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The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

plucky woman scored an unusual
victory in contest with the Southern
Railway Friday night, says the Char
lotte IN. c. Observer. She got on a
Pullman car attached to the South
ern's train at Birmingham Friday aft
ternoon, and showed a ticket and
Pullman car coupon for Washington.
When the train arrived at Atlanta Fri
day at 1870 o'clock it was found that
the woman was the only passenger on
the car ticketed for the North. When
she was asked to transfer to another
car attached to the north bound train
she produced her Pullman coupon from
her card case and said:
This entities me to section in this
car to Washington"
That is all right, madam. replied
the conductor. "Other arrangements
have been made and this car will not
go through"
Il think it WILL" said the lady. my
coupon says l am to ride in this car
to Washington and 1 don't propose
to leave the car
Efforts of the officials to make the
woman leave the Pullman were in vain.
She was perfectly cool and determined
and finally the railway officials admit
ted defeat by attaching the Pullman,
with it's single passenger, to the north
bound train and carrying it through to
Washington. The car was without a
conductor or porter, and passengers
along the way thought it a dead-head
car; but Mr. ]. NJ. Culp, traffic man
ager of the Southern, and ]. L. Cox
of Atlanta, a soliciting agent for the
road, who were on the train, told the
story of the occurrence at Atlanta, and
admitted defeat for their company. The
name of the woman was not given by
the Southern officials. She was we'll
! dressed and distinguished looking.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
OUR NAVAL POLICY.

Secretary Long gave the House Ma
val Committee some sound advice the
other day. He cautioned the gentle
men of the committee against elabor-
ate naval programmes, running sew
eral years into the future and involv-
ing the expenditure of many millions
of dollars. Some of the governments
of Europe have adopted that style of
navy building. They announce that
they will build so many ships during
the next two or three years and that
at the end of a period of ten years
they will have added so many of one
class and such a number of another to
their fleets. Secretary Long finds two
objections to that way of doing things;
first, that war vessels become practi-
cally obsolete very quickly, and sec
ond, it is not good policy to keep pos
sibles enemies regularly informed with
respect to what you purpose doing 1t
is better he says to go along conserv-
atively, adopting the best every time,
and keeping your business to yourself
We have in our own navy abundant
arguments in support of the Secretary's
first proposition; that warships be-
come obsolete very soon. Among these,
for instance, we have the Vesuvius,
several monitors of the Puritan type,
and the triple-screw cruiser Columbia
Already it has been found necessary
to rebuild the Atlanta and the Cincin-
natl, early ships of our new" navy,
which had grown old only in the mat
ter of speed, armament and coal ca
pacity, and not in years. Some of the
best inventive brains in the world are
at work upon the problem of warships
Thus the types are changing year after
year What is f1rst-rate now may be
second-rate next year, and new inven-
tions, like the submarine boat, are
making new problems to be met.
1t has not been many months since
Lord Beresford of the British navy
alarmed and rather shocked his ma
tion by declaring that British naval
| power was largely on paper; that a
| great many of the vessels on the list
were antiquated, slow and practically
! defenseless against modern ordnance,
and armed with old smooth bore guns
absolutely incapable of infiicting any
serious damage upon an enemy. If
| all such ships were eliminated from
| the British admiralty list, the boosted
power of Britannia to rule the waves
would be apt TO show a striking shrink
age.
The United States desire a powerful
navy, of course the most efficient that
money can provide. The way to get
| such a navy is not to authorize great
numbers of vessels of certain types in
| programmes extending over a consid-
cradle number of years, but to build
| in view of the present and with a pur-
! pose of taking advantage of the best
! improvements as they are offered.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS
NEEDS

Some of the Northern papers are TAX
inga deep interest in the meetings
Which are being held at various points
in the South by the General Educa-
ton Board. The accounts they are
publishing are sympathetic in tone and
deeply interesting. Particularly is this
true of the account published in the
New York Evening Post of the gifts
made to the State Normal School at
Athens. This school is a branch of
the University of Georgia. and has
about 800 students, of both sexes, from
all parts of the state. Pretty nearly
every one of the students is in
Strengthened circumstances. The &C
counts of the efforts many have made
and are making, to prepare themselves
to be teachers is almost pathetic. AS
is we'll known. the school provides
board and lodging for ten weeks for
the sum of 500, the tuition being free.
The gifts made by the General Ed
ucation Board will result in all prob
ability in 200 new scholarships. worth
$50 each. OF these scholarships fifty
were given outright. Others are de-
pendent upon a certain amount being
raised. But the giving of these scholar
ships creates another difficulty. II IS
the lack of dormitory room. At pres
ent there are in many of the rooms
three girls, and sometimes four. That
is overcrowding. The solution of the
difficulty is additional dormitories. The
General Education Board made a gift
of $4,000 TO a dormitory building for
which Sc 600 had already been raised.
The president of the school an
nounces his intention to apply to the
Legislature for assistance. 1t is sin
cerely to be hoped that he will be sue
cessful. But it must not be forgotten
that the income of the state is not
nearly as great as the demands that
are made upon it, The Legislature at
its last session appropriated an amount
greatly in excess of the states income.
Notwithstanding the fact that over
$500. 900 of the public property fund has
been turned into the general fund, the
Governor announced the other day that
ne WOulu nave 10 DOTIOW SOlhtNLlill5
like 100000 with which to pay the
salaries of school teachers.
We see only one way in which more
money for dormitories at the State
Normal School and for the public
schools generally can be obtained, and
that is by cutting down the expenses
of the state. We feel almost certain
that public sentiment would not APP
prove an increase in the rate of taxa
ton. At least. $25, 900 a year could be
saved by a constitutional amendment
making the sessions Of the Legislature
biennial, and perhaps as much as $780,
900 a year by limiting pensions to those
veterans who are needy and unable to
earn a livelihood. We have too much
legislation, anyhow. The people would
be much better off If there were fewer
laws For some reason or other, how
ever, the politicians insist upon a ses-
sion of the Legislature every year.
Why do not the people rise up and
say that one session every two years
is sufficient, and that the money that
would thus be saved shall go towards
educating their children? They ought
to think about this matter and then
act,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
why "Rip" Has No Dog.

IAN ounce of effectiveness" said Jo-
seph Jefferson, with a twinkle in his
eye. sis worth a pound of correction"
He was laying down the principles
of dramatic art for the Barnard Club
in the Carnegie Building yesterday, and
his audience hung upon the words that
fell from his lips, says the New York
World.
THE necessity of being prepared for
all emergencies 1 wish to impress. Be
fore-the-curtain speeches and things Of
that sort should be thoroughly pre-
pared"
Mr. Jefferson drew a parallel be-
tween the orator and the actor. show
ing why success in one profession was
no reason to expect success in the
other
Each must have a good voice. grace
IL figure and personal magnetism.
1here all likenesses ceases. With the
orator it is what he says; with the ac-
tor it is often his manner of receiving
what is said to him" He pointed out
the need of art as well as genius.
He told a story of Macready, whose
portrayal of a man who had yielded TO
an overwhelming temptation and stol-
en- gradually lost it's hold upon his du-
diences. And why" said Mrs. War
rem, who was playing with him, De
cause ten years ago you spoke your
lines like an honest man who had COM
mitted crime for the first time; now
you speak them like one who has COM
mitted crimes many times and always
had his excuse ready"
The actor described the balcony
scene from Romeo and Juliet as the
most exquisite thing ever written.
I'VE have the balcony, stars above
and two young things delighted with
the sound of their own voices. What
more could we ask"
Many questions were sent up for his
reply and his answers were character
istic Asked what quality was most
effective in an actress, he said:
when she first comes on womanly
beauty; after a little while charm of
manner but in the end dramatic tenn
permanent"
He explained why he had never In
troduced a dog into RIP Van VIM
kle"
IF 1 had brought on a real dog he
would never have pleased every one,
because each one had a special idea
Of what sort of dog Schneider ought
to be- And if the tail of the dog of
realism had Wagged once at the wrong
time it would have spoiled every
thing"
Mr. jefferson comedies this is not
the day of serious drama, but thinks
Weber & Fields is not a permanent
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
BRIGHT BITS.

The Last Yes, SIR" said the
builder gleefully. ''every house in that
operation is rented now but one -"
"Ah! And that one" remarked his
friend, lis last, but not leased Phil
adelphia Press.
Stern Father-'"What an unearlhly
hour that young fellow stops till every
night. Dora. What does your neither
say about it?" Daughter say S
men haven't altered bit since she was
young. pa. Glasgow Evening Times.
-She-"Tell your mother I'm so sor-
ry ] haven't been to see he~ lately:
but the distance is so great and the
weather has been so bad, 1 haven't
dared venture" He-"Thats al right.
Don't mention it. She'd be very sorry
If you had. Punch.
Handicapped. -Simkins-"They tell
me your father aspires to a seat in
the United States Senate" Timklns-
Yes, but I'm afraid the old man will
never reach it," Simkins-"Why not ?"
Timkins-"He's only worth half a mill
lion and isn't a pugilist. Chicago
Daily News
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

In his office downtown this young
man is looked upon as person of
probity and fine moral sensibilities,
saws the New York Post. He does not
have to be all that to keep his place,
for he is rich and though he is the
Junior partner, he supplies the main
part of the capital and most OF the
commercial cleverness. Every year or
two he goes West to pick up some
branded ponies for his polo string, SELL
ing off those which cannot be easily
taught the game, or that have gone
wrong in wind, limb or eyesight. His
elderly partner who was his guardian
during minority, and who believes in
him utterly as one whom he himself
has nodded by precept and example,
caught this part of what the young
man was telephoning the other day:
Nov be careful. James; Mr.. Fres-
ling may come to-day to see that blue
roam mare You'd better give her a
pint of whisky, stuff a sponge up her
nose and inject little cocaine into her
near hind leg"
"Bless my SOUL" exclaimed the old
man; what are you doing?"
only selling a horse to my best
friend" the young man answered.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
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The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
Personal.

Mr.. Rhodes is one of the few men
who have had statues IN their lifetime.
Many will no doubt be erected to him
now that he is dead, but meanwhile a
colossal figure in bronze Of the maker
of South Africa is standing in the
studio of John Tweed of Chelsea, Lon
don. 1t was executed to the order of
the citizens of Bulawayo, and is in
tended for the marketplace of that
town
Sir Richard and Lady Musgrave,
who have just arrived in this country,
are according to the Boston Transcript,
the owners of the famous goblet i'm
mortalized by Longfellow and by the
German poet INLAND in poems known
as The Luck of Eden Hail." and based
upon the hoary legend according to
which the good fortune of the owners
of Eden Hall, in Cumberland, depends
upon the cup remaining intact Sir
Richard Musgrave has recently let the
mansion and the estate of Eden Hall,
along with the St Cuthbert well, on
the stone coping of which the cup was
found. But the Luck of Eden Hall
that is to say, his famous cup-has
been deposited by the baronet for safe
keeping in the vaults of the Bank Of
England.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meeting-Landrum Lodge No. IS, F.
& A. NJ
Special Notices-Estimat Wanted
to Repair Dredge No. Z; Andrew Han
ley Company; P. P. P. Lippmans
Great Remedy; Ship Notice, Churchill,
Master British Barkentine Frederick;
Auction Sale of Lots at Ellabelle, Bry-
an County, c. H. Dorsett; The Place
For Tenenents Near Electric Railway
Barns, c. H. Dorsett.
Steamship Standardization Line,
Glasgow via Londonderry.
Uneeda Biscult-National Biscuit
Company.
Turn Your Steps-To Rowlinski's.
Grand Exhibition of Seasonable Fab
rics-Daniel Hogan
Hotel-The Judson, New York City.
Malt Extract-Wurbzbur Malt Ex-
tract
Watches-Waltham Watches.
Beer-Pabst Beer.
Cigars-Humboldt Cigars.
Washing Powder-Pearline.
Mothers Friend; DR.. Hathaway Com
pany; Cascarets.
Cheap Column Advertisements-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
Was in a Hurry.

Sol Smith Russell had three young
nieces living out West, and he was
very fond of them, says the Philadel-
phia Times. One day, while visiting
his brother-a jeweler in Kansas City
he took the youngest of the trio to
walk AS they passed a candy shop
the child asked for some sweets and
her uncle acquiesced, only on condi-
ton that she would not eat any until
they got home. She promised and was
given the candy. Then they started
home.
Lets wun," said the child, plead
ingly to her dignifed, Lincoln uncle.
mo. my dear, it isn't nice to run,
he answered.
ooh, let's do wun!" she coaxed.
Again he refused. Then the chubby
little hand squirmed from his and,
dropping down on her knees right on
the pavement, she scorned the pass
ing people and in a clear little voice
prayed:
"Oh, bod, Please make Uncle Sol
wuni"
1T was simply a question of my los
ing my dignity or her losing her faith
in God" said the actor in after years,
80 we ran as fast as we could. But
we walked together no more"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

The Manila Bay victory was won on
coffee alone, and not on grog as had
been reported. A schoolma' am in Chi
cago heard that on that memorial BILE
morning in May the men of Deweys
fleet were given liquor every twenty
minutes. To ascertain the truth or
falsity of the report the schoolma am
went TO headquarters, addressing a let
ter to the Admiral himself To this
letter Admiral Dewey has replied that
from the commander-in-chief down to
the humblest powder monkey the battle
was fought on coffee alone; that even
if it had been desired to provide liquor
to the men, not only were the navy
regulations against any such thing but
there was no liquor on the ships with
the exception Of a very small quantity
in the surgeons stores. The honors,
therefore, go to coffee, not to booze"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

The price of silver is now around 81
cents per ounce. At that rate the value
of the metal in silver dollar is be-
tween SO and 81 cents. Meanwhile
wheat is worth "a to 70 cents a bushel
and cotton better than 9 cents a pound.
1t used to be claimed that wheat and
silver were bound together with un-
breakable bonds, and that cotton and
silver moved up or down in sympathy
with each other.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
ON THEIR SECOND CENTURY.

The celebration of the centennial of
the Guards yesterday was a demon
stration worthy of the gallant COM
mand and it's history. The occasion
was honored with the presence of the
Governor, and was participated in with
enthusiasm by the members of the
organization. In the parade the men
made a fine SHOW, and a pretty liberal
proportion of the population of the city
turned out to see them go by and cheer
them with clapping hands and waving
hats and handkerchiefs. The Guards
now start upon their second century
of existence in good shape, and with
the love and esteem of their city and
state. May they live long and pros
per!
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
The unimportant Quantity.

You have been with that firm a long
time" said the old school friend, ac-
cording to the Chicago Record Herald.
Yes" answered the man with the
patient expression of countenance.
whats your position?"
I'm an employee"
But what is your official title?"
Il haven't any official title. It's like
this. When the proprietor wants
something done, he tells the cashier,
and the cashier tells the bookkeeper,
and the bookkeeper tells the assistant
bookkeeper. and the assistant book
keeper tells the chief clerk, and the
chief clerk tells me-"
And what them"
well. I haven't anybody to tell, so
have to go and do it,"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
Reports from the Klondike gold dig

Reports from the Klondike gold dig
gings are to the effect that the clean
up" this season will show larger guam
titles of gold than ever before. 1t Is
estimated that the output of this sea-
son will be not less than $50, 100000, or
an increase of about $7,o0o,O00 over that
of last season. Expert observers of the
gold production of the district express
it as their opinion that the diggings
of production, but, that for several
years each season will show an In
crease over the one preceding it.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

What can be the matter with the
diplomatic and consular Representatives
of the United States in South America?
Two have come home within ten days
and may not return, for cause" it is
alleged and third is in hot water and
will have to leave his post at the in
stance of the government to which he
is accredited. The third diplomat re-
ferred TO is Minister to Colombia c. b.
Hart, stationed at Bogota. The first
and second, of course, are DIR. w. God
frey Hunter and Perry Nj. DeLeon. The
charge against Minister Hart is that
he set his son up in business in Bogota
and by hook or crook had goods inn
ported 10 him without the payment Of
duties at the custom house. The Co
lombian government has made a kick
and notified Washington that Minister
Hart must leave the country.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

Once more there is an echo of the
Dreyfus case. Hughues Leroux, the
French hterateur who is now in Chi
cago, asserts that before Capt. Drey-
fus was pardoned he wrote a state
lnent in which he confessed his guilt
of a number of the charges against
him. For diplomatic reasons, however,
France has never made the document
public. 1t would. it is alleged. COM
promise Germany and Russia. Leroux
says lola now knows that Dreyfus is
guilty and that is why the novelist
is no longer the friend Of the ex-cap-
tain.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

The first budget under the reform ad-
m;nistration in New York city will
show, it is said. about $500, 900 increase
over the Tammany budget made up in
the last days of Mayor VanWyck's ad-
ministration. The reformers are claim
ing, however, that the last Tammany
budget was constructed merely for
show purposes and not for practical
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

A st. Louis prophet predicts the be-
ginning Of the millennium in the year
1912. Since this gives plenty of time
for the coochee-coochee and other mid
way attractions at the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition, there seems to be no
reason for kicking in Missouri.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

The Cape rebels" constitute the
stumbling block in the way of peace
negotiations between the British and
the Beers. it seems. These so-called
rebels" were residents of the Cape
Colony, subjects of the British crown,
who took up arms for the Boer cause.
The great majority of them, if not
practically all, are of Dutch blood and
their sympathies were with the Dutch
men of the Transvaal and Orange Free
State. Great Britain insists upon the
right to punish these rebels" in her
own way for taking up arms against
their sovereign. The Beers feel that
they cannot allow their friends and
fellow soldiers from the Cape to be
punished as long as there is hope of
saving them from the consequence OF
their actions. The Beers are now
standing out for amnesty, or at least
justice tempered with mercy, for these
men; and it is greatly to their credit
that they decline to abandon their
allies, in order to secure terms for
themselves.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

Thus if the Rhodes scholarship boy
possess the desirable attributes there
seems to be no good reason why he
should not get his LOB" as quickly In
this country as the boy educated at
home. If the boy is of the right kind,
his education will certainly not ham
ger him
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

The proposition to erect a monument
in Boston to Gen. B. f. Butler has
called out a peculiarly sarcastic letter
from a correspondent of the Boston
Transcript. He proposes little ring
of statues to celebrities" of the Butler
stripe, and among those he named to
be thus honored are Satan Benedict
Arnold, Aaron Burr, Guiteau and
Czolgosz. Opposition to Gen. Butler
dies hard. even in New England.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02

Savannah extended a cordial welcome
to Gov. Gambler. His friends in this
city are legion, and they were all
pleased to see him looking so we'll not
withstanding his close application to
executive duties at the capital.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02


Most newspaper readers are tamlllar
with those little romances that have
their inception in some pretty country
girl writing her name and address on
an egg and asking the young man who
gets the egg to write to her. 1t is the
conventional thing, of course, for the
young man TO marry the girl. In In
diana the other day a romance Of the
sort started off all right, but the end
ing was decidedly out of the ordinary.
A young man enclosed in a roll of but
ter a neat little box containing a mis-
sive explaining that he was a we'll
TODD farmer and butter-maker. and
requesting the finder to write to him.
But the butter did not fall into the
hands of any giddy, gushing girl. The
purchaser was a mature housewife.
She read the note, looked at the hole
in the butter-roll made by the box,
hefted the box and its contents. got
mad and sued the young fellow for
fraud in having cheated her out of the
weight of the box in butter.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
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