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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03
A BIG COTTON CROP.

If it be true, as stated by those who
are specializing for fall in the price
of cotton, that in the cotton states the
sales of mules and fertilizers are larg-
er this year than in any previous year,
the probability is, as claimed by these
spectators, athat the cotton crop for
1904 will he the largest on record.
The claim is being made that cotton
farmers all over the cotton belt are in
creasing their acreage in cotton. The
present high price of cotton is respon-
sible, of course, for this. but it is prac-
tically certain that if the crop should
be an unusually large one there would
be a considerable decline in the price
of cotton.
The farmers understand this as we'll
as the spectators, and they also know
that there is more profit in a compar-
atively small crop at a high price than
in large crop at low price. Com
missioners of agriculture are all the
time urging cotton farmers to reduce
their cotton acreage, or at least not to
increase it. and to increase their acre
age of food crops 1t seems strange
that they refuse to accept this advice.
They must know that it is good advice.
In fact, there isn't one of them who
will not admit that it is a mistake to
make a large increase in the acreage.
In their meetings they urge one an
| other to keep down the acreage, but
each one is afraid that the other will
increase it, and therefore all of them
turn in and plant all the land they can
cultivate in cotton.
There is, of course, money in cotton
at ten cents a pound. At that price
1t is thought a very profitable crop.
| When the expenses of making tex
penses based upon corn, hay and flour
| purchased from the West-are taken
into account, the profit, is not so great
as comparatively small crop yields,
provided the farm supplies are raised
rather than purchased.
Farmers make a mistake by increas-
ing their acreage in cotton, but they
will continue to increase their acreage
| whenever the price of cotton is high,
and no amount of arguing with them
will induce them to do otherwise. If
there were some way in which farmers
could be induced to keep the cotton
crop within certain limits-could keep
the supply just equal to the demand
at a profitable price-they would,
within a very few years, be in a
very prosperous condition. 1t seems
impossible. however. to get the farmers
to act in harmony in this matter. If
the crop should be an unusually large
one this year and the price should
drop down two or three cents a pound
it would be safe to predict that there
would be a very considerable reduction
in the acreage in the following year.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

young man of the name Of Trimble
presented himself at hospital in Buff
falo, N. Y, the other evening, saving
that he had dull pains in the stomach
and thought he must be suffering from
indigestion. An examination was
made, and the physicians agreed that
it was indigestion, and in so unusual
form that the knife must be used
The patient was placed upon the table
and an incision was made. When the
surgeons had concluded they had ex-
tracted from the mans stomach 45S
carpet lacks, forty-one small knife
blades, 142 screw nails, forty pin
points, 61s ounces of ground. glass and
a wire chain three and a half inches
in length. Trimble said he had no idea
what it was that had made him sick.
The doctors are inclined to the opinion
that it was the amount and variety of
the hardware with which he had load
ed his internal economy.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

Not only is Poor Lo capable of grasp
ing the white mans ideas. but his in
genuity in putting some of them into
practice is noteworthy. a case in point
occurred in South Dakota the other
day, where local election was held
Indians were permitted to vote. Bucks
and squaws dress exactly alike in South
Dakota, with the result that all In
dams of twenty-one years or there
abouts look alike to the white man.
The Indians took sides on the election
in question. When the ballots had
been counted it was ascertained that
the side supported by the Indians had
won. Then it came out that a consid-
cradle number of squaws had not only
voted but repeated at the ballot boxes.
No wonder Senator Quay has such high
admiration for the Indians.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

Mr.. Fife, designer of the new Sham
rock, is credited with having made a
radical departure in the lines of that
vessel. Something of the kind seems
to have been necessary. Working along
the old lines, it appears the Americans
have managed to get a bit more speed
out of their boats than the British have
been able to do. Mr.. Flies new wrin-
kle is in the shape and size OF the keel.
The hull of the vessel is 100 feet long.
Under the old rule the keel should have
been not less than thirty-five feet in
length, but the daring designer has cut
the length down to twenty feet. He
hopes to so nicely balance the great
body of the craft upon this I'm OF steel
that she viii gain not less than fif-
teen seconds every time she goes about;
that is, she will turn in that much less
time than IL she had the longer keel
The short keel viii be something like a
pivot, on which she win turn quickly
and get back TO work again. Yachting
fharps hardly know what 20 say OF the
innovation. They are pretty we'll
agreed, however. that II. with the short
Keel The boat win sail az all, she
ought to prove a wonder Of speed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03
The Happy Dinosaurs.
From the Chicago Tribune.

The dinosaur was brainy beast;
He lived in the times archaic:
He never cared for the arguments
That cling round the laws Mosaic.
He never got into fierce disputes
On changing the worlds finances;
He never wasted his sleeping time
By going to clubs or dances:
He never bothered his mind at all
With trust or with combination:
lie never bleated his discomfort
With methods of legislation;
lie never writhed at a comedy
That couldn't induce his laughter;
He never pestered his listeners
With views on the great hereafter.
But he was glad, contented brute,
That never grew sad nor solemn;
One brain installed in his sloping skull
And one in his spinal column.
Some say man grew from the dinosaur
But we needn't all be f1attered.
For there are men in the world to-da J
Whose brains have been far more
scattered.
w. D. N,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03


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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

Mr.. George Vanderbilt has finally
persuaded that obstreperous negro who
owned half a dozen acres in the midst
of the Biltmore estate to sell out and
move. Thus for the first time Mr..
Vanderbilt is lord of all he surveys
when he glances over his magnificent
North Carolina property. The old me-
gro's holding is estimated to have been
worth $50 before the advent of Wander
bilt, but he made the rich man pay
him S2.25O before he would consent to
sign the papers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR

Leaves east side OF City Market for Thunder.
bolt, Cattle Park Sandhy, Isle of Hope and all
intermediate points-9:I5 a. m, lis p. M. rs
p. m.
Leaves Isle Of Hope for Sandfiy, Cattle Park
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points-6:O0
q. m, II 100 a. m. 3 90 p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at $50 a. IN .
and 2:S5 p. m, connecting at Sandfy with reg
ular parcel car for city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight to
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip Tor accommodation OF passengers.
Any further information regarding passen.
ger schedule or freight service can be had by
applying TO c. B. KIDDER, Manager.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

The announcement is made that the
Boston and Maine Railroad has ac-
ceded to the demands OF its employees
and that wages will be increased by
probably little more than 10 per cent.
Now. II the public will keep it's ear to
the ground for short time IL viii i'm
all likelihood hear OF an advance in
freight rates within a few days; and
the advance Will be more than sum
cient 10 pay the increase OF wages.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

A company has been formed in
Mexico to operate line of airships be-
tween that country and this. The
termini of the line are the City of
Mexico and Washington, D. c., where
the congresses of the two countries
meet and where hot air may be had
in unlimited quantities at small cost.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03
COLLINsvILLE LINE.

(FaIr Grounds and Dale Avenue)
Beginning at 500 a. m, cars leave Bolton
and OFT streets every Is minutes returning.
cars leave Estill avenue and Waters road at
6:W a. m. and every 10 minutes thereafter, con.
Meeting with cars on Thunderbolt line, until
1900 O'Clock midnight.
Through ears are operated between Market
and Thundercolt via Collinsvill and Dale
avenue as follows:
Leave Market Leave Thunderbolt
45 A M. 80 A. NJ
6 45P. M. 730PM
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

\ Harvard expedition is about 20 so
to Chile for the purpose of observing
the suns rate of movement" Is this
a vindication of the theory of the Rev.
John Jasper?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03
THUNDERBOLT LINE Especially

City Market to Casino via Bolton Street
Junction.
Beginning at 5:45 a. M. cars leave City Mar.
ket for Casino at Thunderbolt every Is minutes
until ii 80 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction is minutes
after leaving time at City Market.
Beginning at 5:bS a, m, cars leave Casino at
Thunderoolt every Is minutes until 1908 mid
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

In New York florist named Richter
has gone insane because OF his great
prosperity. When poor devil goes in
sanee because OF his great adversely.
he never gets his name into the papers.
Richter's case is out OF the ordinary.
the other fellows case Is common,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

President Graybili of the Georgia So
ciety of New York, recently delivered
an address in that city in which he
criticised the negro policy of President
Roosevelt and the attitude of the
North on the negro question A day
or two ago Mr.. Graybill received an
anonymous letter threatening dire ven
geance upon him for shooting off his
mouth" about "our President" The
letter went on to say something about
putting Mr.. GraybilIs head in the
sand" He will pay no attention to the
letter, and the incident will soon be
forgotten. But suppose a Northern
man. speaking in the South, had re-
ceived such a letter? Wouldn't the ra-
bid Republican journals of the North
have split their cheeks shouting about
it?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03
OFFICIAL.

UFFICIAL.
NOTICE.
City OF Savannah, Office Clerk of
Council Savannah, Ga, Feb. %, 1907
The following applications to retail
liquor during the year 1908 were read
at meeting of Council Feb. IS, 1903,
and referred to Committee of the
Whole. w. p. BAILEY
Clerk Of Council.
Mrs E. E. Coles, $50 Indian street.
Moses Eicholz West Broad and Rob-
erts streets.
Goodman Bros, ~ Farm street.
Maryweather & Williams, Mill and
Farm streets.
Josephine r. Stiles, 10 West Broad
street.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia and East
ern Florida for to-day are for partly
cloudy weather, with light variable
NAnds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

Car leaves west side of City Market for Lin.
coin Park 800 a. m. and every 40 minutes
thereafter until II 80 .. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market $50 q. m.
and every 40 minutes thereafter until ~ clock
mldnirht
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

More than twelve years ago. at the
International Postal Conference of
1890, it was agreed (Article lid that
the United States government would
adopt a plan for paying indemnity for
registered mail lost or destroyed. So
far, however. Congress has failed to
carry out that promise, and it does not
appear likely that it will be carried
out at any time soon. The fee paid
the government for registering a letter
or parcel carries with it no obligation
on the part of the postal service fur
ther than to keep a record of trans
mission. 1t does not even guarantee
safe carriage and delivery. A shipper
can hold an express company RESPONSE
Bile and demand restitution. but the
government cannot be made to pay
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

The 'impregnable strength of Gil
braltar" has been reduced to a Pigment
Of the imagination, according to
French engineers, who say that a
fleet of modern warships. steaming at
eighteen or nineteen knots an hour and
hugging the Moroccan shore, could
pound the rock to pieces without be-
ing seriously endangered themselves
So extensive has been the honey
combing of the rock say these French
men, that one of the greatest guns of
the fertilization could not be fired
without the conclusion from it knock
ing down tons of rock upon the heads
of the gun crew. With the integrity
Of Gibraltar questioned, we shall have
to get new smile for impregnability.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

Connects at Sandhy with parcel car for CITY.
tConnects at Sandf1y with parcel car for Isle
of Hope
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03
THE MORNING NEWS is publish

Registered at POstohice in Savannah.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-03

Connects at Sandfiy with parcel car to city
Of Hope.
.'Goes to Montgomery on return trip from
Isle OF Hope.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-24
"SU MN TER FOOD"
Has other Advantages.

Many people have tried the food
Crane Nuts simply with the idea Of
avoiding the trouble of cooking food
in the hot months.
All of these have found something
besides the ready cooked food idea, for
Grape Nuts is a scientific food that
tones up and restores sick stomach
as we'll as repairs the waste tissue in
brain and nerve center.
For two years had been sufferer
from catarrh of the stomach due to
improper food and to relieve this con-
dition / had tried nearly every pre-
pared food on the market without any
success until six months ago my wife
purchased a box of Grape-Nuts, think
ing it would be desirable cereal Tor
the summer months.
I'VE soon made discovery, we were
enchanted with the delightful flavor OF
the food and to my surprise began to
get well. My breakfast now consists
of a little fruit. four teaspoonfuls or
Grape Nuts. a cup of Postum. which l
prefer to coffee, graham bread or toast
and two boiled eggs. l never suner
the least distress after eating this and
my stomach is perfect and general
health fine. GrapeNuts is wonder
full preparation. II was only a little
time after starting on it that wife and
I both felt younger, more vigorous,
and in all ways stronger. This has
been our experience.
"P. S. The addition of little salt
in place Of sugar seems TO me to Inn
prove the food" Name given by Pos
tum Co.. Battle Greek. Mich.
Send for particulars by mail OF ex-
tension Of time on the s7,50o.oO cooks
contest for 735 money prizes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-24
LEAVE TARIFF ALONE
REPUBLICANS CAN WELL AZ
FORD TO REST CONTENT.
If Business ls to Be Injured and
Prosperity Checked by Needless
Tariff Tinkerlng, Let the Demo-
crate Take All the Responsibility.

The Republican convention of Ohio
in declaring for policy Of "hands
off, the tariff. There is sound wis
dom in this, however much it may
discomfort the swarm of inveterate
tariff thinkers, always seeking to re-
open this question.
The sense of the country has been
tested on the question Of protection
against free trade several times, and
there is no question that the Repub-
lican policy has the Endorsement of
the American people. Even those
who are at the bottom of their hearts
believers in absolute free trade rec
ognize that the country wants none
Of It; therefore they call themselves
tariff reformers now. No matter what
the tariff may be, in their opinion 1t
always will need reforming so long
as there is protection in it,
. In all of the talk of the necessity
for tariff reform, there is yet lacking
specific and distinct utterance as to
the particulars in which it needs to
be reformed The present law is ad
mitted, even by the tariff reformers,
to be a good working instrument
They claim in general terms that it
has defects; but when it comes from
generalities to particulars, there is no
agreement among them.
The prosperity of the country is
based upon the protective tariff
Every suggestion for tariff reform is
a suggestion for the withdrawal of
protection in some degree from some
industry. Every reopening or threat
ened reopening of the tariff question
is a disturbance to business. There
is no particular and specific change
or reform in the present law for
which any large number of people
are clamoring. There is no industry
or interest which can point to any
considerable injury resulting to it
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-24

from any particular clause, para
graph or schedule of the present law
What clear and understandable rea-
sons do the tariff reformers give why
the business of the country should
be disturbed by the reopening OF THIS
question? Certainly none has yet
seen the light. There has been much
phrase-mongering about the "tarin
sheltering monopolies' and the like
but this is all.
The Ohio idea of hands off,, other
wise given as stand pat" is as good
a policy for the country to follow III
connection with the tariff as can
readily be conceived. 1t is the pol
lev which has the warm approval OF
the business interests OF the country;
and by the business interests is
meant every one whose income is
drawn directly or indirectly from the
production, manufacture or sale OF
American products, whether or the
factory or the farm. We know times
are good now. We know that to
monkey" with the tariff is the readi-
est simplest and most certain method
of disturbing business, limiting pro-
duction and postponing contemplated
improvements. There Is no particu-
lar advantage to be obtained by re-
opening the tariff question, to COM
pensate for these certain disadvan-
tages.
The law certainly does not need
to be changed on account OF any
necessity of the government itself;
for the present law is nicely adjusted
to meet the governments needs. The
demand for change is put forward
purely from political sources and for
the sole purpose of raising a political
issue. Republicans are urged to
raise the cry merely to forestall the
action of the Democrats, who are GER
tain to raise 1t. Let them do So.
Republicans may well be content to
be Judged by the results accomplish
ed under the tariff law for which they
are responsible. rather than to join
with their enemies In discrediting
their own good work.-Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-24

of enormous advantage to Canada If
her 100000 inhabitants could have
free access to the markets of the So
100000 inhabitants Of the United
States without contributing one cent
toward the support of the government
of this country. Freedom of trade be-
tween the people Of one country can
not be compared with freedom of
trade between the people of different
countries. If Canada became a part Of
the Union, subject to it's laws, the
same as all other parts of the Union,
it would enjoy that freedom of trade
which would double it's population in
ten years, whereas there has hardly
been any increase in it's population
in the last ten years, as showing its
census.
Canada will not give products from
the United States any preference
over similar products from Great
Britain, and as long as she holds to
that position a reciprocity treaty is
out of the Philadelphia
Press
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-24
Railroad Employees and Wages.

The report of the Interstate Com
merce Commission for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1902, is at hand, and
contains some very significant fig
ures. 1t will be remembered that the
railroad business of the country was
seriously affected in 1895, 1896 and
1897 as a result of free trade legisla-
ton. In 1898 it began to show i'm
provement under the Dingley law
and has broken records every year
since. The number of employees in
1902 was 1,1S9,315 as against 7S5,034
in 1895. The wages paid last year
were 676.02S,592, as compared with
s445, sos, 261 in 1895. The freight car
ried In 1895 was less than 100000. 900
tons. while now the amount is near
1.2OO. 600 900 tons annually. We are
now building about 5000 miles of
new roads yearly, while in 1895 we
averaged only about LOO miles. Thus
labor reaps the benefit at every turn
in road building and car and locomo-
tive building. and in every part of the
passenger and freight service.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-07-24
How Canada Suffers.

A free trade journal attributes the
prosperity of this country chiefly to
the freedom of trade between all of
it's parts, but it does not explain why
that prosperity was not maintained
under the last Democratic admins
tration with its Wilson tariff bill. The
object of that statement was to en-,
courage free trade with Canada, as
the journal goes on to say: "The
same effect would be produced on a
still larger scale if there were no
commercial barrier on our northern
frontier; if it could be obliterated
altogether the result would be In
creased prosperity for both"
If the word both" were stricken
out and Canada" inserted the state
ment would be correct. 1t would be