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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-10-09
SPECIAL NOTICES.

SPECIAL NOTICEA.
no NOUf
want 70 be a season ahead Of every ono
else on your style OF Vehicle and liar
ness Ifso call on us We are going to
attend me convention % carriage Deal
ers 10 Sew York next week. and viii be-
pleased to have you cali and talk the
matter over with ut We viii order you
out any style Of Vehicle for your exam
Inatlou Come and have talk with us
We leave on saturday
COHEN-KULMAN CARRIAGE AND
WAGON co.
B,oash,on and west Broad streets T.
sHREwsnuRY OYSTER CRACKERs
roc 4 POUND.
Extra Butter Crackers
Apple Butter pound Jars SOC.
rhree sizes Baked Reaus new
Boston brown Brca3
Fine Georgia syrup 10 bottles
NEW GOODS
ny
EVERY STEAMER
a ~ & c. W WEST
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-10-09

nICE MILLING. RICE FLOUR. aICE
CHAFF.
We have new mill with al modern
processes. and machinery. ana are now
ready for business. We solicit your pat
ronage and invite spondence; rice
chan free 20 patrons
THE SAVANNAH RICE MILL CO..
r NJ Cunningham President.
John Screveu Jr.. Manager.
Evening star., 1900-08-02
Mems Hose. SC.

agents engaged in this business today in
Washington are fully as much of a local in
stitution themselves as this combination OF
local companies. Most of them are of the
bone and sinew' of the city and as
much identified with its growth and pro-
gress as any of the men comprising the
officers of these locals. There is scarce.y
a financial institution, charitable organiza.
ton. religious body, public subscription
citizens association or social organization
that does not number in its ranks we'll
known and respected citizens who are MEM
bers Of our association-men who by the
paucity of the protection afforded in the
narrow lines within which business has
been confined by home companies have been
driven TO represent broad gauge corpora
tjons of other cities. The cry keep your
money at home is fully answered by the
fact that all the money that has been sent
away to these companies in payment OF
premiums has been returned with interest
by the payment OF losses.
..As this discussion has by this time prob
ab,y very little further interest to the gem
oral nubiic. let me add, therefore, and final
w I hope that the members of our asso-
citation rather than appeal pathetically 10
alleged sentimental grounds, will go ahead
and continue business on sound underWrit-
ing experience and good business principles
reIyine on the reason and justice Inherent
in every man and the manner in which our
busneSS is done.
Evening star., 1900-08-02

The interior of the Lyceum Theater has
been entirely remodeled; new seats, new
scenery, new draperies and upholstery have
been nut into the house during the closed
season, and now all is ready to begin op-
erations for another siege of burleSque and
vaudeville at Washingtons favorite play
house Monday next will see the first shot
fired and the Bon-Ton Burlesquers will
furnish a program strictly in keeping with
the beauty of the theater and the require
ments of the public. The show begins with
an -of-the-ordkary first part, entitled
..The Homely Tw3ns EThere is not much
plot to IT, but the MctiotFis clear and highly
amusing. The osao includes Miss Gladys
Van, who sings serio-comic songs and
dances fairly well: Shayne and Worden
have new farce,scailSd "A Joke" which
is exceedingly droli; Frank Byron and
Louise Langdon are travesty actors of the
first order. Miss Violas Sheldon Is a singer
of dramatic ballads and Dave Nowline will
give limitations of musical instruments and
animals The chief attraction of the enter
,tainment is called Sweet Idleness." 1t Is
in three scenes. The first is of surprising
loveliness and forms - frame in winch
Mile. DaZzia and~her coryphees introduce
the frolcsome "Dapse de Turbillion." The
closing burlesque,zs4- JAmboree, is a COM
ic fable and deals with the adventures of
an Irishman and a Hebrew who visit the
Paris exhibition. Matipee daily.
Evening star., 1900-08-02
White Boys and Education.

'Wiil white boys who become of age
after December l, 1905, have to read and
write to vote?'
Yes, but it gives the boy who will he
cChie OF age after then nine years in which
10 learn TO read; and to enable these
,WeNe-year-old boys to learn to read the
uenocrauc party pledges itself to give
thefn from now on better advantages fhau
ever before. With these increasing adyan-
taSes and this great incentive to the bovs
10 learn, iliiteracy ought to disappear
among our boys Of the next generation If
the fathers of our poor bows will think
about this matter they will see in tbia
provision greater advantage than disa l.
vantage to their boys. Their girls TOO
VIII get the benefit OF the increased edu-
cauonal facilities 1t is proposed to give
from now on. Our fathers ought to think
OF thelf girls as well as their boys The
boy can learn to read and write in six
months, and thus qualify himself TO vote
but the girl walking the lonely country
roads, or alone at home while her parents
are away at work, cannot protect herself
against the lust of negro brutes who
when their party is in power. look to its
of1cers and to negro jurors to protect them
against punishment for their crimes, not
only against property, but even against
female virtue
rs it true that the legislature of 1879 an
propriated 100000 for public schools in ad-
dition to the regular appropriation for that
purpose?"
Yes; that is true, and this is but an
earnest of what the state will do for the
cause OF public education when the amend
ment is passed, for IT will then be the
duty of all parties in the state to see that
sufficient money is appropriated for schools
TO give every boy a chance to educate him
self"
with enough money to furnish the
schools. and adequate incentive to the boy
to educate himself, don't you think Hitter
acy in the state will soon disappear"
Certainly, the amendment will do more
for the cause of education In North Caro-
lima than any law that has ever been passed
in the state. The man who opposes IL is
an enemy to the education Of the masses"
Senator Morsan's Opinion.
What do you think of the constitutions
ality Of the amendment
Senator Morgan's opinion on the subject,
II seems to me, ought TO be accepted as set
tling this question. He is regarded as the
biggest man the south has produced since
the war. and is the ablest lawyer in the
United States Senate. and he declared in a
speech delivered in the Senate that he had
carefully Investigated it and it was clearly
constitutional In fact, he said the Supreme
Court of the United States had already, in
a case from Mississippi practically decided
the legal principle involved in favor of
the constitutionality of the amendment. Re-
Gently one hundred and eighty leading law
yers in this state have given a written opin-
ion that it was constitutional"
The ''catechism' has been spread broad
cast throughout the state. AS a campaign
document II is admirably unique.
n. o. MESSENGER
Evening star., 1900-08-02
DEMOCRATIC CATECHISM
TO SHOW HOW NORTH CAROLINA
AMENDMENT WILL WORK.
A Unique Document, Which Has Been
Spread broadcast Through
out the State.
specIul From a staff Correspondent.

, 'AANSf'-''>'.N-
RALEIGH, N. c., August FL have be-
fore me a copy of the North Carolinian of
July 49, containing a .tcatechism" on the
constitutional amendment. 1t was prepared
by Mr.. Josephus Daniels, democratic ma
tional committeeman for this state, who
visited Louisiana to observe the workings
of the law upon which this proposed amend
ment is based. The "catechism" shows,
for the benefit of the plain citizen, just
how the amendment will work. 1t IS in
part follows:
viii the amendment, if adopted, dis
franchise the negro?"
THE chief object of the amendment is
!. to eliminate the ignorant and irresponsi-
BILE negro vote. 1t will not disfranchise
the entire negro vote, but only such ne
groes will be allowed to vote as can read
and write. or such are descended from
those old free negroes who could vote prior
to the constitution of 1880, or who have
come from states where negroes could vote
before 1867. The descendants of these old
free negroes will be allowed to vote under
the grandfather clause, because their
ceStors could vote in this state before 1867.
l think possibly there are in the state 500
or LOCO negroes who may qualify them
selves under the grandfather clause There
are in North Carolina certainly between
$4,000 and 10000 negroes who will be dis
franchised by the educational clause
Uneducated White Man Not Disfran-
chised.
so much, so good Now let me ask you
another question viii the amendment dis
franchise the uneducated white man."
"Why, certainly not. The object of the
grandfather clause is to forever protect the
entire body of the uneducated white vote
of the state in their right to vote If you
will study that clause you will see that it
accomplishes this purpose fully and ad-
mra5y. You will see that it gives every
white man who registers any time before
December 1908, the right to vote for all
time thereafter, though he may never know
a letter in the book or become able to write
a word"
LAS the law now stands, no one Is al
lowed to vote unless he is registered.
understand that will be so also under the
amendment Now, will you please explain
| to me the process of registration under the
amendment
"A white man who can read and write
can register either under the educational
or grandfather clause of the fourth sec
| ton. A white man who cannot read and
write can register under the grandfather
clause of the fourth section, because either
he or his ancestors were entitled to vote
some time prior to January, 1867. But as
negroes were not allowed to vete except a
few negroes, as before explained, before
January l, 1867, negro can only register
under the fourth section by showing to the
satisfaction of the registrar that he can
read and write"
! VIII white men who are registered be-
Evening star., 1900-08-02
New Cable Line.

The Commercial Cable Company's new
cable between New York and the Azores
has been completed, and was thrown open
to business today.
This new route strikes the Eastern Te!e-
graph COmpany's cable system at Lisbon,
making the shortest and most direct route
10 Portugal. Spain, Mediterranean ports
Africa. China. Japan, Philippines, Australia
and central and southern South America.
The opening of this cable is expected to
materially reduce the time required in the
transit of news from China. as it cuts out
a number Of relay points. and avoids
the more cOngested route via England and
Ireland This cable will also connect with
the German government cable now being
laid between northern Germany and the
Azores, and will afford such a service to
the German empire and northern Europe as
has hitherto been impossible.
Evening star., 1900-08-02
Rare Surgical Oper.,Io,

A surgical operation which, it is believed
Is the first of the kind on record here, was
successfully performed at Freedman's Hos
pital last night at u o'clock by DR. A. M
Curtis. surgeon in chief. The patient
was Nancy Hill, colored, a dwarf. thirty
TWO years old and forty-two inches in
height. The operation is termed porro-
Caesarian, modification OF the Caesarian
section. The Caesarian operation was per-
formed on the same woman two Xears ago
AT noon today DR.. Curtis said both mother
and child were doing WELL
Evening star., 1900-08-02
What Shall We Have tor
DesSertP

This question arises in the family every day. Let
It today. Try Jell-O. 4 delicious and
healthfui dessert. Prepared in two minutes. No
boiling! no bakingi simply add boiling water anu
set to cool. Flavors-Lemon. Orange Raspberry
and Strawberry. Get package at your grocer's
today. 10 cents. fa2S6 mia
Evening star., 1900-08-02

In a petition for divorce filed today by
James w. Cross, naming Catherine ]. Cross
respondent, desertion on the part of the
latter is alleged. Attorney s. D. Truitt ap-
pears for the petitioner.
Evening star., 1900-08-02

IN thought and acts for himself. He con,as
vi race who, before they ever saw a book
conquered empires and ruled them viii
MIsuom ana justice. Most educated negroes
are still ignorant, but the uneducat..i x,gIit9
man so far from being ignorant. is gener-
alIy well informed and always Intelligent
ana self-reliant. They understand pubIic
well as ANYBODY" ~ iii "S
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Liquor drinking caused George Foulkes
70 get IN trouble last night. John Fl
Schnopps occasioned his arrest on a charge
OF bad conduct. He denied the accusatiCl
when tried in court this morning but the
judge held him guilty and fined him $40
with thirty days on the farm as the alter
native.
Evening star., 1900-08-02

lot of finely tailored Wash Skirts. sold up
to accomplishing genuine Irish Linens. Linen
Crashes English Piques, Coverts in all colors,
Black and Navy Ducks and White Am
Piques, stylishly braided. will be QDVC.
Evening star., 1900-08-02
Steamship Arrivals.

PLYMOUTH, August 2.-Furst Bismarck,
New York for Hamburg
QUEENSTOWN, August 2-Germaric,
New York for Liverpool.
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Boys regular 25c. Fancy and Plain Wash
!,s. S.". S:' "'a: $::5 ~ '':4af s l2c.
Evening star., 1900-08-02

lis pairs Of Women's Summer Ok
forls. the balance Of several recu-
lar 80 and 500 lines-go Fri W.4C
Evening star., 1900-08-02

l dozen All-wool Golf or Walking Skirts. in
grays blues and browns. with stylish plaid
:;ssa ss$s an" S"''o% heavily Hezaa3 ''''ss s. $208
Evening star., 1900-08-02

dozen UNLINED Skirts of finest Alwool
hS%Ss@%"s and iE%! s sold a@ at oO8
S6-go Friday for only. ........ W % ~
Evening star., 1900-08-02
View. of President Cohen.

In conversation with a Star reporter to-
day Mr.. Myer Cohen. president or the AS
socia.ion of Fire Underwriters, sad:
"It seems to me. that there Is now very
little left to be said on the fire insurance
situation The Association of Fire Under
writer's which has been in existence for
fifteen wears past, expects to con -inue to
embrace in its membership large majori-
tv of the respectable citizens of Washing
ton who are genuinely engaged in the fire
insurance business This membership en-
braces now three local companies German
American Riggs and Colonial and a great
majority of the principal fire underwriting
organ cations doing business throughout
the United States We earnestly believe
that the citizens of Washington will con-
tinue to give us their support, because our
association stands for progress and ad-
vancement according to scientific principles
now understood.
"Twenty-five years ago the local COM
panies were able to collect rae ranging
from 30 to A. cents per hundred on brick
dwellings 80 cents per hundred on furn.-
ture therein and from 10 cents to $50 per
hundred on frame dwellings When the
present organization formed, about
1SSJ. the local companies insisted upon a
rate of % cents per hundred on brick
dwellings. 40 cents per hundred on contents
and from 60 to 10 cents per hundred on
frame dwellings. With the maintenance of
rates at this figure the local compa nes
have experienced an average loss ratio to
premiums received in the last twenty years
running from 81 to 30 per cent.
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Table containing samples Of regular 81 80
E: e. e sa'ssSis's a md i.fs ssa.ss g .AA
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Odd lot of Yale Holland and Opaque Window
Shades, mounted on strong spring rollers, which
sold at 39c. and soc. each n @U
slightly DANA gei-wiH be II /u~G
closed out tomorrow at...... q EOo
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Odds and ends OF Childrcn's and -
Infants Infants Shoes, Will be closed out Alo9C
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Mems Balb'igg and Jean Drawers, full
regular made, with double seat and felled
seams the latter with dOnble alb - n
dominal band, long rise, double ZlCo
Evening star., 1900-08-02

A lot of Boys Fine Washable Suits. in sizes
3, A. 3 and & only-well made and ~
strongly hnished-last of regular ZSC.
lines sold at 4Sc., soc. and S9c.-for 9OSo
Evening star., 1900-08-02

z IT,; St sn:"s;;. n $:;sf So mssi sss c
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Lot of ? dozen White Duck Skirts. slightly
soiled from showing plain and uimmed with
s:ss s:"S. s~%- n all and 'i"1s f" %aes "" 20C
Friday at. t........................
Evening star., 1900-08-02

lot of 3 dozen Children's Washable Mad
ras Dresses IN variety of neat patterns
;;:s $;$: !? .s:: A:'s.s 12c
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Mems Regular 50c Nainsook Drawers, with
string buttons and double seat, I'm
pearl buttons and suspender tapes; ZWGo
Will be closed out for ......--... q Oo
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Remnants Of Draperies. including Denims,
Silkolines. Cietonnes and fine
Curtain Swsses-in n great -
riety of patterns-sold up TO UN,OME
1yc. yard-for. or.............-.. I7tSo
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Iadies' Muslin and Cambric Undergarments,
comprising Gowns. Skirts. Drawers, Chemise
and Corset Covers-all deliberately d~
ifinmsd-ana fiji fine qualities AEWCo
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Tableful OF Boys and Children's Straw Hats
and Iarge-hrim Sailors, comprising Il ~
the remaining lots of regular stock NC.
sold at SOc.-for. or.................. - - W
Evening star., 1900-08-02

dozen Scotch Bingham Washable Petticoats,
made with deep inuunesf and two . M
small rutties on bottom,in neat o0VCo
stripes-regular G9r, value f"r..... >o
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Children's Embroidered Null Caps in French
and high syles-ysliGhtly soiled from m
handling regular 39c. yalues-ch"ice QVC
Evening star., 1900-08-02

lot Of Corsets. in pink, light blue and
white-made Of fine French coutil
and also lot Of Summer Net N~
Corsets. broken sizes-sold at 59c., ZWC,
Evening star., 1900-08-02
Effort of Conservative Element in
Insurance Circles.
SELF INTEREST CAUSE OF DISCORD
Views Expressed by President
Cohen of the Association.
MATTER OF REDUCED RATES

An effort is being made by some of the
less extreme men on both sides of lie local
fire insurance controversy to bring about a
mutual understanding that will result in
harmonizing the existing differences. 1t is
not possible at this time to say whether
or not success will crown these efforts. 1t
may be said that while there is less wav-
ing of the red flag than was the case
few days ago, there seems to be an unwill-
ingness or an incapacity on both sides to
look at the question from any point of view
except the narrow one of self interest
In fact this is understood to have been
the source of trouble from the beginning
and has prevented harmony of action.
There has been for some years back more
or less jealousy of the local companies by
the agency companies owing mainly to the
fact that the former have always secured
the cream of the local insurance business.
This is perfectly natural, it is argued, as
the stockholders of the local companies are
men who can control such business, and,
of course, they bring it to the local COM
Danies.
In the main the agency companies have
been able to get only risks, which. for one
reason and another, the home concerns did
not want. The agency companies have
growled about the rates the locals We're
getting, and also about the premiums they
were able to pay agents and solicitors for
bringing in business. AS the outside COM
panies pay commissions and not salaries to
their agents here. and the commissions
not large enough to divide, it may be
readily understood that in this respect the
LEGAL companies had an advantage.
Limiting Number of Agents.
A few weeks ago the Association of Fire
Underwriters, which is voluntary organi-
Zation, composed at that time of the agents
of some 120 foreign companies and twelve
local companies. had up the question of
limiting the number of agents allowed to
any one company. 1t was felt that this
move directed against the Potomac
Company of this city. which had recently
placed in the field a large staff of agents.
AT any rate, the association, by a large
vote placed limit upon the number of
agents. and in enforcing that rule sus-
pended the Potomac Company and several
agency companies which We're represented
by the Potomac Company agents. The local
companies joined with the outside agents in
this action.
The result was much bitterness of feeling
and a practical defiance on the part of the
Potomac Company. AS has been inferred,
it was then concluded by the agency COM
panies, which are, of course largely in the
jority in the local association, that IA
tions between the agency and the local
companies. with the view of securing
large share of the business done by the lat
ter. In addition to the differences with the
Potomac Company it was seen that the
financial condition of some of the local COM
panies was not robust 1t might be,
and that under a stress of a falling away
in receipts some. of them might be driven to
the wall.
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Boys regular 25c. Blue
Cloth Eton Caps. limited II NH
quantity. you must hurry II ZuAN
for them at................ at q GSo
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Remnants of 4o-inch Sheer on
French Nainsook. tine, soft finish SUZS
ed qualit. sold at 12I2c. yd.-fOr o/Q
Evening star., 1900-08-02

remnant lot of Mattings In short lengths
CONSISTING of Close-woven China Mattings in
a good range Of styles and quail -
Evening star., 1900-08-02

Odd lot of Mems All-silk
Neckwear. in Tecks and pulls, Il MI
in variety of effects; sold II Zu%N
at 25c.: for. H0o
Evening star., 1900-08-02
White Goods.

Remnants of sc inch Plain White Duck Of
heavy, strong quality which <U/
sold regularly at 10c. yard mUAC
Evening star., 1900-08-02
Womem's Undergarments
and Children's Wear. -

4 dozen "I.ustcrsilk'' Petticuats. In lavender
and purple only-made with S-inch dM
accordion:pleited irufle, well stiff AlWCo
fened sold at ST. row. .......... W
Evening star., 1900-08-02
WOnnen'S Wear.

I dozen Corded Summer SILK Waists, In all
popular colors. including lavcn-
der light blue pink, white. &c. d. n AM
regular $3.50 value-will be ~ II INV
closed out for. Observation-Disclosures. W
Evening star., 1900-08-02

A remnant lot of 1000 yards Of @U r
Fire India I.inon, good and sheer. /uAE
Regular 12i.c. quality-for. /GN
Evening star., 1900-08-02
Footwear.

A lot Of W0mens Oxfords the remaining lots
Of several lines-and in various <@
styies-wii be closed out per pair. MWC.
Evening star., 1900-08-02
Reduction In Rates.

In view Of these conditions. 1t is claimed,
the local association decided to make a re-
duction of forty per cent in the rates on
houses and an advance of - per cent in the
rates on business places. The effect of such
change can be more readily appreciated
when 1t is understood that the bulk of the
risks on houses carried by the local
companies, while the large proportion or
the mercantile risks are carried by the
agency companies.
To put ii another way-the correct way
according to the local companies and the
blunt way, according to the agency COM
panies-the business of the local companies
was decreased 40 per cent while that of the
agency companies was advanced % per
cent
1t is not surprising that the local COM
panes took alarm at this action and an
appeal was taken to the middle depart
ment. composed of agency companies, for
eign to this District. The middle depart
ment sent committee here to adjust. it
was called. the local difficulties. The re-
port of the committee was followed at once
by the withdrawal of ten of the local COM
panies from the underwriters associa ton.
which gives some idea of the harmoniZing
adjusting influence of the conclusions
reached by the committee of the middle de-
partment.
Now. as it stands. there are two associa-
tiOns of fire underwriters in the District
and besides the suspended companies that
have not as yet allied themselves with
either organization. The feeling between
the local and foreign companies is about
as intense as 1t was when the conflict be-
gan Thus far there has been no rate war.
although beginning today there are two
rates for house insurance and two rates for
mercantile insurance. and what that con-
ditiOn will soon result in is Self-eVident un-
less some adjustment shall be reached.
Evening star., 1900-08-02
Matter of Local Pride.

II deprecate the necessity of appearing ir
print IN matter of this kind, but it has
been thrust upon us by the public statement
issued on behalf of those who have seeded
from cur organization. The attempt 70
arouse LEGAL pride tn privileged few of
the local institutions Is such a manifestIy
selfish move that 1t condemns itself The