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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

GEORGIA., CHATHAM CoUNTY.--No-
tice is hereby given that have made APP
plicatIon to the Court of Ordinary for
Chatham county for leave to sell an I'M
divided one-half interest in fractional lots
Nos IS and 10, CASTOR ward, Savannah,
Ga. and the improvements thereon be-
longing TO estate OF Eliza Anne Bennett.
deceased, for the payment OF debts and
distribution, and that said order Will be
granted at March term, 1901 OF said court,
unless objections are filed therto.
JORDAN r. BROOKS.
Admir- c. I. a. Est. Eliza Anne Bennett.
Feb. s, 1901.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26
BOARD WANTED.

WANTED, BOARD FOR COUPLE, IN
private family preferred; wiling pay good
price; references exchanged. Address b.,
care Morning News.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26
LOST AND FOUND.
EDUCATIONAL.

LOST, HOUND DOG, DARK BROWN.
81 Jefferson street; phones 26t
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

For colds and grippe, keep the bowels
open by taken Graybeard Pills. Little
treasures, 25c the box. At all drug stores
Get Graybeard Compound at all drug
stores. 1t is the fam es' best friend now.
Respess Drug Co.,
Proprietors -ad
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26
EMpLoYMENr wANrEp.

~~S---.-s-~~--~>S-@>--
WORK WANTED BY. STRONG
white boy, II years. Address No.
Thirty-second street, east.
FIRST-CLASS LUMBER INSPECTOR
wants position; can take charge of any
capacity mill. Address Inspector" care
Morning News.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26
A SPLENDID CORNER LOT
AT AUCTION.

C. II. DORsETT, Auctioneer,
Will sell at Court House TUESDAY.
March 5. the northwest corner Haber-
sham and waldburg streets. forty feet
front by one hundred and fifteen feet
deep. This is the only vacant corner Out
one) on Habersham street. and is one OF
the best building sites in the city.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26
ROOMS WANTED.

WANTED. FURNISHED ROOM
southern exposure. Address A. H., this
office.
WANTED, TWO YOUNG GENTLE.
men wish room between Jones and Gwin.
nett streets and East Broad and Lin
coin streets. Address M. X" care
News.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

FOR RENT. HOUSE AIS HUNTING
don. east, now occupied by Chas. Marks
possession given at once; the best equiv
ped homes in this city; for full particL
lars apply ct Chas. Marks, II West
Broughton street.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

FLY BoX KITE, THE SCIENTIFIC
novelty that pleases old boys as we'll as
young boys, only % cents. C. P. Miller.
agent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

OUR GERMAN READY MIXED
paint is sold under a guarantee: have
your house painted with it. Adams Paint
Company
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

SCHOOL BOOKS, SCHOOL BOOKS!
Steele's revised new astronomy; IA cara.
gold fountain pen. for 81; guaranteed to
give satisfaction or money refunded. OPP
penheimer, Sloat s. Co., II Broughton
street east,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

PERRY & BENTON. 100 STATE
street, west. will move, pack, ship or store
your furniture at short notice; also rem
ovate your Old mattresses at little cost.
Bell phone 1124.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

BED AND TABLE LINEN LAUN-
dered at Georgia Steam Laundry; great
ly reduced prices.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

YOU WILL LIKE TnE MILK FROM
Springfield Dairy; it's rich and pure: try
II,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

WE ADVISE EVERYBODY THAT
burns gas to call and inspect our de-
tachable handle nantes, the most dura-
BILE mantle on the market. A. c. Price
G. Co., State and jefferson streets. Phone
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-26

THOSE NICE FOLKS IN THE
southern part OF the city have the best
fresh meats. vegetables, groceries and
wood very close 20 them. Ring up j. c.
Morgan & Co, and they will divide it
around; Thirty-ffth and Bull streets;
phones 512; quick delivery; goods Al.
beautify Your parlor
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15
some few years ago. and he at once
communicated with Lord Crewe.


A European scientific journal re-
ports that the coke ashes of gas
works are now manufactured into
bricks resembling pressed brick, but
considerably harder than the latter.
Heretofore these ashes were looked
upon as absolute waste, and were
often piled up on land which might
have been profitably cultivated, so
that the innovation is doubly profit
able. The manufacture of coke ash
brick is a very simple one. The
ashes are carefully reduced to fine
powder, mixed with o1e-tenth part Of
slaked lime, and, after the addition
of water. kneaded until the mass
forms stiff paste. Then it is treated
like ordinary clay and formed into
bricks by the use of suitable presses.
The bricks are then stacked, protect
ed from rain and dried in the air. No
artificial heat is required. The air.
dried bricks are very hard and make
excellent building material.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15
NIAGARA FALLS POWER.
Lines Along which 1t Will BE Ex-
tended In Future Opera
tlOna.

A glance at the past development
of the Niagara Falls Power company
indicates the lines along which it is
likely to grow in the future, says
Casters Magazine. AS the manufac-
turing arts advance, the element of
power becomes more and more inn
portant, and cheap power, therefore.
more demanded. Electro-chemistry is
a new art and one which has great
possibilities ahead of it. The high
temperatures obtainable in electric
furnaces have opened up new field
to chemical synthesis, and it is likely
that many as yet undiscovered proc
esses. which will require large
amounts of electrical power for their
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15

The theft was discovered when Crom:
well opened negotiations with for
eign dealer for the sale of some of the
pictures of Charles l. On this partic-
ular picture being examined, one of
the principal faces, that of Henry
WILL, was missed. 1t had been dex-
terously cut out, and upon the res
toration the thief, nobleman of note,
handed it back to Charles ii. in per-
feet state of preservation. His object
had been to prevent the picture going
out of the country.
Lord Crewe has picture which was
lost and recovered in a remarkable
manner. An ancestor of his had pic
ture painted of his SON and daughter
in which the son posed as Cupid. Many
years afterward the father and son
quarreled, and the younger man, out
of revenge, caused the Cupid to be cut
out of the canvas. The piece knocked
about unheard of for over 100 years.
A dealer who had seen an engraving Of
the original happened to get hold of it
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15
LOST MASTERPIECES.
Other Famous Palntings Besides the
GainsbOrOugh Work Have
Been Stolen.

Gainsborough's Duchess of Devon
shire, which will probably find its last
resting place in the Metropolitan mu-
scum of art, in this city, is not the only
great painting which has been stolen,
says the New York Herald. A por-
trait of the countess of Derby disap-
peared shortly after it was painted by
Sir Joshua Reynolds. Rewards for its
return were vainly offered. The final
conclusion was that the then earl of
Derby, who had quarreled with his
wife at the time the picture was paint
ed, had destroyed it.
The celebrated Field of the Cloth of
Gold" was never stolen outright. but
an important part of it was extracted.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15

cess. Her refreshments were served
In borrowed cut-glass dishes. Before
her guests departed, they left behind
them a choice assortment of carafes.
goblets, olive dishes, salad bowls and
tankards; and hereafter she will have
to borrow no more.
But it was not Mamie alone who
was satisfied with the result o. her
social speculation. It made an equal
ly soothing impression on the mind
of Mrs. Skinner, whose supply of
dishes was running desperately low.
Mr.. Skinner had repeatedly declined
to invest his hard-earned dollars in
fancy tableware, but he had never
yet refused to welcome his friends or
his wife's friends to his house. Mr..
and Mrs. Skinner had been one for
nearly 20 years; and on the way home
from the crystal wedding Mrs s. sug.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15

happens to be open when received
here, it is sealed with a special
stamp, bearing the words: 'Post
Office Department-Offic Sealed"
The first stamp Of this kind bore tho
words: ''Post obitum," meaning
latter DEATH" A specimen is to-day
worth ten dollars. It is difficult to
procure sealing stamps, and collect-
ors offer high prices for them.
Stamp collecting fiends bother tho
foreign division of our dead letter
Office very much. The average per-
son afflicted with that mania believes
that he can get all manner of stamps
for the asking. One Of them recent
ly wrote: "You must have thousands
of foreign letters which you can
never deliver. Please send me .
good collection" All such letters are
answered with a reference to the
law making the removal of stamps
from letters subject to a fine of
$500, with or without imprisonment.
One great difficulty in the delivery
OF letters addressed in foreign coun-
tries is that the writers give de-
fective or insufficient superscrip-
tions to their communications. Only
an expert would have known that q
letter addressed: "Teserero General
de Nacion," meant Treasurer of the
United States" But it did; and was
properly delivered, and it contained
a considerable sum of money.
A letter addressed to "Br Ameruky,
d. Branz, Kemielbunkport, America"
was sent to the postmaster at Ken.
nebunk Port, Me-, and by him for
warded to Portland, where it was
delivered to d. Branz, in an alley
in the rear of No. "a North street.
Another letter addressed "Br Amer
uka," meaning British America, was
Elizabeth Avenue SIS,
Joseph Niron, House furnishing
goods" That seemed like hard
one, but the experts in our dead
letter Office found Elizabeth avenue
at Elizabeth, n. j., and delivered the
letter there.
These are merely samples Of the
hundreds of thousands of difficult
cases which are handled every year
by our expert clerks in the dead LETT
ter Office; and the work increases
each wear because OF the increased
illiteracy of Europe. On this point
the superintendent of the dead letter
Office says: There is also a great
deal of illiteracy and carelessness in
our own country. I think that the
art of letter writing and of address
ing envelopes ought to be practical
part Of the work Of our school chill
dren."
That's a good idea. It could b
taught with the lessons in penman-
ship. SMITH D. FRI.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15


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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15
AS BETWEEN FRIENDS
The Touch of Nature Which Makes
All Women Kin.
A Little Occidental Chat ON . Sub
iect In which All of Cs Are In
terested Speculation In
wedding Anniversaries.

Especial Chicago Lettsr.l
UMAN nature never changes.
Time and circumstances may
toms, but the old Adam and venerable
Mother Eve still do business at the
same stand. Cervantes, several cen
turtles ago, sagely observed that
"many go out for wool, and come home
shorn themselves" Few there are
among our friends who have not gone
through this identical experience. A
moss-covered proverb, which fingers
consolingly in many recalcitrant MEM
cries, says that
" Doubtless the pleasure Is as great
OF being cheated as to cheat"
When we are inclined to kick, We
very frequently find consolation in the
fact that while being "done up good
and brown" we labored under the inn
preston that we were taking advan-
tage of somebody else. Our impress
sion probably was based on erroneous
premises from the start, but as long
as it appeared as living truth to us
we were satisfied; and even after we
are compelled to admit that the joke
was on us we persuade ourselves that
others, if placed in similar circum-
stances, would have Jared much worse
than such clever persons as You, &
Co.
Reference is not had in this connec-
ton to ordinary swindling schemes.
Bunco men and thieves of the ordinary
stripe are altogether too coarse and
vulgar to be considered in polite So
ciety. We have in mind those am
bilious little social humbugs who
make life interesting and by their
comparatively inexpensive confidence
games add zest to life and relieve the
monotony of existence in the average
American city. Man, who does battle
with the world during the day to en-
able his wife to take her proper place
in the social swim in the evening,
takes secondary part in the comedy
of deception which is going on all
around us. His name, it is true, ap-
pears first on the bill when 'Mr. and
Mrs. Josephus Breakemup request the
honour of your company" at their
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15

literary lights, with only England
on the envelope, have beenreturned to
this country marked insufficient adj
dress" Letters Of that character
from European countries for eminent
men of letters in this country are al
ways forwarded to their proper adj
dresses, and without delay.
All printed matter received at the
dead letter Office from Canada, Great
Britain, Germany, Switzerland, South
American countries and Australasia
is destroyed, in accordance with spe-
cial agreement Most Of this stuff con-
sists of newspapers and trade circu-
lars. The countries mentioned do the
same with similar matter that reaches
them from the United States. But
France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Portugal,
NORWAY, Sweden, Denmark and Bel
eium want every bit of their printed
matter back, and it is returned to
them.
Take Russia, for instance. All I'M
claimed matter from that country is
sent back to the Russian post office
department at st. Petersburg every
week, including printed stuff. The
material is done up in bags. 1t there
Is reason to believe that a single par
eel or letter holds anything OF value,
the bag containing it is registered
Many of the letters returned to Rus
sia come to Washington from the post
Office at Boston, in which city there Is
a large Russian colony. Returns
for Newfoundland and small depend
encies in various parts of the world
are made in big envelopes. the ouik
az matter sent being small.
In the same way we get our dead
matter back from foreign countries
weekly from some, monthly from
others The returns" sent to us
amounted last year to 100000 pieces
only a little more than one-thlrd as
many as we forwarded to govern
ments abroad. One reason for TINS
reot difference is found in the fact
That addresses in Europe are more Ger
tain and permanent. Immigrants
coming to the United States give their
frst addresses to relatives and fi.enos
-, the other side of the water. Pref
~ SOON thew move, and track OF them
e los+ Native Americans are mostly
educated and address letters to Tor
eign parts with accuracy; foreigners
mere when they write home are sure
of the addresses.
The number of letters returned 70
italy is very great, most OF them TOT
non-navment Of postage. Under tne
regulations of the postal union, ie,,
tiers may be sent unstamped ana VIII
he delivered, but the recipient must
nav double. e., ten cents on an or
binary letter. Such an unpaid ie'.er
l. marked with . big I, which stanos
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15

operation, will be brought to light.
The supply of power for electro
chemical purposes is especially de-
sirable in a water-power plant, where
large investment is necessary, for the
power used by these processes is
practically constant for "a hours of
the day. thus tending to reduce load
speaks" on the total station output.
The economical distance to which
power can be transmitted extends
every year as the general demand for
power increases and methods of
handling high voltages improve, and
the electric equipment of steam rail-
way systems, witch is certain to
come in time, will open up further
field for the long-distance transmits
sion Of large amounts Of power from
q central plant.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15

Tor the word "taxee," meaning
taxed or extra rate. The Italians
are very thrifty people, and it often
happens that the sender in that coun.
Try prefers to leave the payment to
the addressee, who. in America, il
usually of the same nationality. On
delivery of the letter he refuses to re-
ceive 1T and pay the ten cents demand
Cd. There may be nothing important
In 1T, and he is not willing to squander
that amount of money on an uncer-
tainty. His friend or relative having
written, it is safe to conclude that the
writer is well.
Hundreds of letters, though actual
~ delivered to the intended recipients,
are returned to Italy every year. At
least IS per cent. of the mail matter
sent from that country to the United
States is not paid in advance. What
has been said on this point applies in
somewhat less degree to the Swedes,
who are likewise thrifty people. It
is observed that immigrants from
abroad retain their thrifty habits on
this side Of the water. In the next
generation. however, they lose them
entirely. Their sons and daughters
have all the wants and requirements
OF Americans. The continental peas.
ant is content to live on bread and po-
tatoes, but his American-born children
must have meat three times day.
Some Of the articles found in
closed in parcels from abroad, which.
unlike letters, may be opened, are
very odd. They will often contain
such things as one sock, one shoe
or one glove. the customs regulations
forbidding the sending of pairs Of
such things. Pieces Of lace and valu-
able embroidery are discovered
wrapped up in the newspapers which
are devoted to destruction when not
delivered. These are disposed of at
the annual auction sale, held at the
post Office department. Rosaries and
crucifixes are sent in similar fash.
ion in great numbers. At every year.
ly sale hundreds of these are dis.
posed of. many of them having been
blessed by priests and forwarded by
people in Catholic countries for use
by friends in our country.
Comparatively few of the foreign
letters which reach our dead letter
Office can be delivered to the persons
addressed, because it is not permits.
sible to open them. II one of them
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15

gested that it would be . good thing
to celebrate their china wedding.
celebrate what?" asked Mr.. S.
sour china wedding, stupid. Our
twentieth anniversary"
"What for?"
"Why, don't you see, we'd get .
lot of nice things-china things that
we couldn't afford to buy. Look at
all the cut glass Mamie got tonight.
It's worth all. of $3.50. and her party
didn't cost her more than SIS. Two
made up my mind to have a china
wedding, no matter what you think
about it. Why, paid hine dollars for
the salad bowl we gave Mamie, and
we've got to get even some way"
Mr.. Skinner protested, but the
cards went out; and if his enterpris-
ing wife does not ''get even" it will
certainly not be her fault.
The next day Skinner met his friend
Jaggers at the club.
$50 you're going to celebrate your
china wedding, old man" observed the
latter.
.My wife is" CURLY responded
Skinner.
"Well, Mrs. Jaggers says it's . nice
way of getting back part OF the
blackmail you have had to contrib
ute to your friends" suggested the
amiable Jaggers.
"What do you mean. sir?"
ooh, don't get on your ear. You
know we'll enough what mean. Mrs.
Jaggers has q habit Of looking every
financial proposition squarely in the
face. 'Hennery,' she says to me when
we got your card; last January we had
to give the Ketchams q two-dollar
coffee pot, the other day we gave the
Baldeys a six-dollar cut glass carafe,
next week wen have to spend five
dollars for the SINNERS. Next fall,
Henry, we celebrate our silver we'd
ding, and what I say goes had
nothing to say; not because like tho
idea, but because know that Maria
will have her way"
Skinner listened to the explanation
in silence, and then joined Jaggers in
a bottle of Apollinaris. They felt dis
satisfied with themselves and all the
world, and caused the grass widower,
who noticed their depression. to re-
peat his favorite quotation:
''wedlock. indeed. had oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet public
rout
Where they that are without would fain
go in,
And they that are within would fain 60
OUT
But in spite Of the discontinue Of
husbands women will continue toplay
their amateur hold-up games. It's
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15

The departure of these oriental
menials from England will not be re-
GREETED by anyone about the court.
as they gave an enormous deal of
trouble, and, being regarded as priv
ileged persons. they were excessive
" arrogant and insolent to the Brit
ish domestics, most of whom both
feared and detested them. They
were a constant source of worry, fuss
and anxiety. The queens munshi-
Hafiz Abdul karin-who has been q
powerful parsonage at court for the
last Is years or so, is also going back
to India with pension. The munshi
and his wife had charming cottage
on the Frogmore demesne, and
house was built for them few years
ago in the Balmoral grounds.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-15

tenth wedding anniversary. He heads
the procession, but madame, his wife,
is the star actor, stage manager and
impresario. He is surely one of the
eiphers added to lend impre ssiveness
to. the show, like the gentleman-in-
waiting in the old play who acts the
thinking part to perfection.
Woman manipulates all of the pup
pets on the social board. And in NOV
ing them around she displays extraor-
binary generalship and thorough
comprehension Of human nature.
For her own breakfast she'll project a
scheme
Nor take her tea without a stratagem."
Marcus Aurelius, who had the happy
faculty of condensing much practical
wisdom into single sentence, said
that "things that have . common quail
ity ever seek their kind" That is
probably the reason why women who
are "fond of going out" soon become
acquainted, even in large cities where
the forming of friendships is not as
easy as in smaller towns where every
body knows everybody else. And when
you have found woman who dotes on
card parties and evening companies"
you have, in nine cases out of ten, dis
covered social schemer, charming
Spectator who let's no wedding ami
>versary or similar happy occasion
pass without levying tribute from her
friends.
Harry, my boy" said detected
looking passenger on . suburban
train to a friend who had just entered
the car, did you get Mamie's card for
our crystal wedding?"
1--WE did"
~Are you coming?"
"Will, if I'm in town."
"Wish you'd be out of town. Wish
everybody that's been invited would
be out of town. I'm dead tired of the
whole thing. It's all Names doings.
She said that Mrs. Catchem celebrated
her tin wedding last January and all
her friends gave her nice presents.
Now Name doesn't want any tin coffee
pots or dishpans, but she thought this
crystal wedding party would be just
the thing for getting lot Of cut glass
truck. I don't want to bleed my
friends says I, If you want to enter
tain them put OF your party and don't
make everybody feel that you want
their presents more than their
company might just as well
have talked to . stone wall. She has
made up her mind to get lot of cut
glass; and unless the people that have
been invited have more sense than /
give them credit for she'll get it, too"
Names" party was quite . sue