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4 &ht Moraine New* Building, tensuk. On SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1904, Registered at Postoffice In Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail; one week, 18 cents; one month, 70 cents; three months, 82.00; six months, 84.00; one year, 88.00. THE MORNING NEWS by mail, six time a week (without Sunday issue), one month, BO cents; three months, 81.50; six months, 83.00; one year. 86.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year, 81.00. Subscriptions payable In advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mall at 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—ls the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements, 1 cent a word each inser tion. 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M. & C. W. West. Saturday Specials—The Metropolitan Company. Jama—The Delmonlco Company. To-day Will be Men's Day—Leopold Adler. Whisky—Lewis ’66 Rye. Foods Royal Baking Powder; Grape-Nuts. Large Table Cloths—E. &W. Laun dry. Fireworks —Henry Solomon & Son. Detersive Fluid —Solomons Company. Red Cross Coffee —Henry Solomon & Son. For Sunday Shampoos—Tetterine Soap. Perfumes—Rowllnskl, Druggist. Select a Wheel To-day—At Lattl mores’. Savannah Theater—To-day Matinee, "The Egyptian Slave;” To-night, "The Miller’s Draughter.” Cheap Column Advertisements —Help Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis cellaneous. The Weather. The Indications for Georgia and East ern Florida for to-day are for fair weather, with variable winds. Mr. Carnegie doesn’t think universal peace will be possible before the year 8000. That will give the steel trust a considerable time to earn profits on war manufactures with which to pay Interest on its bonds held by Mr. Carnegie. The St. Louis Exposition will prob ably not be called on to pay that *IOO,OOO airship prize. Meanwhile it has got more than *IOO,OOO worth of free advertising out of the competition. Why did not the management think of It in time and offer a prize of *500,000 for a competition between perpetual motion machines? Some of the New York papers are commenting with praise and appre ciation on a bit of courage and orig inality showed by Miss Alice Roose velt the other evening, on the first night of the grand opera. The Globe ■ays: "She arrived early, in time to hear all of the first act. What won’t this young woman do next!” The Board of Aldermen of New York has passed an ordinance limit ing exhibitions of skill, speed and en durance to three hours' time. The measure is aimed specifically at six day bicycle races. It is claimed that to new law will “stop the painful •nd demoralizing exhibitions of self torture which excite a morbid and un healthy public interest, and against which the better sentiment of the community is crying out.” At the same time a measure Is being prepar ed for enactment by the next session of the Legislature of New York that will revive prize fighting. It has been promulgated as anew policy of the President'* cabinet that cabinet secretaries will not attend banquets and other functions and make speeches, except on such occasions as they can properly do so as public offi cer*. The President !• credited with having expressed the opinion that there has been too much running around the country and banquet speech-mak ing bv the cabinet officers, and thst they would do batter to stay In Wash ington and attend to their duties. It seems a little odd, by the way, why the president didn’t think of this thing prior to the election. Pretty nearly stl of the members of the ra bluet left to go on the slump for u .tel. A SPECIAL TARIFF MESSAGE. The President has completed his message, and it Is understood he doesn't discuss the question of revis ing the tariff. It is said it is his pur pose to discuss that subject In a special message. That he favors revision seems to be assumed. The fact that there Is a good deal of heated discus sion of the question of tariff going on within the Republican ranks Is a sat isfactory indication that the Presi dent's mind is turned in the direction of reducing at least some of the tariff schedules. He seems to be of Jhe opin ion that the tariff declaration of the Republican platform does mean some thing. In fact, he has said all along that if the tariff needs changing it ought to.be changed by Its friends. As the Republicans claim to be its friends, and they now have an ample majority to do as they please, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if, in a special message, he should favor a pretty substantial reduction. Immediately after the election, in discussing the question of tariff revi sion, it was noticed that he gave the most attention to what was said by those leaders of his party who are known to favor tariff reductions, and it is being pointed out that there is considerable anxiety among the great industrial trusts, those which are the chief beneficiaries of the tar iff, as to what the President is likely to say in regard to the tariff if he should send a special message to Con gress on the subject. It is believed that the Increasing ex penditures of the government will make It absolutely necessary to lower the tariff in some important particu lars so as to Increase Importations, and thus increase the revenue. The estimates for the navy alone for the coming year call for $114,000,000. The Idea is being thrown out by those who are opposed to revision that the thing to do to increase the revenues is to put a tax on tea and coffee. It is doubtful, however, if a tariff tax of that kind would be pop ular even with the Republicans. It is evident that the Republican leaders see that some of the tariff schedules will have to be reduced In order to satisfy the revisionists in their own ranks. The "stand-patters” will have to make some concessions to the revisionists. If they refuse there will, In all probability, be trouble in the ranks of the party. TWO STIIANUE CASKS. In the great cities there are frequent happenings that are out of the usual, and some of them are so strange as to arouse general Interests and excite a great deal of comment. One case of. this kind occurred in St. Louis this week, phases of which are appearing in our dispatches every day. Stephen Putney, Jr., of Richmond, Va., aocompanied his mother and sister to the St. Louis flair. Young Putney is the son of a prominent man, reputed to be a millionaire. He remained at the hotel one evening while his mother and sister went to the exposition. When they returned he was nowhere to be found. Thinking he had gone out somewhere for a while they were not alarmed, but when towards midnight he didn’t make his appearance they or dered a search for him. He has not been found yet, though it Is said a trace of him has been discovered in Kansas City, from which place an an nonymous letter has been received say ing that his whereabouts will be dis closed on receipt of a certain sum of money. It may be that the writer of the letter knows nothing about the boy, but hopes to get money from the anxious parents by pretending to know where he is. His disappearance was, of course, mentioned in the newspapers, and unscrupulous persons could easily pretend to be able to produce him. The other case is that of Charles D. Reohr, the secretary of the Traders* Union Life Insurance Company of New York. A day or two ago Mr. Reohr was arrested on a street car by a well known detective, who charged him with having stolen a scarfpln from a passen ger on another street car. The detec tive handcuffed him and dragged him to a police station, where he was a prisoner during one whole night. The detective said that he was standing on the side of the street and saw Mr. Reohr, while standing on the platform of the oar, commit the theft. At the hearing before the magistrate no one appeared claiming to have lost a scarfpin, and Mr. Reohr showed by his sister that he had boarded the car on which he was arrested only a few moments before the arrest was made, and that he went directly to the car from an elevated railway station, where he had been to put her on an elevated train. Before going to the elevated station he and his sis ter were In a fur store, where they went to make a purchase. On his own behalf Mr. Reohr said he had not been on the car on which the alleged theft was committed. Naturally he Is very much aggrieved and has announced his purpose to have the detective prosecuted for perjury, and to sue the city for damages. In his opinion there never was a rob bery on the car In question and that the detective was drunk. The police authorities, however, say the detective wasn’t drunk, but they oannot explain his strange action if no robbery was committed. It seems Impossible that a man of Mr. Reohr’s standing could have committed the theft, and it ap pears hard to believe that the <Rtee tlve could have arrested an entire stranger without a very good reason. It is one of those strange cases for which there doesn’t seem to be any explanation. Two steamships sailed from Tacoma, Wash., the other day for Japan, with heavy, mixed cargoes. One of them carried 2,t00 bales of cotton and the other eome 3.000 bales. Both carried steel rails, tobacco and harness. The cotton, of course, was ahlpped by rail across ths continent from the Houth. When ths Panama canal has been com pleted, cotton, tobacco sod Iron ship ments Intended for ths Orient will t>#> shipped from a Southern port -New Orleans, Usivsstoa or SftVsnnsS. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 26. 1904. LAWSON’S STORY, When Thomas W. Lawson of Bos ton began writing his story; “Fren zied Finance.” in one of the maga zines, It was thought by many that he wouldn’t fulfill the promises he made in the opening chapter, but those who entertained that view are discov ering they were mistaken. The story is more sensational than anything that has appeared in print in many a day. It exceeds In human Interests anything the yellow journals have been able to discover, and it Is written in a style that catches the popular fancy. It is claimed that the magazine that Is publishing it has reached a circulation of more than 600,000. When It is re called that this magazine had only a moderate circulation before It began publishing the matter furnished by Mr. Lawson, it can be readily seen what a tremendous interest there is In the kind of a story he is telling. Asa matter of fact the people like to read about millionaires and their doings, even though the story is print ed in a dime novel series, but when It is printed in a reputable magazind and Is written by a man who is a reputed millionaire himself, and is known to have participated In some of the most sensational deals in Wall street, as well as In the financial streets of other cities of the country, the story has a double interest. Mr. Lawson pretends to tell of the tricks and the lawless methods by which the magnates of finance accu mulate their great fortunes. He re veals how the Legislature of a great state was bought and raises the veil on gatherings of financiers who were assembled to agree upon plans for fleecing the public. Mr. Lawson doesn’t deal In abstract statements. He gives the names of the men who took part in the deals by which investors were to be de prived of their cash without being given value received. He goes Into details and gives conversations that reveal the Inmost secrets of brokers, bankers and financiers for piling up great fortunes by means not recognized as strictly legitimate. The rottenness of the morals of these men, who stand so well in their communities, Is alleged. It Is impossible of course to say how much truth there Is in the story which Mr. Lawson is telling, but It Is a sensational story without a rival, and It is a story that tends to confirm the belief of the people respecting Wall street men and methods. INCREASING CROP ESTIMATES. The bears of the cotton market seem to get a great deal of satisfaction from the latest report from the gin ners. According to that report there had been ginned up to Nov. 14, 8,808,- 762 bales against 6,176,348 last "year. It Is argued from this that the crop will go above 12,000,000 bales. In advancing this argument the bears may be right, though the fact must be taken into consideration that the season was much earlier this year than it was last, and that the season has been exceptionally fine for picking ever since It began. It is reasonable to suppose, therefore, that the greater part of the crop was picked early, and was sent to the gins as fast as picked. Of course, against this It is to be staid that the exceptionally fine weather for picking has enabled the farmers to gather a much larger percentage of the cotton than Is the case when the season for picking is bad. Still, there are good reasons for thinking the bears are not far out of the way in estimating the crop at 12,- 000,000 bales. There is undoubtedly a great deal of cotton in the country yet. Those who Wave traveled through the cotton belt recently report that in all the towns and at the ltailroad stations a great deal of cotton is vis able. Assuming that the crop will reach 12,000,000 bales, the price ought to re main around 10 cents. The markets of the world were pretty bare of cot ton when the present season opened, and a crop of the size indicated isn’t more than enough to satisfy the world’s needs. But the cotton farmers ought to be careful not to over plant the coming season. The indications are that the acreage will be increased. The greater sale of fertilizers is one indication. A 13,000,000 bale crop next yetar might, and probably would, send the price of cotton down to 7 cents. If not lower. We want to grow enough cotton to supply the world’s demand at a price that will yield a fair price to the cot ton growers. We don’t want to grow cotton that will simply help make the spinners rich. What they would like to have is 5 cent cotton. At that price the cotton farmer would find it hard to get enough money to buy the neces saries of life and pay his taxes. As Americans, the people of this country admire the Japanese, as Asiat ics. They are willing to admit that the little brown men are highly in telligent, progressive, artistic and pa triotic in a marked degree; that they are soldiers and sailors and builders and manufacturers worthy of all re spect. But the Japanese are not want ed as American citizens. A strong movement has been started by the la bor organizations to put them on the same footing with the Chinese In our immigration laws. Why are the Jap anese not wanted? Is it not likely that they would make as desirable an addition to our population as the hordes from Southern Europe that are pouring into 'the country? The Jap la not more of a cheap laborer than the South Italian. The completion of the Cape Nome telegraph and cable line has revived the project of telegraphic communica tion with Asia by way of Bering sea. It la now proposed that Bering sea shall bo crooned by wireless telegraphy. The distance from Cape Prlnc* of Wales to East Cape on the Siberian lltde is only about twenty-five mile*. At East Cape connection could lie made with the Russian telegraph company holding th* Siberian franchise with out great difficulty. By this rente. It la claimed, a more certain and direct line of communication with <’hlna, Ja pan and the Far East could be estab lished, and th* cost of transmission would be Isas, “The New York World prints a letter from an Alabarpa man who says he “feels constrained” to ex press his opinion as “a true and pa triotic American citizen of the South,” to the effect that “if the Re publican party should continue its dangerous policies fr the next four years and should triumph In the next national election, the thirteen states which voted for Alton B. Parker should secede from the Un ion and by force of arms resist an op pression which means the early fall of our great republic.” Bosh; poppy cock; also fudge! The man probably lost $2 on the election, and has look ed momentarily ever since for the sky to fail. And yet we confidently ex pect to see this foolish opinion quoted in some of the hide-bound Northern Republican newspapers as representa tive of Southern sentiment. For in stance, it is just the sort of thing that the Philadelphia Press would de light to give publicity to. When the Americans were cleaning up Santiago and Havana they had un limited means behind them, upon which to draw. Gen. Leonard Wood, as commandant at Santiago, ordered that city to be thoroughly scrubbed, drained and disinfected. He wasn’t worried about where the money was to come from to pay the cost. He knew that Washington would furnish it, in any amount that he might think necessary. Now, the Cubans haven’t any such resources on which to draw for expenses. They are poor and struggling. It is well enough to keep these facts In mind when comparisons are made of sanitary conditions now and what they were under American occupation. Meanwhile, Cuba is un der obligation to this country to keep clean and thus prevent dangerous fev ers becoming epidemic. Maybe Cuba will ask f us to let her have the money with which to pay for the necessary soap and chlorides. American shipyards seem to be do ing a good business In furnishing the Far East belligerents with torpedo craft of various kinds. Our dispatches yesterday reported the arrival at Yo kohama of five submarines from the United States. an£ some days ago the shipment of similar craft to the Rus sian government was reported. In half ft. dozen shipyards of the North, it is said, men are working extra time on torpedo boats for one or the other of the fighters. Yet no question seems to have been raised respecting a breach of neutrality by this government in permitting the ei-aHt to be constructed and shipped. ’ The airship, competition at St. Louis has developed about all of the various sorts of accidents that can befall an apparatus of" the kind, but not much else. PERSONAL. —Mile, de areville, at one time lady in. waiting to Empress Eugenie, is liv ing in poverty in New York. : ,OV 3,';* . —Prince Aziz Hassan, nephew of the Sultan of Turkey and a consin by mar riage to the Khedive of Egypt, has ar rived at San Francisco. He has been making a tour of the country, and is about to cail to the Orient. —S. F. Nicholson of Harrisburg was elected recording secretary, and Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins of Philadelphia, a member of the Executive Committee, at the convention of the American An ti-Saloon League, just held In Colum bus, O. —Prof. Robert Mead, chief of the irrigation and drainage Investigations of the Department of Agriculture, has been selected to give expert testimony for the government in the three-cor nered legal contest betwen Kansas, Colorado and the general government for the control of the waters of the Arkansas river for irrigation purposes. BRIGHT BITS. —Amateur Vlolincellist—“What’s the next piece on the programme?” Neigh bor—“SouSin’s orchestral fantasia, •Night Among the Pyramids.’ ’’ A. V. (much .taken back)—“Why, sir, I’ve Just played that.”—Punch. —“I alius knew Reub would turn out a kindhearted boy,” said the old lady, wiping away a teir with the corner of her apron. "In this here let ter he sez: 'Please send me another *25. The other all went to feedin’ the kitty.’ ” Cincinnati Commercial- Tribune. —“What d'ye want?” asked the coachman at the kitchen door. "De boss o’ de house sent me ’round here,” replied the tramp, “an’ said you was ter gimme anything I needed.” “All roight. Come out to the stable an’ Ol'll turn the hose on ye.”—Philadel phia Ledger. CI RKENT COMMENT. The Boston Traveler (Dem.) says; “The news about a possible Parliament in Russia seems too good to be true. If Port Arthur would fall and the Japs defeat Kuropatktn in the north, the reactionaries who brought on this war would have the last props knocked out from under them and the Czar could almost be depended on to stand by the constitutionalists. As it is things look bright. Think of It —only one newspa per in Russia violently opposed to the scheme for parliamentary govern ment.” The Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem.) says: "The South is sectional only under the compulsion of circumstance. In every respect except the one fateful and peculiar condition which it un derstands as no other can understand, it is broadly national. If the President will advise himself instead of being advised by the preconceived notions of an unreasoning doctrinaire, he will find the genuine American spirit as virile in the South as In the North: and we belteve he will find among this peo ple a deeper and less selfish patriotism, a broader nationalism and a less ma terialistic manhood than he can find in any other part of the country.” The Home Market Club is catching It from all sides for Its militant “stand pfttism.” The Hartford Times (Dem.) replies to Secretary Clarke: "It is ‘sectionalism’ to ask the people of any state to say where they stand on the tariff question. Yes, but there's going to be a great deal of this new section alism before ths business Is settled. It is odd how quickly the man who seeks any Improvement In law or ad ministration In this country la called a traitor. Wa havs often heard the trusts and overprotegted Interests In this country likened to ths slavery system, to which. Indeed, the favored Interest# combined in support of the present tariff bear a marked resent - blance.” These Twins lln<l Fan. WilHam S. Skolfield of Lewiston pulled out a faded old photograph from his pocket, says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. "There,” said lie, “Is the picture of the two most remarkable twins that I ever knew—the late 001. Alfred N. Proctor and the late Capt. Albert E. Proctor. Their features, dress and manner of speech were precisely the same. ”1 used to know them well when they lived in East Boston. I remem ber once I met them on the boat from Boston to New York. They were go ing over to New York with the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston, for they were both distinguished veterans of the Civil War. I had a gentleman friend with me, and just as I was about to go aboard the boat. I met, as I supposed, Col. Al. “ ‘Colonel.’ said I, ‘let me Introduce my friend, Mr. So-and-so.’ “ ‘Col. Al?’ said he. ‘Why, you must be mistaken; this is Albert!’ About an hour later, as we were well out of the harbor. I was promenading the deck with my friend, and I met, as I supposed, 001. Al. again. This time I was sure of tt, and I stepped up to him with a most confident air. “ [Col. Al’—said I. “ ‘Now, look here,’ said he, ‘you just Introduced me to this gentleman. Col. Al is down in the cabin!’ ‘‘After that,” continued Mr. Skolfield, as he slowly put the picture away In an inside pocket, ‘I never pretended to distinguish the two men. The only possible way that I could do it was to see them together, and even then it was very difficult. They prided them selves on their wonderful resemblance, and they dressed and talked and acted as near alike as possible. “Years ago we used to have a social organization in East Boston, and we used to hold assemblies every winter 1n Maverick Hall, of the old Maverick House. It was a regular thing for Col. Alfred and Capt. Albert to exchange partners without anybody knowing It. “ ‘I believe you are engaged to me for this dance,’ 001. Al would say, go ing up to a lady and making a pro found bow. “The lady would Immediately assent, and after a swing around the hall, up would come Oapt. Albert looking for his partner, and so they had it back and forth. ‘‘l remember one night at 11, just as the last dance was on, Capt. Albert came up to me and, with a twinkle in his eye, said: “ ‘Now, see me fool Hattie!’ “Now, Hattie was Cos!. Alfred’s wife, and as he went up to her he most po litely held out his arm and said: “ ‘Well, Hattie, don’t you think It is about time for us to be going home?’ “Well, sir, she got up and took his arm without the slightest hesitation and walked to the dressing room. It was not until they had 'actually start ed for home that Clapt. Albert explain ed, and she was as surprised as any member of the party.” Professional Courtesy. “When I was a boy,” remarked T. E. Ryan of Waukesha, according to the Milwaukee Sentinel, as he caught sight of some old patriarchs who sent him Into the restrospective mood, “I went into the Circuit Court room in Madison, where George B. Smith and I. S. Sloan, two of the greatest law yers of their day, were trying a case as opponents. Mr. Sloan had a habit of puncturing his address to the court with the expression, ’Your honor, I have an idea.’ The case had been dragging its weary length through the hours of a warm summer day, when Mr. Sloan said: ’Your honor, I have an Idea—r-” “Mr. Smith sprang to his feet, as sumed a dignified position, and with all solemnity imaginable, said: “May it please the coure, I move that a writ of habeas corpus be is sued by this court immediately to take the learned gentleman’s idea out of solitary confinement.’ The judge smiled, the lawyers laughed, the spectators burst forth in a round of applause, and Mr. Sloan was effectively squelched.” The Well-To-Do Brother. Frank Ver Beck, the illustrator, has a brother who is a very successful business man, says the Saturday Even ing Post. Among a party of visitors to Mr. Ver Beck's studio, one day re cently, was a lady who met him for the first time, in the course of the conversation one of the callers made a reference to this brother. ‘Some friends of mine,” observed the lady, "know your brother. I believe he is very well to do, is he not?” “On the contrary,” replied Mr. Ver Beck, sadly, "he is very hard to do. I asked him to lend me *5 last week, and he had the impertinence to say that when I returned the five I bor rowed last summer perhaps he would think about letting me have this one.” The Poor Artist’s Provider. It is related of the late Mr. Whis tler, says Leslie's Weekly, that he went one day with an artist in Paris who was not overburdened with this world’s goods, and was surprised at the sumptuous lunch provided. On ask ing him how he managed to live so well, his host replied: "I have a pet monkey, which I let down from my window by a rope into that of my landlady and trust to Providence. Sometimes Jacko returns with a loaf sometimes with a ham. His visits are full of surprises—one never knows what may appear.” Meditation Upon Modern Science. From the Chicago Tribune. They tell us that for centuries man has made grave mistakes In coping with his sicknesses—hia fe vers and his aches— And when we meekly try to tell what grandma used to do To cure a cold or stop a chill the doc tors erv "Pooh! Pooh!” The face of old Hippocrates is turned against the wall. The wonder is that anybody ever grew at all. They tell us that the carpets and the big upholstered chairs, The wells and cisterns and the rest of all the old affairs Were most unsanitary, and whoever drew a breath Within a rod of one of them was sim ply courting death. They’re burning sulphur in the chest with grandma’s quilts and shawl— The wonder 4s that anybody ever grew at all. They tell us that our mothers and grandmothers all were wrong— In fact, they roast great-grandma in some language that is strong, And great-great-grandma comes in, too, for criticism rough— Because they let their children eat so much unhealthy stuff. And. oh, they vow 'twas wicked that they did not let us bawl— The wonder Is that anybody ever grew at all. They tell us that the Infant who ar rived a month ago Is handicapped by him or her of this last day or so. Because the newer children have the vaatly greater chance Of profiting by science in Its very last advance. The memories of childhood are the sort that should appall— Tbs wonder is that anybody ever grew at oIL PIG MIGHT HAVE CAUSED WAR. London Truth recalls a curious tale of the Falkland Islands which might have caused war between England and the United States, but which is now quite forgotten. On one of the main islands Is Stan ley, where the Governor and a few British reside. The Islands produce grass, turnips and pigs. These pigs used to be much Bought by American whaling captains. The Governor al ways insisted that they were British property. The captains insisted that they were wild pigs. During the Cri mean War an American whaler appro priated a pig, and then put into Stan ley. The Governor classed the pig as British, and when the captain refused to give it up Imprisoned him. A few days later an American ship of war put into Stanley under the command of Capt. Lynch. The cap tain, hearing that an American citizen had been clapped into prison by the Governor, demanded his release, ask ing the Governor if unprepared to comply, to remove his women and children, as the town would be bom barded. The Governor released his prisoner, and presumably the pig, and sent an account to the colonial office, and the British legation at Washing ton was directed to insist upon an apology. Mr. Marcy, Secretary of State, ex plained that Lynch was nervous be cause he had had domestic trouble. Britain could not accept this excuse, but dropped the discussion, for with a war with Russia on her hands it was just as well not to get into hot water with the United States. Possibly, Truth suggests, the great international question of the pig is still undecided. HANDLING TIIE LOADED GUN. From the American Field. Persons when hunting in company with others should exert the utmost caution to prevent accidents. In climb ing over fences the loads should be tak en from the gun or the safety on the gun should show “safe,” for often it occurs that the rapping of the gun stock against a fence-rail will jar the gun off, and if a companion is within line with the gun’s muzzle serious con sequences are sure to follow. We fre quently hear of such accidents, and it is too late to remedy matters after the mischief has been done, therefore we say to our great army of readers: never climb over or crawl through a fence—rail, board, or wire—without first seeing that your gun is in such shape that a rap or a fall will not cause it to be discharged. It is also well when hunting with one or more people to know where one’s companions are all of the time and to refuse to shoot at a bird going in their direction unless the bird is high enough so that that the charge will go over your companion’s head. It is far better to lose a dozen good shots during a day than to fake one and at the same time injure a friend, for more birds can be found, while a ser ious Injury to a companion, in many instances, can never be repaired. The writer has observed the above rules for twenty-five ye’ars and has never had an accidental discharge of his gun or in the slightest manner “peppered” a hunting companion, and others can do as well if they will use necessary precaution. THREE SCHOOL ESSAYS. From the National (London) Review. On Babies.—Babies are very trouble some and want a great deal of nurse ing. We must hold them upright for they have no bones to support their backs only grisle. They want a bath every morning and are very cross when tebthtng, you must not let them walk before they are old enough or they will get bolleged. On a tea party—l should like the party to be held in the open air. I am willing to have strawberry fla vored Jelly after everything else. If it is a tea party, the first thing I should 'like, is a cup of tea, and a piece of bread and butter. Next, I should like a little strawberries and cream, and last of all strawberry flavored jelly. On Benevolence.—l am a rich man I live In Victoria Park I go visiting all morning. In the afternoon I sit and smoke, and at night I go to a dance. With my young lady. Another day starts I visit the poor people, then I provide a soup kitchen. And I have plenty of friends, for where their is money their’s friend. I send my boys to college to learn to speak correct. My wife is busy in choosing which cloths to put. on. I will now enclose my letter. HOW THE CAVERN RAT FINDS ITS WAY. From Tit-Bits. The cavern rat, found In the Mam moth Cave of Kentucky, is of a soft bluish color, with white neck and feet. It has enormous eyes, black as night, but quite unprovided with irises. These eyes are perfectly insensible to light, and, when the experiment has been made of catching a cavern rat and turning it loose in the bright sun light it blunders about, striking itself against everything, is unable to pro vide itself with food and finally falls down and dies. In its native depths, however, it is able to lead a comfortable enough ex istence, as its enormously long whisk ers are so extremely sensitive that they enable it to find its way rapidly through the darkness. The principal food of the cavern rat consists of a kind of a large cricket, of a pale yel low color, and which, like most cave dwellers, is perfectly blind. THE SQUAT OF A SHIP. From the Iron Age. Ships In motion in relatively shal low water have a greater draft than when at rest under the same condi tions of loading. This interesting and Important fact has been developed by a recent investigation in New York harbor. It has long been recognized that the stern of a vessel in rapid mo tion has a tendency to settle, but it now appears that the entire shlo takes what is known as a “squat”* under such conditions. The importance of the fact may be realized when it is stated that a ship supposed to be drawing twenty-nine feet of water, passing over a bar where a depth of thirty feet exists, will almost inva riably strike bottom, even though her speed be relatively slow. The magni tude of the “squat" has In some cases been found to exceed four feet. —The late Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge of Kentucky was a man of tremen dous vitality. Once while engaged as counsel in a case at Louisville which lasted thirty days, one of his col leagues In Congress died. Before going to the court house to make an argu ment In the case he wrote a two-and n-haJf column obituary notice of his old friend. He spoke at the court house, closing the arguments of the case In question, for three hours and a half. Just as he sat down a mes senger informed him that he was book ed to make a speech to his constitu ents at Ports at 2 o'clock, and at that moment a special car was sidetracked at th# depot to take him to the meet ing. He left the building, summoned a waiter from a restaurant to bring him a sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then took the train for Paris, where he made a speech of three hours’ duration, which was pronounced one of the greatest he ever delivered In any of hia political rampaigua. Hood's Sarsaparilla Has won success far beyond the effecl •f advertising only. The secret of its wonderful popular, ity is explained by its unapproachable Merit. Based upon a prescription which cured people considered incurable. Hood's Sarsaparilla Unites the best-known vegetable rem •die*, by such a combination, propor tion and process as to have curative power peculiar to itself. 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Between Montgomery and 4 oth Street Lv, Montgomery. Lv. 40th Sc *5:50 llVso 1 * J g-^S t 7-53 V* h ' 10:30 J:’8o t7 o’. s A If oj, ...... *l*o to’ nr ~— r 5*30 •Connects with parcel car for city “hrough to Thunderbolt, 8 ml nut 9 at Sandfly going to Between Montgomery & Thundeboll A. M. P. M. A. M pv‘ 6:50 3:05 7:22 3*B :53 5:50 8:23 6:88 MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE. Effective July 13, 1903, a Jf* ave Whitaker and Bay street*. ™ n r n PM * ps£ - 10:00 12:40 5:20 •non 2222 1:10 6:00 700 2:00 6:40 720 12:06 3:40 7io ®; 00 | *:2O *:6O 8.40 ••• 4:00 B*4o -9 20 4:40 . Leave Mill-Haven. A. M. A.M. ivr P M *7-00 ?w* 12:20 •4 22 1 :4# i:oo 7.20 -.... 91440 4:10 740 3:20 7:00 s:!° , *:00 7 >4O •; 00 ’ *:4O 8:20 10 20 ::::: j:j 0 ° 0:00 •Dally except Sunday. *** ’TTTRPAY evening' RP PICT at. Leave Whitaker Leave Mtll an<* Bay St*. Haven. P.M. i ' pv 9:20 }° ; oo *5:28 }0:40 ai : oo 0 3:06 THUNDERBOLT LINE. City Market to Casino and Thunder bolt via Bolton Street Junation. Beginning at 6:30 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 bait hour until 12:08 mldnlght 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. T:80 A. M. 6:45 P. M. T:3O P.M. WEST END LIN* rr. In coin Park.) 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