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The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
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BRIGHT BITS.

If Smith asks You out over Sunday,
Remember that If you should go
You'll have to eat truck from his gar
den.
And really, you'd better say mo"
New York Sun.
Say" whispered the stranger in
church, what's this collection for?'
This Offering" replied the man with
the collection plate, 'is for foreign
missions" That's all right, then"
said the stranger, producing a dollar.
Il was goin' to say if it's fur the choir
it amt worth it"-Philadelphia Press.
His Opinion.--''I see that prize
fighters fight in a ring" remarked
Miss Giddygirl. What kind of a ring
is it?''
"An engagement ring is used fol-
sparring," replied the old bachelor
but when it is to be a fight to fin.
ish a wedding ring is used, believe
Chicago News.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meeting-G. E. Club.

Meeting-G. Il. Clup.
Special Notices-Storm Insurance,
Coney & Morris; For Rent, Charles
F. Fulton.
Business Notices-Do You Want
Good Thing? G. w. Thomas; A Good
Cigar, Solomons Co.
Observation-Disclosures Week of Plays
at Bohan's Pavilion, Commencing
Next Sunday.
Notice of Seizure-United States In
ternal Revenue Service.
Convict Labor for Hire-Prison Com
mission of Georgia.
Heinzs Table Delicacies-The Del
monico Company.
New Ranges Now In-Wm. & H. H.
baltimore.
shun the substitutes-Rowlinski
Pharmacist.
The One-Legged Mann. Wilensky
Legal Notices-In the Matter of VIII
liam NJ. Simmons of Bulloch. Bankrupt.
Friday Special Sale-Gustave Eek
stein & Co.
Colored Wash Goods-Daniel Hogan.
Fall Hats-Falk's, Around the Cor
ner.
Success Baking Powder-Morehouse
Manufacturing Company.
Savannah Theater-Herrmann, the
Great, Tonight.
Educational-Learn to Write Short
hand, Richmond's Business College.
Silver Polish--The Gorham Co.
Medical Cascarets; Chamberlain
Remedies.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
A BRUTALIZfNG PUNISHMENT.

The Legislature having notified the
Prison Commission that IL does not
want women convicts f1ogged the COM
mission is considering some other
method of punishment for them when
they refuse to comply with the prison
regulations. 1t seems that Gov. Ter
rell has advised the commissioners to
find out from the prison officials OF
other states the means employed to
punish oonvicts who break prison rules
While he is about it he should use
his influence to have the lash abol-
ished from the penitentiary. In the
hands of most prison officials it is
brutalizing in the highest degree. II
is not the desire OF the people that
those sent to the penitentiary, whether
men or women. young or OLD, should
be subject to treatment that makes
them worse than they were before
they became inmates Of the peniten-
tiary
In our Atlanta dispatches yesterday
it was stated that Dr. Adams. the
prison physician at Milledgeville, had
said. in a card in one of the Atlanta
newspapers, that the use of the whip
in infiicting punishment upon the con-
victs was brutalising and degrading
and that he did not approve of It.
He doubtless has had many oppor.
tunlties to observe the effects OF the
hoggngs administered to the convicts
and speaks advisedly Now that
this matter is before the people let
there be such reform as will have
their approval
1t Is worthy OF notice that the scan
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
His words of wisdom.

IT desars to expostulate fun a mo-
ment, bruddren and sistahs," said good
old Parson Woollimon, in the midst of
one of his recent sermons, according
to Tom p. Morgan in Puck, ION dis
yuh pint OBJ trustin' in Providence.
Putt yo trust in Providence, but at
de same time sawtuh contaminate yo'
zeal wild a meditation OBJ good sense.
Doan f1atter yosef dat yo' am de
whole posse and dat Providence ain
got no bizniz on hand 'ceptin' to wait
on yo' whims and needcessities Do yo'
paht, and trust in Providence to do
fun yo' what yo' ain able to do fun
yo'se'f.
"Doan decline in de shade, waitin'
fun de ravens to come and fill yo'
hongry moufs wild combustables. Doan
expect de she bears to come powin' and
promulgatin' outen de woods and de-
YOUR ev'ybody dat differs wild yo'. I
tells yo alls dat de ravens was done
EFT out oh nutriment long ago, and
de she bears is all dated years and
years ahead. De ravens ain runnin
no free boa'din' house no mo-, and dar
ain no manner in de wilderness as
long as dar's job OBJ whitewashin' to he
had. When yo' enemy despitefulIv
utilities yo'. leabe him to de ecstacies
oh his conscience or de Vaccinations oh
de Grand Jury, whicheber happens 10
git a-holt OBJ him fust. Trust In Prov
idence, muh bruddren and muh sis.
tabs; but do de best yo' kin TO make
it wuth while fun Providence to waste
its Voluble time a-pestlin' wild yo'!"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
The Man in the Moon.

They had been looking through the
telescope at Borel's comet, and now the
astronomer trained his instrument on
the moon.
you see the man in the moon?" he
said. mot much like a man through
the telescope, is he? Did you know
that we have been investigating the
man in the moon lately-fnding out
what myths this figure has given rise to
among different peoples?
In certain parts of Asia our man in
the moon is hare. He is an old wom-
an pounding rice in a mortar in China.
In South America. among the Indians,
he is a young girl. In Timor he is an
aged crone spinning. Among the peas
antry of France he is the traitor Judas
hanging in the gallows tree"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
THE CLEVELAND MOVEMENT.

We have not thought there was
much chance for the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland. and have regarded the at
tacks on him by Mr.. Bryan as simply
an indication of the latter's animosity,
but II seems that there is a strong
and growing sentiment all through the
New England and Middle States that
Mr.. Cleveland is the only man the
Democratic party can elect, and that
it can elect him. When there was so
much talk about his nomination a few
weeks ago it is doubtful if it was gen.
orally thought by Democrats that
there was much in it. The fact that
he had twice been President was
thought to be bar to his nomination.
Besides, the additional fact that he
was not in harmony with his party in
1896 and 1900 was considered by many
as settling the question as to the ad-
visibility of making him the party's
standard bearer.
Now the continual war that Mr..
Bryan has been keeping up on him IL
understood. He doubtless had inside
information that there was a strong
probability of his nomination. let
ter Yves read at Saratoga a day or two
ago from former United States Sena-
tor James Smith. Jr., of New Jersey,
in which he said that the Tammany
leaders were for the nomination of
MIR. Cleveland, and that in all proba-
bility the New York delegation would
be for him. Mr.. Smith also said that
there had been no effort to work up a
sentiment for Mr.. Cleveland. but that
Democrats all over the East were con-
WINGED that he was the man for them
to nominate.
Stranger things have happened than
the nomination of Mr.. Cleveland would
be, and yet his nomination would be
classed among the strange and unac-
countable things.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
Knew Their Tricks.

A certain corn chandler of London,
according to the London Answers, had
just engaged an assistant who hailed
from a little village near Leeds. This
youth was remarkably green" and
apparently it had been impressed upon
him by his friends in the village that
the sharp London people would try
and take a rise out of him. A custom
er entered the shop and when the
youth appeared said:
y want some bird seed, please"
TITS noa use, lad, tina kno's." an
swered the verdant one knowingly,
tina caI not hev me. Birds groas from
eggs, not seedu'
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

"Give me $4,000 and I will give you
back your WIFE" was the way kid
napper put it to John Hilsrow a
wealthy farmer of Sunbury, Ia. Mrs.
HllsFow saved her husband that $780,
600. While her captor was away she
made her escape from the cellar of
the deserted farm house wherein she
had been imprisoned. This would be a
pretty argument for her to employ
If there should ever be any discus
sion as to whether or not she really
needs a new hat.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

Ex-senator David B. Hill has very
little sympathy apparently with the
efforts that are being made to increase
the volume Of the currency and for a
more elastic currency. In his address
at Olcott Beach, N. Y, on Wednesday
before the Niagara Pioneers Associa-
ton, he said that the question was
whether the proposed currency legis-
lation was in the interest of the peo-
pie or otherwise. He seemed to think
II was otherwise" He called atten-
ton TO the opposition to it of Repre-
sentative Cannon, who will, in all prob
ability, be elected Speaker of the House
when Congress meets. He pointed out
that Mr.. Cannon called the proposed
currency rubber currency"
One reason Mr.. Hill gave why he did
not sympathize with the proposed leg
islation was that, according to the
plan that is favored by some of the
posted in national banks on approved
security" and by them lent to the peo-
pie. This approved security" is to be
state, municipal and railroad bonds.
Mr.. Hilrs idea is that instead of pill
ing up money in the treasury to be de-
posted in national banks the better
plan would be to reduce the tariff taxes,
so that there wouldn't be so much
money to be deposited in national
banks. In other words, he believes
hoN ~ Nv ha
ment should be left in the pockets of
the people. He doesn't sympathize
with the policy that takes more money
from the people than is needed in or
der that the national banks may have
1t to lend to the people at whatever
rates of interest they can get.
The Republican party, however, will
not reduce the tariff taxes, although
money is being piled up in the treasury,
1t is because there is so much money
in the treasury-so much more than
the government needs-that the effort
is being made to change the character
Of the security which national banks
have to give in order to get hold of 1T.
They have to give government bonds
now, though it seems the Secretary of
the Treasury has recently been taking
state bonds. What some of the finan-
ciers and national banks want is that
the government shall accept railroad
bonds. If that sort of security should
be accepted it is probable that in the
course of a short time the government
would have a queer collection of rail-
road bonds. Some of them would of
course be gilt-edged, but it is safe TO
say that most Of them wouldn't be so
classed in the bond market.
It is far better that the revenues
should be reduced by cutting down the
tariff taxes than that vast surplus
should be deposited in national banks
with railroad bonds as security for
it. Better let the people keep
their money than to take it from them,
and then lend 1t back to them at a big
rate of interest, the interest going to
enrich the banks. There may be need
for elastic currency legislation. but
the first thing to be done is to cut down
the surplus by reducing the tariff taxes
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

When young Macklin, the hero OF
Richard Harding Davis Central Amer
lean story, was looking for trouble he
found it reported as being bit gay
in the Balkans. F'But then" he OBJ
served, there's always trouble in the
BaAoans." The doughty young soldier,
fred from West Point, wanted field
that promised more activity. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether the Powers
may not yet kick up a rumpus there
that would have satisfied even the re-
doubtable Macklin.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

Turtle stories usually take rank with
fish stories Though turtles come out
of the sea, they are salted when eaten,
and a pinch can ordinarily be applied
with safety to stories about them.
When the member of the band tells
about the eight hundred-pounder he
turned on Tybee beach he should either
explain that he once starred as the
strong man of circus or that he had
a lever. People in the interior do not
all know that a stout pole is employed
in turning a big turtle.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

When q man and woman are arrest
ed upon charge of murder they
should not offer a statement in their
defense that outrages the paternal and
maternal instinct. Human hearts cam
not accept an explanation that violates
every conception of the love of parents
for their child. 1t seems ineonceivable
that the body of the 5-year-old boy
found in a coffee can aboard a railway
train could really have been placed
there by his parents after he had ac-
cidentaIly shot himself with his faith
er's revolver. They asserted that they
merely wanted to keep the matter
quiet
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

The Sherlock Holmeses and less emf,
nent sleuths of his acquaintance will
probably make life a burden to Detec-
tive William Marsden. who, as our
dispatches yesterday told, was shack
led by Albert Ecklund, a prisoner whom
he was taking from Wyoming to Chi
cago. Marsden was asleep when Eek
lund, who sat beside him, secured the
keys from the detectives pocket, re-
moved his own shackles and placed
them on Marsden. 1t must have been
interesting to hear Marsden trying to
explain to the trainmen, who would
not release him, that he was not justly
a prisoner.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

The Dohertys have won at tennis;
what will Upton do with his yacht?
The Dohertys are sticklers for form"
in tennis. They play with infinite
precision and studied movement. Amer
leans are more ineonoclastic, but the
victory of the Dohertys may be taken
to prove that form is really to be
courted and rules observed.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
POLISHED PLATE GLASS.

We are the Southern distributing
agents of the Penn-American Plate
Glass Co. We carry at our Atlanta
warehouse the largest stock in ths
South.
WINDOW GLASS, lots of II, all
sizes, single and double, at our ware
houses both in Savannah and in At
Ianta. Dowell Pins, Blind Staples
Glaciers Diamonds, Putty and Points.
Mail orders promptly shipped.
FL. COOLIDGE & BRO,
SAVANNAH. ATLANTA.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
PROPOSALS WANTED.

Fort Moultrie, S. c., Aug. IS, 1903
Sealed proposals in triplicate will be
received until IL a. m. Sept. H. 1908,
for constructing subsistence storehouse
ard fire apparatus house here. Infor-
nation furnished on application. U. s.
reserves right to accept or reject any
or all proposals or any part Thereon.
Envelopes containing proposals should
be marked Proposals for Construct
ion." addressed F. L. BUCK, @. M.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
Hoods Pills
Do not grippe nor irritate the alimer.
tary canal. They act gently vo.
promptly, cleanse effectually and
Give Comfort
Sold by all druggists. rs cents.
Saluda, N. c., July 80, 1909.
Sold by all druggists. 25 cents.

Saluda, N. c., July 80, 1903.
Kalola Company, Savannah, Ca:
Gentlemen-Last winter while in
Savannah | was troubled with indi.
geStion and rheumatism. | tried
many remedies without getting any
relief, and finally | got a bottle of
Kalola. After taking 1t was entirely
relieved of both troubles, and so far
have had no return. | can heartily
recommend Kalola to any one Attic
ted with rheumatism or indigestion.
Very truly yours,
7. E. McIVER.
Late Chief Clerk De Soto Hotel.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
The weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for fair weather, with varia-
bic winds. Eastern Florida, occasional
showers, with light to fresh south
xxipdQ
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

The movement TO erect a statue
to Gen. Butler in Devonshiae, Eng.
has assumed definite shape, Adrian
Jones having been commissioned To
execute a bronze equestrian statue. to
be erected az Exeter.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

The great American public, in it's
democracy, processes to scorn royalty
and the pomp and circumstance of
power and position. This scorn is not
real. Stronger than it by far is a
curiosity that prompts the eager read
ing Of news relating to a ruler or
anyone Immediately connected with
him. Young Kermit Roosevelt, be-
cause he happened to be aboard the
Decatur when she was rammed. is
now getting his picture in the papers.
His being there, because he was the
son of the President, was what news
paper men call a feature of the
story" The boy was in no more dam
ger than any one Of the possibly two
or three hundred aboard, but he
CHANGED to be the Presidents son. 1t
is reflected glory in which young
KERMIT basks. Roosevelt pere, not
Roosevelt fills, is the real hero.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21
"Take Ka1ola six days and
eat anything VOC want"

Correspondence solicited and samples
mailed to any address.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21

Colored Pin Dot Swiss; has been a
steady seller at zoe; to clean out the
lot we have cut them to
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-10-07
She let the Soft Sand Trlekle Slowly
Through Her sunhurned Fingers.

ne love her? And yet, why should he
say so II he did not?
At last she covered the sand letters
over and looked up. Jack" she
said. would you really do anything
for me7 Even II 1t was silly and
and awfully dangerous-just 70 prove
% me that you like met"
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-10-07

while their knights were in danger.
o. she wished tomorrow would come
when she might live again In the
twentieth century.
The searchlight Of sound steamer
was thrown on the rock, and by It's
light she could see the waves break
and smash about the ragged edgesi
Running close to the waters edge,
she looked up and down for a skin,
one Of the old fat boats she and
Jack so often flshed In. Finding one
far up on the shore, she dragged It
down to the water and jumped in.
Stroke by stroke she pulled out
toward the big rock, but the tide was
strong and the boat heavy. It seemed
hours before she came anywhere near
1t.
Jack, Jackl" she called. T'm-o
It's such hard pulling"
"Ellnor," was all Jack said as he
took hold of the rope with one hand
and hers with the other. The place
was not nearly so rough as It had
looked from a distance.
Jump In" she said.
But the night hasn't begun yet,
he replied, still standing on the rock
what" she almost gasped. "a
thought It must surely be morning
and that It was never going to gel
light"
ITS only land that wasn't latC
100 years ago."
Get in, Jack" she said, impa
tiently. She hoped no one was on
the shore to see.
81 would, II | but knew" he said
meaningly
Then know, Jack. and do come"
As Jack walked home from the lit
tie cottage that night he thought 100
years was the shortest space Of time
imaginable. He broke into a happy
whistle: IF l but knew-if l but
knew!"-Ruby Douglas in Boston
Globe.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-10-07
SHE DELlsERATED TOO LONG.
Old Lady Needed Time 70 Make Up
Her Mind.

Old Lady Needed Time 70 Make Up
Her Mind.
A large woman carrying heavy
bundle started to board Broadway
car the other days, says the New York
News. The car had been delayed
several minutes by a big truck, and
the conductor was 10 even more
genial mood than was his NO
The woman laborlously - the
bundle on the floor Of the ca, grasped
one Of the handrails and placed one
foot on the step. Then she paused.
What street is this, conductor?
she asked. "Thirtyseventh street,
madame. Step lively II you are going
with u.s." replied the Metropolitan en-
ploye, in the soft, persuasive tone
affected by his tribe,
How far is 1t to Twenty.seventh
street," continued the old woman.
Ten blocks, madame. For heavens
sake get on or get or
Now, don't get smart young man."
responded the old woman; your
nickels come easier than mine. |
don't know whether It's hardly worth
while to spend good money for a To-
block ride or not, and l amt goin' to
move until make up my mind"
There was a murderous CLEAN in
the conductors eye, and 1t is hard to
fortell just what would have happened
had not the old woman been COM
PEELED to loosen her hold on the car
just then by a passing dray.
As the car swept by 1t was easy to
see from her frantic gesticulations
that she had decided to spend her
money and ride. But 1t was too late
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-10-07

The water almost covers It and
splashes around 1t and makes q ter.
rible noise"
Does it," he asked. amused.
Eyes, and unless one is very good
swimmer one cannot possibly get In
until the tide goes out again, II one
is caught out there 1t would be
awful TO stay there all night"
Elinor shivered at the very thought
Of 1t. Should she go on?
"And what then? Who ever stayed
out there all night?" he asked, know.
ing well what was coming.
"Why-why, nobody" she hesltated.
Would you do III"
do you ask me to-" He looked at
her intently. She was building a
pyramid of sand.
I'D believe you II you did" she
said at length, and looked into his
eyes to see how he would receive the
suggestion.
And you'd like 10 believe me, Eli
nor? Tell me that-but, no, don't;
I'll do It. Are we not living a hun.
dred years ago."
Elinor wished now that he had
promised to do It, that she had not
asked It. Suppose a storm should
come up and the waves would dash
over the rock and sweep him of and
and he was not able to swim far
enough to reach the shore,
Jack" she said, a little nervously
Tets move forward hundred years;
| don't like 1t way back here. IL
might believe YOU"
But Jack would not pass over the
century so quickly. He would do as
she had asked him; he would spend
the night on the big rock and then
she might believe him.
Elinor sat in the window OF their
summer cottage on the shore and
watched the tide come in, wave by
wave. One by one the shadows fell
and the figure out on the rock became
less and less distinct. At last she
had to go out to the beach to see It
at all.
Higher and higher grew the water
mark about the rock and yet the
figure did not move 1t sat on the
topmost point, looking out over the
sound.
At last II was too dark to see the
figure on the rock and Elinor walked
up and down the beach In front Of the
cottage. She was supposed to have
retired, but somehow 1t seemed to
useless to pretend to sleep.
She wondered II the ladies In the
centuries long ago slept on as usual
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-10-07
IF | But Knew"

Elinor glanced roguishly at the
young man sitting dejectedly beside
her on the sand at Milton point.
You may have as many minutes
as this sand takes to run through
my fingers" she said, taking up a
handful OF warm. white sand from
the beach And then II you con.
tinue to be disagreeable and cross,
Ill-well, never mind. you'll regret
II, Mr.. Jack Robinson"
She let the soft sand trlckle slowly
through her sun-burned fingers like
a minute glass as she hummed care.
lessly, softly III But Knew"
The young man turned impatlently
aud looked out across the broad ex-
panse of water. How easily the
white-winged yachts skinned over
the water. He wished his little craft
tf love would run so smoothly.
"Elinor," he said turning to her,
will you stop singing that song?"
When your present 1T OF Ill temper
flows over" she retorted. watching
the last few grains OF sand fall from
her fingers. III but knew your
heart was true" she hummed on, ig.
nornlg him.
See here, what can | do to prove
to you that am sincere?" He
watched her dust the sand from her
pretty palm.
DO? You make me feel like 4
princess of we olden time. Then
brave knights won fair ladies by acts
Of courage, but now"
Yes, now" he said, looking up at
her eagerly.
70, now we don't even take a mans
word for anything" And Elinor
laughed, merry, captivating laugh,
which chased away the frowns from
Jacks brow. He could never be angry
with her for long.
Suppose we play We are living
100 years ago." she said, after a
minute.
IN play anything you like"
And do anything like?" she ask.
ed looking at him obviously. Her
tone was haltserious, half.playful.
Anything" he replied, firmly,
That is provided you'll accept that
as proof that love you. I've said
all can TO no avail"
Ellnor did not reply nor look up;
she was tracing her name in the sand
thinking. She had tried to believe
Jack, but, somehow. at times. she
doubted that he really meant all he
said.
He was such a serious sort Of a
fellow, and she-O. she was frivolous
and scatter-brained. according to her
own estimate Of herself. Why should