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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17
THE HONEYMOON SHIP.
BY Morgan Robertson.

DOWNRIGHT, 1900, by Morgan Robertson.
A trick at the wheel on the great lake
steamers lasts six hours. that is. the
whole watch, hence you steer the same
trick each day and night, under the same
watch officer. You are allowed to smoke
at the wheel, and also 0his is TRUTH al
lowed a stool to sit upon when your legs
are tired. Yet the time passes slowly In
the pilot house, and 1t is fair to presume
that it passes as slowly out on the bridge,
where the officer in charge is supposed to
pace up and down. intent only upon his
duty. But on fine nights duty is easy of
performance. There may be word
through the pilot house window from the
officer, a tentatively ocular answer.
Joke or good-humored comment in return,
and democratic relations pro tenn. are es-
tablished Thus it was that old Dutch
Pete Officially Mr.. Becker, chief mate of
the Sunderland first borrowing my chew
ing tobacco, be gan talking with me as we
steamed up Lake Erie, and reeled off
the yarn which follows. He was an old,
wise man. who had seen all lands and all
men. and he was a seaman and an off,
Ger whom l esteemed and respected, while
/ was a "wheelman' whose steering he
tolerated. We had so assured each other.
Yet there was one subject on which we
could not agree-the place and value of
womenkind. While not being a woman
hater, the old man was certainly unjust
70 the sex in some of his allegations. and
I was young, with a warm recollection of
a browu-eyed, dimpled. piuk-cheeked
Young woman. with fluffy hair and
sweet smile, whom but never mind her.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17

her-told her that sailors made up their
beds after they turned in, and smoked
themselves to sleep; but she wouldn't be-
.ieve me- I sent for her man, a husky
young fellow named Jim-something-.
and Jim came GRIMM. He said a divorce
would please him very much as he was
goin' through the world for the last time.
and, though he expected he'll, he wanted
1t after death. l jawed 'em both
a little, and sent 'em forrard. But
next watch Jim came on deck
with his eyes nearly scratched
out, and his wife's were closed tight and
black as your hat. and she seemed proud
or 'em-so proud that / hoped she'd stick
to the man that gave 'em; and so she
might, for that's their nature, young
man, but the rest got to takin' sides, and
for while there was hell to pay and no
pitch hot forrard. A big Liverpool Irish
man got too sympathetic for the woman.
and Jim slugged him. then Mr. johnson
took a hand and licked 'em both. but
Jim's wife and her woman friends did
him up, and he came aft joost able to see
So, / had to separate this couple. l
called all hands for witnesses, put 'em
through some mummery, swore en- cl ar
o one another, and pronounced them two.
Then 1 entered the job in the log. and
as the woman was a grass widow now
WIFI no HuSUdHu TO project ner 1 gave her
a staterom aft, with the run O. the for
rard cabin and poop. Jim was much
obliged to me, and would go round the
deck smiling, he was SO happy; and he
and the young woman would pass with
out speakin But after a few days / no.
ticed her watchin' h m more than 1
thought he deserved. and concluded she
was coming round. Jim paid no atten-
ton. and that seemed to worry her. She
eneaked aft next time he took the wheel,
ard sat down behind him on the grating,
and l moved round where I could see
them and not be seen myself
Fine day." she said; but Jim didn't
hear
How fast be we goln' now. Jim?" she
said next, and Jim looked aloft and said
nothing.
"Jimr' she said again; and still Jim
didn't hear.
Then she got a pin out Of her dress,
and reached softly toward Jim and jabbed
him in the leg. He let horrible yell out
o. him that woke the watch below-for
they all turned out. He let go the wheel,
and, still yelling, rolled round the deck
with his hand on the sore spot. 20, my
good Lord God" he howled. 20. I'll die,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17

a winding stairway. Down below as a
dining room with a table and chairs, and
a pantry, and laundry room where the
weemen could wash clothes and dishes.
He knew something about weemen folks,
or he wouldn't have thought of the
laundry. Above was the fo-cas;l lie
proper-Just two strings o. two
bunk rooms with a door and a
window to each Oh. that was a
fine fo'castle. Then that man gave out
that only married sailors could sign in
his ships, and their wives must go to sea
with them. I thought that was all right
for me, too, and after I'd got the berth,
1 wanted to splice my girl and take her
along; but her old dad wouldn't hear of
1t. He said to wait un il the floating
asylum got back, and If 1 was still alive,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17
AT THE CAPITOL.

am in my seventy-thlrd year. and for
fifty years l have been a great sufferer
from indigestion, constipation and bill
iousness. have tried all the remedies
advertised for these diseases, and got 40
permanent relief. About one year ago. the
disease assuming a more severe and dam
gerous form, ! became very weak, and
lost flesh rapidly. ! commenced using DR..
Mozley's Lemon Elixir. | gained twelve
pounds in three months. My strength and
health, my appetite and my digestion
were perfectly restored. and now / feel
as young and vigorous as l ever did in
my life L. j. Alldred.
Door-keeper Ca. State Senate. State Cap
itol, Atlanta. Ga.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17
MozLEY's LEMON ELIXIR.

For biliousness. constipation and APP
pendlcitis.
For indigestion, sick and nervous head
ache.
For sleeplessness, nervousness and
heart failure.
For fever, chills, debility and kidney
diseases, taken Lemon Elixir
Ladies, for natural, and thorough or
ganic regulation, take Lemon Elixir
Or. Mozieys Lemon Elixir is prepared
from the fresh juice OF lemons, combin-
ed with other vegetable liver tonics and
Will not fail you In any Of the above
named diseases. 50c and 81 90 bottles at
druggists.
Prepared only by DIR. H. Motley, Allan
ta Ca
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17

mans man, who had been forrard with
the mate, and had joost got aft. Now an
English able seaman is handy with his
fists, but a Yankee second mate is a bad
proposition, and mighty handy with a
belayin' pin, so. about the time the WOO
man got rugged out, her man was ready
for the hospital, and l sent 'em both to
their stateroom to recuperate. Then
thought I'd better not reprimand Mr.
Johnson. At the dock head l got rid of
the owner, then we took tug and lowed
10 sea and were well outside the three
mile line before the watches were set for
the night. Now, you know that under
English law a ship captain is a magis-
trate on the high seas, with power to per-
form the marriage ceremony. l had never
seen any one married. but l ranged 'em
along the deck after the mates had picked
the watches, and had each man take hold
of his woman's hand. so thered be no
mistake; then l read 'em the ships ar
ticles, then swore EN- on the Bib.e then
l read off the mems names-the whols
sixteen-and said DO you take this wo-
man for your wife?" and they answered
Yes, SIR one after the other. Then /
said DO you weemen-I don't know your
names-take the man who has hold of
your hand for your husband?" And they
all answered Yes" so / called EN- man
and wife and sent the watch below. l
have since learned that the marriage was
legal. But all wanted at the time was to
make EN- think so.
l :ad a notion that with all hands
married and one man licked at the start
things might go along smooth for a while
but in the morning a woman-a good
looking young woman, she Was-came
aft and wanted a divorce-said she
wouldn't bide with man that went to
bed with pipe in his mouth; said that
as far as she could Judge the only diff
ference tween a sailor and hog was that
one made up his bed with his nose and
t'other with his feet 1 reasoned with
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17
MozLEY,s LEMON HOT DROPS.

Cures all Coughs. Colds. Hoarseness,
Sore Throat. Bronchitis. hemorrhage.
and all throat and lung diseases. Elegant
reliable.
25c at druggists. Prepared only by Or.
Fl. Motley. Atlanta, Ga.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17

Clouds of Medicated vapor are inhaled through
the mouth and emitted from the nostrils, cleans
ing and vaporizing all the inhamed and diseased
parts which cannot be reached by medicine taken
into the stomach
breaches hesore spots-hedls the rd'o places
goes to the spdtof disease acts as dbGITn and
tonic TO the tohole system SI.00 at druggists or
bv mail Aunvon. Neao York and Philadelphia
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17

Many women are annoyed by growth
of hair on the arms that detracts from
the charm Of evening dress A beauty
fnociaiist says that "a freshly made paste
Of sulphate hydrato calcium applied
thickly and allowed 10 remain hftcen
minutes viii remove n without Injury 10
che akln. The paste should be- washed on
with 'epid water ana cold cream rubbed
over the surface. The application does not
need 10 BE- used 0ftenor than Two o. three
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17
MoZLEY's LEMON ELIXIR.

is the very best medicine ever used
for the diseases you recommend II for,
and l have used many kinds for wo-
mans troubles.
Mrs. s. A. Gresham.
Salem. N. c.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17
WOMAN'S WORLD.

lately placed women on exactly the same
footing as men IN regard 70 the practice
OF medicine and che conducting OF chem
lists shops.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-17

-Archdeacon Barker, the Anglican rec
tor OF Ladysmith. proposes 20 oommem-
crate the historic siege by erecting q
handsome church 20 replace the battered
building which had become too small 10
accommodate his ropldly Increasing par
lshioncrs. ln The new church Will ~
placed tablets oontairinR the names ~ ail
British soldiers who fcll IN the various
enFsFements fought in Inc nsighbofhood
o. ia bcicsguere1 tgWn
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18

preston of competition and the regu-
lating of supply and demand. Their
failure reminds us that the tenden-
cies in human nature remain unchang-
ed in spite of trusts"
There is large capital behind some
of the industrial combinations which
will Of course be used to sustain them
against adverse business conditions
for a time, but how far the owners of
this capital will go in employing it for
this purpose is a question. At all
events, recent experience is of a ma
ture to warn the public against in
vesting in the industrial securities,
since there is manifestly danger of
their further shrinkage in price. There
may be no reason for alarm in the
present situation. The general bust
ness Of the country is good and the
outlook is not unfavorable. But the
industrial combinations, with reduced
earnings and new competition, GER
tainly offer no attraction for invest
ment.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18

ton believe that their society in time
will be come a perfect scourge to an.
archists, for it will be life against
lie and as discovery of membership
in the association will be impossible,
with the fear of being ever
among those who are sworn
to stop at nothing, even
ed that it must be a hardy and des-
perate anarchist who will care to lay
himself liable to incur the displeas-
ure of such an organization.
While nothing can be said against
any organization having for it's pur-
pose the eradication of anarchism in
the land, the extremes to which the
Iowans propose to go cannot receive
the commentator of any person who
has the slightest regard for law and
order. Murder is murder and assas-
sination is assassination, whether
committed under the p%retense, of aid
ing in the suppression of those who
practice those crimes or whether
done merely for the qualification of
personal spite and enmity. If the or
ganizers succeed in their designs
they and the others who affiliate with
them will speedily find themselves
under the surveillance of the law,
just the same as the anarchists. AL
thnIlOh Dpnno rod IN ro IN o1r,oo+ 49,
extreme tolerated by law and public
sentiment, yet the people Of the ma
ton are not prepared to go to the
ends which the Iowa men seem to
think they are justified in taking. Let
such an association gain strength and
spread over the land and it will be
only a matter Of a short time until
the society will be no less an evil
than the one which it proposes to re-
move Feeling secure against de-
lection and relying upon the almost
total absence of personal danger to be
feared because of the commission of
murder, it would be a comparatively
easy matter for members having a
personal grudge to settle to report
some innocent man as being an an
archist and thus obtain orders for his
REMOVAL"
The Iowa idea is revolving to all
good citizens and if the laws can be
made to reach the association it will
probably never get beyond the forma-
tive period. To permit such an Or
ganization to exist would be only
giving sanction to another form of
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18

number given him, namely $500. Tt
him a matter of 500 tons of coal seems
to have been a trifing affair, so also
was the other little matter of a diff
ference in names and places. Con
sequently the Harvard, while in the
original message ordered to Port Roy
al, was sent to Kingston because the
name of Port Royal was o difficult
to make out, or as he says possibly
did not appear in the code book.
Mr.. Beal, it will be remembered,
was a witness for Lemly and vas sup.
posed to give an extra twist to the
rope with which the clique of traduc-
ers expected to hang Schley.
Both Captains Miller and Sigsbee,
while witnesses for the navy depart
ment, testified that to have coaled off
Santiago June % would have
been extremely hazardous. Mil
Ter, who commanded the Merri-
mac, subsequently sunk, put
it even stronger. He said that he
would not have permitted warships to
coal from his vessel because of the
boisterous weather and the consequent
danger which would have attended the
operation.
Up to date and while the investiga-
ton is still far from being completed
it looks very much to the ordinary,
di~sinterested person as if the depart
ment's precept had been answered
in every detail and wiped out. The al
legged delay at Cienfuegos, the block
ade at Santiago, the passage from the
former place to the latter, the loop
and the commanding officers conduct
during the battle, all have apparently
been explained in a satisfactory man
ner. More and more satisfied have
the people become that Schley was
made the victim Of a conspiracy as
contemplate as it has proved the in
stigators of it to be despicable and
that some at least of those who are
implicated in it have been proved to
have been guilty of ~disobedience and
possibly ever worse-downright un-
truthfulness, intensified by uttering it
having solemnly obligated them
selves to tell nothing but the truth
and the whole truth.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18
ONLY IN NAM IT,,

st. Paul Dispatch: Some 10, 900
persons paid from n to two and a
half dollars for the privilege Of see
ing a football team from Nebraska
university bump heads against a foot
ball team from the college, sometimes
called the university Of Minnesota.
The gate money is said to have
amounted to fifteen thousand dollars,
which will be divided between the two
teams in the proportion of sixty per
cent to the winners to forty per cent
to the losers.
These contests are distinguished
from others. such as prize fights and
baseball games, by being called "atil-
%letics,' and are supposed to be direct
ed solely to developing the physical
side of students, and thus check the
impairment which the severe mental
work is thought to cause. But the
prominence given to the financial
side, the prices charged for q sight Of
the show, the disproportio1 between
demands and return ccurtesies, indi-
cate that the difference in names is
merely a thin veneer, and that foot
ball. baseball and glove contests are
all on the same level. This get, COLI
firmation from the leniency said tc be
extended to members of the team in
the matter Of recitation
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18
RUSSiA'S NEXT U r

st. Paul Dispatch: We have been
having some reciprocity with Russia.
Reciprocity mean hitting the fellow
on his cheek who has smitten you on
yours. Just as well as it means rub
bling your back if you will rub mine.
In the matter of international trade
it means taxing your products if you
tax mine quite az fully as it means
taking off my tax if you take off yours.
Apparent confusion as tt the full
meaning of the word seems to make
this explanation pertinent at this time.
Like electricity, reciprocity is both
negative and positive, and it is the
negative kind We have had a taste of
handed us by Russia and of which we
may now expect to be given still
more.
Last March, as it will be remember
ed, Secretary Gage discovered that
the peculiar management by the gov
eminent of the %autocrat of the produc-
ton of sugar virtually amounted to a
bounty on such Of it as is exported.
Whereupon the secretary clapped on
the discriminating duty of the Ding
ley act which provides that, where q
country pays or gives, directly OF in
directly, a bounty on exports of sugar,
imports of it into this country should
be surcharged with an equal amount.
The indirect Russian bounty was es-
timated or ascertained to be 70 cents
a hundred. Forthwith Finance Minis
ter De Witte gave us, or our export,
ers of some articles, the rub recipro-
cal and doubled his tax on them,
while denying that his country paid
or gave OF permitted any bounty on
sugar exported.
The importer in the case on which
the secretary imposed the discrimin-
ating duty brought suit and Judge,
Morris, of the Baltimore circuit court,
decides that the methods used by
Russia in regulating production of
sugar amount virtually to a bounty on
exports and confirms the action of the
secretary. Russia has been awaiting
the decision of our courts and now
that it knows that in spite of it's dis
avoWal it is held to give a bounty,
we may expect another dose of mega
tive reciprocity. M. De White does
not have to wait for congress to get
together and wrangle over taxes, but
raises or lowers them at his own
pleasure. He is a masterful man,
with at least sufficient sense of Rus
sia's Importance, and has on several
occasions, notably with the Berlin
bourse, shown hat he does no believe
in turning the other cheek, but in
returning the blow with interest. We
may expect now to hear of another
revision of the Russian tariff doubl-
ing the duty on some more of our
manufactures. And then we may ex-
pect again another howl from the fell
lows who are hit, about being sacri-
feed to sugar.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18
THE DECLINE IN INDUSTRIALS,

Omaha Bee: The industrial com.
binations are being subjected to a test
which may determine whether they
are able to hold out against a reced-
ing tide of prosperity and a hardening
money market. The reports during
the last few weeks of nearly a score
of these combinations have with one
or two exceptions shown that their
earnings have not been sufficient to
enable them to pay dividends to the
amount they had been paying, while
some of them can pay none at all.
Under these circumstances there has
naturally been a decline in the prices
Of the industrial securities and a
growing feeling of distrust in this
class of investment.
The situation does not appear to
be favorable to improvement and a
further shrinkage in the market price
of industrial securities is probable.
The New York Journal of Commerce
says it would be premature to as
sumo hat the declines in the indus
trials mean a shrinkage in general
business, although they naturally sug-
gest a result not entirely unexpected
by those who believe the wave of
prosperity has reached it's crest and
must soon recede. The decline is
partly due, say that paper, to specu-
lative reaction, but chiefly to a fall
ing off in the abnormal points obtain
ed in many lines Of manufacturing
last year which no one expected would
continue indefinitely, and adds: de
Ginning demand and new competition
will very 500 put a severe test upon
these combinations with their huge
over-capitaization. Their control over
the various markets may soften or de-
lay the day of reckoning, but the
trusts, whatever their advantages in
some respects, are not a success in
suppressing competition or in avoiding
the consequences of inevitable fluctua-
tions in supply and demand. 1t is
worth remembering that two of their
chief objects of being were the sup
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18
THE CASE OF MISS STONE,

Omaha Bee: Universal in
terest is felt in the case
Of Miss Stone, the American mis-
s~ionary who is in the hands of Bull
garian bandits and for whose ransom
a large sun is demanded, and it
seems quite possible that the matter
may become n of serious Internal
ional controversy, by reason of the
active part taken by the Washington
government. The president is said
to have declared that Miss Stone
shall be saved and the efforts of the
department of state are being zeal
ously eXerted to secure her release.
While the executive department of
the government has no authority to
pay the ransom asked, every availa-
bic eXpedient Of diplomacy is being
employed and there is reason to hope
that these will be successful in restor-
ing the unfortunate missionary to
freedom.
The danger of serious international
controversy will come in the event
of our government demanding, as it is
reported will be done, that Turkey
shall be held responsible for the ran
som money. This would not be a
new experience for the sultan, but
there is no doubt he would refuse
such a demand on the part of the
United States and then would arise
the question whether we should In
dertake to enforce it. If that course
were decided upon the sultan would
be very likely to appeal to Europe for
protection on the ground that the
government of the United States does
not acknowledge responsibility for in
jury done in states of the union to
citizens of other countries. The Turk
ish government could point to the fact
that when Italians were lynched in
this country the federal government,
while making an effort to have those
guilty of the crime punished, disclaim-
ed all responsibility and paid an in
demnity simply as a matter of inter-
national courtesy. 1t is by no means
unlikely that a plea by Turkey for
protection on this ground would have
some influence with the European
governments to which it would give a
most favorable opportunity to remind
us of a very important defect in our
relations with other countries.
The action which our government is
taking in the cas- of MISS Stone is
altogether proper, but so far as the
ransom is concerned it might find it
very difficult to exact reparation from
Turkey.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18
A Raging, Roaring Flood

washed down a telegraph line which
Chas. G. Ellis of Lisbon, Ind, had to
repair. standing waist deep in icy
water" he writes, gave me a terrible
cold and cough. 1t grew worse daily.
Finally the best doctors in Oakland.
Neb.. Sioux City and Omaha said l
had consumption n could not live.
Then I began using DR.. Kings New
Discovery and was wholly cured by
six bottles" Positively guaranteed for
coughs. colds, and all throat and lung
troubles by Chapple Drug Co.
Price so cents.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-18

large amount Of documentary evil
dence bearing upon the pension cases
which are relied OF by the anti-Evans
forces to prove their charges.
Whatever the outcome of the in
vestigation, it is a matter Of congrat-
ulation to the entire country that the
much discussed and little understood
case of the commissioner of pensions
at last seems to be in a fair way OF
being adjusted, and that honorably
and without any intention of wrong.
ing anybody.