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MDfcl 10 liEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings—Solomons Lodge No. X,
9. and A. M.; Fraternal Order of Ea
ffles.
Special Notices —Notice in Regard
to the Assessment of Real Property in
the City of Savannah; Notice to City
Court Jurors; Oysters, Schwarz Cafe;
Notice to Members of the Bar, James
K. P. Carr, Clerk: Check Lost, Hun
ter, Pearce & Battey.
Business Notices—For a Christmas
Gift, Walter F. Higgins; Shopping
Days Until Christmas, R. Van Keu
ren & Cos.; Holiday Goods in Leather,
I. H. Friedman & Cos.; Guava Jelly,
A. M. & C. W. West; Meats, Roos'
Market.
If the Boy is Allowed—Edward Lov
ell’s Sons.
Making Our Mark —Connor & Sulli
van.
Babies —Masonic Temple Pharmacy.
La Vida Corset Demonstration —Leo-
pold Adler.
Do You Know—Dr. M. Schwab’s
Son.
Remember—Rowlinski, Druggist.
Tetterine Shuptrine’s Two Drug
Stores.
The “Blue Streak” Tribune—At
Lattimores'.
Forget the Price—Le Panto Cigars.
Club Blend Scotch—Henry Solomon
& Son.
Timely Truth Savannah-Georgia
Laundry.
Why Not To-day—The Metropolitan.
Fruit Cake Materials—The Delmon
lco Company.
Savannah Theater—To-night, “Monte
Cristo;” Friday Night, "Sergeant Kit
ty.”
Florida and Cuba—Atlantic Coast
Line.
Medical —Peruna; Stuart’s Charcoal
Lozenges.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The Indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with light
north winds. Eastern Florida, fair
weather, with variable winds.
An agricultural expert says that the
state of lowa made $10,000,000 last year
by growing her own seeds. Neverthe
less, the demand for congressional free
seeds will be Just as great next spring
as ever before.
Gen. Kuropatkln "had the advantage
over Gen. Shafter," in that he rode
in an automobile, while Shafter rode
in & buckboard. But the historical
fact remains that Shafter won his fight.
And that is more than Kuropatkln has
done, so far. >*'
A New York surgeon has succeeded
In prolonging the life of a man injured
In a dynamite explosion by putting in
a substitute stomach of rubber. At
last advices the rubber stomach was
doing satisfactory service, and the man
had a chance of getting well.
The Nebraska Legislature is com
posed of 133 members. Of this num
ber the Democrats elected nine in the
recent election. Democrats in other
parts of the country will be apt to
ask Mr. Bryan why his own state didn’t
do better, when he begins to offer them
suggestions for reorganization.
The Englishman who objected to the
us# by the people of this country of
the name "Americans," and suggested
that the country ought to be called
Uaone—the name being made up from
the initials of “United States of North
America"—can hardly claim original
lty for the idea. The man who origin,
gted “Unesda” as a trade mark would
seem to have a Just claim of plagiarism
against him.
Europe seems to continue of the opin
ion that the United States are enjoy
ing a flood-tide of prosperity, to Judge
from the number of immigrants Uut
•he continues to dump at our doors.
In one day last week more than <,OOO
Immigrants arrived In New Tork, and
on the other days of the same week
the arrivals were hardly jess. Most
ef these new comers will stop In the
aveat cities near the port through which
they arrived, id add to the complestty
of the yicWea, vf labor supply and
datnod.
IMPORTANCE OF THE RIVERS AND
HARBORS BILL.
The undertaking of the United States
to construct the Panama canal has
greatly increased the Importance of the
rivers and harbors bill. That fact
was clearly brought out by Senator
Knox of Pennsylvania recently in an
interview relative to the improvements
that are being made In the Delaware
river. In the course of his Interview
Senator Knox laid down these general
principles;
“First. That from the moment it
first assumed the task of providing
channels and harbors for the ocean
carrying trade, the federal government
has been irrevocably committed to the
maintenance of these facilities, ‘not at
certain depths, 'but at sufficient depth
to perfectly accommodate Increases in
the size of the carriers of the com
merce for which they were designed.’
“Second. That if the United States
is, in the commercial sense, to properly
protect its investment of $200,000,000 in
the Panama canal enterprise, ‘it must
maintain in every great American port
a minimum depth of water equal to the
maximum depth of the canal, which Is
to be thirty-five feet.’ ’’
It is doubtful if the duty of the gov
ernment in respect to rivers and har
bors has ever been so clearly and so
strongly stated. In voting appropria
tions for rivers and harbors hereto
fore Congress has acted if it were sim
ply making donations to different- parts
of the country. When the majority
party has wanted to promote some
special interest, such as the navy or
the army, that required an unusual
demand upon the revenues, it has clone
so at the expense of the rivers and
harbors. In recent years there have
been a number of sessions at which
no rivers and harbors bill was passed.
According to the view which Senator
Knox takes it is just as much the
duty to make provision for the deep
ening and otherwise improving the riv
ers and harbors as it is to provide for
the maintenance of the army, the navy
or the departments of the government.
And the reason for this is plain. With
out commerce the nation would soon
go into bankruptcy, and in order to
compete with other nations in the mat
ter of commerce our rivers and har
bors must be made to meet commerce’s
demands.
And. as Senator Knox points out,
the Panama canal makes it the duty
of the government to give all of the
Important harbors of the country the
depth of water that will accommodate
as large ships as that canal will ac
commodate. The minimum depth of the
canal is to be thirty-five feet- There
fore all of the important harbors
should have a depth at mean low wa
ter of thirty-five feet.
Savannah Is the most important har
bor on the South Atlantic coast. Her
commerce is as great probably. 1f not
greater than that of Phtladelphlaj She
is asking that her harbor shall be so
Improved that it will have a depth of
thirty-five feet. That is the depth that
Philadelphia is asking for and which
Baltimore has. New York is now
dredging for a channel of forty feet,
but it will be a long time probably
before Savannah will require as deep
a harbor as that city has. Neverthe
less it is a fact that there is a steady
increase in the draught of vessels vis
iting this port. There is every reason
for thinking that the limit in the size
of steamships has not yet been reached.
Their size will be increased as long as
It is safe and profitable to do so.
As it is practically certain that Sa
vannah will be one of the ports that
will have much of the commerce that
will, pass through the Panama canal
her harbor ought to accommodate any
ship the canal will accommodate. It
is certain therefore that those who are
interested in Savannah harbor will do
all they can to have it deepened to
thirty-five feet.
As the position Senator Knox takes,
a position which cannot be success
fully assailed, that the government Is
bound to see to it that all of the coun
try’s important harbors have as deep
water as the Panama canal has, there
is a bond that holds all harbor inter
ests together. Senator Knox, for in
stance, is under obligations to insist
that Savannah harbor shall be given
a depth of thirty-five feet and Sena
tors Bacon and Clay are obliged to
Join the Pennsylvania Senators in de
manding a thirty-five foot channel in
Delaware river.
It is already evident that the rivers
and harbors bill that will be reported
at the approaching session of Congress
will be a big one, but then the fact
must not be overlooked that the riv
ers and harboro Interest is a big one.
THU COLLFIIiBS UOT IT,
The twenty colleges to which Daniel
B. Fayerwgather left, besides certain
bequestSrirtiis residuary estate, have
won their fight, and will soon be •In
possession of the money for which
they have been engaged in a legal
struggle so long. Mr. weather
was a rich leather merchant of New
York city and he left a fortune of
pretty nearly $7,000,000. He gave his
wife his house and an annuity of
$15,000, and parceled out his resid
uary estate among colleges and hos
pitals. He died fourteen years ago,
and the widow and some nieces and
nephews thought they were better en
titled to the residuary estate than the
collges, and so they began a suit for
the old leather merchant’s millions.
All these years the legal battle has
been going on. much to the profit, no
doubt, of the lawyers engaged In It.
There were no children, and the wid
ow died several yeara ago. Even the
nieces must be old maids If they
haven’t married. The chances that
they would be heiresses were so great,
however, that, doubtless, they are
married.
But was it really necessary that the
litigation should have extended over
fourteen years? That aeema such a
long time to wait for a fortune! What
a vast amount of good the colleges
could have done with the money,
during the last twelve yeara, for in
stance. Two years ought to have
been long enough to reach a final de.
c lei on ss to whether the money be
longed to the colleges or the nearest
of kin. Hundreds of thousande of
dollars that have gone for costs and
lawyers might have been utilised In
making other lawyers.
The case Is finally settled, snd, per*
Jteps, st altsll sea nothing mots j
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1904.
about it In the newspapers. The public
has certainly heard about all it wants
to hear, unless there is a sensation
concealed in it.
THE PRESIDENT AND THREE GOV
ERNORS.
Evidently the Southern people feel
more kindly towards the President than
some of the Southern Governors do.
Relying on his St. Louis speech they
are disposed to take him at his word,
and- accept the hand of good fellow
ship which, on that occasion, he ex
tended to them.
President Francis of the St. Louis
Exposition wired Gov. Vardeman of
Mississippi that the President, when
visiting the fair on Saturday, greatly
admired the Mississippi state building.
In responding the Governor wired:
“Doubtless the President’s admiration
of the Mississippi building is dde to
his admiration of Jefferson Davis, of
whose last home it is a replica.” This
little bit of sarcasm wasn’t pleasing
to a good many prominent Miesissip
pians, especially merchants and repre
sentative citizens of Natchez. They
“swatted” the Governor, as it were, by
sending a letter to President Francis
protesting against the phraseology of
his telegram.
President Francis sent a telegram to
Gov. Terrell of this state relative to
the Georgia exhibit and building, simi
lar to that which was sent to Gov.
Vardeman. The Governor made no
response, because he didn’t think one
necessary, but the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce seems to have thought a
response necessary, and kt has Invited
the President to visit that city next
May, assuring him of “a cordial and
hearty reception." The resolution car
rying the invitation was unanimously
adopted.
President Francis also sent a tele
gram to Gov. Warfield of Maryland,
similar to*that sent to Govs. Varde
man and Terrell, relative to the Mary
land building and exhibit. The Mary
land Governor regarded the telegram
as highly complimentary. In response,
he said:
“I am glad President Roosevelt en
joyed his visit to the exposition. Mary
land appreciates his commendation of
her exhibit and his admiration of her
attractive building.”
This isn’t of course a case of the
lady and the tiger, but as all of the
three foregoing governors belong to
the party opposed to that to which the
President belongs, it is an interesting
question as to which of the three meth
ods of treating President Francis' tel
egrams will be the most highly com
mended and approved.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun the other day took that paper to.
task for intimating editorially ihat the
Rev. Charles Wagner, author of “The
Simple Life,” had departed by exam
ple from the precepts of his book since
he has been in this country. Parson
Wagner’s theory, it will be recalled,
is based upon the utmost simplicity in
all the relations of life. The Sun’s
editors, in reply to the crUlcsm, recall
the fact that Parson Wagner, ever
since he has been in this country, has
been in the center of a whirl of ex
citement. He has had special trains,
has ridden in dashing automobiles, has
had seven engagements in one day
for receptions, dinners and lectures,
and has preached syndicate sermons
and been Introduced by the President
of the United States. Does this look
like the simple life? the Sun asks. It
certainly looks more like a strenuous
life, such as the President admires.
The announcement that the govern
ment Will push the investigation of
the Standard Oil Company and certain
other trusts recalls one of the late
Charles Nelan's ante-election cartoons.
In the picture President Roosevelt and
a stout party representing “The
Trusts” were shown on the stage, en
gaged In a duel. Both were armed with
lath swords. The President's face wore
an expression of grim determination.
“The Trusts" was on the flat of his
back, with his heels in the air and
Roosevelt's lath sword pressed against
his side. “The Trusts,” as the villian
of the scene, was supposed to be get
ting his Just deserts from the hero by
means of a fatal thrust in a vital part.
The legend under the filcture was,
"Oh, Theodore, stop: you’re tickling
me!” And that is about the way It will
be with the Standard OH investigation.
European diplomats are wondering
whether the outcome of the Russo-
Japanese War will not be an alliance
between the two countries, under the
terms of which they will dominate all
of the Far East. A Japanese diplomat
1* alleged to have thrown out, the oth
er day, the thought that such an ar
rangement might be eventually ar
rived at. Under this plan Russia and
Japan would divide China and Korea
between them, to thfe exclusion of all
other Western powers. It is rather
difficult to imagine the two powers that
are now at each other’s throats, with
only the desire to kill, coming to an
agreement of the kind suggested. And
yet It is not impossible. Diplomacy is
capable of almost anything.
The Dowager Empress of China has
come into notice as a reformer. She
has thrown the weight of her Influence
against the practice of binding the
fset qf women and of the wearing of
queudaTby men. She has caused an
imperial edict to be promulgated or
dering the soldiers of the Chinese army
to cut oft their queues, and the bar
bers are now working extra time at
their trade. For many years the
Chinese have asserted that the custom
of our women of wearing corsets was
mors barbarous than the Chinese cus
tom of binding the feet. Now that
the Dowager Empress has abolished
foot-binding, will we be squally pro
gressive and abolish the corset?
Ones again. It Is announced, the fed
eral pension lists contain more than
1,000,000 names. The President's old
age tension order has had the effect
of adding already more thsn 4,out)
names to the list, and there are other
tbnuaunts of applications to be con
sidered under that order. Does any
body feel like objecting* Then let
him refer to (be newepopei files and no
the how the election vi Nuy. • re
mlttd
It is the orthodox conception that sin
entered the world through Adam; that
he succumbed to temptation, and that
ever since his progeny have suffered as
a consequence. Rev. Minot J* Sav
age of New York, comes to the de
fense of Adam, holding that this
“first man” did not have a satisfactory
or fair probation, according to the
Biblical story*. Had the destinies of
the human race been placed in the hol
low of Adam's hand, he says, he should
have been endowed with the power
to look down through all the countless
ages and see what the consequences of
an error on his part would be:
and there is nothing to indicate that
Adam was possessed of extraordinary
mental power. But, then, the Rev.
Minot J. Savage is one of those un
comfortable Unitarians who are all the
time bothering us with strange sug
gestions.
Herr Conried. of the Metropolitan
Opera House, is said to have discov
ered anew and remarkably fine tenor,
in the person of the nineteen-year-old
son of a Saratoga blacksmith. The boy
is now attending the opera house sing
ing school, and it is predicted that he
will become one of the world’s great
singers, if no untoward circum
stance intervenes. Meanwhile his
father expresses the opinion that it
is all right for the young fellow to
fool with singing for a while, if he
wants to, but his real place is at the
blacksmith’s forge, where both father
and grandfather before him hammered
the iron while it was hot. Whether
the youth realizes the possibilities of
the future, such as earning as much
in a night with his voice as he could
earn in six months at the forge, is a
question.
A number of Republican politicians
are alleged to be endeavoring to per
suade the President to lend the weight
of his Influence to a project for gov
ernment endorsement of some $100,000,-
000 of bonds to be issued by a Philip
pine railroad syndicate. The idea is
that the Philippines need some great
trunk line railroads, and that Ameri
can syndicates ought to build them.
With fabulous sums of money to spend
in the Philippines for new railroads,
and equally fabulous sums to spend
in Panama for the canal, the contrac
tor-favorites of the Republican party
ought to live in clover for some time
to come.
To-day is “Francis Day” at the St.
Louis Exposition; and it winds up the
great show. The day is named in hon
or of the man who, as president of the
exposition, has given time and brains
and energy to making it a great suc
cess. Except for the fact that David
R. Francis is a Democrat, he would
probably be elected to the United
States Senate to succeed Senator Cock
rell. But the Republicans have cap
tured the state and will probably send
Mr. “Tin-Plate” Neidringhaus or some
other representative of the money-bags
element to Washington.
It has been almost a month since
Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks of Illinois
was elected to the office of Vice Pres
ident of the United States. But he is
still “Senator” Fairbanks. He hasn’t
resigned. Is he waiting for the salary
of one job to start before he relin
quishes the salary of the other? Sen
ator Fairbanks is reputed to be worth
upwards of $1,000,000, so that he might
manage to get along for at least four
months without the regular payment
of his salary as a senator. But, then,
he is a Republican.
PERSONAL.
%
—Edwin H. Conger. United States
minister at POktn, is said to expect to
return home the middle of next year,
not to return to the Orient. It has
been Intimated that he may be ap
pointed to represent the United States
In Mexico.
—Andrew Carnegie has so far lim
ited his social engagements for the
winter that he will be able to enjoy
five nights a week at his own fireside
reading his favorite hooks. This is the
kind of leisure he has striven for every
winter during his residence in New
York, but year by year he found his
time taken up with other matters.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Gayboy—“You shouldn't complain,
my dear. Before we were married I
told you how bad I was.” Mrs. Gay
boy—“Yes, but you didn’t tell me how
much worse you were going to be aft
erward.”—Chicago Dally News.
—“What’s the matter?” inquired As
cum. "What are you searching your
pockets for?” “I tied a knot in my
handkerchief this morning," said the
absent-minded man, “to remind me of
something I was to get for my wife.
And now I can’t find the handkerchief.”
—Philadelphia Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Columbia (S. C.) Record (Dem.)
says: "If there were any necessity for
a staftdlng army there would be no
objection to It. We have had wars
which were successfully fought by vol
unteer citizen soldiers. We can depend
upon them in all times of need, and
as said the training that they now
receive under present regulations witl
give them all the necessary efficiency
In drill and tactics generally, which,
added to their Inborn patriotism, will
be sufficient to protect this country
against ali enemies."
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
(Ind.) says; “It is now thought that
the President, In recommending tarlfT
revision to Congress, either In regular
or special session, will make his rec
ommendstlons specific—calling for par
ticular changes and not many of these.
This would be more effective In secur
ing action than a call framed In gen
eral terms. But would It not partake
of the character of that ’pop-gun’ as
sault on the tariff which so aroused
Republican ridicule and virtuous indig
nation when undertaken by the Dem
ocratic majority of the House twelve
years ago?"
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem )
says: "That these Houthern states of
ours will become the seat of a grand
material development and a splendid
civilization which will give them a po
litical and material power like unto
which that which the fiouth enjoyed
In the first fifty years of the repub
lic's existence will be t>ut • mere shew
ow of greatness Is sur. But It must
he horn# in mind that wealth acid
power come not by supine Indolence
snd welting, but by seising every op
portunity end utilising every reeeutce
to the utmost Then only will the
Mouth realise the highest grandeur of
Its, destiny.”
Snip, Snail and Pappy Dog; Tale.
Lieut. Col. Newham-Davis descants
on the finest dinner he ever ate.
Among them he classes a native din
ner in Hong Kong, says the St. James
Gazette.
“First on our menu came the little
oysters which cling to the bamboo
stems in the salt water marshes of
upper China. They are, I should fancy,
the smallest and the sweetest oysters
in the world. Birds’ nest soup follow
ed, prepared as it should be. I 'fancy
that a chicken broth was the liquid to
which the nest gave its peculiar and
attractive taste of the sea at our feast,
and the combination was excellent.
Trepang, which we know as beche-de
mer, followed. It is the sea slug from
the Loochoo Islands, and served as an
entree it tastes very much like turtle
fat, though richer. To counteract its
richness a great china bowl full of
boiled bamboo shoots was handed
round with it.
“Next came a very small roast. I
thought at first that it was a tiny
sucking pig, but it had no crackling,
and the flesh was like that of an ag
neau de lait. the little lambs whose
meat is snow white. It was one of
the Cantonese puppies of a particu
lar kind, who are doomed from birth
to take their place on the roasting
spit and who are fed on rice and milk
only. I looked down the table and
saw that my friend was eating with
zest, so for the first time in my life
I ate dog and liked it exceedingly.
With this puppy were served all the
vegetables in season, and a salad
which had the taste of young natur
tium leaf as its strongest flavor. Rice
birds followed. They are smaller than
ortolans, each tiny plump creature be
ing but a mouthful, but they are the
most delicious eating of all the feath
ered small fry.
“Nanking eggs were next brought
round. They had been buried for
fifty years, and a Chinaman detects
some special flavor in them. To me
they tasted just like an ordinary
hard-boiled egg, and their appearance,
being almost black, was not inviting.
They were, in my opinion, the one
failure of the dinner. The sideboard
had been spread with a variety of
cold viands, among them pheasants
and game pies from Shanghai, and a
Kobe round of spiced beef. Baskets of
fruit were brought in, and little
orange trees In pots, from which we
were invited to pluck the ripe fruit.
We drank weH iced, champagne,
Cliquot of a vintage ye&r, at dinner,
and with the coffee we tried, as a cu
riosity, some native liqueurs which
came from Pekin, one being not unlike
Maraschino.”
Guessed His Name By Towns.
“I saw a chap the other day in
Washington who didn’t know his own
name, and made me guess it for him,
said Mr. Geoffrey Lambey of Savan
nah at the Eutaw House, says the Bal
timore News.
“No!”
“Yes. It happened this way. I was
visiting a number of the government
buildings, and among them the big
mint. There was a small party of us
standing around the guide while he ex
plained the methods, of making and
counting money. One girl behind the
caged partition was just then counting
a roll of thousand-dollar bills as big
as a small cannon, and the sight some
how inspired me. I turned to my first
neighbor and said:
“ ‘That wad would start a civil war
in Georgia.’
“Then it turned out that he was
from Georgia, and we were glad to
meet each other. We went the rest of
the route together, and when we sepa
rated, I said;
“ ‘By the way, my name is Lambey
of Savannah; what’s yours?*
“Well, sir, that chap stood there like
a man in a trance for fully a minute.
Then he said:
“ ‘Blessed if I know! Why, confound
it, I knew my name this morning! It’s
a town in Texas—what’s a town in
Texas?’
“I suggested Galveston, Waco, Hous
ton—every town I could think of—‘but
none of them fitted him. Finally I
said:
“ ‘Austin?’
“You ought to have seen his eyes
brighten up.
“ ‘That’s it,’ he said; ‘my name's
Austin—Henry Austin. I’m a thousand
times obliged to you!’ And he shook
hands with me like a man who was
just being congratulated.”
An Absent-Minded Man.
Mortimer Smith was late in Joining
an opera party on Wednesday night,
says the New York Press, and, in ex
planation of his delay, told the fol
lowing story;
“You know Sampson, of course,” he
said. “Well it was his fault. Fine
fellow, but terribly absent-minded.
I’ve Just been to his house. He won’t
be out for a week. Got run over and
kicked by a horse this afternoon.
“I said he was absent-minded, but
what do you think of this? About 4
o'clock this afternoon he drove down
Fifth avenue in a runabout to which
Marshall's chestnut colt was hitched.
He. meant to go to the garage and get
his car. That colt of Marshall’s Is a
peculiar animal. Lots of style, but
has a habit of acting queerly. It was
the first time Sampson had been be
hind a horse since he took to motor
ing. Near Sherry’s the colt stopped
and wouldn't go a step further. Samp
son got out of the rig and crawled
under the runabout with a monkey
wrench In one hand and an oil can in
the other. I don't know- whether he
tried to screw up the colt’s hoofs or
put gasoline on his coronet, but when
they picked Sampson up he was a sight.
Foolish fellow, isn't he?”
First Passenger Truffle Manager.
Passenger Traffic Manager S. H.
Hardwick is rapidly qualifying to suc
ceed Simeon Ford, retired, as an aft
er-dinner speaker, says the New York
Press. In all probability we shall soon
have the pleasure of hearing him at
one of the w-inter banquets in New
York, and when he talks about the rail
road business there will be ample to
laugh at In the terse way he puts ker
nels of wisdom together for digestive
tablets. He has nearly ended the fight
between the freight and passenger ends
of the service in favor of the former.
His statement that Solomon, the al
wlse. was the first passenger traffic
manager. Inasmuch as he had to ar
range for the transportation of 700
wives, 300 concubines and the Lord only
knows how many children, is answered
by a freight traffic manager In this
way: "King Solomon’s entire family
were shipped by freight because thev
were Invoiced. He kept the household
In check—that Is. he checked them off
Therefore, he was the first freight
agent.”
No Use for the Coni.
Andy Welch, one of the best known
harness turfmen, end owner of Charter
Oak Park. In Hartford, and Oakley
Park, In Cincinnati, returned to Ken
tucky to visit his old friend, Madden,
after the close of the harness-raring
season at Memphis, saya the New York
Times. Madden has the most beautiful
estate In Kentucky, and Welch always
visits him at this season of the year.
While Welch and his host were riding
along they came across an old negro,
bent with age and shaking with the
early cold.
"Which would you rather htv# .a
quart of whisky or a ton of coair' ask
ed Welch, seeking to Jolly t'n< le Jas
per
“Mlssur Welch, de Lord knows as ah
alius bums wood," replied the quaking
darky.
HEROIC TREATMENT TRIED.
From the New York World.
Granada, Col., Nov. 26. —Colorado
news unknown in the state outside of
one home has come back from Indiana,
where it was first revealed in a letter
written to Indianapolis. In a word, a
consumptive girl, whose name is given
as Charlotte Dunnington and residence
as Waterford, Ind., has been, since the
beginning of last June, and continuing
until recently, when cold weather set
in, sleeping nude in the woods on the
ranch of her uncle near here, covered
only with earth.
The story as it has come from In
diana is as follows:
The physician advised that she go
to Colorado, where she had an uncle
living, and take the new cure for con
sumption—the “nature cure”—the idea
of which is to get right down to old
mother earth and let the everlasting
hills absorb into their strength all of
the tuberculosis germs that infest the
human system.
Miss Dunnington acted on the advice
and, accompanied by her faithful St.
Bernard dog, Nero, came on to Grana
da, within’a few miles of which her
uncle lives. She began at once sleep
ing in a small grove near her uncle’s
house without a vestige of clothes, like
a modern Diana, covered only with
loose soil which she gently raked over
her body as she retired each night
to sleep under her blanket of soft
warm earth.
During all the summer months just
past the girl has slept thus, while her
faithful dog constantly watched beside
the sleeping form of his mistress. Nero
and the stars twinkling in the clear
heavens thus kept vigil during the long
hours of the night.
Each morning as Miss Dunnington
awoke she has taken regularly her
early morning roll in a dewy clover
bank in what she calls the bath of
the gods.
After she had taken her roll in the
morning dew. she would then run
through the woods to a secluded lake
nearby.
Then she would take her early morn
ing plunge into the cold clear water.
Her swim over, she would emerge into
the early morning sunshine again,
which would serve for all the drying
purposes of a towel.
Then, draped in a thin, white cloth
tunic, like a girl of old Greece, Miss
Dunnington would spend the day with
her dog out in the air among the Col
orado hills, just growing young and
taking unto herself all the eternal
youth which complete outdoor life
alone can bring. This tunic has been
the only clothing she has allowed her
self to w r ear during the entire sum
mor. ,
In her letter she told her friend all
about her summer’s experience.
“My cough has entirely gone,” she
wrote; “my flesh is hardened -like an
athlete's and I have gained wonderful
ly in weight and strength as a result
of my five months in the open air.
I am convinced that the strength of
earth, the light of the sun and the
renewing grace of pure, wholesome air
are to be wooed best by breaking down
the barriers of clothes and living in
the open air, just as I have done all
summer.
“On the night of June 10 I had my
initial sleep in the earth.
“I dug my own ‘grave’ and covered
myself over with the earth at night.
“I jump up in the morning and shake
the clean dirt from me. Then I race
down and roll in the damp clover. The
dew is so cold and refreshing—it is a
veritable godlike bath—and it just
seems the complement of the sleep in
the earth to make a whole of perfec
tion.
“When I have Jiad enough of the
clover I run down to the lake, which
is some distance from my sleeping
place and near by uncle's house. I
jump right in. A towel? No. I let
the sun be all the towel I need, and I
dry off in the life-giving light of the
warm rays.
“Then breakfast comes from the
farm, or Igo to it. Lots of milk, veg
etables, fruit and a great many nuts.
I won’t eat anything that animals
won’t eat. I mean the little herbivo
rous animals whose instinct is so abso
lutely sure and certain in everything.
“At first I lost a little flesh, and it
seemed to me that I wasn’t to get
well. But just as I was about to
give up I noticed that I was rather
stronger than usual and that my mus
cles were hard and trim as an ath
lete’s.
“And you should see my color. I am
as brown all over as an Indian. My
figure wasn’t anything to be boasted
of when I came out here, but now it
seems to have taken on a sort of good
proportion to itself.
“I shall sleep out of doors until the
weather becomes so cold that I can
stand it no longer. I feel sure that
my summer’s experience will bring
back health and strength to me. I
knew it has been a strange and dar
ing experiment, but I believe that
sound health is worth anything, and
that is what I was after.”
SIIENTIFIC TURKEY R AISING.
From the Boston Herald.
Only recently has science turned Its
attention to the Thanksgiving bird, but
already it has accomplished some won
derful things in the culture and im
provement of that admirable fowi,
which in the opinion of many has a
better claim than the bald-headed eagle
to figure as the national emblem.
On Fisher’s Island, opposite New
London, and not far distant, is- the
greatest and most successful turkey
farm in the world. The island, one
might say, is an artificial wilderness
of 4,000 acres, scientifically managed.
Over this area thousands of the birds
roam In a condition so close to that
Of nature that though a domesticated
variety they are practically wild. No
shelters of any kind are provided for
tlherrf; the hen turkeys build their
nests In the open, and, while plenty
of corn Is supplied, it is scattered about
in all sorta of places and even burled
under leaves in order that the fowls
may be obliged to hustle for their
provender.
These turkeys attain gigantic size,
sometimes reaching a weight of nearly
fifty pounds. In the market at
Thanksgiving time they reach lb cents
a pound more than ordinary turkeys,
owing to their remarkably delicious
flavor.
They are so hardy that nothing short
of a hatchet will kill them. In win
ter they roost out on fence rails and
tree branches, and. though often their
beads are actually frozen under their
wings, their health does not suffer in
the least. The delicacy of constitu
tion which affilcts turkeys elsewhere,
making them hard to rear, does not
bother the birds of Fisher's Island. Not
long ago thirty of them were bought
by the state authorities of Rhode Is
land for the purpose of Inoculating
them w-lth the fearfully destructive and
contagious disease known as "black
head," by way of experiment, but none
of them could be Induced to take the
malady.
DRV SEATS ON CARS.
From an Exchange.
Anew invention for insuring dry
seats on electric care In wet weather
has been displayed in Edinburgh. As
explained the Inventor, the new ar
rangemea* lj a simple one. and can
be fitted to any style of garden, tram
way, or ship’s deck seat. It Is prartl
csliy a wooden covering for the seat,
■-an be lifted In wet weather, the or
dinary movement of the back rest of
the seal locking It In position. When
raised, M forms a skelter f< the keek
of the ursseriger. In dry weather, the
covet 09hn the ordinary seat.
Eruptions
Dry, moist, scaly tetter, all form,
of eczema or salt rheum, pimples
snd other cutaneous eruptions pro.
ceed from humors, either inherited,
or acquired through defective dl.
gestion and assimilation.
To treat these eruptions with
drying medicines is dangerous.
The thing to do is to take
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Which thoroughlycleanse the blood,
expelling all humors and building
up the whole system. They cure
Hood’s Sarsaparilla permanently cored J
G. Hines, Franks. 111., of eczema, from which
be had suffered for some time; and Miss
Alvina Wolter. Box *l2, Algona. Wls.. of pim
ples on hor face and back and chafed skin on
her body, by which she had been rreatly
troubled. There are more testimonials U
favor of Hood's than can bo published.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla promises to
cure and keen* the promise.
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
Y\ INTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE.
- Effective Nov. 1, 1904.
- , OF hope line! ~
gglggen Isle of Hope and 40th Street
Lv. Isle of Hope?
6 -rn RM * / A. M. P.M.
7 m I'oa* 1 6:00 1= 00
: ■ ® . 1100 liSS
1 I Wi\
11-30 ii:oo
; *'.22 1 6:00
-30 7:00
*•••• I:®° *:00
H 9 9:00
*'••• J?;®® 10:55
__ *Vla Montgomery to city. ’
getween Isle of Hope & Thunderbolt"
A V V? sle^ f .-? ope * Lv. Thunderbolt
A. M. PM A. M. P. M.
*•••• *3:00 ... *l r )0
Ton 6:00 *7:22 *5:50
11-00 . 7-8)o
?12-minute wait at Sandfly.
_ Parcel car, passenger trailer.
MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE!
get ween Montgomery and 40th Street
sy-srsT* . a v°“ &
!>?; i■“
*2:3® 10:30 2:30
*7.53 t3:05
9:50 ::::: 111
•** . . 12:05 11:20
•Connects with parcel car Tor city.
tThroush to Thunderbolt.
8-minute wait at Sandfly going to
Between Montgomery & Thundeboit
A : p : A. M. P. m!
6.50 3:05 7:22 3:33
>:53 5:50 ’ 8:22 6:38
• 7 °B 7:38
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE.
Effective July 13. 1903.
a J^ eave Whitaker and Bay streets.
A-**. A.M. pat py
640 ,n" in 12:49 5:29
®*2 10:40 i;2O 6:00
*•2O iVna 2:00 6:40
i 29 12:0 * 2:40 7:20
5 9 2 *:2O S 00
ito 4:00 8:40
- 9 20 4:40
' Leave Mill-Haven.
•a in PM. PM
®: 49 11;®0 12:20 6:40
vOO 11:40 1;00 *6:05
ly n 1:40 6:20
I*l 2:20 7:00
111 - *:00 7:40
2.22 2:40 8:20
ioIS :::::
•Dally except Sunday.
—' T|,R r ) -' V EVENING SPEf-fsTT -
L £2,H*'n' rhl oi ,ter Leave Mlll
and Bay Sts. Haven.
OCA P.M.
9.20 9-40
12;22 10; 20
! 9 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 5:53 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 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 (Lincoln Park.)
Cur leaves west side of City Market for Lis
coin Park 6:UO a. m. acd every 40 minutes
thereafter until 11:45 p. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market:a. m.
snd every 40 minutes thereafter until 12o'clock
midnight,
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR ’
Leaves east side of City Market for Thunder
p°l*. Cattle Park. Sandfly. Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points—o:ls a. m„ 1:16 p. m.,6:1i
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sendfly, Cattle Park,
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points—6:oo
a. m., 11:00 a. m , 3:00 p. m.
Freight car leaves MontgomeryatS.so a ul
end 2:36 p. m., connecting at Sandfly with rsg
ular parcel car fot elty.
Parcel car from the city carries freight te
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on eaeh
trip for accommodation of peaaengeia.
Any further Information regarding
ger schedule or freight service can be had by
applying fo L. R. NASH. Manages
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' PROF. R. L. GHNTRT,
Savannah. Oa.
Imported Molasses.
Ml Puncheons. S4 hogsheads, H
barrels. Muscovado Molasses, re
ceived by bark Lstisle. For sale by
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