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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

Now, whenever my blacksnake gets
away in the house, among boxes or
books or heaps of paper, he never
shows any change in his demeanor so
it is perfectly evident that the mem
DRY of his original free life in the
woods has remained alive for at least
four years; because, in all that time,
he had never once been allowed to re-
fleet his recollection among the bushes
as he did in Westchester.
A reasonable conclusion to draw
from all have written here is that
snakes are very slow to get new ideas
and are very tenacious of old ones.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

have ever fondled. If I open his cage
on a cold day. as soon as he sees ny
hand at the glass undoing the fastnn-
irgs, he glides gently over to meet it.
l leave my hand there, and out he
winds, softly and slowly. up my arm
to the shoulder. When his cold tongue
points touch my warm throat he sill les
around and around my neck until he
gets hin self comfortably settled, and
there he stays enjoying the heat Oft
en- when he does this 1 go back to
my chair and allow him to stay 50
coiled for half an hour or longer.
Sometimes. indeed, whe.. | am reading,
l forSet that he is there. The other
Gay 7 shocked a caller by going to
the door, oblivious of : lie kind of era
vat La on.
Racing After Food.
Lately my visitors have all learned
10 ask me before leaving to "please
feed the blacksnake." because he will
follow me for his food. If l draw
away the glass slide from the front of
his cage and hold up a garter snake
weighing by the tail, he will glide out
of his cage and chase me through the
house to get it.
A few weeks ago he shot out with
such force that I may almost say that
he leaped from his cage out on the
floor Of the snake room, pursuing me
to the door, and thence into the hall
way. I passed out on the stoop and
he followed vigorously. and kept UP
the pursuit after me down the steps
outside, over the short grass in front,
and then back again into the house.
When 1 went into the snake room he
still kept after me. I then got up on
chair, and up he got. too, and tried
to climb up my legs; but he was I'M
able TO do this. so one of my visitors
handed me a long stick, which 1 held
with my left hand, one end of it rest
ing on the chair. He climbed it TO
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

''The ever popular Sunday excursions
via Atlantic Coast Line to Charleston.
S. C. s1.OO for the round trip. Tickets
to be sold for trains leaving Savan-
nah 1870 a. m. and 700 a. m. Return
ing, leave Charleston at 500 p. m. and
:35 p. m. Visit the Isle of Palms and
enjoy the delightful sea breezes. I'D.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
THE SNAKE THAT
REVERTED TO SAVAGERY.

Strange Study in Ophidian Temperament and Memorv
Proving That Snakes, Like UnciviIzed Men, Ca1 Get
veneer OF Domesticty, But Do Not the Wild faint
Out of Their Blood.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
$3.50 savannah TO Macon and Return
via Seaboard Air Line Railway.

Tickets will be sold for train leaving
Savannah, Union Station, at 7:10 a.
m, railroad time. Monday. Aug. II,
and WIN be limited for return until
Aug. lad,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
S1.1O Savannah to Fernandina via
Scaboard Air Line Railway.

ton 500 a. m, railroad time. Ticket
office, No. Bull street. Phone Cad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
Excursions 10 Jacksonville, st. Au-
guEtiRe and Tampa, August 4th.

Cheap excursion to Jacksonville, St
Augustine and Tampa, Aug 4, via
Atlantic Coast Line. Fare to Jack
sonville 50, st. Augustine $2.75, Tam
pa S. Tickets to Jacksonville and St.
Augustine good to return on any train
up to Aug. 5. Tickets to Tampa good
to return on any train from Tampa up
to and including Aug. 6.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

The Gen" Lamar who is running
for Congress in the Third Florida dis
trict is not a bloodthirsty warrior, as
some might suppose, but an attorney
general, one of those harmless news
paper generals" that are so often
created out of the peaceful controller
general. the surveyor general and the
solicitor general. 1t reminds me, as
President Lincoln used to say of my
experience years ago with a lot of bogus
railroad generals. 1t was coming from
Atlanta on the Central Railroad, and
Rogers, Haines and Maxwell were on
board, sitting together. A gentleman
came in who knew them and called
each one general and treated them
with marked respect. When / got up
and went to the rear of the car
stranger stopped me and asked who
those distinguished generals were
"Oh," l said "the gentlemen / just
left! The ruddy-faced, genial-looking
one is Col William Rogers, the gen.
eral superintendent of this road; the
more MISUNDERSTANDING one is Col
Henry S. Haines, the general superin-
tendent of the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway, and the one that
looks so much like Gen. John B. Cor
don is Col D. E. Maxwell of the Flor
ida Central and Peninsular Railway"
A broad smile spread over the strang-
er's face as he got a general idea
of the situation, and he replied: "Ah.
thank you l thought they were gen
erals, but it seems they are only
colonels."
The item about Mrs jefferson Davis
and Charles Francis Adams. copied in
to the Morning News Wednesday, is
very misleading. If Mrs. d. admitted
that her husband was on his way to
lead some new fight against the I'm
ion," when captured, she admitted what
was not true, although she may think
it was. Only a few weeks ago | had
to correct this distinguished lady in
her statement that Lee offered his
sword to Grant. but 1t was magnan-
imously declined. Mrs. Davis has had
"a world of trouble" and is in feeble
health, and should not be considered a
reliable authority in this case. 1t is
true. however. that President Davis
did not want to give up the contest:
that Lieut.. Gen. Wade Hampton alone
supported him in this matter and Of
fered 70 command a big cavalry force
TO escort him safely TO the Trans Mis-
sissippi Department, where no surren-
ders had yet taken place Of confeder-
Continued on Page Nineteen.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

Capt. Herbert Deakyne. United
States Engineer Corps, at Tampa, in
very pleasant and complimentary let
ter, asks me if I did not overlook col
ored cadets Alexander and Young,
both graduates and army officers, in
my reference to Flipper as the only
one of his race to go through West
Point and into the army in credita-
BILE manner and without trouble" I
did not mention any other colored ca
diets by name-Iny only purpose be-
ing to show that the "Jordon" of West
Point is hard road to trabble" for
the negro cadet and that Flipper was
the sole representative of his race who
made the trip and didn't get "footsore
and weary" Alexander of Arkansas,
made the best record next to Flipper,
of Georgia, but had 334 dement's the
last two years of his course. Young
of Kentucky, was turned back in
June. 1885, and would not have grad
uated but for the persistent appeals
of his congressman in his behalf Lieut.
Alexander died in 1894, but Young is
now a captain in the Ninth (Colored)
Cavalry. l am thankful to Capt
Deakyne (of Delaware), a star grad
uate of West Point, for correcting the
wrong impression made by my letter.
I should have made my statement full
er and clearer, but am compelled to
condense.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

s1.1o TO Fernandina and return every
Sunday via Seaboard Air Line Railway.
--ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

Are operated by Seaboard Air Line
Railway on their trains 81 and 81, be-
tween Savannah and Hamlet, serving
lunch and dinner "a la carte."-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
Excursions to jacksonville, st. Au-
justine and Tampa, August 4tb.

Cheap excursion to Jacksonville, st.
Augustine and Tampa. Aug. 4, via
Atlantic Coast Line. Fare to Jack
sonville 50, St. Augustine s2.75, Tam
pa IS. Tickets to Jacksonville and st.
Augustine good TO return on any train
up to Aug. 5. Tickets to Tampa good
to return on any train from Tampa UP
to and including Aug. Sad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
TWO CONFEDERATE SPIES OF THE
NAME OF SAM DAVIS.

Some Newspaper Historians Criti-
cfsed-West Point "A Hard Road TO
Travel for Negro Cadet-Gen. La
mar Not n Man of War But Man
tween Charles Francis Adams and
Mrs. Jefferson Davis Criticised.
Fault Found With Our National
SOngs-Other Matters of General
Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, Aug.
2.-There seems to be some confusion
about the Sam Davises. There were
two Confederate spies of that name.
Sam Davis, who was hung in Tennes
see, who is the one of whom l have
written so often, and Lieut.. Sam B.
Davis of Delaware, who was to have
been hung in Ohio, but a reprieve and
the close of the war saved his life.
He was distantly related to President
Davis and was a young man of fine
education and pleasing manners. He
became a bearer of dispatches between
the Confederate states authorities and
the Canadian refugees who were plot
ting to capture Illinois, Ohio and In
diana for the Confederacy. 1t was IA
nous as the Northwestern Conspir-
acy," and occupies a conspicuous place
in the history of the Secret Service"
of the United States. Lieut.. Davis was
captured at Newark, Ohio, being rec
ognized by some returned Union sol
der who had known him at Ander-
sonville, Ga. prison camp, where he
had served on Gen. Winders staff He
was game to the last" and declared
entail friends saved him. The other
and nobler Sam Davis went to his
death unflinchingly
The Atlanta Constitution, in it's re-
port of the Walker monument unveil-
ing, says Lieut.. Gen. A. P. Stewart.
C. S. A, lied the famous attack on
the fort at Altoona" and refers to the
revival song, Hold the Fort, For 1 Am
Coming" as being inspired by that
event Now, be it known, that the
famous attack on Allatoona-not AL
toona--was made by Maj. Gen. Samuel
G. French, c. S. A., now a resident of
Pensacola, Fla. Gen. Stewart was
commander of the corps, to which
French's division belonged, but he was
not in the Allatoona fight, the COM
mand devolving upon Gen. French.
l am compelled for want of
space to omit several important mat
ters of current interest. / note that
Success, a New York magazine has
made a great Failure" in it's prize
list of Fifty Greatest Living Citizens"
AS a sample of this failure, Lieut.. Gen
Nelson. A. Miles Is chosen instead of
Lieut.. Gen. J. M. Schofeld, the brain
est and most cultured soldier that ever
held that high rank in our army And
then think of putting the yellow jour-
nalist, w. r. Hearst. ahead of White
law Reid. The list of statesmen from
Roosevelt to Chief Justice Fuller,
would create laughter in a Bowery va
rIety show.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

BY G. R. O'REILLY,
Americas Great Author ON the Ophidan Kin gdom.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
800 Savannah TO Brunswick via
Seaboard Air Line Railway.

Every Sunday morning. Tickets on
sale for 500 a. m. train. The shortest
and quickest route. See schedule.
Ticket office. No. Z Bull street. Phone
No. 2S.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

Continued on Page Nineteen.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
SIGNAL for All Natlopa.

For some time novel alarm signal
has been in use on the Alps, and so
successful has It proved that several
European journals age now suggesting
that it be made international instead
of merely local.
The signal consists of a shout or
whistle or a gunshot, which may be
repeated six times. A traveller who
loses his way on the Alps can also give
the alarm by brandishing a lighted
lantern six times at regular intervals.
The essential feature of the signal is
that the shout or the whistle or the
gunshot must be repeated six times
no more and no less. Anyone who
hears such signal is bound TO respond
Immediately.
Before, however he goes to the as
sistance of the person in need, he must
let him know that his appeal for help
has been heard. and this he is to do
either by shouting or whistling three
times, or by firing three shots.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
SOME SURPRISES IN MOURNING.
I've Phases of the English Wemss's
way of ManIfostinE Grief.

Way of ManifOsting Grief.
"One of the things that every little
while gives me surprise In England
is the vagaries of conventional
mourning as practiced in English So
ciety." says an American woman who
has lived much in London Il never
quite know what to expect from an
English woman in mourning.
Last season over there r was CIV
ing a dinner and confided to an Eng
lish friend with whom j was quite
intimate and who was in deep mourn
ing my regret that she could not be
present.
why. my DEAR" she said, I'll
come directly, but must dine up
stairs"
so. on the night in question she.
in dazzling effective dinner dress of
black gauze. decollete and sleeveless,
was served with dinner in the library
while the rest of my guests sat
through the courses in the dining
room.
When the ladies went to the draw
ing-room Mrs. G. was there. took cot
fee with us gaily and finished the
evening with the gentlemen as they
strolled in from their cigars.
= This should have prepared me for
any inconsistency. But not very long
afterward l could with difficulty re-
press a smile at the conduct of an
other English woman in mourning
whom l met at the house Of friend.
A table of bridge was being made up
and the hostess asked her to join.
Yes, dear" she replied. caressing-
ly. but you must put me at mourn
ing table
In other words, she would only
play with persons who were in be-
reavement like herself. New York
| Sun.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
Aae NO WOMEN DIAMOND curTEas.
said TO Lack Patience, Jndgmss $50;
Nerve Necessary. 49,

said TO Lack Patience, Jndgmss asAi
Nsrve Necessary. 49,
When the man behind the desk
found that his caller was woman be
yas visibly annoyed.
What does she want? A job?" he
asked of the Office boy. The smart at
tendant said he didn't know, and the
visitor, being within conversational
distance, volunteered the information
that such was not her Grand The
man looked relieved.
I'm glad of that" he said. I'VE
receive SO many applicants for situa-
ton from women who cannot be
accommodated that I've got so l
dread the swish of petticoat."
Don't you like women" question
ed the visitor.
las women" was the reply, but
not as diamond cutters. If | did like
them in that capacity l could easily
have a banner class made up of the
sex. SO solicitous are they to secure
admission into the firm on the lowiy
footing of apprentices. ! don't know
what has come over the women iate-
ly to make them so anxious to try
their hand at this business. In other
branches of the jewelry trade women
have made some unqualified successes.
Not one of Ewes daughters, from
royalty down, l should say. that isn't
an artist in the wearing of diamonds
many are well versed in the tricks or
buying and selling them, while others
give excellent satisfaction in polish
ing, setting and preparing them for
the market But when it comes to
the real cutting Of the stones they
lack the patience. judgment an3
steadiuess of nerve which constitute
the experts stock in trade 1t would
seem that diamonds have the same
effect upon the woman who wishes
to shape them that they do on the
new engagement ring-puts them In q
tremor of excitement. Hence d1a-
mond cutters are invariably men
New York Press.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
STILL HAVE BELIEF in WITCHES
REM arkable Case of Superstition Re-
ported from England.


ported from England.
Superstition is not yet dead. A few
days ago lady living in Cornwall re
ceiyed letter from a woman dwelling
twenty miles away in a lonely coast
village, IN whose house she had fire.
quently spent some months of the
summer months. The letter was not
we'll written but the woman can hard
ly be old enough to have escaped COM
pulSory education altogether. Yet she
wrote 10 say that there was somebody
in that coast village who had been ill
wished" and was in consequence likely
TO die. She had heard that in the
town to which she had addressed her
letter there was q skilful white witch
who, for a consideration, wOuld be
willing to provide the sufferer with
a charm which would be a sovereign
cure. She asked the lady to endeaVor
to discover the name and address of
the benefactor. That such letter
should be written in these civilized
days is not specially surprising, but
the instances are not worth noting,
for those who have had most expert
ence in the study of the superStitious
beliefs of the peasantry know well that
this way there are generally two or
three vastly more Interesting which
are never disclosed except in moments
of extreme emotion and panic.-Lon-
don Post
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

If the question were asked. why do
the rhinoceri grow their horns upon
the nose, instead of on the head, like
other animals? the answer would prob
ably be that they require them for root
digging and such like purposes as well
as for war, and the nasal position rem
ders them more generally useful than
if they were fixed on the top OF the
skull. At present the rhinoceros is
the only quadruped which has horn
of this kind, but study Of fossil mann
mails shows that he is the sole sur
vivor of avast number OF creatures
whose natural weapons were bu1t on
the same general plan. In fact, in the
days of the rhinoceros' early forefath-
ers horns of this kind We're probably
much more common than those such
as we see on the heads of oxen. an
telopes and sheep. In the course of
ages the fashion in wearing horns has
undergone a radical change, but the
rhinoceros who is essentially q con-
servative beast, has stuck to the older
method. Pearson Magazine.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

This Is the season of the year when
each congressman receives from the
agricultural department several thou
sand packages of garden seeds. When
a congressman's district consists of
nothing but houses, and where there
are no back yards, like Representative
Ruppert's bailiwick, the seeds are trad
ed off for public documents. Mr. Rup-
pert, however, sent few packages to
his New York city constituents as an
experiment. Some of the seeds went
to people living in a model tenement.
A few days ago Mr.. RUPERT received
a letter from the owner of the tene-
ment. please do not send any more
seeds" he wrote. The people in my
building have converted all their bath
tubs into gardens. The scheme is all
right so far as irrigation is concerned,
but it is a little tough on the tubs. -
Washington Post.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
The Horse Reporter.

The return of Pere Hyacinthe to
Rome and his preaching to great Prot
estant congregations recall an unpub-
lished episode of his visit to San Fran
cisco years ago. He then spoke only
French, and a local journal sent to in
teryiew him Piercy Wilson. an eccen-
trio Englishman. who had been bred
for the church. but who had made "A
speciality of the theaters and turf.
After a general talk on his visit and
his impressions of California, the con-
versation shifted to religious topics
The intimate familiarity of the repor-
ter with theological questions seemed
to amaze Pere Hyacinthe, and when
the interviewer rose to go, he said with
with puzzled look in his face:
Pardon me, but you have shc9sn
such astonishing familiarity with
questions that only a theologian usual
ly understands that l should like to
know with what special department of
your newspaper you are connected
"Oh," said old Wilson. with dry hu-
NOR, I'm the horse reporterv'-New
York Times.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09
CALLED ST. AUeUsTiNE's CHAIR;
Bat Considerable Doubt Is Expressed in
AntiauAriak Circles.

Ant4QaofA0L
In antiQua-i an circles considerable
doubt exists as to the authenticity OF
the chair at present in the Municipal
Museum at Canterbury. England,
which the Bishop of Hereford wishes
to be returned to its original quarters
in the chancel of the village church at
Stanford Bishop. The chair Is suppos-
cd to have been made by st. Augustine
when spreading Christianity in the
Herefordshire district. 1t was diScov-
cred few years ago by the late Dr..
James Johnston. and is claimed TO be
the most perfect example of ancient
British carpentry in existence.
The chair is made of roughly hewn
oak boards fastened together with
wooden pegs. 1t is oblong in shape,
measuring thirty-two inches in
breadth and twenty-five inches in
width. The seat is twenty-six inches
in length and eighteen inches in
width. and appears to have been origi-
nally two inches in thickness. 1t is
movable, like the lid of box, the
hinges being two round lemons In
serted into mortise holes in the rear
posts. The construction Of the chair
is similar in many respects to an old
Roman solium. The chair may date
from the year $50, but it is doubtful
il Augustine used it.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

A young lady, now a resident OF Mil
waukee but who at one time lived
in Waukesha. met young man whose
mon order Whenever he saw her
on the street all thoughts of business
were Immediately banished from his
mind, and the time never seemed to
fly so quickly as when spent in the
fair ones company Unfortunately,
however, he was extremely nearsight-
ed, and could recognize the object OF
his alteration only when she came
within close range.
Whether it was a bit of foresight on
her part or not, is not known. but one
summers day this young lady pur-
chased a silk parasol of a brilliant
emerald hue. The young man had
cause for great rejoicing, for wherever
his lady love went this vivid green
were the interviews this bit of finery
brought about.
One sweltering day the young man
thought he espied the signal which
revealed her wherea bouts. 1t was
some three or four blocks away and
he started for it on run. He called
her by name, but without avail, which
forts. The perspiration was running
down his face, when he stopped before
a flaring green poster on a billboard
which he had taken for the parasol OF
his adored one.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-09

The last time Rudyard Kipling was
in Cape Town he discovered a military
hospital in the neighborhood which
was without bandages, and very badly
in need of them. The shops OF the town
had lots of bandages for sale.
He mentioned the matter to friend
and said he would supply the want.
Whereupon his friend rejoiled that he
would pay for all the bandages that
Kipling would take to the hospital.
2. wagon was loaded, and then Mr.
Kipling learned that, according to the
regulations, d hospital was not allowed
to receive supplies from private indi-
vidualS.
We'll" said the author, II will dump
the packages on the pavement before
The hospital door, and then go in and
tell them to come out and clear up the
rubbish. Perhaps i'll that way they can
manage to smuggle them into the
building without having any red
tape"
Somehow or other the goods were
smuggled into the hospital.