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The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17

Death Gulch. by far the most danger
GUS section Of the park. This gulch
is in a remote section and is never Wis
tied by tourists. Many years ago a
trapper told of a remarkable gulch
strewn with carcasses of wild animals,
to enter which was death. This story
was looked upon as a myth until years
later, when the place was found actual
ly to exist.
Death Gulch is located fifteen miles
from Yancey's. From Yancey's, where
the President will go soon after his
arrival at Fort Yellowstone, he will
travel east to the mouth of Cash Creek
Death Gulch is located one and one
half miles up the creek. 1t is a mar
row canon, with precipitous walls, for
the most part. There are places where
the canon may be entered down the
sides, but most of the unfortunate AMI
mails which wander into the gulch come
in by its head. In the bottom OF the
gulch and along its sides are strewn
the skeletons and remains of elk, deer
and bear that have met their end there.
1t is this gulch that was made famous
by Seton Thompson in his story of
"Wahb," for it was there that the
grizzly died.
Three years ago DR.. Frank w. Trap
hagen, professor of natural sciences at
the Agricultural College at Bozeman
and one of the best known chemists
of America, and Peter Koch, president
of the Bozeman National Bank, visit
ed the gulch. A strong wind was blow
ing at the time and they were able 20
go into it from its mouth without dan
ger. DR.. Traphagen found, as he had
suspected, that the unfortunate AMI
mails which had ventured into the can
on were killed by a poisonous gas
which came from the bottom Of the
gulch. He secured a number of sam
pies of this gas, which he carried back
to his laboratory in Bozeman. He
found It to he a deadly gas, heavier
than the air, so that when no wind
was blowing the lower part of the can
on would be filled with it and it would
cause death to any living thing that
breathed 1T.
1t is in this vicinity that Slough Creek
is located. There are more elk and deer
in this district than in any other IN
the park and the President desires to
see these wild animals. Mr.. Burroughs,
the naturalist. who will accompany the
President, desires to visit Death Gulch
10 satisfy himself OF the report OF the
gases there.
A trail has been broken from Fort
Yellowstone 10 Yancey's, but the re-
mainder Of the trip viii have 70 be
made on skis.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17
QUITMAN SOCIETY

Quitman, May 16.-Niss Caro- Thomp-
son has returned to her home in Savan-
nah after a visit of several weeks to
Miss Lila Thompson.
Misses Moselle and Kate Oglesby are
at home after a visit to friends in At
lanta.
Mrs. Andrew Ryan of Atlanta is the
guest of Mrs z. w. Oglesby.
Mrs. j. S. N. Snow is at nome after
a visit of some DAYS at Madison.
Mrs. ]. w. Bowman win entertain the
Matron's Club Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Glenn T. Tonge, OF cambridge
has been in Quitman on visit to rela-
tives.
Mrs, NJ. c. Wade, Jr., leaves next
week for South Carolina to spend some
weeks with her parents,
Miss Marie Tillman has as her guest
Miss Elizabeth Coker of Tennessee.
Misses Berta Hopson, Eliza Wilson
and Arvella McWilliams are at home
from the Georgia Normal and Indus
trial College at MilledgeVille
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17

ed against the class. 1t is the con-
crete instance of the abstract idea.
Much might be written about the
humorous and bitter remarks in an
cient literature upon women. Misogy-
nism was rite in ancient times; more so.
than at present, for one of the great
est instances Of the worlds progress
is the improved position Of women. In
Greece especially woman was looked
down upon, and her position in the
best days of Athenian glory was a
This accounts for much of the bit
terness against the six to be found in
Greek literature.
One man, Simonides, of Amorgos,
wrote a poem, in which he describes
the nature of different kinds of won-
en- by comparing them successfully to
a hog, a fox a dog, mud, sea water,
an ass. weasel mare, an ape, and
a bee. On these ten kinds the last is
the only one approaching respecta-
bility The poem winds up with this
sentiment: God made this supreme
evil-woman; even though she seem to
be some good, when man has got her
she becomes plague"
Socrates, who doubtless had reason
for thinking MS he did, on account of
his shrewish wife, Xantippe, used to
say when he was asked whether it
was better to marry or not: Which
ever you do, you will regret it," and
once on being asked what act Of their
lives people most commonly repented
of, he replied: Marriage"
Although the following remarks do
not come under the head of humor,
they show how early some of the
ideas thought to be original with mod
ern financiers came into vogue. An
ancient wealthy shipowncr was asked
how he had acquired his great for
tune. my great fortune easily" he
replied; my small one by great ex-
ertion."
Andrew Carnegie has said that 1t is
a disgrace for man to die very rich.
But many centuries ago a Spartan
said to his son: There is nothing on
earth so discreditable as to be found
very rich when one is dead"
These stories and jests might be
multiplied almost indefinitely, but
enough has been said to show that
human nature is the same in all ages
and all chimes and that in the world
of wit and humor, as in all other
realms, there is mo new thing under
the sun"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17
WAYCROSS SOCIETY

Waycross, May 16.-Miss Mary
Hayes of Dillon, S. c.. who has been
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. B. Spear, has gone on a short trip
to Tampa, after which she will return
to her home.
Mr.. Earl Finn has returned to Way
cross from North Georgia, where he
has been attending college.
Mrs. c. A. Sheldon is spending some
time at West Tocoi, Fla, visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Z. S. Paine.
Mrs. ]. c. Brown. after a stay OF two
weeks in Thomasville, has returned to
Waycross.
Mrs. Pittman has returned from a
visit to relatives at Lumberton, n. G.
Judge j. /. Sweat Miss Lula NJ.
Sweat, r. D. Harris, Miss Julia Harris.
Miss Eva Harris. W. g. Taylor and
sister. Capt CA. Sheldon, Mr.. and Mrs.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17
ALL JOKES ARE ANCIENT.
Popular in Greece-PetrOnius
Said, ''He's Hot stuff"
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Very few people who read the comic
papers to-day realize that the basis of
most of what they read is to be found
in ancient classic times. When the
Bible says that there is no new thing
under the sun it utters truth of
which few people understand the uni
versal application.
1t is true that we often wonder where
the professional funny men find their
new jokes, as number after number of
the comic papers issues from the press.
But if we consider carefully we see that
most of them are changes rung upon
certain stock themes. 1t is these stock
themes that have their roots in the
past; their growth and their ramifica-
lions have taken centuries to accom-
plish.
OF course many jokes to-day are the
result of modern conditions of life and
have been born only in the midst of GER
tain phases of present day civilization.
We look in vain, for example, in an
cient writers for the joke about the
boarding house, merely because board
ing houses were not a feature of an
cient civilization.
Jokes that have arisen in connection
with modern inventions and scientific
discoveries are by their very nature
excluded from ancient literature. But
it is not to much to say that outside
of those particular jests, which have
their origin in absolutely modern condi-
lions, there are very few jokes indeed
which have not an ancient counterpart.
Some of our modern slang, and GER
tain expressions not exactly in high re-
pute, are taken almost directly from
Greek and Latin. The people who were
reading QUO Vadis" three or four
years ago did not know, most of them,
that the character of Petronius in that
novel was a real one and that that
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17

lived in a nice little Town where there
were a great many lonely Old Fam
flies and a great deal of Wealth, but
it was pervaded at all Hours by Gem
etery Calm. The Social Gayeties of the
Place revolVed slowly around IA Mis-
sionary Society. Any one desiring to
mix a Cocktail had to pull down all the
Blinds and disconnect the Telephone
and also it was advisable to wear
Masks at a Poker Party.
Jessaline would often become restless
and champ at the Bit. She had attend
ed a Select School for Girls, at which
she had learned how to turn Hand
springs and do other Parlor Didoes. No
wonder that she hated to play Domi-
noes all Evening and then turn out the
Lights at $50 p. M, which, in Keen
Society is the mere Edge of the Night.
Now it CHANGED that Jesaaline had a
Chum. They had eaten Olives out of
the same Bottle while attending the
Select School for Girls. Chum had
gone against the Matrimonial Game,
the same as Jessaline. only, instead of
landing in Sleepy Hollow, she was up
in the City, taking in the Big Show
She wrote to Jessaline, urging her to
come up and put in a busy Week. Aft
er working on the Handwriting for
several Days, Jessaline succeeded in
reading the whole Letter and she be-
gan to tease Henry to knock off for
Week and take her up to he>hoop-1a
Metropolis and let her burn a few
Holes in the Track. She told Henry
that he had been sticking to his Desk
too closely and that he needed good
Rest.
Large Bodies move slowly and sew
eral Days elapsed before Henry came
to her Way of Thinking, although it
was a Pipe from the beginning that
she would bring him around.
Jessaline got busy and put six
Women to work building a new Even
ing Gown for her. 1t was a Pale Blue
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17
Copyright. 1908. by Robert Howard Russell

once there was a great big Burly
who had a Wife about the size of a
crasshopper. Usually she wore a gray
Tailor Made that looked as if it would
have TO be let out if she gained an
other pound.
ANY one, to look at Jessaline, would
have said that she was rather frail
and Weakly, while the he-end of the
sketch looked husky enough to pull a
Dray. 1t often happens that the heavy
draft Bachelor picks out a Nudge and
makes love to her and she is so scared
at the size of him that she hasn't got
the Nerve to throw him down.
At any rate the cute and dainty lit
file Iessaline with a Waist Measure
Dent of II inches was all hoped
M with the human Mastodon who went
by the name of Henry and looked the
Part.
Now it happened that Hen and Jess
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17

Chatting Dish until G. NJ. When they
turned in, Henry was on the point of
Passing Away but Jessaline was just
beginning to warm up and be kitten
ish. ,
I'VE shall have Coolies of Fun to-
moro w," she said. First we have a
Breakfast at the French Restaurant,
then a swell Luncheon at the Club,
then a Musicale, then a Dinner at the
biggest Hotel on Earth and then a
Show and then we are all going out
Summing"
IT drop out" said Henry. zone day
has put me to the Bad"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17
1&~~SOCIETY.@l
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BRUNSWICK SOCIETY.
Continued From Page twelve.

wick.
Judge and Mrs. j. D. Sparks enter
tanned a few evenings ago, their guests
being Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Hopkins. DR..
and Mrs j. A. Butts, Mrs. C. P. Smith,
Misses Marie Remshart, Armistead
TaIiaferro, Jennie Bryan, zula Adkins,
Gertrude Allen, Reta McKinnon, Ethel
Elliott, Lucy Branham, Susie Lamar,
the Misses Butts. Messrs. H. F. du-
Bignon E. ]. Allen, NJ. Mccullough, c..
C. Peddicord, A. c. Banks, Eugene
Whitfield. Y. Brame, ]. S. NJ Symons,
Hugh Burford, Bayard Butts, Roy
Fuller.
Miss Katherine Holtzendorff leaves
shortly for Athens, where she expects
to take a course at the Normal School.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-17
DEATH GULcH.

Deadly Yellowstone Canon which
sss President Planned 10 Visit.
From the Anaconda Standard.
President Roosevelt expects to visit
The Washington times., 1903-06-14
no pEscENp oN roRoNTo.

Many cities in the United States and
in the outlying provinces of Canada
have formed Old Boys associations
and societies for the purpose of maxi
ing organized descent upon Toronto
from July l to 4, the days of the great
Home Corners Festival, promoted by
the board of trade of that city, and
literally Endorsed and aided by the cor
poration and the citizens at large,
who have subscribed some $4,000 to be
expended on fetes. on fireworks, on
spectacular Examinations of the bay,
the harbor and the island, and in prizes
at an open-air horse show and parade,
at rowing and canoeing regattas, and
SO on In addition to these fetes there
are to be garden parties, concerts and
entertainments on an extensive scal9
a huge banquet, a military review and
an old boys parade, at which Detroit,
Buffalo, Cleveland, Rochester, and
other places propose to be represented
by marching clubs, hundreds strong,
with banners. badges, and bands. Re-
duced rates on all lines of travel have
been secured
The Washington times., 1903-06-14
OPERATORS TO VISIT
CHESAPEAKE BEACH
Seven Hundred Tickets Sold for
Excursion on Wednesday.

The Commercial Telegraphers' Union
No. "a, composed of Washington opera
tors, will give a grand excursion 70
Chesapeake Beach on Wednesday, June
II. Seven hundred tickets have been
sold, and a large crowd of merry max
ers is expected to make the trip.
A contingent of Baltimore operators
of the same organization will meet the
Washington men, and game of ball
between two representative teams has
been arranged.
The team from Washington will be
composed as follows: Chapel, catcher;
Hickey, pitcher; Carlton shortstop;
Benton, third base; Mercer, second
base; Lantz. first base; TrummeIl. left
field; Prender. center field, and Heas-
ley. right field. Harry Connolly is man
ager for the Baltimore players, and
James Gentry is captain.
In addition to the ball game, interest
has been aroused by a series of running
races
A feature of the days program will
be experiments with the Marconi wire
less system of telegraphy A number
of skilled and experienced operators
Will accompany the excursion, and an
attempt v III be made to talk to Bal
ttmore.
Yetmans sending and receiving in
strument will also be tested. This is
an entirely new invention. The trans
mitter works on the principle of type
writer. the letters being formed by
pressing key with corresponding
character. Alexander Groves and LATE
Jameson. two well-known telegraphers.
will make the tests.
Percy Thomas, president, and Wilbur
Eastlake, secretary and treasurer OF the
Washington lodge OF the Commercial
Union. are in charge of
the arrangements for the outing. The
dancing pavilion will be in readiness,
and Haley's Band will furnish the
mnSip
The Washington times., 1903-06-14

| ABBOTT-June Z, at the Washington
Asylum Hospital, of consumption, Ed
win Abbott, of the Central Union Mis-
sion, aged thirty-five years
B.
| BONNER-June 5, at 11S Massachu-
sets Avenue northwest. OF consump-
ton, Minerva j. Bonner, fifty nine years
old.
BROWN-June 10. at the Children's
Hospital, OF enteritis. James Brown, of
| 122 E Street southeast. ten months old
BROWN-June 10, at st. AIMS In
FAINT Asylum, Thomas Brown, three
months old.
BURKE-June 8, at GOT Fourth Street
| northwest, of cerebral hemorrhage, Jo-
hanna Y. Burke, fifty-two years old.
BERKLEY-June 6. at 1922 Ninth
Street northwest, Of congenital debil-
ity. Joseph Edward Berkley, twelve
days old.
CAMPER-June 5. at 1911 Thirteenth
Street northwest. of paralysis of the
/ heart. Elizabeth Camper, ffty-five. years
of age.
CARR-June 9, at 1O1 Street north
her fourth year.
CAVANAUGH-June 6, at 701 Twenty
fourth Street northwest. infant of
Thomas L. and Johanna Cavanaugh. one
day old.
CULP-June 9, at Providence Hospital,
from operation for appendicitis, Harold
B. Culp. in his twelfth year.
DARE-June 6, at S12 First Street
northeast. of diphtheria. Agnes Dare, in
the eighth year of her age.
DIFFENBA 10, al 518 d
Street northeast, of valvular disease OF
the heart. ffty-three years.
E
EUBANK-June 7. at 81 Fourteenth
Street northwest, of congestion of the
brain, Ella Rebecca Eubank, eleven
months Osd.
FOWLER-June Il, at the Emergency
Hospital, OF nephritis, John S. Fowler Of
316 South Washington Street Alexan-
dria; seventy three years old.
H.
HARRISBURG 10, at $50 Fourth Street
northeast. of infantile commissions, Jo-
seph w Harris. ten months old
HARPER = June 5. at 5O2 T Street
northwest, of consumption. Irene Har-
per, in the thirty fourth year of her
age.
HERRELL - June 8, at 926 Pennsyl-
vania Avenue southeast, OF paralysis.
Henrietta Q. Eerrell, in her seventy sec
ond year.
HoFFMAN - June 10, at 9O5 Ninth
Street northeast. of meningitis, Thomas
c. Hoffman, in his twelfth year.
HOPPERTON = June TO- at 3 Grant
Place, Samuel Brown Hyperion, in his
sixty-third year.
K.
KoONS - June u. at SO Bates Street
The Washington times., 1903-06-14
DEATHS OF THE WEEK.

northwest, Ethel Lee Bates Rooms, In
her twentyfourth year.
LONGTIME 9, at 2133 K Street north
west. of consumption, Edward s. Long
in his twenty-fourth year.
LYoN-June Il, at 3411 Eslin Avenue
northwest, William A. Lyon, in the
forty-frst year OF his age.
M.
McBLAIR-June 7. at 2029 l Street
northwest, CT cerebral hemorrhage, Au-
gusta McBlair. In her eighty eighth
year.
McCARTY-June 8. at Pierpont Street
and Hubbard Place. of amyloid dis
case of the liver, Joseph Vernon Nc
Carthy. in his thirteenth year.
MAI-June 9, at 126 sto,ts Alley
northwest, OF pneumonia, Lenore Mai
| in her second month.
| MATTHEWS-June 9. at 1921 First
Street southwest, of asthma and heart
! hypertrophy, John II. Matthews, thirty
one years of age
| MOORE-June Z. at the Home for In
curables, of rodent ulcer of the face. Su-
san C. Moore, in her eightieth year.
MoRON-June 10, infant of Albert B..
and Ann Louise Moron, ten days old.
READ-June 6, at 1923 NJ Street
northwest of cancer of the liver, Mary
Eliza Read, in the seventy fifth year of
her age.
RANKIN-June 9, at the Government
Hospital for the Insane, of consump-
ton and chronic dementia, J. B. Ran
LII Of ha re
Preside, Cal, soldier, twenty five
years of age.
REED-June II, at 80 Third Street
northeast, Charlotte Reed, in her sixty
first year.
northwest, of dentition, Joseph c.
Rhodes, six months old.
RoACH-June 10. at 52S Eighth Street
northeast, of nephritis, John S. Roach.
in his ninety year.
RUssELL-June I. at 1892 Fifth
Street northwest of CONSUMPTION
her age.
SEDWICK-June 10. at 1905 | Street
northwest, suicide from opium poison
Ing. Robert A. Sedwick, fifty years of
age.
T.
TALTY-June 10. at 300 NJ Street north
east. as the result of amputation of
leg, NJ. f. Tally a contractor. FORTY
seven years old.
THOMPSON-June 5, in an ambulance
Ell route from us Ninth Street northwest
10 the Homeopathic Hospital from in
halation of Illuminating gas, Ashury N
Thompson, sixty-six years old.
THORNTON-.IuHe 8, at $500 f Street
northwest, of consumption, Ellen Eliza
beth Thornton. in her twenty-fir year
".
VAUGHAN-June s. at Providence
Hospital Of cerebral hemorrhags
Patrick Vaughan, OF 112 Seventh Street
northeast. a teacher. sixty years old.
The Washington times., 1903-06-14
NEW WHARF SYSTEM
TO Be ESTABLISHED
Secretary Root Informs Commits
sionerS of His Policy.

| Title to the Potomac Flats having been
vested in the United States by decision
Of the courts. it is intended by the Sec
felary OF War that new system of
| Wfarves be established as soon as prac-
| uoable. Such is the gist of a recent com
| niCnication by Secretary Root to the
Icstrict Commissioners.
In assuming control of the wharf
! properties last December. certain ques-
tons of jurisdiction between the Dis
! tTlct authorities and the Secretary OF
War arose, and the Commissioners re-
Qcested information relative to the con-
stTuction and repairs OF wharves Specifi-
cally they asked whether applications
for new wharves beyond the bulkheads
should be referred to the United States
authorities or be passed upon by the
Commissioners 1t was further asked if
applications for filied-in piers should be
forwarded to the Secretary of War
Secretary Root has replied that the
two classes of applications should be
referred to him and passed upon by the
chief of engineers in accordance with
the acts of Congress approved March g.
1899. and August Is. 1899.
The Commissioners also asked to be
informed of the policy OF the Secretary
Of War in reference to iIled-in piers ex-
tending beyond the bulkheads, and to
repairs on existing wharves and the con-
siruction of new ones or the renewal of
those already in place.
Secretary Roots reply embodies re-
port from the chief of engineers, of
which the following is a summary:
1T is understood to be very desirable
that as soon as practicable the entire
system of wharves be changed in ac-
ccrdance with plans to be prepared by
proper authority, and the law would ap-
pear to contemplate that such rebuild
II 2 of the wharves be under the control
and supervision of the Commissioners,
subject only to the conditions that such
cew structures shall conform to the har-
Dor lines; that is. all new structures be-
tween bulkhead and wharf or pierhead
lines shall be open work. Until such
general rebuilding is provided for, it is
assumed that minor repairs TO existing
solid wharves may be necessary. and
the chief of engineers will be pleased
to recommend favorable action by the
Secretary of War for any such tempo
rary repairs as may. in the opinion of
the District Commissioners. be neces-
sary and desirable
The question of jurisdiction over the
wharf properties was passed upon by
tie courts. Portions of the water front
had been appropriated by private parties
OIL the principle that ownership OF abut-
tiLg land extended to the water front.
in the original plot OF the city, however,
Water Street extended along the bank
OF the Potomac from one side of the
District to the other. Title to Water
Street was in the United States, and the
courts held that accretions of land on
the river side of Water Street also be-
longed to the United States This de-
stroyed the assumed rights of the squat
tiers. and control over the wharf proper
ties passed to the United States. The
District authorities were placed in i'm
mediate control and rentals fixed for
further occupation of the properties.
The Washington times., 1903-06-14

VAUGHAN-June s. at Providence
Hospital, Of cerebral hemorrhags
Patrick Vaughan. OF 112 Seventh Street
northeast, a teacher. sixty years old.
The Washington times., 1903-06-14
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The Washington times., 1903-06-14
CIVILIZATION IN CONGO LAND.
Belgian Citizens Reply at Length to ACCUSE
tons of CruetieS
tons of Cruelties.

n \ ANY attacks and accusations, of
w atrOeiOus oFuelties have re-