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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11

Russell Sage hired a valet the other
day-a valet who follows him around
and sees to it that he doesn't get run
over by street cars or automobiles, and
isn't knocked down by the hurrying
crowds that fill all of the main
thoroughfares of the country's metrop-
oils. AS soon as the fact became
known the newspapers of New York
sent reporters to Mrs. Sage to see what
such an innovation in the daily life of
Mr.. Sage meant. And while she gave
the information she pathetically asked
why the newspapers could not let them
alone-tMr. Sage and herself.
She did not have to ask that ques-
ton. She knew why the newspapers
do not leave Mr.. Sage alone. His old
time neighbors have left him and his
wife alone. They have moved with the
residence part of the city further up
town, and Mr.. and Mrs. Sage are quite
alone in business section of Fifth
avenue. Once their house was in the
very center of the fashionable resi-
dence section of New York. Now it is
away out of it.
Mrs. Sage complains that they are
lonely at night, when all of the bust
ness houses are closed. There are no
lights in the windows as there used to
be. There are no neighbors near on
whom they can call for a few moments
of gossip at any time of the day or
evening. In fact, nearly all of the peo-
pie who were young when they were
young are in the cemetery. Mr.. Sage
is eighty-six and Mrs. Sage is getting
along in years also. They are like
couple of withered leaves that have
withstood the destructive elements a
little longer than their fellows but are
gradually yielding to them.
But why do not the newspapers let
them alone? That is what Mrs. Sage
asks. She knows. of course. They
have 100000, 900 or more, and the world
is attracted by it. There is curiosity
as to what they are going to do with
it, what disposition they are going to
make of it. The world is curious
about people who have so much money.
and who live almost alone in a practi-
cally deserted part of the fashionable
residence street of the greatest city in
this country, and it will continue to
be curious until they join their friends
in the cemetery.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
A BAD LOT.

If what one of New York gamblers
says about his fellow gamblers in that
city the gambling fraternity there is
composed of bad lot. Mr.. Jerome,
the New, York district attorney, has
been trying to get evidence against
Richard A. Garfield, the most noted of
all the gamblers in New York. Can
fields house in New York city was
raided recently by the district attor-
ney and a squad of police. The doors
were broken down and much gambling
paraphernalia was found, but direct
evidence that gambling had been con-
Quoted in the house by Garfield was
wanting.
Mr.. Jerome had been trying to get
this evidence, but had not succeeded to
his satisfaction until last Thursday.
On that day a gambler came forward
voluntarily and gave the testimony that
was necessary to carry the case before
the grand jury. Among other things
he said that Garfield wasn't square in
his business. that he played a brace
game" that is, he used boxes, wheels,
tables and ETC., that were made for the
purpose of cheating. The gambler said
that whenever a man who was regard
ed as a sucker came into Canfield's
place, he was invariably relieved of his
money by crooked methods.
1t is probable that about everybody
except professionally gamblers re-
garded Garfield as gambler who per-
mitted nothing in his gambling house,
either in New York or Saratoga, that
was crooked. 1t seems, however, if
what Mr.. Jeromes witness says is
correct, that he is one of the very worst
of the gambling fraternity, being an
adept in all sorts of cheating and
swindling. The wise thing to do is to
keep away from places where gambling
is conducted. Those who follow that
course will be sure not to lose their
money by swindling methods.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
PERSONAL.

Persons close to Stephen B. FL
kins, United States senator from West
Virginia, credit him with being close
to the multimillionaire division. Out
of his many and varied interests he
cleaned up between 100000 and S.
100000 last year and his entire fortune
is put at about $50 900, 0O0 The Sena-
tors sons are of great assistance in
managing his vast investments.
Arthur Jennings, aged 81, resi-
dent of Florence, Col, has negotiated
with an Eastern medical institute for
the purchase of his head. jennings
head is almost twice the normal size.
According to the informant, the price
is $1,000 down and an additional $1,000
to be paid to his relatives at the time
of his death. His head measures thir-
ty-six inches in circumference
Secretary Moody of the Navy De-
partment gave terrible shock to the
ultra-swell element in Washington the
other day, He was seen on horseback
wearing a yachting cap, and he seemed
to be enjoying his ride, too notwith-
standing this fragrant violation of sar-
torfal law. One indignant observer said
1T would be quite as appropriate.
don't you know, if he were to be seen
on board yacht in hunting costume. T"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
DRINK HABIT AMONG WOMEN.

A great deal has been said recently
about the alleged increase of the drink
habit among women. 1t has even been
charged from the pulpit that women
are becoming more and more addicted
to the ruinous practice of drinking in
toxicating liquors. Mrs. Ella Booie,
president of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union of New York state,
says that these assertions are entire
ly too broad that they are not sus-
tanned by the facts. 1t is a matter
of extreme difficulty to gather reliable
data respecting drinking among wom-
en-, for the reason that the drinkers
themselves and all of their friends are
ashamed to make the facts known;
nevertheless Mrs. Boole, after consid-
cradle study and investigation, is we'll
satisfied that, taken as a whole, wom-
en- are not drifting to drunkenness or
tippling.
She believes il to be actually true,
and capable of demonstration, that the
drink habit is increasing among the
women of the two extremes of society,
the rich fashionables and the very
poor. Among the fashionables intoxi-
eating drinks are resorted to for the
purpose Of bracing up jaded nerves and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
Lies of History.

Just as, some thirty years back, Sir
Fiorelli, says the Boston Herald, I'M
covered for us the ruins of Pompeii,
thereby enabling us to form very
excellent idea of the appearance of a
Roman town of the first century of the
Christian era, so, during three years
past, have the Germans been uncov-
ering ancient Babylon.
The results have been, though scien-
tifically interesting, somewhat disap-
pointing, for the city has proved to be
by no means either so magnificent or
so extensive as popular imagination
has always pictured it,
Indeed, DR.. Koldwey, who is in
charge of the excavations, asserts pos
itively that the famous walls were GER
tainly not more than eight miles In cir
conference.
Nor is this all. For not only was
the city comparatively insignificant as
regards size, but even it's Wanted
splendor and wealth, of architectural
detail could, the doctor declares, have
had no real existence.
Sun dried mud bricks constituted the
only building material available, and
large or imposing edifices could not
possibly have been constructed by their
aid alone.
In reality the explorers have con-
WINGED themselves, by actual measure
ment, that not even in Nebuchadnez-
Ears royal palace was there a single
private apartment which would be
considered large enough nowadays for
a lady's boudoir.
The biggest public room was the BAN
quoting hall, wherein occurred the
Meme, meme, tekel upharsin" incident,
and this was barely fifty feet long. The
houses of the common people were
mere novels. So perishes a cherished
illusion.
1t is probably the same with not a
few of the semi-mythical wonders of
olden times. The famous Colossus of
Rhodes, for instance, which has given
word-"colossaP'- the English Ian
guage, and which was esteemed one of
the seven wonders of the world, would,
If standing to-day. be quite dwarfed by
the gigantic Statue of Liberty erected
at the entrance to New York harbor.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Ledger Qnd) says:
IF Bull Andrews and Boies Penrose's
brother are not soon senators, it will
be through no fault of Mr.. Quay. He
means to bring three more states into
the Union to increase the representa-
ton of Pennsylvania in the United
States Senate, and nothing will stop
him but a large vote against his bill.
This the measure ought to get with
squelching suddenness and force"
The Norfolk Landmark Dem.) says:
"Duns Review again cheerfully fig
ures it out that the cost of living is
less than it was a year ago. IT., says
that well-known publication, the aver
age person should now purchase a
years supply of all the necessaries of
life at wholesale prices, they would
cost $1.1S less than the same quantities
of the corresponding articles cost a
year ago. What are the wholesale
prices of anthracite coal, and where
will the consumer purchase a years
supply? Dun's statistics are violently
theoretical" .
The Washington Post Qnd.) says:
There is as little occasion for any of
the trusts to fear unfriendly action by
this Congress as there was for Bos-
ton to get into a panic in 1898 through
apprehension of an attack from the
Spanish squadron. We do not believe
the trusts would pay for insurance
against this Congress half so literally
as some of the solid men of Boston
are said to have paid for lombard
ment- policies. What is there in the
record of any Congress, Republican or
Democratic, to disturb the serenity Of
the combines"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
A WEAK SPOT.

A weak spot was uncovered in the
case of the miners union during the
taking of testimony before the. Coal
Strike Commission last week. Nom
union miners gave testimony as to the
treatment to which they had been sub
jected during the strike by the union
men. They testified that they were as
saulted. boycotted, driven out of their
houses, the victims of all sorts of in
dignities and that some of their num-
Der were killed.
Judge Gray, the chairman of the
commission. wanted to know wheth IT
the union had disciplined its members
for these attacks upon the non-unlon
men. He was informed that the union
had discountenanced the outrages of
which the non-union men complained,
but it did not anDear that any Of the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11

putting new energy into tired limbs.
And in this set drinking is now done
openly and above board. At the golf
links, on the yacht, in the boudoir, at
the reception, champagne, brandy ana
whiskey are always handy and are lib
orally INDUCED in, not only by mature
matrons but by the young buds of So
ciety. The women Of the other ex-
treme, the poor working women, take
alcoholic stimulants for the purpose of
giving them strength to accomplish
their tasks. They imagine that they
are taking the alcohol incidentally. but
after a while they find the habit fast
ened on them.
Meanwhile Mrs. Boole says the great
middle class is steadily growing more
temperate. They are not distracted by
social whirl, nor have they to work
their fingers to the bone to earn liv-
ing. They live in a normal atmos-
phere that is conducive to right think
ing and right conduct. AS wives and
mothers, the women of this class are
the hope of the country. They are the
plain people," of whom Lincoln said
that God must love them, because he
made the most of them" And what
ever may be the trend of the social
extremes, the conservative, dependable
and worthy middle class is stead
lily growing better-more temperate,
more charitable. more enlightened. 1t
is this middle class that gives
strength and character to the country.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
BRIGHT BITS.

First Financier - aren't you
afraid this deal may land us in jaiI?"
Second Financier-"Nonsens You
seem to forget that millions are in
vOlved. Life
Tommy Wise-"Pa, what is an op-
timist?" Mr.. Wise-"An optimist, my
son, is a person who has the faculty
of making mole-hill out of noun
tain."-Judge.
YES" said the student of diges-
tive economics, there is one part of
the doughnut that wouldn't give you
dyspepsia" And what part is that? %
we ask in establishment. 1.-The hole in
the middle. Baltimore American,
-Mamma-"Don't be so selfish. Let
your baby brother play with your
marbles a little while" Tommy-"But
he means to keep them always" Nam
mao, l guess not" TOMMY
guess yes, cause he's swallered 'em!'
Philadelphia Press.
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11

The man who always anticipates
when another is telling a story was
the victim. and this is the way it hap
pened, says the Brooklyn Eagle:
Did you ever remember that you'd
forgotten something's?
And fail utterly to remember what
it was you had forgotten? Why, of
course; everybody does that"
Did the recollection of what you
had forgotten suddenly dawn upon
you,
AT the most inopportune time? Ger
tainly. That's always the way"
well, I had an experience a short
time ago.
II know the story"
"Oh, you do?'
Enthusiastically. But go ahead and
tell it, anyway"
Il was going away on a train, hav-
ing been up to my neck in business
that kept me worried"
81 quite understand. So many deals
on hand that you know you'd forgot
ten something"
II did"
"And you couldn't remember what"
81 couldn't"
you cudgelled your brain before
That's it,
"Oh, know that story like a book
We've all been there. After you had
boarded the train and were speeding
along at a rate of sixty miles an hour
you suddenly remembered what you
had forgotten"
you've hit it,
II told you I knew the story. It's
one of the ancient hard luck tales
"Oh, it is, is it?'
Sure it is. 1 can tell it to you down
to the last detail-all except the sum
you stood to lose. OF course you stood
to lose a large sum on account of your
forgetfulness?"
Il certainly did"
And you pretty near had a mental
collapse on account of it. Oh, I've been
there. You figured on time tables to
see if you couldn't get train back
in time to save yourself, and found
you couldn't. You were wild-eyed as
you figured out your probable losses
and realized how helpless you were"
Nothing of the sort"
"What?''
Nothing of the sort. simply closed
the deal out by wire at the first stop
and had peaceful journey. And,
say!"
''Well?"
Would you mind letting me tell my
next story myself"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
Convincing Evidence.

In a secluded corner of one of Phila-
delphia's clubs the other evening, says
the Philadelphia Ledger, a number of
physicians were comfortably ensconced
and the talk turned to tales of their
profession.
One of the doctors present related The
following at his own expense: ION a
chilly morning last winter, as return
ed to my Office after several early and
important visits, L asked of my SER
want: Thomas, did Mrs. s. get the
medicine 1 ordered for her yesterday
I suppose Sc replied Thomas. I see
all the blinds are down this morning. "
AS the gathering recovered from
their laughter one of the fraternity
remarked: THAT is as good as the
story of an old classmate of mine who
sent in a death certificate with his
name signed in the space reserved for
Cause of Death
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
The Fellow called ..Exchanee..

From the Baltimore American.
l read most all the funny stuff these
humorist fellers writes.
And laughin' at their foolishness is one
of my delights.
Sometimes they're sure too deep for
me an I CANT ketch tn .nub,
But laugh at 'em anyway. t. show I
hain't no scrub.
But of 'em all for writin' stuff that's
funny quaint and strange,
The best is that there chap that signs
his jokes an things Exchange. f"
When 1 go bil1in' down tn page a.
readin' all tn fun
1 always find a lot of his-a dozen If
they's one.
An seems t. me they's none tn rest
gifts quite tn sort O. twist
This Teller likes to give things; so in
maxim out the list.
O. things to make 'em holler when it's
my night at tn grange
I memorize lot O. things writ by
that man Exchange"
Err mebby he's a woman; cause he's
talkin all tn time,
A-gittin' off some foolishness or reelin'
off some rhyme.
I'd like t know what paper he's "a
writin' stiddy fer,
An I'd subscribe an git his Jokes as
fast as they occur,
An t'other day 1 read a piece, '"To
Cure a Dog of Mango"
An when reached tn end found
twas writ by that Exchange"
He must be bout tn brightest chan
they is; he's bout a mile
Ahead of this hyer Kiplin' that thew
says so Versatyle:
They amt no subject goin' that this
Teller can't set down
An tell We all about it, fer he's got
tn facts done brown.
TIL more study on il, wy, tn more
thing seems strange
That any Teller knows as much as that
man called Exchange"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11

rioters had been disciplined by the or
ganization to which they belonged.
This was the weak point in the case
Of the miners union. 1t was evident
that the chairman of the commission
was not favorably impressed by the
showing that the miners union made
in the matter of preventing it's MEM
bers from assaulting non-union meg
To what extent this unfavorable i'm
preston will affect the finding of the
commission it is of course impossible
to say, but it would not be at all
strange if it should prevent the re-
port from being as favorable to the
miners union as it would have other
wise been. 1t is clear that the chair
man of the commission has no sympa-
thy with violence in strikes, and it is
probable that the other members of
the commission agree with him in this
matter.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11


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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11
20 PAGES.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings., F. and w. and c. and
S. Railways Employees Mutual Relief
Association.
Military Orders-Circular. Georgia
State Troops.
Special Notices-Has Opened His Of
flee, DR.. Marion r. Thomas; Keep
Warm, Cornwell & Chapman; Special
Notice, Youmans & Demmond; Special
Notice, DIR. NJ. Schwab & Son; Engage
mett Extraordinary, Royal Music Hall;
Hanging in Your Closet, New York
Dye Works; Decorations, Floral De-
signs, Etc, George Wagner's Son; At
tention, J. w. Lang; Ship Notice,
tice, A. S. Cohen; Save Money,
Schwarzs Restaurant; Tomorrow,
James ]. Joyce; Ship Notice, ]. +.
Minis & Co., Agents; Special Notice,
T. S. Hayward & Co.
Business Notices-Chatham School of
Shorthand, Miss Cecilia c. Mclaughlin,
Principal; If You Get 1t Here 1t VIII
Be Good. Kock & Sylvan; Free Demon
stration, C. A. Munster; jewellery. r.
Van Keuren & Co.; Our Fifteen-C Cent
Coffee. Hardee & Marshall.
Timely Suggestions for Card Parties,
Etc.-The Delmonico.
Stock Taking-Globe Shoe Company
1t Might Have Been-B. H. Levy e.
Bro.
Mill and Factory sale-Leopold Ad-
Ter.
Consolidation sale-Jackson & Gut
man.
The White Sale-At Foye & Eek
STEMS.
Grand Clearance Sale of all Winter
Stuffs-Daniel Hogan.
The Gas Heater Is So Good for That
Tired Feeling-Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
Our January Sale of Lingerie-Walsh
& Meyer.
Fireplace Furniture-Thos. West &
Co.
Embroidery and Cut Price Sale-Gus-
tave Eckstein & Co.
Laundry.
Stove Strengthening Continues-Wm.
& II. H. baltimore.
Absolutely Hand Made-M. Wilensky.
Mems Business Suits-Metropolitan
Clothing Company.
Not How Cheap. But How Good
Ludden & Bates Southern Music
House.
Are We the Automobile 1T. A.
Bryson.
Cigars-Cortez Cigars.
Some Remarkable Values-At the Bee
Hive.
Pretty Dinner Sets-Allen Bros.
Warburines-Get 1t At Rowlinski's.
A Perfect Piano Player-McArthur
Sons Co.
Modern in all Details-Savannaf
Steam Laundry.
Auction Sales-Carpets, Show Cases
Furniture, etc., by c. H. Dorset, Auc.
tioneer.
Our Gem Baking Powder-Livings
tons Pharmacy Company.
Lap Robes and Horse Blankets-LeC
Frank.
The Pierce Cushion Frame-R. v
Connerat.
Seventh Monthly Dividend-Califor'
nia-Nevada Mining Company.
Garden Seeds-T. s. Wood & Sons.
Secrets of Personal Magnetism Laid
Bare-The American College of Sci,
ence.
neutrality-suspicious. to Retail Ii
Quor.
The Northern Runabout-R. V. Con,
nerat.
Financial-Jerome Kennedy, New
Haven, Conn.
How Hpynotist Made a Fortune
The New York Institute of Science.
Railroad Schedules-Seaboard All
Line Railway.
Medical--Peruna; DR.. Hathaway,
''77" for Grip; Kodol; DIR. Kennedy
Blood Balm; Medical Lake Soap; S
s. s.; Cascarets; Paracamph; Cuticu,
ra; Golden Medical Discovery; Null,
Grape Tonic; Graybeard.
Foods-Grape-Nuts; Postum FOOD
Coffee.
Savannah Theater--"The Village
Postmaster, Tomorrow Matinee and
Night; Creatore and His Baut
Tuesday Matinee and Night; Mile
Zelie de Lussan, Wednesday Night
Peck's Bad Boy. Saturday Matinee anC
Night; The Comedy of Errors. Monda.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-11

There was a furry at the White
House a day or two ago when it was
discovered that several visitors who
called on the President, but failed to
see him, had lately been in the compa-
ny of a patient with we'll developed
case of smallpox. However, it is not
believed that any germs were left at
the executive mansion.