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The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY CUES
TION.

1t is not easy to understand the reso-
luton introduced into the House on
Tuesday by Representative Jones of
patches yesterday, to the effect that
the United States should insist upon
the present Interpretation of the treaty
fixing the Alaskan boundary, and that
Great Britain should be notified that
the United States will maintain their
treaty between this country and Great
Britain appointing commission to ad-
just the Alaskan boundary was signed
by Secretary Hay and the British
minister last Saturday. BY Secretary
Hays's friends the treaty is regarded
is a great diplomtic triumph, for two
reasons. The first is that it tends to
draw Great Britain away from Ger
many in the Venezuela matter and the
other is that it practically assures the
acceptance of the contention of the
United States in respect to the bound
airy or the cintinuation of the bound
airy as it is at present until a mutually
satisfactory adjustment is reached.
Canada is the active factor in the
effort to bring about settlement of
this boundary dispute. AT present she
is practically shut off from a seaboard
outlet from the Klondyke section. The
Klondyke ports are in territory held
by the United States. Canada hopes
to get the boundary so changed as to
give her territory that will include at
least one of these ports.
1t is not probable that the six COM
missioners for which the treaty pro-
vides-three on each side-wil agree
1t is practically certain that it will not
be possible to get the American Com
missioners to agree to the boundary
claimed by Great Britain, and it is a
safe conclusion that the British Conn
missioners win stand by the British
contention. The question in that event
will be left just where it is now, and
that probably is what Great Britain ex-
poets, knowing that the United States
have the much better authority for
| their claims. But Great Britain will
have done something towards satisfy
! ing Canada, and that is her main rea-
son probably for agreeing to the ap-
pointment of commission.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
BRIGHT BITS.

-She-Doctor, is Squeedunk a good
place to go for rheumatism?
Dr.-Sure. That's where 1 got mine.
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Bouncer-"T have been to see
Mrs. Grace this afternoon What de-
hghtful company she isl" Mr.. Bouncer
Yes, I understand that she is no
talker. Boston Transcript.
DO you think you could be happy
with a man like me?" said Willie
Washington earnestly. "Oh! yes an
swered Miss Cayenne after a pause. II
think so; If he wasn't too much like
you."-Washington Star.
Madam, / find your
husband has pneumonia in its worst
form" Mrs. Newrich-"I can't under
stand that We are certainly rich
enough to afford the very best there
is.'-Chicago Daily News.
20! she's 80 sweet, so angelic and
fair" sighed Lovett Fursyte. But I
know l shall never succeed in win
ming her love-" "Nonsense!" exclaim-
ed May Sharpe. Lots of other men
have succeeded. Why shouldn't your"
Philadelphia Press.
1t was since the coal famine began.
The boy had been to church, and was
still shivering when he reached the
eheerless hearth at home. What was
the text?" asked his mother. Many
are cold, but few are frozen" chatter
ed the youth.-Baltimore American.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
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AN OLD LAW FIRM.

Alton Parker, Chief Justice of the
New York Court of Appeals, in lee
ture delivered in Brooklyn on last
Tuesday night made some statements
which seemed to. prove that the world
is much more than 1000 years old. He
was talking about the origin of the
civil law, and in the course of his re-
marks said that in ancient Nippur ev-
licences were found of the existence of
a law firm that lourished 1000 years
ago. Among the discoveries were le-
gal documents which showed that this
firm had praeticed law 1000 years be-
fore Abraham. One of the legal doc
uments found was a bill of sale of
ring, with a guaranty attached that
an emerald in the ring would not fall
out in twenty years.
OF course If there were prosperous
the world must be more than 5000
years old. Further along in his re-
marks Judge Parker gave an account
of the finding of picture of a rein-
deer dug up in Switzerland that was
so well executed that judges held the
opinion that it must have been exc
cuted by an artist of a civilized age:
yet biologists declared that this pic
ture was the product of an age $4,000
years ago. Evidently Judge Parker
was bent on showing that the world
is much older than we have been led
ryit
If he is going to be a candidate for
President he should be careful in his
discussion of Biblical questions.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
A Born Diplomat.

George was caught mapping, says
Tit Bits. A pair of soft little hands
covered his eyes and sweet voice
commanded: a'Guess who it is
Nothing very dreadful for George in
this you think: but then you don't
know that George has two sweethearts,
and for the life of him couldn't decide
whose voice il was, which made it a
very embarrassing situation for him.
A wrong guess would lead to COM
plications awful to think of. But a
happy thought inspired George, and
he announced:
Its the dearest, sweetest little girl
in all the world"
"Oh, you lovely Sayi" gurgled the
satisfied one, as she removed her
hands.
And now George thinks of applying
for a diplomatic post, feeling that his
talents would be wasted in any other
field
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
PERSONAL.

Oscar Hammerstein, the New York
theater manager, is a great stickler for
evening dress at the playhouse, es-
pecially among guests of the manage
ment. The least a deadhead can do"
he says, lis to dress up. 1t makes me
tired to see a man in free seats in
a sack suit. If he and his friend are
in evening dress they look like 81, even
if they amt. And another thing-I
don't like the idea of critics coming to
my house en- first nights in other than
evening Clothes
Congressman Ollie James of Ken
lucky will be among the heaviest men
in the Fifity-eighth Congress, but his
wit flashes lightly for all his avoirdu-
pois. He was in the middle of a pub
lie address not long ago when an au-
ditor who had dined freely suddenly
shot this question at him: Whats the
difference between Grover Cleveland
and Theodore Roosevelt" Mr.. James,
who has no particular love for either
of the gentlemen named, replied on the
instant: Il should say that Cleveland
is too lazy to hunt and Roosevelt is
too restless to fish,"
This has been a winter of much
hlneSS dinonS HleInperS VI OohSEeSS'
Senator Money of Mississippi is alb
sent, reported seriously i'll. Senator
Carmack of Tennessee has a bad eye,
which has kept him at home and pre-
vented him from reading for two or
three months. q. Senator Pritchard of
North Carolina has been in the hoSpi-
tai several weeks after a severe sur
gical operation. Senator Hawley has
been i'll in his apartments in Washing
ton for months, All of these, except
Senator Hawley, are young men. The
veterans of the Senate. comprising a
score of old men we'll around 70, were
never in better health. more frisky or
better able to take up the arduous work
which most of them have in short
session of the Senate. .s
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Louisville Courier-Journal
(Dem0 says: Now that Judson
Lyons his colored register of the
treasury, has openly indorsed the
Presidents policy of appointing ne
groes to Office and has as openly noti-
fled the people of the country that
they should pay no attention to criti-
cisms of that policy, Mr.. Roosevelt
may feel treasured. What the peo-
pie of the country may do is another
consideration"
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
(Dem.) says: 1.-The New York Jour-
nal calls for reaffirIpation and extern
sion of the Monroe doctrine. The de-
mand is not likely to appeal strongly
unnecessary, and would be regarded
as defiant braggadocio, calculated to
irritate, when conservatism should
rule. The Monroe doctrine is in no
way valetudinarian, but as virile as
when first promulgated. Cleveland re-
affirmed 1t, and the resolution intro
duced by Cushman K. Davis, though
never acted ON, reaffirmed it. 1t is a
settled American policy"
The Richmond Times Dispatch
Dem) says: President Roosevelt in
sists upon giving the negro political
and social recognition. 1t is his high
privilege to do this, and nobody can
prevent him. But however conscien-
tious he may be. he is making a stu
pid blunder. and II he keeps 1t up the
is going to get the black man more
and more in trouble. Every time he
brings the negro into prominence,
either politically or socially, he arouses
the race instincts of the whites, and
the President should have discovered
before this that race instinct is not a
matter of section 1t is as broad as
the United States; ii is as broad as
the world; 1t exists wherever there are
white men, and while il may be dor
mant in sections where the blacks are
few, it Is sure to assert itself in any
community, either in the South or in
the North. where the negroes exist in
any considerable numbers. This is a
law of nature, and the President may
as well fly in the face of any other
law of nature and hope TO succeed in
abolishing II. II is an impossibility,
and every practical man must know
itsH
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
: Jefferson and Florence.

One night, some years ago, writes
e. H. Sothern in Leslie's Weekly. as
1 entered Dorlon's oyster house, on
West Twenty-third street, I saw JOS
eph Jefferson and w, ]. Florence sit
ting at table near the door. Jeffer-
son was talking earnestly to Florence,
who was looking very much ashamed
OF himself, with eyes cast down and
hddling with his oyster fork. CHANGING
up he saw me, and, as if glad to es-
cape from a scolding, he cried,
Come over here and sit down with
u.s."
How do you do" said jefferson.
Pardon me a moment. I am telling
Billy about a point he spoiled this
evening" They were playing 1.-THE
Rivals" at the Garden Theater.
We'll, I was thinking of something
else" said Florence.
"Ah. that's it," said Jefferson, "but
you missed the point, and let me tell
you that you would have got round
of applause there"-naming some 9TH
er portion of the scene-''if you had
made the pause in the right place"
Look here" said Florence, sud-
denly, losing his remorseful express
sion. you killed your own effect by
speaking too quickly on that line"
and he instanced one of Bob Acres
best moments.
Jefferson's face fell That's So
Billy, that's so. I spoiled that line. I
was thinking how we'll 1 was play
ing, too, and 1 forgot my look before
l spoke"
Florence became quite cheerful
again. Hes been giving me fits" said
he, for the last ten minutes. He
wasn't so deviish good himself to-
night"
To see those two veterans polishing
their work, to find them in their hour
of recreation gliding refined gold was
an object lesson of some value.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
A Criticism of Destiny.
From the Chicago Tribune

rTom the CnlcagO tribune.
l wish l were a Science, or an Ethics,
or q Plan,
Or anything instead of just an ordi-
nary man.
If were but a Doctrine. mine would
be a gayer lot.
Or I should be delighted We're Just a
Higher Thought
For then the men of millions would be
handing out the checks
TO aid in saving me from all the him
ORANGES that vex.
I wish I were a System, or a Policy.
or Chair,
For some one would endow me, and
my prospects would be fair;
IL 1 could be an Issue, or a Theory, l
know
The money to support me would i'm
mediately flow:
Or, were not a common man, but
something like a Fund,
l know by all the plutocrats 1 should
not then be Stunned.
If were one of these things, why, the
outlook would be great;
They'd even vote me money from the
taxes of the state.
The good financial fairies with their
wonder working wands
Would soothe me with q shower of
their currency and bonds.
If were something Psychic, or a So
cial Settlement,
I'd never need to worry over coal or
clothes or rent.
1 wish 1 were a Microbe, a Bacillus. or
Germ
A microscopic wriggler-just a shy
elusive worm
For then they'd spend their millions.
and in earnestness would strive
To trace me out and feed me, and to
help me keep alive.
wish l were a Science, or an Ethic.
or a Plan,
Or anything instead of just an ordi-
nary mani
w D. Nesbit
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

There was only few hours differ
ence in the time of the eruption of
Mont Pelee and that of Stromboli, on
last Saturday. These two volcanoes
are something like 5000 miles apart. Is
there subterranean connection between
them? 1t will be recalled that about
the time of the great and disastrous
eruption of Pelee there were eruptions
from Stromboli. Still, the scientists
are not prepared to say that the SIM
ilarity of action of these volcanoes Is
more than coincidence.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

John Newdick is a militant Chris
tian who lives in Kokomo, Ind. The
other morning he called his wife to
join him in family prayers. She had
her hands in the dough for the break
fast bread, and it was not convenient
for her to stop kneading just at the
moment. John therefore knelt and
said his prayers and then got up and
thrashed his wife for her failure to
attend to her religious duties prompt
~ at his bidding. For his misdirected
zeal Newdick was arrested and fined
$40.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Proposals for Pipe,
Etc, Savannah Water Works; Notice,
John E. Mcguire, Superintendent; To
All Lovers, Theo Groot.
Foods-Huyler's Cocoa; Grape-Nuts.
Medical-Peruna; Who'll Wine of
Cardui, Stuart's Catarrh Tablets.
Savannah Theater-Kathryn Kidder
in an Eye for an Eye" To-day and
Tonight; when Knighthood Was in
Flower" Tomorrow Night.
Cheap Column Advertisements-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

The House of Representatives the
other day passed bill to amend the
law which forbids the keeping of live
stock in cars more than twenty-eight
consecutive hours without food or
water by extending the time which stock
may be kept shut up to forty consec-
utive hours. The amendment. it is
said is at the instance of the beef
trust, which does not wish to be bother
ed with feeding and watering cattle
on the road to its butcher pens.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

DR.. Parkhurst of New York is an
enthusiast on the subject of wireless
telegraphy. He goes much further
than Marconi and almost as far as
Tesla in his optimism. Tesla says we
shall be able to converse with Mars
and probably other planets by the
wireless system one of these days. DR..
Parkhust says that mental telegraphy
is already a demonstrable fact. when
exercised by certain individuals at
short range, and mo doubt by and by
we shall be able to talk across the sea
to our friends in Europe without going
10 the trouble and expense of setting
up apparatus at even the shore ends
OF the route"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
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ager.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

/. The engineers who have prepared
plans for the great sea wall that is to
be built at Galveston, to protect the
city from the waves of the gulf during
storms, have made a report. The wall
is to be three miles in length, and viii
be made of concrete. The cost of the
wall proper will be $1,294. 755. and that
of filling in and grading will be s2,21O,-
600 additional. The wall viii stand
seventeen feet above mean low water,
and it is believed the city will be af-
forded perfect protection by it. The
maximum high water mark during the
great storm and flood of 1900 was if
teen feet, the highest mark ever re-
corded.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
WHITE HOUSE EXPENSES.

While 1t is a fact that the President
of the United States lives very simply,
the cost of maintaining the White
House is perhaps much greater than
is generally supposed. Before the re-
cent repairs to the building were made
the cost was about s35,0o0 a year. 1t
has been found necessary to add to
this $4,000, making the cost $4,000 a
year. This does not, of course, include
the cost of supporting the presidential
family. that being borne by the Presi-
dent himself. No doubt he expends
fully half of his salary in living ex-
penses, a large part of his outlay be-
ing for entertainments. 1t is probable
that every service rendered at the ex-
pense of the government is paid for
at the highest price. For instance, 1t
is alleged that the annual cost of
maintaining electric lights for the
White House and the Office building
recently constructed is $4,000. Still,
there are many lights in the White
House. the number being 1900. The
cost of fuel is something enormous.
The amount that will be asked for In
the appropriation bill for fuel is $4,000
a year.
The expenses of the White House
have kept pace with the growth of the
country. The figures are not at hand
showing what they were in the time
of its first occupant. but it would
not be far out of the way probably If
it were stated they were not more
than fifth of what they are now.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

According to Gen. William Booth,
founder and head of the Salvation
Army, that organization has an am
bition beyond devoting it's whole time
and attention to work in the slums
and among the poorer classes. The
time is not far distant. he says, when
the salvation Army will reach out for
the millionaire and other wealthy
classes. These people, he says, need
religion as well as the poor.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

An effort is being made to secure
jean de Reszke as the successor to
Maurice Grau as manager of the Met
ropolitan Opera House, New York.
However, since De Reszke is just now
IN the hight of his fame as a singer
1t is doubted that he will consent to
become merely a manager.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

A Citizens Alliance has been or
ganized at Bloomington, ILL.,, for the
purpose of antagonizing organized la
Dor. The alliance has issued a state
ment in which it is said that 'the
city has been injured because it is
under the domination of irresponsible
men in control of the labor unions" 1t
says that the union wage earners, al
though few in number compared with
the vast body of wage earners, "are
now attempting to usurp unlimited
and despotic power over the liberty,
labor and even personal safety of the
people"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

Senator Beverage is alleged to have
received recently several letters
threatening him bodily harm because
of his stand in opposition to the omni-
bus statehood bill. AS yet, however, II
does not appear that anybody has
sent a Doblin to see him.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
Daniel Hogan.
Great Sale Of
Muslin Underwear,

Liberal in cut, right in make and neat
in trimming. The display is unusually
attractive. The variety is great, in
Guiding plain, medium and elaborate
effects in Night Gowns, Skirts, Draw
ers, Chemises and Corset Covers. Trim
mings are pretty and elegant, and the
PRICES ARE RIGHT.
BEAUTIFUL line of Chemise, made of
English Nainsook, trimmed with dainty
embroidery and laces, for 75c, $1.OO,
$1.25 and $3.50.
Children's Gowns, in all sizes, with
tucked Jokes and ruff1es of embroidery,
so cents.
ChiIdren's Drawers, with tucked and
hemstitched edge, at 10c and 15c.
Children's Nazareth Waist, in all
sizes, for Csc.
Ladies Gowns, made of good muslin,
trimmed with embroidery and tucked,
so cents.
Ladies' Gowns, low square neck, trim
med with embroidery, Csc.
Ladies' Gowns, trimmed with en-
broidery and lace, different styles, 75c.
Ladies Gowns, made of cambria,
trimmed with embroidery edge and in
sertion, SOC.
Ladies Gowns, made of cambria,
Will uleHlSlllCHSu AOW
neck and short sleeves, for $1.00.
Ladies' Gowns, made of English
Nainsook, trimmed with embroidery
and lace, $1.25.
Ladies' Gowns made of Long Cloth,
trimmed with dainty embroidery and
fine tucking, $1.50 to $3.50.
Ladies Gowns made of the finest
material, with the short waist effect,
trimmed in lace, $4.9S
Ladies' Gowns, deliberately trimmed,
made now neck and short sleeves, $3.50
and $69S.
Immense line Ladies' Understands for
soc, 75c and S1.00.
Ladies' Understands, trimmed with
embroidery, at SIPS, $3.50 and $19S.
Ladies' Underskirts, trimmed with
embroidery edge and tucks, $3.50 and
$500.
Ladies' Underskirts, trimmed with
lace edge and insertion, $3.50.
Ladies' Drawers, with hemstitched
ruff1es and tucks. Csc.
DANIEL HOGAN,
Cor. Broughton and Barnard SITS.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

At the Jewish Orphan Asylum in
Cleveland. o., they practice the fire
drill faithfully. The alarm is sounded
at all sorts of unexpected times, yet
it seems never to cause any surprise
on the part of the little folks and they
enjoy it immensely. Just before sup
per time the other night the alarm
sounded, and the children. true to their
training, took their places and march
ed out. After some little delay, which
the children didn't quite understand,
they were marched back again. In the
interval engine companies had come
up and put out a fire that was making
Roadway under the roof.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for rain. with fresh southeast
winds, increasing. Eastern Florida
fair in south. rain in north portion,
fresh south winds. ...
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

The London Times says, in effect,
that this Venezuela business will
prove a wholesome lesson to Great
Britain, If she gets out of it without
a breach of friendly feeling with the
United States. According to the Times.
Great Britain had no idea that Ger
many would go to such lengths as she
has done, otherwise Great Britain
would never have become a party to
the alliance. That being true. what is
the matter with British diplomacy? Is
it less far-sighted than heretofore, or
are the German diplomats i'm
proving so rapidly that they can lead
the British against their own best
judgment?
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-29

Pitcher Chesbro, who has signed
with the New York Athletic Club for
next season, is to receive $1,000 for his
services. That is the amount the
United States pay their Vice Presi-
dent and cabinet secretaries.