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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
CURRENT COMMENT,

The Philadelphia Inquirer Rep. }
says: "Mr. Rockefeller's idea of self
sacrifice is all right in theory. Prac-
tically, it works out in everybody's
sacrificing two cents a gallon extra for
coal Oil to increase the Rockefeller
millions"
The Louisville Courier-Journal
Oem.) says: MIR. Payne announces
for the House majority that no tariff
revision will be permitted because of
the proximity of a presidential cleo
ton. That is a frank admission that
the legislation of Congress must be
regulated not for the good of the coun-
try, but Of the Republican office-seek-
ers.'
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
ct is now possible for the United
States to annex the irrepressible fish
cries conflict off the Newfoundland
coast. The French colony OF st. Pierre,
comprising two little islands and a lot
of trouble. is said to be anxious to
come into Uncle Sans fold. Having
swallowed the Philippine camel, why
should we strain at the gnat of st.
Pierce
The Philadelphia Record (Dem. }
says: I'm spite of the high price of
cotton and the failure of cloths to ad-
vance proportionately. the Fall River
mills have declared average dividends
for the quarter of 20 per cent, or
at the rate of per cent. year. This
is a moderate profit, but the price Of
cotton has been so high that il the
mills had declared no dividends il
would not have created surprise. For
H. 80.
dend was 1.3S per cent, and for the
corresponding quarter of last year il
was Al per cent. II the extremely
high price of cotton have done no more
than to reduce the dividends from an
annual rate of "a per cent. 10 one of
per cent. the mills have escaped very
easily"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

I think, writes Victor Smith in the
New York Press, that l have told the
story of Thomas Kinsella, who made
the Brooklyn Eagle power in the City
of Churches, and one of his able repor-
tiers. who, sent out one Saturday night
to write a story about Henry Ward
Beecher slipping on the sidewalk, got
switched off on a tale of mutiny and
shipwreck. 1t bears repetition. The
reporter with a nose for news, dropped
the Beecher incident and hustled to
write a page narrative about scuttllng
and murder. 1t was a big beat. He
had stumbled on the news accidental
ly and proposed to make spread. All
beats are accidents--unless they are
paid advertising. Kinsella, man or
details, went to the reporters desk
at midnight and asked why he had not
turned in the Beecher story. 'Beecher!
Great Spinolai Here's the biggest beat
the Eagle ever had! 1 haven't thought
about Beecher." Kinsella listened to
a brief outline of the mutiny yarn,
then said sternly: You are making the
mistake of your life. 1 had hoped TO
make a newspaper man of you, and
hate to be disappointed. Your mutiny
story is good, but the people of Brook
Ign would rather read a paragraph
about Henry Ward Beecher spraining
his ankle than a whole page of the
most sensational stuff about piracy.
The Eagle doesn't want your beat.
Write the Beecher story"
We are intensely local, more so than
the people of any other city on earth.
l told the above story to illustrate, or
at least to illuminate, the country idea
of Journalism. Kinsella knew that the
personal side was most important the
editor of the country weekly knows
that everybody in his little town is in
terested in the new baby. the pet dog,
the faVorite hen, the biggest turkey,
the fantasies and the sewing society s
doings. In New York we newspaper
folk believe that all the world is more
interested in the dOings of prominent
people than in anything else. Mrs.
Aston was present. in black peau de
sole. with white yoke and diamond or
namenta." Mrs. willie Vanderbilt
had on an imported gown of Langtry
blue, chiffon, trimmed with sequins and
embroidered in white" The Duchess
of Roxburghe looked like a princess
in black and white crepe de chine with
cluny lace, and diamond and pearl
ornaments, some of the latter being
heirlooms of the illustrious family of
her husband. the duke" That is the
sort of stuff New York people like. In
the country they laugh at us for print
ing it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

A boy who was required to write
an essay on hens porduced the follow
ing: Hens is curious animals: they
don't have no nose nor no teeth nor
no ears. They swallow their whites
Whole and chew it up in their crops
inside of 'em. The outside of hens is
generally put into pliers and into
feather busters. The inside of a hen
is sometimes filled with marbles and
shirt buttons and SIGH. A hen is very
much smaller than a good many other
animals, but they'll dig up more to-
mato plants than anything that amt
a hen. Hens is very useful to Law eggs
for plum puidings. Hens have got
wings and can fly when they get fright
ened. 1 cut off a hens head with a
Ratchet, and it frightened her to
death" "
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
BRIGHT BITS.

-Dolly-"How much impressed Ethel
seemed by the services!" Polly-'Yes,
she did look solemn; but maybe she
was only mad at her dressmaker. -
Puck.
-Jeannette-"Jack sent me some
verses about lray~eYes",, Gladys-"Hor-
rid thing! 'Dkd.. he, think they were
your fault ?"-@Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
-Rescuef (who had hauled fisherman
out of the river)-"Ow did yer come
to fall in, mate?" Fisherman-"Phew!
1 didn't come to fall in, you fool, 1
came to fish. Judy
Dusty Dennis-"Say, pard, what
does the paper mean by 'unspeakable
Turk" Gritty George-"Why, OATS
de guy dat invented de Turkish bath"
Chicago Daily News.
I why IFS turkey regarded as
especially appropriate to Thanksgiv-
ing?" Because" answered the grim
looking citizen, ANY one who can af-
ford to buy turkey these days has
especial reason to be thankful
Washington Star.
Playrite-"I4 heard one man who at
tended my new play last night COM
plain that it was so late when he got
out" Crittick-"Yes?" Playrite-"Yes,
and the final curtain fell before 1O.45."
Crittick-"H'm! Perhaps he oversight
himself. Press.
-Tipping-"Im afraid the Bakers
won't get along very we'll together"
Fytcher-'I don't see why not. They
are wholly in harmony, you know. She
thinks there is nobody in the world
who can comeiup to her husband, and
he is certain of it."-Boston TRANSCRIPT
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
Ant COmpariSOn,

1t was Mark Twain's custom to al
ways have his tonsorial requirements
attended to at an up town hosiery,
says the New York Times. On one occa-
sion Mr.. Clemens was doing while
the skillful hands of the artist
trimmed his thick white hair, when
the sharp call of front" awoke him
the noisemaker presenting him with a
card. The diminutive hotel employe
was of more interest to the great hui
morist than was the card. Marks eyes
twinkled and then he looked solemn.
And who are you?" he inquired
gravely.
"A page, sir" replied the boy
"A page" exclaimed Mark with due
scorn; "a page-humph-why, you
aren't more than a paragraph"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

The Baltic has a displacement of 80
500 tons, while that of the Hamburg
American Liner Deutschland which
with the exception of the Kaiser Will
helm H., is perhaps the largest vessel
in the world, outside the White Star
Line, is only 23.20O. The dimensions
of the Deutschland are: Length, 6S4
feet; breadth, sixty-seven feet; depth.
forty feet, and gross tonnage, 16, 200
The Kaiser Wilhelm H. is somewhat
larger than the Deutschland, but the
only point in which she will excel the
Baltic will be in speed.
A dispatch from Hornellsville, N. Y,
says: In the village of Belvidere, west
Of this city, have been discovered the
bones of a mastodon, from all ap-
pearances the king of his race of pre-
historic animals. The first bone dis
covered, which was about four feet
in length, was taken to Bradford and
there DR.. James Johnson, formerly CON
nected with the Smithsonian institution,
pronounced it to be a portion of a
rib of a mastodon. DR.. Johnson noti-
fed Alban Stewart of the institution
of the find and he came to Belvidere.
Together the two scientists took a
force of workmen and began making
excavations along the railroad. Thus
Lar lHree TlpS ana TOUR Verteprae nave
been unearthed. This makes a section
of the animals back about eighteen
inches in length. The largest masto-.
don ever unearthed is in the Smith
sonian institution and the vertebrate of
his skeleton are five inches in width,
the whole animal being twenty-five
feet long and thirteen feet in height.
Each of the vertebrae of the animal
discovered near Belvidere is six in
ches in width, thus making the ami
NAL when alive the largest known at
this time. Compared to other masto-
dons, he would stand like Jumbo
compared to the ordinary elephant. Mr..
Stewart is authority for the statement
that these are by far the largest bones
of any animal ever discovered. He
asserts that the animal must have
lived $4,000 years ago.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
when Doctors Disagree.

There were two sisters living up in
my state" said Senator Burrows of
Michigan, according to the Philadel-
phia Post, who were fond of each 9TH
er and all that, but who warred con-
stantly about the two great schools of
medicine. One pinned her faith to al
lopathy and the other to homeopathy.
"One day there was great excite
ment in the family of the lady who
believed in homeopathy, and ii was
soon announced that she was the
mother of bouncing twin boys.
The other sister came down in a
hurry Well she said, now see what's
happened. 1 wanted you to have an
allopathic doctor. After this, l fancy
you viii listen TO me-"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03


Gen. Reyes must learn to talk so that
the reporters can understand what he
means if he expects to make a sue
cess of his mission to Washington. The
other day the newspapers in all parts
Of the country published a statement
on his authority, to the effect that
Colombia would give the United States
all the franchises they needed for the
construction of a canal across Panama
if Panama would return into the Co
lombian federation, or if the United
States would keep their hands off
while Colombia dragged her back. Now
he says that he said nothing of the
kind; that what he said was that Co.
lombia might far better give the United
States the needed canal concessions
than have Panama secede from the
Colombian federation. That is a very
different proposition. But Gen. Reyes
needn't bother himself about the mat
ter. Panama isn't going back into
the Colombian federation either by
force or otherwise
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

II you see a man on the street car
rying $4,000 in a satchel. don't jostle
him, by accident or otherwise better
cross the street to make sure. In New
York the other day a boy of sixteen
failed to observe this precaution and
narrowly escaped being shot. The man
with the satchel was a bank messen-
ger, and when the boy accidentally
bumped against him, he thought he
was being held up.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
DRUGGISTS MUST BE CHARY.
They Sell All Kinds of Hair Prepara'
tiOns, and Fear to Discriminate.

IIOIIs, NIIU ICttE 10 IIsCIIIIIIII"tO'
3. Druggists sell all kinds of hair
preparations, and as rule they are
wisely chary Of giving preference to
any particular one, but many of them
have come out plainly for Newbro's
Herpicide, the new treatment that abb
solutely kills the dandruff germ. H.
Swannell & Son, Champaign, ILL.,, sayi
Zone customer of ours who did not
have a hair on top of his head when
he began to use Herpicide, now has
fair start towards a good head OF
hair. We believe Herpicide to be by
far the best preparation of it's kind
on the market" Hundreds of similar
testimonials from everywhere. Sold
10y leading druggists. Send 10c in
stamps for sample to The Herpicide
Co. Detroit. Mich.
Livingston's Pharmacy Company
Special Agents.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

Ex-Postmaster General Heath says
he does not intend to resign the sec
retaryship of the Republican National
Committee as a result of the publlca-
ton of the Bristow report. Now let's
see what President Roosevelt is go
ing TO do about it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

The Chicago Journal draws from the
postofice frauds the lesson that it is
good policy for governments to pay
their employees good salaries. What
size salaries would have made the
ringleaders of that gang honest men?
Would $1,000, 900 a year each have kept
them from grating?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

A Washington paper says that sew
eral congressman have been putting in
their spare time during the extra ses-
sion at studying the Spanish language.
Preparing for congressional junkets to
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines
after the REGULAR session. Ell?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

simultaneously with the booming Of
the cotton market there has been a
boom in the price of sourkrout. AS
cotton has scared, sourkrout has made
sensational leaps. Is it possible that
there is the same close relationship
between cotton and sourkrout that we
used to be told existed between wheat
and silver?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
DOWIE's TROUBLES.

1t is evident now why John Alexan-
der Dowie made such an extraordinary
demonstration in New York a few
weeks ago. His purpose wasn't so
much to make converts to his church
as to get money He was on the
verge of bankruptcy, and he saw ruin
staring him in the face. He, therefore,
made a supreme effort to raise money.
AS is well known he made a COM
plete failure. New York treated him as
it would treat a clown. The people
laughed at hirf1g-and refused to con-
tribute to his caussa >. 1t, is probable
that it cost him a great deal more to
conduct his campaign there than he
collected. Hundreds of Zionites from
Zion City followed him there by his
command. and their expenses were
considerable. 1t may be that a few
persons were foolish enough to sell
their property and turn the proceeds
over to him, but the number was not
large.
But what about the people in Zion
City? Their condition is pitiable 1t
seems that the title to all of the lots
on which their houses stand. is in
Dowie, and he has given a mortgage
on the land. If, therefore, the mort
gage is foreclosed they will, in all
probability, lose their homes. In that
case there will be an end of Zionism
and the self-imposed mission of John
Alexander Dowie.
1t is evident that some of his follow
| ers are beginning to have their eyes
opened. They are not the blind believ-
ers in him they were a while back. The
other day when he told them to carry
! their cash to the Zion bank and de-
post it they didn't obey him-that is,
the great majority of them didn't. They
demanded what money they had on
deposit.
1t is doubtful if Dowie will get out
of his financial troubles. The hundreds
and thousands who put implicit faith
in him, who put all of their property
in his possession, stand an excellent
chance Of being left without cent be-
yond their daily earnings.
We do not undertake to say that
Dowie is not sincere. We have no
evidence upon which to base an opin-
| ion, but it is fact that in Chicago
| there has prevailed belief for a long
time that he was sure to meet with
disaster, and that the people who were
pinning their faith to him would be the
sufferers.
While Dowie was in New York his
wife sailed for England, and there was
a report that she would go to Austria
liza before returning; that, in fact,
Dowie would join her there. There was
also a report that she carried a large
sum of money with her, but there was
nothing on which to base it.
Unless Dowie can get money, how
ever. to straighten out the affairs of
Zion City he might as well follow his
wife. 1t is certain that the great ma
| jority of those who have cast their lot
with him will abandon him and the
religion he founded unless he satisfac-
torily adjusts his financial troubles.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

1t is announced that Mr.. Ruth Bryan
Levitt. the artist who married William
Jennings Bryan's daughter. is going
to settle at Humansville, Mo, and
run for Congress on the Republican
ticket. Did Mr.. Bryan know that he
was patronizing. a goldbug when he
employed Mr.. Levitt to paint his pic
ture. or that he was permitting one
to marry into the family7
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

The Creek Indians have appealed to
Secretary Hitchcock to put them back
under the old land treaty, since at
present they are at the mercy of
grafters. But what right have the
Indians to expect that they will be
given an immunity that the American
people do not possess?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
FIGHTING THE WEEVIL.

All that human intelligence can do
to keep the bo1l weevil out Of LouisS
fiana is going to1be done. The peo-
cotton are thoroughly alarmed by the
danger which threatens their cotton
industry. But is it possible to keep
the weevil out of the state? That is a
question which cannot be answered
with any degree of certainty. There
is going to be an extra session of the
Legislature and laws will be enacted to
prevent Texas cotton and cotton seed
from being brought into the state.
BY quarantining against the weevil it
is hoped it can be kept out.
But who is to say that the weevil
travels on cotton seed or in cottone
There may be hundred ways in which
it passes from one place to another.
1t crossed from Mexico into Texas
and has Travelled from one Texas coun-
ty to another. and is still moving for
ward. 1t is not known that the dis
tribution of the weevil in Texas has
been by means of cotton seed or cot
ton. The movement of the pest is
just as mysterious as that of yellow
fever.
1t may be that a remedy for the
evil will be found now that so many
of the brightest minds in the coun-
try are seeking one. The annual loss
of Texas, due to the weevil, is i'm
mense, and it is growing greater every
year. The Agriculture Department of
the state is seeking to solve the Wee
vii problem and so is the Department
of Agriculture at Washington. And
now Louisiana has entered the list of
the searchers.
How long will ii be before other cot
ton producing states will be on the
anxious bench on account of this pest?
The thought has been thrown out that
the South Atlantic states will not be
troubled by it because their climate
is too cold for it to thrive in. That is
q consoling theory, but what is there
to support it? Nothing AS far as
anybody knows the weevil can thrive
in this climate as well as that of
Texas.
There is one satisfaction, however,
and that is that it will be number
of years before the weevil is likely to
reach the South Atlantic states, and,
in the meantime, a remedy for the
evil may be found.
1t is doubtful if the forward move
ment of the pest will be arrested by
legislative enactments, but there isn't
any reason why Louisiana shouldn't
| give them a trial. The remedy will
doubtless be of wholly different ma
ture-something like the remedies for
other enemies of the cotton plant.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03
The Weather.

The Indications for Georgia for to-
northerly winds. Eastern Florida, fair
weather, with fresh north to northeast
winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

The Washington Post says: Even
those who jeer at Gen. Tribe Tribe
cannot deny that he is well connected"
Sure thing! Sort of Siamese twins
with himself. as it We're.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

DR.. Albert Robin, who has been call
ed from Paris to Potsdam to see the
German Emperor, is a famous author
ity on diseases of the throat, though
he is not specialist in the American
acceptance of the team; that is, he
does a general practice and does not
devote himself to one line of study. 1t
was he who, several years ago, treat
ed the venerable Abram S. Hewitt of
New York with glycerophosphate of
sodium, which was at the time called
an elixir of life" DR.. Robin denied
that the fluid was an elixir of life"
but claimed for it the virtue of
strengthening blood that had become
impoverished, and Mr.. Hewitt gave him
the credit of having strengthened him
and prolonged his life.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

1t is pleasing to see that the tempest
in the teapot at the Psychological
School has been stilled by the firm
command Of the football coach to the
boys to quit their foolishness." If
the same command had been given by
the faculty at the beginning of the silly
rumpus, the matter would have been
quickly Strengthened out. College and
class spirit is an excellent thing. but
it should not be carried to foolish ex-
tremss.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

The efforts of the railroads hauling
fruits and produce out of Florida to
bring about the adoption of uniform
and better packages, should meet with
the friendly cooperation of the pro-
ducers. Poor packages and careless
packing are invariably expensive. They
cause the fruits and produce to arrive
in the market in poor condition and
hence to fetch only the lowest prices.
Claims for, damages are made against
the railroads. when often the damage
is caused by no fault of the railroad;
and If the roads are constantly sub
Jected to damage claims, it necessarily
follows that they must charge such
rates as will insure them against do
ing the business at a loss. Good and
secure packages will make for the
benefit of all concerned in either grow
ing, handling or selling the fruits and
produce.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-03

Evil days seem to have fallen upon
various sorts of grafters and hold-up
men in and about Chicago.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-06
LAST FLORIDA TOUR.
Via Pennsylvania Railroad.

The last Pennsylvania Railroad tour OF
he season to Jacksonville, allowing al
most three months in Florida, will leave
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington March 8
Excursion tickets, including railway
transportation, Pullman accommodation {
(one berth), and meals en- route while
going on the special train. will be sold at
the following rates: New York, $4,000:
Philadelphia, Harrisburg Baltimore, and
Washington. $4S 90; Plttsburg, 1913 co. and
It proportionate rates from other points
Returning, passengers will use regular
rains until May 81, 1908.
For tickets. itineraries, and other in
formation apply TO ticket agents, or to
Geo w. Boyd, Assistant General Passen-
ger Agent, Broad Street Station, Phila.
delphia 264e