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FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT 0fs
THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEN-
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30

you am promise to me but you 'luv
him.
20, Miss Jemina, dare is goind to be
ball party at Miss Morgans on We'd
nesday night, do come thare to you
Dear lover, GEORGE.
MANY kisses me sweet luv."
How Japs Make Love.
The Japanese. with their true artistic
feeling in all the affairs of life, excel
in the art of writing a love letter. Eth
quette in Japan obliges people to al
ways speak scornfully of their own
qualities and possessions, and to en-
nance those Of others. Thus a Japan
csc lover finds it doubly easy to praise
his beloved and depreciate himself, as
is the way of lovers all the world over.
Here is a good example of the Japanese
love letter:
Beloved Touching my forehead
in the dust before thy augustness, I
entreat you to listen to my despicable
words. Miserably / long for you, who
are set as far above me as is the red
eye of Fuji-San from the peasant in
the valley. Miserably I desire the
sweet consolation of your beneficent
love, 1 who am beneath your honor
able loneliness as far as the OK in the
fields is beneath the crane flying in
the heavens. Sweeter is thy face than
the peach blossom, more graceful thy
form than the swaying of the honor
able bamboo. Will not the souls of
our august ancestors smile graciously
on our wedding, that your honorable
greatness may compensate my despic-
able shortcomings
In such a style do Japanese lovers
write to one another, but after mar
riage the Japanese husband is forced
! by his code of good manners to say to
friend will you honorably deign
to enter my despicable house and visit
my miserably degraded wife?" She
has become one of his possessions and
must be decried as such.
1t is worth while noticing that all
these letters were written by men, and
obviously the women must have given
them away. The women's replies have
been carefully guarded by the men.
In view of this fact, a well-known
American woman seems to have
libelled the masculine sex when she
recently wrote this solemn warning
to girls in love:
1.-THE very moment a girl begins to
feel tender toward a man she begins
to want to express herself in mixed
metaphors and high-falutin' phrases,
in effusions in which she gives herself
away on every page, and bankrupts
the dictionary for endearments. OF
course, she thinks only one person
will see them, and even to him she
adds the postscript burn this But
only one man in a hundred has a par
ticle of honor in regard to a woman's
letters and the hundredth man is care
less. The locked deck is a fiction of
novelists. Be assured of this, that if
other people don't read your letters it
is because they don't want to, not be-
cause they don't have a chance. Don't
call man pet names until after Won
are married to him. and then you
won't want to-"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30

If intelligent eyes watch the earth
from any distant planet they must
gain their direct knowledge, first of
all, through the light that the earth
planet sends to them.
The great mass of this light is, of
course, reflected sunlight. But the
earth also sends out light from the
side that is turned from the sun, when
it is not illuminated even by the moon.
This is light of two kinds: First,
light caused by great mechanical
causes, such as Northern Lights, light
nings, star showers, and the red
CLEANS of active volcanoes. The Sec
ond sort of light is more mysterious.
1t is light that depends on the exist
ence of organic creatures.
The distant observer might perceive
the great cities of man as faint misty
stars-the work of man, the height Of
all organic development on earth. But
long before that he would probably
have seen something more remarkable
He would have seen a diffused pale
light, phosphorescent. lowering over
vast areas.
What causes these fireworks?
Single-celled things-uni-cells, crea-
lures of the order of the atoms of the
ocean which, singly only microscope
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The distant observer, then, would
see the works of the two great oppo-
sites of the world-life.
This kingdom of the minute, the
kingdom of the bacillus, is truly great
enough to make its effects seen afar
through the universe. Like a sand
storm that threatens to bury mankind
it sweeps over humanity.
And in this bacillus are traits that
point to a life form beyond the limits
that are drawn on earth for other
forms of life.
Everywhere we see the true vege-
table, the true animal life, limited to
certain grades of temperature. In the
terrible Polar cold life gradually
ceases. In boiling water life ends.
While the earth still was red-hot in
its interior, we picture life as absent
from it. In the great glacial periods,
1t must have been destroyed in great
areas Of the earth.
In the icy universe, in the star
spaces, or on planet for which no sun
shines, we imagine again that life is
totally extinct.
Yet certain bacillii withstand intense
temperatures, high and low: tempera-
lures that destroy the vital albumen
entirely
This fact furnishes much food for
thought. Involuntary we are led to
connect it with the primeval existence
of these uni-cells.
The entire world of plants and ami
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30

When man appeared first on the
earth in times primeval, he was liter
ally submerged in representatives of
the realm of the Single-celled crea-
lures. Every breath, every drop of
water was filled with them. AS a few
scattered peaks stick out of bysmal
seas, so the few sparse types of true
plants and animals appeared in the
mist of uni-cells.
From the beginning, the mass of
these uni-cells met man not as enc
mics but as friends-that is, they did
their work without considering man,
but in a direction that served him.
When he became an agriculturalst,
this benefit increased immeasurably.
for the bacteria loosened his earth.
helped his plants, and ruled mysteri-
ously while he plowed and dug.
Now, in gray time primeval, long,
long before man or the thing that was
to become man, life must have an
peared for the first time: in the Cam
brian epoch, in whose deepest layers
we perceive the first fossil remains of
the earth's story.
All theories unite on the one that the
ooldest living things of that time were
uni-cells. Whether or not they were
uni-cells like our present bacteria is of
comparatively little Importance. The
main thing is that they were single
celled things.
The Triumph of the Cell.
And it is established, too, how the
gathering of certain uni-cells into a
group first produced the living thing
with separate functions-the ceIl-com-
munity.
The cell-community was the first
great progress, the first great devel-
opment in the measureless space of
time.
And through many strange fortunes.
by many wild and mysterious ways,
passing through countless shapes
fearful, horrible and weird, man, the
height of development, emerged from
that dim, forgotten first gathering of
shapeless clumps-man, with the CEN
tralizing brain that the cell-creature
plant does not possess at all, that the
cell-creature beast has in only faulty
development.
And yet this human brain is moth
ing other than a cell-community in
the cell-community man.
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loving intentions were really unto an
other female, but now the love be-
tween l and she are very out now
entirely.
"And now his the excepted time I
find to explain to my lovely appear
ance, but whether if their be any love
in your hearts or mind towards me it
is hard for 1 to know. but his l take
this liberty to inform you this kind;
loving and affectionate letter.
Il hope when it received into your
hand you receive with peace and all
good will, pleasure, and comforts, and
hoping that you might answer me
from this letter with a loving appear
ance, that in due time Boath of us
might be able to join together in the
holy state of matremony
II hope that the answer which you
are to send to me it may unto good
| intention to me from you that when 1
always goine to write you again L
may be able to write saying, my dear,
| lovely Eliza.
Your affectionate lover, affraied
Il. e., afraid, ]. S. Dear Eliza, wether
! if you are willing or not, Please to
sent me an ansure back. Do, my
! dear"
The ReprOachfuI Romeo.
A lover is seldom slow to utter his
reproaches by word or pen, when his
! jealousy is aroused. Witness this let
ter written by native of Port-of-
! Spain, Trinidad, to his sweetheart:
my Dear Jemima: 1 has not heard
| from you for dis weeks CORN. Has
you forgot de day wen you mex me
promise to be my true luv? You must
know dat 1 has heard a lot of tings
about you which has been sorely dis
appoint me in you.
'I have heard dat you stan at your
! gate and tark to a fine dress coach
man. 1 have heard dat you go to
church wild him. 1 have heard dat
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BILE that there is something weird about
the properties of baccilli, something
that points at one and the same time
to the Oldest existence on earth and to
the last living thing, man.
Bacteria Masses Beyond Conception.
Max Schultze counted 100000 lime
shells of certain uni-cells in thirty
grammes of sand. Now, remind your
self, that thousands of square miles of
the oceans are one single, compact
layer of gray mud, and that this gray
mud consists practically of nothing ex-
cept such shells.
The whole bottom of the North At
lantic ocean from Greenland to the
Azores is so formed. 1t is the So
called cable plateau, and over its entire
breadth, from the British to the Ameri-
can coast, lies the mud.
We marvel at the Cheops pyramid
as a gigantic achievement of man. Yet
long before man upreared this royal
mountain, uni-cells made the stone
that was used by man afterward.
They did not merely furnish ma
terial enough for pyramids. The lime
stone, into which they finally changed,
lies over the whole earth, now as
hopeless deserts. then as beautiful
Rivieras, as mighty Handicapped
mountains, from the western ocean to
the Sahara and across the Caucasus
to the Himalayas; yes, across India,
Borneo and Java into the Philippines
and beyond them over the Pacific
ocean. And as the ancient culture
built its wonders of pyramids from
their deposits so the modern culture
has built it's Paris, it's New York, from
the remains of dead uni-cells. Bar
bados is one mass of them. Vast
sepulchres of them are the chalk cliffs
that CLEAN so picturesquely against
blue seas.
And in this chalk is baked the fire.
stone, flint; the most important ele-
ment in the history of the culture Of
man.
A Germ Gave Man Fire.
From this flint the first man fash
Toned the first implements and weap-
ons; the spark that was made by it
accidentally in striking it against a
piece of iron ore gave him the arti-
fetal fire. So the uni-cell became the
Veritable Prometheus of humanity.
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constituted and appointed by the
Queen of Love to preside over her
liege subjects os Archon or Execu-
tive in this Orient dependency of Her
vast Dominions.
Greater art thou than the famed
Semiramis, Queen of Babylon, or Her
the Eastern Sheba, or the Egyptian
glorious Cleopatra of celebrated MEM
Dry, Anthony's loved Queen. Greater
art thou in the hearts of men than
Britain'S Queen, the reVel of whose
drum circles the world, and Sol or
Phoebus never sets on. Pardon this
egotistical depression and resumes SUBJ
ject.
Your Petitioner by love for you is
sentenced to a torture worse than
Prometheus, who stole fire from
heaven. Your Petitioner now humbly
appeals to your clemency, and trusts
that your Excellence may be pleased
to take compassion on a poor, desti-
tute and bereaved widows son, and
restore him to happiness, as did the
Prophet of Jehovah. the good Elijah
at Zarepath, that other Widows son,
to life.
Had your Petitioner the wings OF
Pegasus fly he would to Parnassus
to consult the Oracle of Delphi to
learn of his hoped Liberation from Tar
tarus. suffering the punishment OF
Sisyphus or second Tantalus."
A Model Love Letter.
The following letter was written by
native of Jamaica. 1t is quaint and
obscure in places, but it breathes a
very real love:
Dear Eliza:
Il take the liberty of myself to in
form you this few lines hoping YOU
may not offend d. e., be offended), as
often is. / had often seen you in my
hearts. There are myriads OF lowell
ness in my hearts towards you. My
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30
BUSINESS LOCALS.

The Georgia Steam Laundry: Your
shirts, collars and cuffs laundried 10
perfection. The business men, the COM
mercial and professional men praise it.
Congress street.
Furnaces-We are agents for the
Peck Williamson Co.'S under-feed hot
air furnaces. Send for circulars or al
low us to explain the great saving in
fuel over other kinds. Cornweu g
Chipman.
A. L. Desbouillons, the reliable lew.
eler, is showing a fine line OF watches
clocks and jewelry ware. Get prices On
rings. pins and charms. 80 Bull street
Just arrived, a lot OF polka dot strino
and figured batiste; all the newas,
shades, red. black and blue dots. Net
ger a. Brunson,
The Jeaness Miller shoes for iad,o.
and Turner shoes for men, handled oni,,
by A. s. Nichols, the reliable shos
dealer. 8 Broughton street. west.
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black and ruby-the chefer of ten
thousand. You head is much fine gold.
You lock are bushy and black as a
raven. Your eyes was the eyes in
river, by the rivers of warter. Your
cheeks as a bead de, bed) of spices
as sweet flowers. Your lips is like
lilies. Your hand as gold wiring.
Your legs as a pillar of marble set
upon sockets of fine gold. Your
countenance as a Lebenon. Your
mouth look to be more sweet. Your
sweet altogether.
II have no more time to write as
/ am so tiard and full time to go to
bead. / will now close my letter with
love-"
An ArtIeHs EpistIe from Honduras.
The following letter was written by
native of British Honduras to his
| sweetheart:
Dear low, is wrote you letter to
beg of you to make me your lover,
but you is not wrote me again. l is
dead of low every day wen you look so
hanson. 1 cane Il. e., cannot) sleep,
cane eat. l dun no how 1 feel. l beg
| you to accep af me as your lover. The
! rose is not sweet as a kiss from you,
my Low.
do meet me tonight at the bottom
! gate an give me you low. Miss Lucy
/ toots Ii. e., teeth so green 1 is like
one ear of earn, an her eye dem is SO
pretty. Lard! ! wish 1 never been
born. Poor me, Garg! Ii. e., George
| / low Miss Lucy to distraction.
"Garg Plummer."
Answer me some, low
Some quaint logic is sometimes run
across in these artless epistles.
Dearest love-" writes an educated,
Christianized native of Sierra Leone,
IF it is not true love from the deepest
part of my heart, would 1 sit down to
write you a letter, my dear?" BY this
reasoning everybody who writes a love
letter must necessarily be in love.
Another Jealous and calculating low
| er says: II writ to hear from you
wether you intend to make me a fool.
! is not a puppy show that you think
you find any better than me, i witch
(wish) to send the yam-hed for plan
tin in you garden. but ! do not know
wether / will reap the benefit of it,"
1t is curious that the language of
love nearly always runs TO rhetoric,
even in the case of people who have
! little or no education, or are not far
removed from what is called barbar-
ism. All the world over the lover
likes to express his heart throbs in the
most ornate and picturesque language
he can think Of
A "Bnbu's' Petition.
Here. for example, is a letter which
was written by an Indian "babu" to
his beloved in Madras, to propose
marriage. He had had a kind of Eng
fish education, and thought 1t would
be more impressive TO write in Eng
lish than In the vernacular. He earned
a precarious livelihood by writing pc
titions TO the British authorities for
other natives. so he naturally drafted
his love letter IN the form of a petit
! ton:
May II please your Sweetest Ex-
celence.
Your petitioner now approaches
| you 10 solicit, crave and implore an
inestimabie boon, being aware that you
! have been delegated, nominated and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30
REAL LOVE LETTERS
FROM THE TROPICS
The Quaint Aress EpstIes Of Tropical Peasants Are Nat
ural Outpourings of the Heart Which Far Transcend
Any Of the Published Effusions Of Literary People
BY BASSETT STAINES.
Copyright, 1908, by E. B. Warner.

I'VE rave here, sir" said the persua-
sive bookseller. The Love Letters Of
a Disillusioned Duchess Quite the
latest success, 1 assure you. Or. per-
haps, you would prefer Confessions of
a Disgruntled Widower.' or Heart
Throbs by an Ex-Sweetheart.' They are
all good selling lines just now!"
Take 'em away!" commanded the
sunburned man who was buying books
to read on his tenth voyage to the
tropics. "They make me tired. Sick
ly, sentimental stuff without a word of
truth or nature in them. I'm not buy
ing any of that slush. Now, if you
could sell me some real. artless, unaf-
fected love letters like those I've seen
down around the Equator I'd stand for
a few dollars"
The Best Love Letters.
For the real thing in love letters one
must get away from the published epis-
tolary effusions of literary people and
study the quaint ill-written, misspell-
ed missives of the natural man who
lives in barbarian or half-civilized
lands, far distant from the centers of
light and learning.
Here is a simple, heartfelt screed
written by negro in Jamaica to
widow whom he loved. IT is a gen
uine Creole valentine:
Mrs. Agostiss R,
81 hope you know VALENTINE is now
in seson. I will take the pleasure to
write you this, my hearth is yours and
you are mine, but you do not know It,
love you as the bee love the flower.
The flower may fade, but true love
shall never. My love for you is a love
that cannot be fade. You shall be my
love here an in heaven for ever. The
Rose in June is not so sweet as when
two lovers kisses meet. Kiss me quick
and be my honey. I still remain true
lover. James"
James is an honest and prosperous
black man in the mountains of Jamaica
It is pleasant to know that Mrs. Agos-
tiss' listened to his simple appeal and
became This honey"
Love Letters by Proxy.
AS a rule, however, the negroes in
the West Indies do not write their
own love letters. They entrust the
delicate task to a professional letter
writer, usually the colored school
master of the village. AS these
schoolmasters are imperfectly edu-
Gated and anxious to air the little
knowledge that possess, their letters
are apt to be amusing. They are fond
Of quoting from the Song of Solo
mon" a favorite part of Scripture with
them. Here is an example from a let
ter written to a girl named Ann Will
liams
my dear love, at present my love
for you Is so strong, that / cannot ex-
press. So ] even write that you may
see II. II is every man deAuty TO write
a formil letter.
Ny pen is bad and my ink is pale
but my Love will never fail. Kine
solomon say that love is strong as
death, and Jealousy r. cruel than the
grave. Love me little, bear me longer;
nasty love is not love at all This 4
me hrEt time 1 sat down 10 write you
about Il.
u love ~ Dove. Your love Ia
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: the life specialized on by Fechtner, who
: advanced the idea of an existence that
7 has adapted itself through the cons TO
all the changes of temperatures and is
: as eternal as the motion that is the
: cause of all warmth.
7 The bacillus of to-day that can with
stand 1870 degrees Celsius of cold may
be capable of existence in the ever
frozen space of the universe even now
: the universe cold" that rules between
the planets, between the solar systems
and that lies between us and the moon,
: between us and Mars, and between the
: sun and it's red double star.
Such bacillus gives point to the
THEORY of Humboldt, that life never be-
gan on earth through birth on earth,
but that it reached this planet through
J some agency that brought it out of the
! universe in the right moment, when
: the cooling earth offered the proper
: conditions.
Z He suggested that such an agency
! might have been a meteoric stone, car
! rying the primeva1 germ of life in a
: assure.
7 We need not fall back on the meteoric
! stone. We have it in the presence of
: bacilli that can bear 100 degrees Gel
: sius and more of cold.
! We might ask if the earth in its dar-
: ing flight around the sun does not at
: times cut through cosmic swarms Of
bacilli as it cuts through meteoric
! swarms? If the astronomers of the
Middle Ages, who used to hold that all
%great comets brought pestilences to the
earth, had been in possession of our
present knowledge of bacilli they might
we'll have been led to imagine that the
comets tail carried the bacilli of the
pest and rained them down on the un-
lucky earth.
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mails shows a one-sided adaptation to
certain conditions, with death as the
result of any violent change. But the
tough bacillus faces us like an arch
form of life that Is far superior to
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30

a life that does not know any limits
of temperature at all.
Is Eternal Existence POssibIef
This would be life corresponding to
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visible to Far stars.

Gals bits of mucus, illumine the oceans
nv their mVriads
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-09-10
WEDDING ANNIYERS4R RY.

Roxbury, Sept. 8 The celebration
of the twenty fifth wedding anniver-
sary of Mr.. and Mrs G.. r. Roys oc-
Cured at their pleasant home on Sat-
urday night from eight to eleven.
One hundred and ten guests were pres
ent including number from North
field, Randolph and other towns Miss
Harriet Clark and Miss Kate Johnston
of Northtield assisted in receiving and
Miss Ethelyn Heath of Bethel had
charge of the guest book in which
were registered the names of those at
tending, a souvenir of the occasion.
Miss Matte Johnston of Mortified
had charge of the refreshments while
Miss Kate Johnston presided at the
punch bowl. Mrs. Ralph Dunsmoor
Misses Blanche and Lepha Dunsmoor,
Jessie Stanton and Ethelyn Heath as
sisted in serving. large number OF
gifts was received of cut glass and
china and silver, and $50 in money.
The mildness of the evening permit
ted of the enjoyment of the lawn and
piazza amid tne decorations of numer-
GUS Japanese lanterns 1t was ON the
whole an exceedingly enjoyable affair
which the guests as Wei as the hos
will not soon forget.