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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
The Piano-Tuner.

A lady stepped into a piano ware
room recently to engage a tuner, but
before doing so insisted upon the
strongest assurance that the tuner was
responsible, says the Philadelphia Mu-
stefan. She was so determined that
the manager became curious to know
the reason for her disbelief in the re-
liability of tuners. She gave her ex-
perience with the last tuner she had,
and this is the story as she told it:
He had about finished tuning the pi-
ano, when he looked UP and said:
Your instrument was in awful con-
dition. You ought to have sent for me
sooner"
1T was tuned only three months
ago"
Then the man who did it certainly
didn't know his business"
mop"
mo, ma am. He had better be do
ing STRENGTHENING than tuning pianos.
Why, my dear madam, d, delicate in
strument like a piano needs fingers
equally delicate to handle it, combined
with an ear of unerring accuracy. The
individual who attempted to tune this
instrument last evidently possessed
neither of these. In fact, 1 am free
to say he did it more harm than good. 3"
"Indeed?"
Indeed he did. May ask who it
was who so abused your Instrument"
1T was yourself!"
Madam, you are wrong; 1 never
tuned a piano in this house before. >"
Probably not; but you tuned that
instrument, nevertheless, or made a
botch of it in attempting to do SO. 1t
belongs to Mrs. Jones, who sent it
here while she is out of town. She
told me you always had tuned it, and
10 send for you when
But the unhappy man fed with such
haste as to make his coattails a good
substitute for a card-table.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
An Abbreviated snowstorm.

Mechanical devices are now made
wonderfully real on the stage" said
the old stock actor, according to the
Philadelphia Record. 1T hasn't been
so many years ago since even the SIM
pie device of depicting a snowstorm
was regarded an achievement. I re-
member on one occasion 1 was out with
a ten twent, and thirt' company play
ing repertoire, and in one melodrama
i don't even now recall the name
for it was a pirated play-I took the
part of an old man whose daughter,
the heroine, had been abducted. 1 was
supposed to be blind, and my strong
scene was the third act, when 1 went
out into a snowStorm in search of my
daughter. She was lying in a drift,
and as l hobbled across the stage l kept
crying; Me che-ild where is me che
ild?' Well, it was early in the season,
and the play was the first attraction
at that theater. The scene painters
had been at work, and had dropped
several paint brushes, hammers and
other articles into the sheet that held
the snowstorm. AS the stage hands
in the flies shook the sheets to make
the snow come out couple of ham
mers came down and just missed me
by an inch. 1 was blind, and didn't
dare to look up, but when monkey
wrench just grazed my temple, 1 had
presence of mind enough to YELL See
yonder moon! The storm is overt
The stage hands took their cue and
let up on me, and the audience never
stopped to question how a blind man
could see yonder MOON"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
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Personal.

King Edward has conferred the
decoration of the Royal Red Cross on
Miss Annie Myers and Daisy Brazier
in recognition of their services in at
tending to the sick and wounded SOL
diers in Pekin during the recent opera
lions in China.
When William ]. Bryan was in
Richmond. Mo, recently, somebody
asked him how many acres his famous
farm contains. "I farm thirty-six acres
and oversee 5000 acres" was the Ne
braskans reply. Then he added, in ex-
PLANTATION, that his place is on a hill
side, and overlooks 5000 acres of fine
valley land. His Overseeing" consists
in looking over his neighbors' property.
Senator Elkins of West Virginia
has one son at Princeton, another at
Harvard and third at the University
of Pennsylvania These three brothers
are constantly at war over the merits
of their respective institutions. They
make bets with one another on their
football, baseball and track teams, and
no matter what the outcome the Sen
ators is always called upon by the de-
feated brother to nav.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
MIR. SHAW AND THE rARIFF.

! We agree with the statement made
| by Mr.. Shaw, Secretary Of the Treas
ury, in his speech at Philadelphia on
last Saturday night. that it is not pos
| sible TO apply the principle of tariff
| protection at the polls. Therefore in
his speeches he is not saying that he
| would not revise the tariff in some
! important particulars II he had the
| power to do so. Indeed, he says
/ that he thinks some Of the tariff sched-
! ules ought to be revised, but not be-
fore revision can be made by the par
| ty that favors protection.
But his party is now in a position
to revise the tariff. 1t has control of
all Of the departments OF the govern
ment If it cannot make revision of
! any of the schedules now the chances
are that it will never be able to do
so. 1t is true, as Mr.. Shaw says, that
the issue between the great political
parties is whether or not the tariff
shall be on a revenue basis or a pro-
lection basis. He forgets to say, how
ever, that the people would be very
glad to have made certain modifica-
tions of the tariff that are in a meas
ure Independent Of the main issue
These notifications relate to trusts.
If they We're made it is believed the
people would be relieved, in a great
measure, from the evils of trusts
Mr.. Shaw understands that the peo-
pie of his own state-Iowa-are de-
haf he
longer be sheltered by protective duties.
When we say the people, we mean
Republicans as we'll as Democrats.
The last platform adopted by the Re-
publicans of that state took strong
ground against a tariff that enabled
trusts to smother competition and rob
the people. Speaker Henderson, see
ing the direction in which public senti-
ment was drifting, refused to accept
a denomination.
Therefore it seems to us that Mr..
Shaw was not altogether frank in his
Philadelphia speech. AS a matter of
fact, he avoided the issue which is
being forced upon his party not only
by Democrats, but also by Repubn-
cans. The issue is whether the Re-
publican party will undertake to re-
lieve the people of trust evils by TAX
ing from trusts the protection they
have from the tariff.
Mr.. Shaw was very careful in Phil
adelphia, as in his speeches elsewhere,
to avoid that issue, and why? Simply
because the Republican party is held
so tightly in the grasp of trusts that
it cannot make a revision of the tariff
that would be against the interests of
trusts. That fact the people are find-
ing out 1t would not be at all sur
prising, therefore, if at the congress
sional elections there should be big
falling off in the Republican vote. If
the Republican party will not attack
trusts through the tariff-the only eff
fective way they can be attacked-the
people will put in power a party that
will attack them in that way.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
Absolutely impossible.

A writer in the Boston Transcript.
describing Scrub Oaks a settlement
of undesirable people in Southwestern
Massachusetts,, tells tale of the death
of one of the residents and the efforts
of a frank spoken preacher among
them to point a moral. After a read
ing of a portion of Scripture and the
making of a prayer, the Biographical
part of the sermon began, in which
attention was called to the ungodly
lives of the Scrub Oakers' in general,
and the deceased in particular, with
the startling conclusion, And | have
no doubt that the late Mr.. W is
even now crashing his teeth in HE'LL"
This was too much for old P, one
of the intimates of the departed, and
he strobe from the church in high
dudgeon, and was found at the close
of the service excitedly pacing back
and forth across the church green and
squirting tobacco juice in all direc-
tions. Some one asked what he thought
of the remarks as to his friend. DIR.
s. has told blank lie," says P,
for l know for a certainty that the
old man hasn't had a tooth in his head
for over twenty years."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
Babyhood.

What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt!
Unwritten history
Unfathomed mystery
Yet he laughs and cries and eats and
drinks
And chuckles and crows and mods and
winks,
AS if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx
Warped by collie and wet by tears,
Punctured by pins and tortured by
fears.
Our little nephew will lose two years;
And he'll never know
Where the summers 60
He need not laugh, for he'll find it so.
Who can tell what baby thinks
Who can follow the gossamer links
BY which the manikin feels his. way
Out from the shore of the great un-
known,
Blind, and wailing, and alone,
Into the light of day?
Out from the shore of the unknown
Tossing in pitiful agony
OF the unknown sea that reels and
rolls,
Specked with the banks of little souls
Banks that were launched on the other
side,
Anu SlAppSQ ucdN6U OH an 6DDlnR
tide!
What does he think of his mothers
eyes?
What does he think, of his mothers
hair?
What of the cradle roof that flies
Forward and backward through the
air?
What does he think of his mothers
breast,
Bare and beautiful, smooth and
white,
Seeking it ever with fresh delight
Cup of his life and couch of rest?
What does he think when her quick
embrace
Presses his hand and buries his face
Deep where the heart throbs sink and
swell
With tenderness she can never tell,
Though she murmur the words
OF all the birds
Words she has learned to murmur
we'll?
Now he thinks he'll go to sleep!
over his brow and over his lips,
Over his little finger tips!
Softly sinking, down he goes!
Down he goes! down he goes!
See! he is hushed in sweet repose!
u. G. Holland
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

A Washington dispatch in the Sun
says the President has instructed lis
secretary to send an identical letter to
all of the departments to the effect
that he thinks officers and bureau
chiefs might we'll make their reports
more brief. In other words, the Pres
ident wants the matter "boiled down."
to use a newspaper expression. He
thinks the great mass of matter that
is now being put out in the guise of
government reports does no good and
is a needlessly heavy expense to the
government. In this he is right. The
few grains Of wheat contained in MANY
of the government publications are
buried under so many bushels of chaft
that nobody ever takes the time and
pains to search for the wheat. But.
has the President overlooked one very
important fact, namely, that the gov
eminent printing Office must be kept
with something to do? 1t is top-heavy
and overloaded with employees now.
If the amount of matter sent in to be
printed were cut down, why some of
the employees might have to be dis
charged. And what would the Repub-
lican congressman say to that? Would
they put up with it? The public print
ing office affords a lot of patronage:
and Republicans never permit patron
age to be reduced, if they can help it..
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
Entitled to the Fifty cents.

When Parson Brownlow was in New
York lecturing," remarked a member
Of one Of the posts from that state at
Camp Roosevelt, says the Washington
Star, many people grumbled about the
high price of admission to hear him.
A rich but stingy man, who had been
all the time profuse with expressions
of his patriotism, exclaimed in a
crowd:
'' Give Parson Brownlow half a dol
lar? No, STREE. I'd a great deal soon
er give it to some poor soldiers"
20 said a bystander, then keep
your half dollar, for you're about the
poorest soldier 1 ever knew Of
The rich man skulked off and didn't
hear BrownloW."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

The disaffection in the Republican
party of Wisconsin is said to be CIV
ing the party leaders at Washington a
good deal of uneasiness. Congress-
man Babcock, chairman Of the Repub-
ncan Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, is said to have told the Pres
ident and Postmaster General Payne
the other day that unless the Repub-
lican factions can be speedily brough.
together the Democrats will be likely
to elect their state ticket. as well as
at least five of the eoagressmen. That
is why Mr.. Payne, who is the wire
puller of the administration, hurried
ly left Washington the other day for
Milwaukee.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Charles
Foster of Ohio says that the first step
which must be taken for the settlement
of the coal strike is the resignation Of
President Baer of the Reading road;
he does not expect to see a satisfactory
arrangement arrived at while Mr.. Baer
is at the head of the Reading corpor-
alton. In view of the stand Mr.. Baer
has taken, it does seem little difficult
to see how he is going to meet the min
ers upon any common ground.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

1t is understood that the fee that
will be paid Prof. Lorenz of Vienna by
Mr.. Armour of Chicago FOR the opera
ton upon his little girl will be one of
the largest on record. amounting to
$4,000 in cash, and expenses. During
his visit to Chicago, however, Prof.
Lorenz viii perform an identicaIIy sim
liar operation upon another little girl,
the child of poor parents, for which he
will not receive one cent. The second
child is the daughter of a freight
handler, and she is suffering with the
same kind of hip joint disease that af-
flicts the mIlionaire's daughter. With
out money and without price the poor
child will have the same surgical at
tention as that given for the excep-
tionaIly large fee.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

Are men vain with respect to their
personal appearance? The other day in
Old Chatham. N. Y, a contest was
held in which Charles Hurlbu:t was
voted the ugliest man liz town. The
result of the ballot 50 preyed upon the
young mans mind that it drove
him crazy, and he tried to
kill his father with knife.
Whether he thought his sire
responsible for his lack of good lcoRs
or whether the old man laughed at
him about the result of the vote is a
DISPUTED question
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
COLL1Nsv1LLE LINE.

(Fa1r Grounds and Dale Ave)
Beginning at 800 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. Lv. Thunderbolt.
6:45 a. m. 7:30 a. m.
6:45 p. m. 1880 D. m.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Agriculture is authority for the
statement that the supply of meat in
the West is UP to the normal level.
There should be no scarcity any
where, he says, as the cattle are plenty
and fat. The secretary is authority
for the further statement that the
packing houses have put down the
wholesale prices, and that eff the pub
lie is still paying high prices. it is do
ing so from force of habit" This is
an interesting statement. from a high
authority. 1t means, if it means any,
thing, that consumers have got to make
a kick for lower prices before they will
get them.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

The Sultan of Bacolod is not only
surly, but insulting. Cease sending
letters" he tells the Americans; 1--WE
do not desire your friendship" He ex-
plains, further that he and his people
wish to maintain the religion of Mo-
manned" They probably further wish
to maintain polygamy and slavery. Is
not this sufficient provocation for us
to shoot them full of holes?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR.

Leaves east side of City Market for
Thunderoolt, Cattle Park, Sandfiy, Isle
Of Hope and all intermediate points
9:15 a. m, 1:15 p. m, 5:15 p. m.
Cattle Park, Thunderbolt and ali in
termediate points-6:00 a. M, HOO a.
M, 800 .. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at
$50 a. m. and 1858 p. m, connecting at
Sandfy 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. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

A Paris cable gives us the informa-
ton that among the American jockeys
and racing men in France this season
there are several very honest men,"
And so they qualify honesty in
France? One man may be very honest,
another simply honest and a third not
quite so honest over there, it seems;
or maybe they reserve the qualifica-
ton for Americans only.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

The coal operators of Pennsylvania
think that much of the public senti-
ment against them has been aroused
by the enormous advance in the re-
tail prices of coal, for which advance,
they declare, they are not wholly re-
sponsible. They claim that the retail
dealers have made the most of thell
opportunity to squeeze consumers,
meanwhile throwing the blame upon
the operators. To counterfeit this
harmful public opinion. it is stated that
the operators at Wilkesbarre are pre-
pairing to send large quantity Of coal
to New York to be sold in small guam
titles at the rate of IS per ton. This
coal is to be put up in 100 pound sacks.
1t will not be sold to dealers, but will
be delivered direct to consumers by the
operating companies from wagons on
the streets. The poor and small con-
sumers are to be served first.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
The weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair and cooler weather. fresh
winds, becoming northwest; and
for Eastern Florida, fair weather, light
to fresh north winds. becoming varia-
BILE
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
Morton's School for Boys,

1917 EAST MACON.
Prepares for college. Fits for bust
ness. Session commences Oct. l. Terms
reasonable. Ga. Phone 696.
]. r. MORTON, NJ. A, Principal.
r. f. L. FARMER, NJ. A, PHI. b.
Principal.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
WET END LINE

lLlHCOln Park.)
Car leaves west side of City Market
for Lincoln Park 600 a. m. and every
40 minuteS thereafter until II 80 D. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market
$40 a. m. and every 40 minutes there
after until 1900 O'clock midnight.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

Chawfa, etc. the siamese crown
prince who is now on visit to this
country, is a lucky fellow. He had
just one chance in 1872 of being the eld-
est son of his father, but he won, to
the discontinue of his 1S1 brothers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

The New York Tribune which may
be considered an authority on Repub-
lican politics, has a special from Wash
ington in which it is stated, with all
of the force of black faced type, that
zone thing the President has fully made
up his mind to do is to recommend to
Congress the total repeal of the duty
on coal" 1t was alleged by the Phila-
delphia Press the other day that the
duty on anthracite coal was never ask
ed for by the Eastern operators, but
that it was inserted in response TO a
demand from the Pacific coast opera
tors, who objected to the competition
of coal brought as ballast in sailing
vessels and sold below the price of
the coast product. However that may
have been, the tariff of 67 cents per
ton has operated to protect the
Pennsylvania anthracite producers,
since no imported coal reaches the
high percentage of free carbon required
by the Dingley law to make it eligible
to free entry. Whether the Eastern
coal monopolies asked for the protec-
ton or not, they have received it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14
MONTGOMERY AND THUNDER.
BOLT LINE.
THUNDERBOLT LINE,
City Market to Casino via Bolton
StreaA Inn tioy1

Beginning al 5:45 a. m, cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunderbolt
every Is minutes until 1870 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction IS
minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 5:53 a. M, cars leave
Casino at Thunderbolt every IS min
utes until 12:98 midnight
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-14

1t seems that the estate of the late
Charles L. Fair is not to escape litiga-
ton after all. 1t will be recalled that
Charles L. Fair and his wife were
killed recently in an automobile acct
dent in France. No will was found
and there were no children. So it was
agreed that the estate of the wife
should go to the family Of the wife and
that the estate of Mr.. Fair should be
divided between his sisters, both of
whom are married. The estate Of the
father of Mr.. Fair was in litigation for
long time, the litigation being based
on the claim of a woman who assert
ed that she was the widow of Fair.
The claim against the estate of Charles
L. Fair is that he left child. This
claim is presented by a San Francisco
lawyer named Cannon. The lawyer,
it appears. refuses to give the name
of the child or to say whether the child
is a boy or girl. The heirs do not be-
lieve that there is a child. They are
satisfied that the story is trumpet up
for the purpose of fleeing the estate.
1t will of course be known shortly
whether or not there is any foundation
for the claim-that is. whether or not
Charles L. Fair left a child.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16
THE ACTORS VARIED ABILITIES.

L. b. Stockwell. formerly proprietor of Stock
wells Theatre, in San Francisco, says that this
story has never been printed. Years ago, when
not every pugilist went on the stage. Mr. Stock
well evolved the notion of putting Peter Jack
son. the colored pugilist, into Uncle Toms
Cabin" as Uncle Tom. Jackson, who
reputable and intelligent man. for prize fighter.
played the part for some time and in the end
came TO be passable actor. At one period.
another fighter being available. Mr. Stockwell
hired him also and he and Jackson added to
the artistic variety Of the programme by box
ing one or two rounds between the acts of
Uncle Toms Cabin" 1t happened one night