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New-York tribune., 1903-06-30

ther adds, this is religious people, a ts essen
tiaI IN the webeing Of the commune, mg,na,;on for
T S: 4e55 plead for such an ,ta eaucadH iII then
every illiterate citizen; ana tne !. zone huge
6scG GSr;sian parsonage, mighty growth aln IN
e.at5ra as big and compact in virtue
body"
APPEAL FOR NATIONAL AfrHof No
TI0NS
New-York tribune., 1903-06-30

CD Since the nation can neither repeal the
Fifteenth Amendment nor enforce negro suf-
frage under the Fourteenth, what solution of the
negro problem remains? Endowed with ON
nipotent sovereignty to educate the people
maintain that education and education alone
is the nations supreme obligation. Behold the
serried ranks of a stupendous army greater
than XerxeS or Alexander Tamerlane ever
led to battle. six million illiterate Americans
already conquerors of our outposts and march
ing straight against the strongholds of the ma
ton, Before 1t fortresses crumble and citadels
fall down like the-walls of Jericho. Nothing on
earth can oppose il but the dynamic force
of education. That power is in your hands: if
you would not call down the maedictfons of the
civilized world, if you would not commit a crime
against humanity itself, then use ii and drive
from land illiteracy and all It's hosts of evil
So tonight / plead for education. l plead for
education, that Washington called the 'object
of primary Importance" TO the Republic plead
for education, that Jefferson declared necessary
to every State in the Union. 1 plead for educa-
tion, that Webster argued was the foundation of
all our institutions. 1 plead for education, that
Summer maintained essential to national
defence. / plead for education. that Garfield de-
manded as the complement of the Rebellion.
plead for education for ail-the fifteen million
voters and the eighty million citizens: educa-
ton that shall be compulsory-enforced upon
every illiterate by the strong arm of the Nation
education that shall be Observation-Disclosures
habits of industry and right Views of manual
labor: education that shall be intellectual-that
may have men far above dull brGtes
dued.' "men who their duties know, but know
their rights with minds enthused and thought
alert to all the Wondrous possibilities of citizen
ship in this Republic; education that shall be
moral and religious-that larger education of the
people, Webster expressed it, In which "a
profound religious feeling is to be instilled and
pure morality inculcated under all circum-
stances" because whatever makes men good
Christians" ne said, makes them good cti-
zens': and because. as the Supreme Court fur
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

give my crazy tongue"
He put on his hat and hurried down
the steps before she could reply.
When John Hamilton Knox reached
his club late that evening he found
letter awaiting him.
i Dear Rock-a-Bye Man." it read.
81 did not know until this afternoon.
How could L? You have never given
me the slightest inkling before. did
want to hide in the chimney closet.
but my mother dragged me out. Any
way, it isn't real engagement, and
if it were, not all the earls (and
mothers) in the world could keep me
from you; If you care to hear these
things first hand, without the wretched
medium of paper and ink, come at once
to your happy Peppers"
Conventional evening dress is a sad
makeshift for silver armor, and a rock
ing hanson, with a none too sober
driver, is a poor substitute for a white
charger. There are times, however,
when such discrepancies are over
looked
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16
PEPPERS AND
ROCK-A-BYE MAN
BY T. BLAIR EATON.

The romance really began that day
she first nestled contentedly in his
arms, took his measure-which evil
IDENTIFY gave her perfect satisfaction
with pair of wide-open blue eyes,
and chewed his watch-fob with all the
sang froid of her thirteen months.
Because she had the habit of twist
ing her pudsy neck and regarding
him for several silent moments with
big eyes which blinked anon. he had
come to call her Peppers. And be-
cause-when she was a little older,
and her understanding and language
were somewhat improved-she spent
many delightful evening hour on his
knees, listening to his stories while
he rocked her to and fro. she came to
know him as the Rock-a-Bye Man. A
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

down of existing pole lines ana the
removal of the wires.
The Western Union Company was
then far more in the ascendant than
now. the Postal Company being still
in its infancy, comparatively speaking,
and II was Western Union wires and
poles that encumbered Broadway The
passage of the measure ordering their
removal was very generally hailed
with JOY, and people looked to see It
effectively carried out at once. But
for some reason, day after day, week
after week. and month after month,
the poles remained.
Day after day, week after week and
month after month. too, the newspa-
pers entered protests, but without re-
suit. until at last there grew up sus-
picion that the measure was not pass
ed for the purpose Of causing the re-
moVal Of the poles, but for the purpose
of graft" After a while there were
open charges that Tammany officials
were being paid to allow the wires to
remain.
In time this came to be generally
believed, in spite of Mayor Grants
assurance that he purposed causing
the removal of the wires, in due time
should the company neglect to obey
tne law.
Just what were the true facts in the
case the public has never known. It
seems probable, however, that the
Western Union people believed 1t
would never actually be forced to take
its wires from the streets, since moth
ing whatever was done by them in that
direction.
Finally the Mayor issued a notice
that the poles and wires must be re-
moved by a certain date, even if he
had to attend to it personally.
Most of the newspapers treated this
as a joke. though one or two took it
half seriously. The people seemed to
take no stock whatever in Mr.. Grants
threat, while the company calmly ig-
nored it. On the day after the date
mentioned in the notice, however,
something in the nature of a surprise
occurred. For on that day Mayor
Grant, supported by a large and en-
thusiastic band of brawny axmen.
himself also bearing an ak, issued
forth upon Broadway, and laid about
themselves most vigorously, cutting
down the poles.
Naturally this caused the greatest
excitement. Closely following the
Mayor and his men came a valiant
band of newspaper reporters, and,
quickly gathering about them, a great
crowd of people.
AS pole after pole succumbed to the
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

great friendship sprang up between
them. AS she grew older he grew
younger; as she grew more serious
he grew gayer. In which, manner
it came about that Peppers and the
Rock-a-Bye Man reached a common
ground of thought, which was very
sacred to her. and was none the less
sacred to him because 1t was aIso-to
his analytical mind-very amusing.
When she reached the mature age
of six, she spent a long, delightful
summer in the country. She had
spent every other long summer in the
country. but they had not been the de-
lightful summers this one was. This
one remained in her memory with a
setting of rose and gold because the
Rock-a-Bye Man was quartered at a
neighboring hotel They walked to-
gether through enchanted fields; they
strolled in fairy woods, where every
corner was peopied for her by the
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16
new YORK TOPICS
GOSSIP AND CURRENT COMMENT
FROM THE METROPOLIS.

Will Tammany Hall Nominate Hugh
j. Grant for MayOrf-He Was
Mayor of the Big Town Several
Years Ago, and SignaIized Him
self by ChOppinE Down the Tele-
graph Poles on BrOHdway-The
Midsummer Season "A Quiet One in
the Publishing Trade TO All APP
pearances, but 1t Is by No Means
So in Some Inside Departments
Presses Busy Printing Books for
the Autumn Trade, and some Few
Writers and Artists Even Doing
the Finishing Touches.
New York, Aug. 15.-The suggestion
made within the past week that per
haps Tammany Hall will select Hugh
]. Grant for its mayoralty candidate
this fall has led to a lot of political
"Reminiscences Overhauling among the
old timers.
Hugh J. Grant was chief executive
of the city in the early days of Gro
ker's dominion, and was brave of
no mean renown as far back as John
Keuy's chieftainship. 1t was while
Grant was Mayor that the FIRST eHec-
tive steps toward underground traffic
were taken and, to speak Hibernically,
it was Hugh ]. Grants strong right
arm that took the steps.
That was in 1883. 1 think, though it
may have been a year or two earlier
or later.
In those days underground telegraph
and telephone wires even were practi-
oany unknown in America, and Broad
way was dishgured by rows of enor-
mously tall telegraph poles, carrying
many lines of wires. These poles were
execrated by everybody in the city ex-
cept the telegraph people themselves,
and. after a period of agitation that
lasted several years, city ordinance
was adopted making it unlawful to
string overhead wires in any except a
few streets. and ordering the cutting
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

he has done his wife, thereby making
their home life again a joy instead of
an everlasting sorrow for both. To
many a wife he has opened the world
of motherhood. III in all, too much
praise cannot be bestowed upon the
doctor for the good he has done to
womankind: there is not a specialist
in America who has accomplished half
as much. And it should be borne in
mind that this discovery is SO genu-
inely marvellous that IN NO IN
STANCE HAS THE DOCTOR FOUND
1T NECESSARY TO USE THE
KNIFE. Any lady can go to him feel
ing sure that her cure will be brought
about in painless way.
WHICH DISEASE AFFLICTs your
The doctor wants to see at his office
all women and young ladies who suffer
in any way from womb, ovarian, va
ginal, menstrual or uterine troubles,
women who are thin. pale, thin blood
ed, cold, nervous, weak or hysterical;
girls just becoming women to whom
the menstrual period is trying ordeal.
AS well as those who suffer from the
green sickness" elderly women who
are approaching the change of life with
difficulty as we'll as women who are
chronically constipated, who suffer
from piles, dizzy spells fainting spells,
or sick headache. All such sick wom-
en- the doctor would like to have call
at his office If they can possibly do so,
and if not, they should write him a per-
sonal letter and he will tell them ex-
actly what to do free of charge and
send a free book on the subject of his
discovery for women, which we are
sure will interest all ladies.
DIR. HATHAWAY WILL CURE YOU.
The doctor is anxious to meet and to
hear from all sick women OF any age
and wherever they may be- He has
made their diseases a special study for
two generations and now that he is in
possession of a treatment that will
cure them 1t would seem that no sick
woman will experiment any longer
with patent remedies or with family
doctors who do not understand your
case. DR.. Hathaway can take the sick
est, thinnest, most hystrical woman
and make her robust strong and
steady-nerved in very short time.
| We know so many instances where he
has done this that we see no good rea-
son why he should not be able to do II
in your case. He, has the knack of
knowing just what is the matter with
a sick woman and he will surely be
able to give you the treatment that
will cure. Call on him in person IL
you can; otherwise explain your suf-
fering in a letter and he will answer
you promptly. His full address is:
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

books. In one instance of this sort
book that had lain dormant on the
book shelves for months was stimuli
lated into sale of nearly a thousand
within a week, and the sale continued,
though not so extensively, of course,
for some time later.
There are those who aver that some
Of the publishers publicity men" de-
vote a great deal of time and ingen-
uity to the invention of good anecdotes
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

about the writer's their publishers are
pushing. 1t is far from the intention
of this writer, though, to assert that
this statement is a true one, but it is
certain that good stories of their
writer's are largely sought for by all
the literary press agents. Nothing ex-
cept' the actual excellence of given
book will help it's sale so much as
good yarn about it's author.
Duane.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

Lady readers of The News who suf-
fer from any disease peculiar to the
sex will do well to investigate the
method recently announced by DR.. j.
Newton Hathaway, a physician scien-
list long and favorably known
throughout our Southern country and
particlarly to the readers of The News.
1t is something entirely new in the
practice of medicine and yet is along
the strictest scientific principles and
entirely in accord with the most adj
vanced medical knowledge. There is
no questioning the fact that to-day
this treatment stands pre-eminent as
the greatest treatment ever discovered
for WORKOUT, sickly women and young
girls.
NOT MERE MAKEsHIFT.
Let the reader understand that this is
a scientific course treatment, not
a mere tonic "suppository or
cone" such as are so widely adver-
tised nowadays and which after all do
so little genuine good. AT the most
they benefit you only temporarily, and
when you stop taking them your old
trouble quickly comes back on you.
DR.. Hathaways treatment. on the con-
trary. is for the entire constitution, and
the benefits derived are guaranteed
re lament. Each treatment is pre-
pared according to the individual needs
~ each person. and seldom are any
two treatments the same, because as
is well known. no two human beings
are alike in their requirements. That
is one good reason why patent medi-
cines and other ready-made cures
50 seldom do any good in spite of the
fact that many poor people spend hun
dreds of dollars on them yearly.
INDIVIDUAL TREATMENTS.
The sensible thing to do is to get a
treatment like DIR. Hathaways $, " hich is
compounded by this great doctor him
self for you and for you alone. He
studies your condition carefully and
having formed his opinion, gives you
the very treatment that will cure you
IN the shortest possible space of time
permanently and without inconven-
fence. You take the doctors treat
ment. you follow his instructions, and
day by day you find yourself getting
better and stronger, your muscles
dTTner, your nerves steadier, your APP
petite better. until you are entirely
cured 1t doesn't take long, and it is
done 50 scientifically that you scarcely
notice IL. We have had many reports
from cur readers regarding the doc
tors treatment for women, and in
many cases they were so delighted and
grateful that they could hardly ex-
press themselves in words. Many a
husband has written a heartfelt letter
Of thanks 30 the doctor for the good
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

stroke of the axes. the wire tangling
themselves about the poles as they
fell, the crowd cheered and huzza d,
and yelled and whooped until every
body on the street was hoarse with vo-
alteration. Hour after hour the Mayor
and his men toiled with their gleam-
ing steel, pole after pole and wire aft
er wire gave way. until before night
quite a mile of the Western Unions
city lines had been destroyed. At the
setting of the sun the town proclaim
ed that no better official days work
had ever been performed within its
limits.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16
MELROSE. NEW YORK q
JOHN C. BUTLER

Sash, Blinds, Doors,
Paints, Obs, Glass,
Lime, Clements, Plaster,
20 Congress Street, West.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

Though the midsummer season is a
quiet one in the book trade so far as
the public can see, it is really a very
busy one in some departments of
every publishing establishment.
The book printing offices, for in
stance, are not idle by any manner of
means. Their presses are turning
and clanking, some of them by night
as we'll as by day, Transforming clean
white paper and ink into the pages of
the volumes you will see on the
shelves of the book stores in the COM
ing fall and winter. The Publicity
Departments, too, though working a
little spasmodically, owing to vaca-
tions, are pretty busy getting out the
announcements of these same books.
In some instances, indeed, the type of
the books has yet to be set apd the
plates made. and in others - though
these are evry few-the writer's are
only just putting the finishing touches
to their manuscripts. Most of these
latter are reading the proofs of the
earlier chapters of their productions
between times, while they are complet-
ing the later ones.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

This year will witness the entry of
quite a group of new writers into the
book-producing arena.
One of these is Miss Luellen Cass
letters, who has written a good deal
for the younger and smarter periodi-
Gals, such as The Smart Set, Ainslee's.
Golfers Weekly and the like, and
has also served her apprenticeship
in journalism, having been editor
of one of the illustrated Satur-
day afternoon supplements for some
time. Miss letters first venture
will be novel. of course. and
the title chosen for it is Apples of
Eden" 1t is spoken of by the
reader" of the firm which is to bring
it out as being advanced" and the
young writer herself admits that it is
"erratic," the heroine being modelled
on the character of a woman very
prominent in certain circles, who has
made herself the subject of no end of
talk by her daring disregard of the
conventionalities. The plot of the
story is declared to present more than
one sensational incident, and the title
is surely one to attract attention.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

Next day the company look up tne
work where the city left off, reasoning,
probably, that if the wires actually
had to come down it would be better
and more economical to take them
down itself than to allow the authori-
ties to remove them. and practically
destroye the property in the operation.
Naturally the summary action taken
by the Mayor greatly added TO his
popularity among all classes, and nat
urally, too, it disposed effectually of
the charge that there was collision be-
tween the city and the company for a
time in allowing the wires to remain.
Why the company did not remove
them itself in the first place is mys-
terry, unless there was some hope that
the law ordering them down would be
found unconstitutional, in which case
damages might have been collected
from the city. Anyway, there is an
interesting parallel between the action
of the Western Union fourteen or If
teen years ago with reference to the
overhead wires on Broadway just de-
scribed and the wires along the right
of way belonging to the Pennsylvania
company.
In both cases the wires were or
dered down, in both cases the Western
UniCn had plenty of time to remove
them, in both cases it refused to do
50, and in both cases they were re-
moved by force. The Western Union
never got its wires up again on
Broadway nor did it ever get any
damages from the city for their re-
moval. Legal action is still pending
in the case of the Pennsylvania wires,
and should the course of the road in
downing them be sustained in the
keystone state, Western Union wires
will probably have to go all along
the Pennsylvania COmpany's subsi
duary lines of rail.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

No one who understands the inside
of the book trade can fail to be struck
by the changes that have taken place
of late in its conduct. The greatest
of these changes has come in the pub
licity department.
Formerly this department held a de-
cidedly minor place in the economy of
the big publishing concerns, but now,
adaNs it is as important an adjunct
in the business as the press agency of
the up-to-date amusement manager.
In fact, some of the publishers en-
ploy bright men and women to boom
personally the books they publish, and
the authors who write them, by means
of methods that are pronouncedly
press agenty.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

This young woman author is just
finishing her work upon her proofs
and the artists have only just COM
pleted the drawings of the illustra-
tons. More forehanded is w. w.
Denslow, the artist. whose quaint con-
ceits in the way of illustrating fairy
stories that are classic are more popu-
lar, perhaps. with the children just
now than the pictures of any other
Juvenile" artist.
Mr.. Denslow. whose pictures for
THE Night Before Christmas" were
the chief feature of his last years out
put, has twelve small books for the
kids" on the presses at this moment.
The last of his work upon these little
volumes was done months ago. and he
is now able to take life comfortably,
especially as the advance sales of the
dozen aggregate booklets run into the
hundreds of thousands. Denslow did
a good part of his work upon these
last winter under the blue skies and to
the accompaniment of the breakers
that boom upon the shores of the Ber-
muda Isles.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

Thus a prominent publishing house
of the Middle West has on it's payrolls
a very clever young man who has won
quite a name as a writer of dilettante
verses. whose sole occupation, virtu-
ally, is to keep the names of his firms
books and authors well before the
public.
Should the writer of one of the firms
favorite novels visit Boston, for in
stance, this young man is very likely
to be in that city at about the same
time and to drop in casually at the Of
fee of each of the principal newspa-
pers. Then he will inform the city
editor, sometimes confidentially, that
Miss Cor Mr. So-and- SO is at the
Parker House to-day and might, per-
haps. be induced to submit to an in
terview if really good reporter were
assigned to the task" Naturally the
firms writers get a good deal of pub
licity that way and their books a lot
of the best advertising, since, of
course, the author is sure to tell Just
how he came to write the book on
which his publishers are making a
drive at the time.
Another favorite scheme of this
publicity man" is to suggest to the
editor of some newspaper that So-and-
So is in town for a week or two and
might be induced to take charge of the
papers literary column" for one is
sue.
This scheme works about as often
as the other, since the author is often
found quite willing to undertake the
task without compensation for the
sake of the prominence his name Will
receive and the impetus that will
probably be given 20 the sale Of his
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16

HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D.


once Hours
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-09-19

Learn TO sink your own uneasy. vain
glorious little personality IN the on,
LIE; then you can be happy.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-09-19

Gourley, NJ. 2, of Nova Scotia. in the
Canadian parliament squeals defiance
at the American eagle says, SO II h
reported, that he detests tie very ex.
istenee Of the United States and saws
further his loyalist ancestors would
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-09-19

been cutting posts in the Weser canyon
for week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith of Long Valley,
were over with a load of butter the fore
part of the week.
~Our milliners received aslarge consign-
ment of millinery Monday.
DIR. Brown has bought the house and
lot adjoining his property on the south.
= Wells. Gordon has sold his ranch on
Fort Hall creek to Mrs. Tomlinson. of
Oregon Gordon will move to town for
the winter. #
Elisha Stevens has bought the Richard
son house on Galena street and is having
it papered and finished up His boys
will stop in the house and attend school.
Bill Harp has gone to Warren with a
load of produce.
Mrs. Hansen, of Dale, is quite ill.,
Bud Addington has gone to BOISE to
attend court.
Noah Brown is business visitor from
Meadows.
Miss Kate Cruiser came up from Wei
ser Monday and will spend couple of
weeks with home folks.
Mrs. Flora Criss and children expect to
go to New York soon TO visit relatives.
Born, Saturday, to Mr.. and Mrs. Joel
Glenn, a son.
Born, to Tom Glenn and wife on Mon
day, a ten pound boy.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Wilkie.
of Dale son.
Born, to Hugh Nave and wife, I2
pound boy.