The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-07

like most millionaire flower lovers, he
cares very little for orchids, although
he owns hundreds Of rare and valuable
specimens.
John Mcdonald, builder of the I'M
foreground railway is becoming a phil
osopher. He is under bonds of only
SlOO0,O0O to complete the work accord
ing to specifications and on time, and
damage suits for harm done by explo-
sions and other accidents are pending
against him in nearly every court
competent to consider them.
He was reading his newspaper while
at luncheon with a friend recently.
Suddenly he looked up with a bright
and cheerful smile.
What pleases you so?" asked his
friend.
We'll" said Mcdonald, there is one
explosion and general disturbance that
they can't hold me responsible for,
anyway"
What is it?" asked his friend.
The earthquake in Venezuela" said
Mr.. Mcdonald.
Apropos of street railway talk.
here is a story on the situation by
Mayor Low.
When he was president of Columbia
University he was asked one night
by lady at dinner what he thought
the prospects were for that years CO.
lumbia football team.
Very good, indeed, madam, I fancy"
said the Mayor. THE boys are train
ing hard"
"oh. do tell me how they train" said
the lady.
We'll" said the college president.
they diet and they take cold baths
and they neglect their studies"
But is that ALP" persisted the lady.
| Don't they take some very vigorous
form of physical exercise?"
They do, madam; they do" replied
Mr.. Low. "And 1 am afraid that they
are carrying it too far. 1 am afraid
that we shall lose some of our best
players before the time comes for
them to appear upon the gridiron."
why what on earth do they do?'
asked the lady.
Some of the boldest of them have
taken to riding on the elevated rail-
roads during rush hours, madam"
| The college president sighed.
Il nope no harm will come of it,
madam" he said at last. THAT is a
great risk-a great risk"
The determination of young ]. G.
| Phelps Stokes to devote his entire
time to the University Settlement So
clety-not only to work in the Settle
ment, but actually to live in it so that
he may become more closely acquaint-
ed with the persons and conditions
| adds another to the list of rich young
1 New Workers who are taking life very
! much in earnest
| But Mr.. Stokes has gone much fur
Their than young Rockefeller with his
| Bible class, young Vanderbilt with his
work in the engine shops, or John ia
cob Astor, Jr., with his inventions
| Young Stokes is a close friend of Miss
| Helen Gould, and believes her to be
! the greatest woman of her time. He
is not especially rich-that is, in COM
parison with the Vanderbilts and
Goulds-but he is very much in earn
| est. He thinks now that he will give
| his whole like to this and similar work
| His accession to the working force
| Is especially welcome because James
| r. Reynolds, the head of the society
has been acting as Mayor Lows pri.
| vate secretary ever since the Mayor:
| election, and the settlement has missed
him sadly.
One of Mr. Reynolds theories i.
| that much of the drunkenness on the
part of poor and ignorant men /.
| caused by the fact that their wives d.
not know how to cook properly nour
| ishing food, and that therefore, thei
systems, exhausted by hard manua
labor and being insufficiently nourish
ed very naturally crave stimulants
This theory came home to roost on
day. The husband of an Irish woman
had beaten her numerically and beef
locked up for It, Everyone who ha