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The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
WHEN Is A MAN TOO OLD"

Pension Commissioner Ware recently
made a report, in which he said that
the office force of his bureau could be
reduced one-third with advantage to
the service by wedding out a number
of old men and filling their places with
young men; that the old men had fallen
into rut and were disinclined to adopt
new and improved methods for accom-
plishing their tasks; that two-thirds
the number of young men would ac-
compish the same work and do it bet
ter than the old men were doing it.
In the War and Navy Departments an
age limit has been fixed for active
service, and when officers reach the
prescribed age they are placed upon
the retired list. Some of the railroads
have recently adopted the same idea.
After an employe has been in the serv-
ice of the company for certain num-
Der of years and has reached a certain
age, he is retired on a pension. The
Pennsylvania Railroad has adopted
this policy. The retirement of the
Pennsylvania's employees is compulsory
after certain age is reached by them.
How hard it works to have a fixed
age limit apply to all men was illus
trated in Baltimore the other day.
George w. Deems, a machine shop
foreman for the Pennsylvania, was re-
tired on the last day of 1902 at the age
of 20 years, after thirty-eight years of
service with the corporation. During
the thirty-eight years he never lost
day from sickness or any other cause.
At the time of his enforced retirement
he was hale and hearty and strong,
fully competent to discharge his duties
for several years to come as satisfac-
tOrily as he had done in the past. All
of his life he had been a man of activ-
ity. He didn't know how to "rest" or
to loaf. When he was set aside by
the railroad company he could not Sc
cure employment at his trade else
where; he was told that he was too
old" Being forced into idleness, Mr.
Deems began to fret and worry. He
there was no work for him. The re-
suit of it all was that few days ago
he died, and those who knew him as
sert that it was because he was not
permitted to work.
The injustice of a fixed age for re-
tirement from active life can be easily
demonstrated. Some men are "old'' at
40, practically senile, while others are
young at 20. Russell Sage, well in
the eighties, continues at his desk
every day and does as much work as a
IMAM hale his age. The late Abram s.
Hewitt, who died In his S1st year, con-
tinued to be a worker almost up to the
time of his death. The Pope, a very
old man, is yet a worker despite his
years. In every community, no doubt
there are men who are counted old be-
cause they have lived beyond the av-
erage of life that are daily doing good
work, such as younger men would find
it difficult to duplicate. Such men
ought not to be pushed out, merely
because they have accumulated years.
1t should be that man is too old"
only when he can no longer do salts
factory work The stopping of work
would mean to many Of them what II
meant to Mr.. Deems OF Baltimore
death.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
A Double story.

Stories which illustrate the Scotch
habit of thrift are constantly coming
to light, says the Youths Companion
There was one which greatly amused
the late William Black, and which his
biographer, Sir Wemyss Reid, says ne
was fond of relating. 1t is story
within story, and although one part
of it is old, the rest is new.
Somebody was telling a Scotchman a
tale which he had just been reading of
a certain Eastern potentate who, hav-
ing taken offense at the doings of his
grand vizier, had ordered him to be
put to death. The victim knew he
must die. but he wished to die COM
fortably. He was aware that his mas
ter's chief executioner was very pro-
ficient, and could dispatch his victims
not only with swiftness. but with no
appreciable suffering. Accordingly he
sent for the executioner and offered
him large sum of money on condition
that he would put him to death with
out pain.
The executioner promised to do his
best; and the grand vizier went to his
doom in frame of pious resignation.
Kneeling to receive the fatal blow, he
was conscious that the sword of the ex-
ecutioner was whir1ed about his head,
but he felt nothing.
How is this?" he said. you un-
dertook for a large sum of money to
put me to death instantaneously and
without pain, and instead of doing so
you are only playing with me and pro-
longing my misery. Do your work
quickly"
Thereupon the executioner stepped up
to the condemned man and offered him
a pinch of snuff. The .vizier took the
pinch of snuff, and sneezed, and forth
with his head tumbled from his Shout
ders.
This is the story which, according to
Mr.. Black, was told to a fellow-c oun-
tryman of his. The Scotchman listen
ed. and at the end looked at the other
inquiringly, and said, 'fWeel?"
"Weli!' repeated the interlocutor
What do YOU mean?"
I'm waiting for the finish o. the
story said the Scot.
But you've got the finish" said the
other. Don't you see? The execu-
toner was so clever that he cut the
fellows neck in two without letting
him feel IT,.
oh. aye. l kent that weel enaugh.
but that's ma the point. What l want
10 knaw is. did the execootioner gat
the mooney"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

The federal department of agricul-
lure, which has apparently given UP
its attempt to breed a clean or hair
less pig, has now turned its attention
TO featherless chickens, which il homes
to produce before a great while. 1t
cannot be said that there has arisen
any great demand for chickens with
out feathers, except when they are
dressed for the table, yet the depart
ment is quite sure that a chicken that
wouldn't have to be plucked would be
boon and d benefaction. The
teatherless chicken, it is claimed.
would be larger and heavier than it's
commonplace kindred, since the food
energy that now goes to nourish the
feathers would be devoted to increas-
ing the flesh on the fowl, there being
no feathers to need nourishing. In
handling the fowls for market, the
Item Of plucking would be saved. thus
adding to the economy OF growing the
new breed. A scientist connected with
the department says It is to be expect
"a mat in the evolution from the
feathered to the featherless fowl, there
VIII be some change in the physical
construction, but just what that
'hange viii he he cannot foretell. A
good idea would be 10 have two more
NsA' thus producing four 'drumsticks'
With each fowL
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

An emigration movement that is
somewhat out of the ordinary for this
country is reported from Oklahoma.
From Greer county, in that territory,
Mexico, where they will engage in
farming and stock raising. The rea-
son for the emigration is that the em-
igrants are Populists, while Greer
county has become Democratic. They
declare they do not wish to live under
Democratic rule, hence are leaving the
country. Many people come to the
United States to escape bad politics
in their native homes. but few ever
leave this country for that reason.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
BRIGHT BITS.

Mrs. Highup-"Are you going to
Quick, Sale & Co.'S for your jewelry?'
Daughter-"Yes, ma" Mrs. Highup-
We'll, while there, just step into the
engraving department and see if they
have any bargains in family crests. -
New York Weekly.
She (playing whist)-''I don't see
how you can remember just what cards
have been played" "Oh, I menorize
the play while you're talking Glass
gov Times.
Jinks-"Why did young Pudney fail?
l thought he was doing we'll" Binks
He was until he spent too much
time reading the advice to young men
on how to succeed Judge
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
lNDE1 TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings - Stockholders Savannah
Gas Light Company; Society of the
Cincinnati.
For the Babies-LindSay & Morgan.
Silver Polish-The Gorham Co.
Removal Sale Prices-Wm. & II. H.
baltimore.
Savannah Theater-"Are You a Ma
SOM" Tonight "Alice of Old Vim
cennes," Tomorrow, Matinee and
Night
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
Cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

Some of the keenest things said on
the bench are attributed to the late
Judge Walton, says the Lewiston
Journal. While holding a term of the
Supreme Court at Augusta, he sentence
ed man to seven years in prison for
a grave crime.
The respondents counsel asked for
an investigation of the sentence on the
ground that the prisoners health was
very poor
Your Honor said he. II am salts
fed that my client cannot live out half
that sentence"
We'll, under those circumstances. -
said the judge, Il will make it for life
instead of seven years"
The respondent chose to abide by the
original sentence.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
FREIGHT And PARCEL. CAR

Leaves east side OF City Market for Thunder.
bolt, Cattle Park, Sandhy, Isle OF Hope and all
intermediate points-9:I5 a. m, 1915 p. M, . rs
D. m.
Leaves Isle Of Hope for Sandfy, Cattle Park
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points-6:O)
a m, IL 100 a. m. 800 D. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at $50 q. 10 .
and 2:S5 p. m, connecting at Sandf1y 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 10 G. B. KIDDER, Manager
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

Two political oddities are reported in
late dispatches. In Michigan Thomas
j. Navin of Detroit, who served term
in the penitentiary for forgery has
been appointed by the Governor a
member of the State Prison Board and
confirmed by the Senate. The ap-
pointee says that his life in prison
gave him ideas of reform which he
wants to work out. He is a leading
Republican politician in Detroit. At
Falrchance, Pa, man who has been
IN jail Tor some time on a charge of
murder was the other day unanimous
ly nominated and triumphantly elected
member Of the City Council. The
Pennsylvania man is Democratic pol
itician.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

Clarence S. barrow, the leading
counsel of the anthracite strikers be-
fore the Strike Commission, is being
Chicago on an independent ticket and
it is believed he will accept the nomi-
nation. Mr.. Darrow's championship of
the coal miners has made him strong
with the labor element
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

William H. Spielman, who lives in
Maryland, was a baby at the time of
the Battle of Antietam. Representa-
tive Pearre has introduced in the
House bill to grant Spielman a pen
sion of $50 a month, on the ground
that as a baby he was so badly fright
ened by the firing in that battle that
he has been a paralytic ever since. Is
there absolutely 10 limit to this pen
sion business and the causes which
able?
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

The famous Diana of the Madison
Square Gardens tower. that has look
ed down on everything in her neigh
borhood from her perch 1872 feet above
the sidewalk, is shortly to have her
pride humbled and will go into shadow
herself. The Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company is going to erect a
tower of 500 feet on it's new building
adjoining the Garden. That will be an
altitude of only matter of fifty-five
feet less than the Washington Monu-
ment.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
COLLINsyILLELINE.

Falr Grounds and Dale Avenue1
Beginning at 600 a. m. cars leave Bolton
and OFT streets every is minutes; returning
cars leave Estill avenue and Waters road at
6:07 a.. and every IS minutes thereafter, con.
Meeting with cars on Thunderbolt line, until
1900 o'clock midnight
Through cars are operated between Market
and ThunderuolJ via. Collinsville and Dale
avenue as follows:
Leave Market. Leave Thunderbolt
6 45 A. M. Z 80 A. NJ
q 4b P M z 40 p
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

new county in New Mexico has
been named in honor OF Senator Quay,
In recognition Of his services in behalf
OF the statehood bill. The senator
would no doubt have much preferred
a franchise Of some sort
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
LINE NoPooioI)
City Market to Casino via Bolton Str

City Market to Casino via Bolton Street
Junction
Beginning at 5:45 a. M. cars leave City Mar.
ket for Casino at Thunderbolt every IS minutes
until IL 80 D. m
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction IS minutes
after leaving time at City Market.
Beginning at 8 So a, m, cars leave Casino at
Thunderbolt every 10 minutes until 1908 mid
night.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
WEST END LINE LincoIn Park. !

Car leaves west side of City Market for Lin.
coin Park 500 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until II: 80 p. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market 6 20 a. m
and every 40 minutes thereafter until l2 o clock
midnight
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

-Mirkins: My wife has been the
making OF me.
Bifkins; Well. | don't think much
OF her ability as a manufacturer.
cago Daily News
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida are fair weather, with
fresh northeast winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

John w. Gates was asked in Chicago
a day or two ago If it was true that he
had won $1.O0O.OO0 at poker in San
Francisco. during his recent trip, as
had been reported. Il hope the public
doesn't believe all that is said about
my card playing he answered: three
quarters Of the reports of my winnings
are untrue" Is II 10 be inferred from
that that Mr.. Gates won only a meagre
little $4,000 during his trip?
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

The new White Star liner Cedric,
which has arrived in New York on her
maiden trip, is the largest ship in he
world. She is 700 feet long, and has ac-
commodations for more people than
can be housed in the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel. The Cedric has ten separate
decks, and her tunnels are large
enough to be used as sections of the
rapid transit tunnel in New York city,
with room for two trains to pass each
other. The food supply necessary for
each trip of the ship runs into hun
dreds of tons, and the water in her
tanks would float sea going steamer
State Senator DauSman declared on
the floor of the Indiana Senate day
or two ago: The decisions of the In
diana Supreme Court are the laughing
stock of law students in the schools"
That being the case, manifestly the
duty of the Legislature is plain. Let it
make a clean sweep of the old and ex-
perienced lawyers now on the supreme
bench, and turn that tribunal over to
the students of the law schools No
body has the least doubt that they
know more law in a minute than the
chief justice and his associates do in
a day.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
THUNpERBOLTLINF 1sno0i.N

Connects at Sandfly with parcel car for city,
connects at Sandny with parcel car for Isle
Of Hope
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23

Connects at Sandiy with parcel car to CITY
Connects at Sandhy with parcel car for Isle
of Hope.
s*Goes to Montgomery on return trip trau-
Isle Of Hope.
MONTGONERv Avn Tn1GOE10oT.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-09-25
FISHMONGERING RAILROAD.
New Hampshire Line That Used to
supply Customers at All
the stations.

While looking through pile of OLD
papers the Exeter correspondent came
across the following article in a New
York paper of the date of February 6,
1859, under the caption of THE Smelt
Railroad" says the Manchester Union.
1T is well known that the Portsmouth
railroad has to turn everything to ac-
count to pay running expenses, and
many are the jokes they perpetrate
upon the conductors in reference to
their shifts to get living. It is said
that one of them last year was accus-
toned to bring fish from Portsmouth
and peddle them out on the way to Con-
cord.
Zone day he brought along smelts,
dealing out to customers at every sta
ton, till he got to Suncook. where he
blew his horn and an old woman came
out and wanted six, just pattern-all
I've got left, you're in the nick of time,
said he, and he began to count them
and found only five. 'How's this? ]
should have SIX and he began to count
his fingers, and reckon over how he had
disposed of the four dozen he had start
ed with. After awhile, I have it; hold
on little while and I'll be back said
he; and he ran the train back seven
miles to a place where he had let a
woman have one more than she had
paid for, got it, came back to Suncook
and let the old woman have the six she
wanted, and then the ssmelt' train went
to Concord"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-09-25
NEVER MIND.


Are you blue, little boy. are you angry and
sore,
With the way things have happened to-
day?
Have you borne all you can. till you can
stand no more,
Are you fretted and hurt to your very
hearts core,
And cruelty robbed of your play?
Never mind, never mind. the day will soon
end,
And with it your trials SO sore;
For doubtless happy tomorrow you'll
spend,
And kindness and love shall your broken
heart mend,
And troubles remember no more.
Are you grieved. little maid, do you think
you're abused,
BY playmate or teacher or friend
A victim of falsehood, unjustly accused
Your hearts dearest wishes unkindly re-
fused,
Till you almost wish life at an end?
To-day may be rainy and everything drear
And nature enveloped in gloom;
In sunshine tomorrow, the day will be
clear,
Zach lingering raindrop diamond appear
The flowers in the fields all abloom.
Frank Beard. in Rams Horn.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-09-25
The Complexion in summer.

The maiden who tans becomingly is
a hard thing to find, while as for those
who blister and burn on the slightest
provocation their name is legion. It
is we'll for the ordinary woman, there
fore, to forego her desire for a healthy
tan and take little care of her COM
plexion. Powder is great protection
against the ravages of the weather and
above all things, the face should not
be washed with soap and water at the
conclusion of an outing Peeled noses
and blistered cheeks are almost certain
to result from such treatment. In
stead cleansing cream should be lib
orally applied. If soap must be used,
the mildest of paste soaps should be
selected, with little borax in the
water. and a good skin food should
be rubbed in the skin afterward Chi
cago News
The Tupelo journal., 1903-09-25

showing Tancy lace-like weaves and EN-
broidered effects. Macrame is intro.
duced to give the note of novelty, the
stock itself in most instances being quite
simple and plain, with fancy tab in
front edged with macrame and possibly
a tiny tassel in addition. The tassel is
the dominant new note in the fall neck
wear. and some of the smartest stocks
are festooned all around. with tassels
attached to inlet motifs of some sheer
material or soft silk. Considerable
vogue is anticipated for macrame
trimmed stocks and likewise for broad
collars of this lace which is enjoying
considerable favor at present in Paris.
Fringe, in company with tassels and
pendants, figures on many of the fall
stocks, more particularly those fash
Toned from crepe de chine, and similar
sheer fabrics and soft silk. and striking
ly pretty effects are obtained with or
namentation of this kind in self or con-
trasting tone These fringed stocks
suggest the old-time jabot, but 1t is
glorified jabot, with none of the stiff
ness of the old-fashioned article The
turnover collar and cuff sets in plain
and embroidered linen and the newer
Teneriffe work appear in variety that is
bewildering and it is predicted that later
| on these matched sets will be found in
silk and chiffon prettily embroidered
| In drawn work stocks are in many eff
! fective designs, and the mannish types
are noticeable for their style and smart
ness. In the wash goods are included
! the numerous strips of embroidery or
cambria which some women prefer tc
the tight-fitting stock, while the fancy
lace collars are found in practically
endless collection, ranging from the
dainty little stock to the elaborate Shout
der cape with stole ends. Broad collars
and collars with stole ends promise to
receive marked attention during the
| coming season, and so, too, do soft
scarfs of crepe de chine and like mate
rails, set off with decoration Of Ten
| eriffe wheels. So numerous are the new
productions that but hint can be given
companying illustrations represent a
few of the newest and most distinctive
models Neckwear covers such large
| field that the most exacting woman is
sure to find that which will suit her
fancy, and there is no excuse for the
| girl or woman who fails to obtain be-
coming stocks and scarfs and collars
from the display for the present and
coming season.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-09-25
CHARMING FANCY WORK.
The Art of TattinE, So Popular in the
Days of Our Gran d ma thers, Again
Coming Into Favor.

There never was a time when lace
was SO much in request, and there is
a renaissance of some of the older
kinds, such as netting, crochet and
tatting. The only requisites for tat
ting are bone shuttle, crochet hook
and coarse thread. In choosing the
shuttle select one which has the two
halves coming together at the points
so as not to let the thread escape
while working. and also that 1t shall
not catch in the work. The two parts
should just meet, SO that the thread,
in pushing through, should cause a
slight click.
The two illustrations OF the hands
show the way the thread is passed
round the hand and how the shuttle
should be held. Having filled your
shuttle with thread, take it in your
right hand between thumb and first
finger, take the end of the thread with
your left and hold in position firmly
with thumb and forefinger and pass
the thread outward around the fingers.
which should be spread out, and bring
it round to the end and hold both with
finger and thumb firmly. as in Fig. T.;
pass the thread over to the left and
bring the shuttle down on the right
side Oh the thread he'd pretty taut by
the spread fingers. carry it under the
thread and bring it up on the left side
between the taut thread and the shut
tie thread (Which was thrown over
from the finger and thumb). This will
make a single knot.
The spread fingers must now be
relaxed and the shuttle thread held
taut to bring the knot into position
shall be over the shuttle thread and
allow the latter to be drawn back and
forth through the middle of the knot
This so far is only single knot Now
let the shuttle thread hang loose on
the right side of the thread around
the hand and pass the shuttle on the
left under the thread and bring up on
the right, as in Fig. 2; relax the fin
gers, tighten the shuttle thread and
carefully draw up close to the other
single knot. Now you have double
knot. See that the shuttle thread
comes through the middle; otherwise
when you have all your knots made
the thread would not draw, and it
would. therefore, be no use.
l remember when child picking up
the stitch, but instead of making the
knots with the thread around the fin
gers over the thread in the shuttle, |
kept the thread around the fingers toe
tight and made the knot with the
shuttle thread over it instead of vice
versa. The consequence was l could
make one hole and draw it with the