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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-03-29
TRICKS IN ALL TRADES.
Lapidaries who Substitute stones
and Gems That Are "Just
ms Good

A Chicago jeweler was handed New
Mexico garnet the other day, with the
request that he have it cut for a ring
setting. Two days later he sent for his
customer, and when the latter came
said:
Il am afraid to have that stone cut"
"Why?"
swell, am not sure that what give
to the lapidary will be returned to me
he may substitute stone"
"How do you know?"
81 took your garnet to lapidary
with an order to cut it at once. He
looked it over and then handed me cut
stone, with the remark that that would
do in its place. Then found out that
this lapidary at least, If not others,
when receiving stone in the rough
finds it cheaper to substitute an al
ready cut stone of similar color than
to cut the original"
The customer finally had the stone
cut in carbuncle form for pin, but to
this day he is not satisfied that he re-
ceived back the stone which he orig
inally turned over to the lapidary, says
the Times-He-ald. In the matter of
ordinary ring setting it is easy to make
substitutions without it being possible
for even an expert to know that the
change has been effected. The owner
of garnet in the rough has no means
of proving when 1t has been cut that it
is the stone he first possessed. He takes
the iapidarys word for it. Another
trick which is quite common but not
generally known to customers is that
of substituting hair on customers who
desire ornaments of hair made for
brooches, pins or chains. A young
man secures lock of hair from his
sweetheart and rushes off to have it
made into one of those lovely watch
chains that look like a centipede with
million legs. He lovingly hands the
lock to the hair worker and in a'week
receives his ornament. But often he
does not receive back the hair he gave.
The hair worker buys his hair at whole
sale He makes it up into stock orna-
ments. He simply matches the hair he
has received with something in stock
not a difficult matter-his work is
completed and his bill ready for col
| lection;
OF course, the customer know no
better, so the workman of easy con-
science asks: what is the differ
ance?" There does not seem to be
much-only the difference between
honesty and dishonesty, and that is no
more than the difference between black
| and white.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-03-29
Chestnuts for Food.

In some parts of France, writes Con-
sul John c. Covert, in what are called
the schist lands, chestnuts form very
important article of daily food. They
are boiled, pulverized and eaten like
our mashed potatoes. In every city
and nearly every village during the
fall and winter they are sold in door.
ways and on street corners fresh from
large roasting pans. About noontime
numbers of poor people may be seen
around these roasting pans waiting &c
invest their pennies. Nine or ten
chestnuts are given for a cent. They
are about the size of our horse chest
nuts.--N. Y. World.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-03-29

Jim-When you can control your
amusement perhaps you will be kind
enough to tell me what you have to say
TO me.
Lsette-Did 1 tell you had some
thing to say to you?
JIM inferred that you had or you
wouldn't have asked me to sit down
again.
Lisette-Well, I haven't. II I had I
have changed my mind. will not be
treated in this way. You may go II
you choose, and you may be perfectly
sure that don't wish to see you again
Good-evening, Mr.. Thompson.
Jim ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS!
Lisette (angrily)-BecauAe 1 said
that you were not agreeable. You are
not. You act like savage. You are
absolutely ungentlemanly. wish you
would go-and please take your gloves
with you.
Jim-Lisette!
Lisette-Then why do you behave
yourself like this? Get up and take
your hat and march out of the room
like that!
Jim-You know what you said.
Lisette-I probably did at the time
that / said it.
Jim-You said l wasn't as agreeable
as some people, and particularly at the
present time-meaning, l suppose, my
call was particularly inopportune.
Lisette-I am not responsible for the
construction that you put on what ]
say, and I didn't say particularly"
(There is another pause.
Lisette (sweetly)-There is quite a
good deal of snow on the ground, ism 7
there?
Jim (moodily)-Quite good deal,
and one might imagine that there was
some Of it in this room.
Lisette-Perhaps the heat isn't
turned on. Won't you please look and
see?
Jim Suddenly and fiercely)-Lisette,
who is it that you expected to see when
you came down?
Lisette-Why! You made me jump.
Well, it could hardly have been you,
considering that you said yesterday
that you would never look upon my face
again, could it?
.Em-Are you going out with him this
evening?
Lisette-With whom? Oh, don't
know, I'm sure. Perhaps. Suppose !
am?
Jim with Spartan fortitude)-Oh,
nothing. He's nice fellow enough, l
suppose.
Lisette (enthisiastically)-He is, in
deed. have sometimes thought you
hardly did him justice. Yesterday, for
instance.
Jim with continued heroism)-I was
a beast yesterday. / know it, and
came here this morning to beg your
pardon hoping .. to get
it, and And you care for him,
Lisette?
Lisette dropping her eyelids modest
ly)-I-I'm afraid that do, very much
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-03-29

bad, l suffered terribly; the blood
went up in my lungs and stomach, and
l vomited 1t up. I could not eat
scarcely anything. cannot tell what
l suffered with my head. My hus-
band got me bottle Of Lydia E. Pink
ham'sVegetable Compound, and before
l had taken half of it / began to inn
prove, and to-dayI am another woman.
Mrs. Pinkham's medicine has saved my
life. Icannot praise it enough"
M. A. benson, Millport, NY.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-03-29

(The Regular One makes a despair
ing gesture of farewell, and is turning
away, when The Object suddenly takes
him by the shoulders and does her best
to shake him.
Lisette-Here! herel What are you
looking like that for? Jim! Look at
me. Who a. x9k think I was talking
about, you boy9
Jim dag hith?
Lisette PTS of deep disgust)-
Smith was commonly and
ordinaril decent to him yes
terday \ Ill this trouble for
yourself. There! There!
Does tina I'm, dear, stopl Oh!
You won N. breath in
my body. )w listen. sup
pose yof expected him.
That l. trying to make
mysel im-keep away
from talking about
you, al .g you. Do you
suppose that you would
come al
Jim h, Lisette!
(Curt ,aily Record.
-
Petr u in Paris.
The N )of Paris has
express hat 1t is neces-
sary to a. ,sures against
the alarE i petroleum
drinking. thought that
this habi mp from the
increased alcohol i'm.
posed by government,
but an iny 5wed that this
was not abit had been
prevalep previously in
certain d d spread with
great ra tim of the Pc
troleur become bru'
tai. on
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-03-29
CHANGE OF LIFE.

"Iwas taken sick
five years ago with
'The Grippe and
had a relapse and
was given up by
the doctor and my
friends. Change
of Life began to
work on me. l
flowed very badly
until a year ago,
then. my stomach
and lungs got so
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-03-29
MRS ANNIE THOMPSON


81 enough Pkham
has done good than all the doctors have been troubled with
female weakness
weak that could homework
had falling
doctors but did My
any good time try
trouble
appetite
living
eabe Compound feel that with
know they will follow Mrs Pinkham directions will be
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-03-29
pROFUsE PERIODS.
II commenced

81 commenced
taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
ia bic Compound
q bout 8 months
ago, and cannot
express the Won
derful good it has
done me. Men,
situations were SO
profuse as to leave
me very weak for
some time after,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-03-29

Was also troubled with leucorrhoea,
tired feeling, bearing down sensation,
pain across the back and thighs. I
felt as though there was a heavy
weight in my stomach all the time.
I have taken two bottles of the medi-
cine, and now have better health than
I have had for four years"
MRS. LIZZIE DICKSON HODGE,
Avalon, Ohio.
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
Thc Steel strike Weakening.

The situation yesterday in the dis
tricts affected by the steel strike ap-
peared to indicate an early abandon
file of the strikers. Four hundred or
more men returned to their places in
the National Tube Works at McKees-
port, and were not molested. A hun
dred and fifty went TO work in the
Pittsburg tube plant, and the starting
of the Demmler mill was arranged for
under protection of the civil authori-
ties. While it must be admitted that
there are signs that violence yet may
be expected at one or two points, the
strikers. or most of them, apparently
are convinced that there is nothing to
be gained by physical force, as the au-
thorities at last are determined that
men who desire to work shall be pro-
tected, whether they be non-unionists
or eX-strikers.
This impression. added to widespread
dissatisfaction with Shaffer's strike
management from the beginning, is a
leaven working actively and rapidly for
break up. Whether or not there be
still chance TO save. the face of the
Amalgamated Association before the
men take the bit in their teeth and re-
pudiate their leadership, by again Of
fering concessions to the Morgan COM
bination, does not appear on the sur
face of things. What does appear, if
we may credit press reports. is that
anxiety among the strikers to quit and
get back to their old employment is fast
becoming epidemic. 1t is said that
whenever the question of protection
shall be solved a majority of the
idle workers at several of the leading
plants will be only too glad to quit
striking and resume labor on the basis
OF the status ante-bellum.
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
The south African War.

| Late adyices from London show that
! British public opinion is again in the
! doidrums respecting the South African
war, after a day or two of optimism by
way of change. One despatch says that
British faith in the efficacy OF procla-
nations is severely tested as the time
| limit set by Lord Kitchener and Mr..
| Chamberlain approaches. The war,
which was declared by Lord Roberts to
be practically over on the eve of the
general elections, viii be technically at
an end in eleven days"
Technically" perhaps. but, it is to
be feared, not actually. London au-
thorities admit that the efforts of large
columns of kitcbener's cavalry and
mounted infantry to scour the country
| and run down the elusive Boer COM
mandos are not producing results at
| all commensurate with the effort put
forth; and in spite of all that French
| and other able officers can do, South
Africa is overrun by bands of burghers
| ranging from one to several hundred in
number, who keep thoroughly informed
| of the movements of their enemy. and.
nAAIh iAeAit BiNSoNNs Va UP iiItO
squads only to reappear q hundred
| miles away week later.
This sort of campaigning, which is
wearing the life out of the British
troops, the Beers seem able to carry on
indefinitely. They appear grimly de-
termined TO die in the last ditch. and to
| account for as many British dead
as they can before meeting their fate
Lord Kitchener's proclamation of BAN
ishment for all Beers found in arms
after September l5-the date on which
the war is TO ''end''-does not affect the
situation in the least, as far as one can
see. So far il has not brought visible
results beyond calling forth a blood
thirsty counter proclamation from Cen
eral De Wet. declaring that, after the
same date, he will shoot every British
soldier captured in the Orange River
Colony. In the meantime the British
Government is feeding a large part of
the Inhabitants of the Transvaal and
Orange River regions in camps of de-
tention, while thousands of loyal peo-
pie are reduced TO the last extremities
of want and suffering. 1t is no wonder
that Mr.. Chamberlain and the War Of
flee desire to suppress all news from
South Africa.
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
The pekin Peace Protocol.

At half-past twelve o'clock yesterday
afternoon at Potsdam, Kaiser Wilhelm
received Prince Chun, the Chinese ex-
piatory envoy, and we may consider
that incident as closed. The German
emperor is being criticised for his ac-
tion IN abating the punitive character
Of the ceremony, but most people of in
telligence in all countries will regard
his course with approval Rather than
submit to what in Chinese eyes would
amount to intolerable humiliation, it is
believed that Chun and his companions
would have returned TO China, leaving
the mission Of apology unfulflled. and
with the full endorsement of their Gov
ernment. That would have hung the
peace protocol in the air again, and it
might haXe taken weeks or months to
-iI.s..Sl.ce or coerce the Chinese to sign it.
They are not nearly as tractable as they
were before the greater part of the
allied forces We're Withdrawn, very pre-
matnrely as it appears in the light of
recent events. and the present would be
bad time TO drive them to desperation
The action of the Kaiser, as far as we
can see. removes the last excuse the
Chinese peace ENJOYS or the Court at
Paoting-fu can assign for delaying ac-
ceptance and formal ratification of the
protocol. 1t is fair to expect that the
business now will he concluded without
further postponement
il viii be satisfaction to this coun-
try To have 1t out of the way; although
it must be confessed that the United
States does not emerge from the contro-
yersy with any too much advantage or
prestige. 1t is true that the tentative
rate Of customs duties 10 be levied on
foreign goods under the protocol will
not be as burdensome TO American
trade as there was at one time reason
to fear they would be. As II is, the five
per cent effective" to be imposed will
be about double the rate charged before
the war. which was five per cent, pay
able in Haikwan taels, worth not more
than fifty or sixty cents on the dollar
in exchange; but the difference would
be one easy enough to stand. II there
were any assurance that the tax would
not be raised indefinitely in the future.
Suoi. a thing is more than liable to
happen. and will unless the present
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
POLITICAL COMMENT.

The Sultan to the French Minister:
Come back and all will be forgiven. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Pension Commissioner Evans seems de-
termined to hang on to his office through
another reunion of the Grand Army of
the Repubic.-Topeka Journal.
Has the Ohio platform cooled down?
General Grosvenor should give it a stir
or two.-Atlanta Constitution.
Emperor William is showing the world
that he can't be wrong all the time. He
Is keeping Admiral Diedrichs away from
South America.-Chicago Record-Herald
1t ought to be broken gently to the Sui
tan, between pipes. that his faithful sub
jects are killing Armenians again.-Chica-
go Tribune.
By 'lambasting" the trusts, though not
by name. Colonel Roosevelt serves notice
that he is candidate.-New York World
The esteemed Neely and the equally
esteemed Rathbone are watching with
deep interest the rising Hanna BOOM
birmingham Age-Herald-
Kaiser Wilhelm wants to buy the Dan
ish West Indies. specially Illuminated
copy of the Monroe Doctrine should be
sent to him.-Chicago News.
General Sickles is probably regretting
now that he didn't let Pension Commits
sIoner Evans alone. Like Sampson. the
general has stirred up a hornets nest
around his own head.-Baltimore World.
Admiral Howison's letter of explanation
might have been summed up in a few
words Il am innocent. though ketched
in the act.'-Cincinnati Commercial
The ship subsidy job is no better this
year than IL was last year. when not even
Hanna and all the Administration forces
could crowd 1t through Congress. 1t is
essentially bad. 1t has been beaten so
far; it must be beaten again. and decis-
ively.-Boston Post.
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
HULL-MADE OFFICERS.

Mr.. Hull is a powerful man. The army
must be careful how 1t treats him. He
may abolish it, One Of his sons served
on staff duty as a major during the war.
Later he was transferred to the Judge
Advocate Generals Department as lieu
tenant colonel of volunteers. When the
Army Reorganization bill was adopted it
was found to contain an unsuspected
clause under which the Congressman's $
son was made major in the same de-
partment In the regular service. He is
only twenty-seven years old and il his
father lives may become Judge Advocate
General of the Army within fifteen years.
Another son has been made chief surgeon
of the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth.
Two or three of his relatives hold Cav
ernpent positions n W;ishington--Kan-
sas CITY Star
The Washington times., 1901-09-05

scheme for raising revenue should
prove ample to enable China to pay in
terest and amortization charges regu-
larly and promptly. Scarcely anybody
expects that, and, within two or three
years at most, it is probable that the
signatory Powers having little COM
merce with China will be clamoring for
a higher tariff. the burdens of which
would have TO be sustained almost en-
tirely by the United States and Great
Britain.
Looking backward, it must be seen
that the open door for which we once
expressed Il Willingness to fight has
come out of the fracas in a badly bat
tered condition. largely due to our own
foolishness. When our splendid diplo-
macy" broke up the concert harmony
by suddenly siding with Russia against
the other allies. and thus assisted the
former to complete its brilliant if rather
sinuous play in Manchuria and Mon
golia, we helped to shut the open door
in those vast regions, which have now
become completely and irrevocably
Muscovite. and which. no doubt, in due
course of time will be surrounded by a
Russian protective tariff barrier. con-
structed much like our own precious
folly of the same kind. In aiding Rus
sia's separate scheme, we succeeded in
losing prestige and caste with the other
Powers, and then we FASTENED to alien
ate Russia by means of Mr.. Cages
crazy tariff war against that country,
for the contemptibly small benefit OF
the Sugar Trust. We have little in con-
nection with the Chinese settlement
upon which to congratulate ourselves,
except upon the fact that during the
final negotiations we have been repre-
sented at Pekin by n trained and able
in the person of Special Com
missioner Roekhill. who unquestionably
has done the best that could be done for
his Government in the most adverse
and embarrassing circumstances
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
THE REPUBLIC is SAFE.

The most convincing answer which need
be made to the cranks who prate from
year to year of the growing lawlessness
of the American workingman" lies in the
generally peaceable manner in which La
Dor Day was observed in the United
States.
In probably none of the older countries
would such assemblages as those which
yesterday marched through the streets OF
the American cities, quietly and without
peril to anyone, have been permitted
except under a heavy increase in the mil
itary forces stationed thereabouts.
The American workingman has his own
notion of what is right and wrong, and
expresses that nottoa freely as becomes
free man, but at heart he is patriotic
to the core. and upon all proper ocea-
sions he makes the fact quite clear.
Hence we conclude that the Republic is
still safe. To our own way of thinking
1t never was really in peril. except dur
ing the war of the Observation-Disclosures
phia Inquirer.
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
MOUNTING THE PULPIT.

In addition to his accomplishments as
statesman, historian. reformer, rough
rider, and swashbuckler. the versatile
Roosevelt buckled on another side line
yesterday. when he laid aside his SOM
brero and horse pistols and occupied the
pulpit in two of the prominent Chicago
churches In his mad chase for the Pres
idency there appears to be nothing which
this gushing refornier is not willing to
undertake. from vaudeville performance
to the most sacred calling known to men.
There is nothing undignified enough to
make him ashamed, nor is there anything
so sacred as to suggest to him a sense of
his unworthineSS, but with the prodlgali-
~ and assurance of the mountebank. he
is ready like the fool in the proverb. to
rush where angels tread with fear"
The sanctity of Chicago's Sabbath was
probably not deepened to any great ex-
tent by the perfervii ministrations yes
terday of the Reverend Swashbuckler
Roosevelt. whose chase of the Presiden-
cy will not even permit him to halt at the
foot OF the sacred desk--Nvw Orleans
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
AmerIca's Industrial Greatness

The industrial greatness of the United
States is owing to the extent of its ter
ritory and the diversity of its resources.
which have enabled the nation to de-
velop over a vast area and on many
different lines at the same time The
worlds leading industries are mutually
inter-dependent. and therefore emf
nence on n single line will not suffice to
give a country a commanding and per-
manent lead. If country is away
ahead on one particular line. but is far
behind on others. ordinarily such coun-
try Is easily crippled and may not be
able long to maintain superiority even
on that line unless favored by nature
with peculiar advantages relative to
such industry.
Suppose. for example. that certain
country leads all others in manufacture
ing. as Great Britain did a few years
ago. but is dependent upon other coun-
tries for raw material and food
products. as that country was TO very
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
The Increase of Immigration.

Immigration into the United States
during the fiscal year just ended was
larger than in any other year since 1893.
the country swept by the great panic
that was ushered in as an object les
son" by President Cleveland and the
New York bank ring for the express
purpose of forcing the repeal of the
Sherman law. The effects of the panic
hung over the country like a cloud for
several years. immigration at once fell
off. ard in 1895 reached the lowest point
since 1879. Now it is rising again, and
it may fairly be taken as something of
a barometer of industrial conditions
both at home and abroad. We say
something" of a barometer, because it
is far from being perfect one. owing
to the changed sources from which the
emigrants chiefly come.
If we were now, as formerly. depend
ent mainly upon Germany and Ireland,
we would be greatly surprised at the
sn.allness Of the totals. In those two
countries Industrial conditions have
considerably improved, and the effect
has been TO check the outflowing stream
of emigrants. Italy. Austria Hungary.
and Russia are now. in the order
named, the heaviest contributors to our
new population from foreign lands. The
total number Of aliens coming into the
country last year was. in round num-
bers, four hundred and eighty thou
sand. This seems like an immense
total, but. it is far below the figures of
the early eighties.
In 1881 the number was six hundred
and sixty-nine thousand; in 1882, seven
The Washington times., 1901-09-05

The American Consul at Asuncion, Par
aguay, says that If Americans would sell
print cloths in that country they must
furnish goods with either a red or a blue
base In Paraguay there are two political
parties, the Colorados and the Azuls
These parties have their distinctive COL
ors. that of the Colorados being red and
that of the Azuls blue. The partisan feel
ing of the people is intense, and they
show it by the colors which preponderate
in their dress. The reds would not
think of wearing garment in which blue
is the prevailing color, and the blues"
object just as strongly to allowing red to
predominate in their dress.
The Washington times., 1901-09-05
Danger at Indian Head.

To THE EDITOR OF THE TINES: Will you
please inform me where to go to com
plain of and seek redress for the promis
cuous shooting at the Indian Head
proving station? The young men in
charge appear to be aiming at the boats
and nets of the fishermen and several of
the sufferers desire to lodge Il complaint
and, If possible. obtain comps nsation for
the damage done. JAMES WILEY
Washington, Sept. 4