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House Is white and bears inscriptions
in purple. When President Roosevelt
took up the reins of government all the
old stationery was discarded and new
supply printed in order to enable the
substitution of the words White House
for Executive Mansion as the official
designation of the presidential resi-
dence. Special paper is provided for
the letters which the President signs
personally and also for the social cor
respondence of Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss
Alice. All envelopes, in which are dis
patched communications bearing upon
public business bear the inscription
white House-OficiaI' and are trans
mitted through the mails without
postage stamps or other franks.
With the increasing demand upon the
time of the chief executive and the
inevitable curtailment of the number of
callers whom he can see personally the
volume of the White House mail has
grown surprisingly. In order to pre-
vent being overwhelmed the secretaries
frequently work at the executive offices
until long past midnight. day after
day. However, the work has been sys-
tematized to a marvellous degree as
may be imagined from the fact that OF
all the thousands of communications
handled during the past half a decade
not a single one has been lost.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-16

an Alley and whispered it to him for
fear that a Newsboy might hear them
and get his Money down first, Our
Hero was Leery. but the Book said:
Nothing venture. nothing GAIN" so
he margined 100 Shares of Amalga-
mated Bronze and told them to close
it out as soon as 1t touched 1870.
In a few Days he received a Bush
ness Letter reading as follows: You
Lose"
Once more his Visible Assets con-
sisted of the Military Brushes and the
Sachet Bag.
He headed for Home and as he
walked in he said: Folks, I've come
back to Eat"
Have you got it in Large Bills or
do you carry a New York Draft?'
asked his Father.
''That was a bunny Chart you gave
me-" replied the Boy. 1T had me steer
ing in all Directions. l wish you'd
take back your Proverbs and give me
a Recipe for cooking up a few Prac-
teal Schemes"
MORAL: No matter what the Play.
there is an old-time Proverb to back
it up.
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think you will Bat better than 300
right from the Start"
So the Young Fellow packed the
Book in his Telescope with the Military
Brushes and the Sachet Bag and made
his first long Jump.
Having arrived in the City he began
to answer the Help Wanted" Ads.
He found some very Fancy Openings
for Man with little Capital which
he was willing to let somebody else
Hold for him. But the Business World
was not exactly clamoring for a Gui-
tar-Player who had nothing to show
except some Scarf-Pins and Military
Brushes, not forgetting the Sachet
Bag.
After he had drilled up and down
the principal Streets without having
a Lucrative Position forced on him,
he consulted the Book and was told
to "Take up the Work nearest at
Hand" so he got Job shoveling Snow,
with the Result that he froze his Ears
and was landed by Pneumonia.
After he got out of the Hospital he
consulted the Book and learned that
"All Things come to him who waits"
So he sat around Hotel Offices, reading
the Advertising Blotters and waiting
for Benefactor to discover him. No
body except the House Policeman
seemed to pay any Attention to him.
Finally he took another Peek at the
Book of Wisdom and read as follows:
"see Pin and pick it up
All that Day you'll have Good Luck. y
He went out looking for a Pin and
finally located one at Crossing. He
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sympathetic ladies who denounced as
an outrage the supposed cruelty.
From the day the announcement was
made that Miss Alice Roosevelt had
been chosen to christen the yacht of
the German Emperor the letters adj
dressed to the daughter of the White
House increased in number until they
threatened to rival those addressed to
the President himself. Many of the
persons who wrote to Miss Alice offered
suggestions relative to the launching.
Many ladies besought her to use wa
ter instead of wine in the christening,
and others suggested that the baptism
be made with flowers.
The President Mrs. Roosevelt and
Miss Alice have all three come in for
most generous attention on the part of
merchants and manufacturers seeking
the Endorsement Of articles of various
kinds Mrs. Roosevelt receives prof
fers of sufficient eatables to stock
grocery store and both ladies' are
deluged with the wares of soap makers
and manufacturers of toilet prepara-
tions, many of whom plead for indorse-
ments. Any gifts which are received
at the White House with a request
for Endorsements are Immediately re-
turned. 1t will doubtless surprise
many persons to learn that threaten
ing and denunciatory letters are sent
to the ladies of the presidential house
hold as well as to the chief executive
Thus Miss Roosevelt's participate in
the christening of the Emperor's yacht
has brought forth not a few rabid ex-
pressions from cranks who are agiItated
by anything touching even remotely
monarchial institutions.
One member of what might be term
ed the correspondence bureau at the
White House devotes his time to clip
ping the marked articles relative TO
the President and to FASTING these eX-
tracts in large scrapbooks. President
Roosevelt is unlike his predecessor in
his methods of keeping in touch with
public opinion. The late President Nc
Kinley was won't to order the sub
mission to him of every publication of
any prominence which commented on
topics bearing upon national policy.
President Roosevelt does not do this,
but he Is a great newspaper reader
and thus keeps pretty closely in touch
with affairs generally.
The stationery used at the White
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third Thing" So he walked into the
Office of a great Corporation and
asked: do you need a good Vice
PRESIDENT"
Don't wait for the Elevator" was
the Reply. Fall down the Shaft"
Hold on" said the Youth. Per
haps 1 selected the wrong Hunch."
He took another look at his trusty
Volume and read: BE Modest" Also,
ings."
"Come to think of it," he said, "I
should be Tickled to get anything to
do"
They put him to licking Labels and
answering the phone at 6 Pesos per
Week.
The Book told him to plant some
thing every Payday, no matter how
thin his Envelope might be. so he liv-
ed on Eclairs and Tea and wore Gel
luloid Collars. He grew Paler day by
day and had about as much Gimp as
City Employe.
The Book told him that "a Penny
saved is a Penny Earned" so he was
a Tight Wad and very unpopular
around the Shop.
Acting on the Advice found in the
Book he rode on the High Seat of the
Sprinkling Cart, but one day he read
that "All Work and no Play makes
Jack a Dull Boy" likewise, Eat,
Drink and be Merry, for tomorrow we
Die" Next day he dropped his Whip.
He alighted to pick it up and when
he turned around, the Water Wagon
was a Mile away. He did not catch up
with it for Week.
When he was offered a better Job
with another House, his little Manual
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A Defense for Mrs. Eddy.

Atlanta, March 13.-Editor of the
Morning News: In your issue or
Feb. gath, you published a part OF DR..
Ha1tzclow's sermon, which you desig-
nate "a roast for Mrs. Eddy The
Doctors untrue attack was answered
in the Atlanta papers, and since you
have given space to part of his
TRADE 1 ask, that you give the fol-
lowing to the readers of the Morning
News.
The Doctors says Mrs Eddy has at
tanned wealth and position by decep-
ton and fraud. Who has been de-
cieved and defrauded? surely not her
followers. They have bought her
books gratuitously, there has been no
compulsion from any source. When
Mrs. Eddy first offered Science and
Health to the publishers they refused
to publish it. With her own means
she paid for it's publication and took
the risk of it's selling. People read
1t and were healed and by its study
were able to heal others, each one
thus blessed because of an unpaid and
loving agent, for it's sale and distri-
button. Those so healed and saved
wanted the world ito have a part in
this kingdom of Heaven that came to
them This book which the doctor
calls a sacrelegious falsehood is false
to him because 1t unfolds to the will
ing heart the spiritual teachings of
the Bible, that heals the sick, saves
and reforms the sinner by the law of
Spirit destroying literal and material
means and ways. This the doctor
does not believe for he breaches
that apostolic healing ended with the
apostles.
The man or woman who understands
the teachings Of Jesus, Paul and Mrs
Eddy upon the marriage question be-
comes a better husband and father,
wife and mother they love each other
with an exalted sense of love instead
of a low perverted sense. 1t does not
separate them, but unites them more
closely to God and to each other. That
it has caused hundreds to turn from
the pursuit of knowledge and shut
themselves away from the world this
is another misstatement. ITO know
God is eternal life," says the Scrip
ture. Jesus says when you pray en-
ter into your closet, that is seek the
quiet sanctuary of soul and learn
your relation to God which is your
true life. This teaching ennobles man
to know God not as an abstract an
thropormorphic personality, but as an
eternal principle by and to which he
can conform his life and do the things
(heal the sick and cast out evils) that
Jesus commanded.
Thousands of people through the in
vestment of few dollars in, Mrs. Ed
dy's books have saved hundreds and
thousands of dollars formerly spent
for drugs, doctors bills and health re-
sorts. Those who pay three dollars, the
price of Science and Health, thereby
saving the greater, gaining health and
happiness are glad to have Mrs. Eddy
have all she makes out of her books
and teaching. Then why, pray, should
Dr. Holtzclaw or anyone else be dis
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copyright. 1902, by Walden Fawcett)
If the President of the United States
was obliged to pay postage on every
piece of mail matter sent out from
the White House the expense would
amount to one-sixth of his salary.
Since President Roosevelt has been
in Office the mail addressed to the Chief
Magistrate has been the heaviest in
history and it is steadily growing
rather than diminishing in proper
tons. Probably no other one man in
the world receives every day in the
year so many personal letters as are
sent to the President of the United
States, and very certainly no other man
receives communications of such va
ried character. At the present time
anywhere from 500 to 1000 letters are
received at the White House every
day. In addition to this hundreds of
pieces of printed matter are received
every day.
To consider and answer the half a
million communications which come to
the presidential mansion each year re-
quires the almost continuous services
of upward of dozen men,, This too,
without taking into consideration the
employees of the General Postoffice at
Washington who are detailed to dis
tribute the Presidents mail.
The first step in the handling of the
White House mail at its destination
is taken by the trusted employee of the
White House, who makes three or
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times individuals not personally known
TO the President, but who have learn
ed of the plan in vogue seek to reach
his ear by placing their initials on
misSiYe or occasionally even resort
to the ruse of affixing the initials OF
some one known to be close to the
chief magistrate. Such efforts never
avail, however, for If the deception is
not detected by the asserting clerk the
schemer's letter is turned back into
the proper channel by the President
when he detects its character.
The work of answering the presiden-
tial mail Is a task of herculean proper
tons. An effort is made to acknowl-
edge in some manner every commune
cation sent to the White House. Five
or six stenographers are constantly
employed typewriting the letters die
tated by the President and his secre-
taries. Naturally great numbers of let
tiers can be answered by what are
known as forms, that is phraseol-
ogy arranged to cover any and all in
quiries on certain subject. For in
stance, the hundreds of people who,
after the President has delivered an
important address or sent a message
to Congress, send congratulatory let
ters and telegr ans to the White House
all receive letters of acknowledgment
and thanks which are practically iden-
lcal. 4aEElEx1 4las&i GIzti1~i1 10
The general public and particularly
the femme portion of it appears to
cherish the belief that whereas there
is no possibility that a letter can
reach the President inviolate, there is
reasonable surety that missive to a
member of his immediate family will
reach its destination unmolested. This
is utter fallacy for every letter adj
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from the i,nportunations OF profession-

from the approximations or profession
al beggars to the requests or
churches and charitable organizations
seeking subscriptions. 1t may be noted
that every appeal for aid which bears
the slightest evidence of possible
table organization in the commun-
ity from which is has emanated.
Great quantities of anonymous let
ters are received and a surprisingly
large number of appeals come from
persons who seek to enlist the aid of
the President in paying off mortgages.
Finally there are the threatening and
crank" letters of various kinds and
the number of communications of this
kind received is simply astounding.
Comparatively but a small portion of
them, however, are deemed of suffi-
cient Importance to warrant investiga-
ton by the Secret Service.
Many of the letters addressed to the
President are induced by newspaper
comment. A striking evidence of this
was afforded recently when an item
went the rounds of the press to the
effect that the White House was in
vested with rats. No sooner had pub
LEFTY been given the report than there
was an avalanche of letters recon-
mending various plans for getting rid
of the rodents. Manufacturers of rat
poisons and traps donated their wares
and one solicitous citizen sent five cats
which were declared to be famous rat
catchers. This latter donation still fur
Their complicated matters for the cor
respondence corps, for a report was
printed to the effect that the felines
were being prosecuted by Jack, the
White House dog, and this brought a
number of indignant protests from
The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-16

Tour trips daily to the postoffice to
secure the mail. Upon the arrival of
the letters at the White House they
are turned over to a clerk whose sole
Cuty is to open the envelopes and I'M
Iolo the letters. The communications
next pass to clerk who sorts the
Illsslves. Many of the letters pertain
10 what might be termed routine gov
ernmental matters and are turned over
70 one or another of the executive de-
partments. The great bulk of the
residents mail goes to his secreta-
res and most of it they answer over
.helr own signatures without ever
troubling the busy Chief Magistrate
with the matter.
me President does not peruse per-
oohally one-tenth of the letters which
are addressed to him. Indeed, fifty
communications a day is a liberal eS-
Innate of the number which comes I'M
uer mis- eye. The letters which by rea-
s son or their seeming importance or
sIIe doubt of the secretaries as to their
proper disposition do finally pass the
tsauntlet and come into the hands of
we PRESIDENT himself are disposed in
ne OF three ways. In the cases of
many OF them he turns the letters over
N~NAgNellCS Wlln oil lllQlGdllOAl
VI the character of the reply to be
SSsIt. 10 few of the letters the Pres
-ueht dictates replies which he signs
SeIsonally and to a very limited num-
ar OF personal friends he pens conf
Ill! letters. President Roosevelt
"i HT very few autograph letters.
naturally such inscriptions as Per
sonal and Private" cannot be re-
sarGed in opening the White House
~. but there are ways in which the
-niIlated may insure their commune
sn1,tlons reaching the President person
o a,ly. The approved plan is for the
~ ilter to place his initials or name
80 autograph in the lower left hand
= her OF the envelope. For instance,
CONFIDENTIAL note from the Presi-
personal friend Senator
tLtouse' bears In the corner
os e initials H. c. L. In majority
~ ~. cases the provision of these safe
euaros is superfiuous for the clerk who
~ us the mail has come by experience
~ recognize instantly the handwrit-
.Ls OF the relatives and intimate Of
~ chief executive and their letters
~ through without molest ation. Some
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dressed to Mrs. Roosevelt or any of
the children passes through exactly
the same channel as does the mail
designed for the head of the house
hold and the chances that it will ever
come under the eye of the intended
recipient are quite as remote. The gen.
eral mail for the various members of
the Roosevelt household must all come
under the scrutiny of Assistant Secre-
tary William Loeb Jr., popularity
known as the President right-hand
man." and the social activities
at the White House and the
prominence into which Miss Alice
Roosevelt has been brought by the
christening of the Kaiser's yacht and
other events has necessitated the de-
votion of an unprecedented amount Of
time to this class of correspondence.
Another important and decidedly
arduous duty which has fallen to the
lot of Mr.. Loeb is the management of
the voluminous correspondence con-
nected with social activities at the
White House. The dispatch of the in
vitations for dinners, luncheons, balls
and receptions is not so serious mat
ter since all those designed for resi-
dents of Washington are delivered
by mounted messengers, but the re-
pies HelD 10 Dwell tic NOAu4AiN VI NAAO
regular stream of mail and these make
work for the force under Mr.. Loeb's
direction, for each declination or ac-
ceptance must be properly tabulated
and each name checked off so that 1t
will be possible to estimate accurately
the number of prospective guests OF
any forthcoming function.
Every rich man Of any prominence
in America receives daily a number of
the oldest requests imaginable, but 1t
is safe to say that the communications
in no case compare in novelty and
absurdity with the curiosities which
crowd the White House mail bags.
There are letters humorous and sad.
missives pleading and threatening and
of praise and censure.
Many of the letters received are IN
fnitelv sad. but a far greater number
are in some degree ludicrous.
Most numerous possibly are the APP
Meals of persons who wish the Presi-
dent to aid them to secure positions,
either in the government service or
elsewhere. The begging letters form
a vast proportion, ranging all the way
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told him that Rolling Stone gath
cred no Moss and that Contentment
was a Jewel. So he stuck to the Star
walton Pay for he read 1t right in the
Book that True Merit always come in
for a Reward. He knew that as soon
as he was worth more Money, the
Company would come around and put
it in his Pocket.
Once he got to Fussing Around with
Young Lady who looked Fine to him
and he decided to Tag her, if possible.
His old Standby warned him against
Procrastination and told him that
Faint Heart never grabbed off Fair
Lady, so he tackled her on a Corner
after he had known her for two
Weeks and made a Flat Proposition,
with the Result that he got the Har-
pooh in three different Places.
After four Years he had saved up
a small Roll of the Needful. A True
Friend gave him a Tip on the Stock
Market. 1t was one of those Tips that
come in round about Way from j.
Pierpont Morgan. 1t was a Wireless
Special. The True Friend took him up
The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-16

A Boy who had been fed on Home
Influences for 20 Years finally had to
get out and finance his own Meal
Ticket. Therefore he decided to tear
for the Tall Buildings where all the
large Fortunes were made.
When it came time for him to take
the Train, his Father handed him a
little Book of lunches.
'In this Book you will find the most
valuable Tips that have been doped
out by the 32-Candle Power Intellects,"
said his Governor. IF you read this
Book you can't go wrong. In fact,
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stopped over to pick 1t up. when a
Trolley came around Dead Mans
Curve and caught him amidships.
They separated him from the Fender
and he got his Name In the Paper,
showing that even an obscure Youth
from the Country may now and then
attract Attention In the busting Me-
tropolis.
The Company compromised with him
for $500, and now he had begun to
earn a little Money he felt a renewed
Confidence in the Guide Book.
He opened it and read: "Boldness
in Business is the first, second and
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y feet high and feet wide, costing
1000 yen, in the premises of the
Shounji Temple. at Toxic, in memory
of the rats which were recently hunt
ed and destroyed wholesale through
out the city in order to prevent the
spreading of the pest. He was said to
have been disturbed at night by horri-
bic nightmares, in which he was chas-
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turbed about Mrs. Eddy's fortune.
which she is literally spending for the
advancement of this greatest religious
movement of the ages?
+. H. Carman.
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q
Broughfon
Street,.
40
Whitaker
Street.
Extraordinary Sale
Dress Goods, Silks, Wash Goods, Linens, Hosiery
and Underwear
and Underwear.

There is object in having this sale this time. Much could
be said about this Firm and what intend doing; enough
when tell you that will give you much pos
sbe for your money! which will always be little better than you
have gotten BEFORE and that will always be we'll
Tomorrow the for business, with feeling that
have your confidence and good and with wonder
m price reductions and will thank you for share your pat
onag and will try deserve of by constantly
aiming improve facilities and methods We will
time and ability DRY GOODS, this is strictly Dry
Goods Store And every CAREFUL discriminating should
cultivate the acquaintance of this progressive store
This just when you in need of goods,
We have been going through the different stocks Gall Spring
Goods ncluded marking such prices that will interest you
said before object doing, of which you
will learn little later.
Look price quotations from day day, and remember
Whatever your for tomorrow, will pay you call here
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ed and tortured by thousands OF these
rodents. He attributed these night
mares to the spirit of the rats. Hence
the penitential pillar.
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"A superstitious man, one Umataro
Nagai, living at Akasaka-Ku, in ia
pan, lately built a stone pillar about
The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-16

Senator Dolliver will address the
Methodist Episcopal Church Confer
ence, which win be held in Baltimore
In April on Education Day" His
topic will be ''EducatioF
The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-16

The Modern Fable of the Frugal Son
and How He. Opened the Book at
the Wrong Place.
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MODERN FABLESIs
BY GEORGE ABE. str str ~ 81

Copyright, 1902, By Robert Howard Russell
, 1902-12-18

gentleman is out of order was so
impressive that those who a%ssail-
ed him knew insctintively that
while they might kill Thomas b.
Reed they could never COW him.
His measureless mental power.
the strength of his high purpose,
his sll-embracing patriotism all
shown out clear through his som.
bre eyes, all found expression in
his resolute mouth He was the
foremost of Parlimentarians, the
ablest, clearest and most incisive
debater in America, and that
means that he was foremost
among the great men surround
ing him. " y =
Thousands of people who never
met him think that in life he was
naughty and cold. In truth he
had one of the sunnIest natures
iii the world. He could be stern
enough when duty required it,
but in social life and to his
friends he gave n merriness and
goodfeilowship which was equi-
site aud contagious, He was at
once the most mHsterful and most
genial of men. His sense of hui
! NOR WAS as fine as his sense of
justice. If he among his fellow
men had the bearing of IA king,
there was no citizen of the Re
public that he would not have
grasped the hand of in sincerity
A sense of irreparable loss comes
with the knowledge of his death.
n mighty regret fills millions of
hearts that he. when his career
WAS but half completed, was cut
down . y = y = = > ~ n