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The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05

"Old man Ketcham, the father of
George NJ. Ketcham. who owns this
record breaking trotter Cresceus," said
a Westerner to a New York Mail and
Express reporter at Brighton Beach
after a great race, was one of the
most prominent characters in Toledo
years ago, just as he was about the
richest man in that town. He was as
close as he was rich, and many stories
are told about his methods which
made him rich man.
Some time before he died he had
amassed about all the wealth to be
had in that vicinity and had nothing
to do but see that it didn't get away
from him and to enjoy himself in his
own peculiar way. The things he used
to do amused Toledo. 1t was in the
days of bob-tail horse cars, without
conductors, when passengers used to
drop their nickels in the slot in the
forward end Of the car. The COM
pany, however, sold six tickets for
quarter, and old Ketcham used to buy
them at that rate. Then he would get
on a car and ride all day, sitting next
to the slot. When a passenger got on
he would offer to put his or her nickel
in the box. He promptly pocketed the
nickel and deposited ticket purchased
at reduced rates.
His boys were not entirely chips
of the old blocks, and he used to make
the money fly when they got it. The
old man didn't wear such awfully stun
ming toys, and one day they decided
he ought to have a new overcoat. so
they went to a swell tailor and told
him to build coat for their father
charge him $40 for it and the rest for
them. The coat was a beauty and cost
SS5. Ketcham put it on and went down
town.
"A friend met him on the street and
nearly fell dead when he saw the beau
tiful toys on old Ketcham.
say he said, where did you get
it?'
"'All right, isn't it?' said Ketcham.
Bet you can't guess what 1 paid for
it,
"'well,' said the man, not cent
less than S75'
II paid $10' said Ketcham.
"'Give you s15,' says the man.
It's yours says Ketcham, and I'm
blessed if he didn't peel it off and hand.
it over. You can imagine the feelings
of the boys.
ooh, yes, know that story has been
told about others, but it began right
out in Toledo.
But old Ketcham was all right He
met a fool friend one day, who limited
that when he was dead his boys would
throw away all his money.
We'll said the old man with
grim chuckle, if they have as much
fun spending it as 1 have had getting
il they're welcome
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
PERSONAL.

-Londoners are grumbling a good
deal over the announcement that
Westminster Abbey is to be closed for
four months in order that preparations
may be made for coronation.
Princess Urusoff the wife of the
Russian ambassador in Paris, has
written to the papers warning travellers
against the organized system of rob-
berry to which they are exposed on Ital-
ian railways.
-"Steeple Jack" Roberts of Jersey
City, who for years has climbed high
chimneys and steeples without acct
dent, fell from a wagon last Tuesday
and was so badly hurt that he may
never be able to climb again.
The present Marquis of Salisbury
years ago rose to speak in the House
of Commons as Lord Robert Cecil and
sat down Viscount Cranbourne and
heir to a marquisate. While he was
speaking a messenger arrived announc-
ing the death of his elder brother.
With Miss Helen Miller Gould as
her ideal of faith, hope and charity.
Mrs. Frank 0. Lownden is building a
summer home for poor girls near Ore
gon, Ill. Mrs. Lowden, who was Miss
Harriet Pullman, is daughter of the
late palace car millionaire. She pro-
poses to take the sick and weary from
Chicago and give them a summer out
ing
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
BRIGHT BITS.

"A Guess-Sunday- school Teacher
"Who were the Maccabees?" Tommy
"Oi thems the things that was in the
water an gev my pop ty-foy fever
Philadelphia Press.
The Worst Form.-Mrs. Crawford
II suppose you suffer a great deal from
your dyspepsia ?" Mrs. Crabshaw-"Not
half as much as / did when my hus-
band had it."-Judge.
Mrs. Justwed-'This is excellent
cake. Did you get the recipe out of
a book?" Mrs. Newwed--"No; 1 got it
out of my head" Mrs. Justwed-"No
wonder it is so light. Boston Trav-
eler.
in the Picture Gallery-Guide-
This is a Cuyp. Wonderful feeling
So human! 1t represents one peasant
asking another a question: Visitor
What fidelity to nature! The other
fellow looks q if he didn't know a
thing about it.?'-Brooklyn Life.
Feline Depravity.-"O Horace!"
walled his young wife, 81 have found
out that Ajax. our beautiful Angora
cat, has ben leading a double life!"
THAT makes eighteen, / suppose"
said Horace. ''What has he been do
ing? ?" ''You know l let him out every
morning, because he seems to want to
go and play out of doors. Well, / have
discovered that he goes over to the
Robinsons and let's them feed him and
pet him" Chicago Tribune.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
DELICATE DIPLOMACY.

It is arranged that the Presidents
daughter, Alice, shall christen the Ger
man Emperor's yacht which is being
built by shipbuilding firm on Staten
Island. The first intim&tion that the
Emperor had an intention of asking
Miss Roosevelt to name the vessel was
received through our ambassador at
Berlin. At the New Years reception
given to the ambassadors in Berlin the
Emperor mentioned the matter 20 him.
IL is not known what response our
ambassador made. 1t must have been
of an encouraging character, since the
German ambassador at Washington
called at the White House on Friday
and prefe rred his request.
1t is a compliment to this country
that the yacht is being built in an
American shipyard. Germany is now
building some of the finest steam
ships in the world, and it woui1 nat
urally be supposed that the Emperor
would have the yacht built at home
GERM n shipbuilders, however, do not
understand as we'll as American ship
OAilOSiS w the KIM OF FeSSel the
Emperor wants. The success which
this country has had in retail ning the
Americas cup has given American
shipbuilders a reputation for con-
structing racing yachts.
1t is suspected that the Enperor's
real motive in asking the Presidents
daughter to christen the yacht is to
convey to this country his assurances
of good will for the American peo-
pie, and that in his trouble with Ven
ezuela he has no intention to violate
the Monroe doctrine and thus bring
about trouble between Germany and
the United States. Assuming that such
is his purpose it will be admitted that
he took a very delicate and at the
same time convincing way of doing it.
If it were his purpose to take perma-
nent possession of Venezuelan terri
tory he would not have ventured to
establish such driendly felations as
are indicated by the request to the
Presidents daughter.
Miss Roosevelt made her debut in
society in Washington on Friday night.
She promises to he an interesting feat
ure Of the social life of the National
Capital.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05

The recent census showed that the
cities were gaining in population fast
err than the country districts. Many stu
movement with doubts and fears.
Country life--,farm life--is the base up
on which the greatness of the country
is built; to have the cities grow faster
than the country, say the economists,
would be to have the establishment
become top-heavy in time, with posi-
bly, disastrous results. A leading New
York minister, however, does not fear
bad consequences from the drift from
the country to the cities. He thinks,
indeed, that it is a natural movement
and the salvation of most If not all of
the cities. In recent sermon he said
that New York city would rot out in
a single generation" If 1t did not have
the wholesome blood of a strong stream
of vital. clear-brained young men and
young women poured into 1t from the
farming districts.
Continuing the minister said: "If
you win take a poll of the great mer-
NA0hNSf NhS eAN'1 NWgNAot Tic PuySl-
clans, editors and educational men of
New York city, you will find that
three-fourths of them are 'hayseeds.'
They were born and bred on the farm,
and they have owed the stamina, and
the intellectual and moral soil
out of which their splendid
crop has sprung TO that fact.
Take the country boys who have
won great successes out OF New York
city to-day, and the great shell would
tumble in with awful disaster"
In a measure the foregoing might be
applied TO about any city. In our
own city and state many II not most
of our successful business men came
from the farm. Some Of the leading
railroad men know what It is to pull
the bell-cord over q mule" and any
number OF merchants have had expe-
rience IN the application Of the pro.
verb which enIoins the making OF hay
while the sun shines. 10 is good. red
blood. pumped by stout hearts. thar
the country sends 90 the city, and the
/ infusion of the fresh article ls unqucs-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05

A great many OF the citizens of East
Walnut hills are relating the details
of how Billy Weiss, who presides be-
hind the counter in John Spaeth's sa-
loon at WOODBURY. avenue and Clayton
street, was fiimflammed, says the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. One day during the
past week an old fellow whose face
was adorned with typical hobo whis-
kers appeared in the place bearing a
can in his hand.
Gimme cents worth of beer" he
demanded.
The foaming lager gushed into the
bucket and filled it to the brin. The
old fellow then produced a Canadian
quarter of a dollar and rendered it to
Weiss.
The latter informed him that the
quarter was worth but 20 cents and
gave him Is cents in change.
A half hour later the old man reap
reared and asked for his Canadian
quarter.
Lets see. how much beer did you
buy?" asked Weiss.
Five cents worth, and here's the
Nickel" answered the old fellow, laying
a scent piece on the counter.
Weiss tossed the nickel in the drawer
and handed the customer his quarter.
And now the question Weiss and his
friends are figuring on is how much
did he lose?
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Chattanooga Times CDem) says:
1.-THE asphalt trust is slowly following
the copper trust to the bow vows.
Every trust that attempts to first OBJ
literate competition and then tries to
take advantage of its fancied monop-
oily, comes to grief. The business an
nails of the last fifteen years are full
of the stories of wrecked combines,
the wire nail trust, the cordage trust
the old dead and gone whisky trust
and a score more. And they all died
because they overbid the monopoly
act. Curious that men of apparent
shrewdness haven't better sense and
more foresight, than some of the
would-be monopoly plunderers dis
play"
The Baltimore Sun (Dem) says: I'm
the Southern states the people are far
more leisurely than in the North, and
the average citizen is seldom too busy
to be polite. More especially do they
hold their women in higher regard and
are more deferential TO them. The
old traditions have not been aban-
doned. Children are reared to rever-
ence authority, to be courteous, es-
pecially to women. The wife of the
Southern planter in the days before the
Civil War was the queen of small
a lduS OF the VINO was
regarded as a superior being, to whom
all had to do reverence"
The New Orleans Picayune Dem)
says: THE American people demand
that the country should be fttingly
represented at the British coronation
In June next, and they certainly ex-
pect that either Admiral Dewey or
Gen. Miles. or both, be sent as repre-
sentstives of the military arm of the
government. should these officers be
ignored In the interest of some under
ling now ia favor at Washington,
there will be a very general express
sion of popular displeasure, which even
the President will feel"
The Louisville Courier Journal
(Dem) says: "Mr. Croker insists that
Tammany was beaten at the recent
election because the newspapers OF
New York were solidly against a. and
Il Is now said that "A project to start
a Tammany paper has his approval.
II MIR. Croker knew as much about
the influence OF the press as he pro-
fosses TO know he would recognize
tho fact that no paper nowadays
started primarily as the organ Of any
faction does any material good or
amounts 10 anything as a newspapers"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
Had Charge OF the Schools.

The Buffalo Commercial relates that
the principal Of one OF the East Side
schools had occasion to visit one of the
Junior grade rooms the other day. ana
proceeded TO ask the little folks a few
questions. what Is your teachers
name?" The answer was correctly
given. What is the name OF the
principal of this school?'' Correct
again. Now. children, you know in
a city like Buffalo there are a great
many schools. Who has charge Of all
OF theme This was a poser Finally
one little girl raised her hand well.
who has charge OF all the public schools
ga BufaloG" asked the principal. "The
devil exclaimed the wee maiden. very
positively
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
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The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
The barometer Had Fallen.

The head master of a Welsh school,
with the object of giving his higher
class a practical lesson in the use OF
the barometer, placed the instrument
on q window about seven feet from
the ground, at the same time telling his
scholars to note any change in it and
report to him, says Tit-Bits.
During the dinner hour. one boy,
more meddlesorne than the others. be-
gan tampering with the glass, with
the result that it fell to the ground,
and was broken to pieces. Anticipat-
ing matters, he watched for the mas
ter's return from dinner, and, rush
ing to meet him, observed, excitedly:
Sir, the barometer has fallen"
How much?" asked the pedagogue,
thinking of climatic changes.
Seven feet!" was the reply, to the
amazement of the master.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
ENGLAND GETTING ALARMED.

According to the editorial article in
the Saturday Review, mentioned in our
London dispatches yesterday. Great
Britain is getting alarmed at the pros
pect that the United States will cap
ture the trade of South America The
purport of the article is that Great Bri-
tain ought to form a working alliance
with Germany to check the continued
advance of the United States into South
America"
We are unable to see on what
grounds the Saturday Review bases it's
article. We assume of course that
trade advance is meant. The amount
of the trade of South America which
the United States get is remarkably
subject of frequent comment in the
papers of this country.
One of the arguments in favor of the
shipping bill now pending in Congress
is that if we had the ships we could
easily capture the trade of Central and
South America-at least the greater
part of it. Perhaps it is this bill which
is alarming the Saturday Review and
the English people. If it is the alarm
is unnecessary. 1t is doubtful if the
shipping bill will become a law, and
IL it should it would not help this
country much in getting trade from the
Central ana South American states. 1t
has been often pointed out that the
reason our manufacturers fail to in
crease their trade in the republics to
the south of US is their refusal to
comply with the business conditions
which Central and South American
merchants insist upon. In the first
place our merchants and manufac-
turers refuse to give the long credits
which are the rule. and they refuse to
pack goods in accordance with the re-
quirements of the trade in Central and
South America. They understand why
it is that they do not do more business
with those countries. If they wanted
to do it they could do it easily by COM
plying with the requirements neces-
sary to get it. Just at present it pays
them better to send their products to
other markets. When they need the
South American trade they will reach
out for it and get it, whether there are
subsidies for ships or not
The Saturday Reviews article, how
ever, shows that there is genuine alarm
In England at the tremendous strides
the United States are making in the
direction of capturing the markets of
the world. And it is probable that Ger
many shares this alarm. Just now she
is having industrial and financial trou-
bles of serious character. 1t is not
improbable that she attributes some Of
them to the United States.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05

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They cured sc many men who had battIAa
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suffering of lost manhood that the Insti-
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The remedy has a peculiarly grateful
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1t cures all the ills and troubles that coma
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all cases. A request to the State Medical
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who are unable to leave home to be
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plain package so that its recipient need
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without delay.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
Wasn't Pleased.

Two Stock Exchange men meet in
Cheapside, says Persons Weekly.
Just going to lunch" says one. "Wil
you Gomez"
"All right" says No. 2, and they
make tracks for the nearest restaurant.
I'm for fried SOLE" says No. /.
Ditto" says No. 2.
Two fried soles, please, waitress"
and in a little time appear the two
soles on a dish. and two plates.
Zone of the soles happens to be much
larger than the other, and the diner
before whom the dish has been placed
calmly passes the smaller fish to his
companion.
Now, call that a mean trick" says
the other.
What is a mean trick?" says No. 1.
"Why. to pass me the smaller sole
and retain the larger one for yourself"
says No. 2.
What would you have DONE" says
No. l, 'if you had been serving the
fish,"
Il should certainly have passed you
the larger one" says No. 2.
'Well, 1 have got the larger one"
says No. /; what more do you want?"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
Reflections of n Bachelor.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Girls wouldn't mind so much IL the
only thing that got chapped was their
faces.
1t is lucky for girls that they under
stand there are some things it wouldn't
be good for them to understand.
Every woman shudders to think
where her husband would go when he
dies If she didn't pray for him the way
she does.
The reason men can forgive girls for
not trying their best to do so many
other things is they do their best "a
look the prettiest they can.
The woman who will spend an hour
daily collaborating her face and doing
the rest wonders how man can bear
10 waste ten minutes every morning
shaving
The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
GREAT TEMPERANCE AGENCIES.

The New York Times throws out
the thought that the great corpora
tons, particularly the railroads, are
perance than the prohibitionists and
all other agencies combined. They
have taken a very decided stand
against employing in any department
men who drink alcoholic beverages to
excess. They don't want regular
ionaI drinkers, though, as yet, they
have not drawn the line against those
who take an occasional drink of
strong liquor. Their position is that
they are entitled to the best work a
man can do. and that when man
has responsibilities resting upon him
especially where he is responsible for
the lives of his fellow beings-he
needs a clear brain. He cannot have
that if he is what is known as
drinking man. Therefore it has come
to be known that the great corpora
tons give preference to sober men
not only to sober men, but men who
do not indulge in strong drink at all.
The stand against drinking men is not
yet as great as it will be. The ten
dency, however, is steadily towards
those who abstain altogether from
strong drink. A man who is discharged
by one corporation for drinking to ex-
cess cannot hope to get position with
another corporation.
1t can be readily seen therefore what
powerful agencies for temperance the
great corporations are. Young men
who are ambitious, or who seek only
to hold their positions. will give up
strong drink rather than risk losing
their positions, and thus gradually the
drink habit will become unpopular and
be abandoned