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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1904.
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Meetings Palestine Commandery
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Woodmen.
Business Notices—Delicious Blue
Points, Sommers’ Cafe; Bicycle Re
pairing, G. W. Thomas.
Cloak and Waist Sale —Estate Daniel
Hogan.
Friday Specialities—Gustave Eckstein
& Cos.
A Sale of Lace Curtains—Leopold
Adler.
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No, Never Mind —E. & W. Laundry.
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Druggist.
Savannah Theater To-night,
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cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia and East
ern Florida for to-day are for fair
weather, with light to fresh north
winds.
A Washington dispatch to the Her
ald says that Senator TUhnan of South
Carolina has determined to withdraw
his opposition to the confirmation of
Dr. Crum as collector of the port at
Charleston. That being true, it would
seem to be as little as President Roose
velt could do to withdraw the nomi
nation.
In the years to coma it Is very prob
able that Russia will have something
like a Thanksgiving day, falling pret
ty near the time of the American cel
ebration. It is confidently believed
that the Zemstvos meeting means the
beginning of a period of larger liberty
for the people of that country, and
the meeting was held Nov. 19 to 22
“Two years in the pension bureau
are equal to four years in sheol," ac
cording to Commissioner Ware. Hav
ing experienced two years in the bu
reau and being now about to retire
to the restful woods, it is to be hoped
that Mr. Ware, who is a poet, will de
vote some of his time to an epic that
will make Dante's description of the
infernal regions read like a Sherlock
Holmes imitation of Edgar A. Poe.
“Oh, yes,” says Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, “we shall arrange a
liberal scheme of reciprocity with
Canada at the approaching session of
Congress.” Senator Lodge is largely
responsible for the failure of the
whole batch of JCasson reciprocity
treaties. He helped to kill them for
protection’s sake. But Senator Lodge
has now seen a light, and has become
an enthusiastic supporter of the reci
procity Idea.
Congressman-elect J. Warren Kelfer
of Ohio says that an ample fund has
been collected to pay for a fight on
the South in the matter of the reduc
tion of its representation In Congress
and the electoral college. The first
ahlne that resurrected politician of
long ago knows he will find the hand
of the business Interests of the North
clapped over his mouth in so vigor
ous a manner that he will swallow
half of his false teeth.
The St. Louis Exposition manage
ment missed a fine opportunity for se
curing a drawing card when It failed
to have the meeting of Secretary of
War Taft and Gen. Huertas of Pana
ma occur In the exposition auditorium.
Gen. Huertas la tour feet eight Inches
tall, and weighs about 96 pounds. Sec
retary Taft stands six feet two Inches
and weighs about sl6. A conference
between these distinguished gentlemen
■ewuld be worth going mliee to sew
AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.
A step has been taken in the direc
tion of the adjustment of the rail
road problem. A number of gentlemen
of prominence called on the President
on Monday and asked him to use his
Influence to secure the enactment of a
law that would give the Interstate
Commerce Commission power to fix
Interstate freight rates. The President
didn't commit himself as to what he
would do in regard to the request.
Doubtless he wants to confer with
the leaders of his party before decid
ing so important a matter.
The solution of the railroad problem
which these gentlemen suggested Is
the one that will have to be adopted
finally. It Is practically Impossible
to prevent railroads from combining
into great systems. It seems to be the
natural thing for them to do, and that
being the case it Is impossible to cre
ate a public sentiment against It suf
ficiently strong to prevent it.
And competition isn’t what the
great majority of shippers want. It
Is only what the great shippers want,
the great industrial trusts. The trusts
want competition because they are
able to force down rates. They have
such a vast amount of freight that
they can compel the railroads to bid
against each other for their business.
In other words, they can practically
make their own rates.
The small shippers, however, can do
nothing of the kind. Hence they are
at the mercy of the railroads. Be
cause of their number they furnish
the bulk of the business which the
railroads get. If they could combine
they might also force down rates, but
that is impractical. They want,
therefore, fair and stable rates. With
rates of that kind the trusts would
have no advantage of them.
The small shippers are beginning to
see this, and hence the conference
with the President. They don’t care
to what extent the railroads combine.
Indeed combinations are a benefit to
them for the reason that the cheaper
the railroads can transport freight the
lower the rates of transportation will
be. And the chances are that the
railroads are beginning to take the
view that it would be best for their in
terests to have fair and uniform rates.
They are getting tired of having to
cut their rates in order to get the Bus
iness of the great industrial trusts. As
it Is now they are the slaves of the
trusts. They want to be masters of
their own properties. It is probable,
therefore, that they wouldn’t object to
having the rates of Interstate traffic
fixed by the government. They feel
certain that a commission would deal
more fairly with them than the trusts
do.
It wouldn’t be advisable, however,
to place the duty of fixing rates in the
hands of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. That Commission has
all it can do now. A special commis
sion ought to be created to deal with
rates. And it ought to be composed
of rallioad men. It is doubtful if the
members of the Interstate Commerce
Commission have such knowledge of
railroad traffic as to enable them to
make rates that will be fair to the
public and just to the railroads. Work
of that kind ought to be done by ex
perts. Of course, the industrial
trusts, like the beef and sugar and
steel trusts, will oppose a commission
to fix rates. Their opposition will be
proof that they are the chief benefi
ciaries of competition.
The matter is a highly important one
and the President can give his at
tention to no subject in which a
larger number of people are more
profoundly concerned. If rates were
fixed by the government there
would still be competition but
of a kind that would injure
better service. That is another
thing the public wants. Rates estab
lished by the government would insure
fair and stable rates and good service.
THK ZEMSTVOS.
In Russian affairs it is quite likely
that the Zematvos will be much heard
of for some time to come, as they
have been during the recent past In
connection with the petition to the
Czar for at least a measure of popu
lar government for the country. It is,
therefore, of Interest to have some un
derstanding of who and what the
Zemstvos are. The noun is plural. In
English it would probably be rendered
“local councils.” There Is nothing in
American or English life exactly cor
responding with the Zemstvos, since in
Russia all power is lodged in the cen
tral government and the local councils
are merely advisory, If Indeed so much
as an advisory function can be claim
ed for them. They have no law-mak
ing power and no executive rights.
Their acts are impotent, except as they
may meet with the approval of the
bureaus at St. Petersburg. Yet, how
ever poor and meager may be the func
tions of the Zemstvos, these bodies are
the sole representatives of the political
will of the people in Russia.
The creation of the Zemstvos was
one of the acts of Czar Alexander II
while he was In that liberal mood that
Induced him to grant the emancipation
of the serfs. They are elective bodies,
embracing all classes of the population
—noble*, merchants, artisan* and even
peasant*. Roughly and very generally
speaking, they mny be compared with
the English county councils or the
American boards of county commis
sioners. Their original duties were to
look out for roads and bridges, the
provincial school*, the paupers and the
Insane, and such other non-political
matters as were rather beyond the du
ties of a municipal government. It Is
believed to have been the purpose of
Alexander II to gradually enlarge the
powers of the Zemstvos and thus lead
the people up to an Idea of popular
government. But there Intervened a
powerful reactionary movement, and
Instead of larger liberties being ac
corded to these representatives of the
people, their functions wore abridged
and they became merely shadows of
what they were Intended to be. Bu
reaucratic fear of them resulted In
their being reduced to practical noth
ingness by royal edict.
Nicholas up to a recent date has fol
lowed tbe fooststepo of hi* father. He
doubtless (eels deep sympathy for hts
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. NOVEMBER2S. 1904.
people, but until the time of the as
sassination of Von Plehve he seemed
powerless to take any step for the
amelioration of their condition. With
the advent of a more liberal man In
the office of Minister of the Interior,
however, seems to have come a will
ingness on the part of the government
to hear the complaints of the people.
The Zemstvos petitions, considered in
itself, was weak and impotent. But
it may mark a turning point in the
political fortunes of Russia. It In
duces the hope that the forthcoming
revolutionizing of the Russian govern
ment—which is inevitable in the very
nature of things—will be bloodless and
through legal process, and not by
means of civil war and its attendant
horrors.
MONEY TO LEND.
The statement given out by State
Treasurer Park, who is state bank
examiner, that the state banks are
in an excellent condition, and that
many of them have more money than
they know what to do with, is a most
gratifying one. One only of the banks
in their recent examination made
a bad showing, and the cashier of that
one had been speculating. It is safe
to stay that the condition of the na
tional banks of the state is as good as
that of the state banks.
It has not been so many years since
Georgia was almost wholly dependent
upon New York for money with which
to move the cotton crop, and It was not
possible to return the borrowed money
until the end of the year. Indeed,
there was a debt due New York pret
ty much all the time. Now Georgia
has a big balance in New York almost
all the year around, the exception being
the first two months of the fall.
The fact that the banks are so well
supplied with money is due to the high
price of cotton during the past few
years. The farmers and the country
merchants are better off than they have
ever been before. Another good cot
ton crop, with the price of cotton rang
ing around 10 cents, will be follow
ed by great Improvements on the farms
and in the towns. The farmers will
build better houses and outbuildings
and will adopt better methods for the
fertilization of their land, and the
merchants and others In the towns
will build better residences.
Indeed, the signs of progress will be
visible on every hand. The surplus
will seek Investment, and we shall see
a great Increase In the number of man
ufacturing plants. That will create
a demand for additional labor and from
the North and East will come Immi
grants, and with them will come capi
tal seeking investments.
The banks will be anxious to keep
the money on deposit with theirs in
circulation, and, hence, there will be
no difficulty in getting money. Of
course, those who have no security
to offer will have as much difficulty
in getting loans as they ever had, but
nowhere can people of that class easily
get money. The outlook in Georgia
for greater development of the state’s
resources is better now than it has
ever been before. With a continua
tion of the present prosperous condi
tions for a few years Georgia will be
one of the richest states in the union.
A LESSON FROM THE PIUCE OF
BREAD.
In an Interview with Sir Walter Fos
ter, a member of the English Parlia
ment, which we published yesterday,
the statement was made that a loaf of
bread in England made of American
flour costs just half as much as It costs
In this country, the loaves of course
being of the same size. Doesn't that
explain, to a great extent, why It is
that ships can be built In England
cheaper than in this country and why
English spinners almost monopolize the
trade of the world in cotton goods,
notwithstanding the fact that they
have to get the bulk of their raw
material from us?
And clothing In England Is a gTeat
deal cheaper there than here, and so
are house rents. It Is a safe proposi
tion that an English workingman gets
about all of the necessaries of life for
very much less than they can be had
In this country. That is because of
our high protective system, a system
that enables the great manufacturing
concerns to sell their products in the
home market at exorbitant prices and
permits them to sell them In the for
eign market at from a quarter to a
third Jess than they are sold at home.
We pride ourselves on the fact that
wages In this country are far higher
than in England, but. as a matter of
fact, is It possible for a wage-earner
to save much more here than there?
Because living Is so much less In Eng
land the wage-earner is able to work
for smaller wages and because he does
England Is in a position to build ships
cheaper than we can build them, and
to take from us $100,000,000 or more
annually in ocean freights.
What great benefit to the wtage
earner Is higher wages If the cost of
living is such that he is able to save
little or nothing? Wouldn't he be
just as well oft with less wages if the
cost of living were such that he could
save Just as much as he does now,
and, at the same time, live Just as
well?
The gold digger In Alaska gets much
higher wages than are paid In the gold
mines of Colorado, but he doesn’t have
as much at the end of the week as
the Colorado miner does because he
has to pay twice as much for the neces
saries of life.
When the matter Is sifted to the bot
tom It will be found that the greater
part of the benefits of the high pro
tective system goe* to the Industrial
trusts. The protective system enabled
Mr. Carnegie to accumulate 1300.000,000
In about twenty-five years. Indeed
there Is a big crop of multi-million
aires who owe their fortunes to the
tariff schedules for which the Republi
can party I* responsible.
The standing army of Panama has
been reduced to twenty-five men,
most of whom are officers. But why
should the isthmian republic bur
den herself with even so large an
army? A squad of a dozen seasoned
Irlah-Amnrlcsn policemen could go
'down (bore and boat tbs standing
army at preserving the peace.
There is woe In St. Louis and per
turbation throughout Missouri. So
ciety is torn with doubt and unsatis
factory speculation. There is no peace
or happiness in the land. At a World’s
Fair banquet the other day, so It is
reported. President Francis ate his ice
cream with a fork, while one of the
distinguished visitors used a spoon.
Manifestly, a faux pas was committed
by somebody. But who was it? If a
fork Is the proper thing for ice cream,
then a spoon is a solecism, and vice
versa. But there seems to be no sat
isfactory authority to settle the ques
tion. Under the circumstances it seems
that the St. Louis people will have to
go on eating their ice cream with a
knife.
A few days ago Mr. J. Pierpont Mor
gan bought the Anson Phelps Stokes
house on Madison avenue. New York
city. The price of the property is al
leged to have been in the neighbor
hood of $1,000,000. He already owned
a considerable part of the block. With
his latest purchase, it is said he owns
the costliest residence property in
America. But it is by no means cer
tain that he means to use it for resi
dence purposes. The suggestion has
been thrown out that he has in mind
the creation of anew museum of art.
Mr. Morgan has a very large sum of
money invested in art objects, collected
in all parts of the world.
Lea Park, in England, alleged to
have been purchased by Andrew Car
negie with the purpose in view of es
tablishing a national convalescent home
there, was the estate of the late Whit
aker Wright, who attained interna
tional notoriety as an artist in get
rich-quick schemes. Wright acquired
a fabulous income from questionable
enterprises, spent millions of dollars on
Lea Park to make it one of the finest
country properties in the world* and
then committed suicide when the ex
posure of his methods was precipitated
by a legal inquiry.
Thanksgiving weather made to or
der could not have been finer than that
enjoyed by Savannah yesterday. But
we have so much fine weather that we
probably do not appreciate it at Its full
worth.
PERSONAL.
—The oldest living actor is said to
be Edward Miles, now in London. He
Is 90 years old. He went on the stage
in 1834.
—A doctor writes In the London
Lancet that as regards sanitation and
ventilation the English churches re
tain the custom of the middle ages.
—A London doctor, by grafting the
sciatic, nerve from a live spaniel into
a man's lacerated wrist, is said to
have saved theshand from amputation.
—Dr. Jameson, the Cape of Good
Hope premier, is now in London. He
is said to be negotiating a scheme for
the disfranchisement of the Cape na
tives.
—Rev. William Richardson of Lewes,
England, died recently, leaving a will
on the margin of which he wrote:
“This is all twaddle. Only wreckage of
an estate.” As the “wreckage”
amounted to something over $87,000.
the estate must have been of fair pro
portions originally.
—Patrick Keerwin of Seward. West
moreland county, Pennsylvania, the
oldest voter in the United States, cast
his twenty-first presidential ballot for
Parker and Davis. He is 107 years
years 8 months and 1 day old and
takes the same keen interest in poli
tics to-day as he did fifty years ago.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Harry: I hear Tom is going to
leave off drinking and marry an heir
ess.
Dick: That's just the way facts get
twisted. He is going to keep on drink
ing and marry a snake-charmer.—Bos
ton Transcript.
—Visitor: Your governess seems
very good-natured.
Lady of the House: Yes, p<oor thing,
her father lost a lot of money, so I
took her as governess for the children.
Visitor: Poor, poor thing! Isn’t It
terrible how unfortunate some people
are!—Punch.
—"Yes," said the city editor, with a
note of regret In his voice: “I was
sorry to discharge Spacer. He was the
best Are reporter we had. The trou
ble came last week. He wrote an obit
uary of Van Sandt Sapleigh and end
ed by saying. The loss was fully cov
ered by insurance.’ ” —Puck.
—“Mabel!” said Mrs. Subbubs,
sternly, “when that young man was
leaving you at the gate last evening
I heard several sounds like kisses.”
“Indeed!” replied the girl. "Oh, I
know! AVhat you heard was the noise
he made pulling his feet out of tHe
mud as he walked down the path.”—
Philadelphia Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Ledger find.) says:
“Socialism can never make much head
way In a free and enlightened country
if the people exert their Intelligence
and examine the subject thoroughly. A
great many persons have feared that
wo might plunge toward socialism
blindly, but we are inclined to think
that their fears are not well grounded,
and that the whole people, If social
ism were to come under examination
and debate, would deal It as telling a
blow ns it received at the hands of
the Federation of Labor."
The Age-Herald (Dcm.) of Birming
ham voices Alabama's fear that Sec
retary Taft's mission to Panama Is
really to arrange for the little repub
lic's annexation to the United States,
and proceeds from this idea to reason
in this way: "It points to the annex
ation of all that lies between the main
land and tiny Panama, holding at
present nearly twenty millions of peo
ple of mixed blood, speaktnr another
language, and iH>sscsslng customs and
methods wholly foreign to our Anglo-
Saxon civilization. Once Panama is
anuexed, the rest follows, as night fol
lows day.”
The Louisville Courier-Journal
(Dem.) says: "Ex-Governor Black of
New York, who nominated Roosevelt
for President at Chicago, occupies just
now an embarrassing position. Nat
urally It is to be expected that he will
receive some high office In recognition
of his political service, and his name
has been mentioned for Attorney Gen
eral in the cabinet. It Is said, how
ever. that he does not want the ap
pointment and that the President has
his eye on another man, The sen
atorial term of Chuuncey Dopew ex
pires in March apd the place would
exactly suit Black, but the trouble Is
to get I>ep*w. now past 70, to forego
a re-election-”
Every Dost Has Its Day.
The old saying that every dog has
its day seems to be well exemplified in
canine high society, for the fashion in
small dogs changes every year or two,
so that during the last few decades al
most every breed has had Its turn, says
the New York Tribune. A woman
whose family has always been dog
lovers was enumerating the dogs In
the family within her memory the oth
er day.
“My earliest recollection,” she said,
"was a fat. plethoric King Charles
spaniel belonging to my mother.
“He, I remember, was succeeded by
a shivering, tiny black and tan toy
terrier, with a ratty tail. Next came
a fawn colored pug, with a black muz
zle and tightly curled caudal append
age. My own dogs just after that were
a fox terrier and a bull terrier—beau
ties both—and soon after black poodles
were all the rage, although we never
owned one. Then a bat eared French
bull reigned supreme in the family,
succeeded by a dear, affectionate Bos
ton terrier. A Japanese spaniel was
our next Importation, and then a pair
of Pomeranians, who own us now.”
The last breed is, perhaps, the pres
ent reigning fashionable dog, although
there are others who are coming to the
fore, but whose price and rarity as yet
make them prohibitive. The griffons
are, perhaps, the newest pets, a well
bred dog finding a ready sale at $3,-
000. They look somewhat like tiny
Irish terriers, being ginger colored and
rough haired, but with faces that
probably give them their name, as
their sharp ears and pronounced fea
tures bear some resemblance to the
pictured heads of the fabled griffon.
If you pay $3,000 and obtain one of
these little dogs, that are literally
worth their weight in gold, it will
probably die, as griffons are extremely
delicate, and any attack of Indiges
tion may prove fatal.
Freak dogs are rather the fashion
Just now—little “cur” dogs that have
some oddity of color or shape. These
small fellows are often very attractive,
for what are known as. “cur” dogs—
that is. dogs of no particular breed
at all—are frequently the most intel
ligent and the most lovable.
The Ceremony Interrupted.
Bishop Candler of Georgia recently
told one of the national lawmakers
from that state an experience he had
When he first began to preach the gos
pel and tie nuptial knots, says the
Washington Times.
“One day I was called on and en
gaged to marry *a couple in one of the
oult-of-the-way districts. I found the
house a rudely constructed log affair,
with but one room and a loft above,
which was entered by a ladder and a
trap door. A ibig table was In the cen
ter of the room, and it was goaded
with good things to eat, everything
having been cooked on an open fire
place which took up nearly all of one
side of the room. The brfde and groom
lined up and I was proceeding with the
ceremony, and while in the most im
pressive part of it, the old lady poked
her head out of the trap door in the
loft and called;
“ ‘Sally, turn them chickens and Jag
’em with a fork.’
“The command was obeyed by the
daughter, she leaving the trembling
bridegroom while she jagged 'em with
a fork. I could not help laughing at
the ludicrousness of the whole affair,
and I have never witnessed a marriage
ceremony since without remembering
this experience.”
To Be Sure.
Prof. Wiley of the Bureau of Agri
culture’s chamioal department was
talking about explanations that do not
explain, says the San Antonio Express.
“These explanations that make noth
ing clear, these answers that throw no
light, make me think of an acquaint
ance of my boyhood, Jerome Hert of
Indiana.
“Jerome Hert had a thick head, a
slow mind. One day he was at work
In a lonely field when he heard a
voice from the Upper air.
“ ‘Hey! Hey, you!’ the voice shout
ed.
“Jerome looked up In amazement.
About fifty feet above his head was a
balloonist. The balloonist, on a wager,
was doing a sixty-mile journey to Ev
ansville. Now, though he had lost his
way, and from Jerome Hert he wished
to ascertain it.
“ ‘Hey, there!’ he repeated.
“ ‘Waal?’ said Jerome.
“ 'Where am I?’ cried the ballonlst.
“Thereupon Jerome made a reply of
that opaque, dark sort that we are
speaking of.
” ‘Where are you? Why, up In a bal
loon,’ he said.”
A Discriminating Verdict.
Representative Broussard of Louisi
ana gives this as a specimen of a pe
culiarly drawn Jury verdict, says the
Washington Times:
"A fellow had put a load of buck
shot Into the anatomy of a neighbor
who persisted In trespassing on his
land. The buckshot, each and every
one of them, hit where they would do
the most good, and the result was that
there was a dead man with his body
riddled with leaden missiles. Now, the
fellow who did the shooting was a very
popular man, and had a good bank
account, too. It was evident from the
first that the coroner’s jury didn’t have
any idea of holding the man for mur
der. The jury deliberated long and
wisely, and returned this verdict:
"The jury are of one mind—tem
porarily insane.”
A Defective Memory.
Mrs. Ferguson had Just returned
from an entertainment, and was in
ecstacies over a young woman elocu
tionist who had taken part in it, says
the Chicago Tribune.
"She had on a trained gown of dark
purjjle velvet.” she said, "with bodice
trimmed in deep cape collar of real
Irish lace and lace cuffs. She wore her
hair pompadour and had a diamond
cluster at her throat."
“What did she recite?" asked Mr.
F'erguaon.
“Something about a little girl whose
mother lost her In the park, or some
where. I’ve forgotten the name of It.
You know well enough what a wretch
ed memory I have. But It was awfully
pathetic.- What are you grinning
aibout, I’d like to know!”
Some Time.
Last night, my darling, as you slept,
I thought I heard you sigh.
And to your little crib I crept,
Anr watched a space thereby:
And then I stooped and kissed your
brow—
For oh! I love you so—
You are too young to know It now,
But some time you shall know!
I
Sometime, when, in a darkened place
Where others come to weep.
Your eyes shall lock upon a face
Calm In eternal sleep;
The speechless lips, the wrinkled brow.
The patient smile shall show—
You are too young to know it now,
But sometime you shall know!
Look backward, then, Into the years,
And sec me here to-night—
See, O my darling! how my tears
Are falling as I write;
And feel ones mors upon your brow
The kiss of long agw-
You are boo young to know it now,
But sometime you shall knowi
HOW ONE MAN INCREASED THE
NATION’S CORN CROP.
From the World's Work.
Throughout the corn belt, Prof. P.
G. Holden is known as the man who,
more than any one else, Was improv
ed seed com so that our greatest crop
has been increased by millions of bush
els. The work began twenty years ago,
when Prof. Holden, then a college
student, was teaching school In the
summer. Hts pupils were all children
of farmers. He heard the parents talk
ing about poor corn crops 'and about
crop failures. He wondered what he
could do to improve the yield.
One day he asked hts class, "How
many hairs are there on a rat’s tail?”
One child said "ten.” Another said
“fifty." A third said “a hundred.”
No one knew.
"How in you find out?” asked the
teacher.
"Look in the dictionary,” said one.
Finally a boy held up his hand and
said, "Teacher, I’ll catch a rat and
see.”
"That’s the only way,” said Prof.
Holden.
That night there was a general rat
hunt in the Michigan village, and the
next day every child shame-facedly
reported that there were no hairs on
a rat’s tail.
This experience taught' the pupils to
investigate and to observe. Next, Prof.
Holden asked every child to select *an
ear of corn from his father’s crib and
bring it to school. The pupils brought
the corn. The teacher graded it. The
child whose corn was the poorest went
home and told his father. The parent,
after remarking "What does the teach
er know about corn? He is paid to
teach arithmetic," came to see the
teacher. When he saw the ears of
corn that were fuller and richer than
his own, he realized that the teacher
was right.
Prof. Holden then asked all his pu
pils to pfant three seeds of the best
corn in a box, and water it. The boy
whose father had the finest ear was
among the most enthusiastic. The chil
dren nursed the corn carefully. The
result was a crop packed with large
kernals. Then the pupils’ fathers be
came intereied, and planted special
seed corn. There were no more fail
ures of corn crops.
Prof. Holden became Professor of
Agriculture at the Illinois State Argi
cultural College, at Champaign. He
remembered the lesson of the Michigan
farmers. In a year, through his ef
forts, the Illinois farmers were care
ful about sowing the best seed corn,
and soon the farmers in lowa and in
Missouri, and, in fact, throughout the
great corn belt, were becoming experts
in seed corn.
Near Bloomington, 111., is the 25,000-
acre farm of the Funk Brothers, the
largest in the United St'ates. Twenty
thousand acres are devoted to corn.
One day Prof. Holden was visiting the
farm. “What is your average yield?”
he asked. "Forty to fifty bushels.” he
was told. "But it should be more,” he
said. He showed the Funk Brothers
how to select the best seed corn and
to plant it c'arefully.
On a 20,000-acre farm, an increase of
five bushels an acre a year meant a
small fortune. Prof. HTolden became
director of the farm. From some acres
he raised seventy bushels an here. The
increase in yield the first year was 10,-
000 bushels!
This year Prof. Holden preached the
gospel of corn to the lowa farmers from
a special train. Asa result, millions of
bushels of corn have been 'added to
the state yield. The work which be
gan with a class of farmers’ children
in a Michigan country school is now
effecting an improvement in the meth
ods of agriculture throughout the Unit
ed States.
TO WEAR S2S.OO© FIR COAT.
From the Baltimore Sun.
New York, Nov. 22.—A Russian sa
ble coat, said to be one of the cost
liest and most beautiful garments ever
made, will be worn this season by
Jlrs. Adoloph LeWisohn, wife of the
New York banker. No queen in Eu
rope possesses a rarer garment, which
is said to have cost $28,000.
With the initial grand-opera pro
duction last night opened the “brown
fur” season. Many and rare were the
sable and ermine garments shown
over proud shoulders of the elite, but
none can compare in elegance and
costliness of the $28,000 coat.
When Mrs. Clarence Mackay paid
$12,000 for a Russian sable cape sev
eral years ago the world gaped in
astonishment.
Then came the amusing story from
Paris of an American woman who en
tered a fur establishment in quest of
suitable lining for an outer garment.
“What sort of lining do you desire?”
queried the furriers.
“Something durable—l fancy Rus
sian sabel.”
It developed that the cloth to be lin
ed cost only $3 a yard. Yet this
woman of New Yprk paid $20,000 for
the sable lining—Bo selected skins at
$250 each—only for the lining.
Why $28,000? For a variety of rea
son?. The difficulty was in the match
ing of the pelts, and a great stock
was required from which to find a
quantity sufficient for such a coat.
And It is even harder to match sable
than pearls.
To blend 80 skins more than 6 000
skins had to be examined. The skins
had to be evenly matched and perfect
ly blended, hence the great cost.
SIGNS OF A MILD WINTER.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Cape May county residents who are
weather wise agree that it will be an
unusually mild and open winter.
To substantiate their predictions
they point to trie frail manner in
.which the muskrats and squirrels
have constructed their winter homes.
Eels not only bedded themselves in
the mud late this fall, but did not go
nearly as deep as in previous seasons,
which Indicates that the weather will
not be severe enough to make much
ice In the bays and streams.
White gulls are seen in small num
bers on the marshes, where they usu
ally congregate In thousands. They
are wintering further north.
Crabs, which are usually bedded for
the winter long before this time, are
still living In the open waters. Gun
ners have found the ducks less heavy
of feather than Is usual when a hard
winter is coming.
The varieties of fish which are gen
erally far away in Southern waters
long before this time are still fairly
plentiful In the waters oft the coast.
—Former Senator George F. Ed
munds recently visited one of the
mountain hamlets In Vermont where he
had not been for many years. De
spite the fact that It wa* near a rail
road, It appeared not to have Increase
in size or changed a whit In thirty
years. "What's your population now?”
the senator asked the local hotel keep
er. "Oh, somewhere between 1,200 and
1 400.” "Why. the place u*ed to have
nearly 2.000. didn't It?" "Yep, that's
so. 'Taltft so big as 'twas.” "Well,
I guess babies aren't born here very
frequently, are they?” "Oh, ’bout
once.”
—Out In Colorado they still remember
Gov.-elect Douglas, who, when a young
man, conducted a cobbler shop In Gol
den, say* the Boston Record. His shop
was In a little wooden shack which
stood about where the Crawford House
Is now located, and his fellow-towns
men little dreamed that "Will' Doug
las would one day be among the lead
ing shoe manufacturers of ths world,
to say nothing of becoming ofataf es*o
uUv* of tbe Old Bay UtsU,
Just before retiring, if yoor lirer | (
sluggish, out of tune and you feel dull,
bilious, constipated, take a dose oi
Hood’ P/Us
And you’ll be all right In the morning
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
WLYI ER YVEEK DAY SCHEDULE.
_ Effective Nov. j, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE I.IVrT '
•*—lsle of Hope and 40th Street
Lv. <th St. Lv Isie of
A t ”; PM - K Vtt
830 2:30 J : 00
9:30 V-ftft *°°
ls:fS 3:30 10:00 *4:00
° ViA*. 11:00
Si- ‘::::: tt
* Via Montgomery to city. '
jjeiween isle of Hope g ThundertmuT
6:00 17:22 *5:50
• il'-oo 1® ; 22 6:88
112-minute wait at Sandfly.
Parcel car, passenger trailer.
Re h£2FB ,OMEBT schedule: —
Between Montgomery and 40th Street
Lv. Montgomery.
iusf- VSV p if 0
. 9 : 5 .°. F i
13;0 5 Yi^o
Connects with parcel car for city
tThrough to Thunderbolt y '
City minWt * Walt at Sandfl y S°lng to
Between Montgomery ThundeboltV
A 6 am: p.m.
3 °5 7:23 3:38
.53 550 8:22 6:38
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE.
Effective July 13, 1903
a JfCave tv hi taker and Bay streets.
A.M. p.m. p.m.
640 lose 12:40 5:20
*7-nn i l ?™ 1:20 6:00
1.,° 0 14:30 2:00 6:40
800 2 # 8:40 7:20
-JLI2 4:40 ....
Leave Mill-Haven.
• 6 40* PM. PM
:2 J}: 00 12:20 6:40
*7'9o n ' 4# 1:00 *6:05
IVI 1:40 6:20
oIjS J:2O 7:00
10:20 6:00 . 9 . : °®
*Dally except Sunday.
evening - SPECIAL. ~
taker ” Leave Mlll
i?, ay SU * Haven.
P 9 M 2O
lo :°o lo.ia
10 - 40 11:00
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 0:63 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak Station for citv every half
hour until 12:08 midnight.
COLLINSVILLE LINE.
Beginning at 5:48 a. m. cars leave
Waters road and Estill 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 Park)
Cur leaves west side of City Market for Lin
coin Park 6:00 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until 11:45 p.m. nunu.es
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 6:20a m.
and every 40 minutes thereafter until 12 o'olook
midnight.
FREIOStr AND PARCEL OAR
Leaves east side of City Market for Thunder-
Cat ‘ le Parl f- . s “d?V. Isle of Hope and alt
lniermedlßte points—#:ls a. m„ 1:15 p m.,5:1l
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandfly Cattle Park
?r a nd , e . r^a ta r all nA Dtormed! POin2£4:W
&. m., 11. W&. m.. 3:00 p. m.
freight car leaves Montgomery at 530 a tiL.
and 2:35 p. m., connecting at Sandfly with reg
ular parcel car foi city. ’
Parcel car from the city cirrioa freight M
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on eaoh
trip for accommodation of passengeia
Any further information regarding passe tv
ger schedule or freight service can be had by
Applying to L. R. NASH. Manages.
Selling Out
At Cost.
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