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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-12

surfency. o., SEPT. iL-Mrs. r. O..
Copslnnd, wlfe " u. q. Copeland. died
~ 2 O'Clock yesterday morning, after
an illness ~ several days. She LETT a
husband, eight children and host of
relatives ana friends 10 mourn her
death.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-12

Barlow, Fla, Sept. 11.-Toney Davis
one Of the eldest and most faithful col
ored firemen on the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad. fell dead while at his
post on train 80.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-12
CARLOAD OF POWDER COST TWO
LIVES.
TRAGEDIES OF A DAY.
NEWSPAPER MAN SHOT GRANDSON
FOR A SQUIRREL.

In Kansas n Car of Powder Ran
wild for MiIes-COIIisiOn With
Train Resulted in Instant
Death of Two and Prob
ably Fatal Injury
of as Many More.
Eldorado, Kan, Sept. IA carload
of powder, set on a Frisco siding, near
Beaumont by a freight crew which did
not want to handle it while switch
ing, got beyond control and ran several
miles on a branch line towards Win
field, collided with a train which had
left that station shortly before, and
exploded, killing two and iniuring two
more. The dead are:
Milton Pennefock, fireman, Enid,
Okla.
j. N. Holt, brakeman, Enid, Okla.
The injured are:
A. H. Merrill Atlanta, Kan, will
die.
Fred Odd, Atlanta, Kan"
In addition the explosion tore up sew
eral rods of track and dismantled a
locomotive. The shock of the eXplo-
sion shook the ground for miles around
People in Eldorado ran from their
houses fearing an earthquake. Other
towns in the vicinity were also shaken.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

"Our troubles" said a leading taxi
dermist, ARE many, but our chiefest
is due to the fact that not single
American millionaire has gone in
strong for a collection of heads and
horns. Nor can a single public insti-
tuition in the United States rightfully
boast of collection that will compare
favorably with even the third rate col
lections in Europe.
For some reason or other the di-
rectors of museums do not seem to
comprehend the full geological value
of a good collection, and, hence, they
begrudge spending any money to Sc
cure heads and horns of animals that
are rapidly becoming extinct. In the
twenty-five years I have been in bust
ness l do not believe that l have sold
$4,000 worth of goods to museums,
and 1 am the largest importer and
dealer in my line in America.
"As for the millionaire, it seems to
be almost an impossibility to awaken
him to the Importance of making a
collection. He will buy head or two
and a couple of dozen pair of horns
and then he will be satisfied. May be,
during the course of his lifetime, he
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
BY RAY T. SEAMAN.
Copyright, 1908, by Ray T. Seaman.

physical torture. Every bone in my
body ached; my head throbbed vio-
lently; l had terrible pains in my
stomach, and half the time / felt as if
l was just going to faint. AS soon as
hunger fairly got hold of me l lost
every ounce of energy. l could not
look for work, as l had been doing;
I could not even beg. Two or three
times I asked men for money in a
timid, feeble way, but when they turn
ed aside l did not persist. A poor,
addressed woman gave me dime one
night, although l did not ask her. l
got a good meal with it, but after
wards l felt hungrier than ever"
An Orchid Hunter Who Dreamed
of Meat Markets.
An orchid hunter, who nearly perish
ed in a Venezuelan jungle two years
ago, and who lost five of his men by
starvation, night after night when he
went to bed, famished and exhausted,
would dream of the markets that he
had seen in various parts of the world.
He would behold Ladenhall market,
in London, piled high with thousands
of carcasses and tons of meat; and just
as he put out his hand to grasp a leg
of beef or a sirloin steak, the vision
would fade, and in its place would be
the gaily-colored market of Panama,
with bananas, pineapples and oranges,
glistening brightly in the tropical sun
Tight, Those, too, would vanish when
he tried to snatch them; and he would
awake hungrier and more miserable
than ever.
Il could have borne the real hor-
rors of the days a thousand times bet
ter" he said, IF it had not been for
the tantalizing miseries of the nights .
This same explorer, during the month
of semi-starvation which he expert
enced, suffered constantly from vio-
lent headaches, dull gnawing pains in
the stomach, and bad attacks of ma
larial fever. And all the time he
could think of nothing but food
which increased his misery tenfold.
A University Graduates Experience.
A graduate of Oxford University
gave up all his prospects in life some
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

spends as much as $1,000 with a taxi
dermist; and, then again, may be he
doesn't.
why Americans Neglect Taxidermy.
II attribute the American million
aires neglect of the field of taxidermy
to his hobby of establishing game pre-
serves. He says to himself, Instead
of having mere horns and heads around
me, III have the real things-the live
animals. But he forgets that he cam
not have many of the most noted ami
mails of modern times in his preserves
for the simple reason that the few spec
linens now alive cannot be obtained
for love nor money.
Take the Alpine ibex, for instance.
The King of Italy owns the only twen-
ty now alive, and to kill one of them
is lifelong Imprisonment. A million
aire could not secure one of these an
imals, no matter how much money he
might offer for it, but he could buy
quite a few heads and horns at prices
ranging from SIS to $3.50, which are rea-
sonable when you remember that the
Alpine ibeX is extinct for all practical
purposes.
LAS this is also true of many other
animals-not few of which are Amer
ican-it behooves American museums
and American men of money to make,
before it is too late, collections that
will give posterity an ample idea of
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

Men who have actually been on the
point of starvation, whether in the
streets of big city, in the jungles of
South America, in an open boat at sea,
or on the sandy deserts of Australia,
give strangely divergent accounts of
their feelings.
Their stories go to prove that differ
ent men feel starvation in different
ways. Some suffer intensely; others
hardly at all. Some feel acute physical
pain, while the sufferings of others
appear to be purely mental.
A sailor whose schooner was wreck
ed on a voyage from the Cayman Is
lands to Jamaica a few years ago, and
who spent nearly two weeks in an
open boat without food, was asked
how he felt during that time.
Il hardly felt at all after the first
two days" he said. Il seemed to out
grow the longing for food, and 1 do
not remember suffering any particu-
lar pain. | drifted along in a dreamy
sort of way, not caring what happened.
Even when l saw the ship which pick
ed me up l was not wildly excited.
was too faint to worry. The only
craving l remember distinctly was for
a glance of rum and smoke of tobacco,
and that was very strange, because /
am practically a teetotaler and do not
greatly care for smoking.
Starvation Kept This Man Walking.
A man who is now receiving a big
salary in New York had a hard time
when he first came to the city, and
nearly starved. For DAYS and weeks
together he did not have a decent
meal and, by his own account, ne
suffered tortures.
Il could not keep STILL" he said.
"Often, when 1 was frightfully hun
CRY and hadn't cent to buy anything,
] would go to one of the free libraries
and try to force myself to sit down
and rest. But it was no use. Some
irresistible impulse would drive me
out into the streets again, and l would
pace them restlessly for hours, hum
grily watching the restaurants and
wondering when l would get another
square meal.
1.-THE faces of the people in the
crowded streets got on my nerves.
Faces, faces, nothing but faces! They
streamed by me continually, day and
night-not one of them familiar; not
one of them kindly. 1t seemed as If
ii was my fate to stand still and see
that awful procession Of faces fit by
forever They did not strike me as
belonging TO real people; they seemed
like the faces of ghosts. When I
dropped off to sleep at night / used
20 see those faces In my dreams, and
for months after / became prosperous
they haunted me day and night like a
nightmare
my hunger caused me the keenest
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
Inspection By the Master

the animals of the present day. In
spiration along this line should be
taken from Europe, and especially Ger
many and France. Every nobIeman
and every person of wealth in those
two countries have collections costing
thousands of dollars each. A castle in
Germany is not considered habitable
without it's myriad of heads and horns
about the walls, and as for the hunting
lodges, they are filed to overlooking
with specimens of taxider1ny.
Emperor william the Champion
Collector.
81 believe / have seen all the most
noted collections in Europe, and 1
know that it is no exaggeration to say
that their combined value, at present
market rates, is close on to $50,000,0 600.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

cause of pain in his inside. Then he
pawned his waistcoast and his tie, and
thought rgretfully of money thrown
away in times past.
There are few things more edifying
of hunger, and Dick, in his few walks
abroad-he did not care for exercise;
it raised desires that could not be sat
isfied-found himself dividing mankind
into two classes-thoSe who looked as
if they might give him something to
eat, and those who looked Aotherwise.
I never knew what 1 had to learn
about the human face he thought;
and, as a reward for his humility,
Providence caused a cab-driver at a
sausage shop where Dick fed that
! night to leave half eaten a great chunk
of bread. Dick took it-would have
| fought all the world for its possession
! and it cheered him.
1.-The month dragged through at
last, and, nearly prancing with impa-
thence, he went to draw his money"
Women and Starvation.
Women who have been on the verge
of starvation will not speak about it.
One woman who had been without
food for over week was asked: How
did you feel?"
| DO not speak of it," she replied. 1T
was horrible. will never talk about
it,"
Another, in reply to similar ques-
! ton, said:
Il don't remember. 1 think 1 must
have been mad"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Bargains! Bargains! Bargains Two
quart Blizzard ice cream freezers,
$1.19; 3-gallon stone water coolers,
81. 10; No. 1 ice chests, charcoal filled,
SO. As; 4-quart galvanized sprinklers,
19c; nickle-plated milk shakers, SC; ice
shredders, 19c; lemonade and milk
shake glasses, SC; fly paper, per box,
29c. Savannah Crockery and Hardware
Company, 305 Broughton, west.
Man is never peter satisfied than
when smoking the choice brands of
cigars at Ed. L. Bycks, corner of Pu-
laski House. Tobaccos and smokers
supplies.
Infants soft sole kid shoes, colors
pink, blue, white tan, red and black,
very strongly made; sale price 25c. j.
T. Cohen's Sons, 215 Broughton street.
west.
When you want a first-class trunk
that's made by a first-class trunk
maker, call on Chatham Trunk Facto-
ry, Broughton, corner Abercorn.
Chas. A. Cox, the practical tin-plate
and sheet iron worker; tin, slate tar
gravel and tile roofing; best work:
lowest prices. 142 Barnard street.
Garfunkel & Sons are showing a
rainy day skirt that is worth $500.
their price is $3.50. the styles are black.
Oxford brown and royal blue.
Fishing Tackle-Our C. C. Hooks the
best made. We can furnish you ex-
actly what you need. Cornwen &
Chapman.
w. M. Davidson & Co., the real es-
tate company, are the people to see for
your realty business, stocks and bonds:
thoroughly reliable. ITO East Bryan.
a. l.. DesbouiTlons. the jeweler, will
sell you goods in his line at lowest
prices ever heard of. A visit to his
store will convince you.
A. L. Desbouillons, the reliable lew
eler, is showing a fine line of watches
clocks and jewelry ware. Get prices on
rings, pins and charms. 4S Bull street
M. Dryfus, outfitters for men and
boys clothing; you know It. The peo-
pie come to this reliable store for hats
shoes and furnishings.
N. B. Ehrlicher sells the purest wines
and liquors, bottled goods for family
use. All the choicest brands. BY the
pint, quart or gallon. Corner West
Broad and Liberty.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

up to the black bass, mounted on an
appropriate base.
The Freak Horn Collector.
1.-THE freak horn collector also con-
tributes towards keeping the taXider-
mists in business. The average Ameri-
can seems to think that a pair of horns
is not worth owning unless it is alb
normal in some way. If a bull moose
has twisted it's antlers into some I'M
natural shape, we can dispose of them
for two or three times the price we
ask for a perfect pair, which the ext
pert collector would rave over. Why,
for one pair of exceedingly freakish
moose horns 1 received $4,000, or near
ly double the money 1 got for one of
the finest pairs of moose antlerS I've
ever seen. They had spread of sixty
eight inches and showed forty-thr
points. But freak collectors passed them
by without a second glance, and it took
me nearly five years to dispose of them.
| The freak horns 1 sold in less than two
| weeks after receipt. Indeed, [ cannot
keep up with the demand for freak
things.
"Of late years the mounting of Flor
| ida specimens has made considerable
business. Alligators are brought up
| North in great numbers by the wealthy,
who have developed the hobby of scat
lel4IS IHe Mucous SduIldHS III the ne
! like attitudes about their mansions. For
| one New York millionaire alone 1 stuff
ed a score of alligators last year, and
| he wrote me lately that he was for
warding me six more specimens.
| Buffalo heads? No sale for them.
| The only man who makes any money
| out of buffalo heads is the plainsman
who has managed to secure several
| heads by hook or crook. He disposes
of them to the hunters from east of
| the Mississippi. who take the trophies
back home with them, and then call
in their friends and say, See what I
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

killed on my hunting trip West. The
guide told me [ was very lucky man
probably killed the last wild buffalo
on the plains
YES, the hunter prefers paying 5000
or $1,000 for a head out West than $3.50
for a much better specimen in the East
That's why I've a stock of twenty buff
falo heads that I've been unable to sell
since 1 bought them four years ago.
New Fields for Taxidermy.
did you ever stop to think that the
march of civilization is a great aid to
taxidermy? Take Siberia, for ex-
ample. Ten years ago we had scarce
ly any specimens of the Siberian ibex
and roebuck in either Europe or
America. But since the railroad has
been opened specimens are coming
out of the interior by the carload. The
prices are still high, however. A fair
pair of ibex horns will bring 5000 in
the market any day.
ALASKA is another country that of
late years has been sending new speci-
mems to the taxidermst. They, too,
are costly, but the European collec-
tors do not stop at prices, and so we
are doing a good business in Alaskan
heads and horns.
But, say, if we could only induce
the American millionaire to take in
terest in heads and horns, the taXider-
mist on this side of the water would
not have to depend for a large part
of his income on renting full speci-
mems of bears and other fur bearing
animals to the furriers during the fur
wearing season, at from $3.50 to $1,000
a rental. If only one-twentieth of the
interest displayed by Europeans
over heads and horns could be trans
ferred to this country, we struggling
taxidermists would become men of
: affiuence within a few years.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
Santa Fe

years ago to become a social worker
among the poor of the East End of
London. In order to get an idea of
what it felt like to be really poor he
lived for six days on II cents, eating
nothing more than one tiny 2-cent
loaf each day. AS a result he nearly
starved and was i'll for week after
wards.
1T would not have been very trying"
he said, 'if l had not seen food all
around me-in the bakers shop, in the
restaurants, in the butchers and in
the green grocers'. l would walk about
the streets for hours, watching the
people go into the restaurants for
lunch and wondering what they were
going to eat.
by the end of the third day was
in a half-comatose state. Practically,
1 had lost my identity and my men,
DRY. / was always thinking about
food, but in quite a detached sort of
. way, as if it were nothing to do with
me. l thought of it as an untraveled
man might think of India. My rea-
son told me that in three days l could
eat as much as l liked, but my mind
could not take hold of that fact 1t
seemed as if l should always be eat
ing one tiny loaf day and watching
other people go into restaurants.
ION the fifth day | was utterly
cowed. If a man spoke to me
trembled and could not answer, but
skunk away. Every bit of moral fibre
and every ounce of physical pluck
We're gone"
After this experience the graduate in
the school of starvation took keen in
terest in discovering the sensations of
other men who had gone hungry. He
met many of them in the course of
his philanthropic work, and he dis
covered that in no two cases were
emotions alike.
Starvation he was fond of saying,
''is mental rather than a physical
pain. Its principal terrors are con-
nected with the mind and the magma
ton. The educated and refined man,
he who has seen better days, is the
man who suffers most when he goes
short of food. The sufferings of a
starving man are really a matter of
temperament. If he has not a highly
strung temperament, he does not suf-
fer much. The more animal a man is,
the more comfortably he can starve.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

con his Hanoverian preserve EN-
peror William has what 1 consider the
finest and largest collection of horns
in the world. 1t consists not only of
specimens of the German stag and of
the roebuck, but of hundreds of heads
and horns of foreign animals. Every
American animal is represented and
to secure the specimens the Emperor
has spent thousands of dollars through
me. His American collection alone
would put to shame the combined half
dozen biggest collections owned In this
country.
After a months inspection of the
Emperor's entire collection several
years ago, I estimated it's value at
nearly 100000. And several of the
Emperor's subjects have collections al
most as costly.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26

"Fact is, the taxidermy business in
this country would about go into bank
ruptcy if it were not for our mighty
hunters and fishers. They have lately
begun to use it to back up their SEEM
ingly tall stories of experiences with
rod and gun.
This is especially true of the fisher
man. When he catches a black bass
weighing eight pounds, he doesn't eat
it, as was formerly the custom, and
thus destroy all evidence of veracity
of the story of the big catch that he
relates to his friends. Instead, he
sends the black bass to a taxidernist,
who prepares it for preservation at
the rate of 81 a pound. And then, when
the fisherman has his story doubted
by his friends, all that he has to do to
prove his words is to lead his hearers
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
SUMMER SCHOOL,
KNOXVILLE, TENN.

The Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern
Railway is offering special attractive
features over its line to those who
will attend the Knoxville Summer
School this season. Write for full in
formation regarding the cool delightful
ride through the Blue Ridge Noun
tains, the scenery. schedules and
terminal facilities at Knoxville.
e. S. MILLER. r. p. A,
.--.-- Atlanta, Ga.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
STORIES TOLD BY
MEN WHO STARVED

Every the Feeling Caused by Intense Hunger Varied
WideIy-A Wrecked Teetotaler Who Craved for Rum.
An Orchid Hunter Who Dreamed of the Meat Markets
He Had Seen in London.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
Cause of LockjAw.

Lockjaw, or tetanus, is caused by a
bacillus or germ which exists plenti-
fully in street dirt. 1t is inactive as
long as exposed to the air, but when
carried beneath the skin, as in wounds
caused by percussion caps or by rusty
nails. and when the air is excluded the
germ is aroused to activity and pro
duces the most virulent poison known.
These germs may be destroyed and
all danger of lockiaw avoided by APP
plying Chamberlain's Pain Balm free
Iy as soon as the injury is received.
Pain Balm is an antiseptfc and causes
cuts. bruises and like injuries TO heal
without maturation and in One-third
the time required by the usual treat
ment. 1t is for sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

united. provided the Scott county dis
trict court finds that the allegations
Of the male party to the transaction
are wen founded. The parties are
George Stapleton. formerly fireman
on the Davenport department.. and
his wife. formerly Miss Dolly Mounts.
of Buffalo. Iowa. The husband has
now started divorce proceedings.
According to the story of Stapleton
he was Intoxicated at the time Of his
marriage He Claims that he and the
woman from whom he now hopes to
he divorced came to this city evident
~ bent on having "a good time and
that during the course of the trip he
imbibed so freely that he made a
proposal Of marriage. was accepted
and was married by Magistrate John
son. MI the while he was SO oblivious
of the world that he did not fully UNI
derstand what was going on and did
not come fully to his senses till the
ID. gray dawn. Then he repented
nd has been repenting ever since.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
NntIce to Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be received at
the city clerks office, Rock Island, H.,
until Monday, Nov. Q. 1903, at ) o'clock
p. M. for furnishing eco lights, more
or less for lighting the city by cleo
tricity.
Rock Island, ILL.,, Oct. "a, 1908.
II. {. SCIAFFER. City Clerk.
Surprising you're busted - haven't a
dime,
Getting poor isn't serious crime;
Put ON Il bold front, work with all
your might,
You're sure to win by taking Rocky
Mountain Tea at night.
II. II. Thomas pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
HISTORY OF FAITH
Bishop Hamilto Talks of the
Pioneers in Spreading of
Methodism.
IN AN INSTRUCTIVE LECTURE
Visiting Divines to occupy Various
Tri-City Pulpits To-
morrow.

A large audience assembled last
night at the First Methodist church
to hear Bishop J. W. Hamilton, of
San Francisco, give a lecture on
placed and Misplaced People" The
bishop did net choose this topic. but
instead gave ii lecture on the found
ing of the Methodist church. He made
his talk brief, but he told all that was
necessary to bring out the right
thought. giving a very interesting
sketch Of the career of John Wesley
and his coworkers in the revival of
religion in England, and those of
pioneers of Methodism in America.
Bishop Hamilton embellished his char
acterization of Methodism with nu-
merous anecdotes illustrating the
conditions under which the Jealous