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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-08
CONNECTICUT H WASHINGTON
A Resolution For 8 Hour Law
 From Meriden Labor Union

All the Connecticut Members Present
 at Card Party at White House
 Work Just Issued on Geological
 Formation of the Pomperaug Valley.
 Washington, Jan S.-AIr Henry to- day introduced in the house the reso- lutions adopted by the Sons of Tenn perance at their last annual convention in Meriden against changing the pres ent anti-canteen law. He also pre- sented a resolution from the Interna- tional Association of Machinists of Hartford regarding an appropriation of $4,000,000 for ordnance i'll the navy.
 Mir Sperry presented the resolutions of the Hartford Central Labor union favoring the building of warships in our navy yards, and also one from the Meriden Central Labor union favoring the eight-hour law.
 Tn the senate Senator Platt intro duced q petition from the Machinists' union of New London, in favor of building warships in our navy yards, also one from the Central Labor union of Meriden favoring the eight-hour law.
 Patrick Henry O'Farrell, who has been for the last few years associated Tn the practice of law with his father, Captain Patrick O,Farrell. formerly of Hartford, is now assistant purser on the Norfolk boat, which plies between this city and Norfolk.
 The first card reception at the White House was held last night and was very brilliant affair. The Connecticut delegation were all invited and attend ed with their families. Other Connec- ticut people were present. among them being Mrs D. s. Boss and Miss Boss of Willimantic.
 l The president has been invited to at tend the annual dinner of the Boston Yale Alumni association, to be held some time next month, but was obliged 1 to decline.
 Mrs Hill and Miss Hill received at the Cochran yesterday afternoon.
 F. w. Lathrop of Bridgeport is reg istered at the New Willard
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
BRIGHT BITS.

You officeholders," sneered the
man who was vainly trying to be one.
don't die very often, do you? ?" '''No. /"
replied the man who was one, as he
smiled benignly, only once. "-Phila-
delphia Press.
Worthless Husband-"Going to
leave me, are you. Moll? Didn't you
take me for better or worse?" Long
Suffering Wife-"Yes. but you are alb
solutely the worst. 1 didn't take you
for that."-Chicago Tribune.
A Rise in stimation.-Mr. Gotrox
Your friends won't think any more
of you for spending your money so
freely, Cholly Gotrox-"Oh, some of
en- do, dad--soms of EN- actually
think I'm wine agent" Puck,
Genius. quoted smuthers. lis an
infinite capacity for taking pains. 3"
Then remarked Smithers, "old Groan-
ache must be genine. He gets every
ailment he hears any one else has,
Cincinnati Commercial-Trib
what are your hands for, willie?"
she asked reprovingly He looked at
them thoughtfully, as if in doubt.
Then suddenly a glad smile illumined
his face. ITO get dirty and be wash
ed he answered-Chicago Evening
Post.
You say you have new idea for
a story?" Yes" Something origi-
nal in plot?" well 1 hadn't thought
much about the plot But / have an
advertising scheme that will make a
fortune for any book. Washington
Star.
What ever became of that prehis-
toric man who was dug up in Kansas
about two months ago." asked the in
dividual who reads the papers HE
is being worked up into prehistoric
novels" explains the man who keeps
pace with literary representations
American
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
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Personal.

The Prince of Wales has many
claims upon his purse and the princess
spends at least half her income GEO.
600 Year, on her various charities
Nor is Princess Louise of Argyll too
we'll off, and her husbands income is
crippled by the death duties, which
amounted to G4S000 in payments
spreading over eight years.
For nine centuries the Wake fam
lily, the oldest in England has as its
head a Hereward Wake, in clear de-
scent from father to son. Every male
child receives as one of his names the
famous cognomen Hereward, the fam
lily tracing it's ancestry straight back
to "Hereward the Wake,' whom
Charles Kingsley named 1.-The last of
the Saxons" The head of the family
to-day is Sir Hereward Wake, whose
eldest son won the D. S. o. on Lord
Roberts staff in South Africa.
Lord Coleridge, K. c., represents
the third generation of a notable fam
lily of lawyers. His father was lord
chief justice and his grandfather also
sat upon the bench. The present Lord
Coleridge was member for the After
cliffe division from 1885 to 1894, when
the death of his father compelled him
to take his seat in the upper house 1t
did not prevent him from practicing at
the bar nor has the society of peers af-
fected his radicalism. He is a strenu-
Gus humanitarian, which is a charac-
teristic of the Coleridge family.
F. Marion Crawford, the novelist
and dramatist, who wrote Francesca
da Rimini" for Nine Sarah Bernhard,
and who has dramatized several of his
many novels, contrary to the general
impression, does most of his work in
America-in room fitted up for him
in the Macmillan buildings in New
York, and takes his vacations with his
family at his Italian home in Sorrento.
He has, however work dem of
curious sort in Italy. 1t is an old
watch tower on the rugged Calabrian
coast, two days sail from Sorrento,
and consists only of dungeon and an
old keep, and the latter Mr.. Crawford
has made habitable. There he lives for
weeks at a time on an ascetic's diet
While his schooner and his sailors wait
in the harbor. The novelist has sailed
his boat across the Atlantic, and is a
master mariner, holding a captains L.
cense. He is now seriously devoting
himself to play writing.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Norfolk Landmark (Dem) says:
rs it not charming to think that if
the domestic price of hard coal does
not stop soaring, we can get the arti-
Gle from Wales at eight dollars a ton d?
Unless the engineers OF the protective
tariff can get a special session of Con-
gress to meet this danger, the con-
sumner may yet escape alive
The New Orleans Times Democrat
Dem.) says: Many of the old Con-
federate states have provided homes
for INDECENT soldiers who once sustain
ed the Confederacy, That other states
have not yet discharged this solemn re-
sponsibility is a subject that we would
like to dismiss without comment. OF
those commemorative that have failed
to provide a comfortable home for the
Confederate the less said, the better
1t is sufficient 10 state that they have
sadly disappointed public expectation
The Philadelphia Ledger Und.) says:
The position of the United States with
respect 10 the Central and West In
dian republics Is. nevertheless, delicate
and peculiar. These irresponsible and
half civilized states In their dealings
with foreign nations violate inter-
national laws and comfy rather reck-
lessly, perhaps because they know that
seizure Of their territory by the ma
lions Nronged is prohibited by our in
depreciation 81 the Monroe policy For
this very reason the United states
should keep them on fhsir good be-
hafior, and this De- the duty the navy
- nov effectively performing
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
Was a strlet nonrkeener.

When the Andersons went to Cali
fornia they rented small furnished
house and engaged a Chinese man-of-
all-work, says the Little Chronicle.
The house was we'll situated and taste
fully furnished, and Wing Lee proved
to be a good cook, clean and respect
full.
AS soon as the Andersons were set
tied the neighbors began to call, and it
was then that the fact was discovered
than Wing was absolutely devoid of
any ideas as to the ushering in or out
of guests.
So one morning the ladies determin-
ed to instruct him. Providing him
with a tray, Miss Anderson went out,
rang the bell was shown into the par
Tor. and waited while the calm China
man carried her card to Mrs. Ander-
son.
This was repeated several times, I'M
I'll the ladies' were quite satisfied that
Wing was perfect in his role.
That evening at half-past the bell
rang. Wing scuffied majestically to
the door, while mother and daughter
hung breathlessly over the banisters
to watch the result of their teaching.
They heard a gentleman's voice ask
if the ladies were at home. They
"a" WING present HIS lidS anu ISCeANe
a card with an air which made them
mentally pat each other on the back.
and then they saw him draw a card
from his sleeve
"Mine!' gasped Miss Anderson.
THE one we used for the lesson!''
Wing compared the two carefully
and. returning the one which the call
er had just handed him, he remark
ed blandly: "Tickee no good. No can
come" and calmly shut the door in the
face of the astonished guest.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meeting-Ancient Landmark Lodge
No. 231, F. and A. NJ.
Special Notices. pplication for City
Licenses; Dinner Bill of Fare, Union
Station Restaurant.
Business Notices-Scotch Orange
Marmalade, Etc. A. M. & c. w. West.
Week Day Schedule-Savannah Elec-
trio Company.
Amusements-Mr Tim Murphy To-
morrow Night in "Old Innocence" at
the Theater.
This Week-Unusual outdoor At
traction at THE Casino"
Sept Sect 1t at Rowlinsks,
Force" Food.
Insurance-Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York.
Cigars-American Cigar Company.
Whisky-Murray Hill Club Whiskey.
Beers-A. B. c. Beers.
MedicaI-Peruna; S. s. S.. Thacher' S
Blood and Liver Pills; Worlds Dis
pensary Preparations; Cuticura; Dead
Shot Vermifuge; Dr. Hathaway Com
pany; Hostetter's Stomach Bitters; DR..
Schiffmans Asthma Cure; Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure; DR.. David Kennedy s
Favorite Remedy; TUFTS Pills; Casio
ria; DR. Kilmer's Swamp Root.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted For
Rent: For Sale: Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
WAS ADMIRAL KILLICK PIRATE.

Germany is becoming rather aggres-
sive on this side of the ocean. She
is threatening to bring Venezuela to
terms for failing to pay certain claims
due German subjects; and her war
ships are off the Venezuelan coast or
in Venezuelan ports. Our dis
patches yesterday gave an account of
the sinking of a gunboat belonging to
one of the factions which are fighting
for the control of the government of
Hayti-the Firninist faction-by the
German gunboat Panther. At first
struction Of this gunbeat was in VIC
iatlon of the Monroe doctrine hut the
facts show it Was not The gunboaT
Of the Firminists had bearded a Ger
man steamer at the entrance to the
harbor of Cape Haytien, and taken
from her lot of arms and ammuni-
ton intended for the provisional gov
eminent of Hayti. The Firmintst
gunboat was commanded by Admiral
Killick The German government de-
cided that he was a pirate and his
vessel a pirate ship. Therefore it or
dered her capture. Her destruction
followed
1t seems our government does not
agree with the German government
that the Firminist gunboat was pi
rate, but it nevertheless has no in
tention of taking official notice of the
act of the German government. That
government had a right, so it seems
to be held, to take the action it did.
II Germany should undertake to ac-
quire territory in Hayti, however, the
Monroe doctrine would apply, and
Germany would be asked at once for
an explanation. The destruction OF
the Firminist gunboat may have the
effect of Fastening a settlement of the
trouble in Hayu. Still, civil strife
seems to be the normal condition of
affairs in that island.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
THE FRUITS OF REFORM.

! New York city is now enjoying the
fruits of reform. Whether the enjoy
ment can properly be described as
acute is, however. another question.
The results of the efforts of DR..
| Parkhurst, Mayor Low and District
Attorney Jerome are visible in every
| direction, though they do not bear the
exact tints that in ante-election cam
paign speeches they were warranted
to show. Indeed, there is little about
New York as the city is to-day to in
dicate that Tammany and corruption
have been replaced by Reform with a
big R.
One of the cries against Democratic
Tammany was its extravaganza and
corruption and its easy submission to
violators of the Sunday law. A great
many New York newspapers are read
in the South and it is the proper thing
for them, with one or two exceptions,
to denounce Tammany for everything
that is coarse and corrupt. Constant
absorption of these editorial TRADES
has led Southern Democrats of the
goody- goody kind to apologize for be-
ing Democrats when they are North.
Some of them in their anxiety to pro-
pitiate their acquaintance in thar city
are wont to aver they would be Re-
publicans if they lived in New York.
Some of the Southern visitors TO New
York during the summer have been at
once Mortified and surprised to discov-
err that under Mayor Lows Reform
administration there has been no ma
terial change in New Yorks method of
observing the Sabbath. The saloons are
run wide open and not even the scant
respect of secrecy or concealment is
paid the day. Gambling fiourishes
under the very noses of the police and
the newspapers which in the olden
days berated Tammany for suffering
it's existence now find time and space
for elaborate descriptions of the inte-
riors of some of the more richly GLAZED
temples of the vice. The reports Of the
financial officers of Greater New York
show that the Reform administration
is spending millions of dollars annually
more than Tammany ever did.
Curiously enough the newspapers
find in this state of affairs little APP
parent reason for comment. DR.. Park
hurst and his supporters, newspaper
and otherwise, whose habit it has been
to denounce Tammany and Mr.. Croker,
occasionally rehashing the story of the
Tweed ring for a seasoning, are re-
markedly quiet. Perhaps they are not
very greatly surprised after all.
Philadelphia, reeking for years with
the odorous performances of the ring
of Republican corruptionists that con-
trolls it, a ring that from all accounts
the world cannot parallel in rascality.
joys along with Quaker serenity, point
ing to New York as it has been as a
horrible example of Democratic mis-
rule
There is something about it all that
makes the genuine Southern Democrat
more than a little tired-more than a
little disguised. The best rule in this
country for the people is that of JEFF
fersonian Democracy. for it is the rule
of the people by themselves. To the
approxima ton of. such an ideal of
government, Tammany comes a thou
sand miles nearer than alleged re-
formers of the Parkhurst, Low and
Jerome stripe, who are Republicans in
everything and reformers of the right
type in nothing.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
A SURPRISED ryeL.suMAy.

Frank A Hopkins. an Englsman of
considerable prominence in England,
now on his first VISIT to America.
in a couV ersation in Wa shineton day
or two ago, expressed surprise at he
open way IN which charges of cprrup-
ton were made against municipal Of
ficials in this country. He said that
wherever he had been in the United
States he had heard of "boodling"
schemes of city officials.
I'm England" he said, whatever
else may be our faults, there is no such
thing as corruption or rascality on the
part Of the men who are chosen to
public office. Such things as I've
heard We're common in New York and
Philadelphia wouldn't occur once in
England in a generation. A man who
would prostitute his Office to make
money out of it would be held up to
such public scorn that he couldn't live
in a community where his record was
known"
1t would be a fortunate thing for
American cities if there were as strong
public sentiment in this country
against "boodhng" schemes, as Mr..
Hopkins calls them. as there is in Eng
land He says that he does not believe
that there is much corruption in the
government of American cities. There
is not as much probably as there is
said to be, but there is undoubtedly a
great deal more than there ought to
be. 1t has been only about month
since it was discovered in st. Louis
that the city council had been selling
all sorts of franchises for mere song.
as ii Were but, as a matter of fact,
had been getting big sums for them,
the money going into the pockets of
the councilmen. There are many ways
in which cities are robbed, and it is a
pretty safe assertion that many of the
cities of the United States are SYSTEM
atically robbed year after year.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
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The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09

The brilliant editor of the Louis
Vile Courier Journal, always interest
ing and forceful. has made the New
York Four Hundred the subject of
one of his recent biting editorials. If
the fact be anything like the picture
drawn by Watterson's caustic pen it
is enough to make the Star-eyed Cod
dess of Reform hide her head and
weep. We suspect. however, that the
members of the Four Hundred are
not essentially different from others
in like circumstances and do not in
fools and cads. With the ready as
sistance of New Yorks saffron press
they live always in the glare Of pub
Lefty and that this should occasional
ly reveal some of them in the com
mission of an act of folly is not at ali
surprising. There are few dwellers
on this terrestrial ball who get
through life without doing something
10 condemn and most OF us can re-
call incidents in our own careers at
least as foolish as those of which this
segment or society's upper crust Is
guilty. Given an equal amount %
money and time we VIII back any coll
lection 81 ordinary Americans 20 81
lustrate the truth Of this conclusion
by an absurdiiy equally a. spectacu-
Jar 90 the -Four Hundreds most gor-
ssous effort
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09

The scarcity of negro labor in Louis
lana and Mississippi has induced a
novel experiment. Mexican cotton
pickers have been imported from
Southern Texas and the first consign-
ment of 300 is already at work The
incident recalls conditions that prevail
TO a greater or less extent all over the
South, where in the rural districts la
Dor is rarely equal to any unusual de-
mand. The negroes either plant their
own little farms. have left the country
for the cities or for some remote tur-
pentine field or lumber mill, or else
have become so worthless and lazy
they cannot be induced to work. With
the advent of every peach season the
growers have to import their forces of
pickers from the cities. Frequently
these importations are unsatisfactory
in composition and results and the ex-
pertinent now being made with Mexi-
cans Will be watched with interest.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
From the Denver Post.


He took a bottle up to bed.
Drank whisky hot each night.
Drank cocktails in the morning,
But never could get tight.
He shivered in the evening,
And always had the blues,
Until he took a bowl or two
But he never blamed the booze.
His joints were full of rheumatic.
His appetite was slack
He had pains between his shoulders
Chills ran down his back
He suffered with insomnia,
At night he couldn't s,ooza.
He said it was the climate
But he never blamed the booze.
His constitution was run down.
At least that's what he sad;
His legs were swelled each morning,
and ne often had swelled head.
He tackled beer wine. whisky
Ard if they didn't fuse,
He blamed it to dyspepsia
Bat he never blamed the booze.
He said he couldn't sleep at nights
And always had bad dreams;
He claimed he always laid awake
Till early sunrise beams:
He thought it was malaria,
Alas. twas but a ruse,
he blamed II on everything,
But he never blamed the booze.
His liver needed scraping,
And his kidneys had the govt;
He swallowed lots of bitters,
Till at last he cleaned them out
His legs were swelled with droDsy,
Till he had TO cut his shoes:
lie blamed it to the doctors.
But he never blamed the booze.
Then he had the tremens,
And he tackled rats and snakes:
First he had the fever.
Then he had the shakes.
Al last he had a funeral
And the mourners had the blues.
And the epitaph they carved for him
was
lie Never Planned the Booze
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09

The acting Mayor of Chicago has
ordered the destruction by the police
of every unmuzzled dog. mad or sane,
that is found on the streets of that
city, some recent attacks by mad dogs
on pedestrians and resulting cases of
hydrophobia furnishing the excuse for
the order. How much the order was
needed in Chicago we don't know, but
if it results in the disappearance of a
sensible proportion of the worthless
brutes that infest the streets of that
and every other city the acting mayor
will be entitled to a comfortable niche
in the hall of fame.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09
The Untitled Cup.

Her father, who was a strict prohi-
bitionist, had gone to bed. but she had
neglected to mention the fact to Mr..
appear on the stage in grand opera,
says the Chicago Record Herald.
After they had carried on a very
serious and perfectly proper converse
ton for an hour or more she said:
ooh, 1 should like so much to hear
you sing. Professor Zinskipski says
you have a most remarkable voice"
WELL" he answered, IF you really
wish it, will be glad to sing. l make
it practice never to wait to be urged
if l see that people actually desire to
hear me. / have a new song that l
just got hold of few days ago. think
it gives me a chance to show my voice
at its best
Then he hit the piano few thumps
with both fists and began in deep bass
tones:
Come let us fill,
Come let us fill,
Come let us fill,
Oh, come, oh come, oh come,
Come let US fill,
The cup;
Come let us fill,
Come let us fill,
Come let us fill,
Oh come, oh come, oh come,
Come let us fill,
1t up,
Come let, come let,
Come let us fill,
Come let us fill,
Come let
Maud" yelled her father from the
top of the stairs, when he's filled will
you kindly see that he's emptied into
the sewer?"
AS the young man hurried home he
wondered at the lack of music in the
souls of some of the baser inhabitants
of this unlovely sphere
The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-09

The financial difficulties of the BIZ
cycle trust indicate the unsubstantial
character of the support for immense
capitalization furnished by an industry
which relies wholly or in part upon the
continuance of a fad. The bicycle is
not extinct, nor will it become so. but
it abides as a vehicle of business and
sensible pleasure. and not as the peri
patetic nuisance of a few years ago.
Through the phase of existence
through which the bicycle has passed
and emerged triumphant the automo-
bile is now making its journey. When
those who are now riding the fad to
death shall have suffered the fate they
have inflicted on so many others. the
automobile will cease to be an objec-
tionable abomination and enter upon a
career of real utility and comparative
safety-a safety that will include at
once the occupants of the machines
and the general public