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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

A year hence it will be possible to
form valuable opinion respecting the
wisdom of that feature Of the new con-
vict law which permits of the working
of short-term felony convicts on the
public roads. 1t will take at least that
much time to get the scheme into
smooth-running order and to demon
strate whether the movement was wise
or otherwise. Just at present the stu
alton is somewhat beclouded by the
varying and high estimates that have
been made with respect TO the cost to
the counties that will employ conVicts
on their roads. Some of these esti-
mates have been higher than $500 per
convict including the sum that will be
lost to the school fund and the amount
that must be raised for guarding and
other expenses attached to a chain
gang. Some of these high estimates
would appear to have been made for
the purpose of discouraging such coun-
ties as had an idea of going in for a
system of good roads made with con-
vict labor. If that particular feature
of the new lease system could be brok-
en- down, there would be a greater
number of convicts to be leased: and
Chairman Turner has expressed it as
his opinion that the lease or "5abor
selling plan is the best that has been
yet devised.
Meanwhile a number of the counties
are going ahead with arrangements to
work their quotas of the short-term
felony convicts on the roads. They
will try the scheme and learn from ex-
perience whether or not it is a good
thing. Should it be found too costly,
they can drop it later. 1t is worth a
fair and unprejudiced trial, anyhow:
and it is certain that each county that
works its convicts on the roads as
much as one year will obtain the nu-
c1eus of a system of good roads that
can be added to as the opportunity
arises.
We look on this bodybuilding plan as
a good thing, even though it should not
prove permanent, because it will get
the people interested in the good roads
movement Give a community half a
dozen miles of well constructed.
smooth, hard roads. that will stand
rain and heavy traffic without dissolv-
ing into mud and puddles. and it is a
foregone conclusion that the mileage
will be quickly doubled and doubled
again. Once the people learn the ad-
vantages of modern highways. exper-
fence the saving in time and cost of
transportation and the wear and tear
on stock, they will have no other kind.
system of good roads is one of the
best investments that a community or
a county can make. Wherever the road
touches property values are increased.
The country district loses it's isolation
and rural life becomes more attrac-
tive
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
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Personal.

Mrs. Martin Durham, of Hot
Springs, Ark, was pupil of Wesleyan
Female College on the first day it open
ed, in 1887. She is exceedingly well pre-
served for one of II years.
Andrew Carnegie has settled a pen
sion of so English pounds a year on
the granddaughter of the Poet Burns,
who has care of the little house in Dunn
fries in which the poet died
The fees paid by the Cardinal Cam
erlingo to the physicians who attended
Leo XIII in his last illness are said to
have been $4,000. to DR.. Lapponi, $4,000
to Prof. Mazzoni and $4,000 to Prof.
Rossoni.
Charles NJ. Schwab has leased a
five-story dwelling in seventy-fourth
street, Manhattan. adjoining his SO, $780,
900 mansion on Riverside Drive. Mr..
Schwab will occupy the leased house
until his mansion is ready for occu-
pancy. iuz
Miss Julia Grant, daughter of U.
S. Grand, narrowly escaped serious and
possibly fatal injuries in a runaway
accident in San Diego, Cal. Miss Grants
spirited horse overturned her light bug
gy, throwing the young women to the
ground. eIcJ- .s5 b..
M. P. V. sBounef, said to. be a
Bulgarian journalist, has arrived in
Paris on a Journey round the world
on foot with his wife. They expect to
do it in fifteen years and to pay eX-
pehses by the sale of postcards bear
ing their portraits.
William RarI1sauer is probably the
most cool-headed of all American
"steeple- jacks" T. Last week he climbed
to the top of d. flagstaff in Cincinnati
81 feet above the street, and stood
on his head on the ball above the flag
He remained on the top of the staff
an hour.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
When He Was Expected.

Henry Clews came down from Sara
toga on the special little time ago
when the bears were doing things to
stocks on Change, says the New York
Times. Mr. Clews was in a hurry.
The train made it's sixty miles an hour
all right but the financier thought it
the slowest train on earth.
He said so to the conductor. That
dignitary, as usual. took the remark
as a personal insult. He didn't know
the finG meier
IF you don't like the speed of this
train, mister" he said, you can get
out and walk
Mr.. Clews was not crushed He
countered with this:
Il would, only they don't expect me
till this train gets in"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

An old-country couple Had been pre-
sented by their son with a beautiful
alarm clock. says the Scottish-Ameri-
can. The son gave his father all the
necessary information as to how to
get the clock to work properly and
to ring at the proper time. Every
thing went all right for a few weeks,
and the old couple got ledger, who
wanted to be awakened at the same
time as his landlord. On the night
of the strangers arrival John COM
menced to wind up the clock as was
his wont, when his wife said to
him:
John, yen better gi'ed an extra
turn or twa the NIGHT. Ye ken it was
twa tae wauken the morn instead o.
ane"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

Il have noticed" said the off-hand
philosopher, according to Judge, that
woman will get golf dress when
she has no intention to play golf
That's So" agreed the man with the
incandescent whiskers.
And" continued the off-hand phil
osopher, ''she will get a ball gown when
she cares nothing about dancing, and
a tennis dress when she wouldn't play
tennis for fear she will freckle, and
a bathing suit when she has no thought
of going into the water, and a riding
habit when the very thought of climb
ing on horse. gives her the chills, and
-"
Yes" interrupted the man with the
incandescent WHISPERS, but when she
gets a wedding dress she means bust
ness. Ever notice that"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

The Marquis of Donegal is more
heartily convinced than ever of the
wisdom of British noblemen wedding
girls from this side the water. The
Marquis is eighty-two years old. He
was married last December to a girl
of Nova Scotia, Miss Violet Twining,
who had attended Wellesley College.
That was his third venture upon the
matrimonial sea. and there had been
no issue from either of his former mar
riages. Now, however, his marchioness
has put the Marquis brothers nose
out of joint" and incidentally made the
Marquis the happiest man in all the
realm by presenting him with an heir.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

Life sentences would really be too
short for the Williams who attempted to
wreck the Southern Railway train in
Virginia. No effort or expense should
be spared in running them to earth.
This is particularly true if the officials
are correct in their view that the dis
aster Of a few weeks ago was caused
by wreckers. There is that disaster to
be avenged and possibly others to be
prevented BY the apprehension Of the
WILLIAMS.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

IF there are sermons in stones, there
should be in bricks, since one was sent
crashing through the window of Mayor
Lows office in the City Hall in New
York. Shabby dressed, miserable.
hungry, out of work and gloomy and
Respondent over two months lack of
success in looking for it, a man, in a
sudden fit of rage against the mighty
city that was denying him livelihood,
cast the brick. There is a sermon to
be drawn from the text Of the brick.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

Mrs. Susan Colson of Brookine,
Mass, has reversed the popular sup
position relative to women and cats.
There was no sham about her: she
actually preferred cats to a husband
She filled her home with cats after
fourteen years of life with her husband
that had been unmarried by the felines.
The husband went to California and
got n divorce upon the plea of extreme
cruelty.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

Women are beginning to get new"
before they get old. Even the college
girls are aping college boys. Pretty
creatures, entirely too nice for such
things. are deyoting their energies and
best efforts to the high purpose of con-
vincing freshmen that they are good
for nothing on earth save to be the
sport of those of the more advanced
classes
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

Though is is held that accidents and
loss of life in travel by sea are not so
frequent as in travel by land, any
means of rendering nautical disasters
less common will be welcomed. Save
for storms, the most fruitful source of
losses of ships and life at sea is col
lisons. An ocean greyhound" for in
stance, is driven through the water
almost at railway speed and only upon
the reversal of her engines can de-
pendence for stopping her be placed.
She traverses many times her own
length, when this reversed power is
applied, before coming to a stop. A
simple device to act as a brake upon
ship is now in its experimental stages.
1t has been tried, however. upon a
steamship and found to work success
fully. The brake was applied when
the ship was going at full speed, the
engines being stopped simultaneously.
Before she had gone her length the
ship stqpped. When going at full
speed again, the engines were reversed
at the same time the brake was ap-
piled. The ship then stopped in one
half her length. 1t was said, too, that
those aboard experienced no jar, and
that no strainiug of the vessels ribs
or plates was to be discovered The
brakes consist of heavy, fin-like plates,
thrown into vertical position at right
angles to the ships sides
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

-Miller-"What do you think of all
this stuff in the paper telling women
how to be beautiful" walker-"Oh,
we'll, don't know. l suppose it's all
right. My wife reads hardly anything
else: she has been at it five years or
more. I don't see as she improves any
in beauty but then it is comforting to
her to read how easy it is to be beau
tiful Boston Transcript.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

On the streets of Brooklyn the other
day, eight college girls were made to
appear with their dresses and hats
reversed. They were freshmen, and
girls of the higher classes were haz-
ing them. This seems a reversion of
the popular idea that the older one
grows the more sense one learns. Such
tricks would be too infantile for a kim
dergarten
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
MOrtOn'S School for Boys,

III PARK AVENUE, WEST.
Prepares for College-FNits for Bus.
mess" Its graduates always excel
No slip-shod work done. Special
courses for U. S. Academies and
schools of Technology.
Next session commences Oct. 1. The
school building is open daily from
to IL a. m. For catalogue address
]. R. NORTON, NJ. A, Principal
Ga. Phone 696.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

To promote marriages a justice in
Nanticoke, N. Y, announces that he
will give the full amount of his fee
in trading stamps to couples who may
apply. With q. premium placed upon
this romantic practice, Nanticoke
should become a veritable Ridgeland
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

George w. Beavers now finds it a
part of his daily duty to call upon
the government officials in New York
and surrender himself. He is trying
to catch up on the indictments. BY
the time he gets through making bond
on each charge he will be ready for
the trial of the first under which he
WAS indicted.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for fair weather, with light to
fresh east winds Eastern Florida
fair weather, with light variable winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

So Americans are hailed with glad
ness in whatever part of the British
dominion they may appear! Savan-
nah has, of late, been sending gentle
men on world tours whom any people
should be glad to receive with open
a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

Senator Platt of New York. who is to
take unto himself bride, has received
congratula tons from Senator Depew,
his colleague, who assures him that
marriage is the proper relation, even
though the man has passed sixty. My
Dear Platt," writes Depew: you have
done the proper thing. I speak from
knowledge" 1t should be recalled that
it was but short time ago that Depew
set Plat an example.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

James G. Brady and Helen Siler got
married in Chicago the other day in
record time. AT S:47 o'clock they ap-
peared before the justice, and at S:491a
they passed under the wire" An
other two minutes and a half and they
had caught train. Their friends
may hope that they may not have
as great leisure for repentance as they
showed haste in marriage
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
SAVANNAH PREPARATORY SCHOOL
MILITARY,

MILITARY.
Barnard and Harris streets. Georgia
phone 1911 Office hours: S-10 a. m.
ORMOND B. STRONG, A. B., Head
Master.
Will open Oct. 5. Thorough prepare.
ton for any American University or
Scientific School Practical Business
Courses. Primary Department $50.
INSTRUCTORS.
oRMoND B. STRONG, Cornell.
Arithmetic, Algebra, English.
JOS. A. HENRY, Princeton and Leipsic
French, German, Latin,
]. WERDEN CLARK, Yale.
Geometry, Trigonometry, Chemistry.
ALEXANDER HENRY, Cambridge.
History and Geography.
ELLIS C. BEDELL, Wesleyan.
Reading and Spelling.
MARIE B. STRONG.
Penrnanship and Drawing.
Directors-Hon. Samuel B. Adams
Rev. James Y. Fair, Rev. Charles H
Strong, Major Ormond B. Strong, DR..
]. G. Van Marter.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

For the last three years there have
been periodic revivals of the story
that Sir Thomas Upton has invested
in Georgia lands and prepared for the
culture of fruit and the establ slirnent
of cattle ranches. AS appeared in the
Morning News, Sir Thomas sec
rotary says that the baronet is only
negotiating, thus far the purchase of
several thousand acres of fruit lands.
1t would seem from this that the
stories of what Sir Thomas has al
ready done along this line were prema-
ture. II the statement of the secre-
tary is correct, we trust that Sir
Thomas will find conditions such as to
admit OF his making the venture. We
want him interested in Georgia, and
we believe that he would And it to his
advantage. We would welcome the
coMsummation of the plan that he is
alleged to have entertained. We should
like to see his steamships ploughing the
ocean between Savannah and London
to market there the produce of his
Georgia farms. Savannah, with all
Georgia, would welcome Sir Thomas
and any enterprise he might establish.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

Several years ago when China and
Japan went to war some of the Chinese
regiments We're armed" with hideous
false-faces, great paper umbrellas with
dragons and other terrible things paint
ed on them in fiery colors, and big
brass gongs, tin horns and even tin
pans. 1t was their purpose to move
on the enemy with masks grinning,
umbrellas fourishing, tin horns footing
and gongs and pans adding to the din,
and by these means so brighten the
Japanese that they would drop their
guns and run away as fast as their
legs would carry them. How the ,Japs
ran is history.
Senator Hanna is following this
Chinese plan of warfare in his political
campaign in Ohio. He has painted
some false-faces we'll calculated to
strike terror to the souls of the voters,
and is beating gong that should send
every elector scurrying into the Repub-
lican camp for safety from the Dem
ocratic devil. But somehow the peo-
pie neither seem to be frightened nor
in any notion of scurrying; where
fore the Senator has raised his voice
to increase the terrifying influence of
the masks and the gong. IF you vote
for Clarke" he told an audience the
other day, you will vote for the alb
solute destruction and ruin of your
American institutions and for the utter
chaos of the country" Now, isn't that
frightful! Again he said that the sup
porters of Johnson ARE stealing upon
you with seductive promises, ready to
put the blade to your throat and poi
son the water you drink" There's a
picture for you of as frightful mein
as any dragon ever painted on a Chi
nese umbrella! Still the voters are
not running to escape the cataclysm.
Somehow or other they foolishly show
liking for the sort of talk the Demo-
Gratis are giving them and refuse to
be moved. DESPITE Senator Hanna's
campaign of bogeys.
The fact in a nutshell seems to be
that Senator Hanna is beginning to
lose faith in the efficacy of his stand
pat programme and is trying to "shoo"
Ohio voters into the Republican ranks
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13

Tic UHIItu pIdIIS- IIIIpUI t0U 4Net0V
IndiaH goods in 1892 to the value of
,S24. 773,1O7 and in 1902 to the value of
S4S. 421.21S. The exports thither from
the United States in the years indi-
Gated were $3,674,3O7 and $4,621,876, re-
spectively. The most important i'm
ports to the United States from the
East Indies are: Jute manufactures,
$40, 900, 900; jute, manufactured, $4,-
900. 900: hides and skins, $4,000, O00
Gums 90 O00 0O0 etc
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-12-04
BRIDPoRT.
Mrs. Frank Shackett is quite i'll.

Mrs. Frank Shackett is quite i'll.
Mrs. Alma Pigeon is improving
slowly.
Mrs. Frank Shackett is very ill with a
complication of diseases
George Shaw is spending few days
with his brother, William Shaw.
Mrs. H. l.. Townsend is in Taunton,
Mass, with her sister, Mrs, Eddy
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Horton Bostwick was buried Friday.
Mrs. G. E. Palmer visited her mother,
Mrs. j. G. Smith, Thanksgiving day.
Mrs. Rice was called to Hinesburgh by
the death of her brother, Mr.. Collins.
G. L. Parrish and w. NJ. Grandey are
attending the county court as jury
men.
Edward Nichols is drawing machinery
from Crown Point preparatory to making
butter
Mrs. j. H. Fletcher has returned from
Hinesburgh, where she has been visiting
friends.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-12-04
BELDENS.

Harry White who broke a leg some
time ago does not improve rapidly.
A telephone of the Addison county line
has been placed in Mrs. Whites resi-
dence.
Mrs. P. Swenor and John Hood have
gone to Poultney to attend the funeral
of relative.
Mrs. Henry Gerow formerly of this
place died in Hampton, n. Y. Tuesday
after a lingering illness.
The rumored elopement of couple
from the east some days ago appears to
have no foundation in fact
The starting of the marble mill will
not be accomplished for few days owing
to certain repairing materials not arrlv-
ing.
Henry Lavigne of Winooski a former
resident here has been looking over the
boarding house with a view of establish
ing himself therein at an early date.
The freshmen of Middlebury college
swooped down on Beldens Tuesday
afternoon and created a Juror that
caused apprehension among some resi-
dents here of general sack of the
place. A barrel of apples at the station
was the only thing sacked and this was
found badly shrunken in contents after
the co-eds had finished their awful
work.
Frank 2. Norton of New Haven Mills
died Friday evening after an illness Of
several weeks. The remains were taken
to Boston Sunday night accompanied by
NJ. j. Thomas. Mr.. Norton came from
Vineyard Haven. Mass, three years ago
and took possession of the general store
of the New Haven Mills Manufacturing
Co which he has since conducted. He
was appointed postmaster soon after
locating in New Haven Mills which
Office he held at the time of his
death.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-12-04

Drs Tinkham, of Burlington, and
Martin, of Middlebury, were in town
Monday.
The funeral of the infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. Horton Bostwick was held
from their home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Cook have returned
from Montreal, P. O., where they have
been visiting Mr.. Cooks brother.
Mrs j.. R. Rice has returned from
Hinesburgh where she went to attend
the funeral of her brotherin-law, John
Collins.
The suit between B. w. Crane and
Will Bedett was settled by a third party,
the one who was really interested, not by
Mr.. Crane.
The Ladies society will hold sale at
the vestry, Thursday evening, Dec. 18th
Sandwiches, doughnuts and coffee will
be served at one table, ice cream and
cake at another. Each member is
requested to bring an apron, for sale,
and all contributions of useful and
fancy articles will be thankfully re-
| caiyad
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-12-04
LEICESTER JUNCTION.

Peter Wilson attended the funeral of
James Farrell in Middlebury Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Taylor and family
of Rutland spent Thanksgiving at Henry
Morman's.
Amanda Alden Smith died November
80. a sketch of her life will appear
next week.
Mr. and Mrs Myron Roberts of Wal
lingfOrd spent several days at Arthur
Briggs last week. They returned Mon
day, Nov. 80
A new firm, merchants, opened in
town Monday, Nov. 80, doing business
under the name of Huntley & Churchill.
Success to them.
Miss Annie Wilson was at home from
Burlington over Thanksgiving. Hel
sister, Miss Nellie returned with her
Friday night for weeks stay in the
city.
Frederick P. Dumas died Nov. "a al
the home of his father, Peter Dumas
after an illness of five months of acute
pulmonary tuberculosis, aged 81 years
and months. He leaves widow
father mother and two brothers. He
contracted his disease while engineer al
the Wire works, Cleveland, o. His
funeral was attended at st. Agne.
church. Rev. FIR. Vezina of Shorehan
officiating. Interment in Brandon.