The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-28

were offered to Roosevelt almost imme-
diately after the new law went into oper-
alton. Roosevelt's position is one of enor-
nous power. He could make an immense
fortune in few years by refusing to al
low the law to be enforced. AS it is. the
liquor interest is frantically opposed to
him. 1t seems that efforts have been made
10 rake up Roosevelts past in the hope
that some discreditable episode in his ca
reer could be used as a. lever to dislodge
him; But all such attempts have proved
IuIile. roosevelt commands the situation.
Mayor Strong is in thorough sympathy
with MIN and will, under no circumstan-
ces allow any adverse criticism He will
stand by Roosevelt as he stood by Waring
Ihat friend of man, George M Pullman.
Is SAID to be maturing certain plans for the
advancement OF the welfare of his en-
ployes that will cause him to become posi-
lively popular among wage earners What
these plans are no one knows definitely
but that they will be far-reaching and eff
fectlve there can be no doubt. The old
man is not enjoying the best OF health
apparently, and he looks worn and weary
He has been taking a course of douche
sulphur baths, and the spectacle he pre-
sents when emerging from them in his
bath robe, in whihc he perambulates the
little garden of his present residence, is
highly effective. Pullman is said to be se>
cretly chagrined at the criticisms of him
as a pretender to the merit of being a ben
efactor of society. He is anxious to do
something to rehabilitate himself in this
respect. Hence the maturing of his pres
ent plans, whihc are of a far-reaching
character The curious are wondering
how he will proceed to carry them out.
Seldom has the violin played so large a
space in the perspective Of the metro
politan life as ii does now That stolen
Stradivarius is responsible, of course Not
1ac lor Sc fhn II
with the career of the Amati violin. with
which Ole Bull charmed SO many millions
and which is at present in the possession
of J. Jay Watson, of 2S4 Clinton Place.
Brooklyn, N. Y, himself a performer of
rare merit.
This instrument was made by Hieroni-
mo and Antonius Amati, in the same year
that Shakespeare died-1616 1t has the
traditional and magic F in the grain.
This popularity appears on the slender
roof of the violin. being a ripple, so to
speak, in the flow of the grain, and. ac-
cording to fanciful players, the handi-
work of Almighty God. The instrument
was lost for some nine years. but turned
up finally in the drawing-room of the old
Duke of Devonshire. 1t was only by this
ripple in the grain that the violin could
be identified. The Amati are supposed to
have employed a fine log of Norway pine
for their make, using it for a number of
instruments and this ripple in the grain
duly asserted itself in the finished ar
ticles.
New Workers who visit London are de-
clared to be Fostering Du Maurier to
death. He has been obliged to put a man
on guard outside his studio and to entoin
his daughters TO be specially on guard
against the camera iend The fact is no
ticeable because the author of Trllbv is
very fond Of Americans who do not hail
from New York. He happened 10 be
sketching in the suburbs Of London not
many weeks ago, when he was bounced
upon by a New York millionaire.
Are you from New York?' inquired Du
Maurier,