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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
LABORER ATTACKED
AND BADLY BEATEN
sticks and Bricks Used on Joe Moon
by Unknown Parties.


by Unknown Parties.
By a crowd of unknown negroes Joe
Moon, colored, Of No. SAC Oak street,
was attacked and badly beaten last
night on West Boundary and Zubly
streets. Moon had to be taken to his
home in the police ambulance.
The negro was going to his home
from the wharves of the Ocean Steam
ship Company, where he is employed.
He was suddenly set upon and beaten
with sticks and bricks. Moons assall-
ants were out of sight a moment after
the ARRAY
The uniformed men on duty in the
immediate neighborhood made every
effort to ascertain who had committed
the assault and Detective Bostick was
sent from police headquarters with the
ambulance Moon was unable to say
who the men were and declared that
he would not be able to identity them
even though they wer caught. The en-
tire affray lasted less than a minute
and Moon stated that he did not have
time to see the men. The negro has sew
eral cuts in the head and is otherwise
badly bruised. His condition, however,
is not serious.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
Cheap Settlers Tickets.

On the first and third Tuesdays of
each month till April 1903, the Frisco
System (St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad) will sell reduced one way
and round trip tickets from Birming-
ham, Memphis and ST. Louis to points
in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Okla
homa, Indian Territory and Texas
Write w. T. Sanders, general agent
passenger department, Atlanta Ca, for
full information-ad
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
ATTACKED AGED WOMAN
ON CANAL BANK.

An unprovoked assault upon Mrs.
Spencer, an aged white woman, was
made yesterday morning on the Ogee-
chez canal bank. near Puders wood
yard. Mrs. Spencer was attacked by
three negro lads and was struck sew
eral blows.
She made no report of the assault to
the police and when a uniformed man
saw her at her home on Harris street,
near jefferson, she stated that she had
not been badly hurt and did not care
to nave anything done by the officers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
PARK AND TREE
COMMISSIONERS MET.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Park and Tree Commission was held
yesterday afternoon, but no business
of public interest was transacted.
Some reference was made to the tree
nursery that is going to be establish
ed and maintained by the city and
county, but the commission will not be
able to take any action until certain
maps have been completed. The city
engineer is now working on these
maps.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
FELL TWO STORIES;
BROKE HIS NOSE.
w. IL. Oetjen, N Painter, the Victim
of a Peculiar Accident.

OF a Peculiar ACCIDENT.
w. H. Oetjen, a painter, was the
victim of a peculiar accident yesterday
afternoon shortly after o'clock, in
which he sustained what are believed
to be permanent injuries. Oetjen, to-
gether with several other painters, was
at work on a scaffold above the sec
ond floor of the Mcconnell house at
Thirty-third and Price streets, when
he made a backward step, missed his
footing and fell, striking a picket
fence over thirty feet below him, sus-
tanning a compound fracture of the
nose and otherwise cutting his face
and bruising him about the head
The injured man was carried to st.
Joseph's Hospital in a buggy and re-
ceived medical attention. His wounds
bled profusely, and it was several min
utes after the fall before he regained
consciousness,
Oetjen was carried from st. Joseph's
to his home and was reported resting
easy last night.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
NEGRO WAS DISMISSED
ON SHOOTING CHARGE.

At yesterdays session of Police
Court Alderman Grayson presided in
the absence of Recorder Myrick. A
large but uninteresting docket was dis
posed of.
Andrew Williams and j. II. Fuller.
negroes, were discharged. Williams
was charged with firing into a party of
other negroes, in Yamacraw, and
wounding West Patterson.
Spencer McNarry, a negro employed
on the wharves, was dismissed on a
charge of carrying a concealed weapon.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
PAY DAY WITH FIREMEN.

The hearts of Savannah's eighty-odd
fire ladies We're made glad yesterday
afternoon when Chief Mcguire and
Clerk Nell handed over to the MEM
bers of the several companies the lit
tie envelopes containing their regu-
lar monthly stipend for services rem
dered in October.
No. Engine House, which is Chief
Maguire's headquarters, presented a
scene of activity all the afternoon
The uniformed boys are express
ing their delight that pay day came
around before the opening of the fair,
so that they will now be able to enjoy
their off hours with the attractions.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
November Court House sales.

The monthly sales of property by the
sheriff of the Superior Court and by
auctioneers will take place before, the
Court House this morning. The
amount is not as large as usual but
there are some valuable pieces to go
and it is expected that fair prices will
be received for it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
Grenter Genrcin.

The current number of Harper's
Weekly, Oct. 10, under the caption Of
the Greater Georgia Number" con-
tains an illustrated account of Savan-
nah and other parts of Georgia Mailed
to any address on receipt of Is cents
For sale at Estill's News Depot. No.
As, Bull street, Savannah, Ga.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
Mr.. GARNET NO BETTER.

The condition of Mr.. John X. Gar
nett, notice of whose critical illness
was given in the Morning News, re-
manned unchanged yesterday. Mr.. Gar
nett rested comfortably during the day,
but the attending physicians We're IN
able to offer the slightest hope to his
anxious friends.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
Buy Christmas Presents at Auction

Sternberg & Co.'S grand jewelry sue
ton offers an opportunity for the ac-
QUESTION of Christmas, holiday and
wedding presents at your own prices.
The entertaining auctioneer will con-
tribute to your enjoyment while you
are making profitable purchases.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
savannah conservatory.

Savannah Conservatory. now located
at No. u Liberty, west, open Oct. /.
instruction unexcelled. Prof. and Mrs.
Leo w. Mehrtens, who are at its head.
are the only graduates in Savannah of
Royal Conservatory, Berlin and Leip-
zig.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03

The condition of Patrolman Charles
Collins. who was shot in Mayor Myers
office by H G. Greene during a police
investigation. is reported by DIR. Car
ter of the Savannah Hospital, where
the wounded man is receiving atten-
ton, as very much improved.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
sternberE's Auction Is n Bona Eide
Sale.

The prices are no factor, the goods
must be sold. and you seldom have the
opportunity of putting your own prices
on the finest stock of genuine cut glass,
silverware, diamonds, watches. etc, in
Georgia. Three sales daily 10 a. m,
800 and 1880 D. mad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
Jacksonville Excursion,
Senboard Air Line Rv.

Only S5.4O round trip. Nov. 2, and 6.
good returning until Nov 8. inclusive:
account Jacksonville Trade Carnival.
City Ticket office. Bull street-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
sternberg & Co.'s JeweIry Auction

Is a brilliant attraction. Immense
crowds are attending the three daily
sales, at 10 a. m. and 800 and 1880 D.
m. And people are literally buying
valuables at their own prices.-ad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-07
for the guests;Gof honor, who form there
previous to entering the blue room.
Larger State Dining Room.

=. Larger State Dining Room.
The new state dining room west Of the
red room Offers the greatest surprise to one
who was familiar With the old state din
ing room. The old wall, on the north side
has been removed and the old hallway out
side has been absorbed. The floor Is now
laid in oak parauetry and the walls are Of
dark English oak Near the ceiling are
arranged the heads of deer, elk and moose,
a great moose head on the east side hav.
ing been given to the President by friends
in Alaska, All Of these silent victims of
the chase look down upon the great ma
hogany table resting in the center of the
floor upon rug of solid green.
The white marble mantel Is surmounted
by an exquisite piece of Flemish tapestry
OF the seventeenth century, presented to
Mrs. Roosevelt. 1t is respondent with COL
or and bears In Latin verse from Virgil
dedicated to the hunt. Across the north
end of the room extends a magnificent
serving table In mahogany supported by
spread eagles carved from the same wood
and also surmounted by tapestry. At the
ends of the east wall are two similar but
smaller tables. The chairs, with the ex-
ceptton of several made with high wicker
backs and extending arms, are upholstered
in green tapestry. One hundred guests can
now be seated about the Presidents state
banquet board, whereas the old state dining
room was built to accommodate but forty.
The central corridor. into which all rooms
of the first floor open, has been restored
to Its original majesty, the mosaic screen
placed therein during the Arthur regime to
divide 1t into two distinct Railways having
been removed. The red, blue and green
rooms may now be entered directly from
the north door and for the first time in
twenty years the southern sunlight shines
through the entire lower floor Of the his
toric mansion.
improvements quite as extensive have
been made upon the private apartments of
the White House, but as yet the Presidents
secretary has refused to allow their sane
THY to be penetrated by correspondents or
photographers.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS. Jr.
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Writing and Doing.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
woman there was. and she wrote for the pres1
(As YOU or / might dol,
She told how to cut and fit Dress
And how to stew many q savory NESS
But she never did 1t herself, guess
(Which none Of her readers knew.
Oh, the hour spent, and the -four spent.
And the sugar we wasted like sand.
At the behest Of woman who never had cooked
And did not understand.
woman there was, and she wrote right fair
Gas you / might do)
How out of barrel to make chair. .Sset
To be covered with chintz and stuffed with hair
'Twould adorn any pariOr and give 1t an air
(And We thought the tale was truel.
Oh, the days we worked and the ways we WORKED
To hammer and saw and tack,
In making chair in which no one would sit, !
chair in which one could possibly sit.
Without crick In his back suts''st
woman there was, and she had her fun
Better than you and y: s'.-<
She wrote about children--o8 course she had none@
(And never intended to txy).
And It isn't to toll. and 1t isn't to spot. I
That brims the cup Of disgrace
It's to follow a woman who didn't know beana
"a woman who never had cooked any beansh
But wrote and was PAID to Au Space ID
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y ; y =
A Soldiers Valentine.
Florence E. Pratt, In Life.

Florence E. Pratt In Lie.
1t was only a square Of paper lace
Where roses and hearts entwine
And beneath them loving word or twoi
Only valentine.
frivolous thing, in az envelope
Forget me nots and hearts, and darts
And little ecstatic loves
Twas sent by girl who kissed 1t once
As she stood inI the whirling snow,
Where the lights from the corner store through
Sent out haay glow.
But your Uncle Samuel must have guessed
No matter what else might watt
That letter must CO. post haste! post-hasteI
From here to the Golden Gate.
For across the river and over the hills
And the prairies on 1t flew;
II lodged wreck, and It entered storms
And once twas the last train through!
Then forth It put to the Western sea.
Where the speeding waves upcurled;
And the Cupids and love-birds sailed away
To the other side Of the world
o wonderful scrap Of paper laeei
It went to hospital bed
Where homesick soldier tossed and turned
And would not be comforted,
And somehow the soldier felt that day
Soft arms. whose pressure he knew,
And home and love, and health, and hope
Thrilled him through and through,
And be felt new love for our Uncle Sam
Who had lent hts trains and men
And ghfps that the whole wide world apart
Two hearts might meet again.
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Fireproof Clothing.
From the London Post.

From the London Post.
Ayoung French-Canadian engineer has been
making experiments with f1reproof clothing,
and these. SO far as they have gone, have
been decidedly satisfactory. BY means OF
a smock Of asbestos. with gloves, cap and
boots of the same material, he has con-
structed an entirely combustible cos
tune. Over the face is worn mask, fitted
at the mouth with a species Of respirator,
which permits the wearer to breathe with
out inhaling noxious vapors. This suit has
stood its baptism of fire successfully, a man
having entered burning house and SIM
ulated all the maneuvers Of a fireman
without suffering the slightest damage or
discomfort. Such q garment, If adapted to
the use Of residents in the higher flats OF
cities, should make the fortune of an in.
genious inventor. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-07
a Native EnchanteY:

the natives squat down on their knees
wherever he passes. If a native rides on a
horse or donkey. down he must jump when
the Dutchman approaches, to wait on foot
until the white mightiness has passed. A
native hides his cigarette behind him when
he meets white man.
The Dutchman has numbered nearly
everything In the Dutch East Indies ex-
cept the Achinese and the Battaks. He has
numbered the bridges and the roads and
the shelters and the oxen and the nuts.
Taxes are collected by numbers. repairs are
made according to numbers. This part of
the government is as orderly a Dutch
canal boat.
He has made the Javanese operate their
farms with the precision with which q.
Holland goose girl marshals her flock.
The Civil servicec.
His civil service is as orderly as tho
bikes in the fatherland A man enters the
colonial service at about $500 a year. He
goes out in the land and becomes deputy
controlling clerk. That means that he
takes the census and examines crops and
does the other colonial jobs of a man OF
all work.
After a certain number of years he be-
comes controlling clerk himself. Then he
Is sort of glorthed police sergeant. He
gets $3.50 a month in this position, with a
rather elegant house.
The next step is to be a controlling clerk
of the first class Then. If he has luck, he
white king with a steady salary, and q
years vacation every ten years, and pen
sion at the end Of faithful quarter Of q
century.
The Dutch official is an educational prod.
ICY. He must know Dutch, English, Ger.
man, Malay, and one native Javanese dia.
lect.
He also knows everything there is to
know about native rule and laws and GUS
toms. He knows SO much about everything
else under the sun that the foreign visitor,
after heart-to-heart talk with the aver
age Dutch Official is glad to meet a simple
Killing or Malay and talk with him about
the weather or the state of the tobacco
trade.
Takes Things Easy.
The Dutchman takes his burden philo.
sophically. The governor general sits IN his
palace and the elder brothers of kings sit
in their residences, and they nod their heads
pIacldly over the American problems in
the Philippines, while a thousand miles
Whichever one chooses) is impressine
Dutch troops with his earnest desire for no
Dutch in his.
The Dutchman does not carry the usual
white mans burden Of brandy and whisky,
which the Englishman and the American
drink in the tropics, presumably because It
is the surest death that they can find. The
Dutchman drinks gin
He treats 1t lovingly. Wherever gin Is
stored, one may see natives turning the
barrels daily in the sun, so that the drink
shall be mellOwed properly.
Gin Is good for the liver, and the liver il
a delicate matter in the tropics. 50 the
Dutchman generally lives to draw his PEN
sion from grateful government.
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The American Language.
From the New York Times.


1t used to be considered witticisYn to
ask a man whether he spoke United
States,'' said an English university man at;
the Lawyers Club the other day, 'but
there is in fact an American language, dis
tinctive from the kings English, not only in
idioms and in the use of particular words,
but in the clipping Of words to save time
and breath. On this side OF the Atlantic
one scarcely ever hears I have and YOU
are. You hurrying Americans say Tve.l
and you're You shorten up cannot into
can't and your purest speakers use don't
and won't and it is almost a universal;
habit among Americans to clip the g off;
words ending In ing Even your profess
sors OF English fail to sound the e. in,
righteous and courteous and shorten
knowledge into knoledge.' might recite
scores of words that are practically short
ened by syllable in usage, and as usagA
makes language, you Americans are grad,
ually constructing speech that is quite
distinct from that form of English which
Oxford and Cambridge are preserving with
such care
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THE DUTCH IN JAVA
How They Solve the Problems
of Colonial Rule.
TAKE THINGS EASY
BUT ALWAYS KEEP THE NATIVES
UNDER sUBJECTIoN.
Except the Achinese and Battaks-
Princes in Golden Cages-Ovil
Service Methods.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
1t is odd that no Senate or Congress in
vestigating committee has perceived the
necessity Of taking a trip through Java,
the pearl of the orient, and it's sister island,
Sumatra, or at least through such parts OF
the latter island as are in condition to be
visited without fatal consequences.
In these possessions Of Holland many Of
the problems that face the United States
In the Philippines have been under process
Of methodical and cozy, If not brilliant so
luton for almost q century.
For century the Dutchman's burden in
Achin has amused itself by f1outing his au-
thority and also cutting his head off, when
ever possible. and smoking 1t to be pre-
served. Every few months the patient and
optimistic Hollander announces to an In
different world that the last fight has been
fought and that within q day OF two there
after the Dutch troops will enter victorious
ly into the capital Of the Achinese But
somehow one never hears of that final VIC
torious arrival, and the suspicion is always
in the air that what percentage of the
Dutch troops does at last enter the Achi-
nese capital, does SO in the form of souve-
Mrs of the occasion.
cheerful readiness to do murder in his coun-
try Of Achin, which lies in the northern
end of Sumatra. When the Dutch send
troops out from Batavia they face about
the same proposition as if they had to send
troops through wild and mountainous coun-
try from New York to Chicago, for that is
about the length of Sumatra.
Beyond the fact that the Achinese are
exceedingly industrious in their national
profession of killing persons who invade
them, little Is known about them. They do
not encourage visits, and Achin is pre-emi-
nently a bourne from which no traveller re-
turns.
Consequently the most accurate and re-
liable statistics that even the statistic-mad
Dutchman can produce about this brother
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The Enpssst & swataSia. a. III

Of our own Tagalogs is that more than
10000 stout Dutch soldiers have departed
this life and about 500, 600 stout Dutch
dollars have done the same in efforts to
MAKE the Achlnese good Dutchman. And
the net result is that the Achinese is iden-
ucally as free, murderOus and native as he
was before the first Dutchman landed on
Sumatra.
The Much-Mixed Battaks. +
South Of Achin are several millions Of
kindly savages who are the result of an IN
genious mixture of the blood OF Malays
from the Malay Peninsula, head-hunting
Dyaks of Borneo and gentle Hindoos. This
mixture, which Is known as Battak, is
highly successful in Its own way. Some Of
the tribes have the fad of cannibalism;
others have chosen the Dutchman's square
face" and under the soothing influences
OF his gin and his money they labor in the
pepper and tobacco plantations and are
model citizens according. to their dim lights.
As In the Philippines, the dattos, or ma
tive chiefs, have been and are the most Sc
nous of the many factors In the tangled
problem Of colonial empire.
The Dutchman has treated the datto with
placid and truly Dutch ponderosity, sitting
upon him in state, with constant assurances
that he is sitting somewhere else entirely. I
SO 1t is that the Javanese Is happy in the
conviction that his holy dattos or kings still
rule him. The emperor" Of Surakarta still
holds his gorgeous imperial court in beauti-
full Surakarta, whose landscape looks as II
1t were chiseled out of lapis lazuli and en-
erald. The twenty-one other kings and
princes and dattos have their grand palaces
and their dancers and their ministers. Their
people and their officials still crawl toward
them on hands and knees.
So careful is the placid Dutchman not to
hurt the feelings Of his burden that the
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damask.
The Andrews pqdkrait Of Washington.
which Dolly Madison out from its frame
with her hairpan and carried with her on
her flight before the British. hangs above
the mantel, while to the right, against the
northern wallfdhasI been placed the conn
panion portrait Of Martha Washington.
Jefferson looks down from the right OF the
northern doorit Benjamin Harrison and
James K Polk also adorn the room.
= The red room IL -the only one of these
three state apartments which precedent al
lows the President tY use for private enter
tainment. It Is thu parlor Of the White
House. At state receptions it is reserved
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An Assurance.

From Puck
She-"I suppose it is genuine antiquers
The Dealer-''Why, of course 1t is, mad.
am! And. besides. it is the very latest
thing in antiques
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-07

uprights, divides the staircase in half, and
we take the course at our right hands.