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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
THE VIEW IN PARIS.
ohc1als Say That Russia Will Give
$3.50. Ample Reparation

PARIS, October 24-The action of the
Russian second Pacific squadron in firing
on and sinking British fishing boats has
aroused intense interest in official circles
and among the public generally here. The
officials say that Russia will undoubtedly
make an immediate explanation and anoI-
ogy and pay an ample indemnity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24

coal in restraint of trade and in defiance
of the Sherman antitrust law
The complainant, represented by his coun-
sci, Clarence A. Shearn. has sought to pro-
duce such evidence before the commission
a would compel the reduction of the price
of coal al tide water east and west and Sc
cure the punishment of the alleged con-
spirators. The railroad companies involved
include the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
Erie. Delaware and Hudson, New York,
Ontario and Western, Central railroad of
New Jersey Reading and Delaware. Lack
aWanna and Western.
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charleston,s Fine : H q ~, p,,rn. 49,,

RICHMOND. Va, October PA private
telegram received here states. that the
new hotel. the. Kapawha, at Charleston,
". Va. burned last night 1t cost $780,
COO No details.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
Senator Clark Sells Montana paner.

HELENA. Mont. October Ex-senator w.
A. Clark has sold the Helena Independent
to John s. NJ. Neill of Helena. Senator
Clark bought the Independent from Neill
two years ago. - 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
ENGLAND PROTESTS


liam st. John Broderick, secretary of state
for India and Lord Londonderry. lord pres
ident of the council, were present. The
crowd evidently intended to make demon
stration upon the appearance of King Ed
ward he remained in the palace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
The West for Roosevelt.

Henry T. Scott of San Francisco was a
White House caller today. He said that he
did not know about political conditions in
the east. but that in the west everything
was well nigh solid for Roosevelt "Out
our way" said Mr. Scott, "the majorities
for Roosevelt will be tremendous
U. S. Grant, jr. of California was another
caller to predict great majorties for the
President in the west.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
Inexplicable Conduct

The officials of the admiralty say the cap
tain of the Maybe did not exaggerate the
situation in the statement he made yester-
day. What is puzzing them most is that
the Russian torpedo boats did not board
nor approach within hailing distance of one
of the TRAVELLING fleet. At the Russian en-
bassy it was suggested that the Russian
squadron steamed away believing that no
other suggestions, finds little credence and
fails to lessen the irritated amazement with
which all the officials here regard the at
fair, which was aggravated later by an al
eign Office to the effect that the Russians
detached a ship from the squadron and
that she remained watching the trawlers
until o'clock on Saturday morning with
SiStanCe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
Story of the Mino's Mate.

The mate of the trawler Mino, Which
arrived at Hull with the Moulmein, bring
ing the news of the firing on the fishing
boats. said today:
Between 200 and 300 shots were fired.
The first vessel in line did most of the
firing. But l think two others also fired
several shots. Our whole fleet was under
searchlights. which nearly blinded u.s. The
Russians came within less than quarter OF
a mile from us. We could see them PLAIN
ly as they came up. Every sailor knows
that this part of the sea is fishing ground
and no one could have mistaken our fleet
with its special lights as signals
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
Appeal From Mayor of Hull.

The mayor of Hull has telegraphed TO
Premier Balfour as follows:
1.-The greatest indignation prevails here
at the unprecedented and wanton attack
on the Hull fishing fleet by Russian war-
ships, resulting in the loss of valuable
lives. We appeal to the government to take
the speediest and strongest measures to in
sure full redress and complete security
against fur. her Russian outrages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-24
Willing to Give PREPARATION.

That Russia will offer apologies and rep
aration and make honorable amends admits
of no doubt. but the infiamed state of pub
lie opinion in Great Britain and coming on
the heels of the sinking by the yladivostok
squadron of the British steamer Knight
Commander and the Red sea incidents, 1t IS
recognized that the situation may become
acute unless the cool heads among the
British statesmen proceed calmly.
Unfortunately, in meeting such situa-
ton, the Russian governmental machinery
Is so cumbersome as to render the prompt
action which such situation seems to de-
mand almost impossible. Everything will
depend on the character of the British de-
mands. Here. 1t is considered, lies the
principal danger of possible rupture. II
they go to the extent of demanding the
punishment of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky
or even the recall of the squadron. as some
of the British newspapers intimate, 1t Is
likely to create situation here which
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
He Preferred PEBBLES.

Andrew Carnegie. at a recent dinner
in New York, talked about PEBBLES,
says the Kansas City Journal.
PEBBLES" said Mr.. Carnegie, would
strike the stranger as a bleak place.
Despite its waulk mills despite it's
black cattle and it's black faced sheep,
despite it's River Tweed and it's hand
some iron bridge across the Tweed,
PEBBLES is not a parish to strike the
visitor as gay or lively.
Nevertheless, the inhabitants of
PEBBLES love their home. They are
an odd people, a people gifted with
the power of saying amusing, memoir
able things.
"An old PEBBLES sheep raiser once
got together a little money and made
journey to Paris. Paris, he had
heard, was the most joyous, the
most beautiful city in the world.
Therefore, he would see it before he
died.
ION his return, a month or so later,
his friends gathered round him.
" Tell u.s. they said, what Paris
is like. Tell us how it compares
with the Scottish cities you have
seem
1.-The old man compressed his lips.
Then he said, rubbing his chin with a
reflective look:
" Paris, all things considered, is a
wonderful place; but, still. give me
PEBBLES for pleasure
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
A Good Joke.

The late Charles Parsons, the mill
lianaire railroad man of New York,
was noted for his kind heart and for
his dislike of practical jokes. says the
Philadelphia Bulletin. He one day
said:
II have loathed practical joking ever
since my residence in New Orleans,
some fifty years ago.
II knew in New Orleans a young
man of sensitive nature, who happen
ed to be deaf. He hated his deafness.
He tried to make believe that, really,
he was not deaf at ALL And this con-
duct, which was excusable enough,
drew down upon him an amount of
riducule that was pitiable.
IT shall never forget the poor young
mans look of pain on a day when he
was the unconscious victim of a prac-
teal joker.
1.-The joker, walking with me- spied
the dear youth on the other side of
the street. and said, Now for some
fun and before / could intervene,
catching the others eye, he opened his
mouth and worked It frantically as
though shouting at the top of his
lungs.
THE deaf man hurried over with
n vexed. bothered look.
You needn't shout so loud. Do
you think / can't hear your he said"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Chicago Record-Herald says:
Many thoughtful men have lost their
faith in the jury system as the pail
ladium of our liberties, and are ready to
do away with some of it's features UNI
anmity in verdiets among other things.
Whatever one may think of proposals
of this kind, 1t is impossible not to re-
cognize that trial by jury as it is too
often witnessed is very unlike the the
oretical conception of that ancient and
cherished safeguard"
The Norfolk Landmark says: New
Orleans thinks that she will get rs per
cent. of the trade between the United
States and the Isthmus of Panama.
Add to that the rs per cent. expected
by Galveston, the 60 per cent. expected
by the Virginia ports, the 60 per cent
expected by Savannah and Charles
ton, the so per cent. expected by Balti-
more and Philadelphia, the 40 per cent.
expected by Wilmington and Mobile,
and the so per cent. expected by New
York, to say nothing of the Pacific
coast expectations, and we have one
phenomenon of the future"
The New York Globe Qnd.) says:
"As to trusts, the primary regulation
Hteu - a. idAAOIdl liAtdGultf AHH
English companies act, which will eff
fectivey prevent the issuance of false
prospectuses, balance sheets or reports,
most rigidly guard against false cap
italization, and secure the rights of
minority stockholders. This can only
be secured by national action. Miracles
do not happen nowadays, and there Is
no way OF securing a SIMILAR statute
from forty-hve different states. IL Is
worthy 20 note that I'm their testimony
before the industrial commission. John
ID. Rockefeller. VI. II. Rogers and John
ID. Archbold all strongly urged the en-
actment OF "A national incorporation
law"
The Columbia q. CD State CDem.)
says; "The Hon. Thos. y. Watson Is
going 10 keep IN touch with the public.
Ne has discovered that the personal
contact of even an orator ~ entirely
inadequate FOR his propose and, Ike
Tom Lawson be- has recourse 10 the
only reliable means ~ publicity
printers ink ID may b.. too, that ST..
Watson viewing the achievements ~
ST. Bryan in that line. has an idea that
while coudpminE r. conspicuous adyef-
fiafmfnf money may o. Incidentally
made. AZ Hug rate there ia Hoou a. d.
lffufd from Offices in New YORK fha
Tom Watson Maaarinf' l0 BE- proc.
pfefNH "a afe0n sagH fhaf he iH co.
H0ifr0 fn Devote fne neff fQur yeaFa
~ a campaiEn ~ c4aeaii9n'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
A Pretty Little story.

II isn't often that one finds a good
story in a book Of science. but here
is one from ]. G. A1illais' Mammals
of Great Britain and Ireland" In
1886 there lived at Aberdour, on the
estuary Of the Forth, N B., remark
able old sea captain, who possessed an
extraordinary power in tanning wild
birds and animals. A friend In Edin-
burgh who knew him stated that the
old gentleman was usually to be seen
walking down the village streets fol-
lowed by a flock of canaries, which
accompanied him in his short pere-
CARNATIONS in the neighborhood of his
house. One day some fishermen sur
prlSed half-grown common seal in
the mud flats and took it to the sea
captain, who soon trained it with such
success that the poor creature became
perfect nuisance. The seal would go
every morning into the estuary and
hunt for fish and then make it's way
home over the mud UP to the house,
at the door of which it would knock
or push with it's fore-fiippers. It's fav-
orite resting place was the drawing
room sofa. The daily arrival of mud
and wet into the best parlor was soon
too much for the good captains tidy
wife, so the day came at last when
ne reluctantly promised to get rid of
the beast in the most humane fashion.
A boat was hired; the captain and
his pet sailed away far out to sea off
Portobello, where the man babe fare
well to the seal, which apparently had
not the smallest intention of saying
good-by to him. The seal swan around
the boat few times and then Owed
and the kind-hearted old sea dog sadly
turned his boats head homeward, con-
WINGED that he would never see his
amphibious friend again. surprise,
however, was in store, for when he
opened his cottage door it was to hear
his wife's voice raised in anger; there
was the seal on the drawing room sofa
once again, safe and sound, and look
ing up reproachfully with his innocent
black eyes.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
CHORUS GIRLS AND THE PEERAGE.
From an Exchange

By careful breeding and selection
through a series of years the Maine
Agricultural College has produced a
strain of hens that lay over two hun
dred eggs a year. The record hen laid
251 eggs within the past twelve months,
The average American hen lays about
eighty eggs per annum, so the Maine
hens lay more than double the aver
age per capita production. There was
no corresponding increase in food cost
The egg crop of the United States
is worth more dollars than the wheat
crop. In New York city the average
daily consumption of eggs is over a mil
lion, which at cents apiece amount to
$4,000 day. The people of New York
pay more for eggs than for either the
police or the public schools.
The important change in the habits
of hens brought about by the Maine
breeding experiment is to induce them
to lay in the fall and winter. Three
quarters of the eggs consumed in
New York during November and De-
cember are storage eggs laid the pre-
ceding spring. Comparatively few
New York families know what a fresh
laid egg is. Even in the spring most
of the eggs sold come from the West,
and were laid several weeks before
they are eaten.
The total cost of these Maine ex-
periments was less than the cost of
one 12-inch cannon, less than the cost
of transporting one regiment of SOL
diers from San Francisco to the Phil
ippines. To produce a similar breed
of hen in every state in the union
would cost less than to build one new
fort.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
A cRuMPACKER SENSATION.

Evidently Congressman Crumpacker
would like the country to believe he is
! receiving great numbers of threatening
letters because he proposes to introduce,
or has introduced into the House. a
bill to reduce Southern representa-
ton A dispatch in a Republican paper
of New York from LaPorte, Ind. Mr..
Crumpackers home, says: Congress
man Crumpacker of this district is be-
ing deluged with threatening letters
written by Southerners. The threat is
openly made in the letters that If
his proposed bill is enacted into a law
the people of the South will retaliate by
ostracizing and prosecuting the North
erners residing among them" The
dispatch goes on to say that Mr.. Crum-
packer will not be deferred from the
course which he has marked out and
that he believes his bill will be passed
The trouble with Mr. Crumpacker is
that he is afraid he is being lost sight
of in this question of reducing the re-
presentation of the South. The bills on
the same subject that have been intro
duced by Senator Platt and Mr.. Nor
rell have caused his bill, in a great
measure, to be forgotten. Hence he is
attempting to bring himself to the
front again by having it published that
he is being threatened by Southerners
for urging the passage of such a mea-
sure.
a
specific. He should publish some of
the letters he has received together
with the same names signed to them.
Then it would appear whether or not
representative Southerners have writ
ten him letters such as those mention
ed in the dispatch to the New York
paper. We venture to say that he has
received no such letters from men of
influence in any section of the South.
No doubt he has received a few let
ters, but probably they are from men
who are interested in having the
bill passed. They may be white
or black Republicans or some of them
may be disgruntled Democrats who
have no standing in their respective
communities. No Southern man of
sense would write such letters to Mr..
Crumpacker as he says he has receiv-
ed, because they are just what he
wants to get. He will use them in his
speeches in behalf of the bill, and will
try to make the country believe that he
is being prosecuted for doing what he
believes to be his duty. No Southern
bitter feeling for Mr.. Crumpacker,
would threaten to prosecute Northern
settlers in the South because of legis-
lation by Congress against what he
thought were the interests of his sec
ton.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Alee Temple, A. A. S. N.
M S.; knights of Columbus; Fraternal
Order of Eagles No. 800.
Special Notices-Dividend Notice,
Commercial Bank; Brokerage Business
For Sale; Reserved Seats, Mehrtens
Concert Company; Prickly Ash Bark
Wanted, Lppman Bros; Ship Notice,
British Steamship EPSON; Notice to
Members of the Bar.
Business Notices-Cotton Seed Meal
and Hulls For Sale, Seaboard Cotton
Oil Company; Blue Points. Sommers
Cafe; Bicycle Repairing. G. w.
Thomas; Mercury Dropping, A. M. &
C. w. West.
These Snappy Cold Days-B. H. Levy,
Bro. & Co.
To Provide a Guaranteed Annual In
come-Penniman & Ennen.
Eggs-A. Ehrlich & Bro.
Whisky--Lewis' Sc Rye.
Proposals Wanted-For Constructing
Concrete Walks at Fort Moultrie S. c.
Kosher Chicken Fat-The Delmonico
Co.
Old Harvest Corn whisky-Henry
Solomon & Son.
Twelve Years of Goodness-Le Panic
Cigars.
Dainty Desserts-Conida's
Good Work Every Day-Savannah-
Georgia Laundry.
Genuine Hot Stuff Stoves-Edward
Lovell's Sons.
Try Tetterine-J. T. Shuptrine.
Hot Water Bottles--Rowlinski, Drug
gist.
Ammunition-At Lattimore's.
One-Fourth Cut from the Prices-Dr.
M. Schwab's Son.
Savannah Theater-To-night, THE
Garrison Girl"
Medical-Peruna.
Cheap Column Advertisements-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
THE GINNERs' REPORT.

The Ginners' report that was made
public yesterday. and which the hold
ers of cotton hoped would show pre-
vious estimates of the cotton crop to
be too high. confirmed the impression
that the crop would be round about
100000 bales. There was conse-
quently a decline in the price of flu
lures and no disposition to quote the
SPOT market.
Naturally the very great decline in
the price of cotton is having a de-
pressing effect throughout the cotton
states. There is a great deal of cot
ton yet in the hands of the farmers,
the country merchants and small spec
ulators. At the beginning of the season
the hope was entertained by many
farmers that the price for good mid
ding would go to IL cents. Later,
they felt it couldn't possibly go below
10 cents. Their confidence in this re-
spect was shared by the country mer-
chants and small spectators. A glance
at the present price of cotton indi-
Gates the extent of their losses and
their feeling of depression.
1t may be that the 100000 bale es-
innate is too high, but crop of even
that size ought to command at least
g cents a pound at the railroad sta
tions. Perhaps the fact that the re-
cent estimate is larger than it was
generally thought the crop would be
e, tho hn YariRn
fall lower than it would have gone
had the season begun with the belief
that the crop would be 100000 bales.
If that is the case, we may reasonably
expect that the market will be con-
siderably better a few weeks hence.
The fact is the large crop-the large
yield per acre-is due to the extraor-
binary season. There has been scarce
ly day since the beginning OF the
season that conditions have not been
favorable for picking cotton
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
COST AND WORK OF A LoCOMO-
TIVE.
From the Chautauquan.

The modern locomotive costs $4,000
or $4,000. according to size and equip
ment. The passenger locomotives in
former days were embellished with ex-
ira brass work and trimmings, the
bright parts were kept by the firemen
in state of glittering effulgence, and
the passenger engine cost more than
the freight engine. Nowadays, the
trimmings are not put on. and the pas
senger engine. being lighter, costs less
than the mammoth freighter.
When the engine goes into commits
sion it is a fine piece of machinery,
with power to pull long trains over
miles of track, day after day, but with
the strenuous work comes the certainty
of deterioration and the necessity of
constant repairs. When work was
lighter trains not so heavy, and mile
age in lower figures. an engine could
be expected to live thirty years, but
in locomotives the tendency is toward
a decrease of longevity, for the man
agement strives to get all the service
possible out of them. The age Of ex-
pectancy is only approximate. Bad
water, that is, water bad for the in
ternal economy of boilers, and which
causes scale, is perhaps the greatest
foe to an engines hopes for an hon
orable old age. A bad water division
uses up its motive power far more rap
idly than hard work elsewhere. A hilly
country causes more strain. Local con-
ditions on the line largely affect the
motive power. Then, too, housing ia
cilities have much to do with the life
of the engine. If it is possible to keep
up with needs in repairs, the power
stands a better chance for giving long
service. The demand for engines, how
ever, may be so pressing that the least
possible repairing that will answer is
given, with the result that the locomo-
tives constantly deteriorate and lose in
efficiency, until complete overhauling
becomes a positive necessity. "A stitch
in time saves nine" in railroad as well
as in garment repairs
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29
SIZE OF AN ATOM.
From an Exchange.

How large is an atom? Perhaps the
simplest, though not the most exact,
way of arriving at a rough estimate
of the size of atoms is by measuring
the thickness of a soap bubble film,
which is an thin as possible, just be-
fore it bursts" says a writer. such a
film, If composed of atoms, must be
something like a pebble wall Now, a
pebble wall would not stand If it were
not several pebble thick, and If we had
reason to suppose that II was about
a dozen pebbles thick, we could easily
make an estimate of the size of the
pebble by measuring the thickness of
the wall
That is the case with the thinnest
region of a soap film. II is found to
have a very definite and uniform
thickness. 1t is the thinnest thing
known, and by refined optical means
its thickness can be accurately measur-
ed. IT must contain not less than some-
thing like a dozen atoms I'm its thick
ness, and yet II is only about the
twenty-millionth OF an inch In thick
ness by direct measurement. SO that
the dimeter of an atom comes out be-
tween one two hundred millionth and
one three hundred millionth OF an inch.
In other words. from about 200, 900 900
to 100000 900 Of atom can lie edge 10
edge In lima arch"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-29

The bank president called one day
on Gov. John G. Mccullough of Yer
mont, says the Salt Lake Tribune.
Governor" he said, st want to
recommend to your notice Sebastian
Sutro. This young man would fill a
place of trust with discretion and
integrity
He is a good man, eh?" the Gov
ernor asked.
He is one of the best men," said
the bank president, solemnly, Moral
high minded generous to "a fault
With a laugh the Governor interrupt
ed the bank president.
This fervid praise" he said, IRE
minds me of a case wherein I appeared
in San Francisco"
He laughed again. Then he went
on:
ut was a will case. We were trying
to break the will of an elderly gentle
man who, ignoring his relations, had
left the bulk of his property to a total
stranger. 1t was part of our case to
prove that the dead man had been &C.
centric, irregular, cruel, dissipated, and
after we had proved this point, the
defense summoned a witness in re-
buttal.
Ing hlSt queStloH PuI W INC ue-
fense's witness was, What do you
know about the character of the de-
ceased? And the man answered, in
words like these:
" He was a man without blame,
beloved and respected by men, pure in
all his thoughts, and
But 1 interrupted the witness.
" Where I said, did you learn all
that?'
" L got it, the man answered, from
the tombstone