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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1901.
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Meetings—Confederate Veterans As
sociation; DeKalb Lodge, No. 9, I. O.
O. F.
Special Notices—Election of Direc
tors, Merchants' National Bank; In
surance, W. T. Hopkins; Dr. Warfield
Has Returned; To Holders of Securi
ties, James Hunter; A Breakfast Sug
gestion, Roos' Market; Corned Beef
and Saur Kraut, M. S. Gardner; Ship
Notice, Strachan & Cos., Agents.
Business Notices —Never Varies in
Excellence, Sommers' Cafe; A Bicycle
for Christmas, G. W. Thomas; Spanish
Raisins. A. M. & C. W. West.
Special Dally Sale No. 2—B. H. Levy.
Bro. & Cos.
Exhibit of Footwear—Alfred J. Cam
meyer.
Every Lady—Crystaline Salt.
Oranges, Grape Fruit, Etc.—W. D.
Simkins & Cos.
Gentlemen's Clothing Department—
Leopold Adler.
The Merchants’ Lunch—Jerry George
New Restaurant.
Foods—Grape-Nuts.
Savannah Theater—Wednesday, Mat
inee and Night, Barlow Minstrels.
Well Laundered Linen—Savannah-
Georgia Laundry. 1
Genuine Goodness—Pete Dailey.
Club Blend Scotch—Henry Solomon
& Son.
Firearms or Fists—Edward Lovell's
Sons.
The Toilet Things—Shuptrlne's Phar
macy.
Sachet Powders—Rowlinski, Drug
gist.
Christmas—At Lattlmores’.
New Shelled Nuts—The Delmontco
Cos.
Auction Sales—Stocks and Bonds, by
C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer; Executor's
Sale, John L. Archer, Auctioneer.
Malt Iron Ale—The Kalola Cos.
Medical—Swamp Root.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
The Weather.
The indications for Georgia for to
day are for fair weather, with fresh
■west winds. Eastern Florida rain,
with fresh northwesterly winds.
Mrs. Chadwick will probably wake
tip some morning soon to find that she
has been dramatized over-night.
The Chicago Tribune keeps a close
watch on the criminal records of the
country. It reports that there was no
lynching during the month of Novem
ber. and that November, 1904, is the
Brst full calendar month to pass with
out a lynching since 1885.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson esti
mated that the cotton crop of this sea
son would be worth $600,000,000, calcu
lating the price at 10 cents a pound.
But the slump following the govern
ment’s report the other day knocked a
big hole In the magnificent sum named.
‘‘We should stop chewing the rag,"
sadd an Atlanta preacher, in the course
of bis sermon the other night, "and
pibch our politics on a higher plane."
Meanwhile, what should we do with
the English of our "popular” preach
ers? Imagine George Whltefleld, Dr.
IPahner or Henry Ward Beecher mak
ing uee of any such expression an
"chewing the rag” in his pulpit!
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The thrifty workingman who has
saved up enough to commence building
a little house of his own
will doubtless be much pleased to no
tice that the price of wire nails has
been advanced 10 to 20 cents per keg,
and that there have been advances In
the prices of other hardware. Secretary
Shaw thanked Providence for high
prices, and the consumers of wire nails
*lll. ot course, follow his example.
Senator Crane of Massachusetts has
transferred his lntsrest in the paper
making firm that beers his name to
bis son, in as much as the firm has a
contract with lbs government. It Is
against the isw for a member of
Congress to have guy Interest In a
government contract. By the new ar
rangement the buniness will he kept
tbs temMy, but Uie Senator will
no interest tn tt.
HEIFER'S MISSION.
In the statement which he has is
sued J. Warren Keifer of Ohio, elected
to Congress at the recent election, says
his mission is to see that there Is
legislation to prevent the disfranchise
ment of voters In the South. Mr.
Keifer has been dead politically so
long that It is doubtful If he will be
able to bring about his resurrection by
the means he has adopted. The Re
publican party will not be so eager to
follow him In this matter as he seems
to think It will. As we have pointed
out several times, the signs are multi
plying in the North of a disposition to
let the South settle the race problem
in the way she thinks best. The Re
publican party doesn’t seem to be in
urgent need of votes, and, hence, the
political leaders of that party will not
be very prompt to let Mr. Keifer lead
them into taking a position that would
be certain to be productive of a great
deal of bad feeling between the sec
tions.
In fact, it would create a good deal
of feeling against the Republican par
ty in the North, since there is a strong
and growing sentiment there in favor
of doing all that it is possible to do
to promote the prosperity of the
South. The trade of the South is a
very Important factor in the business
of the great cities of the East and
■West. The more prosperous the South
becomes the larger this trade will be.
Asa matter of fact* the Northern
people are not very much concerned
about the negro having the ballot,
except in so far as the negro vote is
a factor in the political situation. Just
now the Republican party doesn't seem
to need that vote. If the Republican
party thought the negro should have
the ballot simply because he is a citi
zen it would be more liberal in its
treatment of the Filipinos, who meas
ure up well in intelligence with the ne
groes.
Representative Crumpacker is a
much more important figure in Con
gress than Mr. Keifer is, and he
hasn’t been able to get Congress to act
on his disfranchisement bill. How,
then, can Mr. Keifer expect to take
the leadership of the House in this
matter?
In his Spartanburg (S. C.) speech
on last Friday night John Sharp Wil
liams, the leader of the minority of the
House, said if Congress should re
duce the representation of the South
the Southern people should go on
electing the same number of repre
sentatives; that they should apply for
their seats and salaries, and, on be
ing refused, should carry their case
to the Supreme Court. In his opinion
the South should abide by no less au
thority than that tribunal.
It is not necessary now to discuss
the wisdom of Mr. Williams’ proposi
tion, though, it might be said in pass
ing that, it is a question whether or
not the South would agree with the
position taken by him. At present,
as already stated, there Is no marked
Indication of a purpose to reduce the
representation of the Soutji. If the
evidences of such a purpose should be
come certain It would be time enough
then to discuss Mr. Williams' propo
sition. There would be other proposi
tions on the same line. In his letter
last Sunday Senator Bacon suggested
as a last resort that the South give
up a part of her representation. But
it is a long way to a state of affairs
where the consideration of such propo
sitions will be necessary.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
As announced In the Morning News
yesterday, Savannah is soon to have a
new and very important industry. We
refer to the plant for refining wood
spirits of turpentine. A year or more
ago we called attention to the need of
such a plant. It seemed to us at that
time that it wouldn't be many months
before spirits of turpentine would be
produced from wood on a large scale,
and that, as the turpentine thus pro
duced would be of many different
grades, a refinery for reducing it to a
uniform grade and getting rid of its
impurities would be necessary.
No better place could have been se
lected for the projected refinery. Small
plants for making spirits are being es
tablished throughout the territory
which for years yielded the bulk of the
world’s supply of spirits and rosin. The
stumps on the abandoned turpentine
farms are full of the material out of
which wood spirits is being made. The
product is full of impurities, though if
we are not mistaken the process of
making the spirits is being improved all
the time. Still, a plant for refining the
spirits that is made in the various
plants is needed, and it is a safe propo
sition that within a few years an im
mense business will be done in refining
the output of these widely scattered
stills.
There is a fair prospect now that Sa
vannah will regain much of the tur
pentine business she lost by the devel
opment of the turpentine industry In
the pine forests of Florida. Of course
the spirits made from wood isn't as yet
of as high a grade as that made from
the gum of the pine tree, but it
wouldn’t be surprising if means should
be discovered of so refining the wood
spirits as to make it almost If not
quite as desirable as that from the
gutn.
It is the understanding that there Is
ample capital behind the movement to
erect a refinery here. No doubt able
chemists have been consulted as to the
quality of turpentine a refinery of the
kind projected would turn out. It is
therefore practically certain that the
new industry will be u success, and
that we shall see other refineries of the
same kind here In the near future.
Asa manufacturing elty Savannah
is steadily gaining ground. With fac
tories and a rapidly Increasing com
merce her future is full of promise.
Probably no science has made more
rapid advancement during the past
twenty-five years than that of the
practice of medicine; and yet. accord
ing to the statistics of the German
Medics! Moclety, the number of quack
prat tltloneiN and the variety of quack
remedies for diseases were never
greater than at present. It Is assert
ed that thera are one-third mors quack
doctwi e in Berlin than there are re
gular physicians.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 6. 1904.
THE TVBKE DEFENSES.
In making Tybee Island the de
fensive point for the city of Savannah
against an attack by sea, the govern
ment has made practical use of the
experiences gained in the war between
the states. But In the present
condition of the island, Fort
Screven could in all probability be
isolated by an Insistent and persistent
enemy, since there is no way of re
sisting the landing of a hostile force
on the southern end of the island or
of one coming in by way of Warsaw
sound, where there are sixteen feet of
water on the bar, and landing at Laz
aretto creek.
All effective coast fortifications
for the defense of harbors and
channels must necessarily have
supplementary land auxiliary de
fenses —earthworks for infantry and
field artillery—and good lines
of communication between them
to facilitate the transportation of
troops and guns. The value of good
roads connecting stations is especially
apparent in times of war.
At present Tybee Island is without
roads. The only means of communica
tion for vehicles, other than steam
ears, is the sea beach, from one end
of the island to the other; and the
beach is available only when the tide
is out. The old public road from Laz
aretto creek to the lighthouse was
years ago made use of for a railroad
right-of-way; and in many places the
land adjacent to the railroad track is
so cut up with borrowpits, from which
the earth was taken to build up the
railroad embankment, that travel over
It In any sort of vehicle is out of the
question.
To complete the harbor defenses at
Tybee the government should erect
earthworks at defensive points and
build a military road, available at all
stages of the tide, from Lazaretto
creek to the southern point of the is
land, by way of Fort Screven and the
lighthouse. In addition to the mili
tary road a plant for powerful electric
lights should be built, and also a dock
at Lazaretto creek where vessels
could land out of sight of an enemy
lying off Tybee roads.
An appropriation of about SIOO,OOO
would probably be sufficient to defray
the expenses of all the improvements
suggested, with the exception of the
construction of the new batteries. In
the present temper of the world there
is no predicting with any sort of sat
isfaction how long peace will be
maintained or how soon a war involv
ing this country may break out. And
in the event of war. Savannah, as an
important seaport and distributing
point, would doubtless be one of the
first objective points of a hostile
fleet. Tybee Island has been the
scene of military operations in two
great wars, and during our last war
with England the British were on the
coast and preparing to attack Savan
nah when peace was announced. What
has occurred is likely to occur again,
and our congressmen should give this
matter their attention.
POLICE PROTECTION RKRI'ESTED.
We feel sure that if the Mayor and
chief of police have read the com
plaint of the rector of St. Stephen’s
Church at Habersham and Harris
streets they have already taken steps
to give the congregation the protec
tion which the rector thinks is its
due. According to the complaint of
Rector Bright, white boys annoy the
congregation to such an extent that
it is almost unbearable. He says that
during his ten years connection with
the church he “has had no greater
trial to contend with than the malicious
and persistent disturbance of our re
ligious worship by vicious white boys
who congregate in the square in front
of the church.” He doesn’t under
take to enumerate all of their acts of
lawlessness because it would be well
nigh impossible. He calls attention,
however, to some of them. Recent
ly a gang of boys threw stones in
the church while the sexton was clean
ing it. and on last Sunday afternoon,
during religious services, boys opened
the church door and hooted the wor
shippers. .
If a white congregation of the city
had been subjected to such Indignities
the police would have been called upon
at once for protection, and arrests would
have been made if the culprits could
have been found. We don’t know wheth
er or not complaint has ever been made
to the police by Rector Bright or mem
bers of the congregation, but if there
has, we feel confident steps were tak
en by the police to guard the congre
gation against annoyance. If no com
plaint has been made the chief of po
lice should now see to it that an of
ficer is placed In the square and kept
there until the annoyances cease. Not
only should that be done, but the rector
and the congregation should be given
every possible assistance to discover the
guilty parties and bring them before
the Recorder. Public sentiment in this
city will not tolerate the disturbance
of public worship whether the congre
gation be white or black, nor will it
excuse the police department if am
ple protection isn’t given a congre
gation after complaint of annoyances
Is made to it. If the St. Stephen’s
congregation has been annoyed for
ten years it seems strange that steps
have not been taken before this to
secure the necessary police protection.
If complaint has been made why
haven't outrages been dealt with by
the police In a way that would put a
stop to them?
Insuranee Engineering, a technleal
Journal, hns been keeping an eye on
the casualties due to acetylene gas
during the past five years. It finds
that Its figures, which is says are
incomplete, show that 36 men have
been killed, and 170 Injured hy acety
lene explosions; that 143 buildings
have been burned, 13 railroads cars
destroyed and nearly $206,000 worth
of property destroyed by such ex
plosions. That is a pretty sensational
record for a gas that Is scarcely more
than half a doxen years old.
A Chicago man has applied to the
courts for an Injunction to prevent
his wife talking too much. But thera
are certain limitations beyond which
tbs power of Injunctions cannot reach.
A large petition has recently been
sent to the Pope praying for the re
moval of the ban of the church against
the cremation of the dead. It is be
lieved that the prejudice of the Chris
tion churches against the incineration
of human dead is largely based on the
fact that cremation was practiced by
the Romans and other persecutors of
the early Christians, and the Christians
had a horror of adopting or following
any of the pagan customs. But mod
ern scientists are practically agreed
that burning dead bodies is the most
desirable manner of disposing of them,
for the good of the living. The Pope’s
sanction to the suggestion of remov
ing the ban of the church from cre
mation would doubtless have consid
erable influence towards popularizing
the scientific manner of disposing of
the dead.
To be sure, all shoplifters should
be punished alike, whether they are
rich or poor, or socially prominent or
“nobodies." The idea that there is,
or should be, one moral code for the
rich and another for the poor is al
together wrong. What is called theft
In one class should not be called klep
tomania in another. It may be that
the desire to steal is a disease, as
some of the alienists hold; but the
law recognizes no such disease. At
the same time the law contemplates
that there shall be meted out equal
and exact justice to all. without dis
tinction of class. The exposure and
prosecution of a few “socially promi
nent’’ shoplifters would doubtless do
much towards checking the evil.
It Is announced that Secretary of the
Navy Morton has taken hold of the
quarrel between the line and staff of
the navy and will settle it. If he can
do that he will prove himself to be a
most tactful and resourceful man. The
quarrel is of many years’ standing.
It relates to the relative ranks of line
and staff officers, and is so intricate
that a mere landsman cannot possibly
appreciate its distinctions and differ
ences. But it evidently involves a
whole lot for the navy people, since
they have fought their verbal battles
with so much energy and persistency.
If Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi is
a subscriber to a press-clipping bu
reau, as he doubtless is, he must be
pretty well convinced by this time that
public sentiment in the South, as re
flected by the Southern press, is not
in sympathy with him in his recent
affront to the President. The trouble
seems to be that Gov. Vardaman does
not know where to draw the line of
partisanship.
The thrifty Ameer of Afghanistan
has just turned a shrewd business
trick. He has bought 200 sewing
machines, one for each of his wives,
and proposes to turn his harem into
a big dressmaking shop. He says the
women have got to make their own
clothes. The man with one wife can
figure out approximately what the man
with 200 wives will save in the run of
a year by this arrangement.
St. Louis now has a feeling that Is
very closely akin to that experienced
“in the cold, grey dawn of the morning
after.”
personal.
—Dr. S. M. Brickner, a celebrated
New York physician, tells the story of
a reporter for a New York newspaper
who was assigned to cover a mys
terious death in Harlem. He tele
phoned the city editor and said that
the death was caused by uric acid
poison. He immediately received in
structions over the telephone to "visit
every druggist in Harlem to ascertain
who sold or purchased uric acid.”
—Dr. J. Mackintosh Bell of Ottawa, an
Austin instructor at Harvard, has just
been appointad geologist for the gov
ernment of New Zealand. Dr. Bell,
who received his Ph. D. at the last
Harvard commencement, was former
ly attached to the geological survey of
Canada. A few years ago while lead
ing a government expedition in the ex
treme north in search of minerals he
had some unusual adventures in the
Arctic region.
IIRIG IIT BITS.
—“A man owes a great deal to his
country.” Yes,” answered Senator
Sorghum, "and it is a lucky thing for
some of us that our country can’t fore
close.”—Washington Star.
—"Now; my boy,” said the man to
the messenger boy; “don’t be an hour
going a few blocks with this message”
‘‘But,’’ replied the boy, feeling in his
pocket for his dime novel, "you must
remember, boss, dere’s a speed limit
in dis town!"—Yonkers Statesman.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Louisville Courier-Jonrnal
(Dem.) says: "The Denver courts are
crowded with women charged with
fraud at the election, several having
confessed that they sold their votes
for $5 each. Is this the way that
woman suffrage is purifying politics in
Colorado?"
The Charleston News and Courier
(Dem.) says: "Our criminality as a
people consists partly, at least, in the
puerile defense which we make for it
by saying that other people in other
parts of the country are more criminal
than we, or at least no better than we
are. Why not be fair to ourselves in
the discussion of such questions? We
ought not to do murder because mur
der is done In Massachusetts, In New
York, in Connecticut and other states.
We ought to punish murder and out
rage and crime of all descriptions, high
und low, by the methods provided in
the statutes, and depend upon the law
and not upon the rone and the faggot
for the punishment of those who com
mit crime in this part of the coun
try."
Referring to Secretary Taft's plea, in
his annual report, for the remission
of duties on Philippine products shlp
l>ed to this country, except tobacco and
sugar, and a sealing down to 25 per
cent, on these commodities, the Phil
adelphia Record (Dem.) says: “But of
what use is It to appeal to Congress
for justice to the Filipinos when some
Americans are to make money by in
justice? The shipping law was a gross
injustice to the Islanders. On thslr
behalf it was protested against by Mr.
Taft, then etvli governor, and by Mi.
Boot, then Hecretary of War. Con
gress paid no attention to either of
them, because some American ship
owners asked s monopoly of the is
land carrying trade, with the avowed
purpose of raising freight charges
when they should bo protected from
foreign competition.”
A Fine Tnulr.
A member of the family of the Uni
versity of Chicago tells of the sad case
of a young woman from Indiana who
was desirous of attaining social prom
inence in Chicago, says Harper’s Mag
azine.
Soon after her arrival here she made
the acquaintance of a student at the
university to whom she took a great
fancy. Evidently it was at this time
that she realized for the first time her
early education had been neglected, for
she said to a friend:
“I suppose that as he is a college
man I’ll have to 'be awful careful what
I say. What’ll I talk about to him?”
The friend suggested history as a
safe topic. To her friend’s astonish
ment. she took the advice seriously,
and shortly commenced in earnest to
"bone up” in English history.
When the young man called the girl
listened for some time with ill conceal
ed impatience to his talk of football,
outdoor meets, dances, etc., but finally
she decided to take the matter in her
own hands. She had not done all that
reading for nothing; so, a pause in the
conversation affording the desired op
portunity, she suddenly exclaimed,
with considerable vivacity:
“Wasn’t it awful about Mary, Queen
of Scots?”
“Why, what’s the matter?” stam
mered the student, confused.
“My gracious!” almost yelled the girl
from Indiana, “dind’t you know? Why,
the poor thing had her head cut off!”
The Freshman's Tribulations.
A University of Pennsylvania fresh
man, followed by a strapping sopho
more, strolled into the buffet of a
Broad street hotel the other day, says
the Philadelphia Record. The fresh
man slowly walked to the bar and
then turned to his companion, who
stood several feet behind. “Tell the
man what you need,” commanded the
sophomore, imperatively. The fresh
man sheepishly said to the bartender:
“A glass of milk, please.” While a
dozen men looked on the freshman
drank about half the milk. “Drink
the remainder,” said the sophomore.
The freshman gulped it down. “Now,
what should you do to show your re
spect and admiration for the lords of
the sophomore class?” asked the sopho
more. “You know what you have
been told.” “Buy the grand man a
very good cigar,” the freshman replied.
“And what should you smoke?” queried
the sophomore. “Oh, nothing!” was
the hesitating reply. “Smoking isn’t
good for the health of children. It
prevents their mental and physical
growth, and then they would never
get to be big.” The cigar was pur
chased, and turning to the amused
crowd, the freshman solemnly said:
“My, but the sophomores are great.”
Then he wheeled and marched away
In front of the sophomore, to another
hotel where the same scene was re
hearsed.
Not Available.
Francis Curtis, author of the "His
tory of the Republican Party,” had
charge of the literary department at
the Republican national headquarters
in New York. The other day, relates
the New York Sun, a gentleman called
to sell to the committee something he
had written on Republican issues. Mr.
Curtis looked over the manuscript and
handed it back to the visitor.
“That’s fine," said Mr. Curtis, “it is
well written and it is a valuable cam
paign document.”
“Well, I think SIOO would be a fair
price for it,” said the caller, “and you
can have it for that.”
"I’m afraid I cannot use it this
year,” said Mr. Curtis.
“But it may not be appropriate in
the next presidential campaign, and
you have just stated yourself that it
is an excellent piece of work. There
is still plenty of time to have It print
ed and distributed before election day,”
the man Insisted.
“Yes, there would be time for that,”
said Mr. Curtis in his calmest tone,
"but we axe not sending out chest
nuts. The Republican National Com
mittee of 1900 paid me SSOO for that
very same pamphlet. I wrote it my
self four years ago. Good day.”
The Vanishing Plumber.
E. W! Kemble experienced a burst
water pipe in his studio some time ago,
says the Saturday Evening Post. The
deluge ruined a promising drawing on
which he was at work, and after fail
ing to stop the leak with court plaster
he sent for a plumber. This worthy
proved to have the weakness of his
craft for a job of length, and opera
tions lingered.
A friend met Mr. Kemble a week
later and asked him when he expected
to be able to occupy his studio again.
"Never,” replied the artist In a dolor
ous key; “never. The plumber came
Monday and stayed three hours. Tues
day he came and put in two hours.
Yesterday he was with us one hour.
This morning he turned up. flirted
with the cook fifteen minutes, ate a
piece of pie, hit the pipe two cracks
with a monkey wrench and went
away.”
“But there are still to-morrow and
Saturday,” protested the friend.
"To-morrow,” returned Mr. Kemble
with set Jaws, "that plumber will tele
phone, Saturday he will stay at home
In bed and think about us.”
When the Rulers Jest,
The story regarding James Jeffrey
Roche is taken from the Springfield
Republican:
On a recent visit to the White House
the President, so it is said, was chaf
fing with Roche about the places he
was going to have after election:
"Jeffrey,” the President is reported
to have said, “I am going to appoint
you minister to the Court of St.
James.”
“God save the king!” exclaimed
Roche, and the two enjoyed the joke
immensely.
Watching for Snntn Clans,
From Leslie’s Weekly.
From Florida's golden orange groves
To rocky shores of Maine,
A million happy children watch
For Santa Claus again.
They sit together round the fire
And will not go to bed.
But listen for the silver chime
Of sleigh-bells overhead.
They picture him a Jolly man
With beard of flowing white.
And eyes that twinkle like the stars
Upon a frosty night.
They wish for all the gorgeous gifts
The glittering shops display:
He could not bring the half they want
In his capacious sleigh.
The child of luxury awakes
On Christinas morn to find
A wenlth of rare and costly toys
Of every shape and kind.
But scattered on the nursery floor
Neglected soon they lie.
With battered wheels and broken
springs.
Or legs and arms nwry.
Among the crowded tenements.
Up many a narrow stair
The dawn goes stealing like a ghost
To And no Christmas there.
But empty hands and lonely hearts
Where Joy end mirth are not.
And baby feces pinched und pals
By Msnin Claus forgot.
But hark! was that the winter wind
That shook the chimney tall,
And made the soot in flaky showers
Upon the hearthstone fait?
I! while the drowsy golden heads
Are nodding tn a row
The saint lie* filled their stockings up. I
And vanished In the anow. I
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HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS.
Hotel Efclleciaire
Broaawag and 77tn street,
New Yorh.
Seventh Avenue,
j Amsterdam Ave.
/Of A fit, andWest 130th St.
p- the
Royal
Hungarian
J Orchestra.
** Most Artistically Beautiful Hotel in the
World. Can offer few single rooms, with
bath, beautifully furnished, suitable lor two
people, S6O per month.
TRANSIENT RATES:
One Room, with bath $2 so per day
Parlor, Bedroom, with bath, $3 and $5 per day
Parlor, 2 Bedrooms, with bath, $5 and f7per day
Every improvement known to modern in
genuity.
, Writ ' for put magazine, “The Hotel Belle
claire World.”
* MILTON ROBLEE. Proprietor.
DE SOTO HOTEL, Savannah, Ga.
Open all year. Large airy rooms;
7,000 feet piazzas; 100 rooms with pri
vate bath. Telephone service in every
room. Liberal Inducements to fami
lies desiring permanent board.
WATSON & POWERS. Proprietors.
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
Savannah Preparatory School
Barnard SL, between Gwinnett and
Hall.
Instructors for 1904.
Ormond B. Strong, A. B„ Cornell,
Mathematics.
Horace Mack. A. 8., Cornell,
A. M., Yale.
Drawing, English Grammar and Lit-
erature.
Samuel W. Coons, A. 8., Trinity,
History and Geography.
Chas. H. Hayes, A. 8., Princeton,
Latin and Greek.
Eric Berstrom. Ph. D„ Harvard,
Physics, Chemistry, German.
Miss Mary Wayne, Vassar,
Reading and Spelling.
The strongest faculty ever secured
by the school.
Fall Session Wlii Begin Oct. L
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Mail orders sl.lO. Office, No. 15
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PROF. R. L. GENTRY,
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Every Lady
rich or poor, loves rings.
Have you read tile offer
which is found in every
Round Carton of
Crystaline Salt?
H. M. ASHE.
General Agent
Smith Premier
Typewriter,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dealer wanted for Savannah.
Seed Oats, Seed Rye,
Bee Keepers' and
Poultry Supplies.
HARDEN &ROURK,
Hay, Grain and Feed,
lilt Mar (•*•*. West.
BOTH PHONES HI.
PETITION OF INCORPOR ATION.
STATE OF GEORGIA, CHATHAM
County. The petition of John Rourke
James A. Rourke and John Rourke’
Jr., all of said state and county re!
spectfully shows:
First. That they desire for them
selves, their associates, successors and
assign to become incorporated under
the name and style of SAVANNAH
SHIP BUILDING DRY DOCK AND
REPAIR COMPANY. U
Second. The term for which peti
tioners ask to be incorporated
twenty (20) years with the privilege
of renewal at the end of that time
Third. The capital stock of the
corporation is to be ten thousand
($10,000.00) dollars, divided into shares
of one hundred ($100.00) dollars each
Petitioners, however, ask the privilege
of increasing said capital stock from
time to time not exceeding the aggre
**** sum of five hundred thousand
($500,000.00) dollars, said increase to
be made at any time a majority 0 f
the stockholders may determine
Fourth. The whole of said capital
stock of ten thousand ($10,000.00) dol
lars has been actually paid in.
Fifth. The object of the proposed
corporation is pecuniary profit and
gain to its stockholders. Petitioners
propose to carry on the following kind
of business:
(a) Building, buying, selling and
repairing iron, wood and steel steam
boats, yachts, tugs, lighters, barges
launches and every other kind of wa
ter craft;
(b) Building, owning, renting, buy
ing, selling, operating and letting
marine railways, dry docks, floating
docks, and other appliances for build
ing, repairing, cleaning and docking
all kinds of water craft;
(c) All kinds of diving and sub
marine work, wrecking, and salvage
work, and in this connection owning
leasing, hiring and letting all kinds
of water craft and machinery neces
sary for the carrying on of said busi
ness;
(and) Buying and selling directly or
as agents for other parties, ship,
yacht, mechanical and electrical
plies;
(e) Owning, maintaining and oper
ating a general foundry, machine
shop, blacksmith and boiler shop bus
iness;
(f) Buying, owning, leasing, rent
ing and selling upon its own account
or as the agent for others, steamboats,
yachts, tugboats and all other kind of
water craft:
(g) Buying, owning, building and
selling marine engines or boilers, and
all and every other kind of equip
ment for vessels and water craft;
(h) Doing a general marine con
tracting business, that Is to say build
ing by contract, wharves, docks, slips,
dredging, jetty work, piers, sub-ma
rine excavations and foundations, and
doing any other kind of harbor or ma
rine work;
(i) Receiving and holding personal
proprety in pledge, including stock in
other corporations as collateral se
curity for indebtedness;
(j) To own, acquire, lease and hold
all real and personal property neces
sary or incident to the proper and
successful carrying on of any of the
kinds of business above specified;
(k) To act as general or special
agents for other persons or companies
in selling or handling any articles or
class of articles appropriate to the
kinds of business above specified or
usually or conveniently connected
therewith, and to make contracts to
act as such agent and to exercise the
usual powers and to do all usual, nec
essary and proper acts which pertain
to or may be connected with the car
rying on of any of the kinds of busi
ness above specified;
(l) To have and to exercise all the
general powers incident to corpora
tions under the laws of the state of
Georgia.
Sixth. The principal office and
place of business of the proposed cor
poration will be In the city of Savan
nah, said state and county.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to be
made a body coroporate under the
name and style aforesaid, entitled to
the rights, privileges and immunities,
and subject to the liabilities fixed by
law. OSBORNE A LAWRENCE,
JOHN ROURKE, JR..
Petitioners Attorneys.
Original filed in office Nov. 21, 1901.
JAMES MURPHY.
Dep. Clerk S. C. C. C.
A PARADOX.
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Unhealthy smoke
Reminds you no more.
Nor cinders in your eyes
galore,
Exhaust your patience and
pleasant mien.
Remember the
SOUTHERN PACIFIC to all
points
Louisiana, Texas, Mexico and
California. Special rates to
Louisiana, Texas. New Mexico
and Arizona in November and
December.
Information cheerfully given.
J. F. VAN RENSSELAER,
General Agent,
18 Peachtree street, Atlanta. Ga.
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corner Bryan, No. t East.
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Imported Molasses.
Ml Puncheons. 14 hogsheads. II
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