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The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

six years. Peasants from Russia have
also been given land but they have
seemingly made little headway, de-
pending on the generosity of pater-
nal government.
A Fertile Country.
Every traveller through the plains
country is struck with the wonderful
fertility of the sell. Winter lasts
from five to six months. There ie lit
tie snow. owing to the dry noTtnerly
winds. but the ice attains a thickness
Of three and four feet. With the
breaking of winter in April summer
begins Immediately. corn Is we'll out
of the ground by the last of the
month, crops shoot UP on all sides, the
land blossoms as the rose" under the
beneicent influence of the monsoons
which begin in June and force the
grasses, for example, TO the hight OF
a Russian. These grasses make ex-
cellent forage for the. herds of cattle
and the droves of horses which are
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27
DOTTIE'S new HAT

What with the spring millinery
openings and the new spring hats,
Dottie had come to the conclusion
that she, too, needed new hat.
you are not to have new hat this
summer. Your last summer, hat Is
as good as new, and with a change Of
ribbons will do you nicely" her man.
ma answered when Dottie brought up
the subject.
OF course Dottie pouted little, as
she was slightly spoiled, being the
youngest child as well as the only
girl in this home.
Il will ask papa to buy a new
hat for me-" she protested. Mamma
something about wanting to see the
sort of a hat papa would select.
But Dottie said nothing to papa
about the hat, for she well knew he
would say something like this: Now,
Dottie Dimple, you must go 10 your
mamma with all such wide, deep SUBJ
jects as hats. MY brain isn't equal to
anything in that line"
She had a little plan of her own.
and one beautiful evening she coaxed
papa TO go walking, just one tiny,
little walk, with her.
Now, Dottie," said mamma, don't
be such a little tease. want papa
TO stay at home with me this even
ing"
Papa needs the walk. He stays
shut in that old Office all day" re-
piled Dottie, poking papa's hat down
over his ears. and that settled IL.
For some time II did not occur to
Dottie's papa that she was leading
him up 10 all the millinery windows.
When al last he took the hint. he
laughed and said: why, Dorothy
Alice Martin, talking about lovely,
splendid. elegant hats and you but ten
years old. On. mel on, myi Where
has my little girl gOneT
New, papa, please don't make fun.
but isn't this a pretty hat-the one IN
the middle 0f the window"
THAT'S that a hatf" and papa
aqulnted his eyes, II thought that
waa - biR bird cage. DOffle. DO you
really need hafY'
- think ! a.. papa" and Dottis
touched ma htfls Tam ohhanfsT cap
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

the very gates OF Grin itself. The
plain would offer no great natural
difficulties except in spring. when the
thaw causes even the light two-wheel-
ed carts OF the farmers to sink tight
and fast in mud three or four feet
deep. The intense heat keeps the mon
soons from making great marshes Of
the plains. as they do OF the lowlands
along the rivers.
The Chinese farmers will not be
likely to cause the Russians any con-
siderable anxiety. Too many of them
have been made rich. according to
their lights. by the Russian occupa-
tion, and the whites have done every
thing to make the agriculturists un-
derstand that they are friends and
their interests identical. But the
Khunkhuz are now putting, and Will
continue to put, the Russians to not a
little trouble to protect the railroads
and the bases and TO gather the neces-
sary commissary supplies by railroad
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

TO Harbin This line marks the east
ern Manchurian border, and it passes
through Macon, Columbia and Raleigh
in Georgia, North and South Carolina,
respectively; Chesapeake bay, and So
on to Atlantic City.
To mark the northern boundary of
the bone of contention between the
combatants, run line southwest from
Atlantic City to Washington, thence
northwest through Cumberland, Md;
Pittsburg, across Lake Erie a few
miles east of Cleveland, O., through
London, Ontario and across Lake HUI
ron to the Straits of Mackinaw. The
lime then curves ito the southwest
down the center of Lake Michigan TO
Milwaukee, and thence, with slight
concayity, to Davenport, Iowa. There
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27
THE VALUE OF
KNOWING THINGS
Secret Service Man Made His Rep
utation by Remembering Some-
thing He Had Read.

Nothing that man can learn viii
ever be wasted2 knowledge" said a
United States secret service man re-
Gently, while sitting at his desk in the
xostoffice in New York. For instance,
one day 1 read an article about trout
fishing in the Berkshires in Massa-
ehusetts. I'm not fisherman. Never
cast a hook into the water IN my me-
But I happened to read this article
because it was pretty entertaining.
well. about five years afterward l
was assigned to mighty hard case
A new counterfeit had appeared, and
Ii was a counterfeit that more than
worried the government. scared
'em. 1t was too good Tor conilort'
truth. when / tell you that II was so
good that later on, at the trial OF the
counterfeiters, the government HN
perts got the exhibits mixed up ana
they couldn't tell which was the eoun-
ferfeit and which was the genuine
government bill until they compared
the numbers on both with the govern
ment record.
There wouldn't have been any trial
at ali II IL hadn't been for my remem-
berine that trout fishing article
when the counterfeit began 70
bother US, man after man was put out
on the case. What we had TO do, IN
reality, was not merely 20 catch the
counterfeiters, we had 10 ind the
counterfeifs. You viii appreciate this
when j tell you that they were ten-
dollar bills. 20 that a gang could easily
pass enough OF them 20 get rich for
ever, seeing they were such good
limitations that only mere apeck IA
one line on the counterfeit betrayed ~
and not one man in ten thousand
would have been able 10 see That
well. catching the men whe easy
enoueh. We know about Who a u
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

and 200 miles. respectively, north of
Port Arthur. They are as far in the
interior as Selma, Atlanta and Bristol
are from Mobile. Grin, which, various
reports have said, the Japanese are
threatening, is some 450 miles inland
from Georgetown, S. c.. on the At
lantic, which has a comparatively po-
sition to Possiet Bay,
AS for topography, the Appalachian
Mountain system corresponds in a
general way to the eight mountain
ranges along the eastern boundary of
Manehuria. They are known as the
Chang -pai-shan system, and offer a
forbidding barrier to the Japanese,
and give natural protection to the
Russian bases in the plain to the west.
The position of the two systems would
be almost identical If the American
mountains, instead of being clustered
along the boundary lines of the Vir-
ginias. Tennessee and North Carolina,
ran through the central parts Of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina, and in ad-
dition filled the western half of South
Carolina, Georgia north from Augusta
and Macon, and the greater part of
Alabama with numerous parallel and
rugged spurs varying in hight from 81
600 to 5000 feet. Alabama and Geor-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

south to it's terminus, Asheville, N. c.,
becomes Grin; Atlanta, Mukden, and
Selma, Ala, New-Chwang. Jackson
occupies the position Of Chin-wang-
tao, China, where it was reported the
japanese wanted to land force, and
thus get in the rear of Port Arthur
but were prevented from doing so
by China, in her efforts to preserve
neutrality. Alexandria, in Central
Louisiana, has the same relative geo
graphical position to Mobile that Pekin
has to Port Arthur.
Manchurian Distances.
All this gives the idea of Manchurian
distances, which are truly magnificent
for an army to march and fight over.
New-Chwang, Mukden and Harbin,
important Russian bases, are 15O, 300
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

gia would then have to dot the topog-
raphy of the Liao-tung peninsula and
province, with that part of the Chat
tahoochee river which flows diagonal
ly down through Central Georgia,
marking in a general way the PROV
inces only decent waterway, the Liau
no river, emptying into Liao-tung gulf.
The Linu-hO Valley,
1t is along the Liau-ho Valley that
the Port Arthur branch of the Man
churian Railway runs northward, fol-
lowing the lines of the only real high
way of which Manchuria can boast.
This highway, for centuries used by
innumerable camel caravans and con-
tending armies. runs from Pekin (cen-
'traI louisiana to Chin-wang-tao
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

the SungarI river each has many trib-
utaries. rising in the mountains bound
ing the, plains. The East Chinese
branch Of the Trans-Siberian Railway
pierces both plains from west to east,
from the base of the Great Kinghan
Mountains 10 the foothills of the
Chang-pai-shan range for a distance
Of 400 miles. AS result. Harbin re-
ceives in great quantities by river and
rail the products of the steppes-wheat,
corn. oats, fruits. vegetables. cattle,
hogs. wood, grasses, and horses in
droves. The railroad also gets its fuel
from the extensive forests. In the
Liao-tung Peninsula the Port Arthur
branch of the line uses the products
of the local coal mines, many of which
the Russians have opened. The penin-
sula is as rich in coal as the north
country is in forests.
The Plains Region.
This plains region, which would
stretch. 100 miles wide, on an average,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

that can engrave we'll enough to pro-
duce such a fine piece of work as
was that ten-dollar bill. SO we
watched a few suspected engravers
and soon knew who was the guilty
man in this case. And it was still
more easy, of course, to find his as
sociates.
very quietly one day we hauled
them all in-arresting one in New
Haven, another in New Jersey. an
other in New York, one in Philadel-
phia, and so on, almost at the same
minute, so that not man of the gang
engaged in the actual counterfeiting
got away.
"But we didn't find the counterfeits;
and vet we knew that the gang had
already printed something like $4,000
worth of them, and of that quantity
they had circulated only about
thousand dollars worth.
awe held the gang in the various
cities where they had been arrested
and took great care not to let them
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

she wore. She had once heard papa
say that was a funny, ugly, little thing,
dinner plate set on little girls
head.
We'll. IL you need a hat. you cer-
tainly must have on. And then Dot
tie led papa into the big room alight
with birds. flowers and bright colors.
and madame herself came to wait on
them, and 1t ended as madame intend
ed IL should end when she saw how
papa was led around by that one little
girl-Dottie came out wearing the
costliest hat she had in stock for lit
tie girls.
When mamma saw IL she held up
her hands in horror, and declared that
she would take IL back; that madame
ought to have known better than TO
palm off such a gorgeous hat on a
little girl and man.
And Tom. Dottie's big brother.
peeped in at the door, and asked her
why She did not have madame put a
turkey buzzard on top OF It. And a
screech OWL" chimed in Dick. an
other brother. from the lounge. And
chicken hawk" said Billy, looking
UP from his book.
THAT will do. boys!" said papa.
II don't care whether you like my
hat or not. / do. I'm going up to
show IL to grandma. She will, like It,"
and there was the sound of tears in
Dotties voice.
And grandma did. say, "Oh. what
lovely hat Bring IL here, child.
never saw so many birds on one hat
in all my days. See, Dottie, under
this silk. half hidden. Is blue bird and
red bird We called the blue bird a
stonechat when was young They
were the first birds 10 come In the
spring, and they came always TO the
same tree. They did not forget where
they nested last year. They tell me
the stonechats are few nowadays.
wonder II they have nearly all been
killed 10 trim hats for little girls? And
this red bird is a thrush. wish YOU
could hear him sing. Dottie. He has
voice like a flute. This bird IL a
sun bird, Bird OF Paradise they are
called. And here IL a little pink pas
tor bird. That comes from far away,
over the sea. And here. with this
spray of pink blossoms. IL the rarest
~ all feathers. II is q single feather
that grows on o certain sun bird ~
New Guinea. And here ie the head
~ 4 bower bird. They place shells
ana noWsrs al IA and arouEa tasiI
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27
BY THOMAS G. CLAYTON.

it goes south, following in q general
way the Mississippi river to Burling-
ton and crossing into Illinois at thai
point 1t continues through the state
TO Springfield, where it turns east and
crosses Indiana to Cincinnati. Here
the line bends south across Kentucky
TO Knoxville, Tenn, thence southwark
70 Chattanooga, and diagonally across
Northwestern Alabama to Jackson,
Miss. Lao Tung Gulf begins a little
to the east of Jackson. and takes in
the gulf part of Mississippi and the
valleys of the Tombigbee and Ala
bama rivers as far up as Central Ala
bama.
American Replica of Manchuria-
In this American replica of Man
churia. Davenport represents the point
where the East Chinese branch Of the
Trans-Siberian Railway enters Man
churia from the Trans Baikal province
of Siberia. Cincinnati then becomes
the city of Tsitsikar; Bristol, in the
extreme northeastern corner Of Ten
nessee, Harbin. Russia's war base; and
Wilmington, N. c.. is Vladivostok, the
terminus of the line. With Bristol
as Hardin, where the Port Arthur
branch of the railway leaves the main
line. and runs little to the west cf
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

communicate with each other. And
in the meanwhile / was started on
red-hot search for the bills. You can
see that 1t would never do to let
s49, 900 in excellent counterfeits. lie
around loose.
"Well, 1 won't tell you how many
traisl followed or how often 1 missed
it.. But at last, in the third week,
found myself in the Berkshires, bound
on the errand of looking up some old
time companions of one of the coun-
terfeiters. / may as we'll tell you now
that it was a blind clew. Every one
of them turned out to be perfectly in
nocent not one having seen the coun-
terfeiter since he was a boy in that
region.
''while I was knocking around in
the hotel in one of the villages, an
elegant little tourist chap came In with
a lot of fish rods and registered. He
asked the hotel keeper to call him
early next morning as he wished to
fish a certain stream.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

homes. Yes, it is a pretty hat"
Grandma's voice was sad. Dottie
remembered now that grandma lid
not believe in killing birds to put on
hats. She carried the hat to her own
room and laid it on the bed. Then sat
down in chair close by to take one
more look at 1t.
Suddenly the hat began TO move.
There was a twittering sound, and
from under the white silk and chiffon,
the blue bird slowly crept, stopped to
look around one moment, then few as
straight as 1t could to Dottie and gave
her one, two, three sharp pecks on the
nose
"You bad, bad girl" it screamed. II
was coming back to a hole In rail
where / had left my babies, and they
shared me, and took me away to put
on your hat. Take that, and that, you
mean thing"
The red bird began to cry piteousIy.
They took me from my babies, too.
and they starved to death"
The pink bird fiuttered out in a COM
land. We follow the sheep, and the
sheep are lonely without us. We eat
up the locusts. and that saves the
crops. They say there is famine in
our land since they have killed US on.
/ want to go home"
You come here and help me get
my revenge on this naughty girl,n
still shrieked the blue bird.
II will II ever get my wings loose
from this silk netting" piped the sun
bird.
And with that all the birds flew az
Dottie, and throwing up her hands to
beat them away and screaming,
Grandma, papa, everybody. come and
help met she awoke. There lay the
hat on the bed. Every bird was IN
its place. fa7tened. down tight with
thread and silver headed pins.
"Oh. what a dream" said Dottie
aloud. II won't have that hat. I
just naturally despise II. Mamma
must take It back and get me the kind
she thinks is nice. ] viii never wear
q bird on my hat, never"
And Dottie kept her word.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-27

North Lamoine Me-, can boast of
boy who. when only 8, went the en-
tire three terms. Or a whole sehool
year without missing a word. and the
present term Of nine weeks waa com-
pieted With the same success a the
age 0f AZ.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-17
jim JEFFRlES TALKS.
Has a Few Questions For Mr.. J. Munroe
10 AnsMer- left Is Angry.


James J, Jeffrles has been heard from
lie has emerged from the veil OF silence
mat has covered his recent training at
self.
This is what the champion has to say,
a lot OF people seem to have the Idea
mat J am not going 10 come out and fight
Munroe. ! don't know what is the mailer
with them, but they give me a palm
ia ha! Jen Is getting excited.
! guess there ~ reason enough for my
going ON with this Tight and ! guess Mr..
oVer'
Ha, ha! again Also ,ho ho Munroe
must have tutilled Jen's feathers)
Il have few questions 10 put TO him.
and am going 10 get answers, too, II 1
have to knock them out OF him.
IN the first place, / am told that Mum
roe and his managers have been engaged
IN trying to spread the idea that | am a
physical wreck and that ! am afraid Of
the miner. Afraid ! guess | was afraid
When ! tried 20 get him to come down 20
Los Angeles ana fight me there year
ago when there was a chance To get "a
big purse with a good gilt-odged guar
antco' Just as good as we win have this
time.
when we get In the ring on the 18th
VIII just ask Munr0e when he noticed my
knees shake last Maybe II was out In
Butte Buttel guess IN have a ques-
ton or two about Butte, too,
"Munroe spread the story an over the
country that he Knocked me down In that
four-round bout with punch In the
stomach, because my stomach was weak.
lie couldn't knock one side Of me down.
and 10 tell the truth. he was 50 scared
that he fcl down himself every time |
came near him. ! will put IT up TO Mum
roe TO explain lust how ho knocked me
down, ! want him TO show people how
he did IT, n give him chance enough to
show lust how much stronger his body Is
than mine
"Then when I hurt my knee a while
ago and had TO get the date showed along
little 10 let II get well enough 10 stand
on this Munroc rushed for a train and
went back east, to tell everybody that /
WAS living In bed and quitting because I
was scared 20 meet him and that my
knee was Just a four-iiush,
scared / would have gone In and
fought him on one leg II ! had thoughr
for a moment any Of my friends would
believe that / would back out Of "A fight
am.
why when / went down to Phlladel.
phia TO see Munroo fight Sharkey six
rounds, this miner took II into his head
that | must have been trembling IN my
boots as | watched him Eight lie thought
! shook so that the chair squeakcd, Then
first thing he knew he got go sure of IL
that he went around and told all the peO-
pie he met how worried was after look
ing at him fight
"Tll get a few explanations out Of him
before this affair Is over and | don't in
tend TO string the ceremonies out over
couple OF rounds at that. Just couple
Of rounds, that will do for Mr. Jack Mum
roe, the champion miner"
Apparently Munrue Is dated for a siren
uous time on the 18th. But some people
think that the miner takes TO this "suen-
uOtls'' thing.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-17
SAMUELSON IS
KING OF SAUCER.
Last Evening He Got Away With
The Western Champion
ship.
DOWNING CAME IN SECOND.
+, Was One Of the Prettiest Races Ever
Seen on the Salt Palace Track
Baseball Today.

pu,y samuelson IS the champion bike
rider Of the west
Tb,s fact was demonstrated last evening
=, ,he salt Palace In the presence Of
,,roe crowd Of race fans who assembled
!, witness the ten-mlle western cham-
n,onship open 20 professionals and anna
,.rs n was one of the prettlest races
,ysr seen IN Salt Lake, and samuelson
certainly earned all he got. The prize was
40 Il, cash and a handsome si5 diamond
medal, offered by Iichtenstein brothers.
samuelson had to ride his best to get
,uav with the honors, for Hardy Down
Inc played foxy game all the way
,h,ongb the race, and came In half a
a,hoecl length behind Samuolson. Frank
LEHMAN finished third and Carl Redman
omateur was fourth. The ten miles were
oo'yeyed in 1880 l.5. Samuelson and Down"
tng dld not care for the lap money. Iney
wsre content to jockey for good POSITIONS,
and they held them uhtl tne pei iiP
%ben everybody made a jump tor htst
Nonors samuelson held back until the
XXI ian when he shot ahead OF DOWNING
"a ire fight between them began but
,he california boy was unable 10 80
syound the speedy local man, and was
Palmer beld the last position throughout
the race and many thought ne would oe
,he vsipner, but he failed TO go around the
vsst amos when the supreme test came
In Inc throe.quarter mile amateur
,,ent the Redman brothers, Carl aud
1ysr look FIRST and second money. Els
Wood finished third, ,-,..
The half-mile sprint for the profession.
.i was taken by Palmer Holman got
second HOLSTER third and Burrls fourth
Tbe two.mile lap race for professionals
end amatours-the slow ones-was taken
IN Welser Castro got second, Baby
SLAYER cot third and NILS fourth.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-17
ROSS MAKES STATEMENT,
Declares That lie Was MIsrepresented In
The Matter OF Wrestling Match.

Sporting Editor News:
It Is useless for o. II Stevens the
stranger In sporting circles, but clean rec
ord man, to try and polish over one fraud
and deliberately cOncoCt another OF the
sane proportions along the same lines,
and call II an error.
Ile may call II an error II he wishes but
Il Is plain 10 be seen that II is pure and
simple a misrepresentation to get the
pibc's money.
Why, when or whore, did he match Ben
Hendricks (as he calls him) and j.
Johnson. lie matched them just the same
as he matched Mr. Lewis and me, with
OUT either one Of them knowing any
thing about Il.
He did not as much as learn the name
q Ben Aldrich. the wrestler, whom the
SAT- Lake public knows well, In speak
ing Of clean records II is up to the salt
LAKE public TO Judge for themselves
For the benefit Of some OF the readers
who never saw me In my working cloths,
am proud to say that I work every day
81 my trade and earn an honest living for
myself and family. and ] always got a
,SW dollars OF my own. ! ana willing TO
wager az any time against any man Of
my weight or heavier In the country,
but the ideal athlete Of today must not
earn his own living, TO be popular with
we public he must be supported by his
tutOirers, or he Is not real athlete. From
4 spectacular point Of view II seems a
preach OF the law and order to athletics
y mis- country, for an athlete 10 earn a
I,lhg by the sweat OF his brow. Hence,
nave not clean record.
now Tor the benefit OF Mr., Fuller. tho
Wud-be giant wrestler OF Colorado, who
uned 10 farther mislead the public by cir
SSW,a,lhg mat Mr.. Lewis was out OF con-
,muoR ne would wrostle me ] will agree
throw him three times in one hour
%,pa, wrestling time for from 81 TO 1900
avg al gate receipts,
lhls man o, H. stevens wants TO have
an yean record and SEQ who Is willing at
s Sn unles TO favor him and the public with
rcn.,e sporL let him deposit piece Of
money on this proposition, Money talks.
CHAg ROSS