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The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27

1t had only just been born, and didn't
know enough to get out of the cold.
We found it badly frostbtten, and APP
piled all kinds of restoratives, but 1t
died.
THAT was an unsual case. Over
fondness is more common. A lioness
will be so proud of her cubs that she
will carry them about by the nape of
the neck until they choke. or she will
fondly play about with them until she
knocks them against the bars of the
cage and beats their brains out. We
have to watch for signs of this dan
gerous mother love, and when we see
any it's up to US to separate mother
and child"
The keeper paused, thinking of sew
eral fierce encounters to which this
necessity had led.
Say he went on, that's a tough
contract. The lioness robbed of her
whelps is no more figure of speech In
our business. She's an awful reality.
Stealing the Lioness' wheIps.
How do we separate them? Well,
sometimes we keep her off with a
pitchforlS while we pass the cubs to
a man at the door of the cage; and
sometimes we entice her into an adj
joining cage, and then shut the door
on her. OF course, she raises rough
house when she realizes what has hap
pened. You would wonder that any
cage could hold her. For months
afterwards it is dangerous to go near
her.
But ordinarily a lioness is not
fierce when she has cubs. She will
allow you to go into the cage and
play with them as much as you like.
while she watches them proudly from
little distance, and seems quite
pleased because you are interested in
them.
Take care, however, that you don't
accidentally hurt one of the little
beasts and make 1t yelp. If you do.
the mother is up in arms in moment
to see what is the matter. There's
only one thing to do then. Throw the
cub to her at once. She will stop and
examine it, and If you find she is still
cross, you have plenty of time to es-
cape. Very likely, seeing that nothing
is wrong, she will spank the cub with
her paw to teach it not to whine need
lessly, and will then let you go on
playing with 1t.
Its curious how animal mothers
differ from women" the keeper said,
reflectively. IF you hurt a womans
child, she Immediately starts to abuse
or attack you, leaving the kid to howl.
If you hurt a lioness' cub, her first
thought is to look after the cub Re-
venge comes second with her, and so
the offender has a chance to escape.
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you another lesson. Jim Dodson was in
here this morning trying to sell me his
two hundred at any price. / believe
that you will learn something about
business some day, and then I'll be
proud of you as son-in-law. Mean
while, 1 might as well get your money
as anybody's."
Thanks for the good wishes and
the bad compliment" said Heath, with
a laugh. Now l know, or rather be-
lieve, that the San Reno is one of the
best mining properties in the world,
and 1 think you are going to have
more difficulty in corralling those four
hundred shares than you anticipate.
/ shan't endeavor to acquire share
directly or indirectly, as promised, but
if any one asks my advice as to selling
1 shall certainly advise them to hold
on to their stock for price consider
ably above par. And l won't be los
ing any money by taking four hundred
or any other number of shares from you
at fifty. But your agreement says four
hundred and you can wager that will
hold you to just as strict an interpre-
tation of the letter of the contract as
YOU held me on the wheat deal So
look sharp" and Heath took himself
out of the office.
once outside he laughed, laughed Ions
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and none the less heartily because the
laughter was noiseless. -Four hum
dred shares at fifty! Got to be deliv-
cred! Talk about wheat But won't,
the old man how'll
There was evidently something very
enjoyable in the idea, for he concluded
TO drop business for the day and call
on Marchmont's daughter, Emily, his
nancee: He told her the whole his
tory OF the deal, and, by a good deal
OF explaining, finally made her under
stand the situation. She knew more
about business than most women do,
and said:
1T is little out of the way, but
am willing to take your word for it
that it is perfectly honest. l know
that 1t is nothing more than papa
would do to you. l have heard him
say thousand times that a man who
sells something he hasn't got deserves
to get squeezed. That is what he said
about you when you got the worst of
that wheat deal"
Il must confess" said Heath, that
1t comes little nearer to sharp prac-
tice than 1 would care to go under or
binary circumstances, but you say you
would like to have his consent before
we are married, and this is the only
way l know of getting it. Then l am
doing no more to him than he did
to me on the wheat deal, and we will
have to proceed on the supposition
that the end will justify the means.
And the money will be all in the fam
lily, anyhow"
Emily was sworn to preserve the
most inviolate secrecy in regard to
what she knew of the deal, and March
mont went away happy in the thought
that he was going to treat his father
in-law-to-he to very bad quarter of
an hour or so.
Marchmont was not alarmed He
went to work in his usual quiet and
businesslike way to accumulate the
fouc hundred shares of San Reno.
The stock was not listed on the ex-
change, but the "curbstone" agents of
agents of his brokers managed to pick
up few shares at around thirty, and
he found no difficulty. in buying Dod-
sons for the same price. AS stock
holder, he demanded and was readily
granted permission to examine the
records in the company's Office and OBJ
taired list of the stockholders.
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Having bought Dodscn's two hun
dred and having picked up about a
hundred through the curb market
Marchmont found that he must either
get the one hundred shares which stoo
in the name OF John Folk, as attorney
or pick up all the rest of the outstand-
ings and secure ten shares of this one
hundred lot. He wrote to Folk, whom
he knew slightly, offering thirty for the
one hundred shares held in his name,
and sent out a circular letter to the
ten or twelve smaller stockholders
whose stock he had not yet secured
offering them the same price and en-
closing newspaper clippings which
showed that the San Reno property
was suffering from an overflow of
water.
From the smaller holders he secured
enough stock to run his holdings up
to $50 shares one man answering that
he would hold his ten shares for par
This was encouraging progress, but
letter from Folk informed him that
his client did not care to name price
on the stock. preferring to keep it as
an investment.
Marchmont promptly wrote to the
holder of the ten-share lot and bought
his shares at the price asked, par. He
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27

to hold as a trustee for her. and did
not intend to tell her of it until we
were married. Your offer to sell me
400 shares led me to the conclusion
that it might be a good plan for Emily
TO sell you her share at a profit. She
has done so.
You once said that if 1 could show
you my ability in business you would
give your consent to our marriage.
] am asking this on Emilys account
only. AS you know, she celebrated
her twenty-first birthday last week and
has promised to marry me whether you
give your consent or not. / have a
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carriage at the door, and we are going
to be married at noon
For a few moments the old fighter
looked steadily into the eyes of the
youngster who had worsted him. Each
read in the eyes of the other clear grit.
Then the old man looked at the girl.
She was crying softly, but her hand
was slipped in Heath's."
II think l moderated you, Heath, "
said the old man. For a long time
there has been no company in March,
mont & Co. Would you care to be-
come a partner? / believe that together
we will get almost all of the money
there is on the exchange"
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A RUSSIAN EXECUTION.
Remarkable Sang FrOid of n Des-
peratc Criminal on the ScafFOId.

Remarkable Sang FrOid of n Des-
perate Criminal on the scafKOId.
From the Washington Post.
Some time ago Russian criminal
was executed in St. Petersburg. He
had during the last two years MUIR
dered twelve persons, the last one be-
ing a priest. The law did not show
this monster any mercy, but speedily
condemned him to death.
Stebljanski was the name Of this
wholesale murderer, and he hoped to
the last for clemency. When the death
warrant was read and the keeper in
formed him that he had but six hours
to live, he ragged and swore to revenge
himself in the most terrible manner.
After being left alone in the cell the
first thing he did was to break his
lamp and, procuring some matches, he
set fire to the oil. In a moment the
flames broke through the window and
the entire building was for a time
threatened with destruction. Fortu-
nately, the fire was discovered in time
and gotten under control before mucn
damage had been done, but in the
meantime terrible struggle ensned pc
tween the keeper and the criminal, who
had fortified himself with an iron bar.
man to enter the cell was knocked
senseless, il was only after being all
most suffocated with smoke that the
prisoner was finally overpowered- Next
morning the execution took place. The
condemned man assembled the scamold
with much bravado, made thorough
examination of the same and finally
declared that the rope was too short.
~ cannot get my head in the loop"
he said, land though ii will cause me
some inconvenience to wait, viii
smoke a cigarette while you are hav-
ing it attended to-"
He lighted a cigarette. and. turning
TO the executioner, MADE speech.
pointing out the detestable in his pro-
fession, and as a condemned criminal
in Russia has certain rights, no one
dared TO interrupt him.
The executioner, who really was a
tender-hearted man, became visibly az
fected by the moralizing words Of the
murdered, and turning to the crowd
assembled before the scaffold, declared
that his conscience did not allow him
to proceed or to take fellow-man's
life, and he then and there resigned
his position and departed amid the
shouts Of the assemblage.
This caused grsaE confusion among
the representatives or the law, Tor
where could they in a hurry get en-
other executioner? The question was.
however, solved by the condemned
man, who declared that he would exc
cute himself as soon as he got through
smoking. He started an interesting
conversation With the priest during the
five minutes or so which he had left.
and recommended that he read Count
Tolstoy's latest book, which contains
striking marks about the relation of
capital punishment TO the teachings OF
Christianity. He then threw a kiss to
a pretty girl among the spectators.
stuck his head in the loop and kicked
away the trap beneath his feet.
Mrs Fiatbush-~"What IL the mat
Ter with Mrs stylesg" Mrs. Benson
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Mrs. Flatbush-"What 10 the mat
ter with Mrs. stylesg" Mrs Benson-
hurst--"oh. just plain cussedness,
reckon" "Oh. Il can't be; u she had
cussedness ~ ala, You bet she'd have
frllla GA lL"-foukerB Statesman.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27
NURSING THE BABIES
OF THE zoo

Veteran Keeper Tells of the Queer stunts Done to Keep
the Youngsters of the Zoo Alive When Their Mothers
Die or Have to Be Separated From Them-How Mon
Keys Bear Cubs and other Tiny Animals Are Brought
Up on the Bottle.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-15

| tricolor waved above the heaIs Of the
| happy crowd, and stirred in the breeze
! as It's folds hung from the WfnSows.
| many things time had changed-%ut
! not the flag. Time had turned to white
the dark locks of these survivors of
the class of 1862, and covered their
smooth lips with grizzled mustaches,
put time had not changed their hearts
Nor had it brought forth, in the
younger generation which today
cheered the vieuX, any sentiment but
that which animated the latter-the
sentiment of loyalty to France, to
every French association.
Such was the lesson of this re-
union. And happy as we all were to-
day, nobody seemed to think of the
change OF government-thatG Germany
rules us now. 1t is pleasant to see.
however, that our celebration of our
reunion of the cOnscripts did not ex-
cite any adverse criticism, for nobody
ob1ected-ofticial or otherwise. Well,
1t Is pleasant to know this, to feel that
those natural expressions of the heart
are not sought to be suppressed by
those in authority. Do you not think
that the best way to reconcile a peo-
pie is to respect those traditions which
they cannot forget-which no people
who are brave and true and constant
to their natural inspirations ever do
forget. There are differences of race
and temperament between we French
men and Teutons, who all form one
nationality under the new order Those
differences may never be reconciled,
but the acceptance of new political
conditions may exist along with our
GnaItered attachment to the name of
France"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-15

Special to The Globe.
NEW YORK, March IL have been
shown a personal letter recently re-
ceived here by NJ. Gillaume Walz, a
well known member of New Yorks
colony of French exiles and prominent
in its business circles.
The letter gives very interesting
picture ofthe recent banquet fete Civ
en- at Bischweiler, Alsace, by the sur
Vivors of one of the conscript classes
of the French army, drawn at Bisch-
weller less than a decade previous to
the F'ranco-Prussian German war and
the annexation of Alsace- Lorraine to
Germany.
But, as NJ. Walz pointed out to me,
the true interest of this letter lies in
the evidence it affords that the Alsa-
tiansJ haYe lost nothing of their at.
tachnlent to France. On this point
Mr.. Walz said to me:
IF lie revanche is never to re-awaken
Franco-German strife in this lost tor
ritory of the republic-if her rechris-
tening, as 'Reichsland,' which Alsace-
Lorraine received after Frances sun
had for the time being set at Sedan,
was fated to be a permanent reminder
of the disasters of 1870. and these
provinces We're intended by the fates
to be thenceforth and forever German,
it is at least unnecessary to speculate
as to whether the Gallo spirit sur
wives among the generation of Alsa-
tians which represented the young
blood of the provinces thirty three
years ago.
mo such interesting, picturesque,
and in a sense pathetic, assurance of
the vitalitysof the spirit of attachment
to the old political connection has ever
been offered than the banquet of the
survivors of the conscript class of 1862
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AIsations Long
For Old Allegiance

grated into France. To say they EN-
igrated' sounds strangely; but for them
its annexation to Germany made AL
sace-Lorraine, under it's new name of
the Reichsland. foreign country
their birthplace though it was-and
they sought anew native land in
France. For they scorned German cit
izenship, each and every one of them
these then so young and brave CON
scrits of Bischweiler
Five of the eleven who migrated
after the war became officers in the
French serVice-one is yet on the ac-
tive list of the army and is a general
His name is Schneider He was ur-
able tc be present at the banquet, to
preside in the post of honor, over this
most significant of reunions"
That it was significant is shown by
the letter from Bischweiler which Mr..
Walz had the kindness to permit me
to see. ~
You may imagine" says the letter,
how Bischweiler turned out to revive
it's memories of the days when it was
proud to call itself French. On the
afternoon of the day of the banquet
the vieux (yeterans) were welcomed
in royal, or l should say, to be true to
the old regime, in imperial style.
Many were reminded Of BlSchWeileT
before the war, when Alsace was AL
SAGE and Lorraine Lorraine, and no
one had heard of any such place as
the Reichsland.
1T made one think-it would have
made you think, If you were there
that time had rolled back, that it was
once more that day of sunshine in 1862,
when the town was so sad and so gay
sad, since some of her best sons were
going away to serve as soldiers gay,
because of the custom, long honored
of such occasions, when the conscripts
start out to tour the streets, with
music and a feast of flowers.
THE town is then en- fete, crowds
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immortal soul-if he had a soul-to Sc
cure it. When the die is cast and the
battle ranged, France viii have 5,000,
600 MuscOviteS to confront the sham
bling German hosts. The result will
be. what Napoleon brought about at
Tilsit, at Austerlitz, at F,riedland, and
the map Of Europe viii be reconstruct
ed philosophically and nationally.
Twenty millions OF Poles will form a
great nation. Prussia Will be reduced
to its original Duchy of Brandenburg,
Austria will be obliterated, and the re-
public of Europe will be made up of
France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Po
land. Prussia will disappear from the
cogniZance of men.
This is the meaning of the Franco
Russian alliance. And If Christianity
still means what it has always stood
for, this must be the outcome.
For, as a matter of fact, the endur-
ance of the Hohenzollern travesty Of
administration is simply the reduction
of mankind to the conditions in vogue
three centuries ago.. The kaiser is an
irresponsible mountebank, believing
himself born by a special interposition
of Providence, free to make war, to
maintain peace at his own fdiotic will,
irrespective of the will or prayer of
fifty millions of reasoning beings,
pledged to his vagaries.
nave SSS1lJ kIOWn anu ell
dured imbecileS in the past; they have
suffered lnadmens manias. But no
empire ever bent before such prank
ing figure as the present emperor Of
the Germans. George the Third was a
mailman; Napoleon l. was half demon,
half democrat; but no ruler of a great
people was ever more irresponsible
than the opera bouffe monarch of the
finest people in Christendom. Hence,
declares the Gaul, when the republic
Is ready to move, the German house
of cards will tumble with swiftness
that has no precedent in history, and
the end of the twentieth century will
find it difficulty to realize what it's be-
ginning was.
British pride. suspicion, rivalry de-
| MED Napoleon III. the compensation
France thought the due of her SOL
diers' valor in the Crimea. When Sc
bastopol fell before the furious on
slaught of MacMahons division at the
| Malakoff, Napoleon limited to the Brit
| ish cabinet that the time was ripe for
effacing the Capt. Kidd treaties Of
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1915, by which France had been robbed
of her natural boundaries. But the
British cabinet turned a deaf ear to
diplomatic hints and FASTENED to como
to terms with Russit lest Napoleon
might audaciously initiate his uncle's
methods and occupy the stolen states.
Now, however, France sees her way
to more dazzling results. England, in
vilved in upholding Turkish misrule,
will oppose Christendom. Then
Frances time viii be at hand. She,
too, has scores to settle with several
| who baked French designs in the past
quarter century, who lent themselves
to the British interferences in Siam
and blocked Frances purposes every
where. Russian designs and French
pretensions go hand in hand. The war
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accompanying the future marshals of
France from ore auberge to another.
where songs are sung, toasts given,
farewells said.
Wei. today it has been just like
that in Observation-Disclosures like that,
with a difference. Today these bons
vieuX, decked with the bright ribands,
the decoration of the conscripts of
Alsace, and wearing also in their hats
the very same numbers they drew in
the ballot that made them soldiers of
France, went. around the town as they
did that day, but the flowers the -ex-
empt conscript displays, and which
they as drawn conscripts could not
wear, were now strcwn before them
by our people OF Bischweiler. I need
not remind you, long even as you have
been away from here. of that old Gus
tom, Of how he who draws the num-
Der which sets him free from army
service alone may wear a flower IN his
cap--the others only. ribands.
It was a sort Of holiday; the same
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-15
Land Lost TO TEXAS

Three portions of the boundary lines
of the state of Texas are under dispute,
and IN each instance the territory OF tho
Lone Star state is cut into" said Marshall
L. Golden to a Star man at the New VIII
lard this, morning. There was recently
Held In the land Office OF the state a re-
port OF the work under the act Of congress
requiring the secretary of the interior
to establish the Tooth meridian which
forms a part Of the eastern boundary Of
Texas 1t was at first believed that
Texas would gain an eight-mile strip from
Indian, Territory, but, on the contrary.
according to the report, Texas will prob
ably lose a strip three quarters of a mile
wide. Should this report be considered
as final people holding property on what
was always considered the Texas side
will lose their title. as a Texas deed to
the land will not be legal.
'"Fhe same condition prevails along the
entire panhandle on the western end Of
the state. Surveyors have fixed the IO3d
meridian so as to cut off a strip three
miles wide. embracing 800, 900 acres. from
the Lone Star state. and it has recently
been brought to light that New Mexico
disputes the boundary line extending
from the westernmost point OF Texas,
and the Lone Star state is about to lose
more land to New Mexico. "-Washington
Star
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which has just taken place at my old

which has just taken place at my old
home in Bischweiler.
These old veterans of the Bisch-
weller conscripts whose names, nearly
half century since, were drawn for
service in the army of the second en-
pire destined to be so soon extitI-
suished-got together to celebrate the
anniversary of their 'drage al sort,
their summons to join the colors of
their former fatherland.
'9They are the survivors, seventeen
in number, of a conscript class whose
strength originally was eighty
That is, eighty-six. were drawn TOR
military service. the fatal ballots fall
ing to their names. Half this number
were later rejected for physical or 9TH
er disabilities, reducing the class to
forty-three. OF these, fifteen have
passed to the silent shore; several fell
on the red fields of 1870.
1.-The war over. eleven others emf
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beginning in the. Balkans must finally
involve the continent, and France, with
Russia in arms, can muster more real
armies, awaRlike soldiery, than
the triple alliance az the English shop
keepers.
This is the intimate reasoning of
French and Russians. This is the
zonlinous underplaysof the drama just
beginning in the far East.
This is long step from the Mace
DOMAIN question. bat it has been the
prophecy of diplomats for years that
when the war cloud burst there would
be no stopping until the map of Europe
had been ma tErially changed. Per-
haps Tolstoi is right in. the abstract.
Only those who read the stars can
guess any better at present.
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Mamma At the CAUCUS.

MISSOURI editor whose wife Is a
strong woman suffragist has sprung the
following on his readers: Rock "a bye,
baby, your mamma IS gone; she's at the
caucus and VIII be there till dawn; she
wore pap's trousers and in them looked
queer, so hush-a-by, baby, our papa is
here. Rock-a-bye, baby, your mammals
a terror, she's run three conventions, de-
clared for three fellows; she's great on
the straddle, way up on a vote so hush
a-bye, baby, your papa's the goat
paDa's done scrubbing and nut on 'eI the
beans; your mamma is late. seems always
to lag, but heaven help pap If she comes
home with a Jag, "
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Uprising in Balkans
May Lead to Big War

hnder. When the die is cast and the
battle won France will oppose an iron
wall to Russian aggression upon Con-
stantinople with a firmer front and a
nobler purpose than the land grabbing
Briton, who simply wants everything
in sight and pledges what would be his