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The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
A PRESIDENTIAL race.

II saw an interesting race a few
years ago. said an employee of the
Treasury Department, as he looked
across the way to the White House
grounds the other day, according to
the Washington Star. The partici-
pants were Benjamin Harrison, then
President, and a billy goat that toted
his little grandson, Baby Mckee, about
the executive grounds. 1t was an ex-
citing race, too, and it looked for a
time as If the goat were to be vic
torious. 1t also demonstrated that the
former President of the United States
was a sprinter of no mean ability. The
afternoon l refer to the goat was haul
ing Baby Mckee about the front yard
and Gen. Harrison was walking about
so as to be near at hand in case there
was the possibility of any harm COM
ing to his grandson.
Finally, without warning, the goat
started down Executive avenue on a
brisk canter. At the foot of the de-
scent there was an excavation where
workmen had been repairing the street
The President saw this and started on
walk behind the cart. The goat went
faster and the President quickened
his steps. When he heard footsteps be-
hind him the goat gave a toss to his
head and broke into a genuine run
When half way down the walk the
President and goat were each doing
his level best. The Presidents coat
tail shot straight out behind and the
patter of his feet on the concrete pave
ment sounded for all the world like a
woodpecker's attack on a soft maple
in the early spring. For an instant
they We're neck and neck, but finally
President Harrison made a squirt, and
by a brilliant coup caught the bride
Of the fieet-footed billy goat just be-
fore the excavation was reached. Baby
Mckee was as unconcerned as could
be, but his distinguished grandfather
was pretty well winded as he led the
goat and cart back to the White
House"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
IOcOniC.

Frederick III of Prussia delighted in
his reputation as the most laconic man
in Europe. An Hungarian magnate,
taking the waters at Carlsbad, acquired
fame for abruptness of speech, such
that the Prussian was tempted to meet
him and try him in the arts of brevity.
The magnate was pointed out to Fred
tel. The King went up to him, and the
following conversation was the result:
Notwithstanding?
Hung arian-Drinking
Frederick-Off1cer?
Hung arian-Magnate.
Frederick-Soi
Hungarian (taking the initiative)-
Detective?
Fredericksburg.
Hung arfan-Congratula
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
HE DIDN'T MEAN TT.

On Sunday the Omaha World Herald
published a long editorial article in
which it was stated that If the reor-
ganizers of the Democratic party sue
ceeded in nominating Mr.. Cleveland for
President the Bryan wing of the party
would vote for Mr.. Roosevelt. At the
time this article appeared it was the
understanding that it was inspired by
Mr.. Bryan, at least that was the i'm
preston conveyed by the dispatches.
The article has been the subject of
a number of editorials. 1t seems, how
ever, that Mr.. Metcalf, the editor of
the World Herald, and who is Mr.. Bry-
ans closest political friend, did not
mean to say that the Bryan wing of
the party would vote for Roosevelt
An Omaha dispatch says that 1t is Mr..
Metcalfs purpose to recant, and say
that the Bryan Democrats could not
give their votes to Roosevelt. 1t would
be interesting to know just where
Mr. Metcalf does stand. AS already
stated it is supposed that he speaks
only after consultation with Mr.. Bryan,
of a man to take back to-day what
he said yesterday.
After all, is there not too much be-
ing made out of the impression that
Mr. Bryan and some others seem to
have that Mr.. Cleveland is a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
President? He has said nothing that
indicates that he is seeking the nomi-
nation or that he would accept it if
offered to him. His most direct utter
ance in regard to the matter was in
the letter which he wrote to the editor
of the Athens Banner. In that he said
that at no time since the close of his
last administration had he desired the
nomina ton for President.
1t is probable that Mr.. Cleveland I'M
derstands that he cannot get the nomi-
nation. He is a clear-headed man and
has been in politics long enough to
know just. what the forces for and
against him are. He isn't saying any
thing, and that fact makes the activity
Of Mr.. Bryan and his friends all the
more noticeable. They seem to think
that Mr.. Cleveland is after the nomi-
nation and that he will get it unless
they put forth all of their political
influence to prevent him. If the truth
were known it would appear probably
that he is planning to stay right in
Princeton the rest Of his days.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
PATRoNIzE HOME ENTERPRISES

variety of subjects was discussed
at the meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce on Tuesday night, among them
that of patronizing home enterprises.
It is undoubtedly fact that our re-
tail merchants and the owners of our
home industries feel they are not treat
ed with the consideration to which
they are entitled by a very large per-
centage of their fellow citizens. The
reference is to those who buy in other
cities their clothes, groceries, station
cry and in fact about everything they
need OF course they buy elsewhere
because they labor under the impress
sion that they come nearer getting
what they want than they would if
they patronized home Institutions. AS
a matter of fact, however, they don't
take the trouble to find out what the
home market has to offer. They sim
ply assume they can do better else
where. If they were to investigate
they would find, nine times out of ten,
that tlGay could do as well, if not bet
ter at home.
1t is recalled that returning on a
steamer last fall from New York some
ladies' residing in this city were heard
particularly the bargains offered at
those stores. The conclusion at which
they arrived was, that they could have
done better, all things considered, in
the Savannah stores. OF course they
had a greater variety to select from
in New York, but even with that ad-
vantage they discovered after they had
made their purchases, that they were
no better satisfied than they usually
were after they had made purchases
at home.
Last winter there We're some ladies
stopping here from Washington, D.
c. They visited the stores and finding
| prices and goods satisfactory they
made purchases to a very considerable
amount. They said that the stocks
were as full as those in Washington
and that the prices were considerably
| lower.
We mention these two instances sim
| ply to show that those Savannah peo-
pie who give their own city the cold
shoulder. as it were. and do their trad
! ing in other cities, merely because they
think they can do better elsewhere are
not sufficiently acquainted with what
their town has to offer them to form
/ a correct opinion upon on that subject
They certainly ought to favor their
own town whenever they can do so.
The most of them get their living here
and it is their duty therefore to as
sist, to the extent of their ability, in
unfolding the citys interests We can
| not build up a city, we cannot be
prosperous. If our people go elsewhere
| to spend their money. We must have
business to prosper and grow, and I'M
less each one does his part in promot-
| ing business we shall eventually come
to a stand still, even, perhaps, &c
| backward.
The talks that We're made at the
| Chamber of Commerce meeting on this
subject ought to be generally read by
the people of the city, in order that
they may have it impressed upon them
that if they want to see prosperity here
it is their duty to contribute to MAX
ing that prosperity to the extent of
their ability.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
The Octogennrian.

They were neither of them brilliant
scholars, says Current Literature, but
they liked to move with the times as
regards their knowledge of current
events, so the daily newspaper was
regularly delivered at their humble
domicile, and it was Jennie's duty to
read out during breakfast time all the
most interesting items of the day. One
morning, after wading through the
latest intelligence from the front. she
turned to another page of the paper
and said:
'Herbie it says here that another
octogenarians dead"
whats an octogenarian?''
well, don't quite know what they
are, but they must be very sickly
creatures. You never hear of them but
they're dying"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
A sketch.

The chauffeur had driven his auto
mobile over a little baby, says the
Baltimore News.
He was heart broken, and wept Bit
terly as he gazed at the tiny corpse.
1t seemed that nothing could console
him.
comfortable.
The policeman touched him on the
arm. He started.
Never mind" said the policeman;
don't weep-don't weep! Maybe you
will run over a full-grown man at the
next corner!"
The chauffeur smiled through his
tears with renewed hope, and silently
pressed the hand of his kind comforter
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

California courts the other day at
firmed the titled of Mrs. Mary l..
Owens to certain lands alleged to have
a value of 100000. Mrs. Owens
titles are said to be without flaw: and
yet 1t took the courts upwards of
thirty years to ascertain this fact and
settle it conelusively.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

And now the unreconstructed Fill
pinos are called fanatics" Lieut..
Walker of the constabuFary was killed
by a superior force of fanatics" Not
long ago they were "ladrones." 1t
seems to be necessary to swap the
names around, and occasionally make
use of new one, to keep from calling
the trouble war. or course there can
be no such thing as war with ladrones
or fanatics on the other side.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

II the man who makes two blades
of grass to grow where one grew be-
fore is worthy of the tribute paid to
him by Dean Swift. what shall be said
of the street huckster who. by MASKING
In the sides of the boxes, can make four
boxes OF strawberries to exist where
three came out Of the crate?
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

Last summer and the summer be-
fore brokers on the Chicago Board OF
Trade were permitted to trade in shirt
waists. But that sort OF thing won't
go" during the approaching hot
months. The floor committee has al
ready given IL 10 BE- understood that
the pTopriety OF coats must be pre-
served even az the expense Of per-
spiraflon
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

It's a safe wager that when the menu
bers of the Southeastern Binposters'
Association meet in convention in Sa-
vannah next year they'll get stuck on
the citV
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

Gov. Pennypacker's new statute of
libel seems already to have dropped
back among the Pennsylvania blue
laws that have fallen into innocuous
desuetude.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

II we can get the r. p. A. conyen-
ton and the National Military Rife
Contest here In lsO5-and there h no
insuperable reason why we cannot
we viii make a host OF loving friends
who viii be Savannah 'rootersp when
eyer the name Of the city Is mention
ed
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia and East
ern Florida for to-day are for fair
weather, with light variagle winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

For some years Inventors and chem
lists have been searching for a salts
factory substitute for rubber. The de-
mand for the article is steadily in
creasing, owing to the increasing num-
Der of automobile and bicycle tires in
use, while the supply is steadily de-
creasing by reason of the destruction
of the rubber forests in South America.
At one time it was thought that a
preparation of cotton seed oil would
take the place of rubber for certain
purposes, but nothing has been heard
along that line recently. The an
nouncement comes from Leith, Scot
land, however, that a chemist of that
city has discovered a method of tan
ming hog hide SO as to render it a
good substitute for rubber in cushion
tires for automobiles and other vehi-
Giles. The process, it is claimed, makes
the hide more durable than rubber and
equally satisfactory, and it can be put
on the market at much lower price.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

So we are to have a branch factory
of the makers of the famous "57 varle-
ties" in Savannah! Good! The Heinz
Pickle Company could not have select
ed better place. Here we are sur
rounded by one of the finest truck grow
ing sections in the whole country. The
raw materials for every one of the "57
varieties" can be produced here, prob
ably for considerably less than is pos
sible in Pennsylvania. and the pickle
makers will find this a distributing
point of exceptional facilities. The
planting of the factory here will slim
ulate the cultivation of cucumbers, on
ions, caulifiower, ETC., increasing the
home market for small as we'll as large
truckers. Success to the "57 varieties, /"
and may they prove relish to us that
will make us hungry, for more factories.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

ago. The deepest borings have not ex-
ceeded 5000 feet-not much over a
mile-and beyond this depth all we can
know directly of the earth's crust is
from strata that dip down and ma
terials thrown out by volcanoes. But
1t is now perfectly certain that earth
tremors and earthquake shocks pass
from one side of the world to the 9TH
er, traversing the interior in all di-
rections. These tremors are propagat-
ed In waves, and the waves, by their
quality and velocity, tell the observer
something of the medium they have
passed through. Prof. John Milne. f
r. s., who has made this subject his
own, has recently printed paper deal
ing with these evidences. The denser
the medium the greater the velocity
of wave propagation, and the veloci-
ties increase the nearer the course of
the wave to the earth's center. Now.
this world of ours, as a whole, weighs
five and half times as much as a
globe of water of equal dimensions
would weigh, and Prof. Milne comes
to the conclusion that If we allow a
lighter crust of, say, 200 miles. and a
denser medium fairly uniform and
rather less than six times the density
OF water, II would satisfy the seismo-
logical conditions. For such a core
which would be lighter than iron. he
suggests the name of geite. What
seismometrical observations lead us 10
suspect is that beneath the lighter
crust there is magnetic medium of
greater density, which as we descend
may gradually pass into a fairly hom-
ogeneOus geite"-and some day the
physical and chemical characters OF
that hypothetic white-hot magma en-
circling the center OF the earth may
be known as accurately as are now the
OF the stars
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

DIR. LEWIS A. HINES, Refractionist,
14s Whitaker St. near Oglethorpe ave.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-10
Women in Industry

The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics
has just issued report on Sex in In
dustry' which is Instructive and also
suggestive. In the last ten years the
number of self-supporting women has
more than doubled. So, alas! has the
number of female children at work in
the Bay State. At present. nearly one
third Of all the "gainful workers" OF
Massac lusetts are women.
This large increase in industry for wo.
men does not follow the old lines. Tha
Massachusetts workers In factories have
only increased % per cent; in domestic
service, 70 per cent; and in teaching. Il,
per cent. Woman Is aiming higher; she
wants a place in business and the pro-
fessions. and she Is getting 1t. There IN
an increase of 40 per cent In women pro-
fessional workers, and Of nearly 50 per
cent in the number Of women who are
partners or stockholders in business en-.
terpriseS.
Woman's first footing in industry was
that OF the willing worker who takes the
undesirable and lily paid job rather than
no job at all These figures show that in
Massachusetts, at least she has gotten
beyond that step on the ladder. and is
mounting steadily lndustrially. she is
succeeding. But there are some other
Massachusetts figures, not included in
the industrial statistics, that are not re-
assuring on the sociological side. In
these same last ten years the marriage
rate has declined IN Massachusetts. from
nineteen to seventeen per thousand. while
divorces have Increased from one in
every twAnty-elght marriages to one in
every eighteen; and the birth-rate has
fallen perccptibly.-Harp Bazaar
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-10

Bavaria has in the past been noted for
it's crazy princes. II has had several OF
them for rulers and there have been
others who have merely hung around the
Bavarian court doing queer things at the
general expense of the people
A dispatch from Berlin tells OF the
strange doings OF Prince Ludwig Ferdi-
nand of Bavaria. He is n nephew of the
regent. and instead of living an idle or
dissolute life. as becomes scion of roy
atty, he has become practicing physi-
clan, and is. besides, a musician of con-
siderable ability. Speaking about himself
to correspondent the other day, the
prince said:
IL go to the Prince Regent theater ev-
cry morning and take part in the re-
hearsal. l find that submitting myself to
the sharp discipline of the director is
amusing rather than depressing. After
leaving the rehearsals l occupy myself
until 3 o'clock in attending my patients
and fulfilling my duties as doctor Then
| must go off to the theater and play i'm
the orchestra"
Other princes. who are permitted to live
In splendid style at the publics expense.
instead Of doing things to justify their
existence, will be likely to conclude with
sorrow that the old strain of insanity is
still manifest in Bavarian royaity-Chi-
cage ReCord-Herald.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-10
Trying to Climb Mount mcktu,ex

The failure of the expedition under DR..
FL a. s,, Cook q and Robert Dunn to reach
10000 feet (united st States eeolo aSeai
arctic a1tt, :, alpining: Theirs was the first
two thousand feet lower than MCKINLEY.
was unsuccessfully attacked seven times
before the duke OF Arbuzzi gained it's
OF the world. the most serious difficulties
both IN alpining and sledge travel COM
hine to s;sa repe the eXglSrer Mount St.
PACIFIC ocean across sixty miles Of solid
ice: Mount Mckinley from plain scarcs
Siimher feet etm IN altitude compelling tho
and summit. 20 attempt a perpendicular
height heretofore nntried.
Many persons especially on the Pacif,
be scaled, Experts. however deciars
; should be Tried on the peak before reach:
Jected to on two grounds: First. that
owing to the peculiar nature of the Eu-
r rep g s,,a,, Is partial failure in
be impossible for him to endure the six
weeks travel with pack horses. across
the tr1ckless tundra and forests Of West
ern Alaska, required to reach the foot
of the mountain; second. owing to a feel
ing especially prevalent in the West. that
init of the highest mountain on the con-
tinent.
The Cook party after two attempts.
were checked by perpendicular wall
more than five thousand feet high Then
they completely circled the mountain.
seeing no other point of attack more
PROMISING Future attempts will be mad,
by much the same route. since the south
ern and eastern tanks of the mountain
lie across forty miles of snow peaks ami
nor the least sign Of vegetation: while
on the north and west, only one range OF
ten thousand-fo foot peaks separates the
Yukon and Tanana rivers GlaciatiOn
has probably wrought more havoc among
the mountains Of Alaska than anywhere
has poured it's levelng ice over their
TANKS. as in Switzerland nor are thu
glaciers Of recent growth; the immense
toric times simply receded slightly in
their BEDS leaving perpendicular walls
on all sides.-Collier's Weekly.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-10

power and authority which 1t would Dog
sess were It the sovereign of the territory
20 the. exclusion of the exercise Of sover-
cign rights Of the republic All railway
ana canal property rights belonging to
Panama and needed for the canal pass to
the United States. including any property
OF the respective companies in the cities
OF Panama and Colon: the works, prop
erty, and personnel Of the canal and rail-
ways are exempted from taxation as welt
N the cities Of Panama and Colon as IN
the canal zone and its deDendencies11
Free immigration Of the personnel and
importation OF supplies for the construc-
ton and operation of the canal are
granted. Provision is made for the use Of
military force and the building of fortifi-
cations by the United States for the pro-
lection of the transit In other details
the stipulatoins Of the Hay Herran
treaty are closely followed. while the
compensation to be given for these en-
iarged grants remains the same, being
ten millions of dollars payable on ex-
change of ratifications: and, beginning
nine years from that date. an annual
payment of $250,OOO during the life of the
convention"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-10
Listerism and Boards

Perhaps the latest development Of Lis
teriSm is the doctrine of "aseptic si.
lence.' which asserts that Il surgeon
should keep his mouth shut while operat-
ing lest bacilli should emerge with his
words. Certain surgeons. indeed, cover
their mouths with some membrane or
other which is designed effectnally to pro-
tcct the patient. Similarly the younger
men are teaching that every surgeon
should be clean shaven, as the hair hides
countless germs. In this connection a
correspondent of the British Medical
Journal recalls the following lines of Ed
ward Lear:
An +. r. c. s. with a beard.
Remarked, 1T is just as | feared
Two cOcos,' ten bacilli.
Twelve black aspergili,
Have all built their nests in my beard
New York Mail and Express
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-10

The Canadian Pacific railway sold last
year from its subsidy land nearly o6iO. NO
acres, at price averaging something less
than "a an acre. In the previous year it
sold less than 100000 acres, at a price
averaEinR little over So an acre.