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Special Notices—Florida Decorations,
A. C. Oelschig; A Christmas Bazaar,
Mrs. Louis Lippman; Shad and Vege
tables, M. S. Gardner; Crew Notice,
Williamson & Rauers, Agents; Florida
Oranges, Grantham Bros.; At Joyce's
To-day.
Business Notices—A Busy Day, Som
mers' Cafe; Girls' Bicycles, G. W.
Thomas; Cheese, A. M. & C. W. West.
■Men’s Suits —Leopold Adler.
Suits and Cravenettes Sacrified —At
Foye & Eckstein's.
Special Daily Sale, No. 6—B. H.
Levy, Bro. & Cos.
Bargains for Saturday—Rowlinski,
Druggist.
For Saturday—The DrfmonicO Cos.
$25,000 Worth of Men's Clothing—B.
H. Levy, Bro. & Cos.
Pretty Holiday Things Falk's,
Around the Corner.
Foods Royal Baking Powder;
Grape-Nuts.
Whisky—Lewis' 66 Rye.
Amusements—Capt. Richmond P.
Hobson, Savannah Lyceum Course.
Everything In Perfumes—Rowlinski,'
Druggist.
Toilet Things—Shuptrine’s Two Drug
Stores.
Bicycles for the Little Ones—‘At Lat
timores’.
The Good Cigar—Le Panto.
Headquarters Fireworks—Henry Sol
omon & Son.
To-day Is the Time—Edward Lovell’s
Sons.
Some Simple Suggestions—Living
ston's Pharmacy.
Simply Snaps—The Metropolitan Cos.
Auction Sales—Contents of Residence,
by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer.
Savannah Theater—To-day, Matinee
and Night, “Quincy Adams Sawyer.”
Lunch Menu To-day—Jerry George.
Dry Kilns—Lumbermen Supply and
Equipment Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis
cellaneous.
Tlie Weather.
The indications for Georgia and East
ern Florida for to-day are for rain,
with fresh south winds becoming west.
Some surgeons In New York have
just succeeded in flttiqg a man with
anew stomach, made of rubber. They
must have been preparing him for the
Christmas dinner.
A Connecticut man has become blind
as a result of excessive laughter. He
attended a banquet and figuratively
"split his sides” at the Jokes told.
With this evidence in hand. Senator
Depew ought to be able to prove an
alibi should he be wanted in Con
necticut.
There isn't the slightest possibility
that Kuropatkin will eat his Christ
mas dinner in Tokio, or that Oyama
will dine that day in Mukden. It is
the pitiable prospect that the vultures
of the air that hover over Port Arthur
and the Manchurian capital will have
the most abundant feast spread out
for them.
A leading Virginia Democrat has
discovered a plan by which the state
could be so re-districted, in the event
of the reduction of the state's rep
resentation in Congress under the
Platt bill, that the sole Virginia Re
publican now sitting in Congress
could be thrown out and the state's
delegation would be solidly Demo
cratic; thus Virginia would have as
many Democrats in Congress as ahe
now has.
The vitality of the Russian battle
ship Retvtsuii mutches that of the late
Admiral Ting of the Chinese navy or
the proverbial cat with nine lives. It
will be remembered that the Retvl
san was utterly destroyed by Admiral
Togo off Port Arthur aortic als mouths
ago, then she was accidentally blown
up and sunk by a Russian mine, and
now she has been fatally crippled by
Jepaneae shells from W Meter hill.
Wtial other dw tslve issuaitias she rosy
suffer during tits progress of the war
remains toi the faithful correspondents
to report.
THE Qt ESTIOt OF REBATES.
The recommendation that the Inter
state Commerce Commission be given
power to make the rates of railroads
on interstate commerce has caused a
decided feeling of uneasiness in rail
road* circles. While it isn't thought
there will be any legislation in har
mony with the recommendation at this
session, the conviction is growing that
there will be a strong effort in the di
rection of such legislation in the near
future.
There are now three bills pending
for conferring on the Interstate Com
merce Commission power to fix rates.
One is by Senator Quarles of Wiscon
sin, one by Representative Cooper of
that state and the third by Repre
sentative Hearst of New York. The
Quarles and Cooper bills are almost
identical, and are along the lines of
the President’s recommendation,
namely, that when a rate Is challenged
the commission shall adjust it, sub
ject to the approval of the court 'hav
ing jurisdiction of such matters, but
the rate fixed by the commission Is
to stand until its action is reversed
by the court of review. The Hearst
bill provides that the rate fixed by
the commission shall stand until the
railroad affected shows that its con
stitutional rights have been Infringed
to an extent amounting to a confisca
tion of property. It will be seen that
the Quarles and Cooper bills are not
so radical as the Hearst bill.
The railroads say that it is practi
cally impossible for the President to
appoint a commission that could han
dle the vast amount of business that
would be thrust upon it as soon as
a law giving it the power to fix rates
was passed, and, at the same time,
do justice to shippers and the rail
roads.
The making of rates Is full of prob
lems, it Is claimed, that only expert
railroad men cap solve, and that, if a
commission were to be entrusted with
such power, the railroads pf the
country would be in danger of being
wrecked.
There is, of course, some force in
what the railroad men say, but, at
the same time, it is becoming more
and more evident that the government
will have to undertake the making
and supervising of the rates of rail
roads unless the roads themselves
equalize them. At present the discrim
inations are so great that small ship
pers in all parts of the country are
being ruined. The big shippers get
such concessions in the way of rebates
that the small shippers are driven out
of business.
It has been asserted, and doubtless
with truth, that the chief soin-ce of
income of some of the great corpora
tions is the concessions they force
from the railroads. The railroad rate
problem Is one that will have to be
settled very soon. The railroads ought
to understand that and guide them
selves accordingly. The fight isn’t so
much against high rates as against
unequal rates.
MR. 8 HACKLE FORD'S CURIOSITY.
Representative Shackleford of Mis
souri seems determined to ask ques
tions about the Panama Railroad’s af
fairs that may prove to be embarrass
ing to somebody. He is one of the
members of the Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce of the
House that visited the Isthmus of
Panama recently for the purpose of
getting a more intimate acquaintance
with Panama canal matters.
He has introduced into the House a
resolution of Inquiry, calling on the
committee of which he is a member,
to find out all there is to be known
about the Panama Railway, and also
the steamships which are run in con
nection with the railway and are prac
tically owned by it.
One thing he wants to know is, why
the Panama Railway Company main
tains an office in New York city at
an expense of over $200,000 a year,
when the United States own. 98 per
cent, of its stock. Another thing he
would like to have explained is, why
the Panama Canal Commission re
jected the proposition that was before
it to transport the canal supplies from
Colon and Panama to points along the
canal at practically the cost of trans
portation. As the United States own
the railroad there would seem to be no
good reason why the concession
shouldn’t have been made.
'Mr. Shackleford says there is a report
that Just before the railroad, which, by
the way, is only about fifty miles long,
was turned over to the United States,
enormous dividends were paid to the
stockholders, and that about all the
United States got was the right-of
way and two streaks of rust. If this
report is correct our government ought
to begin proceedings for the recovery
of the money.
Another statement that Mr. Shackle
ford makes is, that since the Canal
Commissioners became directors of the
railroad the pay for each attendance
at directors’ meetings has been raised
from $lO to SSO.
If there is a substantial foundation
for the things Mr. Shackleford has
given out as subjects for investiga
tion his resolution for a committee of
Inquiry ought to be adopted without
delay.
The impression prevails that there is
lack of harmony In the commission,
and that it was because of this that
Col. Hecker resigned. If there are in
dications of graft steps ought to be
taken at once to make it clear that no
graft will be permitted. The canal is
going to cost a great deal more than
the estimated amount, even if there is
no misappropriation of the funds. If
Kraft ia tolerated there is no telling
what the cost will be.
Before we purchased the canal prop
erty we congratulated ourselves that
under our management of the con
struction of the canal there would be
no graft. If there le anything In the
things Mr. Hhackleford wants Investi
gated we congrstulated ouiselves 100
soon.
The greet moral t be drawn from
the cases of both Mrs. Chadwick and
Nan Patterson is that human nature
Is pitiably a salt and liable to groea
blundering.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1901.
THE JAMESTOWN FAIR.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
purpose for which Representative
Maynard of Virginia asks for $5,000,-
000, namely, the celebration of the
founding of Jamestown, in that state,
is a good one, it is doubtful if It will
be an easy matter to get Congress to
make the appropriation. The date of
the exposition in 1908, and the aim is
to make it worthy of the first settle
ment of the English in this country.
The Committee on Industrial Art and
Expositions, which has the matter in
charge, has decided not to recommend
the fair or authorize an appropriation,
and the House will hardly disregard
the committee's action. It is probable,
however, that the Jamestown settle
ment will be commemorated in some
minor way.
Perhaps the suggestion may be made
that the celebration be delayed a few
years. The country seems to be tired
of expositions. At least it doesn't seem
to patronize them very liberally. The
St. Louis fair has just closed, and al
though it was larger and finer than
the Chicago fair the attendance was
very much smaller than at that fair.
Indeed, there was almost a third more
people at the Chicago fair, and, that
too, notwithstanding the fact that
there Was great financial depression
at the time the Chicago fair was held
while the country was exceptionally
prosperous during the period of the
St. Louis fair.
Congress gave $5,000,000 to the Chi
cago fair and also to the St. Louis
fair, and now that amount Is asked
for by those who have the Jamestown
fair in hand.
If the country were to be asked to
vote on the proposition to make the
appropriation the probability is the
verdict would be to cut down the
amount asked for and put off the
date of the celebration at least ten
years. There Is to be a great fair at
Portland next year, which the whole
country will be expected to patronize.
The expectation will hardly be realiz
ed, not because of any lack of inter
est in that particular fair, but be
cause the fair fad is worn to a fraz
zle, as it were. The people are tired
of fairs. The Jamestown fair ought to
be put off until the Interests of the
people In great fairs returns.
Of course it would be more appro
priate to have the fair in 1908, that
being the anniversary year of a great
historical event, but the people would
have just about as much sentiment in
respect to the fair if the celebration
were delayed a few years. A delay
would contribute greatly to the finan
cial success of the celebration.
IK IT A TRUST ALSO f
The government has taken steps to
find out whether or not the American
Tobacco Company is violating the anti
trust law. The claim is made that the
company is one of the worst and most
oppressive trusts in the country, the
tobacco farmers being its victims.
The Tobacco Growers' Association of
Tennessee and Kentucky has laid its
grievance before the Department of
Justice, and an attorney of Springfield,
Tenn., has been appointed to find
out how much truth there is In the
statements by the tobacco farmers. If
their statements are supported by suf
ficient evidence the government will
undertake to bring the trust to justice.
, It seems to take the government a
long time to reach the offenders In
these trust cases. For months now the
government has been investigating the
beef trust, and, as far as the public
is aware, that trust is still doing busi
ness at the old stand. It hasn’t
changed Us methods in the loast. It
may be that there isn’t any beef trust.
But there seems to be something that
makes the public pay more for meat
than it ought to and forces the cat
tlemen to sell their cattle for less than
they are really worth.
The people don’t care by what name
this something is called. What they
want is fair dealing. For their products
they want a good price and they think
they ought to pay only what is Just
for the things they buy.
Now that Mr. Roosevelt won’t be a
candidate for re-election It may be he
will insist upon a vigorous Investiga
tion of all of the alleged trusts, and
will see to It that they comply fully
with the laws. There certainly has
been talk enough about trusts to In
sure vigorous action against them.
If the statements are correct the to
bacco farmers have good cause to com
plain of the American Tobacco Com
pany. The farmers say the company
fixes the prices of their tobacco to
suit itself —that It fixes the price it
will pay for tobacco and the price at
which it will sell the output of its
many factories. If- it does this
there isn’t any reason why It shouldn't
make big dividends for its stockholders.
But will the tobacco farmers get any
dividends ?
The Russian fleet at Port Arthur a
month ago consisted of five battle
ships, one armored cruiser, one pro
tected cruiser, three gunboats, one
coast-defense ship, two transports and
eight destroyers. Recent dispatches
are to the effect that the strongest
gfing of the ships have been dis
mounted and carried ashore, to de
fend the port, and that the crews of
the vessels have been drawn upon
to man the land butteries. That be
ing true, the ships were left almost
helpless hulks; and If four or five of
them have been destroyed by the
plunging Japanese fire from 203-Meter
Hill, then there remains practically
nothing effective of the gallant fleet
that Makaroff commanded with so
much pride at the beginning of the
war.
An odd circumstance l.i connection
with the progress of the Russian Bal
tic first towards the Far East Is that
the Insurance people have ceased to
pay any attention to It. When It first
started the Insurant's rats# demanded
In London on cosl-iaden ships for Ja
pan were almost prohibitive But dur
ing tha past week Insurance has been
written for ships at about the normal
charge. The underwriters evidently
are under the tnipreosiwn that the Mai-
Ik' Meet will never roach For JCaeiein
waters and that lla move want it Mara*
iy a bluff.
It seems likely that a delectable
scandal will grow out of the dispute
over the six-days’ bicycle race in Mad
ison Square Garden, New York, that
resulted in Walthour and other riders
quitting. The New York Tribune, re
porting the Incident, said: "Walthour,
one of the riders to quit the race, said,
after leaving the race, that he was
on a salary of $250 a day, and that
last year, when Butler and Mac Lean
gained a lap, the management paid
them $1,500 not to claim it, In addition
to paying him $1,500 for winning the
contest, although he was really a lap
behind. Walthour threatens to sue
for the money that he says is due
him.” That means, if it means any
thing, that the races are not “square;”
that they are prearranged, and that the
results are practically if not actually
dictated by the promoters. Neverthe
less there are in New York thousands
of sap-heads who are willing and anx
ious to bet their money on the outcome
of the races.
It is a theory of alienists that the
more or less constant association of a
sane person with one or more in
sane persons will result in the mental
aberration of the former. During
recent years there have been numerous
instances of physicians in insane (asy
lums, who have gone crazy for no ap
parent reason except that they tyere
constantly associated with peo
ple. In New York recently a young
lawyer of more than ordinary ability
had occasion to often visit an asylum
in which was confined a patient who
was connected with a case that had
been entrusted to him. The inter
views of the lawyer and the insane
patient, who, by the way, had lucid
intervals, are believed to have been
in a large measure responsible for the
fact that the lawyer is now himself
insane.
Democratic congressmen assembled
at Washington do not seem to be
weighted down with emblems of
mourning. They are about as chipper
as they ever were, notwithstanding the
recent landslide. And "Undo Joe”
Cannon and John Sharp Williams are
seen about the Cipitol daily with
their arms around each other’s necks.
The situation, therefore, may be re
garded as not altogether hopeless.
Senators Knox of Pennsylvania and
Crane of Massachusetts were great and
important men, before they entered
the United States Senate. Now they
are ascertaining how small great men
may sometimes be made. They are
being put at the “foot of the class”
on all committees tt> which they are
assigned, and in other manners made
to realize that the Senate is the “most
august deliberative bbdy in the world.”
The Wilmington (N. C.) Star makes
this telling point: ‘‘The South is not
solid against the Ni>rth. It Is solid
against destructive forces closer
home.” The Platts, jC’rumpackers and
Morrells In Congress bught to be broad
and deep enough to wok at the matter
in this light. 1
PERSONAL, i
—The Bible 'class bver which John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., presides now taum
bers over 300 members and is constant
ly growing.
William J. Tyndajl, congressman
elect from the Fourteenth Missouri
district, has just visited a city for
the first time and tajten his first ride
in an elevator.
—Lieut. Gen. Chaftfe appears at his
desk in the War Department every
day In full uniform, "although the or
der issued during the Spanish War
requiring officers on duty in the War
Department to dress thus during office
hours has been rescinded —in fact was
rescinded while Gen. Chaffee was on
an inspecting tour In the Far West
last summer—and it is not known that
the general is aware of the fact; but
his subordinates hesitate to suggest
the change.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Kadley—"Yes, I really would like
to know what your age is.” Miss Pep
prey_“Well, why don’t you ask me?”
Kadley—”Oh, you wouldn’t tell me the
truth.” Miss Pepprey—"Oh, yes, I
would.” Kadley—“Well, what is It?”
Miss Pepprey—"None of your busi
ness!’’—Philadelphia Press.
—“McJigger,” remarked the man in
the mackintosh, “is the most corrupt
politician I ever knew. I don’t be
lieve he h‘as ever had one honest con
viction.” "Of course, not,” observed
the man who had his feet on the ta
ble. “If he had he would be serving
a ten-year term in the penitentiary.”
—Chicago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Columbia State (Dem.) says:
"When it comes to figuring on the
South's representation we will show
that while we can permit the. negro
to register we cannot 'force him to
vote and Congress will have to,, credit
us with those darkeys who aret quali
fied.” . i
The Charleston Post (Dem.) says:
"The Platt measure opens a. very un
inviting prospect to the people of the
United States in the promise of a bit
ter sectional wrangle, which good men
of all parts of the nation wish most
heartily to avoid. It will wither and
die in Congress, unless partisanship
and sectional prejudice have run mad
in the North and that we do not be
lieve."
The Wilmington Messenger (Dem.)
says: "It seems that Mr. Roosevelt
has already sent to the Senate the
nomination of Crum for collector of
customs of the port of Charleston. Wo
are sorry to see this, but then Charles
ton Is no worse off than the city of
Wilmington and many other Southern
cities have been. The Charlestonians
have our sympathy. We know from
past experience what this means, but
we assure them It can be survived."
The New York American says: "In
her financial career Mrs. Chadwick's
trsnaactlons reach millions. Because
of her one bank is In the hands of a
receiver and the president Is under ar
rest. Names of financial kings have
been flaunted hack and forth as if
they counted tor nothing. It is a
strange story, and the Chadwick mys
tery is just beginning Whether the
• omen Is finally to triumph or go
down In defeat and dlsgra>e remains
to be seen. We think she late made
one tactical blun4et khe had dealings
with a federal bank Cm le Ham Is
very jealous of any Infra' Hon of Ills
banking rules, and his officers moved
and arrested, when other* stood off
end wondered.”
Testing the Telephone.
A West Philadelphia bride was
made uneasy the other night by a
harmless practical joke played by a
friend of her husband, says the Phil
adelphia Record. In response to the
ringing of the telephone she placed
the receiver to her ear, when a mas
culine voice said; “This is the inspec
tor. We want to see how the ’phone
is working.” “It seems all right," re
sponded the bride. "Well,’’ said the
joker, at whose side stood the hus
band, "breathe hard into the ’phone.”
After a few seconds he repealed;
“Breathe into the ’phone." ”1 did.”
came the feminine voice in aggrieved
tones. "I breathed as ioud as I could.”
’’H'm! Too bad. I didn't hear you.
Please whistle.” "I can’t whistle.” was
the reply. "But you must. It’s the
company's rule.” A faint chirrup
came over the wire. "I can hardly
hear you,” said the self-styled inspec
tor. "If you can’t whistle, clap your
hands together three times.” "How*
can I?” asked the poor girl. “I am
holding the receiver w*ith one hand.”
The pitiless taskmaster replied, stern
ly; “Put the receiver down and then
clap.” The bride did as she was
told. "Now,” said the inspector,
"knock your heels together.” ”1
think.” replied the bride, warmly,
“you’re a nasty, mean, hateful thing,
and I won’t do it. Anyway, I don’t
thing you are an inspector at all.
There now*.” The husband leaned over
the shoulder of his friend, and in a
voice that was recognized at the oth
er end of the wire, said, laughingly:
“The joke's on you dear; but I’ll
make amends with anew bonnet.”
Elephantine D. T.
Tody Hamilton tell this story of the
late P. T. Barnum, with whom he was
associated for many years, says the
New York Times. The great show
man in his declining years was advis
ed by his physicians to abstain from
all spirituous liquors. He became a
crank upon the subject of total absti
nence, lecturing to many audiences
upon this subject. A woman who
heard him lecture afterward met him
one day at his home in Bridgeport.
“Why do you preach total absti
nence to humanity,” she asked, “when
it is well known that you allow your
trainers to feed Jumbo four gallons of
whisky a day and ten pounds of to
bacco?”
“Never thought of that,” said Mr.
Barnum, and he almost ran to the
telephone, calling up the winter quar
ters of the show, and in his squeaky
voice gave the order, “Give Jumbo no
more tobacco or whisky.”
Next day he got the following mes
sage from the trainer: "Please build
a padded cell for Jumbo, and send
down at once 5,000 grains of bromide.
He’s got D. T.’s on account of P. TANARUS.,
and has got the delusion that he is
performing in Kentucky.” Jumbo got
his regular four gallons after that.
Too Muclv Talk.
One day as a magpie had taken a
seat on a limb near the highway two
travelers came along and halted under
the tree to rest, says the Chicago
News. They soon observed the bird,
and, never having seen one of its
species before, one of them called out;
“Behold the dagle! What a noble
bird!”
“Haw beautiful! How grand!” add
ed the other.
Filled with conceit, the magpie be
gan to chatter her satisfaction at the
words, but she had scarcely opened
her mouth when one of the travelers
exclaimed:
“What fools we 'are! I know from
what I have read that this bird is only
a common magpie.” >a
“And let her begqne,” added his
friend as he picked up a stone and
sent it whizzing at her head.
A crow which had seen and heard
all without being noticed himself
now scratched his ear and murmur
ed: . .
“If some folks would only keep
their mouths shut, what credit they
would get for what they don’t know!”
A Feat of Intelligence.
A prominent missionary bishop of
the Episcopal Church, according to the
Washington Star, was in the habit of
introducing among the Esquimaus, who
were his special charges, many things
to amuse or interest them. In order
thfat he might gain their attention to
his preaching. It happened, however,
that in spite of the various ingenious
Inventions which he placed before there
these sons of the Arctic regions con
tinued to be impressed by the white
man’s canned food more than by any
thing else he brought with him. Be-:
ing unwilling to eat the blubber and
drink the oil of the Esquimaus, the
white man always came with many
cans of meat and vegetables.
One day the bishop above referred to
decided to spring a genuine surprise on
the natives. He had with him on this
trip a talking machine, with records
in the Esquimau tongue. He gathered
his charges all around him in the lit
tle meeting house, and started the ma
chine going. Everybody was certainly
puzzled. At last a smile broke in upon
the face of one.
"Canned white man,” he said, In glee.
The Secretary's Duty.
Several young men think they would
like to be secretary to Senator Fair
banks after he is sworn in as Vice
President, says the Washington corre
spondence of the New York World.
There was a question to-day as to
wHat are the duties of a secretary to
a Vice President.
"I’ll tell you.” said a man who has
been in the (iapitol for many years.
“The secretary of the Vice Presidenet is
required to sit in the Vice President's
gorgeous room, and when a party of
'Rube' sightseers stick their heads in
the door say to them: ‘Come right
in and I’ll show you the mir
ror John Quincy Adams bought for
s3o.' ” _
The Season's Query.
From the Baltimore American.
“Whatchy goin' t' gimmie?” says the
youngest boy to pa;
"Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?” says the
youngest girl to ma;
"Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?” says the
maiden to her beau;
Everywhere the answer is “O, sumpin,
I dunno.”
"Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?" asks the'
little boy at school—
His Juat-fore-Christmas goodness
Makes him mindful of each rule;
"Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?” sings the
gamin on the street;
"Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?" on our
every hand we meet.
"Whatchy goin’ t' glintne?” asks our
town of Uncle Sam;
“Bigger, better waterways, or leave
me as I am?”
"Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?’" asks the
world of Baltimore;
"OrdUrr town, or Just the kind you
used to be before?”
"Whatchy goin' t’ gimme TANARUS" asks the
yawning money-box;
Meant to catch the coin to feed the
hungry folks In flocks;
"Whatchy goin’ F gimme?” asks the
wretched and the poor
Living In their penury a stone's-lhrow
from your
"Whauhy goin’ t* gimme?" asks the
great hlg world, of you;
"Lifetime full of usefulness, heart ain
< ess and true?”
“bbbat<hy goin' t' glnnnv '” |frr It
everywhere you go-
Always cotnes the answer, "o, Just
eumpm 1 ffutaho.”
WAS A FARCE
AS IT WORKED
INVESTIGATION OF TRUSTS
AMOINTED TO NOTHING AT AI.L,
DECLARED BAKER.
New York CongrenHiunn In Discuss
ing A|>|>ri>ration Bills the House
Passed, Said He Didn't Object to
Giting Money for Investigation ot
Trusts If Those Employed Would
Only* Investigate—They Had Ac
complished Nothing.
Washington, Dec. 9. —The House to
day passed the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill, practi
cally as it came from the committee,
and adjourned until Monday.
With the disposal of the provisions
relating to the Civil Service Commis
sion, which yesterday caused so much
discussion and criticism, there was no
lengthy debate on any item to-day.
Throughout the session the policy of
retrenchment held full sway, and all
attempts to Increase salaries failed.
By the terms of a concurrent resolu
tion, which was adopted, the House
agreed to adjourn on Dec. 21 until
Jan. 4, 1905, for the usual Christmas
holiday.
When adjournment was taken yes
terday the discussion was on the
amendment of Mr. Hepburn of lowa,
cutting off appropriations for the Civil
Service Commission. By a viva voce
vote the amendment was lost.
Mr. Olmsted of Pennsylvania de
clared the provision for a rural carrier
examining board, to be new legisla
tion and not properly in the bill. The
chair sustained Mr. Olmsted’s conten
tion.
Didn't Do Their Work.
In criticising the paragraph relating
to the Bureau of Corporations, Mr.
Baker of New York said that his com
plaint was not that too much money
bad been appropriated for the pay of
special attorneys, special examiners
and special agents, but that no use
had been made of the money. There
had been, he said, a demand to inves
tigate what had come to be known t's
"the trusts.” “What is the result?”
he inquired. “Absolutely nothing,” he
said, answering his own question.
He had been assured by a friend in
the department that an investigation
had tjeen made of one corporation,
whose books were so kept that it could
not be ascertained whether that cor
poration had made $100,000,000 or sl,-
000,000. From this he drew the de
duction that either there was a lack
of competency on the part of men de
tailed by the Bureau of Corporations
to make investigations, or else a lack
of intent on the part of the Secretary
of Commerce and Labor to get at the
facts.
It was, he said, a notorious fact that
a steel rail association exists, and yet,
he said, he had been informed that the
House Judiciary Committee would ,re
port adversely on his resolution to in
vestigate that association on the
ground that it was a rumor. In sten
torian tones he declared, amid Demo
cratic applause, that it was a “rumor
so strenuous, so terrible that it can
take the American people by the throat
and exact an undue tribute of $30,000,-
000.” He ridiculed the idea that any
one did hot know of such an associa
tion.
On a point of order by Mr. Maddox
of Georgia, the salary for the position
of chief of the Bureau of Manufactures
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor was abolished. As amended,
the bill then passed.
The House adjourned until Monday.
CLAIMS ARE EXORBITANT
Thinks the Commissioner tn the Sul
ly A Cos. Case.
New York, Dec. 9.—That the charges
tor services rendered by Henry W.
Taft and David H. iMiller, the receiv
ers, and several others who have been
engaged in untangling the affairs of
the bankrupt firm of D. J. Sully &
Cos., are excessive, is the opinion of
MacGrane Coxe, the special United
States commissioner, appointed by the
United States District Court, to take
testimony on the report and accounts
of the receivers.
The commissioner's report, filed to
day, says that the receivers ask for an
allowance of $25,000 for their services,
and that Boothby & Baldwin ask for
an allowance of $30,000 for their serv
ices as attorneys for the receivers. The
report adds;
“I find that all that should be allow
ed out of the estates of the bankrupts
as compensation to the two receivers
and counsel is $40,000. Of this I think
there should be allowed to the two re
ceivers $16,000, and to their counsel
$20,250.
"It follows, then, that upon the pay
ment of these amounts by the receiv
ers, and of the expenses of this pro
ceeding, and upon the payment and
delivery over to the trustee of all the
money and property of the several
bankrupt estates remaining in their
hands, they should be discharged and
their undertaking and the bond of
their suretv cancelled.”
RE-APPOINTED CABINET.
The Ofllrlal Family of Preatilent Ula*
of Mexico.
Mexico City. Dec. 9.—President
Diaz has reappointed the entire cabi
net and to-day asked congressional
sanction thereto. The re-appointed
members with their offices are as fol
lows: Foreign affairs, Ignacio Maris
cal; interior, Ramon Corral; justice
and public instruction, Justino Fer
nandez; agriculture, Gen. Manuel Gon
zalez Cosio; communications and pub
lic works, Leandro Fernandez; treas
ury, Jose y Llmantour; army and navy,
general of division. Francisco Z.
Mena.
LATIMER ABANDONS HOPE.
Can't Get Hi* Goml Hoads Mrsunre
Through Thl* Session.
Washington, Dec. 9. —Senator Latimer
has given up hope of the passage of
his good roads bill at the present es
slon of Congress. It has been an
nounced that economy is to be the slo
gan of the session, and in every quar
ter where effort has been made to ob
tain support for the measure the ques
tion of legislative extravagance has
been raised.
The bill will die at the end of the
session.
TANARUS llnlltl lain the Delta.
Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. Htuyvesant
Fish, president, and 3. T. Hnrshsn,
second vice president of the Illinois
Central Railroad, were In conference
to-day here with m committee from
the Vicksburg Hoard of Trade rela
tive to ihe building of branch line
from Redwood on the Yux<m and Mle
aleaippl Valley Railroad to connect
with tha Yasoo Cttr-BelaoiiU road
This line, If built, will penal rata one
of the richest sections of the Della.
As * roeult of tha • ofifaisin * the road.
It f* said, undoubtedly will be igg.'
glltMAgd. ,
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To Itself
In what it is anA what it doca-con.
tabling the best blood-purifying,
alterative and tonic substances and
effecting the most radical and per
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eruptions, relieving weak, tired,
languid feelings, and building up
the whole system—is true only of
Hood's Sarsaparilla
No Qther medicine acts like it;
no other medicine has done so
much real, substantial good, no
other medicine has restored health
and strength at so little cost.
“I was troubled with scrofula and came
Bear losing my eyesight. For four months I
could not see to do anything. After taking
two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla I could see
to walk, and when I bad taken eight bottles 1
eould see as well as ever.” Susi* A. Haib
rox. Withers, N. C.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla promises te
euro and th* oromiso.
Est.DANIEL HOGAN
Suggestions to Xmas
Buyers from our var
ious Departments.
Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!
18-in. French Bisque Dolls at
98c.
23-in. French Bisque Dolls at
$1.50
Other Sizes up to sls.
Sterling Silver
Novelties.
Sterling Silver and Pearl
Paper Cutters and M
Pencil Sets at .. .. 4uu!
Sterling Silver Toilet Pieces
from 25c to $1:50.
Sterling Silver Brush (T| QO
and Comb Sets (infants) at OEaO
Pictures.
Our usual beautiful line of
pictures is now complete at
prices lower than similar
goods have ever been sold
for before.
To-day
Is the Time
To get into the Christmas
fever right, make your selec
tions—we will deliver them
when you say.
GOOD CARVING SETS,
POCKET KNIVES,
SCISSORS
SAFETY RAZORS
And an endless variety of
other useful articles.
mid Lovell’s sons,
11.1 We,st Broughton Street.
HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS.
DE SOTO HOTEL, Savannah, Go.
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.
BEAUTIFUL LADIES’
RINGS
almost given away. Buy
a Round Carton of
CRYSTAUNE
SALT
and the little Ring Lists
inside tell the whole
story.
H. M. ASHE,
Central Agent
Smith Premier
Typewriter,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dealer wanted (or btvennah.