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The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for
showers, with fresh south winds.
Senator Fairbanks has at least one
qualification for Vice President. He
can sit still and say nothing as long
as any other man. .
Meanwhile, Senator Fairbanks shows
no Inclination to resign. He doubtless
figures it out that an office in hand is
worth more than one in prospect.
It is said the Republican Congres
sional Campaign Committee will not
send a great deal of literature Into the
South this year. It Isn't worth while
ts send any.
The apathy in the Republican ranks
may be in some measure due to the
report that Chairman Cortelyou has
found It very difficult to raise cam
paign funds.
The visiting mayors are cordially in
vited to pay some attention to our
trees, grass plots and flower beds, and
see how these things tend to the beau
tifying of a city.
Senator Hodge told a Massachusetts
audience that reciprocity is a Repub
lican measure. He failed to tell the
people that Republican reciprocity
doesn't reciprocate, but they have
found It out and are disposed to ask
embarrassing questions about it.
Hast week was the banner week at
the St. Houle Exposition. During six
days 600,000 people were admitted to
the grounds. Hast Sunday. It is stat
ed, the railroads and steamboats car
ried more than ttoo.ooo people to Coney
Island. If the fair could get Coney
Island crowds every day, its success
would be assured.
The venerable George ft. Bout well of
Maine, who the other day at the age
of 86. closed hts law office and retired
from active life, was one of the found
ers of the Republican party. He was
Secretary of the Treasury under Pres
ident Grant, and was later Governor of
Maine, representive in Congress and
United States Senator, and always as
a Republican. But now he has changed
his politics. "I am with the Democrat
ic party,” he said a day or two ago.
■'because 1 have made a distinct de
cision in regard to the Philippine pol
icy, and. whatever happens in domes
tic affairs, nothing can be ao unfor
tunate s this transformation from n
republic, to an empire.'' Roosevelt
stands for the empire In American pol
itics; Judge Parker stands for con-.
•UtuilonaU government, . i
THE STOCK Y4RDS STRIKE.
The meat packers of Chicago and
other cities say they are getting all
the labor they want, but daily devel
opments indicate that the stock yards
strike is by no means ended. On the
contrary, it ts assuming larger pro
portions, and may be the cause of
widespread trouble before it is set
tled. The butchers and meat cutters
of New York will strike to-day, and,
in Chicago, the teamsters have been
ordered to deliver no more ice to retail
meat dealers of that city who purchase
meat from the so-called trust pack
ers. These retail dealers are hauling
meat in their own wagons, and, hence,
so far as a meat supply is concerned,
are independent of the union drivers.
But they cannot get along without ice.
and it is a question whether they will
be able to get it. They have to de
pend upon their own wagons.
There is no doubt that the strikers
intend to resort to every lawful means
to win the strike. Having failed to
accomplish their purpose, and seeing
they were in danger of being defeated,
they have now called upon other
unions for assistance, and they are
getting it. How far these sympathetic
strikes will extend, it is of course Im
possible to say, but the ]<mmptness
with which the Now York butchers
and meat cutters, and the Chicago
teamsters, have responded to their ap
peal for help justifies the conclusion
that many thousands of other toilers
will lend the stock yards strikers a
helping hand, if an adjustment of the
differences between the packing houses
and their employes is not made soon.
These labor troubles are giving the
President and other Republican lead
ers a great deal of trouble. The strik
ers expect the President to take sides
with them against their employes and
if he fails to do so he will lose a great
many votes. He understands that this
is the ease, and it ts probable that,
m a quiet way, he is doing what he
can to bring the stock yards strike to
an end.
Of course, there is no legal way in
which he can interfere between the
strikers and their employes, but the
strikers seem to think there Is. They
know that he interfered on behalf of
the strikers in the great coal strike,
and effected a settlement of it that
was satisfactory to the miners, and
they cannot understand why he can
not do the same thing for them. Per
haps he is beginning to realize now
that the course he pursued in the coal
strike, much as he has been praised
for it by his admirers, was not alto
gether wise. He made a precedent at
that time that may have a "very hurt
ful effect upon his political fortunes.
The famous "Mother” Jones deliv
ered an address before the Central
Federation Union in New York on
Sunday, in which she said-: ~”R is
your business to serve notice upon
President' Roosevelt that unless he
sends those miners in Colorado back
to their homes as free citizen* be wott't
get’ a labor vote in New York city.”
She had reference to the union min
ers of Colorado who were deported by
the state authorities for alleged acts
of violence during the great strike
In that state of the employes of the
mine owners. That strike is not yet
settled.
"Mother" Jones is not a - person of
much importance, ft is true, hut there
is.no doubt that she is gifted with a
good deal of common sense, and in
• strike times gives expression to much
that is in the minds of strikers. , if
the President should be called on by
the stock yards strikers =to assist them
in their fight with their employes, and
should take the position .that he
couldn’t lawfully Interfere,, the prob
abilities are that he would lose" a big
percentage of the labor vote—the vote
he has been trying to got ever since
it pecame certain that fie would be
a candidate for the presidency.
STII.I, A DEFICIT.
. It seems from statements sent out
from Atlanta that even with the ap
propriation for public schools reduced
to $900,000 there will he a deficit of
$225,000, if all of the proposed appro
priations are made. Does the Heglsla
ture mean to adjourn without making
an effort to bring the appropriations
within the state’s income?
If so, what is to be said of the leg
islature? That it was not equal to the
responsibilities placed upon it? The
next legislature will have to meet the
deficit, and it Is a safe prediction that
the pressure for big appropriations will
be as great upon It as it has been
upon this. The tax rate has (been tlxed,
and it is pretty clearly known what
the state's income .will be. Why not
bring the appropriations within that
limit? Is there any other reason than
that the legislature finds itself unable
to perform the task?
It may he said, of course, that the
Begislature proposes that the Governor
shall borrow $225,000 or $250,000 when
the exact amount of the deficiency is
discovered. Rut the objection to that
is that Interest will have to be paid
on the debt, and the debt will steadily
Increase unless the next Hegislature
has more backbone than this one
seems to have.
The wise thing for the state to do is
to pay as it goes. It is a mistake to
create <a floating debt with the expec
tation of paying it at some indefinite
time in the future. Besides, it is a
question whether a debt thus created
is a legal one. The constitution for
iblds the creation of debts. Of course
It is posalhle unknowingly to appropri
ate more money than the amount of
the state's income, hut the Hegisla
ture has been put on notice that if it
makes certain appropriations the state
will not have enough money to pay
them by at least $225,000.
This Hegislature will make an un
enviable record If it adjourns without
adjusting the appropriations to the
.Hate's income. It has held three ses
s ons. and If it crqajes a floating debt
of $225,000. one of the most conspicu
ous things It will have to show for
Its work will b the debt. The debt
undoubtedly will Impress Itself more
forcibly upon the minds of the peo
ple than any other thing.
Gaston and Gwinnett streets, east,
will not he especially pointed out to.
tiie mayors m show places. , „
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 10. 1904.
SALARIED r THE .H'DGK.t
The action of the Legislature, in
passing the comas hill, increasing the
salaries of the Supreme and Superior
Court Judges, will be generally ap
proved. We have many times called
attention to the small salaries of the
juMges of this state and expressed the
opinion that the people would approve
an increase of them.
The increase is small, but it will
enable those Judges who depend
wholly upon thejr salaries to live more
comfortably. The Supreme Court
judges will now receive 84.000 and the
Superior Court judges 83,000 a year.
These salaries will not permit of any
extravagance. They mean plain liv
ing.
No doubt the salaries of the judges
would have been increased long ago if
there had not been so many other de
mands upon the state which, in the
opinion of the legislature were superior
to those of the judges. The pension
claims and the schools make heavy
drafts upon the state's income. It is
thought the pension charge has reach
ed the high water mark, and in the
course of a very few years will be
much less than it is now. It will he
possible then for the state to be more
liberal with Its judges and its charita
ble and educational institutions.
One argument that has been urged
against an increase in the judges' sal
aries is that the state wouldn’t get
better judges if it paid higher salar
ies. The argument isn’t a sound one
for the reason the judges should be
paid somewhere near what their serv
ices are worth, not the smallest price
for which their services can be ob
tained.
Georgia has a very able judiciary.
The judges of the Superior as well as
the Supreme Court compare favorably
with those of any other state. The
wonder is that men so able in their
profession are willing to accept salar
ies so small. The explanation ts of
course that they desire the honor of
being on the bench, and find the work
<iongenial. The higher salaries will
not bring to the bench men better
qualified for their duties because the
Judges have been, and are, among the
ablest and best men of the legal pro
fession, but the judges will feel they
are being dealt with more fairly and
the people will feel that an act of long
delayed justice has been done.
THE BISHOP’S ANSWER.
It was expected that Bishop Potter
would reply to those who are criticis
ing him for taking part in the cere
monies with which a saloon on anew
plan w r as opened in New York city—
the saloon known as the Subway Tav
ern. What he says contains a great
deal of common sense.
He says he does not approve the sa
loon, does not advocate it, but he rec
ognizes the fact that it is here, and to
stay, if it can be deprived of some
of its worst features he believes it to
be the .duty of all good people to as
sist in depriving it of them.
Everybody doesn’t go to the saloon
for the purpose of getting intoxicated.
Some go there simply to meet friends
and talk of current events. They want
a little social life and they find tt there.
Indeed, they go to the saloon just as
men in belter circumstances go to their
clubs. Others go to meet appointments
and still others for other purposes.
Therefore the saloon has features to
which there are no objections. But it
-has objectionable features. It often,
sells impure drinks simply because
there js more money in that kind; it
encourages men to drink because the
purpose of its proprietor is to make
. all the money he can out of his busi
ness; it sells to men already intox
icated, and, hence, helps to increase
their degradation. It does all of these
and other objectionable things.
The Subway Tavern, which Bishop
■ Potter helped to dedicate, aims to get
rid of most of the objectionable fea
tures while preserving the unobjec
tionable ones. In other words, the
new kind of a saloon aims at a
refornjation of the saloon business—a
reform that will be beneficial to pa
trons of saloons.
Whether or not it will be a success
remains to be seen. If it is, there isn’t
any reason why it shouldn't be en
couraged. Those who oppose the reform
and critivse the Bishop have nothing
to offer in place of it. They simply
condemn the saloon, and the saloon is
not affected by their condemnation.
They neither shut up the saloon nor
attempt to reform it. It looks, there
fore, if Bishop Potter were doing more
good, so far as the liquor evil is con
cerned, than his critics.
SENATOR VEST.
George Graham Vest of Missouri,
whose death is chronicled this morn
ing, had for years been one of the
conspicuous figures In American his
tory. As an orator he had few equals,
and when he arose in his place in the
Senate to make an address he com
manded the attention of the whole as
semblage. A contemporary, referring
recently to Senator .Vest's serious 111-
'ness, said that when he died the last
of the great orators of the ante-bellum
school would have passed away. Mr.
Vest spent nearly the whole of his
manhood In active polities, having been
in public life from the time he was
23 years old until about n year ago.
He was a member of the Confederate
House of Representatives and later of
the Confederate Senate, facts to which
he referred with pride whenever occa
sion arose during his several terms as
United States senator. Mr. Vest's
name Is not prominently coupled with
any great achievement, but he will be
remembered as an earnest partisan
and an eloquent spokesman for what
ever he believed to be right.
In New Jersey the other day a man
was struck by lightning and knocked
senseless. Friends hurriedly tore open
his clothes for the purpose of apply
ing restoratives. On the man's back
was found n cross in blue. It was
Immediately hailed • a freak of the
electric stroke and much wonder was
expressed. ' When the man came to hta
senses he said, "Oh, quit your non
sense, that'* tattooed."
—— ■ i—■
There Isn't another city In the South
that could make such an automobile
turn-out a* that which will be en on
the streets of Savannah to-day,
Another paragraph has been added
to the literature of the Vardaman-
Roosevclt controversy. Tt is supplied
by Gov. Vardaman in a letter to the
editor of the Anderson <S. C.) Daily
Mail, and reads: “There was nothing
In that editorial offensive to Mrs.
Roosevelt or that reflected upon her in
the least. I simply undertook, upon
scientific grounds, an explanation of
Teddy’s degeneracy and genera] cuss
edness, without holding his ancestors
responsible for it. X thought I owed
it to his ancestors. Really I should be
ashamed to charge the devil himself
with the responsibility of the infamy
of that distinguished accident.”
A savory bunch of frauds In con
nection with irrigation schemes out
West is predicted for the near future.
Whether or not government officials
will be involved in the frauds does
not yet appear, hut a Washington dis
patch says that something of the sort
would not be surprising. The ma
jority of the frauds take the form of
the floating of water rights companies
and the selling of worthless rights
to poor people who are seeking homes
on lands to be reclaimed by irriga
tion.
In Washington the other day a thief
stole one of Congressman Claude Swan
son's speeches. The police caught him.
It is to be hoped Congressman Swan
son will see to it that the fellow's ad
dress is put on the Congressional Rec
ord mailing list, so that he may have
his fill of speeches. The incident, by
the way, illustrates the fact that there
is no accounting for the perversity of
human nature. Why anyone should
want to steal a congressman’s speech
passes all understanding.
Finding that there is nothing to be
said against Judge Parker, the Repub
lican organs are now using extra space
in telling how bad Tom Taggart and
David B. Hill are. These organs seem
to overlook entirely the fact that In
their own party there are many men
much more in need of whitewashing
than Taggart and Hill. A party that
owns Payne, Clarkson, Heath and Ad
dlcks should never accuse anybody
else of questionable politics.
PERSONAL.
—Assistant Postmaster Patrick
O'Brien of St. Paul is a man after Un
cle Russell Sage's own heart. He has
been employed in the St. Paul post
office for thirty-one years and has just
started on his first vacation. Though
urged every year to take a rest, he has
always refused. He was finally forced
into it through a conspiracy on the
part of Postmaster McGill and some of
his co-workers. They told Mr. O'Brien
he must take two weeks off and he
started on a fishing trip on Tuesday.
"It wouldn't surprise me to see him
back at his desk before the end of the
week," said the postmaster, "but we
have the key to his desk and he can’t
get it until the two weeks are up.”
—Manuel Estrada Cabrera, who has
been re-elected for a term of six years
as president of Guatemala, has come
to be known as “the Diaz of his coun
try.” From 1862 to 1898, when Ca
brera was first elected President,
Guatemala was in a continual turmoil
of revolutions. But for six years tliere
has been remarkable peace under Ca
brera. The republic has more than 1,300
schools, has coffee for its chief agricul
tural staple, and has mineral wealth,
besides many possibilities not yet de
veioped. Before his election President
Cabrera had been a lawyer by profes
sion and was a man of education and
culture. Every President befpre that,
for sixty years had been a military of
ficer.
BRIGHT BITS.
—No Finns.—“ Well,” said the com
mander of the Japanese force, "I can
see your finish.” "'Wrong!”, gleefully
cried the simple-minded Russian com
mander, ”b\it one of us is Finnish.
We're all Siberian Cossacks."—Phila
delphia Press.
—Eminently Satisfactory.—Medical
Examiner—“ Suppose you should have
a patient with some disease which you
knew nothing about. What would you
do?" Student—" Charge him 85 for the
examination and then send him to you.”
—New York Weekly.
—Jones —"lt is just Impossible for me
to keep a lead pencil. People are al
ways borrowing, you know, and they
always forget to return." Brown—
“ Why, I never have any trouble. See,
I’ve got a whole vest-pocketful of pen
cils." Jones—" Doesn't that prove just
what I said?”—Boston Transcript.
—An Exception.—“ Pat.” said the
philanthropist of the neighborhood,
“there is not a living creature but what
appreciates kindness." “I axes your
pardin. sor, but my nose wore as
straight as ony man's till I troied to
brush off a boss floiy thot was sting
in' the hind leg of a mule."—Detroit
Free Press.
Cl R RENT COMMENT,
The Wilmington (N. C.) Star
(Dem.) says: "The Department of
Commerce and Habor has issued a bul
letin containing a lot of figures that
are used to prove that wages have
increased to a greater extent than
has the cost of living. We have al
ways tried to he on the affirmative side
of the question that 'figures don't lie,’
hut what Is a poor fellow to do when
a lot of figures butt In to tell an open
faced fib about his salary?"
The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.)
says: "If Parker and Davis are
elected we have no reason for sup
posing that they will not live out
their terms, but if they do not, the
credit and honor of the government
will not be in danger by their death.
Parker, as President, will select for
Secretary of State a man like Bay
ard, or Olney, or one of their kind,
who could Ptep into the office of Presi
dent without danger to the govern
ment or the country. There need be
no apprehension on this score and the
Republicans may ease off and try to
think of something better."
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
(Dem.) says: "Desite’s Weekly claims
that the Democracy will get no West
ern electoral votes at all because that
section Is against the gold standard.
The West is not against the gold
standard. Indeed, no section of the
country has stood by the gold stand
ard with such fanatical zeal as the
West. The Democracy has almost
been exterminated In the West be
cause It lifted Its hand against the
gold standard. In the last election
the Democratic party got only thir
teen electoral votes In the Wwt. The
financial question has been eliminated,
and we can see no reason why the
West should not desire a dignified,
honorable and equitable administra
tion of affairs, and a return to con
•ttfutlonal methods, as much as <fc>s
any other section of the country.”
True to Each Other.
The hero and the heroine of a mod
ern epigrammatical play met In the
anteroom, says a writer in Life.
“I hope," he said, "that you have not
been waiting for what you would not
say.”
"Ah! then I will begin. Will you
marry me?”
"I cannot. My slender means do not
permit me to be separated from any
more men. But perhaps you are not
serious.”
“Certainly not. The matter Is far too
important to be serious about. By the
way, are you alone this evening?"
"More so than usual. I came with
two men. To he really alone, you know,
is to have a multitude about."
“Ah! And did you divide your frag
ments among them?’ ’
“All but the few crumbs—which I
have saved for you.”
"Then shall we dine?"
"I do not believe in eating between
meals.”
He waved his hand.
"What is love?" he asked.
She also waved her hand.
"Love," she said, “is an affliction of
the masses, un preventable except by
exclusiveness.”
"And marriage?”
"A cement—doesn't stick."
"And woman?”
"An affair of the past. Come, now,
it's your turn. What is the past?”
“Something we are all looking for
ward to.”
“And love?”
"Something we cannot afford.”
"And what is a kiss?”
“Merely an acknowledgement that
love is not perfect. If it were kisses
would be unnecessary.”
She held out her hand.
“Au revoir,” she said. "We shall
never meet again.”
He took it.
"Good-by forever," he replied. “I’ll
see you later.”
Nixon and Tracy.
"I never see the battle ship Massa
chusetts or her sister ships, the Oregon
and the Indiana,” remarked Commo
dore Nicholas Kane at the Newport
Casino the other afternoon, when the
Massachusetts w'as in port, “that it
does not recall the task that the then
Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin F.
Tracy—who, by the way, was at one
time a newspaper man and one of the
editors of the New York Times —set
for Lewis Nixon,” says the New York
Commercial.
“Nixon was then only 29 years of
age, but at the same time was the
crack man among the construction
corps of the Navy Department. Secre
tary Tracy asked him for a design for
a battleship that should be more for
midable than any then in existence.
Nixon showed him a rough draft of
a ship that he said would be the most
formidable ever launched in American
wa tars.
“ 'Will such a ship equal the best of
the British battleships’ asked Secre
tary Tracy.
“ ‘lndeed, it will not,’ frankly replied
the young naval expert.
“ 'Then make plans for one that will,’
were the brief orders of the Secre
tary.
“ ‘But we have never launched a bat
tleship of that size in this country, and
I doubt if we can find facilities for
doing so,’ persisted Nixon.
“ ‘You make the plans and we’ll find
the facilities,’ tersely replied the Sec
retary.
"Ninety days later "Nixon appeared
with the plans and showed how he had
designed a ship with about 4,000 tons
less displacement than the British
ships of the same power—a bit of
work that made him famous among
naval men. And that was how the
Massachusetts can*e-dhto being,"
'•Just Hook Wise.”
There 'is stopping at a Broad street
hotel for a. few days one of the best
known lawyers In a good-sized city up
the state, says the Philadelphia Press.
Said he last night:
'■The queerest client I ever had was
also the smartest. A few afternoons
ago he w-alked Into my office and I
recognized him at once as an out-of
town contractor who had been putting
In some sewers for our city. He had,
I knew, done the work well, but had
had some difficulty with the Councils
who were holding up his hill. With
out a word, he handed me a check for
SIOO.
"'What's that for?’ I asked.
V ’That,’ said he, 'is your retainer.’
“ 'And what do you want me to do?'
*! 'I want you to come along with me
to the meeting of Councils to-night.
You know I have a bill against the
city. It would take more time than
either of us have to explain the case
now, but I am in the right, and I
know my argument. All I want is the
help of a well known lawyer's pres
ence. I'll do all the talking. All that
you have to do is to come along with
me and look wise.’
“Well, that’s all I did do, and what
with his arguments and the fact that
there was a silent lawyer present, do
ing his best to ‘look wise,' the man
got his money—and I got mine.”
Pigeons In a Dnet.
Five hundred people saw two game
pigeons put up a desperate fight at
Ninth and Chestnut streets, says a
Philadelphia dispatch to the Chicago
Inter-Ocean. Before the birds decided
to quit they had pecked each other
nearly out of shape and when they
flew away they left many of their
feathers behind. •
The birds were more fortunate than
Fitzsimmons and O'Brien, as it was
impossible for them to suffer interfer
ence at the hands of an officious po
liceman. The birds would not take a
chance at settling their differences,
whatever they were, on the sidewalk,
so they chose for their battleground a
space at the top of a stone column at
the Ninth and Chestnut streets en
trance to the postoffice building. Here
they were beyond the reach of the re
serve policeman who guards that lo
cality. The reserve, however, was
kept busy keeping the enthusiastic
spectators from blocking the sidewalk.
What the birds did not know about
Jabs, ducks, uppercuts, swings and
hooks could be briefly told. They
fought for fully half an hour and when
they quit and flew away, several mes
senger boys, who had witnessed the
Fltzslmmons-O'Brlen bout, declared
that the birds could give these big
knights of the mitt "cards and spades
about fighttn’ and then beat ’em out.”
It Is a Rig World.
New Yorkers have often been called
"provincial” by strangers, who say
that the Inhabitants of this city think
the entire world is bounded by the
Hudson, the East, and the Harlem riv
er, says the new York Times, If
a young servant of Augustus Van
Wyck Is a fair type of the Gothamite,
the strangers are certainly right. This
young man bad never left the city up
to his eighteenth year, and had never
evinced any desire to do ao. Then,
however, some of his friends prevailed
upon him to tuke a short trip “up
state.”
He went—about twenty-five miles.
After g week he came back. E-
Judge van Wyck wanted to know what
his man thought of the outside world.
"What kind of a trip did you have,
John?” he asked.
"Well, sir.” replied the youth, "all
I've got to eay ts thle: If the world
stretches as far aouth o' here as It
does north It’s a mighty, big place,"
—According to a Japanese trade jour
nal, Bttle progress was made in rail
way extensions in that country during
1903, as only 211 miles of new track
were opened by both government and
private companies.
—Not long since attention was called
to the suggestion of Sir Oliver Lodge
that fogs might be dispersed by means
of electric discharges into the atmos
phere at high voltages. Tests which
he h“ad made were successful, though
the area affected was quite limited,
and it Is doubtful whether his pro
cess could be carried out on a suffi
ciently large scale to make it of great
value.
. —Nehemiah Murkett of East Hamp
ton, Conn., is smoking some cigars
over thirty years old. They were made
by the widow of Stephen Mitchell, who
sold these cigars, han,d-made with Ha
vana filler, for one cent each. In set
tling the estate of a dealer who han
dled them Mr. Murkett came,into pos
session of a box. While the cigars are
hard they smoke exceedingly well.
—Much attention has been attracted
In international trade circles by the de
cision of Germany to house her consul
ate at Hankau, China, in a large, new
building. This is interpreted as speak
ing for the high appreciation by Ger
many of her growing commercial in
terests in that region of China, of which
Hankau is the center. In 1901, 245 Ger
man steamers, with a total tonnage of
277,268 tons, entered at Hankau.
—Gen. William Booth of the Salva
tion Army once explained his theory
of getting work done. “They call me
a pope sometimes. I reply it is the
only way. Twenty people are banded
together and nineteen are for taking
things easily, and if you leave them to
themselves they will take the easy
path. But if you say, ‘Go, that’s the
path,’ they will go. My people now
want and wait to be commanded.”
—One summer a country house was
so overrun by ants that the owner, aft
er destroying a large ant-hill near the
house and collecting the numerous pu
pae for poultry feed, laid sticky fly pa
per before the door of the house 1n
such a manner that the ant could not
enter without crossing it. In the
morning he found his poultry feed gone
and the fly paper covered with sand,
dry grass and pine needles, over which
the ant had passed “dry shod.” The
ant-hill had also been rebuilt during
the night.
—The youngest king in the world is
Daudi Chua, King of Uganda, who is
now about eight. He holds his court
seated on a scarlet throne, with a
leopard skin mat under his feet, and
hearing in his hand a toy gun. The
British exercise a protectorate over
the young king and his kingdom, and
have established for him a sort of Par
liament, which he opens regularly with
much pomp. Little Daudi Chua speaks
English and gives state dinners, at
which there is curious mixture of Afri
can and European foods and customs,
though the royal table is supplied with
fine linen, cut glass and silver brought
from London.
—The indentification of criminals by
means of finger prints introduced in
recent years in European police and
penal establishments, says Harper’s
Weekly, is paralleled by a similar cus
tom which has been used in Korea for
centuries to identify female slaves. In
a paper recently read before the An
thropological Society of London, by a
missionary from Korea-, it was stated
that in the deeds of sale of slaves the
hand of the latter was placed on the
sheet of paper on which the deed was
inscribed, and an outline of the fingers
and thumb waS traced, whiled in ad
dition, an Impression was made of each
finger. Such impressions, which nat
urally furnished a complete identifica
tion, have been found on deeds that
date back 1200 years.
—During their investigations the cen
sus enumerators in the Krugersdorp
district unearthed an extraordinary
specimen of longevity in the person
of a very old native woman, whose age
is believed to exceed 112 years, says
the Johannesburg (S. A.) Star. She
went to the Transvaal with the origi
nal band of the rebellious subjects of
Chaka, the Zulu Napoleon. Her parch
ment face is wrinkled like a piece of
corrugated iron or a walnut shell, and
she is stone deaf, but is otherwise in
possession of all her faculties. She is
surrounded by a whole tribe of de
scendants, down to the fifth or sixth
generation, and the superstitious na
tives invest her with all the mystic
charm of immortality. She is believed
to be one of King Edward’s oldest sub
jects.
—The Hon. R. J. Strutt in his report
to the Royal Society makes an esti
mate ©f the amount of fladlum deliver
ed every year by the King’s Spring,
Bath. The element is contained in the
water and In the deposit, the latter
being richer in radium, but the quan
tity of the water, of course, enormous
ly more abundant. Asa net result
he estimates that “the annvfa! delivery
of radium by the spring amounts to
about one-third gram,” or about five
English grains. Dr. J. C. Thresh has
anaylzed the water from the hot
springs of Buxton, the deposit from
which was found to hold radium "in
a proportion not very different from
what w’as found In some of the Bath
deposits.” Probably the radioactive
element is present in most hot springs,
and is derived from rocks deep down
in the earth’s crust.
—According to the Electrical World,
the China and Japan Telephone Com
pany of Shanghai, China, was much
troubled several years ago through the
perforation of the lead sheathing of its
aerial cables by a number of small
holes near every clump of bamboos by
which the line passed. These were as
sumed to be due to small rifle bullets,
and a reward was offered for the con
viction of anyone molesting the cables.
This did not stop the trouble, and it
was finally discovered that the holes
were made by a species of wasp, which,
apparently mistaking the lead (or pre
ferring it) for the bamboo stem in
which it normally lays its eggs, bit
hole* in the Insulation and deposited
its eggs about the telephone wires.
Hemp cloth and linseed oil were sub
stituted for the lead, apparently with
satisfactory results.
—Chemical engineering necessitates
a greater variety of engineering than
all the other ibranohes of engineering
combined, says the Engineering and
Mining Journal. In designing the ap
paratus that Is employed In conduct
ing the endless variety of chemical
and metallurigcal processes every
known metal and alloy is used in every
conceivable variety of form. All kinds
of brick 'are used, sold, basic, neutral
and vitreous, glass, all sorts of pot
tery ware, porcelain, stone, rubber,
coke, asphalt, cement, wood, etc., and
these in every combination and form
which the best chemioal engineering
skill can devise to Improve old meth
ods and properly conduct new pro
cesses. In order to select the best ma
terial with which to carry on difficult
problems the chemical engineer must
have a wide knowledge of the action
of acids, alkalis and ohemtnwls under
■II conditions of solutions and heat
upon all known substance* which could
be employed to oarry on the processes.
Generally in new problem* carefully
conducted investigations have to be
made on a small euele to show conclu-
MvsUr ths bgst MfcMtocss to tiled.
After Dinner
To assist digestion, relieve distress
after eating or drinking too heartily
to prevent constipation, take
Hood's Pills
Sold everywhere. 26 cent*.
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC COT
SIMMER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE.
Effective June 13.
IS , LE OF HOPE LINE
between Isle of Hope and Fortieth St
A M 4ot p m" t> „ Lv ' Isle of Hope.
A ;“- PM. P.M. A.M. P.M. P.M.
73n S :3O 6:00 1:00 7:00
730 1:30 7:00 7:00 2:30 7:30
f; 30 7:30 8:00 3:00 8: °0
930 8:00 *:00 9:00 3:30 8:30
11-vn ? : ?2 830 10:00 4:00 9:00
11 30 i2s 9:00 11:00 4:30 9:30
iin ,2’i!2 12:00 5:00 1000
S: 00 10:00 5:30 10:30
-30 * o:3 ° 6:00 11:00
..... 6:00 11:00 6:30 12:00
BETWEEN ISLE OF~HOPE~ANI>~
THUNDERBOLT.
AM ISI VL H ° pe Lv. Thunderbolt
7 no A.M. P.M.
1:22 600 87:22 6:38
,22 •.*•: 88:22 7:38
MONTGOMERY.
Between Montgomery and Fortieth St
Lv. Montgomery. Lv 40th St.’
A. M. p. M. A. M. P M
*6-50 tf'nz 8:30 1:30
*7:53 *3 :'?5 .\ 0:3 ° ft*
9:50 .V 18 *••••
: 3 °
**?:2o .. 8 ; 3 S
11:30 11:00
,7' hr °ugb to Thunderbolt
MS-minute wait at Sandfly.
Tuesdays and Fridays only.
Between Montgomery ArThnnncrhnTP
I *' V \s' lont,romery - Lv. Thunderbolt
™ P ,' M ' A ‘ M - P- M.
6 50 3:15 7:22 3:45
*•53 5:50 8:22 6:38
.... *8:20 .... *11:00
Connects at Sandfly Tuesdays and
Eridays only.
CASINO SPEriAI.~ ~
Between Casino and Isle of Hope.
Tuesdays and Fridays only.
Lv - of Hope. LvTcasina
t. M. p M
8:80 8:00
9:80 9:00
1130 x *11:00
Connects at Sandfly for Montgom
ery.
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE. "
Effective July 13. 1903.
Leave Whitaker and Bay streets.
A.M. A.M. PM PM
•6.20 10:00 12:40 5:20
6 40 10:40 120 600
*V°° 11:20 2:00 6i 4 0
e 22 12:00 2:40 7:20
s:°° 3:20 3:00
212 8:00 8:40
-j— 2o 4:40
Leave Mill-Haven.
*k , A ‘M. P.M. P.M.
12:20 5:40
100 H:4O i;00 *6:05
I :2 ° • ' 1:40 6:20
1:22 2:20 7:00
8 20 3:00 7:49
2.22 3:40 8:20
940 4:20 9:00
10:20 B:00 ..
♦Dally except Sunday.
_SATURDAY EVENING SPECIAL ~
Leave Whitaker Leave MUD
an< r>?/ lr Haven.
P.M. p.M.
9:20 '• 9:40
10:00 10:20
10:40 11:00
THUNDERBOLT LINE. ~
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton street junction.
P e K'nnlnK at 5:30 a, m, . cars leave
City Market for Casino and Thunder
bolt every half hour until 2:00 p m
after which cars run every 15 minutes
until 11;30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street Junction 13
minutes after leaving time at Citv
Market.
Beginning at 5:63 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak station for city every half
hour until 2:38 p. m.. after which
t .J n^„ car , s ‘“ ave every 15 minutes until
12:08 midnight.
Car leaving Casino at 11:55 will run
south on Barnard street to Fortieth
and north on Abercorn to Bolton
street ~ . ..
cbLtjHinixT i.iN*r 1
s-*.?n 8:05 am " car * leave Waters
&(£ rnklnlght * V,nde eTery 20 m!nutes °ttl
Beginning at 6:05 a ro. cars leave Cltv
Market for Waters road and Estill avenue ev
ery 20 minutes until 12:05 midnight.
Through cars are operated between Market
and Thunderbolt via Collinsville and Dale
avenue as follows:
Leave Market. Leave Thunderbolt
645 A.M. 7 30 AM.
WEST RKD MNE ftlnroln Park,)
Car leaves west side of City Market for Lin
coin Park B:u0 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until 11:45 p. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market * 30 ant
and every 40 minutes thereafter until 12 o’clock
midnight.
FREfGHr AN D PARCEL CAR ’
9 ; de c ? fc j , J Market for Thunder
bolt. Cattle Park. Sandfly Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points~*:lsa. m„ l;lSp.
P • IBi
Leaves Isle of Hope for Ssndfly, Cattle Park,
Thunderbolt and all intermediate Dointa—6:oo
a. m., 11:00 a. m., 3:00 p. m.
Frelghtcar leaves Montgomery at, 5 .SO a m~
and 2:35 p m., connecting at Sandfly with reg
ular parcel car for city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight to
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of passengeia
Any further Information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be had by
applying t 0 L. R. NASH. Manager
Our Great
PRE-INVENTORY SALE
Continues Up to Aug. 15.
Summer goods must move.
Our big importations are
arriving daily and we need
the room.
ICE CREAM FREEZERS.
WATER COOLER*,
HAMMOCKS.
FLY FAYS.
RLCF. FLAME OIL STOVE*.
$5.00 QUADRUPLE WATER PITCH
ERS $5.40 EACH.
ALLEN BROS.,
Wedding I’rf.ent. Specialists *nd
House I urnlshcrs,
Pineapples for Sale.
The best for grating, preserving
and table use. Strictly fanoy
smooth Cayennes, per crate of It.
weight about 75 pounds. 15.75. Strict
ly fancy Porto Ricos, per crate of I to
10. weight about 75 pounds, $3.76.
N. B. —The digestive properties of
the pineapple are equal to that of
pepsin.
Strictly fancy Manatee Rlv r
Guavas, per six basket carrier crate,
11.50.
Shipments via express. Remit by
check or money order for any quan
tity desired. WM. HANSON.
MjMtf firal'Jtotowa,