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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
MISCHIEVOUS BOYS AND THE
TREES,

We are not surprised that the Chair
man of the Park and Tree Commission
addressed a communication to the
Mayor on the subject of vandalism in
the parks and squares by boys. The
chairman is naturally indignant when
he finds that trees that have cost the
commission a great deal of thought
and care and the city a large amount
of money are being ruined by mali
ciously mischievous boys. There isn't
a boy who plays in the parks and
squares, but knows better than to
break the limbs of trees or to hack
the trees with his knife. Boys there
fore ought to be severely punished
whenever caught injuring the trees.
And every possible effort ought to
be made to catch the guilty parties.
We feel sure that the Mayor is in
earnest in the order he has given the
who are suspected of mischief of this
kind and to arrest them. If one of
them is brought before the Recorder
or Mayor it is probable that he will
receive the full penalty of the law
Some of the people are proud of the
city's beauty, and favor spending more
money for trees and grass, but it can
not be denied that there are too many
who do not seem to care whether the
streets and squares are made beauti-
full or not. 1t is matter of indiffer-
ence to them apparently whether or
not the trees are hacked and killed and
the grass trampled until it is practi-
cally destroyed. For a city as beau
tiful as this is there are too many who
do not take an interest in trees and
grass and things which make the city
attractive. If there were greater in
terest in these matters there would be
trees planted along the sidewalks in
every street. There would not be long
gaps without trees, as there are at
present and the spaces between the
sidewalks and the roadway would be
planted in grass. Changes for the bet
ter win of course come in time, but
with the proper pride and apprecia-
ton of the beautiful they would come
Immediately.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
bright BITS.

The Inevitable Result.-Nell-"Ju
one month ago to-day Stella and l
agreed to point out each others faults
without reserve" Bess-"And are
you still doing it?" Mellon, no. We
haven't spoken to each other for TWEEN
ty-nine days. Daily News.
AT the Sunday School Picnic.-The
SUPPLEMENTARY children, why
do we love to go to the beautiful
parks? What do we find there that is
always fresher and purer than it Is in
the city," Truthful Tommy with
cheerful promptness)- "Popcorn, sir!''
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
PRECAUTIONARY you think you can
give my daughter the surroundings to
which she is accustomed?" asked the
parent. We'll" answered the young
man, II won't guarantee that You
see, Claribel has talked the matter
over and says she's tired of the neigh
borhood. Washington Star.
One of the Toilers.-"You are not a
workingman," said the curbstone ora
tor, ''or you wouldn't talk that way"
you are wrong, sir!" fiercely answer
ed the man who had interrupted him.
Il am member of a Browning club,
and if an institution of that kind isn't
organized labor I don't know what is!''
Chicago Tribune.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
PERSONAL.

Rear Admiral Clark, who will al
ways be referred to as of the Oregon
denies the published report that he
intends to resign. He is perfectly sat
tstied with his present billet at the
naval home at Philadelphia.
The English Justice Barnes takes
down his notes In shorthand and sums
up from these notes. He finds this a
great saving of time and by this means
is never obliged to stop a witness.
DIR. William Craig Burke, who was
the oldest alumnus of Dartmouth col
lege, has just died in Cheyenne, Wyo.
He was a member of the church coun-
ell which considered the case of Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher.
Senator Daniel of Virginia tells of
a man down in his state who never
could be induced to acknowledge that
any brand of whisky was bad, though
he was willing to admit the truth of
the ancient saying that some makes
were better than others. Some jokers
induced him to try some of a most
villanious compound which they had
labeled as a popular brand. The man
took a generous drink, made a wry
face, and said: well, all whisky is
good, of course, but that's a little the
poorest good whisky / ever tasted"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
Glimpse of Winnie Davis.

Francis D. Muller, the American re-
cluse who died in London last week,
was known to few people from this
side who frequented a little chop
house in Salisbury avenue, where he
used to go for his midday meal, says
the Philadelphia Press. Muller always
had plenty of money and tipped the
waiter to reserve a certain corner for
him, where he used to read the Ameri-
can newspapers; but he ate sparingly.
Except on rare occasions, attempts to
engage him in conversation were flu
tile. He steadfastly kept away from
&c hotels where Americans congre-
sEAted, but on one occasion he was
lks1own to loiter around the Langham
an entire day to see Winnie Davis,
daughter of Jefferson Davis, whom he
had read in the newspapers was a
guest of an American family travelling
in Europe.
Muller was a skilled physician, and
during the Civil War was chief of the
medical department of the Confederate
army. After the war he went to Lon
don. A hallboy in the hotel pointed
out Miss Davis as she came down to
the dining room. and Muller looked at
her with tears in his eyes. When she
disappeared in the dining room he gave
the hallboy a shilling and went off to
his chophouse. -
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Ledger Qnd) says:
ut is costing Messrs. Gaynor and
Greene and the Dominion of Canada a
great deal of money to maintain their
mutual attachment"
The Detroit Free Press Dem) says:
Congress does not spend money ex-
actly like a drunken sailor; because the
drunken sailor spends his own money.
and stops when he has finished it,"
The Louisville Courier-Journal
tDem) says: u regret said the Pres
ident in his Pittsburg address, that
measure of reciprocity with Cuba is not
already embodied in statute or in a
treaty. but it will be. just as sure as
fate When? After Cuba has been
ruined for the lack of it, and after the
President gets his consent to putting
through such a measure even if it can
not be done with Republican votes in
Congress exclusively"
The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem)
says: Robert Lamar, a farmer gold
bug who has just been nominated for
Congress in Missouri on a free silver
platform, pledges himself to do all in
lis power to bring about the free COIN
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to l. etc
Robert left out something. He should
have pledged himself to bring about
the restoration of slavery and the re-
6emption of Confederate money,
What's the good of half doing any
thing?"
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
Qnd.) says: Mr. Platt has assured the
president of the support of his state
for the nomination in 1904 and Mr..
Quay has assured him of the support
of his state; whereupon the former
boss remarks that when New York
and Pennsylvania pull together in a
national Republican convention, they
generally get what they want. Mr.
Roosevelt is no more now than when
Governor of New York, carrying his
independence to the point of antago-
nizing the worst of the party bosses
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Military Orders-Order No. 81, Geor-
Ria Hussars.
Special Notices-Three Prizes
Awarded by the Merchants Retail As
sociation Committee: Query? The Penn
Mutual Life Insurance Company;
Menu at Gardner's; Now. To-day,
What! Jas ]. Joyce; Dividend Notice,
Georgia Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany.
Business Notices-Dove Hams, A. M.
& C. w. West.
Torrid Wave of Special values-At
Hogan's.
July 12.-Get 1t at Rowllnskis.
Coffee-The S. W. Branch Company.
Special Sale of Mems and Youths
Trousers-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Grape-Nuts Food-Postum Cereal
Company.
Steamship schedule-Ocean Steam
ship Company.
cational-University of Georgia.
Pensions-Indian War Pensions.
Hudson River by Daylight-By Pal
ace Iron Steamers New York and AL
bany.
Beers-A. b. c. Beers.
Medical-Alligator Liniment: Lydia
Pinkham Vegetable Pills. Smiths Kid
ney Cure-Dr. Hathaway Company;
TUFTS Pills; Paines Celery Compound.
Cheap Column Observation-Disclosures
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
Wanted Renlism.

She could not see his face as he knelt
and asked her to be his, says Tit-Bits.
She was glad of that, for she did not
wish to know how much suffering her
refusal caused him.
She told him as gently as she could
that their lives could not be linked to-
gether; that, although she admired him
and esteemed him, she felt that it
would be risking his future as we'll as
her own to consent to union when
she was sure no affinity existed.
1t was touching speech, and she
threw SO much heart into it that she
did not observe he was taking notes
in shorthand.
When she had concluded he arose and
put his notebook in his pocket Ex-
tending his hand, he remarked. ge-
n:ally:
I'm ever and ever so much obliged
to you"
"S-i-r-r-r!"
You did it ever so nicely, and I'm
under a thousand obligations. I'm writ
ing novel, and l have a scene in which
a girl refuses to marry man. I was
anxious to avoid the stereotyped style
of depicting such incidents and to make
it realistic. You're the seventh girl
1 have proposed to, and every one of
the others accepted me. If you had
said Yes I think I'd have been COM
pletely discouraged.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
The Kicker.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
He kicked at the weather; it seldom
came right:
1t was always too hot or too cold !:
The drought would spoil crops or the
wet would cause blight,
If the weather continued to hold.
He kicked at his breakfast, his dinner
and tea;
He vowed that his cook made him
sick:
All times and wherever he happend
to be
He always would manage to kick
He kicked at the bills from the stores
that were sent
To his wife, it is needless to state;
He kicked at the acting whenever he
went
To the play. which was always fifth
rate.
He kicked at the way the assessors
assessed
What he owned as a mean, NANCY
AS general thing, he considered it
best
On every occasion to kick.
He at last kicked the bucket, and we
may expect
When he reaches the heavenly shore
Therell be such CONSERVATION among
the elect
AS has seldom been caused there be-
fore.
If his harps not in tune or his robe
doesn't fit.
Or his crown on his head doesn't
stick,
We who know of his ways wouldn't
wonder a bit
If he made a Vociferous kick.
Chicago News.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12

We printed story yesterday detail
ing how Gen. Charles P. Eagan, re-
tired, of embalmed beef fame, had
challenged man in New Mexico to
fight a duel, and then declined to fight
when his adversary named shotguns at
twenty feet as the weapons and dis
lance. If Eagan really sent chaI-
lenge, it is said at Washington that
he will have to undergo another court
martial. Sending a challenge, or TAX
ing any part in a duel, is quite a seri-
Gus offense under the regulations of
the army.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12

Maj. ]. B. Pond, who has an inter-
national reputation as a pilot of lee
ture platform celebrities, was in Phil
adelphia the other day talking with
his local agent about features for next
season, says the Philadelphia Press.
While in Broad street station somebody
gave him some misinformation about
a train to New York, and he had to
wait more than an hour for another
one.
THAT reminds me-" he said, "of an
experience L once had in Glasgow. I
asked man at the hotel what was
the exact time to leave it in order to
catch a morning boat plying between
Glasgow and the next town on my itin-
erary.
well he replied, I Gamma tell We
jest which time twill be, but if ye'n
leave five minutes before We see the
steamer comm room the pint, yell be
in time to catch it, sir D."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
Honest Tenant.

The father of Earl Fitzwilliam, who
died recently, was an excellent land
lord, says the Youths Companion.
London paper relates how once a far
mer went to him with the complaint
that the earl's fox hunters had ruined
a field of corn. or. as we should call it.
wheat
The earl gave the man fifty pounds
in payment for damage. After harvest
time the farmer returned the money,
saying that the wheat had turned out
we'll, after all.
Earl Fitzwilliam drew a check for
100 and gave it to his tenant.
This is as things should be between
man and man." said he. when your
eldest son comes of age, give him this
and tell him how and why you get
If
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12

Misfortune seems to have marked
Johnstown, Pa, for its own. Thirteen
years ago flood of water descended
the valley in which the town is sit
uated, from a broken dam, and swept
away hundreds of lives and vast
amounts of property. The Johnstown
flood will always be remembered as one
of the most fearful of American dis
asters. And now it is a mine explosion
that has plunged the town into dis
tress and mourning. The casualty list
of this occurrence has not yet been
completed, but it seems sure that it
will contain more than 100 names. The
cause is yet indefinite, but in all prob
ability it will be found, like the flood,
to have been preventable by proper
precautions. Meanwhile as before, the
country will sympathize with the I'M
fortunate town.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12

Miss Ethel Roosevelt slipped from
the back of her horse: Master Archi-
bald got off of his horse and frightened
bed his toe and fell down; Teddy, Jr.,
stuck a splinter in his finger while
climbing a fence. Such seems to be
the character of the news that Is des-
tined to come from Oyster Bay during
the summer vacation of the President.
Luckily for the news gatherers, the
family of Roosevelt is a rather large
one, and as the. children are quite live
ly and always doing things, there will
be no dearth of items to be reported
to waiting world.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12

Recently Senator Culberson Of Texas
made a severe attack upon the War
Department and Secretary Root be-
cause, he said, the departments
figures of the cost of the Phil
ippine war, as published in
the Congressional Record, were incor-
rect and did not show anything near
what the cost of the war had been.
1t transpires that Mr.. Culberson was
partly right and a great deal wrong
The figures as they appeared in the
Record were grossly incorrect. but the
error was made in the printing Office
and not by the War Department or the
Secretary, as q comparison of the print
ed matter and the copy has shown.
Mr.. Culberson was wrong is assuming
that what he was quoting was actually
the report of the Secretary of War and
not an erroneous reprint of it, and
making his attack without verifying his
information.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
stephen Phillips and the burglar.

Stephen Phillips, the eminent Eng
fish poet, was sitting in the drawing
room of a London boarding house the
other night, when the door opened.
and a tall, powerful man, wearing
white shoes and carrying a lady's
mantle on his arm, entered the room.
What are you doing here?" asked
Mr.. Phillips. I'm a burglar" the
visitor answered. You had better
clear out of this. You had better put
that mantle down." retorted Mr.. Phil
lips, and he graciously proceeded to
show the visitor downstairs, opening
the street door and seeing him safely
Off the premises. Before the door
closed the poet asked, as an after
thought: Where did you get that
mantle?' 81 stole it out of the back
bedroom" was the reply. The man
in the white shoes was subsequently,
arrested, but Mr.. Phillips did not at
first identify him. At the police court
he had no doubt that Mr.. Sidney
Charles Jones was the burglar The
landlady was positive on the subject.
She had returned from London, and
just as she got home met the pris-
oner coming out. Asked why he let
the prisoner go, Mr.. Phillips. who had
described himself as a dramatic poet.
said there was a child ill upstairs,
and, therefore, he did not wish to have
disturbance, thinking the best plan
would be to get the man out of the
house quietly and then give informa-
ton to the police
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12

Former Chief of Police Devery of
New York has actively entered politics.
He is striving now for the leadership
of the Ninth assembly district, with the
purpose in view. it is said, of becom-
ing the successor to Richard Croker
as the actual leader of Tammany Hall.
Devery is of the bull dog type and
has raised himself by his readiness and
ability to fight. He would come nearer
to being real leader of Tammany
than any politician of the Lewis Nixon
type could.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12

Gov. Heard of Louisiana has vetoed
the bill, passed by the Legislature last
week, providing that school histories
used in the public schools of that state
should give the credit of the Santiago
naval victory to Admiral Schley. It
is better not to take Legislative action
on such matters. Time will give justice
where it belongs. whereas hasty leg
islatiOn is apt to have the earmarks
Of partisan prejudice.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
EDUCATIONAL.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.

The 102d session of the University of
of the State will open on Sept. lS This
institution is organized in three de-
MISUNDERSTANDING Law and Agri-
cultural. There is no tuition to resi-
dents of the state except in the Law
School. In Agriculture the courses
have been increased and enlarged so
as to embrace a short winter course,
a one-year course, and a full course.
Room is furnished in both the old and
new dormitories free, and excellent
board is supplied in Denmark Hall at
So per month Chancellor w. B. Hill
will be glad to supply handbook and
catalogue on application.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12

The largest schooner in the world
was launched the other day at Quincy
Mass. She is the Thomas w Lawson.
S95 feet long, 251k feet draught to load
water line. and with seven masts. She
will carry 5000 tons of dead weight on
average load draught. and have a sail
area of $4,000 square feet. The sails
win be handled by steam power, and
the vessel lighted by electricity.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12

If reports are correct, the crops
about Opelika, Ala. are in deplora-
BILE condition. One large farmer, who
has 600 acres of cotton, says that the
entire plantation will not produce fif-
teen bales of cotton this year. A dis
patch says this is a typical case. MANY
farmers have cut down their corn for
fodder, and the fodder crop will not
be one-tenth the average There have
been only four slight rains since
March, and neither of these was suf-
ficient to impart any moisture to the
soil. One cantaloupe grower planted
800 worth of seed, and got returns
of SIS for his crop. This is a distress
ing situation. 1t is sincerely to be
hoped that conditions are not quite SO
bad as they now seem.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day
are showers. fresh to brisk east winds
on the coast; and for Eastern Florida,
showers, variable winds; mostly fresh
southeast.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-12
PETITIONS FOR PUBLIC ROADS.

PETITIONS FOR PUBLIC ROADS.
The County Commissioners appear to
be pretty well burdened with petitions
for public roads in various parts of
the county. It is but natural that
property owners should want roads
built connecting their lands with the
city. Such roads increase the value of
lands without increasing very much
the amount of the taxes from such
lands.
A good deal of money has been spent
on county roads within the last few
years, and 1t is but fair to say that
public sentiment appears to approve
the spending of public money in this
way, but while the value of the lands
adjacent to, these roads has been in
creased by the roads, it is doubtful if
the assessment of the lands has been
materially increased, particularly those
lands which are not under cultivation.
AS a matter of fact the city is pay
ing for the building of the roads.
Therefore, in selecting the roads to be
improved the wishes and interests of
individuals ought to be ignored. The
roads that should be improved are
those which pass through sections of
the county In which there are good
lands-lands that are likely to be put
under cultivation soon after the roads
are improved-and roads which the
people of the city want for pleasure
drives.
Roads built through lands that will
be improved win help the city, because
the city gets some benefit from every
farm that Is opened. The lands of the
country ought TO supply the city's
markets with all the vegetables and
poultry and milk the city needs, and
they would, if occupied by thrifty far
mers, poultry raisers and dairymen.
1t is probable that some of the petit
TONERS for improved roads have only
in view the possible increase in value
of their lands, not intending to i'm
prove the lands or to do anything in
connection with them that would be
helpful to the city. OF course such pc
titions should have no weight with the
County Commissioners. From our point
of view the things that should deter
mine which of the roads should be i'm
proved are those to which we have
called attention