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mIU Uft AI>VLKIiSbMEATS
Meetings—Savannah Lodge, No. 183,
Bi P. O. Elks, Memorial Service.
Special Notices —At Joyce's To-mor
row; Crew Notice, J. N. Wilson, Mas
ter; Lends Money, Empire Investment
Cos.; Lard, M. S. Gardner.
Business Notices —Tit Bits, Casino
Restaurant; Sunday Dinner, Sommers’
Cafe; Good Boys’ Wheels, G. W.
Thomas; When the Little Girl Needs
Shoes, C. F. Cler: Fruits, Uoos' Mar
ket; Ladies’ Hand Bags, I. H. Fried
man & Cos.; Holiday or Wedding Gift
Shopping, R. Van Keuren & Cos.; Lov
ers of the Beautiful, Theus & Cos.;
Trucks, Cohen-Kuiman Carriage and
Wagon Cos.; Christmas Candies, Bel
singer & Gross; Christmas Will Soon
Be Hear, A. L. Deabouillons.
Amusements—First Artist Concert,
Savannah Music Club.
Lost—T. A. Bryson.
The Great Christmas Store of Savan
nah —Foye & Eckstein.
A Sale Before Christmas—B. H.
Levy, Bro. & Cos.
In Looking for Holiday Gifts—Savan
nah Gas Company.
Ready-to-wear Department—Leopold
Adler.
Chewing Tobacco—Dougan ft Shef
tall.
Let Us Shoulder Tour Troubles—
Jackson & Gutman.
Christmas Is Coming and It. Up To
You—Ludden & Bates, Southern Music
House.
Great Holiday Sale of Men’s Flno
Hats—G. W. Merrill & Cos.
A Christmas Store in Real Earnest—
Walsh & Meyer.
A Week of Grand Special Bargains—
J. L. Morrison & Cos.
Christmas Gifts for Everybody—Ee
tate Daniel Hogan.
The Christmas Spirit Is On—The Met
ropolitan.
Imperial Pilsener Beer—James
O'Keefe. Distributor.
Phenomenal Values—J. T. Cohen’s
Sons.
A Fairyland of Holiday Gifts—Con
nor Book Store.
Libbey Christmas Cutgiag*—Thos.
West ft Cos.
Ready for the Rush —C. A. Munster.
Completely Surrounded Walker-
Mulligan Furniture Company.
Holiday Goods Sale—Gustave Eck
stein & Cos.
A Straight Talk on Fake Whisky
Methods —Rose, the Distiller, Atlanta,
Ga.
The New Silverware Department—
Leopold Adler.
Don’t Forget The Bicycle—T. A.
Bryson.
Fine Stationery—M. S. ft D. A Byck.
New Subscribers —Bell Telephone
Cos.
Real Estate—Horttce Rivers.
Three New Things in Savannah To
day-Jerry George.
Serviceable Sweaters—At The Bee
Hive.
Are Tour Feet Tender—Globe Shoe
Cos.
Gentlemen's Highest Grade Custom
Made Footwear—Byck Bros.
The Ford Motor Car —Electric Supply
Cos.
Full Dress—Connor & Sullivan.
Le Panto Cigars—Henry Solomon &
Son.
Red Lion Courage Gin—Henry Solo
mon & Son.
Buy Your Piano From Us—The Oable
Company.
Holiday Good Things—McGrath &
Ransford.
If You Had One of Our Rain Coats—
Falk's. Around the Corner.
Christmas Boxes—W. D. Simklns ft
Cos.
Christmas Fast Approaching—The
Delmonico Cos.
The Boy’s Present—Edward Lovell’s
Rons.
Lap Robes for Christmks—Leo
Frank.
Savannah Theater—Monday, Matinee
and Night, "Sherlock Holmes;” Wed
nesday. Matinee and Night, Barlow
Minstrels; Saturday, Matinee and
Night. ’’Quincy Adams Sawyer.”
Scrupulous Care—Savannah-Georgla
Laundry.
Warburines Work Wonders—Rowlln
ski, Druggist.
A Sure Remedy—J. T. Shuptrine.
Don't Make a Mistake—Lattlmora’s.
Eyeglass Guard—Dr. M. Schwab’s
Son.
Druggists’ Sundries Llvingaton's
Pharmacy.
Charlotte Russe, Ice Creams, Etc.—
At Conkla's.
Our Retiring From Business—Allen
Bros.
Get Our Prices—New York Cash Gro
cery.
Our 17th Annual Holiday Sale—Dr.
M Hr h wall's Son.
Our Offerings for 1905—R. V. Con
nerat.
Whisky—Lewis’ ; Casper North
Carolina Sweet Mash,
I'oatum Food Coffee.
Financial—('upper Storks. F. P.
Ward A Co.j Hull Market, John It.
Kimball ft Cos,
Aucilisi Sales—Corpeta, Furniture,
* by (*. H. ! i , Au<tlontfr.
■ ——a.
The Mealber,
Tbe tndh-st lone for Georgia and nset
k for u>-4ay are for fair
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SENATOR BACON’S LETTER.
The letter of Senator Bacon to Rep
resentative Hardwick, which we pub
lish elswhere In to-day’s Morning
News, should be carefully read and
pondered by the people of Georgia; in
fact, by the people of the entire South.
The arguments it contains in favor of
the white people of the South stand
ing together as long as the Fifteenth
Amendment is in force are convinc
ing.
The white people, standing together
under the banner of Democracy,
wrested the control of the govern
ments of the Southern States from
the negroes and their white allies, and,
by standing together in the name of
that party, have retained control of
the South and made it prosperous. If
they should abandon this wise policy
and divide, the result would be a con
stant struggle between the whites and
the negroes, the latter having a few
white allies, or a struggle between two
white parties each seeking the assist
ance of the negroes. In either case
there would be brought about a condi
tion of affairs that would result dis
astrously to the South’s welfare.
It Is utterly impossible for two races,
one inferior to the other, to live in
harmony if they are in possession of
equal political rights. If they could,
they would amalgamate, and the peo
ple of the South would become a mon
grel race, because with political equal
ity would gradually come social
equality.
The only salvation of the South Is
for the white race to remain domi
nant, and it is the intention of the
white people to continue so. They
will do this even if they have to give
up a part of their representation in
Congress and the Electoral College.
They will never consent to any condi
tion of affairs that leads towards the
Africanization of their section.
Senator Bacon says there are indi
cations that the Republicans are con
sidering plans for bringing about a
division of the white people of the
South. He is in a position to know
about such matters, and the
people of this state and of the South
have confidence in him as one of their
leaders. It Is to be hoped he is mis
taken. In some of the recent utter
ances of leading Republican papers the
Impression is conveyed that it would
be the part of wisdom on the part of
the Republican party to let the South
deal with her race problem as she
thinks best. The Republican leaders
may take this view. But, if they do
not, and their party insists that the
South shall put the negro on the same
political plane with the white man or
lose a part of her representation, the
probability is she will give up a part
of her representation, because the
domination of the white race Is of far
more importance to her than a few
more men in Congress and a few more
electors in the Electoral College.
Senator Bacon alms his arguments
at the Republican leaders, but Just at
present Mr. Watson, the Populist
leader, is a far greater force In divid
ing the white people of this state than
the Republican leaders appear to be.
In his speech at Crawfordsville the oth
er day he rldiouled the Democrats for
remaining huddled together because of
the fear of negro domination. It
looks very much as if it were his pur
pose to use his Influence to the utmost
to divide the white voters of this
state. Did not Senator Bacon have
him and his work in mind when he
was writing his letter?
The white people of this state, and
of the entire South, understand the
necessity of standing together. The
prospertiy of their seotlon demands
they shall do so until the negro ques
tion Is adjusted. And the North is be
ginning to understand why the South
is politically solid, and, as already
pointed out, there are Republican lead
ers who are disposed not to embar
rass her In her efforts to solve the
problem that makes her solid. But,
whatever the purpose of the Republi
can party may be, It is quite certain
that the South Is going to pursue the
course that will enable her to main
tain the domination of the white i*ace
within her borders.
sounds of the country’s
WEALTH.
The annual report of Secretary of
Agriculture James Wilson, a full sum
mary of which we published the other
day, bristles with statements that seem
almost marvelous, and yet they are
supported by the best available data.
Summed up, the report shows that the
real source of the country’s great
wealth and prosperity Is Its farms.
"The farmers of this country,” the
Secretary says, “have in two years
produced wealth exceeding the output
of all the gold mines of the entire
world since Columbus discovered
America.” Economists and financiers
everywhere watch the statistics of the
gold production, and the discovery of
anew gold-bearing territory of rich
ness and promise has Its influence on
the world's finances. And yet In the
short space of two years American
farmers have dug out of the ground
greater wealth than the gold miners
have dug out In more than four hun
dred years! Is It In the least strange
that a country with such an agricul
tural backing has pushed Itself to the
very front among the nations of the
world ?
Corn Is the country's greatest and
most valuable crop. It Is grown prac
tically everywhere, from the Gulf of
St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico.
It Is a national crop, each state add
ing to the grand total of a thousand
million dollars’ value of the year's pro
duction. The second greatest crop Is
cotton, worth this year six-tenths as
much as the corn crop. But this Is
not a national crop, Cotton la grown
only In the Southern group of states.
The value of the cotton crop this year
is estimated at six hundred millions
of dollars. Can the section having a
monopoly of the production of thla
enormous crop of a staple that the
world must have do otherwise than
progress In wealth and power? Nor
Is cotton (he South’s one crop. Diversi
fied farming is practiced to a greater
egtant oa< h year In the South. South
ern farina are produilng about every
thing that nan tie grown In the tom
' y lata snow and the aevMoa la on the
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1904
high road to financial Independence
and even affluence. Still we have
made only slight Inroads upon
our resources.
There is especially one source of
wealth for farmers that we have here
tofore given little attention in Geor
gia—the poultry business. Secretary
Wilson says that in a single month of
“their busy season” the hens of the
United States lay eggs enough to "pay
the year's Interest on the national
debt.” These industrious and valuable
hens live largely in other sections than
ours. We have not hens enough to lay
eggs for our own tables, and every
week tens of thousands of dollars are
sent out of Georgia to other states to
pay for eggs and dressed poultry. Yet
there isn't a single good reason why,
instead of buying eggs, we should not
have them for sale to other people.
BREAKING DOWN AT THIRTY.
What good is all of the wealth of
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., going to do
him if he loses his health? It Is an
nounced that he has been compelled to
give up business for two or three
months and go abroad. It seems he
has been unable to stand the strain
of his many business connections.
He is a director in ten great corpora
tions, and he Is expected to know
something about the affairs of each
one of them —enough to enable him to
act in Its affairs Intelligently. Be
sides, he has his regular business to at
tend to, and it is not Improbable that
once in a while he takes a flyer in
Wall street.
He is said to be the richest man of
his age In the world. He is only thirty,
and leading Wall street men estimate
that if his father were to die now he
would control $1,000,000,000. This sum
is so great that the mind can hardly
grasp it. If Mr. Rockefeller wanted
to it Is probable he could bring on a
money panic at any time, 'and could
wreck about any corporation In this
country.
What pleasure does he get out of
all of his wealth? Does the mere
possession of it compensate him for
the burden of taking care of it? Does
the knowledge of the power it gives
him make him satisfied to be its will
ing slave for the remainder of his life?
And his life may not be long if it bo
true that he is breaking down under
the weight of his responsibilities?
He doesn’t get much pleasure out of
life —at least what the world calls
pleasure. He goes to bed at 10 o’clock
and rises at 6:30. He is at his desk
at 9 o’clock. With the exception of a
half an hour In which to eat his 30-cent
lunch, he toils until 5 p. m. Even his
Sundays are pretty fully occupied, as
he has to prepare for and guide a
Sunday-school class of 250 men. Many
who envy him his wealth wouldn’t ex
change places with him If they had to
live exactly as he does and bear the
burdens he carries. After all, the hap
piest people are not those who have
the greatest amount of wealth. More
happiness dwells In a cottage than In
a palace.
THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
The last Legislature appropriated
$25,000 to the State Normal School at
Athens on condition that $25,000 addi
tional should be raised from personal
sources. Of this amount $20,000 has
been given. Mr. George Foster Pea
body of New York has given SIO,OOO,
and Hon. James M. Smith of Ogle
thorpe county has given SIO,OOO, so
that there now remains but $5,000 to
be raised by the people of the state
to make the Legislature’s appropria
tion available and place in the hands
of the trustees the fund of $50,000 that
Is so badly needed. There ought to
be very little if any difficulty experi
enced in securing this lacking sum.
The purpose of the Normal School is
to train teachers for the public, prin
cipally the rural, schools. The chief
dependence of the state for the edu
cation of its children rests upon the
rural schools. We are spending sl,-
000,000 a year for common schools, but
we shall not get the maximum of
benefit from them until they are all
supplied with trained teachers. Thus,
with the better training of the teach
ers, we get an increased return for
every dollar invested in the common
schools. And the Normal School was
established for the specific work of
“teaching teachers how to teach.”
For the purpose of raising the $5,000
desired, as stated above, the trustees
of the Normal School are working by
congressional districts. It Is hoped
and expected that the First congress
ional district will contribute at least
SSOO. Prof. Joseph M. Smith, of
Reidsville, Ga., school commissioner or
Tattnall county, Is chairman of the
committee for raising funds in this dis
trict, and he Is anxious to secure the
district’s quota by Jan. 1 next. There
are a number of teachers in this dis
trict who have been beneficiaries of
the Normal School, and the call for
contributions should meet with a
cheerful response.
TUB DECLINE IN THE PRICE OF
COTTON.
The drop in the price of cotton yes
terday, when the government's report
was published showing a crop of 12,-
162,000 bales, indicates how much less
per pound the world is willing to pay
for a big crop of cotton than a small
or medium-sized one. Yesterday's de
cline means that the South will get
between 812,000.000 and $15,000,000 less
for the remainder of the crop than she
would have got if the price had remain
ed at what it was the day before the
government's report was given out.
For a crop of 11,000,000 bales it is
probable that 10 cents would have been
paid, and for a crop of 10,000.000 bales
12 cents. Indeed, for a 10,000,000-bale
crop it Is probable that considerably
more than 12 cents would have been
obtained.
Now that It is practically certain
Unit there Is as much cotton as the
spinners want there will not be so
much is Ik as there has been recently
about tludlng new sources of supply.
The spinners of England, Germany
and France will not be so anxious to
■Uncover whether or not cotton can he
produced profitably and In quantities
In some of the possessions of their re
spective countries outside of ths pres
ent sources of supply. At 14 or 12, or
even Ml cents s pound, they might be
justified In trying to open up new cot
ton fields, because of the profit there
Is In growing cotton at those prices,
but there is very little encourage
ment In opening up new fields at the
price which prevailed yesterday.
It is probable that nearly two-thirds
of the crop Is out of the hands of the
farmers, and that more than half of
It has been marketed in this country
and abroad. The farmers will not suf
fer so severely, therefore, as they
would If the belief had strongly pre
vailed earlier In the season that the
crop was above 12,000,000 bales.
It Is probable that the size of the
present crop and the drop In the price
will have the effect of making the
farmers a little more conservative
than they otherwise would have been
In their planting. They were preparing
to plant a considerably larger acreage
next season than they planted this. This
is shown by the amount of fertilizers
sold. If the farmers are wise they will
give a little more attention to diversi
fied farming next year.
Mayor McClellan of New York is
doubtless glad that he is not the execu
tive head of a municipality in the realm
of his majesty the Mikado of Japan.
The other day Mayor McClellan had an
engagement to meet Prince Fushlmi,
the Mikado’s representative visiting
this country, at the Hotel St. Regis.
But the Mayor was detained at the
City Hall on official business and did
not reach the hotel until some twenty
minutes after the time set for the
meeting. The Prince had waited fif
teen minutes and then gone out for a
drive. He left a representative at the
hotel, however, who told the Mayor
when he came that If such an act of
discourtesy had occurred in his coun
try, the offender would have been de
capitated. The Mayor smiled—and
kept his head.
One of the most powerful cartoons
of a decade appeared in a London pa
per recently. It showed Gen. Stoessel
on the battlements at Port Arthur, in
the midst of a storm of bursting shell.
With bared head and broken sword at
salute he stood before his country’s
flag. The legend under the picture
read; “Hall Emperor; we who are
about to die salute thee!” There could
be no more striking summary of the
situation. Stoessel and his magnifi
cently brave men, lacking authority
from St. Petersburg, will die in their
places before they will surrender. They
are condemned to death for the glory
of the Czar and the benefit of the mil
itary grafters who are fattening on the
exigencies of the occasion.
An ancient Indian prayer book was
sold in New York the other day for
$1,300, the name of the purchaser being
withheld. It is understood that it was
bought for J. Pierpont Morgan. It
would be interesting to know If it was
stolen from some church.
PERSONAL.
—Former Senator George F. Ed
munds recently visited one of the
mountain hamlets in Vermont where
he had not been for thirty years, and
finding upon inquiry of the local hotel
keeper, that the population had de
creased about one-third. he said:
“Well, I guess babies aren't born here
very frequently, are they?” "Oh, ’bout
once,” replied the hotel man.
—Lord Ellesmere of Englang, al
ready a well known writer under his
pen name of “Charles Granville,” has
just issued his first novel bearing his
full title. He is the owner of Hamp
ton, the sire of five Derby winners.
Though the owner of some of the fin
est racing stables in England, Lord
Ellesmere has never made a bet. He
once gave 1,000 guineas for a fighting
game cock, and he is the owner of the
finest private picture gallery In Lon
don. Bridgewater House boasts four
Raphaels, fifteen Teniers, Titian’s
“Three Ages of Man,” and Vandyck’s
only attempt to paint “The Virgin and
the Child.”
BRIGHT BITS.
—The Manicure Girl —"Aren't you
afraid of dying an old maid?” The
Hairdresser—“ Certainly not. I dye one
nearly every day.”—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
—Quite Some—“ Father, what's the
difference between a lunch and a
luncheon?” ‘‘About a dollar and a
quarter, my boy.”—Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.
—"Great guns!” exclaimed the ab
sent-minded man.” "I Just stuck the
lighted end of this cigar In my mouth.”
“How fortunate you were in discover
ing at once, dear,” rejoined his good
wife.—Glasgow Evening Times.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Charleston Post (Dem.) says:
“The Congressmen are gathering at
Washington and a good many of them
who are Democrats have come only
to pack up their things preparatory to
returning home for Indefinite vacation.
March 4 will see a pretty general clean
ing out of Democrats from Washing
ton except for the Southern mem
bers.”
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says:
"The only practical effange of policy
In the South would be for the white
people, or a larger part of them, to
become Republicans. This the Re
publican party prevented by Its con
sistent attitude of hostility to the
South. The supreme act of hostility
was In conferring the franchise upon
the cotton-field negroes. Emissaries
came from the North and organized
them into a “Republlc'an" party, which
at once engaged in systematic public
brigandage and assault upon property
and cttvUlza,tion. That has consoli
dated the white vote for self-protec
tion down to the present time.”
The Mobile Register (Dem.) says:
‘‘Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia, hits
the mark In the center when he de
clares that the white people of *he
South have not made sufficient appeal
to the respectable blacks to assist In
the prevention of crime, and In the
legal punishment of criminals. In every
country save this where superior and
Inferior races reside the superior race
utilizes the inferior In what may be
railed the policing of the country.
Wise men recognize that such policing
has two results: It encourages the
good element and It keeps very well
In control the bad. The difficulty here
Is that the superior race does not
wish to be In any way subject to the
Inferior, and will n<>t be no; but there
Is opportunity to use the best of the
colored citizen* for their own ad
vantage and for the good of (he com
munity, without conferring powers
I hat may Is* Objectionably used. Judge
Hpeer Indicate* (he field In which some
thing may he dsns, and he Is snllrs
ly .oriel an* wlsa Ut hit rseont-
ItiendaUens.'* N
Cruelty and Consideration.
The modem lady sat down to her
luncheon, says Collier’s Weekly. The
principal dish was a young squab that
belonged to an extremely Interesting
and beautiful family of pigeons. The
father and mother pigeon had met
their fate a day or so before at a grand
shooting match. As for the squab, not
Waving any father or mother left, It
was better, perhaps, that he should ful
fil his mission by satisfying the hunger
of such a charming human being as
the modern lady -was.
After she had finished her luncheon,
the modern lady called her maid and
directed her to go upstairs and get
her winter cctat. This coat was made
of baby lambs’ wool. The lives of a
great number of baby lambs had been
sacrificed in order to make this coat.
Ar.d it was natural for the modern
lady to say to the maid;
“Now, Katy, when the furrier calls
hand him this for storage, and tell
him to take good care of It, as I am
greatly attached to It.”
Then she went upstairs to get ready
to go out.
She put on her soft walking boots,
furnished by an affectionate young kid;
also her gloves, furnished by another
kid. She put on her hat, upon which
was poised a beautiful bird. This bird
had once been alive and had sung In
a Southern forest, but one day he had
been shot down, and now the modern
lady was surveying him critically In
her mirror.
As she stepped out of her door, and
paused a moment for her carriage to
come up, if she had been of a reflective
turn of mind, or. If the subject had
specially interested her, she might pos
sibly have considered for a moment
the number and variety of animals
that had been murdered to make her
surroundings more luxurious. Through
the window in the hall was the dim
outline of a magnificent moose-head,
shot last year by her son in a Canadian
forest. On her floor was a tiger-rug
skin brought from India. On the
shoulders of her coachmen were mon
key-skin capes. In fact, no matter
where the eye rested, the remains of
some dead anirrfal or bird testified to
man’s wonderful skill and ingenuity of
slaughter.
But the modern lady was pursuing
no such reflection. On the contrary,
her observation was directed solely to
a stray dog that had wandered incon
tinently upon the premises and w*as
looking up at her from a safe distance
with strangely pathetic eyes.
She rang the bell again.
“Katy,” she said to the maid, “I
left part of a squab on my pfate. Won’t
you coax that dog round to the door
and give It to him? Poor little thing!
Someone has been dreadfully cruel to
him.”
She Taught Him Tact.
The late Louis Fleishmann, the mil
lionaire baker, not only distributed
food to poor men in the “bread line”
he had established in New York, but
he also got these men employment. He
went among them, says the Cincin
nati Enquirer, and conversed with
them, and the delicacy of his ques
tions to them, the care he took not
to hurt their feelings, was remark
able. One day when a reporter com
plimented Mr. Fleishmann on this tact
of his, the philanthropist replied:
"The more unfortunate and wretch
ed people are, the more sensitive they
are; the more easily they are wound
ed. The public .does not bear this fact
enough in mind.
“And yet it is a fact that is contin
ually being proved—sometimes pathet
ically, sometimes humorously. It was
proved humorously to a friend of mine
last summer in Scotland.
"He was making a walking tour. He
was climbing mountains and viewing
lakes and torrents. One morning on
a quiet road he met a young woman,
tall and comely, who walked bare
footed.
“Surprised, my friend stopped the
young woman and said:
“ ‘Do all the people hereabouts go
barefooted?’
“She answered:
“ ’Some of them do, and the rest
mind their business.’ ”
Glories of War.
MaJ. Gen. Corbin, commanding the
Department of the East,'tells the fol
lowing with reference to a member
of the militia of a Northern state tak
ing part in the recent maneuvers at
Manassas, says the New York Herald.
The guardsman was one day making
heroic efforts to get away with his
first ration of army beef. A fellow sol
dier walking near him stopped to
watch, with some amusement, the at
tempt of the Northerner to masticate
the meat. “What’s the matter, Bill?”
asked he.
"Oh, nothin’ much,” was the sullen
reply. Then, disgustedly regarding a
piece of the beef that he held in his
hand, the Yankee added:
“Now I know what people mean
when they talk about the sinews of
war.”
H-a-y—Dried Grass.
As might well be expected, says the
New York Herald, the name ’of the
present Secretary of State is familiar
to nearly all Americans, and evidence
of his claim to a place in their mem
ories was furnished recently by a lit
tle incident that happened while a
farmer, rejoicing in his monosyllable
cognomen, was talking over the long
distance telephone. "Mr. Hay” was
given as an answer to the frequent
telephone question, “Who is there?”
But Mr. Hay was requested to repeat
his name, and his interlocutorg failing
to catch it again and again, shouted
rather impatiently: "Speak up, I can
not hear you.” "Mr. Hay, Mr. Hay.”
"Mr. What?” "Mr. Hay—h-a-y, hay,
dried grass—Secretary Hay. Do you
hear me now?” And he said he did.
Thurman's Red Bandana Blast.
An Ohio Democrat was being twitted
regarding the recent slaughter of his
party, and the opinion was expressed
that the organization was now down
and out for good. “May be,” said the
Ohioan, “but l‘m old enough to re
member what was said by the grand
old Roman, Allen G. Thurman, in 1872.
Some friends were In his office a day
or two after election, and they were
agreed that the Democracy might as
well disband. Mr. Thurman waved
his red bandana, and, after blowing a
tremendous blast, said, with a hearty
ring in his voice: “Gentlemen, I have
listened to all you have said, anil I
want to tell you that this is too small
a room in which to kill the Democratic
party.’ Next year William Allen
was chosen Democratic Governor of
the state.”
Plerpont Morgan's Perspicacity.
Flerpont Morgan Is *not what might
be called garrulous. In fact, he sel
dom speaks unless he has something
to say. On one occasion he wanted to
get a superintendent for a certain new
depsrtment that he had established.
He thought he knew the man for this
superintendency—an assistant to one
of his colleagues. He sent for the col-
Icagtuc and said: "I am setting up.
you know, a certain new department.
I shall want anew superintendent. I
think Brown, in your office, would (111
the place very well. Indeed." ”1 am
sure he would,” e.tld the other "The
only trouble Is, Mr. Morgan, Brown
cun’t be spa red.” "I don't want a
man that you can spare.” replied Mor
gan. Urowu was appointed.
A LUCKY $3 HILL.
From the New York Herald.
“Blind Tom” Angus, who for many
years has sold papers at the West
Twenty-third street ferry, was made
happy yesterday when his counsel, L.
E. Herrmann, Jr., of Jersey City, no
tified him that he was $5,000 richer.
Sixteen years ago, when living with
his parents in the Lafayette section of
Jersey City, Augus attended a public
school. While returning to his home
one afternoon a playmate, William J.
Jungling, accidentally threw ammonia
into his face. It destroyed his sight
and his school days were ended. He
obtained permission to sell papers at
the Pennsylvania ferry at the foot of
West Twenty-third street, and he made
a comfortable living.
In 1901 Charles M. Schwab purchased
a newspaper from the blind boy, gave
him a five dollar bill and told him to
keep the change. A cab driver told
“Tom” the name of his benefactor.
With this five dollar bill “Tom” called
upon many lawyers in Jersey City and
asked them to institute suit against
Jungllng’s father. They declined, and
informed the blind lad that the claim
against Jungling was debarred by the
statute of limitations. He continued
his quest, however, and eventually Mr.
Herrmann took the case, but declined
to accept the $5. “Tom,” however,
insisted, saying:
“Mr. Schwab, the great millionaire,
gave me that bill. I think it’s lucky.
Please take it.”
Herrmann looked up the law and dis
covered that he had just thirty days
in which to bring his suit before it
was outlawed by the statutes. “Tom’s”
sightless eyes moved the jurors and
they awarded him a verdict of $6,208.
He had asked for SIO,OOO. The verdict
was carried to a higher court, but
realizing that there was little hope of
obtaining a reversal of the verdict,
counsel for Jungling recently opened
negotiations which resulted in a com
promise.
RUSSIAN FINANCES.
From the New York Tribune.
Concerning Russia’s financial ability
to carry on the war the Statist seems
to think it is practically unlimited. Its
opinion is that that country can get
£100,000,000, that is, $500,000,000, from
France, Germany and Holland, and if
necessary a good deal more. She has
a vast amount of gold at home and
the power to Issue all the inconvertible
paper needed. To be sure, this will
be a sore burden first and last, but its
severer pressure will not be felt at
once, but will come later. On the other
hand, the London Times says that it is
practically impossible to come to any
intelligent conclusions concerning Rus
sian finances, as the real state of the
case is shrouded In mystery. “The
Ministry of Finance frequently pub
lishes statements and statistics which
paint the situation In the rosiest hues,
the accommodating and mysterious
‘free balance’ always stepping forward
as a sort of deus ex machina to cover
all deficits. But these figures hear lit
tle relation to the real estate of affairs.
There is a secret budget besides the
official and published one which, if it
could be known, w r ould put a far dif
ferent face on the matter. But this
is only seen by those on the Inside of
Russian official affairs. The power of
the country, however, to finance its
war for some time yet is not doubted,
though it will mortgage the resources
of Russia for a long time to come
and lay grievous burdens on Its gener
ations not yet born.”
COST OF LONDON’S FOG.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
An ingenious but depressed London
newspaper write estimates that a re
cent five-days fog inflicted a loss of
$3,750,000 upon the metropolis. A
British fog statistician declares that
the gloom costs London $25,000,000 ev
ery year. It is asserted that London
burns more than 150,000.000 cubic feet
of gas on a foggy day, “enough to
supply a town of 50,000 inhabitants a
whole year. Extra electric light is
consumed to an extent equal to Its
ordinary use, and oil, lamps and can
dles are used in extraordinary quan
tities.” Trade suffers a loss from a
London fog which cannot be esti
mated. The following extract from
the London Express seems to have
been inspired by fog: “People are gen
erally too depressed to buy anything,
and appetities are so seriously affect
ed that the restaurant keeper loses
much of his profit. Places of enter
tainment are neglected, business is
lost through persons failing to keep
appointment and the course of justice
is delayed by late trains and fog
bound cabs.” The only interests ben
efited by the gloom are shareholders
of the gas and electric light compa
nies. A foggy winter Increases div
idends 1 per cent.
GIRL MAY DIE FROM INITIATION.
From the New York Tribune.
Lafayette, Ind., Dec. I.—Miss Adaltne
Irwin Is suffering from a severe at
tack of nervous prostration and is not
expected to recover, and six other girls
are seriously 111 as the result of being
Initiated into the Phi Kappa Theta
Society, a looal high school secret so
ciety. According to the story of one
of the victims, they were blindfolded.
Ice was passed up and down their
bare backs and at the same time a
red-hot branding iron was applied to a
piece of beefsteak.
A dish of angleworms was then
shown them, and, after being again
blindfolded, hot macaroni, as fried
worms, was forced Into their mouths.
This made several of the girls sick,
but the tortures continued until all
were prostrated. The school board has
been asked by indignant parents to
make an investigation.
KING PETER BUYS CROWN.
Belgrade Cablegram to the Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The news has leaked out that the
broze crown, scepter and globe, made
by the skill of a Paris Jeweler from
bronze of the cannon taken by the
ancestor of King Peter from the
Turks in 1804, have been purchased on
the condition of monthly instalments.
The price for the three pieces was
SB,OOO, a larger sum than the King had
available, but the Paris Jeweler, rath
er than keep the coronation waiting
for an Indefinite period, consented to
accept payment at the rate of S4OO a
month.
The treasury is known to be In such
a condition that even this compara
tive small debt will weigh as heavily
on its resources as the bronze crown
weighed on the forehead of the King
during the ceremony of his coronation.
THE TROLLEY IN EGYPT.
From the New York Tribune.
With a trolley towing plant establish
ed on the hanks of the Nile to draw
dahahlyehs to and fro, the moderniza
tion of Egypt may be conaldered aa
tolerably eomplete. The forty centu
ries which, na Napoleon told hie sol
dier*, stood on the summit of the Pyr
amid looking at then, as they marched
past, are, no doubt, still there, keeping
their long vigil, but whatever may
have gone by beneath them, they have
never yet looked forth on an electric
trolley and towing apparatus to mul
tiply from ten to thirty times or more
the flotillas and ci mmerce of the Nile,
exceeding all the efforts of Amenholep
or Paammmltua. The apparatus may
not be o spectacular aa the Pyramids,
I but It prom lees to he much mors use-
I fuJ to Egypt.
All Humors
Are Impure matters which the akin,
liver, kidneys and other organa can
not take care of without help, there ii
each an accumulation of them.
They litter the whole ayatem.
Pimples, boils, eczema and othet
eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired
feeling, bilious turns, tits of indiges
tion, dull headaches and many other
troubles are due to them.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
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their effects, strengthen, tone and
invigorate the whole system.
"I had salt rheum on my hands so that 1
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and it drove out the humor- I continued
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SAVANNAH ELECTRIC 10.
SUNDAY WINTER SCHEDULE.
SUBURBAN LINES.
Effective Dec. 4, 1904.
ISLE OF HOPE LINeT
Between Isle of Hope and 40th Street.
A. M. P. M. a. M. P. M
: 0 12:30 8 :00 1:00
1.30 Q’Oq o.oa
9:30 2:30 10:00
10:30 3:00 i 11-00 330
3:30 I2IOM. 4:00
-30 5:00
® : 22 5:30
..... 7:30 ; 8:00
MONTGOMERY LINE.
Between Montgomery and 40th Stieet
Lv. 40th Street. Lv. Montgomery.
A. M. P. M. A. m] RM
8:30 12:30 * 7:50 12:30
10:30 • 1:30 • 9:50 2:15
11:30 2:30 tll:30 *3:08
•Through to Thunderbolt.
tlB-minute wait at Sandfly.
Between Montgomery & Thunderbolt.
Lv. Montgomery. Lv. Thunderbolt.
A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
7:50 1:08 8:38 1:38
9:60 3:08 10:38 3:38
Between Isle of Hope & Thunderbolt.
Transferring at Sandfly.
Lv. Isle of Hope. Lv. Thunderbolt.
A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
8:00 *1:00 8:38 1:38
10:00 *3:00 10:38 3:38
♦l4-minute wait at Sandfly.
MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULED
Effective Dec. 3. 1904.
Leave Whitaker and Bay Streets"
A. M. A. M. P. M. P. M.
•6:20 10:00 12:40 5:20
6:40 10:40 1:20 6:00
•7:00 11:20 2:00 6:40
7:20 12:00 2:40 7:20
3:00 3:20 8:00
8:40 4:00 8:40
9:20 4:40
tSaturday night only.
Leave Mill-Haven.
A. M. A. M. P. M. P. m!
•6:40 11:00 12:20 5:40
7:00 11:40 1:00 *8:05
*1:20 1:40 6:20
1:40 2:20 7:00
8:20 3:00 7:40
9:00 8:40 8:20
9:40 4:25 9:00
10:80
I $10:20
•Daily except Sunday.
sSaturday night only.
Hermitage one-half mile from
terminus of Mill-Haven Line.
WEST END LINET
Car leaves west side of City Market
for Lincoln Park 6:00 a. m. and every
40 minutes thereafter Until 11:40 p. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market
6:20 a. m. and every 40 minutes there
after until 12:00 o’clock midnight.
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