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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with light
to fresh north to northeast winds.
Eastern Florida, partly cloudy weather,
with variable winds.
An Illinois man was arrested while
In the midst of proposing marriage to
his sweetheart. The law might at
least have allowed him to get an an
swer to his question.
President Roosevelt has sent a heart
felt greeting to Panama. When the
voters of this country register their
opinions of the course of the Presi
dent in that Panama affair he will
probably telegraph a very different
sort of message to the infant repub
lic.
Ohio politicians are making it a
practice to go each morning to the
police courts and buy the votes of the
“drunks" by paying their fines. It is
gratifying to know that there is at
least one way of getting a politician
into a court, even though he isn't
there as defendant.
An English lady In an address to a
London woman's club announced that
American girls were “sprightly and
lively, even after marriage.” If any
relianoe can be placed in the records
of the divorce courts some of them
do not develop sprightllness until after
marriage, and then they develop it to
its greatest extent.
A New York man has applied for
an injunction to restrain his divorced
wife from continuing to use his name.
If government by injunction continues
to spread we may expect infants to be
born with an injunction in their hands
restraining their parents from naming
them until they been given an oppor
tunity to suggest a name they would
like.
The shah of Persia has cut off the
heads of the bandits who murdered
an American missionary. This was
done in accordance with Instructions,
backed up by a flourish of the Big
Stick, from this government. The
shah did not hesifate long in decid
ing as to whether it would be beat
to clip off the heads of the Persians
or to let the Big Stick descend on his
own sacred cranium.
A Philadelphia man has started a
school for telephone operators in which
the young women will be taught to
say "Hello” in such a way as to allay
the feelings of the persons using the
'phone and also to furnish a cure for
“blues” and kindred Ills, Qeneraily It
Is the refusal of the “Hello-girls” to
say anything at all that ruffles the
temper of the subscribers and causes
them to. think profane thoughts. But
as for the second object of the course,
we submit that that has fine possibili
ties. Just Imagine taking down the
escatver and requesting the "helio
cure for Indigestion” or “say II so as
le ears the blues, pisses!'* 1
PARKERS REPLY TO ROOSEVELT.
The careless reader may not find
Judge Parker's reply to Mr. Roosevelt
wholly satisfactory because it does not
contain as strong language as Mr.
Roosevelt’s letter does. There are no
such words in It as "wicked falsehood,"
"atrociously false,” "base and un
worthy personalities,” as there are in
Mr. Roosevelt's letter, but the thought
ful readers will recognize it as a com
plete answer to Mr. Roosevelt and as
fully sustaining all Judge Parker has
said since the trust contributions to the
Republican campaign fund became the
chief issue of the campaign.
Mr. Roosevelt does not deny that the
trusts have contributed large sums to
the campaign fund of his party, but
he attempts to excuse these contribu
tions by intimating that the trusts have
also contributed to the Democratic
campaign fund. He also denies that
either he or Mr. Cortelyou has made
any promises of favors to the trusts
for contributions to the Republican
campaign fund. He admits, however,
that he openly promised them a "square
deal.”
Judge Parker blocks the effort of Mr.
Roosevelt to excuse his party for put
ting itself under obligations to the
trusts by stating that he requested the
Democratic National Committee not to
receive any contributions from them,
and Judge Parker says he has been
informed that his wishes have been
respected. Therefore, if Mr. Roosevelt
should be elected he would be under
obligations to the trusts—obligations,
as he himself admits, to give them a
"square deal.” What that means, any
body who has had any experience in
politics knows. It means that as be
tween the people and the trusts the
beneficiary of the trusts would be
generous to the trusts. The trusts
would be permitted to do under the
next administration as they are per
mitted to do under this administra
tion, namely, fill their pockets at the
expense of the people.
If Mr. Parker should be elected he
would be free to deal with the trusts
in accordance with the laws, and there
is no doubt that he would enforce the
laws. He wouldn’t feel as Mr. Roose
velt would, that he would have to be
generous in dealing with them. There
would be no question of a “square
deal” for them if he should be chosen
President. There would be the law for
them, nothing less and nothing more.
It is because they have been having
a “square deal" under Republican rule,
because of their • campaign contribu
tions to the Republican party, that
they have become so powerful.
With force and clearness Judge Par
ker points out that the "floating vote,”
owing to the corruption fund furnish
ed by the trusts to the Republican
party in other campaigns, has become
so large that there is a prospect that
it will control the election to-morrow.
It is a purchaseable vote and there is
no good reason to doubt that the money
furnished by the trusts will be used to
swell the Republican vote In the doubt
ful states.
Mr. Roosevelt waited twelve days be
fore replying to Judge Parker’s
charges, and why? If he were so In
dignant why didn't he reply as soon
as the charges w-ere made? The In
ference is that all the contributions
from the trusts had not been collect
ed, and his letter might deter some
of them from paying up. He played
the part of a shrewd politician, not
that of a sincerely indignant states
man, and it is said that in all the
heated campaigns of the past, no Pres
ident and no presidential candidate
ever used such language in speaking of
a political opponent as that used by
Mr. Roosevelt to Judge Parker. His
departure from precedent in this mat
ter was doubtless due to the weakness
of his cause.
THE SPIRIT OF EMPIRE.
Republican spellbinders of all grades
have been loudly proclaiming that
there is no such issue as "imperial
ism” before the country. Secretary
Taft, expressly appointed to answer
the charge that this nation was lean
ing toward empire, found that the
best that he could say on the ques
tions was to characterize the cry as
"the ecstasy born of a moral issue.”
Others have passed it over with a
mere denial, forgetting that when
facts were brought forward by the
Democratic orators that facts were
ndeessary to refute them and the
deductions drawn from them. But
what of the grounds for the charge
made by the Democrats? Webster de
fines imperialism as "The power or
character of an emperor; the spirit of
empire.” Are we not drifting toward
that "spirit of empire” under the lead
of the militaristic Mr. Roosevelt?
The emperor is the head of ths em
pire, standing above the laws. This
quality Mr. Roosevelt seems to have
adopted. In his Pension Order No. 78
he usurped the legislative power of
Congress and did what to him seem
ed best calculated to promote and
augment his own power and assure
his re-election. The law provides
that certain appointments of the
President shall be ratified by the
Senate. A Republican Senate refused
to ratify the Crum appointment, which
had been protested against by the peo
ple of South Carolina, yet the Presi
dent paid no heed to the non-ratiflea
tlon and persists in maintaining his
negro favorite. The spirit of em
pire and of the emperor is, it would
seem, developing.
The Panama affair is another in
stance. Even the militaristic Grant,
desirous as he was for Sainana Bay
in Haytl, felt obliged to consult Con
gress before he acted and compelled
to abide by the decision of that body.
Not so Mr. Roosevelt. He himself does
Colombia out of Panama, and Panama
out of the "canal strip.” Congress
knew nothing of it until he announced
that It had been done. The "spirit
of empire" seems to have passed the
infant stags.
Again In the caae of the Philippines
the "spirit of empire” appears. The
islands were secured In a war designed
ly not on* of conquest, yet we, a
free country, hold them as dependent
territory. Only yesterday cam* the
report that nsgo'iatlon* were under
way for the purchase of lelands off
1 Panama to be used aa a naval baa*.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1904.
An unprejudiced view of these facts
seems to force upon a thinking man
the truth that the empire spirit is in
creasing rapidly. If the voters of
this country by the re-election of the
present imperialistic President seem
ingly indorse this spirit, who can say
to what lengths it will not lead him.
The course of safety demands the
election of Judge Parker, as yet un
swayed from respect of the constitu
tion by “dreams of empire.”
JAMES P. HARRISON.
Mr. James P. Harrison, who was
killed on the Atlantic, Knoxville and
Northern Railroad last Friday after
noon and who was buried 1n Atlanta
yesterday, had a number of friends in
Savannah and was well known
throughout the state. It is only a few
weeks since he was in this city
investigating the matter of supplying
stone for the new building of the Na
tional Bank of Savannah.
Mr. Harrison was a son of the late
Hon. George W. Harrison of Milledge
ville who was Secretary of State for
over a quarter of a century. He was
a brother of Messrs. Z. D. and George
W. Harrison and Mrs. E. Y. Clarke
of Atlanta. He was a practical print
er, and, at the close of the war be
tween the states, in which, though a
mere boy, he served at Savannah with
the state troops, he entered the pub
lishing business as editor and propri
etor of the Monroe Advertiser, at For
sythe, Ga. Desiring a more extended
field for his talents and energy, in con
junction with the late Rev. J. W.
Burke of Macon and Col. Estill of the
Morning News, he bought in 1871 the
Franklin Printing Company of Atlanta.
Under Mr. Harrison’s management the
concern, the corporate name of which
was James P. Harrison & Cos., built up
a reputation as a business that it has
held ever since.
He was at that time owner of the
Christian Index, the Southern Agricul
turist and several other publications,
and also contractor for the state print
ing. Mr. Harrison, becoming interest
ed in the development of the marble
quarries of Georgia, sold out his in
terest in the printing house and de
voted his means, energy, and one
might say his life, to that new indus
try. He met his death near Ball
Ground, a station of the Atlantic,
Knoxville and Northern Railroad,
where he has a large quarry and fac
tory. Georgia had no citizen who had
more faith in her resources or more
energy in their development than did
Mr. Harrison. He worked day and
night and traveled thousands of miles
every year to present Georgia marble
to those who purposed using stone in
their buildings.
THE DILEMMA OF THE CZAR.
Since the beginning of the Russo-
Japanese war there has been a series
of remarkable changes in the attitude
of the Russian government toward its
people. An ukase abolished corporal
punishment for many offenses. Great
er freedom has been promised the press
and the conduct of the government in
the Gomel trial of the anti-Jewish riot
ers seems to confirm the earlier earn
est. Lastly the assurance is given
that the passports of American Jews
will be honored. To the Russians and
the outside world these changes are
tidings of the victory of civilization
and enlightenment in the contest with
despotism and darkness. To the Czar
they are sinister messages. In their
deepest sense they seem the efforts of
tyranny to compromise with liberty,
the pitiful propplngs that seek to stay
the tottering rule of a dynasty that
draws its strength from condemning
it subjects to ignorance and servitude.
The plight of the Czar is anything
but an enviable ohe. In the Far East
bitter defeat has come to his generals
and his armies have been beaten back,
shattered and discouraged. His navy
has been broken and scattered by the
shtps of Togo. His Baltic fleet awaits
the verdict of an international tribu
nal. At home the situation is little
better. Riots are common. Discon
tent reigns in the masses and the nihi
lists daily become more daring and
more open in their threats. Plots are
hatched against him and hia ministers
and even his nobility are charged with
wavering in their loyalty. The un
successful, distant, war is draining the
resources of his empire and the mur
muring* of his dissatisfied subjects in
crease in volutnn.
From the Far East comes the news
that the fail of Port Arthur is but a
matter of a very short time, a few
weeks at most. Will that end the war?
The prevailing opinion is that it will
not, but that rather the blindness of
pride and vaulting ambition will cause
its prolongation. When will It end?
The Czar alone can answer. He must
choose between humbling his pride in
acknowledging defeat, of pushing for
ward a hopeless war until the discon
tent of his people bursts all bonds and
revolution clears the ground for a bet
ter rule. The outlook for Russia is a
gloomy one. Its standing as a great
world power is ulready weakened by
the reverses in Manchuria. Nicholas
must choose between calling off the
war dogs and continuing hia policy of
according more liberty and enlighten
ment to his subjects, or clinging to
that "Thriftless ambition that wilt
ravin up his own life's means.” It is
a dilemma of which either horn is a
bitter choice.
The New York Tribune, in speaking
of the Panama republic, says: "No
other country in South America, with
the exception of Brazil, attained its
independence without the necessity ot
a protracted armed conflict. The una
nimity of sentiment among the peoplr
on the isthmus made the task of ee
cession an easy one.” We had thought,
up until this time, that it was the
presence of a United States war vessel
and a company of marines that “made
the task of secession an easy one.”
An Investigation on the part of the
Tribune might serve to right some of
its Ideas on that Panama question.
The patriotism and the devotion to
the Mikado shown by the Japanese In
the way they observed his birthday
la proof positive that th* people of
the empire are standing firmly behind
| their general* In Manchuria. Such
I devotion augur* well ot success.
A Richmond couple, intending to sep
arate, couldn’t decide which one was
to take the stove. Asa compromise
the husband offered to give it to the
wife in exchange for a kiss. She kissed
him, but he refused to give up the
stove. Then she brought suit and the
jury valued ’the kiss at the cost of the
stove, plus the costs of the trial and
the fees of the attorney employed by
the wife. Kansas values a kiss at 1
cent. Illinois values it as $15,000.
Pennsylvania valued one at $5. And
now Virginia comes to the front and,
values it the same as a stove. If this
thing keeps up much longer the gov
ernment will have to step in and regu
late the orice of kisses in order ihat
there may be uniformity throughout
the country. But that would mean
a kiss trust, and then where would
the poor tnan came in! It is nearly
time to call an interstate conference
to avoid complications.
Senator Platt of New York in a pub
lic address said: "In my opinion the
colored population of this countrj
would not willingly intrust their inter
ests to the tender mercies of Southern
congressmen. It is manifest that a
vote for a Northern Democrat for
Congress would be the same as a vote
for Mr. John Sharp Williams.” The
Northern spellbinders, in their despaii
of finding any other grounds on which
to make an appeal, begin waving the
“bloody shirt.” But if “Me Too” Platt
had announced earlier in this cam
paign that the Republican part}
wanted John Sharp Williams as an
issue the Democrats would have con
curred. And it would have been an is
sue that would have won votes foi
Parker and Davis.
A New York man gave his wife SSOO
to go out and purchase him one can
of beer. When she didn’t return he
began a search for her and found her
with $494.40 in her hand and fifty-five
"growlers” tucked under her belt. But
he forgave her, saying that if she was
as dry as he was no one could Maine
her for spending $5.60 for the golden
brew. Evidently his misery had gen
erated the proper sympathy for his
wife.
A New York postmistress has just
been arrested, charged with opening
private letters for the mere sake of
reading them. “Curiosity killed a cat”
and it looks like it was going to get
that postmistress a term in the peniten
tiary.
PERSONAL.
—Sir Seymour King, member of Par
liament from Hull, says that the
claims of the persons damaged by the
attack upon the Hull fleet would
amount to nearly $500,000.
—Mrs. F. M. Norton, a prominent
member of the Social Economics Club
of Chicago, believes that a pension
system should be devised by which the
state should give a fixed sum to the
mother on tho birth of each child.
—Sir Ernest CAssell, the Anglo-Ger
man _ financier, Is coming to America.
He is of German birth,but a naturalized
Englishman, and is the man who
furnished the monetary backing for
the construction of the Nile dams at
Assouan and Assiout.
—Prof. Uchimura has established the
first gymnasium for the practice of the
Japanese art of self-defense, known as
jiu-jitsu, in the country, at Cam
bridge. Mass. It is under the patron
age of Mrs. Ole Bull and in a building
on her estate formerly used as an art
gallery.
BRIGHT BITS.
—A Young Financier.—Gerald—
"Mamma, can you change fifteen
cents for me?” Mother—" How do you
wish it changed, dear?” Gerald —“Into
a quarter.”—Puck.
—Mrs. Jenkins —“Your son’s engaged
to be married, I hear. I saw a young
lady with him to-day. Was that—”
Mrs. O’Bull —“Yes, that was his fias
co.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
—She—“l hope you succeeded in
retaining your composure when your
auto capsized.” He—" Didn’t retain
the first thing: everything was dump
ed into the gutter.”—Boston Tran
script.
—"Senator,” asked the fair girl,
"would you give a man money for his
vote?” ”1 would not,” the statesman
decisively replied. ”1 regard ,such
practices not only as criminal, but as
destructive to the very foundations up
on whh our government is based. If
I could not secure a man’s vote by
giving him a postoffice I would scorn
it as a thing not worth having.”—Chi
cago Record-Herald.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The New York Evening Post (Ind.)
says: “AnS even If the soliciting and
acceptance of campaign contributions
from trusts could be truthfully denied,
the charge that the fat has been fried
out of the protected manufacturers
could not be. As long as that has to be
admitted, the worst has to be admitted.
The President had to recant his former
view's, and stand pat on the tariff, as an
inducement to the protected interests
to stand pat on their campaign checks.
TUI that can be denied, nothing is de
nied.”
The' Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: “Secretary Taft replies to the
charge of nUlitarlsm on the part of the
administration 'by referring to the de
fenseless condition the country would
have been In had Mr. Olney's action
In the Venezuela matter resulted in
war.' A finer contrast between Dem
oqratic and Republican policies could
not be found th'an this which Mr. Taft
draws. With an army of 25,000 men
and a very moderate navy, the Cleve
land administration asserted the Mon
roe doctrine and it was respected. The
Roosevelt administration, having no
faith in the right or In moifel forces,
thinks the Monroe doctrine cannot be
maintained without a considerable
army and one of the biggest navies In
the world.”
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: “Var
ious reasons have been given why the
United States should hold on to the
Philippine Isfands and conquer its peo
ple. One is that if we do not. some
other nation will, It is not anticipat
ed that any other nation will take
Cuba after the United States has tak
en that Island under its protection. It
Is also said th'at we need the Islands
for coaling stations and a naval base.
We reserved those things in Cuba with
out taking possession of the whole land.
It Is said that the Filipinos are not
capable of elf-government, and if we
withdraw our troops the natives will
fly at each other's throats. There are
many tribes In Central Africa who are
constantly rutting each other’s throsts
and we have never considered It our
duty to help them, nor to prevent
them.”
Slie Spoiled Hl* Car.
Wayne MacVeagh, at a banquet of
lawyers, said of forensic speaking, ac
cording to the Baltimore Herald.
“Venal barristers, to move the court
hnd to attain their ends, will some
times depart a little from the truth.
To do this is often profitable, it is
never pardorfable, and now and then
it is disastrous.
“There was a Philadelphia lawyer
who had charge of an important case.
Postponement in this case was the
tactics that the man had thought best
to adopt, and three postponements in
three months had already been obtain
ed by him. Now the case was up
again and another postponement was
most necessary. But how to get it
w'as the question.
“For a long, long time the lawyer
cast about for a good ground for a
postponement. All real grounds had
long since been exhausted, and it was
necessary for him now to employ a
fictitious one. He found a fictitious
one finally, and when his case w*as call
ed he rose with a grave face to lay
it before the court.
” ’Your honor,’ he said. ‘I have just
heard sad news. A dispatch informs
me of the dangerous illness of my
venerable mother. I left her in vig
orous health last week. The thought
that she should now be lying ’at the
point of death unmans me.’
“Here the lawyer drew his handker
chief across his eyes.
“ ‘May it please the court,’ he said,
‘to grant me a postponement in this
case? My feelings are so powerfully
agitated by the thought of my rever
ed parent’s danger that—that’—
“Grief overcome the man and he
sat down.
“The jurors, the opposing counsel,
and the spectators cast glances full of
sympathy at the venal lawyer. Their
hearts were touched, and the judge
voiced their thoughts when he said:
“ ‘Your emotion, sir, does credit to
your filial feelings. In circumstances
such as these the court is only too
glad to grant you’—
“But at this point an aged and, stern
woman with white hair arose in the
back of the room. She was the law-’
yer’s mother, come up to town unex
pectedly in order to hear her son plead.
Now, pointing her finger at the wretch
ed man, she said in a loud, stern
voice:
“ ‘Albert, Albert, how often have I
chastised you for lying?’ ”
A Quick AVttted Indian.
The late Clement Scott, the English
dramatic critic, took a profound in
terest in the American Indian, says
the New York Tribune. He had at
his tongue’s tip a hundred incidents
wherewith to illustrate odd phases of
the Indian’s character.
“There was a farmer in the West,”
he once said, “who was hard put to
it for help upon his farm. Indians were
plentiful in the neighborhood, but they
were poor workmen. Always tired,
they would put down the hoe or the
rake as soon as the master’s back was
turned, and, selecting a cool spot, they
would lie down on -the grass and sleep
the day away.
“But one morning a very tall, ro
bust Indian asked the farmer to give
him work.
“ ‘No,’ said the white man; ‘you
will get tired. You Indians are al
ways getting tired.’
‘Oh, no.’ said the other. ‘This
Injun never get tired. This Injun
not like the rest.’
“ ‘Well, I’ll try you,’ said the farmer,
and he engaged the man. He put
him to work in a wheat field; then
he went away for an hour or two.
When he returned, he found the In
dian asleep under a tree.
" ‘Here, wake up here,’ he cried.’
’You told me you never got tired.’
“ ‘Ugh,’ said the other, yawning, ‘this
Injun don’t. But if he not lie down
often, he would get tired, just the
same as the rest.’ ”
Why He Lost Her.
“How did I lose her? My dear boy,
as easily as tumbling off a log—by
sending het a box of rare flowers, he
explained, according to a contempor
ary. You are astonished that this
could lead to an estrangement? Walt
till you hear what happened. I was
in Florida, and she was in Chicago,
and I thought I’d clinch the thing by
sending a box of orchids for her birth
day celebration. This is what I wrote
on the card accompanying the flowers:
“ ‘Sweets to the sweets. To one as
fresh and sweet and blooming as these
flowers, which are only the type of
her own beauty.” Poetical, wasn’t It?
Unfortunately, though, the box mis
carried, and didn’t reach her in three
weeks. By that time the orchids
were as dry and shriveled up as last
year's leaves.
‘‘And I had written; “To one as fresh
and sweet and blooming as these flow
ers!” I don’t know what she said
about me wh6n she opened the box;
but I do know that that was the last
of me as far as she was concerned.”
Hlm Metrical Pam.
When the late William P. White was
traffic manager of the Santa Fe Rail
road he received a letter from a Kan
sas politician returning an annual pass
of the year before, relates the Boston
Post. For some reason another pass
had not been sent to the politician,
who sent .the following verse with the
expired pass:
"Alas, it is said no more I’ll deadhead
My way o’er the glistening rail,
Unless Mr. White will consider it right
To.send me a pass by the mail.”
This communication pleased White.
He took the expired pass and made
an indorsement across the face in red
ink, and then added his signature, a
complicated series of scratches familiar
to every Santa Fe conductor. This was
the inscription:
“The conductor will pass the bundle of
gas
From March till the middle of Lent.
Like any deadhead without a red,
Let him ride to his heart's content.”
The pass was used by the politician,
and was accepted unquestionably by
conductors.
Whip it Out of Him.
In the schools of a Connecticut town,
says the Baltimore Herald, measures
were recently taken to test the chil
dren's eyesight. As the doctor fin
ished each school he gave the prin
cipal a list of the pupils whose eyes
needed attention, and requested him
to notify the children’s parents to
that effect.
One night, soon after the opening
of the fall term, a little boy came
home and gave his father the follow
ing note, duly signed by the princi
pal:
“Mr. : Dear Sir—lt becomes
my duty to inform you that your son
shows decided indications of astig
matism, and his case Is one that
should be attended to without delay.”
The next day the father sent the
following answer:
"Dear Sir: Whip it out of him.
Yours truly.
An Angel Child.
The Rev. Dr. Burrell tells this story,
says the New York Times: One of the
members of his congregation has a
bright little daughter, aged 4. One
cold Sunday morning last winter she
stood at the window watching the
throngs of people (the ladies wrapped
in furs) on their way to church. Turn
ing to her mother, she said:
“Mamma. I wlaht I waa old enough
to be a Christian and go to church,"
"Why?” Inquired the mother, pleased
at this pious wish.
“Bo's I could have a muff an’ boa,"
replied the angel child.
FOOLS HIS HENS.
From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Timothy Varney, who lives three
miles east of Le Sueur and keeps about
200 hens, has been greatly troubled, as
have most people who keep hens, by
the persistent desire manifested by
the fowls to set, in season and out, on
eggs, stones or doorknobs, or anything
else that comes handy. But he has
got hold of a plan now which he has
quietly tried this season with perfect
success, and which he warrants will
cure the worst Light Brahma cluck
that ever vexed the heart of man of
all desire to sit, and all in less than
three hours.
The cure consists of a cheap
watch, with a loud and clear tick to
it, inclosed in a case that is white
and shaped like an egg. When a hen
manifests a desire to set out of sea
son be gently places this bogus egg
under her sheltering breast and the
egg does the rest. It ticks cheer
fully away and soon the hen begins
to show signs of uneasiness, and stirs
the noisy egg around with her bill,
thinking, perhaps, that it is already
time for it to and there is a
chicken in It wanting to get out. She
grows more and more nervous as the
noise keeps up, and soon jumps off
the nest and runs around awhile to
cool off, but returns again to her self
imposed duty. It gets worse and worse
with her, and she wiggles about and
cackles, ruifles her feathers and looks
wild, until at last, with a frenzied
squawk, she abandons the nest for
good and all. That incubating fever
is broken up completely.
Mr. Varney finds use for half a doz
en of these noisy eggs, and claims
that they pay for their cost over and
over during the year by keeping ths
hens at the business of laying and not
permitting them to waste the golden
hours in useless incubating.
LATEST “CELEBRATED CASE.”
From the Philadelphia Record.
At the Court of Assizes in Turin five
persons are undergoing trial charged
with complicity in the murder of Count
Bonmartini, at Bologna, two years ago.
Immense sensation has been created
throughout Italy by the crime.
Count Bonmartini married a daugh
ter of Professor Murri, the famous
physician, and a Senator, of Bologna
University. Their wedded life proved
to be most unhappy, and at the end
they were completely estranged. On
September 2, 1902, the dead body of the
Count was found in his apartments in
Bologna. All the circumstances in
dicated that he had been foully mur
dered, but for some time there was no
clue, and 'he police were baffled.
Professor Murri ultimately denounc
ed his own son. Tullio Murri, who is
an advocate at the Bar, as the mur
derer. His arrest was followed by that
of Countess Bonmartini (nee Linda
Murri), the widow, Professor Secchi,
who is said to be her lover: Dr. Naldi,
and a woman named Rosina Bonetti,
the Countess’ maidservant.
No fewer than twenty-one counsel
are engaged in the case, and there are
383 witnesses to be called, among them
ministers, senators, deputies, bishops,
officers of the army, noblemen, physi
cians, professors of the university,
artists, nuns and waiters. It is expect
ed that the trial will last three months.
Count Bonmartini. the murdered
man, was a large land owner in Italy,
and a member of an old family set
tled at Bologna.
SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
From the New York Evening Post.
It is reported that the Russian mil
itary transport authorities estimate the
through carrying capacity of the Si
berian Railway for the next six
months at about 35,000 men and the
necessary stores every four weeks.
The estimate given by them in the
early summer varied from 23,000 to
27,000, and the former rate seems to
have been maintained. Thanks to va
rious improvements and to the com
pletion of the Circum Baikal line,
an increase of 40 per cent, is now
looked for. On that calculation Russia
Will be able by April 1 next to detrain
in Manchuria the last contlgents of
150,000 men from European Russia, or
of 200,000 men if the transport of gen
eral supplies could We temporarily re
duced. Nothing short of a duplica
tion of the main line from Samara to
Harbin Is expected to do much toward
solving Russia’s transport difficulties,
as the number of trains dispatched
westward with sick and wounded and
with empty trucks keep on increasing
as the campaign grows older. In the
meantime the railway system in
Southern Russia has been most seri
ously disorganized by the war. The
bulk of the available locomotives, vans,
and trucks have been diverted for war
traffic, and the daily deliveries of
grain at Odessa have been small and
irregular at a time. when the export
trade ought to be at its hight.
QUEEN BEES WORTH MONEY.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Just as there are valuable strains
in horses, cattle and other stock, so
there are varieties of queen bees
Which are worth many hundred times
their weight in gold. The most valu
able strain is the Italian, and many
Italian bee farmers demand and re
ceive without question prices ranging
from SSO to S2OO for a single queen bee
of a certain kind. Such bees are sent
all over the world. The owner of a
bee farm near Ottawa, Canada, goes
to Europe annually and brings back
with him bees of an aggregate value
of thousands of pounds. He is en
abled through the agency of an Italian
firm to effect an insurance upon the
most valuable of his queens.
This bee farmer 'has many strange
experiences in connection with the as
sistants he is obliged to engage. Of
course all beekeepers must submit to
a certain amount of stinging. But in
some cases the poison in the sting
acts directly upon the assistants and
makes them alarmingly 111. Others
are immune, though stung hundreds
of times. Bee farmers are often ap
plied to by persons suffering from
rheumatism, who wish to place them
selves In the way of being stung. And.
strange as it may seem, the virus of
the bee sting does often act as a cure
to persons suffering from serious at
tacks of rheumatism.
A MAN-PROPELLED TORPEDO.
From Everybody’s Magazine.
The Herreshoffs of vacht-building
fame have Invented a torpedo convey
ing and propelling system which, if
successful, does away with the tor
pedo-boat. and reduces the submarine
in its possibilities. The business of the
torpedo-boat is to convey the torpedo
within striking distance of the battle
ship or cruiser and to discharge the
torpedo. The Herreshoffs propose to
construct a larger torpedo than the
present standardized Whitehead, and
to use it just as a small whaleback
boat would be employed. Two men
wearing life-preservers set out with It
from shore, or from large vessels, and
navigate It within striking distance
of the enemy’s craft, point it, lock the
steering-gear, slip off Into the water
and wait to be picked up. The torpedo
thus launched with far better aim
than from a tube, and with a longer
carrying range, could scarcely fall to
sink Its vlPttm. As it Is now, the per
centage of torpedoes that "arrive” is
but one In twelve. If a man can rroes
the North Atlantic In a sixteen-font
dory, as has been done more than
once, two men should be able to navi
gate a pneumatically sustained Herr
rshoff torpedo is some very rough
weather.”
Non-lrritatin
Cathartic
Easy to take, easy to operate-
Hood’s Pill 9 *
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE,
Effective Nov. X, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE LINE] '
Between Isle of Hope and 40th Street.
st - Lv. Isle of Hope.
PM - - A.M. P.M.
6:00 1:00
e ™ 1:30 7:00 2:00
330 2:30 , 8:00 3:00
..... 900
10:30 3:30 10:00 ’4:00
11:30 •••• 11:00
*Via Montgomery to city.
Between Isle of Hope & Thunderbolt.
V v \.f ale 01 llo P e - Lv. Thunderbolt
AM - P.M. A. M. P.M.
*3:00 *1:50
700 °:00 57:22 *5:50
* 3:00 58:22 6:38
11:00 , *9:50 7:38
512-minute wait at Sandfly.
*Parcel car, passenger trailer.
MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE.
Between Montgomery and 40th Street.
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. 40th St.
A- M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
? 1:3 ° 3:30 1:30
>6:50 52:30 10:20 2:30
t7:53 t3:05 3:30
9:5° +5:60 6:30
72:05 11:20
•Connects with parcel car for city.
to Thunderbolt.
518-minute wait at Sandfly going to
citv.
Between Montgomery & ThundeboTfi
A. M. P.M. A. M P. M.
6:50 3:05 7:22 3:38
.’53 5:50 8:22 6:38
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE.
Effective July 13. 1903.
Leave Whitaker and Bay streets.
A.M. A.M. p.M. P.M.
•6:20 10:00 12:40 5:20
J 4O 10:40 1:20 6:00
1a 11:20 2:00 6:40
7’20 12:00 2:40 7:20
300 3:20 8:00
3:40 4:00 8:40
9:20 .... 4:40
, Leave Mill-Haven.
A - M. A.M. P.M. P.M.
0:40 J7:°o 12:20 6:40
7:00 11:40 1:00 *6:05
7:20 1:40 6:20
7:40 2:20 7:00
! 3:20 3:00 7:40
300 3:40 8:20
3:40 4:20 9:00
10:20 5 ; oo ....
•Pally except Sunday.
."'THROAT EVENING SPECIAL. ~
Leave Whitaker Leave Mlll
an<Jßay St*. Haven.
P.M. p.m.
9:20 3:4,,
10:00 io:20
10:40 n ; oo
THUNDERBOLT LINE.
City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton Street Junction.
Beginning at 5:30 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunder
bolt every half hour until 11:30 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street junction
15 minutes after leaving time at City
Ma rket.
Beginning at 5:53 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak Station for city every half
hour until 12:08 midnight.
COLLINSVILLE I.INK.
Beginning at 6:05 a. m. cars leave
Waters road and Estill avenue every
20 minutes until 12:05 midnight.
Beginning at 6:05 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Waters road and
Estill avenue every 20 minutes until
12:05 midnight.
Through cars are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via Collins
ville and Dale avenue as follows-
Lv. Market. Lv. Thunderbolt.
6:45 A.M. 7:30 A. M.
6:45 P. M. 7:30 P. M.
WEST END LINE (Lincoln Park )
Car learea west side of City Market for Ida.
coin Park 6:00 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until-11:45 p. m. mouies
* Car learea Lincoln Park for Market 6:20 a. m.
end every 40minutei thereafter until 12 o’clock
midnight.
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR.
Loaves east side ot Citv Market for Thunder
boL, Cattle Park, Sandflv. Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points—B:lsa. m„ liißp. m.,4:1t
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandflv. Cattle Park
Thunderbolt and all intermediate wlnts-:
a. m., 11:00 am., 3:00 p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at 550 a ta
il'd 2:35 p. m.. connecting at Sandfly with ref.
ular parcel car foi city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight to
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of passengeia
Any further information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be had by
applying to L. R. NASH. Managen
FOOTBALL
TIME IS HEBE AND WE HAVE
THEM—THE ONLY THING TO
KICK ABOUT IN OUR ENTIRE
STORE.
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS
FOR HEAD HELMETS, PANTS,
JACKETS, NOSE MASKS, SHIN
GUARDS, AND INFLATERS.
Edward Lovell’s Sons
113 Broughton Street, West.
DR. PERKINS’
-American Herbs-
Guaranteed to Cure
Asthma, Lungs, Rheumatism.
Kidney Disorders, Liver Complaint,
Constipation, Sick and Nervous
Headache, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia,
Psver and Ague, Scrofula, Female
Complaints, Nervous AffectioiA
Erysipelas, Catarrh, and all dis
eases arising from impure blood.
Mall orders sl.lO. Office, No. U
Congress strset, west.
PROF. R. I* GENTRY,
Savannah, Oa.
Lovers of poetry and music, as well
an the woman of fashion, will treasure
the December (Christmas) Dellnsator.
which contains, as a prominent feat
ure, a selection of Love Lyrics front
the Wagner Operas, rendered into
English by Richard Le Oalllenne and
Illustrated In colors by 3. C. Leyen
decker. Ths fiction Is contributed by
well-known writers and the depart
raenta are attractive and helpful.