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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-04
new LOAN OFFICE

TIE METROPOLITAN LOAN AND TRUST CO.,
Of New York, have opened an Office at 500
Z ST. \. ". for the purpose Of lending money
Furniture. Pianos. etc, at very low rites
Business confidential. Nothing deducted from
loan. Il you have loan and need more money,
give them a call
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WALL PAPER.

ROOMS PAPERED cheaper than any firm in
the city; work guaranteed Address postal.
II Z. HEWITT, GIL East Capitol ST. no2-st
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LOAN COMPANIES.

Money Loaned Salaried People.
Retail merchants, teaipsters, boarding houseA,
without security; largest business in 46 p-in-
cipal cities- TOLMAN. Boom loi. 5SS 18th st.
~. ualA-u
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FOUND.

FOUND-Lemon and white setter; owner can
rave same by giving description, proving prop
erty and paving charges Address BOX 25S.
this oftiee, noi-St
FOUND-Wilkins' famous cakes; pound, marble
and fruit; wholesale and retail; 15c pound; four
pounds 80 cents. 9zI 9th st. NV. no5-6t
GOOD PRINTING az small prices. promptly
executed 1000 business cards, Sl-50- HAYS,
sos 81. nv. MOIST
FOUND-Lseey's ice cream, absolutely pure.
20 cents per gallon Delivered in unlettered
wagons. COZ New York ave- NV apl0-tf
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FOR sALE-HoRsEs & VEHICLES.
PERSONAL.

ME- lhEO.
Card Reader, Palnlist. Medium Removes spells,
reunites the separately gives luck. German
spoken. 9l9 u ST. NV. no2,4
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WASHINGTON, d. c., POSTOFFICE, NOTICE.
Should be read daily, changes may occur
at any time
FOREIGN MAILS are dispatched TO the ports
OF sailing daily, and the schedule OF closings is
arranged on the presumption OF their uninter-
rupted overland transit. For the week ending
November Z, 1903, she last connecting closes VIII
be made from the MAIN OFFICE as follows
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

Springfield in 1S47. the figures as plain
as they may be, have been rejected by
the Curio Bureau.
The animal kingdom has a part in
this ransacking of dead generations
and scraping of modern incongruities.
Six hundred buffalo horns, Eskimo
eating dishes made from whale verte-
bra, Alaskan Indian rattles of sea par
rot bills and moose toes, sea parrot
eggs and Chilkoot dolls; a living hog
from New Mexico having two legs
upon which the porker walks like a
chicken, three-legged and five-legged
calves; three deformed kittens from IL
linois, "one with one toe on one foot,
two toes on the other; one with one toe
on each foot; the other with three toes
on one foot and two toes on the other, -
illustrates the minuteness with which
the bills of sale are made up.
Loba wolves, eagles, crows and alli-
gators would make a procession from
Philadelphia to New York. A large
flock of Thoroughly domesticated
white breasted Canadian wild geese,
large and tame" are offered by an
Illinois fancier at varying prices.
A Texas firm will capture tropical
varmints and fowls, coyotes, prairie
dogs, ground squirrels, badgers horned
frogs, horned owls and monkey-face
owls.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Metzger & Brunson have gotten in
a beautiful line of white and white
and black waistings for fall and win
ter wear. The newest importations.
A. S. Nichols, the reliable shoe deal
er, sells the kind of shoes that fit well,
wear we'll. and give you solid comfort.
Recommended by the people.
Palmer Hardware Company still
takes the lead with the finest line Of
munition, rope, tinware, stoves and
crockery and fishing tackle.
H. H. Peoples & Sons, 125 Congress
street, is a splendid place to buy your
hardware, stoves, implements. fire.
arms. cutlery and builders supplies,
guns and ammunition.
Best Bargains in city property by w.
J. Miscally, Jr., 20 Bryan street. You
will consult your own interest by see
ing him for full particulars.
The Jeaness Miller shoes for ladies,
by A. S. Nichols, the reliable shoe
dealer. Broughton street. west.
Palmer Hardware Company, whole
sale and retail store, is an excellent
place to trade. They sell everything
kept in a first-class hardware store.
J. w. Teeple's great sale continues
on furniture, carpets and stoves. The
people say Teeple's prices are the low
est. This accounts for the large sales.
w. M. Davidson & Co., the real es-
tate company, are the people to see for
your realty business, stocks and bonds;
thoroughly reliable. 10 East Bryan
Daniel Hogan's are in recent Of new
dress goods, ready-to-wear goods, neck
wear, ETC.. don't fail to have a look al
them.
$500! $500! Haslam & Co. For
balance of season good business suits:
Come in and look them over. Bull
and Oglethorpe- $500. s25.004
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25
By THOMAS r. MACMECHEN.

st. Louis, Oct. 23.-Everything from
the hatchet welded by Washington in
the immortal slaughter of the cherry
tree, to the perpetual motion machine
is being offered for sale to the Worlds
Fair management.
An old curiosity shop of papers re-
lating to antique junk and modern
freaks, is fast preparing two over
worked clerks in the exhibits division,
for the sanitarium
There is no stemming this torrent of
oddly. The freak mail arrives from
the four ends of the country. 1t
calls for polite notes, informing the
writer's that the exposition is not pur-
chasing anything except wood and
nails and staff. for the exhibit pal
aces. 'ait a.
Some of these letters are pathetic.
They come from the now fortuneless
descendants of once notable families in
the early history of the nation; from
one-time slaves and from trappers and
miners of the Far West. The profess
sional curio hunter and the Snowman
More tragic than all other expert
ences was the appearance at the office
of Mr.. Skiff, director of exhibits, of
the owner of the Washington hatchet.
1t was only presented as the keen
edged finale to a series of visits.
Agilded av borne by fragile youth,
attended upon the first call. The in
strument was garnished with black
ribbons and wore sombre look. 1t
introduced the s'idpnfiCal''
blade used by Lincoln, in rail splitting
his way to the presidency.
The late Prof. Selim Peabody, then
antiquarian of the exposition, dealt
kindly with his caller and felt the edge
of the ak to be assured it was dull.
DR.. Peabody escaped, but not for long.
Two days later saw the return of the
axman. He held rusty Ratchet of
the crop of 1902, grimly grasped in the
left hand.
The identical Ratchet used by the
Father of Our Country when he felled
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

! the cherry tree" The solemn an
nouncement startled the entire divi-
sion. Visions of tetanus germs SEEM
ed to reek from the wicked little
Ratchet
Placing a table between him and the
caller, DIR. Peabody mildly suggested
the differences of opinion which have
cast at least a doubt on the model
story. The aXman's response failed
to relieve the unpleasantness of the
situation.
1T does not matter who casts sus-
picion on the story; this is the hatch
et'-and the tool arose with a swish
into the air. DIR. Peabody's profound
| knowledge Of anthropology averted a
, crisis. He bowed gravely and replied,
Indeed, sir since 1 get a nearer view
/ recognize that it is, without doubt,
the Ratchet"
Although the Ratchet takes the lead
in the great list of commonplace
things used by eminent Americans,
| other offers not so spectacular, yet
none the less interesting because they
have been presented by the more pro-
| sale route of the mails, cucumber the
| oddity pigeon holes.
There are the shears used by An
drew Johnson in the days when he was
a tailor, a Powered dirk once the prop
erty of Gen. Lafayette, old papers
| which belonged to Thomas Jefferson
and of still nearer interest, the night
robe worn by President Mckinley, on
| his death bed.
A Buffalo woman who claims to have
made the historic gown in which the
martyred President breathed his last,
offers the garment for a reasonable
price. Director of Exhibits Skiff, sug-
! gested in his answer, that he could not
conceive of any other than the widow
of the revered President. being in
possession of such a relic.
A proud parent offers to rent his
S-year-old son, who weighs $50 pounds.
He has been informed that the ex-
position classification makes no provis-
ion for the exhibition of boys of any
age. A mummifed cat and rat, the
cat lying on the left side while it
holds the rat in its mouth, also es-
capes the classification.
Palmyra, N. Y, has the printing
! press on which was printed the first
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

living IL life of sacrifice away from her
friends because her husband lies buried
in that country. Capt. F'ollett and
wife came to Texas from England and
settled on a big ranch. The captain
was successful and made money. His
wife, a refined and cultured woman,
endured the early privations because
she was with her husband and because
he was doing we'll. After years of
hard work, when they had gathered
about them great droves of cattle and
had built themselves a luxurious home,
the husband was taken suddenly i'll and
died. His wife, instead of having him
buried in a cemetery. had him laid in
the ground in the yard in front of their
home. The little mound that marks
his resting place is still there. Friends
came to the assistance of the wife and
gave her advice and all the assistance
that generous Texans can give.
cat length she settled down to liv-
ing again absolutely alone and unpro-
tected. She keeps no help on the ranch,
as none is needed except when it is
necessary to brand her cattle or when
they are taken to market. On these
occasions she calls in the neighbors.
But she has no one living in the house
with her and prefers to be alone with
her dead-lying there in the yard Her
a piano and her library and magazines.
People visiting her home could scarcely
believe from the interior that they were
in the very heart of the cattle coun-
try, far from civilization. She plays
the piano eXquisitely, and all the best
class of music find it's way into her
ranch house. People passing that way
late at night are often astonished to
hear the sound of a piano played by
expert hands coming from the house
She is intensely loyal to her husbands
memory. On the piano at the moment
OF his death was a white duck helmet
which he wore on the plains. 1t lay
where he cast it the last day he wore
1t. 1t has never been moved from the
piano, and the devoted wife will not
let it be moved
In the rear of the house is a little
gate that hangs about half way open.
capt. Toilet the last trip he made
through this gate before his illness.
left 1t open, and his wife has never
allowed it to be closed. 1t hangs there
to-day just as it did when he passed
through 1t the last time Mrs. Follett
is always glad to have people come
ana see her for a short call but she
will not hear of any one STAYING with
her for the sake of keeping her COM
pany. She prefers to be alone out there
IN the great solitude, living out her
life within few feet of his grave and
waiting to join him in the great be-
yond. That's what I call devotion and
One'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

She left the home of her mother at
No 1874 West Twenty-third street, Mon
day afternoon, saying she was going to
the public library, two blocks away.
She was accompanied by her pet Bos-
ton terrier.
Il shall only be gone a few minutes,
mother" she said, cheerfully; "only to
the library to get book"
In five minutes Miss Toombs was in
the public library, at No. 100 West
Twenty-third street, and chatting
pleasantly with one of the superintend-
ents According to this superintend-
ent's story Miss Toombs called TO as
certain if her name had been acted on
faVorably, so that she might take out a
book.
No Sign of Mental Trouble.
The superintendent replied that the
application had not been reported on
and asked Miss Toombs to call later
and she would endeavor meanwhile to
ascertain the cause of the delay. Miss
Toombs did not appear to be Vexed. On
the contrary. she was inclined to lie
laxative, and she and the superintend-
ent, a young woman of about her own
age, chatted for half an hour.
Fifteen minutes later Miss Toombs
entered the office of Bellevue Hospital
Kim was with her. She asked to see
the physician in charge of the insane
ward. DR.. Packer was summoned Miss
! Toombs said she had some misgivings
about her mental condition. She did
not give her correct name. Her efforts
to conceal her identity, more than any
outward signs, caused her case to be
considered sufficiently serious to war
rant her detention in the insane ward
Miss Toombs had been away from
her mothers house just one hour when
Mrs. Toombs began to wonder why her
daughter had not returned. Mrs
Toombs notified her son, Frederick
who has an office in Park place. and lie
began at once a search for the missing
girl. He went to all the hospitals in
the city, making inquiry at Bellevue
but failed to find his sister, because
she had been entered under anote1
name. He went to the West Thrtieth
Street Police Station and to the West
Twenty-second Street Police Station
but his inquiries were unavailing.
Decides to Go Home.
When daylight came he FASTENED to
police headquarters. and a general
alarm was sent out to all the police
stations of the city, and detectives
were put on the track of the missing
young woman.
Calmly and without the slightest
show of excitement Miss Toombs told
the Bellevue physicians yesterday that
she had given an assumed name; that
her real name was Marion Toombs,
and she thought she might as well go
back home. as she had concluded she
did not require treatment. Astounded
the doctors FASTENED to send word to
the anxious mother of the Young
woman and she was removed from
the hospital yesterday afternoon.
At Bellevue DR.. Packer, in charge
of the insane ward said
Miss Toombs came here. entered
under an assumed name, and has been
sent back home. That's all we have
to say about the case"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25
ONE WOMAN'S DEVOTION.
A Texas Wife's Loyalty to Her Dead
Husbands Memory.
From the Indlanapolis Journal.

From the Indianapolis Journal
An Indianapolis young woman whose
winters are spent in Texas, where her
father has thousands of cattle and
acres of grass to feed them on, always
brings North with her a fund of in
teresting stories from the Lone Star
State.
The greatest case OF woman's de-
votion to the memory of a dead hus-
band know Of" said she. sis to be
found on big ranch in the foothills
of the Sierra Madre mountains. She
is a sweet faced English Woman who Is
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25
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MISS TOMBS IN BELLEVUE.
While an Errand, Suddenly
Thought Her Mind Was Affected

WINE on an EFranu, suddenly
Thought Her Mind Was Affected
From the New York World.
The finding Of Marion Toombs in the
insane ward of Bellevue Hospital, with
her pet dog Kim, yesterday afternoon
was even more mysterious than the
sudden departure of the pretty young
woman from the home of her mother
the day before.
Miss Toombs is the daughter of the
late Samuel Toombs, who figured con-
spicuously in New Jersey political af-
fairs. She is a relative of the late Gen.
Robert Toombs of Georgia, one of the
most picturesque leaders of the Con-
federacy.
The Toombs family is one of the most
aristocratic Of the South. Miss Marion
Toombs inherited from it an imperious
beauty which would make her cOnspic-
uous in any company, and love for
books, music and art.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25
STORIES BY BANKERS.
From the New York worl,

The bankers special that left San
francisco on Tuesday night freighted
with good things to eat and drink. as
well as with large portion of the
financial talent of the country, carried
also some good stories.
Great bankers, like everybody else,
talK shop when they get together. They
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

at is curious" said Mr.. G. B. Lati-
mer, secretary of the Irving Savings
Institution, how people get ratified
when they try to do their first business
with a bank
Il know a literary chap, good writer
and all that, but with absolutely no
business sense, who suddenly decided
the thing for him to do was to start
a bank account. He came in to see
me about it, 1 asked him how much
he had, and he said ne had saved $50.
1 told him we rarely started accounts
on such small deposits, but would make
an exception in his case to encourage
thrift and school him in business.
He went through the preliminaries
nervously, signed the signature card,
put his money in and got a nice new
bank book. BY that time he was all
fiustered. They gave him a check book
and he decided he would have to have
some money for present use. The re-
ceiVing teller introduced him to the
paying teller and he inquired the pro-
cedure of checking out money. The
paying teller explained at length. Then
my literary friend went over to the
desk and wrote a check for his entire
$50, got the money and went out"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25
FOyc&ECkStcin
News Our Ready Made Is Fast Becoming
Recognized Fashion Center of This Seo More Style Variety Than All 0he

1t
Ian aId Carmen eer n Savanna There other bL hmet
W ar
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

told stories about funny banking ex-
periences. Here is bouquet of them
culled between New York and Chi
cago:
The Lady and the Bank.
"Fine" said Mr. A. A. Knowles,
cashier of the Mechanics National
Bank. Reminds me of the lovely lady
whose husband started an account for
her in my bank. She drew and drew
until she had a good-sized overdraft.
We notified her to come and fix it up.
"She wrote a charming letter, saying
her social duties would not allow her
to call that morning, but as she knew
business affairs must always be at
tended to she took great pleasure in
sending me a check to settle the ac-
count And, by George, the check was
on my own bank and on the account
that was overdrawn!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

The marshal of st. Marys has voluntar-
lily resigned.
Downs girls take physical culture les
sons on the lawn mower.
The pleasant occupation of Westmore-
land lads these days is shooting craps and
chewing each others ears off.
\ drawing attraction at the Mound
Branch, Elk county, prayer meetings is the
serving of ice cream and cake.
Burden vandals are so destitute of
amusement that they deface and upset
the cemetery monuments and tombstones.
A Howard citizen has 1000 ferrets on hr'
ranch. The Topeka police are thinking of
purchasing a few in order to ferret out
the joints.
An eggciting time at Logan Yves caused
by the runaway of a grocer's wagon con-
tanning hen fruit. Several cases were de-
molished
The pastor of the Phillipsburg Metho-
dist church thanks the children for passing
by his garden and leaving the roses anG
fruit untouched
for the return of lost mosquito bar baby
dress. Isn't that rather u breezy gown
even for dog days2
About the most guileless man heard from
lately is located at ELK City. he declaIes
in his suit for divorce that his wife aban-
doned him without cause.
A Clay Center groceryman's idea Of
heaven is a place where all the customers
will come in and pay their bills promptly
on the first day of the month.
A Lincoln county pioneer who is having
the measles for the second time, wonders
If he is reaching his second childhood. His
first effort was ~ years ago.
At Wakefield a colored man was engaged
to help in threshing when the white hands
quit. The map sh0wes Wakefield to be in
Kansas, and not South Carolina.
Salinas August court docket shows six
teen divorce cases for trial 1t is to ho
hoped that the attorneys will not make
insists of the suits even If the pastors did
| These are stirring times. Papers contain
ing the death notice of the Leavenworth
/ soldiers home superintendent also contain
the announcement of several candidates
/ for the vacancy.
A boat launched in the Cottonwood al
/ Smporia was christened with aqua pura
I but no name suggested. AS the craft has
/ to do entirely with water, why not style il
/ THE Carrie Nation -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
JEERS MAY CAUSE SUICIDE
Girl in Elgin, Discovered in THEFT,
Seeks Drowning to Hide Disgrace.

Elgin, ILL.,, Aug unable to bear the
humiliation which followed the discov-
cry of stealing IS from a guest at her
mothers home, Annie Durrenberger,
aged IA years, daughter of Mrs. Rosina
Durrenberger, BOG River street. climbed
the railing of the Kimball street bridge
across the Fox river and was about to
plunge into the water when the superin-
tendent of a boat livery saw her and
persuaded her to abandon the plan. She
said she had failed this time, but she
would try it again.
The girl was confronted by children
in the neighborhood who had learned of
the theft They pointed their fingers at
her and tainted her and she could find
no playmates or companions. and so.
shamed beyond endurance. she decided
upon suicide. Measures will be taken
to have the child placed in the state
home for girls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07

son. Among those whose agent and rep
resentative he was were Wendell Phil
lips, Charles Sumner, Henry Ward
Beecher. John B. Cough. Joseph Jeffer-
son. George w. Gable. Mark Twain, Bill
Nye, and James Whitcomb Riley. The
extent and nature of his work are indi-
Gated by the fact that he Travelled with
Mr.. Beecher nearly three hundred thou
sand miles, and spent the last summer
of Mr.. Beecher's life with him in Eng
land. during which time. under his ar
rangements. Mr.. Beecher preached sew
enteen times and delivered nine public
addI esses and ffty-eight lectures.
Mr.. Ponds imperturbable good humor,
broad human sympathies. naive enthus-
siasm, personal as well as professional
interest in the men whom he represent
ed. delight in the work of both enter
tanning and educating the audiences to
whom he introduced them, coupled with
his high ethical ideals, gave him easily
a front rank in a profession which he
may almost be said to have created. We
do not think that in that profession he
ever allowed himself to be the instru
ment of lecturers whose influence on
American life was otherwise than bene-
fetal, or of entertainments which were
other than innocent, healthful and, in
the broad sense of the term, elevating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
ATTACK CANADIAN PACIFIC
Bears Make an Onslaught on the Do
rninion Road.

New York Aug. 7.-Yesterday's late i'm
proVement in the stock market was con-
tinued at today's opening, no. little en-
coura cement coming from London. where
prices for Americans were generally Nigh
err The better tone was not long sustain
ed however, profit taking and further
liquidation for weak account causing re
cessions in all the active stocks till in
many instances prices went below yester-
days closing.
Part of the liquidating was in virginia
Carolina Chemical. which was freely OF
fered at a slight advance. II IS known
that one prominent stock exchange house
closed out loans for at least two banking
houses Indications point to continuance
of these tactics for some time to come
Especial weakness developed in Canadian
Pacific and the Virginia-Chemical during
the noon hour.
The attack on Canadian Pacific was ac-
companied by rumors of trouble in Mon
treal Word was received by several COM
mission houses that the Montreal exchange
had decided to hold only morning sessions
for the remainder of the summer season;
In the second hour of the afternoon the
market became very dull, with some recoN-
cries from the low Level.