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4 100 TORPEDO BOATS FOR RUSSIA BUILT AT NIXON’S YARDS NO BREACH OF AMERICAN NEU TRALITY. To Bnill Worship* and Send Them Abroad to Be Delivered, Rnt the Huilder Mu*t 'lake Hi* Oun Ri*k. Am Soon a* the Miipn Are Ileyond the ft-Mile Limit of Anierienn Jn ri>*di(‘tion They Are Lawful I*ri*e a* Contrahand of Hnr, New York, Dec. 3.—lf the plans of Russia for the construction of a prac tically new navy come to fruition, the Tsar has only begun to fight. It will create surprise when it is known that Mr. Nixon has really turn ed over to Russia nearly 100 torpedo boats. Some of these boats have gone across in sections and been put up on the other side. Some of them have gone under their own steam. How this ha® been done without detection is the secret of Mr. Nixon and the Russian government. How the new Russian navy will get out of the Black sea through the Dar danelles without complications with Turkey and Europe is a matter which at this time does not enter into the problem. TJie Dardanelles Harrier. With that the Americans who have been engaged to do the work have nothing to do. Under treaty no war ship of any Power is to be allowed by Turkey to pass these straits. There was talk several months after the out break of the Russian-Japanese War of Russia passing her Black sea fleet through the Dardanelles, and Great Britain was reported to have made strong representations to Turkey and the permission was not granted. Rus sia. however, did take through sev eral of her auxiliary ships after dis arming them. It is no breach of American neutral ity for Mr. Nixon to build any num ber of ships in this country and send them abroad to be delivered to pros pective purchasers. But lie must do so at his own risk. As soon as these ships are without the three mile limit of American jurisdiction they are law ful prize, as contraband of war. No Cause for Government Interfer ence. There is plenty of precedent in the archives of the State Department for non-interference with iMr. Nixon's plans. According to AVheaton, one of the most eminent authorities on inter national law, "sending armed vessels and munitions of war to the ports of a belligerent for sale as articles of commerce is not prohibited by the laws of nations or by the laws of the United States, though it may render the property liable to confiscation.” If it were the intention of Mr. Nixon to recruit crews for these ships, hoist th. Russian ensign and send them out of American ports to prey on Japanese commerce, this government would be liable to censure just as England was compelled to pay the United States $15,000,000 for the damage done Ameri can commerce by the Confederate cruiser Alabama, which outfitted in an English port. There’s Health -'in— HIRE VJwlomb experiments by end* nent sdentists tuire proven the great value of lemons in destroying the germs of ty phoid fevers. Germs of dis eases are deposited in the System by the failure of the bowels to net regularly. MOZLEY’S LEMON KX/TX- Cl is an ideal laxative, made from the Juice of pure lem ons, and has no equal for cleansing the system of all Impurities. It acts prompt ly on the bowels, liver -nfl kidneys, and does not gripe or cause any unpleasantness, >0 cents per bottle at all drug ■tores. LEMON HOT DROPS CURE ALL COCGIIS AND COLDS. 1 • * , ,1 MOZLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR made of lbmonh COCE2C Accomplishes results by building up the nervous system and stimulating a normal flow to the dcbiltluted organs nourishing them back to a condition of healthy vitality. Nocturnal emissions, which prove such a drain on the sys tem, arc effectually stopped. The ef. fects of early errors and excesses In maturer years arc completely eradi cated and lost maidiood is permanent ly restored. If It falls to cure your money will be refunded. Guuranteed and for sale by LIPPMAN DRUG CO., Lippman Block Savannah. Ga. An engineer named Knorr, a German, who has become a naturalized Rus sian, built four of the great bridges on the Trans-Hlberian Railway, includ ing the big Yenisei and Obi bridges, which cost, respectively, $2,360,000 and 12,000,000. They were great engineering Coats, and brought him International Came in his profession. Rut he was pursued by a curious fatality. A writer In T. A T. says: He bad five daugh ters, who were famous in itusslu for their beauty, and whom he loved dear ly. Just after hi* first bridge wus com plated on* of them died; and as ea> h •f hie three succeeding bridges was MWiIMM* Hm Mould liut build g fifth bridge. Mr. Nixon's Yard, Where Russian War Craft Are Building TWENTY-FOUR BANK DIRECTORS WHO REPRESENT $11,000,006,000 •A Financial Combination Which Controls the Destinies of the Business World. By W. G. NICHOLAS. New York, Dec. 3.—Somebody has gone to the trouble of analyzing the personnel of the National City Bank directorate and making deductions therefrom. It is found that the twen ty-four directors of this bank, the larg est in America and one of the largest In the world, are directors of three hundred and fifty-seven other banks, trust companies, railroad and Indus trial corporations, and Insurance com panies representing assets of more than $ll,000,0u0,0<)0. This bank is the center of a local group of banks and trust companies, whose loans aggre gate more than $400,000,000, or nearly half the total loans of the fifty-three clearing house banks of New York. The statement from which these facts are gleaned does not mention the additional interesting fact that the Standard Oil interests which control the National City Bank are also heavy stockholders in the leading banks of other cities—Chicago, Cleveland, Pitts burg and Washington. This group is to-day the strongest financial combina tion In the world and wields its power aggressively and remorselessly. It controls not only the destinies of the business world, but is reaching out for control of national and State Legis latures on a scale never before at tempted. The President nml tlie Tariff. The opinion prevails in the financial district that President Roosevelt will find It Impossible to withstand the ar guments against tariff revision and that he will yield to the advice of rep resentative business interests to tread softly In that direction. The inspired announcements which have come from the White House as to the President's Intentions for tariff revision were put out as feelers and the response thereto has been of a kind calculated to im press the chief executive with the force of the opposition he will encounter, should he go ahead with his plan qf campaign as originally outlined. Not only Is there general Wall street dis belief in tariff revision, but there is a strongly grounded theory that the next Congress will pass a law giving generous subsidies to the shipping combinations under cover of a move to stimulate and upbuild the American merchant marine. The government commission to inquire into facts bear ing on this question has completed its work, and will present its report to Congress early in the short session now about to begin. This report, it is well understood, will form the basis of a friendly campaign on behalf of the shipping interests. That was what the commission was appointed for and It has done its work. It was packed for subsidy promotion, only two of the Democratic members being against governmental gifts for this purpose. Reaction Party Getting Stronger. The reaction in the stock market is getting stronger numerically and in point of influence. It includes some of the strongest and most experienced operators in the street. It is going on the theory that the prosperity feature of the sitaution has been sufjlciently discounted by the advance which has taken place and that the general mar ket would be benefited by a setback in prices about this time. The banking interests are now di vided in their market position and not even all the Standard Oil crowd are a unit at this time, some holding that there should be a decided reaction or at least a halt of considerable dura tion, while others want to continue the juggle and mark up the prices of the goods to still higher levels before pulling out and taking a rest. They have not yet completed their plans for new flotations and distribution of new issues of securities and think It will be just as easy to work oft the goods at higher figures than those now ruling. The two market factions are seemingly about equally matched in strength and influence, conse quently the market front presents a ragged and irregular appearance. Manipulation of Active Securities. Manipulation is strikingly evident in many of the active favorites while in others the tape is proof of continued energetic liquidation by the insiders and of Increasing pressure. That por tion of the public which has come in to the market within the last thirty or forty days has had practically no profit in its trades, although as yet serious loss has not been incurred. This is a good thing for the outside players in one sense, although it may breed over-confidence whlrh will be costly later on as It will encourage stubbornness to stand out against losses Instead of taking alarm and fleeing therefrom. I'. X. Steel Advanced Since May f2fiT,- 000.000. Comparison of current prices with those prevailing in May last show that the stocks and bonds of the United States Steel Corporation have increased in selling v‘.ilue during that period $267,000,000. This rise In quotations Is a good thing for the setuul holders of the securities and for those who were lucky enough to make speculative In vestments while tlie depression was Odors of Perspiration ISSTSAT" Royal Foot Wash ■ ... f~. *U„ by •iops haling. <'iires bweating. Ki lling Swollen, I Irrri yVr|. tl at druggists, or prepaid from EATON PRUa CO.. AUaulo. Us Monas book U not satisfied. Sample for I-emit stamp. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1904 on. It has not given back to the hundreds of thousands of unfortunate gamblers in these securities, however, the money they lost on the break in preferred Steel from 100 down to 50 and in the common from 55 to under 9. These hundreds of thousands of small fry ti'aders and men of larger calibre were frozen out, countless num bers losing every dollar they possessed on earth, having been induced 'to buy the 'stuff largely on account of the great names identified with the cor poration and in the guileless convic tion that the multi-millionaires con nected with the property would pro tect the public against shrinkage in prices. Not until they had been roast ed to death did they learn that the stock they were buying at fancy figures had been sold to them by the insiders. Now that the preferred is nearly back to record figures and the common more than half way back, there are signs of another unloading by Insiders. Rumors of Sleel Manipulation. Incidental to the manipulation which is going on in Steel there Is a re newal of further bond conversion jug glery and persistent rumors of the ac quisition of several of the independent Iron companies at terms which must net the insiders tremendous profits. These reports are met with denials of course, but In Wall street denials do not count for anything. Insiders seem to regard it as their bounden duty to lie about their plans until a conclusion has been reached. They probably argue that It is none of the public’s business, and they have the additional strong reason for secrecy in the fact that premature publicity nine times out of teh delays consummation and really does no good. Experience has taught caution In this respect. Kaatern Railroad System to Invade New Field. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Is planning to move further West and invade the Eastern trunk line territory as an independent proposition. This corporation has close affiliations with the Pennsylvania, and is openly antagonistic to the New York Central, although using the latter's New York terminals under lease. Its recent purchase of the Ontario and Western is only the beginning of a campaign of expansion and extension. It Is said to have designs on either the Lehigh Valley or Erie, or both, and to be full of ambition to extend its influence in the transportation world. The New Haven is one of J. Pierpont Morgan’s pets. He has taken more real live Interest in that property than in any of the corporations with which he is Identified, and he is said to be the moving spirit in the new schemes of expansion. Pushing Morgan Into Background. It is well known that the Rockefeller combination now dominates New York Central and with the increased power of that outfit Morgan Is being slowly pushed into the background. For many years Mr. Morgan has been the financial representative of the Vander bilt party in the Central management. That feature of control is being shifted over to James Stillman of the National City Bank, a circumstance which may have something to do with the Morgan purpose in connection with New Hav en. William Rockefeller is a director of the New Haven road, and he has two or three of his dummies on the board with him. but the Standard Oil Is a minority factor there. It is no sure thing that the Pennsyl vania is not in some way tied up with Morgan in these plans, and the sug gestion is made that in the final shake-up the New Haven will aban don the Central and have its termi nals in the grand underground depots now being constructed by the Penn sylvania corporation. Such a move might involve the digging of a tunnel under the western end of Long Island sound to connect with the Pennsylva nia. This latter plan may look some what chimerical, but the thing would not be impossible from an engineering standpoint, it is said. When the New Haven carries out its plans there will then be four factors in the Eastern trunk line situation instead of two. The Wabash system is gradually in trenching itself all along the line, and, although not as strong as either the Central or Pennsylvania it must here after be considered and be given a voice. * no, 000.4)00 of Mercantile Marine. The syndicate which was stuck with $50,000,000 of the 4 per cent, bonds of the Mercantile Marine is about to make a market for the securities. The load has been lying on the stomach of the syndicate ever since the allot ment was made more than two years ago and no effort wus made for a pub lic distribution, the futility of such an uttempt at the time being well under stood. Conditions having tremen dously improved, however, the time is deemed opportune for a concerted ef fort to stimulate friendly Interest in these securities. An IntitLU move in Congress for a subsidy this winter will be one for ward step. This mercantile marine bond syndicate is made up largely of those who profited by the original Steel Corporation flotation, and the big end of the profits of the original deal ate reinvested in the shipping bonds. The New York Life Insur- ance Company owns $3,000,000 of these bonds. The New York Life appears to be about the only outside investor of importance that could be induced to take hold at the time of the forma tion of the company. Unfriendly per sons say this is because George W. Perkins, chairman of the Finance Committee of the New York Life, was persuaded to make the investment by his very good friend George W. Per kins, member of the firm of J. P. Mor gan & Cos. Tlie Street and the Trusts. Wall street cannot be induced to take seriously the scare reports from Washington that the President in tends to get after the wicked trusts. It is thought to be more than likely that he will take action against the beef trust as government agents have been busy for many months collecting evidence against it. But so long as the White House and the Department of Justice remain blind, deaf and dumb to the glaring iniquities of the coal trust it would be shockingly in consistent to run amuck in other and less offensive fields. What steps may be taken by Washington to investi gate Standard Oil can hardly be at tended by results of consequence. The misdeeds of this venerable sinner have long been known to the world in gen eral, and its methods are believed to be so cleverly concealed and covered up as to make the corporation proof against prosecution. Speculation in Copper. Speculative interest in the Coppers has been revived throughout the East by the sensational advance of the cop per metal, and by the continued re ports of a shortage in the world's sup ply. The best copper authorities as sert that production falls short of con sumption, and that the metal Is cer tain to advance to 17 cents a pound again within a year. Consequent upon this advance of the metal, speculation in copper shares has been rife, and all the active stocks have seen a re markable advance. Trading on the New York curb market in copper stocks occupies the attention of the traders to the exclusion of almost ev ery other security. It is asserted that all the prominent producing companies will close their fiscal year with a large surplus of earnings to their credit. These pre dictions have caused a most sensa tional advance in the price of the pop ular copper stocks. Among these Mon treal and Boston Consolidated M. & S. has perhaps had the greatest per centage of advance of any. Three weeks ago this stock went begging on the curb at 75 cents a share, and to day it is in large demand around $3.25 to $3.50 per share, and there are those who freely predict that, owing to an Internal struggle for control of the company, this price will advance to $lO within sixty days. United Cup per, a Heinze property, Is also advanc ing in value, as are British Columbia, White Knob, Tennessee and all of the popular low-priced copper stocks. On Tuesday of this week the Chi nese government endeavored to pur chase 2,400 tons of spot copper at the market for the manufacture of coin, but was unable to get the order filled, and the best price they could obtain was 15*4 eents for March delivery. Phelps, Dodge & Cos. make the state ment that unless copper production in creases more than 10 per cent, from now until the first of next year there will he a copper famine. J. P. MORGAN AS A JUDGE OF ART. Other Multi-millionaires Who Know Good Pictures From Ifnil Ones. New York, Dec. 3.—The election of J. P. Morgan as president of the Met ropolitan Museum of Art brings that gentleman's remarkable taste before the public eye even more effectively than any of his many and extremely expensive art purchases abroad. In giving a good deal of attention to pictures Mr. Morgan is by no means peculiar among the multi-millionaires of the day, though undoubtedly be is unique so far as unerring and culti vated taste in pictures goes. There are two big railroad magnates, how ever, who need not doff their hats to him as judges of pictures. They are ' James J, Hill of the Great Northern Railroad, and Sir William Van Horn of the Canadian Pacific. Were either | of these emperors of transportation to i lose his Job he would be quite compe i tent to take charge of and buy for 1 any art galleries in the world. In this they and Mr. Morgan are j said to be head and shoulders above i all the other multi-millionaires of the United States and Canada. That this I should be true of Mr. Morgan is not ' surprising. Unlike most of the best known rich men of to-day he did not begin life as a poor boy. His father bad money in plenty; young Morgan was educated abroad, where he had many opportunities to see and study the finest an treasures of the old world, and he was a connoisseur of the first water when he returned to this country and took up the banking business where his father had laid it down. It was not so -with either Mr. Hill or Sir William Van Horn. Both of \ them were poor boys and neither had i opportunities to sec fine pictures or to I study them until man's estate had been reached. Betides being a flrst ! class Judge of pictures Mr. Hill Is said to know more about diamonds and : other precious stones than any one else !on this continent except Oeorge F. I Kunz, the gem expert of the great est dealers in precious stones in | America. Nobody knows just how he | came to take up the study of gems, | but be did so many year* ugn and his ' gem lore includes not only about ail there is to know about grades, quality and values, hut slao the history of diamond and ruby cutting and the in dividual history ot all the noted gems lit tbe world. Dumps. WASTING AWAY ■" HOPELESS Not exactly sick. Just dull, listless, without energy, hope or ambition. Can’t go about vour work with the ole time vim and spirit. Easily tired. Your rest is disturbed, digestion poor. Have headaches riod and again, and pains tin back and loins. If a woman, your monthly visits are painful delayed or suppressed, arid you have other female ills. Sometimes you even faint, it's hard to go up stairs. You don’t understand your condition, nor realize vour danger. The plain, simple truth is that 3 r IT’S YOUR KIDNEYS and without prompt and proper treatment you’re apt to drop off at anv minute with Bright’s Disease, diabetes, uraemic or blood poisoning the last stages of kidney disease. The daily papers are filled with such cases. Pretty Sirs. Andrews of Atlanta, Ga., Cured of Kidney Trouble by Warner's Safe Cure “My health began to fail over a year ago,” says Mrs. Nettie W. Andrews of 65 Mill St. "Nothing special the matter, but I seemed to grow a little weaker each day: couldn’t accomplish so much without getting completely tired out. Didn’t sleep well and was ‘finicky about what I ate. Took a tonic, but felt no better. Consulted a doctor and he told me he knew i n a minute from my peculiar dull complexion that I had kidney disease, never theless his medicines did me no good. At the end of six months the pains in my back and head were bad. I was thin, haggard and in despair. I had read so much about Warner’s Safe Cure and the many thousands cured by its use in last stages of kidney trouble that I determined to give it a trial I knew' from the first bottle that at last I had the right medicine. Three bottles completely cured me, and lam in better general health than for years. Oh, how many mbnths of anxiety I might have been saved had I only known in the start that my trouble was in the kidneys, and that Warner’s Safe Cure is the only true cure for the disease.” —Aug. 27, ’O4. This is just the trouble: The germs of kidney disease generally lurk in the system months before they give any sign that is recognized by the suf ferer as kidney trouble. Thousands of men and women have kidney disease and don’t know it. Doctors tell by letting a little morning urine stand in a tumbler 2 4 hours. If it becomes cloudy, has a reddish-brown sediment or MRS. NETTIE W. ANDREWS. particles float about in it your kidneys are affected and you haven't a min ute to lose. Get a bottle of Warner’s Safe Cure at the nearest druggist’s and begin taking it as directed. It will cure you, and it’s the only medicine that will without leaving bad after effects. 50 cents and SI.OO a bottle at all druggists. If you have any of the above symptoms, or if any member of your family in this or past generations has had kidney trouble (it’e hereditary).watch your kidneys—make the urine test once or twice a month. Never take anything but Warner’s Safe Cure, the standard for 30 years. Beware of so-called kidney cures that contain narcotics. They injure the organs and do not cure. Medical booklet and doctor’s advice free. Warner’s Safe Cure Cos., Rochester, N. Y. M ARKER’S SAFE PILLS move the bowels gently and aid a speedy cure. INSTIGATOR OF THE “REVISED VERSION ” Octegennriun Risliop Who I* Fond of Cycling and Billiards. London, Dec. 3.—Although w'hen it was rumored last August that Dr. El licott, Bishop of Gloucester, was about to vacate his see, the aged prelate gave a vigorous denial to the story, his ap proaching retirement is now authori tatively announced. Born eighty-five years ago, with a record of forty-one years service on the Episcopal bench, he is easily the doyen of Anglican bishops. Until a very recent period his bodily and mental strength seemed little impaired by the assaults of time. For many years he was one of the most ardent of Alpine climbers and when he was nearly 70 he crossed the Aletsch glacier alone and in a snow storm. At dinner that same night he made light of his adventure. A hard worker all his life, and proud of his health and strength, he has at last re luctantly yielded to the persuasions of his friends that he should devote what remains of his life to the rest he has so richly earned. To him, more than to anybody else, the Church is indebted for the “Re vised Version” of the New Testament. At Cambridge, in his young days, he devoted himself to its historical study. Bringing to his task as the years went by the accumulations of a profound scholarship and intimate acquaintance with Hebrew literature, he became convinced of the necessity for anew translation. But he feared that he could not arouse sufficient interest and sympathy in the project to obtain the sanction of the church for the work, and it was more or less as a forlorn hope that he induced Bishop Wllber force to bring the matter before con vocation in 1870. To his surprise and gratification a committtee was appoint ed to undertake the task, of which, as the man best fitted for the position, he was made chairman. It has been said that he possesses a gold pass that enables him to travel free on any English railroad. This is 1 ,000,000 CASES OF GRIP CURED BY Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic Office of CALDWELL COMMISSION CO. CHICAGO, ILL, Jan. 21,1890. MR. A. B. GIRARDEAU, Savannah, Ga. Dear Sir—My son, a man of thirty years, was attacked with La Grippe, and believing it to be of malarial origin, took your Johnson’s Tonic as direct ed for Chills and fever. The result was he escaped the fever which follows the severe aching, and was , able to be at work the second day. I was taken with the disease. Every bone in me began to ache, and my suffering was great. I was compelled to go home and to bed. I fully expected to be there a week. My son told me of his experience, and urged me to take Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic. 1 did so— took it with regularity all through the night—and was agreeably surprised to see that no Fever came. J continued until I had taken eight doses—felt weak and exhausted, but no fever, and aching disappeared. Next morning I had a good appetite for my breakfast, and felt quite well, and went to my business as well as I ever was. Since then I have tried it with like results on two other cases. Yours truly, W. W. CALDWELL, President and Manager. The Best Thing to Use for Fever and the Only Thing to Use for LA. GRIPPE a slight exaggeration, but he has a silver "life pass” on the Great East ern, which he won, so to speak, in a railroad accident on that line. On that unfortunate occasion both his legs were broken, but while he lay In ag ony he administered spiritual consola tion to a fellow sufferer by the dis aster. The period immediately follow ing this terrible experience he has described as “time spent wiht the an gels.” For all that he is a very hu man type of man with none of the as cetic’s attitude towards life. He knows how to enjoy himself and no doubt his mastery of the art of recreation accounts in no small measure for his vigor ahd longevity. Quite late in life the bishop took to cycling and he still plays a good game to billiards. It is related of him that playing at Lord Ducie’s one Saturday night he regretted that someone had not Exercised sufficient forethought to put back the hands of the clock which pointed to midnight at an interesting period of the game. Probably the story is apocryphal, but it illustrates his devotion to the green cloth and ivory balls. He narrowly missed be ing Archbishop of Canterbury, Dis raeli strongly urging his claims to it as long ago as 1868. But the Queen for once disregarded her favorite Premier’s recommendation and ap pointed Dr. Tait to the vacant see. ENGLAND’S INTENTIONS IN FAR OFF THIBET Arc Attracting the Attention of the State Department. Washington, Dec. 3.—England’s in tentions in Thibet have attracted the careful consideration of the State De partment because of the vital relations the affairs of that country to the American policy in support of the ad ministrative entity of China. There have been some exchanges of a thor oughly informal character between Washington and London. The Wash ington government was long ago ad vised by its ambassador at London that no policy In contravention of the integrity of China is contemplated. The text of the Anglo-Thtbetan treaty already published imposes upon the Thibetans the payment of £500,000 ($2,500,000), England to remain in Thi bet until this is paid. The sum is so great as to assure England of practi cally permanent occupation of Thibet, the resources of that people for ment toeing sadly limited. This and the reported clause of the treaty stipulating that no other gov ernment shall have privileges in Thi bet unless approved by Great Britain has aroused the deepest antagonism of Russia, on the ground that this is a virtual assumption of the powers of sovereignty by the British. It is an nounced in London, however, that this text of the treaty is not correct and that the treaty will be amended before ratification, so that it will suit every body concerned. Considerable opposition to the treaty has become manifest In Pekin. It is doubtful if it will be readily ratified there. Before it is ratified the Rus sian and British governments will un doubtedly measure their diplomatic strength with the Chinese government. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, has sailed from England for his post. It is expected there will be some develop ment of the situation when he arrives in India. There is no disposition on the part of the State Department now to ques tion England’s intentions In Thibet. In the fact of such assurances as have been given pressing inquiries would probably not be gratefully accepted. If the treaty as ratified Is tn contraven tion of any of the principles of the ’’open door” or the ’’administrative entity" of China there will be time enough to act then.” —Countess Margaret Cassini, niece and adopted daughter of the Russian ambassador to this country, will de vote her energies to amateur theatri cals in Washington this winter. She is a born actress, graceful, beautiful, clever, with a good voice which she knows how to use, and she has thk en up acting with her usual zeal, en ergy and taste. Her favorite charac ter Is Judith, although she is at home In comedy as well as tragedy.