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Base Ball To-day—Savannah vs,
Augusta.
Friday Special Sale —Gustave Eck
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Rugs—Estate Daniel Hogan.
Woodmen of the World Picnic—At
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25 Per Cent. Sale of Summer Oxfords
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“Nothing Like It”—Livingston's
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Wilson Whiskey—The Delmonico
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Insurance Statement—Thames and
Mersey Marine Insurance Company.
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The Went her.
The Indications for Georgia end
Eastern Florida for to-day are for
showers, with light to fresh variable
•winds.
The price of wheat has gone up.
The price of flour has followed. So
has the crgtt of living. It is about
time for Secretary Shaw to make an
other speech on the blessings of the
high cost of living.
Six million dollars is to be expend
ed In the beautifying of the city of
Manila. The Americans who control
the government will levy and collect
the taxes and disburse the funds neces
sary to the work. The Filipinos will
pay the bill.
French experts have found a way to
make silkworms spin silk fibers that
are already colored, thus obviating the
process of dying the silk. That sort of
thing would not be permitted in Chi
cago, where a strike would be speedily
called against the Innovation.
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Some weeks ago Charles M. Schwab
went to the famous Krupp steel works
et Essen, Germany, to investigate the
steel processes In use there. Upon
his return home the other day he
said that Americans had nothing to
learn from the Germans; that this
country was making just as good steel
as was being turned out at the
Krupp work*.
When a legislature really wishes to
abolish the free pass system It can
find a way to do it without a great
deal of trouble. In Texas the Rail
road Commission has recently deter
mined to require the railroads to fur
nish it with a list of all free passes
Issued over their lines, accompanied
by the reasons for such Issues. The
annual or semi-annual publication of
such a list would have the effect of
keeping passes out of the hands of
those who shouldn't have them.
Loeb, it Is alleged 1n some quarters,
holds hts office ss secretary to the
President for the purpose of taking
the blamd when anything goes wrong.
He has Just taken It again and issued
an explanation ns to why the Presi
dent failed to grant an Interview to
a delegation of stationary engineers.
And the postmaster at Philadelphia ap
parently holds his job for the purpose
of being rebuked by the President for
violations of the civil service law.
Postmaster McMlohael haa been caught
three tlmea violating that law, and
three times the President has admtn-
Istered a rebuke to him. But Mf Mi
chael continues to-enjoy the salary and
•nwiupttnls of tii office.
STARTLING PEVdOSi FIGURE*.
A number of times in suggesting the
advisability of investigating the pen
sion roll of this state for the purpose
of finding out whether the pension acts
are being complied with strictly, we
have called attention to the fact that
in some of the counties the number of
pensioners was startlingly large, while
in others It was so small as to excite
comment. For some reason or other,
however, the Legislature has never
thought the fact tpat counties which
furnished comparatively few of the
soldiers credited to Georgia in the
Southern armies have many more pen
sioners than counties which furnished
many times as many was worth inves
tigating.
It seems, however, (hat there are
members of the Legislature'who hieve
taken notice of this fact, and have
wondered whether or not all who are
on the pension roll are entitled to pen
sions from this state. In the discus
sion on Wednesday of the Hem In the
appropriation bill making provision for
the completion of the roster of all of
the Georgia soldiers and sailors, Rep
resentative Grice of Pulaski, presented
some figures that ought to arouse a
suspicion as to whether frauds on the
pension bureau have not been com
mit ted.
In the course of his remarks he said
the First congressional district, which
probably sent more soldiers to the
army than any other in the state, re
ceives only $25,700, while the Thirty
third senatorial district, composed of
the counties of Banks, Jackson' and
Hall receive $36,425. Banks county,
which has about one-eighth of the pop
ulation of Chatham county, and prob
ably didn't send one-eighth as many
men to the war, receives $10,465 in
pensions, while Chatham, which sent
to the war more men than any other
county, receives only $5,756. Mr. Grice
also called attention to the fact that
the Second congressional district, re
ceives in pensions only $61,835 and the
Eleventh only $56,855, while the Ninth,
the least populous district, and which
probably sent to Ihe war the fewest
soldiers, gets $118,435.
Mr. Grice gave other figures, but the
foregoing are sufficient, in his opinion,
to Justify a suspicion that there is
something wrong. It seems to us that
most people, after an investigation,
would come to the same conclusion.
Just where the wrong is, if there is
wrong, the Legislature doesn't seem
to care to find out. If it did It would
have ordered an investigation long ago.
If we are not mistaken there were
bills in the last Legislature asking for
an investigation, but they met with no
favor. It Is doubtful if the present
Legislature would order an investiga
tion if the matter were placed before
It, though one of Its members has
presented figures Indicating something
wrong that does not seem to be ex
plainable.
The Legislature, at every session, is
put to It to find money sufficient to
meet the pension and otehr charges. If
there Is good ground for thinking a
much larger amount Is being paid in
pensions than there ought to be, It
would seem as if steps would be taken
to purge the pension roll. While we
believe in paying every pensioner to
whom the law gives a pension, we are
sure every citizen will agree with us
that no person should be paid a pen
sion who isn't entitled to It. The state
cannot afford to give pensions to those
not entitled to them. It has use, in
other ways, for every dollar of its rev
enue.
A CHANCE FOR TUB ROOSEVELT
CL I'll.
There Is a pretty fair prospect th’at
the President will have a chance to
wield in Venezuelan affairs the club
he Is so fond of flourishing. Presi
dent Casto, of Venezuela, la seeking
ways to get the money the Hague
Tribunal decided he must pay Ger
many, Great Britain and some other
Powers without taking it from his
custom receipts. At least it is sus
pected that that is his purpose In the
suits which he has Instituted against
Gen. Matos for $5,000,000, for having
begun a revolution, and against the
New York and Bermudez Asphalt Com
pany for $10,000,000, for having assisted
in a revolution. This suit against the
asphalt company Is also for the for
feiture ot its charter and asphalt con
cessions.
The company says the charges which
have been brought against it are
trumped up, the purpose being to get
the asphalt concessions. Whether the
statement of the compapy is true or
not will doubtless appear In the Judg
ment of the court in which the suit Is
pending. A decision 1b expected to-day
or to-morrow.
It is announced that our State De
partment is whtching the asphalt suit
closely, and if the decision isn't In ac
cordance with the facts our govern
ment will Interfere and see to It that
American Interests are protected. Our
minister to Venezuela has been In
structed to Inform the Castro govern
ment that It will not permit an in
justice to be done to the New York
and Bermudez Asphalt Company.
The President seems to be so anxious
to dominate the Central and South
American states that there is always
apprehension, when American citizens
have trouble in any one of them, that
he will commit some act of aggression
that would put this country In a bad
light before other nations. While the
President wouldn’t like to do anything
unjust, there is no doubt he feels, once
In a while, that he would like to take
some of the republics to the south of
us by the nape of the neck, as it were,
and Rive them a good shaking and
spanking. There is no doubt they are
aggravating. If they are not fighting
among themselves they are invading
the rights of foreigners residing with
in their limits. The wonder is they
don't have more com plications with
this country and European countries.
The ceremonies at the site of the
new City Hall yesterday afternoon were
Imposing, and the great crowd in at
tendance dearly showed how deeply
the people were Interested In the event.
The bolt of Populist* In Nebraska
ought to be sufficient notice to Mr.
Watson thUt he Is lending a hopeless
fight with an awkward squad (or an
arm y
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. AUGUST 12. 1904.
WILL Rl SSJA YIELD f
It is probable that Russia will ac
cept the interpreiation of international
law, as to what commodities are con
traband of war, adopted by this coun
try. She cannot very well afford to
insist upon her interpretation. The
understanding seems to be that our
government has practically determined
that it will not agree that foodstuffs
and fuel shall be considered contra
band of war.
We have a large commerce with Ja
pan, which, if Russia's interpretation
should be accepted, would be destroy
ed, at least durtng the continuance of
the war.
While most of the vessels that have
thus far been seized by the Russian
cruisers have been British, their car
goes have been the property of Amer
icans. This question of what shall be
regarded as contraband is therefore of
very great Importance to our mer
chants and manufacturers.
If Russia were permitted to have her
way she would practically prohibit
commerce between neutrals and Japan,
because it is possible for Japan to use
most of the commodities received from
neutrals for the benefit of her army
and navy. But, because they can be
so used it doesn't follow they should
be declared to be contraband.
It may be that railway material has
properly been declared contraband, for
the reason that railways being built
by her now are doubtless intended for
the movement of troops, but there is
no good reason for thinking flour, con
signed to Japanese business houses, is
intended for the army, or that coal or
any other sort of fuel is for the army
or navy unless it is consigned to the
government.
If we should agree that flour and
fuel are contraband, Russia would
have soon demanded that cotton
be also declared contraband, on the
ground that after being manufactured
into cloth it could be used for making
clothing for the Japanese soldiers and
for bandages in the military hogpltals.
Indeed, there is scarcely a commodity
that Russia wouldn’t declare to be con
traband if she could have her way.
Our government isn't disposed to be
unreasonable. It desires to do what
is fair to both Russia and Japan, but
its first duty is to look out for the
welfare of its own citizens. Their in
terests must be given consideration
above all others. Besides, it isn’t like
ly to do anything that would indicate
a purpose to take a step backward
in the matter of International law. In
future Russia will have to follow
this country’s interpretation of inter
national law if she doesn’t wish to add
greatly' to the trouble she already has
on her hands.
PICKING THE COTTON CROP.
It is -a foregone conclusion that the
cotton crop this year will be an excep
tionally large one, at least 2,000,000
bales in excess of last year. It is also
a fact that there is a scarcity of labor
in the cotton states at picking time.
Putting these two things together,
some pessimists have jumped to the
•conclusion that a lot of the cotton lint
must necessarily be permitted to go to
waste this year; that there will not be
labor enough to harvest it.
Some few years ago, when cotton
•was selling for five cents and less per
pound, a lot of it was left ungathered
in the fields, to be beaten out of the
bolls by the rain -and blown about by
the wtinds. At that time there was no
profit in gathering the cotton. But it
is not likely that such a condition will
prevail again for many years, if ever.
The world needs a larger supply of
cotton than it has received for two or
three years. It is estimated that 12,-
000,000 bales from America will be
•needed this year to restore the statis
tical equilibrium. That means the price
that will be paid for the current crop
will be high enough to afford the grow
ers a reasonable profit. And when
there is a profit in cotton, growers are
not apt to let any of it go to waste in
the fields. They may find it necessary
to pay a higher rate for picking than
has been customary, and the naistng of
the cotton picking rate of pay will at
tract to the fields a sufficient quantity
of labor to make the harvest complete.
There is in the South a large floating
labor element. It goes wherever the
best pay is offered. It is not the most
reliable labor in tihe world, to be sure,
but it can be made to do when nothing
better offers. '
When wheat is selling at a profita
ble price the farmers of the West al
ways find a way to get it harvested.
We do not recall that any profitable
crop has ever been permitted to go to
waste in the fields, in any part of the
country. And so it will prove In tho
case of cotton this year. The scarcity
of labor may be apparent, tout some
means will be found to meet the emer
gency. t As the world demands more
cotton, the South will raise It; and so
long as the world will pay a profitable
price for it. the South will not only
raise but harvest and market the crop.
New York detectives and others are
Still puzzl'd about the disappearance
of Mrs. Ogden Goelet’s $200,000 worth
of Jewels and their subsequent dis
covery in her strong-box, just where
she had put them, Mrs. Goelet is
sure she took the Jewels to Newport
with her, and says she did not re
turn to New York until the day she
found them In the vault in that city.
How did they get from Newport to
New York and into the strong-box?
Were they ever brought away from
New York? Did*the lady, absent
mindedly. carry them back to New
York and lock them up, and then for
get all about the Incident? Such are
the questions the detectives are pon
dering. ,
Dr. Brunner’B paper on the smalt,
pox situation points out the fact, which
admits of no controversy, that the
disease cannot be fought without funds
and an effective organization. The
mere appointment of a health board,
with only enough money to pn > a few
salaries, will not cheek any contagious
disease. It Is his opinion that, un
less thsrs Is a vast improvement In
the machinery of the st’ates for com
hatting smallpox, the federal govern
ment will have *o lakt the mattar in
It is evident that something Im
portant has occurred at Port Arthur.
Just what it Is we shall have to wait
a day or two to learn. Dispatches
from Russian sources say that the Rus
sian ships m'ade good their escape
from the harbor and will proceed to
Vladivostok, where they will Join the
fleet at that station. Dispatches from
Japanese sources deny that the Rus
sians escaped, but say there was a
severe Befa. fighting. It doesn't seem
reasonable that Admiral Togo would
wait outside the harbor for months
and then permit the Russians to go
scot free. If an effort was made by
the Russians to get their ships out
side and safely away, the incident
doubtless me'ans that the situation at
Port Arthur has become untenable and
that the Russians have determined to
take desperate chances to save what
they can when the smash comes.
Anew “ray" is reported from Vi
enna. We have become pretty familiar
with the literature of the x-ray for
cancer, the violet ray for lupus, the
red ray for photography. This new
comer upon the scientific fashion plate
is the blue ray for use as an anes
thetic in dentistry. It is claimed that,
no matter how many little devils may
be hammering the nerve of a tooth,
three minutes’ exposure of the eye of
the sufferer to the blue ray will kill
the pain, and then the dentist may
go ahead with his various instruments
of torture and work his sweet will in
the formerly aching mouth without
the patient feeling so much as a twinge
or a desire to kill somebody.
The Legislature spent a lot of time
on the ballot bill, amending it, pull
ing it to pieces, putting it together
again, turning it wrong-side out, turn
ing it back ag'ain, tacking on a patch
here, punching a hole there, daubing
it with mud in one place and with
whitewash in another. And then at the
last it threw the poor bill on the scrap
heap! And there was a lot of other
proposed legislation that went througn
(about the same process. Doubtless
the Legislature would continue doing
the same sort of thing till next June,
if the people would continue the per
diem and mileage.
Religious worshippers in New Jersey
have recently, labored under some dis
advantages. At Pitman Grove a camp
meeting service was broken up by a
little yellow dog that went around
snapping the ankles of devout sis
ters as they kneeled in prayer, and
at Asbury Park a service was brought
•to a sudden conclusion by an irrever
ent beetle flying into the open mouth
of Evangelist Stanley as he was sing
ing a stirring song. The bug stuck
in the evangelist’s windpipe and he
was nearly strangled before It could
be dislodged.
In the neighborhood of Hempstead,
Tex., large droves of strange birds
have appeared in the cotton fields and
•begun to destroy the boll weevils. A
description of the birds was sent to
the state ornithologist, tout he failed
to identify the species. Further in
vestigations are to toe made. It is like
ly that the birds will prove a more
welcome helper in the fields than the
Guatemalan ants.
PERSONAL.
—Some of the well known writers re
ceived small remuneration for their
first efforts. Louise Chandler Moul
ton got $5, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,
$25; George W\ Cable, SSO; Mrs. A. D.
T. Whitney, $10; Mrs. Frances Hodg
son Burnett, $10; Thomas Nelson Page,
$10; J. Whitcomb Riley, $3,
—Pneumatic tubes now take letters
from Twenty-third or Forty-second
street, New York, to the general post
office downtown In less than four min
utes. A special delivery letter is de
livered anywhere in the residence sec
tion of the city quicker than a tele
graph message will find its way to the
same place.
—The Stradivarius of Coldwater,
Mich., was William Furey, who died
this week, aged 82 years. He was
noted for the excellence of his violins,
some of which have sold for SI,OOO
apiece. This old man loved his work
and his sweet-toned Instruments, re
fusing to part with many to which he
was particularly attached.
URIUHT BITS.
—Mrs. Asquith plays golf bareheaded
on the St. Andrews links. Reverence
for the game can surely go no further
than this.—Punch.
—The Elder Miss Srinster (appearing
at the back door) —“Tell me, my good
man, are you the person who called
here last week?" Knight of the Road
—"You don’t mean the bloke wot you
give the ’oumde pie to? No, mum, I
ain’t ’lni. ’E left me ’is ole togs when
’e pegged out, that’s all.”—Judge.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem.)
says; "Wheat .is rising by high Jumps.
Bread must keep pace with meat and,
as Mr. Root says, wc should all laugh
gleefully because It is certain we are
afforded the privilege of making Amer
icans, somewhere, very prosperous."
The Raleigh (N. C.) News and
Observer (Dem.) says: “The people
of America appreciate the sacrifice
which Judge INirker makes to leud
the contest for constitutional govern
ment. He Is a poor man and to give
up an assured salary for $12,500 for
eight years, with an almost certain
life tenure as Chief Justice of the
greatest state in the Republic, exhib
ited a. spirit of devotion to his party
that has been rarely equalled."
The Charleston Post (Dem.) says of
Judge Parker's acceptance speech:
"It is an admirable declaration, that
will appeal to the sober thought of
Americans, already weary of the frenzy
In which they have lived for the past
few years, following upon the Spanish
war and the Roosevelt era. It 4s time
we sat down and thought over the
new problems that are upon us. We
have been ’doing things,' now let us
see whether we have done well. Let
us. at least, catch our breath."
The Galveston tTex.) News (Dem.)
says: "We have lodged a protest
against the action of Venezuela In dis
possessing Americans of asphslt lakes.
The protests hitherto lodged with V>ne
zuehi have come from other nations,
and our business has been to protect
this especially unruly ward. As we
conitrue the Monroe doctrine, we can
alone reprimand and spank our wards
fot their dishonesty and disorderly
conduct. Home of these times we may
have to show that we really mean
what wa say.”
Stories of Senator Veat.
A New York paper prints the follow
ing story: The little old cabin In which
Vest lodged during his first year iq
Washington as the servant of his coun
try is still pointed out to sightseers.
When be first came to the capital city
about the only man he knew was his
friend, Joe Blackburn of Kentucky,
and to him he applied for assistance
in finding an inexpensive lodging place.
Blackburn steered him to an apartment
which Vest soon discovered was over
an undertaker's shop. Vest was not
naturally superstitious, but the grew
some sights he saw and the sounds
that floated up through his window
from the work shop of death were any
thing but inspiring to a man who had
only one acquaintance in the city. He
voiced his discontent in the ears of
his friend.
"Now, don't say that,” protested
Blackburn. “Why, you are almost as
gloomy as the last man who occupied
this room. Ah!” sighed Joe. “Poor
Jones.”
"What about him?” asked Vest,
pricking up his ears.
"He's dead now,” answered Joe. “I
remember the last I saw of him. I
came up in this room to see him one
evening at dusk. I knocked and got
no answer. Jones and I were cronies,
so I did not stand on ceremony, but
walked in. 1 ran up kerflop against
Jones’ legs.”
"What?”
"Yes, poor Jones was dead. He was
hanging from the chandelier, right
over where you are sitting now.”
That was enough for Vest. The very
next morning he started out, deter
mined to take the first lodging he could
find to escape from his present quar
ters. What he found was the little
cabin.
One day when Vest was in the law
business at Sedalia, an old soldier
drifted into his office and very blunt
ly said: ‘‘l want to sue by adminis
trator.’
Vest looked up at the man hurriedly
and seemed assured that the fellow was
not crazy. Still he had his doubts
and asked what he meant by such an
extraordinary thing as suing his ad
ministrator.
“Well, I am dead.” replied the fel
low.
"Dead?”
"Yes, I am supposed to be dead, at
least the courts have declared me so
and all my property has been adjudi
cated and divided up between my wife
and children.”
Then the visitor told how he had left
home for the village store one day
during the beginning of the Civil War.
A regiment of Confederate soldiers
passed through; he caught the fever,
rode off with them and remained in the
army until after the war, not having
communicated with his family during
that time. They, supposing that he
had died, appealed to the court and
dispossessed him of his property.
It is needless to say the soldier was
restored to his rights through the
courts.
The words which Mr. Vest spoke In
the Senate chamber after the death of
Senator Morrill of Vermont, might ap
propriately be spoken at his own bier.
In the course of his eulogy he said:
"It is said that death is the great
enemy of our race; but under certain
circumstances this is not true. When
the young, vigorous, ambitious and
hopeful are stricken down, we stand
shocked as if before some unfinished
painting or statue, where the pencil
or chisel has fallen from the nerveless
hand of a great artist; but when life’s
work is done, when the task Is finished
and we simply await the inevitable
end, death is oftentimes a friend.”
A Remedy for Her Cold.
She was extremely pretty and well
dressed, but there was a trace of pet
ulance about her manner that some
what marred her appearance, says the
Newark News. It was hot, for a fact,
and that may have had something to
do with it, but when one is speeding
along Warren street in an open trolley
car the breezes somewhat mitigated
against the sun’s rays, and it was evi
dent something else was wrong, too.
“What's the trouble; you look rather
angry?” her escort said.
“I’m not,” she answered firmly.
"Anything wrong?”
"No, only I don’t feel good.”
"What's the matter?”
"Everybody asks me that,” she re
plied; "let us talk of something else.”
"Headache?"
No; please let’s drop the subject.”
"I can tell you something to help if
you'll say what's wrong.”
“If you must know, It’s summer and
I have a bad cold.
"That’s too bad.”
"Yes.”
"Are you taking anything for it?”
"Yes."
"What?”
"Advice.”
The Curse of Whiskey.
The church folk are now arguing the
whisky question, and we men-about
town are somewhat drawn into the
frazzled edge of the controversy, says
a writer in the New York Press. It
reminds me of a story;
“Whisky,” said the teetotaler, bang
ing the deadly fourth rail with his
heel, "is the vilest drink on earth and
the most dangerous. That's what kill
ed Ike Struthers!”
"Ike Struthers ain’t dead,” said Perk
Gummins. "I saw him out In the
mountains the other day.”
"Well, no difference,” stormed the
teetotaler, "whisky is what WILL kill
him.”
”1 don't see how it can, for he never
tasted a drop of it in his life.”
"Oh, well, it's what will kill him if
he ever drinks It. You are so durned
particular a temperance lecturer can't
talk to you.”
Tommy's Suspicions.
From Leslie's Weekly.
My daddy says that when he was
A boy, he never cried
Nor run away from school to go
A-swammin'; never tried
To cut a lickin’, never failed
To do as he was bid—
(Well, maybe daddy didn’t, then—
But gran’ma says he did.)
My daddy brags a lot about
The way boys acted when
He was a boy, (Gee! but they must
’A' been most angels then!)
He says he never dared to peep
Beneath ihe cakebox lid—
(Well, maybe not; but, anyway,
My gran'ma says he did!)
”1 never tied a tin can to
A dog* tail in my Hfe!”
Says daddy, “An’ I never carved
My nltlal* wltih a knife
In great big glarin’ capitals
On the piano lid”—
(That's what he told me sollumly—
But gran'ma says he did!)
”1 never oared for circuses
An' brass bands an’ such things”
(Say—hnnest! that's Just what he
said!)
"An' tops an' devil slings
I never waited after school
To lick some other kid.”
(He says he never done those things—
Hut gvan’nm says he did!)
Bay! but my gran'ma's mighty wtae;
Bhe knew my daddy when
He *i a little runt an’ says
H was a terror Mien'
He says he never rut up none
The times he was * kid—
(l know I might to tt'lieee him. hut
My gran me say* he did!)
Lowell Otus Reese.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—ln the Russian army aluminum
horseshoes are said to have Jjeen tried
with good results. A few horses in
the Finland Dragoons were first chos
en, and shod with one aluminum shoe
and three iron shoes each. The experi
ment showed that the aluminum shoes
preserved the foot better than the iron
ones.
—Prof. Karl Pearson says that he
notes decadence of character and loss
of intelligent leadership alike in the
British merchant, the professional man
and the workman. There is not only a
paucity of the better intelligences to
guide, but “of the moderate intelli
gence, to be guided.” Dr. Pearson at
tributes it to race suicide.
—Of all European countries France
is the most favorable to longevity; of
every 1,000 persons forty-four reach
the age of 70. In Norway the number
Is forty, in Sweden thirty-three, Italy
'thirty-one, Switzerland thirty, Eng
land twenty-seven, Germany twenty
six, Spain twenty-four, Austria twen
ty-three, Hungary eighteen.
—The St. James’ Gazette says: “The
rainy season in Southern Manchuria is
not so bad as it has been represented
to be. Residents of long experience
state that while there are days in
which heavy falls of rain take place,
there are not many consecutive days
in which torrential rains are experi
enced. When a really heavy downpour
of rain of some hours’ duration occurs
it is almost invariably followed by
three or four weeks of splendid, dry,
bracing weather. There is no finer
summer climate in the world than that
of Southern Manchuria. The tempera
ture in the shade is seldom above 88
degrees.”
—lt is rumored that members of that
mighty combination of capitalists, the
Rothschilds, propose to spend 10,000,000
francs in the setting up in Paris of
dwellings for wage earners, in which
the rentals shall be extremely moder
ate and out of which the owners do
not intend to make any profits. Sim
ilar work has been done in the Pea
body buildings in London and in va
rious extensive enterprises of the sort
in a number of leading cities, but
every addition upon a large scale to
the comforts and conveniences in the
homes of people of small compensation
for hard work—people, for instance,
who resemble our faithful and indus
trious cleaners of the streets —is to be
welcomed heartily.
—The eight largest diamonds in the
world are what are known as crown
jewels, and their weight is given be
low. Some of them are in an uncut
state and others are carefully cut and
finished, so that there is a wide differ
ence in their value. The Kohinoor, the
smallest in weight, has been thus re
duced by cutting and is much the most
valuable of the lot and has been esti
mated at $2,000,000. None of these
mentioned is estimated at less than
$500,000. The list is as follows: The
Braganza, part of the Portugal Jew
els, weighs, 1,880 carats; Kohinoor, be
longing to the English crown, 103 ear
rats; Star of Brazil, 125 carats; Regent
of France, 136 carats; Austrian Kaiser,
139 carats; Russian Czar, 193 carats;
Rajah of Borneo, 367 carats.
—A 26-inch umbrella that will fold
up and go in an inside pocket without
crowding, has been invented and con
structed by a Minnapolis man, we are
told in the American Inventor. Says
this paper: This seems almost incred
ible until the secret Is told. The han
dle and all the ribs consist of fine and
very strong steel tubes, in sections,
which telescope one inside the other.
The covering is of very fine silk, which
takes up but little room. The wooden
handle of the umbrella is hollow and
receives all the rest of the telescoping
umbrella rod when shut up. A small
and light case is provided to contain
the whole, which, as stated, goes easily
into the pocket. If such a device can
be made .and sold for a reasonable
price there is little to prevent the own
er from making a fortune; there are
few men who would not welcome an
umbrella which could be always car
ried without inconvenience and which
could be put out of the way of the
borrower-who-never-retums when en
tering a public place, such as a res
taurant.
—The influence of radio-emanations
on the constitution of matter is very
curiously illustrated in some recent
experiments made by Sir William
Crookes, says the Lancet. According
to the results, if radium comes to be
a common commodity among us some
dismay may be caused to those who
wear diamonds on finding that the car
bon crystal under the influence of ra
dium threatens to return to its less at
tractive form of graphite or crystaline
black carbon. On the other hand, ra
dium may turn out to be a ’’diamond
improver.” It is well known that ra
dium emanations possess the property
of darkening transparent bodies upon
which they impinge; and now Sir Wil
liam Crookes has shown that Shis also
holds good in the case of diamonds.
The emanations not only convert the
surface into graphite but also alter
the color of the body of the stone. It
is therefore suggested that this obser
vation may prove to be of commercial
importance. For example: “If off
color stones can be lightened their
value will increase, while if the pro
longed action of radium Is to commu
nicate to them a decided color they
would be worth much more as fancy
stones.” This may add considerably to
the business of the Jeweler, who, for
a consideration, might undertake to
submit "off Jewels” to burial in radium
for a season.
—ln Leslie’s Weekly Clarence S.
Thompson writes: Of the feats done
by tramps In railways, none, I believe,
excels In daring that known in the
vernacular as "decking a train.” To
deck a train one rides on top of the
cars —a sleeper, preferably, since the
method is one employed only at night.
Its great advantage over other posi
tions is that here the tramp traveler
may squat undisturbed a<t all stops.
Flat on the car top, on the darker
side of the station, he usually escapes
detection; more often,at any rate, than
the man who dismounts at every sta
tion. Once on top, therefore, It may
be an all-night ride, for the only men
whose eyes fall on these car roofs In
the course of regular business are
those who once In a while refill the Ice
water tanks, which oftentimes open on
the roof. Either the vestibule work
on the end sleeper or the step-ladder
on the engine tender will serve ns
a stepping-stone to the car top, al
though there are men nimble enough
to scale the hight from a vestlbuled
platform. In any case, the successful
rider needs move quickly and unob
served, mindful all the time that one
misstep may mean death by the
wheels. On deck the passenger finds
security In clinging, perhaps, to a
smalt gas pipe—uot unlike a fly on the
hack of a trotter—exposed to burning
cinders, a wind of hurricane force, and
the fatal swinging of the curves. On
these same fast trains, as well as on
slower ’'passengers." tramps ride
"blind baggage” day and night. To
go blind baggage Is to ride the front
end of a baggage ear. whloh ordinarily
has a platform, but no doorway. With
the end of the car thus built solid
hobo travelers on the platform have
an excellent lounging place,out of Im
mediate eight of engineer and fireman,
and yet affording all the beauty of
fleeting landscape without any of the
inconveniences of an overcrowded day
coach. •,
Tonight
Just before retiring, it yonr liver li
sluggish, out of tune and you feel duU,
bilious, constipated, take a dose ol
Hood's Pills
And you’ll be all right in the morning
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
SUMMER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE.
Effective June 13.
ISLE OF HOPE LINE
between Isle of Hope and Fortieth St
St. Lv. Isle of Hope.
A.M. P.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. P.M.
6:30 12:30 6:30 6:00 1:00 7:00
<3O 1:30 7:00 7:00 2:30 7:30
*3O 2:30 7:30 8:00 3:00 8:00
9:30 3:00 8:00 9:00 3:30 8:30
10:30 3:30 8:30 10:00 4:00 9:00
11 30 4:00 9:00 11:00 4:30 9:30
..... 4:30 9:39 12:00 5:00 10 00
BETWEEN ISLE OF HOPE AND
THUNDERBOLT.
Lv Isle of Hope Lv, Thunderbolt.
A.M. P.M. am PM
7:00 6: °o 57:22 6:38
s i°, •••• 58:23 7:23
_ 612 minute wait at Sandfly.
MONTGOMERY.
Between Montgomery and Fortieth St
Lv. Montgomery. Lv 40th St
A - P M. A. M. P. M.
*e *2 U :45 8:80 1:30
® , 50 53:05 10:30 2:30
ocn *3:15 ...... 3:30
9:60 4:15 4:30
* 7 : 0 8 7;30
11:30 11:09
♦Through to Thunderbolt
518-minute wait at Sandfly.
♦Tuesdays and Fridays only.
Between Montgomery & ThunaerboltT
Lv Montgomery. Lv. Thunderbolt.
i P „’ M - • A - M - P- M.
6 50 3:15 7:22 3:45
7:53 6:50 8:22 6:38
.... *8:20 *11:00
Connects at Sandfly Tuesdays and
Fridays only.
CASINO SPECIAL
Between Casino and Isle of Hope.
Tuesdays and Fridays only.
Lv. Isle of Hope. LvTcastno.
V™ PM ’
8.30 8:00
9:30 9:00
11-30 *11:00
)?ry C °nn e cts at Sandfly for Montgom-
MILL-HAVENSCHEDTJLE.
Effective July 13. 1903.
Leave Whitaker and Bay streets.
A.M. p.M. P.M.
8:20 1°:00 12:40 6:20
6:-J0 10:40 1;20 6:00
VV’n IV 2:00 6 40
720 12:00 2:40 7:20
800 3:20 3:00
840 4:00 8:40
9 20 4;40
Leave Mill-Haven. ”
A - M. A.M. p.M. P.M.
® : l2 11:00 12:20 5:40
.1 :0 ° 11:40 1:00 * 6:05
1. 2 „ 1:40 6:20
‘ 40 2:20 7:00
820 3:00 7:40
900 3:40 8:20
9:40 4:20 9:00
10:20 • 6:00 ....
•Dally except Sunday.
_ SATURDAY EVENING SPECIAL. ~
Leave Whitaker Leave MlU
and Bay Sts. Haven.
P - M - P.M.
9: 7° 0:40
10:00 10:20
10:40 iioo
THUNDERBOLT LINE. ’
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton street Junction.
Beginning 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 minute's
until 11:30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street Junction 13
minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 5:53 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak station for city every half
hour until 2:38 p, m.. after which
time cars leave 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
coLltnsville uitif
eos a m - cars leave Waters
aVeDJO 6Tery 20 mlnutes untll
Beginning at 8:05 a m. cars leave City
Market for Watero road and Esttll avenue ev
ery 20 minutes until 12:05 midnight.
Through care are operated between Market
and Thunderbolt via. Collinsville and Dale
evenue as follows:
Leave Market. Leave Thunderbolt
645 A.M. 7 30 AM.
WFST END LINK 'Lincoln Park.)
Car leaves west side of City Market for Lin
coin Park 6:UO a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until 11:45 p. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 6:20a. m.
and every 40 minutes thereafter until 12 o’clock
midnight.
FREJOH r AND I'ARCKI. CAR.
Leaves east side of City Market for Thunder
bolt, Cattle Park. Sandflv. Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points—B:ls a. m„ 1;!5 p. m.,4:14
p. m.
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandfly, Cattle Park
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points—6:oo
a. m., 11:00 a. m.. 3:00 p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at 5.50 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 passengeis.
Any further information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be had by
applying to L. R. NASH. Manager.
Jonas Mendel,
Dealer In
Hay, Grain, Rice
and Cigars.
Sole Agent of
The following Famous Brands of
Fine Havana and Domestic Cigars
EI Modelo V. Guerra Dias A Cos.
Henry George John Mitchell
Elkhorn La Kama De
Borlnqune
Both ’Phones 76.
THE PEOPLE ALL
In Chorus Cried, Give Us Newbro’s
Herpiclde.
This word of late has been In every
one's mouth, and many are wondering
what the word signifies, though no one
has yet been found, who will deny that
NEWBRO'S HERPIOIDE does the
work. Well, for the Information of
thousands of people who like to know
all about s good thing, we would say
that HERPICIDE means a destroyer
or killer of "Herpes.” Now "Herpes"
Is the family name of a disease caused
by various vegetable parasites. A sim
ilar microbe causes dandruff. Itching
scalp, and falling hair; this Is the mi
crobe that NEWBRO'S HERPICIDE
promptly destroys, after which the
hair growa. Sold hy leading drugglsta.
Send lOr. in stamp* for samples to The
Herpiclde Go., Detroit, Mich.
Livingston’s Pharmacy, Special
Agents.
BOILER TUBES
J. D. WEED Si CO.