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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-18
FAIR AND WARMER.

Washington, May 17-Forecast for
Monday and Tuesday: New England,
fair. Monday and Tuesday; warmer in
north portion, Monday; light to fresh
southwest to south winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-18

The cycling event of the season, the
Golden Wheel of Friedman, 100 kilo-
metres, occurred, Sunday at Berlin,
and was won by Robl of Munich, in
1918. Jimmy Michael was third in
1852.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-18
Conditions and Genera! Forecast.

Washington, May 17.-Fair weather
has continued, today, in the Mississippi
valley and thence eastward to the At
lantic. The winds along the Atlantic
coast will be mostly light and variable
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-18

William c. Whitney, who has had lit
tie luck thus far this season, won the
Marlborough stakes at the Gatwick
spring meeting, Saturday, with Pan
Michael. ridden by J. II. Martin. Mar
tin scored two other firsts, besides land
ing Richard Cookers Coonling second
in the Rock plate event.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-18
LOANS

large or small made quickly on all kinds
of personal property at lowest rates. In
Stallment payments. Borrow where you
can depend on confidence. New Waltham
and Elgin watches at ruinous prices Oh
time.
COLLATERAL LOAN co.
219 Water St, opp. Cony House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-18
MRS. EDDYS MESSAGE"
Will Be Omitted, This Summer, Be
cause She Has Told 1t All.

Concord. N. H., May 17.-Under the
caption of Question Answered. the
Rev Mary Baker G. Eddy has made
the following announcement under
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.. date:
My beloved church will not receive
message from me this summer, for
my annual message is swallowed up in
the sundries already given out. These
crumbs and morsels will feed the hun
CRY, and the fragments gathered there
from should waken the sleepers-'dead
in trespaSses and sns'-sct the captive
sense free from sells sordid sequela,
and one more round of Old Sol give
birth to the sowing of solomon"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-18
Boston Forecast.

Boston. May 17.-Forecast for Boston
and vicinity: Fair, Monday and Tues
day; fresh southwest winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-18

Her clothes taking fire from llero-
sene lamp, Mrs. Hannah Williams, Il
widow, at Boston, was fatally burned,
Sunday evening. She died on the way
to the hospital.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

REGULATIONS of his subordinates. Exactly
no. he knows an abundance about it all.
but IL is his Machiavellian policy to encour-
age this official crookedness, for he knows
that it is the easy boss who is the longest
tolerated. The Sultan himself is rich be-
yond any possible thought of need. and
he knows that very much discussed prob
lem-human Internationally. He is sur
rounded by a circle of ministers and minor
officials. to whom backsheesh is as sacred
a principle as any inculcated by the Koran.
To permit of a concession or contract being
granted without consideration Wouio
be too ludicrous a proposition TO present to
one of these mercenaries, who would more
fittingly be designated as traders In gov
eminent offices than cabinet ofhcers
What the German conceSslonalres nuSt
have paid for the Bagdad railway conces-
sion can only be conjectured. but 1t must
have been a princely hgure. There Is hAeu
rate for the governorship oil province or "a q
treasurership, varying with the amount oil
taxable property In its jurisdiction 1t Is
natural that the appointee should insist
upon getting his bride back by raising the
extra fund from the taxes.
VAST SYSTEM OF GRAFT.
Again. a salary warrant upon the Turk
ish treasury is barely worth 80 per cent. of
its face value so many dividends having to
be paid off it. The treasurer who cashes 1t
invariably expects IS per cent. as his rake
off and the Intermediates get the other 3
per cent.
The unspea'xabc eXactons in the way of
custom house dues are not the result of
large duties. collected ny the government,
but the extra charges go into the pock-
cts of the corrupt officials and others who
wink at them. The perpetual greasing of
hands at the Yiliz Palace is appalling. |
heard of a potentate recently who sold a
valuable invention To the government and
succeeded I'm getting his deal through only
by giving up So per cent of his profits there
on to the palace officials.
There is no Office under the government,
even that of the humblest policeman
fireman. which can be filled without applica-
ton 10 the palace. This furnishes a plen-
tiful source of blackmail TO the officials.
IT can easily be understood that If much
as 50 per cent. is required by officials at
the palace in what may be termed direct
transactions how heavy the extra charge
must be upon the peasantry In scattered
provinces, whose taxes must pass through
So many hands before they reach the i'm
pera exchequer.
SO far as religion is concerned as being
quarrels between the Bulgarian Christians
and the Greek Christians are more bitter
than those between the Christians and the
Moslems. Were there a possibility of a
Christian majority, autonomy could not be
looked upon solution of the present
difficulties since the two factions I'm their
fight for supremacy would only play into
the hands OF the Turk
VALERIE DELAMoUR.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

to either put an end to Spanish expressions
or himself receive his quietus
he had been told that the Spaniards were
immortal, and for time he believed H.
seeing them come up out of the sea in AL
most endless professions. But, like the
canny Scotchman who lived I'm story AFTER
ward. he had his "doots'' at last and re-
solved TO test the theory by an original
application of the water cure-that is he
captured a Spaniard alone in the mountains
and held his head under the water of a
stream for two or three hours. Then he
took him to the bank and sat beside him
for two days, or until he received incon-
testable evidence of his demise Such
heroic treatment put an end for a time to
gold hunting I'm Porto Rico. for, the Span
iards resenting il and getting after ths
cacique. an insurrection followed. which
was not put down until the Indians were
practically exterminated.
Still. traditions of gold in the island lin
gered through the centuries. the stories
stimulated every now and then by rich
finds by natives who washed the sands I'm
shiftess manner with wooden dishes and
without system. There are In fact, people
living in Porto Rico to-day who gain a
livelihood by gold washing, pursued In just
the same way as their ancestors before
them followed IL. and as il IL carried on
also in the adjacent island OF Santo Do
mingo.
IL was in Santo Domingo, really that the
first gold was discovered by white men I'm
America. for though Columbus had seen
gold I'm the Bahamas and In Cuba I'm the
shape of nose and ear ornaments worn by
Haiti or Santo Domingo the home OF the
precious product. When he finally arrived
off the coast of Haiti. i'm December, Is9e.
he was given a great deal OF dust and some
nuegests. and when he finally reached the
bay of the present Cape Haitien he found
himself the threshold OF the golden
country, the "Ciba0" OF the Indians. From
it's resemblance 10 the word Cipango men,
toned i'm the book OF Marco Polo a rich
land or the East, Columbus concluded the
two were identical. and for a time imagined
himself just the borders OF the great
khan's dominioas. The great kahn was the
potentate described so affiuently by Marco
Polo, and whom Columbus for "A while
tn ought he perceived in the Haitien cacique
Guacanagari. This generous Indian re-
ceived Columbus with hospitality. giving
him all he had, in fact, of gold. well
of provisions and fair maidens. lie gave
Columbus "A golden mask with ears and
tongue OF beaten gold. and even took from
his own head the golden crown he wore
and presented IL 10 the stranger. His COM
panion caciques also did the same. and %
abundant were the signs Of gold In this See
ton that Columbus wrote in his journal.
for his sovereign's delectation. tina. he fully
expected 20 obtain a ton of gold during his
stay with Guacanagari.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

detachable man with a pull in Washing
ton hied himself to Porto Rico on special
mission for one or another of the depart
ments, but the sum total of their resultant
efforts was nearly nil.
However, there Is gold in Porto Rico
There was gold there before its discovery
by Columbus in 1893, the golden orna-
ments of the natives proved. When, in
15oS, Ponce de Leon, the famed seeker after
the fountain of youth, first reached the
island he was Hospitality entertained by
the Indian cacique Augeynba, who pre-
sented him with fine specimens of gold
obtained from the river beds in the western
part of the island. Ponce was so excited
that he could hardly rest until he had
sent to Santo Domingo. the island whence
he had invaded Porto Rico for soldiers to
accompany him in his search for gold in
the interior. 1t was gold that he was after
as well as Columbus, and all the other
Spaniards of their time, and that they got
the precious metal in quantities the Off
cial records of the Spanish government
attest. The city of Caparra was founded
in 1910. but owing to the strong desire of
the Spaniards to search for gold il was
practically without inhabitants during the
first two or three years of its existence,
since every able-bOdied man was sitting the
sands of the river that came down from
the mountains. The Indians were i'm
pressed at the very outset. and soon all
those VINO came within reach of the white
men were aiding the Spaniards in their
investigations. At last Il became so un-
bearable that Caciaue Agueynaba resolved
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
THE GIRLS GOOD LUCK.
Risks on a Southern Farm.


washington FOSt-
"1 have about corIe to the conclusion
that farming is one of the greatest games
of chance going said Mr.. T.. 7. Sawyer,
a prominent Louisiana planter.
my own experience this year is re-
sponsible for this view. l had 1,400 acres
in cotton, and in the early part of the sea-
son 1t looked so promising that / had al
ready commenced to figure on the good
time / was going TO get out of my sales
My wife doing something, too. in
the anticipatory line. and ii was either
a diamond necklace or a trip to Europe, /
forget which. Well. after il had been
worked out and had begun to grow nicely,
along came the flood-the same one that
nearly washed Kansas City away-and it
swept my cotton from the face of the earth.
1t wasn't too late to replant, and so, though
my heart was sore over the destruction, L
got men TO work soon as the water
would let them get into the fields.
Surely. / thought, the Mississippi river
will not wash me out twice in the same
season, and / will probably still be able TO
get those diamonds for Mrs. Sawyer But
i'm less than three weeks after the seed
went into the ground for the second time
along came flood No. 2. and again my
plantation was covered with water. and
stayed covered so long that third plant
ing was impracticable. This is why l rise
to remark that agriculture is a good deal
of a gamble especially where it is carried
on I'm the vicinity of the Mississippi, and
will remain so, fear, till the end of time. "
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

Specimens from Porto Rico Present.
ed to Ponce de Leon in 1908.


ed to Ponce de Leon in 1908.
New York Evening Post.
The recently reported discovery of gold
in Porto Rico comes as a confirmation OF
previous rumors that the sands of the
islands numerous rivers are auriferous.
The unaccountable thing about it is that
our people should have been so long find
ing it out, for it was well known at the
time Porto Rico was taken possession of
by our troops, and even long centuries
before, and in its earlier years the island
produced an abundance of the precious
metal. AS soon as our authority was estab-
lished in the country a member of the geo.
logical survey at Washington FASTENED to
the island for the ostensible purpose of
examining into its resources, but came back
without bringing anything of value. AS in
the instance when other members of the
survey camped Oh the site of Dawson City
in the Klondike and ranged along the creek
that has since produced it's millions, with
out discovering "A sign of the gold that
astonished the world the very next year,
so in the case of Porto Rico. Almost every
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
The Secret.

have a secret: how shall bring II
Home to all rnortals. wherever they be?
Say IL or sing II? Shoe II or wing IL?
SO IL may outrun and outfiy me
Merest cocoon web whence IL broke free
Only one secret can save from disaster
Only one magic Is that of the Master.
Set IL to music give IL tune.
Tune the brook sings you. tune the breeze brings
you,
Tune that the columbines dance to in June.
That is the secret: simple. you see'
Easy as loving. easy as kissing
Easy as-weIi, let me ponder-as missing,
Known. since the world was, to scarce two or
three.
james Russell Lowell
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
SuGGeSffon

The matched sets of turnover col
lar and cuffs will be as popular the
coming season among tailored neck
wear as they have been this summer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

Chiffon wells ornamented with che
nile, velvet. hand embroidery and
Mexican drawn-work are on view, but
they are not nearly SO popular as the
self-edged palmer sorts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
Had Tried the Uppers.


Judge.
Here waiter said Mr.. Meddergvass n
the attendant I'm the city cafe. where ne was
bfs~kfasting. II see YOU got some fried
soIes' on this here bill q fare. Bricm EN- GA.
1 think them was the uppers l ser fer grid
die cakes minute ago."
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-18

Taking the entire year. it may be said.
however, that the value of cotton eX-
ports now averages $1,000, 0C0 per day
for each business day of the year. In
the twelve months ending with Octo-
Der, 1903, the total value of cotton eX-
ported was 1920, 406314, and in the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1903, was $685.
$780, 29
These figures, either those of the fis-
cal year ending June 80. 1903, or those
of the twelve months ending Oct. 81,
1903, show larger total Chat of value
received for cotton) than in any pre-
ceding year in the history of the coun-
try. In only two fiscal years in the
history of the country has the value of
cotton exports exceeded $500, 900, 900,
namely, 1901, $313,67S, 443, and 1908, $316.-
1S0,429. Prior to 1860 the exports of
cotton had never reached as much as
5000, 00O,OO0 in value.
From 1866 to 1900 they ranged be-
tween 5000, 100000 and $500, 100000 and
in 1901, for the first time, passed the
$500, 600 900 line, being as above indi-
Gated, 1913, 673, 443; in 1902 they dropped
to $3.50, 651 $40 and in 1908 We're $685.
$50, 429, while in the twelve months
ending with October, 1903 the total is
1920, 406, 314. In quantity the figures of
1908 do not reach high-water mark, be-
ing Tor the flScal year 3,o4S,O43, W.
pounds against 1850 264, 295 in 1898, the
year of the largest export in quantity.
The increased price, however, has re-
suited in the facts above stated, a
greater total value of cotton exporta-
tions in 1903 than in any preceding
year.
The total value of cotton and its
products exported from the United
States in the fiscal year 1908 was $780,
67,645, or an average of more than
$1,000,000 per day.
Value of cotton exports in the years
of highest record, from 1S4S to 1901:
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-18
TWO MILLIONS A DAY
AS COTTON RECEIPTS.
Extraordinary Figures Showing the
Scope of an Industry.
From r. M. Larner.


From r. M. Larner.
Washington, Nov. 1.-two millions
of dollars a day is a snug sum for the
total receipts from the sale of a single
agricultural product in a single coun-
try, even such country as the United
States. That is the figure shown by
the report of the Department of Com
merce and Labor, through it's bureau
of statistics, as the value of the cotton
exported from the United States in
the month of October, 1903.
The preliminary statement of the
bureau for the October exports shows
the value of cotton exported in the
month of October to be S60.2s3, 412,
against S42, 900, 900 in October, 1902, s46,
900, 900 in October, 1901, and $6O,H4, 4S7
in October, 1900 The total quantity
exported in October, 1903, as shown by
this preliminary statement, was 594,-
54O,S72 pounds, being an average price
Of 101 cents per pound.
This figure of $50, 100000 receipts for
cotton in a single month is not equaled
In the history of cotton exports except
IN the month Of October, 1900, when
the total value of cotton exported was
$50, 474 437. Even the figures or SbO, 2SS,-
AZ for the month of October 1908, are
subject to a slight prospective in
crease, as this preliminary statement
Of the bureau Of statistics does not in
clude the figures of certain distant
ports through which small quantities
of cotton are exported.
1t should not be understood from the
above statement that the value OF cot
ton exports of the United States aver
ages 81. 0OO, 600 per day the year around,
although they have averaged s2,000,00o
per day during the month Of October.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-18

Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am here
to bear testimony not to the man who
is dead, but to his grandfather, Abel.
II cannot refrain from speaking of
the exceptional qualifications of Abel,
the body servant of Joseph the Proph-
ct. His loyalty to the prophet was
wonderful. He stayed constantly at
his side until the prophet was trans
lated. He believed implicitly in the
Mormon faith and was rewarded for
that belief For his services to the
prophet and his faith in our religion
he was raised to the order of the
Melchesidek priesthood. He was the
only colored man who ever lived that
belonged to that order.
at is not to be wondered at, too,
when you consider the teachings of our
church in relation to the colored peo-
ple. We believe that there are three
orders of spirits. In the first class are
included the spirits that have never
been incarnated. Having never been
given a human body they are doomed
to grope in darkness throughout eter-
nifty. There is no redemption for them.
"The second class includes the spirits
which have been incarnated. They
have been given the privilege OF coming
into the world and being redeemed
through the plan of salvation that is
omen to us. That class is the whites.
'"The third and last class of spirits is
the class that fell. Because of their fall
they are compelled to reside in bond
age They are given carnate bodies,
but can never lift the yoke of bondage.
That class of spirits includes the ne
groes.
Abel the body servant of the
prophet, believed in Joseph Smith as a
prophet and the latter-day dispensation.
Hence he was exalted and, so far as is
known, he is the only one of his race
who ever overcame the conditions of
his bondage.
For the colored race, however, there
is an exalted state in the next world
into which they may go. Provision has
been made in the teachings of the
Prophet Joseph so that the negro may
step up into that preliminary state OF
exaltation, and when he gets there q
chance Is given him to accept redemp-
ton, according to the teaching of
Joseph Smith"
Mr.. Brown Immediately arose and de-
clared that no such teachings existed
in the Bible. In REPUTATION of the as
sertions of the patriarch he read sew
eral selections from the Bible, citing
instances where men with black skins
had been saved. He attempted to calm
the feelings that had been aroused by
the remarks of the patriarch. He
offered assurances Of hope and saliva
ton to the friends of the dead man.
Burns widow tainted during Patri-
arch Miners revelation and there was
a panicky feeling among the colored
mourners.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-18
EREIGHr Ann PAROELCAR

Leaves east side OF City Market for Thunder
bolt Cattle Park Sandhy Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points-s:I5 a. M, us p. m, 5:l5
p. m.
Leaves Isle OF Hope for Sand1y Cattle Park.
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points-6:O0
a. m, IL 100 a. m 800 p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at $50 a. m.
and 2:35 p. m, connecting at Sandfy with reg
ular parcel car for city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight to
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 G. B. KIDDER, Manager
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-18
Greater Georgta.

The current number of Harper's
Weekly, Oct. 10, under the caption Of
the Greater Georgia Number" con-
tains an illustrated account OF Savan-
nah and other parts of Georgia. Mailed
to any address on receipt Of Is cents.
FOR sale at Estill's News Depot, No.
Is, Bull street. Savannah, Ga.--ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-18
COLLTNsYfLLE LINE

lFalr Grounds and Dale Avenue)
Beginning at 600 a. M, ears leave Bolton
and OFT streets every IS minutes; return nR.
cars leave Estill avenue and Waters road AZ
6:07 q. m. and every Is minutes thereafter con.
Meeting with cars on Thuuderbolt line, until
1900 O'Clock midnight
Through cars are operated between Market
and Thunderbot via Colliusville and Dale
avenue as follows:
Leave Market. Leave Thunderbolt
645 A M. z 30 A. M
645P. NJ, 730PM
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-18
THUNDERBOLT LINE

City Market to Casino via Bolton Street
Junction.
Beginning at 5;4h a. M, cars leave City Mar.
ket for Casino at Thunderbolt every IS minutes
until II 80 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction Is minutes
after leaving time at City Market.
Beginning at 553 a, m, cars leave Casino at
Thunderbolt every Is minutes until l2:0s mid
night.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-18

WEST END LINE CLincoIn Park)
Car leaves west side OF City Market for Lin.
coin Park 500 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until Il 80 p. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 20 q. m
and every 40 minutes thereafter until IL o'clock
midnight.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-18
SHIP YOUR GOODS
~ TINE
SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY
Money Orders Sold at

Express Office, 23 Bull street.
Express Office. Union Station.
Livingston's Pharmacy Co.. rs
Broughton street, west.
knights Pharmacy Co., corner Ogle-
thorpe avenue and Drayton street.
]. T. Shuptrine, Druggist, 229 Con-
gress, west, corner Jefferson.
A. L. Ford & Co., Druggists, S51
West Broad.
Savannah Bank and Trust Co.. Bay
and Drayton streets.