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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with fresh
northeast winds, Eastern Florida
partly cloudy weather, rain on east
coast, with northeast winds.
The crew of the German bark Lis
beta, just arrived in the harbor of
Leith, Scotland, reported that during
their voyage they saw a number of
suns instead of the customary one
furnishing the light of day. Just im
agine what would have happened if
that light-fearing Baltic fleet had seen
that phenomenon!
Senator Albert J. Beveridge in ad
dressing a Republican mass meeting at
Evansville, Ind„ said: “I hope that
Mr. Roosevelt will keep the Big Stick
behind the door at the White House
so long as he is President." At last
we learn of a Republican who is too
honest to deny that that Big Stick is
very real and frank enough to declare
In favor of It.
Eighteen widows are asking a coal
company to give them each SIO,OOO
•s damages for killing their husbands
In an accident caused by negligence
on the part of the company. It Is
■trange how the value of a husband
increases when a corporation has kill
ed him. Before his death he could
probably have been bought for less
than half the sum.
Republican spellbinders, and especial
ly the cabinet officers, are exclaiming
in their speeches that there Is nothing
to the Philippine question. Then they
take up an hour or more in explaining
It, and pay for a lengthy cablegram
from Qov. Wright dealing with their
side of the question. We fall to see
the reason, if their first statements are
true, for explaining something which
does not exist.
Btrenuousness apparently runs In the
Roosevelt family. A cousin of the
president has been locked up In San
Francisco for attempting to turn a
restaurant upside down and then put
ting a balcony on the eye of a patient
cabby. Inasmuch as the young man,
Ueut. Forteoque, Is an army office*,
politicians are speculating us to
Whether or not the Commsnder-ln
abief of the army will discipline him.
A dispatch to the Cincinnati En
quirer states that a Marlon (O.) man
has gone Insane because he was haunt
ed by the impressions made upon him
by a violent thunderstorm at the time
of his birth, coupled with the fact that
his father died when the son was
born. This Is too bod. A baby with
sufficient Intelligence on the day of his
birth to realise that Its father was dy
ing and that there was a terrific thun
derstorm In progress should have been
destined for batter things titan an In
•ens tuy ium.
PARKER AND BRYAN.
The exchange of courtesies that
passed between Judge Parker and Mr.
Bryan a day or two ago is an added
evidence of the fact that In this cam
paign factional lines have been obliter
ated; that at the ballot box early next
month there will be neither "gold Dem
ocrats” nor "silver Democrats,” but the
reunited party will face the common
enemy as just plain, unqualified Dem
ocrats, eager to save their country from
the menace of ltooseveltism and all
that that term has come to mean.
Mr. Bryan has only recently con
cluded a remarkably successful cam
paigning tour in Indiana. He has
thousands of earnest followers in that
state, who are willing to take his ad
vice as to how they shall cast their
votes this year. Had Mr. Bryan re
mained lukewarm, or declined to take
the stump for the ticket. It is practi
cally certain that a great many of the
"Bryanites”—so-called here for con
venience—would have remained away
from the polls, or have cast their
ballots for Watson or Swallow. But
Mr. Bryan’s response was prompt; and
while he has not failed to criticise his
own party where he thought criticism
Just and needful, he has urged all of
his friends to give hearty support to
the Democratic ticket. And he has
given excellent reasons why they
should support it. He has summarized
his reasons as follows:
Every Democrat who does not vote
for Parker contributes toward the elec
tion of Roosevelt. On every question
upon which Judge Parker’s position is
open to criticism President Roosevelt's
position is worse; where they differ,
as they do on many important ques
tions, Parker is right and Roosevelt is
wrong.
Roosevelt favors a high tariff; Par
ker favors tariff reform. Roosevelt
favors a standing army of 60,000 at
the minimum; Parker favors a reduc
tion of the army.
Roosevelt has brought the race is
sue into national politics; Parker would
remove the race issue from politics.
Roosevelt stands for a colonial pol
icy; Parker favors independence for
the Filipinos and would make the
promise now.
Roosevelt took into the White House
a spirit of war; Judge Parker would
substitute for it a spirit of peace.
Four years more of Roosevelt would
make economic and industrial reform
more difficult; Judge Parker's election
would clear the way for economic is
sues. Let no Democrat, by voting
against Parker or by refusing to vote,
take upon himself responsibility for
four years more of Rooseveltism.
In appreciation of the good work that
Mr. Bryan has done and Is doing,
Judge Parker the other day sent him
this message:
I wish to thank you for the splen
did servicg you have rendered the
Democratic party in Indiana and else
where during the present campaign.
Under the same date Mr. Bryan
gracefully replied as follows;
I appreciate the generous expres
sions contained In your telegram. I
am paying an Instalment on the debt
I owe the American people by endeav
oring to secure for them the reforms
which your administration will bring.
Here, then, disappears the last ves
tige of factionalism between the so
called gold and silver wings of the
party. The leaders are joined in an
earnest and patriotic effort to restore
the government to safety and sanity.
THE DKI MMEHS FOII PARKER.
If one wishes to hear an eloquent
discourse on trusts, let him corner a
"drummer" and get that gentleman
opened up on the subject There is
no class of high-grade workingmen in
the country that has suffered more at
the hands of the trusts than the com
mercial travelers, or drummers.
Through combinations, consolidations
and the like, thousands of competent
drummers, after years on the road,
have been thrown out of employment.
Other thousands have seen their earn
ings drop off, and in certain lines the
drummer has been threatened with ex
tinction. Asa matter of fact, certain
commodities are not represented on the
road at all now, whereas some years
ago hundreds of men covered the coun
try drumming trade for them. The
trusts controlling such commodities
have simply “cut out” the drummers
by way of reducing expenses and in
creasing profits.
Having In view the attitude of the
trusts towards the drummers, and that
of the Republican party towards the
trusts, It Is not in the least surprising
to hear that there are at least 5,000
drummers who have turned themselves
Into "living campaign documents” for
Alton B. Parker for President. These
5,000 drummers, during the three
months of the campaign, will have
come Into contact and talked with 200
to 300 business men each, besides prob
ably twice as many other voters In
hotels, railway cars and elsewhere. And
the drummer, necessarily a man of
good address and an attractive talker
—otherwise he wouldn’t be a drummer
—has been and is devoting himself,
aside from business, to the talking of
politics In an anti-trust vein. How
much good work for Democracy these
"ambassadors of trade” have done and
are doing it Is Impossible to say, but
It may be safely estimated that the
results achieved by them in making
votes could not be duplicated by the
spending of $1,000,000 for spellbinders;
and the drummers are doing their good
work without cost to the Democratic
organization.
A negro arrested in Pittsburg, (Pa.)
announced as he went to the cell that
he controlled 280 negro votes and that
unless he was bonded out he would
turn them against the Republicans.
No attention was paid to his threat.
If he had been In one of the doubtful
states he no doubt would have been
promptly released. The netfiyophUlstlc
leanings of the Republicans exist only
In those sections where there Is some
thing to be gained by them. It Is
far from disinterested love of the raco
or philanthropy.
Friends of the President are alarmed
because on his birthday the large gold
eagle which tops the flagstaff on the
White House fell from Its perch and
was found hanging farther down the
staff by the tip of one wing. Kvl
dently the eagle-bird doesn’t believe In
the Otsrtalyou policy of "cktlmlrig ev
erything." It was pfobably preparing
to tat Itself down without too hard a
bump ou Nov. k, ,
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1901.
PLEA FOR JUSTICE DENIED.
President Roosevelt has denied the
plea of James N. Tyner for simple
Justice. When a trial Jury acquitted
the former assistant attorney general
of the Postoffice Department of the
charges preferred against him, tne
eighty-year-old man wrote to the chief
executive and asked that he retract
his bitter and vehement denunciation,
made previous to the trial. About the
simple plea for justice was a touch of
pathos. An old man, nearing the grave,
asked that the stain that had been
cast on his character be removed,
now that his innocence had been prov
en. He asked that the man who had
publicly shamed him announce Just as
publicly that twelve of his country
men had proclaimed him blameless. It
was not a plea for mercy. It was
just a dying man’s prayer for justice.
For several months the pathetic plea
was passed over in disdainful silence.
Then the man who stands at the head
of the nation, a sworn defender of
justice, speaks: “The President ac
quiesces in the jury’s findings, but the
evidence seems to him overwhelming
that you were either guilty of moral
obliquity or of the grossest Inefficien
cy.” Practically he denies the plea
and rejects the verdict of the jury.
Publicly he seems to proclaim that
even though a jury, the constitutional
judges of guilt or innocence, have de
clared the man not guilty, that he
still is far from innocent, and with
regret the President “acquiesces” in
the jury's verdict. Justice seems to
have been pushed away because Mr.
Roosevelt declines to acknowledge that
he erred.
No matter what private opinions of
guilt or innocence may be held, we
believe that a verdict of innocence re
turned by a Jury after a fair trial
should be final. The right of trial by
jury is guaranteed in the constitution
and that foundation of our government
declares by inference that its verdict
must be taken as a proof of innocence.
The charge of guilt was publicly made
by Mr. Roosevelt and it would seem
that simple justice requires a public
retraction of the charges. The re
traction would have shown the spirit
of a true man In the President. It
would have allowed an old man to die
in peace, his honor cleared. “Fiat Jus
titia, ruat coelum.”
We must confess that the action of
Mr. Roosevelt is not surprising. The
vehement charge of guilt, so prema
turely made, is characteristic of his
Impulsiveness. The refusal to retract
Is In keeping with his head-strong
pride. The disregard of the jury’s
verdict is not strange In one who has
set himself higher than the constitu
tion and the law as shown In the pen
sion order, the course in the Panama
rebellion, and a refusal to accept the
Senate’s rejection of his Crum ap
pointment. Yet almost daily his
representatives on the stump claim
that all the President asks of his
critics is justice in estimating hts ac
tions. The cry seems to come with bad
grace from one who denies justice to
others. The truth expressed by Mac
beth remains;
We still have Judgment here; that we
but teach
Bloody instructions, which being
taught, return
To plague the Inventor: this even
handed Justice
Commends the Ingredients of our poi
. son’d chalice
To our own lips.
, • ♦ ■ ..ii.™
IN “OPR POSSESSIONS.”
Hon. Richard Olney’s speech of a
few days ago on imperialism is the
strongest argument against the Phil
ippine policy of the Republican party
that has yet been submitted to the
public. Those who remember the days
of Reconstruction in the South—the
greedy, plundering carpet-baggers and
other scamps that were sent into this
section to fill the offices under a Re
publican regime—will be able to form
some Idea of what sort of govern
ment, In all probability, the Filipinos
are at present living under. It re
quires no stretch of Imagination on the
part of those who lived in the South
between 1867 and 1876 to draw a men
tal picture of the hangers-on and fa
vorites of Republican politicians who
have been sent to the Philippines to
hold the offices, and how they have
doubtless fattened and grown sleek on
the hundreds of millions of dollars
taken out of the pockets of the Amer
ican people for the "civilization and
pacification” of the Philippines. The
islands are so far away, and the car
pet-baggers there nominally represent
ing the American people are so thor
oughly and firmly joined together in
officialdom, that only a faint echo* of
what they are doing In one way and
another .reaches this part of the world.
There Is. however, one redeeming
feature of the Philippine business, as
seen from this section, though It is
rather selfish, it must be admitted. It
is. that If the carpet-baggers, heelers,
practical politicians and relatives of
Republican congressmen were not on
the other side of the earth, they
might be In Ohio, Pennsylvania, In
diana, Illinois, etc., trying to raise
some sort of trouble for the South.
We may, therefore, be gainers through
the troubles of the Filipinos.
Then there is another carpet-bag
government that the Republicans are
reveling in. We refer to the vice re
gal. carpet-bag territory of Porto Rlcq.
Travelers who have lately visited that
Island, but have no Interest In the
show, report that a stranger finds It
Impossible to distinguish an Ameri
can Republican high official from
Skowhegan or Kb la mason from a real
Spanish don. except by his speech.
St. Rout* courts were compelled to
adjourn for fifteen minutes recently
because of the uproar caused by moth
el's attacking .& man accused of In
sulting their daughters. The women
used hatpins on the man and on the
deputy sheriffs who attmnptsd to de
fend him. It might not b* a bad Idea
k to make the punishment of the pro
fesslomil masher enforced submission
to a hatpin assault. Undoubtedly K
would be more effective than Just put
ting hkn In Jail with the hope that
he would suiter from the prickings of
conscleno*. A hatpin Is so much more
malarial.
Chicago, after a rest of fully three
days without turning up something
sensational, has pushed to the front
again. They claim up there In the
windy city that it suddenly grew dark
as midnight during the middle of the
day; then suddenly switched back to
daylight again; then began to snow;
and Chicagoans ended by picking
raspberries, though they had to brush
off the snow in order to see them.
Shades of Munchausen! The poor old
ghost of the baron can now go to
Chefoo and Shanghai and condole with
the war correspondents on dropping
back into the “also ran” class.
Just ae Mrs. John H. Wygant of
Hackensack, N. J., was preparing to
go to her husband’s funeral he called
her up over the telephone and an
nounced that inasmuch as he had not
yet shuffled off this mortal coil, he
objected to being buried. The man
was supposed to have been killed in
a railroad accident. With good rea
son he Is congratulating himself, for
the obituaries have told how “esteemed
and admired” he was by his “hosts
of friends” and he has also been able
to see just how his wife looked in
widow’s weeds.
A Nsw York municipal candidate is
spellbinding by phonograph. He just
distributes the records taken at a well
attended meeting and gets some
body to turn the crank. This
is a good idea, as the phonograph
will do all the work, putting in the
words of the speaker, the “generous
applause” and even “the wildest en
thusiasm." And the beauty of it, from
the candidate's standpoint, is that
throwing things at it will not shut its
mouth.
A Chicago man who gave advice to
another man’s wife has been named
as corespondent in a divorce libel in
stituted by the husband of the woman
to whom the advice was given. The
husband cannot be blamed for wish
ing to give the adviser a chance to
put his advice on “How a Wife Should
Be Treated” into practice. He prob
ably is working on the theory that
experience Is a better teacher than
theory.
PERSONAL.
—Ex-Senator W. D. Washbume, of
Minnesota, is the only survivor of sev
en brothers, four of whom 'attain
ed national fame, and three of whom
were members of the National House
of Representatives of the same time,
the only instance in the political his
tory of this government where three
men thus related had seats in Con
gress simultaneously.
—Mrs. McKinley, who is in better
physical condition than for mf&ny years,
habitually refers to the assassination
of her husband as “that dreadful deed.”
She seldom meets any of her friends
without speaking of the Buffalo trag
edy that desolated her life.
—lt h'as been a tradition since the
''me of Nicholas I to name the Czare
vitches alternately Alexander and
Nicholas. But the murder of Alexan
der 11, caused his name to be con
sidered unlucky, so there will be no
more Alexanders on the Russian throne,
as there will be no more Pauls or
Peters. The Czarevitch was, therefore,
rfamed Alexis, after the father of Peter
the Great.
BRIGHT BITS.
pid. He says a clever thing quite of
ten.” "Exactly. He doesn’t seem to
realize that it should be said only
once.” —Philadelphia Press.
—"Money doesn’t make the man,”
said the hlgh-browed and haughty
youth. "No,” answered Senator Sor
ghum, "it doesn’t make the man, but
sometime it makes the candidate.”—
Washington Star.
—Mrs. Lowerton—“ls Mrs. Upper
ten at home?” Servant (snappishly)—
“She’s out.” Mrs. Lowerten (quietly)
—"I happen to know that she is in,
but her directions to you are quite ex
cusable. She probably thinks that I
am a bill collector.”' —New York
Weekly.
—"That advertisement of yours was
a fake,” complained the disgusted
guest. "Why so?” demanded the pro
prietor of the mountain hotel. "Why,
your advertisement said ’Quails are
always to be shot here,’ and I haven't
found a single person who has shot
one yet." "Well, then, they are still
to be shot, ain't they?”—Philadelphia
Ledger.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says:
"It is surprising what a small change
in the popular vote cast in past elec
tions would have changed the result,
even when one of the candidates had a
large majority in the Electoral Col
lege. For example, in 1880 9,000,000
votes were cast, and a change of about
10,000 in New York would have elected
Hancock. In 1884 nearly 10.000,000
votes were cast, and Mr. Cleveland
had a majority of 37 in the Electoral
College, and yet a change of a little
more than 500 votes in New York
would have elected Blaine. The result
of a presidential election in the past
has frequently hung on a few' votes in
some state, and that may be the case
this time.”
The Galveston Daily News (Dem.)
says: "Another thing in favor of the
system of paying legislators by the
term or year is that it would knock
out that ancient excuse for failure to
enact much-needed legislation, name
ly, the statement, ‘We adjourned with
out doing all that we should have done
because the Legislature has already
cost the people enough.’ Pay legis
lators by the terms, which really
means by the Job, and the people will
insist that they put the finishing
touches on the Job before ’knocking
off.’ If we hire a man by the day to
dig a ditch we can forgive him if he
adjourns sine die before completing
It. If we contract to pay him a stipu
lated price for the Job there will be a
fuss If his work falls short of comple
tion by as much as a spadeful of dirt,
or a clod.”
The Montgomery Advertiser, in
speaking of President Roosevelt, says:
"Who is to keep watch on this dan
gerous man, if he shall be elected to
a full presidential term? Already he
has more than once made it plain that
he is not a safe man to trust with the
power that belongs to the office he
holds and which he wants to continue
to hold. He has given such evidence
of erratic and bravado nature as to
alarm many of his beet friends and
create In their minds grave doubts aa
to the propriety of giving him another
and further lease of power They
reason that If he needs watching while
he may be supposed to be on his beet
behavior aa a matter of policy, what
may be expected if the American peo
ple virtually indorse his methods?
May K not be expected that he will
take off the bridle and five himself
free scope to exhibit ail his dangerous
proclivities?”
Victor and the Flak.
King Victor of Italy is very fond of
fishing, but unfortunately he very sel
dom succeeds In catching many fish,
relates the Neiy York Herald. The
other day, after fishing for several
hours, he was returning home with
three perch no bigger than sprats In
his bag, when he met a peasant who
had also been fishing and had caught
several splendid trout.
“Well, neighbor, I see you haven’t
caught many.” said the peasant, with
a laugh, "yet I don't see why, for
they’re biting good to-day. I guess
you’re the same kind of fisherman our
king is.”
“What do you mean?” asked King
Victor, blushing furiously.
“Oh,” replied the peasant, “we all
know him. He thinks himpeif a great
sportsman, but he's no good at fish
ing. I suppose the Lord thought ’twas
enough to make him a king without
making him at the same tijne a good
sportsman.”
Two Kinds of Law.
Judge Julius M. Mayer tells a story
in the New York Times, about a white
man who was arraigned before a col
ored justice of the peace during Re
construction times for killing a man
and stealing his mule. It was In Ar
kansas, near the Texas border, and
there was some rivalry between the
states, but the colored justice tried
always to preserve an impartial frame
of mind.
“We’se got two kinds ob law In dis
yere co't.” he said. "Texas law an’
Arkansas law. Which will you hab?”
The prisoner thought a minute and
then guessed that he would take the
Arkansas law.
“Den I discharge you fo’ stealin’ de
mule an’ hang you fo’ killin’ de man.”
“Hold on a minute, judge,” said the
prisoner. “Better make that Texas
law.”
“All right, under de law ob Texas
I fine you fo’ killin’ de man and hang
you fo’ stealin’ de mule.”
George Ade on Llternture.
George Ade was talking in Boston
about literature, according to the Bal
timore Evening Herald. He had decid
ed tastes. The modern writers whom
he most admired were W. W. Jacobs,
Guy de Maupassant, H. G. Wells and
Pierre Loti. The name of a certain
well known but little read novelist
came up. and Mr. Ade said:
“He is good, but I can’t stand his
affectations. Almost effeminate are
the little curlyeues and pink-ribbon
like ornamentations that he pins on
his sentences.”
“He is big,” Mr. Ade’s companion
asserted. “He grows bigger every
year.”
“How about his sales?”
“Well, they are dropping off.”
“I see,” said Mr. Ade. "You reckon
his bigness as you do that of a ditch
—the more you take away from it, the
bigger it becomes.”'
The Wrong- Direction.
William James, the noted psycholo
gist of Harvard, was illustrating the
confusion into which -children’s minds
may be thrown by the reception of dif
ferent ideas about the same subject,
says the Buffalo Enquirer.
"Henry Ward Beecher,” he said,
"furnished us in his childhood with a
good example of the thing I mean.
On the death of Beecher’s mother ‘the
little fellow teas told by some that
she had gone to heaven and by
others that she had been laid in the
grouhd.
”He brooded over these contradictory
ideas until they were reconciled in his
mind. Then, one morning, he was
found digging in the garden very
busily.
” 'What are you doing?’ they asked
him.
“ ‘Why,’ said the child, ‘I am going
to heaven to find mhther.’ ”
Mark Twain's quick Retort.
Many years ago when Mark Twain
was a struggling journalist he found
himself one day with a note coming
due and a total lack of funds with
which to meet it, says the Baltimore
Evening Herald. Half distracted, he
was rushing around the city in a fever
ish hunt for funds to tide him over
the trying time. He rushed a little too
quickly, however, for as he was turn
ing a corner he collided with a little
man and overthrew him. The victim
regained his feet and yelled:
“You do that again and I’ll knock
you into the middle of next week.”
"My dear sir,” said the apologetic
humorist, ”do it by all means. If I
can get through till then without
breaking I’m safe.”
Affected His Nerves.
A tall, lank young man from the
brush district entered a St. Joseph at
torney’s office a few days ago, accord
ing to the Gazette, and said he want
ed to get a pension. "Pa was a sol
dier in the big war and pa’s dead now,
an' me an’ ma ain't got much to live
on." he said. “Yes, but you were nev
er a soldier, were you?” asked the
lawyer. The young man replied that he
had never been in the army. "How do
you expect to get a pension then?”
asked the lawyer. “Well,” came from
the young man, "while it’s true I ain’t
never been a soldier, I’ve had my
nerves all shot to pieces listenin’ to
pa tell erbout the horrible battles he
fit in."
What Patrick Henry Meant.
Chief Justice Marshall used to nar
rate with great glee a correspondence
on a point of honor between Gov.
Giles of Virginia and Patrick Henry,
says the New York Times.
Sir—l understand you have called
me a bobtailed politician. I wish to
know if tt be true, and, if true, your
meaning. W. R. Giles.
To which Patrick Henry replied:
Sir—l do not recollect having called
you a bobtailed politician at any time,
but think It probable I have. I can’t
say what I did mean, but if you tell
me what you think I mean I will tell
you whether you are correct or not.
Patrick Henry.
Knew About Sunken.
Col. Henry Watterson of Kentucky,
during his recent visit to New York,
says an exchange, told a story of an
old darky down South who was In
formed that whisky was an infallible
cure for snakebite. His Informant told
him that If he was bitten by a snake
and drank a quart of whisky the
snake would die and he would go un
scathed.
"Dnr’s only one trubble ’bout dat
cure,’’ the old man said. “I knows
whar dere's plenty snakes, but whar’s
I gwine ter git de whisky?”
Ken Hrenkfnal Food,
A little girl who was eating codfish
for breakfast the other morning for
the first time, relates Harper's Week
ly, was sosn to stop and examine her
plate with deep Interest,
"Mamina.” she asked. presently,
“what kind of flsh Is this? I've Just
found a hair In It."
"It Is codfish, dear.” was the answer.
"Oh," ''onimented her daughter, In
a disappointed Unto, "1 thought prob
ably it was mermaid.”
HIGH NOON AT SEA.
From the New York World.
The most momentous improvement
in navigation since the invention of
the chronometer, over 140 years ago,
has just been foreshadowed in a mod
est paragraph in the report of the
chief of the Bureau of Equipment of
the United States navy.
"It is believed,” says Chief Manney,
“that the development of wireless
telegraphy will enable these [time]
signals to be distributed over water
as well as over land, and that before
long every ship at sea, in addition to
every land station, will receive dally
noon signals from the standard ob
servatory clock.”
What does that mean? Nothing less
than the elimination of the last ele
ment of uncertainty from the problem
of finding the position of a ship at
sea. Hitherto the one weak point in
navigation has been the difficulty of
carrying standard time on a voyage.
Observations for local time as well as
for latitude have been exact, but the
comparison of local with standard
time for obtaining the longitude has
involved a certain amount of guess
work. The best chronometer is not
quite infallible, and some allowance,
which may not be precisely right, has
always to be made for errors.
But with time signals received from
a national observatory every day at
noon the mariner will know his way
over any part of the Wide ocean as
accurately as If he were threading a
buoyed channel. The chronometer Will
join the cross-staff and the astrolabe
in the junk heap of discarded make
shifts.
And of course a ship that can com
municate with the shore for one pur
pose is equally In touch with the
world or any other communication it
needs to make.
TIPS IN THE LAND OF TIPS.
From the London Times.
Hundreds of men who are fond of
sport are compelled to refuse tempt
ing invitations to country houses be
cause of the “tipping terror” which is
in them.
The coachman or chauffeur £0 10
The butler who smiles at him .. 1 00
The man who valets him 1 00
The head keeper who "places”
him 1 00
The underkeeper who looks at
him 0 10
Total (S2O) ......£4 00
The above items are based on a
three or four days shoot. For a fort
night the figures would be nearly
trebled.
In one large house a collection box
is placed in the room of each guest.
Into this box the guest places a gen
eral offering to indoor servants.
The hostess hold the keys of the
boxes, and these are opened at the
end of the season, when the contents
are divided equally among servants.
AERIAL CABLE r> MILES LONG.
From the Telegraph Age.
A thirty-five mile heavy aerial ca
ble, carrying nineteen wires, will soon
be stretched across the Great Salt
lake along the Lucln cut-off. It will
be the main line for all railroad and
commercial telegraph business between
Salt Lake City and the coast.
When the great out-off was first
thought of it was informally planned
to stretch the wires in the regular
way along the track, but when the
engineers got their first idea of the
high .winds on the lake it was at once
demonstrated that the wires would not
last long enough in such an unpro
tected place, and then it was thought
that a regular ocean cable would have
to be laid. But this was impractica
ble, too, as It was found that the ac
tion of the water would ruin the ca
ble in a short time. So as a last re
sort it has been decided that the only
way will be to stretch a solid cable
across the whole of the lake section
for about thirty-five miles.
HOW MEXICANS TEST EGGS.
From the Mexican Herald.
It is a common sight in the plaza to
behold a stall woman, who is selling
two reals' worth of eggs, pick them
up one by one. put one end and then
the other to her lips and hand them
over to the customer, who repeats the
same identical operation.
To the inexperienced onlooker It
seems as If they were tasting the ex
tremities of the egg. Asa matter of
fact they never touch the egg with
the tongue.
The Idea of the performance Is that
when an egg is fresh one end is dis
tinctly colder than the other. The
end which has the air chamber is the
warmer of the two. The human lips
are exceedingly sensitive to heat and
cold, and even the novice at this form
of egg testing promptly becomes a
capable judge. If both ends of the
egg may be counted as bad, as It is
a fairly good sign that the air cham
ber is broken and the contents spread
equally within the shell.
FISHERMAN CAI'GHT WILDCAT.
From the New York Evening Mail.
Susquehanna, Pa., Oct. 25. —“BUI”
Rogers of the Cascade, while bass
fishing in the Susquehanna river on
Saturday saw a wildcat swimming
across the stream in front of him.
Rogers cast a line toward the ani
mal. The hook caught in the cat’s
ear, and it at once turned and swam
toward the boat.
Rogers tried to paddle away, but
the cat caught the Doat and began to
climb in. “Bill” knocked the animal on
the head with the paddle, and the
movement capsized the boat. Then
there was a savage battle In the wa
ter.
The fisherman defended himself so
well with the paddle that he was able
to reach the shore. The wildcat fol
lowed, but a few well-directed blows
finished It.
Rogers lost his fishing outfit, but the
County Commissions will give him $2
for the wildcat’s scalp.
HKFI SED TO DESERT Hl* POST.
Front the Topeka Capital.
The floods In New Mexico have fur
nished a real Instance of death at the
post of duty. An old man, 85 years of
age, named Porter, was In charge of a
pumping station. He had been with
the railroad since it was built and had
been years ago transferred from track
work to the pumping station on ac
count of his advanced age.
His little cabin stood between the
track and the river near the pumping
engine. When the water came up to
hts doorstep the old man refused to
go to the hills, but went inside his
cabin and shut the door agninst the
rising tide. In a few moments the
water came over the bank and took
away the cabin, the pumphouse snd
everything else. Porter’s body has
never been found. The faithful old
man had no known relatives except a
daughter In Topeka
AN ORCHESTRA OK MURDERERS.
From the New York World.
At the French penal colony, Noumea,
New Caledonia, the convicts have or
ganized a band. The leader is a no
torious murderer and was once in the
orchestra of the Purls Opera House.
The cymbal player killed a subpoena
server and the drum player had mur
dered his landlord with a hammer. The
first cornet Is guilty of murder, with
nobberv as the motive, and one of the
Clarinets, a tavern keeper, ueed to kill
his patrons for the same reason. The
aeslstant bandmaster was convicted of
having cut his wife to pieces. This
convict band given dally concerts to
the luha bit ante ot Noumea, who are
enthusiastic over the now orgauls*-
I ttou.
Hood's Pills
Do not gripe nor Irritate the alimen
tary canal. They act gently yet
promptly, cleanse effectually and
Give Comfort
Sold by all druggists. 25 cents.
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC Co7
WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE,
Effective J)ct. 3, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE LIN K
jjetween Isle of Hope and 40th Street.
S J- Lv. Isle of Hope.'
W PM - A.M. P.M.
7 ™ J’,’.* 6:00 1:00
830 Mn 7:00 2:00
n 220 8:00 3 :00
10:30 3:30 10:00 ‘4:00
1130 V AA* 11:00
i'-il 5:00
°i>9 9:00
J?;“° 10 :55
_ *Vla Montgomery to city.
Between Isle of Hope~& Thunderbolt.
V v 'J sle IJope - Lv. Thunderbolt
A. M. P M A. M. P. M.
••••• *3:00 ... *i•xa
19® 6:00 57:22 *5:50
- 90 # *9:50 7*38
51 2-mlnute wait at Sandfly.
- Parcel car, passenger trailer.
MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE!
Between Montgomery and 40th Street
By oth St.
y® 51:80 8:fo Vso
t7:53 5 t 2 3:0°5 10:30 If
9:50 tS:EO, “I]!! 6 : 30
!r° nnects wlth Parcel car for city.
tThrough to Thunderbolt.
city * mlnUte WaU at Sandfll, soing to
Between Montgomery & Thundebolt
A ; ¥• P-M. A. M. P. M.
600 3:05 7:22 3:38
.53 5:50 8:22 6:38
■:••• 7 '°B 7:38
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE.
Effective July 13. 1903.
a Leave Whitaker and Bay streets.
A.M. .A.M. PM pm
* SO 10 :° 0 12:40 5:20
•Tim ,\ 0:4 ° 1:20 ®:° o
lon IV£9. 8:00 850
1 20 12:00 2:40 7:20
!99 8:20 8:00
*t° 4:00 8:40
980 4:40 ....
. \ „ Leave Mill-Haven.
.A**' A.M. p.M. P.M.
B;<° -’ 12:20 5:40
•■i on 11:40 1:00 *6:05
1™ 1:40 6:20
I*l 2:20 7:00
f99 S:°° 7:40
9.99 8:40 8:20
9 4:20 9:00
10:20 6:00 ’
♦Dally except Sunday^
v aTHRDA Y EVENING SPECIAL! —
Leave White ker Leave MUU
and st *- Haven.
P.M. p M
9:4°
10 00 10:20
10 -4° 11:00
THUNDERBOLT LINE.
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton street Junction
Beginning at 6:30 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Casino and Thunder
bolt every half hour until 2:00 p. rr>
after which cars run every 15 minutes
until 11:30 and. m.
Cars leave Bolton street Junction 11
minute* 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 ears leave every 15 minutes until
12:08 midnight.
COLLINSVILLE 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
til avenue every 20 ihinutes 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.
WFST FND LINK (Lincoln Park.)
Car leaves west, side of City Market for Lin
coin Park 6:( a. m. and every 40 mlrutSi
thereafter until 11:15 p. m. minutes
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 6:20a. m
end every 40mlnutea thereafter until 12o’clock
midnight.
~~Z Freight and parcflcar
hop s ! dn o o(n J* v Market for Thunder
boL. Cattle Park. Sandflv. Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points—B:ls a. m„ 1:15 pm., 5:14
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandflv, Cattle Park.
Thunderbolt and ail intermediate Dolnt.— -08
a. n... II :00 a. m., 3:00 p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at 359 a to.
and 2:35 p. m„ connecting at Sandfly with reg
ular parcel car tot city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight te
Montgomery on each trip
Regular parcel oar carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of paasengei*.
Any further Information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be had Of
applying to L. R. NASH. Manager.
Seed Oats, Seed Rye,
Bee Keepers' and
Poultry Supplies.
HARDEN & ROURK,
Hay, Grain and Feed,
118 Bay Street, West.
BOTH PHONES 228.
Imported Molasses.
6(1 Puncheons, 24 hogsheads, IB
barrels. Muscovado Molasass, re
ceived by bark Letlsia. For sals by
C. M. GILBERT & CO..
IMPORTERS.
Lovers of poetry and music, ns well
as the woman of fashion, will treasure
the December (Christmas) Delineator,
which contains, ns a prominent feat
ure, a selection of Love Lyrics from
the Wagner Operas, rendered Into
English by Riche rd Le Galllenne and
illustrated In colors by J. C. Leyen
decker. The fiction is contributed by
well-known writers and the deport
ments are attractive and helpful.
BRENNAN & CO.,
WnOLHAU
Fruit, Produce,
Hay, Grain, Etc.
\22 Bay Street,
Telephone Mft.