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4 gfjje Iffltrfning fSeto#. ■smut New* Bull (ting. Savannah. tin I—, ■- - —~te=r= MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1904. Registered at Postofflce In Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS Is published every day In the year, and served to subscribers In the eity, or sent by mall; one week, 18 cents; one month, 70 cents; three months, $2.00; six months. $4.00; one year, SB.OO, THE MORNING NEWS by mall, six time a week (without Sunday Issue), one month, 50 cents; three months. $1.50; six months, $8.00; one year. $5.00. TEX U’LESLV NXW6. two issues a (Monday and Thursday), by maU, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable In advance. IS emit by money order, cheek or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mail •X risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements and classified column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch in depth—is the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements, 1 cent a word each inser tion. 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Shuptrine. Green River Whisky—Het.i . Solomon & Son. Good Coffee—The Delmonico Cos. Frames in Great Variety—Hoffman. Savannah Theater—Tuesday night, •'Dolly Varden.” Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis cellaneous. 'I 11.- Weather. The indications for Georgia for to day are for fair weather, with fresh to brisk northwest, winds. Eastern Florida fair weather with fresh north west winds. It may be interesting to prohibition ists, and others, to know that this is one of the most temperate countries of the world; that is, it stands low in the scale of countries in the amount of alcoholic beverages consumed. Offi cial statistics gathered by the govern ment show this to be true. In the per capita consumption of such beverages France leads with 10.21 gallons per year. Belgium, owing to its heavy beer consumption, follows with 7.33 gallons. Next in order come Italy with 6.61 gallons, Germany with 5.53 gallons and the United Kingdom with 4.99 gallons. The per capita consump tion of the United States is 3.23 gal lons, of Sweden 3.05 gallons and Rus sia 1.30 gallons. While Russia stands lit the foot of the class in per capita consumption, she consumes actually more gallons of liquor in grand total than any other country. She has an Immense population, but the majority of the people are too poor to buy spir ituous liquors. Mr. Osborne's article on the recent election and the political outlook, which (we published yesterday, is an able pa per and one that will doubtless at tract considerable attention throughout the state. It contains a number of points that ought to set Democrats to thinking. One of them is this: “It Is not an extravagant statement to make when I say that there is not a cor poration in the United States to-day of national importance that does not have upon its pay rolls a force of hlgh aalarled men who have no other duty than to beg, badger, cajole and intim idate legislative assemblies into grant ing the monied Interests some advan tage which the public does not share.” That this is true will hardly be ques tioned; it cannot be questioned suc cessfully. And yet, Is it not equally true that the corporations often have to fight in self-defense, to prevent the fconflsoatlon of their property toy means of antagonistic legislation? It some times happens that in legislative bodies there are unscrupulous men who get together and form cliques for the express purpose of squeezing money out of the corporations. They frame bills aimed at the corporations, and then say to them In effect. “Now, come across with so muoh money, or we will put this thing through.” It has been only a short while since the public was shown an example illustrating the point in the Missouri boodle cases. The Missouri boodlers, prominent mem bers of ths Legislature, went deliber ately about their blackmailing schemes, ■which they practiced successfully on a number of corporations. This is not said, of course, in defense of the em ployment of lobbyists by corporations, but to sngssst that legislators them selves often create the demand for tb lobbyists through their own cuiwup kUsa, biennial sessions. The people of South Carolina, In the recent general election, ratified by a large majority the proposed constitu tional amendment providing for one session of the Legislature each two years, in place of one session each year; and In so doing they took a step forward. Of all the states of the union there now' remain, but four having an nual sessions, namely, Georgia, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. The others have biennial sessions ex cept Alabama, which has one session in four years; and it is an open ques tion if Alabama has not shown great er wisdom than all of her sisters In making the sessions so far-between. Nobody, except possibly a few poli ticians. will for a moment claim that Alabama suffers from ar.y lack of leg islation, while there is abundant evi dence that some of the other states, our own Included, have too much leg islation, and too much politics mingled with legislation. Georgia, a* a mat ter of fact, had three leglslayve ses sions in two years only recently. Did the results of them—the good that flowed from them—compensate the peo ple for what they cost? It seems to us that a negative answer is the only one that can be given to the question. In Adopting biennial sessions South Carolina has taken a step that will re sult In saving the taxpayers many thousands of dollars In cash each two ■years* besides much annoyance by unnecessary legislation. With fewer sessions, the legislators will devote more attention to matters of general In terest and less to local and factional political differences, during the time they are In session at the capital on public business. Not so many ephe meral and picayunish law's will be passed. Conditions in the state that are affected by enactments w’ill be more settled; there will be few’er half-baked statutes on the books, and more re spect for the laws that are passed. We congratulate South Carolina, and sincerely hope that It will not be long before Georgia will follow' her lead. There may possibly be enough public business in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts to warrant annual ses sions of their legislatures; but that certainly cannot be truthfully said of Georgia. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois have much larger populations and greater wealth than Georgia, and they get along finely with biennial sessions. The principal function of our annual sessions It has been said, Is to afford the politicians an opportunity to get together in Atlanta once a year and make slates —at the expense of the tax payers. How long are Georgians go ing to the willing to foot the bills of these political caucuses of the slate makers? • AN EDUCATED SEN TIMENT. A petit jury in West Chester, Pn„ has sustained the action of the school board of their city in separating the colored children In thfe public schools from the white. This verdict was re turned In the face of a direct charge from the court to the effect that such action was Illegal, as it was a dis tinction on account of race and color. Despite the law, however, the Jury re quired but a few minutes to reach its findings and, Judging from the ex pressions of the Pennsylvania news papers, eminent satisfaction has re sulted. The verdicts of juries are, as a rule, the expressions of public sentiment and may well be taken as indicating the drift of the general opinion In the sections in which they operate. In the case in point, the jury was indirectly passing upon a matter of greater significance than the question formally presented to them. Practi cally they were asked to take a stand either for or against the separation of the races. That they stand for that separation indicates that the North Is rapidly coming to coincide with the South in sentiment, at least In so far as the race question is concerned. The reason for the change is evi dent. The Northern man Is learning, through growing contact with the ne gro in large numbers. Just what the Southern man has known for genera tions. He is more and more coming to realize that there Is a bar between the white race and the black that ’cannot be surmounted, a 'bar that ex ists from nature and that is not the mere result of an unfounded preju dice. With this realization comes Its kindred knowledge, that the separation of the races, so far as social equality is concerned, is best for both, and that all things which tend to teach or establish such equality must be abandoned. This change In sentiment through out the North, as it manifests itself from time to time, is a matter on which the entire country may con gratulate Itself. It means a great step toward the solution of the race problem and the doing away with the sectional friction that has resulted. Judging from the newspaper reports this righted sentiment Is Increasing throughout the North. Let it but be come general and a better feeling will be brought about between the two great sections of the country. The Northern white man, recognizing that the Southerner knows best how to deal with the race question will leave It more and more to him to solve and larws which were passed at the dictate of a wrong sentiment will be either repealed or allowed to become Inop erative through disuse. Sentiment is supreme and will pay little heed to any laws contrary to it, as the case In Pennsylvania Illus trate*. Though often shaken Into er ror, yet. like the needle of the com pass, it will finally right itself, though in t many casts the righting Is of com parative slow progress.. Any step In that direction, the educating and righting of sentiment, is therefore a subject on which any country may will felicitate Itself. If Mr. Douglas' election to the gov ernorship of Massachusetts Is due In a great measure to the fuel that he Is one of the state's largest and most liberal advertisers, as has been fre quently aaserted of late, the Democrat* rot Pennsylvania might do well to look up Dr. Munyon and get him to moke the race next lima SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1904. COMPETITION* FOR THE COTTON FARMERS. The American Cotton Manufacturer in its current Issue calls attention to the effort that Is being made to grow cotton In the Argentine Republic. It says the specimens of cotton grown there this season which it has receiv ed by way of Liverpool compare fav orably with our medium grade of up land cotton grown in the Carolinas, it being, however, a little more silky. Its staple varies from three-quarters to a full inch, and it apparently con tains less than the usual amount of short fibres. The opinion Is express ed. however, that after being pass ed through the saw gin It would not compare as favorably with our upland cotton as it does before being ginned. The point which the American Cot ton Manufacturer wants to bring out is that the effort that is being made tr. many parts of the world to grow cot ton is bound to have some effect upon the cotton supply eventually. It leans to the opinion that some of the ex periments that are being made In other lands will result so successfully that the South will have considerably more competition in the production of cot ton than It now has. Apparently the American Cotton Manufacturer doesn’t agree with Mr. Edward Atkinson, that the experiments that are now being made are not like ly to be more successful than those that were made during our Civil War, that there is no other country in the world that can produce cotton in com petition with the Southern States of America and that the spinners of the world will have to depend upon these states in the future for their cotton supply as they have in the past. Perhaps the American Cotton Manu facturer hasn’t studied the subject as carefully and as thoroughly as Mr. Atkinson has. We agree with It. how ever, In the opinion that if, “the new lands prove to be well adapted to cot ton, and the price of cotton continues near 10 cents a pound, they will be able to compete with the cotton grow ers of this country, and if the price should ever drop to near the cost of production, or the American eost be materially increased, the foreign grower would be in a much stronger position” because of the cheaper la bor of most of the localities in which the new lands are situated. As yet, however, American cotton growers haven’t so much reason to fear compe - tition as they have the boll weevil. VALUE OF FIRE DRILL. Two recent incidents Illustrate the value of the fire drill in buildings where considerable numbers' of chil dren are habitually assembled. The first of these was the fire in a public school In New York, In which 2,500 children were safely marched out of the building In a few minutes, with out accident. We have already pub lished the details of this occurrence; details that must have arrested the attention of and called forth exclama tions of gratitude from every parent who has children in the public schools. The second Incident was at Castleton, Staten Island, where fire broke out in the Nursery and Children’s Hospital. The 150 children of the institution had been perfected In the fire drill, and when the alarm was sounded every one of them fell quickly into line and marched out to safety, without the slightest sign of panic or excitement. By way of contrasting the effective ness of the fire drill, it is necessary only to refer to the Greenwich Ave nue School fire. In New York, some years ago. In that case the children had not been drilled for a fire emer gency. When fire was discovered in the building the wildest panic ensued. A scene of Indescribable horror follow ed, and there was such loss of Ufe and limb that those who recall the disas ter do so with a shudder, The City Council of Savannah has passed an ordinance requiring the fire drill at least twice a month In all public schools, and once a. month In all buildings where fifty or more wom en and children are regularly assem bled. It seems to us that the provi sion Is a wise one. It may be that the drill will never be actually needed. Our school buildings are well con structed and the children are well dis ciplined. But at the same time, the occasion might arise when the drill would possibly he worth many pre cious young lives. At all events, the drill Is a precau tion on the line of safety. It will require very little time and no extra expense. Its practice, at unexpected times, will familiarize the children with the danger call and teach them to remain calm when the danger sig nal is sounded. In the recent case of the New York school, not a child could be Induced to utter a word or get out of line until the building had been emptied and the classes dismissed by the teachers. It was a splendid illus tration of the value of training for an emergency. The success of the fire drill In time of danger depends, of course, upon the coolness, courage and good Judg ment of teacherß and principals. A hysterical teacher might, indeed, de stroy the self-possesion of a class that had been formed In good order to march out of the building. The drill, therefore, will be a good thing for the teachers as well as the pupils. They will be always on the qul vlve for an alarm, but In the great majority of Instances they will be uncertsln as to whether the call Is for practice or for an actual fire. The element of doubt will give assurance to teachers and pupils alike; and after the practice has been held for several months, the people In the school houses will be found moving out with calmness and precision at the call of the alarm. A Rome cable says that J. Plerpont Morgan is to be knighted by the King of Italy In appreciation of his having restored to the church at Ascoll the famous cope stolen from It some time ago. In addition the city of Ascoll u going to make Mr Morgan a hand some present. Meanwhile the fellow who stole the rope seems to have been lost sight of entirely. Maybe he Is re garded as so much of an artist In crime Urnt only admiration is felt for him. Where’s Depew? Nothing has been heard from his stnee the election. This Is a rather odd circumstance, in view of the fact that he seldom loses an opportunity to talk. But he isn’t talk ing now, so far as the general infor mation goes. Is it because he Is not altogether happy over the outoome? There is strong talk in New York of retiring him from the Senate, where he has for some years been one of the most conspicuous chestnut vendors. Gov. Odell, who Is now boss In New York, Is said to favor putting Depew on the shelf and giving his job to somebody else. Odell is suspected of having a hankering for the place him self, with ex-Gov. Black as his second choice. Asa matter of fact, almost any change ir. the New York senator ships would he for the better. It has beer, a long time since the Empire State was represented by ocher than patronage brokers. Already some of the trusts are ap parently taking steps to rocoup them selves of the sums they contributed to the Republican campaign fund. It has been announced that the price of steel billets will be advanced from $19.50 to s2l per ton. An expert says they can be manufactured with a fair profit at sl2 per ton. Every manufac turer who uses steel billets as a raw material will be coni (Killed to contrib ute to the trust's recoupment fund, and all consumers of steel articles will be taxed higher for the articles they buy. Thus, In the long run, it will be the consumer who will have to repay the money the trusts expended for cam paign purposes. King Edward of England a few days ago celebrated the sixty-third anni versary of his birth. The Pension Bu reau at Washington would call him a deorepid old man, and a year hence he would be too old to remain on the ac tive list In the American army. And yet all who have come In contact with King Edward know him to be a hale, vigorous, hearty man, showing not the least sign of bra In-fag or physical break-down. However, he comes from particularly vigorous and long-lived stock. He was past middle age when his excellent mother departed this life and left him the throne of one of the greatest Powers of the earth. There is said to be deepest gloom in Panama over the outcome of the recent election In this country. A correspond ent at Panama cables: "The Isthmians now believe that their fears are well founded, and that the Isthmus Is doom ed.” That is, they look for the United Stales to gobble their territory. Sec retary Taft is going down there soon to tell the people they have nothing to fear. Maybe he will be able to con vince them that the man who was their good friend at the time of the revolution is not going to turn about and eat them up. FEHSOXAL. —Haydn’s house in Vienna, where he wrote "The Creation” and “The Seasons” and where he died May 31, 1809, Is to be become the property of the city by purchase. —Mrs. W. S. Peabody, wife of the Governor of Colorado, has been elect ed to membership In the Archaeological Institute of America. She was con nected for some time with the Bureau of Ethnology at Washington. —Miss Ruby Cooke, daughter of Lady Cooke of Easthope, England, is believed to own one of the finest col lections of dogs in the world, Including Mighty Atom, which weighs just two and a half pounds. Another of her fads Is photographing, at which she and her brother are experts. Also she goes in for fine embroidery, plays the guitar, mandolin and banjo (in addi tion to the piano, of course), and is a famous candy-maker. BRIGHT BITS. —“I should not think suoh a promi nent man would care to have a cheap cigar named after him.” "Why not? He likes to have his name in every one’s mouth.”—Town and Country. —“Do you believe there is luck in a rabbit’s foot?” “Well,” answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, after deliberation. “I'll say dis much. It’s luckier to be kicked by one of ’em dan by a mule’s foot.”—Washington Star. —“You don’t mean to say that you gave that tramp something to eat?” queried Mr. Polk. “Yes. I Just couldn’t help it,” replied his wife, “for he re minded me so much of you.” “You mean he looked like me?” “Oh, no! but when I asked him to do a little work for me he said he hadn’t time.” Philadelphia Press. ITIIHBNT COMMENT. The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says: "Temporary defeat will not prevent Alton B. Parker from holding the posi tion to which he Is entitled In the coun cils of the Democratic party. These people fondly err who Imagine that the great constitutional and historic party of the country is dissolved by tho re sult of fhe election. The party has too long been used to such extreme popular manifestations to doubt a re turn of the sober second thought of the people.” The New York Tribune (Rep.) says: “Mr. John Morely, now In Washington, Is agreeably surprised at his first ex perience In American politics. He had expected, he sa.vs, to find all business practically suspended for six months and the people excited, but Instead lound the people calm and business the most active In years. Asa matter of fact, American Presidential elections are probably growing less and less de monstrative every year. Only when some Issue of vital Importance Is to be settled 1* there anything of the exclt ment and delirium Mr. Morely expected to find.” The New York World (Dem.) says: “Mr. Roosevelt's oportunitles to pro mote the general welfare of the country nre almost Umltlesa The greatest danger that menaces his Administra tion lies In his short-cut means to the end. and In his predilection for meddling unduly In International politics. It Is unfortunately true that nothing human Is foreign to Mr. Roosevelt, whether It be In China or Tlmbuctoo or Patagonia. But If h* can curb the desire to hear the clank of the Hough Rider’s spurs In Downing street, Wllhelmstrasse and the Qual d’Croay—if he will devote hie tireless energies to domestic affair* and keep hie mailed flat off the map of tha world— ha le uapable of giving the American people an Hdmlnlatraxion that will ahlne forever in the history of the Re public.” Rather Prehistoric. In a Virginia village, the pastor of a small colored congregation was giv ing a series of sermons on miracles, says Short Stories. In the rear seats of the little church were five or six young people who had recently come back from a college In a nearby state with very different views on religion than when they had left It. There fore they were very critical of the old preacher’s religious explanations. On this Sunday he arose and an nounced hts theme as follows: “Breddern an’ sfstern. I shall dis course dis mornin' on de power of de miracle, as announced procedingly, an’ I am gwine tel take as example de chillern of Isreal acrossin’ of de Red sea. Der wus Moses on de brink of de sea, and right behln’ him wus de army of Pharoh. An’ all at once'st, breddern. de sea froze over es solid es a rock, an’ he chillern and Moses walked across.” At this moment one of the young r.-.er. la the rear rose up and said: “Why, parson, that can’t be possible, 'cause the geographies tell us that water don't freeze at the equator.” The old man hesitated a moment, and then replied, scornfully: "I jest knowed one of you young niggers wus gwine ter dispute de work of de Lawd. Young man, when the Red sea froze der varn’t no geography, and der warn’t no equator.”' Want Educational Facilities. Some communities of the Indian Ter ritory. In their deep anxiety for the privileges of education, appeal to the Secretary of the Interior, says the Kansas City Journal. The following Is a letter written by a citizen of Gray son: “Mr. sektarey of the intar. “Sur, I wish to ast you fur a free" scool here in the town of Greyson i. t. and we wish a free scool. our children need a scool ’and we no it is in your hand to sa and let us no. Pleze sur give us a free scool, We hav 100 and 50 studnee all redda fur scooling. We had a privat scool and becose every boday wuld not pay up the scool stop ed so if you can giv us a free scool let us here from you.” There are some fullblood Indians who live in communities remote from the tribal schools who are anxious for an education and who are under the Im pression that the government has es tablished a boarding school. One of them writes from Shakespeare, I. TANARUS„ as follows: “I wont you to tell me how you do charge to school at one month. 1 wont to know if you can board me, how you do charge it and will pay you every month.” Fools and Their Money. A stout woman rode up to the White street entrance of the Criminal Courts building on a bicycle late last Sunday afternoon, rfays the New York Sun. Sitting on the steps outside were half a dozen men talking about the elec tion. “Beg pardon, gentlemen, * m a palm ist,” said the woman, “and for 25 cents apiece I will, without a doubt, tell you in advance the returns of the election, and who your next President will be.” One man thought she was demented and moved away. Another said he would like to know, and produced a quarter. Another man added a quar iter. When she saw no more corning, the woman opened a small bag she car ried. Handing a card to each of the men she said: “Gents, look them over and I’ll re turn for them in five minutes. Please don’t lose ’em.” The men looked the cards over. They gave figures from various states which the card f*aid Parker would carry. Then one of the men happened to turn the card over. On the other side it said: “I'm a fool, ain’t I?” They waited nearly an hour for the woman but she hasn’t come back yet. Disappointment Was Too Great. Admiral Johnson spent the summer In the New Hampshire mountains, says a contemporary. At his hotel one day a conversation about shipwreck arose. “Well, if I were shipwrecked,” said a rich man, "I’d be sure, before I drowned, to write a farewell letter, seal it up in a bottle, and consign it to the waves. Then my friends would know what had become of me.” But Admiral Johnson objected to this course. “It Is not wise,” he said, “to put much trust in bottles. They often break and sink, and often, when they are found upon the waters, no heed is paid to them. So many of them, you see. are hoaxes. Did you never hear of the old shellback who found a bottle afloat at sea? "Well, this man drew the bottle up and as he opened it he said: Rum, I hope. Gin, I guess. Pa peral” ~ A , n<l J >ac * t to the water again went the bottle and its contents.” Question of Politeness. Not Opinion. Representative Cooper of Texas tells a story about Gen. Sam Houston of his state and a practicing physician who did not like the old general, be ing strenuously opposed to him polit ically, says the Nashville Banner. One day, after a heated political discus sion, the physician said: “General, I like you well enough so cially, but politically I would not be lieve you on oath.” “I would Relieve you, doctor,” was the quiet reply of the general. “Then, sir,” vehemently exclaimed the doctor, "you have' a much better opinion of me than I have of you." “Not a better opinion, doctor, but I simply have a little more politeness than you have.” Rills In Tronlile. From the Irrigator. I’ve got a letter, parson, from my son away out West, An’ my ol’ heart is heavy as an anvil In my breast To think the boy whose futur’ I had once so proudly planned Should wander from the path o' right an’ come to such an' end. I tol’ him when he left us, only three short years ago, He'd find himself a-plowin' in a mighty crooked row; He'd miss his father's counsel and his mother’s prayers, too; But he said the farm was hateful, an’ he guessed he'd have to go. I know tha’s big temptation fflr a youngster in the West, But I believed our Billy had the cour age to resist. An' when he left I warned him of the ever-waitin’ snares That lie like hidden sarptnts in life's pathway everywhere*; But Bill he promised faithful to be keerful, an' allowed He'd build up a reputation that’s make us mighty proud. But It seems as how my counsel sort o’ faded from his mind. An’ now he's got in trouble of the very worstest kind! His letters come so seldom that I some how sort o’ knowed < That Billy was a-trampln’ on a mighty rocky road. But never once Imagined he would bow my head In shame An’ la the dus'd waller his ol' daddy’s honored name. He writes Iron: out In Denver, an' the story's mighty short; I Jess can't tell his mother—K’ll crush her poor ol 1 heart 1 An’ §o I reckoned, person, you might break the news to her— Hill's in the Legielatur', but he doesn’t ■ay what furl MR. MCHI'KZ WILL ROT GO BACK. From the Philadelphia Record. The following amusing exchange of letters has been made public in Ne4lr York: BRISTOL SAVINGS BANK, Bristol, Cbnn. Howard A. Warner, President. Miles Lewis Peck, Treasurer, 19, 26, ’O4. Carl Schurz, Esq.— Dear Sir: Your printed letter Is at hand. Conditions here seem very un satisfactory to you. I wonder you do not return to your native land. That, I think, is the best way for those who do not like the views of the rulers of this country—the voters. Yours re spectfully, Miles Lewis Peck. 24 'East Ninety-first street, N. Y. 3 Nov., 1904. Miles Lewis Peck Esq.— Dear Sir: I thank you for your com munication of Oct. 26. I have received similar letters in the course of almost every political campaign, but they were uniformly anonymous. Yours is the first one of which the author was proud enough to sign it with his name. This deserves recognition ar.4 entities it to an answer. Your demand that I should leave this country on account of my politi cal disagreement with Mr. Miles Lewis Peck is unkind. I have lived in this country over fifty-two years, and a,*, to judge from your letter, you are still young, it may be that I was one of those voters, of whom you speak as the “rulers of this country.” before you were born. I have become at tached to it. During that half cen tury I have also tried to serve It, in peace and in war, not to your satis faction, perhaps, but as best I could. And now to be turned out of it be cause I do not agree politically with Mr. Miles Lewis Peck of Bristol, Conn., is little short of cruel. But the rule you lay down is also unreasonable. In justice you will have to apply it, as well as to me, to all other persons in the same predicament. You will then, supposing you to be in the majority, send all those who dif fer from you politically out of the country—the foreign-born to their na tive iands, and the native-born to the_ homes, of their ancestors. But It is probable—l may say certain —that the remaining majority would also divide Into parties. You. being always of the majority party, would then, according to your rule, read the new minority party out of the country. Now you will see that this operation, many times repeated, might at least leave Mr. Miles Lewis Peck of Bristol. Conn., on the ground, lonesome and forlorn, in desolate self-appreciation. But It may also happen to you to find yourself some time accidentally in the minority of the voters, and then, according to your rules, you would also be sent out of our beloved coun try, to the home of your forefathers. This, no doubt, would be very dis tasteful to you, and, I assure you, you would have my sincere sympathy. It should show you, however, how un statesmanlike your theory Is. Let us agree, then, that it is. after all, best for us to respect one another’s right as good Americans to differ po litically, and that this country is large enough to hold both Mr. Miles Lewis Peck of Bristol, Conn., and his hum ble fellow-citizen, Carl Schurz. SUPPLY OF OXYGEN FOR FIREMEN. From English World’s Work. An experiment has recently been made in Paris with an ingenious ap paratus, invented by M. Guglielminetti and M. Draeger, by means of which it is possible to remain without tef&r of asphyxia in places where it would otherwise be Impossible to breathe. The apparatus is automatic, that is. it has no connection with the air out side. It is composed of a -tube containing a provision of oxygen, sufficient to last a man for breathing purposes for more than an hour, and a helmet of aluminum fitting the head exactly by nutans of a pneumatic pad. The oxy gen is supplied automatically to the man’s mouth and the air exhaled Is received in a compressible bag. It passes through a regenerator with granulated daustlc potash, which ab sorbs all the carbonic acid. A fire man, provided with this apparatus, went down into a cellar In which plies of damp straw had been lighted, and although there was suffocating smoke from this, he remained In It for nearly three-quarters of an hour without be ing at all Inconvenienced by It. TREE PLANTING ON TEXAS PI.AIN'S. From the Galveston News. The Fort Worth and Denver Rail road is doing a good many good things for the pan handle country. Not the least promising of these is its effort to promote the growth of forest trees upon the plains. The prospective bene fits are several. The trees will fur nish firewood and fence posts, and it is believed they will promote a more even distribution of rainfall, lower the temperature of the sometime hot winds, and protect the crops from tsunh winds. More than 16,000 trees were planted in 1903, very nearly all of them be ing of the jafack locust species. The benefits are not altogether prospective. One of the tree planters, A. Frinster wald of Mobeetle, reports that for three years past he has been getting fence posts from seedlings planted seven years ago; that during this time he has got sufficient posts to keep his fences in repair and to biiild fourteen miles of new fence. It looks very much as If this tree planting propaganda would result in a beneficial revolution in the pan handle country, greatly in creasing its agricultural possibilities. A REMARKABLE OPERATION. From the Philadelphia Ledger. How'ard W. Ferris, of Batesburg, S. C., has Just returned to his home with no lung or ribs on his right side, aft er undergoing a hazardous surgical operation at the Hahnemann Hospital. Ferris had so far improved that the surgeons were confident of his com plete recovery. The operation was per formed last August. Ferris contracted pneumonia while on a trip as a traveling salesman, and for weeks was in a critical condition. Physicians at his home removed pleuri tic effusion from time to time, but he failed to recover strength, and came here. After a rib had been removed last July a second operation was per formed on Aug. 20. Dr. Carl V. Vls cher cut out the affected lung and the ribs. Twice while the tedious opera tion was in progress the doctors thought the patient had succumbed, but each time saline injections revived him. The rest wus a question of good nurs ing. A DOG’S FAITHFUL VIGIL. From an Exchange, When John Weakly walked from his home, a few miles from Vineland, N. J., to Newfield to catch a train for Philadelphia, he laid upon the platform while he bought a ticket a package he was carryirig. The train came, he hoarded It and forgot all about the package. When he returned in the even ing Weakly found his dog, which had followed him to the station, guarding the package. The animal hud stuck to it all day, snapping at any one who at tempted to take it. THE W AR SPIRIT IN MOSCOW. From the Moscow Gazette. In our war with Japan we are like a man attacked by a viper. It is not enough to frighten it and leave It to hide in a bush; it must be destroyed; and We must do this without consid ering whether England and the cos mopolitan plutocracy object or not. No quarter and no prisoners should to* our motto. Constipation Headache, biliousness, heartburn, lndi. gestion, and all liver uu M cur(K , hf Hood’s Pills Sold by all druggists. 25 cents, SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO. WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE. Effective Nov. J, 1904. ISLE OF HOPE LINTE. Between Isle of Wop* and 40th Street Sts MS -- 6:00 i:00 coa J’J® 7:00 2.00 Ills 2:, .°. ! V°o°o 3 ” iMo 3:30 ' 10:00 4*o i 11:00 VV* ••• • • s.Sti „ . . .: 7:3* I:s° e , A . ,•••••! eV.vv I l '*® *n-4s _ . *Via Montgomery to city. ” 5 getween Isle of Hoe A Thunderb^TT ArM Sle p° f x? ope - -8:0$ ?;°°. \IH •; *ll .nn *0.4.2 n 38 ii-OO *9-50 7S* ?12-mlnute wait at Sandfly. Parcel car, passenger trailer. nt„' IONT r jOMICnY SCHEDULE Between Montgomery and 40th Street. Lv Montgomery. LvT^OthSt! <*:? •£> i!;lJ its ”>!& 8;8 {: •Connects with parcel car for city tThrough to Thunderbolt. wait at Sandfly going to Between Montgomery & ThundeboTl A ; .¥• A. M. pTm: 600 3:05 7:22 3:38 .53 5:50 8:22 g.j* 8 7:3 S MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE. Effective July 13. 1903. Leave Whitaker and Bay streets. n.M. A. M. pm PM *!;• 10:00 i?i •700 L°. : iP 1:20 900 7- 20 iV-oe 1:00 6 > •20 12:00 jmo 7:20 |. 00 *:2O J 00 .1? 4:00 8:40 -* 20 4j4 0 .... . Leave Mill-Haven. P.M. PM. voo 12:20 B 49 *V* 40 1:40 6:29 1:52 |:2O 7:00 S'?? , 8:00 7:40 ?.?? *:4O 8:20 iolo ::::: •Dally except Sunday. -*•* y Evening special. I*ave Whitaker Leave Mill an<L?i*y St*- Haven. P-M. . p.M. ,?; 20 9 40 10.90 io : 20 10:40 li.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 Market. Beginning at 5:53 a. m. cars leave Live Oak Station for city every half hour until 12:08 midnight. COLLI XS VII,I .F. LINE. 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. ears leave City Market for W r aters 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. WEST END LINE (Lincoln Park) Car leaves west side of City Market tor Ida coin Park 6:UO a. m. and every 40 minutes thereafter until 11:45 p. m Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 0:20a. m and every 40 minutes thereafter until ISo'clock midnight. FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAS Leaves east side of Cltv Market for Thunder. t*>H- Cattle Park. Sandfly. Isle of Hope and alt intermediate points—Oils a, 1: l& p. m.,:R p Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandfly. Cattle Park, Thunderbolt and all intermediate points—LOO a. in., 11:00 a m . 1:00 p. m Freight car leaves Montgomery at 5 M a ut. and 2:85 p. m., connecting at Sandfly with rs C' ular parcel car toi city. Parcel car from the city came* freight te Montgomery on each trip. Regular parcel car carries trailer on eaoh trip for accommodation of passengevw Any further Information regarding paste* fer sohrdule or freight service can be had ay applying fo L. R. NASH. Manage* A PARADOX . Qn to the Golden Gate, n comfort all the wray, .et any one gtunsay; Burn oil to keep you clean. Unhealthy smoke Reminds yon no more. Nor cinders in your eye* galore. Exhaust your patience and pleasant mien. Remember the SOUTHERN PACIFIC to all points Ixnitolann, Texas, Mexico M** Californio. Special rate* to Louisiana, Texas, New Moxloo and Arizona In November and Decent her. Information cheerfully jrlven, J. F. VAN RENMKLAEK General Agenv 13 Peachtree street Atlanta, Go. — Lovers of poetry and music, as well as the woman of fashion, will treasure the Deoember (Christmas) Delineator, which contains, as a prominent feat ure, a selection of Love Lyrics fronj the Wagner Operas, rendored English by Richard Le Oalllenn# and Illustrated In colors by J. C. IST*- decker. The fiotton Is contributed r well-known writers and the depar' mente are attraeetve and helpful. BOILER TUBES j. a weed 4 ca