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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12
BATTLE or GIANTS.

Iron and steel circles are stirred up
over the report that the Carnegie Com
pany has decided to establish a monster
tube plant. The National Tube Company,
at the head of which is said to be J.. Pier
pont Morgan, now has a monopoly of the
tube making business. Andrew Carnegie
is the principal owner of the Carnegie
Company. If the Carnegie Company there
fore carries out its purpose it is proba
BILE that there will be a battle royal be-
tween Carnegie ard Morgan. The Nation
al Tube Company does not hesitate TO
say that il the Carnegie Company enters
the tube manufacturing field there will
al once be a great reduction in prices.
1t is probable that Mr.. Carnegie can
stand "a cut in prices about as long as
Mr.. Morgan. But they will not continue
to cut prices until one or the other of the
companies is exhausted. They will com
bine before that point is reached, and the
public will be assessed to pay their losses
assessed by being compelled TO pay
trust prices for tubes.
For a while, however, the public would
have the benefit of prices that mean
heavy losses TO the tube companies. But
il prices should be put too high the trust
would have opposition. No doubt the Ma
tional Tube Company, having the control
practically of all of the tube plants in
the country, felt secure against competi-
ton. 1t seems, however, that even while
it was glorying in its security and count
ing up enormous profits opposition was
taking shape. Will not that be the exper-
fence of all the trusts against which
there is now such strong public senti-
ment? It is doubtful if any of the trusts
will ever get so big as TO be beyond com
petition. except those which control the
supply of raw materials.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12
ALARMED BY lodges SPEECH.

The highfaluting speech which Senator
Lodge delivered in the Senate the other
day-the speech in which he pictured
the United States as controlling the com
merce of the world and all other nations
becoming their debtors, and in which he
pointed out the necessity under such cir
cumstances for a strong navy and army
seems to have greatly alarmed some of
the Continental Powers. Their newspa-
pers comment on it as if the predictions
it contained would be realized in the very
near future.
1t is astonishing how the United States
have grown in the estimation of the ma
tons of Europe since the Spanish-Amer-
lean war. Before that war the Continent
tai governments paid very little atten-
ton to the United States. Because the
latter did not have a great standing army
and a mighty navy it was not thought
they amounted TO much. Suddenly Eu-
ropean nations awakened to the fact that
there was a fair prospect of the United
States owning them without firing a gun
that industrial forces would do what
they had been thinking could only be
done by armies and navies.
There was much truth in what Senator
Lodge said. although it was well under
stood that the picture he presented was
not made up wholly of facts. There was
so much truth in it that it caused a feel
ing of uneasiness all over Europe. The
European countries see the handwriting
on the wall. Within the present century
the United States will be the money and
commercial center of the world. Having
the money and the commerce they will be
in a position to dictate to other nations.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12

There are two things Serene E. Paine
Republican leader of the House, serene
as his name, loves above many othe:
things, says the Washington correspond
ence of the Pittsburg Dispatch. One is a
joke on his Democratic friends, and the
other is a joke on his Republican col
leagues. lie had both the other day and
after they were over he walked down the
corridor outside the House holding that
globular part of his anatomy which is
nearest the table when he dimes, chuck
ling like a boy who has just tied an ar
ray of tin cans to a dogs tail.
What's the matter?" a friend inquired
"Oh, hehe-he, Olmstead, you know
(more chuckling), didn't you see how the
boys let him down hard when he had
stirred up the Southern fellows. They
skedaddled and left him in a minority
And, say, Williams of Mississippi and
even Richardson got excited about the
matter before they caught on that the
resolution wasn't being supported by the
Republicans" And then the Republican
leader disappeared. laughing and shak-
ing because the Republican leaders had
had fun with the SoutherneTs and the
Northern men who want to reduce South
ern representation.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12

Mark Twain can thank his daughter
for the pleasure he had in witnessing the
production of Gay Lord Quex" at New
York the other evening with John Hare
in the leading role, relates the Chicago
Chronicle. Mr.. Clemens is a warm ad-
mirer of the English comedian, and when
he expressed a desire to witness his per-
Torrance Mr.. Frohman promptly begged
him to accept box for a certain evening
When the humorist marshaled his family
up to the Criterion box Office and asked
If a box had been reserved for Mr.. Glenn
ems, he was met by an urbane and polish
ed negative.
With that desperately foolish look which
always distinguishes the victim of a box
office chill he sdled out from behind the
brass rail, to be greeted with an unflial
jeer by his daughter.
Il think, father dear there's a marked
wane in your popularity" she laughed.
"Oh, did you say Mark Twain?" cried
the box-office man. II beg your pardon.
There is a box for Mark Twain.
He handed out the envelope and it was
thus that the humorist was able to beam
upon play and players from much-ob
served box.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12
Kentucky Tales.

An old lawyer here. says the Louisville
Times, tells of two amusing things which,
he alleges, occurred in Kentucky many
years ago. ON one occasion a wealthy
man died. leaving fortune, and the heirs
became So dissatisfied with his will that
they went to court TO break il. One wit
ness was called who furnished fun for
the crowd. In giving his testimony he
stated that the deceased did not wish TO
make will because of dream he had
mad. He was Intensely superstitious. and
this vision rather dampened his enthusi
assn with regard 10 making will. And
pray asked ore Of the lawyers, what
was this remarkable dream your friend
had"
well, sir" replied the witness, he
dreamed that he made a will. and just as
he signed it he saw a lawyer coming in
the room with a big bag to take all his
money away"
At another important trial which kept
things lively a witness was a vain, con-
ceited woman who fancied she could
teach the lawyers a thing or two. While
one of them was cross examining her she
became very saucy, grinned at her hus-
band, who sat in sight, and remarked
tartly: Mr.. Blank. you needn't worry
me with them questions; you just can't
cotch me-"
Madam" said the lawyer, heaven
knows l don't want TO cotch you, and
your husband looks like he was sorry he
ever did"
She was swept up and carefully remov-
ed from the stand
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12
FARMERS AND COUNTRY MER-
CHANTS

In an interview, published in the Morn
ing News yesterday Mr.. Stevens, the
Commissioner of Agriculture, said that
the farmers of this state were in a far
more prosperous condition than at any
previous time since the Civil War. There
is no doubt that the farmers are better
off financially than they have been In
years. but how about the country mer-
chants, and also the wholesale merchants
of the cities2 Is 1t not fact that they
are not in as happy a frame of mind
they were when cotton was selling AZ
cents a pound? We do not refer 10 all
of the country merchants of course. We
have in mind only the majority of them
a pretty big majorty-those who have
been buying cotton this season. About
every country merchant was confident
that upland cotton was going to 1O1a or
II cents a pound, and that sea island
cotton would bring % cents a pound be-
fore Christmas. Therefore they bought
cotton freely and did not stop to bargain
about a sixteenth or even an eighth. of
a cent a pound. They loaded themselves
up with cotton, particularly those in the
sea island territory. But cotton did not
advance as rapidly as they thought 1t
would. Indeed It is not now as high as
they thought it would be by this time
not high enough to permit them to get
their money back. If they hold IL long
enough they may get what they paid for
il, and even make a profit, but a great
many of them have already sold at a
loss.
Consequently this season. thus far, has
not been prosperous one for the coun-
try merchants in this state, and what Is
true in this state in respect to this mat
ter is probably true as to all the other
cotton states. To state the situation
plainly, the country merchant is not so
well off as he was at the beginning Of
the present cotton season. Many of them
have lost very considerable money. They
may get the most of it back before the
season closes but just now they feel
poor Consequently they are not ready to
pay their obligations promptly to the
wholesale merchants of the cities.
With this statement of the situation II
can be readily seen why it is that while
the faces of the farmers are smiling those
OF the country merchants have worried
look There is no doubt that the far
mers are in a financial condition to pay
their bills al the country stores, and to
trade upon a more liberal scale than they
have been accustomed to do. and doubt
less, the time for the spring trade APP
proaches the country merchants will find
that business is much better than it was
son their profits may be as great as in
past seasons but just now they can see
little more than that they were too rash
in buying cotton at the beginning of the
| season.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL At
Tackled.


There was very little reason for the
attack which Mr. Cushman of Washing
ton made on the River and Harbor bill
on Thursday. The point he made was
that seventeen Of the forty-five states
get nearly all of the appropriations, and
that the members Of the River and Har-
Dor Committee are from these states.
Naturally the harbors and rivers which
need improving. with the exception of
the Mississippi River, are in the coast
states. That explains why 1t is that the
bulk of the appropriations go to less
than one half of the states OF the Union.
And it is but natural that the members
of the River and Harbor Committee
should be from those states. They know
more about the needs of rivers and har-
bors than do members who live in inter
Tor states.
But because the coast states get the
bulk of the river and harbor appropri-
ations it does not follow that the interior
states do not get any bene-
fits from them. The products
of the interior states, those OF
the farms as well as those of the fac
tories, have to go to the seaboard on
their way to foreign markets. The ocean
freight rates depend largely upon the
condition of the rivers leading to the sea
and the harbors. Good harbors mean
lower rates from the interior to the sea
Lower ocean and river rates mean higher
prices to the producers in the interior
Therefore interior states are about as
deeply interested in river and harbor ap-
preparations as are the coast states The
only advantage the coast states have
over the interior states in the matter
of river and harbor appropriations is that
improved harbors contribute to the
growth of the seaport cities
Evidently Mr.. Cushman, in attacking
the River and Harbor bill, aimed to get
an opportunity to make a speech rather
than to complain of injustice done inter
Tor states. It can hardly be otherwise
than that he understands the situation
thoroughly. If there were real force in
the point he made 1t would have at
tracted the attention of the interior states
long before Mr. Cushman made it the
subject of a speech.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12
VICE IN PHILADELPHIA.

According to dispatches III the New York
papers the attempt that was made in Phil
adephia on Wednesday to start a cru
SADIE against vice in that city was fail
ure. Two dozen or more eminent citizens
who had been watching the anti-vice
movement I'm New York asked Bishop Pot
ter to visit their city, and see what he
could do toward arousing the Quaker City
people to the Importance of putting a
check on vice among them. One of these
eminent citizens was Mr.. John Wanna
maker, who is about as much interested
in New York as in Philadelphia. He was
quoted as saying that bad as New York
was it was clean in comparison with
Philadelphia. Bishop Potter accepted the
invitation and a meeting was held in the
Academy of Music. Philadelphians al
ways hold their meetings there when they
are about to inaugurate a great moral
movement.
Some of the papers say that the meet
ing was a very enthusiastic one and
others declare that the house was not
full, and that only those on the stage vot
ed when the resolutions were acted upon.
But be that as it may. it is a pretty
safe statement that Notwithstanding its
outward appearance of cleanliness the
city is full of vice The whole world
knows that the ballot has less respect
there than in any other city in the coun-
try And where there is wholesale cor
ruption of the ballot year after year, the
laws against vice in its various forms
cannot be strictly enforced. The kind of
men who get into office by bribery and
corrupt practices is not likely to- see to it
that vice is suppressed.
1t has been only a few weeks since
very high official in Philadelphia threat
ened John Wanamaker with an exposure
of some sort in the newspapers if he old
not cease his attacks upon the official in
question. Such a thing as that would
not have occurred in a city where only
honest and decent men are in charge of
the municipal government 1t may be that
Philadelphia is not badly afflicted with
the tenement house vices of which so
much is being said in the New York
napers. because Philadelphia has very few
great tenement houses, but it is question
able IL there is not more municipal dis
honesty in the latter city than in the for
mer,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12

Clara: I wonder how Matte came to
marry Fred Somerby?
Bertha: The most natural reason in the
world. Fred had an overcoat that was
a perfect match for Matties new gown
Boston Transcript.
Rev. Windley: Now that Lent is ap-
preaching, you should think of perform
ing some penitential act.
Miss Pert oh, | do. l expect to come
and hear you preach every Sunday.-Phil-
adelphia Record
Fond Parent: Goodness! how you look.
child; you are soaked
frankie: Please. pa, 1 fell into the
canal.
Fond Parent: What, with your new
trousers on?
frankie: I didn't have time, pa, to take
'em off.-Tit- Bits.
Too Much for Them.-Bobbs: Old Man
Rocks doesn't seem worried because his
boy is in the hands of kidnapers. Seems
to think they'll turn him loose without
ransom.
Dcbbs: Yes. You see, the lad is a boy
orator.-Baltimore American.
Cruel to an Amateur.-Mrs Viewed
(seriously): Henry, I wanted to take our
cooks picture with my new camera to-
day, and she wouldn't let me. l believe
she's a criminal
MIR. Newed: Not necessarily. dear: she
may be only member of the Society for
the Prevention of Crime.-Puck.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12
PERSONAL.

An effort is now being made to revive
the project for a monument to Edwin M,
Stanton. Lincolns Secretary of War, at
his native town, Steubenville, o. The
plan originated at the time of Stanton's
death. but sufficient money was not forth
coming.
Congressman Gaines of Tennessee urg-
ed the Committee on Rivers and Harbors
to recommend the damming of the Ten
nessee river claiming that much good
would be thereby done After finishing
his argument he invited Congressman Ber-
ry and Alexander to lunch with him.
Not much" said Berry. I'VE don't give
a dam for a lunch"
-Sgnor Brignoli once agreed to sing
solo at St. Agnes Church. in this city,
says the New York Tribune. He came in
Iate. and, after divesting himself of many
coverings, tumbling over music racks and
exasperating the choir by trying his voice,
he came to the conclusion that he was
ready. BY this time, however, the sermon
had commenced, but Brignoh, unabashed
leaned over the choir railing and tried TO
attract the attention of the preacher by
shaking his head and gesticulating Wild
ly. At last he yelled out in voice that
reached every corner of the church: me
ready for re sing. Stoppe re preach!
Stoppe re preach" And the priest ac-
tually cut the sermon short in order 10
accommodate the impatient tenor. whose
voice now rang out with such fervor as
to thrill the worshippers and justify the
sacrifice.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12
A Hazimg Incident.

"There wasn't much hazing at the Ma
val Academy when l was there" said
Capt Carpenter, of the Marine Corps, ac-
cording to the New York World, al
though once in a while some funny things
were done. 1 remember one night when
all the men in our dormitory were called
out into an upper corridor to see what
the announcer said was to be the Grand
PriX de Paris
-Four big plebes were led out, on their
hands and knees and stark naked ex-
cept for towels laid across their backs
for saddles. They were the thorough
bred horses. Then came four small
plebes dressed in undershirts, drawers
and caps and wearing bright ribbon
sashes. These were the Jockeys. Each
had a hairbrush for a whip. Then came
four upper classmen as owners and four
more as trainers. The little plebes were
mounted on the big plebes and all the
preliminaries of running-ho race
were gone through. The owners instruct
ed the jockeys to use the whips literally
and go out to win, and the trainers
forced the horses to act up at the post.
big plebes scrambled down the corridor
the little plebe jockeys entering into the
spirit of the thing and whaling away for
dear life with the hairbrushes. A big
chap from Arkansas won, and he was
always afterwards known as The Thor
ou~hbred' -
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Notes.-The Goods for To-day,
Drayton Grocery Company; Choice Sorts,
M S. Gardner; Attention, James ]. Joyce;
Those Popular Meals. San Francisco
Restaurant; Give Us Your Order, Scott &
Davis; Extra Fine Meats To-day at
Funk's; Steamer Louise for Bluffton Sat
urday; Flower Seeds, Solomons Company.
Business Notices Franklin Cigars;
Mackerel for Breakfast, The S. w. Branch
Company.
Amusements Bargain Matinee and
Night, Harry Glazier Tuesday, Jan. is,
Otis Skinner as prince Otto"
Legal Sales-Receiver's Sales of Stocks
of Goods of w. E. Ogilvie at Claxton and
Pembroke.
Legal Notices-W. P. Phillips of Eman-
uel County, Bankrupt; Application to
Sell Bank Stock; Application to Sell, Es-
tates of Susan Sheftall; Mintie Graham;
Michael T. Sweeney and Richard Turner;
Application for Support, Estate of Henry
Sanders.
Grape Nuts-Postum Cereal Company.
Whisky-Y Label Whisky.
Mineral Waters-Hunyadi Janos.
Medical--Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable
Pills; DR.. williams Pink Pills; Hoods
Sarsaparilla; Warmers Safe Cure; Paine s
Celery Compound; Plantation Sarsaparil-
la; TUFTS Pills; stuarps Catarrh Tablets.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12

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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12

GEORGIA. CHATHAM COUNTY,
To the Superior Court of said county:
The petition of George " Denny and P.
H Thompson, both of the state of North
Carolina, and ]. H. Haslam and E. F.
Hartfelder of the county of Chatham
and state of Georgia. respectfully shows
l. That they desire to form them
selves and such other persons as they
may associate with them into a private
corporation under the corporate name Of
GEORGIA SUPPLY COMPANY"
2. That the object of their asso-
citation and the particular business they
propose to carry on is to buy, sell and
handle railroad, mill and steamboat sup
plies; to buy and sell all other manufac-
tured products, commodities or articles,
and to conduct general wholesale, re-
tail jobbing and commission business 10
all kinds Of personal property; to buy and
sell any and all kinds of manufactured
products, commodities or articles on COM
missions; to receive goods and other prop
erty on storage, and to advance money
upon goods and property whilst so stored;
to purchase, own, or lease real estate, and
all other real or personal property Of
whatsoever kind or character, necessary
or convenient for the conduct of the bust
ness of said corporation; to lend or bor-
row money on note, bill, bond, pledge,
deed, mortgage or other obligations or
liens; to enter into and carry out con-
tracts or obligations for the buying or
leasing of factories, and to manufacture,
sell and deal in all articles of personal
property, and generally to do and perform
all acts and things incident and similar
to those above enumerated, and to have,
enjoy and exercise the rights, powers ami
privileges that are usual, and incident to
corpora tons under the laws of the state
3. The principal place of bust
ness will be in Chatham county, Georgia
but they desire the privilege of doing
business in any or all of the states and
territories of the United States.
4. That the amount of capital to
be employed by petitioners, actually paid
in, will be ten thousand dollars $4,000
divided into shares of one hundred dollars
$500 each, but petitioners desire the priv
ilege of increasing or diminishing the cap
ital stock from time to time to any sums
not greater than one hundred thousand
dollars ($lOO COO, or less than ten thousand
dollars $4,000. and to issue preferred
stock and to provide by bylaws or other
wise for the limitation or restriction "
the right and power to transfer stock.
). Wherefore petitioners pray that
they and their associates may be incor-
porated, as aforesaid, for a period IT
twenty 600 years. with the privilege Of
renewal at the end of that time.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
O'CONNOR, O'BYRNE & HARTRIDGE.
Attorneys for Petitioners.
Petition for incorporation filed in ONCE
Jan. 4. 1901.
JAMES K. P. CARR,
Clerk S. c., C. c., Ga.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-12

Senator Morgan of Alabama often sur
prises his friends by repeating from mem
DRY page after page of the classics. The
other day a friend asked him how he had
managed to store up and retain such a
fund of information His reply was that
when he was young his available stock of
literature was very small. He had the
Bible, Shakespeare and few other stand
ard works. These he read thoroughly, and
what he read then remained in his mind.
people read so much nowadays" he
said. that they at once forget more than
three-quarters Of what they read" Ac-
cording to the Senator therefore, the null
tipNcity of books and newspapers is not
conducive to well-stored memories.