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The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12

After M. S. Quay's sensational de-
nunciation of David Martin on the
floor of the United States Senate, ear
ly in 1895, following the turning down
of Penrose for the mayoralty nominal
ton. Martin. 1t will be recalled. as
sumed the attitude of what is termed
a goo goo in municipal affairs, and
talked a great deal about pure politics
and reform, says the Philadelphia
Ledger. A friend who had been
through more than one strenuous cam
paign side by side with Martin asked
one day E
Dave, doesn't it take lot of nerve
for you to come out in the glare of
day as reformer?" 4v
We'll" replied Martin, sit did at
first; but 1 sustain myself by think
ing of the newly arrived Celt who one
morning regaled some friends with an
account of the glories of a play he
had witnessed the night before
How much did all that luxury cost
yez?" asked an envious member of the
group.
'Niver a cint,' was the reply. 'Oi
jist walked in Backward, n tn mon
be tn dure thought it wuz goin' out
/ MuZ.'"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
Du ChaiIIu Never Married.

Du Chaillu never married, says the
Mail and Express, but he was fond
OF joking about his experiences with
women he met on his travels, although
he was always very careful not to say
a word that could in any way reflect
on any woman he had ever met. He
was often asked why he had never
married, and the only explanation he
was ever known to give was this:
"Once upon a time" he said, with
out a smile, IAN old African king who
was very fond of me offered me my
choice of S53 women as a wife.
Your majesty l replied, If l
should marry one of these beauties of
yours there would be S52 jealous wom-
en- here
"'Well, replied the king that is
easily settled. Take them ALL
That was a little too strong for me,
however," said Du Chaillu, land as
have never had such a field to choose
from since I am still bachelor"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
Inevitable "Eye-Witness."

The late John T. Crisp was a par
ticipant in the battle of Westport
says the Kansas City Star. He liked
to describe the engagement from his
point of view and he never failed to
interest his auditors. A few years ago
while seated at a round table" in a
downtown cafe, he gave, according
to a friend, free vent to his wonderful
imagination, in the presence of Rich
ard Gentry and others who were at
the scene of the battle at the time il
ragged the fiercest.
The colonel told of the way his COM
pany had charged the enemy of how
the Federalists were put to flight and
of how he himself had been in the
forefront of the bloody battle
Gentry who was a member of Crisp S
company, finally interrupted a beauti-
full piece of word painting about the
horrors of war by saying: Now, colo
mel, you know you ran like - or
that day. l was running with you and
you kept ahead of me until we were
out of range of the Union guns. Yes
sir, you ran, sir; by CAD, sir, you re-
treated. sir, and 1 retreated with YOU. ~
Col. Crisp, so the story goes, calmly
looked at Gentry for a moment and
then, in his most explosive manner
exclaimed:
Il never told a good story in my life
that some BANKED witness did not
jump UP and spoil it,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Mobile Register Oem.) says:
The United States has reached a
point in its career as a world power
where it will either have to form an
'entangling alliance with Great Bri-
tain and Japan or let Russia have free
rein in China"
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says:
"A Kansas City newspaper mentions
Gov. Dockery casually and then alb
ruptly breaks off to say that though
David r. Francis dresses like a gen
tleman and has good table manners he
has suffered no loss of popularity in
Missouri. What can be the connection
between the two statements?"
The Memphis Commercial-AppeaI
(Dem.) says: Postmaster General
old sailors how tub is sometimes
thrown out to amuse a pursuing
whale and keep it from attacking the
ship. He is endeavoring to amuse the
popular whale by exploiting an unim-
portant incident that occurred near
Gallatin for the evident purpose of
Withdrawing attention from the dis
graceful scandals being unearthed in
the Postoffice Departmen and of
winch ne possessed knowledge, on his
own admission, many months ago."
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.)
says: while all the nations are try
ing to get slice of the Chinese pie.
there is no agreement, while there are
many causes for jealousy. The wolves
that devour the carcass commonly
night desperately over the prey, and
II appears that some effort has been
made to draw the United States into
the squabble on the ground that every
world power must take part i'm the
Wrecking and plundering OF nations.
Let US not Interfere in the
international affairs OF the old world
while We vindicate our doctrine as TO
the new. II there are to be two great
Powers dominating each a hemisphere
Jet M accept the edlot OF destiny as
TO our part In H., and not interfere
with she development OF the other
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
THE MYSTERY UNsOLvED.

New York was greatly stirred up by
the story of the leaving of box of
dynamite on the Cunard line dock, an
account of which was published in our
dispatches on Sunday. Every effort
is being made TO find the parties who
left the dynamite. and 1t is a safe
assertion that every right thinking
person hopes they will be discovered
and punished as they deserve. The
penalty for such an act is twenty-five
years in the penitentiary.
Police Commissioner Greene is quoted
as saying that 1t had been suggested
to him that the whole thing was a
hoax. He does not intend to treat it
as such, and there is no evidence that
it was so intended. But If 1t were
intended to be hoax the parties guilty
Of the act ought to be severely pun
ished. The very suggestion that there
are persons so wicked as to place an
Internal machine on board ship, so
arranged as to explode after the vessel
had gone to sea, is enough to prevent
many people from taking a trip across
the ocean.
The finding of box Of dynamite on
the Cunard dock will destroy the peace
of mind of many persons that will
sail for Europe this season. They will
be uneasy all the time they are at
sea.
The police have found some clues
which they are following. There was
dynamite enough in the box to destroy
any one of the vessels of the Cunard
line. 1t is almost inconceivable that
there are persons so utterly bad as
to wish to destroy a ship filled with
people against whom they have no ILL
feeling whatever, or if their purpose
was not to destroy the ship with her
passengers that they should wish to
create the impression that such was
their purpose, and thus make miserable
thousands of people who are contem-
plating crossing the ocean this sum
mer.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
COMMENTS ON CLEVELAND'S LET
TER

The headline comments of the news
papers on the letter which Mr.. Cleve-
land wrote to the editor of the Ath-
ems, Ga. Banner, a copy of which
| appeared in the Morning News
on Sunday, are interesting in that they
show the different interpretations put
upon it. For instance, one paper COM
ments as follows. Cleveland vague"
and another says "Cleveland's ambition
filed" and so on through a long list
but it is worthy of notice that none
of them is based upon a belief that
Mr.. Cleveland is a candidate for a
third term. In Athens it seems that
many of those to whom the letter was
shown drew the inference from it that
to accept the Democratic nomination
for President next year.
1t seemed to us that Mr.. Cleveland
frankly said that he did not want the
nomination, was not seeking it, but
was not prepared to say that he would
not take it because he could not fore
see what might happen between now
and the time of meeting of the Demo-
cratic National Convention.
Those who are closest to Mr.. Cleve-
land are confident that he does not
wish to re-enter active politics-that
Is, he is satisfied with having been
President twice.
Ex-senator Villas of Wisconsin, who
was in Mr.. Clevelands first cabinet,
recently visited him at Princeton, and
had long talk with him. In an inter
view at Madison, Wis, on Saturday,
while making it clear that he did not
speak for Mr.. Cleveland, he said: IL
am positive that Mr.. Cleveland is not
candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for President, nor do / know of
any present contingency that would
lead to his becoming a candidate. This
is a matter of opinion, based upon a
recent visit with Mr.. Cleveland at his
home in Princeton" Further along in
bis interview Mr.. Villas said that he
was disinclined to connect Mr.. Cleve-
lands visit to st. Louis with a move
ment seeking his nomination to the
presidency.
While Mr.. Cleveland is greatly es-
termed in all parts of the country
and while his recent letter on the ne
gro question made him many addi-
tional friends in the South, we are
satisfied that it is not his purpose to
seek the presidential nomination of his
party. The shrewdest of the Demo-
cratic politicians who have expressed
their opinions on the subject seem to
agree that there is no chance for him
to get the nomination. We have ex-
pressed this opinion number of times
and see no reason to change It.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12

What is the prospect for the ratif-
cation of the Cuban reciprocity treaty
The President has announced that
there will be an extra session of Con-
gress just as soon as the fall cleo
tons are over, and that the Cuban
reciprocity treaty will be the first mat
ter to be considered.
1t seems to us that the chances for
its ratification are not as good now
as they were at the time of the ad-
journment of Congress, for the reason
that conventions Of several interests
affected by the treaty have been held
recently and adopted resolutions
against the treaty. For instance, the
sugar cane convention at Macon pass
ed a strong resolution against it., and
it is well understood that the tobac-
co and beet sugar interests are against
II.
The sugar cane convention was a
very influential body. its delegates be-
ing grom several states. The sena-
tors and representatives from those
states will undoubtedly give the reso-
luton passed by it very careful consid-
GRAFTON. 1t is of much more impor-
lance to them to respect the wishes
of their constituents than to favor
Cuba's interests in the matter. 1t is
impossible of course to forsee how far
they will consider themselves obligat-
ed to make some tariff concessions to
Cuba by the promises said to have
been made to her in connection with
what is known as the Plat amendment
It is evident, however that there is
going to be a big fight made against
ratification of the treaty, and, in view
of the many interests in this country
that are involved, it would not be
surprising If 1t should be successful.
We are not prepared to say how
great the injury to the cane growing
section represented at the Macon. con-
vention would be if the treaty should
be ratified, but we assume it would
be considerable. or else the conven-
ton would not have passed the reso-
luton against it. If the cultivation of
sugar cane is to make Roadway in this
part of the South it will need every
possible encouragement.
Looking at the situation as it now
presents itself there are good reasons
for saying that the President is go
ing to have a difficult task to get the
treaty ratified.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
Called Up and called Down.

A former city official who is we'll
know in many sections of the borough
had occasion to attend a concert given
in large hall the other evening, says
the Brooklyn Times. His wife and
many friends were among those pres
ent. During an intermission every one
was somewhat startled to hear a stem
torian voice ring out from the gallery.
rs the Hon. Mr.. Blank PRESENT.
the voice said.
Slowly and majestically the aforesaid
erstwhile official rose from his place in
a prominent part of the house and
faced the gallery in a dignified manner,
as suited his station in society.
Il am Mr.. Blank" he replied, as he
drew his rather stocky figure to its full
hight.
sit down, you lobster!" called the
voice, with an emphasis that was as
great as it was embarrassing.
The dull thud that was heard imme-
diately after the above sally was only
the noise caused by the ex-official's
anatomy as it came in contact with
his rather hard seat. During the laugh
ter and confusion that followed the
guilty one escaped.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
BRIGHT BITS.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak: People are
never satisfied in this world.


Mrs. Crimsonbeak: People are
never satisfied in this world.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak: Oh, l don't know
you never heard of a man clipping more
than once, did you7-Yonkers States
man.
Mrs. Bonton-I understand the
duke is about to play the part of q
heavy villain in a theatrical produc-
ton.
Mrs. Gotrox-Why, how impossible!
He only weighs about 1876 pounds
Tonkers Herald.
Have you discovered the perpetra-
tor of this crime?"
NO." answered the detective; but
we have something to show for our
work. We have placed a whole lot of
people under suspicion of misbehavior."
Washington Star.
statistics show" said the amateur
scientist, that every time you draw
your breath somebody dies"
Perhaps, but if / didn't draw my
breath the somebody who dies in that
somebody who dies in that case would
certainly be me.'-Baltimore Herald.
Professor" said the bad young
man of the class, 1.-The scientists tell
us the anthracite supply of the world
will be completely exhausted in a lit
tie over sixty years. What are We to
do for fuel then %
MY friend" replied the venerable
man, "by that time, in all probability,
you will have gone where the fuel sup
ply is ineXhaustible. "-ChicAgo Trib-
une.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
MDt1 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Aucient Landmark Lodge
No 2S1, F. & A. M; Georgia State
Board of Pharmacy; Stockholders, Sa-
vannah Hotel Company; DeKalb
Lodge No 9, l. o. O. F.
Special Notices-Corned Beef. Groots
New Market Ship Notices, Strachan &
Co., Agents; Special Notice, 1sadore
Collat; Moonlight Excursion; Ruth
Rebekah Lodge No. 3, l. o. o. F.
Business Notices-Pure Olive Oil, A.
NJ. & c. w. West.
From Date of Deposit-Savannah
Trust Company.
Railroads-Colorado Flyer, Santa Fe
Railway; Excursion to Jacksonville
seaboard Air Line; Low Side Trip
Rates, Atlantic Coast Line.
Wedding Gift-Dorhinger~ Glass
ware.
Don't Fiddle Merrily Away-Savan-
nah Investment Company.
Time Honored-Waltham Watches.
Proposals wanted-For Constructing
Roads, Walks and Cutters at Fort De
SOVO, ria.
Sash, Doors, Blinds-John G. But
Ter.
Summer Resorts-Blue Mountain
House, Washington County, Maryland.
Don't Wait Till Night-Rowlinski
The Man Left-At Lattimore's
Rumford Baking Powder-The Del
monico Company.
Silverware-The Gorham Company.
Foods-Force.
Beer-Schlitz Brewing Company.
Medical Cuticura; OZomulsion;
Syrup of Figs; Paine's Celery Com
pound; Mull's Grape Tonic.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
PERSONAL.

Vice President Thomas A. Hen
bricks of Indiana was a graduate of
Hanover College, at Madison, in that
state, and his widow has given $25, 900
for the erection of a library in his
memory there.
queen Wilhelmina, patroness and
founder of the incubator institute at
The Hague, has been sued for $500
guldens by, Francis, Gerhard because
the latter's boy. baby was exchanged
for girl while in the oven.
If the Rothschilds had increased
and multiplied after the manner of
many families there would by this
time have been a prodigious number
of the English branch, let alone the
rest, but after more than a hundred
years the descendants of Nathan
Meyer Rothschild, founder of the Eng
fish Rothschilds, only amount to be-
tween thirty and forty persons.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12

Sometimes a doctor has to deal not
only with physical ailments, but with
a mental attitude which complexities
the case, says the Youths Companion.
A man who was constantly changing
physicians at last called in a young
doctor who was just beginning his
practice.
II lose my breath when I climb hill
or a steep flight of stairs" said the
patient. IF hurry often get sharp
pain in my side. Those are the symp-
toms of serious heart trouble"
Not necessarily, sir" began the
physician, but he was interrupted.
Il beg your pardon!" said the pa
tient, irritably. "It isn't for a young
physician like you to disagree with an
old and experienced invalid like me,
SirlO
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
The WidOM,s Cow.

At the meeting of bankers in Clay
Centre, Kan, last week, says the Kan
sas City Journal, E. p Blake, respond
ing to the toast, Securities" told of a
pretty young widow who got into finan-
cial straits and borrowed from his bank
$40 on the security of fine Jersey COW
1t nearly broke her heart, she said 10
pledge the animal, which was almost
as dear TO her as her children. Then
came long period in which she re-
neWed the note, time after time. some
times paying interest and sometimes
not, and always distressing the bank
officers with her sorrowful talk. "One
day, proceeds the story, she showed
up in more sorrowful frame of mind
than usual, and with more tears and
wetter tears also than usual, announced
that she had given up the struggle
The COW was dead and she was wearing
her life out under the weight of a deht
unsecured and which she saw no pros
pecr of ever being able to pay. She
wanted il discharged.
The cashier took to the woods tell
ing me that it was no use for the hank
to monkey longer with that paper: to
treat the woman as nicely as 1 could
making her burden as light as posi-
pie' uIy up thS FOUNTAIN or tears, then
so over to the register of deeds Office
with her and have the mortgage re-
leased. All of which 1. did in NV
smoothest and most gentlemanIy way
Just as we were coming out of the
Court House curiosity got the better
OF me, and more as a space filler than
anything else, 1 said
Madam. now that this Is all SET
tied, when did your COW die and how
did II happen Nv"
She had wiped her tears away nv
THIS time and was radiant and smIj-
Ing, poem in contradictions. Turning
TO me she said. s
MY dear boy, you tell that sweet
cashier OF yours that the butcher kill
ed the COW two years ago.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12

Discussing the race question in the
South and the North, the Houston
(Tex). Chronicle-Herald makes the
point that if the South, as argued,
won't let the negro vote, 1t let's him
work; while the North let's the negro
vote, but won't let him work" The
New York Tribune (Rep.) quotes and
calls attention to the Texas papers
statement, but it does not attempt to
reply to it. AS a matter of fact, there
is no answer to be made to it. 1t is
the truth, and shows that the North's
race question is more serious than
that of the South
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12

Savannah's parks and squares are
beautiful. There are few cities in the
country that have such places that will
bear comparison with them. The flow
ers, now coming into full bloom. show
their gratitude for the care and culti-
walton they have received and are
bountifully repaying the pains bestow-
ed on them. But, has it ever occurred
to our worthy Park and Tree Commits
sion that a very attractive section of
some park or square could be made Ivy
devoting a certain area to native wild
flowers, vines and Towering shrubs and
trees? The goldenrod. which grows
prolifically in the meadows. would
make a pretty show in the squares.
Then there is the yellow jessamine
than which there are few prettier
blooming vines. People ride miles into
the country to gather a few sprigs of
Jessamine, yet none is found growing
In the city. The wild honeysuckle too
Is pretty and fragrant. There are lilies
and "hycatchers," and trumpets and
various other plants native 10 the soil
mat might do well under cultivation.
section Of park or square devoted
70 me fora u Southern Georgia would
De an Interesting and beautiful exhibit
y" Doint out 70 visitors IN the city.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
A GREAT LARoR CONTEST.

New York city is having the greatest
labor war in her history. 1t is stated
that SIS, 900, 900 in building contracts is
tied UP and 100000 men are idle. The
masons, carpenters, plasterers and all
the other building trades are either out
on strikes or are locked out.
The contractors have got to a point
where they say they will not yield TO
any more of the demands of the labor
standstill in the building line.
1t is impossible to say just what the
grievances of the various parties in
terested are. Some want one thing
and some another. In one case there
is a demand for an increase of wages
without an increase in the hours of
labor, and in another there is a de-
mand that the foreman shall be a
union man.
1t would be useless to go through the
list and enumerate all the differences
between the contractors and these 10O,-
900 workmen. And there does not seem
to be any prospect of an adjustment of
the trouble. Both sides seem deter
mined to hold out. And the various
associations that furnish building sup
plies have banded together and refuse
to make further concessions to their
employees. In fact, they are making
war on labor unions.
There will be a great deal of suffer-
ing in New York soon unless a settle
ment is quickly reached. Very few of
the 100000 men out of employment
have means enough to live without
work more than a week or So When
families get hungry there is likely to
be trouble. unless the strikes are de-
clared off. Just before May l.. II was
said by most of the New York papers,
that there would be no strikes OF con-
sequence on that date. II turns out
that there have been lots OF labor trou-
bles since the first Of the month.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12
FREIGHT AM PARCEI. CAR

Leaves east side OF City Market for Thunder.
bolt Cattle Park, Sandhy. Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points-9:I Is a. M, 1;15 p. M, rs
p. m. IT'f
Leaves Isle Of Hope for Sanddy, Cattle Park,
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points-6. 0l
q. m, Ii 100 a. m, 3 90 D. m
Freight car leaves Montgomery at $50 a. m
and 300 p. m, connecting at Sandy with reg
ular parcel car for city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight tn
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation OF passengers
Any further information regarding passen-
ger schedule or freight service can be had by
applying 70 C. B. KIDDER, Manager.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-12

We are quite sure that the Southern
Baptists had enjoyable and profitable
meetings in their annual convention
and its allied bodies during the past
four days, Notwithstanding the IN
seasonable and Indictment weather
which beset them for three days
steadily. Happily the Baptists are not
a people who permit sprinklings, or
even downpours, of rain to dampen
their spirits or chill their enthusiasm,
hence all of their meetings were
characterized by heartiness, good will
and determination. Savannah was
proud to welcome the Baptists and is
sorry to have to bid them goodbye.
She regrets that, the weather bureau
being under federal government and
not local government control, they
were compelled to resort to umbrellas,
mackintoshes and goloshes. But she
is confident that they will acquit her
of any mischievous purpose in the mat
ter, and remember her kindly for her
good intentions and her sincere efforts
to be agreeable even in the midst of a
May northeaster. In bidding the de-
parting guests godspeed, the Morning
News voices the sentiment of the
whole city is wishing them health
and prosperity, and a return to Sa-
vannah before the lapse of another
forty years-when we hope for better
weather,