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The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04
YACHT CLUB TO PLAY
T0M0CHICHIS.

Inter-CIub Bowling League to Re-
sumo Games This Week.
After two off-weeks in the Inter-club
Bowling League, during which time
most of the team men have turned
their energies to outdoor holiday sports
and other forms of amusement, the
matches will be resumed Tuesday
night, Jan. 6, when the Yacht Club will
play the Tomochichi on the Tomochi-
chi alleys.
The standing of the teams after the
last game before the holidays was as
follows:
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04
NAV PLAY colt In Augusta.

An effort is being made to arrange
a game between the Savannah Golf
club team and the Bon Air Golf Club
team of Augusta, to be played on the
Bon Air links. on the Sand Hills OF
Augusta, Jan. 10.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04

says; Fred B. Hall, champion exhi-
oltion pool player of the world, gave
an exhibition at the Elks Club last
nlght. The audience was large ana
applause. The famous fourteen-ball
shot' of which much comment has
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04

paid literally in its own coin. The net
result of the whole transaction was
that Childs' bank was many thousand
pounds richer. since which time the
Bank Of England has not looked for
fight.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04

had no authority to act conclusively on
anything, and without such power a
meeting would do no good.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04

gagements will more than likely be
made with the Oglethorpe Club, Hus-
sars, and other social clubs for exhi-
billions. The Hussars have consented
to have Mr.. Hall appear in their club
Tuesday night, and following this en-
gagemnt he will probably exhibit be-
fore other clubs before leaving for the
further south, and may give a public
exhibition of his skill.
The Augusta Chronicle. in speaking
of Halls clever work with the cue,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04
A Wonderful Cure.

was martyr to muscular rheumatism for thirty
years tried all medicines and JoeiVrs with no per-
taanent relief. was advised TO take P. P. p. aud
beiore had finished two bottles my pain subsidized
so was able to work. feel better thar have Tor
years. ana am eonsdenS OF s,lete recovsy.
J. s. DUPRISS. Newnanville, Fla.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04
Read Tbs Truth And Be Convinced.

eeiieut thing. We handle about one dozen bottles
week.
Dn. J. " am T. RICHARDSON. Piedmont, S. C.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-04
Hot Springs Surpassed.

bottle OF p. p p, has done rue more good thar
Three months treatment at the Hot Springs, Ark.
JAMES II. NEWTON, Aberdeen, Brown Co., o.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
A MAN Is WHAT HE THINKS.

Man is what he thinks. Not what
he says, reads or hears. By persis-
tent thinking you can undo any con-
dition which exists. YOU can free
yourself from any chains, whether Of
poverty, sin, i'll health or unhappi-
ness. If you have been thinking
these thoughts half a lifetime you
must not expect to change the con-
ditions you have made or batter down
the walls you have built in week or
a month or year. You must expect
to work and wait and grow discour-
aged and stumble-and pick yourself
up and 60 on again. You cannot in
an hour gain control over temper
which you have let loose for twenty
years. But you can control in even
tually and learn to think of burst of
anger as a vulgarity-1ike drunken
ness or profanity-something you
could not descend to.
If you have allowed yourself to
think despondent thoughts and be-
lieve that poverty and sickness were
your portion for years, it will take
time to train your mind to more cheer
full and hopeful ideas but you can do
it by repeated assertions and by read
ing and thinking and living the beau-
tiful New Thought Philosophy.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
WOMEN WHO ARE WORTH WHILE

People who are really worth while,
seems a favorite phrase of the mo-
ment. 1t strikes the keynote to the
tendency of the day. The time when
just to be was sufficient is past. One
must be something in order to keep
a place in the procession. Some
marked characteristic must be possess
ed by the woman who wants to keep
to the front.
There was time when a quality
designated as sweetness, and mean
ing nothing distinctive, except, per-
haps, to declare there was nothing dis
agreeable to be said, would take one
a good way toward popularity. But
that was as far back as day before
yesterday.
The woman of today, if she has no
particular gift which makes her stand
out from her sisters, must cultivate
one. She must be individual. She
must rise above the curse of the COM
monplace. She must dominate. In
way she must be aggressive, though
not aggressively SO. There is all the
worlds difference in the way agges-
sion is expressed.
The woman who studies her nature
as carefully as she does her complex
ion is clever, not conceited. Thrice
clever is she if she discovers her good
points and cultivates them. The cry
of ''Be natural - goes up from the
throat of some reformer every little
while, but it is fatal advice, followed
literally. To win success through
naturalness one must be so absolutely
natural as to suggest art. And to be
that requires more study and more ef-
fort than to be artificial.
Affection is natural trait. If it
cannot be absorbed into individuality
then it must be obliterated. The
greatest faddist of today is the woman
without fads. She is far surer of be-
ing considered original than if she
ate with monkeys or kept a pet tiger
kitten or lion cub in the baby's
bassinet.
It's a perpetual study, that of try
ing to be worth while, for the def
inition of the phrase is so constantly
changing that ones efforts must be
frequently switched off on new lines.
Which may be wise thing after all,
for too much effort along one line is
apt to make it lop-sided.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
FOOL BY his MOUTH.

A young man died a little while
ago whose father left fortune of
$23, 900, 900, about one-third of which
the youth inherited. The father, to
give the boy mental training, hired
him out to a newspaper at something
like So week. He never could have
earned so much in his life, but to
please his father something had to be
paid to him. There was a reporter
on that paper who had been preach
er and had gone wrong. Afterward
he became forger, and was sent to
Sing Sing. He was a wonderful
judge of human nature, which may
account for his being a rascal. The
first day he saw the millionaire son,
without knowing his name or antece-
dents, he remarked to group of col
leagues: "That fellow is fool. /
can tell by his mouth, by the way he
opens it, and he amt got to say
word. Anybody can tell fool by
his speech can tell one by the way
he opens his mouth, and I've never
made mistake. Time proved that
he was right. So be be careful how
you open your mouth.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
BLIND MATHEMATICIAN sTARrLEs EDU.
GATORS

The faculty of Columbia university
! are greatly interested in DR.. Newell
Perry, Ph. D., the blind scholar, who
was recently graduated with high
honors at the university of Munich,
and who is now coaching nearly fifty
Columbian students in mathematics.
DIR. Perry is staying at 4o2 West One
Hundred and Twenty-fourth street,
and has become an interesting figure
in that neighborhood from the fact
that when he goes out he never carries
a cane, although he has been totally
blind since he was years old. He
was then on his fathers ranch in
Sashata county, CAL, and in playing
one day his face came in contact with
poison. He went totally blind in
few weeks. He evinced a liking for
mathematics, and when he was about
IL years of age Prof. Wilkinson OF
the school for the blind in California
took him in hand. He worked his
way through that institution, and was
then admitted to the state high school,
and was graduated from there with
the highest honors. From there DR..
Perry took course at the university
of California, being graduated from
there at the age of Io with reputa-
tion all over the Pacific coast as "the
brilliant blind STUDENT He does
the most difficult problems in mathe-
matics mentally, never using pencil
or paper, and rarely makes mistake.
The degree of bachelor Of philoso-
ply was conferred upon him by the
university of California in 1896, aud
he became fellow of the university,
the youngest there. He made enough
money in coaching students to pay
his way through the university and
while there he also secured leave of
absence and took a post graduate
course in mathematics in the univer-
sity of Chicago. Two years ago DR..
Perry went to Munich. His wonder
ful aptitude for higher mathematics
soon attracted the attention of the
professors there. A mathematical
treatise he wrote was adopted as a
standard work at the university.
Meantime he took up French and
German and in two years learned to
speak and write both languages. He
made money enough in coaching stu
dents and writing to pay his way
through the university, and his pass
age back to this country, and still had
a fair sum left when he arrived here
few weeks ago.
DR.. Perry says it is his ambition
to become the greatest mathematician
in America. He has developed his
senses of hearing, feeling and smell
ing to a wonderful degree. Every
day he walks out and never thinks of
carrying cane, and he says he is
never ill. The doctor says he can
always tell when he is near a large
tree. Those who have witnessed a
test Of DR.. Perry's mental problems
in mathematics consider them wonder
full. He is now 20 years old-Mew
York Dispatch to st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
KEPT BOTH CANDIDATES BUSY,
Mark Twain, at the Authors Club,
New York, was talking about no1-

Mark Twain, at the Authors Club.
in New York, was talking about pol
itlcs, says the New York Tl5une.
Il never went in much for politics. F."
he said. "I've known lots of men
that did, though. When 1 was a
boy l knew two men, Bob Smith
and Caleb Brown, that went in for
politics body and soul.
Once they were running for Sher-
ltt-'Bob' on one ticket and Caleb on
the other-and pretty hot fight it
was that they put up. There was
nothing those two men wouldn't do
to capture vote.
Bob, on the day of election, hur.
ried after breakfast to the hotel that
was the polling place. He saw in
front of the building an elderly far
mer wrestling with a stubborn cow.
The COW pulled one way. ard .ha
farmer, grunting and growing pulled
the other.
My friend, says Bob, do you
want me to hold your COW so as you
can go inside and vote?'
"Why, yes, Mr.. Smith, if you'd d be
SO kind, the farmer answered, and
Bob grabbed the COW by the horns
and braced himself against a tree.
But the COW, for all his bracing, pull
ed him about at a lively rate. She
dragged him up and down the road
and flung him from one sidewalk to
the other. He could hear a lot of
laughing from the hotel porch, for
pretty big crowd had gathered to see
him earning a vote
Finally the farmer returned, re-
lieved him of the COW, and thanked
him. You re welcome, friend, says
Bob, and then he added, anxiously:
I suppose you haven't been approach
ed-er-I suppose you haven't seen
my rival, Caleb Brown, around here
this morning?'
why, yes, the farmer answered.
Mr.. Brown is behind the barn hold
ing calf for me now.'''
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
sOCIABILITY IN THE HOME.

A stranger might often infer that
we come together at dinner simply to
feed and were unable to relax the
mind until the feeding operation was
done. For the sake of good diges-
ton, as well as good fellowship let
us have a cheerful, bright inter
change of ideas at our table. We
may not all be brilliant conversations
alists, but it will be strange if we can
not think of some kind and pleasant
remarks, some curious and laughable
incidents, or bring some interesting
and fruitful result of Our experience
from the busy world outside. In one
home every person is required to tell
some funny story at dinner and no
one is heard if he utters words of
ult-fnding. Dinner here is an
event welcomed by each member nf ssl
day. This is a custom which might
pro6tably be adopted by others.
Even a child, if properly encouraged
and never snubbed, will learn to talk
we'll and to find bit Of news or
story worth telling. g.-.SeLeaed.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
A LOST TEMPERANCE LESSON.

Col. Kaintuck Offering his flask to
a stranger on railroad train )-"Have
a swig, stranger?"
Stranger "a temperance advocate,
with dignity)-"No, sir, / thank
you"
Col. Kaintuck-"A1l right; got
your own flask, 1 reckon. That's
the best way, after ALL"
Stranger (meaningly) IS o m e
years ago, when travelling in Alaska,
I came across a tribe which had never
known the taste of liquor"
Col. Kaintuck with Interest,"
''Eh? White men ?"
Stranger-"No, savages. /"
Col. Kaintuck-"Of course, of
course-enough to make anybody
savage"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
THE WONDERFUL CORK TREE.

1t kills most trees to strip off their
bark or even to girdle them with an
axe or knife. This is not the case,
However, with the cork tree, which
when deprived of its thick, soft bark,
known in commerce as cork wood !,
proceeds to wrap itself in another
covering. 1t is slow process and
requires ten to twelve years to COM
plete it. Every year layer of cork
IS formed around the tree and the
whole of these annual layers, repre-
senting 10 or II years growth, forms
the material for corks. We cannot
grow cork wood ourselves and so
large quantities are brought into the
country. As manufactured cork is
dutiable while cork wood is on the
free list, most of the shoppers for our
bottles come into the country in the
form of cork wood and the corks are
made here.
AS it takes so long for the bark to
to be restored after it is stripped off,
the cork is commercially valuable
once in ten or twelve years. We all
know that cork is used for a variety
of purposes, as in life preservers, COW
ering for pipes in steam machines and
so on; but about nine-tenths of all
the cork wood sold is made into bot
tie shoppers.
The cork trees grow only in the
Mediterranean countries and in Por-
tugal. The latter country is the
largest source of supply, for its cork
forest cover an area twice as great as
that in Spain, third greater than in
Algeria and more than three times as
large in France. There is such
thing as OVERRIDING the cork business.
In the Island of Sardinia, for exam
pie, the cork forests, formerly very
extensive and beautiful, have been
almost entirely destroyed.
Most of the corks that come to us
in bottled French wine are from the
forests of Algeria. In Italy the for
ests form large groups only in the
central part of the peninsula. 1t is
curious fact that Portugal, which pro-
duces nearly twice as much cork as
any other country, consumes COM
paratively little of it. Spain manu-
factures and exports a large quantity
of cork wood products, but the pro-
duction tends to decrease on account
of wasteful methods of treating the
forests.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

pronounced finished, and was tender
ly put away, laundered, in its owners
bureau drawer. For that week Mr..
Blank almost lived in costume that
was negligee in the extreme. Ac-
cording to his own account, he did
not have his coat on 20 consecutive
minutes any evening. But now he
says the most delicate part of the af-
fair has come, for how he is going to
get out of wearing his new shirt
'twould puzzle diplomat to discover.
He'll find way, however, for no
man with any self-respect is going to
wear linen that Fuckers across the
breast, is too short in the sleeves and
too tight in the neck. He'll die
fret
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
SOMETHING BE HADN'T GOT.

One of Dan Doherty's stories is of a
certain rich man possessed of great
wealth and proud of his possessions,
who was wont to refer to them often,
but withal he was rather deficient in
intellect. One day he had an old
man working for him, an Irishman
possessing a full share of the wit of
bis race. The rich man went out to
oversee the job. He looked at Pat a
minute, hard at work, and said
We'll, Pat, it's good to be rich,
sn't it?''
"Yis, sur" said Pat, meekly
enough.
81 am rich, Pat, very rich"
$50 I'm tould," said Pat, shovel
ling away.
IT own lands, and houses, and
bonds, and stocks, and-and-and-"
"Yis, sur.
"And what is it, Pat, haven't
got?"
"Divil bit of since, sur said
Pat, as he picked up his wheelbarrow
and trundled it off, and the rich man
went into the house and sat behind
1.-THE door.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
HER NEW VOCABULARY.

She possessed mind discerning.
That was stored and crammed with learning
And her thoughts, forever burning,
She could suitably express.
All her sentences were rounded,
And her words imposing sounded;
was really quite astounded
As listened. confess.
Tt was rather an infiiction,
All this verbe unreetriction,
But her elegance of diction,
Each precise and polished phrase,
And the beautiful selection
OF the words and their connection
And her most correct infection
They were quite beyond all praise.
But saw her very lately,
And she did not talk ornately:
All that language suave and stately
She no longer kept on tap.
She was saying: Bessums diddums!
Where de bad old pin got hiddums,
In his muzzer's p'ecious kiddums,"
To the baby In her lap.
Boston Budget.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
have you 2
"What should I say ?"

''What should I say ?"
'I'd ask, if 1 were you, Henry
Wamsley! What would you have
said ten years ago, before we were
married, when you were courting me ?
What would you say to any other
woman who did not happen to be so
unfortunate as to be your wife? Hey?
Why, you'd humble yourself in the
dirt apologizing to her. You'd say,
I beg your pardon = and How awk-
ward I am 7 and DO excuse me 7
Oh, you couldn't be humble and po-
lite enough in your apologies My,
how you would apologize You'd be
apt to write her note about it? And
if it had happened after our engage
ment you'd have been so tenderly So
licitous about my poor dear little
foot, my tender little foot, whose
pathway you intended to make smooth
all my life You'd make me actual
weary talking about my poor little
foot. But now, when you nearly
crush every bone in it and make me
scream with pain, you never open
your mouth to say anything, unless
it is oh, thunder 7 or something like
that. And last night when the Nor
leys were calling here you made US
all tired of apologizing to Mrs Morley
because you chanced to spill little
water on her dress, and l thought to
myself: He wouldn' apologize that
way to me if he had accidentally turn
ed a garden hose on me He'd prob
ably ask me what I was in the way
for ? It's strange thing to me that
a married mans manners wane with
the honeymoon. / tell you marriage
makes an awful difference. Indeed
it does"
"I should say it did," mumbled
Wamsley, as he lighted his pipe.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
TRUE HOSPITALITY.

True hospitality always has in it
something of the element of personal
consideration, and that is why its
spirit is so seldom found where en-
tertaining is wholesale business en-
terprise and invitations are engraved
or written by a secretary. To hear
certain persons talk of entertaining,
and to see the trouble and expense
they take to get up elaborate dinners
and to have everything 'just so" for
a guest you would imagine that the
only reason the guest was invited was
to fill his stomach. He must be given
something out of the ordinary or he
is not properly entertained. But this
is as far as possible from what the
sensible guest wants. As Mr.. Robert
Burdette once said, 81 do not go to
my friends house for the meal he is
to give me. I can get a very good
dinner at a hotel for so cents or a
dollar. 1 go to my friends to see
him and to have an hour in his COM
pany; l go for certain quality of
welcome that comes from his person
atty, not from his food
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

LITTLE MARY was discussing the
great hereafter with her mamma when
the following ensued:
Mamma, will you go to Heaven
when you diel"
Eyes, 1 hope SO, child"
''Well, I hope I'll go, too, because
you'll be so lonesome. :"
90, yes, and hope your papa will
go, too"
20, no, papa can't go; he can't
leave the store"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

IDA-"They say it was case of
love at first sight with him. May
-"What a pity he wasn't a medium
and could have took second sight. !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
WHEN A MANS MARRIED, 60.

When Wamsley rose up out of his
chair to search for his pipe the other
night, he carelessly brought his num-
Der ten foot down heavily on his wife S
tenderest corn. He made no apology,
and Mrs. Wamsley said
"Well, Henry Wamsley?"
"Well, what 7"
"You haven't anything to say,
have YOU ,"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

STUDY IS the band of boyhood,
the ailment of youth, the indulgence
of manhood and the restorative of
old age.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

JAcK-"My grandfather had fine
collection of silver, which he bequeath-
ed to my father on condition that it
should always remain in the family"
-''Then you have it still 7"
Jack-"Well-er-my uncle has it. -
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

He (bashfully)-' May I-er-
kiss your baby sister?"
She Gin disgust )-"Oh, l suppose
so-if you're too cowardly to tackle
girl nearer your own size"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18
A GROWING CAUSE.

There are now five States in which
a woman suffrage amendment has
been twice submitted to the voters at
intervals of some years. In every
case the result has been more favora-
Bile the second time than the first.
It was submitted in Colorado in
1877 and defeated. 1t was submitted
again in 1898 and carried.
In Kansas, when submitted the
first time, it received o,Ioo votes.
When submitted the second time, it
received o5,3o2,
In the State of Washington, in
1880, the adverse majority was 49,
1856. In 1898, it dropped to o,SS2.
In South Dakota, in 1890, woman
suffrage was defeated by majority
of 2S,6Io; in 1898, by majority OF
only 3,2S5.
In Oregon, the vote on the suffrage
amendment in 1884 stood 2S, I76 nays
to 1928 yeas. In 1900, it stood
20, 2o8 nays TO 26, ,265 yeas.
Steadily and surely the common
sense of the world is coming around
to the belief in equal rights for wo-
men.-PogYess.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

HE-"You are so beautiful while
she is so plain.
She-"But Elsie has splendid
intellect"
He-"Well, you can't expect her
to have everything"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

MIRIAM-"Are you going to Da-
kota for your health?"
Melicent-"Yes; marriage doesn't t
seem to agree with me p
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

MAMMA-"You have drawn the
horse very nicely, Charlie, but you
have forgotten one thing. Where is
his tail? 7"
Charlie-"Oh, that horse doesn't
need any tail. There amt no flies
on him."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

Mr.. PoEIT-"Genevieve, if the
house should ever get on fire while l
am away 1 hope you will remember
to save my poetry before anything
else"
Mrs. Poeit-"Yes, l suppose l
will. During fire they say one al
ways does the most foolish things"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-18

JAcK-"T "Tom calls his little trained
dog Postage Stamp
kate What ever did he give him
such a queer name as that for %
Jack Because he will carry a let
ter and he can lick him easy"