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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
PERSONAL.

Chester w. Kingsley of Cambridge.
Mass, who died recently, left $4,000
to the charities of the city. His wife
who was buried the day before his
death, also bequeathed her individual
fortune to benevolent purposes.
Sir Leslie Stephen, the longtime
friend of Herbert Spencer, the recent
ly deceased philosopher, tells this to
illustrate Mr.. Spencer's excitable tenn
permanent; HE would not join the
Metaphysical Club" Sir Leslie said,
because he and his temper would not
stand it. I remember seeing him at
a dinner brandishing his knife and
fork in the face of a lady with whom
he had entered into an argument. He
was quite unconscious of the act; his
zeal had run away with him." Sir
Leslie tells another story of MIR.
Spencer: "A lady who was kindly
disposed toward the philosophers con-
Quoted a party including Mr.. Spencer
and Sir Leslie over Hampton court.
When the maze was reached Herbert
Spencer undertook to be the first one
at the center. The rest of u.s." said
Mr.. Leslie with a smile, decided that
whatever route Herbert Spencer should
take we should take another. The re-
suit justified our selection; the philos-
opher reached the center last. Mr.
Spencer was chaffed, but quite I'M
abashed, he replied: sit proves my
theory. If l had taken the other way
I should have been first"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
Gates, biggest BIuY.

This tale is not new, but I doubt if
it has got around to all the readers
of the Press, writes Victor Smith in
the New York Press. A wealthy Chi
nese merchant, staying a few days at
the Waldorf-Astoria, perfect flend
at poker, asked for an introduction to
Americas highest high-roller, John
Watch-Me Gates, and suggested a
game of poker. The party of six was
quickly made up, and play proceeded
pleasantly till midnight. A pot then
came around in which all laid down
except Gates and the Chinaman. Each
drew one card. The latter bet $1,000.
"Raise you $5,0O0," said Gates. The
Chinaman spoke through an interpre-
ter. who calmly remarked HE raises
YOU $1,000" ''The son of sea cook"
cried the greatest of high rollers, gasp
ing for breath. The Chinaman paled.
His cards dropped from his hands. He
feebly pushed the pot toward John
Watch-Me. THE pots yours" said
the interpreter, "How's that?" ask
ed Gates. "'Sun ah see kuk' means I
raise you SS0.000,o00 in Chinese" re-
piled the interpreter, land my princi-
pal feels that he cannot bet so much"
With profound kowtows the Celestial
pair withdrew, leaving Gates to re-
cover his nerve.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10

nation for President is willing to pay
convention if they will vote for him
Is it not a fact that for many years the
expenses of a very considerable num-
Der Of delegates to every Republican
National Convention have been paid?
1t has been so charged, and, as far as
we are informed. has never been sue
cessfully denied.
And it wouldn't be surprising If the
expenses of some delegates to this
years Republican convention would be
paid. Until the Republicans have
cleared their own skirts it doesn't be-
come them to be charging. through
their newspapers, that there is afloat
an offer to pay convention expenses of
Democratic delegates.
The delegates to Republican Nation
al Conventions. whose expenses have
been paid. have been as highly regard
ed as if they had paid their own ex-
penses, but it is a safe assertion that
If delegates to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention should accept their
expenses from a candidate they would
receive a very cool welcome from their
fellow delegates. But there isn't any
reason for considering that the report
that there is an offer to pay expenses
of delegates to the nominating con-
ventions of the Democratic party has
foundation. The report can be set
down as campaign yarn put out for
a purDoSe.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
Philosophy and Fun.

Peter Macarthur is Canadian whose
views on England and English society,
says the London Express, are interest
ing and original. In his new book,
ITO Be Taken With Salt: An Essay on
Teaching Ones Grandmother to Suck
Eggs" he gives a number of aphor-
isms that set orthodox philosophy at
defiance. Here are a few samples:
Sea-sickness has kept more enemies
out of England than her prowess in
war.
London takes more for granted than
the rest of the world knows.
The great trouble with the English is
that they are trying to repel the Amer
lean invaders with business methods
that came over with William the Con-
queror.
Most of the things talked about in
London society are filter subjects for
prayer than for gossip.
TO be original is to be wrong.
Culture is the consciousness OF truth
expressed in conduct.
Good form appears to be the accumu-
lated WEAKNESS of centuries expressed
in a general air of boredom.
One of the blessings of being hu-
morist is that all your mistakes pass
off as jokes.
Conservatism and laziness are hard
to distinguish.
In order to carry on an argument
you must descend to the other mans
level.
One should never spoil good theory
by explaining it.
Let me make the jokes of the empire,
l care not who makes its plumbers.
London is full of clever people who
expect to get salvation in a moment
and spread the luxury of being damned
over lifetime.
The cuckoo of philosophy has sue
cessfully laid her egg in the nest of
theology.
London is overcrowded with serious
minded people who stand in awe of
their own ignorance.
An Englishman's social standing
seems to depend on the number of peo-
pie he can afford to despise.
The average Englishman has so deep
a reverence for antiquity that he would
rather be wrong than be recent.
This country is full of people who
are starving up to their positions.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
THE BOIL wEEVIL APPRoPRIA-
TION


The House promptly passed the bin
appropriating $25O,OOO to meet the
emergency caused by the ravages of
the boil weevil, and there is no doubt
that the Senate will pass It, Congress
could well afford to pass an appropria-
ton ten times as large for the pur-
pose for which this appropriation is
! intended. The boil weevil is not only
devastating the cotton fields of Texas,
but there is apprehension that 1t will
cross into other cotton states and that
the entire cotton belt will be ravaged
by 1t. That would be a calamity that
would effect not only the entire coun-
try, but also the greater part of the
world. And yet Representative Gar
diner of Michigan said he believed 1t
would be establishing a bad precedent
to pass the bill, and Representative
Gillett of Massachusetts would have
endangered its passage, II he could
have had his way, by lacking on to
it an amendment providing an appro-
| priation of a like amount with which
to fight the Egyptian moth that seems
to be giving the farmers of New Eng
land some trouble.
1t may be that the moth which Mr..
! Gillett wants eradicated Is trouble
some to the farmers of New England,
but 1t is hardly probable that it threat
| ems any such damage as the boil Vice.
vii. Very little has appeared in the
public prints about the moth, but if
it is the source of as much apprehen-
sion as he thinks it is let him bring
| in bill on his own account, and con-
vince Congress that an appropriation
is necessary. The effort to make the
boil weevil bill carry an appropriation
for the destruction of the Egyptian
moth was defeated as it ought to have
been.
| Mr.. Gardiner, apparently. had not
studied the subject or he wouldn't
have entertained the opinion that the
granting of the appropriation would
establish a bad precedent. Evidently
he thought the bill was in the inter-
est of Texas alone. 1t is in the inter-
est of the whole country. If the cot
ton crop were even partially destroyed
New Englands cotton mills would be
in a bad way and Michigan's market
in the South for her provisions and
manufactured goods would be in a
measure destroyed. The whole coun-
try would feel the effects of the calam-
ity, because there would be a tremen-
dous falling of in the nations ex-
ports.
Good use will be made of the ap-
preparation. The Department of Agri-
culture is profoundly interested in the
effort that is being made to find a rem
edy for the boil weevil evil. The Sec
rotary Of Agriculture has visited
Texas and understands the magnitude
of the calamity threatened by that
evil.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
Touiourn Amour.

Prithee, tell me, Dimple- Chin,
At what age does love begin?
Your blue eyes have scarcely seen
Summers three, my fairy queen,
But a miracle of sweets,
Soft approaches, sly retreats,
Show the little archer there,
Hidden in your pretty hair;
When didst learn a heart to win?
Prithee tell me, Dimple-Chin!
"Oh!" the rosy lips reply,
"I cant tell you if 1 try.
IT'S so long / can't remember;
Ask some younger lass than i"
Tell, oh, tell me. Grizzled-Face
Do your heart and head keep PAGER
When does hoary love expire,
When do frosts put out the fire?
Can it's embers burn below
All that chill December snow?
Care you still soft hands to press
Bonny heads to smooth and bless?
When does love give up the chase?
Tell, oh, tell me. Grizzled-Face!
"Ah" the wise old lips reply.
youth may pass and strength may
die:
But of love / can't foretoken:
Ask some older sage than II"
Edmund Clarence Stedrnan.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
JOHN b. GORDON.

Georgia is called upon, for the second
time within a few days. to mourn the
death of one of her great Confederate
leaders. A week ago it was James
| Longstreet who passed over the river
| to rest with Lee and Jackson and
their gallant host under the shade Of
the trees" To-day it is John B. Cor
| don. whose loss we lament. 1t is es-
pecially striking that these two great
figures of a great period in the coun-
try's history should have been stricken
down within so few days of each other.
The bugle notes of the taps" for
Longstreet are still vibrant upon the
ear when there arises a dirge for Cor
don.
The passing of Gordon's knightly
! spirit will cause sorrow wherever beats
a heart that once beat under q Jacket
! of grey. He was an ideal soldier;
brave, daring, dashing, handsome. His
ideas of the chivalry OF arms embraced
! a complete code of high ethics for the
man of arms. Without fear and with
out reproach, he was a soldier typical
of the cause he defended so nobly on
many bloody fields. He was the
idol of the men under his command in
the days of strife and became the
idol of the survivors OF the mighty
struggle In after days of peace. For
years he held the Office of commander
in-chief of the United Confederate Vet
Grams. He was personally known to
tens of thousands OF the veterans, and
sons and daughters Of veterans. And
every one of these will feel personal
bereavement in his death.
1t is as a military man that Gen. Cor
don will be best known in history,
where he viii take high position among
the leaders for the Lost Cause. But
in civil as well as in military life he
won distinction. If he had never been
great soldier he would have been re-
membered as a statesman. His serv-
ices as Governor and as United States
senator were always characterized by
wisdom. moderation and justice. His
state papers showed breadth and depth
of judgment, and his speeches were
OAlEA CANNNA IL yAA6 AL NAiCAA CAOa0CAANCs
And not the least of his good work
as a public man was accomplished
after he quilted political life a few
years ago. AS a lecturer he gave
tens of thousands of people of the
North and West a correct insight into
the life and conditions of the South
before. during and after the war that
has borne good fruit and cannot but
continue to be beneficial for years to
come. The broad spirit of American
ism that dwelt in Gordon's breast was
voiced in his lectures and other pub
lie utterances, and was thus transmit
ted to and found Judgment with many
of his hearers.
Georgia, the South and the country
have sustained a distinct loss in the
death Of John Brown Gordon. He will
be sincerely mourned.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10

structed to find a verdict of not guilty.
The same point was raised in the
briggs case, and Judge Thomas de-
clined to pass upon it, but referred
it to the jury, and that body decided
that although Mr.. briggs had not been
sworn as a representative he was a
member Of Congress in the meaning of
the statute.
Mr.. briggs has taken an appeal, and
there isn't much doubt that he will
win his case. But why didn't the judge
decide the membership point? 1t wasn't
because he was not friendly to him.
As a matter of fact, he was very
friendly, and took occasion to say that
the accused was only technically gull
ty. 1t was a point of law and not of
fact, and that being the case the judge
was much better qualified than the
jury to pass upon it. 1t may be that
the practice of the state was followed
points of law are not given to the
jury, while in New York the jury are
the judges of both the law and the
facts. If the Judge had decided the
question as to whether or not Mr..
briggs was a member of Congress at
the time the offense charged in the in
dictment was committed, it is prob
able that the latter wouldn't have been
convicted. He could hardly have
reached a decision different from that
reached by the judge in the DIETRICH
case
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
BRIGHT BITS,

-Ethel-"Marry him! Why, I'd die
first!" Edith-"Nonsense dear He is
not as strong as he looks. Puck.
-Bertie-"Congratul me, Flossie.
At last I'm on the top round of the
ladder of SUGGEST" Flossie-"Oh, 1
see! You turned it upside down.
Chicago Daily News.
What makes the chrysanthemum
so expensive?" IT'S expensive be-
cause it's fashionable" But why is
it so fashionable?" "Um-that's be-
cause it's so expensive. Chicago
Tribune.
-Briggs-"They are going to close
up every gambling place in the neigh
borhood." Griggs-"Good! 1 was be-
ginning to wonder how 1 would get out
of going to our annual church fair. !"
BROOKLYN Life.
well, SNOWFALL" said the patron
to the dusky waiter, how did you
ever come by name like that?"
We'll, sab, l was born in Chicago.
Reckon yer never seed a Chicago snow
ball, sah!"-Yonkers Statesman.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Galveston (Tex.) News (Dem.)
says: "The examination into the ship
building trust goes to show that this
was one trust at least which was or
ganized to be destroyed by its organ
izers. Trust are frightful things, and
are generally supposed to be invulner-
able. But when they are worked on
from within they begin to tumble as
other things do
The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.)
says: tom Johnson, we are inform
ed, proposes to visit Europe as soon
as Mr.. Bryan gets home This an
nouncement puts us to guessing. We
don't know whether Tom fears that
Europe couldn't stand both of them at
once or that this country would tilt
up if both got off II at the same time.
1t must be one or the other, for Tom
thinks he and Mr.. Bryan are about
the heaftiest statesmen left over"
The New York Commercial (Dem.)
says: London newspapers are advis-
ing British cotton manufacturers to go
to cotton-growing in West Africa and
Nigeria and thus render themselves in
dependent of American Spectators
OF course. nobody in Great Britain ever
speculates in cotton or anything else.
Your good Britisher would no more
take a flyer" in British-grown cot
ton or wheat than he would in one of
Barney Barnato's paper Kaffir mines
or Hooley's hot-air corporations.
The Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.)
says: "All excuse for refusing to pass
rivers and harbors bill relating par
ticularly to continuing contracts, has
disappeared, except, of course, the
demagogical desire to make a false
and misleading showing in the presi-
dental year-a showing, by the way,
that would mislead no one. 1t is said
that Speaker Cannon, who is both
capable and honest, is now in favor
of the preparation of a rivers and har-
bors bill, and the chances are good
that such a bill will be prepared and
passed If the Speaker regards it with
a favorable eye. IL would indeed be a
misfortune to postpone works needed
by the country in order to deceive the
voters by a misleading statement Of
economy in the presidential year,"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
EXPENSES OF DELEGATES,

The Republican papers are making
a great deal out of report that one
Of the candidates for the Democratic
nomination for President is Offering to
pay expenses of impecunious delegates
10 the nominating convention if they
will vote for him. 1t is doubtful If
there is any foundation for the report.
1t was set afioat, in all probability, for
the purpose of creating the impress
sion that the Democratic party is the
friend of the money power the trusts
and financial institutions which want
certain policies adopted by the gov
eminent.
But why should the Republican pa
pers seem so gleeful over a report that
a candidate for the Democratic nomi-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
LEAP YEAR.

This year February has twenty-nine
days, and leap year comes again after
a lapse Of eight years. This variation
of the calendar is made necessary by
the fact that the solor system does not
run like chronometer and from time
to time there must be the taking in
of an extra day to keep the almanac
straight. But the calendar and the
seasons are not the considerations CIV
ing most interest to leap year. Away
back in the distant past it came to
be understood that in leap years it
was good form for women to propose
marriage to men. instead of waiting
for the "sterner SEX to take the ini-
tiAtive, and to this day the tradition
holds good. At least there is a make
believe with respect to it, and young
people get a lot of fun out of leap
year parties and more or less earnest
leap year courtships. On all sides,
however, leap year with respect to its
matrimonial aspect is regarded as more
of joke than anything else. Wom-
en- demand to be courted in leap years
just as at any Olner time.
Meantime the question is pertinent,
do not the women do most of the court
ing, anyway? Is it not their preroga-
tive to select and charm their life
partners during leap year and every
other year? We do not mean, of
course. that women take the initiative
in external evidences of preference and
press their attentions upon men. Far
from it, They prefer to be sought
But is it not fact that by some sub
tie process they arrange the seeking
so that the seeker shall be of their
choosing? Is is not a fact that the
marriage for love has its inception in
the heart of the woman? In a mar
riage for convenience or for property
the woman's likes and dislikes may be
overcome. In such cases the mar
| rage is not that union of souls that
is ideal. Happily, such marriages are
not the rule. They are the exception.
In the vast majority of instances mar
riage is the result of individual selec-
ton, and the woman has the most to
do with the selection. She may manage
1t in so deft "a manner that the man
is fiattered into thinking that it is he
who has chosen, but the fact is that
the woman is at the bottom of it. A
man may learn to love-" a woman
cannot. Love must come to her spon-
taneously, as 1t were, or 1t comes not at
all.
But, may It not be fact that chang
ing conditions of life will bring about
changed conditions of courtship? May
not women, without being forward, be-
come more advanced" in their mat
ters Of the heart? We have in mind
the influence of the club on woman's
character. Club life and associations
tend to draw her out from her reserve;
to make her more outspoken, less diff
| fident The club teaches the woman
that 1t is we'll to take advantage of
opportunities; to strike while the iron
is hot" 1t brings forth debaters and
| logicans from among persons who
would otherwise hesitate to advance
an opinion. 1t develops self-confdence
and the courage of convictions. Thus
may 1t not be that the club woman
will not wait to be spoken to in the
love affair, but. exercising judgment
or maybe following intuition, Will
pop the question" herself? She might
! do it without sacrificing dignity or
| modesty
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
ONE ACQUITTED AND THE OTHER
CONVICTED

According to the opinion of Judge
VanDevanter of the United States
Circuit Court in Omaha, a man who
has been elected a United States sena-
tor isn't a senator until he has been
sworn in. According to the finding of
a jury in the United States Circuit
Court in Brooklyn, a man who is elect
ed representative in Congress is a
congressman as soon as ne is elected.
These contrary opinions were rendered
in the cases of Senator DIETRICH of Me-
braska, who was tried on a charge OF
bribery in connection with a postoffice
at Hastings, in that state, and of for
mer Congressman briggs of Brooklyn,
N. Y, who was charged with having
sold his influence while a member of
Congress by securing from the Postof-
flee Department a contract for $50
cash registers. Both cases were re-
ported in our dispatches yesterday.
In the DIETRICH case the judge felt It
was his duty to decide the question as
to whether or not the accused was a
senator at the time the offense with
which he was charged was commit
ted The facts were admitted, namely,
that Mr.. DIETRICH had not been sworn
in as a senator. The Judge said under
the constitution each house is the Judge
as to who shall sit as a member of it.
Mr.. DIETRICH had not been sworn in
in fact, had not had an opportunity to
take his seat to which he had been
elected, because there had been no
meeting of Congress between the time
Of his election and the commission of
the offense charged in the indictment.
Therefore the judge held that he was
not a senator in the meaning of the
statute. The jury was Of course in