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The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

Prisoners have all sorts of ways of
communicating with each other" said
an old-time police officer. according TO
the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "and
it is almost impossible TO keep track
OF them at times. when the department.
wants to be particularly careful about
shutting out communication between
one prisoner and another.
In the first place, the prisoner has
nothing to do but think before he is
sent to the farm or to some other place
where he is put to work. Some of them
employ their time in decorating their
cells with pictures. piastering them
with newspapers and things of that
sort. One man will write bi. OF verse.
or the story Of his lie, or a treatise
OF some aspect of the science OF GRIM
inology. / have known many prisoners
to make companions of bugs, of real
bugs, cockrOaches. spiders, and things
Of that sort. 1 hRew ore man who had
been condemned to solitary confine-
ment who had actually trained a couple
OF spiders and gang of reaches SO
that they would come to him at regular
intervals for food. He could rap on the
side of his cell and they would scamp
er out of their hiding places and rush
to the point where he tapped on the
floor or the wall with his hand. They
were educated, and when he would
talk TO them and fondle them they
seemed to understand at least that IL
was friendly and affectionate sort of
thing.
The world might shrink from the
touch of the criminals hands. Men
might not want to touch palms with
him. But with the pet spiders and the
pet reaches it was different. Apparent
ly they loved him, and he was more
to them than all the vast body of men
on the outside of the prison.
But / was thinking about another
story. Some few years ago there was a
man in the Missouri penitentiary who
had been sentenced to solitary confine-
ment. 1 think he had a sentence of fif-
teen years. He had been shut off from
all communication with his fellow
prisoners. About fifteen cells from him
was a friend. The first prisoner had a
pet white mouse, a little animal of
remarkable intelligence, and he proved
to be a source of great comfort and
convenience to the prisoner. In some
way he trained the mouse so that he
understood him. He was finally able to
get the little animal to carry messages
from his cell to the cell of his friend
Occasionally the mouse could be seen
scampering down the hall with piece
of paper in his mouth, and nothing
could stop him. In this way the men
carried on a system of perfect COM
munication. 1t goes to show how re-
sourceful criminals are, and what
fruitful ideas may sometimes grow out
of an idle mind"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
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The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

The question of divorcing American
Catholicism from the control of the
Congregation of the Propaganda is one
that is now seriously agitating the
Catholic church in this country Under
existing conditions the church is un-
der the jurisdiction of the Propaganda
and bears a missionary relation to
Rome. The purpose is to relieve it of
this control and create an independent
governing body, responsible only to the
sovereign pontiff. 1t is very likely
that the proposition will be voted down
by the episcopacy and clergy of the
provinces, but that it is mooted and by
the progressive element ardently sup
ported indicate the effect of the Ameri-
can atmosphere even upon an institu-
ton so conservative as the Roman
Church.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
Yankees Were All Alive.

The recent Grand Army encamp-
ment in Washington provoked a good
deal of comment regarding the large
numbers of Civil War veterans who are
still in good enough physical condition
to endure the fatigue of long march
says the New York Tribune. Several
Southern Democrats were discussing
this in a Washington hotel lobby the
other evening when Secretary Charles
A. Edwards of the Democratic Congress
sional Committee said:
"A few years ago Col. William Green
Sterett and 1 were sitting at window
watching the parade at a Grand Army
encampment. Hour after hour passed,
and still the Yankee hosts swept by
Col Sterett became more and more
thoughtful, silent, and depressed as the
march went on. After long silence
he looked up, and, laying his hand on
my arm, said with the utmost i'm.
pressiveness;
% Charlie, I'm going back to Texas
and burn up every Southern history of
the war that / can find
What are you going to do that
for? 1 asked
Because, Charlie he said, still
more impressive, they're full of lies
They all tell about how many Yankees
we killed. Charlie, we never killed a
id Yankee. They're all here nowl'
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
song of the Ticker.

From the Boston News Bureau.
I am all that men dreamed of the
Fates.
/ weave and measure and shear:
l am lord of mems loves and their
hates.
Am master of hope and of fear.
Click and for Lazarus
Banquets are spread;
Click and proud Dives must
Beg for his bread!
/ am midwife to history-spell
Her records ere pen can be dipped:
And the world joys or grieves as tell
Each tidings in Skyline script:
Click and our armies the
Victory gain;
Click! the assassin
Our ruler has slain!
am swiftest of thieves. Like the
thaws
The fattest of fortunes / melt:
At my word grippe the panic-fear's
claws.
Despair's darkest torrents are felt.
Click! and the bankrupt his
Ruin now meets
"Chck" tn echoing hammer
Lifted repeats!
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

Hon. Hoke Smith would be a candidate
for the United States Senate from this
state, correspondent of the Atlanta
News asked him in Washington the
other day if there was any truth in It'll
Mr.. Smith replied: THAT is a matter
tive statement at this time, for real
ly do not know whether 1 shall care to
go back into public life" 1t will be
observed that Mr.. Smith does not an
ticipate, one way or the other. The
matter is still open. If Georgia would
like to see how we'll a toga would be-
come Mr.. Smith. he might be induced
to lend himself to the experiment.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

The Presbyterian divines who are
now in session in Philadelphia have
snatched the laurel wreath of chicken
eating champion from the brows of
yard. There are several hundred of
them who affect a certain restaurant
at dinner and it is said the chickens
in that restaurants coops have all
gone into mourning. Those, that is,
that have not themselves furnished
such reason for their friends appear
ance in black.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

The appearance in the Supreme Court
of Tennessee recently of a man whose
alleged murderer's case the court was
then engaged in investigating is but
one Illustration out of many of the de-
fects of human testimony. Mans a
terribly weak vessel at best and prone
to forget. Weighed in the balance of
established fact but little Of the evil
dence given in the courts would not
be found wanting
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

The tragedy on Wall street. in which
an armed and desperate man shot down
two business opponents and then killed
newspapers to the evil of the pistol
habit. In this part of the world that
habit, like the poor, 1--WE have always
with u.s." Surely it deserves the stern
reprobation Of every good citizen and
when detected and the offender brought
to trial, the swift, sure and condign
punishment Of the courts. Added to
a large population Of careless and even
criminal negroes. the habit is a me-
mace to society that should not for a
single instant be condoned,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

Evidently it is worth while to be a
successful jockey on the American
turf. Young Lucien Lyme, who rode
John A. brakes horses to victory in
the American Derby and Futurity, is
to be paid $4,000 a year for next sea-
sons racing. His employer then will
be James R. Keene. Other American
jockies have received rewards scarcely
less princely in amount. In the light
Of such munificent compensation it
seems rather absurd to point to a col
lege professorship, at a salary of $4,000
a year, as the desirable elimination of
youthful ambition. If salaries on the
turf maintain their average, the in
comes of the prize ring aristocracy will
pale into an insignificant resemblance
to thirty cents.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
CoLLrNsvILLE LINE.

tFair Grounds and Dale Ave)
Beginning at 900 a. M, cars leave
Bolton and OFT streets every Is min
utes; returning. cars leave Estill ave-
nue. and Waters road at 6:07 a. m. and
every Is minutes thereafter. connecting
with cars on Thunderbolt line. Be-
ginning at 900 D. M. cars run every 30
minutes until 1900 o'clock.
Through cars are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via Collins
vile and Dale avenue as follows:
Lv. Market. Ly. Thunderboit,
Gas a. m. 7:30 a. m.
6:45 p. m. 1880 p. m.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

There is a famine of school teachers
in West Virginia, in which state eight
hundred could be used in instructing
the young idea there indigenous how
to shoot AS the school term is six
months and the pay from $50 to $45 a
month the reason of the scarcity can be
surmised. Even matrimony, the prac-
teal young woman of the present 1t
is to be conceived, has concluded, is to
be preferred to this.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
Personal.

Mr.. Chamberlain in letter to the
vicar of Confession, England, has ex-
pressed his sympathy with scheme
for running theaters in connection
with the churches of country villages,
saying that he is always pleased to
hear of anything that is being done
for the people in the way of bringing
light and happiness into their lives.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
FREIGHT AND PARCEI. CAR

Leaves east side of City Market for
Thunderbolt, Cattle Park, Sandfy, Isle
of Hope and all intermediate points
9:15 a. M, lis p. m, 5:15 D. m.
Leaves Isle OF Hope for Sandfly,
Cattle Park, Thunderbolt and all in
termediate points-6:00 a. M. HOO a.
M, 800 D. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at
$50 a. m. and 1853 p. m, connecting at
Sandhy with regular parcel car for
city.
Parcel car from the city carries
freight to Montgomery on each trip
Regular parcel car carries trailer on
each trip for accommodation of pass
engers.
Any further Information regarding
passenger schedule or freight service
can he had by applying to
G. o. NAGLE. Manager.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

A suit in which the amount involved
is just half a dollar is now traversing
the stony road of litigation from a
Kansas tribunal to the Supreme Court
of the United States, with every evil
chance, it is reported. that 1t will sue
cessfully accomplish the Journey In
the meantime the country will be put
to an expense aggregating thousands
OF dollars to decide the rights and
wrongs of this insignificant controversy.
How much more to the point and the
public satisfaction it would be if this
pair of weak-minded litigants were
locked in a room and permitted to set
tie their differences for themselves. The
method presents the possible further
advantage Of leaving the great state
of Kansas just one fool less.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

A news dispatch says Lieut. Gov.
Woodruff of New York has placed S1O,-
600 in the hands of Senator LaRoche
to be bet against $1,000 of Senator
somebody-elses money on the state
election. What jolly gamblers some of
those New York officials are!
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
The weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair and warmer weather, light to
fresh northeast winds. becoming south
east; and for Eastern Florida, cloudy
weather. occasional showers, fresh
northeast winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

Judge George Grey of Delaware, who
for number of years represented his
state in the United States Senate, win
in all probability be chosen chairman
of the Presidents coal strike compis-
sion
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

Is alcohol a food? Prof. w. o. At
water of the Agricultural Experiment
Station at Middleton, Conn. who
also occupies a chair at the Wesleyan
University, some time ago announced.
after exhaustive Investigations, that
alcohol does have a specific food value.
Wesleyan, of course. is a Methodist
institution. Prof. Atwaters pronuncia-
mento respecting alcohol as a food has
aroused the Indignation of some of the
Methodist preachers of Connecticut and
hey are denouncing him in unmeasur-
ed terms. They propose to inaugurate
a propaganda which shall teach that
alcohol is not a food, but a ravening
monster no matter what science and
Prof. Atwater may say about 1t.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
MONTGOMERY AND THUNDER
BOLT LINE.
THUNDERBOLT LINE,
City Market to Casino, via Bolton
Stre@A Junction
Schedule Daily Except Sunday.
In Effect Monday, Sept. 8.
Subject TO change without notice

Beginning at 5:45 a. M, cars lea We
City Market for Casino at Thunderb DIT
every IS minutes until 1880 D. m.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction Is
minutes after leaving time at City
Market
Beginning at 1858 a. m, cars leave
Casino at Thunderbolt every Is min
utes until 12:eS midnight.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
POLITICS AS A CAREER

One of the Democratic candidates
for Congress in New York city is Fran
els Burton Harrison. He is a Young
man of wealth, education and leisure
he is university graduate and a
lawyer by authority of the bar of his
state. 1t is the understanding. how
ever, that he will enter politics as a
career, in preference to following the
law or passing his time in seeking
amusement, as many rich young men
do. And his determination has the ap-
prevail of his distinguished mother.
Mrs. Burton Harrison, the novelist.
Mrs. Harrison announces that she will
do campaign work in her sons behalf
and aid him in every manner possible
to a successful beginning in his chosen
field. She will not take the stump, of
course, but there are numerous other
ways in which she can be of assist
ance to him. In England the women
take pretty nearly as much interest in
politics as the men, and their election
eering is one of the features of an
English campaign. Mrs. Harrison
well to pay more attention to politics,
to the very great advantage of poll
tics; not that she would have women
vote, but have them influence men to
vote right.
Young Mr. Harrison ought to make a
good politician, in the better sense of
the word, if he retains the Characters
tics of his people. He is of Southern
blood. His father, Burton Harrison,
an able man, was private secretary to
President Jefferson Davis, and took a
prominent part in politics in the
stormy days of the sixties. Both of
his grandfathers were Southern poll
ticians. 1t may be said, therefore,
that there is a strain of politics in the
young mans blood, and that he was
born to Democratic principles.
The entry of young men like Mr..
Harrison into politics is to be COM
mended. Having brains, education
and refinement, and being removed
from the suggestion of using politics
as a graft" for money-making. his
influence should be towards cleaner.
purer politics and a broader general
view of public affairs. And there is
no doubt that politics offers an invit-
ing field for young men who enter it
with high purposes and the ability to
live UP to them. To be a leader of
American public opinion. and to lead
1t in the right direction, is an honor
worthy of any mans ambition.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23
WEST END LINE.

NAIIICO4II T dIh.J
Car leaves west side of City Market
for Lincoln Park 500 a. m. and every
40 minuteS thereafter until 1880 D. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market
500 a. m. and every 40 minutes there
after until 1900 o'clock midnight.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

You didn't dig any coal to-day. did
your" chuckled the striker. mo-" re-
piled the non-union miner, good-hum-
oredly. II wasn't in the vein for it,
Philadelphia Press.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

From a number of American cities
come reports of the organization of
Good Government Leagues and other
bodies of kindred spirit. Generally
their purpose is to repress corruption
and to arouse public interest in clean
and decent municipal government.
Here's hoping they'll succeed, for the
Lord knows there is room in most
cities we wot of for scrubbing brush
and soap. And. to the end that the
dream of cleanliness may be realized,
let them cease the pursuit Of the will
o'-thewisp of human perfection at
tanned through legal enactment and
get down to a basis of ordinary COM
mon sense. Mixing that always val
liable ingredient with their abundance
of zeal, earnestness and high purpose,
they will succeed: without it the cru
SADIE is doomed to certain failure and
its leaders sure to become the laughing
stock of the political corruptionists
against which 1t is waged.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-23

In the public schools of the United
States to-day there are thirteen mil
lion children. who are imbibing there
the ideals Of American government and
the spirit of American life. The sort
OF Democracy that means an even
chance for every one to rise into great
ness becomes the corner stone of their
mental equipment Who can estimate
what results this great army Of Ameri-
can youth, when in half a generation
IL begins to expend it's energies in Gre
alive effort, will produce upon the
present aspect of the world? What in
dustries will il originate and develop?
What unknown lands beyond the seas
Will 1t discover? What problems of
government it will solve? What epics
of the race it will write? Surely in
the barefoot boy who trudges to or
away from school, and in his fellows,
lives the hope of the perpetuation of
American ideals of human liberty.
The British War Office is frowning
sternly upon the efforts of the mana
rule and custom prescribe the wearing
of evening dress as a prerequisite to
admission to the stalls. to exclude
army officers in uniform. 1.-The uniform
OF an army officer is equivalent to
evening dress says War Secretary
Broderick, sagely, and if the managers
persist in their intention he announces
a purpose to appeal to the law. Strip
ped of its several amusing features the
stand taken by Mr.. Broderick seems
warranted by good reason and good
sense. British officers are too much in
clined to consider the army a pursuit,
rather than a profession, an avocation
rather than vocation. Respect for
the uniform on the part of others may
induce its wearers to ponder more Sc
riously the things it typifes.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
JUDGE PEDEN FINALLY
GETS OUT OF JAIL
New Development in the Famous Cons
tempt Case in st. Clair
County, Missouri.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 29.-Sam-
uel C. Pedin, former judge of the
county court of ST. Clair. county, Mis-
souri,, who has been in Jail at Mary
vile since May, 1901, for contempt of
court in refusing to order a tax levy to
pay bonds pledged in 1879 for the Tebo
e Neosho railway was today ordered
released by Judge John F. Phillips, of
the United States district court in this
city.
After he had tired of Jail, Judge Pc
den, several months ago, sent his res
ignation to Gov. Dockery, and "a sue
cessor was appointed. Judge Phillips
declined to talk of the matter, and it
is supposed that Judge Peden's release
was a result of his resignation. Judge
Thomas H. hewitt, the other judge of
the st. Clair county court, is still in
Jail, where many of his predecessors,
all having refused to respect the
United States courts commands to
levy a tax for the payment of the
bonds, had previously spent their terms
of office.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
CHICAGO ST. PAUL LINES MAY
MAKE SPECIAL RATES FOR
STUDENTS
NO POOL HAS BEEN FORMED
TO HANDLE BUSINESS
1t Is Understood, However, That if
Delegation Would Take One Par
ticular Road Low Round Trip Will
Be Given-No Rate War Likely.

Passenger agents of the Milwaukee
& Omaha deny that there has been a
pool formed TO handle the business
that will arise from students and 9TH
ers from the Twin Cities visiting Chi
cago to witness the Michigan Wiscon-
sin game there Saturday. A report
circulated yesterday declared that ar
rangements had been made between
the two roads mentioned for one to
take large number down and the
other to take them back, but there is
no foundation in it.
There is, however, a likelihood that
rates may be reduced to induce
crowd to go. 1t is announced that
roads in Wisconsin have made a rate
of one fare for the round trip, and as
it is expected that a considerable num-
Der would go from here if low rates
were given it is possible that a cut
will be made.
The milwaukee said that no reduc-
ton would be made for the occasion,
and agents of other roads have as yet
heard nothing of cut. But if a crowd
should arrange to take some particu-
lar line it is understood that a favor
able rate will be granted. The amount
of business is so small that no rate
wars will result.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30

ENGINEER wants a position on any kind
of steam plant; had long experience;
can furnish good city reference En-
gineer, "a South Robert, Room 4.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Great Northern Flyer yester-
pulled out in two sections, including
four tourist sleeping cars, we'll filled.
The travellers were mostly settlers for
points in Montana and West. The in
dications are that for the balance Of
the week the Great Northern Flyer
will run in two sections on account of
the settlers business.
Notice was given yesterday by the
Omaha and the Wisconsin Central that
rate of one fare for the round trip
from Wisconsin points and Duluth to
Chicago will be given for the Wiscon-
sin-Michigan football game in this city
Saturday.
Ofhclal announcement was made yes
terday by the Burlington that on and
after Nov. 2, the joint passenger ser
vice of the Burlington route and the
Rock Island system between st. Louis
and Minneapolis and st. Paul will be
conducted north of Albert Lea over the
new extension Of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern, or, in other words
over the main line of the Rock Island
system north of the Burlington.
The 500 has announced that it will
continue the homeseekers' excursions
to points in Minnesota, North Dakota
and. the Canadian Northwest during
the months of November and Deem
Der. The conditions will be the same
as during the past months.
F. R. Moulton has been appointed
train master of the Iowa division of
the Chicago North Western with
headquarters at Belle PIaine, Iowa.