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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Just arrived, lot of polka dot stripe
and figured batiste; all the newest
shades, red, black and blue dots Metz
ger & Brunson.
Heidi Pillow Company still takes the
lead with farm machinery, horseshoe
ing and blacksmithing. Always the
best and always the cheapest. AZ West
Broad street.
We are now showing our full line of
spring novelties. English worsteds.
cheviots and fiannels. Orders filed
promptly, workmanship guaranteed.
Haslam & Co., tailors and haberdash-
ers.
Free Acknowledgment every So
cent purchase at my store you get a
ticket to the $3.50 automobile. Bear this
IN mind. James j. Joyce. Phones 107.
Free Automobile-With every 80
cent cash purchase at my store you
get a ticket to the $3.50 automobile.
Bear this in mind. James J. Joyce.
Phones 107.
E. ]. Kennedy, high art tailor. is
how offering at very reduced prices a
me line of tweeds, eahomespuns, light
weight cheviots and serges.
Edward LovelPs Sons are showing a
fine line of merchants tools. Get prices
On shelf hardware and implements
You can save a nice per cent. lis
broughton. west.
Photography in all its beauty of style
and finish at Launey's gallery.
Let me send you a nice roast or fine
steak. All you have TO do is to phone
me and the order viii be filed in time
Tor dinner. Plenty fresh vegetables
and fruits. John F. May; phone 81.
Best Bargains in city property by w.
j. Mtscally, Jr., 20 Bryan street. You
VIII consult your own interest by see
ing him for full particulars.
Modern fats for rent, Thirty-sixth
and Habersham. Apply c. F. Fulton.
Palmer Hardware Company, whole
sale and retail store. is an excellent
pace to trade. They sell everything
Kept IN first-class hardware store.
Ed. L. Byck wants everyone to try
me little Tom sc cigar; they sell on
.helr merit and give satisfaction. All
he asks is a trial
Furnaces-We are agents for the
Peck Williamson Co.'S under-feed hot
air furnaces. Send for circulars or al
low US to explain the great saving in
tuel over other kinds. Cornwell &
Chipman
w. NJ. Davidson & Co., the real es-
-oi4ipcAuys are l1S people 10 see IOF
.our realty business. stocks and bonds;
thoroughly reliable. ITO East Bryan.
>. rainier Hardware Company still
axes the lead with the finest line of
nnardWare, cutlery, guns. rifles and am
"-uiiltion, rope, tinware stoves and
OFockery and fishing tackle.
special for this week, John Sullivan's.
FRESH country butter, 20 cents per
POUND. Town talked mixed crackers.
~ cents. Quart jars syrup, something
nee 10 cents per jar Our 35 cents per
Where.
II you have any pictures to be
framed take them 10 H. Hymes Art
store, 147 Bull street, near Oglethorpe
ssVenue. New line of mouldings and
ne latest styles Of framing.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15
AN AUTOMATIC CAT.
Very Ingenious Method of Discour-
aging Feline Marauders.

aging Feline Marauders
From the London Express.
A genius hailing from North Lon
den has been struck with a brilliant con-
ception for Kidding back gardens and
clubhouse roofs of philandering cats.
1t consists of nothing more than the
invention of a fearsome automation
tom cat made up of a tin frame and
covered with a fur coat.
Tom" is as black as the darkest
night, with a stiff black tail standing
up dehantly in the air. and a ghostly
look in its sightless eyes, which, when
reused to anger, send forth q light cal
cuIated to make even Ulysses tremble.
by four-Volt electric battery
slowed away in that portion of
Toms" anatomy generally occupied by
the digestive organs.
The general principle of construc-
uon, according to the British Inventor,
IS passed upon powerful clockwork, re-
leased by lever when the tail of the
animal is moved.
Inc clock works a pair of bellows,
with two loud screeching reeds, at the
same time forming contact to light the
a dozen long needle points which come
up through the skin of the back. The
tail also acts as a trigger, and releases
a hammer formed of the lower Jaw
OF the cat, which explodes two percus-
sion caps in the mouth.
One night an experiment was made
The clockwork was wound up and the
beast placed in a back garden. In due
course ferocious tabby of loose char
acter and with chips off it's ears walk
ed up to the stranger to give battle
While dozen of his lady friends sat
around to see the fun.
In feline language, the tabby APP
pears to have asked his lady friends
not to crowd into the ring, and to
watch closely while he prepared
Tom" for the undertakers. He began
by walking up TO a. wall and sharp
ening his claws. Then he came back
wagging all that was left of his tail
in an aggressive and insulting man.
per and took the measure of his silent
enemy.
Without the slightest provocation he
flew at the automatic cat, removed a
lump of loose hair from his back, and
broke his tail in half.
That ended the first round. but 1t was
only the signal for the tin tom cat to
get into action. The tail exploded
the percussion caps in the cats mouth
with a sound resembling that of Al;
the electric eyes blazed out like Lady
smith sehrchlights, while heartrend-
ing shrieks rent the air from the bel
lows inside, and the needle points got
their business ends into the tabby cat
Within a few seconds the garden
was clear, and pale-faced pussies were
tearing off through the quiet streets
in search of home comforts IF W
more than a month before they ven
tured to peep over the wall to see il
the "black terror" was still in posses
sion.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15
THE WEATHER.

Morning News barometer, July IA,
n;50 p. IN. Observation-Disclosures. 29.9 80
Morning News thermometer, July
IA, 1880 p. m. .................. IS
washington, July 14.-Forecast for
Wednesday and Thursday:
For South Carolina: Fair Wednes-
day and Thursday; light variable
winds.
For Georgia: Fair Wednesday and
Thursday, except showers Thursday
in northwest portion; hight variable
winds
For Eastern Florida: Showers We'd
nesday and probably Thursday; light
variable winds.
For Western Florida: Fair Wednes-
day; Thursday showers; light variable
winds.
Yesterdays weather at Savannah:
Maximum temperature
p. m. ................ SO degrees
Minimum temperature
a. m. ..,................... 70 degrees
Mean temperature ........ 70 degrees
Normal temperature ....... SO degrees
Deficiency of temperature :. degrees
Accumulated deficiency
since July .............. % degrees
Accumulated deficiency
since Jan. 1 .............. 81 degrees
rainfall .................. .01 inch
Normal INSTRUMENTATION. II inch
Excess since July l .....3.13 inches
Excess since Jan. ..7. 90 inches
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15
EARLY USE OF GUNP0WDER.
Evidence of Its Discovery Long Be-
fore the Christian Era.
From Casters Magazine.

From Casters Magazine.
With reference to the early use of
gunpowder and firearms long. before
the popularity accepted but erroneous
date of gunpowder discovery Gen.
Joseph Wheeler, U. S. A., in a lecture
short time ago before the Franklin
Institute. remarked that in many To-
calities in China and India the soil is
impregnated with nitre and the proba-
BILE discovery of gunpowder there many
centuries before the Christian era may
be explained in this way:
All cooking at that time was by wood
fires, and the people lived in tents and
huts, with earth for their floors. Count
less fires made of wood upon ground
strongly impregnated with nitre must
have existed every day. and when such
fires were extinguished a portion of
the wood must have been converted
into charcoal, some of which would, of
necessity, become mixed with the nitre
in the soil. By this means two of the
most active ingredients of gunpowder
were brought together, and it IS very
natural that when another fire was kin
died on the same spot a flash might
follow. This would lead to investi-
cation, and then the manufacture of
gunpOWder was conceived. WheLner
this be true or not. there is abundant
evidence that the origin of gunpowder
and artillery goes far back in the dim
ages of the past.
The Hindoo code, compiled long be-
fore the Christian era, prohibited the
making of war with cannon and guns
or any kind of firearms. Quintus Cur
thus informs us that Alexander the
Great met with fire weapons in Asia,
and Philostratus says that A1exander's
conquests were ARRESTED by the use of
gunpOwder. It is also written that
those wise men who lived in the cities
of the Ganges "overthrew their enc
mics with tempests and thunderbolts
shot from the walls" Julius Africanus
mentions shooting powder in the year
275. 1t was used in the siege of Con-
stantinople in 66S; by the Arabs, in $50;
at Thessalonica, in 904: at the siege
of Belgrade, 1913; by the Greeks in
naval battles. in 1898; by the Arabs
against the Iberians, in 1147, and at
Toulouse, in 1918. 1t appears to have
been generally known throughout civ
ilized Europe as early as 1900, and soon
thereafter 1t made its way into Eng
| land, where it was manufactured dur
ing the reign of Elizabeth, and we
learn that a few arms were possessed
by the English in 1910, and that they
were used at the battle of Crecy In
1916.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15
New Kind ofLife Insurance.

TOT twenty-five cents you can insure
yourself and family against any seri-
Gus results from an attack of bowel
ST rn during the summer. months.
t l nat is the price of a bottle of Cham
pelIalns Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
nemeoy. a medicine that can always
De depended upon even in the most
% severe and dangerous cases. 1t
equally valuable for chill
uLen and adults. When reduced
WIN water and sweetened it is pleas
ant to take. This remedy has reIiaved
more pain and suffering and saved the
lives of more people than any other
medicine in the world. 1t is almost
sure to be needed before the summer
Is over. Buy it now. For sale by all
druggists.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15
H. B. Boyer,
Local Forecaster.
Hurrnh for Miss Creech

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Hurrah for Miss Mary Creeeh! She
has done a great public service. She
has not only saved the man from
mob violence, and indicated the law,
but she has set noble example, which
all officers of the law will do well to
emulate In nine cases out of ten, per
haps, certainly in the majority of such
cases. a show of true courage on the
part of the officers of the law is all
that is necessary TO prevent mob vio-
lence. LaWless men have certain de-
gree of bravado. but usually they are
lacking in true courage, and when con-
fronted by brave officer they can not
stand. This little girl in South Caro-
lima, representing the majesty of the
law and having the courage to do what
she knew to be right, singly and alone,
nut to fight a mob of strong men. II
all officers of the law on all occasions
would follow her example mob violence
would be rare and more rarely still
would the mob succeed in its lawless
undertaking.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15
English. "-savannah

the chair of English. Savannah
Morning News.
This specimen shall be embalmed in
our scrap-book beside the epitaph dis
covered by Mark Twain in an English
village cemetery:
Here lies Richard Jones, who was
lost at sea July II, Is. Had he lived,
he would have been buried here"
Between the two, however. we must
award the palm to the Age Herald.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15
The Palm Awarded.
From the Norfolk Landmark.

IOIn tHe NoTLOlh LdHuindTh'
THE Birmingham Age-Herald says:
a full college of cardinals consist of
seventy members, and there is now
only one vacancy, the seat filled by
Cardinal Vaughn We pass this along
to the Norfolk Landmark. which holds
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15

Texas Rainfall-Taylor. OIL; Calves
ton, trace; Brennan, IA; Cuero, .04;
Hearne, 10; Houston, "a
Heavy Observation-Disclosures, Ga,
1.9O; Cheraw. S. c., 100; Florence, N.
c., 1.S4; Lumberton, N. c., 2.32; New
bern. N. c., 2.O4; Weldon, N. c., 1855;
Charleston, S. c., 1856; st. Matthews.
S. c., 1.64.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15

Mother: You naughty boy, you've
been playing with these Sniff children
again!
Wellington: No, hain't, ma! I JUS
been fighting 'em.-Chicago Daily
News
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15
Dist. Averages.

Remarks-Cooler weather is reported
throughout the belt, except South
Georgia and North Florida. Showers
and thunderstorms have occurred over
the central and eastern portions with
heavy precipitation in the Carolinas;
very little or no rain in the western
districts.
Observations taken at the same mo-
ment of time, July IA, 1903, p. m,
18th meridian time.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15

RIVer Report.-The hight of the Sa-
vannah river at Augusta, at a. M,
eI5th meridian time), yesterday, was
n,S feet. rise of 81 feet during the
preceding twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin, Savannah,
Ga, for the twenty-four hours ending
at a. M, 18th meridian time, July IA,
1903
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15

$3.50 Round Trip, Savannah to
Washington. D. c., and return, via At
lantic Coast Line. Tickets now on
sale. limited TO return Oct. 81, 1908.
Passenger service unexcelled.
Fur pullman reservations. rates, etc.
see Ticket Agents De Soto Hotel, both
phones 70. and Union Depot, Bell phone
2S5, Ga. phone slL-ad.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20

overlook the Susquehanna River and
Chesapeake Bay from a bluff where
three years ago waved a corntield.
The estate consists of 100 acres of park,
garden and athletic fields. Two dor
mitories are already filled; third to
accommodate over fifty boys will be
ready for occupancy next September.
The Faculty consists of about 25
specialists trained in the leading col
leges, universities of America and
Europe. In the history of the United
States only six men have given to an
educational institution more largely
than Jacob Tome, and then in every
case to a college or university. The
Jacob Tome Institute is able to meet,
then, problems of secondary education
that most schools for lack of funds can
not attempt. With its start of such
tremendous magnitude, with the
buildings and equipment sure from
year to year to be constructed as on
the idea of perfection, and experien-
ced men to develop its educational
ideals, it must in no long time stand
as the greatest secondary school IN
America.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20
HELPING CHURCHES IN TROUBLE.
Board of Church Extension Makes Special Re-
cOmmendatiOn to Wilmington Conference.

1t developed at the meeting of the
Board of Church Extension of the
Wilmington Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference held in st. Paul's Wilmington
Wednesday afternoon, that the board
has exhausted its credit. The business
of the board is to recommend to the
general board of the church the dona-
ton to individual charges whatever
money remains in the general fund to
the credit of the Wilmington Confer
ence.
1t was decided to recommend to the
general body two special donations
one of 81, 900 to the POcomoke City
Church, and one of 5000 to Claiborne,
on Easton district.
The Rev. John France, president of
the board, presided at the meeting.
Others present were Presiding Elders
Robert Watt, Wilmington district; c..
S. Baker, Dover; VIC. KOons, Easton,
and Adam Stengle Salisbury district;
the Rev. 7. E. Martlndale D. D., of
Elkton; the Rev. G. 7. Wyatt, of Mid
dletown; Samuel H. Baynard, of Will
mington, and j. E. Carroll, of Dover.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20

The Forestry Bureau of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has arranged to
make a thorough investigation offOrest
fires with view of devising a remedy.
We wonder if the Bureau will have the
courage to recommend the employment
of rangers on the Government re-
serves whose tenure of Office depends
upon the faithful performance of their
duty, instead of on political influence,
as is now the case..
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20
Patriots Ashes Beneath Altar.

"Here rests all that remains on earth
of some of those who shed blood for
their country's sake and tell of the
motives which actuated their lives.
Beneath our altar lie the ashes of the
patriot and martyr, Montgomery, to
whose memory the Government has
set the monument which sets against
yonder wall. The very ground around
us is sacred, as it holds those of illus
trious name and heroism. Theirs was
the doing, ours but the commemor-
alton; theirs was the teaching, ours the
learning of the lesson taught.
patriotism in its broad sense, as ]
read it, is the true love of country,
aud it requires of us quite as much
that we cling to that which is right
eous. laudable and honorable in that
which is old, as that we early press
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20
DELAWARE SHAO SOLD FOR SIS.
Weighed Fourteen Pounds and Was COusd-
cred the Largest Ever Caught.

The biggest shad ever caught in the
Delaware river, so far as the fisher
mems record goes, was shipped to
Major William II. Mccormick, of the
Delaware avenue fish market, Phila-
delphia, Wednesday, and the recipient
was the proudest man among the shad
fnanciers along the river front. 1t
weighed IA pounds when taken out of
the net near Washington Park. A
number of its companions were small
sized fish and it looked large enough,
as 1t wriggled and tapped about to
get back to the water, to be the mother
of the whole school. 1t was sent up to
the Terminal market for exhibition
carefully packed in crushed ice and
reached there alive and was finally dis
posed of to a wealthy piscatorisl en-
thusiast of Philadelphia, for the snug
sum of S2s.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20
1t will surprise you-try it.

It is the medicine above all other for
catarrh and is worth it's weightin gold.
Ely's Cream Balm does all that is
claimed for it.-B. W. Sperry, Hart
ford, Conn.
My son was afflicted with catarrh.
He used Ely's Cream Balm and the
disagreeable catarrh all left him.-J.
O. Olmstead, Arcola, Ill.
The Balm does not irritate or cause
sneezing. Sold by druggists at so cts.
or mailed by Ely Brothers, So Warren
St., New York.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20
Delaware Farm For Training Dogs

Fred T. Herbert left Dover Wednes-
day evening for London, England,
after having purchased a beautiful
little farm near Wyoming, for which
purchase he had journeyed clear across
the water. Mr.. Herbert bought the
place from Messrs. Butler and Wilson
for So, 800, and expects to use it as a
training quarters and home for his
family and his school offorty educated
dogs, with which he is now touring
the United Kingdom. One of Mr..
Herbert's dogs performs the remark
able feat of climbing a notched pole to
a height of 300 feet and making dive
from this precipitOus height into an
elastic net
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20

Three storied streets are becoming
common in the large cities. Chicago
already has places where the steam
railroads run in a subway, the street
railroads on the surface and the ele-
waited lines above, and there will be
several similar places in New York
when the new subway is completed.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20

forward to take the next step of pro-
gress in that which is new, to keep
apace or in the van of the greatest
nations of the world.
L. S. S. New York, May -, 1908.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20

A careful study of that ancient in
stitution, "The Truce of God" is re-
spectfully recommended to some
prominent families in Kentucky.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20

A little check to the speculative
boom in Wall street may go a long
way towards preventing that feared
financial stringency.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.

The Roosevelt, Cleveland and Fran
els presidential booms all ran on the
same track at St. Louis without a sin
gle collision.
The kissing habit of monarchs was
understandable in the days of Cleo
patra but now-it must be painful to
travel anywhere except to Holland.
A careful study of that ancient in
stitution. "The Truce of God" is re-
spectfully recommended to some
prominent families in Kentucky.
A little check to the speculative
boom in Wall street may go a long
way towards preventing that feared
financial stringency.
Roumania has determined to check
the divorce evil by placing a tax on
divorced men, the tax to be proportion
ate to the income of the husband.
The 81, 500, 900 donated by Mr.. An
drew Carnegie for the erection of a
Temple of Peace at the Hague will be
another Temple of fame to the most
remarkable giver in the history of the
world.
The era of prosperity has struck the
South square amidships. May cotton
has gone to SLIGO. Cotton at 10 cents
a pound has long been the hope of the
southern planters.
The game of progressive matrimOny
now being played by the ''smart set
of the New York-Newport contingent
makes us thankful that our forebears
were plain. stupid and respectful.
We would respectfully recommend
Mrs. Carrie Nation as camera-smasher
in ordinary for Mr. J. Pierpont Nor
gan. 1t would give her SO much plea
sure to ak for the negatives.
The President recently told friend
that be expected to return to Washing
ton next month completely rested -
Most men would require two months
to recuperate from such q trip.
Four of the biggest men in the
Senate are now engaged in devising q
means of providing an elastic currency
but it is expressly stipulated thai
there must be no rubber in theil
efforts.
An enthusiastic newspaper cores
pondent sends dispatch from Nicara
qua landing native troops for travel
ling 300 miles through the swamps il
eight days and then forgets to cay wht
was chasing them.
King Edward has been to Rome
called upon the Pope and the K1ns
and has left without hurting anyone
feelings. Evidently he absorbed larg
quantities of tact during the fort!
days he was sowing his wild oats.
Thomas Wilson of Salt Lake City
Utah, met the President with a re
markable demonstration of his abhOr
renee of race suicide. He was accom-
panied by sixteen sons, all the chil
dren of one mother, and all over 81
feet tall. Mr.. Wilson is not Mormon
, Eighteen hundred acres of land
Cullman County, Alabama, are abou
to be planted to Loblolly Pine, chest
nut an oak, the first for lumber, til
second for posts aud telegraph pole
and the last for railroad ties. IL
, plan pursued has been prepared b
" Government experts.
, The British Royal Statistical Societ
s in a recent report, emphasizes ii
g wide difference between the financi
n situations in England and the Unite
r States. While there is the utmo'
r prosperity here, there, High ia,
I | aFi0D undioastad Governments LOAF
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20

The kissing habit of mOnarchs was
understandable in the days of Cleo
patra but now-it must be painful to
travel anywhere except to Holland.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20

Roumania has determined to chec k
the divorce evil by placing a tax on
divorced men, the tax to be proportion
ate to the income of the husband.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20
Peculiar
To Itself

In what it is and what it does-con-
tanning the best blood-purifying,
Alternative and tonic substances and
effecting the most radical and per-
manent cures of all humors and all
eruptions, relieving weak, tired,
languid feelings, and building up
the whole SYSTEMS true only of
Hoods JGrSGpGriLLG
No other medicine acts like it;
no other medicine has done so
much real, substantial good, no
other medicine has restored health
and strength at so little cost.
II was troubled with scrofula and came
near losing my eyesight For four months
could not see to do anything. After taking
two bottles Of Hoods Sarsaparilla l could see
to walk, and when had taken eight bottles
could see as well as ever" SUSIE A. HAIRS.
TON, Withers. N. G.
hood's SarsaparIlla promises 70
cure and keeps the promise.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20

The Roosevelt, Cleveland and Fran
els presidential booms all ran on the
same track at st. Louis without sin
gle collision.
Smyrna times., 1903-05-20
Jacob Tome Institute and Its Future.

This celebration Is notable in the
history of education in the United
States. 1t formally insugurated the
wealthiest secondary school in Amer
ica, founded and supported by the
munifcence of Jacob Tome, one of
Maryland's most distinguished finan-
ciers. With the expenditure already
of nearly a million dollars for equip
rnent and productive endowment Of
about So, 600, 900 the school must have
brilliant future. The buildings