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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
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WHO is the fellow with the long
hair?" He's a Yale College boy
well, I've often heard of those Yale
locks. Workers Statesman.
Its An Ill Wind" Etc.--Hello
Tommy! Not gone back to school yet %
mo, I'm In luck. Sis is going in for
measles! But how is it you haven't
gomez" 'Oh, I'm in luck, tool Our
baby is having whooping cough!'-
Punch.
A Candid Critic-"Ah, said the
fashionable caller, who was being con-
Quoted through Mr.. Meatenlard's SPLEEN
did new picture gallery, what have
we here?" That said the proud
millionaire, lis a Shay Doover by a
painter that 1 forget his name now
but it always looked more lake a hay
stack to me."-Chicago Record Herald
Meaning of "Peace."-"Can you tell
me the meaning of the word peace %
asked Miss Gray of a little boy who
had just recited patriotic poem in
which the word occurred. Peace
means when you amt got no chill
dren," answered the child. ''How is
that?" asked Miss Gray. when my
mother has washed and dressed her
six children for school in the MORN
ing, she says: Now I'll have peace T"
Chicago Tribune.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
index 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Notices-Andrew Hanley
Company; Joyce's: Gardeners List To-
day; Proposals Wanted for Summer
Uniforms Fire Department.
Business Notices-Cereals, E. M. &
c. West.
Steamship Schedules-Ocean Steam
ship Company.
New Arrivals-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Insurance-The Equitable Life AS
surance Society of the United States.
Amusements-Mar Mannering in
Janice Meredith" at Theater To-
night; the casino Grip at Theater,
Monday Night.
Piano Tuning and Repairing George
w. Eschelby.
Baking Powder-Royal Baking Pow
der.
Bankruptcy Notice-In the Matter Of
Miles w. Harvey, Bankrupt.
Pens-Easterbrook's Pens.
Watches-Waltham Watches.
Medical-Lydia Pinkham Vegetable
Pills; TUFTS Pills; Browns Bronchial
Troches; Cheeseman's Specific Mixture;
Blood Wine.
Mineral Water-Kalola.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
walt whitman ana Col. IngersoIr


In the last year of his life Walt
Whitman, the peculiar Camden poet
and seer, was surrounded by a galaxy
of admirers, some of whom encouraged
his poetic genius in more substantial
ways than by wordy strife, and were
admitted into his friendship on terms
of great intimacy, says the Philadel-
phia Ledger.
On one occasion the gathering at
the hermitage included Col. Robert G.
lngersoll and distinguished professor
of English literature at one of our in
stitutions of higher learning. Inger-
soils magnificent flow of conversation
was stimulated by the convivial offer
ings supplied by Whitman's table, and
after brilliant analysis of the phil
osophy of Shakespeare, he began a
long monologue upon the subject of
the souls immortality. With his usual
keen sarcasm he ridiculed the com
monty accepted ideas of the Chris
tian, and in a manner SURPRISING even
his magnetic lecture style, because the
eloquence was unconscious, he set forth
his own well known doctrines.
Walt Whitman, as described by the
professor of literature, sat silent in his
chair throughout the enhancing re-
cital. He was at this time far along
in years, and his long, uncombed white
hair and beard. with the loose and pic
turesque clothing which he affected,
gave him a strikingly venerable APP
pearance. When the distinguished ag-
nostic had concluded, Whitman raised
his head and slowly answered:
Yes, Bob, that all sounds very we'll.
but when man gets so near to the
end as | am he begins to have a diff
ferent idea about those things"
1t was Ingersoll's turn to be
thoughtful
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
FEAsTING THE MILLTONAfREs.


1t is reported that President Sehwab
OF the Billion Dollar Trust has invited
100 mhIionaires to dine with him
shortly, and that he will give them
dinner they will remember for a long
time. The masterpiece of the feast, if
reports are correct, will be a beef
steak pudding" that will cost 81. 500,
and which Mr.. Schwab has ordered
| from London. 1t is held that there is
only one caterer in the world that can.
make and serve that dish as it ought
to be, and that is the host of The An
cient Cheshire Cheese, of London, who
has been commissioned to make the
pudding, personally bring it to Amer
lea and superintend the serving. Be-
sides the beefsteak, the pudding will
contain 100 larks, 100 kidneys and 100
oysters. The pudding requires to be
cooked twenty hours. Mr. Schwab's
pudding will be cooked ten hours in
London and ten hours in this. country
just before the dinner
In all probability the wonderful pud-
ding will not be more palatable nutri-
tious or wholesome than many of the
dishes that are served at ordinary din
! ners in first-class hotels; but the point
in its favor is that it will cost money.
That, apparently, is the chief consid-
Grafton when modern mbllionaires dine.
They want something out of season,
something rare, something costly:
something that will make them think
they are biting gold when they put 1t
into their mouths. And it is we'll
that they do, or the market for ultra
delicacies would be very dull.
Recently Mr.. P. A. B. Widener- of
Philadelphia gave a dinner to j. P.
Morgan of New York. 1t was counted
great success, because the diners
were served with luscious peaches.
plums, Strawberries and grapes, not
withstanding it was the dead of win
ter and the ground was covered deep
with snow Mr.. Wideners butler had
to send to England for the fruit Some
old landed and titled aristocrat living
near London makes a speciality of
raising dollhouse fruits, out of season,
for the banquet boards of rich men.
and derives a handsome revenue from
the business. Mr.. Widener's peaches
cost him $50 Dozen his grapes 500
per basket of five punches, his plums
81 each and his strawberries 81 per
box of little more than a pint. But
of course the cost did not matter a
row of pins. Mr.. Widener wanted the
fruit and would have paid ten times
the price, If it could be had at all.
rather than miss 1T.
Why do we of the South not pay
more attention to these banquet and
out-of-season wants of the rich? 1t is
true that we could probably not make
$500 beefsteak pudding, but 1t
seems we might do something for them
in the way of dollhouse grapes, peaches
and plums, and thus keep some of
their money from going to the landed
old aristocrat of the dollhouse near
London
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
She Got the Wrong Number.

Jailer John Whitman, who holds the
keys OF the county bastile on the north
side, had a queer experience the other
day, says the Chicago Tribune. Mr..
Whitman is well known as the presi-
dent of the John NJ. Whitman Moral
Improvement Association the members
Ct which are prisoners under his care,
and is also noted for his unfailing po-
likeness and suavitys
One afternoon last week Mr.. Whit
man was called to the telephone. A
woman's voice asked, us Robert Lee
there?" The name was familiar to Mr..
Whitman, but ne was, uncertain
whether or not the prisoner who bore
IT had been discharged.
Just walt a moment, madam" he
said. Hold the wire and I'll see."
Mr.. Whitman hurriedly looked over
the Jail records and found that Rob-
ert Lee, sent up for larceny, had been
discharged the day before on the COM
pletion of his sentence of three months.
He went back to the telephone.
Robert Lee is not here now, ma
cam," he said. He was discharged
yesterday. We had him locked up for
three months, but his term was out
yesterday"
"Wha-a-a-at!'' shrieked the indig-
nant woman at the other end of the
Wire What do you say?"
Robert Lee, sent up for three
months for larceny, was discharged
Yesterday, madam,' he repeated. as
there anything else l can do for you %
You must be crazy" the woman an
swered shrilly. What are you talking
apout?' The idea of my husband, Rob-
ert lee, being locked up for three
months! Who are you, anyway"
This is the county Jail, madam, and
L am John M. Whitman, the jailer."
Well, for heavens sake. didn't ask
for the county Jail. I asked for my
husbands office. This telephone service
Is enough to drive anybody crazy"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
He was Not color blind.

Did you hear how Murphy spoiled
his chance of getting an engine?" in.
quired one railroad man of another
according to the Syracuse Herald.
No" was the reply. How did IL
happen?"
why, they were testing Murphy
eyes to see if he would be all right on
c0lors. Everything went along smooth
ly until they put out an orange-col-
ored card. When the smoke cleared
away, instead of having an engine
Murphy was In Jail on seven different
charges, ranging from assault with
intent to kill to willful destruction OF
property"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
He Held the Fatal Hand.

Il am certain 1 ann not supersti-
tious," said a gentleman at the IRE
mont last night, according to the Cal
weston News, but there was an oc-
currence in Florida recently that was
not draemed of in my philosophy l
was watching with interest a three
handed poker game. The players were
TWO oil men and a gambler known as
Spindle Top Bill EFis associates in
FLORIDA had given him this narhe with
out any real reason, but it had more
individuality than his real name, so
II became a permanent fixture.
knew the fellow well, and always
found him as cool and lf-possessed
aus he was daring and lucky. But to
return to the game. After the hands
had been dealt the players had chip
ped IN and drawn cards. Bill looked
up at me suddenly. Els habitual COM
posture was gone. He was pale He
seemed to try to speak, but his lips
merely quivered and he sighed softly
but Enthusiastically By a violent effort
he mastered the feeling that had been
able to conquer him and became him
self Laying his cards on the table he
took a notebook from his inside pock-
ct and made a memorandum He de-
tached the leaf from the book, and,
folding it, handed it to me with the
request that l read it later in the
evening
ABOUT a half hour later the play-
ers began to dispute over a point of
the game. Pistols were drawn. By
ISLANDERS interfered, but in the scuffle
d revolver was discharged and my
friend Spindle Top BIZ received his
death.
soon after 1 read the note he had
given me. There were his words:
4 drew pair of sevens. I now
hold jacks full on red revens. This is
always a fatal hand. No one ever held
it and left the table alive. 1 shall
surely die I have $4,000 in a bank in
Jacksonville. You will find my bank
book in my trunk. Notify my mother
So long, Bill"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

In the town of Nortonville, state of
Illinois, Woodford Hughes was lynched
by mob on the night of Feb 25.
Hughes had been tried and acquitted
on charge of murder. He was in bed
and asleep when mob broke into his
bedroom and riddled his body with bull
let's. There was a man declared by a
competent court to be innocent Of any
crime, lynched in the dead of the night
by a mob in the yirtuous and law abid-
Ing North
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

An odd little story is being told in
Washington about Miss Alice Roose-
welt. 1t is said that three weeks ago
her father jokingly told her that he did
not believe she could hit the side of a
yacht with champagne bottle From
that time until the christening of the
Meteor, the story goes, Miss Alice re-
tired daily to some secluded spot in the
White House grounds and practiced
Throwing a bottle at board.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

Sir Philip Burne-Jones of England
who has just arrived in New York. is
chiefly known in this country as the
artist who painted the picture that
inspired one of Kipling's most grew
some and fascinating poems, THE
Vampire ="
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

The reason it is provided in the
Ways and Means Committee bill that
Cuba shall enact our immigration and
exclusion laws if we grant her tariff
concessions is that it is thought If our
market were opened to Cuban prod
ucts the Cuban planters would resort
to coolie labor-the cheapest labor that
can be obtained-with the view of maxi
ing every cent possible out of their
plantations-just as is done in Hawaii.
Another reason is that if the Cuban
plantations were worked with coolie
labor-Chinese labor for instance
Cuba would never have a self-govern-
ing population. In its stead she would
have a race problem that would cause
her an immense amount of trouble, and
retard her progress in every way. Coo
lie labor would come into competition
with the free labor of this country. and
that would tend to create a sentiment
here against giving Cuba the benefit of
our markets.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

The $500 bookkeeper of a Springfield.
Mass, bank recently specialized in
stocks and lost. In consequence he is
disgraced and charged with embezzle-
n'ent of $4,000 of the banks funds. If
he had won he would have been honor
ed as brilliant and promising young
financier
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

A new beet sugar company with a
capital of $1.OOo,OOO has been formed in
Iowa. This may be taken as meaning
either that the beet sugar people do
not fear the competition, of Cuba or
that they are so well intrenched in
Washington that they are certain of
securing such legislation as they de-
sire,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

The Boer agents. Vessels and VOL
marens, arrived in New York on Tues
day. But the people were so busy en-
Pertaining Prince Henry that they had
no time to express sympathy for the
struggling Beers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

New York society has just had an
Illustration of the fact that a man
may not be given leading position in
affairs by the stroke of the pen of his
influential father. When Cornelius
Vanderbilt died he left his younger
son, Alfred, the bulk of his fortune and
the head of the house." disinheriting
his first son and namesake because
that son had married contrary to pa
rental desires. The charming young
woman for whom young Cornelius gave
up fortune and prestige was Miss Grace
Wilson, daughter of Richard T. Will
son. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has
now her revenge upon the other branch
of the family, If indeed she desires any
such thing. Her husband has proved
himself a man of brains and affairs,
coming to the front because of his own
instrinsic merit rather than because of
money; and she has demonstrated that
she possesses accomplishments fitting
her to be leader of the social set in
which she moves. When arrangements
were made for the entertainment of
Prince Henry in New York it was Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, and not Alfred, who
took rank at all of the functions, and
at the gala opera 1t was Mrs. Cor
nelius, and not Mrs. Alfred, that the
Prince especially honored by calling on
her in her husbands box. When
Prince Henry returns to New York af-
ter his Western trip he is to take dim
ner with the Cornelius Vanderbilts.
These things, it is said, will tend to
place the disinherited Vanderbilt in the
social position that their father intend
ed his younger brother should have.
Even in society money isn't all.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

1t may take some time to pacify
South Africa; but once 1t has been
pacified it will be a great wealth-pro-
ducer. Americans would be much graf
flied il the same could be said with res
pect to the Philinnines
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

King Edward now sees what he
missed when he failed to instruct his
son. the Duke of York, to include the
United States in his recent trip around
the world.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

The heroism of three men saved a
panic in the Grand Opera House, New
York, during the gala performance in
honor of Prince Henry, it seems. While
the third number on the program was
being rendered a fire broke out in the
wig room. Three men only knew of the
danger. They closed the doors and
fought the flames to a finish. How
serious the blaze was can be estimated
from the statement that it destroyed
$1,000 worth of property. Nobody in
the packed house, however, knew any
formance was not marred.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
The weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair weather, fresh southwest
winds; ana for Eastern Florida, fair
weather in north, showers in south
portion; fresh southwest winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

in her trunks, on her arrival from Eu-
rope. was $4,000, and she paid duties
amounting to sS1 800. And she had
no trouble at all with the inspectors.
She was scarcely detained. The rea-
son was that she had made out dec
laratiOn containing each article in her
baggage together with its value, and
this she gave to the inspector. He
saw without much trouble that it was
an honest declaration. Women who
take the trouble that Mrs. Huntington
did-who take the straightforward
course that she did-have no fault to
find with the law or the inspectors.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

The government of Canada has in
vited Prince Henry to pay Ottawa q
visit during his present trip. 1t is
rumored that Emperor William sug-
gested to his uncle, King Edward, that
visit of Henry to Canada would rob
his American tour of its anti British
complexion, and that, Edward adopted
the idea and cabled the Canadian gov
eminent accordingly.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

The Cianna-Gael of New York some
time ago secured Senator Tilman of
South Carolina to deliver the grafton
at its annual celebration of the birth
day of Robert Emmett. which occurs on
Sunday. In his present frame of mind
the Senator ought to be able to give
the clan just about as hot stuff as it
could possibly desire
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

They have been having so much fun
in Congress lately that Jerry Simpson
cannot stand his isolation any longer.
He wants to get out of the effete West
and back in Washington, where the
lie direct" flies fast and right-guards
and blows to the point of the jaw are
held in high esteem. In short, Jerry
has announced his candidacy for Con-
gress. He thinks he can get down to
weight by the time of the election.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

The British postal authorities esti-
mate that the British soldiers in South
Africa have sent to their families at
home not less that e1,OOO,OOO during the
last twelve months, representing the
savings out of their pay during the
period named. If Tommy Atkins has
managed to save $4,000, 900 in a year,
it seems to be misnomer to call him
an "absent-minded beggar"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

A canny Scotch lawyer recently de-
sired to serve some legal papers on an
Aberdeen fisherman. The fisherman
got wind of the proceedings and hid
out. After vainly searching for him
for several weeks, the lawyer caused
to be inserted in some of the papers
an advertisement saying that the fish,
erman's uncle had died in America
leaving him an ample foftune, which
might be secured by calling on a GER
tain law firm in Edinburg. The
scheme worked. The fisherman came
out of his hiding and walked straight
into the lawyers net.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

If the guesses of some Of the New
York newspapers are anywhere near
correct, the management of the Metro
politan Opera House made quite a
good thing out Of the grand opera
festival" arranged for the entertain
ment of Prince Henry the other night
The Tribune is probably as conservative
a guesser as there is in the city of
New York Its guess is that in all
probability the profits were more than
$4,000. The gross receipts are placed
at $4,000 and the expenses at $4,000.
Thus it sometimes occurs that the pa
triotic New Workers are able to turn
their demonstrations of International
amity into dollars and cents.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01

1t appears that Marconi had some
wireless ancestors. He is only half
an Italian. His mother was Irish,
the daughter of John Jamison, whose
Irish whisky became famous from one
end of the British Isles to the other.
Away back in the family history of
the Jamisons, according to legend
one of the great-great-grand
prophesied that one of her descendants
would become famous. This wireless
message to posterity was Thought to
have been answered in the person of
John Jamison with his whisky. Now
it is said it had reference to Marconf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-08-22
And hearts as ours together.
Moorish Slavery.

It would do those good who write
passionate articles on Moorish slavery
to see the well fed, lazy slave of
WaZan lounging in the sun, kif pipe
in mouth and scarcely doing a stroke
of work from weeks end to weeks
end. The most ordinary English kitch-
enmaid would accomplish in couple
of hours what a Wazan slave does in a
week. All are free to come and go as
they please, but none avails himself
of this freedom. The reason is not far
to seek. In Wazan they are fed and
clothed by the shereefs and on holt
days and feast days receive presents of
money.
Thus all the necessities of life are
found them without their having to
work for them, which otherwise they
would be obliged to do. Nor is it only
the necessities of life that are thus
supplied to them free, but they are
given each his room to live in and mar
ried at the expense of the shereefs to
slave women. Their children, by law
slaves, are not necessarily so and are
often apprenticed to workmen to learn
some trade or if they wish are free to
seek their fortune in other lands
Blackwood's Magazine.