The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-27

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destructive influence of time on EVIL
dence 1t will have been three years
since the first trial before Molineaux
can be brought to the bar of justice
again. Moreover, the throwing out OF
the expert handwriting testimony and
the attitude of the Court of Appeals on
the testimony connecting the prisoner
with the death of Barnet. handicap the
prosecution hopelessly. The case has
already cost the county $l75,000; to add
to this enormous account the expense
of a retrial where there is practically
no hope of conviction would seem a
dubious matter from the viewpoint OF
the state. Molineaux himself ana ms
wife and family declare that they viii
never rest content until o verdict or
innocence has cleansed his name OF the
stigma under which it rests. But per-
sons who have followed the case from
the first will be inclined to take this
statement with grain OF salt. Even
though the murder be not proven
against Molineaux it is almost incredi'
BILE that he should be willing again to
have woven about him that tremendous
web of evidence which all the details
of the Barnet and Adams murders
formed; a web whose every strand
was foul with blasted regulations and
shameful records.
Did you ever hear of the "Jagster?"
He's not an invention of Hall Game.
He is actually, product of TWEEN
tieth century conditions. He is the
professional exponent of r. E. Morse,
and mitigant of the Next Morning Woe.
So far as I know there is only one of
him and that one lives in the Metropo-
lis and puts forth so Turing a form
of literature that I cannot refrain
from reproducing a specimen of 1t.
Here is one of the Jagster's circulars
which has been sent broadcast to the
members of many clubs in town:
Dear Sir:
as the prospect of social evening
dimmed and darkened by the knowl-
edge of next days retribution?
do you awake in the morning feel
ing like the fag-end of mis-spent
life?
'Is your mouth full of fur and your
soul full of regrets?
do you feel that a pitcher of ice
water and temperance tract will last
you for the rest of your life?
Then YOU NEED Me. Telephone
or telegraph will bring me to you, and,
without the use of drugs of fallacious
pick me-ups' 1 will make life once
more worth living to you.
but, remember, too, that AN Ounce
of Prevention is Worth Pound of
Cure Send for me in time and you'll
never know the pangs of the man
who wishes he hadn't. A line will
bring me to your apartments to meet
you after your jaunt is over. After
my treatment you will wake in the
morning like a lark in the meadows.
LOOK AHEAD, and you won't GET
A HEAD" Yours truly,
Prof. --.
Already the Jagster has acquired
quite a clientage among the younger
sporting element of the clubs. Those
who have undergone his treatment say
that it is heroic, particularly the
ounce of prevention" phase of it. Here
is the testimony of one young man.
who, after dining not wisely but too
we'll, had the professor" come to his
apartments after the last ball was
over.
First, he made me drink about
quart of hot water then another quart
of cold water. Then he and his assist
ant got me on my big couch and beat
me to death. When they saw l was
dead they put me on ice. After that
they brought me back to life with a
drink and dose, got me to bed, piled
all the bed clothing and rugs and
most of the furniture on me and left
ten hours later. sat down and wrote
out challenge to fight Jim Jeffries
for the championship of the world. And
all it cost me was a five-spot."
Something akin to horror, as at a
sacrilege, has been reused in the high
souls of the high church Episcopalians
by the attack on the House of Bish-
ops made by the Rev. Percy S. Grant
of the fashionable Church of the As
cension on Fifth avenue. Mr.. Grant
declared that the House of Bishops
was an obstruction in the path of
progress and that it was the cause
why the recent Triennial Convention
accomplished nothing. He Furthermore
suggested that to some men 1.-The Of
flee of bishop becomes an opportunity
for millinery display or for narrow
tyranny" Mr.. Grant is a young man
and has no wide personal influence In
his church, but he is regarded by many
people as the mouthpiece of Bishop
Henry c. Potter, and in that light,
! what he says from his pulpit has the
utmost import. There is certain Bish-
| op not far from New York whom
| Bishop Potter does not like and to
whom the millinery display" applies
well, and many will construe that part
of Mr.. Grants sermon as aimed at the
Bishop. The radicals will support the
attack on the House of Bishops as a
/ measure toward Democracy, while the
| conservatives will array themselves on
the otehr side. Mr.. Grants sermon
may prove to be the trumpet blast an
nouncing a battle that will involve the
entire Protestant Episcopal Church.
Duane.