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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
THE DANGER OF GRADE CROSS
INGs,

A few days ago the Morning News
/ published a strong communication from
a we'll known citizen calling attention
to the danger from grade crossings in
( the southeastern part OF the city. and
urging the authorities to take steps
/ at once to do away with such cross
/ ings. The accident yesterday, in which
two people lost their lives and a num-
Der were injured. emphasizes the ne
cessity for better protection at these
crossings. 1t is doubtful if a street
car ever crosses the railroads at any
one of the grade crossings that the
passengers are not apprehensive of an
accident. 1t is true that at some, If
not all, of the crossings there are
gates and watchmen. and the conduc-
tor is expected to stop his car and go
ahead of IT and see that the track is
clear but, Notwithstanding all of these
precautions, there is very great dan
ger of a collision.
And the accident is likely to come
when there is the least expectation
of it. The motorman will forget to
stop his car or the conductor will neg
lect to go ahead and see whether or
not train is coming or the Waterman
will neglect his duty. OF course we
do not mean that conductors, motor
men and watchmen do not intend to be
faithful to their duties. We simply
mean that accidents at grade cross
ings occur sometimes because of
the failure of somebody to do his duty,
and there isn't any reason for thinking
such an accident will not occur here.
Indeed. such an accident occurred here
yesterday morning, and the wonder is
that the number killed and injured was
not much greater.
Every night in the summer season
large cars. carrying well on to a hum
bred people each. cross the railroad at
grade on Bolton, Gwinnett and Bull
streets and there is a street cross
ing at Thirty-eighth street. By good
fortune there has been no accident
at any one of these crossings. On
one or two occasions there came near
being an accident. If one should oc-
cur no one would be surprised. Is IL
not about time that steps were taken
for greater protection at these grade
crossings? 1t seems so to US. And the
city authorities should move in the
matter. 1t is not to be expected that
the railways will go to any additional
expense for the protection of citizens
at these crossings without being re-
quired to do so.
This matter has been before the city
authorities, and is, in fact, pending
before them yet. If anything is to be
done, it should be done at once. An
accident is likely to occur at any time.
There is no use delaying an improve
ment that has got to be made at some
time in the near future.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
The Mystery of Life.
From the Springfield Republic,


The strange, strange mystery of Iifel
The yearnings of the soul!
Nor rest, nor toll, nor peace, nor strife
But for a space console.
We CLEAN the surface of a Joy,
We quaff some o'erbrimmed bliss:
We come not there where fades alloy
Nor where the glory is.
We taste the bitter scum of pain
mo soul the depths has quaffed).
The winds but chill and sting in vain
That should toward Heaven watt.
A thousand varied sloping hills
Their varied valleys lead
We come not where the longing stills
Nor find the Elysian mead.
There dies a radiance for ave
From all our spoken thought:
We breathe not what our hearts would
say,
Our griefs, expressed, are naught.
But somewhere. in the lap Of Time
We dream God holds in store
The music no resplendent cline
Fer heard on earthly shore.
Somewhere we dream there is a hahn
For all the woes Of earth;
And some day shall divinest cain,
Within the soul have birth.
DO we but dream? We dare not thint,
Such visions can betray:
Else would our souls in darkness sinh
Nor ever find the day.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
The Origin of "Slabsides."

During dinner the other day at the
residence of Mr.. Burroughs, says the
New York Mail and Express. President
Roosevelt turned to his venerable host
and remarked:
Burroughs, 1 wish 1 could inspire as
much interest in any man as you do in
me. You know, have read all you
have written, and love to hear you
talk; but / am always asking myself
some new questions about you.
never knew until a few years ago
why you called your first book Wake
Robin and l can't see how this de-
lightful place ever got such name
as 'Slabsides.'
Cant tell you, sir, exactly" Mr..
Burroughs is reported to have replied.
But, when I was a youngster / knew
a man whom we called Old Slabsides.
He was a Presbyterian minister, a tall,
lank, melancholy man, and my father
used to lend me out to him to cut bait
when he went fishing. He had a glass
eye and a chronic catarrh One cold
March day, when the fish were biting.
he was greatly annoyed by having to
resort almost constantly to his hand
kerchief. Finally he turned to me and
said, Johnny, don't you know some
nice boy l could hire on a small salary
to blow my nose "
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Chicago News Und.) says: THE
fact that so experienced a broker as
Mr.. Keene gets his own fingers nip
ped once in awhile offers an interest
ing hint to the stock market amateurs
who are occasionally tempted to trifle
with the buzzsaw of speculation.
The Philadelphia Ledger Qnd.) says;
The chief sufferers by the widespread
system of corruption which has grown
up in the labor world will be the unions
themselves. 1t is vital to their inter-
ests that they should be represented, in
negotiations with employers, by men
of high integrity, and even so, the
temptations into which they are led by
the practice of arming them with arbi-
trary authority are greater than the
most conscientious labor leaders should
be often called upon to endure"
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer Dem. }
says; There are thirty-three new
brigadier generals. Think of it! Thir-
ty-three flashing and dashing warriors
in gold lace galore and with buttons
that coruscate like the stars on the
robe of night. Thirty-three doughty
leaders Of men whose spines are stiff
fened with dignity and whose legs are
curved with horsemanship and whose
chests are convexed with sense of the
favor they confer upon the public by
merely existing. Happy uniforms. hap
Ply gold lace, happy buttons happy
horses that bear these knightly briga-
diers-and long may the goddess OF
peace keep them unspoiled and intact.
Glorious thirty-three, we salute you!"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: Charles A. Towne, who was
for a few weeks a free silver candidate
for the vice presidency, and for long
time a free silver senator, makes mer-
ry over what he regards as Mr.. Cleve-
lands lack of originality and his labo-
rious methods of arriving at the con-
clusion that two and two make four.
1t is the ex-President's conviction that
two and two make four which has Sc
cured him the confidence of the coun-
try. Common sense is a vastly more
important possession than originality.
Mr.. Towne and the rest of the free sill
verites do not believe that two and two
make four: they have an original idea
that by an act of Congress two and
two could be made to equal five or six,
and that is why the country has re-
jectsd them"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
Personal.

Anything to rivet the attention of
the passerby seems to be the New
York merchants motto. In a shoe
store window In upper Broadway is a
pair of very old, much worn shoes,
above which is placard reading
This pair of shoes was sold in 1860 in
Peekskill by Senator Chauncey De-
pew's uncle
Senator Hale of Maine has Just re-
turned from a vacation sea voyage,
having distinguished himself meantime
by inventing a new summer drink call
ed ''ginger-ale pounce." The COM
ponent parts of this alleged thirst
cure (some of those who have tried it
declare that it is a thirst producer)
are Scotch whisky, ginger ale and lem
on Juice. II is limited that this is no
kind of an invention to be devised by
soion from a prohibition state.
Gov. Lanham of Texas, himself a
strong prohibitionist, is much. inter
ested In the temperance wave which is
sweeping over the Lone Star State. Al
ready 100 counties have voted total
prohibition, fifty-nine others are dry
in spots and in only fifty-seven is
liquor sold unrestrictedly. The last
mentioned are mostly border and pam
handle counties, but sparsely popu-
lated. The Governor is actively inter-
esting himself in the temperance move
ment
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
LOOKING OUT FoR HIS RAILROAD.


In. the talks which he is giving the
newspapers about the possibility of de-
veloping a market in China for 100, 800,-
600 bushels of American wheat annual
ly Mr.. James j. Hill, president of the
Great Northern Railway, is plainly
looking out for the interests of his.
railway and steamship lines. I'm
doubtedly he has magnificent transport
tatlon facilities from the wheat fields
of the West to China, and il is no doubt
possible to educate the Chinese to pre-
fer wheat as an article of food to their
rice and millet, but, as the Railway
Gazette points out. how are they
going to crafty the appetite after they
have it2 They must have something
with which to buy the wheat-that is,
if they import 100000 bushels of
wheat a year they must export some
thing to pay for it. 1t may be true, as
Mr.. Hill points out, that If the Chinese
developed an appetite for wheat this
country could control the wheat mar
ket of China, though it is not improb-
able that wheat grown in Siberia and
portions of China would come into
competition with American wheat But,
before considering the question of a
market for wheat in China the question
must be settled as to the means China
would have to pay for such a supply
of wheat as she would need.
She may have undeveloped resources
Of which the world knows little or moth
ing, but the probability is that only by
| becoming a manufacturing nation
could she become able to buy wheat In
vast quantities. That would be direct
| ly in Mr.. Hills line. He would carry
wheat to China and bring back to this
country Chinas manufactured prod
| ucts.
But would that condition of affairs
| be satisfactory to the American peo-
pie? We hardly think it would. We
have been submitting to a high tariff
q protective tariff-these many years
for the express purpose of building up
our factories. 1t isn't likely, there
fore. that Mr.. Hill will be encouraged
| to make this purely agricultural
| country and China a manufacturing
enc in order that his railroad and
steamship lines may prosper.
The Chinese are a bright and imita-
| tive people. 1t would not take them
long to become well-versed in manu-
| featuring of nearly all kinds, and they
| could manufacture most things cheaper
| than we could manufacture them. be-
| cause of their cheaper labor However,
/ Mr.. Hill isn't going to be encouraged
| in his scheme of making the Chinese a
wheat-eating people.
If Mr.. Hills scheme were to sue
| coed China doubtless would want cot
ton from the South, but as a matter of
fact the South would prefer to have
/ her cotton manufactured close TO her
! cotton fields.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS


Special Notices-Notice to City Court
Jurors: Bids for Feed. Police Depart
ment; To Patrons of Vale Royal Dairy.
E. w. Goodwin: Notice, E. c. Wick,
Marshal. Meigs. Ga: Fishing Tackle,
Cornwell & Chapman.
Business Misunderstanding Solomons
Co.
ements-Those Fish Suppers
With Hot Rolls, at the South End;
Last Appearance of Richie at Isle of
Hope Tonight; A Cool Spot, Hotel
Ty~e.
There's a Money-Saving sale-B. IL.
Levy & Bro.
Silver Polish-The Gorham Co.
Don't Continue Waste-Mutual Gas
Light Co.
A Good Way to Economize-More-
house Manufacturing Co.
Helps to Comfort-At Lattimore's.
Don't Take Some Other Medicine
Get It At Rowlinski's.
Wear a Pair-M. Wilensky.
Green Ginger-The DelmOnico Co.
acknowledgements; Swamp Root.
Cheap Column Advertsements-Hel
Wanted: Employment Wanted; For
Rent: For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
ceIlaneous
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
LoIze ON Inventor Edison.

Thomas Alva Edison is a bitter en-
envy of cigarettes, says the Chicago
Tribune He will not allow anybody
to smoke them in his presence, and
although many of his employees are
what might be termed hfabitual cigar
cite smokers, such men take care not
to come around Mr.. Edison when they
have what the inventor calls "a filthy
weed" in their mouths. This accounts
for the fact that in the neighborhood
of the entrance to Edison's private
office there are usually a considerable
number of cigarette stumps. Yester-
day morning Mr.. Edison found a packet
of cigarette paper outside the door Of
his office He picked it up and went
back to his desk and wrote the fol-
lowing sign:
"a degenerate who is retrograding
toward lower animal life has lost his
packet. Same can be had by applying
to storekeeper."
The sign attracted considerable at
tention, because 1t was written by the
inventor, and his handwriting is well
known about the Edison works. Mr.
Edison did not say on the sign why
it was necessary for the owner of the
packet, which he had pinned on the
notice, to call on the storekeeper, so
when the person who lost the packet
came along he took possession of his
property without asking permission of
the storekeeper. In it's place he put a
plug of chewing tobacco. The sign did
not remain in it's place long after that
Edison uses chewing tobacco.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
pRAIsING THE KEARsARGE.

There is no doubt of course that the
battleship Kearsarge made a splendid
run across the Atlantic run of which
every good American citizen feels
proud for it seems to Indicate that
this country has the best war vessels
in the worldLbut it does not seem to
us to be necessary to make 50 much of
H1the incident. The Kearsarge did moth
ing more than she was expected to do.
If she had done much less she would
have been very generally condemned.
Her achievement is not to be compared
to that of the Oregon, that left
her station and ran thousands of
miles in the Pacific ocean and
thousands in the Atlantic in order to
be present with her sister ships at the
attack on Santiago. We do not wish
to behttle the performance of the Kear-
sarge. We simply desire to call at
tention to the fact that she did MOTH
ing more than meet expectations.
She made an average time of 10 1-6
knots an hour. 1t is doubtful if there
is a ship in the navy of any other ma
tion-that is a battleship--that can
equal that performance, and the inter-
esting feature of the trip was the fact
that there was nothing out of order on
her arrival at Bar Harbor. Usually
warships get out of order even when
they make short trips. Every once In
awhile there is a report in the news
papers that this or that battleship or
cruiser has been sent to the navy yard
for repairs, and wonder is expressed
that she should need them.
We have as good warships as any
other nation, if not better, and we have
men who know how to run them and
handle their guns effectively, but there
is no use calling the attention Of the
world to these facts every time an op-
portunity to do so presents itself. The
better plan would be to keep quiet re-
speeding our war vessels so as to be in
a position to give the Power that Of
tends US to the point of war a genuine
surprise.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29

When a young business man in big
office building went to his Office yes
terday afternoon. says the Buffalo Ex-
press, he found on his desk a note in
a feminine hand asking him to call at
a certain apartment house on Main
street between 6 and o'clock that
evening. The note was signed miss
Wright"
The young man thought Immediately
that the new summer suit he had worn
for the first time on the previous after
noon had made an impression on some
maid, so shortly after o'clock he was
at the Main street apartment house.
Miss Wright live here?" inquired
the young man of the maid who an
swered his ring.
"She does. Whom shall 1 say?" in
quired the maid.
"Oh, never mind any name. Just tell
her that a friend is here and would
like to see her."
The young lawyer was ushered into
the parlor. In a few moments there
was a swishing of skirts in the hall
way, then pretty, smiling young wom-
an appeared.
She extended her hand to the visitor.
I'm so pleased to see you," said the
young woman.
Your note came as a SURPRISE he
said, at the same time beginning to
wonder.
Eyes, I was awfully sorry that you
were not at your office when 1 called
1 wanted to see you so badly. You
know l have been looking for you for
several days. l had your name and
address and you were one of the first
young men l called on when l came
to the citv."
"Indeed?" said the young man, flat
tering himself at being honored by a
call from one so charming.
For fifteen minutes they chatted
Finally, the young man asked her if
she wouldn't go out to lunch some
evening.
1T would more than please me-" said
the young woman.
What evening would you suggest?'
asked the young man.
"Oh, er-say Saturday evening at
The Iroquois at I o'clock"
Very we'll" said the young man.
Seven O'Clock it is"
The young lawyer then said he
guessed he would hasten home.
"Oh, by the way, I never told you
what my business with you was" said
the young woman. =.
mo you didn't" confessed the law
yer.
well, you see, l represent the Co
lonial Collecting Agency and one of
our clients (naming a well-known But
falo livery FIRM. has a little bill
against you. 1t is only $40 and, of
course, if you will settle now, why, it
will save you court expenses and all
that. You see, business is first with
me and 1 really would be willing to
sacrifice that dinner if you will settle
this bill for"
She didn't get any farther.
Young woman" said the visitor,
this is the biggest bit of impertinence
that l have met with in some time. If
you think you are going to cajole me
into paying that bill you are sadly
mistaken l won't pay it and you may
also call our dinner engagement off"
With that he rushed from the room
and slammed the front door behind
him.
And the young lawyer from the big
office building is not the only young
man who was led to the Main street
apartment house by a note; but most
of them paid their bills.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
WHY PROSPERITY WILL CONTINUE.

II isn't often these days that for
mer Secretary of the Treasury, John g.
! Carlisle talks for publication. He is so
deeply immersed in his law business
that ne has but little time to give to
the s,rdy OF financial and political
probier.s. A day or two ago. how
ever he consented TO an interview on
the outlook for the continuance Of
prosperity. He does not pretend TO
understand the causes that have
brought about the great decline in the
prices Of stocks in Wall street, though
he seems to be pretty well satisfied
that one cause is the tremendous vol
ume of securities that have been put
upon the market within the last two
or three years. He points out that very
many of these securities are not class
ed as gilt-edged-that, in fact, they are
of rather doubtful value. The banks
! have refused to make loans upon them
! because their real value has not yet
! been established.
Mr. Carlisle is Of the opinion that all
the conditions are favorable to the
tSaltlil 0cANApAl VI ~ " ENA Jus NAAAi~0t ~
points out that crops are bountiful,
business is good the earnings of rail-
roads are larger even than they were
last year and money is plentiful
There is complaint that there is a
scarcity of money, but Mr.. Carlisle is
of the opinion that there is an album
dance of il. There is no difficulty in
getting money when good security is
offered to the banks. Only those who
offer security of doubtful value are re-
fused accommodation, and they, as a
rule, are the ones who are clamoring
for an increase in the volume of the
currency
There is no doubt a great deal of
truth in what Mr.. Carlisle says. Out
side of Wall street there are no
gloomy apprehensions regarding the
future. The business men and farm
ers seem to be well satisfied with
the situation. They are doing we'll
so we'll that they are not asking for
additional currency legislation.
In is true that the investing public
does not seem to have great confidence
in securities, but, as a matter of fact,
the cause of the selling of high-grade
stocks may be to get money with which
to protect weak stocks. The weak
stocks have declined so greatly that
those who own them do not like TO
pocket the LOSSES. and so they have
been throwing good stock on the mar
ket to get money with which to hold
on to their purely speculative stocks
This policy has helped to force down
stocks of all kinds
Mr.. Carlisle is of the opinion that
the present liquidation is not an I'M
mixed evil. 1T is right" he says
that we should have haIts on occa-
sions. If such things did not happen
we would continue loading up to the
point of explosion"
If unloading viii prevent an explo-
sion we shall have no explosion at this
time. The amount of unloading that
has been done must have relieved the
pressure so much that we shall soon
be going on pretty much as before, ex-
cept that it will be a long time before
the public will be ready for such a
volume of securities of a doubtful
character as was unloaded upon 1t in
1901 and 1902.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
BRIGHT BITS.

New doctor, Ell? Has he done you
good?"
"Well I've been done better
Puck.
He: 1t will take about five years
before DR.. Wood can become the head
of the army.
She: A doctor at the head of the
army! Isn't that too killing!-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
He was regarded as a brilliant
young man.
Yes" answered Senatorl Sorghum
But he couldn't succeed in politics"
mot in my state. He made the
same old blunder. He prided himself
on being quick at repartee instead
of quick at figures. "-Wasnington Star.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-29

DR.. !. A. Trembley, who died the
other day near Hamilton, o., was an
eccentric scholar with mathematics as
his hobby. re built house accord
ing to his own ideas, and such a
house nobody eyer saw before. The
house Itself ana all % the rooms were
in geometrical agur-g. enc of the
rooms were circular, soH,p Triangular,
some octagonal. and 50 on. The
grounds were laid out with mathemat-
ical precision and everything about the
place was suggestive of the profess
sor's hobby. The old gentleman was
never 80 happy as when up TO his eyes
in abstruse calculations He meas
ured and weighed everything, either
actually or iiguratively, and knew the
hight TO sn inch Of every tree about his
place. ---