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The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
ExrRAvAGANCE AT FUNERALS.

The fact that Lord Salisbury pro-
vided In his will that not more than
500 should be spent on his funeral
has been the subject of great deal
of comment. Although one of the great
est noblemen of Great Britain, the
second in rank. and having the pride
of the very proud family to which he
belonged abnormally developed he dis
liked anything like display.
His funeral cost only about $40. In
this country there are few funerals,
even among the poorer people that
cost as little as that. The desire seems
| to be to make a showing of some
degree of wealth, whether any is pos
sessed by the bereaved family or not.
And this is not because the family
| desires to manifest its affection for
the dead by fine funeral, but because
| it has become custom for families
| to make as good a display as possible
on such occasions.
1t is all right enough of course for
| those who can afford the expense to
make a display that will attract the
| attention of the friends who attend
the funeral ceremonies and also the
street observers, but in a vast number
of instances money is spent that is
actually needed by the bereaved fam
lily to obtain the comforts of life. In
order to have a fine funeral 1t is often
the case that a family will spend
the money that it needs for the next
months rent of the house in which
it lives. 1t will go without needed
articles of clothing and food for days
and weeks in order to have the funeral
for it's departed member commented
upon favorably by its neighbors.
OF course refernce is had to funerals
in cities The desire to crafty pride
of this kind does not exist in the coun-
try to a very great extent. but it
does exist, and is becoming more and
more noticeable.
1t is regrettable that there isn't a
general effort to put a stop to ex-
travagance at funerals. The money
that is wasted in this way could be
used to so much better advantage in
bereaved homes in other ways that it
would seem as if the pulpit especially
would use its influence in favor of
economy and simplicity.
Perhaps if the rich would lead the
way those having but little of this
worlds good would follow their exam
pie. No doubt Lord Salisbury had in
mind the custom of the poor people
within the sphere of his influence,
when he wrote in his will that his
funeral should not cost more than 500.
TO go into debt far beyond their inn
mediate means to pay in making a
display at funerals. In this country
many a family would be more COM
Portable II simplicity and economy
instead OF extravaganza were the
rule on these sad and solemn occa-
siOus.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13


Five dollars for a cigar! And if you
bought a hundred of them you would
have to pay $500. with no discount
off for cash. says the New York
Press.
mo, we don't sell many of then" "
said a clerk to a curious customer
Sometimes a sporty-looking individual,
evidently from out of town, comes in
here and wants the best cigar in
the shop. He means the most eXpen-
sive, of course, and the five-dollar
way we get rid of most of them. OF
course, they are worth S., if you don't
care for expenses. They are all Hav-
ana, including the wrapper. This is
what makes them cost so much. The
cigars are five times as large as the
ordinary one, and it is extremely diff
ficult to get a leaf of Havana large
enough for wrapper. In 1000 hands
of tobacco we won't find one leaf Of
the requisite size and quality.
THE last one we sold was two weeks
ago. A boy of the messenger type
came in here and sided up to the
counter.
Gimme a fl dollar cigar he de-
manded.
Run along I said.
by way of answer he threw a
SIS bill on the counter and repeated
his request. 1 gave the cigar to him
and he went out. 1 suppose some
one must have sent him for it-possi-
bly, a cigar manufacturer who wanted
to keep his identity hidden"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
Personal.

John D. Rockefeller is having two
portraits of himself painted by E.
Komolsky, a noted Hungarian artist
OF course the paintings are being done
in oil, but mot kerosene oil.
Franklin Farrell, Jr., the son of a
Connecticut millionaire and a recent
graduate of Harvard, has entered his
fathers foundry at Derby, with the
purpose of learning the trade of a
foundryman in all it's details.
That's as good as any ten-center,' -
said Mr.. Makinbrakes. taking another
puff at it and holding it up admiring-
ly. ct cost Fifteen" said the man
who had given him the cigar. Il
take it all back hastily rejoined Mr..
Makinbrakes.-C Tribune.
The birthday of Mrs Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, who with Miss Susan
B. Anthony, surviving partner in her
labors, won as much of the advance
in the legal rights of woman as any
individual. is to be celebrated gener-
ally by woman suffrage associations
and Woman's clubs on Nov IL.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal
Oem.) says: Prosperity radiates
from a profitable cotton crop. All
branches of business are affected, and
all sorts and conditions of men feel
the vital impulse. The Commercial
Appeal makes the prediction with con-
fidence that this will be a year of
Astounding prosperity throughout the
Southern states
The Washington Star Qnd) says:
Bishop Gamblers words should have
much influence for good wherever men
are thinking about the evils of lynch
law His standing as cleric and as
an educator is high, and what he says
will strengthen the resolution of men
in Office charged with the execution
of the laws of the land. He sees clear
ly on the main point, and expresses
himself with refreshing vigoT."
The Baltimore Sun CDem) says
Enthusiasts on the subject of the ele-
walton of the negro assert that the
race problem is to be solved in the pub
lie schools; that if the black children
are given the proper mental training
they will develop into good citizens,
worthy of political equality with the
White. nat Is the view VI tllOot " Alb
have no practical knowledge of the
race, who study the problem at long
range, who are strong on theories and
assumption, but woefully weak on the
facts"
The Columbia Is. c. State Dem)
says. THE little irregularities. as
Mr. Payne termed them, in the POST
Office Department are very serious
now. You may know that the situa-
ton Is bad when the highest Repub-
lican machine politicians are unable 70
shield their friends. This is evidence
that II IS so bad that the admlnistra-
ton realizes vigorous action must be
taken or the opposition party Will have
"a winning issue. for the facts evident
ly are there and II one side does not
make the exposure the other side will.
A few 81 the lesser lights, no matter
how brilliant and faithful, must be
sacrificed for the general party good
lest the cry Turn the raseoia OUT
sweep The whole aggregation away. p
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
Andy's Fad.

From the Baltimore American.
(Having purchased the home of Will
liam Shakespeare and the Burns house
Mr.. Carnegie is negotiating for the
Battlefield of Bannockburn.)
Andy, pray what will you go after
next?
Do tell us-we won't be surprised.
Your fads have been such in the last
year or two
AS none could have ever surmised.
You gave away libraries everywhere,
From Red Dog to little Padunk,
And now and again you have handed
the Door
A very appreciate hunk.
You've given the coin for a temple to
stand
For peace in the town they call
Hague;
But we must admit your actions of
late
Have rendered your motives quite
vague.
Now, since you have purchased Bill
Shakespeare's old house
And dear Bobby Burns poor hat,
oh, what upon earth will you take to
yourself
Before that huge pocketbook's' shut I?
It's certain, I s'pose. that the old Chi
nese Wall,
The field where Napoleon was licked,
The Garden of Eden and Marathon's
steep,
The place where the Austrians were
tricked--
It's called Observation-Disclosures
Pass,
Mount Ararat, Gettysburg, too,
viii shortly belong to the boot mon
whose coin
The whole world is helping to strew.
And, then, Andy dear, will you buy
Jacobs Well.
The Pompeii ruins and all
The worlds other wonders, including
the place
Where Sampson his jawbone let fall?
Are you sending Peary to dash for the
pole.
With orders to bring 1t to you?
The bridge where Horatius did stunts
long ago
Say. now, are you after that. too?
But. Andy-be easy. no insult is
meant
There's one famous spot you can't
buy;
Nay even II all OF the wealth OF the
world
Were yours IN the wink Of an eve
The place that / mean Milton told me
about
When Lucifer thought 10 rebel:
For heavens huge battlements cannot
be bought
Although they might please you quite
we'll
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
CHANGING SENTIMENT.
oliver GOIdsmith's deserted VIII
laRe.o

Goldsmith in his Deserted Village"
spoke of a certain chapel where those
who went to scott, remained to pray"
So in life one often laughs at what he
does not understand and later, when he
does understand, his laugh turns 10
praise. There were some who doubted
the merits of Newbro's "Herpicide," the
scalp germicide and hair dressing; but
since they have tried it. they are now
among it's best friends and strongest
endOrsers. Herpicide kills the germ
that eats the hair off at the root, and
the hair then grows again. AS a hair
dressing it is incompatible; try it. Sold
by leading druggists. Send 1Oc in
stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co.
Detroit, Mich.
Livingston's Pharmacy Co., Special
Agents.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
HoUsE-FLIEs AND GERMS.

Entomologists are warning the peO-
pie that they have more to fear from
the common house-fiy than from all the
various sorts of bugs and mosquitoes.
1t is pretty we'll agreed that mosquitoes
are vehicles of transmission of mala
rial and yellow fever germs, but it does
not appear that their evil activities
extend further than that. In the case
of the flies. however, they are charged
with the distribution of typhoid, diph-
liberia, scarlet fever, cholera and many
other germs. Because of their con-
slant presence around residences and
their tireless energy in fitting from
filth to human food in their feeding,
the house-fies are a perpetual menace
to health and even life. The old belief
that the flies were a real benefit about
the house in that they We're scaven-
gers and destroyers of miasmatic par
ticles, has been exploded. They are
scavengers, truly, but the amount of
good they may do is tremendously over
balanced by the harm they certainly do
in depositing germs from decaying and
putrid matter upon food that will ulti-
mately find it's way into human mouths
and stomachs.
Prof. Underwood of Boston has re-
Gently made a study of the house-hy
with the purpose in view of ascertain
ing just how much of a germ carrier
and distributor it is. In the course Of
his experiments he exposed few drops
of transparent beef jelly where a
house-fy from amcng hundreds of 9TH
ers alighted upon and fed on it. The
| fly walked over the jelly, ate of it and
flew away, leaving no visible sign to
show that it had ever been there. Then
Prof. Underwood brought his micro
scope to bear on the jelly. Literally
tens of thousands of germs met his
view. There was a track of germs at
every place the fly had put down foot
and wherever it's tongue had touched
! the jelly. Twelve hours later another
examination was made and this time
a photograph of the jelly was taken
Where there had previously been thou
sands of germs there were now mill
| mons. 30 numerous ana acIlVe haQ
they become. indeed. that the masses
could be seen with the naked eye. The
professor estimates that there were
100000 germs in one of the Colonies"
where the fly had stepped, and more
than million in each place where it's
tongue had touched the jelly. If one
solitary fly could achieve such results
on few drops of jelly, what is to be
expected when a dozen or fifty of them
alight on dinner plate?
Because of their myriad numbers and
rapid reproduction the house-flies are
hard to combat. But every available
means should be employed to guard
against them. Screens and netting
should be used, and their breeding
places should be destroyed wherever
that is practicable. Stables, garbage
heaps. sinks and the like are the fav-
orlte breeding places OF the pests.
Cleanliness is the best preventive
against flies and germs.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

New York newspapers are never
pleased unless they are detailing the
doings of members of the Four
Hundred. Society worship in that town
has got past the point of being ludi-
crous; it is pitiful. No member of the
Smart Set can do or say anything
savoring of common sense or nom
sense or frivolity without the thing
being reported in the newspapers I'M
der big headlines. Mrs. Mills fails to
shake hands with Mrs. Belmont at a
ball. and the story is spread through
more than 1000 words in the press.
The incident has about the same news
value in New York city as a days ses-
sion of the State Legislature or the
celebration of the jubilee of a cardinal.
In Boston man has been fined in
Police Court for spanking a woman in
the street. 1t is not stated whether his
gloves were wooden or fur-lined.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
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IADEx 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetinss-Irish-A American Friendly
Society.
Special Notices-Take Dinner Out
To-Day, Union Station Restaurant;
Organ and Voice Culture, Mr.. George
Blakeley; Notice, New York Dye
Works; Insurance, Jno. r. Dillon;
Special Notice, CHas. f. Fulton; An
nouncement, Edward J. Kennedy; The
Closing Days, Jas. J. Joyce; Country
Goods, M. S. Gardner; There is Luck
in Horseshoes, Furlong e. Spaulding;
Ship Notice, Strachan & Co, Consig-
nees.
Business Notices-Puncture 15c, G..
w. Thomas; Housekeepers, t. Lloyd
Owens; To Diamond Buyers, Theus &
Co; Where on Earth Can You Build
a Better Place, Electric Supply Co.;
Peck-Williamson Underfeed Furnace,
Cornwen & Chapman; In It's Infancy,
Abrahams & Putzel; Lockets and
Charms, R. Van Keuren & Co.; Look
ing for a House, Munster.
Amusements-Mu at Casino This
Afternoon and Evening.
Palace Bowling Alley-Gray & Pol
lack
There Is No Kick-T. A. Bryson.
Special Sales of New Fall Goods
B. H. Levy & Bro.
New Goods Now Ready-At Foye
& Ecksteins. .a.u..s
A Challenge-Byck Bros.
TrnnvAfnc
Ready-to- Wear Department-Daniel
Hogan. 49,
Knox Hats-Sig. Gardner, Agent.
A Gas Range is Always Ready
Mutual Gas Light Company.
Have Solved the Problem-Gustave
Eckstein & Co.
We Offer 23S Pair-Geil & Quint.
Bread, Cakes and Pies-Estate Peter
Schafer. ---.4--
Real Estate-Horace Rivers.
Franklin Humanitarian Home for
Consumptives-Ashe N. c.
New Arrivals-The Metropolitan
Company.
observation-disclosures Business Col
lege, Savannah, Ga.
Cheap Colonist Rates-Union Pacific
Railroad.
Satisfaction is Our Song-The Sa-
vannah Steam Laundry.
If Warburines Were Not Good
Rowlinski. Druggist.
Be Sure Its Gamble's-Southern Mu-
tual Drug Co.
Removal Sale-The Bee Hive.
Personally Conducted Tours to Sap
phire, N. C.-Southern Railway.
Guaranteed Razors-Edward Lovell'S
Sons.
All Thoroughly Good-At Latti-
more's.
Winter Schedule-Savannah Electric
Railway.
Timely Tips-Allen Bros.
Auction Sales-Household and Kitch
en- Furniture, by L. D. LaRoche, Auc
tioneer; Sardines, Furniture, Etc, b!
c. H. Dorset, Auctioneer.
Fall Clothes-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Our New Decentralization {
Gutman.
Back Home. and Now For the Fal
and Winter-Thos. West & Co.
Corsets-American Lady Corsets.
First Annual Autumn Excursion I
New York-Ocean Steamship Company
We Invite Business-McGrath
Ransfords
Get Tickets on the Automobile-Glob
Shoe Company.
Kindergarten, Misse
Lyons & Avei1he: St. Vincents Acad
envy, Savannah, Ca; Savannah Pre-
paratory School, Ormond b. Strong.
Real Estate-H. H. baltimore.
In the Eyes of the Public-E. & w
Laundry.
Gin Roller Coyering-Leo Frank.
You Are Invited-Ludden a. Bates
Southern Music House.
Savannah Theater-"Pickings Fror
Puck" Thursday Matinee and Night
THE Telephone Girl" Friday Matine
and Night.
Foods-Postum Food Coffee.
Medical-Peruna; Wine OF Cardui: S
s. s.. Herpicide; DR.. Hathaway.
The weather.
The indications for Georgia for "a
a..
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

II is little difficult 10 understand
why Cardinal Rampolla should have or
dered suppressed the real cause Or the
ailment that resulted 90 the death ~
Pope Leo. stlil there must have been
some good reason.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

Stepney Green, colored, aged seven
ty-eight, native of Charleston, had
doubtless heard for years about the
affection of the Northern white man
for the negro. Now Stepney knows
how it is. He was in New York
the other day and was arrested on
the charge of begging on the streets.
He explained to the magistrate be-
fore whom he was brought: Il come
from Chas'n, en- cen my home it is
beleeb propah for one gentleman to
AK anoder gentleman to len UNI ten
cent" Stepney's explanation of the
nice point of etiquette was accept
ed, but he was warned that he must
not attempt to borrow money from
strangers on the streets. Stepney
will doubtless hurry to return to
his beloved "Chas'n," where he can
find a white man on every street cor
ner who will len UNI ten cent? and
never call a policeman to lock him
up.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

1t has been less than 100 years since
stoves were regarded as wicked and
sinful devices untitled to be set up and
used in Presbyterian churches. The
Presbyterians of Emlenton. Pa, held
a centennial celebration last week.
Among the "reminiscences recounted
were many relating to the severe win
ter of 1914, when it was first proposed
to put a stove into the church to warm
it. There was a spirited fight against
the "ungodly innovation" and after the
pro-stove faction had won many of the
members left the windows near their
pews wide open in the severest wealth
er, for fear they would be suffocated by
the sinful device" Members of the
church present at the centennial had
heard of the famous stove fight from
their fathers and mothers.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
The weather.

The Indications FOR Georgia for to-
day are for partly cloudy weather
with Increasing east winds. Eastern
Florida. showers, with high east winds,
dangerous "a the west coast.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

South Carolinians who have been
watching Georgias new yagrancy law
IN operation are well pleased with A.
State Senator Dean u Greenvills an
nounced that al the next session Of the
South Carolina legislature De viii I'M
iroduee q blli modelled on the Georgia
law.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

The Alabama Legislature has acted
wisely, as we predicted It would. in
continuing TO Booker Washington's
school the appropriate heretofore
given it by the state. To have with
drawn the appropriation at this june
ture would have been an unwise and
small act.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

Some men" said Uncle Eben
sits down an does days ioann'. an
calls q bein. patient an resigned. "-
Washington Star.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-05-28
A Splendid Production.

The Cincinnati "Enquirer" said Of "a
Romonce OF Com Hollow which APP
pears next Monday evening at the Co
lonial Ill thing OF beauty is a JOY
forever. Coon Hollow must be jus,
lovely. as il Is nightly delighung splendid
houses The scene showing the band OF
colored boys and girls IN songs and
dances fairly brings down the house. Il
differs from the Pickaniny Band in old
Kentucky and the Rising Sun Roarers
of Blue Jeans. and is fully the equal OF
either. Better than this, the play has an
interesting and consistent plot, with re-
fined comsdy. and the strongly drawn
characters have . splendid company to
interpret them. The scenic effects are
simply magnificent. The company has
had over eight years OF UNMARRIED success.
and comes to the Colonial on Monday
direct from the Peoples Theatre. Phila-
delphis. with the same splendid produc-
ton seen originally at the Fourteenth
Street Theatre, New York.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-05-28
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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-05-28
Mr.. Warheld's Candidacy.

Mr.. EDWIN War6eld, president Of the
Fidelity and Deposi, Company of Mary
land. has announced definitely that he Is
ambitious to be Governor OF Maryland,
and that he will work actively for the
Democratic nomination. The announce
ment was Intended TO give TO his friends
the positive information that he is can-
dida,e, thus shutting off the possibility
that their promises might 60 elsewhere.
The fact OF his candidacy has been &C.
copied in Democratic cices for four
years. In the Democratic Safe Conven.
ton in 1899 he gracefully Withdrew from
The race and I ed Col. John Waite I
Smith in nomiI alton. Since then his
candidacy tor the nomination has been
accepted as a foregs ne conclusion.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-05-28

The annual catboat race for the prize
offered by Col. K. M. Thomp,on, OF New
York city, was sailed at the Naval Acad-
envy yesterday afternoon. The prize was
a handsome pair Of binoculars, and are
each year awarded TO the midshipman
who succeeds in picking up the largest
number OF the forty-eight small buoys
Severn river by steam launch. There
were four boats, and each was manned
by third classman who composed the
winning crew in the inttrclass catboat
races yesterday. MidshiPman Seliridge
was the winner of the prize, capturing
twenty-five OF the buoys, and Midshipman
Whiting was second with seventeen. The
other two boats. manned by McNair and
Stott, were disabled during the contest.