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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-27
The Liberty Cap.

No doubt every boy and girl knows what is meant by the liberty cap. Britannia al ways carries one on the point of her spear.
 Hers Is blue, with q white border, quite like that which crowns the head of our own Columbia.
 Only Columbia has In Its white border the thirteen stars, which represent the Thirteen Original Colonies.
 This cap was first adopted by the Phila- delphia Light Horse Troop when they es- corted General Washington to New York, and becoming the token of freedom, 1t was stamped upon American coins in 17s3 as a symbol of liberty. The cap has been traced back to the ancient Phrygians, who, after conquering the east of Asia Minor, wore their national caps as mark of independence and to distinguish them from the primitive in- habitants The cap was also stamped upon th cir coins. From them the custom passed to the Romans.
 A small red cap placed upon the head of a slave sjgnifed that henceforth he was free.
 When Saturnus captured Rome 263 B. C., he holsted cap on the point of a spear to intimate that all slaves who would join him should be free. In the same manner the conspirators, after the murder of Caesar, raised Phrygian cap as a symbol of liberty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-27
Bobby'S New Shoes.

Master Bobby, whose shoes were getting shabby, was taken by his mamma to a shoe store to get a new pair. The clerk who waited upon them removed the old shoe from Bobby's right foot and proceeded to try on shoes until finally he found one that suited, Bobby's left foot was entirely neglected by the shoe clerk
 As they were leaving the store Bobby sud denly burst out crying.
 "Why, Bobby, what Is the matter with you?' asked his mother in astonishment.
 .I want two new shoesi' sobbed Bobby.
 It was only by opening the box that he was convinced that two new shoes-one for each foot-Aad been purchased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-27

to go to a school where you could learn all about engines and come to be great engineer when you are a manY'
 Johnny gaspcd. He had never even dreamed of anything quite so beautiful.
 "Because," added MT. Le Bar, "l will go to see your parents and think l can manage 1t for you
 And that was why Johnny rrimble felt the A, D. T. messenger service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-27

Minnie Pointlace cried all day Because she was so tall Harry Velvet cried all day Because lie was so small! But Johnny Lamelegs laughed all day And never cried at all!
 JOHN ERNEST MCCAIN.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
BUSINESS LOCALS.

The Ryan Business College Is now
open. New students are arriving daily.
Every young man and woman can't af-
ford to miss the valuable instruction.
The Savannah District Messenger
Company will make you special rates
ture and pianos moved and stored. 80
Montgomery street.
This weeks special at John Sulli-
vans, Is Congress street, west: Picked
salmon, 12kc pound; Potomac roe her
rings and Cromarty bloaters, Csc doz-
en-; three-pound cans Boston baked
beans, with or without tomato sauce,
SC cans. We are closing out Ander-
sons soup at cents can.
Everybody was satisfied that bought
from Winkler last Saturday. Not a
kick coming. We got nothing but
praises, about that Easter lamb. We
now have it constantly on hand; also
the best of all kind of meats. Phones
2e6, City Market.
j. G. c. N. Thomas, watch inspectors
for the Seaboard Air Line Railway.
Leaders of low prices on watches,
clocks and jewelry; reliable opticians.
120 whitaker street.
J. w. Topples great sale continues
on furniture. carpets and stoves. The
people say Teeple's prices are the low
est. This accounts for the large sales.
The largest and cheapest line of re-
frigerators and ice boxes in Savannah.
w. T. Walker Furniture Co., corner
Broughton and Jefferson streets.
George Wagner's Son, Savannah's
leading and reliable florist. Now Is the
time to order q choice selection of the
most beautiful roses of all kinds.
George Wagner's Son, florist; never
before in the history OF Savannah have
the people had the opportunity of get
ting such beautiful cut flowers. Bull
street.
Frank Werm, jewelry store ia Bull
street. Is showing beautiful line OF
ladies' watches and chains at popular
prices. Save money by buying at
Werm's.
Garfunkel g. Sons are showing great
values in lawn and mereerized waists
from 75c. TO $3.50.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
( Nearing the end Of the Fight


chances in the whale to excite and
content the most exacting OF sports
men. And the size of the trophy IL
he bags" a whale certainly leaves
nothing to be desired.
Mighty Dimensions.
Capt. Davis one of the most famous
of the old-time American whalers,
gives these as the dimensions of a
rignt whale yielding $50 barrels of
oil
THE blubber OF such a whale" he
says, lis half yard thick and if put
together in a strip would be Sc feet
long and q feet wide. The upper
jaw would make a room feet high
and 20 feet long. The lips and throat
of the brute, with the supporting jaw
bones, will weigh as much as twenty
five oxen of 1000 pounds each. The
tongue alone will often weigh as much
as ten oxen.
1.-THE spread of the lips is thirty
feet He can take in so barrels of
water at each mouthful. When feed
ing. a whale as big as that sits
track of sea a quarter of a mile long
and fifteen feet wide in one run. Then
he raises his head, forces his mighty
tongue into the cavity of his whale
bone seive and drives the water out
with immense force.
THE tail of a right whale is TWEEN
ty feet broad and six feet deep, and
the point of junction with the body
is about four feet in diameter. In it
lie tendons as big around as a mans
leg.
1.-THE greatest blood vessels are
more than foot in diameter The
blood that is forced through them by
a heart as big as a hogshead runs in
torrents heated to 1O4 degrees.
The respiratory canal is more than
a foot in diameter. The rush of air
through it is as noisy as the exhaust
pipe of a thousand horse power steam
engine; and when the fatal wound is
given, a cataract of clotted blood is
spattered over the hunters so hot and
nauseating that the crew of a whales
boat often become helplessly sick"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

Few men would dare attempt to pre-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

Then it is back" sometimes for
dear life. A whale may take his death
so quietly, so passively, that it is
pitiable. to see so mighty a swimmer
killed thus easily by man. Or he may
fight till the boat seems only a black
atom in the sudden uproar that smites
the ocean and sends tons of water
rising till they seem high enough to
wash the sky.
The danger from a fighting whale
is not only in the whale himself. The
boat is a perfect man-trap of keen,
deadly tools. Lances and harpoons,
cutting spades, hatchets, knives and
boat-hooks. all sharpened to the finest
edge the ships grindstone can give
them, fill the boat. If the whale gets
at it and hurls it into the air, the men
find themselves in murderous COM
pany when the weapons come raining
down on them.
The harpoon line goes kissing out
a serpent of rope far more dangerous
than any cobra, for let 1t but kink in
the least and catch a man and he will
fly overheard with it and out of sight
as If he were a mere splinter of wood.
So there. are enough sporting
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

of flying spray. When the sea is high,
every billow is hit by the boat with a
smash that wrenches his arms. The
strain on the wet line cuts and burns
his hands. And If he let's foot of 1t
slip, he is disgraced. Once he is in It,
he is in it for good with no chance of
help or relief till the wild adventure
is done.
Hauling Up Close.
Often the boat is hauled so close on
a harpooned whale that the harpooner
leans over and steadies himself by
resting one hand on the butt of the
harpoon that is sticking in the great
sea mammal, while with the other he
drives the killing-lance. Again and
again the long weapon Is buried deep
in the black sides, until suddenly
thick, black-red clots of blood well
from the wound. showing that the
life" has been reached.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

There will shortly begin serial pub
ication in England and this country
a remarkable series OF papers called
The Confessions OF a Journalist" The
author OF the article is unknown TO
any one save his London agent. This
latter person explains that the author
Is a well-knoWn author Of books and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

does not require very much time to
tow a mile when sixty-foot whale is
doing the towing.
AS long as the whale runs in a
fairly straight course, the boat will
hang to him like a terrier. He may
champ and bite and hammer the ocean
into acres of froth with head and flukes
and tail and never shake it off His
only chance for retaliation is to run
deep or to mill" Milling is the
act of turning suddenly and so bring
ing the boat within reach of flukes or
jaws.
The position of the bow oarsrnan Is
no joy in q. Nantucket sleigh ride. The
chauffeur in a racing automobile is in
a paradise of ease and Taxation COM
pared with him.
He must keep the boat in position by
his unaided strength. From the time
he gets the line until the ride is end
ed, he drives into a smothering sheet
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

LESS than two years ago there APP
peared a story of newspaper life call
ed '"The Great God Success" which
was so much better than the general
run of novels of the kind that readers
began to wonder who the author might
be- 1t did not develop until some
months later that he was David Ora
ham Phillips, and then came the I'M
usual news that Mr.. Phillips had left
an editorial position on one of the
New York papers which paid him $10,-
900 a year for the purpose of making
his living writing books. Since he be-
gan the experiment, Mr.. Phillips has
made great strides; his last novel,
Golden Fleece" seems likely to place
him in the front rank of the younger
generation of American novelists.
Mr.. Phillips identity in connection
with the authorship of 1.-THE Great
God Success" was suspected first be-
cause the author had been little too
faithful to fact in one of the Incl
dents of his story. His hero made a
great hit with his employers and Sc
cured a beat" over the rival papers
in exactly the same manner as the
author, himself did several years ago.
Besides writing novels, Mr.. Phillips
devotes much of his time to writing
special articles for the magazines. He
has for some years made millionaires
q special study and his Confessions
of Croesus," on which he is now work.
ing is story which he has based very
considerably on facts. In the current
number Of Success, Mr.. Phillips gives
a study Of American editors which Is
OF more than usual interest 70 book
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

a railroad car by that mighty living
locomotive, begins to run parallel with
the side of the whale and just a few
feet away from him, being prevented
from running right on top Of him by
the oblique strain of the line.
Now, if the harpoon is well forward
in the whale, the boat hangs in a pre-
carious but sufficient arc of safety,
for the swinging tail hammers the
ocean behind it and the wildly sweep
ing jaw unavailingly searches the sea
in front.
The boat-header braces himself in
the bows until he is based firmly at
the stempost and begins to poise his
long, keen, razor-edged killing-lance
waiting for his opportunity to thrust
it into the whales life. Sometimes the
opportunity comes within minute ar
er hauling up on the big fish" Some
times it does not come until the boat
has been towed for many miles. 1t
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

So many American whalers are go
ing to seek the big fish" in the Balm
Bay waters this season that the Cana
dian government has decided to char
ter a sealing steamer to cruise there
to prevent the Yankee from violating
Canadian customs laws" 1t looks as
if the Frustrated American industry"
were about to awaken to something
akin to vigor.
Years of more or less desultory
whaling have given the sea- giants a
chance to recuperate; and that they
were not guilty of race suicide during
their time of rest is proved by the
fact that whales are plentiful in all
the seas again.
For a rich American, eager to try
real sport, there is great chance
now. Whaling, one of the oldest
forms of big game hunting known, is
the one field which has not been fit
tingly exploited by the amateur sports
man. In time when lion and tiger
shooting are mere routine sporting af-
fairs to hundreds of wealthy men, the
whale should appeal with great force.
The Nantucket Sleigh Ride.
To the man who has exhausted even
the delight of the sixty mile an-hour
automobile, there is an unlimited field
The chances are that if he once gets
al opportunity to taste the unbridled
and terrific pleasure of a Nantucket
sleigh ride he will view his auto
machine as a tame thing ever after
ward.
The Nantucket sleigh ride is so
common an experience with whalers
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

that they have prone to speak of it in
disappointingly matter-of-fact lam
guage. But, for all that, there isn't
an old whaler of them all whose nos
trils will not dilate with Zest when
he thinks upon it. And the landsnan
VINO ever has had the rare fortune to
experience one is not likely to find
anything else in all the rest Of his
life that will not seem tame COM
pared with it.
Few landsmen ever have the oppor-
tunity. When a whaleboat lowers to
fight a sixtyfoot whale, the business
is too important to cucumber the craft
with unskilled passengers. And rot
many landsmen would really care to
go into the whaleboat even If they
could. when they behold, wallowing in
the sea, the huge thing that is 20 be
attacked.
The ride begins after the whale has
been harpooned and when the boat
header considers it time to draw up
alongside and begin lancing. The first
thing that is done is to haul in upon
the harpoon line until the boat is
brought as close to the running whale
as is consistent with the extremely
delicate margin that the whaler allows
for safety. Safety to the whaler
really means to remain just about an
inch or two beyond the reach of the
vast fiukes with which, the big beast
is beating the sea.
Having hauled as far up on the
whale as possible the boat-header
reacher over the bows and lifts the
line cut of the chocks. Swiftly he
brings it around the outside of the toat
and passes it to the bow oarsman,
who has faced around on his thWart
so that he looks forward.
wild Running on the Sea.
He at once lays back on the line
and holds fast with all his might
And Immediately the boat, dragged like
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
THE LITERARY OUTLOOK
Who Would Not Write for One Dollar
of a JournaIist--David Graham Phillips on the
Editors and Publishers
By HERBERT BREWSTER.

1t is now a definite fact that Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle will write another
series of Sherlock Holmes stories. A
leading American weekly has acquired
the American serial rights to the work,
and the rumor that it has agreed to
pay at the rate of one dollar a word
has gained the paper considerable adj
vertising, as we'll as turned the heads
of many young ambitious American
writer's. The dollar-a-word story cam
not be vouched for; doubtless Sir Ar
thur is to receive one dollar a word,
more or less, for the serial rights of
his further Sherlock Holmes adven-
lures not alone in this country, but
including England and it's colonies. If
the American publishers of the serial
matter are paying twenty-five cents
word. they are perhaps paying all they
should, though no character in fiction
has such a vogue as this remarkable
detective creation of Doyle'S. 1t is
understood that the matter will not
appear serially before next spring; the
book publication will probably take
place in the following fall, and will be
managed in this country by the same
mouse tnat Drought out Inc E1OuAu
of the Baskervilles.
Writing of Sherlock Holmes brings
up the question of an authors prop
erty right in his characters. Certain
ly, if an author is entitled to the sole
use of his characters. provided his
book is duly copyrighted, DR.. Doyle Cor
Sir Arthur, which he prefers not to be
called) has been a much abused man.
Though Sherlock Holmes has not been
bodily stolen, he has furnished many
an author with a caricature. THE
Adventures of Shylock Homes" is one
example. Sherlock Holmes" is an
other. Not only has the thing been
done by writer's; the comic artists have
freely appropriated the character.
However, after all, the copying of the
character in various guises has only
added to the fame of the original de-
tective and, now that DR.. Doyle has
brought him back to life. and is re-
cording his further adventures, he
should not object in the least.
Probably the most trying phase of
the fame which has come to DR.. Doyle
through Sherlock Holmes is the Oft
repeated suggestion sent to him by So
licitous friends and admirers that he
elaborate with his brother-in-law, E.
w. Horuung, the creator of Rafies.
the great criminal. on n story of crime.
and detection, in which Holmes shall
be pitted against Raf1es. Dr. Doyle
has received hundreds of time this
same suggestion, and doubtless Mr..
Hornung has been offered the same
idea more times than he wishes.
There will shortly begin serial pub
ication in England and this country
a remarkable series or papers called
The Confessions OF a Journalist" The
author OF the article is unknown 10
any one save his London agent This
latter person explains that the author
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

pare a guide to books of fiction; Mr..
Ernest A. Baker is an exception. He
has not only attempted, but he has also
accomplished difficult task. In a
single volume he has compiled a mass
of information about over 1880 works
OF fiction printed in the English Ian
guage. 1t is the first book of its kind
and should be of much value to libra
rians and writer's. If for pothing else
it would be worth while If it prevented
the duplication of titles which is a
common thing nowadays.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
HOTEL WELLINGTON.

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Three blocks from Central Park. Most de-
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pass the door. Modern fire-proof hotel, with
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Service unsurpassed.
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writer for the magazines, who, owing
to the frankness of the confessions,
deems it wise to remain unknown.
We have had many confessions, many
of them the products of fertile imag-
nations. but these papers are unique
The author shows a remarkable famil-
iarity with affairs which interest not
only European readers, but Americans
as we'll For example, one of his arti-
cleS- deals with his connection with the
Spanish American war. He makes the
astounding claim that he brought the
war on by cabling an interview with a
leading Frenchman on the subject to
leading New York newspaper. In
another article he attempts to show
that the election of Cardinal Gibbons
to succeed Leo XIII is the only sure
way to continue the power of the Cath
Ole Church and to satisfy all of the
warning factions of Europe. 1t is not
at all unlikely that these confessions
will create much talk in this country.
They are written by a man who knows
his subjects well and who has an in
teresting inside story to tell in almost
every case.
Mr.. Booth Harrington has decided to
spend his summer in Europe this year.
He will sail in the latter part of June,
and, as his father, mother and wife
will accompany him, it is likely that he
does not plan anything more than a
pleasure trip. If Mr.. Harrington does
find time, however. to gather the ma
terial for another story like Monsieur
Beaucaire," he will be doing the read
ing public a great good service, for,
during the past five years no other book
has appeared with the same charming
qualities for making pleasant a couple
of hours of a readers time. His little
story, Cherry" is to be brought out
in book form this fall, but no long
novel may be expected from his pen
before next spring.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-12-24
OPENING AND CLOSING OF MAILS

Northern mails, week days, close at 80
9 so and II 90 a. m, and II, 24O, 6 40, %
and 10 40 p. IN. Open at S 90 q. m, 1900 N.
and 30 p. m. On Sundays Northern mails
close at 80 a. m, 80 p. m. and 20 D. m.
Southern mails via Charlottesville close at
730 ana 10 40 a. NJ, and 80, 9 80 and 10 10
u. m. Open at 90 a. m and 80 and 80 p. m.
Southern mails, via Richmond, close at
1880 a. NJ, and 3O0 30 and lO45 p. M.
Open at 5 a. m. and / and p. m.
Manassas Division mails close at 20 a. NJ.
and A p. m. Open at y 90 IN.
Alexandria and Round Hill mails close at
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80 p. m.
Chesapeake and Ohio mails close at 2 As p;
m. and 0=5 p. m. open at SEQ a. IN. and
4 80 p. IN.
Washington mails close at $50, 80 and
ITO a. m, and 10, 240, 6 40, S % and 10 40
D. IN. Open at S % a. H., II % m. and loo p.
m. and 4 50 p. m.
Office Hours-Open at 500 a. m. Close at
600 p. m.
sunday Hours-Opsn at 9OOa. m. Close
at 1000 O. m.
Carriers Schedule Collection made on in
side routes--6 so and 10 90 a. m. a'd3 90 and
$50 D. m. Full route-6S0 a. IN. and 30 p.
m. Sunday collection 500 p. IN. Carriers
window open Sunday 600 a. m. and close
1909 a. m.
Deliveries made 90 a. NJ, p. m. and AIS
p. m.
All nail should be 10 the Office ten minutes
before our indicated time for closing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-12-24

DIsREGARDED ORDERS. the re-
suit of a head-on-collision near New
Castle, Ala, 20 miles south of Birming-
ham. Yesterday afternoon, between the
second section Of Louisville and Nash
vile passenger train No. 9 and the De-
catur accommodation, Engineer Wright,
of the accommodation, is reported dead,
and 10 persons more or less seriously in
iured. The list of injured includes eight
of the accommodation train passengers,
Abe Allen, the colored fireman, and the
express messengerof the accommodation.
1t is understood that the accident was
caused by the second section Of No. 3
disregarding its orders, (which provided
that Number 3 should pass the Decatur
accommodation at Morris Switch, near
New Castle. Number 8, which left
Louisville at 3 O clock yesterday morning,
was made up into two sections on ac-
count the ofsheavy holiday travel, and the
illfated second section of the train was
crowded with passengers.