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The Weather.
The indications for Georgia and Ka-st
•rn Florida for to-day are for partly
cloudy weather, with light variable
winds.
With the odor of the grave clinging
to his congressional garments, it is
not In the least likely that Gen J
Warren Keifer of Ohio will find him
self with a large following in Wash
ington.
Several of the New York papers are
expressing the opinion that Senator
Depew will not be re-elected. It is
possible that New York is In the no
tion to leave ofT perpetrating a Joke on
the Congress of the United States?
The unusual and not very edifying
spectacle of a white woman suing a
r.egro man for breach of promise of
marriage was presented In a Phila
delphia court a few days ago. The
negro alleges as his reasons for fail
ing to fulfill the marriage engage
ment their ‘’difference in race, religion
and social position.”
The American Mechanic, a technical
Journal, says that in railroad building
the crossties now cost twice as much
as the rails. Something, it says, will
have to be done about this matter, as
the ties are growing dearer Instead
of cheaper all the time. Many of he
railroads are now cultivating limber
for ties along their rights of way.
Mr. Curnegie is very much annoyed
by reason of the fact that his name
has been frequently mentioned of late
In connection with a case that bus
become notorious. To be sure! Why
shouldn't the name of a man who i
worth upward* of 1300,000,000 be held
sacred! What’s ihe use *if being one
of ih* richest mm In Ihe world, If
tb* vulgar “people" ar* going to bandy
•*c MUM?
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.
The message of the President opens
with a discussion of the labor question
an<* closes with a statement of exist
ing conditions in the Philippines, stat
ing reasons why it wouldn't be advis
able to give the Filipinos their inde
pendence at this time. It contains
20,000 or more words, and deals with
each department of the government
and with subjects which are recom
mended for legislation. It is interest
ing for what the President says about
matters that are not usually present
ed in presidential messages, such as
the need of reforms in our cities, child
labor, better protection for the travel
ing public and additional liability of
corporations for injuries sustained by
their employes in the line of their du
ties.
The President makes it clear that
while he is friendly to labor unions,
ho favors the open shop. He doesn’t
see, however, how the general govern
ment can interfere in labor troubles
to a greater extent than it does now
to bring about a settlement of them or
for the preservation of the peace as
long as the primary control of the
police power remains in the states.
When there is such interference the
circumstances must be altogether ex
treme. He is satisfied, however, that
the liability of employers for damages
when their employes are injured should
be greater than it is, and, therefore,
he recommends that a commission be
appointed to study the entire question
of employers’ liability with the view
of extending the provisions of a great
and constitutional law to all employ
ment within the scope of the govern-
ment.
What he says in respect to safety on
railroads will be fully appreciated.
There have been so many railway ac
cidents within the last few months
that any steps in the direction of pre
venting such accidents will be ap
proved. The percentage of accidents
on European railroads is small com
pared with that on railroads of this
country. Most of the accidents on our
railroads are due to carelessness, in
efficiency or incompetency of employes.
The President's opinion is that the
railways should be required to employ
only first-class men; that they should
not keep them on confinuous duty
long enough to impair their efficiency
and that drastic punishment should be
meted out to employes who under such
circumstances are responsible for acci
dents.
The President also discusses freight
rates, freight rate discriminations and
rebates. He admits that this is a diffi
cult question to handle, and says that
he isn't prepared to recommend that
the Interstate Commerce Commission
be given authority to fix rates, but
thinks that, when a rate is challenged
the commission should have power to
fix the maximum rate, subject to ju
dicial revision. It is probable that the
whole question of interstate freight
rates will come before Congress at an
early day. There is So much discrimi
nation, such big rebates in favor of
large shippers and so many evasions
of established rates that there is pro
found dissatisfaction with the rail
roads and their freight rate methods.
The President doesn’t discuss the
trust question at as great length as
might be expected, in view of the part
that question played in the presiden
tial campaign. In discussing it, how
ever, he takes occasion to make it
clear that he had no respect whatever
for the position the Democratic can
didate for President took on that ques
tion by saying that it would be folly
to attempt to deal with abuses in
great corporations by state action. He
says he can't be patient with the ar
gument that such matters should be
left to the states. In his opinion, the
national government alone can deal
with these great corporations. He ad
mits that these corporations are neces
sary, but they must be managed with
due regard to the public welfare. They
must come out in to open, state
what they want and seek to take no
more than they are given. In future
publicity, not secrecy, will win. An in
teresting feature of the message is
the recommendation that the Bureau of
Corporations be extended to cover in
surance companies. No doubt those
who have invested in life insurance
would approve legislation of this kind.
There is no doubt plenty of room
for reform in our cities. The Presi
dent wants Congress to make Wash
ington a model city—a model for other
American cities. In this connection
he expresses his views freely in favor
of better care of children and of the
severest kind of child-labor and fac
tory-inspection laws. In this connec
tion he says it is desirable that mar
ried women shouldn't work in factories.
He says further:
“The prime duty of the man is to
work, to be the bread winner; the
prime duty of the woman is to be the
mother, the housewife. All questions
of tariff and finance sink into utter
insignificance when compared wdth the
tremendous, the vital Importance of
trying to shape conditions so that
these two duties of the man and of
the woman can be fulfilled under
reasonably favorable circumstances.
If a race does not have plenty of
children, or If the children do not
grow up, or If when they grow up
they are unhealthy In body and stunt
ed or vicious in mind, then that race
is decadent, and no heaping up of
wealth, no splendor of momentary ma
terial prosperity, can avail in any de
gree as offsets."
A question in which the South is
particularly Interested is that of a
national quarantine law. The Presi
dent takes the position that it is un
desirable that a state, on its own mo
tion, should enforce quarantine regula
tions. Such regulations are restric
tions on Interstate and international
commerce. As long as states have con
trol of quarantine the wheels of com
merce re bound to bo blocked every
time there is an epidemic of yellow
fever or cholpra. The national govern
ment should have aole authority In
quarantine matters. Then only will
there be uniformity In the regulations
and Justice to ull Interests.
An earnest plea Is made In the mes
sage for economy In the administra
tion of the government, for a reduc
tion in the number and volume of gov
ernment publication* and for a better
consular service. Thee* are three re
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1901.
forms that are urgently needed, but
the politicians will not permit either
of them to be effected. The waste
in the public printing is a scandal
and the consular service is totally in
adequate to the needs of the country's
commerce. Of course, the President
discusses the currency, but there is
no probability that his recommenda
tions will be adopted. He wants the
greenbacks retired, every silver dol
lar made redeemable in gold at the
option of the holder and the currency
made more elastic. The talk of mak
ing the currency more elastic has been
going on for ten years or more, and
yet a way to make it so has not yet
been discovered, a way that is satis
factory to the majority. The President
still harps on the need for a great
navy. Without it he thinks we
shouldn’t be able to make our flag
respected or to get our share of the
trade of the Far East—the trade for
which the nations are now contending.
In this connection the President rec
ommends that a commission be ap
pointed to study trade conditions in
China, and report upon our oppor
tunities for enlarging our market
there.
The President says there is no dan
ger to be apprehended from the num
ber of immigrants that reach our
shores so long as we take care to ad
mit only the right kind. “Good Ameri
canism isn't a matter of creed or
birthplace, but of common sense, con
science and lofty patriotism.”
The President doesn’t want the Phil
ippine question discussed. He thinks
the Filipinos have been making steady
progress ever since we got the bet
ter of the insurgents, and that they
will improve steadily right along, pro
vided they don't get the idea strongly
fixed in their minds that they could
do better for themselves if they were
independent, and that they really
ought to have their independence. He
says the talk in this country that
they ought to be independent has done
them a great deal of harm; that, as a
matter of fact, they are not fit to
manage their own affairs, and that no
greater misfortune could happen to
them than to be given their independ
ence. He says that when they
are prepared for self-government he
hopes they will, if not able to stand
alone, bear some such relation to this
country as Cuba bears to it. One
thing in the direction of self-govern
ment is to be tried in the islands with
in the next two years. A lower house
is to be established. If this house
should show ability for legislation,
would the President still insist that
the question as to whether or not a
definite time should be fixed as to
when the Filipinos should have their
independence shouldn’t be discussed?
The message as a whole is an inter
esting document. Its thought is clear
ly and strongly expressed. Those who
read It will not think their time was
wasted, and they will find no mention
of the tariff. Is that subject to be
dealt with in a separate message, or
is it the purpose of the Republican
party to take the position that there
is no good reason for changing any
of the Dingley schedules?
Kftl'Al JUSTICE.
A noticeable statement in the elo
quent charge which Judge Cann made
to the grand jury on Monday is the
following; “It may be of interest in
this connection to know that out of
twelve homicides tried in your courts,
when ten of the defendants were ne
groes and only two whites, both white
men were convicted and only two of
the ten negroes, and this by white
Juries. It was stated a short while
ago by a newspaper of a certain city,
in a Northern state, that of five mur
derers under sentence of death in that
city four were negroes and only one
a white man."
There is an impression at the North
that in the courts at the South the
negro doesn’t have an equal chance
with the white man for justice. The
statement made by Judge Cann shows
this impression is erroneous. Asa
matter of fact the Juries are inclined
to be more lenient with negroes than
the whites, for the reason that the
whites are supposed to have more rea
sons for respecting the laws than the
negroes. It is a fact that grand Juries
are not hard on the negroes. They are
disposed to be merciful In dealing with
them. And the same may be said of
the courts. There is no doubt that in
the South the courts are more lenient
with negro offenders than are the
courts in the North. That this is true
could be shown pretty easily from the
court reports in the Philadelphia pa
pers. There seems to be a very
strong feeling in that city against the
increase in cost of administering Jus
tice, because of the increase in the
number of negro criminals. There Is
no ground for saying that here in the
South the negro Is discriminated
against in the courts.
The territories that are clamoring
for admission to statehood will sorely
miss the late Senator Quay when the
fight comes up again in Congress. It
was asserted that Senator Quay want
ed New Mexico to become a state so
that one of his old Pennsylvania polit
ical aids, known popularly as "Bull”
Andrews, could secure a senatorshlp.
With Quay and his peculiar Influences
out of the way, Mr. “Bull" Andrews
will find the door to statehood some
what harder to open. But with the
Republican party in charge of alt
branches of the government, he may
succeed in getting in.
The Greene and Gaynor case gives
an abundance of opportunities for
academic discussions with respect to
International law, by government offi
cials and others; but It seems that
very little is being accomplished in
the way of getting the now famous
fugitives from justice back into the
Jurisdiction of the federal courta.
One of the bankers who advanced
Mrs. Chadwick hundreds of thousands
of dollars on her notes, and thereby
ruined bis bunk and himself, says;
"1 was either an awful dupe or .* ter
rible fool.'* U I*olll that the "or”
might wall have been changed to
and” without doing violente t the
truth.
It is not unlikely that the United
States will take charge of all of the
customs houses of the republic of
Santo Domingo, for the purpose of
putting into effect the award of the
court of arbitration of July, 1904, pro
viding for a method of settling claims
amounting to $4,500,000 in gold for the
Santo Domingo Improvement Com
pany of New York, the Central Do
mingo Improvement Company of New
York, the National Bank of Santo Do
mingo, and other claims of American
companies against the Dominican gov
ernment. While it is acknowledged
In Washington that the customs re
ceipts of the Dominican republic are
likely to be taken over and adminis
tered for a time to settle these claims,
it is denied that it is the purpose of
the United States to interfere i ft the
least with Dominican autonomy.
With the Boston Herald to the
North and Gov. Vardaman to the
South of him, the President seems to
be passing a good many uncomforta
ble quarters of an hour. Almost any
other man would have passed over
the Herald’s turkey story in silence,
or have got one of the numerous
Washington correspondents to correct
it in a quiet, unobtrusive manner. But
it seems Col. Roosevelt became high
ly incensed, had a proclamation is
sued by his secretary covering the in
cident and ordered certain reports of
an official nature cut off from the
Boston paper by way of punishing it.
The whole matter was picayunish and
altogether unworthy of the row that
has been kicked up about it.
The United States government has
established a lazaretto for leprosy at
Manila, at which everything in modern
science that promises a cure for the
horrid disease is given a trial. The
physicians have, during the past sev
eral months, been giving special at
tention to the x-ray in the treatment
of the ailment. In a number of in
stances, it is reported, the x-ray has
been found highly beneficial in arrest
ing the progress of the disease. No
claim of the ray as a specific for the
disease has been made, but it is claim
ed that patients, even in advanced
cases of leprosy, have been benefited
by three or four weeks’ (treatment
under the rays.
The new German army bill provides
for a gradual increase of the stand
ing army on a peace footing until 1909,
when the army will number 505,839
men, and for every 1,000 of total pop
ulation, 95 men will be in the army. It
is believed this manifestation of in
creased militarism will meet with
strong opposition; but the govern
ment says it is necessary to provide
for the increase, because France has
so large a standing army.
It has been officially decreed by a
German court that poker is not a
game of chance, but of skill. A cer
tain high official had been accused by
a newspaper of being a gambler, be
cause he played poker. He brought
suit for damages, alleging gross libel.
Many witnesses were examined, and
the finding of the court was that play
ing poker was not gambling, but en
gaging in a game of skill.
PERSONAL.
—King Edward has taken up the
royal Stuart 'tarltan for himself and
his servants at Balmoral, and the white
league is quite excited. Queen Vic
toria never used the Stuart plaids, but
her servants at Balmoral wore the so
called Balmoral plaid designed by the
Prime Consort.
—Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, wife
of the Vice President and present gen
eral of the National Society, Daugh
ters of the American Revolution, has
requested all chapters to hold a co
lonial tea on Jan. 6, the anniversary
of the wedding of George and Martha
Washington.
BRIGHT HITS.
—Little Elmer—“ Papa, what is a
hypochondriac?” Prof. Broadhead—"A
hypochondriac, my son, is a person who
has no disease, but many complaints.”—
Puck.
—Hungry Harry (as he reaches the
point of satiation) —”1 was starvin’
lady, before I begun on this beauti
ful Thanksgivin' meal.” Mrs. Hand
outte —“And how do you feel, now,
poor man?” Hungry Harry (equivo
cally)—"l feel as if I'd like ter be
starvin’ all over ag’in, lady.”—Judge.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The New York Commercial says; “No
attempt has yet been made to establish
a bank that shall keep open Sundays,
as well as week days. Perhaps, how
ever—should the Jaws be changed to
permit such institutions—we may yet
reach that point. We are a genera
tion of iconoclasts—each succeeding
generation tending more and more to
become such —and no one can tell what
the future may bring forth."
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: "Secretary Taft's agreement
with President Amador of Panama is
a tacit acknowledgement of the wrong
done the republic by the extension of
the Dingley tariff to the canal zone,
the establishment of United States
ports of entry at the canal ends and
the ouster of Panama from its Juris
diction over postal matters and other
governmental affairs within the leased
territory. All of these invasions of the
sovereignty of the republic have been
suppressed, or will be as soon as Pana
ma shall adopt the gold standard con
formably to an agreement of June 20.
last. The outcome 39 Secretary Taft's
mission i* gratifying, and it relieves
this government from the grave Impu
tation of bad faith In the observation
of treaty stipulations.”
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says:
"The attitude which the Republican
party will adopt toward the South will
not be determined solely by the radical
elements in that party. There are
many conservative Republicans in the
East who will have a voice in decid
ing what their party’s pbllcy shall be.
The business Interests of the North
will be a potent factor in shaping the
decision. They do not want a condi
tion of unrest and agitation created in
the South. There Is too much North
ern capital invested In the Southern
states to permit political extremists
nud fanatics to have a free hand there,
a* they had In reconstruction day*.
Furthermore, the South 1* an Important
element In the nation's prosperity.
Manufacturers, merchants and bankers
do not want it* development halted
and It* industries palsied by a revival
of sectionalism and a renewal of racial
discord end antipathies. Finally, there
le President Itooeevelt, whose Influent*
ought to be eserted, as President of
the whole people, in restraining the
extremist* of bis own party,’'
How the Pardon Got Hid Dinner.
A clergyman who always spends a
part of his summer preaching in small
country churches near his home city
was relating one of his experiences of
last summer, says the New York
Press.
"I went out to preach in a tiny
town about twenty miles from here
which does not boast of a hotel or
anything approaching it,” he said. “I
conducted the Sunday morning serv
ice, and at its conclusion waited for
the usual invitation to dinner. For
some reason no one extended such an
invitation. I was ravenously hungry
and in desperation approached a
prosperous looking farmer.
" 'Brother,' said I, ‘won’t you come
home to dinner with me?’
"He beamed with pleasure. ‘Why,
certainly,' he said. Where do you
live?’
“ ‘About twenty miles from here,’ I
answered.
“He looked at me stupidly for a
minute and then the point of my in
vitation dawned upon him. With a
hearty laugh he grasped my hand and
said:
“ ‘Pardon, let’s go over to my
house. It's a heap nearer than
your’n.’ ”
Tennessee's Grand Old Man.
Gen. John A. Fite of Lebanon was
on a street car bound for the fair,
says the Nashville Banner. A lady and
her daughter got on the car, the moth
er finding a seat. Gen. Fite very gal
lantly rose and offered the young lady
his seat. The young lady declined to
take it. Gen. Fite insisted, but the
mother remarked: "She is young and
can stand.” “You don’t mean to say
that I am old, madam?” “Oh, no, not
at all,” politely remarked the lady.
The young lady accepted the seat, and
Gen. Fite, turning to the mother, said:
"How old do you think I am?"
"I should think about 55.”
“Madam, I am 93 years old.” Then
he stopped to enjoy the sensation the
announcement had created. He had it
to the full. The men marveled; the
women wondered. One of the former
said: “To what do you attribute your
long life?” “To nothing in particular.
I have used good whisky; chewed good
tobacco and smoked good cigars. My
mother died at the age of 101 years.
My grandmother lived to be 110, and
had ten living children and over 600
descendants living and dead.”
A Helpful Hint.
“All I’ve got to say for him,” pessi
mistically growled honest but sadly
abraded Farmer Tootwiler, according
to Puck, "is that my city nephew
that’s visiting us just now ain’t got
as much good, sound sense as a bar
rel of hair, even if he does wear fine
clothes and intellectual-lookin’ eye
glasses. Last night while I was milk
in’ I tied the old brindle cow's tail
to my boot strap to keep her from
switchin’ my eyes out. Something
frightened her and she gave a wild
blat, started to run and dragged me
three times around the barn on my
back before I could get disengaged,
so to describe It, from her. Roy—that’s
his name!—Roy watched me circum
navigatin’ the edifice, as it were,
without raisin’ a hand to stop us, and
when it was over he calmly lit one
of them confounded cigarettes and
gently remarked;
“If you are going to do that again,
uncle, wouldn't it be a good idea to
grease your back before starting?”
The Hetort Courteous.
“The late Charles Hoyt,” says Frank
Daniels, the actor, according to Col
lier’s, “was about as genial a fellow
as one would ever meet; yet, when oc
casion offered, he could give utterance
to some rather sarcastic remarks.
“I remember once how he gave an
awful jolt to a player well known for
his intense egotism. Hoyt was in the
box of a Western theater witnessing
the first production of his musical
comedies, and, in accordance with his
custom, making notes for the improve
men of the piece, when a telegram
from the actor referred to was handed
to him. The telegram read:
“If your new play is a success, I
very much desire the leading role in
same.’
“Whereupon Hoyt turned over the
message, wrote upon the other side:
‘You are alone in your desire,’ and
gave it to the messenger to be at once
put on the wire.”
An Election Test.
Henry C. Frick, the Pittsburg cap
italist, tells of an acquaintance who
is interested in a skyscraper in New
York city, says the New York Times.
“When this building was completed,”
said Mr. Frick, “a test was made of
the elevators. A basket full of eggs,
four kittens, and some fragile pieces
of china were placed upon the floor
of the cage which had been drawn to
the uppermost landing. At a signal
the supports of the cage were with
drawn and the elevator shot down into
the pit, many hundred feet beneath.
“My acquaintance made an exam
ination of the elevator’s contents. He
found the kittens alive, but with heads
deeply buried in their fur. ‘Poor
things,’ he muttered, ‘not shocked, but
almost frightened to death.'
“ 'Fright nothing,’ blurted one of the
elevator men, a nauseous expression
on his grimy face, ‘one of those eggs
burst.’ ”
W hnt I.lttle Snnl Got Christmas.
From the Cosmopolitan.
Us parents mostly thinks our own's
The smartest children out!—
But Widder Shelton's little Saul
Beats all I know about!
He's weakly-llke—ln p'lnt o’ health,
But strong In word and deed
And heart and head, and snap and
spunk,
And alius in the lead!
Come honest by it, fer his Pa—
Afore he passed away—
He was a leader —(Lord, I'd like
To hear him preach to-day!)
He led his flock; he led in prayer
Fer spread o’ peace—and when
Nothin' but War could spread it, he
Was first to lead us then!
So little Saul has grit to take
Things Jes as they occur;
And Sister Shelton's proud o' him
As he is proud o’ her!
And when she "got up”—jes fer him
And little playmates all—
A Chris'mus treo—they eyer’one
Was there but little Saul.
Pore little chap was sick In bed
Next room; and Doc was there.
And said the children might file past,
But go right back to where
The tree was, in the settln' room,
And Saul Jes laid and smiled—
Ner couldn’t nod, ner wave his hand,
It hurt so—Bless the child!
And so they left him there with Doc—
And warm tears of his Ma's.
Then—suddent-llks— high over all
Their laughter and applause—
They heard—“l don’t care what you
git
On yer old Chris'mus tree,
’Cause I’m got somepln’ you all halnt—
I’m got the pleurisy!”
—J itiaies Whitcomb Riley.
Arrangements are being completed
by the city of London International
Commercial Association for (be hold
ing of an “Internal ions I Horlety
Dance" In December, at which a thou
sand guests from the various trading
center* of Europe will be present.
TELEGRAPH IX PRISON.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Every prison has its secret “tele
graph,” for it was not to be expected
that cunning offenders could be long
confined together, even on the “separate
cell” system, without discovering a
method of secret intercommunication.
Prisoners “rap their messages” to
each other, and experience has shown
that an attentive ear may receive and
understand a communication thus
made through the thickest prison wall.
The raps correspond regularly with
the letters of the alphabet, which is
arranged for the purpose into six rows,
the first beginning with “a” and the
last beginning and ending the series
"z.” The first rapping indicates the
row in which the letter is found, one
for first two for second, and so on;
the subsequent raps, given after a
slight pause, show the number of the
letter in the row. At first the table
must be kept in mind, but after a
little practice the prisoner is enabled
to dispense with all conscious reference
to it, the message being really received,
as in the Morse telegraphy, in the
form of symbols standing in place of
letters.
In Russia the clue is not so much in
the system itself as in the nihilistic
method of manipulating language with
a view to concealment. This is clear
from what happened recently in one of
the central prisons. Word had gone
around to protest, not only against an
excess of heavy work, but against the
bad quality of food supplied to the
prisoners, and the protest was to take
the refusal to perform the usual tasks
on the men being called together after
breakfast.
Somehow or other the governor ob
tained the message as it had been
rapped through all the walls, but he
took it literally as a plot to break
prison by the whole of the convicts,
so he armed the whole of the warders
to the teeth, taking effective measures
to prevent the assembly on the mor
row. This blunder had a highly bene
ficial effect upon the discipline of the
prison, for the convicts obtained not
only immediate immunity from the
heavy tasks to which they had been
accustomed, but afterward enjoyed
better food and more humane treat
ment.
LAWS AS TO THE COST OF LIVING.
From the New York World.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, lectur
ing in Philadelphia on “How to Regu
late Expenses” and “How to Dress,”
said Engel had carefully studied ex
penses and his three laws are:
First. That the greater the income
of any person or family, the smaller
the relative percentage of the outlay
for subsistence.,
Second. That the percentage of ex
pense for clothing is approximately the
same, whatever the income.
Third. That the percentage of out
lay for lodging, rent, fuel or light is
invariably the same, whatever the in
come.
As to the clothing there must be a
decent regard for the opinions of man
kind along with a determination not
to be wholly subservient to them. The
cost of clothing to the workman is
from 7 per cent, to 9 per cent, of his
income, the average in Massachusetts
being 15 per cent. In Germany the
average is 18 per cent, and in Illinois
21.
Then there is the question of how
much of one’s income to devote to
other people in the social life. That
must depend on a person’s own con
sciousness and circumstances. There
is also the problem of contributions to
charity.
Dr. Hale read the principle enun
ciated by Starr King, that for every
expenditure in amusements we ought
to make a corresponding contribution
to the improvement of society and
in the interest of the offspring, for
“when we do that we have a right to
our amusements; otherwise we have
no right to them.”
TEACHING OYAMA TO SHOOT.
Horace Fletcher writes in the Decem
ber World’s Work: “Twenty-five years
ago I was an experienced rifle shot,
and could hit a moving object every
time. The 22-calibre rifle and machine
made cartridge, which came into gen
eral use in the seventies, made exten
sive rifle practice possible. I wrote
and published at the time a pamphlet
on how to shoot with a rifle. It hap
pened that copies of the pamphlet
reached Japan, where I spent some
time soon after. Japan had just be
gun to make a military organization
on the most modern lines, and Mar
quis Oyama was Minister of War. He
invited me to visit him in his home
at Tokio. and showed great Interest
in the method of learning to shoot
at a moving object with a rifle. He
had already seen the pamphlet.
“I had a number of American rifles
and ample ammunition with me in
Japan, and Marquis Oyama and the
then Col. Murata (inventor of the Jap
anese military rifle) joined me sev
eral afternoons at target practice.
They entered enthusiastically into the
spirit, Oyama in particular showing
the enthusiasm of a boy. I shall
never forget his keen joy the first
time he hit a moving object with a
bullet. It was a teapot thrown in
the air, I believe, and when it came
down in dust and pieces he capered
about and screamed in his delight like
an excited schoolboy."
TRANSMUTATION OK VEGETABLES.
1 1 From an Exchange.
At the Academy of Sciences in Paris
it was announced recently that M.
Molliard has hit upon a means for
transforming a radish into a potato.
M. Molliard's method, briefly describ
ed in popular terms, is this: Ho takes
a very young radish. “Pasteurizes”
it in a certain way, and it grows up
into a fine potato. More scientifically,
the young radish is cultivated in a
glass retort, after a process invented
by Pasteur, in a concentrated solution
of glucose. Starch then develops plenti
fully in the cells of the radish, wtych
swells, out, loses its pepperriness, and
acquires practically the consistency,
flavor, and especially the nu
tritive properities, of the potato.
It is not claimed that the
latter vegetable will be at once super
seded or that it will yet be cheaper to
change radishes into potatoes than to
cultivate the latter in the ordinary
way. But M. Molliard’s discovery is
regarded as one which may have far
reaching consequences. He may have,
to some extent, found the “philoso
pher’s stone” of the vegetable king
dom.
TATTOO THE SOCIETY GIRLf
New York Dispatch in the Pittsburg
Dispatch.
A man named Winton F. Lefoy,
who calls himself the London society
tatoolst, has just hurled himself
upon New York. He says that society
women there have had him do Jobs
of tattooing and he expects that the
Indies of quality on this side will fol
low the example. He claims that
a number of tilted women on the other
side have had portraits of their favor
ite friends done In seven colors on
various parts of their anatomies, and
adds: "Home have amorous sentiments
Inscribed upon their arms, while other*
have the portraits of their lovers
traced upon them. The operation Is
absolutely painless. I print In seven
colors; two of them are secrets. I claim
to b the only tattooist who has dis
covered the secret of the Mat kron
naar islanders, who have practiced
my art for generations and have
brought it to the highest state of per
fee Uoa.”
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