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a. POUNDS. cried out the passenger.
can't you stop the coachp
ihe upside wheels were turning 30 fast
ne thought II was q runaway
O. howietts knowledge Of coaching, az
Peculiar.' He had story Of the road to
Illustrate every subject brought up. A
ne nnished this one the coach drew up at
the Mansion House, New Brunswick. There
was a row OF automobiles before the door,
Philadelphia road coach the pavement
would w,, be crowded with bicycles. Query:
VIII the horse outlast the automobile pleas
ure tourist as 1t has the bicycling pleasure
After New Brunswick the route is
southerly, beginning with a picturesque
bit past old Colonial villas and In view Of
the Raritan. thereafter through a pretty
farming country and scattered hamlets
TO Freehold. Thence through another
stretch Of farms and woods TO Farming
the six and half miles TO Lakewood in
thirty-hve minutes. Ordinarily a road
coach docs not weigh more than 2, 400 pounds,
but the Liberty is heavier and weighs 5000
pounds. The passengers add materially
built In Paris, on the lines Of an old English
mail coach, for James Gordon Bennett.
II il painted in the colors Of the Royal Mail,
black and maroon. with red running gear,
and the guards coat Is the governmental
livery. The harness il all imported from
England, each set being black with russell
reins, but the collars were made here and
fitted to each horse. Both thereafter are
known in the coach service by the same
number, horse and collar being insepara-
BILE. There are ten teams used each way,
and. as an extra horse is left at each
change and changed about on the team.
there Ia a day of rest for one horse every
fifth day, while all rest on Sundays. The
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At the booking Offices Of the road coaches
no special rules are In force as TO whom the
tickets shall be sold As at a theatre Office,
the only rule is first come, first served.
one way or 500 for the entire coach. The
box seat Is 50 extra. On the Ardsley coach
the single fare IL So and round trip IS. the
box seat being 81 extra each way. The
full coach Of twelve outside seats is 500.
The tariff on the coaches to Morris Park
is usually IS for the round trip. Seats must
be booked well In advance, and II Is not
often that single seats may be taken. On
the Ardsley coach single seats may be
booked only on Saturdays: The season OF
the Ardsley and Lakewood coaches viii be
about forty days, after which the horses
will be sold at auction. New outfits OF
horses, the rule being Ave to a change,
are bought before the start OF each road
coach and they are sold on after the season.
The ventures, except on short runs during
are not promoted to make money The
margin OF loss. however, depends on such
variable conditions as the state OF the
weather and the shape OF the horses when
the coach IL taken of the road. 40 that IL
is impossible to fix n hard and fast rule
10 govern the expenditures.
The Ardslcy coach, the Pioneer, is owned
and put on by the Coaching Club. with the
support of its members who volunteer to
do the driving each season. This year
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. Mr.. Rves
will he the coachman on the opening run
tomorrow, when Center Hitchcock he's
taken the coach for the trip. The coach
leaves the Holland House at 1880 o'clock
each morning and arrives at the Ardsey
Club at l o'clock in the afternoon. and on
the turn trip the coach leaves the Ardsiey
Club at $50 o'clock and arrives at the Hol-
Is nd House at Q o'clock. The teams are
changed at I3sth street, Kingsbridge. ion-
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DIG CATFISH WAKES UP.
Takes q Light breakfast Of Eeis on April =,
It's F1rst Meal In seven Months.

The big Mississippi River catfish at the
Aquarium. which passes Its winters in a
state Of Information, took it's first food this
W ar on April 4. which is earlier than usual
In 1907 II att for the first time after its
winter period OF 1poss on April rs and
In 1901 on April 80.
The big catfish took its last food in 1907
on Aug. Is; 20 that its period Of abstcntion
for tho winter ~ ason OF le02-s Was seven
months and twenty days, which Is about
the usual duration: for, Will. It b gan
eating this y, ar somewhat earlier than
usual, Il b. gan it's fast last var rather
earlier than usual.
In its river home this big catfish would
bury itsc II In the mud In winter and there
lie til spring came. Here 1t rettk on the
bottom Of the tank and lies motionless,
sometimes for weeks on . STR tch. II may
at long intervals scratch its II q little on
the gray, lily bottom OF the tank, but COM
monty, like a carved nah. IL lies motionless.
Then, when the water b. gins warming
up again, with the n turn Of spring. the big
fsh wakes up and IL n ady for brv akfast
Its insuGuraf me al for the y ason Of isoe
vas Q pound and . half Of cells.
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finished: a nth Is under way, and ALL or
nearly all. will be SO made over. In pursuance
Of purpose to give to the tanks a greater
naturalness Of appearance. and 10 give 70
the fishes more nearly natural surrouno-
inp. .u.
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In design. and the materials used In the
several tanks will be almost as varied.
Thus Of those already finished one IL lined
with traprock and one with tufa; one will be
lined with basalt from the Palisades, and
one or more with coral rock from the Ber.
mudas
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rAyERNS FOR FINNY DWELLERs.
Turks OF the Aquarium Being Trandermed
With nockwork.

-Four Of the Aquarium's tanks have now
been refined with rookwork. In place Of the
uiing with which they were originally
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08
THE REAL HABSBURG
AN ENGLISH LORD

Lord Denbigh, who has been here in
command of the visiting Honorable
Artillery Company of London, is a
scion of the House of Habsburg. and
therefore a distant cousin to the EN-
peror of Austria. In fact, the Emperor
REPRESENTS the Habsburgs only through
the female line. the male line in his
branch of the family having become ex-
tinct with the death of the father of
the celebrated Maria Theresa. So Lord
Denbigh is really the head of the house
of Hahsburg.
In spite of that he is an Englishman
from away back" and the novelist
Fielding, the author of Tom Jones
and Amelia is a collateral ancestor
of his.
For centuries the Earls of Denbigh
have used Fielding as a family name.
The novelist placed the '1'' before the
'e" in his name because he took that
within.
Lord Denbigh bears to-day among
his titles those of Count of Habsburg
and Rheinfelden, and it is from the
Rheinfelden that the family name OF
Fielding is taken.
1t seems that away back in the
twelfth century, before Rudolph of
Habsburg had laid the foundation of
the greatness of his house, one of the
family came over to England and set
tied there, founding the line OF Fielding
of which Lord Denbigh is the head.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08
RUSSIA'S CAPTAIN SLOCUM.
How He YOyaged from the Black
Sea to COnstantiuOpIe.


Ever and again some adventurous
Yankee crosses the ocean, or attempts
to cross it, in a small sailboat Capt.
Joshua Slocum made a famous voyage
around the world in sailboat so
small that few people would care to
go outside of land-locked harbor in
it, and he made the remarkable voy-
age, entirely alone.
To Americans therefore, who are IA
miliar with such instances of success
full maritime daring. the adventure of
Simon Strabrovsky. a Russian fisher
man, will not seem anything very Won
derfCl, through all Russia is very
proud just now of its daring sailor
fisherman.
Simon, who lives in Odessa, has
made a trip across the Black sea, and
sailed down the Bosphorus to Con-
stantinople.
On his return he put in at two Black
sea ports, where he was hailed as q
hero, and his fellow townsmen of
Odessa gave him a public reception
when he got home again.
Simon made the trip to the Turkish
capital alone in a sailboat about twen-
ty feet long. The Russians, who prob
ably never heard of Capt. Slocum, or
of the Yankee dories which have cross
ed the Atlantic. hailed the trip as the
greatest thing of the kind ever known,
and presented a purse containing 81, 900
to the navigator as n testimonial of
their high regard for his great daring.
One popularity of Simon's trip was
that he navigated without the aid Of
a compass, shaping his course by the
stars.
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ed possession of certain documents
which have been missing for half
century and for which a reward of
900 was offered once without
avail But Mr.. Jennings says he has
the papers and that they prove his
claims. He is now in London to prose-
cute his suit before the Court of Chan
Gerry.
The Jennings estate is said to
amount, with accumulations, to some
$500 900, 900.
Another claimant case, not ancient
like those mentioned, but of modern
origin, is the Druce-Portland case.
Hollamby bruce is now in London,
where he arrived from Australia, try
ing to establish his right to the title
and estates of the fifth Duke of Port
land, who, he says, was his grand
father.
Mr.. bruce claims that under the
name Of Thomas Charles bruce, the
old Duke, who was an eccentric per-
son, lived in London as a shop keeper
and there married the claimant s
grandmother. In London the old Duke
finally shook off the character Of
bruce, and caused it to be announced
that the shopkeeper was dead He had
an empty coffin buried under mon
ument bearing his name. Then the
Duke went pack TO WalDeck ABBEY
and lived thereafter in his proper per-
son, dying without acknowledged heirs,
and his vast property went with the
title to another branch of the family.
Now Hollamby bruce wants to have
the coffin of the alleged bruce dug up
to prove that it is empty, and he is so
confident that he can establish his
claims to be the heir of the Duke of
Portland. that syndicate has been
formed in Melbourne to finance the
suit he intends to bring.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08
D0-MEK -I.SEE.

Long time ago, chillun. befo' you
great-great-granie dem was horned
dere come a dry season when tings
was berry bad, an muffin at all would
grow in a de groun'.
BREEDER Anancy an him family dem
was often berry hungry, an couldn't
tink what fe do fe get something fe
nyam (eat).
But Anancy him was a cleber man,
so him sit down an tink it all ober.
Den him say to himself:
"Cho, Anancy me boy, you too much
fool-fool! You tan here like jackass
an try fe feed you wife an you ten
pickney. Why you don go an Leah
dem an try fe you'self alone? Mebbe
you no grow rich man, but you sut'n'-
ly no hab fe share everything you get
wild eleben pusson."
So, accordin', mex marnin' at de
breakfus' time. when dere was no
breakfus,' Anancy say fearful to him
family:
'Oh, me dear wife an me ten sweet
pickney! Times is berry hard, fe true;
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muslin will do. But by no means
cover the top; that must be left open.
Above the box fasten one of your
mirrors so that you can incline it to
any angle you desire. This can be
done by carrying cords from the four
corners to the top Of the curtain, or
by means. of cleats nailed to each of
the opposite sides of the box and ex-
tending perpendicularly above it.
Put the other mirror inside the box,
allowing the upper edge of the glass
to rest against the closed side of the
box and it's face to front the open side
of the box.
Incline the mirror IN the box, and
also incline the mirror above it, which
must face in the opposite direction, in
such manner that any images cast
upon the lower mirror will be again
reflected to the upper mirror.
Drape your curtains SO that the
part of the room that extends behind
the box is shut off and concealed from
any person in any portion of the apart
ment.
Arrange the folds on each side Of the
box so that the curtain side of the
box and the hidden part of the room
occupied by the performers.
Let the room behind the curtain be
as brilliantly lighted as possible.
Whatever the performers in the
brilliantly lighted hidden part of the
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08

more distant.
Be careful to arrange your curtains
so that they seem to fall behind, as
well as on each side of the box, for if
the spectators suspect that the other
side of the box Chat opposite to the
one presented to view) is open, they
will detect the trick.
AS many comic little incidents can
be shown as the exhibitors can invent;
if at any loss for ideas in this respect
an inexhaustible supply of suggestions
can be obtained from the comic sup
plements in our daily newspapers.
Let the face of the mirror presented
to the audience be covered with a
cloth between acts.
Let all the lights in the part of the
room occupied by the audience be
turned out while the pictures are being
exhibited.
An additional feature of interest in
these homemade biographs is that
the actors may, If they chose to do so,
introduce speaking parts, which, of
course, is impossible in ordinary bio
graphs. Indeed, there is nothing to
prevent an entire little play from be-
ing acted. in which the diminutive i'm
ages on the mirror are the apparent
performers.
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"A HOJI1HOngT CALLE ARlYPOT'' SHE POT
CHI ne DO11EXTJEE

an you, me poo family. neber get
huff fe eat. Me hab mex UP me
mind fe go out into de cold, cCuel
world an try an get some money fe
feed you wild"
Dat speech mex Anancy family
weep an say to demself:
"Sutt'n'ly, dear Anancy de braves
man! Him goin' into de hard world fe
we get bread fe we fe eat"
So mex day Anancy tex all de bread
dat was in de house an set out pom
him journey.
AS him was walkin' long. him come
pom one big cotton tree dat was at
de corner oh two roads, so him sit
down pom de roots an consider which
road him better TEX. AS him was sit
tin dere an considerin', him see a big
old iron pot in de road, so him say:
"A web you da do dere, you ole iron
pot?"
"A you no mus call me iron pot"
say de pot.
"A web me fe call you. den?" ask
Anancy.
Call me Do-Mex-I-see.' de pot re-
ply.
Well, den, an a howdy dis marn-
in BREEDER o-Nek-I-See," said Anan-
cy, berry polite.
No sooner was dem words out OBJ him
mout dan de pot begin fe boil an
bubble an bubble an boil, an soon
ii was full oh rice an peas an okra
an callalu an salt fish an akee an all
manner OBJ nice tings fe eat.
Anancy look pom it in wunner. but
him soon grab de pot an eat cherry
ting at one go, so greedy dat him boo
tummack hurt him.
Still him no satisfy. an him say
''Do-Mek-I-See" once more.
De pot boil up again, but dis time
1t was full OBJ oder tings-banana an
plantain an yam.
"Lahd!" Anancy cry, dancin' wild
JOY. Me nebber see such a pot Me
tex 1t home, an den me neber be hun
cry no more"
TEX me home, den," say de pot.
but don wash me, or 1 neber boil
again"
Alright, BREEDER. me TEX care fe
nebber wash you" And Anancy carry
de pot back to him hut
When Anancy reach home, him wife
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08
PEOPLE WHO LIVE
BY TASTING THINGS.

There are many people in this world
who make a good living by having a
cultivated palate. Their sense of taste
is such that by exercising it they can
be assured of a big yearly income.
Anyone who visits the tea district
in New York will see in the offices of
the big dealers men who forever taste
tea out of tiny cups. These are the
tea-tasters, and though they never
drink tea, their sense of taste is SO
accurate that they can tell at once
the grade and value of the tea in the
boxes from which their samples are
taken.
In every large wine dealing estab-
lishment there is a wine-taster who
never swallows wine, but whose BUSH
ness it is to taste samples of all wines
and decide upon their quality. He can
tell when a wine is ready to be put on
the market and just what its grade is.
But the most curious branch of the
tasting profession is one which has
lately become a paying business for
women in Paris. There several women
earn good salaries by driving from one
house to another just before dinner is
ready to serve and tasting the various
dishes which the cook has prepared
They taste, they criticise they rec
ommend addition of some flavoring or
seasoning, and then rush away in their
carriages to the house of the next GUS
toner
They are called dinner-tasters. and
a part of their duty is to suggest i'm
prOvements in the manner of prepar-
ing dishes.
Thus, if one cook is inclined to use
too much salt in his dishes and an
other too little, these things are jotted
down and a report made to the mas
ter of the household who thereupon
requests the cook to reform his ways.
This business of dinner-tasting is
said to be one which cannot be follow
ed for any length of time without in
tervals of rest, for, paradoxical as it
may sem, a dinner-taster, if she kept
continuously at her trade, would be in
danger of starving to DEATH
OF course the faster never eats of
the food which she examines, but
merely tastes it, and this continual
tasting of so many different kinds of
food gives her a disgust for food of all
kinds, so that it is with the greatest
difficulty she can bring herself to eat
a square meal.
So once in a while the dinner faster
has to take a month off but she gets
excellent pay while she works, and
can afford to loaf at least one third of
the time and eat something.
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an all him family gader 'roun' him
an ask if him bring anything fe eat.
But Anancy shake him head berry
mournful an say:
Alas! me poo chillun, times is berry
hard all de world ober, an me hah
fe come back home wild nuttin' at all"
But, Anancy, what you da do wild
dat ole iron pot?" Mrs. Anancy ask
him. why you no trow it away?"
well, 1 jes' pick it up fe luck. Dem
say ole iron always bring luck"
SO Anancy TEX de pot to him room
an bar de door, an say to de pot:
-MekI-See.'
An de pot boil up more rice an
peas, an Anancy eat 1t all up.
Dis sort OBJ ting go on fe some time
an while Anancy him gettin' fatter
an fatter him family gettin thinner
an thinner.
Dat mex Anancy's bigges' son wun-
ner what him fader dom. So one
day him follow him fader upstairs an
peep trew de keyhole an see Anancy
boil up de pot.
Him new say muffin at ALL but JUS
crawl salty, saftly downstairs an tell
him moder an him family.
Dem all stay berry quiet till Anancy
go out 'fe look once more fe food fe
me poo starvin' fambly," an when
him gone dem all run upstairs an say
-Mek-I-See" to de pot till dem all
well satisfy.
Mrs. Anancy was a clean woman.
She couldn't abear fe Leah anything dir
ty. An so, when dem finish dem din
ner, she TEX de pot an wash it clear
befo' she go downstairs again.
Little later, Anancy come home from
him second journey into de cold world
berry hungry. Him hurry to de room
an TEX up de pot an say "Do-Mek-I-
See" but de pot wouldn't boil. Den him
see dat it been washed out clean, an
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08
A HOMEMADE
BIOGRAPH
By J. CARTER BEARD.
ADVENTURE NO. 8.
illustrated by the Author.

The lights are all turned out. The
spectators sit in utter darkness. Sud-
denly a cloth is pulled away and a
square of light appears.
Upon this are seen moving pictures
far clearer and more distinct than in
any ordinary biograph. The pictures
are perfectly steady, having none of
the distressing pickering and vibra-
ton which is so unpleasant a peculiar
ity of ordinary moving pictures.
In addition, every picture is colored
to the life. 1t is a most interesting
and enjoyable exhibition, and the best
of it is that instead of needing hun
dreds of dollars to prepare it costs
little or nothing except a small amount
of time and trouble.
There really is nothing more required
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08

And they would not have noticed II.
Paint Polly's hat a red as gay
AS brush can make it! Then in gray
Paint Polly's apron. Striped with green
Her skirt and waist are to be seen.
Her shoes are red, her stockings black.
The eels, though seen but from the
back.
Are gorgeous as they can be;
Paint Mother Eers hat, strong and
free.
With your brush full of splendid blue,
The little eel is pink all through.
Then paint with very dainty stroke
Water, pale green, DER all these folk,
Next Sunday all of you shall meet
The real sea serpent, all complete.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08

him know what happen.
Him couldn't say nuttin', so him &C
fe anoder walk till him come to de
same cotton tree by de cross roads, an
deere him see big cowslxin whip lyin
pom de groun'.
"A web you da do dere, you ole cow
skin whip?" Anancy say.
"A you no mus call me cowskin
whip" say de whip.
"A web me fe cain you den?" An
ancy ask.
call me Do Mek-I-See'."
"Ah!" Anancy link. "anodder good
find" So him say DC Mek-I-See,' -
at de top oh him voice.
AS him say de words, de whip began
fe beat an lash him till him poor flesh
hurt all ober.
Laid, me king! me good Nasal"
Anancy below. stop, good Massa
Whip, an me neber say dose rude
words again.
So de whip stop.
Den Anancy pick up de whip an
TEX it home an put it in him room an
wait outside de window fe watch what
him family do mex.
When dem tink him gone, Mrs. An
ancy an him family creep salty, saft-
1y up to de room. She try de pot an
find it dom boil. an den she see de
whip an say:
DO Mek-I-See."
De whip jump up an fly bout de
room, beatin' and lashin' dem all. Mrs.
Anancy cry, an de chillun cry an dem
all howl togeder. but de whip no stop.
Now, chillun, all dis time Anancy was
iistenin' trew de window. When him
hear de noise stop at las him get into
de room an look 'roun' fe him family,
but him see muffin at all but one big
black spider an ten little black spiders
Him look at dem close an see dem was
him wife an him ten pickney. De whip
had beat dem all into little. wiz
en-up Anancy spiders, an dat is why
up to dis dey Anancy spider lib in hole
In de wall an walk pom de ceilin'.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08

room do, will be instantly reflected, of
course, by the mirror in the box, and
that reflection will be reflected again
by the mirror hanging overhead.
Ascertain how far away from the
box you have to station a group of
performers, in order to bring them in
to the field of vision, namely, the
space bounded by the frames of the
mirror for, of course, it will not do
at all to have them so near the mir
rors that only portions of them can be
seen.
1t is astonishing, in fact, how rapid
~ an image cast upon rejecting sur
face diminishes in size as the object
from which it is reflected becomes
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08
wiggles

Presto! escapes, and off he wriggles.
The fisherman thinks this no merit;
If cells were rougher, he'd prefer it.
But that is the wrong point of view;
If you were cells and cells were you
No doubt you'd like your skin to be
AS sliIS.ry as it can be.
These thoughts did not arise in Polly:
She merely thought the cells were jolly
Ridiculous, and as they twined,
To giggle she felt half inclined.
The cells did not remark her faces;
They were so full of airs and graces
That Polly might have laughed to
split
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08
than twO looking- classes, a box and a

than two looking glasses, a box and a
curtain.
Hang the curtain so as to divide the
room into two parts, and get any kind
of an old wooden box, large enough to
hold one of the two mirrors.
You may safely borrow the mirrors,
for they need not be injured in the
least by the use you make of them.
In case you cannot get mirrors, plain
glass smoked or painted black on one
side, or even with one side merely COW
cred with black cloth side toward the
spectators.
1t will be better to make your box
presentable by covering three sides of
it with some kind of fabric; paper
The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-08

Rev. Z. B. Saunders. pastor Of the
Seventh Day Baptist Church of Shiloh
N. j., was taken suddenly Ill last
Saturday and members of the con-
gregation were at a loss for someone
to act as substitute. The church was
well filed when Miss Mary Dixon,
popular teacher In the public schooi
here. walked up into the pulpit ana
delivered an excellent sermon. So &C
ceptably did Miss Dixon preach that
her many friends are advising her 70
abandon her profession as school teach
or and enter the ministry