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MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 1904.
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cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for fair
weather, with north to northe’ast winds.
The registry books in Maryland'
show a big increase this year. Evi
dently Senator Gorman is going to
see to it that Maryland does its full
duty by his distinguished relative,
'Uncle Henry” Davis.
A Wllkesbarre court has declared
that a man who deserted his wife and
daughter must pay the keeper of the
house where the*' boarded the sum
of $3,896, representing their board bill
lor ten years. It would be Interesting
to know just what the man would
have saved if he had remained at home
•nd made his wife and daughter pre
pare their own meals and his.
The spiritualists of Chloago, 800
•tronig. and tihe anti-spiritualists In
equal numbers, have arranged for a
spirit-producing contest. In order for
the former to make good their claims,
tf possible. The gathering bids fair
to be unusually uncanny and it Is safe
Wo say that there will be plenty of
spirits of one variety on hand, though
iot necessarily of the particular brand
requested to coma forth on that oc
casion.
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SentUor Knox closes a long explana
tion of the trust question tn this ooun
*ry by casually remarking: "In all
things President Roosevelt and the
party have been true to their truat."
4here is not a dissenting voice. The
jwbllc has all along believed that the
President -was true to the trusts that
tIM party protects, but it would be
4ntcreating to know to Just what par
ticular trust the ex-At'tomey General
referred to as “their trust.”
The servant girl problem In New
(fork has at last become so strenuous
that the police have been called In.
Edward Nottlng recently discharged
his cook, but she refused to leave and
has been “visiting” him for two en
tire weeks. Now the police have been
called In to hustle oft the uninvited
guest. If Nsw York Just keeps on
jvlthln the next decade we shall hear of
cooks and nurses discharging their mis
tresses and of the man of the house
suing out an injunction to restrain hts
servants from putting him oft the
premises.
And now a howl cometh from Pitts
burg, Pa., because Chairman Cortel
you, after Inciting a prominent'march
ing club of that city to New York to
participate in a Republican procession,
failed to give them anything but “a
big stick und a can of coal oil from
which to make a torch." What, we
usk, could the esteemed chairman have
given them that would have been more
significant? The Big Stick is already
notorious, and what la more pregnant
with warlike atrenuoalty than a can
of kerosene and a match! The Pitts
burg supporters of militarism should
not complain in the least.
HAILKOAD ACTIDBTTS.
'the appalling number of railroad
accidents in this country Is causing
the question of the best means of pre
venting them to be discussed.
According to the record furnished
by the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion there were 55.150 railroad casual
ties during the year ending June 30,
1904. This is an increase over the pre
vious year of 233 killed and 5.366 In
jured. In view of the fact that sev
eral accidents In which the Injured
and death lists were large have oc
curred since the ending of the last
fiscal year, it wouldn’t be surprising
If this year's record should be far
worse than was that of last year.
It will be noticed that a big per
cent, of the accidents are due to col
lisions. For the year under considera
tion, that ending June 30, 1904, there
were 6.436 collisions and 4,855 derail
ments, killing 1,018 persons and injur
ing 10,244. The loss to the railway
companies by these accidents was $9,-
303,077.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion will try again next winter
to get Congress to legislate In
the direction of greater safety
in railway travel. It is stated
that the best thing that can he adopt
ed to prevent collisions is the block
system. About fifteen per cent, of the
railroads of this country are equip
ped wrth it. The others have hesitated
to adopt it on account of the expense
of operating it, but the expense ought
not to be considered if it will pre
vent the dreadful railroad accidents
which occur so frequently. But, as a
matter of fact, would it cost much, if
any, more than the amount of the losses
of the railroads? The damages re
sulting from collisions last year
amounted to nearly 310,000,000 and this
does not take Into account the sums
that were paid to Injured passengers
and to families of passengers who
were killed.
It is evident that the memories of
engineers and conductors cannot be
depended upon to prevent collisions,
and most of the collisions are due to
officials of this class and to telegraph
operators. They become Indifferent
and careless, and, as a result, human
lives are sacrificed. If engineers, con
ductors and telegraph operators were
as attentive to their duties as they
are expected to be- a collision would
rarely occur.
Asa general thing engineers and
conductors are fairly Intelligent men,
and they are very attentive to their
duties when they are first appointed
to positions In the railway service,
but it is not long before they become
oareless and then follow the accidents.
No doubt Congress will be strongly
urged to require the Interstate rail
roads to adopt the block system. The
roads and their attorneys will be on
hand. The fight hetVeen them and
Congress will be a 'ffveiy one, though
there is no good reason why Congress
shouldn’t be successful. Congress re
quired the railroads to adopt auto
matic couplers. Then why shouldn't
it require them to adopt the block
system, if that system is effective in
preventing people from being Injured
and killed on railroad*.
ITHLIC OFFICIALS OJi THE STUMP.
There was a time when Theodore
Roosevelt was, nominally at least, as
much opposed to “pernicious political
activity” on the part of public office
holders as ever Grover Cleveland was.
At that time Mr. Roosevelt was a pro
fessional civil sefvlca reformer, and
his zeal in behalf of the reform won
him a positlon'on the civil service com
mission. But that was long before he
hand any Idea that the presidency was
within his reach. Now that he is out
after electoral votes the code of ethics
he adhered to as a civil service re
former has been cast to JtUe winds, and
Mr. Roosevelt Is gladly the recipient of
the best efforts that hundreds of of
fice holders are making on the stump
in his behalf.
The Washington correspondent pf the
Philadelphia Record enqmerates twelve
ambassadors and ministers to foreign
countries who are already In this coun
try on sixty and ninety-day leaves of
absence, most of whom are devoting
themselves to political work. Besides
these, there are some twelve consuls
at home on leaves of absence, making
the welkin ring with their speeches for
the Republican party. In addition half
a dosen other ministers, ambassadors
and consuls have applied for and ob
tained leaves of absence and will ar
rive in the United States In time to
make speeches for Roosevelt or work
around the polls on election day.
"There never was a time in the history
of our diplomatic service.” says the
Record, "when so many foreign posts
were deserted as there are to-day.”
The public business in foreigh capitals
and trade centers is being neglected,
in order that the office holders may
put In their time at political work for
the administration. Meanwhile an army
of postmasters, marshals, attor
neys, clerks and other officials—not to
mention cabinet officers and heads of
executive bureaus —are on the stump
or in the political precincts hustling
for the Boss with the Big Stick in
Washington.
It was Senator Wolcott of Colorado,
a Republican, who In 1892, said It was
scandalous how many public officials
Benjamin Harrison had working foi
his renomlnatton and election. But
Harrison never had as many public
servants on his personal political staff
ns Roosevelt has at present. And the
people are paying the expenses!
Dr. Fred W. Atkinson, in addressing
the Mohonk Indian Conference, said:
"Thirty-nine years have passed since
the close of the War Between the
States, and the negro problem Is as yet
unsolved. At the end of a like period
of time we shall still be struggling
wMth the Philippine question.” Evi
dently the learned sociologist is not
blinded by the Republican assertions
that everything in the Philippines is
In a state of peace and tfanqulllty
and that the natives are entirely satis
fied with the present method of treat
ing them. And If these Islanders are
going to glvs even half as much trou
ble as the negroes, the sooner we
aeramble out of the nnnklle Into which
Spain drew us, the better for us.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. OCTOBER 24. 3904.
THE FREIGHT FIGHT IA FLORIDA.
The Railroad Commission of Geor
gia might do well to glance over Into
Florida and see what the Railroad
Commission of that state has done for
the Florida ports. The Florida com
mission has just won the fight, before
the state Supreme Court, which it in
stituted some time ago for the pur
pose of securing for Jacksonville and
Fernandina certain phosphate rock
freights that were being shipped
through the ports of other states, prin
cipally Savannah. The Florida com
mission made an order requiring the
railroads to charge the same rate per
mile to Florida ports that they charge
to Savannah. The railroads resisted
the order, and the case went to the Su
preme Court, which has decided that
the commission’s order is not unrea
sonable and must stand.
Phosphate rock shipments from Flor
ida have been coming to and through
Savannah because of this port's supe
rior freight accommodations. The cot
ton business of Savannah commands a
large fleet of ocean steamers. These
vessels take phosphate rock at low
rates because it makes good ballast.
Another reason Is that the Florida
phosphate Industry is largely controlled
by Savannah capital. The ocean
freight rates on phosphate are, and
must necessarily be, higher at Florida
ports than at Savannah, for the reason
given above; yet the Florida commis
sion has made an effort to place an
embargo on Savannah shipments for
the benefit of its home ports.
Asa matter of fact, Florida has al
ways had a keen eye to the interests
of her ports. Years ago the state
would not permit her railroads to con
nect with the railroads of Georgia,
though the laying of forty miles of
track would have made the connec
tion; thus the only way outsiders could
get into Florida was by vessel through
one of the ports;
But it is not our purpose to criticise
anything that Florida does or may do
for the benefit of her ports. We refer
to the matter chiefly by way of point
ing out an object lesson to the Geor
gia Railroad Commission, in the hope
that when it sees what another Rail
road Commission is doing for the ports
of its state, our commission may be
constrained to look out for the inter
ests of Savannah, Brunswick, Darien
and St. Marys; and that it may re
member that these ports are parts of
the state of Georgia, and no longer
labop under the impression that Atlan
ta is the only city that comes under
Its care.
THE COST OF EXPANSION.
Judge Parker, Secretary Taft, Sena
tor Fairbanks and others have recently
contributed to the literature of the
campaign their estimates of the cost,
of the Philippine Islands to the tax
payers of the United States. Judge
Parker stated that the cost had been
about $650,000,000. Immediately there
was an uproar in the Republican camp,
and various friends of the administra
tion came forward with figures intend
ed to show that Judge Parker's esti
mate was much too high. Among these
was Secretary Taft, formerly Governor
of the Philippine Islands. He placed
the figures of cost at $180,000,000.
The disparity between these esti
mates is quite large. How is it pos
sible to reconcile them? There must
be an error somewhere. And yet it
is quite certain that each gentleman
stated what he ljelieved to be the cor
rect figures. But is it not likely that
Judge Taft left out of his estimate a
number of Items that should have been
charged in the Philippine bill of ex
penses? Hon. Edward Atkinson, the
noted statistician of Boston, believes
that to be the case. He thinks, even,
that Judge Parker's estimate was
much too low, and that the Judge
failed to Include Items that should have
been charged against the Philippines.
For instance, a large naval force must
be maintained In the islands, the force
numbering thirty or more battleships,
cruisers and gunboats. These vessels
represent many millions of dollars.
They are permanently removed from
the naval establishment necessary to
guard home interests. Their mainte
nance and the pay of their men and
officers represents other millions of
dollars. Ought not these iVms be
charged up to the Philippines? The
enlargement of the army haß been
made necessary by the expansion of
the United States Into the Far Pacific.
Should not this increased cost be put
Into the bill? Many docks and
wharves, and coaling and repair sta
tions, have been constructed In the
Philippines, being paid for out of the
United States treasury, and an exten
sive transport system has been made
necessary. Are these not legitimate
Items of Philippine expense to the tax
payers of the United States?
Mr. Atkinson has approached the
subject In the spirit of the expert ac
countant, and from the best available
information he reaches the conclusion
that American possession of the Philip
pines has cost the taxpayers of this
country not less than $1,200,000,000. And
he concludes: "It would, therefore, ap
pear that the taxpayers of the United
States are paying Over $200,000,000 a
year as the penalty for attempting the
conquest and possession of the Philip
pine Islands and the Effort to govern
the people under an imperial rule with
out their consent.”
A New Hampshire man got as far
as Atlanta on his wedding trip and
then, while arguing In support of the
claims of Roosevelt and the Republi
can party, went Insane. Such cases
are not deserving of pity. Any man
that will commit a felony by marry
ing and taking his bride to Atlanta,
and then compound it by arguing in
support of Roosevelt, ought to get some
thing worse than Insanity doled out
to him.
Gov. Herrick of Ohio has "his foot In
It,” and his own organn are finding great
fault with him because he sat down
to supper with James Sully, a negro
nttorney. It has not been so very long
ago that the Ohio papers were abus
ing the South because we criticised
President Roosevelt for Inviting Booker
to dinner. Ohio should pause and re
member a cry that went up of old,
“Physician, heal thyself,”
In order to save expenses Republi
cans of Egg Harbor simply pasted a
picture of Roosevelt over a painting
of McKinley on a large banner that
had been used during the campaign
of four years ago. But the rains came
and washed away the pasted picture,
leaving the face of his lamented pre
decessor over the present candidate’s
name. This Is a decidedly bad omen.
The face of the peacemaker and the
lover of the quiet which has recently
been painted over the Rough Rider
uniform that conceals the Big Stick
will be easily seen through, and the
shower of the ballots next month will
•how how the people treat a sham
just wash It away.
Prominent Boston women have or
ganized a club for women and guar
antee to pay each member from S2OO
to SSOO for each child born to her. Bos
ton must be getting ashamed of the
census returns or else the women have
all come over to the President's views
on race suicide. No provision is made
for these prize babies in case their
parents are divorced, the society seem
ing to think that the distinction of
being born in Boston is sufficient, cou
pled with the fact that the squalling
specimen is the product of a prize con
test.
Because the judge of the Circuit
Court in Breathitt county, Kentucky,
decided that the granting of licenses
to saloons was illegal and that saloons
must go, the city officers have dis
charged the police force. Is this to
be taken as meaning that a policeman
cannot get along without a saloon or
that if the saloon is gone there is no
need for an officer of the law? In
either case, Breathitt county has gone
back on Democracy and given aid and
comfort to the enemy by placing am
munition in the hands of Dr. Swal
low.
Friends of an Ohio man that has just
been declared insane attribute his
downfall to the fact that he was a
constant loafer, as a large Federal pen
sion made it unnecessary for him to
work for his livelihood. It may be that
the Ohio court has furnished a clue
to the secret of the actions of some
of the millionaire class and to their
desire for certain classes of amuse
ments. At any rate, anew argument
has been adduced against the indis
criminate use of pensions.
The law partner of Senator Dick of
Ohio has assured. Chairman Cortelyou
that his state will go 7 Republican. It
is now in order for Senator Penrose to
predict that Pennsylvania will give
Roosevelt a rousing majority.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Bertha—“You don’t mean to say
you have refused Frederick?” Edith—
"l had to. He told me he had never
done anything he was ashamed of. I
never oould think of marrying a
shameless man, you know.”—Boston
Transcript.
—Farmer Hornihand: I notus In th’
paper that a woman at Chicago tells
how t’ dress on $25,000 a year.
Mrs. Hornihand;.; Law- sakes! What
could any woman want with 25,000 cal
ico wrappers In ofie' year!—Baltimore
American.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: “It Is evident that the Repub
lican organs have an exceedingly poor
opinion of Theodore Roosevelt’s al
leged biographies and histories from
the fact that they never mention one
of his books. They are especially shy
of mentioning his eulogistic biography
of that great Democratic champion
of free trade, Thomas Hart Benton,
and the book in which he says the
mechanics and workingmen of Phila
delphia and other great cities are
‘not to be mentioned in the same
breath’ with the lawless and ruffian
ly cowboys of the plains. It is for the
Republican mechanics of Philadelphia
to say whether they accept the esti
mate which the Republican candidate
for President puts on their moral
worth.”
The Pittsburg Post (Dem.) says:
“Republican organs are announcing
that the Democrats are now going to
pour a large sum of money into the
campaign, especially in the doubtful
states. The sums they mention are
entirely imaginary, and intended to
create the impression that the money
power of the country is giving aid to
the Democracy. Asa matter of fact
the report is doubtless circulated for
the purpose of diverting attention
from the effort which the Republi
can managers are about to make to
carry the election with money. They
have been bleeding the trusts, and it
Is now their purpose to use the pro
ceeds to corrupt as many voters as
possible. The Democratic managers
have no money for this purpose, and
will need all that they can get for the
legitimate expenses of the campaign.”
The Baltimore Evening Herald
(Dem.) says "Every claim that the
Democrats have made against the
President in this miserable Panama
business has been fully substantiated
by the evidence in the case, and this
last bit of testimony from the Presi
dent himself disproves the fact most
insisted upon by hitnself and his
friends, that he was entirely in the
dark about a plan to overthrow the
authority of Colombia. Not only did
he know of that plan, as his letter
shows, but he considered a proposi
tion to give It aid; not only did he
know of It, but it required the re
straint of American traditions and
public sentiment to hold him back
from consummating it with American
troops. Here Is the key to the haste
of the administration in recognizing
Panama. Here the clue to its readi
ness to outrage Colombian sovereignty
In its zesl to sustain the straw gov
ernment of the insurrectionists.”
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
“It all comes right down to the ba
sal proposition that this government
Is being run chiefly for the benefit of
speciul Interests, and only secondarily
for the benefit of the people In gen
eral. If the voters are satisfied with
this state of affairs, they will return
Mr. Roosevelt, the partnership be
tween the government and the monop
olists will continue, and the average
citizen will go on paying the trust
tribute, if the voters are not satisfied
with this state of affairs. If they want
anew deal with the Idea of having
the government run for the general
benefit instead of for special favorites,
the voters will send Mr. Roosevelt and
his assistants back to private life. As
Mr. Shepsrd declares, the Roosevel
ttan administration offers very at
tractive spectacular features, but
nothing else. Do the American p>-
pl mean to rest content with a gov
ernment operated on the principle of
Barnum's circus? The administration
evidently thinks so, but It may find
nest month that the opinion 1b
■wrong.”
The Limit.
Congressman O’Neill, now deceased,
who represented one of the Philadel
phia districts in Congress for many
years, used to teli a story regarding
two friends of his who were carpen
ters, says a contemporary. These men
led very good lives, but, unfortunate
ly, they were addicted to the habit of
profanity. One morning, in a sincere
desire to cure themselves of the bad
trait, they resolved that, no matter
what happened during the <fay, they
would abstain from indecent language.
After they had been working for
about an hour the first man acci
dentally dropped his hammer, and it
fell on his foot, bruising it very se
verely. *
“Ouch!” was his only exclamation.
He made a sour face, and then con
tinued with his work.
Things went well for about another
hour, when, happening to be in con
versation with his friend, the ham
mer slipped and he dealt his thumb a
terrific blow.
“By jiminy!” was his exclamation,
but that was all. He was a hero, and
determined to keep the compact.
They had about finished the day’s
work, and ivere walking under a scaf
folding, when the unfortunate car
penter, forgetting to bend, struck his
forehead a severe blow' on the end of
a joist. It cut the skin and tore
away part of his hair.
He stepped aside, and for the next
three minutes the air was blue. His
friend listened w’ith an amused smile,
and then said:
"How about your agreement?”
"Well,” was his response, "I didn’t
mind mashing my toe and thumb, but
when they tried to take my scalp it
was time to protest.”
A l)i*t liiul*lie<l Visitor.
An official of the Treasury Depart
ment says that whenever an unknown
person of distinguished appearance en
ters his office he is reminded of an
amusing experience of Mr. Frank Van
derlip, at one time the private secre
tary to Mr. Gage when that gentleman
was at the head of the department
mentioned.
It appears that Mr. Vanderlip, before
he got well acquainted, paid little at
tention to the people he did not know,
says the Saturday Evening Post. One
day,, just after he had assumed the
discharge of his duties, there entered
the anteroom a member of the cabinet
whom he had never met. The dis
tinguished caller was ignored for some
time by Mr. Vanderlip; and finally he
entered the secretary’s room unan
nounced. The cabinet officer must have
mentioned the matter to Mr. Gage, for
shortly Mr. Vanderlip received a repri
mand.
The very next day one of the first
persons to enter Vanderlip’s room was
a distinguished looking old fellow with
a patriarchal beard. Bearing in mind
his experience of the day previous.
Vanderlip received the visitor with
every mark of consideration. As he
offered, a chair to the old fellow, who,
he observed, accepted it with gravity
and some wonderment, Mr. Vanderlip
seated himself opposite, and, with his
most engaging smile, asked:
“And now, sir, what oan I do for you
to-day?”
“Oh, nothing much," replied the
caller. “I’ve just dropped In to wind
the clocks.”
EsNentlnl of Statesmanship.
John Sharp Williams appeared in the
Hoffman House yesterday on his way
to New Jersey to speak in Congress
man Benny's district, says the New
York Times. Mr. Williams says he
is trying to overcome the fatal habit
of humor, realizing that it is a handi
cap to one who seeks to be regarded
as a serious-minded statesman.
“Henry Watterson was the first man
who aroused me to a full sense of the
dangers I was incurring,” he contin
ued. “It was when I began to get my
name in the papers outside of Yazoo
City, watterson warned me very sol
emnly.
“ 'Williams,’ he said, ‘you may have
a career before you, and if you intend
to have one you must begin at once
to do what I tell you. You must wrap
the mantle of dignity about you and
never say anything humorous, never
spring a joke, never tell a funny
story.’
"Here he stopped, looked at me
searchingly and concluded, impressive
ly:
“ ‘But If you must do it, Williams,
do it with a slight nasal twang, so
that you may be suspected of New
England ancestry.’ ’’
Wrong End Foremost.
Representative John Sharp Williams
tells of a negro in Mississippi wiho had
trouble with a bellicose dog 'belonging
to a neighbor. The darky shot the
dog as soon as he discovered that the
beast was not friendly, and promptly
found himself In a justice’s court, says
t'he Saturday Evening Post.
“What sort of a gun did you have,
Sam,” asked the. attorney for the
prosecution.
“A double-barrel shotgun, sah!” was
the reply.
“Don’t you think you could have
scared the dog off?”
“Ya-as, boss,’’ said the negro; "I
mighter done dat, only I was so
scared myself."
"Why didn't you take the other
end of the gun and frighten him
away’”
The darkey scratched his head.
“Boss,” he said, “ef the dawg want
ed me to do dat way wif de gun why
didn’t he come fo’ me de other end
fust?’’
Song of the Shiftless Man.
From the Baltimore American.
Till they git to puttin’, pockets in a
shroud, .
Till to keep our coin, post-mortem,
we’re allowed.
I’ll proceed t' shirk and shirk
All th' harder sorts of work;
I” refuse t’ lie awake
Wond'rin if th' bank'll break;
1 11 dismiss financial fear
With th’ statement “I don’t keer;
Fer they never put no pockets in a
shroud.”
Till they git t’ puttin’ pockets in a
shroud!
Oncet I knowed a man that hoed an’
sowed an’ plowed
Fer as much as fifty year,
AVhile his neighbors called him
“near:”
He would never waste a cent
Though he’d slews of money lent;
Never had no sort o’ fun—
But he died, an’ he was done;
Fer they never put no pockets In a
shroud.
No, they never put no pockets in
a shroud;
Knowed a feller once could hypnotize
a crowd
With a clever sort o’ spiel
An’ a tricky fortune-wheel;
Alwuys takln’ money In
At a rate that was a sin;
Pavin’ it "for future use”—
Death's keen sickle cut hint loose;
And they ain't no sort o' pockets In a
shroud.
TUI they git t’ puttin' pockets in a
shroud.
Till th' big financial geezers, beetle
browed,
Quit a-dyin’ Just as pore
As they was at birth—er more;
Till the hoards that we collect
Add to what we may expect
In th' blessed by an’ by,
Poverty won't make me cry—
Fer they never put no pockets In a
shroud.
—B. W. Oillllan.
TORTURES SELF TO SAVE
BROTHER.
From the Baltimore American.
Rahway, N. J., Oct. 20.—Around two
Dromios of Elizabeth, James and Mich
ael Teellng, twin brothers, is woven a
story of jailbreaking, and how one, by
scarring himself with acid and tattoo
marks, sought to confuse the authori
ties and discredit the infallibility of
the Bertillon system of measurements.
In the case of Michael cunning fail
ed. He was arrested, only to escape,
and his brother also is at large.
The story runs thus: A year or so
ago James Teeling was sent to the
New Jersey Reformatory, in this place,
for wife beating. He was paroled, but
early in the summer broke his parole
and disappeared. While in the re
formatory he was measured according
to the Bertillon standard and photo
graphed .
Last week word was received from
Elizabeth that Teeling had been ar
rested. Edward A. Schwarts, who has
charge of the Bertillon system at the
reformatory, was sent after him. The
prisoner protested against his retention,
and denied thht he was ever in the re
formatory. To the ordinary observer,
his description tallied in every detail
with that of the man wanted.
Stature, face, scars and tattoo marks
were identified, and Mr. Schwartz was
about convinced, when he discovered a
marked difference in the measurements
of the right ear. “This is not our man,”
he declared. The Elizabeth authorities
laughed at him.
Lacking the facilities there for meas
uring, the prisoner was taken to the re
formatory, though Mr. Schwartz was
firm in his belief tlfat the man was not
the wifebeater.
The third degree was worked, and
then the prisoner broke down and con
fessed that he was Michael Teeling, a
twin brother of the man wanted, and
that he had made the scars on his body
for mutual protection. Further ques
tioning brought ou't the fact that he was
wanted in blew Brunswick. He refused
to teli where his brother could be
found.
He was sent to New Brunswick and
put in jail. On Friday night he and
five others escaped, and are still at
large. In the meantime the reforma
tory authorities are looking in vain
for their “st’ar boarder.” It is report
ed that he has left the country.
THE RUSSIANS? SACRED IKON.
From the Chicago Advance.
What the crucifix has been to the
Church of Rome, the ikon is to the
Greek Church in Russia. It is a "sa
cred picture,” of the Virgin, of Christ,
or a saint or an angel. Many ikons
are works of art, set in jeweled frames,
and are priceless in value. Every
Greek church must have at least two
that of Christ being given always the
place at the right of the altar. Lights
are burned before the ikons, and there
are offerings of incense. No orthodox
Greek passes the sacred pictures with
out making the sign of the cross. No
peasant’s hut is so squalid that the
ikon is not displayed somewhere on
the smoky wall, with at least the sem
blance of an altar before it, at which
the members of the household perforin
their devotions. In addition to this,
every ship in the Russian navy has its
ikon, which is reverenced by the offi
cers and soldiery alike. In many cases
these ikons have been handed down
through many generations, like the
historic plate, centuries old, to be
found in some of the regiments of the
British army. An English writer re
cently gave a graphic description of the
departure of a Russian regiment to
the front. The troops were gathered
on the four sides of the public square,
in the center of which a temporary
altar had been erected. On either side
of the altar soldiers were posted, hold
ing ikons on long poles, which were
inclined until they touched, the ikons
thus being suspended directly over
the altar. They were held there until
the service came to an end, after which
the colonel of the regiment received a
special blessing from the priest and the
solemn exhortation, “Be true and
steadfast,” the soldiers sobbing aloud
as their commanding officer in return
pledged his fealty to the Czar and
the empire. Many Ikons, In the minds
of the superstitious people, are credit
ed with miracle working powers.
Among these one of the most famous
is that of the celebrated “Black Vir
gin of Kazan,” for the reception of
which the great convent of Bogodltskli
was especially built.
PRIZE FIGHTS AID CHURCH.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Sayre, Pa., Oct. 21. —Just because
the Church of the Redeemer (Episco
pal) of Savre, needs anew sidewalk,
the oongregatlon is being entertained
this week by a prize fight and a vau
deville show.
The prize fight Is anything but a
fake. There was no preliminary news
paper notoriety, but when the con
testants met on the boards they met
to do their best. They are the Stark
brothers, Dan and Mahlon. They vol
unteered to assist the church and are
giving a four-round bout each even
ing, and it is anything but tame. They
wade into each other, spill blood and
swing their fists' as powerfully and
as scientifically as possible. The “old
sports” who are flocking to see the ex
hibition are loud In its praise.
The vaudeville part of the exhibi
tion Is such as is seen in music halls,
but the performers are members of
the congregation instead of old-facers
of the footlights. The shining star is
E. S. Worthington, a vestryman of the
church, who arranged the perform
ance. He wears a startling pink silk
coat and green tights when he first
appears. On his next entrance he
wears a yellow silk gown cut to show
his shapely arms and boneless neck,
and when* he kicks the yellow too
high the flash of the green of his first
costume may be seen.
The Church of the Redeemer is the
most costly edifice in this section of
the country, but there is an old
boardwalk around It and the rector,
Rev. F. T. Cady, asked the vestry
for a better one. A sidewalk com
mittee was appointed , with Mr.
Worthington as chairman, and he
evolved the Idea of giving the com
bination of a prize ring exhibition
and a music hall performance. The
“show” will close to-morrow evening
after a week’s success.
RATIONAL I*LK ASUHE.
From the Saturday Evening Post.
There Is a time, which we all know,
when most people read the poets with
pleasure, and few dan be restrained
from themselves writing verse. If a
man passes adolescence without exer
cising the poetic sensibilities there Is
smalt chunce of his acquiring them
afterward. Darwin relates that In his
early youth he was fond of the best
poetry and music, and that having
neglected the arts for science he ar
rived at a time when Shakespeare and
Beethoven bored him.
In our endeavor to Insure the culti
vation of the more serious and fun
damental virtues, Intellectual and mor
al, we have neglected the Importance
of youthful training In hublts of re
laxation and rational pleasure. Par
ents and educators are learning to
revise the adage, all work and no play
make* Jack a dull mnu. If Jay Gould
had spent a reasonable share of his
youth among orchids and on the sea
his riches might have been less, but
he would h*ave been pretty sure to
have lived longer to enjoy them. If
Mr. Rockefeller had taken to the links
st the age when he was fixing the
habits of thrift his digestion would not
require so much golf now—to say noth
ing of the profit to bis driving und
putting!
Constipation
Headache,biliousness, heartburn. Indi
gestion, and ali It-rer ills are cured by
Hood's Pills
Sold by all druggists. 25 cents,
SAVAJVNAH ELECTRIC CO.
WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULER
Effective Oct. 3, 1904.
„ . ISI,E OF HOPE U.V&
ggß JB le of Hope and 40th Street
7 so i.-so". 2-oS
!;!2 ?; 8 V *=oo
I®:|q 3:30 10:00 '4:00
v-i? 11:00
6:3- 5:5°
I;*** ®:jj 0 7 :00
:: :: !;|g ::::: I;S2
i® ;l2 10 :°°
u-20
- * vin Montgomery to city"." J
ii£tj|^enJsle_of_Hpp e &
Lv. Isle of Lv. ThunderboU
AM *
txt t* iii;i
*ii:oo 55:25 $: 38
51 2-mlnute wait at Sandfly ' 3B
— rcp l car - passenger trailer.
t .m ontgcimetTyschedule;
Montgomery and 40 th Street.
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. 40th St
*5:50 51V30 1 ' P ito
t6: 50 52:30 o : 2 0
t7:5 3 t3:05 XOi, °
9:50 $5:50 Z./.'. M 2
t7:oB "* 7^o
12:05 .M” !i:*o
♦Connects with parcel car for city.
tThrough- to Thunderbolt,
ns-minute wait at Sandfly going to
Between Montgomery & Thundebolt
A r -n F o A.mT~pTm!
3:05 7:22 3:38
753 8:22 6:38
-: ' '.' 112.5 , 7:35
MILE-HAVEN SCHEDULE.
Effective July 13, 1903.
. ay e Whitaker and Bay streeTa
A**; PM. P.M.
6- i 0:0 0 12:40 5:20
•7-nn t 1? ie 1:20 8:00
7- iVna 2:00 6:40
s2 1200 2:40 7 :20
|.sn 8:20 8:00
l\°o 4 : :0 ° 8:40
Leave Mill-Haven.
• k iT," P.M. PM
-7;02 12:20 5:40
•7-Sn 11 40 1:00 * S:OS
I'.in 1:40 6:20
Z:J2 2:20 7:00
ono I 00 7:40
8:40 8:20
loiio ::::: 0:00
•Dally except Sunday.
STTTRUA Y EVENING SPECIALT
Whitaker Le ave , Mln .
and Bay St*. Haven.
P 9 M 2O
10*40 10:20
JO-JO U:00
11:20 12:00
THUNDERBOLT LINT;.
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton street Junction.
5:80 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Casino and Thunder
bolt every half hour until 2:00 p m
a ..J ". hl „ ch cars run ev ery 15 minutes
until 11:30 and. m.
Cars leave Bolton street junction 17
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.
COIUIXSVTLLE LINE.
Beginning at 6:05 a. m.. cars leave
Waters road and Estill avenue every
20 minutes until 1:45 p. m„ after
which cars leave every 15 minutes
commencing at 2:07 p. m„ until 12*07
midnight.
Beginning at 6:05 a. m„ cars leave
City Market for Waters road and Es
tll avenue every 20 minutes until 3*45
p. m., after which Thunderbolt ears
leave every 15 minutes, commencing
at 2:00 p. m„ connecting with Collins
ville cars at Bolton and Ott streets
Last car leaves Market at 11:45 p. n
WFST FTfD T,IN'IC l*arlc )
Car leave* west side of City Market for Lin.
coin Park 6:UO a. m. and every 40 mlcues
thereafter until 11:45 p.m. y ™ lc J*es
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market s*2oa tr
and every 40 minutes thereafter until 12 o’clock
midnight.
_ FRkiOHT AND PAHCFI.CAR “
Leaves east side of Cltv Market for Thunder,
hoi., Cattle Park, Sandfly. Isle of Hone and all
intermediate points—9:ls a. m„ l:15p. mA: 13
p. ZD. 1
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandfly, Cattle Park
iTrns“m polnts-:00
u. m., iJ uu a. m., 3:Uu p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at 5.50 a. ra.
and 2:35 p. m., connecting at Sandfly with reg
ular parcel car foi city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight ta
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of passengets.
Any further Information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be had by
applying to L. K. NASH. Manager
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Savannah, Ga.
PROPOSALS WANTED.
Merchants National Bank building,
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 21, 1904. —Sealed
proposals. In triplicate, for construct
ing, plumbing, heating and electrlo
wiring lavatory at Fort Screven, Ga.,
will be received here until 12 m., Nov.
21, 1904. Information furnished on ap
plication. U. S. reserves right to ac
cept or reject any or all bids or any
part thereof. Envelopes containing
proposals should be Indorsed “Propos
als for Lavatory, Fort Screven,” ad
dressed Jos. T. Davidson, Q. M.
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In 'he matter of both fashions and
literature the November Delineator is
an exceptionally Interesting number.
Richard I*- Oalllonne, Ethel Watts
Mumford, Dane Coolldge, Albert Bige
low Paine. Clara Morris und Adu
Marie Peck contribute Action of a
varied chnrncter. Many other sub
jects of special Interest In regard to
dress snd household needs u< wldsly
dlscuaaud.