The age-herald., 1900-03-22
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

have another telephone service in this city. ! [ don't know anything about the new com | pany, but as 8 business man, hope it | will not receive sufficient encouragement to
 enter this territory. There would be no pos | sibility of its driving from the community | the present telephone company. As con- | sequence, every business man would have to subscribe to phones from both com- | panies, and one who has expeTienced the | result of having two telephones in his office or residence knows what a nuisance it is. | While a rival system could make each | phone cheaper to the subscriber, the rate | for the two phones would naturally be | higher than for the present one. Again, you | never know which phone Is ringing. Some | times both ring at the same time. Again, you have to look through both directories | to see whether John Smith has the old | phone or the new one. Altogether, double | set of telephones is a nuisance"
 Admiral Dewey found it easy enough
 to knock out the lSpaniards at Manila; but
 he need not feel in any degree surprised
 or ashamed that he is himself knocked
 out by the famous Artillery punch of
 Savannah,' said Joseph Wiltshire of
 Charleston at the union passenger station | yesterday. '"Ilhat delicious and very
 'sarchin concoction gets its name from | that very ancient martial organization | known the Chatham Artillery, which is | possibly the oldest warlil1e volunteer com | pany in the United States, with the notable exception of the Ancient and Honorable | Artillery company of Boston. The Savan-
 nah mixed drink was invented by some | body connected with the Chathams before | our Third Admiral Was born. The invent l ors name has not come down to us through | the generations. That is unfortunate, for | I should like to nominate him for panel ] in the TIalM of Fame Cor Great Americans. | Some famous FIrendhunan insisted that the l greatest man would be he who invented
 a new fBother your revolutions! | l shall have @ fresh pate,' was the answer
 of g. pleasure-loving courier to the con- | sapinator who sought to depose one of the | kings Louis of France. The greatest of | al! the Savannahians during these two | centuries was undoubtedly the man who | invented Artillery punch. Men in other | cities and other lands have endeavored | from time to time to produce the real | stuff as Dewey drank it; but they failed | Sayannahs greatest claim to fame re- | mains Savannahs. None other is genuine. | Beware of counterfeits. Notice the trade mark. There is a story, perhaps apocry- | phal, that the officers of an American war | ship, which was moored in foreign port | gave a reception aboard ship to the for | eigners, whom they oountifully supplied with what they called Artillery punch l The unSasf,acious guests never knew what | struck them. The jack tars suspected | But, then, spirituous liquors are not al- | lowed on vessels of the American navy
 and haven't been since 1863. Many an in | nocent visitor to hospitable and beautiful | SaVannaih, alias Punchtown, has partaken | of the soft, seductive beverage of the brave | Chatnams, and gone down as if their bat | tery had been turned upon him. The brave | Dewey! l know how it is-Ive been therev
 
 The greatest enterprise yet undertaken by | newspaper is to be placed to the credit | of the New York Times; and the American | contemporaries of the Times are commend | ing that journal with more than ordinary | generosity. 1t is not the custom of large | newspapers in any country to refer to each l other in terms of praise or good fellow ship. It is doubtful if the New York | Slusher would praise the New York Gusher | if the latter should print an authentic mes- | sage from Mars. But the New oYrk Times
 is being widely commended by it's contem- I poraries' on account of it's purpose and plans | for issuing Paris edition of the paper in
 the exposition in Paris The paper will ap- | pear daily in its usual form-from eight to | @hirty-two pages-issued from a Goss four | deck. patented, straight line newspaper | printing press, capable of printing at | speed of fifty thousand newspapers per i hour,. printed on both sides, folded and | counted. The press will be installed in the | center of the American annex to the build- | ing of liberal arts and chemical industries | The exhibit will give complete demonstra- | tion of the manner of issuing an American | newspaper, including the operation of bat
 tery of type-setting machines, stercotyping | and the most approved modern American | appliances, an exhibit which will be entirely 1 novel to Europeans. The Times will be | procurabe all over Paris and throughout
 Europe. It will be the only newspaper pub | lished in the exposition grounds; but it | will offer to American newspapers the op- | portunity to exhibit the merits of their pub | llcations, and to exhibit the commercial i'm | portance and merits of their localities. This | remarkable undertaking is striking evidence | of the growth and enterprise of the New | York Times under it's present management. | The Times is now easily one of the best | newspapers in the world All this is elo- | quent demonstration of the unsurpassed | ability of ,Adolph s. Ochs as a newspaper | manager. His genius has made the new | Times the great Times.
 trhe heavy rain of Monday and Monday | night caused the suspension of all prepa-
 rations for the crops in west Alabama" | said Sam. Carpenter of Greene, candidate
 for state auditor. we were getting on
 very satisfactorily, a great deal of work
 having been done in breaking up the low | lands; but the rain flooded the creeks and
 rivers, which overfiowed the plowed ground
 and ran it together rode out amongst the plantations yesterday. and found the sit
 uation very discouHging The negroes are