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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
THE aUICK AND THE DUMB.

The Chicago Womans Club, which is
given to the discussion and solution of
great problems, has paused in its erudite
career to give some attention to sub
ject of human interest-the mere man. 1t
has stopped talking long enough to dis
cover that man, as a social element, has
practically lost the power of speech, and
that as a conversationalist he has be-
come almost as extinct as the dodo and
the boojum shark. 1t is true that man
can talk, under certain circumstances; TO
his typewriter or at a political meeting,
for instance, but stand a man up at
function" surrounded by women, and
he at once becomes as mute as mum
my. Unlike the mummy, however, he is
conscious of his position, and frequently
makes an effort to redeem himself by
launching into the conversational swim.
But it is no use. He secs his finish,
goes through a spasm of dry grins, kicks
himself on the heels ard looks as miser
able as he feels
What is the cause of this condition in
man? A genius of the Chicago Woman's
Club has discovered it. The decline in
the conversational powers of men, she
SAYS. has been caused by women who
talk too much" That is to say, the wo-
men have not been giving the men a
chance to exercise their tongues in So
clety, with the. result that the men have
lest the faculty of using them to the best
advantage, if at all. Scientists say that
nature, in the process of her evolutions,
eliminates all useless organs, hence it IS
e. possibility in the line of the evolution
Of the man in society that he would lose
he power of speech unless something
should be speedily done in his behalf
Maybe the considerate sisters of the Chi
cago club had something of the sort In
mind when they took up the subject.
Having discovered the cause of mans
dumbness, the next logical step was to
find a remedy. Naturally the suggestion
came make the women talk less, so as to
| give the men a chance. All, but how?
! That is easier said than done. Again a
! genius of the club comes forward, not
with an infallible recipe, to be sure, bat
with a hint. 1.-The best conversational
lists" she says, do not speak upon a
subject until they have studied it for
twenty years" The idea may be step
in the right direction, but il is too dras-
tic. In effect it would put a stop to all
conversation. A woman who could con-
verse upon but one subject would soon
become very tresome, and no woman
studied three or four subjects by essay
ing to converse upon them. Nor would
the men be any better off. Not one in a
million would give twenty. or ten, or one,
years time to the study of subject suit
able only for pink tea dis
cussion. 1t appears, therefore, that
the question of a remedy for
the condition of affairs complained of
remains an open one. Stll. the case is not
hopeless. The Chicago Woman's Club Will
hold yet other sessions, and It is safe to
assume that, having taken up the mat
| ter, il win not drop it until something
satisfactory shall have been evolved.
Meanwhile the man at the function" will
continue to look and feel silly in his
dumbness, until his rescuers shall have
succeeded in loosng the knot that ties
his tongue.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
PER SONAL.

Robert J. Gamble. who succeeds Pet
tigrew as United States Senator from
South Dakota, is a native Of New York
and began life as teacher and lawyer
in Wisconsin.
Sir Hiram Maxim, according to the
English papers, had for years before he
became British subject been leading
member of society whose aim it was
to induce British subjects residing in
America to change Their nationality and
become citizens of the republic
The Duke of Westminster's Liberal
Unionism will be strengthened by his
marriage to the daughter of a Liberal
Unionist( who is herself an arden poll
tlcian. He has. however, no intention of
allowing politics to interfere with love
and so has written the Liberal Union
Association asking to be excused for the
present from all political affairs because
of military and other engagements. "
And he underlined "other."
The Emperor William of Germany has
designed a memorial tablet to be erected
have fallen in the field or died of Illness
metres high and fifty centimetres broad.
The inscription is in the followir g terms:
Tablet in memory of =, born, .
died, He died for the Emperor
and Empire. Honor to his memory" The
design shows a figure of Germania, with
a purple mantle, holding a laurel in her
left hand, which is raised aloft, and lean
ing with her right on an escutcheon bear
ing the imperial eagle.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

According to the New York Evening
Sun, Senator Chauncey Depew was SO
hard up on a recent occasion that ne
tried to pledge his eyeglasses for ) cents.
In the midst of business cares he hap
jened to remember an important meeting
at which he was already due. He ran for
a car and was studying his watch when
the conductor tapped him on the Shout
der. Then it was that Mr. Depew real
lied he had not a nickel in his pocket.
In humiliation he confessed to the con-
ductor
You'll have to get off the car, theu,"
growled the conductor, grasping the bell
rope.
But my good man. whispered the for
mer president of the New York Central
Il am Chauncey Depew."
Il wouldn't care if you were Chauncey
Olcott'
But here. sir, if you don't think III
pay you the cents, take these as secur-
ity," and Mr.. Depew removed his eye
glasses and gold chain from his vest and
extended them.
DO you take this for a trave'ine
pawnshop? Pay or get off, The Senator
gazed helplessly around the car, hoping
to find some one to whom he could APP
peal. A tired-looking laundress and an
errand boy were the only other passen-
gers. The Senator left the car and-mss-
ed the meeting.
eff that man had loaned me 5 cents
on my glasses" said Mr.. Depew in tel
ing the story afterward, II would have
seen that he stepped into something much
better than running a street carr
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Men couldn't steam across the sea,
A hundred years ago.
And money wasn't all they thought
Worth having here below:
They had no elevators then
To hoist them through the air,
And yet they thought, the poor old guys
That they were wonderful and wise,
And that the world was fair.
Men couldn't talk by telephone,
A hundred years ago;
They sowed and reaped and thrashed by
hand.
And when the streams were low
They had to stop the mills and wait
For Gods good rain to fall,
And yet they proudly went about
With heads held high and chests pushed
out,
And thought they knew it all.
Their battleships were made of wood,
A hundred years ago,
And oh, the weak Old ways they had
For laying people low!
They had no lightning trains on which
To fit athwart the scene,
And yet those poor, benighted men
Supposed that things were perfect then
Alas but they were green!
Men had 90 load each time they shot,
A hundred years ago.
And then, alas they had no gas
To light things here below!
There were no trolley cars to dodge,
No horseless things to tame,
And yet, poor foo.s, they thought that
they
Had all the blessings, in their day,
That men might ever olaiml
But they had pessimists around
A hundred years ago.
who mourned because their sons could
nc'er
Obtain a proper show!
And they predicted dire things
They thought the end was near;
They fancied that the devil then
Worked overtime In urging men
70 sturt red havoc here.
IS. 10. Kiser.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
PRocToR,s MARBLE TRUsT.

Senator Redfeld Proctor of Vermont is
in a position to be called the marble king.
since the absorption by the trust of which
he is the head of the great Carrara Qtaly)
quarries. The taking over of these vast
and ancient quarries places Senator Proc.
tor in a position to dictate prices for fine
marbles, not only in the United States but
Europe as well. The Senator as is very
well known, controls all of the marbles
of his native state and has grown very
wealthy in exploiting the same. He has
indeed, made barrels of money through
the patriotic work of furnishing grave
stones for the national cemeteries, at a
good round figure. 1t is said of the Sem
ator that he has lived among and studied
gravestones so long that he has come to
love them with a very tender affection
His environment of reminders of death has
given him the countenance of an under.
taker. but whenever he sees a tombstone
or monument of fine marble that did not
come from his quarries his heart warns
up a smile spreads over his face and he
straightway sets about investigating
where the specimen came from, and how
much money it would probably cost to
own the quarry.
The Senator's latest acquisition, the
Carrara quarries, furnishes not only mon
umental marbles, but the finest statuary
marbles in the world. These quarriee
have BEEN worked for nearly, If not quite,
1900 years. The annual output for sculp.
ture is about 10000 tons. So primitive are
the methods of quarryng, however, that
nearly 100000 tons q year are quarried $780,
CO0 tons of it being ruined by breakage
Ol6.f shloned drills, levers, etc, are used.
and blasting is done with gunpowder Or
dynamite. As a consequence much fine
marble is broken, and can be used only
| for building purposes. Senator Proctor
will revo;utionize the working methods.
He win put in steam and compressed nir
drills, and will substitute the diamond
borer for Blasting powder BY reducing
the W. ste TO a minimum he will greatly
enlarge the profits of the quarries. Amer
lean machinery and methods are depend
| ed upon to make the Carrara mountains
sources Of greater wealth than ever be-
/ fore.
In connection with this subject It is Of
interest 10 remark that American re-
sources in marbles are not YET ully
known. In this state there are vast de-
posts of very fine quality of marble.
1t may be that there are still other 6e-
posits. as yet undiscovered, that will yiel1
a quality Of stone rivaling the celebrated
Italian product. The state geological de-
partment is steadily investigating Geor-
| gias mineral resources, and It would not
be surprising at any time to hear that
veins of marble suitable for statuary had
been discovered in the upper part OF the
state. Meanwhile Georgia marble holds
a commanding position as a building stone,
some of the finest buildings on the Amer
! lean continent being constructed of Il.
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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

Events followed fast upon the heels of
each other in the home of Mrs. Hoskey,
in the mining town of Carnegie Pa, a
day or so ago. Mrs. Hoskey went out
before daylight to milk the cow In the
barn with the animal were six kegs Of
Blasting powder. Mrs. H. took a min
ers lamp and placed it on one of the
powder kegs. The COW kicked once, the
lamp tippled over, and the first key OF
powder exploded. Mrs. II. was blown
forty feet through the barn door. Be
fore she struck the ground outside the
other five kegs let SO, and the COW and
the barn were scattered over a consider
able section of land The woman is now
convinced that Blasting powder, miners
lamps and cows make bad combinat ton.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

Section 81 of the new postal bill, as
drafted by the committee. provided that
where a boycott by community existed
against postmaster the Postmaster Cen
eral might allow the postmaster affected
by il a salary for the time being, to make
up for loss Of revenues from the postal
business. This was intended for the
benefit Of negro postmasters in the South,
whose offices might be boycotted because
Of prejudice against them. When the
section was read in the House the other
day a Georgia member moved that II be
stricken out The Republicans were
caught mapping and the motion was car
acc. An effort will be made to have the
oyisions restored in the Senate,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

The poor, downtrodden, henpecked hus-
band has found champion in the Del
aware Legislature, in the person of Rep
resentative Ewing. 1t is the law In
Delaware that wife-beaters shall be fog
ged az the whipping post. Mr.. Ewing
has introduced a bill extending the opera
tions of the law to Observation-Disclosures as
we'll He proposes that the woman who
beats her husband shall be fiogged at
the post, and that the aggrieved husband
shah have the privilege of welding the
lash.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

The Chilean Minister at Washington
says that his government is willing to
submit the question of whether Tacna
and africa shall be returned to Peru or
shall remain Chilean territory 90 a vote
of the people of those provinces 1t in
sists, however. that those Chileans who
have become residents Of the disputed ter
ritory shall have the right to vote in
the election. Chile will also insist that
Peru give some guarantee that she will
pay the 100000 indemnity that would
be due Chile should the provinces vote
in favor of Peru.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

The perennial complaint that congress-
men do not get large enough salaries is
once more heard in Washington. Repre-
sentative Hopkins Of Illinois says the
members should receive at least $4,000
year. because it costs 80 much to live
in Washington; ana then a members
campaign expenses are considerable All
Of which may be true enough still we
have noticed no diminution Of the number
Of persons who are trying to get to Wash
ington as members Of Congress. even
at the inadequate salary OF 5000 a year,
with mileage and perquisites.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

The new "gusher' oil well at Beau
mont, Tex, does not produce the light
petroleum from which Illuminating oil is
made, but heavy oil. If it had been of
the light grade, it is said, the oil mar
ket would have witnessed such falling
in prices as was never before seen. 1t is.
however, a heavy oil which can be used
for fuel and other purposes. One of the
owners of the well says that the oil will
shortly be used in locomotive and fac
tory boilers. in competition with coal, and
that 1t will prove an economical fuel.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

Prof Hatfield of the Northwestern
University, says the cigarette is a much
maligned and harmless little tobacco roll
But the weight of testimony is against
the Professor. Railroad companies are
refusing to employ smokers of cigarettes
in their service, and asylums and hospi-
tails are full of insane and suffering VIC
Tins of the cigarette. according to the
testimony of many learned physicians.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

Col. Roosevelt is having as lively time
on his hunting trip as he could have
wished On the first day out he winged
mountain lion in mid-air on the
second day he had an encounter with
a bear in narrow defile, and on the
ihird day hungry pack of wolves chased
MN up tree and kept him there for sew
erai hours' until he was rescued by the
other members of the party. The vera
ctous press agent who chronicled the ep.-
sode Of the wolves says there were at
least 100 of them. Roosevelt had been fol-
lowing small mountain lion and be-
CAME separated from his comrades. The
desperately hungry wolves struck the
trail Of the next Vice President and con-
Guided they would make a supper off the
flesh and bones of the man from New
York. He saw them coming, and fired re-
peatedly, but one rifle against a pack OF
wolves was not very effective Watching
his opportunity, while the wolves devour-
ed one of their comrades that had fallen
before the fire of the unerring Nmrod,
Col. Roosevelt Skinned quickly up a tall
pine. In doing so, however, he lost both
his cartridge belt and his rifle. But he
rad his revolver, and as he sat perched
on the limbs he had the satisfaction of
plunklng several of his snarling and snap
ping enemies below. After spending four
hours i'll the tree reinforcements came up,
and The Colonel descended to receive con-
gratulations. There are some clever cor
respondents with the party. Their de-
scriptlons are as realistic as Fenimore
Cooper tale.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
The weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day are
for fair weather, except rains probable on
The coast; northeast 10 east winds, fresh
to brisk on the coast; and for Eastern
Florida, fair weather, except rains prob
able on the eastern coast; northeast to
east winds. fresh on the eastern coast
light on the western coast.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

Mrs. Hetty Green's son Edward, having
taken one whirl in Texas politics, has
concluded that he has got enough. He
thought he'd like to be Governor, or
the sort, and got woefully left. The
trouble with Mr.. Green was that he got
in with the wrong party. The people Of
Texas do not care for Republicans.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

Mrs. Nation, the Kansas temperance re-
former who makes a speciality of smash
ing mirrors and destroying other property,
has been pronounced by the legal au-
thorities TO be practically irresponsible, q"
and discharged from custody. She will no
doubt celebrate her release by filling her
apron with rocks and having some more
fun breaking things.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

If Congress will kindly refrain from
stopping hazing at West Point, the ca
dets viii stop it themselves-so they say
1t is said they have ffty-nine different
ways of hazing at the Institution forty
of which have been in common practice.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
DE SOTO HOTEL.

First-class accommodations for o."
guests Among the improvements the
past summer 60 new bath rooms were ado
ed. Tourists find Savannah the most IN,
teresting city in the South. An ideai
winter resort. Special rates for families
remaining week or more Tourists stop
ping at the De Soto may become assV,,
ciate members of the Savannah G'i'
Club.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Columbia Is. CO State says: Com
menting on Senator Tillman's complaint
that the people out West can't sing
Dixie and do not sing America much
better, while The Star Spangled Banner
is entirely beyond them, the Savannah
News suggests that the South Carolinian
trade his pitchfork for a tuning fork and
Head a national political singing class
Thus says the News, he would be able
to beat time if nothing else. Our Sa-
vannah contemporary does not seem to
be aware that the Senator from South
Carolina already has tuning fork. He
is said to have an excellent voice for
singing, and we have been told in print
that he has sung hymns with great &C
ceptance at a Baptist gathering"
The New York Press (Rep.) says: do
you remember 'Blee-ee-eeding Kansas?
John Browns body must have left off its
moldering in the grave and turned over
once or twice, when it heard the news
of Frederick AleXander's burning at the
stake. Merciful heavens! And what does
Henry Ward Beecher say, lying in his fat
coffin under the green grass of Green
wood? 1T is a fine time to send a few
more 'Beechers Bibles into the state,
where moral suasion failed as a moral
agency OF all states in the Union Kan
sas should be the last to lynch a negro.
and now. no less than in 1S54-60. Sharpe's
rifles might be better than preaching
Can't you hear Georgia and Texas gig
glng?"
The Charleston Post Dem) says: "An-
other bond of sympathy between England
and the United States has appeared in
the Illness Of the respective rulers of the
two countries and the possible conse-
quences thereof. The prospect of Teddy
Roosevelt or of Albert Edward as chief of
a nation is rather Earring"
The Greenville Is. CO News (Dem) says;
"As we didn't have female reformers
enough of our own, here comes Mrs Ash
by an the way from old England noslng
among Southern cotton mills and going
before Southern legislatures with propo-
sltious u1out compulsory education ana
child labor She no doubt regards herself
IN the light OF a missionary " = race Of
heathens."
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21

The spectacle of one Independent repub-
lie examining and taking action upon the
fundamental law Of another independent
republic will be one TO cause the mon
ARCHES Of Europe 10 smile.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
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Daily except Sundays. Subject to changs
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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-21
MONTGOMERY.

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