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The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04
This Beats the Greedy story.

The copy of a. certain novelist is a
fearsome sight, says Tit-Bits. On more
than one occasion the arrival of a
batch of MS. from this gentleman has
led to trouble in the composing de-
partment.
Quite recently the novelist in question
fairly eclipsed himself. His copy was,
indeed, a puzzle.
"Confound the fellow!" growled one
of the comps. He's enough to drive
A man to drink"
Have you never heard how he
writes?' solemnly demanded a fellow
sufferer.
NO" was the reply.
"Oh," continued the other, cts sim
pie enough. Mr.. q. (the novelist) owns
a rough-haired terrier. When he feels
like writing a story he whistles to the
dog, dips his tail in the ink and plants
him down on sheet of paper. Then
the novelist begins to think and tells
the story to the dog. The brute wags
his tail-and there you are!'
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04
Letters Signed Darling"

There is a young lady in the Navy
Department who has a fine sense of
humor. Part of her duties is to index
the official mail signed by Judge OAR
ling of Vermont, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, says a Washington let
ter. Two ladies of her acquaintance
dropped in upon her the other day,
and in the course of an interesting ex-
change of feminine views one of them
exclaimed suddenly:
What I'd like to know is what you
do with yourself here all day, any
how?"
"Oh, not much" was the reply of
the clerk, except to read lot of let
ters signed Darling
Her visitors were astonished by the
statement, and sighed for additional
details, but they were not fortheom-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

The New York Tribune is RESPONSE
no doubt correct, in spots:
1.-THE station at Savannah" says a.
traveller through the South, sis sur
rounded in all directions with a lot of
saloons and cheap restaurants. In
great illuminated letters over one of
these saloons was the sign:
Open all night
Next to it was a restaurant bear
ing with equal prominence the legend,
We never close
Third in order was a Chinese laun-
dry in a little tumbledown howell, and
upon the front of this building was the
sign in great scrawling letters: Me
Wakee too"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

A. E.Robinson. MD, c.M.. Medical D,r.o,o.
They cured So many men who had hat.'-.
Tor years against the mental and nbys,NN,
suffering of lost manhood that the Insta
tute has decided TO distribute fraA 80,
packages to all who write 1t is a hos
treatment and all men who suffer D,..s
any form of sexual weakness rasrI,,s't
from youthful folly premature loss -
strength and memory, weak back w., ~
cocele. or emaciation of parts can -
cure themselves at home.
The remedy has a peculiarly era+s,r,
effect of warmth and seems to act dr.
to the desired location, giving strenSth
and development just where 1t is needsd
II cures all the ills and troubles that corna
from years of misuse OF the natural func
lions and has been an absolute success In
all cases. A request to the State Medicei
Institute, s1S Elektron Building, Fort
Wayne, Ind, stating that you desire ons
OF their free trial packages will be CON-
Piled with promptly. The Institute ia "a
sirous of reaching that great class of men
who are unable to leave home 10 he
treated and the free sample will enahls
them to see how easy 1t is to be cured NJ
sexual weakness when tho proper remedies
are employed. The Institute makes no re-
strictions. Any man who writes will IA
sent free sample, carefully sealed in A
plain package so that its recipient need
have no fear OF embarrassment or pub
licity. Readers are requested to writs
without delay.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04
A Double Sign Board.

Nearly every one knows, says an
English paper, the little public house
at Lands End, the sign board of which
bears on one side THE Last Inn in
England" and on the other THE First
Inn in England" but it may not Ne so
generally known that at Witcombe.
near Gloucester, there is an inn at the
bottom of hill which also has a dou-
BILE sign board, with these two inscrip-
tons:
Before the hill you do go up
Step in and have a cheering cup.
And on the reverse side:
You're down the hill, all danger
past,
Come in and drink a friendly glass.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04
Religion and Duty.

When the late Bishop Phillips
Brooks of Massachusetts sailed for Eu-
rope on his last trip abroad, friend
jokingly remarked that while abroad
he might discover some new religion
to bring home with him, says the New
York Times.
But be careful of it, Bishop Brooks"
remarked a listening friend. 1T may
be difficult to get your new religion
through the Custom House"
Il guess not" replied the Bishop,
laughingly, for we may take it for
granted that any new religion popular
enough to import will have no duties
attached to it,"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

Prince Henry seems to have become
wonderfully popular with the masses
in Germany since his visit to the
United States, during which he shook
hands with and talked to laborers
and other common" people. There is
a movement in Lubbock TO make Henry
the candidate of the middle classes
for seat in the Reichstag. 1t will
be something of a novelty to see a
prince of the royal blood sitting in
the legislative body as the represen,
tative of the commoners.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

There seems to be some misappre-
hension respecting the identity of
Thomas Mast of New Jersey who has
been appointed to succeed Mr.. DeLeon
Of Georgia as consul general at Quay
aquil. Ecuador. Most of the news
papers jumped to the conclusion that
the appointee was that Thomas Mast
who became famous as the political
cartoonist of Harpers Weekly during
the Civil War and for several years
thereafter. It appears, however, ac-
cording to the New York Sun, that
the Mast in the case is the son of the
cartoonist. The elder Mast is now
in the neighborhood of sixty-fve years
OF age, and has been in retirement
for several years. 1t is said, however,
that President Roosevelt was influ-
enced to appoint Mr.. Mast to the Office
because of personal respect for his
father, from whose cartoons he learn
ed politics." The Mast pictures will
be remembered by middle-aged and
older persons. They were intensely
partisan and often extremely bitter,
especially during war and reconstruc-
ton times. 1t is said that Mast orig
mated the tiger as the symbol of Tam
many Hall, and that it was his pic
lures that led to the Identification and
capture of William NJ. Tweed after his
fight from the city that he looted
The young Mr.. Mast is credited with
having inherited a good deal of his
fathers talent for drawing.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04
A INDICATION ron TAMMANY.

In the municipal campaign in New
York City last year it was asserted
that Tammany was guilty of all sorts
of extravaganza, and that if the re-
form element were put in power there
would be a very great reduction in
the city's expenses, and a correspond
ingly great reduction in the rate of
taxation.
Tammany was turned out of power,
and Mr.. Lowe and his reform friends
were given control of the city. And
what is the result so far as taxes and
expenditures are concerned? The bud
get for carrying on the city for the
year 1902 has just been adopted by
the Board of Estimate and Apportion-
ment 1t amounts to sos, 500. That
is larger budget than was ever
adopted by Tammany Board of Es-
innate and Apportionment, and is
larger by almost $650900 than the
amount estimated for by the Tamnany
Board for 1902, before Tammany went
out of power, and at a time when the
board had every reason to think that
city.
There does not seem to be any COM
plant of the amount of the budget.
1t is fair to assume therefore that there
are no extravagant appropriations in
the budget.
This showing must be very graft
flying to the Tammany leaders. They
have been abused for years for their
extravaganza in the handling of the
city's revenues. and the taxpayers
thought no doubt when the reform
administration went into power that
there would be a very marked reduc-
ton in the rate of taxation. The
chances are that if the reformers re-
main in power it will not be long
before their expenditures will great
ly exceed those of the Tammany ad-
ministrations. About the only COM
ment made by the Republican papers
is that New York is not city that
can be run cheap"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

A small boy went to church alone
last Sunday and heard a sermon on
the character and deeds of the strong
man of Israel, says the Commercial
Advertiser. He came home much dis
gusted. II didn't like the sermon
for a cent" he said. 1T was all about
Sampson, not a word about Dewey
or Roosevelt or Funston or Bob Evans
or any of the nthar fellows"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

Boston is plunged into the depths Of
woe. The beef trust did it. When
beef scared slyward Boston laughed
What do we care how high beef goes, &"
said Boston, have we not beans? And
are not beans the staff of life?" Forth
with Boston began to eat beans more
ravenously than ever. And then came
the thunderbolt. The price of beans
shot up. The restaurants were asked
to explain. The price of meat is so
high that we are selling nothing but
beans" they said. land we have got
to get profits somewhere or go out of
business"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04
90 PAGES.
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

INULA ~ NEH NV LII lOLMLNAS
Military Characterization Artillery.
to Celebrate Its 116th Anniversary.
Meetings-Union Clubs.
Special Notices-Ship Notices, ]. F.
Minis & Co., Consignees; Dayton Cell
ing Fans, Electric Construction Co.;
Ryans Business College; Gut Rate
War, Masonic Temple Pharmacy;
Furniture Repaired and Upholstered,
Louis Boriss; Our $25 Suits to Order,
Finninger Co; Country Homes and
Acetylene Gas, Cornwell & Chapman;
Mondays Sale Postponed, c. H. Dor
sett, Auctioneer; p. p. P; Andrew
Hanley Company; Extra Inducements
at Court House Sales Tuesday, c. H.
Dorsett; Notice to Superior Court Ju-
rors; Bicycles and Sundries, G.. w.
Thomas; Jas. j. Joyce; Fine Beer.
Business Notices-Electric Supply
Co.; Red Cross Laundry; The Ray
Talking Machine Club, The Ray Co.
Political Announcement-Thom F.
Thompson. Tax Collector.
Cigars-Humboldt Cigars.
The Wheel to Ride-Wm. & H. H.
baltimore.
Buy the Best Ice Cream Freezer
Thos. West & Co.
A Nickel Harvest-Mills Novelty
Company.
Silk and Dress Goods-At Gutman's.
Cool, Comfortable Clothing for Men
and Boys-Metropolitan Clothing Com
pany.
Our Latest Snap-Chas. Marks.
Patrician Shoes for Women-Leopold
Adler.
1t Has Always Been Our Rule-At
Collats.
=. Mercury-B. II. Levy & Bro.
If You Can Afford to Pay-B. H.
Levy & Bro.
Coupons-Given by the Merchants
Retail Association.
A Gas Range-Mutual Gas Light
Company.
Laundry-E. & w. Laundry.
Our Mail Departmental Jackson's.
Auction Sales-Lots on Park Ave-
nue., by John L. Archer, Auctioneer; 81
Acres, More or Less, by I. D. LaRoche,
Auctioneer.
Shoes-J. X. Orr Shoe Company.
Corsets-American Lady Corsets;
Thompson's Glove-Fitting Corsets.
Whiskeys-Yellow Label Whiskey;
Murray Hill Club Whiskey.
What She Likes-Byck Bros.
Specials-At Morrison & Co.'S.
Pianos, Organs, Etc.-McArthur &
Sons Co.
Electric Paste-stearn's Electric
Paste.
Races-Grand Opening of the New
Coliseum, May S.
Railroad Schedules-Plant SYSTEM;
Seaboard Air Line Railway.
Foot Ease Is Hearts Ease-Globe
Shoe Company.
Sunday Afternoon Concert-At Ca
sino.
Not Tear Do We Shed-T. A. Bry-
son. Columbia Agent.
Special Offerings-At Ecksteins.
Standard Electric Fans-Electric
Construction Co.
Cream Freezers-Allen Bros.
Real Estate-Rivers & Gibbes.
our New Observation-Disclosures Phar-
macy.
Cut Rate Medicines-At Rowlinskis.
Patent Medicines Below Cost-At
Shuptrine's.
Excursion-Grand Excursion to Sea
To-day.
Picnics-Annual Picnic German Aid
and Benevolent Society at Tybee. May
s; Picnic, Camp IS, Confederate Vete-
rams Association at Tybee. May 8;
They Save You Money, Too-Mutual
Gas Light Company.
& Meyer.
Summer Underwear-At the Bee
Hive.
Tailored Suits, Skirts, Waists and
Wrappers-Leopold Adler.
The Peoples Store-Foye & Eckstein.
Beef-Liebig's Extract of Beef.
acknowledgements Wine of Cardui;
Humphreys Pile Cure; Cuticura Rem
edies; Bood Balm; S. S. S.; Lydia
Pinkham's Vegetable Pills; Stuart
Gin and Buchu; Mothers Friend; Hos
letters Stomach Bitters; Mrs
Summers: DR.. Hathaway Company
Graybeard.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted; Employment Wanted
For Rent; For Sale; Lost Personal;
Miscellaneous.
The weather.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

Crowninshield didn't leave Washing
ton until Marconi had demonstrated
that wireless messages could be sent
hundreds of miles out to sea. The
country, therefore, is safe.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

Mrs. Twitter-"Oh. I've no patience
with my husband sometimes. He says
that women have no heads for bust
nessi" Mrs. Flutter-"And after the
splendid work you have done at our
church fair! Where is the man. ia
like to know who could sell goods al
three hundred per cent. proft2 Women
have no heads for business, indeed"
Boston Transcript.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04
The weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair weather. variable winds; and
for Eastern Florida. partly cloudy
weather, variable winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

In New England a horse thief has
confessed that he and his partners
have stolen more than 100 horses be-
tween Boston and New York. No such
record as that could have been made
in New Mexico or Arizona.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

One of the most appropriately named
men engaged in any line of business
is Undertaken Cofinbury, who buries
collins in an Ohio town.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

Should the mercury continue to climb
for the next week as it did during the
past week. the congressman would be
apt to drop the Philippine inquiry.
The subject is too warm to be handled
with comfort in higher temperature.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04

The beef trust has knocked out ali
Of those smart little papers on How
a Newly Married Couple May Fare
sumptuously on 81. 20 per Week"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-04
WARM SPRINGS,
Bath County, Virginia.

Are now open for guests. For circulars
and terms address Eubank & Glover
Warm Springs, Bath county. Va.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-06

gan 10 earn small items Of surplus above
the amount annually divided. In TX We
recast the premiums and reserves for All
future business on a basis or 3 Instead OF
4 per cent. interest, which cut down the
margin for expenses and Increased the
amount required for reserve. NotWith-
10 S6.O59.l56. II was then deemed proper
10 literally revise the scale OF division. but
the surplus continued to increase until loS-
when II stood at $.52l.S9. Since then II
has been somewhat drawn upon each year
10 maintain the l-Ong-continued scale OF
dividend. How long IL may be necessary 10
do this. II IL long remains necessary. OF how
tar we may deem IL wise and prudent 10
continue the process. We cannot predict.
1t IS a just and proper as well as the in
tended use or past accumulation or surplus
so long as IL is safe. When IL approaches
the questionable point, We shall stop and
frankly go upon a scale that squares with
the facts and conditions likely TO govern
the future.
We could spare over S2,5c0.c00 from our
present surplus Of sen. 040. anG yet have
as large a percentage 10 assets remaining
as when we made the last cut In ISL. say
ing nothing OF over S2.4O.O00 greater CON-
parative strength in our reserves by reason
OF the 8 per cent. interest assumption.
We are maintaining the low cost OF bust
ness: the sales of real estate will gradually
reduce taxes and expenses and improve the
surplus income, and we shrunk our surplus
last year only SlS0.30S.
And our situation respecting the use OF
surplus differs materially from that OF
most companies in this, that the bulk OF
theirs Is held under a moral though not a
legal or contract lien for the deferred dlvi-
dends hoped for by those who outstay the
next one TO twenty years. 1t is not 50 with
us. IL is not held as a speculation for a
few. but for the benefit OF the business as
a whole.
We ask careful scrutiny Of the following
record Of the operations OF fifty-six years;
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-06
Resolutions and Bills.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The following
resolutions and bills were introduced in the
Senate to-day:
By Senator Mcmillan: Directing the attor-
ney-general TO bring suit to determine the
constitutionality of the retrocession of that
portion of the original District of Columbia
which was coded TO the United States by
the State of Virginia.
BY Senator Hoar: Bill increasing the sal
aries of Senators and members of the
House to 1850 and the salaries of the
speaker of the House and the president
pro. TEN. Of the Senate to SIS, 900 each.
By Senator Foraker: Bill to amend the
law requiring railroad trains to be equipped
with automatic couplers, so as to provide
explicitly that it shall apply TO all vehicles
engaged in interstate or those
engaged in business in the Territories.
By Senator Mason: Bill providing for
the in the mails of sums Of
money of one dollar or less by postage
stamp certificates, to be used in lieu Of
postage stamps; also a bill authorizing the
construction of a gunboat Of the Helena
type of about 1,50O tons displacement, to
cost not more than 500. 900, Ito be used.
when not otherwise needed, as a training
ship for the naval militia of the several
States bordering on the Mississippi river"
Senator Pritchard, from the committee
on forest reservations, to-day presented a
written report on the bill appropTiating
s., OOO,O 900 for the creation of a national forest
reserve In the south Appalachian region, as
authorized by the committee several days
ago. The report urges the establishment Of
the reserve for the protection Of the tim
Der and the conservation Of the waters OF
the land embraced within its proposed area,
placing the damage done by floods arising
in that area in the year 1901 at $l5,0 00, 900. 1t
is claimed that the land needed can be pur-
chased for from - TO 50 an acre.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-06
AMERICAN ANIMALS BEST.
Imported Horses and Cattle Diseased,
Secretary Wilson Says.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. SIN a paper
read before the Central Short-horn Breed
ers' Association at its annual meeting here
to-day James Wilson. secretary of agri-
culture. states that it has been found tu-
berculosis is being spread by pure-breed
imported animals purchased TO improve the
common cattle OF this country, and sug-
gests the propriety of shutting down on the
importation Of cattle and sheep, following
the example Of Great Britain. Chambers.
too, he said. was an imported disease. and
he suggested that it might also be well to
exclude foreign horses from the American
markets.
Secretary Wilson spoke against the sentl-
ment that we must have fresh blood from
Europe 10 maintain the standard of Ameri-
can herds. and ne gave II as his belief tina
the sentiment had no other foundation than
tradition and personal interest. The idea" "
he continued, that foreign cattle as a
class are better in the show ring, or have
greater potency than our cattle, is a fallacy
that the American breeder should set about
dispelling now and for All time
he told or the surprising increase in the
number OF cattle in the United States. and
stated that the statistics indicated that il
Is pre-eminently the development of the
home market that has benefited the cattle
industry. He explained at some length
how American cattle are now being ex-
cluded from Argentina because English
cattle have foot and mouth disease. and
yet the United States permits the importa-
ton OF British cattle. We are large buvers
OF Argentina, and he thought we ought to
insist upon our cattle being admitted there
Mr.. Wilson was unable 10 be present. and
his paper was read by George M. Rommel-
an expert from the Department OF Agri-
culture.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-06

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Attorney Cen
eral Knox to-day ave a preliminary hear
ing to the case Of Judge Noyes, of the
United States Court for the Nome dis
trict OF Alaska. who recently was convicted
Of contempt by the United States Court
Of Appeals at a Francisco. The attorney
general has the record of the court under
consideration, and ii is expected that
within a week or two he will advise the
President as to whether Judge Noyes has
been guilty Of such offenses while judge in
Alaska as to render his further service in
tha capacity undesirable, and IL so whether
the offenses were of so grave a character
as TO warrant his removal. There were
present at to-day's hearing Mr.. McLaugh-
lin. counsel for Judge Noyes, Mr.. Ralston
and Mr.. Brewster, representing the Wild
Goose Mining Company. which was a party
to the trial at San Francisco. and Mr..
Frost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-06
DID NOT ASK INDEPENDENCE.
General wOodford Replies to an Ar
ticIe by Ex-senator Chandler.

General WOOdfOrd Replies to an Ar
ticIe by Ex-senator Chandler.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-A copy of an arti-
Gle by ex-senator Chandler reviewing the
diplomatic incidents which preceded the
Spanish-American war was shown to Gen
eraI Stewart L. Woodford, ex-minister to
Spain, and after reading it, he said: Il have
no idea that the public will be interested
in this matter Of ancient history. If so, the
simple answer is: 1t is true. l never de-
manded independence. 1t was absolutely i'm
possible TO do so. 1t would have resulted
in my being ordered away within twenty
four hours and have precipitated the war
sooner than it came. I never had any in
struction to demand independence. The only
thing looking to it was a suggestion of the
President for my own guidance. L answered
that independence of Cuba was. under the
Spanish Constitution, impossible without
prior sanction of the Cortes. which was not
then in session and would not meet for a
month. Thereafter my instructions looked
TO an armistice.
a to the purchase. the thing never was
in the remotest way suggested TO me by the
administration. on my own nook | sounded
one or two persons at Madrid and found
that as impTacticable as the suggestion Of
independence; And so never suggested it
10 the Spanish government. Meantime l did
suggest, having clearly in my mind the
question of independence or Of cession by
sale. an armistice during the rainy season,
believing that If l could induce Spain to
that step then influence at work during the
following six months would make the next
step possible, tO-wit. either Independence
or cession TO the United States by sale. 1t
is much easier three years afterwards. and
coOlly looking over the records in a COM
Portable study, TO say what might have been
done or what ought TO have been done. 1t
is mighty easy to forget the strain under
which the minister Of the United States
was devoting himself, heart and soul. to
what was. as everybody knows. the very
first wish OF the President and that was the
avoidance OF war and the preservation Of
peace"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-06

from and what had been paid for them.
ut does not appear from the record he
said. that the money was honestly ex-
pended. This whole business Is entirely too
sIipshod and slack-twisted for an honest
government.
1t was explained by Mr.. Hale that the
vessels were small craft acquired probably
from private parties and had been con-
yerted into g~Unboats. They were being
used for patrol duty among the islands.
Mr.. Bacon urged that the item be held
I'D temporarily until definite information
could be furnished.
Mr.. Teller said there probably would be
a degree OF loOseness about all the ac-
counts coming from the Philippines, but
he was not particularly opposed to the
pending amendment. as it did not appear
at all doubtful that money actually had
been expended. The amendment was
agreed to.
An amendment providing that no change
in the architectural features Of the Capitol
building or in the landscape features of the
Capitol grounds should be made without
the approval Of Congress was adopted.
After further debate the bill was passed
and the Senate adjourned.