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The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
CURRENT COMMENT,

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
eDem) says; 1.-THE Mormons have
had members of Congress before, and
as they compose about two-thirds of
the population of Utah and are entitled
to full political privileges under the
law, there is no reason why they
should eliminate themselves from cit
izenship or should be denied the offices
to which they have been elected. In
this case the President has simply
given another proof of his capacity
for laundering. Reed Smoot is a SEN
ator of the United States and is Just
as much entitled to his seat as any
member of that body"
The New York Mail and Express
Rep) says: Probably the British
nation feels no particular ilI-will to-
ward Col. Lynch. His conviction. I'M
der the law, was called for by the ev-
idence. The sentence will doubtless be
committed, and justice will be salts
fed. We may reasonably expect to
have chance to naturalize Col. Lynch
as an American citizen ere he dies.
Just the same the sentence will have
stirring effect on Irish politics. II
will accentuate the fact that these
politics are essentially and ostenta-
tlously disloyal TO the British crown.
A revival Of the spirit Of resistance
may be counted on"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
The MOOnhSh.

OF the moonfish it may be said that,
though when landed and prosaically
cooked it is a solid and dainty one.
yet when seen in the water it is aes-
thetic, indeed, in its aspect says the
London Globe. It's shape is not unlike
the moon, round as my shield" of
NorVaPs once popular declaration,
while the hue is of that pale silvery
sheen which so many poets have sung
none better than the terse and satiri-
cal Samuel Butler when, for a few
lines, he really mounts Pegasus. In
deed, both in shape and transparent
silverness, weird in aspect, the moon
fish is most like it's name, and certain
ly curious enough to astonish any I'M
accustomed fisherman who, if angling
at night. might feel that the weirdness
surpassed the picturesqueness Then
there is a curious deniZen, indeed, of
the same waters in the yellow angel
f1sh, which, by the way, has a more
elegant name than is the custom with
Florida folklore. This is a cleaning
creature of vivid iridescent blue and
yellow, fiat in build with the sides
ending in slender shafts which remind
one of a swallows wings. On the head
is circlet or ring of color, from which
it is termed the angelfish. Yet fish of
a more peculiar frame it would not be
easy to find. Indeed, the shape of
most of the tropical fish is as much
a reason for terming them curious to
our northern eyes as are their radiant
and varied hues. Some have compared
the moonfish to a transparent sheen of
tortoise shell. BY the way of contrast
to this exquisite picture there may be
mentioned another Florida fish which
is the precise antithesis, being huge in
size and grim of aspect-the sawfish,
which is of elongated frame, emphatic
fins and tail, and with long, serrated,
bony projection from the jaw, which is
edged on both sides in the fashion of a
saw-a sort of nightmare of a fish. The
record" sawfish, we believe, is one
which was caught by a famous Florida
fisherman, and weighed 900 pounds.
This sort of angling, like that for tar
pom and others. does not stir much en-
thusiasm in the average angler, who
prefers his prizes little and good, but
would seem more to befit the sports
men of Brobdingnag.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
A Joker's Plague of Cats.

Even his signature bore witness to
the fact that he was excited, says the
Chicago Chronicle. When he had writ
ten his name he heaved a sigh of re-
lief and looked at the clerk in a list
less sort of way.
Guess they won't get me now" he
said.
Somebody after your" queried the
clerk as he assigned the newcomer
room.
"Bigger'n a house." was the answer.
Say, stranger, did a gang of practical
jokers ever get after your"
Don't remember that any ever did"
well, take my advice and give them
anything they want. They're after
me, and my home is no shelter for me-
and the guest sighed again. II live
down near Hammond. This morning
some fellow put a sign near my barn.
The sign read: Bring your cats and
dogs here. I pay highest market
price And it's almost run me crazy.
Before 10 o'clock a fellow with ten
cats and dogs came along. The ami
mails had a fight just before they
reached the front door. 1t was a ter
rible noise, but it wasn't a comparison
to the noise the old farmer made when
he learned that l didn't want any cats
and dogs. Say, that news travelled
faster than any other bad news ever
did. Cats that were raised in the next
county came in before dark. 1t seemed
to me there were about a million in
all Those men wouldn't believe me,
and they wanted to hang me because
l wouldn't buy their old animals. Look
ed to me like l was expected to fur
nish money to buy all the Christmas
gifts in Chicago. 1 couldn't stand it
any longer, and I just hiked for Chi
cago."
The visitor was silent a long time
and resumed: MY wife hiked a long
time before 1 did. I'd like to see the
old place in the morning. 1t was a
mean trick, wasn't it?"
1T was" answered the clerk, and
there was genuine sympathy in his
voice,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26

the manager Of the estate, 1t being
stated that the money. thus obtained
would be used in making up the fund
of $50, 900 the successful applicant was
to receive.
II the pOstofIce authorities had not
interfered Furlong would have made a
fortune. there were so many who were
anxious to get the heiress and to give
up 81 for her picture. It is charged of
course that there was no estate. no
beautiful heiress and nothing else ex-
cept a schemer with a typewriter who
was gathering in hundreds of dollars
daily from the simpletons, who thought
what an easy thing it would be to have
little adventure and at the same time
get a snug fortune of $4,000.
OF course. if there were not an I'M
limited number Of gullible people there
wouldn't be near so many swindlers
as there are. Swindlers couldn't
exist. It is the quantity and variety
of the material upon which swindlers
work that make it possible for swim
Oilers to thrive. There are so many
exposures of swindling transactions
that one would suppose that the whole
world would learn to be cautious, but
the ranks of credulous and easily fool
ed people are apparently full all the
time.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
WHY ONE NEGRO DECLINED.

A story that is in most pleasing
of Charleston and the Minnie Cox af-
fair of Indianola, Miss, comes from
Birmingham, Ala. 1t has to do with
politics, the appointment of a negro
to office and his declination of the
proffer. The news dispatches of
few days ago contained a short item
to the effect that A. d. Winds of
Birmingham, negro Republican
leader, had been offered and had de-
clined the appointment as deputy COL
lector of internal revenue. Behind
that simple announcement is a mar
rative that will be read with interest
and appreciation by every person of
Southern blood who understands the
feeling that existed between the races
before the Civil War.
Winds, it seems, is an ex-slave and
a man of considerable ability. Upon
becoming a free man he studied law,
and has won a position as an attorney
and counsellor, and is now connected
with one of the most important legal
firms in his state. When he was ten
dered the federal job the firm, feeling
that he was too valuable a man to
lose, Immediately increased his salary
by a neat sum. on the condition that
he should not sever his connection with
it and would decline the appointment.
He held this proposition in allegiance.
He felt that he owed it to himself to
take the Office and thus secure adj
vancement. But then came an appeal
to him which he had not the heart to
refuse. For a number of years he had
managed the property of his "old mis-
tress," the widow of his former owner.
Notwithstanding their changed condi-
tions, he has always referred to her
as his "old mistress" and devoted him
self to her interests and services with
that loyalty and unselfishness which
characterized his people in other days.
When "Old Mistress" declared that
il Winds We're TO cease to look out
for her affairs, she would be much en-
barrassed and wouldn't know 10 whom
10 turn that settled the matter with
him He wouldn't have the Job II IL
would cause her pain or uneasiness,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
THE ADULTERATIoN OF DRUGS.

Drugs are a subject beyond the ken
of the average individual 1t requires
the knowledge of an expert chemist
to determine whether a drug is pure.
The vast majority Of purchasers must
take their drugs on faith. They have
no means Of knowing whether they re-
ceve what they ask and pay for, and
what they swallow on the prescriptions
of their physicians. The opportunity,
therefore for adulteration and substi-
tuition in the drug trade is very great
indeed. And it appears that there are
INSCRIPTIONS persons who take full adj
vantage of it. Such persons do not
care what effect their adulterants or
substitutes may have upon the person
taking the medicine: all they want is
the biggest possible percentage of
profits that they can possibly derive
from their sales. Are not such con-
scienceless dealers in drugs criminals
of the first order?
The Health Department of New York
has recently been making an investi-
cation into the purity of the drugs dis
pensed in that city. A partial report
has been made covering the one item
of phenacetin, a drug so commonly
used that it may be called a household
remedy. Three hundred and seventy
three samples of phenacetin were pur-
chased at various drug stores, without
the purpose of the purchase being made
known. These samples were analysed
by the departments chemist, with the
result that 315 of them were found to
be adulterated or to contain no phe-
nacetin whatever. The adulterant
most used was acetanilid, while in a
number of samples the substance was
acetanilid and sugar. To appreciate
just what the adulteration and sub
stitution means it must be understood
that the action of phenacetin and ace
tanilid are not the same, the latter be-
ing a heart depressant and as such a
menace to health if not to life The
price at wholesale of phenacetin is
about 81 per ounce, and of acetanilid
about pa cents per ounce. The price
of a 1O-grain phenacetin powder is
which would make the retail price of
the drug $500 per ounce, or a profit of
more than 200 per cent. When acetan-
lid, at 21a cents an ounce, is used in
the place of the other drug at 81 an
ounce, it can be seen how the profits
mount up. And this is in disregard of
honesty and even life. The New York
Health Department does not attempt
to fix the responsibility for the adult
erations and substitutions it has found
in this one drug. 1t is probable that
the legislature will be asked to pass a
law governing the purity of drugs.
If so vast an amount of fraud has
been found in one item of drugs in
daily use, is it not reasonable to sup
pose that the fraud extends through
a long list of such articles? The evil
of adulteration and substitution is a
vast one, a despicable one, and one
which deserves to be handled vigor-
ously.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26

BRIGHT BITS.

-Bystander-Why are you crying,
little boy?
Little Boy-Boo-hoo, I froze me fin
gers maxim twenty snowballs and de
parson didn't wear his plug hat, after
all.-Chicago Daily News.
-Father-'I wonder what's the mat
ter with Nellie this morning. she acts
like one possessed" Mother-"She
probably is. 1 noticed a new ring on
her finger when she came down stairs"
Philadelphia Bulletin.
-"Forchen- Hunt is busy these days
trying to think up scheme to eradi-
cate certain weeds" You don't mean
he's gone in for gardening" "Oh, no,
he's trying to induce the Widow Got
rox to marry him. "-Philadelphia
Press.
You say that your son at college
has taken up literary work as a pro-
fession?" Not at all. 1 merely said
that he was writing for money" well,
thought 80 he is; he's writing for
money to me by every mail."-Balti-
more Herald.
Hold on" exclaimed the excited
patient in the oculist's chair.
"Well?" queried the oculist, as he
dropped the eyelid.
81 just want to have an understand
ing" said the patient. 81 want it thor
oughly agreed, before you remove that
foreign substance from my eye that, if
it turned out to be coal dust it belongs
to me!"-Baltimore News.
The Bride (weeping): Oh, J-Jack,
we've-we've got to j-just got to, give
up-u b-boarding, and ego to h-house-
k-keeping-g.
Hubby: Why, lovely, what's the
matter?
The Bride: Mrs. Worrits has been
telling me all afternoon about the trou-
Bile she has with cooks, and / didn't
have anything to tell her.-Harper's
Bazaar.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
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FURLONG'S VICTIMS,

There is no sympathy for the VIC
Tins of the man Furlong, who was
arrested in New York city for making
improper use of the mails. They are so
lacking in ordinary common sense that
they are not entitled to any. That
ought not to excuse Furlong. however.
An account of Furlong's questionable
operations was given in our dispatches
a day or two ago. He advertised that
he was the manager of an estate, and
that in order to get possession of a
great portion of it, it was necessary for
the heiress, beautiful girl, to marry
The sum of $4,000 was offered to the
one the manager Of the estate should
select to become the woman's husband,
but ii was to be understood that the
husband was never to see the woman's
face and was to secure a divorce at the
very earliest moment after the mar
riage. Applications for the position OF
husband upon these novel terms were
invited, and, strange as 1t may SEEM
were forwarded by the thousands.
When the applications swere received
the applicants were notified that II
they wanted a picture Of the heiress
they could obtain one by sending 81 TO
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
Railroad Did 1t.

Upon reading the poetic address
made by Attorney John Atwood to a
jury at Emporia in a damage suit
against the Santa Fe. one of the rail-
road attorneys at Topeka took on coal
and water, and went speeding down
the tracks of rhyme in these swift
stanzas:
Once, on a fervid, arid day,
About four miles from town,
A measly stack of musty hay
And a farmers barn burned down.
who burned my barn?" the farmer
cried;
who burned my stack of hay?"
1T might be me-" his son replied:
81 threw a match that way"
"Who burned my barn." the farmer
prayed;
who burned my stack of feed?"
1.-THE cook threw GOALS" said the dairy
maid;
The hired man agreed. .
'Who burned my barn?" the farmer
bawled;
who burned my clover stack"
Il saw tramp" neighbor called,
GAN scorched adown the back"
''Who burned my barn?" the farne,
reared;
THE roam mules home and hearth ?"
The cry spread forth and rose and
scared
Till it reached exc Leavenworth.
John Atwood heard what the echo
brought,
And straightway op'ed his mouth.
These soothing words the farmer
caught;
There's a railroad four miles south"
His pass John Atwood quickly took,
And to that farmer sped;
In spite of boy and tramp and cook,
He cried, We've got 'em dead!"
Full soon into the jury box
Come twelve men good and true;
No need of Judge or Witnesses
They knew just what to do.
John Atwood reads 'em verses sweet.
Which just melt in his mouth,
The jury need not leave their seat
There's a railroad four miles south"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
PERSONAL.

Col. c. B. Wing of Cincinnati, a
prosperous manufacturer, has been on
the staff of every governor of Ohio
for the past twenty years. He is i'm
menesely popular all over the Buckeye
State.
Albert G. Burrage of Boston owes
the start of his fortune of $40, 1000, 900,
gained in eight years, to reading a
newspaper account of fight between
gas companies. Looking up the char
ter of one of them, he discovered its
legal authority to enter Boston. The
Standard Oil Company bought this
charter and fought the Addicks gas
a fee of 100000 in this struggle, was
taken into the Amalgamated Copper
Company and is now one of the richest
men in Boston.
DIR. Louis Livingston Seaman,
whose rank in the regular army is ma
jor surgeon, strongly advocates re-es-
adjustment of the canteen, which is
vigorously opposed by Miss Elizabeth
Cady Stanton. Major Surgeon Sea-
man lectured not long ago before a
club in Syracuse, hts subject being the
canteen. Miss Stanton grew excited
as she listened and finally exclaimed:
Nothing under heaven could induce
me to let a son of mine belong to a
regiment having a canteen. To most
of those present, acquainted as they
were with Miss Stanton's lengthy spin
sterhood, this was rather a startling
utterance. DR.. Seaman, who never
misses a point, made some touching
allusion to Miss Susans seventy-six
years of blessed maidenhood and her
numerous and beautiful posterity. The
roar of laughter with which this was
greeted betokened just how the audi
ence would be likely to vote on the
question.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26

An unprogressive baker, believing
not in the security of banking insti-
buttons. placed his gold in a barrel of
xxx -four says an exchange. 1t so
happened that one day he made bread
from the -four in this barrel.
A customer, cutting open one of the
loaves, was delighted to find it filled
with gold pieces. He was an honest
man and sat down to reason out the
matter on strictly moral lines of de-
duction.
Clearly" he argued, ''if the baker
allowed this gold to get into the bread
without knowing it he could not have
kneaded the dough to any great eX-
tent"
Thereupon the honest man decided to
keep the money.
Ethics aside, it cannot but be ad-
mitted that the logic of the case was
unassailable
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
IMMIGRATION WEST AND SOUTH.


The immigration to North Dakota.
has been exceptionally large during
the past twelve months. It is estimated
that upwards of $4,000 people from the
eastern part of this country. and from
Europe found homes in that state dur
ing 1902. An Ohio man who visited
North Dakota recently writes that the
rush is still maintained, and that real
estate men report increasing business
and added inquiries. A few years ago,
he says, the settler might have had
his choice of land anywhere along the
500 or the Great Northern lines west
of AIinot; now it is nearly all taken up
by bona fide settlers, while a great deal
has been purchased for speculation,
yielding handsome returns to investors.
A good deal of the land that is now
being taken, he reports, will not make
good farming land without irrigation"
This great rush to North Dakota, the
land of seven months winter and five
months of hard cold, the land of bliz-
yards and chilblains, shows what the
IalliO1uS anu liiilillS eillOAl cSChNlEo
and land spectators can do towards
filling up a section of the country
when they try. 1t pays the railroads to
move these people into the Northwest
from the Atlantic seaboard and the
Ohio valley, because they get a long
haul on the passenger traffic.
What has been done in the matter
Of immigration for North Dakota
might be duplicated for Southern.
Georgia, if the proper agencies would
take hold of it vigorously and with
relatively much greater advantage to
the home seekers. In North Dakota
practically half of the year must be
spent indoors; in South Georgia prac-
tically the whole year can be spent out
of doors. In North Dakota snow and
ice put stop to farm work from early
fall to late spring; in South Georgia
it is an exceedingly rare occurrence
for work to be stopped for one day in
a year by cold. Our lands are as fer
tile as any in the country, and they
do not need artificial irrigation. With
us crop failures are almost unknown,
and the new crop which we are now
acknowledgement cane for syrup maxi
ing-is as profitable as any crop that
can be raised in North Dakota or else
where. The tide of immigration should
be turned in this direction. Will not
the railroads lend their aid to the
| movement?
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26

Representative Montague Lessler of
New York, who is prominently before
the public by reason of his charge that
somebody tried to bride him in connec-
ton with the purchase by the govern
ment Of submarine torpedo boats, is
the young man who gained some noto-
riety about a year ago by running
against and defeating Perry Belmont
for Congress in a special election. At
the time Mr.. Lessler charged that Mr..
Belmont used large sums of money for
the purpose of controlling voters.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26


DR.. A. T. Atkins. professor in the
California Medical College, says that it
is electricity and not oxygen that
purifies the blood In the lungs. He cx-
plains that no oxygen gets through the
membranes of the lungs into the blood
stream. The air cells secrete carbon,
and the nitrogen and oxygen coming
in contact with the stored-up carbon,
cause combustion, thus generating
electric currents. The human body
indeed, is nothing more than an ami
mated galvanic battery. Logically. if
we breathe merely for the purpose of
generating electricity for the purifica-
ton of our blood, then if we could ind
some artificial way of supplying the
electricity needed, we wouldn't have to
breathe at all. If Mr.. Edison or Mr..
Tesla would invent pocket battery
that would supply all the electricity re-
quired for the publication of the blood
during a certain period, we could put
our lungs out of business and defy
consumption and asthma. We would
no longer run the risk of drawing hor-
rid germs into our lungs every time
we drew breath. 1t is to be hoped the
idea will be developed; and maybe in
the development something will be dis
covered that will enable us to bid de-
fiance to the various food trusts, since
we only eat to help along the process
of generating electricity.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26

Mexico is not at all gracious. 1t has
been only few weeks since Mr.. Bryan
went down thereIand told her all about
the money question and the great ad-
Vantages of silver-standard currency,
and yet here is Mexico sending a mem
Der of her Congress and a banker to
Washington to investigate currency
systems. 1t is the understanding that
these Mexican gentlemen are at our
capital in the interest of an arrange
m'nt by which Mexico could adopt a
currency system uniform and inter-
manageable with that OF the United
States,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-26
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and his positive declination went forth
with to Washington.
1t is such characteristics as Winds
displayed in this beautiful Incident
that cemented the friendship between
the ''old time" negroes and whites of
the South. Unfortunately such in
cidents are becoming fewer every year.
In the North, where blood runs cold,
Winds sacrifice for sentiment will not
be understood or appreciated: but in
the South the people will understand
II