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IMJtI 10 tkE\l ADVERTISEMENTS
Special Notices —Dissolution Notice,
J. W. F. Hester & Cos.; Christmas
Things at Joyce’s; Notice to Members
of the Bar, James K. P. Carr, Clerk;
On Sale To-day, James G. Nelson.
Business Notices —A Good Dinner.
Sommers’ Cafe; Not Coming, But Here,
G. W. Thomas.
New Restaurant Open To-day—Jerry
George.
Dealer Wanted Smith Premium
Typewriter.
Saturday Specials—The Delmonlco
Cos.
The Gigantic Clearance of Men’s
Furnishings—Leopold Adler.
Extra Special Hosiery Sale—Estate
Daniel Hogan. •
A Hat Opportunity—Leopold Adler.
Foods—Royal Baking Powder.
Whisky—'Lewis’ 66 Rye.
Fireworks Headquarters—Henry Sol
omon & Son.
Save the Nickels —Lattlmores’.
They Impart New Life —Rowlinski,
Druggist.
Sportsmen—Edward Lovell’s Son.
Your Prescriptions—Shuptrlne's Drug
Stores.
A Crackajack Cigar—Pete Dailey.
liiffSo Many Good and Tempting Things
Have You a Cold—The Solomons Cos.
Savannah Theater—To-day, Matinee,
"Foxy Grandpa;” To-night, "Trapped
by Treachery.”
Values Extraordinary To-day—The
Metropolitan.
Legal Notices—ln the Matter of
James W. Powell of Screven, Bank
rupt.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
Tlie Weather.
The Indications for Georgia for to
day are for rain, with fresh northeast
to north winds. Eastern Florida, part
ly cloudy weather, rain In north por
tion, with fresh* south to west winds.
A naturalist at Richmond Hill, Long
Island, has discovered, or thinks he
has, that the natural enemy of the
mosquito is the purple martin, a mi
gratory bird belonging to the swallow
family. He therefore urges every
householder in malarial sections to
erect martin boxes and encourage the
breeding of the birds.
The public would be pleased to be
Informed by Hon. William Loeb, Sec
retary to the President, whether or not
there is any truth in the story that
Archie chased the cat and pulled its
tail, and that Quentin poked a straw
in the aquarium and tickled the gold
Ash. There Is also a story going the
rounds that Theodore, ' Jr., threw a
small piece of brick at a yellow dog
that was found looting around the
White House grounds. Is that true,
Secretary Loeb? These things are
quite us important ns whether or not
the children chased a turkey and pulled
feathers out of its tall. And the tur
key story was dignified with an offi
cial denial. How the historian of the
future will laugh when he comes across
that turkey proclamation!
The New York Central advertises It
self as "America’s greatest railroad.”
And maybe It is. It ought to be. con
sidering Us location. Nevertheless
“America’s greatest railroad” was
tied up and all traffic over It stopped
for three hours the other day by a
dirty, disreputable old brick barge that,
with its cargo, was worth hardly more
than the lubricating oil used In a trip
on one of the Central's magnificent
“flyers.'' Just outside of New York
city tho Central crosses Cromwell’s
Creek on a drawbridge. Tho draw had
to bo opened to permit of (he pusslug
of the bulge, in Dm middle of the draw
the !targe stuck fast on the mud bot
tom, and the tldt was falling. It was
linpottsible to pull (ho barge off and
equally Impossible lo close the draw.
Hevta 1 thousand passengers on the
trains that were delayed swore and
fretted, but the barge remained placidly
.It* her bed of mud oil in the Incoming
■tide Heated iter off.
WAS IT GOOD ADVICE f
Was the advice which was given
the cotton farmers early in the season
by some of those who are Interested
In their welfare good advice? That is
a question which the farmers and their
advisers are, no doubt, seriously
asking.
Cotton is now about S2O 'a bale low
er than it was when the advice was
so freely given, and it is doubtful if
it will be much higher than it is
during the present year, though along
In the coming spring it may appear
that the crop isn't as large as it now
seems to be.
The downward movement beg*an be
fore the last ginners’ report was pub
lished, and that report accelerated it.
It created the impression that the crop
would be 12,000,000 bales, if not larger,
and a crop of that size means 8 cent
cotton.
The fact must be taken into con
sideration, however, that while the
ginners’ report Indicates a crop larger
than was expected, that report may
not be an entirely safe guide as to
the size of the crop, for the reason that
the farmers were anxious this season
to have their cotton ginned as fast as
it was picked, so as to be in a posi
tion to market it early if they thought
it advisable to do so.
While it Is true that there is a great
deal of cotton in the hands of the
farmers and at interior points, yet,
if reports are to be relied upon, com
paratively little cotton Is being gin
ned, not as much by any means as
there was at this time last year. All
during September, October and the
early part of November the gins were
running night and day to meet the
demand upon them. Hence, it is a
fair conclusion that the gre'at bulk of
the cotton has been ginned. It is pret
ty safe to say that this will be made
evident by the next report of the gin
ners.
It seems to us that two things are
made clear by the present price of cot
tojj. The first is that it Is practically
impossible to say, early in the season,
what the size of the crop will be.
Hence, it Is impossible to say what the
price of cotton will be late in the sea
son. It is largely a matter of guess
work what It will be. Hence,
those who advise farmers to hold cot
ton are as likely to do them an injury
as to do them a service. *
The second point is that it is a
mlsfiake to think that the farmers have
it in their power to put up the price
of cotton by holding it. Hence, the
projected warehouse system would be
only a burden and an expense which
cotton would have to bear. The price
of cotton is fixed by the size of the
crop, whether the cotton is mainly In
the hands of the farmers or the spin
ners or the middlemen. The size of
the crop Is guessed quite closely
early in the season, and it is known
pretty accurately by the last of No
vember from the reports of the gin
ners and from other sources. The
price adjusts itself to the size of the
crop. If the farmers should put. the
balance of this crop in warehouses and
hold it. It is doubtful if the price could
be forced up sufficiently to pay the cost
of holding it. The spinners would let
them carry It, and If they should run
short they would buy on the hund to
mouth principle, with ithe view of
scaring the farmers into selling be
fore the harvesting of the new crop.
It would be well for farmers before
putting any money in the warehouse
scheme to study the matter carefully.'
The probabilities are they would come
to the conclusion that those
who soli their cotton year after year
as fast as it is harvested fare better
than those who make a practice of
holding for a higher price.
TIIB SOITH CALLED ON TO COM
MAND.
In his address before the St. An
drew’s Society of Charleston on Wed
nesday night Col. George Harvey, edi
tor of Harper's Weekly, said the rea
son the Democratic party was beaten
so badly In the recent election was
that the people haven’t confidence in
its ability to govern. In the East the
Democrat Is too near a Republican and
In the West too near a Populist. Only
in the South Is the genuine Demo
crat found. The East or the West has
been in control of the party for the
past forty yeurs and the South has
done the voting, has silently accepted
whatever the East or the West said
was Democratic doctrine. So long
as anything bore the Democratic label
the South accepted it, even though her
statesmen realized the labeled doc
trines were not statesmanlike and
wouldn't touch the hearts and gain the
confidence of the people.
The palmy days of the Democratic
party. In Col. Harvey’s opinion, the
days when It dominated the country,
made and administered the laws, was
when Its leaders were Southern men.
He felt Bure that if the South were
to take comrpand of the party again
it would have the confidence of the
people, and would win victories that
would compare with any It had won
In the past. The people, said Col. Har
vey, are ready for moral Issues, and
the time Is ripe for them. "The
struggle between an Impatient Presi
dent and reluctant representatives of
special interests Ib Inevitable,” and
the time Is here for the men of the
South to act with promptness and wis
dom.
We have been contending all along
that the time was coming when the
South would dominate the Democratic
party and that then the purty would be
the power it had been In its best days.
Col. Harvey was right In saying that
It was nonsense to suppose the party
was dead. It has had as great defeats
us It had on November last, and It
came to the front again as strong as
aver. That will be its record again.
The Isthmian canal commtssloner
shlp, which It is understood Senator
Cockrell of Missouri has accepted at
the hands of the President, pays a sal
ary of $12,000 a year and expenses.
The Interstate conugereo* comirfisaton
ershlp, which he was offered In esse he
didn't cats for the canal job, pgys
$7,600 a year and expenses. Ths sal
ary of a senator la SO,OOO g year, with
' a few perquisition
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1904,
MEET HIM HALF WAV.
The President seems to be exerting
himself to t<’in the good will of the
South. He is quoted as saying that
If he can put the name of Stonewall
Jackson In the army register he is
going to do it. It seems he has de
parted from the rule relative to the
West Point appointments which he
controls and is going to give one of
t hc|n to a grandson of Stonewall
Jackson, a young man of this state,
intone wall Jackson Christain, whose
fumily resides in Atlanta.
On the day the President decided
to make this appolntement several
Southern congressmen were at the
White House for the purpose of pay
ing their respects to him. They were
given such a cordial reception that,
after they came away. Judge Richard
son of Alabama seemed to voice the
sentiments of the party when he said;
“In view of what the President said
to us to day we should proceed upon
the presumption that he is going to
give the South a square deal.”
If that is the President's intention
the South ought to meet him half
way. And the indictions, are that is
her intention. There seems to be
a prettj* general movement to have him
visit the South in the coming spring.
The month of May has been mention
ed as the time. A number of cities
and commercial bodies have already
taken action. And doubtless others
will follow their example.
If It is the President's purpose to
give the South a square deal she
ought to meet him half way; ought
to encourage him. The South has
everything to gain and nothing to
lose. There is legislation she wants
and other legislation threatened she
doesn't want. Indeed, there are a
number of ways in which the Presi
dent can be of help to the South, and
If he is disposed to assist her there is no
reason why appreciation of his good
will shouldn't be shown.
The South Is on the up grade. She
is steadily becoming more prosperous.
Her people are feeling their prosperity
and are reaching out in the direction
of a greater developement of their re
sources. For instance, for years we
urged the building of cotton mills
near the cotton fields, and we have
seen here an Immense development of
the cotton manufacturing Industry.
Now it Is proposed that the mills that
make cotton mill machinery shall be
established in the South. And such
mills are coming. The Manufacturers
Record announces that one of the
largest mills for making such machin
ery is preparing to move from
Philadelphia to Charlotte N. C. Soon
there will be other mills of the kind,
in other parts of the South. And the
more mills there are the greater the
commerce will be through Southern
ports. Even now there is a| great
change in the freights passing through
this port. It hasn’t been so many
years since the freight of the Ocean
Steamship Company, for instance,
was composed almost wholly of cot
ton, lumher and naval stores. Now a
great part of it comes from cqtton.lron
and oil mills. Yes the South is on the
up grade, and we should utilize all
the legitimate forces that are availa
ble to boost her along.
t I
In Hoboken, N. J., there 1 a man
of the name of Meyer who, calling
lilmself "the world's counsellor,” has
for several years* been reaping a har
vest by playing upon the ignorance
and superstition of the people of his
own town, New York and Jersey City.
He professed to cast horoscopes, read
the stars and In other occult ways
wring from the future Its secrets for
the benefit of his clients, at so much
per wring. There being a large num
ber of fools on both sides of the Hud
son river near its mouth, Meyer drove
a flourishing business. But at last
he haa run afoul of the law. It has
been discovered that there Is a New
Jersey law against clairvoyants and
soothsayers and that they can be pros
ecuted for obtaining money under false
pretenses. The “world’s counsellor;”
will, therefore, have to go out of busi
ness, until he can evade the police and
find another neat of fools.
The liquor and tobacco habits, or
vices as they are called, pay large rev
enues to the government. The report
of the internal revenue commissioner
shows that he collected $232,904,004 from
liquor and tobacco licenses and taxes
during the fiscal year that ended last
June. Of this amount $129,564,243 was
collected on distilled liquor, $48,208,132
on fermented liquor and $44,'655,808 on
tobacco. Nine-tenths of the total in
ternal revenue came from the sources
named. And it seems that the con
sumption of both liquors and tobacco
is increasing, the receipts being larger
than ever before. Illinois leads in the
payment of internal revenue taxes, and
is followed by New York, Indiana,
Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania in
the order named. Notwithstanding the
war on cigarettes, nearly three and a
half billions of them were consumed
last year.
Prince Fushlmi, the Mikudo’s repre
sentative in this country, is in New
York for a day or two and is stopping
at the St. Regis Hotel, where ho .oc
cupies the “royal suite” and sleeps in
the now famous SIO,OOO bed. The cost
of the “royal suite” Is $125 a day. The
Prince’s party, consisting of about a
Uosen men, occupy the entire third
floor of the hotel and are quartered
in rooms that cost only $lO a day each.
Meals for the party arc estimated ut
about SB4 per day, at the St. Regis.
The cost of the Prince’s stay at the
St. Regis for three or four days, it Is
estimated, will equal the cost of keep
ing a regiment of Japanese soldiers In
the field near Mukden for a month.
i * * * ———
Now that the Republican party Is in
full control of the government and
cannot be disturbed in either branch
for at leaat two years, there Is renewed
talk of a salary grab on the part of
Congress. It Is proposed that the sal
ary of the president ehsll be Incresasd
to lIMt.UOO. that of the Vice President
to $20,900 and that of senators and
members of ths House to SIO,OOO. That
is a W 0 par cam. Increase for Presi
dent and • ottgresemen and a *6O per
cent. Increase for Vice President.
A Chicago dispatch, that had wide
publication a few days ago, said that
in that city’s effort to clean out the
bogus drugs on sale In the drug stores
It had been developed that President
McKinley’s death may' have been*and
probably was dae to the use of an Im
itation of aristol on his wound. Aris
tol is a powerful germicide. The story
from Chicago was to the effect that
when the President was wounded the
physicians sent to a drug store for a
supply of aristol, and received a sub
stance which they believed to be the
real drug. They applied it, but short
ly noticed that the effect was exactly
the opposite to that which should have
been produced by real aristol, and its
use was shortly discontinued. “It
was afterwards discovered,” says the
dispatch, "that the stuff which the
physicians purchased was an imita
tion made of fuller’s earth and oxide
of Iron. It is believed that this spuri
ous stuff was partly responsible for
the death of the President.” President
McKinley, It will be recalled, died in
Buffalo, where he was assassinated. It
is difficult to understand why this al
leged "exposure” .should have been
made In Chicago. The physicians who
attended the wounded President say
the Chicago story Is foolish and with
out the foundation of truth. Mean
while the Chicago authorities, In their
raids on drug stores, have shut up
thirty-one places of business and con
fiscated $60,000 worth of stock on the
ground that spurious drugs were being
dispensed.
The death of Mme. Januuschek a
few days ago has started a flood-tide
of reminiscences by old-time theater
goers. Mme. Janauschek came Into
public notice along with Adelaide Ris
tori and Charlotte Cushman, and many
of the old-timers are of the opinion
that she was the greatest actress of
the great trio. Ristori and Cushman
have long since passed away; that Ja
nauschek should have survived her
contemporaries for so long a time Is
little short of marvelous. She is re
membered in this city especially by
reason of the fact that she played
“Meg Merrilles” here some six years
ago.
PERSONAL.
—Mrs. Pauline Steinem’, described
as the most prominent Jewess of
Toledo, 0., and a great favorite with
the late Mayor Sam Jones, has been
elected the city’s school board. She
ran 700 votes ahead of her ticket, and
her plurality was about 8,000.
—Jordan L. Mott, 77 years old, and
the "Father of Rapid Transit” in New
York city, has not yet taken a' ride
in the Subway. William L. Scott, of
Erie, Pa.; William Lloyd Garrison,
the noted Abolitionist; Samuel J.
Tilden, and some of their friends and
associates put up the money to build
the New York elevated system. These
men were brought together by Jor
dan L. Mott.
—Sir William Macdonald, the
tobacco manufacturer of
Montreal, will establish a large
agricultural college in St. Anne, a
few miles distant from Montreal, at
an outlay exceeding $1,000,000. He has
purchased several Jiundred acres of
land, and ProfeSTor James W. Robert
son, former Commissioner of Agricul
ture and Dairying, has been engaged
to make charge of the Institution.
—Levi M. Poor, of Augusta, Me.,
was in command of the smallest com
pany for the longest time of all of
ficers In the Civil War. He was In
Company D of the 19th Maine, and
for forty-three daj-s had only one
man—John White, of Belfast—all the
others being absent by sickness, death,
wounds or removals. Ex-Govornor
Connor of Maine, who was then in
command of the regiment, made him
acting lieutenant of the company. *
BRIGHT BITS.
—Mr. Neived: The cat stole some
of the meat?
Mrs. Newed: Yes; I think it was
some of the purloin.—Town and Coun
try.
—She: Is skin grafting a very late
discovery?
He: No, it Is only anew branch of
a very old art; all grafting is a skin
process-.—Detroit Free Press.
—Parent (angrily): Those ’’school
Bhoes” I bought here for my boy did
not last two weeks.
Dealer (with surprise): He must
have been wearing them out of school.
—Washington Life.
—“You say there are two kinds of
literary success?”
“Yes,” answered the publisher. “One
depends on how well an author can
write, and the other on how much.”—
Washington" Star.
—Nephew: Uncle, I’m In love with
the dearest girl in all the world. She
has golden hair, blue eyes, the whitest
of teeth, and a figure !
Uncle (interrupting): My dear boy,
I really can't consent to your marry
ing her unless she has five figures at
the least. —Brooklyn Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem.)
says: “The administration may be
brave enough to levy a duty on coffee
importations, but it is predicted that
the leaders will ponder long and well
before they do it. And if they do, the
consumers of the country will have an
opportunity to couple the half-filled
coffee pot with the half-filled dinner
pal! In estimating the beneficence of
Republican policies.”
The Spartanburg (S. C.) Journal
(Dem.) says: ’’Prohibition means the
turning over of the whisky traffic in
South Carolina to illicit dealers, for
evrybody knows that whisky consum
ers will have whisky and that it can
not be kept from them. South Caro
lina has now the Ideal way of selling
whisky, and all that is needed Is for
the slate to get out of the business
and put it in the hands of private par
ties under heavy <bond and license. Pro
hibition is a dream.”
The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.)
says: "The South ,1s a part of the
Union, and Is entitled to exactly the
same consideration that any other sec
tion Is. It should accept the resulta of
the election in good faith, deserving
and expecting fair treatment, knowing
its ability to take care of Itself, play
ing neither the purl of a beggar nor
a bully. It will he time enough to re
sent injury when It cornea, If K does
come, Wa of this part o' th<- Union
have no cause to parade before the
world with a chip on our shoulder, nor
strut like a game cock in the barn
yard. Let’s stick to business and keep
both our dignity and our manhood,
fearing nothing, dreading nothing, but
expecting the Ju> and fair treatment
due us as in Integral and rg-sgusl
part of this great Union.
Liveried Grandeur.
A pretty story about the young
Duchess of Marlborough, who was Miss
Vanderbilt before her marriage, was
told at a reegnt dinner party, says the
Baltimore Herald.
“Blenheim palace,-the-Duke of Marl
borough's .country seat,” said the nar
rator, “fronts the beautiful old vil
lage of Woodstock. The people of
Woodstock are humble and modest.
Their regard for ‘our duchess.’ as they
call the mistress of Blenheim, Is a
touching thing.
“One afternoop the duchess called on
an old woman who lives in a quaint
cottage not far from the Oliver Crom
well house. The old woman was great
ly flustered at first by the honor of
this call, but the simple, kindly man
ner of her visitor soon put her at her
ease. She made some tea, and after
a little while she was talking with her
usual volubility.
“The duchess, when she rose to go,
said:
“ ‘I hope that now you will no long
er be afraid of me, and I shall expect
you to pay me a visit soon.’
“The old woman made a curtsey.
“ ‘Ah. your grace,’ she said, “it’s not
yourself I’m frightened at; It’s them
grand servants.’ ”
The Wise Judge,
Representative Dinsmore of Arkan
sas tells of a rural justice of the peace
in that state who was approached by
a man desiring a divorce, says Col
lier's Weekly. The justice was In a
quandary. Calling the bailiff to his
side, he whispered:
“What’s the law on this p’int?”
“You can’t do It,” was the reply.
“It’s out of your jurisdiction.”
The husband, observing the consul
tation between the two officials, anx
iously interjected: “I’m willin’ to pay
well; got the money right here in this
sock!”
At this the justice assumed his
gravest judicial air. Adjusting his
spectacles, he said;
“You know’d before you came here
that ’twarnt for me to separate hus
band and wife; and yet you not only
take up the valuable time of this here
court with yo’ talkin’, but you actually
perpose to bribe me with money! Now,
how much have you got in that sock?”
“ ’Bout $6.50, yo’ honah!”
“All right! Then I fine you $5 for
bribery and a dollar and a half for
takin’ up my time with a case outer
my jurisdiction, and may the Lord
have mercy on your soul!”
A Family Affair.
"Just after his election as Governor
of Massachusetts,” says Representative
McCall, according to Collier's Week
ly, “Mr. Crane sent his son Robert
to attend a military school in New
York.
"The young Crane, by reason of his
manly ways and modest disposition,
soon made himself solid with the fac
ulty.
"There was an oral examination one
day during the course of which young
Crane was asked to give the name of
the Governor of Massachusetts.
“After a moment’s hesitation, Rob
edt replied: ‘I don’t know, sir.’ f
“Amazed by this unexpected answer,
the teacher exclaimed, ‘What, you
don't know* who is the Governor of
your own state? Reflect, my boy!’
“ ‘Very sorry, sir,’ said the boy,
quietly, ‘but I really don’t know.’
“ ’Why, Robert!' cried the Instructor,
‘don't you know that your father is
the Governor of Massachusetts?’
“ ‘Oh, come to think of it,’ responded
the youngster, 'I believe he did tell
me something of the sort; but I didn’t
take much stock in it. I thought he
was joshing me.’ ”
Tnle of Irish Humor. *
A remarkable tale of Irish humor is
told by a French chauffeur. He was
driving in Ireland when he rode over
a cyclist. The injured man apologized.
“Pray continue your journey,’’ said he.
“I am really ashamed to have incom
moded such a sportsman.” The next
day -the chauffeur received a letter
from this sympathetic stranger, full
of regrets and making tender in*
qulries ‘about the state of the auto
mobile. “X must tell you/’ it proceed
ed,’ “that as a result of yesterday's ac
cident, for which I alone am responsi
ble, I expect to die soon. But I am
arranging to leave you a third of my
property, so that you can imbellish
your automobile with all the latest im
provements.”
A Bed Pen,
Senator Pettus of Alabama was writ
ing with a noisy, spluttering pen, says
an exchange. Laying the pen down,
he smiled and said:
“Once I was spending the evening
with a friend of mine in Selma. We
sat in the dining room, and from the
kitchen came a dreadful scratching
sound.
’’ ’Martha,’ said my friend to the
maid, ‘what is that scratching in the
kitchen? It must be the dog trying to
get in.’
“ ’Huh!’ said Martha, ‘dat’s no dawg
scratchin’ de do'. Dat’s de cook
wrltin’ a love letter to her honey
suckle.’ ”
No Wonder Kansan Goes “Dry."
A traveling man who drove across
the country to a little town in Western
Kansas, the other day. met a farmer
hauling a wagon load of water.
"Where do you get water?” he ask
ed.
“Up the road about seven miles,”
the farmer replied.
“And you haul water seven miles
for your family and stock?"
"Yep."
“Why in the name of sense, don’t
you dig a well?” asked the traveler.
"Because it is just as far one way
as the other, stranger."
His Pussenaer Wus In a Hurry.
A negro hack driver in Washington
was driving along the street when he
encountered a funeral, saya the New
York Tribune. A long line of coaches
was behind the hearse, which was
moving along at a lively rate. The
negro was superstitious and did not
want to cross between the carriages In
the funeral procession. He tried to
drive around in front of the hearse,
but could not make sufficient speed.
After driving alongside the hearse for
two blocks thh negro called out to the
driver: “Say, boss, hold up, an' let
me go past. My passenger Is In a
hurry, and yours isn't.”
Sliort Hotel Equipment.
A traveler, domiciling at-a Far West
hotel, says London Tlt-Blts, exclaimed
one morning to the waiter: "What are
you about, you black rascal? You have
roused me twice from my sleep by tell
ing me breakfast Is ready, and now
you are attempting to strip off the
bedclothes. What do you mean?”
“Well,” replied Pompey, "If you Isn’t
goln' to get up, 1 must hah de sheet
anwbow, ’cause dey’re waitin' for de
tableclof.”
T
A blind man named Green made a
curious defense at Birmingham. Eng
land, lo a charge of smashing h plats
gluss window worth £ls. He had been
blind, he said, for asven yeara. On the
night In question he cried for assist -
anee to cross the road, but no one
rente. Then be heard so tin one at a
diamine and struck at what used, when
he could see. to be boa ids surrounding
waste grounds. Hs was astounded
when he heard the sound of broken
glass. Tbs jury acquitted Min and he
i wtiM 4itt‘hrft4*
THE PACE THAT KILLS.
From the New York World.
In New York and, most'of the large
centres of wealth there has been an
alarming increase of death from or-,
ganic heart trouble and Bright’s dis
ease. * *•• . r' ■
This need not worry the compara
tively poor to any great extent, says
the Bridgeport Post,, for these are
aristocratic ailments. Brights disease
comes along with a rapid existence
and late hours and rich feeding and
wines.
In 1871 in New York City the two
diseases mentioned killed 17.68 persons
out of every 10,000 of the population.
New York was a little slow thirty
three years ago. It had only begun
to learn how to burn up money. The
rich did the best they knew how
then, and were willing to learn more.
The pace quickened, and so did the
death rate. You can’t fool the Old
Man with the Scythe. You cannot
sneak late hours and highballs and
thousanddollar dinners in on him,
and so in 1883 the deaths had jumped
to 2,888 from heart disease and
firight’s disease, or 21.91 persons In
every 10,000. In 1903 the total deaths
from the causes named were 5,917,
arid the number of persons per 10,000,
27.20.
The remedy is sane living. That
doesn’t mean that one can begin liv
ing sanely after he has sowed wild
oats for a quarter of a century. It
means sane living from childhood up.
A look at the vital • statistics quoted
ought to make the average poor man
who has robust health, fairly well
satisfied with his condition.
TO EL lIOPE IN THIRTY HOI RB.
From the New York Sun.
Philadelphia, Nov. 29. —D. Gold, a
retired naval officer, living at 5407
Girard avenue, says that next spring
the world’s mode of travel will be
revolutionized by the appearance of the
Gold new explosive airship, with a
speed of 100 miles an hour and its pro
pellor going 3.000 revolutions a min
ute. Europe in thirty hours, Chicago
in ten, says Mr. Gold.
He has had a model built, but will
wait till winter is over to go up in it.
All he needs to spring the airship on
the world is the confidence of a few
millionaires.
"I have served seventeen years in
the navy and have studied the wind,”
said Gold to-day. “The wing shakes
of the condor and Australian crane,
the fastest birds, do not exceed 100
per minute. My propellers will re
volve 3,000 times. I can sail away
from anything except greased light
ning.
“In the place of the usual silk bag
will be one of aluminum. Every part
of the airship must be stiff and rigid.
The ship will be 100 feet long and thirty
feet in breadth. It will provide ac
commodations for a motorman, a sky
pilot and six passengers, with refresh
ments.”
AIRSICKNESS.
From the New York Sun.
“Airsickness," said a sailor, "is worse
than seasickness, and when flying-ma
chines become common, the horrors of
airsickness will be upon all tongues.
Are you a good flyer?’ we’ll say then,
just as we say, ‘Are you a good sailor?’
now.
“I didn’t know there was such a
thing as airsickness until last summer,
when I went up in a balloon. I am a
shellback—since the age of twelve I
have pitched and tossed on ships—but
before I had been five minutes in that
balloon I was the palest, weakest, sick
est wretch alive.
"The smooth motion of a balloon is
horrible. Up you glide, soft and light
and your entire interior seems to be
rising into your mouth. Puff—a breath
of wind sends the balloon reeling side
ways and an unspeakable nausea grips
you. Puff—another air spins the bal
loon round and round, and this mo
tion gives you a headache.
"Between airsickness and dizziness
—dizziness due to looking down from
a great hight—my balloon voyage made
a wreck of me. I lay in the bottom
of the car, and, my eyes closed, I
groaned and groaned.”
ROMANCE OF SUMATRA LEAF.
From Country Life in America.
The story of Sumatra leaf tobacco
as grown under cheesecloth in Connec
ticut is one of the romantic episodes
of agriculture. A Florida fruit grow
er had some tobacco plants that got
Into his pineapple shed by accident,
and' he noticed that they were taller
and of finer texture under the lath
shade. The bureau of soils, while sur
veying the Connecticut valley, found a
soil that was practically the same as
that of Sumatra, on which the famous
tobacco is grown. (The bureau has
samples of soil from almost every im
portant agricultural region of the
world.) The government got an ex
pert to start an Industry, and the first
two years some of the growers made
over 100 per cent, profit. The indus
try as a whole is successful. A large
company with plenty of capital is nec
essary, for It costs $650 to cover and
grow an acre of this tobacco. The
growers receive from $1.20 to $2.60 a
pound for the product. The Imported
article brings $2.50 to $3, and we have
been importing about $6,000,000 worth
a year.
THE NEW RESTAURANT WOMAN.
From the London Truth.
The restaurant woman is anew
type, and has never yet received the
attention ;ihe deserves. The lady
seems to imagine that a meal at a
restaurant is a theatrical perform
ance. She sails into the room as 'an
actress walks to the footlights, and
sits down on her chair as if it were a
"property" sofa. She never smiles,
talks little and eats less, and every
gesture is as carefully studied as if
an audience were attentively watch
ing her. She has the restaurant stare,
which conveys, "You are absolutely In
significant; do you not Imagine I am a
duchess ?”
When the lady has left the restau
rant the good natured heave a sigh of
relief and are thankful that she has
ended the difficult performance with
out an obvious mishap. It is as much
as many of the fellow guests can do to
withold from clapping their hands as
she leaves the room, to show their ap
proval of her excellent acting.
COLORED COLONIES.
From the New York World.
Efforts to establish colonies of ne
groes in the Northwest are met with
protests from the white neighbors. It
would seem that the race question be
comes un active issue wherever the
whites Hnd the blacks are brought to
gether In ary thing like equal numbers.
There Is llttl • occasion for the white
farmers In Minnesota and the Dakotas
to trouble themselves over the proposed
colored settlements. The climate Is
not congenial to colored outdoor labor
end Northwestern farming methods,
with their extensive use of valuable
machinery, sr not adapt.ible to Houlh
ern farm hands. ,
Ahpost all attempts to colonise ne
groes nave failed. Recent real estate
litigation in Madlwin county, New
York recalls the failure of one of the
ourlM-st colored colonisation experi
ments attempted silly years ago when
Gcrrlt Unfit h and his fellow abolition
lets sought that partial euiuUva of tl.>
slavery problem.
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WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE.
Effective Nov. 1, 1904.
. ISLE OF HOPE One *
Between Isle of Hope and 40th Street.
Lv4o t hSt *av. Isle of Hope.'
in P M ’ A. M. P. M.
7 iie* 6:00 1:00
83n H 2 7:00 2:00
2:20 8:00 3:00
•’•"v ■ G-Ort
llin 3:30 ’ 10:00 -4V°O
11-30 11:00
•/••• 5:5® 6:00
-20 9:00
-- *Via Montgomery to city.
Between Isle of Hope & Thunderbolt?
V\Jsle of Hope. Lv. Thunderbolt
A. M. P M A. M. P. M.
••••• *3:00 .... *1•50
700 6:00 17:22 s:si>
~5:2° 8:22 6:38
’ll.oo ..... . *9:50 7:38
512-mlnute wait at Sandfly.
*Parcel car, passenger trailer.
MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE: ~
Between Montgomery and 40th Street.
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. 40 th St
M. P. M. AM p m
;5; 20 * 2:30 10:30 2:30
t 7.53 t3:05 (..... 3*30
9:50 :*0
12: °5 11:20
'Connects with parcel car for city
tThrough to Thunderbolt.
518-minute wait at Sandfly going to
city.
Between Montgomery & Thundeboit
A - P. M. A. M. p7m!
6:o0 3:05 7:22 3:38
:53 5:50 8:22 6:38
• 703 7:38
MILL-HAVEN schedule!
Effective July IS. 1903.
Leave Whitaker and Bay streets.
A.M. A.M. pm PM
• ;2 ° 10:0 ® 12:40 5:20
® r 4 ? 10:40 , 1:20 6:00
lon U : |® ' 1:00 0:40
720 12:00 2:40 7:20
®’ oo j 8:20 8:00
2:40 4:00 8:40
*:2Q 4:40 .....
. Leave Mill-Haven.
Vi H’ .A**- P.M. P.M.
0:40 11:00 12:20 6:40
7:00 11:40 i;00 *6:05
7:20 ; 1:40 6:20
7:40 ! 2:20 7:00
2:20 , 8:00 7:40
0:00 ! 8:40 8:20
2:40 4:20 8:00
10:20 ..... S;00 ...
•Dally except Sunday.
— s * TITRDAY EVENING SPECIAL.
Leave WhlLi ker Leave Mill.
Bay sta. Haven.
P-M- J 1 P.M.
,®- 2 ® 8:40
10:00 10:20
10:40 n:00
11:20 11:88
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
1 5 minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 6:63 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak Station for city every half
hour until 12:08 midnight.
COLLINSVILLE LINK"
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
Mnrket 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.
WIST END LINK IT.incnln Park I
Car leave* west tide of City Market for Lis
coin Park S:UO a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until U:4B p. m.
Cnr leave* Lincoln Park for Market :*. it
and every ‘4O minutes thereafter until 12o’elock
midnight.
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR
Leaves east side of Citv Market for Thunder
pm*. Cattle Perk. Sendflv. Isle of Hope and all
intermediate point*—9:l6*. m„ 1:15 p.
p. m.
Leave* Ulo ol: Hof* for Sandfly, Cattl* Park.
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points—9:oo
a. m., 11:00a. m..3:U0 p. m.
Freight car leave* Montgomery at 5.90 *■
and 2:86 p. m., connecting at Sandfly with rß *‘
nlar parcel car foi city.
Parcel car from the city earns* freight to
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of panaengoia
Any further Information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be hail Of
applying to L. R. NASH. Manage*
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