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The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.) says:
THE English schoolboy who, when
asked recently, what are the advant-
ages of emigrating to Canada? replied.
When a man has lost his character he
should go to Canada, where he will not
want one must have been posted
from the point of view in the United
States"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: Judge Gray would make
good President. but he need not begin
the selection of his Cabinet because
the coal miners are talking about nom
mating him. Several years ago the
labor organizations were going to car
ry Judge Caldwell straight to the
White House as an expression of their
admiration for a decision he made. But
by the time a Presidential campaign
came on most of them had forgotten
his name"
The Birmingham News (Dem.) says:
The Presidential booms of Messrs
Hearst, Bryan and Hill are understood
to be taking an indefinite rest cure.
and the political doctors give no hope"
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem0 saws.
Education as a remedy for the lynch
ing habit is well enough. but at the
present gait the colored portion of the
population will be exterminated before
the Caucasian has been educated IN
TO the desired point. How would il do
to educate the colored citizen to be
good?"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
BRIGHT BITS.

-Kitty-"Constance says she can't
understand what you could see in
Charley Heartwell" Bertha-"Natur-
ally. 1 suppose you know that Con-
stance has been fishing for Charley
the last two years ?"-Boston Trans
crint.
-Knoviski-"There goes a conscient-
ious man if there ever was one. :"
Askovich-"How did you get next %
Knoviski-"He' a dentist and the other
day when he pulled out the wrong
tooth for me didn't charge anything
for it''-Chicago Daily News.
-She-"Mrs. Boreton called to-day,
and 1 thought she'd never 60" He
But you are so amiable, suppose
you never gave her the slightest hint
that you wanted her to co. She-"In-
deed, l did not. If had, she'd be here
now. Town and Country.
-Housekeeper-'1ll give you a good
meal if you'll light the fire in the stove
for me-" Weary WILHELM right,
lady" Housekeeper-"Very well
Here's a Ratchet. Just chop some of
that wood out there''-Weary Willie
"Oh, see here, lady. l thought it was
a gas stove you hadi Good day!'--
PHILADELPHIA Press
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
lADEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Notice, 3. c. But
ter; Fishing Tackle, Cornwell & Chip
man; Ship Notice. C. c. Martin, Agent;
Notice to the Public, Savannah Electric
Company.
Business Notices-Large Line of La
dies and Gents Garments, o. X. Out
filters; Norwegian Smoked Sardines,
A. NJ. & c. w. West: Ralston Korn-
5ins, at MINISTER'S: If You Are Partic.
ular, K. Van Keuren & Co.
Amusements-Bal Tonight at South
End; Just the Thing, Go to Hotel Ty-
bee.
We Will Advance the Prices-Savan-
nah Investment Company.
Silverware-The Gorham Company.
Beer-Schlitz Brewing Company.
Foods-Grape-Nut and Postum Food
Coffee.
Ask the Knowing Ones-Rowlinski'
Pharmacy.
The Good one-The Savannah Steam
Laundry.
The Chainless Tribune-At Latti-
more's.
They Are Here-The Delmonico Com
pany.
Kalola for Indigestion-The Kalola
Company.
Hotels and Summer Resorts-The
Wigwam, Indian Springs, Ga.
Schools and Colleges-Chevy Chase
College for Young Ladies. Chevy Chase.
Nd. Draughn's Practical Business Col
lege.
Medical-Mu1's Grape Tonic; Peruna.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted; Employment Wanted;
For Rent For Sale; Lost; Personal;
Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
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Personal.

Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, widow of
the general who fell in the massacre
at Little Big Horn, is in Washing
ton trying to assist some members Of
her husbands old regiment to obtain
pensions and government employment.
She is still young in appearance. al
though she must have passed the six
tieth milestone in life's journey.
Exc Congressman Allen of Missis-
sippi is in Washington in connection
with his duties as national commits
sioner of the st. Louis Exposition, He
stoutly maintains that the national
capital is fine summer resort. II am
free to declare that Washington pro-
vides more real comforts when the
country in sweltering than any other
city" he said to friend. But the
thermometer does climb to great hight
in the summer, John" was urged.
Yes" said the Mississippian, with
characteristic whimsicality, but that
has nothing to do with the case
In Sioux county, Nebraska, man
holds the Office of school director and
school in a South Dakota county just
across the state line He claims to be
entitled to both offices. and cannot be
dispossessed of either. His house is
built on the state line. and when he
goes to bed his head is in one state
and his feet in the other, so that he
is legally a resident of both. He votes
at the school elections held in both
districts and claims that he is entitled
TO do so, and thus far no law has been
found that can reach his case.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
Two Surprises.

A young lady presented her intended
with a beautifully worked pair of
slippers, and he acknowledged the
present by sending her his picture in
cased in a handsome frame, says the
Chicago Journal. He wrote a note to
send with it, and at the same time re-
piled angrily to an oft-repeated dun
for an unpaid-for suit of clothes. He
engaged a boy to deliver the package
and notes. The young lady received
note in her adored ones handwrit-
ing, and flew to her room to devour
its contents. She opened the missiVe
with eager fingers and read:
Il am getting tired of your ever
lasting attentions. The suit is about
worn out already. 1t never amounted
to much, anyway Please go to Jeri-
choi"
And the tailor was struck utterly
dumb when he opened a parcel and
discovered the portrait of his delin-
quent customer, with note that said:
When you gaze upon my features,
think how much 1 owe you"
When the unfortunate young man
called that evening to receive the
happy acknowledgment of his sweet
heart he was very quickly shown off
the doorstep by the young lady's ia
Their
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16

NEW SUI hNE4S VT
Yesterday we called attention to the
very great increase in Savannah's
commerce for the year ending Juhe 80
last. II was an increase that justiies
the belief that this city has a very
bright commercial future.
But is it not possible for Savannah
to do more than she IS now doing to
increase her commerce? Are there not
new fields which she can enter with
profit? Not long ago attention Was
called to the opportunity which Porto
Rico offers for an increase in Savan-
nah's trade. That island is beginning
to show signs of prosperity, anc 1t VIII
not be long, in all PROBABILITY, before
it will be doing a very MI IN larger
trade with this country than it is now.
Why should not some Of Porto Rico's
trade come to this city? All that is
necessary to secure it is steamship con-
nection, and that, probably, could be
secured without a great deal of effort,
il steps were taken in the right direc-
ton.
Porto Rico is a consumer of grades
of cotton goods which are manufacture
ed in the Southern states. and she re-
quires many other things that could
be supplied by this state or through
this port. 1t would not be a difficult
matter to make up a cargo from this
port for Porto Rico twice a month at
the start, which no doubt could be soon
increased to a cargo a week. 1t might
not be easy to get cargoes from Porto
Rican ports to Savannah Immediately,
but no doubt cargoes would be forth
coming in a short while.
Our railroads are doing what they
can to increase the commerce of this
port. They are reaching out further
and further all the time for freights.
Savannah ought to try to do her part
by seeking new sources of trade. Nat
urally some of the naval stores trade
has followed the pine forests and gone
to the South of us, and we must have
something to take the place of it. 1t
is true that our cotton receipts for this
cotton year are many thousands of
bales greater than they were last year,
but cotton does not leave as much
money in the city as it did once.
Mr.. George Gould with his Wabash
system is going to make Baltimore a
great exporting port. 1t seems to US
that the Central. the Atlantic Coast
Line and the Seaboard could do for
Savannah, on a smaller scale, what the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Wabash
propose to do for Bltimore.
Cuba and Porto Rico want now. ana
this want will steadily increase, the
steel and iron products of Birmingham
ana the cotton products of Georgia's
mills. They also want the breadstuffs
and provisions of the West. All of
these things could be supplied through
Savannah. If Savannah can get steam
ship lines to Cuba and Porto Rico we
are sure it would not be long before
she would have flourishing trade with
those islands and a still larger trade
would pass over her wharves. This is a
matter for Savannah's merchants to
take hold of at once. The sooner it is
handled the quicker results will be OBJ
tanned
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
--s->S~-e-----
To Dodge a Sore Subject,

II was in Madrid, Spain, six months
after the close of the war;" said the
American tourist, according to the Chi
cago News, land wanted to take a
run down to the old city of Toledo.
l had heard, however, that the feel
ing against Americans was very bit
ter in the latter city, and it struck me
that it would be a good thing to get a
little advice. The landlord had been
very kind and courteous, though a
Spaniard, and 1 put the case before
him.
"Senor," he replied, after a bit, IF
you went to Toledo would you men
ton anything about your Admiral
Dewey and Manila Bay?''
II should not" 1 replied.
Nor Santiago and Admiral Samp-
SON.?
mot a word"
Nor the fight on San Juan Hill and
Gen. TorraPs surrender"
mo"
And would you refer to our loss of
Cuba and the Philippines"
mot a refer
well, ] think you can safely go to
Toledo" he said, after looking me
over, but my advice to you in case
the painful subject is touched upon. is
to say that you expected Spain to whip
the United States within thirty days,
and you can't tell why the devil she
took three months to do it,"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
he Lord hear our prayer!"


When Gov. Cummins of Iowa was
approached by a notorious office-seeker
and political panhandler for a political
promise a few days ago, says the Phil
adelphia Ledger, he INDUCED in the
following story:
"A colored preacher whom I once
listened to made a strong appeal to
save his church by increasing it's MEM
bership. The Sabbath preceding the
contribution hat had been filed with
buttons and mutilated coins. So he
pleaded:
"Bruthrun, I am tryin' to prove alb
strepuously that de Lord God has a
despitable hate for a deceiver and a
falsifier, and you can't propogast him
by no mutilations, and l solicit eager
ly and pointedly that the pussons what
put them mutilations and deceptitudes
in the contribution hat last Sunday
will not come forward when l calls
for those who wish to pledge them
selves to support this church and it's
pastor
The entire congregation took the
pledge"
The office-seeker enjoyed the story,
but felt so embarrassed that he went
away without any pledge.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16

From the Army and Navy Register.
The captain casually inquired
II so and so had yet transpired,
And whether too, beyond a doubt,
His programme had been carried out.
The first lieutenant raised his head
Il gave the order, sir he said;
Denoting he had done his share
In that as yet undone affair.
The officer who paced the deck
Sweet meditations seemed to check
The boatswain must have been to
blame"
The boats'n, sore with wounded pride.
Forthwith respectfully replied:
II passed the word-that boats'n's mate
Amt worth his salt-he's always
late"
The boatswain's mate looked much
abused
To be so wrongfully accused;
Il passed the word" he answered
quick,
That coxswain must have gotten sick"
The coxswain, looking daggers at
The other, roughly touched his hat
And said: Il passed it-sure 1 am
Them boys amt worth a tinker's
QdIn!
The stroke oar said he told the bow
To tell the others-anyhow;"
The others took a higher ground
And swore they hadn't heard a soundt"
And so it happened, plain as day.
When everyone had had his say.
That all were like in zeal intense
And each had shown his innocence.
The captain let his blessings fall
Impartia1ly on one and all.
And mingled with his strong convfc-
ton
A sulphuretted benediction!
The moral of this endless chain
Is instantaneously plain
Just give the order-look astute-
Then nothing more-don't executed
Don't bulge or stir-don't turn a hand
To get the gear or whaleboat manned.
BE firm and zealously avow,
i give the order, anyhow"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
A MUCH NEEDED INVENTION.

1t is well understood that many of
the damage suits against street rail-
way companies are based upon the
hasty action of the motorman in TAX
ing on and letting off passengers-that
is. the damage is done by starting the
car before the passenger has fairly
boarded or alighted. In this city pas
in this way sometimes.
The trouble is the motorman doesn't
see the boarding and alighting of
passengers. He is guided entirely by
the bell of the conductor, and the con-
ductor is not always in a place where
he can see just what the position Of a
passenger is.
And, as rule, during the rush
hours, the conductor is so anxious to
make schedule time that he does not
give passengers time to get on and
off the car He isn't wholly to blame
for this because the passengers grum-
BILE if the car does not make good
time
An inventor has made a device to
enable the motorman to see when a
passenger is fully on or off a car. 1t
is a mirror, whereby the motorman
may, without turning head, see what
is going on behind him, and so not be
wholly governed by the conductor
bell in starting and stopping his car.
The only objection to this device is
that it imposes additional duties on
the motornnan, and that individual has
about as much as he can attend to
now. He has to keep his eyes wide
open to avoid running over people,
particularly children, and TO escape
collisions at crossings. If the addi-
tional duty of watching passengers
getting on and off is imposed on him
the chances are that he will do more
damage than he does now.
1t is said that the mirror has been
submitted to the marlborough Street
Railway Company of New York city
for trial. If it should be adopted by
that company the chances are that It
would find favor with many other
street railway companies.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
ARGUMENTS AGAINST CARDINAL
GIBBONS.

Some strange arguments are adj
vanced against electing Cardinal Glib
bons successor to Pope Leo XIII. A
prominent prelate of the Vatican cir
cles. the right hand man of Cardinal
Rampolla, is quoted in Rome dis
patch to the New York World as say
ing that it would never do to elect
Cardinal Gibbons for the reason that
his first longing would be for a walk
in the streets of Rome, and then, said
this prelate "the whole question of
temporal power would fall through and
the rights of the Holy See be lost for
ever because after a Pope has taken
a walk through the streets and return
ed safely to the Vatican, we would
never be able again to say that the
Pope was not entirely free in Rome
under the protection of the Italian
government"
Another reason for not eIecting Car
dinal Gibbons, given by this prelate,
is that he would no sooner get fairly
settled in the Vatican than uncon-
trollable longing would seize him to
visit his native land, and, as he could
not of course travel in the costume
worn by the Pope, he would have to
wear a clerical costume of sombre
black, and that, according to the pre-
late quoted. would be absurd in the
face of Roman traditions ami practice
1t is not a difficult matter to find ar
guments against electing Cardinal Glib
bons to the Pontificate, and there will
be plenty of them forthcoming, be-
cause, from all accounts. there is quite
a strong sentiment developing in his
favor. 1t cannot be said that he has
much of a chance to be chosen to the
great position. but his election is not
wholly improbable, as some of the
Italian cardinals would like to have it
to appear. Such arguments. as the
foregoing will not hinder his election.
They will have no influence except
with the unthinking.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
BOOKS FOR THE COMMON SCHOOLS.

One of the bills providing a uniform
system of text books for the public
schools has been reported favorably by
the Senate Committee on Education, and
1t is probable that 1t will be the sub
ject of an interesting debate in both
branches of the Legislature when it
comes up for consideration. For a
long time there have been evidences of
dissatisfaction, particularly in the rural
districts, with the lack of uniformity in
the text books used in the public
schools. One reason for the dissatis-
faction is that there is considerable
movement OF people from one county
10 another, and it is often the case
that the books in use in the schools Of
one county are unknown in the schools
of another Therefore people moving
from one county TO another are put to
a great deal of expense for school
books, even though their children have
an ample supply, but unfortunately not
of the right kind.
Again it is probable that IL all OF the
schools of the state used the same kind
of books it would be possible to get
books much cheaper than they are now
obtained. A publishing house having
contract for supplying books for the
schools Of the entire state would be
willing to accept a lower price than
if it had a contract for supplying the
schools % only a few counties.
But how would the public schools in
the cities be affected by a law proVid-
ing for a uniform system of text books?
That is a question that ought to be
given serious consideration before the
bill is finally acted upon. The fact
must be taken into consideration that
the schools of the cities are divided
into grades, and are in session for nine
months of the year. 1t is necessary
for them to have books suited to each
grade In most of the schools of the
rural districts little more is attempted,
in the three or four months in which
they are in session each year, than
to each the pupils how to read
and write and to give them an insight
tllAO diAAillIlGliC anu 81 LII NhC
city schools the aim is not only to
provide the pupils with a first-class
common school education, but to pre-
pare those who desire it for admission
into the higher schools.
Without knowing what all the provis-
ions of the text book bill are il seems
to us to be advisable to take into
consideration the question
as to whether the schools of the cities
the schools which are graded and are
open nine months of the year-should
be put on a footing, in the matter of
text books, with schools which are
open only three or four months of the
year. and which teach only the COM
monest branches of an English educa-
ton. There is no objection to the use
of the same history of the United
States in all of the schools, but doubt
less there are books needed in the
schools of the rural districts that are
not needed in the graded schools of the
cities.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16

A gentleman who has just returned
from Guatemala vouches for this par
rot story says the New York Times.
A good woman of the city had a bird
which she priced highly, but it had
one bad habit. Whenever she came in
in the morning the bird would ejacu-
late:
"Oh, I wish to the Lord the old wo-
man was dead"
She cOnfded to her minister and he
suggested sending this parrot over,
adding that by association the ladys
bird would learn nice phrases.
A day or two later, when the woman
entered the room, her parrot ejacu-
lated as usual:
"Oh, I wish to the Lord the old Wom-
an was dead"
Whereupon the minister's bird cock
ed It's head to one side and fervently
added:
"The Lord hear orr nrayerl"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16

The late DR.. Boardman, a famous
Philadelphia clergyman, used to tell
of preaching a funeral sermon at one
time when he took UP more time than
usual without being aware of 1t. The
undertaken was a rather nervous man
and became fearful that DR.. Boardman
would make it very late funeral. FL
nally he whispered to a member of the
preachers congregation: docs he al
ways preach as long as this?" Longer
sometimes" was the reply. That is
a fine sermon on the resurrection.
"Oh, yes, it's a good sermon, I sup
pose" said the funeral director, "but
if he breaches much longer won't be
able to get the body buried in time for
the resurrection"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16
PROPOSALS WANTED.

GOVERNORS ISLAND. N. Y. H.,
July 49, 1909-Sealed proposals, in
triplicate, for furnishing Forage and
Straw required in Dept of the East.
during year ending June 30, 1904, will
be received here and at places indi-
Gated in instructions issued hereunder,
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or all proposals or any part thereof.
Information furnished on application.
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Endorsed Proposals for Forage and
Straw at -" JOHN SIMPSON, A.
O. M. G.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16

Elwyn c. Foster. the new president
of the New Orleans Street Railway
Company. began life as driver Of a
horse car. Later he was in turn con-
ductor. motorman. construction boss
traffic superintendent, general man
ager, and now president of great
system at the age Of AZ He worked
his way from the bottom. at a salary
of 81 per day, to the top. where his
pay is tens of thousands of dollars a
year. There is nothing about the street
railway business that he doesn't know
thoroughly. Men Of his class are al
ways in demand.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-16

Robert j. Burdette. the humorist, has
given up the lecture platform and ac-
cepted call to be pastor of Baptist
church at Los Angeles, Cal Mr.. Bur-
dette's pastorate is yet new. He has
been in charge only a few weeks, yet
it is said that his congregation is in.
creasing by leans and bounds. If he
puts as much good humor, kindly feel
ing and sunshine into sermons as he
has into his lectures and stories, he
viii prove a popular and successful
pastor.