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Attorney-at-LaW.

Practice In I'll the Courts IN lows.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
Husbands of Famous wives.

The unknown man walked down the
aisle of the smoking car and stopped
where another unknown man sat read
ing voraciously, says the Princeton
May 1 sit by you?" he asked meek
ly.
Certainly" replied the occupant,
without looking up May as well be
sociable. Rice is my name"
And Freeman is mine. May 1 ask
what you are reading?"
Certainly"
"Well, what are you reading"
"' Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch.'"
Pure trash, have my wife's word
for it,"
who's your wife?'' inquired the
original occupant, beginning to betray
signs of interest.
MY wife is Mrs. Freeman" with
some signs of pique.
Never heard of her Literary shark,
is she? My wife's strong for Mrs.
Wigs. You see-er, why, she wrots
it."
My dear SIR" shouted the quondam
critic, there seems to be a fatal mis-
understanding somewhere. Let me in
troduce myself again as Mr.. Mary e.
Wilkins Freeman"
"And l." grinned the man with the
book, lam Mr.. Alice Caldwell Hogan
Rice, of course. Why didn't we do this
before? Happy to know you"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
Picture Frame sprouted.

The dryness of the present summer
was the subject under discussion, says
the Philadelphia Record. The talk, in
little while, veered naturally to the
dampness of some of the summers of
the past, A clergyman then told an
appropriate story.
THE dampest summer / remember
was in the year 18-, but 1 am no good
at dates" he said. AT any rate,
there happened in my house during
that summer an almost incredible
thing.
~ had bought in the spring a frame
of oak, decorated at the corners with
acorns. 1 had put in this frame my
Chester Heights for the season, all
of us, and the house was closed from
June till September. That was very
damp summer. Violins and cameras
fell apart. Furniture came unglued.
Your clothes would mildew while you
slept--one morning 1 even found a
little mildew on my whiskers.
I'm September, on returning home, !
discovered nothing but mold and un-
glued furniture, and in the library /
discovered a little oak tree growing
from each corner of the frame of my
wife's picture. The exhilarating eff
feet of the dampness on the frames
four acorns, together with the rich soil
that a thick coating of dust supplied
had caused the acorns to sprout
There, on the frame, were four little
trees, each several inches high II
was a pretty and an unusual sight"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
Personal.

Capt. Gordon Casserly, of the Eng
lish Army, in his book on THE Land
of the Boxers" records his surprise at
meeting in a Chinese city a pigtailed
individual who addressed him in fluent
English with a Yankee twang. DO
you live in Samchun?' 1 asked him, in
surprise. Not much, you bet! he re-
piled: I don't belong to this darned
country any more. l live in Frisco. "
Rev. Father John Chadwick, late a
chaplain on the receiving-ship Column
bia, al the Brooklyn navy yard, has
rendered his resignation TO President
Roosevelt. 1t is understood that the
clergyman desired to return to pas
toral work and it is expected that he
York city from Archbishop Farley.
Father Chadwick became famous as the
chaplain of the Maine at the time of
the explosion in Havana harbor.
Rev. DR.. Arthur ]. Brown, secre-
tary of the Presbyterian foreign mis-
sions, saws that the five men who i'm
pressed him most profoundly on his
recent journey around the world were
all Asiatics: Chatteyee of India, Yuan
Shih Kai, then Governor of the prov
ince of Shantum, China, and now the
successor of Lii Hung Chang as viceroy
of Chee-Lee; Kataoka, the president OF
the lower house in Japan; Chaolaleng-
ko, the King of Siam, and last, but not
least a subject of that King, Boon
Boon
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
The Tale of Butterby's Kid


Old man Butterfly hated Bob,
And Bob he equally hated him,
And as each was onto his shooting job,
1t seemed that some ones show was
slim.
For from Butterby's ranch to Bob's
home place
Was a mile or so, and that was ALL
So the boys all said, as they viewed
they case:
Well, Bob and Butterfly met one day
Twas a thing of course, they were
bound to do
And each of them put a tree in his
way,
And then, you bet, the bullets flew.
Bob's arm stuck out, and he got a
ball
Right where it's passage was bound
to hurt.
And old man Butterfly had a call
From a bullet that injured the side of
his shirt.
But they stuck to their trees as if
they were glued.
And they hurled some names that are
not in the books.
"Come out!'' said Bob, and his tone
was rude.
"You dassent,' said Butterfly; "dern
your loOkS!"
And the air was full of bullets and
filings,
And adjectives dire of a red-hot
brand,
| And they knew that Death on mis- mis-
ty wings
Was waiting about to take a hand.
Come out" cried Bob, you cowardly
curl"
IT,, l,4- -I
thoughts were hot
laugh rang out where the bushes
And into the open there strayed a
tot
A wee little tot with curly hair.
| And eyes with dreams in their blue
depths hid,
The farest thing on the mountain
there,
And her laughter was sweet-it was
Butterby's kid.
Her eyes met Bobs, and she laughed
again
AS she toddled straight to the tree
where he stood.
"Ive lost my dolly" she said, but,
zen,
! dess AT OOH find it; pose at 90
could"
Bob kissed the babe. and he left the
tree
shoot II you please" he cried. "dern
you
There's n Job right here that Is calm
me-"
Said Butterfly then: I'm damned
II | do"
There Is peace to-day on Butterhy's
bill
There Is peace In the home and the
heart ~ Bob.
And she sounds ~ strife are hushed
and sfill.
And ibe coroner yet b. minus 4 Job
! don't 80 much on Guessing and such.
huf J hope DE angel fha record hld
~ EuiferhYf oath, ~, With gentle
touch,
Wrote only "F0rFiFrn bafauaa az
fhf Eid"
,-Aifrsd . Waierhouas.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
THE CONVICT QUESTION.


It is well understood of course that
one of the most important questions
which the Legislature win have to set
tie at this session is that of the dis
position to be made of the state con-
victs. The present convict system is
not satisfactory to a very considerable
percentage of the people, and it is
probable that an effort will be made to
abandon it. Since there has grown up
such strong sentiment in favor of
good roads there seems to be a pretty
widely entertained opinion that the
benefit the state would receive in the
long run from working the convicts on
the roads would be greater than in
leasing them.
The chief objection to using them in
road-making is the states financial
needs. The states revenue is now
hardly equal to the demands upon it,
and it is practically certain that the
amendment to the constitution limiting
the tax rate to five mills for all pur-
poses will be passed by the Legisla-
ture and approved by the people.
Where would the money come from
with which to maintain the convicts if
employed by the state on the roads?
1t is estimated that If the present
system is continued for another term
of five years the state will be able to
get for the hire of the convicts from
75 to 100 per cent. more for their labor
than it is now getting, adding to the
income of the state s35O,O0O to $500, 900
year. If the convicts were to be put
at work on the highways the state
would not only get no income from
them. but would be at a very large
expense for their support. The ques-
ton which then presents itself is this:
If the tax rate is limited to mills can
the state afford to use the convicts in
| improving the public roads?
We have not heard the arguments on
this point of those who are urging a
change in the system. If they can
point out how the state is to meet its
obligations if the income from the hire
of the convicts is given up and the
burden of supporting them is added to
its other obligations they will remove
the main objection to the adoption of
| their views
At the last session the Senate passed
bill authorizing the leasing of the
convicts for another term of five years.
1t is probable therefore that the chief
directors to the present system are
members of the House. If they can
remove the financial difficulties in the
way Of the adoption of the road build
ing system there may chance for the
adoption of that system.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
THE SECURITIES OF THE STEEL
TRUST.

Stock brokers in New York are hav-
ing very little to do. Nobody seems to
be anxious to speculate. There has
been such a remarkable fall in the
prices of nearly all securities that there
is timidty in buying. Besides, there
seems to be quite general desire to
see what the crops promise. With the
exception of the wheat crop little can
be said about the crop outlook that is
definite.
The dullness in the stock market is
not causing uneasiness, however. 1t
is rather welcomed by conservative
brokers and financiers. 1t removes
the strain from the banks and affords
them an opportunity to get rid of some
of the undigested securities which they
are carrying.
1t is thought to be strange that the
securities of the United States Steel
Corporation are so weak. Last week
the bonds. which pay 5 per cent, sold
for less than SO cents on the dollar,
the first preferred stock, which pays Z
per cent. for less than SO cents, and
the common stock, which pays per
cent, for less than 80 cents.
If this great corporation were not
in a prosperous condition these prices
would cause no comment, but as a
matter of fact, its last report showed
that after ii had paid all OF its fixed
charges and the dividend on the COM
mon strock, it had a surplus of $35,000,'
900. That surplus was earned in one
year. It's net earnings would have to
| fall off $50, 600. 900 a year before there
would be a default in the interest on
the bonds.
Clearly the investing public has but
little confidence in the big corporation.
1t is believed there is too much water
| in it's stock and bonds-that the va
rious plants which are in the cOmbina-
ton are not worth what they are cap
italized at, and that if hard times
should come the earnings would fall off
to such an extent that the corporation
might be wrecked.
And, perhaps, there is another thing
they are afraid of, and that is that
| the DeODle III the near IUtulF Vii
sist upon a very substantial reduction
in the steel and iron schedules of the
tariff reduction in these schedules
would force a reduction in the prices
of steel and iron products.
A very small reduction would inter-
fere very materially with the earnings
of all iron and steel plants, though
pretty large reduction would be neces-
sary to wipe out the United States
Steel Corporations surplus. A period
of hard times, such as the country ex-
perienced in 1893, would hurt that cor
poraton, and all other iron and steel
plants, more than a reduction in the
steel schedules of the tariff. Inves-
tors are probably a little anxious as
to the effect hard times would have
upon iron and steel manufacturing, and
they prefer to wait and see how the
billion dollar steel trust would stand
period of business depression before
putting money in its securities. But,
whatever the reason, it's securities do
not seem to be favorites with inves-
tors.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30

BRIGHT BITS.

-"Smuthers is in an awful state
now" Mental, physical, or Ken
tucky."-Cincinnati Commercial-Trib-
une.
why did she marry him?" I give
it up. He wasn't bad enough to need
reforming or good enough to make a
desirable husband. Judge.
81 can't see what you find in me
to admire" said the lovelorn youth. "
That's just what everybody else
ays.'-Chicago Daily News.
Proud Father-"Rick my boy, if
you live up TO your Grafton you'll be
an honor to the family" Valedictorian
81 expect to do better than that, IA
Their. / am going to try to live up to
the baccalaureate sermon. Chicago
Tribune.
well, there is one thing that can
be said of Crawfoot. Although he went
fishing himself on the Sabbath he
didn't let his little son fish II am
glad to hear that. Was the boy at
Sunday school?' mo, batting the
hooks. Chicago Daily News.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Joseph Devlin Branch,
limited Irish League of America.
Special Notices-Ship Notices, J. F.
Minis & Co; July Interest, Savannah
Electric Company; Bids for Feed, Po-
lice Department.
Business Notices-Flour. A. M. & c.
W. West: Need a New Lamp, G. w.
Thomas.
Amusements-Hop at Hotel Tybee
Tonight; Cakewalk at Isle of Hope To-
night.
This Man Made s5OOO-savannah In
vestment Company.
Railroads.&c. You Going East, At
Iantic Coast Line.
Honday-The Savannah Steam Laun-
dry.
Dents Dog Remedies-Shuptrine's
Drug Stores.
Calomel and Soda--At Rowlinski's.
Sporting Goods-wm. & II. H. Lat
timore.
Whiskies-The Delmonico Company.
Auction sales-Househo1d and Kitch-
en- Furniture, by 1. D. LaRoche, Auc-
tioneer. &
Foods-F'orce.
Silverware-Th Gorham Company.
Medical-Cuticura; Peruna; Mulls
Grape Tonic.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted; Employment Wanted;
For Rent; For Sale; Lost Personal;
Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark (Dem.)
says: What they call the Socialist
party in Germany does not at all cor
respond to the American idea of social
ism. These German Socialists are so
called from a monarchical point of
view. They are opposed to the En-
peror, who regards them as his per-
sonal enemies and remarked, before
the recent election, that anybody who
voted for a Socialist candidate would
have him to reckon with! The enor-
nous gains made by the Socialists in
that election ought to help the Kaiser
to realize that he had better put off
the time of reckoning as long as he
can"
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
Ond.) says: "T. Thomas Fortune re-
turns from the Philippines convinced
that the islands are just the place for
the negroes but no place at all for
white men. Senator Morgan of Ala
bama ought to be pleased by such a
report from the Presidents special Ia
Dor commissioner. For Mr.. Morgan
says he favored the acquisition of the
islands in order that the negroes of
the United States might be sent there
as settlers. Gen. George w. Davis,
however. has written a strong report
on the impracticability of negro he
gira to the archipelago. The scheme
Is on a par with the African emigration
idea of Bishop Turner"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem. }
says: July ! being at hand. the cot
ton corner has now reached the sum-
nit. and the interesting problem con-
fronts the gentlemen who are running
II how they are 10 get down the other
side without being crushed under the
rapidly descs@ ding mass. Any man
who can set sufficient financial backing
can corner wheat, or corn, or cotton and
run the price up 70 dizzy altitude.
bat before BE- can get out u the deal
he has got 20 sell the stuff he has been
buying without breaking the price.
That IL the point az which nearly al
nla naRers ~ rorners have fuceuLlbe1.
M. Brown ~ New Orleans Gays he Is
selling cotton ~ the mills and that
there is famine for Dry goods an
oyer the world, buf he b. frank enough
40 admit met f0ne N fhe cotton mills
ere shutting down 90 account ~ tho
price ~ 90 staple ana fhaf me nfW
crop promises ~ ~ chs biggest ever
Gafhfree."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
THE "LAWsON's" FAILURE.

About year ago the schooner
| Thomas w. Lawson was put into COM
mission. with a great flourish of trump
cts. She was a world beat er-395 feet
long, so feet wide, "a feet deep, draught
| loaded 26A feet. displacement 10000
tons, seven masts, steel hull, $4,000
feet spread of canvas, and cost $780,
OOO Nothing like her was ever seen
before. 1t was believed She would rev.
olutionize the coastwise carrying trade:
that her great carrying capacity would
enable her to transport freights at a
low rate and thus she would never
| want for cargoes. A few days ago the
| announcement was made that the Law
son would be dismantled and turned
into barge, to be tOwed at sea from
port to port and that her cargoes would
be COAL Thus passes the glory of the
greatest schooner ever launched. and
with 1t the prospect of similar vessels
for the coastwise trade.
The owners who invested a quarter
OF a million dollars in a sailing vessel
would never have gone to the length
of dismantling her after bare twelve
months experience except for the very
best reasons. One year was enough
to convince them that the Lawson
was too big, deep and unwieldy. Her
great draught limited her trade to a
few ports At those ports it was not
possible to secure cargoes regularly and
quickly; and waits by so costly a craft
as the Lawson were expensive. At sea.
too, so large a vessel in schooner rig
was found to be unhandy. 1t is said
that even in favorable weather it re-
quired about an hour to bring her
about from one tack to the other, while
in adverse winds more time was neces-
sary 1t is said, further, that there
was practically no demand for coast
wise vessels of the carrying capacity
of the Lawson.
1t is probable, in view of these facts.
that there will be no more sailing YES
sells of such size as the Lawson built,
at least for a number of years There
must be more deep harbors and a
greater demand for large freight room
on single voyages before they will
be needed. Meanwhile steam vessels
for coastwise trade are increasing in
size and capacity. The ships of the
Savannah line to-day are as large as
were the transatlantic liners of a few
years ago, and they are operated prof
itably
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30

1t is rather surprising that no ''yel-
low" playwright has yet dramatized
the recent tragedy of Belgrade. 1t con-
tains all of the elements of 10, 20. 80
thriller-the fascinating widow, the
susceptible young King, the midnight
rush upon the palace, the hurried light
ing of candles in the dark, the leaping
from stairs to stairs, the shrieks OF
royal ladies and the curses of noble
gentlemen, the come and go Of soldiers
and guards of the royal apartments
and at the climax the splendid duel of
Alexander with the traducers of his
wife. All told, the plot is one that
should appeal to the popular priced
aggregations. 1t is plot ready-made
and wanting only in a little papier-
mache and red-light establishment.
The next theatrical season ought, real
ly, to see the production of The Doom
of Draga, or the Last of the Obreno-
witches" on the stage. with such emil
nent stars as. say, Young Corbett"
and Florence Burns in the leading
parts.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
ReDtnded Him of Home.

1t was one of those early-morning
cars, says the New York Press, with
all of the passengers in a hurry and
the conductor nervous. They were
making good time until they struck a
downtown street with a wagon loaded
with hay on the tracks. The motor
man approached it cautiously, until
his fender almost touched the rural
team. Then silently he allowed his
car 10 creep along behind the hay
wagon. The passengers began to get
nervous during the first block; the sec
ond block found them mad, and the
third block had them kicking. Still the
motorman crept along, not SO much as
ringing his bell. Finally the conductor
went to the front platform and ex-
claimed:
say why don't you ring your bell
and get that hay wagon out of the
way?"
Il just can't do it," answered the
motorman; 1T reminds me so OF
home"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30

A Kansas court has decided that to
call a man a kansas jackass" is SLAM
derous, and that the man to whom the
epithet is applied may recover dam
ages by process of law. An appeal has
been taken and the matter will go to
the Supreme Court. We have no doubt
that the lower court will be sustained.
1t is bad enough to be called jack
ass, but Kansas jackass" is simply
outrageous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30

The success of William P. Brown in
cornering July cotton has given rise
to a variety of rumors, one of which
is that Brown and those associated
with him in his cotton speculation have
organized a gigantic trust which will
control absolutely the cotton trade of
this country, and hence of the world.
According to this sensational report,
which had it's origin in New Orleans,
those associated with Mr.. Brown i'm
clude some of the wealthiest men in
New York, London, Liverpool and Ant
werr. 1t is also said that in the COM
bination are many prominent business
men and cotton planters of the South,
the planters agreeing not to sell a bale
of cotton for less than a price agreed
upon by the combination.
1t is doubtful if there is any founda-
ton for this story. 1t is a fact, of
course, that Mr.. Brown and his asso-
ciates have shown that they have COM
mand of very large amount of money
On last Friday $4,000 bales of cotton
were rendered to them on their July
deal which they took. paid for and
Said they were ready to take any
amount offered. No doubt many thou
sands of bales were delivered to them
yesterday and many thousands more
will be delivered to them to-day. They
will take the cotton and pay cash for it,
showing that they are well prepared for
carrying through their deal to the end.
Settlement, of course, will have to
be made to-day, and Mr.. Brown and
his associates will doubtless be able
to dictate the terms of 1t. The amount
of their profits is not known to the
public and will not be known definite
ly to them until the deal is closed
One estimate places it as high as $1O,-
| O00, 900. 1t seems that Mr.. Brown and
| his friends have been buying July OPP
| tions ever since last August, and that
| their holdings are enormous. Much OF
| the cotton they hold cost them
| less than cents a pound. On Satur-
| day July cotton sold as high as Il
cents. 1t is evident, therefore, that
Mr.. Brown and his associates could
settle with the shorts at 10 cents a
/ pound and still make an immense sum
| That they have made a wonderfully
successful deal in cotton futures is
certain, but it is pretty safe to say
! that there is no truth i'm the report
that they are in a great combination
to control the cotton output of this
country. That would be a too big sr
undertaking.