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Tile tViMtthrr.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with fresh
northeast winds. Eastern Florida,
fair weather in west, showers in east
portion, with fresh northeast winds.
Philadelphia has discovered anew
germ. Its scientific term is “Uncinar
iasis Americana,” but In plain English
it is Just “laziness.” We are glad
that Philadelphia Was at last found the
cause of its great opposition to any
thing like movement. The germ was
discovered by Dr. A. M. Fussell and
if he can but solve the problem of eradi
cating it the Quaker City may recov
er sufficiently some day to make a move
and get out of the Republican rut in
which it Mas so long been reposing in
Idleness.
The souvenir craze has struck Hose
mount and It has become necessary for
Judge Parker to order all his live-stock
locked up when visitors arrive. Cats
and lambs were stolen as souvenirs
when the last delegation paid Its official
visit to the future President. Confi
dence In the election of the New York
Judge to the presidency seems to be
growing, for an animal owned by Just
a candidate would have no great value
In the eyes of the souvenir-lovers. No
body has reported that anything has
yet been stolen from Tom Watson!
From Huntington, L. I„ comes the
report that only the most desperate
efforts of policemen and sheriffs kept
a mob from lynching a negro charged
with criminally assaulting a white
woman. The Brooklyn and New York
papers that have recently devoted so
much space to asserting that the
lynching spirit Is peculiar to the South,
and who now remain so very silent
on the evil In their own midst, should
atop searching for the mote In our
eyes and begin pulling out the beam
that la In their own.
The Republican wit, Congressman
Bede, announces that a friend of his
who went to the Philippines to or
ganize a Christian Endeavor Society
returned and announced his failure be
cause the Filipinos had no clothes on
which to pin the badges. Up until
this announcement was made we had
no Idea of the extent of Republican
"prosperity” In our Island possessions!
If the present system of protecting
Industries so that they can charge high
prices to home-consumers continues,
Christian Endeavor Societies on litis
continent will probably have to dis
band because of a lack of anything
an which to ylu thslr badges.
TIIE BALTIC KI.KBT'S BUMIKfI.
There is no probability that a breach
of friendly relations between Great
Britain and Russia will result from the
frightful blunder- of the Baltic fleet In
firing on the British fishing fleet in
the North sea. If the facts are as
stated by skippers and sailors of the
fishing fleet—and there seems to be no
good reason for doubting that they are
substantially true—the only course
open for Russia Is to make a complete
and ample apology, pay an indemnity
and punish the officer responsible for
the outrage.
It seems almost incredible that a
great fleet of warships should have
been under the command of an officer,
or officers, so totally unfitted for the
responsibilities of command. That the
fighting ships should have borne down
on the little fishing craft, helpless to
defend themselves or to get away, Is
almost as if the Baltic fleet had run
amuck on the high seas. The fishing
vessels were burning lights according
to the regulations. They had just ex
changed such signals as are common
among fishing fleets, and which the
Russian officers must have seen and
understood if they were competent to
be entrusted with the command of
sii ins.
One supposition is that the fishing
vessels were mistaken for Japanese
warships, and that the Russians be
came highly excited and opened their
batteries. But that suggestion does no
credit to the Russians' well known
reputation for bravery. Indeed, no sug
gestion that is at all satisfactory has
yet been made in explanation, and the
other side of the story must be await
ed. Meanwhile the bald fact remains
that unarmed and inoffensive British
fishermen have been fired on and killed
on the high seas, on a well known fish
ing ground, by a fleet of Russian war
ships. Great Britain has already taken
diplomatic action in the matter, and in
all probability the incident will be sat
isfactorily adjusted in the course of a
few days. It is inconceivable, of course,
that Russia would fail to make a
prompt apology and pay an indemnity.
CANAL OK COLON Yf
As soon as the national election is
out of the way Secretary of War Taft
is going to Panama as the representa-,
tive of President Roosevelt for the
purpose of endeavoring to convince the
government and people of that country
that what, the United States desire on
the isthmus is a canal and not a col
ony. The Fanamaians. it seems, have
reached the conclusion that the Hay-
Bunau-Varilla treaty gave the United
States not only a canal site but colon
ial rights and privileges as well, of
which the United States have not hesi
tated to avail themselves? The admin
istration at Washington insisted that it
must be “an American canal under
American control,” and Secretary of
State Hay proceeded to write into the
treaty such specifications and details
of authority ceded to the United States
by Panama as would insure the com
plete domination of the canal zone by
the American government. And M.
Bunau-Varilla, provisional minister of
Panama, having little if any other in
terest in the matter than to ef
fect the sale of the franchise and ef
fects of the old French company to
this government, eagerly signed what
Secretary Hay had written, and re
turned home to Paris.
The most valuable part of the new
republic of Panama lies within the
canal zone, a strip of ten miles, from
ocean to ocean, ceded to the United
States for canal purposes. When the
Panamaians had recovered from the
delightful shock of receiving $10,000,000
of American gold for their concessions
they began to canvass the situation to
see what they had given up along with
those concessions: and what they dis
covered startled them. They had
counted on large customs receipts from
importations for canal work, but they
found the United States had establish
ed custom houses of their own and
stretched the Dingley tariff law to
cover the canal strip. They thought
their postal receipts were going to be
swelled largely, owing to the official
and private correspondence that work
on the canal would bring about. The
Panama government's letter rate of
postage is five cents. The Americans
had not been In the strip long before the
Panamaians found that they had
brought the American postal laws with
them and were selling letter postage
at two cents; and, as a consequence the
Americans were doing all of the postal
business and the native establishment
was being starved to death.
The terminal cities of the canal are
Panama and Colon. Both are In the
zone ceded to the United States. They
are the only municipalities of any con
siderable consequence In Panama. The
Panantaians Imagined that they would
be undisturbed in the exercise of police
power and the administration of Jus
tice In these cities. But questions of
jurisdiction have arisen that make it
appear questionable whether the na
tives are to have any voice In the ad
ministration of the affairs of the cities.
For the foregoing and other reasons
the Panamalans are asking if It Is not
the purpose of the United States to
establish a colony in the inldst of their
republic. Secretary Taft Is going down
to the Isthmus to reassure the people
there, and Senor Obaldia, minister of
Panama at Washington, has hopes
that the visit will result In the nego
tiation of anew treaty In which Pan
ama will regain some of the rights and
privileges that she apparently surren
dered In the Bunau-Varllla treaty.
Despite the Republican cries tWat
there Is a decided apathy among the
Democrats. Brooklyn reports a total
registration of 246,94!>, the largest In
the history of the city and an Increase
of 16,683 over that of 1900. Undoub
tedly Senator McCarren is well satis
fied with such apathy, probably even
more so than the Republicans.
A rich man in York (Pa.) took ten
days In Jail rather than pay a fine of
$lO, and gave as his reason an over
whelming desire to be separated from
his fellow-citizens for a time. Really,
we had no Idea that things had got
to such a pa* In poor, hoss-rlddrn
Pennsylvania that Jail was preferable
4o freedom la Uie stale,
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1904.
FLIES IX THE OIXTMEXT.
Since Ambassador Choate proclaim
ed "Whatever mistakes, if any, Mr.
Roosevelt has made, he has at least
been honest and above the dictates of
mere politics,” Republican spellbinders
have made almost unlimited use of
the catch-words, "Honesty distin
guishes him.” They have pointed
with seeming pride to the record of
the past four years and have sought
to apply it as a healing ointment to
ail the political wounds of dissatisfied
voters. Centuries ago the wise Solo
mon observed that “Flies cause the
ointment of the apothecary to give
forth a stinking savour,” and an ex
amination of the record of the party
in power seems to show that several
flies have worked their way into this
political ointment.
With a grand flourish the President
cast the weight of his influence into
the labor question in Pennsylvania
during the last great coal strike. By
this action he apparently sought to
place himself on record as favoring
the interests of labor as against
those of capital and the trusts. In
the Colorado muddle, however, which
was much more serious in its results
than the Pennsylvania contest, the
President kept hands off, seemingly
fearing to antagonize the power of
capital. Again in one lonely prose
cution against the Northern Securities
Company, tyhich was pushed to a
successful conclusion, he seemed to
stand against the increasing power of
corporations, but the announcement
immediately followed, carrying reas
surance to all, that the government
did not intend to “run amuck.” The
first lly seems to have wriggled into
the ointment in the treatment of the
trust question.
Then again the President inaugu
rated a policy of negro appointments
to office throughout the South. In one
case at least, that of Crum, he per
sisted despite the fact that his own
Senate refused to ratify the appoint
ment. He justified his action on the
ground that he was honestly of the
opinion that negroes should hold of
fice when they were qualified to do so.
Yet in the North the negro clamors
in vain for an office that is really lu
crative and carries local distinction
with it. And surely the North has
relatively as many intelligent negroes
as the South. Slowly it seems that
another fly has slipped the
apothecary's ointment.
Then, to say nothing of the flies
that ex-President Cleveland and Sen
ator Culberson have dropped into the
spellbinders healing salve, suddenly a
militaristic, strenuous. President dons
the Quaker garb, deprecates war, and
ends by announcing that he will call
for a second peace conference of the
world powers. A comparison of this
announcement with his books and his
actions during the time that he serv
ed as assistant secretary of the navy
lets yet another fly into the ointment.
With the flies of the trust, labor,
prosperity, Panama, negro, and mili
taristic questions sinking into it, it
does not seem to be improbable that
the voters of the country will catch
the unsavory odors of the honesty
ointment and it as a balm for
all political wounds. And with the re
jection of the ointment naturally
comes the rejection of the apotheca
ry and the party that seek to apply it.
Republican newspapers are crying
that Mr. Cleveland said absolutely
nothing in his speech that was worth
answering, that there was nothing
new in It, and that it has added noth
ing to the campaign. Then they go
to work and devote a column to an
swering, or better, to attempting to
answer his arguments. They call at
tention to the fact that It was the
most enthusiastic gathering of the
campaign. And then they speculate
on its probable effect on the chances
otf Roosevelt. We submit that it
seems like poor policy to waste so
much space on a speech that con
tained nothing worth answering, that
•had nothing new in It, and that has
added nothing to a campaign. "Con
sistency, thou art a jewel!”
Love has been compelled to bear
the burdens of many sins and to the
same source is laid many of the bless
ings that fall in a kindly shower over
humanity. But now the little blind
god has gone his former performances
one better. A young lady who has
•been bed-ridden for fifteen years was
so overjoyed at receiving a proposal
that she arose and walked. If bigamy
were not contrary to law struggling
physicians might profit by this infor
mation, and at any rate, those people
who are slowly watching the dying
af certain rich relatives will be warn
ed to guard against allowing any ven
turesome persons to propose to the
sick ones.
Omens seem to be predicting the
election of Judge Parker. Just at the
time that the man who sent steel
horseshoes to Cleveland on the eves
of hts first and second elections to the
presidency sends one to Judge Par
ker, “Uncle Joe” Cannon's horse drops
dead In Baltimore while the distin
guished campaigner is being driven
behind him to the depot. The dis
patches do not state whether or not
"Uncle Joe” stopped to gather a horse
shoe from the feet of his faithful beast.
A Philadelphia man that entered a
magistrate’s office for the purpose of
getting married, found there four wom
en who were instituting proceedings
to recover alimony from their hus
bands. And It never plumed him,
either. In after years, If the marital
ship founders and goes down, he can
not claim that he was not amply fore
warned. But then, perhaps he had
never heard that "Fools rush In where
angels fear to tread.”
Since the commencement of the cam
paign every Republican politician that
has called at the White House has as
sured the President that his re-olectlon
Is assured. “Uncle Joe" Cannon showed
a tendency to weaken when he advised
"hedging” on a bet made that Roose
velt's majority would be ns large as
that of McKinley four years ago. Can
it be that “Uncle Joe” Is preparing to
let the Rig Stick fnll without utuklrig
too great ts thud {
The ambassador from Panama to this
country announces that there is joy in
his native country because Secretary
Taft is going there to soothe the trou
bles. Evidently the worthy ambassa
dor of our youngest republic feels so
confident that Dr. Taft and his mili
taristic colic cure will effect a cure on
the infant terrible because of his suc
cess with the same medicine in the
Philippines. And yet, we are not as
sured that the cure affected over In
the Pacific is a permanent one.
A postal poll conducted by the Bal
timore Herald shows that 188 citizens
out of less than half a thousand who
voted for McKinley in 1900 will this
year support Judge Parker. And yet
Senator Nathan Bay Scott of West
Virginia says that every man who sup
ported McKinley four years ago will
turn out for Roosevelt. Evidently
some people down In Maryland dif
fer with the sage of West Virginia.
While “Uncle Joe” Cannon lectured
in one hall In Baltimore to an audi
ence of Republicans, Senator-Elect
Raynor answered him before another
gathering in a different part of the city.
A party whose principal arguments are
so old and worn that they dan be pre
dicted by an opposition speaker and
answered before they are heard is
sadly in need of real political ammuni
tion.
PERSONAL.
—At the suggestion of the Archbish
op of Canterbury Columbia University
has established a visitors’ book for the
autographs of distinguished visitors at
the university. He was the first to en
roll his name on the book. His signa
ture is “Randall Cantaur.”
—Sir Henry Irving does not approve
of the overlavish mounting occasion
ally witnessed in Shakespearean pro
ductions. He acknowledges that we
should be grateful for any productions,
but urges us to “beware of overlaying
the poet's work with too realistic a
setting and leaving nothing to the im
agination, which can but make the ju
dicious grieve.”
—An Irish member of parliament,
Edward J. Synan, was remarkable for
his very loud speeches in the House.
One day he got up to speak in his usual
tone on. an Irish topic, and the mo
ment he did so James Lowther, recent
ly deceased, hastily rose to leave the
chamber. An angry Irish member,
feeling that the proper place for the
chief secretary was the treasury bench,
shouted after him, “Lowther, where
are you going?” Mr. Lowther shouted
back as he disappeared beyond the bar,
“I’m going out on the teri'ace to hear
Synan."
BRIGHT BITS.
—’Ward: Say, you ain’t going to vote
for Bender, are you? He's crooked,
you know.
Street: Yes, hut he is on the straight
ticket. —Boston Transcript.
—Wife: I hope you talked plainly to
him.
Husband: I did, indeed. I told him
he was a fool, a perfect fool!
Wife (approvingly): Dea,r John!
How exactly like you!—Punch.
—Mrs. Newliwed: My husband asked
me to stop here and order a case of
beer for him.
Bottler: What does he prefer? Dark
or light?
Mrs. Newliwed: Well, he’s a blonde
himself, so he naturally prefers dark.
—Philadelphia Press.
—“Look here!” exclaimed the irate
householder. "Don't you know gas
comes out of the furnace you sold
me!”
“Well, what do you expect to come
out of a cheap furnace?” demanded
the stove dealer. "Electric lights?”—
Chicago Daily News.
—"So you have taken your son Into
the bank to work his way up front
the bottom? How is he doing?”
“Oh, fairly well. He reported for
duty twice last week and hung around
for nearly an hour each time, in spite
of the fact that there was a golf tour
nament going on.” —Chicago Record-
Herald.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
“It Is true that the President's let
ter to Editor Shaw of the Review of
Reviews with regard to the Isthmian
Canal was written a year ago, as Sen
ator Lodge explains. The point Is that
it was written just two weeks before
the alleged revolution occurred.”
The Galveston Daily News (Dem.)
says: “It should be remembered by
those who are ready to entrust the gov
ernment to the plungers now in charge
of It that the record-breaking extrava
gance of the Roosevelt Administration
is considered rigid economy by the
candidate and those in cahoot with
him.”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: “In all their history the United
States never before had a President
who would put into writing his wishes
for the dismemberment of a sister Re
public. Nor did It ever before have
a President so simple-minded th'at he
would express himself upon the most
pressing public matters in a private
letter. What man of sound discretion,
clothed with the responsibilities of the
Presidency of the United States, would
have said In a private letter what he
knew he must not say publicly?”
The Pittsburg Post (Dem.) says:
“It is announced that the force of
marines now on the Isthmus will be
retained there because of the unsatis
factory condition of feeling In Pan
ama. The government of the little re
public Is reported to be friendly, but
there la much dissatisfaction among
the people over the attitude assumed
by our canal commissioners. This Is
admitted by President Roosevelt In
his letter directing Secretary Tuft to
go to the Isthmus to try and set mat
ters straight. Meanwhile the dissatis
fied In Panama are reminded that the
big stick Is ready for them by the
announcement concerning the marines,
a gentle hint which they will doubt
loss heed and be good."
The New York Evening Post (Tnd.)
says: “Again has Judge Parker shown
that It Is not entirely safe to hurl chal
lenges at him. ‘Where are you going
to begin economizing? 1 demanded
President Roosevelt. “Do you dare
to Calk about reducing the army?'
‘Certainly, I do,' replied Judge Parker
yesterday. And what was still more
unkind, he proceeded to give excellent
reasons why it should be reduced, it
costs more than twice what It did
seven years ago. Then we were ‘at
pence: now we are at peace. Nobody
said the standing nj-my was not big
enough then; the burden of proof Is
on those who maintain that It ought
to be larger and twice ns costly now.
To say. ns some Republicans do, that
It would He dangerous to reduce It,
Is to say that Grant and Hayes ami
Garfield and Arthur and Harrison, their
own Presidents, were guilty of Imperil
ling the country by keeping the briny
Igo smalt,"
A Modern Sherlock.
They are not all clever stories that
they tell of William Gillette, hat most
of them are possible. One that is be
ing told again this season, says the
Indianapolis News, refers to the time
he was immortalizing Sherlock
Holmes. One young woman engaged
as maid to an actress In the company
gained the impression that Mr. Gillette
was a sure enough detective.
When she had need of a sleuth’s
services she hastened to the star with
her trouble.
“Oh, Mr. Gillette, all summer we
have been victimized by thieves,’’ she
said. “We have missed the strangest
articles imaginable and there is no
clew. Can you offer any suggestion?
I know that you can."
What actor is unwilling to sustain
the reality of his stage work?
Mr. Gillette naturally assumed an
intense expression of fixed attention.
"What articles have disappeared?”
he asked.
“Well, there was a fine hairbrush
and comb.”
“Ah!”
“There was a beautiful silk lambre
quin.”
"Ah!”
“There was a lamp shade —frame
and everything.
“Ah!”
“And a lot of new tinware, a rug.
a box of golf balls, a pile of croquet
wickets, and a bunch of bananas.”
Mr. Gillette nodded and smiled se
renely. It was quite clear.
“You keep a goat.”
How He Lle<l to Her Hnsbnnd.
The dapper little millinery sales
man met the husband on the street,
says the Indianapolis News. They
were friends and they stopped to chat
for a moment. Presently he of 'artis
tic conceptions in feminine fripperies
remarked, as if bv chance:
“You’ll pardon me, old fellow, if I
suggest that you’ve got about the
shrewdest little wife of anybody 1
know.”
The husband smiled a puzzled smile,
before expanding under the compli
ment to his own taste and judg
ment.
“Yes, sir, that’s a fact,” continued
the millinery man. “"Why, do you
know that woman came into our store
to-day and carried off one of the
swellest hats we had for a price about
half what it was worth. I don’t know
how she did it, but she did. You
know the modish hats run into high
prices this yehr, but she got one of
the best at a ridiculous price.
Presently they separated. The hus
band was somewhat relieved to think
that his wife had not been extrava
gant—he had not seen the bill yet.
The millinery man muttered to him
self:
“I told her I could fix it all right
with Joe.”
Not the Old Man.
Dr. William M. Berkeley of the
Porto Rican health board sat in a
Pullman car, on his way to the fair
at St. Louis, says the Denver Trib
une.
Through the car a boy in blue uni
form passed. He held a pile of books
bound in brilliant colors before him
and, advancing, he rattled off in a
nasal voice the names of the books
and their prices.
“Stop,” said Dr. Berkeley. “Let me
see what you’ve got, boy.”
The boy and Dr. Berkeley
ran his eye over one popular novel
after another. He took in his hand
a volume more soberly bound than
the rest —a volume of Balzac.
“That's just out,” said the boy.
“ ‘Pere Goriot,’ by H. de Balzac. It’s
his latest and best novel.”
Dr. Berkeley smiled.
“Just out?” he said. "Why, don’t
you know that Balzac has been dead
for years?”
The boy frowned impatiently.
“Oh, this ain’t the old man,” he
said. “This is his son.”
The Penalty of Lying.
A young woman went into a down
town luncheon room the other noon,
says the New York Sun, but after a
glance at the table cloths and a sniff
of the close air decided not to eat
there and started to go out. The pro
prietor thought that she was leaving
without paying for a meal and stopped
her. In order to avoid hurting the
restaurant keeper’s feelings by telling
the truth, the girl said:
“I find I have forgotten my purse, so
I can’t eat here now.” • She was hur
rying on, but the generous man’s heart
was touched.
“My dear girl,” he exclaimed. “You
sit right down and eat. No young
woman is going out of my place hun
gry because she hasn’t her money with
her. You can eat now and to-morrow
you can come in and pay me.”
The young woman sat down and
tried to eat; and as she left, hiding
her purse, she wailed: “That’s what
I get for lying. Now I’ve got to come
around to this place again to-mor
row.”
'Tw That Narcotic.
Archbishop Thompson was greatly
surprised when he was given the arch
diocese of York, says the Philadelphia
Record. He had been suffering acute
ly from toothache, and upon medical
advice had resorted to narcotics. After
a particularly bad night he set out
for his doctor, though his wife had be
sought him not to submit to further
narcotics, as after them he was "not
himself” for some hours. On the way
he met the postman, who handed him
a letter announcing his preferment
from Gloucester to York. He rushed
back and burst excitedly into the
house, the toothache all forgotten.
"Zoe, Zoe!” he called to Mrs. Thomp
son, "what do you think has happen
ed? I am Archbishop of York!" "There,
what did X tell you?” rejoined his wife.
"You’ve been taking the horrid nar
cotic again, and are quite out of your
head.”
Power of Gold With Officers.
William A. Pinkerton tells the Chi
cago Tribune of an old-time confidence
man who was anxious to work unmol
lested around a Chicago depot, where a
special officer was engaged to protect
the unwary. The crook one day walk
ed up behind the officer, whom he know
pretty well, and suddenly reached
around him and put his hands over the
officer's eyes.
"Can you see anything now?” asked
the “con” man.
"Not a thing,” said the other, as he
raised his hands. The crook removed
his hands, and a S2O gold piece fell into
each of the officer’s hands.
The crook walked away laughing,
but the officer followed. “Say.” he re
marked, “if you'd put one of those into
my mouth I could not even speak.”
Where Longfellow Was Born.
The house in Portland. Me., where
Longfellow was bom is now a tene
ment In the part of the city mostly in
habited by Irish families, according to
the Youth's Companion. A correspond
ent writes that a few yeans ago a
teacher In Portland wus giving a les
son on the life of the poet. At tho end
of the hour shs began to question her
class.
"Where was Longfellow born?" she
asked.
A small boy waved his hand vigor
ously. When the teacher called on him
his answer did not m-eni to astonish
the rest of the class, but it was a cold
shock to her.
"la l'atsy Magee's bedroom,” bo said
THINGS DONE IN HASTE.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
In Austria a few years ago a com
plete hospital was built and was ready
to receive patients within an hour, a
feat which seems almost impossible
even when we know that all the com
ponent parts of the building were at
hand. It was in Austria, too, that the
seemingly miraculous task of con
verting trees into newspapers within
two and a half hours was accomplish
ed. At 7:35 o’clock in the morning
three trees were cut down at Elsen
thal. At 9:34 the trees had been
stripped of bark, cut up and convert
ed into pulp, made into paper and
passed from the factory to the press,
from which printed newspapers were
issued at 10 o’clock.
There are also some novel and as
tonishing feats in the production of
books. Some years ago a publishing
house in the West received an order
to produce 2,000 copies of a work of
350 pages, bound in cloth, in three
days. The work began on Monday and
on Wednesday afternoon the 2,000
volumes were handed over, while be
fore Saturday no few’er than 10,000
had been turned out.
New York claims a publishing per
formance even more astonishing than
this. An advance copy of one of
Zola’s works had been secured in
Paris by the agent of the American
firm, who posted it to New York. On
its arrival it was translated into
English, put into type, printed and
bound and was actually on sale within
twenty-four hours.
Not long ago an English boot factory
turned out a pair of men’s shoes in
twenty minutes. The shoes included,
among other parts, two sewed pieces,
two inner soles, two stiffenings, two
pieces of steel to give a spring to the
instep, two rands, two sole linings,
twenty heel pieces, twenty upper
pieces, thirty tacks, twelve nails in
the heels and twenty buttons.
Remarkable feats of swift work
are accomplished by those who have
to do with moving railroad bridges
and building railroads and locomotives
in England. The new bridge for the
Great Northern Railway at Finsbury
Park was substituted for the old one
in the short space of four hours. The
work started at 3 o’clock in the after
noon, when powerful cranes were set
to work to remove the ten-ton girders
of the old bridge. The new steel
bridge weighing more than 2,000 tons,
which was resting near at hand on
six carriages, was hauled into position
by steel crabs; it was rapidly made
secure, the rails were connected and
within four hours trains were running
over it. A feat still more surprising
was that of substituting anew
bridge for the old one near Hatfield.
Within fifty-two minutes the old
structure, with its four lines of rails,
had disappeared and in its place was
anew iron girder bridge carrying six
lines of rails, all ready for traffic.
A complete locomotive engine, was
put together for the' Great Eastern
Railway at the Stratford works in
ten hours. The work began early in
the morning, the engine being photo
graphed at the different stages of its
construction, and the same evening it
was actually at work pulling a train.
WILL COOK- THEIR WAY.
From the Indianapolis News.
New York, Oct. 20.—Can three pen
niless men work their way—not beg
around the world in two years and
come back within two years, each with
SI,OOO in his pocket? That is the ques
tion that raged in the green dining
room of the Hotel Astor. Two million
aires debated it so strenuously that
they finally determined to set on foot
an actual experiment and give the
theory a practical test.
From an uptown office Emil Mullier,
Achille Piehirs and Octave Deroulle,
all good men and true, will start on
the journey. They hope to bring back
a competence.
The millionaires who disputed about
the question had little appetite for
luncheon, but an unquenchable thirst
for speech. They finally agreed that
as they were too busy to go themselves
they would send a substitute. They
agreed to take Emil Mullier, assistant
chef at the Astor. He has a wife
and children, who live at 318 West For
ty-fourth street. The bettors will sup
port them while Mullier is away.
Inasmuch as Mullier would not go
alone, Piehirs and Deroulle agreed to
bear him company. They are pastry
cooks. The pl'an of campaign is that
the three partners shall hasten from the
office to San Francisco and there ship
as cooks for the voyage to Japan.
Thence they rapidly will cook their way
to Europe, where they will settle down,
each to earn his SI,OOO.
soon as the $3,000 is raised the
travelers will rush back to the Grdat
White Light district, or Ghladhand
country, there to receive their bets,
tell their stories and “open wine.”
VEGETABLE PILLOWS.
From the Nattonal Magazine.
Do you live where cattail flags
grow? If so, you may easily procure
down to fill pillows for sofa or beds.
Late in the autumn, when they are
golden brown in color, gather a quan
tity. Bushels may be picked in a short
time. But them in sacks and strip
the down from the stems. This is
quickly and easily done, and there need
be no litter if care is observed. The
down, if not quite so light and puffy
as that of live geese feathers, is pref
erable from a sanitary, as well as a
pecuniary, point of view.
Our New England foremothers made
not only pillows of cattails, but beds.
They are soft and warm, and cost
nothing but a few hours of labor. Yet
many a country housewife, living near
a lake or stream which is bordered
by these stately reeds, sleeps on a
hard, cold, straw or husk mattress and
uses pillows of hens’ feathers.
Ideal pillows can be made of tho
silky down of milkweed. The gather
ing of this Involves some labor, but
children enjoy such work, and a pair
of pillows fit for a king—light and
airy as swansdown —may grace your
guest room.
Hops may also be used to All pil
lows. They often prove beneflcLal in
cases of insomnia. Poppy leaves tend
to induce somnolence. Their odor
might not be agreable to some, but
rose leaves could be mixed with them.
GOLI> BY TELEPHONE.
From Collier’s Weekly.
Anew way of prospecting has been
tried experimentally, und is reaching
the point where it is practically use
ful. The method is based on the dif
ferences in the electrical conductivity
of the earth due to the presence of ore
deposits. Most ores aro much better
conductors of electricity than the soil
and rooks, although some others are
almost insulators.
In making use of these facts to lo
cate beds of ore two electrodes are
grounded about ten yards apart. In
the circuit is an Induction coil with a
glass condenser and two si>ark gaps.
The current as it passes through the
ground is tested by two telephone re
ceivers connected to portable electrodes
which are usually grounded about sev
enty feet apart. The make and break
of the current in passing through the
ground la heard in the telephones as
ticks. As the electrodes attached to
the telephones are moved about the
variations In the intensity of the tap
ping in the telephones give an Indica
tion of the presence and position of the
ore deposits. Although tho method Is
not out of the Mpertmontu! stage, yet
ft seems to. premise much for Itself
In the tot a re, A
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SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE,
Effective Oct. 3, 1904.
OF HOPE uni;.
ls) e of Hope and 40th Street.
V M Ut p S \i Lv - lsle of
P ’ ai - A. M. P. M.
730 i-30* 6:00 1:00
830 7:00 2:00
Siio . 30 . ’°o° 3:OU
11 30 3:SO 1 ° :0 ° " 4:0 “
VIP H:00
... ’ 7:00
... * g!?? v 8:00
I!'” inign 10:0 <>
•**•• *1145
Via Montgomery to city.
Between Isle of Hope & Thunderbolt! -
4 V 'J Sle l ? f ,? 0 1 ,e ’ Lv. Thunderbolt
A. M. P. M.
I!®® 6:00 87:22 *5:50
q: ! 58:22 6:38
ti'o° .’l’’’ • *9:50 7:38
?] 2-minute wait at Sandfly.
_ Parcel car, passenger trailer.
MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE.
Between Montgomery and 40th Street.
Ly Montgomery. Lv. 40th St."
P. M. A IVT pM
tfi-:bo° |o' a 9:80 P l:30
t7:53 t:°0B 10:30
.?: 5 . 0 . tV'os ::::: 4*
•Connects with parcel car for city
tThrough to Thunderbolt.
city milUlte WaU at Sandfl y going to
Between Montgomery &~Thundeboit7
A ' * f ’ P - M. A. M. p. M.
6.00 3:05 7-22 3:38
753 5:50 8:22 6:38
7 ‘ oB 7 [3 S
mill-haven schedule.
PtTyHyp .Tilly 13. 1003.
a Whitaker and Bay streets.
AM. A.M. pm p v
*640 12:40 5:2*6
•7.0n 10:40 1:20 6:00
1 00 2:00 6:40
72 ® 12:00 2:40 7:20
| 4:00 8:40
. Leave Mill-Haven.
A- M. A.M. P.M. P.M.
°; 40 11:00 12:20 5:40
700 11:40 1:00 *6:05
I.VI 1:40 6:20
2:22 2:20 7:00
° 2O , 3:00 7:40
200 8:40 8:20
2 40 4:20 9:00
10:20 5-00 ...
•Dally except Sunday.
_•* 4TT7RPA Y EVENING SPECIAL.
Leave Whitaker Leave Mill,
and Bay St*. Haven.
“*M. p jLf
0:20 9:40
!° ; 00 10:20
1040 11:00
11:20 12:00
THUNDERBOLT LTNE. '
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 minutes
until 11:30 p. 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.
COLIJNSVTLLE LINE
Beginning at 6:05 a. m„ cars leave
Waters road and Estill avenue every
SO 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. t cars leave
City Market for Waters road and Es
til avenue every 20 minutes until 1 -45
p. m., after which Thunderbolt cars
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. m.
WEST END LINE fLtncnln Park.)
Car leaves west side of qty Market for Lin
coln Park 6:00 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.
EREJOHr AND PARCEL CAR.
Le a vea east side of Citv Market for Thunder
J>oh. Cattle Park, Sandfly. Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points—9:lsa. m„ 1:15 p. m. 4.15
p. m.
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandfly, Cattle Park.
Thunderbolt and all intermediate coints—6:oo
a. m., 11:00 a. m.,5:00 n. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at 5.50 a 'a
and 2:3ft p. m„ connecting at Sandfly with reg
ular parcel car foi city.
Parcel cor from the city carries freight te
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of paasengeia
Any further Information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be had ttf
applying to L. R. NASH. Managet
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Savannah. Os.
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