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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1904.
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Mil 10 m ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings—Zerubbabel Lodge, No. 15,
F. & A. M.; Crescent Lodge, No. 2,
K. of R.
Special Notices—Crew Notice, F. C.
Berner, Master; Bookkeeper Wanted;
Fresh To-day, M. S. Gardner; Flag
Competition, James M. Dixon, Chair
man.
Business Notices—Enjoy Yourself To
day, Sommer’s Cafe; Children’s Bicy
cles, G. W. Thomas.
Whisky—Lewis 66 Rye.
Its Quality That Counts—E. & W.
Laundry.
Petition for Incorporation—The John
son’s Chill and Fever Tonic Company.
Thanksgiving, 1904—The Delmonlco
Cos.
To-day is Thanksgiving—McGi'ath &
Ransford.
Open This Morning— Lattimore’s.
Nothing So Good —Rowlinski, Drug
gist.
As Assurance is Yours—Shuptrlne’s
Drug Stores.
Harvest Corn Whisky—Henry Solo
mon & Son.
Good Thanksgiving Smoke—Pete
Dailey.
Are You Growing Bald—Solomons
Cos.
Savannah Theater—To-day, Matinee
and Night, “A Message From Mars;,'
Friday, "Faust.”
Elegant Line of Jewelry—Dr. M.
Schwab’s Son.
Laundry Business—Savannah-Geor
gia Laundry.
Medical—Peruna.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
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cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with fresh
northwest winds. Eastern Florida fair
weather, with light to fresh north
winds.
Peoria, 111., is one of the largest
whisky distilling cities of the country.
And yet Peoria the other day elected
a Prohibitionist to the state Legisla
ture. Maybe the idea was to take him
away from temptation.
Telegraphic communication has now
been established between Seattle and
Alaska, by the completion of 3,518 miles
of cables and land lines. It will,
therefore, be possible to serve news
fresh from the cold storage every day.
Secretary Taft's receptions at New
Oceans and Pensacola must have
convinced that gentleman that much
of the stuff he has been reading in
Northern Republican papers about the
aloofness of the South is pure parti
san poppycock.
The Republican landslide of Nov. 8
will be In evidence in the House of
Representatives during the next two
years. Returns received by the clerk
of the House indicate the election of
861 Republican and 136 Democratic
members. This will give the Repub
licans a majority of 116 and shows a
gain by them of 84 members as com
pared with the make-up of the present
House.
The determination of Rev. Dr. A.
M. Williams to request that he be not
returned to his Savannah pastorate
seems to be conclusive, mid will doubt
less be respected by the conference au
thorities. That Dr. Williams has
good and sufficient reasons for the po
sition he has taken there can be no
Question. He will continue in the
ministry, to which he has given so
many years of devoted and efficient
•srvlce. but in Just what position he
will labor hereafter remains to be de
termined. During an intimate ac
quaintance of some seven years the
people of Savannah have come to re
gard Dr. Williams with highest re
spect and appreciation, both m * a cltl
**n and as a minister of the gospel.
His high-minded ness, broadness and
sincerity have impressed ail who have
sat uniter the sound of his voice or
. read his sermons and articles as re-
I ported In the papers. In leaving Ha
" varnish hr sill t*k. win, him tic • m
htndiy regard of Uie whole community,
THE SHIPPING QUESTION.
It was stated in our dispatches yes
terday that the Merchant Marine Com
mission met in Washington on Tues
day and decided to make its report
with a bill on Dec. 4. It is hoped the
report will be unanimous, though the
probability is that it will not be. It
is understood that no attempt will be
made to revive the Frye-Payne ship
ping bill which provides for a system
of subsidies. If this is the case it is
prAty safe to say that the commission
will recommend a method for reviving
our shipbuilding interests other than
that of subsidies. The commission has
probably found that the sentiment
against subsidies is too strong to be
overcome.
When the commission was at Bruns
wick, In this state, recently Col. W.
E. Kay of that city addressed tt in
a speech which appears to have at
tracted some attention. The New
York Journal of Commerce comment
ed on it at considerable length. The
point made by Col. Kay was that the
reason money wasn’t invested in ship
building in this country was that it
oould be employed more profitably in
other ways, and that when the time
came that money could be made in
building and operating ships we should
own ships enough to carry our com
merce.
What Col. Kay said is no doubt true.
It amounted to saying that until the
manufacturers of steel are willing to
accept less for their products and me
chanics are willing to accept less for
their labor we cannot 'have a great
merchant marine unless we are will
ing to pay the price of it. Of course
it has been well understood all along
that tihe purpose of subsidies was to
bridge the difference between what it
costs to build and operate ships in
other countries and to build and op
erate them in this country.
The question might be asked why
it is that steel products and labor are
cheaper in Germany and England than
in this country. There are several
reasons, the main one being probably
our high tariff. There is no doubt of
course that steel can be made as
cheaply in this country as in Eng
land or any other country, and is made
as cheaply, notwithstanding the high
er cost of labor. That this is true is
shown by the faot that our steel pro
ducts are sold In England in competi
tion with English steel products.
There is no doubt, however, that our
steel manufacturers are not going to
sell the output of their factories in the
home market, which is their great mar
ket, for less than they are getting as
long as they can maintain present
prices. Therefore, as Col. Kay says,
money will not be put In shipbuilding
until conditions become such that a
profit can be made on the investment.
The shipbuilding question will com
mand considerable attention at the ap
proaching session of Congress, but It
is doubtful if any shipbuilding legis
lation will be enacted.
GOING TO THE OTHER EXTREME.
When cotton was bringing only about
5 cents a pound the cotton farmers
were advised to diversify their crops
and to cut down their cotton acreage.
There is no doubt they took that ad
vice, and most of them found they
could live quite comfortably on 5 cent,
cotton provided they raised their own
supplies.
It was agreed pretty generally
throughout the South that to diversify
crops and restrict the output of cot
ton was a good thing for the farmer
for several reasons, among them this
one, namely, that a small crop at a
high price Is better for the cotton
farmer than a big crop at a low price,
because It costs so much more to grow
and market the big crop.
The high price of cotton, however,
seems to have caused the farmers to
forget the conclusion at which they
arrived when the price of cotton was
low. They are going Into the grow
ing of cotton now on a large scale. It
is stated that already the sales of fer
tilizers this year are one-third greater
than they were at a like time last year.
That means that, notwithstanding the
fact that this season’s crop will likely
go to 12.000,000 bales, preparations are
being made to produce a much bigger
crop next year. If a bigger crop—a
considerably bigger crop—should be
produced next year, what would be
the result? Isn’t it almost certain that
the price of cotton would decline
greatly? It certainly is.
It is claimed that the farmers can
grow cotton at 7 cents a pound at a
profit. The profit is small at that
price, but there is no certainty that
the price would be as high as 7 cents
If a crop of 13.000.000 bales should be
grown next season.
It would be well for farmers to think
of this matter carefully and govern
themselves accordingly. The spinners,
especially those of foreign countries,
would like to see 5 cent cotton again,
but the cotton producing South doesn't
want to setf tt.
In commenting on the retirement of
Senator Cockrell of Missouri from the
United States Senate, after thirty
years of service in that body, es one
oonsequence of the recent election,
some of the Republican papers are di
recting attention to the fact that ’’he
leaves the Senate as poor as he en
tered it." That seems to strike them
aa quite a remarkable circumstance.
They do not appear to understand how
it Is possible for a man to have been
In the Senate, at a salary of $5,000 a
year, for more than a quarter of a
century and yet leave the service any
thing less than a millionaire. There
have been examples of Republican
statesmen who have gone Into the Sen
ate relatively poor and in a few years
amussed fortunes. It hasn’t been
many years since one leading Repub
lican Senator boldly asserted that he
made use of Information secured by
him as a senator to further Ms spec
ulations in sugar stocks, and virtually
asksd, "Whose business is It, and
what are you going to <ki about it?”
I*ut Senator Cockrell, a good repre
sentative of Southern, Democratic
statesmanship, did not make use of his
official |xis4tion for money-making. And
in this paiiiiular It rnuy safely be said
Unit Ib typical of th* Moutlitrit
ItotiKKrattle iiiMiikr of Ui Me
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1904.
A GOOD INVESTMENT FOR THE
CITY.
This is the season for planting trees
In this section, and tha city could
make no better investment than to ap
propriate a very considerable sum for
the immediate planting of trees In the
localities in the city that are now com
paratively treeless. If trees are planted
now it will mean a year gained in their
growth.
There are but few trees on Bull and
Abercorri streets north of Anderson,
and there are cross streets which are
practically barren of trees. A compar
ison of the cross streets in the south
ern section which are adorned with
trees with those which are treeless
shows what an advantage trees are.
The shaded streets have a cosy and
comfortable appearance, while those
which are unshaded are greatly lack
ing in attractiveness.
It will be recalled that not so many
years ago the middle ground in Ogle
thorpe was almost treeless. The trees
were disappearing on account of age.
Now that street has one of the finest
avenues of trees to he found in the
United States. Inside of ten years
people will travel to Savannah simply
to see it. It will have all the at
tractiveness for tourists that the trees
in Bonaventure Cemetery once had.
And the live oaks of Oglethorpe avenue
will live a century. They will be a
greater ornament of the city a half
a century hence than they are now.
And the same is true of the live oak
avenue on Thirty-seventh street.
Of course, we know that it is not
the city’s place to plant trees in front
of residences or lots unless paid to do
so, but if the Park and Tree Commis
sion had a little more money with
which to become more active in tree
planting property owners would catch
the spirit of improvement and would
beautify their properties by planting
trees in front of them, or by having
the Park and Tree Commission do it.
And every property holder should re
member that the trees planted by the
commission are guaranteed. If those
they set out die they will be replaced
without cost.
As far as we are able to judge the
commission seems to be doing the best
it can with the means at its disposal.
The people are proud of the city and
are gratified when they hear strangers
speak in praise of its beauty, but they
could help greatly to increase its beau
ty by educating public sentiment
against trampling the grass in the
squares and injuring the trees by cut
ting them or hitching horses to them.
A little more money spent each year
by the city and a little more by prop
erty owners In planting trees would,
in a few years, make this about as
beautiful a -city as there is in the
world.
ROOSEVELT’S CABINET.
President Roosevelt seems to be in
a hurry to get the question of the
membership of his cabinet settled—the
cabinet he will have after March 4.
Usually that question isn't settled un
til Just before the new presidential
term begins. Correspondents of news
papers are kept guessing about the
matter until the inauguration of the
new administration.
Already six of the cabinet places
have been settled. Secretaries Hay,
W ilson, Taft, Metcalf and Moody are
to remain in the positions they now
fill and Mr. Cortelyou is to have the
Postmaster Generalship.
As to whether or not Mr. Shaw is
to remain at the head of the Treasury
Department and Mr. Morton at the
head of the Navy Department nobody
seems to know. Evidently Mr. Shaw
wants to be continued in the place he
now has or expects something better.
During the campaign he worked like
a Trojan. He made more speeches,
probably, than arty other member of
the cabinet. If ha didn’t want to re
main in the cabinet, why was he so
active in the campaign? There is no
doubt probably that he was trying to
please Mr. Roosevelt with the hope of
being asked to retain the Secretary
ship of the Treasury in the next ad
ministration.
It has been said that Mr. Morton is
not particularly well pleased with his
job. He isn't a rich man and, it
may be, he doesn’t see that it would
be of much advantage to him to re
main in the cabinet four years more.
By the end of that time he would be
practically unfitted for any other
work. He would have no business or
occupation, and at his time of life it
would be rather difficult for him to
find employment suitable for an ex
cabinet officer.
It is probable, however, that the
public will know within the next few
days whether Mr. Shaw and Mr. Mor
ton are to be in the new cabinet. If
they want their places they are pretty
certain to get them, if devotion to
Mr. Roosevelt's Interests counts for
anything.
Bishop Spellmeyer of Cincinnati was
a Methodist minister in New Jersey
for thirty-two years before he was
raised to the bishopric. Speaking of
his first experiences as a bishop, the
other night, he said that he was ex
tremely lonesome when he found
himself without a pastorate, or
a Sunday-school or an Ep
worth League of his own. “But
one night, before I had been in Cin
cinnati very long,” he said, “niy home
sickness was dispelled by a familiar
song. The singer was a big Jersey
mosquito; and I felt that I had friends
close at hand." Doubtless the Bishop
and his Jersey friend banqueted to
gether that night, with the Hishop as
the chef d’oeuvre.
There is a report In Washington to
the effect that the Marquise de Mon
stlers, formerly Miss Caldwell, who the
other day renounced 'her allegiance to
the Catholic religion, will Institute n
suit to recover at laast a part of the
money she gave (he CsthoHr univer
sity. Whether this report Is well
founded remains to be seen. Another
report l that the name, “Caldwell
Hall," given one of the university
buildings In recognition of the gift,
wilt be changed. It Is 40 be expected,
I however, that many sensational stories
I ith little foundation will be told about
1 tlie matter be foie It Is finally settled.
Our national constitution provides
that persons convicted of crime shall
not be subjected to cruel or unusual
punishment. But this provision, ap
parently, does not extend to persons
accused of crime, notwithstanding the
law presumes every person accused to
be Innocent until proved guilty. The
authorities, it seems, are at liberty to
inflict the utmost mental torture upon
those accused, in the hope of forcing
them to disclose their guilt. The days
of the Inquisition presented nothing
more gruesome than- that disinter
ment of a murdered man's body
and bolstering it up to point an ac
cusing finger at certain suspects, re
counted in our Chicago dispatches two
or three days ago. And in the Nan
Patterson .trial in New York, related
In yesterday's dispatches, a skeleton
was brought in and pieces of skin
from the murdered man's fingers were
placed in evidence. Can it be doubted
that all of this was for the purpos# of
working on the mind of the poor devil
of a woman at the bar and causing
her to do or say something calculated
to prejudice her case? The mental
torture to Which she was subjected
must have been severe in the extreme.
While it may be true that she is not
all that a good woman should be, it is
nevertheless the fact that she is a hu
man being, capable of exquisite suf
fering; and as such she ought to be
immune from cruel and unusual pun
ishment. The inquisitorial methods
practiced upon her will win her friends
and sympathy?
“Sir Lauder Brunton, an eminent
British physician, announces his dis
covery of a powder by which bad tem
pers will be instantly cured.” —News
Item. Oh, happy day! Could a more
delightful announcement come on
Thanksgiving? What a pleasing pros
pect is opened up hy Sir Lauder
Brunton! If papa, walking the baby
in the middle of the night, steps on
a tack, he will have only to swallow
a powder and he -will at once see what
a fine joke it was. If the waiting
maid spills soup over the new silk
gown of milady, an anti-temper pow
der will make things all right in a
jiffy and milady will laugh heartily
over the Incident. If Jones calls Smith
a double-twisted, back-action, double
vamped liar, Smith will swallow a
powder and hold out his hand cordial
ly, saying, “Shake, old fellow; the
joke is on me!” Bully for Brunton,
the buster and banisher of bad tem
pers! He merits a monument.
To-day for the football games! To
morrow the statisticians will begin to
take account of the number of dead
and wounded.
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PERSONAL
—Roosevelt is the second President
elected (While wearing mustache.
Cleveland was the first.
—J. V. V. Olcott spent $5,950 and
Jacob Ruppert $5,335 in the campaign
in which they have been elected Con
, gressmen in New York city.
—William M. O. Dawson, the Repub
lican Governor-elect of West Virginia
is 50 years old, and began life as a
printer, then became an editor and is
now a lawyer.
—Judge Thorrfas J. Humes, former
ly Mayor of Seattle, Wash., who drop
ped dead on the street at Fairbank,
Alaska, the other day, was a double
of Mark Twain in more than looks,
as he was noted among his friends as
a humorist.
—While American brides are sending
to Paris for their trousseaux, Princess
Cecilia, who on Whilhem's death will
become Empress of Gernfany by virtue
of her approaching marriage to the
crown prince, is ordering a large part
of her outfit from this country. She
is said to be the best-dressed woman
in the Kaiser’s empire.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Algy: It takes three generations
to make a gentleman, you know.
Penelope: What a chap you are for
looking ahead. —Life.
—Teacher: Johnny, what is the most
effective way to punctuate a sentence?
Johnny: Depends on who’s talk
ing. Pa usually swears.—Detroit Free
Press.
—Clarence: Your valet went on a
strike, did he? Bless my soul! I hope
you didn’t accede to his demands.
Claude: Pon m’ life, I had to, old
chap! The cunning eweatuah thweat
cned to leave me one morning when
I was half-dwessed.—Brooklyn Life.
—A Little Busybody.—Mrs. Small:
Your husband makes me laugh so, Mrs.
Cassidy. He is so Irish in his speech.
Mrs. Cassidy: Is he so, ma’am?
Mrs. Small: Yes, he has such a
queer way of getting words twisted
out of place.
Mrs. Cassidy: Ah; Yes, I noticed that
very thing to-day. He told me ye
were a “busy little body,” meanin’, I
suppose, as everybody knows, that
ye’re—well, what ye are, ma'am.—Phil
adelphia Press.
CI'RRKNT COMMENT.
The Louisvl le Ciu-ier-Jt utna'
(Dem.) savs: ’'Senator Cullom favors
a oorrttnlssion to consider tariff
changes. Has tihe Senator forgotten
■that the Republicans had a commis
sion of this kind about twenty years
ago. and that while the commission
recommended revising t'he tariff down
ward, the Republican Congress re
vised it upward? Or is that the rea
son the Senator wishes another com
mission?”
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: "The currently expressed Re
publican ’pity' for the Democratic
South Is uncalled for and misplaced.
The South is doing very well. There
is hardly a Southern state and there
is not a single Southern city so mis
governed aa are the city and state in
which the Philadelphia Prera Is pub
lished. If ever there was a man who
lived in a glues house tt Is Charles
Emory Smith.”
The large increase In the Socialist
vole this year is a fact to he explain
ed. says the Haltlmure News (Ind.),
though it doea not necesaarlly mean
a proportionate increase in the num
ber of Socialists in the country. "Two
considerations of the first importance
swelled the Socialist vote enormously
in the recent election, and consider
ations of a similar kind applied In 1900.
as compared with 1896. In the can
didacy of Judge Parker and in the
principles declared at Rt. Louis, there
waa almost literally nothing whatso
ever to attract Socialists, In 190 ft Mr.
liryan’a candidacy had much to rec
ommend it to many persona of Social
ist leaning* but tug uiu omprotnlsing
ly committed to the Socialist causa."
Carlyle, Queen, Beggar.
In Prof. Knight’s recently published
“Retrospects” Thomas Carlyle is de
scribed as a “genial Socrates!” In his
account of his audience with Queen
Victoria the “genial Socrates" was cer
tainly more gracious than her most
gracious majesty was in her version
of the Interview. She seemed to have
resented the old man's request that he
might be allowed to sit down. "I said
to her that I was an old man, and
would she permit me to sit down? I
think she didn't quite like it; but I
could not stand up in that room, like
a pump handle, just ‘to be pumped out.”
Here is a reminiscence of Carlyle’s
own which gives you an early glimpse
of that real practical kindness of the
man which he hid, after the fashion of
Goldsmith’s “Man in Black,” under a
mask of cvniclsm:
Speaking of the pious care of his
mother and the lessons she had taught
him, he said that he was once left
alone on a cold, snowy day to take care
of the cottage while his parents had
gone to the nearest market town to
buy provisions. A miserable, half
starved beggar came to tlie door, and
his heart was at once touched by the
sight of such abject misery. “I had
saved up.” said Carlyle, “in a small
earthen thrift pot all the pennies that
had been given me, and kept it safely
on the high shelf over the fireplace;
and I well remember climbing up and
getting it down and breaking it open
that I might give all its contents to
the poor wretch.” He added: "I nev
er knew before what the joy of heaven
must be.”
An Important Fraud.
Gen. W. W. Blackmar, the new
commander-in-chief of the G. A. R.,
was talking to a group of soldiers in
Boston when a fakir came up and held
,out for inspection a rusty old sword,
says the San Antonio Express.
“Look at it. gents,” he said: “ex
amine it close. It is the sword what
Lee surrendered to Grant. You can
have it for $5.”
“Go along with you,” said one of
the soldiers sternly. “Go along with
you. You can’t fool us.”
The fakir hurried away and Gen.
Blackmar said:
“That was, indeed, an impudent
fraud, wasn’t it? It reminds me of
the frauds that were practiced on the
old relic shows that used to be a fea
ture of country fairs.
“At a country fair in my youth there
was a show devoted almost entirely to
Biblical relics. I wish you could have
seen the faded cloth, the rusty nails
and the brass jewels that did duty
severally for a piece of Solomon’s
robe, an earring of the Queen of She
ba. Absalom’s hairpin, David’s sling,
and so on. In the place of honor hung
a sword, and the showman said:
“This is the sword that Balaam was
going to kill his ass with.’
" ‘But,’ I interposed, ‘I thought that
Balaam had no sword. I thought he
only wished for one.’
“ ‘You’re right.’ said the showman,
‘this is the sword he wished for.’ ”
Another Confidence Game.
“I want to see the man that an
swers the questions,” said the heavy
footed caller who had climbed up
three or four flights of stairs, accord
ing to the Chicago Tribune.
"What do you want of him?” asked
the man at the desk.
“It’s this way," said the other, drop
ping into a chair. "A feller that’s al
ways talking imperialism and predict
ing a monarchy for this country of
fered to bet me a dollar and a half
that the people wouldn’t be allowed
to choose a President for 1908. I took
him up, and we agreed to leave it to
you.”
"You’ve lost,” the man at the desk
decided. “The President for 1908 is al
ready chosen. But the people, of
course, will choose the President for
the term beginning in 1909, and ”
"I thought there was some catch in
it,” interrupted the caller, rising from
his chair and clumping toward the
door; "but I wasn’t goin’ to let him
bluff me—darn my fool hide! Good
day.”
Where Land Was Poop.
A few Nebraska farmers, says the
Nebraska State Journal, may remem
ber having lived as boys in communi
ties where land was as poor as that
described in the following story:
Bourke Cockran was condemning a
certain popular novel.
“That novel,” he said, “is as poor as
Elmo county land.”
"Is Elmo county land very poor and
barren?” asked one of Mr. Cockran’s
interlocutors.
“Is it?” said he. “Well, I should
say it is. Once two strangers rode on
horseback through Elmo county, and
the barrenness of the land amazed
them. Nothing but weeds and rocks
everywhere. As they passed a farm
house they saw an old man sitting in
the garden, and they said:
” 'Poor chap! Poor, poverty stricken
old fellow.'
“The old man overheard them, and
called out in a shrill voice:
“ ‘Gents, I ain't so poor and poverty
stricken as ye think. I don’t own none
of this land.”
Bryan’a Bluff Went.
William Jennings Bryan while mak
ing his recent stumping tour found hfe
would be compelled to wait half an
hour or more for his train, says the
New York Herald. Taking a seat in
the waiting room, he drew forth a
cigar and lighted it. Just then a por
ter entered and. pointing to a sign,
said:
”1 beg your pardon, sir, but you see
that smoking is not allowed in this
room."
“Well,” replied Mr. Bryan, ”1 sup
pose that rule is not always strictly
enforced?”
’’Oh, no, sir; neither is the one along
side of it," said the man with a grin.
"Employes of this railway are not
permitted to accept tips.”
Mr. Brvan finished his cigar undis
turbed.
He Refused to Be Worried.
Mrs. C. one morning last week
thought she smelled gas, says the Bir
mingham (Eng.) Post. Bravery came
to her mysteriously and she crept
downstairs to investigate. After
smelling about for some minutes she
rushed upstairs, called Mr. C., then
shook him, and at last aroused him.
Then this was heard:
“John, there’s a leak in the gas pipe
In the kitchen. We’ll all die if it Is not
fixed."
Leaks had been heard of bsfore, and
Mr. C. slecpllv asked:
“Is it a-leaklng much now?”
“Not much!" screamed his wife,
and then, as Mr. C. turned over, this
soothing advice was given:
“Put a bucket under it and come
to bed.”
A Long Cliuae.
An attendant in one of the branches
of tha New York public library no
ticed thitt a little negro boy who came
frequently to the library invariably
went to tha same shelf and took the
Mine book, which he seemed to enjoy
immensely, says the New York Times.
Curious to know the name of (he book,
she followed him to the shelf, where she
found him looking at a picture of an
old darkey being chased by a bull. A
wld grin stretched from aide to side
of the little fellow's face,
•’What’s the Joke?” asksd the sur
prised attendant.
"Golly! he ain't hatched I in yet!”
replied the delighted child.
MILE ION AIRE COMPETITION.
From the New York World.
Andrew Carnegie has assured
Pittsburg people that If 'they are real
ly desirous of having a university
which shall beat anything in the coun
try he will help.
Imaginations falters when It at
tempts to picture the struggle that
must follow among the philanthropists
when such a pacemaker starts to the
school-making race. Fancy the scene
at the Millionaires’ Club five years
from now when Mr. Carnegie will come
swinging Jauntily Into the room with
'his golf clubs under his arm.
"Weil, John,” he will say, “I have
Just added 200 acres to the Pittsburg
campus and deposited $5,000,000 in steel
bonds as endowment to provide gym
nasium facilities.”
Mr. Rockefeller will rub 'his hands
in glee and say;
“Too late, Andrew. Very good in its
way, but antiquated. I have just
bought Lake Michigan for the Uni
versity of Chicago, for its crews to
practice on. All out at Sault Ste. Ma
rie hereafter.”
Mr. Vanderbilt will look up from his
paper and remark casually:
“I might say that the family has
just purchased all the land within two
miles of the Yale campus, and will
cover it with dormitories.” $
Mr. Vanderbilt will say this veTy
modestly, but with a gleam of triumph
in his eye. But “Ah!” he will exclaim,
as he return to his paper. “Boy,
bring my check book! Gentlemen, Mrs.
Stanford has just bought the Sierra
Nevada mountains for the sohool of
forestry of the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University."
The three rich men will pale at this
announcement.
“There’s one thing left to do!” they
will cry in chorus. "Raise the pro
fessors’ salaries. We must stay at the
top.”
“I give an annual income of SIOO,OOO
to raise the professors’ salaries,” one
of the millionaires will blurt out.
A college professor who happened to
be a guest at this club that evening
will be carried out fainting.
MOTHER-LOVE AMONG JAPANESE.
From the Outlook.
Public demonstration of affection is
most repugnant to the good taste of
the Japanese, and it is the absence of
this which is so generally mistaken
for a lack of genuine feeling. I re
call one man who was so devoted to
his mother (though I doubt whether
he could ever have been said to have
"talked about” her) that when she
died, while he was abroad, his de-,
presslon was so profound that my
husband watched him with anxiety
lest he 3hould commit suicide. The
stoical training may render more un
sympathetic a coarse nature; but re
pression to the refined soul brings an
exquisite capacity for pain scarcely
conceivable by those who are free to
give utterance to every emotion.
Another man said to me: “I rarely
speak of my mother, for a foreigner
does not understand that a Japanese
mother may be just as dear to her son
as his to him, and by the Japanese it
is not expected that one should utter
one’s deepest feeling.” That same son
fainted with grief when his mother
died, and when consciousness returned
rose to make light of a “little dizzi
ness," without reference to its cause.
To this day, whenever he goes from
home, he carries with him his moth
er's letters, mounted on a beautiful
roll of ivory and brocade, and on the
aniniVvVsarY of her passing beyond
his mortal ken he quietly devotes a
portion of the day to meditation and
special thought of her. Even to his
wife, despite the closest bond of love,
he says not, “This is the day of my
mother's death.”
THE PRESIDENT’S FLAG.
From the St. Louis Republic.
When President Roosevelt visits the
exposition he will be honored by the
official “President’s flag,” which has
not been flown since it greeted Wil
liam McKinley at Buffalo on the day
of his assassination, Sept. 5, 1901.
The. flag is of the special design
never unfurled at United States garri
sons or on battleships except for a
President of the United States. P. H.
Behnke, an ex-gunner’s mate, con
nected with the exhibit of the United
States Nay Department, both at the
Pan-American and Louisiana exposi
tions, will fill the same function for
President Roosevelt on Nov. 26, when
he visits the Government building
here, that he did for William McKin
lev. „ .
The President’s flag Is a great ban
ner, 14 feet by 18. The body is dark
ravy blue. In the center Is the official
seal of the United States, in the prop
er colors. The figure of an eagle, with
spread wings, in yellow, is surmount
ed by an orange sunburst, sprinkle!
with thirteen stars. The national bird
holds in Its talons the insignia of war
and peace—a bunch of arrows and a
green olive branch. On his breast is
a smaller shield of red and white
stripes, and over the whole flies a
scroll with the motto, “E Pluribus
Unum.” _
WORLD’S LARGEST HOSPITAL.
Berlin Correspondent of the London
Telegraph.
Berlin will Shortly be able to boast
that it contains the largest hospital in
the world. The new institution, which
is to be called after the famous physi
ologist, the Rudolf Virchow Hospital,
will be fitted with accommodations for
2 000 patients. WThen fully equipped it
will have a staff of 650 physicians,
nurses, attendants and servants. In
connection with tihe hospital there will
be a pathological and anatomical labor
atory. bath house with medico-me
chanical institute, section for Roent
gen appliances, and a separate build
ing also for apothecaries. Hitherto the
largest German hospital was that at
Eppendorf, near Hamburg, with ac
commodation for 1,600 patients The
Biz© of the new Berlin hospital may
be best shown when compared with
the London Hospital, with <BO beds,
and the Marylebone Infirmary, with
744.
OfR STAMP SUPPLY^
From the Boston Globe.
We shall print more than 6,6000.000
postage stamps this year. We have
a bureau of engraving and printing
which strikes oft 20,800,000 stamps every
dav.
The dally shipment of stamps to the
upward of 70,000 postoftlces throughout
the United States runs from 10,000,000
to 70,000.000.
The stamp production of the coun
try Is probably a better gage of its
prosperity than any other, for the
country oanont possibly be flourishing
when there are few stamps used. There
is no more aoeurate barometer of the
financial and Industrial conditions of
the nation than the order sheet for
stumps. About 100,000.0000 are always
kept on hand for nn emergency.
CLAY PIPES IN LONDON.
From the London Chronicle.
The pipe that you “color” is scarce
ly ever seen nowadays. Forty years
ago every little country town had its
expert who m ade and baked clay pipes,
as well as the smokers who bought
them by the dozen at a time. To-day
you may walk the Mtrand and look
long before you see a clap pl|>e in a
shop window. We believe the last club
In London in which the long otay waa
smoked waa the Arundel, where tlie old
men uoed them from habit and the
young aa a compliment to the paat.
Even the meerschaum, the clay pipe
of the “claseea,” le seldom seen. For a
meerschaum pipe Is more exacting than
a wife in its claim tor the “trousers.”
All Humors'
Are impure matters which the ski a
liver r kidneys and other organs caa
not take care of without help, there i (
each an accumulation of them.
They Utter the whole system.
Pimples, boils, eczema and other
eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired
feeUng, bilious turns, fits or indiges
tion, doll headaches and many other
troubles are due to them.
Hood*s Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Remove aU humors, overcome an
their effects, strengthen, tone and
invigorate the whole system.
“I had salt rheum on my hands so that I
eould not work. I took Hood's Sarsaparll.a
and It drove out the humor. I continued
its use till the sores disappeared.” ' Mm,
Isa O. Bbown, Romford Falls, Me. ~.
Hood’s SarsaparlKa promises te
ouro and kseps the promise.
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
winter week DAY SCHEDULE.
Effective Nov. 1, 1904.
Ro . ISLE OF HOPE LINE:
Hgjween Isle of Hope and 40th Street
aV Lv. Isle of Hop <=."
™ P M ’ A. M. P. M.
Tin 6:00 1:00
81ft I 7:00 2 00
f’.?2 2 - 30 8:00 3:00
"•uV ••••• Q • A©
10:30 3:30 ' 10:00 ‘lYoo
1130 11:00
J- 3 ® ...... 7:00
Z:3® •' 8 00
• •••• 8.30 ...... QOrt
J? 3 ® 10.55
Montgomery to city.
Between Isle of Hope & ThunderboltT
Lv-Isleof Hope. Lv. Thunderbolt
A. M. P.M A. M. P. M.
7 ;®2 6:00 57:22 •sis.)
*ll.OO *950 738
512-mlnute 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
51:30 8: 30 1:30
*2L :S A 10:30 2:30
*7.53 t3:05 ..... 330
t 7: • 7:30
••••■ 12:05 11:20
♦Connects with parcel car for city
tThrough to Thunderbolt.
518-minute wait at Sandfly going to
city.
Between Montgomery & ThTinl^boft7
A ; M - PM. A. M. P. M.
6:.oO 3:05 7:22 3:38
c 53 5:50 8:22 6:38
- 7:38
MILL-HA VPN SCHEDULE.
Effective July 13. 1903.
Leave Whitaker and Bay streets.
A.M. A.M. pm PX*
*® :2 ° 12:40 5:20
* 10:40 l;20 6:00
7 '.°,n 11: *® 2:00 6 AO
; 2 ® 12:00 2:40 7:20
*OO 8:20 8:00
212 4:00 8:40
9:20 4;40 ....
. Leave Mill-Haven.
• ™ ~A V ?U’ P-M. P.M.
2:12 12:20 5:40
700 I*s4 1:00 *6:05
*7**4o 1:40 6:20
I’’® 2:20 7:00
®- 2 2 8:00 7:40
9 °® . 8:40 8:20
ilio ::::: 8 4 . : 0 2 0 ° 9:00
♦Daily except Sunday.
' ITTRDAY evening - special.
Leave Whitaker Leave Mill
""dßay St*. Haven.
PM.
Ift'nn 9:40
10:00 10:20
12:12 H:00
. 111*®. 12:00
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 5:63 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak Station for city every half
hour until 12:08 midnight.
COLLINSVILLE LINE.
Beginning at 5:48 a. m. cars leave
Waters road and Esttll avenue every
30 minutes until 11:48 p. m.
Beginning at 6:15 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Waters road and
Estill avenue every 30 minutes until
12:15 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 ILlnrnln P*rk. _
Car leave* west side of City Market for Lin.
?® ln B:U ® • m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until 11:4* p> m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 6:90 a tt
end every 40 minutes thereafter until 1* o’olocll
midnight
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR ’
Leaves east Bide of City Market for Thunder,
boh. Cattle Park. Sandfly. Isle of Hope and >ll
Intermediate polnta—S:lsa. m„ 1:18 p. m..6:t*
p m.
be7“ Il * o f HPO for Sandfly, Cattle Park.
Thunderbolt and all intermediate nnlnta—l W
a. m., 11:00a m., a uo n. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at MM a le
an and 2:3* p. m., connecting at Sandfly with rs T
ular parcel car fot city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight te
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of passengeta
Any further information regarding passe*
ger schedule or freight service can be had or
applying to L. R. NASH. Manage*
FOR THANKSGIVING,
GUNS AND RIFLES.
HUNTING SUITS.
LOADED SHELLS.
RODS AND REELS, FISH
LINES, HOOKS, etc.
FOOTBALL OUTFITS.
PUNCHING BAGS, *
BOXING GLOVES.
INDIAN CLUBS. I
DUMB BELLA
FENCING FOILS.
LAWN TENNIS OUTFITS.
Edward Lovell’s Sons
111 Broughton Street. West
Imported Molasses.
Ml Puncheon* l hoeshsaJ*. 1*
barrels, Muscovado Moines—. r *'
oolvsd by bark Lstlsla. for sals br
C. M. GILBERT & CO.
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