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FORTUNES IN BRONX DIRT LIKE FAMOUS KANSAS BOOMS. 1 THAT SOW OX IX UPPER NEW ’OKK CITY. opcnine of the Subway Ha* Sent property Sky High In tlie Boron* Ii of Bronx —Policeman Qnlt Hi* Heat nn<l Took a Flier Tlia.t Land ed Him |2n.00O —Honaea and Flnta (Image Hands So Often That Ten ant* Can’t Keep Track of Their Landlord* —Great Valre of Wall ■street Property. New York, Dec. 17. —One of the most remarkable of the many remarkable developments in metropolitan life since the opening of the Subway has been the phenomenal boom in real estate in that section, of the city known to all New Yorkers as the Borough of the Bronx. It can justly be compared with noth ing less than the wildest days in the history of the famous boom towns of Kansas a decade or so ago. While real estate values in this vast and largely unimproved portion of the greater city had steadily increased from the announcement of the begin ning of work on the great ditch that has finally linked this outlying dis trict with the heart of the city and given it easy and quick access there to, the last four weeks have seen them Jump skyward beyond the fondest dreams of the most optimistic specu lators. It is no rash statement to say that hundreds of persons have either made or laid the foundation for comfortable fortunes within this period, either by exercising keen judgment or in blind ingly following the crowd. Each day has its several stories—true at that— of this or that man who was poor, or only well-to-do in the morning, find ing himself a moneyed man 'at night fall. A Policeman’* Flier. I,ess than three weeks since a cer tain policeman, who has pounded the Bronx pavements for half a dozen years, decided to take a flier in real estate and, drawing all his savings from the bank —$I,ooo —lnvested It in a piece of property within a short walk ing distance of one of the Subway stations. Two days later he was ap proached by the representative of a syndicate of prominent capitalists and offered $3,0Q0 more than he had paid for the plot. He took it and imme diately put his $4,000 down as part pay ment on another lot which he had had his eye on for some time, and which the owner of a day was glad to sell at a profit of a few thousands to him self. The purchase stood in the name of the blue coat speculator scarcely long enough for the deed to be made out and filed. Within a few hours his broker had a sale for it which would double his client’s capital. He hunted up the blue coat on his beat ‘and told him the facts. “Bring the papers here when they’re ready, and I’ll sign,” was the reply. “Then take the money and buy me this property,” handing the broker a memorandum. The policeman kept up an active speculation until a day or so ago; then he announced that he would leave the field open to others. “I’m not greedy,” he said. "Twenty five thousand clear cash from SI,OOO as a starter will keep me nicely, thank you, for a year or two, in connection with my wages as po liceman.” This man has had plenty of com pany while making his fortune. In the mad scramble both improved and unimproved properties have chang ed hands so rapidly that real es tate dealers and the municipal of ficials whose duty It is to record sales have been well nigh beside themselves in keeping posted on the owners. Can’t Keep Track of Oxvnera. Not only this. Dwellers in houses and flats, which are becoming numer ous in this hitherto flatless section, are frequently in a predicament as to whom to pay their rents. Only the other day a complaint came from a half dozen big flats to the effect that each had changed hands so many times within the week that the gas company could not be certain of the owner, and so had turned off the sup ply and left the tenants in utter dark ness and without means to cook meals. Millions of dollars’ worth of prop erty has been shuttled about in this fashion, and millions have undoubted ly been made out of it. How much longer the speculative frenzy will con tinue is problematical, but at present writing it seems to ,be on the increase instead of waning. This is probably due to the fact that real estate experts generally hold that the full values of Bronx property have not yet been reached, in spite of the phenomenal jumps within the last month. And when the frenzy is over they confi dently express the opinion that values will not drop, because of the presence A Big Lot of Little Ones Are to be made happy—because The Wheels Are Selected —and— Put Aside for Santa Claus. We have more Yales and Columbias for Children. Misses and Youths, and they are all bright and at tractive. all this year’s make — every one of them. W'e make n special feature of providing for The Children at Christmas They ull want wheels From Bryson, Beennee It's where The Big Folks Buy Things on Wheels. I Hint lie fooled— -1905 Yales and Columbias are only at Bryson's. Ollier beds are not so good and the Mills ones don't wain ilic other kind anyway. Be good to the ■ hitilien. Buy tliem litcieles at BRYSON'S S| HIM, NI BI IT. Bedridden 10 Months with Kidney Disease . . Mr. C. B. Rigliter. of Wilmington, Del., 70 Years of Age. Given l'p to I)le of Kidney Trouble, Says lie Was Completely Cured by WARNER’S SAFE CURE. “I am now 70 years old and in per fect physical condition, all of which 1 owe to your grand medicine, and I want to tell you about my case. “I was taken ill in March, 1894, and the doctor told me I had a serious case of kidney disease. He treated me seven months but I kept getting worse until I took to my bed. I was bedridden for about ten months, and was reduced to a mere skeleton. I was advised to prepare for death at any minute. "Friends told me Safe Cure had cured them and urged me to try it, so I stopped the doctor's medicines and took nothing but Safe Cure. I began to improve within a few days, and nine bottles restored me to perfect health and strength, and I have not had a touch of kidney trouble since.” Chas. B. Righter. We have thousands of just such let ters from men and women who have been cured of kidney disease by Safe Cure. Thousands of leading doctors and hospitals have been using Safe Cure for years as the only positive cure for all diseases of kidneys, bladder, liver and blood—the one remedy that cures and leaves no bad after effects. Sold by druggists, or direct, 5.0 cents and $1 a bottle. Be sure you get WAR NER’S SAFE CURE—there are dan gerous imitations. Medical booklet with testimonials and doctors’ advice free for writing. Warner’s Safe Cure Cos., Rochester. N. Y. SAFE PILLS move the bowels gent ly and aid a speedy cure. of the wonder-working: Subway in what, until its completion, was a more or less inaccessible portion of the northernmost borough of the greater city. Growth of Property Value*. Property values on the island of Manhattan are also showing an as tonishing though normal tendency to increase with every passing day. This is true even of the most highly im proved sections of the city. Take the Wall street, or financial district, for example. One block there is valued at nearly $14,000,000 on the city’s books of last year; and New York taxes are levied on full property valuations. To-day the block could not be bought for five millions more than the taxable value. An adjacent block is assessed at practically the market value of the one already re ferred to; it could not be purchased for twenty-seven millions, in round figures. It is to be doubted whether foot for foot there is any more costly real es tate in the world than in that cramped section of the city out over which the bellows of the •’bulls” and the an swering grunts of the “bears” float daily from the "animals’ ” white mar ble palace on Broad street, just be low Wall. All is this 1s on the authority of one of the leading dealers In real estate in lower New York—a man who carries on the big majority of transactions in this section. Naturally, whenever he does business he talks in millions. It could scarcely he otherwise when the commodity which in the neighborhood of twenty millions In good yellow gold an acre. Duane. SENATOR WHOTRIED TO DODGE CUSTOMS DUTY. One Inspector Passed Him But Another Opened His Trunk. New York, Dec. 17.—Many years of observation at the piers of the great trans-Atlintic lines have convinced me Chat, though there are no doubt many thousand Americans patriotic enough to spill their blood for their country, there is one thing at which all patriots balk, and balk hard; that thing is the pay ment of customs duties on articles they have bought abroad. A big German liner arrived recently with one of our more famous United States senators aboard. When digni taries like him arrive, It is customary to take their word in regard to duti able baggage, instead of examining It. The senator, in reply to the question, said that he had nothing at all that was dutiable, having brought in only the slop worth of purely personal pur chases to which all incoming passen gers are entitled. “All right, sir,” said the customs officer in charge of the pier. “We will pass your baggage right through, and you need not wait a minute.” So the senator drove away to a hotel. Alas'. By mistake another revenue officer opened his baggage for the regular examination after he had gone —and when the examination was com pleted it was found that the duties which he owed to his Uncle Sam amounted to nearlv SSOO. A special messenger was dispatched to his hotel with an apologetic message and he sent back SSOO and never said a word. The otlher day a well known woman and her two daughters arrived on a British liner. They declared goods on which the duty amounted to S3OO, and the customs officers treated them with the respect due to unexpected veracity. When- they started to open the bag gage, however, the lady dowager of the family nearly burst with sudden emotion, and the two daughters wept, because of the “Impertinent prying into a lady's wardrobe.” The lady's wardrobe turned out to be so many French dresses and so much lace and jewelry that the three arrivals had to leave the baggage in “hock” with Uncle Sam till they could reach their father and husband, because they didn’t have money enough to pay t>he duties. As they explained Ingenuously, they had had only *40(1 left and they knew that they would want SIOO for expenses, so they had done the gen erous thing from their point of view by declaring enough dutiable goods to make S3OO duty. Later In the day an Indignant husband and father had the sad pleasure of calling at the Custom House with a nice bundle containing $1,500. which was the amount of the additional duty. Duane. —At Newport.—Harry Fehr; I have an Idea, donetierknow! Let us give a dtnnah at which all the guests appear as nbliphls. You, Miss Van Kox, must m< *m a bird of paradise, and you, De .quelle, Hi a lion, you know. Ml m Van Bog; Fine. Harry! And you and Cholly Haplelgh would not need to mask. Harry K*hr Aw-ei-whv - ' Miss Van Hos Why, <*hMy could appear aa a monkey, ond you could make an aas of youi self, as usual !— Cleveland I a- ad or SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1904. COMING SOUTH TO FIND HOMES EXCURSIONS ON RAILWAYS. FARMERS FROM THE MIDDLE , WEST SEEK XEW COUNTRY. Two Tneaday* of Each Month Until April Paaaengrr Men Will Conduct I arae Pnrtle* of Home-aeekera to Southeaat—Tired of Bleak Prairie* Many Are lnveMiKntlnar Till* Ue- Rion for Better Condition*—-lainii- Rration Will Be Heavy This Year. By William M. Crockett. Home-seeking in the Southeast is not anew suggestion, but it has never received the serious consideration it merits from the farmers of the Middle West. Now, however, railway pas senger officials assert, the subject is coming into popularity. Though a very early settled portion of the Union the Southeast, by that meaning the states of Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida, partic ularly, is still virgin territory for the farmer who tills the soil intensively, rather than extensively. The fact that a profit exists In small areas intelligently planted and har vested has but recently dawned upon the agriculturists of the great Middle West. Heretofore, they could only see a reward for their labors in vast tracts hastily tilled a few months of the year. Migration of the farming class has been altogether toward the great Northwest, with its vast stretches of prairie sod and its inhospitable cli mate. Pleasure* of (l*e Soutli. The pleasures of farming three months of the year and hibernating the remaining nine in some dug-out underneath great banks of snow, have, however, lost their charm to many. There are reading up on the Southeast as a home and are awakening to the fact that people down here live twelve months in the year and enjoy every minute of the time. Passenger men say the home-seek ing migration follows the tide of Christmas travel. It is their opinion the migration will attain greater mag nitude this year than last. Special rates have been arranged this year similar to those which prevailed for past seasons. One first-class fare, plus $2, is the rate, with a few ex ceptions which covered a limited terri tory. This rate is for points south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, east of the Mississippi river and gateways be yond. The rate prevails for the months from December to April, inclusive. Two d'ays in each month, the first and third Tuesdays, are the dates the ex cursions run. The time limit of the tickets is twenty-one days from date of sale. Will Come After Christmas. The excursion rates have been in ef fect only a short while flow, and little idea can be gained of the probable ex tent of the number taking advantage of the rate this season. It is after Christmas that the travel of this char acter is expected to assume its great est proportions. This class of travel is distinct from the winter tourist class, the time limit precluding those who desire to spend the winter South from taking advantage of it. Twenty-one days is, however, sufficient time for one to gain a good idea of the coun try, its state of development, probable chance of profitable Investment and of any particular community in view. The Chamber of Commerce has many requests from Northern farmers de siring farms of various sizes South. These requests come in and are not chronicled like the inquiries of manu facturing enterprises, but they, too, have their degree of importance. The country-side has its part to play in the permanent growth of any city. Many of the requests received are for small tracts. Gardening spots near large cities in the South command good prices and return a good per cent, on capital and labor necessary for their production. As Savannah grows mar ket products will continue in good de mand. But there is also much land adjacent to Savannah and in the Southeast that awaits the coming of the intensive farmer. About Savannah especially are many splendid oppor tunities for the Middle West farmer who seeks to better his condition. A good market awaits the products many could produce. Pn**riißer Official* Active. The passenger officials are alive to the interest of their roads and know that the encouragement being offered settlers is not falling on barren ground. Their persistent campaign in the ad vertisement of the advantages of this fertile section of the nation will pro duce results of.a character warranting their efforts. Once the country’s agri cultural resources are being worked to their fullest, the railways will be the beneficiaries in abundant measure. Savannah will receive her full quota of the home-seekers from the North. Georgia, too, will benefit. These visitors will find many things about the South they never knew be fore. They will find Georgia raising more corn than in the past, thus keep ing at home wealth otherwise diverted to the North. They will find cities Ihrilled with the spirit of progress. They wilt find as much prosperity South as they left in the North. And last but not least, they find the South so much to their liking they will re main, or return here at their earliest opportunity. IF YOU’RE ONE Of the unfortunate persons who suf fer from Indigestion.Dyspepsia.lleui t burn. Flatulency Biliousness. Costive ness, Kklncv Troubles or Sleepless ness, why don’t you try the Bitters? Its past record of cures surely proves Its value. Then It Is also unequaled In cases of Chills. Colds or Malaria. Get a bottle to-day from your druggist,also ask for a free copy of our 1905 Al manac. . It contains much that will in terest you. HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS DR. PERKINS' ■‘American Herbs- Guaranteed to Cure • Asthma, Lungs, Rheumatism. Kidney Disorders, Liver Complaint, Constipation, Sick and Nervous Headache, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Fever and Ague, Scrofula, Femal# Com pin lute. Nervous Affection# Erysipelas, Catarrh, and a" dis eases arising from Impure blood. Mail orders II 10. Office, No, U Congress street, west FKOF H. L. JA’NTRT, Savannah. Oa. CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS that have the distinct advantages of being practical, comfortable, serviceable and rea sonable. Before you buy all your gifts—look in here. We have lots of nice Footwear that will go far towards making the holiday season a merrier one. You will have a happier Christmas rf you do the nice thing by your friends. Don't Keep Putting It Off! Men’s Brown Nullitters $2.50 Men’s Black Nnlllllers $2.00 Men’s Black .Niullilters ~.51.50 Mens Brown Russia Calf $2.00 Men’s Brown Viol Kid $2.00 ■l,n', Black Kill senli Men'. Black Vlcf KM 4M. Men’s Black Russia Calf $2.00 Wrr Men’s Black Viol Kid $2.00 Men*. Black Unscli, I'a If *l-30 Misses’ Felt Slippers St.oo THE DANGER TO THE SOUTH FROM NEGRO DOMINATION Conditions in the British West Indies a Warning to Be Heeded. By MAJ. JAMES W. COOPER. Editor Morning News: The let ter of Senator Bacon and the com ments thereto by the editor of the Morning News are well directed notes of warning to the South of the proml nen*e and danger of the Issue of negro domination. I desire to add certain ev idence which I obtained In traveling through the West Indies, evidence which I think has been hid by design ing British and American, political, self-styled philanthropists, from the outside world. Passing through the British pos sessions of islands of the An tilles and Bahamas, searching for certain gums, negro ethnology loomed before me in a more decided phase than I had viewed it before. These negroes have been freed seventy-three years. They had all the educational advantages that could be given them. Yet they are passing back to the con dition of savages. Of the children born in the island where I could have access to the census 60 or 65 per cent, were illegitimate; four black men were hanged in the city of Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad, iri the six months of 1903 I remained there, an average of eight per year, being, according to citizens there, a normal average. The Prevalence of Crime. This city is one-half the size of Savannah, and Trinidad Is land is about the size of Chatham county. Cries of men and women fighting were constantly heard when I was there and that of mur dqr was very frequent of nights. All other crimes were proportionately numerous. The usual one. the black est of all, was so frequent against white and creole women that one coal black negro often had many concu bines of these. Where so many of these white and creole women came from, without their men, was a mystery I could not fully selve, but suppose they came from South America. Voodoolsm, gnomes, obi and demons are much believed In and spoken of. The wild Christmas orgies of the peo ple are most disgusting. Yells of negro wenches In shops Sunday morning, struggling to be waited on first, could be heard a block away. The indus trious Hast India coolie chiefly work ed the soil. Great poverty reigned, a'- though they only had to plant .cry crudely and an abundant harvest re sulted. The poor and middle English class and other poor white men have disappeared. The offsprings of the dis gusting alliances named above become black negroes In two or three genera tions. There are a number of white merchants, mostly wealthy, with their famtiiea, excellent people, pure white, very, very exclualve, they being ale,at l-200ths of the population. Wiling of |be liners. The Island of HI. Vincent was similar to Trinidad, except the negro men had u supply of (Creole,) t'arlb women I saw one, a very pretty, very while, I'reoie girt, with a negro baby In her arms Hhe told me that her father Had been killad at the eruption of Huff isle volcano, from which she tied si the age of II yeafa, slid took refuge In Kingston, among negroes, there being no other 25 Bro*(fctoa Street. W. beg to suggest to you a few of their many styles of Footwear That would be joyfully accepted by some of your many friends as a gift from you, Gentlemen’s House Slippers. Gentlemen’s Crash Hath Slippers. Gentlemen’s Slumber Socks. Gentlemen’s Patent Kid Shoes. Boys’ Patent Kid Shoes. Babies’ Fancy Shoes. “Nun” Wool Soles. Mail Orders for any of these goods will be filled the same day as received—satisfaction guaranteed. Money back if not pleased. Child’s Blnek Felt 75c 25 Broughton Street, W. place provided, with the deplorable re sult. 1 saw two other Creole women, with families of negro children, all concubines of black negroes. As the female children of these co habitations are seized mostly by black negroes for concubines, the population of all the British Islands are rapidly becoming black. Cat Island, formerly San Sal vador, where the first white man landed In the yew World, and once contained a large population of white Spanlurds, I found only six white men, one officer, two priests, one sup erintendent of an estate, and two stranded seamen. There were about 6,000 negroes, crowded 100 to the square mile, the Island being sixty miles long by an average of one mile wide. Other Islands of the Bahamas were about the same. A great archipelago, lying at our doors, transformed In so short a time into a negro barbarism, as dark as In the interior of Africa! This crime against nature and civilization Is not going to be, nor will be done, but has been done, barring the few whites and a few exceptional negroes, and ac complished by the British government by the sfame methods as are being used by our government here, by the appointment of negro postmasters, let ter carriers, custom house officers, po licemen and soldiers; continuous pres sure in forcing negro political and so cial equality on the whites. Kmlarntliig to This Country. These overcrowded Islands are now pouring their black hordes into Porto Rico, Santa Domin go, the isthmus and into our Southern states. Several lines of schooners ply between Nassau and Key West, and with the aid of negro cus tom house officers, dump them there. All I met were persistent In demand ing equality and other privileges. Shall the white man of the South, having destroyed the Indian, with the excuse that the end Justified the means, to erect the greatest civilization known to man, calmly sit down and allow the lowest of the human race to overthrow the mighty progress? To avert this dire calamity, the South must stand united, solid, as in the past. Hhe must become aggressive. Send the worst negroes North, replace them with white laborers and Immigrants. Dur ing great, strikes in the North, ex change them for strikers. Get the laws for petty stealing of small articles, an imals, fowls, etc., be very rigorous, then mitigate by allowing the crimi nals their freedom, provided they cross to the North s‘de of the Ohio river. Use the moneys paid out for negro schools to bring In white immigrants. It is and has been Impossible to vio lently violate the laws of nature, with out the Inevitable retribution. The malign design of certain men in the North, to force social arid political equality, or rule of th* black man upon the white man of the Mouth, has undoubtedly been attempted before, moved by the same feeling of nation against nation, In Northern Africa and adjacent countries. Hut the negro, now being pressed hack Into the jun gle#. without g remaining trace of him left In these countries, points to the Odors of Perspiration Hoyal Foot Wash WTmtir——— fset. ete,, liy annnar :■ aii.iiaa •tops t hating, cures NwraUug, Itching Swollen. Tired resit. It* at diugglsts. ar prepaid from KATON liRUU CO., Atlanta. Ua. Money bank If Bet aaliadad. Maiupie far •- rent stain a. Ladies’ Felt Slippers. Children’s Felt Slippers. Ladies’ Crochet Slip pers. Ladies’ Shoe Trees. Ladies’ Bath Slippers. Ladies’ Fancy Slippers. Ladles’ Slumber Socks. Children’s Patent Kid Shoes. T.a dies’ Foot warmer* SI.OO Men's Foot wanner* . $1.25 inevitable result. He was exterminat ed. The driving of negroes from towns of the North and rumblings over the entire country, should demonstrate to the North the volcano upon which they stand and to where they lead the negro. Differs With Mr. Fleming. Just as I was closing this article I read the Interview of ex-Congressinan W. H. Fleming. As we are at issue on many points, I make this addendum to meet his hypothetical controver sion. Apropos to the eplgrammatlcal dictum that there are but "three pos sible solutions of our race problem, deportation, annihilation and assimila tion,” the above evidence produced in this article shows that either the ne gro annihilates the white man or the white man annihilates the negro. As for the physical facts, backed by our religion, our civilization, ourselves, for bid annihilation. Can or do these bar the way of greed, lust, passion and malignancy, agencies now at work on this problem? Another epigram was formulat ed by a great Northern gen eral of this very age: "A good In dian Is a deed Indian,” and all In dians of the Northwest, Arizona, New Mexico and other parts of the West have been annihilated for greed and to extend our civilization. Greed, malice and lust have about destroyed the white race In British West Indies. An unthinking North feeds fuel to the In solent passions of the negro and pas sions born of fear of the whites of the South. Mr. Fleming, making use of the word "demagogues,” Is traduc ing the largest part of the Southern people. Their united stand for their civilization for more than forty years has been the South's salvation, and Is the most glorious, for the most glori ous cause, recorded in history. Driving the uru Xorth . Mr. Fleming's argument that the negro population is not increasing In propor tion to the whites Is due to this united action, driving the negro North. This hag accomplished another purpose, that of driving deep home a bolt of quivering fear throughout the North of negro equality there. And if wo still remain united and vigorously press this vantage as outlined above and by other methods, it will only be a matter of a short time when the (bet ter people of the North will demand the repeal of those obnoxious, malig nant amendments and the great cause of the South and civilization will tri umph. Then a humane and dispassion ate disposition of the negro for his welfare and safety can be made. He Is not, nor will be safe until Ihls Is done. Those amendments are his worst foes. The solid South with her beckoning hund of warning, Is the negro's best friend. We are not negro haters; we wish him well, but, we must protect our splendid race In' Its great progress. Nature hus made the negro black, and Inferior In In telligence. The fanatics of the North have taken advantage of this to In jure us. Although weaker, we must strike back. The uplifted talons of the crippled eagle Is more potent, more dreaded and respected than the croak ing raven In the tree. Place the ne gro as a neighbor of the Northern man, where he can steal his fowls and pigs, and demand equality of him, It will teach him a lesson In the Golden Rule. —Mr, Trueklove—“You have a beau- ! tlful voice. Miss Piper; I wish I could hear you sing every day.” Mias Piper— “ Well—really-—you’ll have to speak In mama—er- this is so sudden."—Wash ington Idle. Ijullcs- Black, Bert. Blur, PIP. and Brown ~..51.00 Pure Wool, Fur Trimmed, Blnek ..Red, Brown or Gray $1.50 wKm 1 x Wool, Felt, Fur Trimmed. Black or ltd ,1.00 Best. Blnek Felt $1.25 Black Felt SI.OO GEORGIA COINS OF GREAT VALUE $5 GOLD PIECES WORTH 5375. FOUR ARK WOW RKI.IEVKD TO 810 Iff KXISTF.XCE. Were Coined By the State of Georgia In IHSO—For Yearo It Hns Bern Believed There Were Only Three of Them left But a Brook lyn Coin Collector Has Found Whst He Believes to no the Fourth—The Discovery Through a Salt Brought Against a London Coin Dealer. New York, Dec. 17.—Collectors of rare coins will be interested In a suit that Is about to be brought in this country by a London coin dealer against a New York dealer over one of the rare gold $5 places that were coined by the state of Georgia in 1830. For years It has been the belief of col lectors that there were only three of the coins in existence. One of them sold for $375 In New York a few years ago. During the present year another was bought In London by an American collector. This coin was shipped to New York, but when the package reached Its destina tion there was no coin in it. Complaint was made to Collector of the Port Stranahan. In the meantime a Brooklyn col lector came Into possession of one of the coins. Happening to be In the company of the New York man whose coin was missing, he told of Its pos session. The New York man Induced him to let him examine it. It was compared with a rubbing of the Lon don coin and was apparently identi fied. The Brooklyn man at once took the coin back to the man from whom ho had purchased it. Collector Stranahan had an Investi gation made and the Rrookly collector declared that it was his belief that there was a fourth coin In existence, which he owns. This Is the decisityi of the customs officials, who will take no further cognizance of the matter. SHOULD HAVE HIS LIFE HISTORY WITH HIM. Xny Commissioner Nurgent of For eign Immigrant*. Washington, Dec. 17.—“ Every Immi grant should be compelled to bring with him his life history officially cer tified by the authorities of the place* in which he has lived," said Frank Sargent, commissioner general of Im migration. “Our prisons, almshouses and Insane asylums are now crowded with foreigners who would have been barred out had wo proper immigra tion laws. "A member of Congress who came in to see me the other day told me that our Immigration laws are jokes. I am forced to agree with him. “If an American goes abroad to re side and even to vlelt he la compelled to carry a paaaport that tells his Ufa story. As our law is at present all we requlro of an immigrant la his oath to certain questions. “If he has served time In a prison, been ail Inmate of an almshouse, has Insanity In his family or Is otherwise object ions b|e to bur laws, do you think he is going to led the truth? He will It* a thousand limes to get In, and when ones in It's pretty bard to get him ssl.' 5