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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

Last July David Fleming, a wealthy
golfer Of Plattsburg. n. Y, made a
"foozle" on the links. In a burst of
rage he threw his golf stick at his cad
dy. George Salem. 1t struck the boy in
the eye and the sight Of it was to-
tally destroyed. The parents OF the
child brought suit for damages, and a
jury has awarded q verdict of Sc, 900
and costs. A dispatch says Fleming
has given himself up to the authorities
and will try to avoid the payment Of
the sum assessed against him by re-
naming in Jail six months. The dis
patch continues; He is quartered at
the Deer's Head Inn at Elizabethtown,
which is within the Jail limits. and will
probably not suffer much inconveni-
ence." What a travesty on justice!, II
David Fleming were a poor man he
would be quartered in a jail cell, with
only a bench and a blanket for furni-
ture, and not in fashionable country
hotel
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09
"LonE One Jackars."

Senator Elkins of West Virginia in
his young days was railroad station
agent out west. his office being a box
car on siding, says the Portland
oregonian. He tells the story on him
self that one day in checking up a
carload of immigrants effects he could
not find a bureau called for by the
way bill. He. was in possession, how
ever, of vigorous young jackass that
was not down in the bill. So he wired
to the shipping agent:
81 am short one bureau and long one
jackass."
The answer came back:
You are o. X. That bureau was a
burro.'
For the benefit of the eastern ten
derfoot it may be explained that the
burro is a small pack animal of the
jackass species.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

Yes" he said, 81 used to be a tele-
graph operator, before l went into bus
mess for myself. / might be sitting
at a desk pounding a key yet if it
hadn't been for something that hap
pened one cold day about seventeen
years ago."
The ladies gathered around him and
several of the men who had been talk
ing about the tariff became silent. saws
the Chicago Record Herald.
What was it that happened?" some
body asked.
I've always hated to talk about it
the old operator answered. THE fact
is, l forgot to deliver an order. Hank
Francis was passenger conductor in
those days, and one afternoon when
IT was cold enough to freeze the ham
die from an iron pump, Francis and
his crew pulled their train into the
station two hours late. 1t was a run
OF nearly a hundred miles into Chi
cago. The passengers were all COM
planning, and in the hustle to get the
train started away from my station
with as little delay as possible l forgot
to give the conductor an order that 1
had received for him."
For a moment there was a dead al
lence. Then one of the ladies' ex-
claimed:
How horrible Did you change your
name after you had run away?"
No" he replied. II didn't go as far
as that. Mrs. Francis. who was known
as the champion scold of the town
you see the conductor lived I'm the place
where had charge as operator-had
come down to the station in the after
noon and left an order with me direct
ing her husband to bring a yard and a
half of something back with him from
the city. forgot all about IT, and
didn't dare to stay and face her we
never know about these things, do we {?
What seems to be the worst kind of
luck may be good luck in disguise, may
II not? ''''''
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09
Called crime" on the Mayor.

A provincial mayor tells a good story
at his own expense, says London Tit
Bits. 1t seems that when in Office he
would sometimes return home late at
night, after his wife had retired, and
when she asked him what time it was,
would answer About H." or "a little
after midnight"
On one occasion, after making the in
Quiry, she said:
ALFRED, wish you would stop that
clock; 1 cannot sleep for it's noise"
All unsuspicious, he stopped the pen
dulum. In the morning, while dress
ing, his wife inquired, artlessly:
"Oh, by the way, what time did you
get homer"
About midnight" replied the May
or.
Alfred, look at that clock!"
The hands of the clock pointed at
2:S0.
The Mayor was crushed
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09
IADEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Ir ish-American Friendly
Society; Palestine Commandery No. Z,
X. T.
Special Notices-For Sale, H. H. Lat
tinore; Special Notice, Irish American
Friendly Society; Timber Lands and
Saw Mills For Sale, Chattahoochee
Lumber Company.
Business Notices-Dont Leave Your
Wife Alone, Abraham & Putzel.
1t Is a Master-McArthur & Sons Co.
Petition for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Lumber Company.
Silver Polish--The Gorham Company.
Oficial-Proceedings Of Council.
Medical--Paracamph Golden Medi-
cal Discovery; Cascarets; Cuticura;
DR. Hathaway.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted; Employment Wanted;
For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal;
Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09
CURRENT COMMENT,

The Baltimore American (Rep) says:
THE powers insist on China paying
the indemnity in gold, and probably
the Empress Dowager wonders if all
those pink teas to the ladies of the
foreign Legations were so much wasted
ammunition.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal
(Dem.) says: When the Republican
house rushed through an anti-trust
bill which had a stingaree in it, the
Republican Senate promptly smother
ed 1t. And now that Senator Hoar has
introduced a bill which means bust
ness, it is said that the house will kill
it. Antitrust legislation is surely be-
tween the devil and the deep sea-
The Richmond Dispatch (Dem.) says:
1.-The President is a negrophilist, and
means TO keep the race question astir.
We know he could find better employ
ment for his strenuous intellectually,
but he is too well satisfied with this
employment to try. Mr.. Mckinley
was earning the title of the great
pacificator.' when he died Mr.. Roose-
welt is not following in his footsteps
1t rather looks as though he wishes
to earn the soubriquet of the great
aSltdtoT on TINS queSuon-good sense
as he has shown about some other mat
ters."
The Washington Post (Ind.) perth
nehtly asks: If justice in any form
from a social a political, or a senti-
mental point of view-demands the
appointment of negroes to high office
in Charleston, Savannah, and other
Southern towns, why does not Justice
equally demand it in Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, Chicago. and so on? Is
this Justice TO be dispensed to the ne
gro in the South, where he amounts
to nothing as political force, and de-
MED to him at the North where in
many important states he holds the
balance Of power?'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09
THE STATEHOOD nILL.

The situation in the Senate in re-
spect TO the omnibus statehood bill is
interesting. Nearly ali of the Repub-
| leans are against it. On the other
hand all OF the Democrats and a hand
ful Of Republicans led by Senator
Quay are in favor of 1t. 1t is under
stood that the reason the Republicans
territories would elect Democratic SEN
atOrs. The alleged reason why Sena-
tor Quay is against his party in this
matter is that he has friends in the
territories who have large business in
terests there. and they would be bene-
flied by the admission of the terrific
ries to statehood. There are whisper
ings to the effect that Senator Quay
is. as a matter of fact. playing a role
In the interest of his party, but there
Is nothing to substantiate that sus-
picion.
The omnibus statehood bill passed
the House. but it was not reported IA
vorably by the Senate Committee on
Territories. Instead, that committee
reported a substitute. which was a
bill to admit Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory as a state. Senator Quay,
being a member of the committee,
made a minority report in favor of the
bill.
In the fight on this question of adj
hitting these territories the Demo-
Gratis and their Republican allies will
be led by Senator Quay and the OPP
position by Senator Aldrich. Each of
them is shrewd and capable and it Is
because they are the leaders it Is
thought the contest will be unusually
interesting. Senator Quay has an
nounced that no bill shall pass until
d vote has been taken on the state
hood bill. That is understood to mean
that even the appropriation bills will
not be permitted to pass. 1t looks
therefore as If it were his purpose to
bulldoze the Senate into admitting the
territories.
Just before the holiday recess a can
vass of the Senate showed forty-three
senators in favor of admitting the ter
ritories, forty against admitting them
and five doubtful. 1t is apparent,
therefore. that neither party feels GER
tain Of victory, but Senator Quay
knows his side has nothing to lose
and everything to gain by pressing the
matter to vote. The hope of the Re-
publican leaders has been that they
could induce the few Republicans who
are acting with the Democrats to
abandon their position and act with
their own party. and they still enter
tain that hope. There are no signs,
however, that this hope will be real
lied.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

new amendment to the English
liquor law has recently gone into eff
feet. 1t not only makes habitual
drunkenness on the part of either hus-
band or wife a ground for legal separ-
alton, but authorizes the police to ar
rest an inebriated person anywhere
except in private residence. Con-
victed drunkards are blacklisted for
three years and selling liquor to them
during that period is prohibited under
severe penalties. To get drunk while
in charge of child under seven years
old is forbidden under penalty of inn
prisonment. A we'll known editor of
London has brought suit for divorce
under the new law on the ground that
his wife is an habitual drunkard.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

New York grocer who died a year
ago left a provision in his will that a
monument should be erected over his
remains in the cemetery at cost of
not less than $4,000. 1t was a con-
dition Of the will that if the widow
failed to provide the memorial as di-
rected, the estate should go to GER
tain person who had no natural claim
upon 1t. The widow has carried out
the directions of her husband, not
withstanding it was necessary for her
to use up all of the personal property
left by her husband and break into
the real estate. This grocer's self
esteem was in itself monumental. and
his selfishness extended beyond the
grave. The case, by the way, recalls
that Of the New York glove maker
whose trade mark ornaments the four
sides of the magnificent tomb which
he erected. for himself in woodlawn
cemetery.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

Reed Turned the Laugh ON Them.
The late Thomas B. Reed. Phila-
delphia lawyer says, made a political
address in a small Pennsylvania town
some years ago, says the Pittsburg
Gzette. The town hall was small and
badly lighted and the speakers desk
was set close to the edge of the plat
form. 4'
Mr.. Reed as his speech progressed,
became excited. He forgot his sur
roundings; he forgot how near he was
to the platforms edge, and inadver-
tently he leaned upon his lectern too
heavily, The result was that it and
he fell to the floor together.
The desk alighted first with a thun-
derous noise, and the speaker followed
after it in a cloud of dust. He imme-
diately rose to his feet again, none the
worse, but the laughter of the towns
people would not allow him to proceed
He stood digesting this loud and coarse
laughter for some moments. Then he
held up his hand.
Don't laugh at me-" he said. Don't
laugh. / was merely getting down to
the level of my audience"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

A Racine, Wis, dispatch says that
to prove his belief in Christian Science.
jackson I. Case of that city a day or
two ago walked to his Office, when his
former physicians said he should have
been in bed, dictated a letter denying
that he was sick or that there was any
such thing as sickness, and then
dropped dead from an incurable dis
ease Of the kidneys. Mr.. Case was
told a year ago that he had kidney
trouble and that it would kill him. He
did not believe it, and took up Chris
tan Science, to which he became an
enthusiastic devotee. And while he
was denying the existence of disease,
death struck him. 1t seems there
ought TO be a warning in the incident
to those who affect a disbelief in the
phenomena of nature.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09
witness Was Excused.

Henry N. Span, the attorney, was
recently cross-questioning German
witness. says the Indianapolis News.
The point involved was to ascertain
what condition the defendant was in
from drinking liquor. The witness tes-
titled that the man was not drunk.
Well" exclaimed Mr.. Span, sharp
ly, were you ever drunk"
mo, sir: l never vas"
How many can you drink without
getting drunk" asked the attorney,
going up close to the witness.
Vat you mean, kegs?"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09
Information for His Honor.

Judge Martin ]. Keogh of the Su-
preme Court of Westchester county,
tion based on the negligence of land
lord in falling to keep certain stair
way in proper repair, took occasion to
question one of the defendants wit
nesses for the purpose of obtaining an
accurate description of the location Of
the stairs, says the New York Times.
Judge Keogh asked the witness. who
in this instance was the janitress of
the house:
Madam, kindly explain to the jury
how these stairs rum"
The janitress answered in a loud
voice:
We'll, yer honor, whin yer up stairs
they run down and whin yer down
stairs they run up"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

set pest to kill a pest" is the
new rendition which the Agricultural
Department. at Washington has given
an. old proverb, and the grasshopper
is the latest pest to receive attention
along this line. The grasshopper spe-
cific is a fungoid germ called "ento-
mophthorcae, which, despite the
name, is said to be easily cultivated
and distributed. The process of dis
tribution is TO inoculate few grass
hoppers, who will Immediately get busy
and scatter the germs broadcast among
their kind. 1t is alleged that millions
of grasshoppers and locusts have been
killed in South Africa and the Philip
pines by the process.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

Senator Simmons of North Carolina
does not take kindly to the suggestion
of Judge Parker of New York as the
Democratic standard bearer in the
next national campaign. The Senator
regards Judge Parker as a negative
quantity. He knows nothing about
him. and nobody else seems to know
more. He cannot find that Judge Park
er has ever done anything to entitle
him to the distinguished consideration
that is proposed for him. 1t is Sena-
tor simmons opinion that what is
wanted is the nomination of a man
who is we'll known, a man who has
done things, and who can be depended
upon to do other things; man con-
corning whose politics and policies
there can be no doubt. Such man,
Senator Simmons says, is Arthur P.
German of Maryland. mo man has
rendered more valuable services to the
party than he. and he deserves the
nomination" says the North Carolin-
ian. There can be no doubt that SEN
ator Germans nomination would be
pleasing TO the South.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

The Women's Health Protective AS
ISOLATION of New York has started a
crusade against the uniforms of the
street car conductors. When the con-
ductors reach up to ring the fares. -.
said the complainant, their coat-taiIs
Zap about and hit people in the face.
They ought to be made to wear round
abouts." This is a very serious mat
ter. OF course it is prejudicial to
health and nerves to have the coat
tails of conductors hitting people in
the face.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

Capt. Marmaduke and his American
crew. who signed articles for year
with the Colombian government to
man and fight the Colombian cruiser
Bogota, have all resigned with four
months pay and are now looking for
new jobs in the fighting line. 1t is
possible that they will go to Venezuela,
where they will be apt to find all the
excitement they want.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

The Daughters of the Confederacy
in ST. Louis propose TO raise fund
for the proper marking of the graves
of 1905 Confederate soldiers who died
as prisoners of war in the Alton (Mo.)
penitentiary. Permission will be asked
for the placing of collection boxes for
this object in all of the government
buildings at the Louisiana Purchase
EXposition.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

A pathetic mining camp story comes
out from the Black Hills of South Da-
kota. For seventeen versa David
Thompson had been prospecting in the
hills for gold, without ever having
made a strike that amounted to any
thing. A few days ago, however, he
uncovered a fabulously rich vein of
quartz. said to be twelve feet wide. in
which chunks of free gold can be seen
in the white rock. So great was
Thompson's joy over his discovery
that he ruptured blood vessel in his
brain and died Immediately.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for fair
and warmer weather. with light and
variable winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

New Hampshire isn't a big state; 1t
could be lost in one corner of Texas.
And yet the New Hampshire Legisla-
ture, which convened at Concord on
Wednesday, is the largest body of the
kind in the United States and one Of
the largest in the world It's member
ship is 4l7-s9S Representatives and "a
senators.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

Dangerheld (Miss Bryan. the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Jane Bryan of Dillon, Ga.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

THESE do not wear
Trappings of state, nor grid upon
their side
Resistless steel, or any symbol bear
To show they wrought a nations
life and pride"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-09

In the Introductory pages of Mrs.
Belts book, The Mothers of Some
Distinguished Georgians," a review of
which was printed in the Morning
News of Dec. 20. there is quoted a
beautiful little poem beginning:
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-02-07
Won the Old Mnn

Sir" he said TO her father, ''this is
a practical world. The spirit of com
mercialism cannot be throttled by
the tender bonds of sentiment Per-
haps you have noticed uhis?''
II can't say l have" replied the
stern parent, but that needn't de-
tain you"
"Of course not" said the youth,
with an atfable smile. What | was
about to say is that while l am sit
ting up counting your daughter l
feel that it would be no more than
fair to offer to pay for the gas l
assist in consuming"
Good" said the old man. "And
how about the coal? Do you expect
me to throw that in?"
Certainly not" cried the youth.
'Pll gladly throw in the coak Bless
you, l worked my way through col
lege tending furnace"
And the old man smiled approving
ly.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-02-07
.MTHE PUB[|G[YE ABROAD.
News Notes from Various Places
in Foreign Lands.
Abxasinia.s Future.

The new treaty between England
and Abyssinia marks long stride
from the time when British army
captured and largely destroyed the
then capital of the latter state. Since
that memorable time, too, there have
been occasions when it appeared high
ly probable that Abyssin1a would
shortly disappear as a political en-
tity. What between Italian en-
croachments and Dervish invasions,
King Menelik was frequently very
hard driven, and must have felt
nightly relieved when the effacement
of the Mahdist terror at Omdurman
rid him, once for all, of his most
dangerous enemy. For short time,
it is true, the king of kings seemed
to be doubtful whether the change
of rule might not prove more of a
calamity than a piece of good for
tune. 1t rendered his rugged coun-
try conterminous with Anglo-Egyp-
tan territory from north to south,
and so replaced one menace by an
other which might prove still more
formidable. But thanks largely to
Col. Harrington's soothing diplomacy,
these very natural misgivings about
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-02-07
SLOWER CRIB AND sELF-FEEDER

slough grass or anything that will
turn the rain. AS the material packs
very close of itself and is very imper-
vious to rain, it will keep we'll. An
other method described and illus
trated by the same writer combines
cheapness with the "self-feeder' idea.
The crib is made of the slat fencing or
cribbing as used by the farmers in the
west when their crops are larger than
their crib room. The Stating is made
usually in five and six-foot widths and
two ties put up, making the combined
height from ten to ~ feet. A floor of
boards is put in and the bottom tier
of Stating fastened to the supporting
posts five or six inches from the floor
boards, which should project two or
three feet outside the Stating. The
cattle will pick up clean all the feed
they will pull out through the space
between the boards and Stating.
When no more can be reached by the
cattle, the space around the bottom
can be filled by the attendant of the
stock with an iron rod sharpened and
bent into hook at the end.