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The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02
Personal.

After a lapse of sixty-six years
memorial stone has just been placed
over the grave of the late Cardinal
Manning's wife, in Lavington church
ward. Sussex, England. She died be
fore her husband joined the Catholic
Cnurch.
Rev. William E. Hinshaw, the
Methodist minister convicted in Indiana
a few years ago of numbering his wife,
and now serving a sentence in the pen
itentiary at Michigan City, has devel-
oped a decided artistic tendency since
his incarceration and has executed
some admirable paintings, one of which
is a bird's-eye view of the prison in
which he at present resides.
Miss Maude Anderson, an independ-
ent young woman of Salisbury, Mo-,
has taken a direct and unmistakable
method of extricating herself from a
false position. She publishes this card
in local paper: al take this method
of informing the public that the rumor
going over the country that Jesse Hen
derson and 1 are going to marry is
without foundation. I never intended
to marry him.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

Superstitious persons in Barbour
county, West Virginia, were much ex-
ercised the other day by the falling of
what is described as black rain"
Small streams became almost inky, and
cattle that were in the rain were dyed
black. Imaginative persons among
the ignorant declared the peculiar rain
was accompanied by a decided smell
of sulphur, and hence the precipitation
must have been caused by the evil
one. The cloud from which the rain
fell was very dark and angry-looking.
Investigation showed that a whirlwlnd
had passed over a culm bank at a
coal mine some miles distant: the
coal dust had been carried up into the
cloud and dropped to the earth later
in the form of the black rain.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02
A world of Little Things.

From the New York Times!
A little trill of laughter, a chord in
natures song;
A little deed of righteousness to stand
against the wrong;
A little duty needed; a little honor
won;
A little hill surmounted and a little
kindness done:
A little labor daily; little prayer and
praise;
A little act of kindness to gladden.
weary days;
And so the whole creation to it's cease
less heaven swings.
For little man is living in a world of
little things.
A little hope to cheer us, although it
waiteth still:
A little fire for comfort when win
ter nights are chill;
A little dream, God given, to bless
us on the way:
A little welcome waiting us at ending
of the day:
A little purpose shining through every
deed we do:
A little bunch of roses to overspread
the rue:
A little peace surprising to which the
spirit clings.
For little man is living in world of
little things.
A LITTLE hope, little love, little toll
and rest;
A little glimpse beyond the veil, a
little problem guessed;
A little faith little doubt, a little
blinded trust:
A little hating journey, and little of
it's dust:
A little knowledge merely of little
ways we wend;
A little dream of heaven awaiting at
the end:
A little struggling upward, although
on broken wings,
For little man is living in a world of
little things.
s-Aifred ]. Waterhouse.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

We commented some weeks ago on
the scheme Of Prof Whitney, an cleo
trician of Chicago, to draw an unlin-
tied supply of electricity from space
outside the earths atmosphere by p;o-
jecting d wire into space. How Prof.
Whitneys proposed to get his wire out
beyond the atmospheric envelope OF
the earth was a puzzle; now we are
offered an explanation of it. 1S-inch
cannon is to be taken to the summit
of Pixies Peak and mounted so that
it's muzzle will point directly to the
zenith. From this cannon will be fired
a spherical iron magnet. To this pro-
jectile will be attached coil of wire
thirty miles long. Prof. Whitney be-
lieves that once beyond the pale of the
law of gravitation the magnet will be
drawn into the electrical sea, the wire
will hold it, and by attaching larger
wires, he can draw from above limit
less electrical power. He must calcu-
late on a very accommodating projec-
tile or prodigeously strong wire. IL
is safe to say that at the time Whit
ney fires his cannon, with its thirty
miles of wire attached to the shot,
tourists will give the neighborhood OF
Pixies Peak a wide berth.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

Kun Arpad, a musical prodigy of
Q, is TO come to America from Poland.
He is a protege of the De Reszke
brothers. He plays the violin "divineiy,"
according to lean De Reszke. One of
the l'arities about the child is the
D.. jhosis that takes place in his
ncn he is playing. They are
ID ...ally blue, but us he drifts into
tAe richness and emotion of the COM
position he is playing, they change
color. becoming sometimes deep brown
and again sparkling black. When the
boy comes to New York he can leave
his fiddle if he can arrange to make
hts changeable eyes work without il.
New York would give up more money
to see a freak like that than to hear
al artist play
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

Among the latest fragments to De
deciphered in the British Museum Is
what appears to be portion OF a
letter written by the Bishop OF Lyons
in the third century, says the view
York Post. The translation runs do
follows: -,,.s.
'.To the Presbyter Marcellinus;
''Your most knavish epistle - TIC nc
of a reprobate. For II you ueSet ~
- he thrown to the beasts in the am
oi,itbeatre. = perceive that you
are foreordained to helltire.
r. I catch you In this diocese l WI
have you fiogged as an apostate ana
= hereto. Yours in the fellowship OF
Christ. and the bond of charity,
-''' Kerameus.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

Clemson College, the agricultural
and mechanical college of South Caro-
lima, recently concluded it's tenth year
under most gratifying auspices. The
practical and technical instruction
given at this school is of the kind that
is needed in the South. to make build
ers and skilled workers of its young
men. The president of the faculty, Mr..
p H. Nell, by the way, is a Georgian
by birth and education. The success
Of the college over which he presides
is due in considerable measure to his
ability as an instructor and executive
officer.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

The Pollak-Virag rapid telegraph
instrument is reported to have shown
the speed of 10000 words per hour in
Germany. on line of 447 miles, be-
tween Berlin and Koenigsberg, and the
government has decided to install the
new instruments on the busy lines
between Berlin and Frankfort. Con-
sui Mason. at Berlin, gives this brief
description of the apparatus: "A
special writing machine, which is
worked in the usual way, perforates
a strip of paper which is drawn over
roller under metallic brushes with
great rapidly The Interruptions OF
the current move the membranes OF
two telephones at the receiving sta
tion, which write the messages by
means Of a small mirror"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

Judge Thomas L. Pershing. who died
in Pottsville, Pa. the other day, was a
jurist of the ''old school, and a Demo-
crat of the kind to which the same
term might be applied. 1t was he who
presided at the trials of the famous
ed the coal regions some twenty or
more years ago. and sentenced num-
Der of them to death. In 1875 he was
a candidate for Governor on the Dem
oeratic ticket, but was defeated by
Gen. Hartranft.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

At the Wesley memorial services at
Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn.,, the other day a poem on John
Wesley by Richard Watson Glider was
read. In the poem occurs this pas
sage:
In those clear, piercing, piteous eyes
behold
The very soul that over England
famed!
Deep, pure. intense; consuming shame
and i'll;
Convicting men of sin; making faith
live;
And this, the n1ightiest miracle of all,
Creating God again in human hearts.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

Are the times accursed? One can
scarcely pick up a newspaper without
seeing an account of some terrible
tragedy, and it has been so since the
beginning of the year. 1t was estimat-
ed some two weeks ago that up to that
time more than 1000 persons had met
violent deaths in the United States
since Jan. /, and hundreds have been
added to the list since then. Railroad
wrecks, floods cloud bursts, forest
fires, mine explosions, elevator acci-
dents, murders and lynchings have
followed each other in rapid and terri
BILE procession, until it would seem
that some evil influence were at work
to make 1903 memorable for its bloody
record.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02
More than two tons of Con- letter box

More than two tons of Golf letter box
fasteners, the kind purchased by
Machen, have been found in the cellar
of the Milwaukee postoffice, where they
were sent without requisition. None
of the fasteners had ever been used.
Indeed. they were not intended to be
used. When they had been made and
sold to the government their useful
ness was ended.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

That a young wife's cake may serve
some good purpose, after all, was
shown at Newark. N. j., the other
day. A burglar broke into the house
of George Meyer and stole, among 9TH
err things. a cake that Mrs. Meyer had
compounded The thief took one bite
of the cake, then threw it into the
yard. But that bite left an imprint
that proved the thief's undoing. A
man was found TO whose teeth the
matrix in the cake correspondent per-
fectly, and he was arrested.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

Collector Crum of Charleston has
some ideas on the lynching problem.
"Lynching is not a race problem" he
says. "Such punishments SAVIOR of
barbarism: but the crimes that pro-
woke them are so atrocious that no
punishment is too severe. If the law
was quick and decisive there would be
fewer lynchings. When a man is
guilty he has no rights. The remedy
Aas to exterminate the horrible wretches
who eQrnmit the crime, promptly, and
legally possible. If this is not done
lynchings will continue"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for fair weather, with light
variable winds. Eastern Florida,
showers and warmer in west portion,
with light variable winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02

Mr.. Raymond Patterson, of the STAFF
OF the Chicago Tribune. has given to
the country for the first time the real
cause of the trouble in the Indianola.
Miss, postoffice Writing to his paper
from Indianola,, he says that the OBJ
lection to the continuance of Minnie
Cox, the colored postmaster, in Office
AROSE entirely from the fact that the
negroes got into the habit of congre-
eating about the postotf1ce, although
not one of them in a hundred had any
business there, and white women and
children were frequently made the
objects of unpleasant remarks by these
postoffice loungers." 1t was the loafers
that precipitated the trouble. Com
plant to the Postoffice Department
might have had the result of remov-
ing them. but few men took matters
into their own hands and the woman
left the office.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02
EDUCATIONAL.
W ard Seminary 'i a.! !11a: l Tsna'

3eth year begins Sept "a Literary Courses, Music. Ar.
Eiooution certIiIestIoR to Wellesley, Baltimore wom
ans College Faculty 30. MIld and sqsnbIo oIssto.
For catsIos address j. o. BLANT0N, LL.D., Box as.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-02
TIE CUP DEFENDER.

In yachting circles and the offices of
the sporting editors of New York it is
accepted as a foregone conclusion chat
the Reliance will defend the Americas
cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's third
Shamrock Official announcement Of
the selection of the defender will not
be made, of course, until the prelim-
mary races shall have been concluded.
but 1t is not necessary to wait until
that time to see what the decision of
the committee will be. The Reliance
has on several occasions demonstrated
that she is the superior of her older
rivals on all points of the wind She
has never been headed, and has never
failed to respond to any demand made
upon her. In both heavy and light
weather she has given an excellent ac-
count of herself. And she is getting
better every day. No doubt much of
her smartness is due to the wonderful
seamanship of her skipper, Barr, though
full credit is due to the craft herself.
By the time of the international races,
the boat will be fit to carry the hopes
of her countrylnen. Confidence in her
is beginning to be manifested at the
New York hotels and clubs, where her
friends are making known their will
ingness to back their Judgment with
cash.
Sir Thomas Upton says he has
brought over the best and fastest
yacht ever turned out of a British
shipyard, and there can be no doubt
that he speaks truly. Designer Fife,
he says, has discovered and made use
in the hull of an innovation for driv-
ing the boat to windward, and that she
does sail to windward like a witch has
been remarked by a number of ex-
perts who have seen her. But 1t is
possible that Herreshoff also has an
innovation hidden below the water line
of the Reliance, since she, too, does
windward work that is the admiration
of ell sailormen who have seen it.
Everything considered. it is certain
that the coming contest will be one
of the best and most interesting ever
held. With boats that are evenly
matched, crews trained to act in con-
cert with the precision of machinery.
and owners that are sportsmen of the
first class, the races ought to arouse
enthusiasm on both sides of the ocean.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-25
A WAY THEY HAVE.
What This Wichita Citizen Says Only
Corroborates the Story of
Thousands

The particulars related by this repre-
sentative citizen of Wichita are similar
10 hundreds of others In this city. When
there are scores of people. all anxious to
tell about the benefits received from the
use of Doan's Kidney Pills the greatest
skeptic in Wichita must be convinced.
Read the following:
Mr. G. 8 Coodall, carpenter Of 1884
fremont street, says: 4 conscienuously
state that for ten or twelve years I was
never without kidney complaint and until
I used Doan's Kidney Pills each success
sive attack resisted all my efforts TO
check. let alone cure. IL was il regular
thing for ne to rise every morning at
O'Clock. for I was simply unable TO re-
main in bed on account Of pain. II I
pressed or my kidneys with my thumbs I
fairly yelled. I never knocked OF work
for during the day the trouble decreased.
only 10 return At night with increased
force Never during twelve years have
I been able 10 sleep the entire night with
out evacuatir- the bladder until / used
posn's Kidney PIis procured AT the
Moore Drug company. o16 East Douglas
avenue. At the present time 1 sleep the
entire night in comfort and my hack has
ceased 10 ache. when I think OF the
plasters linimeatS and internal medicines
used during al that long reviod It Is no
wonder / am astonished a. the result I
obtained from the use OF q kidney PHI
send anyone % me in Wichita who wants
10 know what Doan's kidney pills can
perform" For sale by al dealers Price
81 cents Foster MHburn Co. Buffalo. y.
y. sole agents for the United States Re
member the name Deans, and take 10
Substitute
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-25
CLEANING UP ALLEYS.
Harvest Hands Come in Handy TO Po-
lice Department.


The police department is having all the
men necessary TO work with the tin can
wagon which has been introduced, and
the alleys are being cleaned up. and
those visited present a much more re-
spectacle appearance than formerly. The
men that are being jailed just now axe
mostly harvest hands who stop in this
city between trains and find that time
hangs heavily on their hands. They take
a drink and then a few more and the pa
troll wagon then takes them to the sta
ton. Next day little seance with the
judge, and that afternoon they are mi
tiated on the tin can wagon. Most of
the fellows are jovial ana perfectly hap
py with their lot
They do their work thoroughly but not
too speedily. They are very particular to
ask the property owner if he has any tin
cans to be hauled away. The property
owner of course thinks they are men who
make this a business and Of course in
qUires as 10 the charges; but the fellows
always say that they are just helping the
city a little owing to so many Of the men
quitting on account of harvest, and that
no charges will be made. The work is
very effective. Some of the alleys in this
town were well nigh impossible on ac-
count of the tin cans, broken crOckery.
baling wire and other waste material
which had accumulated
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-25
LIFE DESPAIRED OF.
Feared That Mrs. Sellers Was Fatally
Burned Yesterday.

At midnight last night Mrs. Sally Sell
lers, who wa horribly burned by gaso-
line fire at Ss18 East Douglas yesterday
morning and who was taken to the ST.
Francis hospital for treatment was very
low and her condition was such that it
was feared she would not live until morn
Ing.
Scarcely a spot of her body is without
burns. but the most severe are about the
face neck, breast and arms. Her left
arm is burned 10 a blister TO her elbow,
and the lower part of her face sustained
deep burns She has been in terrible
agony since the accident and her injuries
are considered grave.
The fire was caused by the gasoline
overlooking the can and running down
to the burner where when the burner was
ignited the flame followed the stream of
gasoline to the can. Mrs. Sellers was
preparing dinner, and after filling the
can had replaced it on the stove. She
then lighted the burner and went TO an
other room. In a short time she discov-
cred the fumes Of escaping gasoline and
hurried back TO the kitchen to find the
top of the stove and the can wrapped
in flames. In attempting to extinguish
the flames the gasoline from the can was
thrown upon her clothing and in a short
time she vas eaveloped in flames. She
ran from the room and with the help of
her 10-year-old daughter wrapped a quilt
about herself and extinguished the fire.
When she had done this she again went
to the kitchen, but as soon as she reached
the door the flames in the room spread to
her dress which was saturated with gasO-
line and a second time she was forced to
run from the room. Her cries attracted
the attention Of Gus Morgan, a colored
man living near the place and with his
assistance she succeeded in smothering
out the blaze which was rapidly devour-
ing her clothing and her very flesh
The FIRE department was called but the
fire had been entinguished before they ar
rived However. the fremen and chief
assisted in earring for the injured wo-
man They state that Mrs Sellers showed
remarkable presence of mind in closing
her mouth and allowing herself 10 in
hale none of the flames. She was taken
to the St Francis hospital and every
thing possible has been done to relieve
her of her agony and 10 save her life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-25
FACTS ABOUT RIVER
Colorado Engineer Gathering
Data About Arkansas River
TOBE USED IN FAMOUS SUIT
Now Pending in United States
Supreme Court
TOBE USED IN FAMOUS SUIT

Bir. l. G. Carpenter, state engineer of
Colorado, and his assistant, Mr.. Myers.
have been in Wichita since Monday, max
ing Arkansas river readings and gather
ing data to be used in the suit now pend
ing in the United States supreme court
.n which the state of Kansas xSzhes to
enjoin the state Of Colorado from taking
the water from the Arkansas river and
using it for irrigation purposes. thus de-
priving the southwestern section of Kan
sas of the use of this water flowing
through the state.
Mr.. Myers has been working around
Wichita for more than a week, but his
chief did not get into Wichita until
Monday They were trying to do their
worl, without the Kansas people learning
what they were here for. Several Wich-
itans saw them working about the Doug
las avenue briose yesterday and immedi
atelv wanted TO know what it was all
about The engineers had a whole lot of
apparatus unlike any seen in Wichita for
years. Mr.. Carpenter and his assistant
informed the inquisitive that they were
government geological surveyors making
soundings of the river. 1t was learned
however, that they were taking readings
and making soundings of the Arkansas
river for no other purpose than for evil
Cence TO be used in the famous suit.
When confronted with these facts the en-
Eineers denied all connection with Colo
RADIO or the suit but their questioning of
old timers here regarding the river and
their evident desire to get information
regarding the stages of water past and
present INDICATED that they were not
making a government survey for the
government keeps q residing of the river
every morning of every year and this
record is on file in the weather bureau at
Washington, and the surveyors would not
be measuring the water and its current.
The engineers came to Wichita at a
very opportune time TO take river read
ings when everything was in their favor.
The water stands at As feet above low
water mark, an exceedingly high stage,
and at a time when the river is very
high. Should they drop around Wichita
IN two weeks they would find the water
not even touching the bottom Of the
guage. The current at present runs at
the rate Of six miles an hour.
A considerable portion Of the evidence
in the suit has been submitted on briefs
and tho case win be heard in October
The final briefs are to he submitted dur
ins the summer and it was for these that
The Colorado engineer was gathering
data
Mr.. Carpenter and his assistant went
To Arkansas City yesterday afternoon to
take readings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-25
FELL TWENTYTHREE FEET.
James Waltersr Has an Arm and a
Leo Broken

Leg Broken.
At nine o'clock yesterday morning
James Walters. a Il-year-oId bog. fell
twenty-three feet from the roof Of the
Frisco round house, breaking an arm and
a leg and receiving bad bruises about the
head and face His injuries, though SEP
Gus. are not fatal
Young Walters was assisting in putting
en- the roof Of the new round house
which is being built by the Frisco. He
started to life a heavy plank, which was
used TO hold down the felt roofing ma
terial The plank caused him to lose
his balance and as he stepped backward
ne fell through a hole in the roof He
was not unconscious when he was picked
up. but both the bones in his arm be
low the elbow joint We're broken and his
leg was broken above the knee. He
was taken to the St. Francis hospital.
where the broken bones were set. He
had also received a severe blow above
the right eye and it was feared for
awhile that he would lose that member
Thorough examination showed. how
ever. that he could count the fingers on
the hand and his sight VIII be saved.
James Walters is but "A years old. but
he is a good. intelligent worker His
father is dead and he has been living
with his mother. Mrs. Sadie J. Walters
in the Getto block
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-25
VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT.
tn Damage Suit of Lloyd Graham vs..
Street Car COMPANY.

A jury in the city court brought in
verdict at 9 o'clock yeterday morning in
the damage case of Lloyd Graham vs.. the
Wi'hita Railroad and Light company in
favor of the defendant. The amount of
damages asked for were $500 and as the
plaintiff is boy five years of age the
SUI was brought by his father. The suit
was the result Of an accident which hap
poed on West Douglas avenue near
Hndley avenue January Is. 1903. in which
started TO lift a heavy plank. which was
b a west bound car. suffering painful re-
sits. He received n cut on the forehead
sd one on the upper lip, and brought suit
I recover damages for the suffering he
adured and the dis6guren7eut caused hy
Ne gashes. The trial occupied al Il Tues
ay and continued until 5:45 in the even