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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weatner. with varia
ble winds. Eastern Florida pariiy
cloudy weather, showers in central and
south portions, with light to fresh
north to northeast winds.
Paradoxical as it may sound, Icicle
Fairbanks is now engaged in blowing
off hot air.
When air ship Inventors have suc
ceeded in eliminating the ''if,” we shall
have aerial navigation.
“When will the Republican party do
anything to hurt the trusts?” asks a
contemporary. That’s easy. It will be
when diamonds are as big and plenti
ful as hens’ eggs.
A Western congressman the other
day applied to the Navy Department
for the enlistment of a constituent of
his of the name of Theodore Roose
velt Parker. With such a name, of
course the young man was admitted,
and if he attends strictly to business
for a number of years he may rise
to the exalted position of chief gun
ner.
“Serve and eat only union eggs,” Is
an order that has been promulgated In
New York. Such eggs are hereafter to
have the union stamp placed on them,
and cooks and waiters belonging to
unions are requested to cook and serve
no unstamped egg. But how Is the
union man at the table to know that
he is being served a union omelette?
Will a union card be sent along with
Ut
Mrs. Maybrlck is said to have re
entered American society at Crags
moor, N. Y.. the other day In a most
charming but unostentatious manner.
Isn’t It a little odd that “society”
should be glad to receive a person who
has served a long sentence in prison
for murder, and who Is now out on tlck
et-of-leave? Still, it is to be said in
behalf of society that it believes her
innocent.
A German-Amerlcan opinion of
Theodore Roosevelt: “He is erratic,
meddlesome, spectacular—Just the man
likely to do something to Injure the
country.” That is what Herman Rid
der, editor of the New York Stnats-
Zeltung, says of the President. He re
gards Roosevelt as “the American
peril,” beside which the so-called yel
low peril Is as a shadow In a dream to
th# noon-day nun.
Col. Wstterson Is not unapprsriatlvs
of th* character of the gentleman In
tha White Houae. "I admit,” he said
In his speech in New York the other
day, referring to Col. Roosevelt, "that
he Is aa sweet a gentleman as ever
•rutiled a ship or cut n throat, indeed,
very much that kind of a gentleman;
for, having hoisted the black flag over
tha flout h, has he not scuttled the ship
of civil servo# reform, and has he not
• ul th* throat of reciprocity?”
MV A\ Y AH’S COTTON RECEIPTS.
It is the opinion of those engaged in
the cotton business in this city that
Savannah's cotton receipts this year
will exceed those of any previous year.
Cotton is arriving in unprecedented
quantities, considering that we are
practically only at the beginning of
the cotton season. The season is, of
course, an early one, and that ac
counts to some extent for the large
receipts.
There Is no doubt, however, that
the farmers are hurrying their cotton
to market, believing the price is as
high ns it is likely to he, and know
ing that, if later on it should become
apparent that the volume of the crop
had been underestimated, there will be
a decline in the price.
In all of the territory from which
Savannah draws cotton the crop is re
ported to be above the average.
Weather and insects have done it some
damage and doubtless will injure it
a great deal more. Still, there will be
enough remaining to make at least
3,500,000 bales, and probably more, in
this slate.
Savannah is making additions to her
cotton territory every year, and it is
the understanding that the cotton of
this new territory averages higher in
the quantity per acre than that of her
immediate territory. It wouldn't be
surprising therefore if Savannah
should receive more than 1,500,000 bales
this season. Some of the cotton men
here think the receipts will be 1,600,-
000 bales or mora. That amount of
cotton in one year would give Sa
vannah a big reputation both at home
and in other countries.
The brokers who are handling the
free-on-hoard cotton are very enthus
iastic relative to the prospects for a
good business season. One of them
said yesterday that he had done 3(1 per
cent, more business this year than he
had done in any previous year.
In some parts of the cotton section
letters are being written to the local
papers urging the farmers to hold their
cotton. It is not probable that many
of them will be guided by' the advice.
Whether the price of cotton will ad
vance or decline in the near future de
pends upon the size of the crop, and
what its size will be no one can tell.
It is thought to be pretty certain
that it will be as much as 11,000.000
bales. If the cotton experts should
become convinced that the crop will
be 11,000.000 bales the chances are the
price would remain about what it is
now, but if it should develop that it
is considerably larger there would be
a marked decline in the price.
Farmers as a rule are taking no
chances. The present price of cotton
is very attractive and that is why they
are rushing the crop to market as fast
as they can. The probability is they
are showing more wisdom than are
those who are holding for a better
market.
After all the farmers must decide
for themselves as to whether they
will hold their cotton or send it to mar
ket as fast as it is ginned. No doubt
those who advise the holdings of cot
ton mean well, but as their judgment
in the matter is no bettor than that of
farmers of average intelligence who
keep posted as to acreage, weather
conditions and other things which help
to determine the yield, there is no good
reason why the movement of the crop
should he affected by what they say.
From the volume of cotton that is com
ing to this port it would seem as if
the farmers had decided to sell at the
present price.
not roil* novT agree.
Has the search for a typhoid germ
killer been successful? A year or so
ago a London, England, physician
named Furgeson announced that lem
on juice was a sure destroyer of the
germ, and Chicagoans iby the thou
sands refused to drink the water to be
had in that oily unless it eontained a
little lemon flulce. They carried lem
ons in their pockets so to be always
ready with an antidote for the germs
whenever they were thirsty. They
may be taking lemon juice in their
drinking water yet. but the chances are
.they have forgotten ,all about the
lemon remedy.
Philadelphia and Washington are all
stirred up Just now by the announce
ment that copper is death to typhoid
germs, and that a little copper sul
phate will clean the germs out of a
big reservoir. The announcement was
made by Dr. George T. Moore of the
Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington.
Hut there are doctors In that city
who question whether the remedy
wouldn’t be worse than the germs. Dr.
Woodward, the health officer of Wash
ington, has refused to permit boats,
dragging bags of blue vitrol at their
sterns, to be rowed over the reservoirs
of that city. lie says the copper that
would he let loose in the water would
endanger the health of all the people
of the city. It Is suspected that
Washington water, which is taken from
the Potomac, contains typhoid germs
from Mount Savage. Md., where there
Is an epidemic of typhoid fever.
Dr. Moore won't say what he thinks
of Dr. Woodward's obstinacy in the
matter, but he is still certain that ty
phoid fever that Is caused by pol
luted drinking water can be checked
in any place by the scientific use of
copper.
Just now doctors disagree In regard
to this remedy for typhoid fever
germs, but Dr. Moore has a chance to
niuke a name for himself that will live
as long as the world exists by demon
strating beyond a doubt, that copper
will rid polluted water of typhoid fever
germs. He should set about establish
ing the correctness of his assertion In
the matter without delay.
A remarkable disturbance In the
ocean Is reported from I,ns Angeles.
A few days ago great waves rolled
In, swept the shore and did mnslder
nble damage There had been no wind
beyond a slight breeze, yet the sea
“ran mountain high” The belief is
that there was ■ volcanic disturbance
somewhere at sea. Jt would not tie
surprising to hear before a great while
that some new Island or islands had
popped up In the mean, or that some
island had disappeared beneath the
wavtf
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATI RDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1904.
THE AMERICAS COTTON COMPANY.
If the sole business of the American
Cotton Company had been the manu
facture and sale of its machines the
chances are it wouldn't have met with
financial disaster, hut would have suc
ceeded in revolutionizing the method
of baling cotton. There is no doubt that
the round bale, in important partic
ulars, is superior to the square bale.
The American Cotton Company, how
ever. refused to sell its machines. It
seemed to have the idea that it had
something so good that before many
years it would be handling the entire
cotton crop of the country, that all
cotton would be put up in round pack
ages and that it would get toll on each
pa ckage.
Cotton growers are conservative. It
is hard to induce them to get out of
old ruts, especially when it costs them
something to get out. But the chief
reason probahy why the round bale
I failed to become popular with them
was the apprehension that the aim of
the owners of tho round bale patents
was to get control of the cotton crop.
Their apprehension was due, of course,
to the refusal of the American Cotton
Company to sell its machines. Th“y
saw that if the company had the gin
ning and baling of all the cotton it
would he in a position to charge what
ever royalty' it pleased for its ma
chines. and to fix an arbitrary' price
for ginning and haling cotton as soon
as all the old sty'le gins and com
presses were dismantled, as it were.
And it is not improbable that the
company included in its plans the buy
ing of cotton. If it had been a suc
cess it could have obtained all the
money It wanted for its operations,
and, eventually, might have reached a
position in which it could have largely
influenced the price of cotton for its
own benefit.
Just how much the railroads had to
do with the company’s failure it is
impossible to say. The railroads now
own about all of the compresses, and
naturally they didn’t w’ant to have this
property, which yields them a very
considerable revenue, destroyed. It
is hardly probable that they took any
direct steps against the company, hut
there Is no doubt they strove to make
the square hale more acceptable by in
sisting upon a uniform bale and bet
ter wrapping.
At one time it looked as If the round
bale would supersede the square bale,
but it looks now as if the square bale
had regained its hold on the cotton
growers and the cotton trade, and
would remain the cotton bale of com
merce for a good many years.
A STRIKING COMPARISON.
In his speech to Democratic editors
on Thursday, Judge Parker confined
himself almost entirely to a compari
son of Democratic administrations
with Republican administrations since
the Republican party came into exis
tence. No one who knows the political
history of the country can fail to real
ize how advantageous such a com
parison is to the Democratic party.
The Democratic administrations were
Mr. Cleveland’s administrations, and
throughout each of them the effort
to administer the laws faithfully and
economically was earnest and contin
uous. There were no charges of reck
less extravagance or corruption.
Said Judge Parker: “The compari
son will show that under Democratic
control the administrative purity of
the fathers was observed in the con
duct of the government, that no one
of the departments was permeated,
as of late, with corruption rivaling the
days of .the star route frauds: that
a successful effort was made to
check the growth of expenditures, that
it resulted In earh Instance in cutting
down the expenses within the control
of the Executive Department of the
government below that of preceding
administrations. The comparison will
also show that each .succeeding Re
publican administration after 1868 in
creased expenses, and in some in
stances so greatly as to indicate reck
less extravagance and waste of the
peoples’ money."
All the world knows how President
Cleveland taught by precept and ex
ample economy in the expenditure of
the people's money, and fidelity to the
interests of the people and welfare of
the country.
If Judge Parker should be elected
President his administration, by Its ad
herence to economy and faithfulness
in protecting the public interests,
would afford another comparison with
Republican administrations to which
the Democratic party could point with
pride.
When the Republican party is criti
cised for Its reckless expenditures and
waste of the public money, as indi
cated by Its 'billion dollar appropria
tions at a single session of Congress,
its leaders answer by saying that this
is a billion dollar country.
It is doubtful if the White House ex
penditures during Mr. Cleveland's ad
ministration were much more than half
what they are under Mr. Roosevelt’s.
II is certain that he didn't want stables
built at vast expense for his horses
and government vessels fitted up as
yachts for his pleasure. Under the
Democratic administration* there were
no star route or postal frauds.
Newport seems to he suffering (or en
joying?) an epidemic of Jewelry losses
this season. Almost weekly for the
past four months there have been re
ports of losses of valuable gems In that
city by members of the smart set. The
latest reported loss of diamonds is by
Mrs. Wldener and occurred at the Fisti
ball a few nights ngo. The police are
alleged to suspect that some society
swell stopping at the fatuous resort this
season has got tar on his or her lin
gers.
"A self-willed adventurer upon the
high seas of public life, having no
rudder or compass except hi* own
ambition," I* one of Col. Watteraon'a
characterizations of President Roose
velt. And It seems to fit admirably.
Reports of the spple crop from all
sections of the country are that more
apple* will be harvested this year lhan
for several Masons. That being true,
the domestic champagne vintage is
lift,
The Rev. Dr. MacArthur of New
York the other day gave the world a
fine example of pulpit hysterics. Among
other things, he characterized Roose
velt as "the foremost man in the hu
man race.” That, of course, includes
the dead as W'ell as the living. Secretary
Hay. he said, was "the greatest diplo
mat under God's clear skies," In both
of which expressions ho out-riised Ja
cob Riis. Now, when ministers of the
gospel utter that which people know
to he not true about temporal affairs,
how are the people to he expected to
believe what they say about spiritual
affairs? 'The foremost man in the
human race" must stand very near to
divinity itself. Would we like to trust
our souls' salvation in the keeping of
a man who finds a demi-god in Theo
dore Roosevelt ?
Mrs. Alton B. Parker, wife of the
Democratie presidential candidate, is
a charter member of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. Mrs. Fair
banks, wife of the Republican nominee
for Vice President, is at
ident of the organization, but is in
eligible for re-election. A movement
is on foot to confer the honor of the
presidency on Mrs. Parker. Should her
husband be successful in politics, it is
regarded as certain that Mrs. Parker
would be chosen as the next head of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Any small-bore politician, either Re
publican or Democratie, who wishes
to have himself celebrated in the news
papers these days has only to pay a
ten-minutes’ visit to either Col. Roose
velt or Judge Parker. The bright
young men who have been assigned
as reporters to wait on the candidates
are finding news mighty scarce, hence
anything and everything that happens
along is pitched upon for an item.
Much has been said in the dispatches
from Port Arthur about the torpedo
boat, but nothing about the submarine.
It is the belief that there are several
submarines in that vicinity, and it
seems quite certain that there has
been no lack of' opportunities for the
under-water fighters to demonstrate
their fitness. But, so far as the infor
mation goes, none of them has fired
a torpedo or sunk a ship.
The Norfolk Landmark recalls that
Gen. Bell, who is in command of one
of the armies at (Manassas, is the man
who engineered reconstruction in the
Philippines, and adds: “During the
present maneuvers Gen. Bell will he
handicapped by inability to work at
his specialty.” Why, there are thirty
artesian wells on the Manassas field,
and to be sure somebody has carried
a funnel along.
Mr. Watson may finish in third place,
anyhow. If he keeps running hard.
PERSONAL.
—Dr. Punkall, director of the Royal
Ceramic school at Buntzlau, Prussian
Silesia, has started on a journey of
observation and study in the United
States on behalf of the Prussian min
istry of commerce. Several directors
of German industrial schools and a
high official of the ministry will ac
company Dr. Punkall. The trip is ex
pected to last two months. Its pur
pose is to procure knowledge of the
conditions that prevail In the indus
trial schools of America and other
useful institutions, with a view of im
itating them in Prussia.
—ln his young and impecunious days
District Attorney Jerome of New Tork
teas assistant in the office of which
be is now head. Then, as now, Je
rome was a great smoker. He used
to buy a cheap brand of cigars of a
none too delicate quality from a Nas
sau street dealer. Asa bonus to a
steady patron and incidentally with
the hope of getting Jerome to buy the
more expensive brand the witty deal
er would occasionally give him a per
feoto. He didn’t catch his man. how
ever. Jerome invariably gave the per
fecto to the first friend he met.
“That’s not the brand I smoke,” he
would explain. “I don't dare try a per
feeto for fear I’ll form an expensive
habit.”
BRIGHT BITS.
—“Jimmie, Jimmie, don't you know
It's awful to say those swear words?”
f'J was dus’ splaying I was papa
huntin’ for his collar button.”—Detroit
Free Press.
—Dislocated Opportunity.—“l used to
think poor Bob Whiffles had a future
before him." “He had; but, some
how or other, he let It get behind
him.”—Town and Country.
—Sarahellen “What would this
world be like if there were no men in
it ?” Marthajase—“lt would be Just
like one continuous summer at the sea
shore.”—Chicago Dally News.
—“Yes, madam, when I sing the
audiences always rise out of compli
ment to me.” “Yes, I've noticed it.
But why do they always hustle on their
wraps and hats?”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
CI ! H HKStVoM MEAT.
The Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.)
says: “We believe that sufficient re
turns are in to justify the announce
ment that the Democrats have carried
Arkansas, and the Republicans have
carried Vermont. We believe also that
it is safe to predict that along in De
cember Santa Claus will carry the
country.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: "With great trouble Janies G.
Blaine founded the Bureau of Amer
ican Republics. With very little trou
ble Theodore Roosevelt has practically
dissolved the Bureau of American Re
publics by his lawless Interference with
the effort of the Republic of Colombia
to restore the Union of its states. So
long as Roosevelt shall remain in the
office of President there Is not a Re
public of this hemisphere from Mexico
to Paraguay that will have the least
confidence in the good faith of this gov
ernment or in Its regard for interna
tional law."
The Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem.)
says: “Discussing the refusal of a
Georgia militiaman at Manassas to sa
lute a negro officer-a refusal, by the
way. Which appears to have been
wholly imaginary—Gov. Terrell said:
“That's what 1 call true Georgia gvtt.
He Is made out of the proper stuff. ’
And that 1* what we call pure dema
gogic buncombe. When has any South
ern soldier saluted a negro. They would
not do so In the Spanish-American War
when, under the discipline of the reg
ular artnv, there was real danger In
the refusal. It was the most natural
thing In the world for the Southerner
to Ignore the pressure of a negro offl
.er overlook him If a Southern offi
cer had hustp-se dealinge with a negro
officer he met him he would meet
a respectable negro civilian.”
YnuiiK OlHcer Obeyed Order*.
A smart young officer belonging to a
cavalry corps in India was sent on sick
leave to the convalescent station of
Simia, and. while recovering his health
among the hills there, was robbed of
his heart, and in return captivated the
charming thief, says the London World.
The young fellow proposed and was
accepted, and with all possible dis
patch (he wedding day was fixed. But
the colonel of the expectant bridge
groom's regiment was strongly opposed
to ihe lieutenant marrying, and tele
graphed an unwelcome “Join at once”
to the amorous sub.
The chagrined soldier handed the
peremptory message to his fair one.
She glanced at it and then, with a be
coming blush of sweet simplicity, re
marked:
"I am more than glad, dear, that your
rolonel so approves of your choice; but
what a hurry he is in for the wedding!
I don’t think I can be ready quite so
soon, but I’ll try, for, of course, the
colonel must be obeyed.”
“But you don’t seem to understand
the telegram, sweetheart." said the
lieutenant. "It unsets every plan we
have made. You see, he says, ‘Join at
once.’ ”
“Certainly, he does, dear,” replied
the lady, looking up with an arch'
smile; “but it is you who don’t seem
to understand it. When the colonel
says 'Join at once,’ w'hat does he mean
but get married immediately? What
else, indeed, can he possibly mean?”
"What else, indeed, darling?” delight
edly exclaimed the ardent lover, re
joicing in the new reading, w'hich he
received with the utmost alacrity. So
forty-eight hours had scarcely passed
before the colonel received the follow
ing; “Your orders have been carried
out. We were joined.at once.”
Rose Equal to the Emergency.
As an old colored preacher who had
been conducting a revival meeting w'as
reaching the end of his series, he ap
peared before the congregation one
night, says the Indianapolis News, and
spoke thus:
“Brethren and sistren, I come befo’
you all wholly unprepared with my
text. I hab been preaching’ all so’ts
of things, and to show the brethren
and sistren that I have not said all
that I know, I will ask that some
membah of this congregation suggest a
subject and I will preach about it to
you.”
For several minutes there was an
embarrassing silence while the minis
ter scowled over the top of his glasses,
waiting for someone to propose a
topic. No one seemed anxious to take
advantage of the opportunity, until fi
nally a little fellow in the back part
of the church yelled out, “Pills.” There
was a snicker as the preacher cle’ared
his voice and said:
“Pills. I hab been requested by
some membah of dis congregation to
discourse befo’ you all on ’pills.’ Now,
brethren and sistren, I am not familiah
wid the ways of medicine for I am a
preacher man, but as I said I would
talk on any subject that was proposed,
‘pills’ will be my text. Now, to begin
with, there are quinine pills, calomel
pills, big pills and little pills, and a
thousand kind of other pills what the
doctor do prescribe when the flesh am
sick. But I propose to talk to you
about de kind of medicine what de
soul needs when it am sick —gos-
pills.’ ”
Defeated by William*.
John Sharp Williams, the able lead
er of the minority in the House of Rep
resentatives, makes no claim to per
sonal beauty, says an exchange. On
the contrary, he does not resent being
alluded to as the homeliest man in
Congress.
Mr. Williams recently visited Ken
tucky on a political mission. He was
cordially greeted by all the leading
politicians of the state and fully sus
tained his reputation as a gifted
statesman.
A blunt, outspoken old farmer when
introduced to Mr. Williams surveyed
the latter critically and then said:
“Mr. Williams. I hope you are smart
er than you look. We thought when
we elected ‘Dave’ Smith to Congress
from the Fourth District that he would
be the ugliest man in the House. We
were unanimous on that question un
til we saw you. Now some dissension
has arisen.”
On the Wrong Side of the Fence.
Santos-Dumont tells this story, ac
cording to the Boston Post: “A luna
tic leaned over the fence of the asylum
gerunds, watching a repair job that
was going on. Finally he took the pipe
from his mouth, blew .a fragrant cloud
of smoke into the air, and said with
a languid interest to the middle-aged
man who was digging a hole with a
spade in the hard, stony soil:
“ ’What wages do you get, friend?’
" 'Six dollars a week,’ said the labor
er. and he unknotted the red handker
chief that encircled his neck and wiped
the sweat from his face.
“ 'Are you married?’ continued the
limatic.
“ 'I am,' said the laborer, ‘and I am
the father of eleven young children be
sides.’
“The lunatic, puffing his pipe, mused
a little while. Then he said:
“ ‘l’m thinking, friend, you’re on the
wrong side of the fence.’ ”
Not Snch n Long-Wisded Family.
At a banquet in Raleigh, N. C., re
cently, J. R. Young, State Insurance
Commissioner, told this story, whh h
an agent had given him of his ex
perience with a cotton planter who had
decided to insure his life and was filling
In the usual printed list of quett’or s.
“When he came o the stereotyped
queries, ’Age of father, if living,’ and
‘Age of mother, if living,’ lie thought
a little while, and then nut down ics
father's age at 117 yet.-a and his moth
er's at Hit.
“ ‘By Jove,’ said the agent, ‘you come
of a long-lived family, don't you?'
‘“Why, no, not parflM'.vr, the plan
ter replied.
“ ’But your father and mother—’
‘“Oh. they're dead,' ih* planter in
terrupted. 'They died young But the
paper asks for their age “if living,” so
that is what I put down. ”
The Land of “Pretty goon.”
From the King's Own.
I know a land where the streets are
paved
With the things we meant to achieve;
It is walled with the money we meant
to have saved.
And the pleasures for which we
grieve.
The kind words unspoken, the promises
broken,
And many a coveted boon
Are stowed away there In that land
somewhere —
The land of "Pretty Soon."
There are uncut Jewels, of possible
fame.
Lying about In the dust.
And many a noble and lofty aim
Covered with mold and rust.
And, oh, this place, while It seems so
near.
Is further away thsn the moon!
Though our purpose |* fair. yet w* nev
er get there—
The land of “Pretty Soon.”
It Is further at noon than it It at dawn
Further nt night than at noon;
Oh! let ut beware of that land down
there—
The land ol “Pretty boo*/
RAMMED SIB WAY STATION.
From the New York Sun.
Two young women driving an elec
tric automobile down Broadway about
10 o'clock last night, lickcty split, pull
ed up at the southeast corner of Fif
tieth street just in time to avoid flat
tening an indignant fruit vendor who
regarded them darkly and called them
names in the dialect of Calabria.
She who handled the controller rock
ed in her seat and looked at the new
subway station on the corner with ob
vious disapproval.
“Do you dare me to butt into the
ugly thing, Charlotte?” she said to her
companion.
“Sure,” said Charlotte, cheerfully.
“Ram it good and hard.”
The driver backed the machine and
sent it ahead like a shot. It smashed
into the little house of steel and glass.
The two women were thrown out but
got up unhurt, laughing gayly. The
auto was a sight. The collision had
knocked the canopied top off the frame
and the machine was wrenched out of
all resemblance to an auto.
“Guess Jim’ll have a fit when he sees
his little wagon, won’t he?” remarked
Charlotte, gazing at the wreck eriti
callv.
Then the happy pair boarded a north
bound Columbus avenue car.
Five minutes later, when a crowd
had gathered, a young man carrying
a heavy load with dignity and decorum
appeared in a cab. He took a look at
the battered machine and cursed fer
vently. To the cop who approached
him he said:
“I was with those two girls in
Pabst's place on the Circle. We had a
few highballs and things. When we
got ready to leave, the girls went out
ahead. I was detained paying the
waiter. When I got outside I saw the
machine streaking it down the street.
Then I hired a cab and gave chase, and
here I am.”
"Here you are,” repeated the cop.
“Now, if you will tell me the names of
these frisky ladies I'll pinch ’em for
VO’.:.”
“Thev're Charlotte and Harriet —”
said the young man, and stopped sud
denly. “Never mind, They're good
fellows. I wouldn’t have ’em arrested
for two machines, but I call it rotten
hard luck, that’s what I call it.”
"So do I,” said the sympathetic cop.
An express wagon removed the
wrecked machine. The young man sat
mournfully on the front seat with the
driver.
OYAMA’S FIRST WIFE.
From the Springfield Republican.
Field Marshal Oyarna, the soldier, is
much before the public eye just now,
but not so much is known of Iwawo
Oyama, the man. He was born a
member of the Kagoshima clan iin 1841,
and when only four was taken away
from his mother to be brought up ac
cording to the traditions of the sam
urai. Every winter until he was 10
he went barefoot in the snow, clad in
the thinnest of garments, to accus
tom himself to hardship. At 10 he
went into his first battle, and war
has been his occupation since, although
he says that he does not like it, and
that only the irony of fate has made
him follow it. He was Japanese at
tache at the French court under the
second empire, and saw the fighting
during the Franco-Prussian War. Dur
ing the Satsuma rebellion he remained
true to the emperor, although his first
cousin was the leader of the Satsuma
clan and all his relatives were fight
ing against him. It was during this
period that a strange thing is said to
have happened, which would have ruin
ed the marquis in a Western country.
Just before rebellion broke out the
young general married a beautiful girl
and left her to go to war. Stories
came to him on the battlefield that
his young wife was disgracing his
honorable name by disregarding the
customs of her caste by going about
without her husband 'and being seen
in public. The soldier heard the stor
ies, but did not investigate them.
When the rebellion was over he re
turned home and his erring wife met
him before their home and they enter
ed together. The first Mrs. Oyama
has not been seen since that time, ac
cording to the story. The present Mrs.
Oyama is a Vassar graduate, and liv
ed for eight years at New Haven,
Conn., where she learned English, before
going to college. She was one of the
first twenty women sent to this coun
try by the Japanese government to
be educated.
WANTS PARKER'S RYE CROP.
From the New York Times.
Esopus, Sept. 7.—Mrs. N. P. O’Neil
came here to-day from her home In
Maryland to buy up Judge Parker’s
rye crop. Rosemount grows annually
about fifty bushels of the cereal, which
has never yet been pet to very profit
able use. Mrs. O’Neii plans to ship
the rye crop to her home, thrash it
there, and bottle the kernels, 100 to
the bottle.
She would tie ribbons about the necks
of the bottles, label one side “Parker
rye” and the other side "Part of the
Judge's harvest," and sell them to
souvenir hunters and enthusiastic.
Democrats. With the proceeds she
purposes to complete the education of
two sons.
At Rosemount to-day she said she
must Wave the nominee’s rye crop at
any cost, and pleaded so long and so
forcefully that it was partly promised
her at market prices. One of her argu
ments was that the souvenir bottles
would greatly stimulate the Judge's
canvass in the st'ate which she said
had a weakness for rye in any form or
fashion.
BEATTY AN IMPEDIMENT.
From the Philadelphia Record.
“ ‘The fatal gift of beauty’ is an ex
pression that used to be a great fav
orite with the writers of cheap fic
tion." said a professor in one of the
business colleges. “Asa matter of
fact, it contains more truth than fic
tion. Every year we turn out a lot
of young girls who are equipped to
take positions as stenographers, type
writers and bookkeepers, and i have
frequently noted that the pretty ones
those who possess the aforesaid 'fatai
gift of beauty,’ have a hard struggle
to get positions. Take two girls, one
pretty and attractive, and the other
plain and homely, and in applying for
a position, although they may be pos
sessed of equal ability, the homely
girl stands the better chance of get
ting the Job. Lots of professional and
business men are afraid of pretty girls
and lots of them have Jealous wives'
For his own peace of mind the man
with a jealous wife will choose the
ugliest girl he can find, so long as she
can do his work. That’s whv I say
that ’the fatal gift of beauty' has some
foundation in fact.”
WEDDED NINETY-TWO YEARN.
From the New York Bun.
Waelder, Tex., Bept. 4.—The oldest
married couple In the United States
are believed to he James Davis and
wife, negroes, who live one mile from
here, 'nicy celebrated the nincty-sec
ond anniversary of their marriage a
few days ago.
Davis is 116 years old snd his wife is
11 years old He was born In Jen**
county, Georgia, and his wife was
horn at Mount Kellers, G*. They
spenl seventy years In slavery. Their
. Mrs Karsh D&v|(, brought
them No this region In iB6O a son of
Mrs, Davis lives ne*r here and he has
a record of <he birtfi and marriage of
this count* handed dawn from hi*
r~~* i T-giwr
Salt Rheum*
You may call It eczema, tetter or mil*
crust. *
But no matter what you call it, this *ki n
disease which comes in patches that burn
itch, discharge a watery matter, dry and’
scale, owes its existence to the presence of
humors in the system.
It will continue to exist, annoy, and per
haps agonize, as long as these humora
remain.
It is always radically and permanently
cured by ’
Hood's Sarsaparilla
which expels all humors, and is positively
inequalled for all cutaneous eruptions. r
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
SUMMER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE.
Effective June 13.
ISLE OF H6PE~LiNE ”
petween lsle °f Hope and Fortieth St
i' V m * °Lv. Isle of HopeT
A : M ' P- M - DM. A.M. P.M. PM.
6:30 12:30 6:30 6:00 1:00 7:00
730 1:30 7:00 7:00 2:30 7:30
8:30 2:30 7:30 8:00 3:00 8:00
.? 52 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 4:30 930
< : ®2 9S# 12:00 5.00 10 00
2 :0 ° 8:30 10:30
***** .* 11:30 *... ....
BETWEEN ISLE OF HOPE AND *
THUNDERBOLT.
Ay. sie p°M Hope x ™ er p°iF
6:00 87:22 6:3*
s? 2 yt §8:22 7:38)
_ 812 minute wait at Sandfly.
MONTGOMERY '
Between Montgomery and Fortieth St
lA,V'?lont“omer I A ,V '? lont “ omer > r ' Lv 40th StT
A ; .W- D M. a. M. P. M.
4.52 J 2 „ 48 8:30 1:30
•7 6 3 , !2: ? 8 10:30 2:30
7 . 5 A * 3 5 3:30
9-50 m*r\\ > 43 0
’ ’; ’ ’ 81’30 11:00
’Through to Thunderbolt.
wait Sandfly.
••Tuesdays and Fridays only.
Between Montgomery & Thunaerbolt.
I ; V ’^ ontsomer y' Lv. Thunderbolt
P M ’ A ’ M ' P. M.
6 50 3:15 7:22 345
'•53 5;50 8;22 6:3*
„ J :pß 7:3*
’l’’ 8:29 *11:00
Connects at Sandfly Tuesdays and
Fridays only.
CASINO'SPECIAL’
Between Casino and Isle of Hope.
Tuesdays and Fridays only
IjV - B®* e ot Hope. Lv. Casino. ~
F. M. PM
? 39 8: 00
, 9 ' 39 9:00
88'30 *11:00
Connects at Sandfly for
ery.
SJTLL-HAVEN SCHEDULE'
Effective July 13, 1903.
Leave Whitaker and Bay streets"
A.M. A.M. PM PM
Tin 5° n :0 ° 82:40 5:20
.7-nn 8:20 6:00
<OO 11:20 200 640
M 2 I 3 :" 2*o U2O
5.2® ■ 3:20 8:00
920 4 4 ;4 ° 0 ° * 49
. ~ Leave Mill-Haven.
A. M. A.M. P.M P M
7 ; 00 12:29 5 49
•7 ?n 11:49 1:00 *6:05
I'. 2 " 1:40 6:20
It? 2:20 7:00
STS 8:00 7:40
io:2o ::::: 9:09
•Dally except Sunday.
_SATTTRDAY EVENING SPECIAL. ’
L ^T?' hi lf. ker Leave Mill
and Bay feta. Haven.
?■.%
10-40 10:20 '
8? 49 11:00
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
i v , h,c i’ cara run every 15 minutes
until 11:30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street Junction 13
minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 6:53 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak station for city every half
hour until 2:38 p. m.. after which
cara lo . ave every 15 minutes until
12:08 midnight.
Car leaving Casino at 11:65 will run
south on Barnard street to Fortieth
and north on Abercorn to Bolton
street
COr.I.INSYTLLE LINE.
Beginning at 6:05 a. m„ cars leave
waters road and Kstill avenue every
20 minutes until 1v45 p. m„ after
which cars leave every 15 minutes,
commencing at ?:07 p. m., until 12:23
midnight.
Beginning at 6:05 a. m.. cars leave
City Market for Waters road and Es
till avenue every twenty minutes until
1:45 p. m., after which Thunderbolt
ears leave every 16 minutes, com
mencing at 2:00 p. m., connecting
with Collinsville cars at Bolton and
Ott streets. Last car leaves market
at 12:00 midnight.
WEST END TINE ITlnroln Park.)
Car leaves west side of City Market for Lire
com l ark 6.n0 a. m. and ©very to minutes
thereafter until 11:45 p. m. y
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 6:30a. tc.
and every 40 minutes thereafter until 12 o'clock
midnight.
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR ’
east side of City Market for Thunder,
bolt, Cattle Park. Sandfly. Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points—B:ls a. m„ 1;15 p. m 6:15
p. ID.
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandfly. Cattle Park,
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points—l'
a. m., 11:00 a. m.. 8:00 p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at 5.50 a m
and 2:35 p. m., counseling 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 passengem
Any further information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be had by
applying to L. R. NASH. Managet
Who Was the First?
To use electric lights?
To run by electricity?
To lithograph?
To emboss?
To fold by machinery?
To set type by ma
chinery?
The Oldest and Most
Progressive Printers
in Savannah,
THE MORNING NEWS,
J- H. CSTILL, President.
Wc Lead and They All Fallow
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