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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
BRIGHT BITS.

-She-"I suppose it is a genuine
antique?" The Dealer-"Why. of
course 1t is, madam! And, besides, it
Is the very latest thing in antiques!"-
Puck.
-Barnes-"Old King Coal was a jolly
old soul, you know" Howes-"Yes,
but that was before King Coal was a
soulless corporation. Boston Tran
script.
Mrs. Bacon-"What is sea food
John?" Mr.. Bacon-"Why, sea food
my dear, is the kind that makes peo-
pie sick when on the sea."-Yonkers
Statesman.
-Myer-"Meeker's wife buys all his
ties for him. What do you think of
her taste?" Gyer-"Not much but I
admire Meeker's nerve in wearing
them. Chicago Daily News.
what pay do you get for being an
alderman" asked the visiting relative
THE city allows me $500 a year" re-
piled the alderman from the 'Steenth
Ward, guardedly.-Chicago Tribune.
Count Switzer-"Waiter, l can't eat
that chicken. Where did you get it
at a rummage sale?" Waiter-'No.
sab. We had dat chicken in stock long
befo' rummage sales war eber invent
ed."-Judge.
Little boy" demonstrated the
Kind Old Lady, don't you know it
is very wrong for children like you to
smoke cigarettes" law, gwan," re-
piled the Incorrigible, do youse ex-
pect me t. eat m?"-Cincinnati Com
mercial-Tribune.
Observation-Disclosures shirt studs?
Yes, sir; here's set, neat little stones,
for $125." Customer-"Huh! Out home
in Chicago 1 can get" Jeweler-
"Ah! yes, pardon me, here you are.
Just look at these big flashes. Three
carats each Sell you that for SO. J."
Philadelphia Press.
-Rambo-"You're always talking
about my drinking too much, and about
whiskey being bad for me, and all that.
Perhaps you don't know that the sci
entists have found out there's alcohol
in every human body" Baldwin
Then why can't you be satisfied with
what you've got? What do you want
to keep pouring it in ?"-Chicago
Tribune.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
THE PRICE OF NAVAL STORES.

Naval stores operators are not
grumbling. 1t has been a long time
since they were as prosperous as they
are now. If they cannot make money
at present prices they might as well
abandon the industry.
The operators have the industry in
their own hands. They can control
production, and they are probably Go.
ing so. And they should study the
method of Prof. IIectv for preserving
the pine trees. Unless that is done
that is, unless the trees are preserved
it will not be many years before the
industry will be a thing of the past
in this section of the South.
During the last few years the pine
forests have been dealth with by tur-
pentine operators as if the purpose
was to get out of them all there was
to be got in the shortest possible time.
Under the Herty plan the aim is to
preserve the turpentine farms. If his
statements are correct these farms
can be made to pay a big interest for
many years on a valuation of $50 an
acre. In fact, at the present high
prices of spirits of turpentine it is prob
able they would pay a big profit on
a much higher valuation. The Herty
plan is well worth trying.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
CALLS FOR JUDGE PARKER.

There appears to be a quite general
desire in the South to see Chief JUS
tice Alton B. Parker of the New York
Court of Appeals and to hear him
speak In our dispatches Saturday
it was stated that he had been invited
to make an address at Chattanooga,
Tenn, and to address the General As
sembly of Arkansas.
Judge Parker is a very modest man,
| and it is doubtful if he will accept
| these or similar invitations. He UNDER
stands Of course that they are given
because he is prominently mentioned
in connection with the Democratic
nomination for President. STILL if he
| is willing to accept the nomination he
ought to give the people "A chance to
| see and talk with him. As d matter
of fact he is not we'll known outside
of his state, and is practically a
! stranger to the masses of the people in
his state In some way, however, the
| impression has got abroad that he
would be an admirable candidate for
President and an admirable President
/ if elected TO that high position, and the
people want to get acquainted with
him.
The South is showing more interest
in him than is being shown in other
parts of the country. That is reason
able. If he should be nominated the
South would have to furnish the great
majority of the electoral votes neces-
sary to elect him. If he should accept
these invitations to Chattanooga and
Little Rock he would have to visit
other sections of the South. provided
he decided to be a candidate.
AS far as the public knows, he hasn't
given this matter serious consideration
yet. If he has not, the time has come
for him to do so. If his campaign is
wisely managed he may get the nomi-
nation; if it isn't, he may make but a
poor showing in the nominating con-
vention, even though he may be the
choice of majority of the voters of
his party.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
Personal.

darlington Booth has been telling
his friends about a woman who stood
up to testify to her conversion in the
days when he was with the Salvation
Army. She said: 81 was very fool
ish and vain. Worldly pleasures, and
especially the fashions, were my only
thought. l was fond of silks, satins,
jewelry ribbons and laces. But, my
friends l found they were dragging me
down to perditiOn. So l gave them all
to my sister,"
Bishop Doane of Albany is chair
man of an executive committee ap-
pointed by Episcopal, Presbyterian and
Methodist churches to aid in securing
uniform marriage and divorce laws.
The movement which eliminated in the
selection of this committee has been
going on for some time. The design is
to. secure the cooperation of all reli-
gious bodies in making marriage and
divorce less easy and in removing
abuses connected with both.
Secretary Shaws easy-going and
generally deliberate manner rather gets
on the nerves of irritable persons. One
of them went over to the Treasury De-
partment to see him about something
and thought he had been delayed too
IOIS. MI. SHAW has some cabinet
qualifications" he said later. For in
stance, he would make a good Secre-
tary of War with one war twenty
five years behind him and the next one
twenty-five years in the future"
Senator Plat of Connecticut hap
pened into a House committee room
and found Congressman Metcalfe of
California reading. "A novel?" dueried
the Yankee gravely. Eyes" Say,
Metcalfe, do you like detective stories
the one with villains in emp" The
Californian showed him the title page
of the book he had been reading. 1t
was regular "Old Sleuth'' affair. 80
do l, said Plat, and then the two
statesmen began to discuss this par
ticular brand of literature
John Wesley Gaines latest attempt
at oratory was made the other evening
while the House was tired after a long
parliamentary tangle over the claims
bill. Everybody was cross and hun
cry when the Tennessee congressman
jumped up with what he said was a
parliamentary inquiry. Said he: What
l wish to know is how it comes that
in this year of grace, 1902, We LAS
usual" interrupted Congressman Ohm
sted, 1.-The gentleman is a year behind.
Move we adjourn" And adjourn they
did without finding out what Gaines
wanted to say.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal
CDem) says: 'Tt now appears that
the Navy Department placed Com
modore Schley under a man who was
mentally unbalanced, and has relent-
lessly pursued him because Of the err
rors and confused orders of this ire
sponsible man."
The Houston (Tex) Post (Dem.)
says: IF anything were lacking to
confirm the impression that Senator
Hanna is a candidate for President it
is furnished in his bill to pension form
er slaves. That beats appointing a
few to office and it is calculated to
cause a stampede of Southern negroes
to the Ohio mans camp"
The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark (Dem)
says: Senator Hanna is quoted as
saying that he did not know what was
in that bill of his to pension ex-slaves
when he introduced it. Many of us
had better opinion of Mr.. Hanna
than that he would assassinate Presi-
dent Roosevelt by the didn't know
it was loaded method"
The Philadelphia Record DENY
says: People who think that the
new German minister Baron Speck
Won Sternburg, too effusive I'm his
protestations OF friendship for America.
are hard to please. II Ambassador
Won 1olleben We're not sympathetic
enough and Baron Won sternburV be
too much so. what sort of an envoy
would the critics have Germany send
US, anyhow? Moreover. one cannot
expect the baron TO offend his Ameri-
can wife and cause family Jars bv
proclaiming that he likes Americans
only indiasTently WE'LL"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

Two old pals met on the street. says
the Delawarean.
II saw you in the liquor mems parade
Tuesday" one of them said.
"Oh, yes"
Now tell. me about it. Who were
those fellows in front on horses?'
Those? Why, those were the whole
salers."
"Well, who were those fellows in car
riages?"
Those fellows in plug hats, smoking
the big black cigars?"
Eyes"
'"They were the distillers and brew
ers."
who were those fellows walking
there with the white plug hats, white
coats and gold-headed canes?"
They were the retailers"
"Who We're those fellows that brought
up the rear?"
Fellows with caulifower noses and
fringe on their pants-the crowd 1 was
WITH?
Yes"
"Oh, they were the consumers"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

The new postal appropriation bill
contains a clause that is intended to
save postal clerks and patrons of the
mails considerable amount of work
1t provides that postoffices shall accept
for transmission in the mails quanti-
ties of not less than 1000 identical
pieces of third or fourth class matter
without postage stamps affixed, provid-
ed that the postage is fully prepaid.
This will save the cost of printing the
stamps, the cost of selling them, and
the cost and time of placing them on
the separate pieces of mail matter and
the labor of cancelling them. The new
rule will be appreciated by business
houses that send out great quantities
of circulars.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
NEWSPAPERS AND SENSATIONAL
ISM

In the course of his speech before
the Louisville Board of Trade on daily
journalism some days ago, Gen.
Charles II. Taylor of the Boston Globe
made among others two POINTS that
are worth more than passing consider
alton. One was that the newspaper is
representative of the community in
which it is published and from which
it draws its support, and the other
was that the well-conducted newspa-
per is less sensational than the peo-
pie.
1t has been said that every people
have just such government as they
deserve. This might be paraphrased by
saying that every city or community
has just such newspapers as it de-
mands. 1t is a self-evident PROPOSE
ton that no newspaper which fails to
meet the wants of the public can live
1t must mirror events as they occur,
in so far as is consistent with public
policy, giving all of the facts that can
be ascertained, or the people will not
buy the paper. IT, therefore, a con-
siderable part of the space In the
newspaper columns is taken up with
reports Of murders, suicides, robberies
and scandals. it is because the people
demand that these things shall be
printed. Now more than ever before
is it true that mo man lives unto
His living and his dying are matters
of interest to his neighbors and
friends, and if he robs a bank, or muir
ders or is murdered, or runs away
with friends wife, the story be-
| comes a matter of general interest
! Before the development of the news
paper such occurrences made news
that Travelled by word-of-mouth: and
the news, like a rolled SNOWFALL, grew
in size as it went, and accumulated
horrible details"
The newspaper with its publicity is
safeguard against scandal rather than
a caterer to it. When there is a fail
ure. or fire, or an elopement or other
| sensational happening, the verbal re-
ports are nearly always exaggerated;
and the exaggeration progresses as the
story IS repeated. But the newspaper
reporter, mindful of the responsibility
of his principal and the existence of
libel laws, Sits all of the stories and
gets at the facts. And when the exact
facts are set down in cold print, the
mass of fiction is blown away like so
much chaff; rumors are set at rest,
and in many an instance a reputation
is saved. Many persons imagine that
by refusing to give facts of news to
the newspapers they are preserving
secrecy, whereas they are really leav-
Ing open the way for all sorts of ru-
mors to be circulated. 1t is both the
function and the duty of the high
class newspaper to discourage abnor-
NAL sensationalism, but at the same
time it must publish the news, and all
of the news, within decent limitations.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
He said Nothing.

He was standing on the scaffold
with the moose hanging loosely about
his neck, says the New York Times.
A crowd of sturdy and stalwart West
erners were lounging about the struc-
ture.
Have you anything to say?" the
doomed man was asked.
Indeed he hain't," a woman shout
ed, elbowing her way through the
crowd, hell have nuthin' to say sence
we were married these last eighteen
years, an I'll be switched eff he'll hev
anything to say now. Ell there's any
sayin' to be did I'll say it, so you
mought as well go on with the perform
apce."
The doomed man turned pale, lodged
as though expecting something to be
hurled at him, and went to his death
without even so much as whisper.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
a FOrcibIe Reminder,

The other day a colored teamster,
driving along the Boonesboro pike with
an empty hay wagon, pulled to one side
near Forest Grove Church, and stop
ped to think, says the Winchester (<y.)
Sentinel. He had forgotten something,
and was cudgeling his brain quite seri-
ously when a well-known citizen of
Winchester came along.
'Howdy do, boss; howdy do" said
the teamster. IT'S mighty glad ter see
yer; deed / is, kase rs in er heap er
truble. Mr.. Gaines, he done sent me
down heah ter git er load err hay, an
1 done clean furgot de mans name
watts got de hay Now, boss, you
knows all er desc people 'roun heah
sposen yer call over de names, and
mebbe hit'll kinder fresh my mem'ry"
We'll" said the citizen, was it
Bush?"
NO sab"
"Elkin ?''
mo, sah."
"Lisle?"
mo, sah."
"Quisenberry?"
mo, sab. Didn't SCUM muffin like
nun er dem. Soun'ed mo- like sumpn
dat minded me or Crismus, an de fofe
er July, an things like dat?"
Holiday"
Oats de man! OATS he mani"
shouted the darkey, throwing up both
hands MIR. Lewis Holiday! Much
erbleeged, boss! Git up. Lie! OATS
de mani" and on he went for the hay.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

MISUNDERSTANDING Florida Cen
trail and Peninsular Railroad Com
pany; German Friendly Society.
Military Orders-Irish Jasper Greens.
Business Notices-Sliced Lemon
Cling Peaches, c. H. Monsees.
The Cecilian Piano Player-McArthur
& Sons Co.
Bargains-At Lattimores.
Insurance Statements - Fifty-third
Annual Statement of the Aetna Life
of Hartford, Conn.
Silver Polish-The Gorham Co.
Savannah Theater-Hoyts Comedy
Company, Tonight.
Cheap Column Advertisements-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

There has been introduced in the
New York Legislature bill to abolish
the offices of coroners in the city of
New York. 1t is proposed to suhsti-
tute for the coroners medical examin-
ers, Of which Manhattan will have six,
Brooklyn four, Queens two. Bronx
two and Richmond one. The medical
examiners are to be under authority
of the health officer. They are to have
terms of five years and receive $500
a year. Massac husetts abolished cor
oners some years ago and substituted
medical examiners. If the proposed
new system is d good thing for New
York city, it seems it would be as good
for the whole of the state.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

In Washington. says an exchange,
Senator Dietrich has invented the
phrase, descriptive of the blockade of
business in the Senate, Tin statu Quay"
The badness of that pun upon quo
is excused only by its pertinence. There
is another pun upon the name of Quay
involving the pronunciation of two liv-
ing languages. The French pronuncia-
ton of quay, meaning a landing place,
is key" So, in reference to the politi-
cal domination of Pennsylvania by its
senior senator the keystone state is
facetiousIy spelled as the "Quaystone
State"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

Mr. Bryan will hardly do himself any
good by rushing into print to voice
his uncompromising personal an
tipathy to Mr.. Cleveland. He will not
put his legs under the same mahogany
with Mr.. Cleveland. he declares. not
withstanding it was the purpose of the
1roquois Club of Chicago to ask him to
do so at a public and political dinner.
What need is there of inviting any
body else to banquet at which Grover
Cleveland is to be PRESENT." he asks. Is
is possible that there is a bit of pioue
or jealousy in that expression? Does
1t mean Mr.. Bryan fears Mr.. Cleveland
would be the whole thing" and that
he would attract only little attention
in comparison?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
TIE DRUMMER tax CASE.

The United States Supreme Court
few days ago handed down it's de-
cision in the drummer tax case from
nances of Greensboro provide that
commercial travellers, or drummers,
from other states doing business in
that town shall be required to take out
a special license, paying therefor
specified sum. A Chicago drummer
visiting Greensboro declined to pay the
license, out of which incident grew the
case. The matter went to the Supreme
Court of North Carolina, where the le-
gality Of the license tax was upheld
and finally to the United States Su-
preme Court, which has reversed the
North Carolina court, holding that i'm
posing a license fee upon the agents
of foreign corporations doing business
in Greensboro was a violation of the
interstate commerce clause of the con-
stitution.
The opinion of the court, which fol-
lows closely an opinion delivered sew
eral years ago in a somewhat similar
case, declares that interstate commerce
cannot be taxed at ALL even though the
same amount of tax should be laid
upon the states own commerce. That
is, if the state places a tax on its own
drummers and commercial agents, it
cannot place a similar tax on drum
mers and commercial agents coming
into it from other states. The state"
says the opinion, lis not bound to tax
its own drummers; and if it does so
whilst having no power to tax those of
other states, it acts of its own free
will. and is itself the author of such
discrimination"
The drummers, therefore, are elm
mated from consideration as a source
of public revenue, since no state will
keep on it's statute books a law taxing
its own drummers and thus placing
them at a disadvantage as compared
with drummers from other states,
whom it has no power to tax.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

Has this country so outgrown its
transportation facilities that some
parts of it must go hungry as a conse-
quence? That, according to a New
York railroad official, is the situation
In a nutshell. There is a scarcity of
Hour in New York and at other sea-
board cities, with the likelihood that
there will be something like famine
In that article before the situation can
be relieved by shipments from the
Northwest. There is a plenty of flour
IN Minneapolis, but the railroads
haven't the cars and the locomotives
10 get it East as fast as it is wanted.
Inc coal situation has helped 10 tie up
traffic in other commodities. we need
more tracks. more cars and more en-
gines' Is the summing-up Of the rail-
road man referred 70 above.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
THE ARROGANCE OF THE TRUSTS


The exposition of trust methods in
attempting to influence the action of
Congress- as shown in our Washington
dispatches of yesterday is sufficient to
cause Indignation and protest through
out the country. No less than six
United States senators, it is stated, re-
ceived kilograms signed John d.
Rockefeller" saying: we are opposed
to any antitrust legislation. Our coun-
sci, Mr.. -- - will see you. 1t
must be stopped" The imperative Ian
guage of the kilograms is especially Of
fensive. Must" is a term seldom used
save by those in authority, and then the
authority should be absolute. Do the
trusts imagine that they own the Sem
ate of the United States? Is it theirs
to command what legislation shall and
ceive of any greater outrage upon a
free and self-governing people than this
arrogant assumption on the part of the
trusts that their interests are to be first
considered and that no law must be
passed that will interfere with their
plans for accommodating wealth at the
expense of the people. 1t is a safe con-
clusion that the American people are
not going to put up with that sort of
thing. The trusts will be taught a
very wholesome lesson, unless we
greatly mistake public sentiment.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09
Sight
Is
Priceless

But it takes an expert who has had
years of study on the anatomy of the
eye and reflection of light to give
PERFECT SIGHT and at the same
time relieve all strain from the nerves
and muscles of the eyes. In the seven
months 1 have been in Savannah I
have eested and fitted glasses to over
1000 people, over half of which was
wearing glasses that did not fit, and a
great many with second and third
quality lenses. Does this speak well
for our city? 1 think not. You do not
run any risk in getting your glasses
from us. You want them right-ex-
actly right. You are secured against
even the possibility of error.
HINES OPTICAL co.,
DR. Lewis A. Hines, Refractionist. 148
Whitaker ST., near Oglethorpe Ave.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

Practically every state Legislature
that is in session has during the past
few days adopted resolutions calling
on Congress to vote for large appro-
priations for the navy. The West Vir-
ginia Legislature seems to think the
Monroe doctrine is in imminent dam
ger of being knocked into a cooked hat,
and strongly urges the construction of
a powerful navy at the earliest practi-
cal moment. Is all of this sudden in
terest in the navy the result of Capt.
Hobson's lecture tour?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

The little furry with respect to
Venezuela has not served to check the
Kaiser's friendly intention to present
this country with a statue of Frederick
the Great. The statue is scheduled to
arrive in Washington about June 1, ac-
companied by a brilliant staff of
German officers. Ambassador Tower is
coming all the way from Berlin so as
to be in Washington to assist in the
reception of the Kaisers representa-
tiVes
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

The trouble with a good many poll
ticians and political heelers in Penn
sylvania, as elswhere. is that they will
not stay bought" To remedy the evil
Senator Herbst has introduced into the
Pennsylvania Senate a bill to punish
as a misdemeanor the violation of in
structions in political conventions. II
the Senator could make his bill reach
members Of the Legislature as well as
delegates to conventions, he would do
well.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-09

The Confederate veterans of Birming-
ham, Ala, are quite willing for the ex-
slaves to be pensioned, according to the
Hanna plan. The veterans have a sin
cere good feeling for the old slaves
and would like to see their declining
years made reasonably comfortable,
even at government expense. But moth
ing of the kind will ever happen. The
pension money would come into the
South,