
ago Mr. Lalor was suddenly stricken
with a fatal illness, and passed away.
In less than a day the daughter was
found in her room unconscious. Her
father's death had broken her heart,
and she had her wish that they might
go to the tomb together.
It is sineerely to be regretted th'at so
hitter a factional fight has sprung up
in the Blue Ridge Circuit between the
supporters of Judge Gober and Speaker
Morris. The contention bids fair to
reach even the state convention, un
less by good fortune there should be
found some way of compromising the
quarrel prior to the meeting of that
body. It is 'always disagreeable to
have a washing of dirty linen in pub
lic, and if the allegations made with re
spect to the matter are half true, there
is some exceedingly soiled linen In the
Blue Ridge section that may be ifauut
ed before the faces of the state dele
gates.
The Fifty-seventh Congress holds
the record for the number of bills in
troduced, but the current Congress is
going to "beat It a mile.” In the Fif
ty-seventh there were introduced in
the Senate 7,445 bills, and in the House
17,500 bills. The current Congress,
only half way through its history, has
piled up 5,650 Senate bills and 15,400
House bills, and the chances are that
the second session will be just as
fruitful of new legislative propositions.
Mr. Cleveland is scheduled to de
liver a lecture next week to the
Princeton students on the Chicago
riots of 1894. Probably no act of Mr.
Cleveland's during his two ferras caus
ed him to be more warmly commended
and more bitterly denounced than his
calling out of the federal troops on
the occasion of those riots.
PERSONAL.
—Rev. D. H. Tuttle, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of Elizabeth
City, N. C., has thrown consternation
into his flock by a mandate withdraw
ing the communion cup from holders
of lottery tickets. A street carnival
is in progress in Elizabeth City and
many church people have bought
chances on a piano and gold watch to
be awarded by lot. Mr. Tuttle says
all who hold tickets must tear them
up before breaking bread with God’s
people.
—There is only one woman coal min
er in Missouri and she has but one
arm. Miss Minnie Petrie began to
work in the mine of her nephew, The
odore Petrie, near Fulton, a few years
ago because he could not get as many
men as he wanted. The first day she
worked she wore feminine clothes, but
finding them unsuitable the next day
she wore an old suit of her nephew's
and, attired In men's clothes, she has
been digging coal ever since. She is
50 years old.
—London society women have taken
to riding man fashion and it is ex
pected that during the coming season
Rotten Row will see many horsewomen
in divided skirts. Many responsible
West End tailors have assured inquir
ers that orders for divided skirts are
arriving from a large and ever-increas
ing number of horsewomen. New
“ride astride" garments have been in
vented and are exclusively advertised
in the fashion Journals. Current fash
'■on papers are full of the subject.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Mrs. Ascum—"Have you stilt got
that servant girl you had last week?”
Mrs. Hiram Often —"Which day last
week?"—Philadelphia Press.
—Bacon —“All the milkmen in town
use that bank.” Egbert—“ That would
be a good place to look for chalk de
posits, 1 suppose."—Yonkers Statesman.
—Johnny-—"Maw's always talkin'
about a hygienic diet. What is a hygi
enic diet?" Tommy—-"lt's any kind of
diet you don't like!” —Chicago Tribune.
—He—"l understand Softleigh has
been assigned a very difficult role in
your amateur theatricals.” She—" Yes,
poor fellow! They gave him a thinking
part.”—Chicago Daily News.
—"A man in your position is subjected
to many temptations, isn't he?” “Yes,”
answered Senator Sorghum. “Every
now and then he feels like letting his
sympathies get the better of him and
missing chances to make money. But
the only thing to do is to be firm.”—
Washington Star.
CIRHEXT COMMENT.
The Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem.)
says: "If Mr. Bryan should bolt
from the St. Louis platform this year
we would hear the New York Tribune
allude to him as the great safe 'and
sane American.”
The Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.)
says: "The Republicans seem very
anxious to prove that they paid Bourke
Cockran for his McKinley speeches in
1896. They do not appear to under
stand how anybody can stomach the
Republican party without being paid
to do it.”
The Galveston (Tex.) News (Dem.)
says: “The President is said to be wor
ried because the Senate will not con
firm the nomination of his man Crum,
at Charleston. Why should the Presi
dent be worried? He has trust his
man in in spite of the Seriate once,
and why not do it again?”
The Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem.)
says: "The Republicans are already
making capital of Mr. Bryan s atti
tude toward the undoubted plans and
purposes of the party. They are al
ready attempting to prove by his words
that the party ought to be defeated.
As ’a. friend of Mr. Bryan, the Post
can view his course only with sorrow
and regret.”
The Memphis Commercial Appeal
(Dem.) says: "It seems to us inevi
table that, if Mr. Bryan succeeds in
checkmating and defeating Judge
Parker. Grover Cleveland will be the
nominee of the Democratic party. We
are. therefore, forced to the conclu
sion that Mr. Bryan is really a whip
for *he Cleveland nomination in dis
guise.”
I ncles Sam'a Cigara.
Among the men, cigars and cigarettes
cause much trouble, says a writer on
the New York Customs House in the
Century Magazine. The regulations
permit a person to bring in for his own
consumption 50 cigars or 300 cigarettes,
the ruling of the department being that
for customs purposes fifty cigars equal
that many cigarettes. Travelers are
always arriving who do not know the
regulations or who try to evade them.
Nine rimes out of ten the traveler at
once wants to make it a personal mat
ter with the Inspector, and acts as if
he thought thrashing the official would
get his cigars in free. Then he cools
down a little and offers to pay the
duty on all over fifty, and take them
all. There he strikes anew cause of
rage. The smallest number of cigars
that can be imported is 3,000. All un
der that and over fifty are seized. The
Inspector endeavors to explain that he
did not make the law, and is responsi
ble only for its execution as he finds it;
but that seldom works, and the travel
er goes away breathing tire, and mad
with desire for vengeance.
A man came in from Havana recent
ly tilth a box of cigars out of which
he had smoked fifteen. There was
eighty-five left. The Inspector who
examined the baggage told him he
could have only fifty. The man de
clared that It was an outrage, and in
timated that he believed it to be per
petrated for the inspector's personal
amusement.
"Who gets the rest?” he demanded.
“They are seized for the government,"
was the reply.
Thereupon it was evident to the man
that the outrage was for the benefit as
well as the amusement of the inspec
tor.
"I don’t suppose you smoke?” he
sneered.
"Not on duty,” suavely replied the
Inspector.
“Well, you won’t smoke these off
duty," cried the man, and began to
break them up.
“Hold on,’’ said the inspector, "you
mustn't do that."
“Why not?” demanded the man.
"They are my cigars.”
“No, they are not,” replied the in
spector, "they belong to the govern
ment.”
No words would fit that situation, and
the man went away. A little later he
charged into the office of the law di
vision, prepared to tear down the Cus
tom House. He wanted to know. and.
he wanted his information quickly.
"Not my cigars, heh? Well, they
hadn't been brought in yet.”
“Oh, yes, they had. They were con
siderably inside the three-mile limit
when you had them on the pier.”
A little argument cooled him off, and
he finally said;
"Well, I’ll take my fifty, and you
can have the rest.”
"You haven't got fifty now,” said
the official.
“Haven't got fifty?” he screamed,
“I’d like to know why I haven’t. You've
said all along I could have fifty.”
“Yes, but you broke them up.”
“I didn't do any such thing. I broke
up the extra thirty-five!”
“Oh, no; those are Uncle Sam's. You
were breaking up your own. But I
don't think you destroyed them all.
There are about fifteen still left for
you.”
And he had to do the best he could
to seem content with fifteen. All of
■which shows again how foolish It is to
kick against the pricks. Most men do
it, however, and sometimes they beat
Uncle Sam out of his cigars. There
have been instances where men so
situated pitched the whole supply over
board in their rage.
A Champion Liar.
Breaking engagements does not wor
ry the Sultan of Sulu. He kept Maj.
Gen. Bates waiting for him at Sulu
for nearly two months, breaking en
gagement after engagement. At the
time first appointed, instead of the
Sultan, his brother and Hadji Butu,
his prime minister, arrived at Sulu and
explained to Gen. Bates that "his
highness" deeply regretted his inabil-*
ity to be present, as his religious fes
tivities were just beginning and would
keep him at Maibun, the Moro capital,
several days; but he would surely come
as soon as the festivities were over.
Another meeting was agreed upon.
Again the Sultan failed to appear, and
his prime minister, with profuse apol
ogies, assured the general that his
master was suffering so with boils on
his neck and arms that he could not
put on his coat, and without it he
could not even think of appearing be
fore a great American general. Thus
two months were frittered away, and
then the American soldier decided that
as he was in Mohammedan land, he
would do as Mohammed did when the
mountain failed to call.
He is the best single-handed liar in
the Philippines, says .Everybody's
Magazine. And as there are few Fil
ipinos who will not lie frequently, de
liberately, and persistently, that is
saying a good deal.
English Hotel Rates.
Last winter Mr. and Mrs. Whiting
Allen stayed a few days at a hotel at
Oxford, England, says the Brooklyn
Eagle. When the bill was presented it
took Mr. Allen’s breath, to say noth
ing of most of his ready money.
“You don’t have to have many guests
at that rate, do you?” he asked, with
a touch of sarcasm.
"Sir,” said the landlady, haughtily,
"this hotel is 500 years old.”
"Yes.” Mr. Allen responded quietly,
“but we haven't been here all that
time, you know."
Then Mrs. Allen put on the finishing
touch by adding in an innocent way:
"I thought that bed must have been
occupied about that long.”
A Fireside Song.
From the New York Times.
Give me a pipe, a light, a book,
A log that blazes merrily,
A corner by the chimney nook,
A comfortable chair—Ah, me.
What of the storm that shrieks with
out
Subh spirits of contentment thrive
In me I’m half-inspired to shout:
“ ‘TIs good, 'tis good to be alive!”
The storm grows fiercer, and I slip
From out my comfortable chair
And slyly take a modest nip
From the well-filled decanter there.
Till, tingling through my joyous veins
The chariots of gladness drive
With eager steeds and loosened reins—
Ah, then ’tis good to be alive!
To owe no man; to own mine house;
To be content with mine own lot;
To know no being, man or mouse
May bid me do what I would not;
To know the power of tyranny;
To know I'm monarch here—no gyve
Of damning debt to fetter me—
Ah, me, 'tis good to be alive!
To laugh at fame and scoff at wealth,
To envy none; to feel the free
And Joyous leap of strength and
health
In every pulse that beats in me;
To bow my head in thanks to God.
To dream, to hope, to toil, to strive,
Ah. me. It were a soulless clod
That is not glad to be alive!
To hear a woman's rustling gown.
To bid her come and sit with me.
To crave no honor or renown
But in her heart and memory;
To put my pipe or paper by.
To taste the honey in the hive
Of kisses—ah, 'tis then that I
Know 'tis so good to be alive!
—J. W. Foley.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The gladiolus is a feature of the
floral display at the World's Fair. One
exhibitor has planted three acres of
bulbs in the exposition grounds, and
claims that he will show that no flow
er, not even the pansy, possesses the
color possibilities of the gladiolus.
—An investigation of the cause of
pneumonia by the bacteriological de
partment of the Board of Health of
New York, shows that contagion is of
comparatively little importance in the
spread of the disease. The board is in
clined, therefore, to attribute the exces
sive death rate from pneumonia to the
cold of the last winter.
—ln the British House of Commons,
as soon as the question to be decided
is put from the chair, a clerk at the
table sets in motion a huge sand glass,
familiarly known to members as the
“egg boiler," probably because it takes
three minutes to run out. As the last
sand runs through the glass the ser
geant-at-arms instantly locks the mas
sive oak doors of the chamber, and
only those members who have succeed
ed in getting through the doorway can
vote.
—lt has been announced that the
British postoffice proposes to exercise
its right to buy out the Great National
Telephone Company at the end of the
present year. This action by the gov
ernment is the first step towards break
ing up the monopoly which has shack
led and curbed the development of
telephones in the United Kingdom.
With low rates and quick service the
public will be provided with a system
such as has heretofore been undream
ed of. The postoffice has already
provided a system for a great part of
London at a charge less than S4O,
for 90 per cent, of its subscrib
ers.
—The world's best timekeeper is said
to be the electric clock in the base
ment of the Berlin Observatory, which
was installed by Prof. Foerster in 1865.
It is inclosed in an airtight glass cyl
inder, and has frequency run for pe
riods of two or three months with ail
average daily deviation of only fifteen
one-thousandths of a second. Yet as
tronomers are not satisfied even with
this, and efforts are continually made
to secure ideal conditions for a clock
by keeping It not only in an airtight
case, but in an underground vault,
where neither changes of temperature
nor of barometric pressure shall ever
affect it.
—Punctuation. says the London
Graphic, is one of those perilous en
terprises in which, as Sir Thomas
Browne has it, "celerity should be con
tempered with cunctation.” Lawyers,
alive to its dangers, banish it from
their deeds, conveyances and advertise
ments; suits, as they 'well know, have
before now turned upon the placing
or misplacing of a, single comma. The
Bishop of Southwell, in a letter to the
Times a day. or two ago, showed that
the meaning of the Prayer Book had
in many passages been impaired or al
tered by the punctation of the presses.
From Boston, in the United States,
comes an illustration of how a punc
tuation mark may affect the material
conditions of an entire community.
The printer who printed the Mass ■-
chusetts liquor law happened to put
a semicolon in the wrong place. The
result is that, contrary to the inten
tion of the Legislature, the law, as it
stands, forbids the sale of intoxicating
liquors after 11 o’clock at night, and
bibulous Bostonians are protesting that
an accidental semicolon should not be
allowed to bring refreshment to- a full
stop at an hour which will handicap
the attractions of their city in com
petition with those of other centers of
population on the Atlantic seaboard.
The comma and the colon, the semico
lon and the period are beyond doubt
tools to be handled with circumspec
tion, for punctuation is also Interpre
tation, and in that pregnant fact
boundless possibilities lie concealed.
—Highly valuable observations have
been made of late years with regard
to the migrations of birds, and some
of the facts now definitely ascertained
upset many of our popular beliefs. In
a communication on the subject to
London Nature Mr. W. Eagle Clarke,
who has devoted a large amount of
time to the inquiry, points out that “a
considerable proportion of our native
bred song thrushes, blackbirds, sky
larks, starlings, rooks, lapwings, and
other species, which are usually re
garded as being wholly resident
throughout the year, are migratory;
indeed, they are as essentially summer
visitors to our isles as the swallow
and the cuckoo.” It is a curious fact
that many birds of the Continent cross
over the narrower part of the North
Sea to this country for the winter—no
doubt because of our milder climate.
Some of these stay in England, others
prefer Ireland, and some leave us for
more Southern lands. Mr. Clarke,
through a long residence on the Eddy
stone Lighthouse, found that the birds
are capital meteorologists, taking ad
vantage in their flights of the kind of
atmospheric pressure distribution
which suits them. They do not risk
a voyage across the channel when the
wind is high; if it exceeds a velocity
of forty miles an hour only swallows
and martins venture forth. Otherwise
they care little for the direction of the
wind, and for some occult reason near
ly all of them make the crossing at
night time. Probably it is a mistake
to suppose that in severe seasons our
feathered friends stay at home to be
frozen. It is more likely that, like
favored people of fashion, they betake
themselves for the season to the Ri
viera, Italy, or Spain.
—Among the "sights” which have
been most visited by tourists in Paris
during Easter is the Morgue, that sin
ister, low-roofed buildifig resembling a
railway booking office, which stands
under the shadow of Notre Dame,
says the London Globe. There is no
difficulty in seeing the gruesome pho
tographs of those who have never been
reclaimed, and the bodies reclining
peacefully on the slabs, but there is a
good deal more to be seen and learned
than the general public suspect in con
nection with this unattractive institu
tion. If you will ring a bell at the
gate to the right hand side of the
building, and hint that you are inclined
to pay for the services of a guide, you
will find yourself without delay in the
engine house, containing two gas en
gines of about 12 horse-power each,
partly covered with a thick coating of
ice. These engines are connected with
the refrigerating apparatus, and a ther
mometer alongside the pipes registers
the normal temperature of 18 degrees
below zero. Then you enter a room
about 20-foot square, one side of which
is filled with what seems iron safes
packed one upon the other, and side
by side almost to the ceiling. The
guide opens one of the doors and shows
you the Interior of the safe, which
measures about three feet by six feet
and is lined with a coil of tubing. In
side is a box. and I well remember
when I visited this part of the estab
lishment with a young doctor from the
Midlands, that the guide pulled out the
box and removed some coarse cover
ing material, exposing the body of a
stalwart negro, who had come to an
untimely end. My friend remarked
that the body was frozen. "Yes, quite
hard.” replied the guide, and at his
invitation we rapped our knuckles on
the negro's chest, which was as hard as
black marble. It was difficult to over
come the creepy sensation which forced
itself upon one In this grim charnel
house. and I was glad when the gate
closed behind us and we passed out
into the cheerful sunlight.
Tonight
Just before retiring, If your fiver Is
sluggish, out of tune and you feel dull,
bilious, constipated, take a dose ot
Hood's Pills
And you’ll be all right In the morning
The Geneva Ophthalmoscope Is
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.
HOTELS.
DE SO 10. Savannah, Ga.
OPEN ALL THE YEAR.
150 rooms with south and southeast
exposure; 300 feet broad and spacious
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70-72 West 49th Street, New York City.
Suites of two and three rooms, with
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Table a specialty. ,i. id! 1'
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