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The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Galveston News says: THE Rus
SLAMS will never believe, it appears.
that an army fortified by tin saints
is in any real danger from heather
artillery"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says; Secretary Shaw started the
campaign near Brooklyn with a speech
that was delivered to a thousand per-
sons Instead of the ten thousand who
were promised and he did not dis
guise his displeasure. Chauncey De-
pew, the unprecedented and unpar-
alleled, addressed Republican Labor
Day mass meeting at Jamaica, l.. l..
ana the audience consisted Of two
hundred persons. half of whom were
women and children. This shows that
Republican enthusiasm is not entirely
uncomfortable"
The Wilmington Messenger (Dem. }
says we reckon Mr.. Bryan wishes
now that he had not refused his aid To
Mr.. Shallenberger. OF the Fifth Ne
braska district, when the latter asked
him for his support in securing the
nomination and election as governor.
Mr. Shallenberger will now return the
compliment by preventing Mr.. Bryan
getting any support from the Fifth
district in his contest for legislature
which will elect him to the United
States Senate. Mr.. Bryan should have
remembered that gratitude In poll
tics is a lively sense OF favors TO
come"
The Charleston News and Courier
(Dem.) says Booker +. Washington
makes a. mistake when he permits
Millionaire Sedwick. OF Lenox. 10 put
him TO the questionable purpose TO
which Mr. Harry Lehr once put a
monkey at Newport. The New Eng
land smart set appear bent upon car
Tying the spectacular dinner giving
habit entirely too far. and Mr. Wash
ington should be too intelligent 70 lend
himself 10 the promotion OF their pur-
poses. Nj Lehr's monkey could not
help himself Besides it was the Croa .
tor that made monkey Of him.
while u ia merely Mr. sedwick who
would make a monkey ~ Mr.. Wash
ingt0n. N might be- added. too. that
N is faf worse 90 make monkey ~
a guest than Il u 20 make a guest %
L mDukaN.f
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

The Ninth district of Ohio was rep
resented in Congress by Judge Hall,
and this good story is told of him
while he was on the bench in the Court
OF Common Pleas, says the Nashville
Banner:
A case of some Importance was
reached on the docket, and the par
ties and witnesses were on hand. The
attorney for the plaintiff, Charles
Brown, was considerably in his cups,
condition which seemed chronic with
the really brilliant lawyer. He sub
mitted motion after motion, and the
Court did not appear to humor his
extravagant demands, realizing, too,
that the attorney was not in condi-
ton to proceed with the case. Brown
was persistent, and Judge Hall, be-
coming somewhat irritated, said
1T is the opinion of this Court that
the counsel for the plaintiff is peculiar
ly disqualified at this time for conduct
ing this case before the Court"
What's that, your Honor ?" demand
ed the intoxicated lawyer.
THE Court believes the counsel for
the plaintiff entirely too drunk to con-
tinue with the case"
THAT is the first correct decision
l ever knew your Honor to render"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
Better Precedent.

The Punkville Debating Society was
in regular session, and Mr.. G. Watkins
Squirting was making an earnest plea
on the affirmative side of the question.
Resolved, That mans every act is the
result of a selfish motive" says the
Chicago Chronicle.
Il go further than that, Mr.. Presi-
dent" he said. About three fourths
of the things a man does is because
he's envious of what somebody else
does. The pin-headed speaker that had
the floor last on the other side lied
like a pirate when he said -"
Here the president of the society
raped on the desk.
THE gentleman must not use such
language as that" he said.
why not?"
Because it isn't parliamentary"
1T may not be parliamentary. Mr..
President" vociferated Mr.. G. Watkins
Squirting, loosening his collar and roll
ing up his sleeves, but, by gum, it's
Congressional"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
Women l have Never Married.
From London Punch. =.

From London Punch. -. ~,
She was a phantom of delight,
one of those rare elusive things
Detained this side the Ewigkeit
Through temporary want of wings;
Our world was not her proper place,
Rather she seemed a priceless relic
OF Faerieland's enchanted grace,
She was so birdhke, so angelic.
l often wondered what she ate:
She looked as though she lived on air.
Or, If she fed from off a plate,
Would only touch ambrosial fare:
No man that dealt I'm butchers meat
Had ever been allowed to victual
With stuff we common mortals eat
A form 80 exquisitely brittle.
She whom Il guessed) a currant bun
Sufiiced for hunger's faint appeals
Would she respect, when we we're one,
My prejudice for decent meals?
Anxious for some assuring sign
To cinch my hesitating passion,
I asked my angel out to dine
At London's first resort of Fashion.
she came She passed a final word
Upon the bisque, the Mornay sole.
The poulet (said she thought the bird
She found the parfait quite first rate. -
Summed up the chef as rather
handy"
Knew the Lafitte for IS,
And twice encored a fine old brandy.
own felt an inward pain.
When she put or her seraph airs.
To md had 10 entertain
An earthly angel unawares:
| merely asked her there TO test
Her aptness FOR A wlfely calling.
And never dreamed that she possessed
special knowledge 20 appalling!
Frankly she went a shade too FAR.
II was shock--I feel n still
TO learn that what ] deemed a star
Was just an ember on the grill
Wen, twenty years or 20 have gone
And now ] meet her fahl the pityD
A puny matron serving On
The New AnphitrlVn club Com.
mittr8
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
JUDGE PARKER AND THE CAM
PAIGN.

A feature of the meeting of the DEM
ocratic editors at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel in New York on Wednesday
night was the letter of Joseph Pulit-
zer. Mr.. Pulitzer. in his newspaper.
the World, has been So earnest IN his
efforts to put life in the campaign.
that he has exposed himself to the
charge of trying to run it on lines o:
lis own choosing. As a matter of fact.
however, he is not anxious to dictate
to the campaign managers, but is sin
cerely DESTROYS of seeing more life in
jected into the campaign. To other
Democrats in all parts of the country
and to him. it appears that the cam
paign, particularly in New York. is
rather prosy Nobody seems to be great
ly interested in it. The people are not
talking about the issues as they did in
the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. In
those campaigns, in the street cars. in
the restaurants and hotels, in fact in
every place where men met, the issues
and the candidates were the chief, if
not the only, topics of conversation.
Mr.. Pulitzer seems to think Judge
Parker ought to go on speech making
tours, should, in fact, take the lead and
direction of his campaign. He may be
right about this. but Judge Parker's
friends have gone over this subject
carefully and have come to the con-
clusion that he wouldn't accomplish
anything by taking that course; that
he can do more good by staying at his
home and conferring with the leaders
who call on him, and by an occasional
address to delega tions that call on
him.
1t is doubtful If Judge Parker would
make a successful stump speaker. If
he possesses any of the graces of ora
tory the fact hasn't been made known.
Since reaching mans estate he has
been on the bench most of the time
and his style of writing and talking is
judicial. 1t lacks the qualities that
make a campaign speech or letter
popular. A speech from him would be
much like an opinion delivered from
the bench. 1t would appeal to those
who are accustomed to value "a speech
for the thought there is in it, but it
wouldn't command much attention
from the crowd. Indeed the probabili-
ties are that he would be compared
with Mr.. Bryan. as a speaker, and
the decision would be in Mr. Bryans
favor since Mr.. Bryan is a remarkably
successful stump orator.
AS a matter of fact it isn't necessary
for Judge Parker to go on the stump
in order to enliven the campaign. 1t
will be recalled that Mr.. Cleveland
didn't take the stump in either of his
campaigns. He wrote a few letters,
and he managed in one way and an
other to keep himself before the pub
lie. 1t is doubtful if he would have
helped his cause by speech-making
tours.
1t is time the campaign managers
were getting the people interested in
the campaign. The election is only
two months away. and the campaign
isn't under good headway yet. Mr..
Pulitzer is. right in thinking that it is
time there was "a more spirited cam
paign in progress, but it is doubtful
if he is right in thinking Judge Parker
is the man to undertake the task OF
infusing more life i'm it,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
THE COUNTY ROADS.

The County Commissioners say they
will not do much road building in the
immediate future. for the reason that
they win have to spend a large SUM
in repairing the newly built roads and
in keeping them in repair. 1t was
foreseen of course that the cost of
keeping improved roads in repair
would be considerable. but il was
thought improved roads and drainage
would be an inducement for cultvat-
ing the lands and. being cultivated.
the additional amount they would yield
in taxes would be about enough to
keep the roads in repair. 1t seems,
however. that the increase in the value
of the lands has not been as great
as was expected. and it may be some
years yet before the increase will add
much to the county's revenue.
We assume that the commissioners
are still carrying on the work Of drain
ing the lands in the vicinity of the
city. The health of the city depends,
to a large extent, on the drainage of
these lands. The Importance of pro-
tecting the health of the city is so
apparent that there is no occasion for
discussing the matter
The benefits of good drainage are
not. however, confined to the city.
They are to be seen in the county
outside of the city. Health follows
drainage and the lands. where there
is health, are pretty certain to be
brought under cultivation.
Drainage should precede road build
ing, not only because the roads are
more stable where the adjacent lands
are drained, but. also, because the
lands become more valuable as soon
as they are drained, and, hence, help
to pay for good roads.
The reason so large portion of the
lands of this county are uncultivated
is that people cannot live upon them,
and they will not be able to occupy
them until they are thoroughly drain
ed.
Therefore, while road building will
practically cease for awhile the drain
age work will not be stopped. To stop
that, or even to cut it down, would
be a great mistake.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

The late Rear Admiral Henry C..
Taylor often cited as an example of
CHASTITY humor an incident that befell
young woman during the civil war,
says the Baltimore Herald
She was good and kind" he would
say, land during the war she visited
the hospitals daily, distributing fruits
and flowers and tracts.
One morning on her rounds young
soldier, Immediately after she had
passed him, set up a loud laugh
She turned and looked at him in
surprise. He seemed a pitiful case.
Nothing of him but his face was WISH
BILE on the little white bed, and this
young face was sadly thin and pale.
Nevertheless, he laughed like one pos
sessed. His mirth resounded through
the gruesome room.
The visitor returned to him.
viii you tell me what amuses
your she said.
Why, ma, said he, here you
have given me tract on the sin of
dancing when I've got both legs shot
off,"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

Brief mention was made the other
day i'm a dispatch concerning the Lao
Yang fight about the use by the Jap
anese OF their new explosive, called
shimose. II is employed as a burst
ing charge IN the shells. II was in
vented by Prof Shimose, Japanese
chemist, whose name was given to it.
A technical journal claims that a
small quantity Of Il exploded on a
sheet of iron an inch and a half thick
viii blow hole through the iron. II
Is more powerful than dynamite or
guncotton, yet It can be handled with
almost perfect safety. The explosion
OF the powder IN a shell will break
the shell into 1900 to 5000 pieces and
scatter them In every direction with
equal force.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
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Transient advertisements. other than
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No advertisement accepted for less
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The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
THUNDERBOIT TJNE

CITY Market TO Casino and Thlinder-
bolt via Bolton street junction.
Beginning at $50 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Casino and Thunder
bolt every half hour until 900 D. M.
after which cars run every 10 minutes
until 1870 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street junction Is
minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at $3.50 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak station for city every half
hour until 1888 p. m, after which
time cars leave every Is minutes until
1908 midnight.
Car leaving Casino at 11:55 will run
south on Barnard street to Fortieth
and north on Abercorn to Bolton
street
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
lADEX ~ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Dividend Notice,
Peoples Saving and Loan Co.; Two
Leaders, Andrew Hanley Co.
Business Notices-We Cut the Price,
G. w. Thomas; A Club Sandwich, at
Sommers' Cafe.
Embroideries and White Waists
Leopold Adler.
Financial-Statement of the Citizens
Bank of Savannah.
Reliable Seeds. T. Shuptrine.
Nunnallys Candy Livingston's
Pharmacy.
Scotch Whiskies-The Delmonico Co.
Store Closed All Day Saturday Till
p. m.-Falks, Around the Corner.
cable Piano Co.'S. S. Solee, Agent.
Prescription Work-The Solomons Co.
The Carib Cigar. S. Pinkussohn
Cigar Co.
Tried and Tested-Lattimores
Ripan & Co.'S American Champagne
Henry Solomon &, Son.
Warburines-Rowlin Druggist.
Smokers Puff Me-4Pete Daley.
Foods-Postum Food Coffee.
The Public Now Realize-E. & w.
Laundry.
Genuine Georgia Rye-w. D. Simkins
& Co.
Friday Special Sale->Gustave Eek
stein & Co.
Ladder of Swords-Harper & Bro
Extraordinary Values-Estate Daniel
Hogan.
Medical-Pinkham Remedy; Herpi-
eide.
Cheap Column Advertisements-H
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis-
eellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

A Washington dispatch says that
experiments are to be made with the
Guatemalan ants as potato bug de-
stroyers in Maryland and New Jersey.
The ants that were taken to Texas to
night the boil weevils are alleged 10
have disappeared. Wouldn't Il be a
good idea to ind some means OF max.
ing them keep their .weevn- killing
job before trying them on something
elss7
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

Holland has a Minister Of sports in
her cabinet. Ae Is Herr Dudok De-
Witt, who is in this country on visit
for the purpose OF learning something
about American sports. Has IL never
occurred to the Republican party that
the creation OF the portfolio OF secre-
tsry OF Sports might tend to influence
tho votes OF the immense following of
the game 81 baseball IN this coun-
trv9
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

Capt. Ross. the negro captain OF the
First Independent Company Of, Conneo-
ucut now ~ Manassas Is credited
with having boasted that he would eK.
act, and enforce, the same respect and
obedience from white officers and men
ahp might be- placed under him as he
wonla from his bwn men, The author
hieh heard u the boat. and promptly
Isolated Rosr ana hia company ~ Que
corner % lhe grounds
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

1t seems that we didn't know all of
the things that we annexed when we
took over the Philippines. Rev. Father
Stanton reports that he has discovered
IN the islands l52 new parasites. some
Of which have been named after Sec
rotary Taft and other prominent Of.
teials WIN Secretary Taft feel hon
ored In having his name bestowed on
a parasite.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
A LUxURIoUs POOR HOUSE.

In some counties in this country the
INDECENT poor think themselves too
good to go to a poor house, and so
there is no such institution in those
counties, while in other counties the
poor houses are so good that others
than the INDECENT poor would like to
become inmates of them. A poor house
the town of Ware, Mass. 1t is so good
that the cost of supporting each in
mate is greater than the wages of the
average American workman, which is
about 5000 year.
Naturally some of Wares taxpayers
feel that the poor house burden they
are carrying is a rather heavy one.
An official of Ware says the town S
INDECENT poor can be boarded at the
leading hotel for less money than it
costs to support them at the poor
house, and he is going to make a prop
csition that the poor house be closed
and the poor that are dependent on
the town be cared for at the hotel.
<ANACAiliOii II NdilGQ " lIlC w are DOOE
house for the reason that intermittent
ly the question of establishing a poor
house in this county is raised. If 1t
should be finally settled in the afirma-
tive the institution should be started
right, otherwise it would become either
an unwillingly-born burden because
of extravagant expenditures or a
scandal because of the meagerness of
its support.
Under proper management a poor
house is almost self-supporting. 1t
should have a farm attached to it, and
should have man at the head of it
who is a good farmer and under
stands business. There are poor
houses, and good ones, that are SELF
supporting, but it is only in localities
where the county or town officials have
good business sense, which they are
willing to use for the public benefit
that such is the case.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

The Green Mountain state has risen
grandly TO the OCCASION" says a Re-
publican contemporary, shouting Joy
ously over the Vermont election. It's
like growing enthusiastic over the feat
Of an old goose that had just plunged
again into the pond.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

Mrs. Potter, the American actress,
has number of psychological gowns,
which she viii wear on the stage
during her theatrical engagements
the current season. 1t is said she
has a gown to represent each emotion
which she depicts in the play.
Some of her principal gowns are thus
named, the name indicating the emo
ton
"Incessant Soft Desire"
Thoughts Of Strange Things"
The Vampire"
The Tangible Now"
'Dirge, or the Death of Pleasure"
"A Silent Appeal"
The Meaning of Life Is Clear"
1t is to be hoped that psychological
gowns will not become a fad of fash
ion, or the husbands who have to pay
for them may have to invent some pro-
fame sort of attire by means of which
to express the emotion they feel when
the bills come in.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

Lige Dowie has declared for Roose-
welt and the interInarriage OF whites
and blacks. Frank James has declared
nor Roosevelt and amnesty for ex-ban-
dts. Still It is probable that the sup
port Of 'Lige and Frank will not be
sufficient to elect their ideal
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

The Russians from time to time
abandon their cannon and stores in
their eager advance" to the rear; but
so far as the information goes they
cling devotedly TO their holy ikons.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

We shall miss our guess if Mr..
Dooley doesn't have something to say
about the third battle of Manassas
and the valor displayed on the cham
payne firing line.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

Roosevelt has been assured of the
Chinese vote of Mamaroneck, N. Y. 1t
consists of Chew Wing, who runs a
laundry there. Thus the backing of
the administration grows apace.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
The weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for fair weather. with light
northeast to east winds. Eastern Flor
ida showers. with variable winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

Some weeks ago ex-Gov. Hogg Of
Texas promised the country "tremen-
dous sensation" IN speech IN Dal.
Las the other day BE- used thc new
words. "Boltoorat and "Lobbycrat "
is that the Tremendous sensation" he
was talking ab0uiw
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

One of the oldest and most fire.
quently exposed of the modern swim
dies is the green goods game" There
is not a newspaper in the country but
has exposed it a dozen or more times.
Nevertheless it still f1ourishes. The
Chicago police are now working on
seventeen cases of the swindle, while
probably hundred cases in all parts
Of the country have been reported
since the beginning of the year. And
the cases reported probably represent
per cent. of the swindles actually
perpetrated. 1t must be true that "a
sucker is born every minute"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

Uncle Henry" Davis. the vice presl.
Dental nominee, has promised % a..
tend the fair az Wheeling. 10 isa safe
wager that he viii not duplicate the
experience ~ senator Depew A.
Poughksepais ana rufer his pocket
10 be picked
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

A Republican paper of New York
has it from a Populistic source that
Chairman Taggart of the Democratic
Committee offered Mr.. Bryan $50, 900
to make speeches for Judge Parker in
New York. and that the Nebraskan
declined: The Republican papers and
the Populists must be extremely hard
up for campaign stories.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

There are a considerable number of
Russians in the anthracite districts of
Pennsylvania who are workers i'm the
mines. Many of these miners have
relatives in Russia to whom they have
been in the habit of sending part
OF their wages. A Hazelton dispatch
says that several miners of that town
have received from the Russian
postal authorities information to
the effect that letters from them
containing money for people in
Russia had been held up by
the authorities. and that the govern
ment would hold the money in trust
for those to whom the letters were
addressed. A complaint is to be filed
with the United States postal authori-
ties as soon as the evidence can be put
into shape.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

With taxes going up. the price of
provisions advancing and the cost of
living generally seeking a higher level,
1t may afford some comfort to wage
earners, whose incomes are not fol-
lowing along the same line, to be in
formed that there has been slight
reduction in the price of pig iron and
boiler tubes
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09

The new Springfield army service
rifle is to be distributed to the troops
after Dec. /, next. 1t is credited with
being the most desirable and effective
small arm yet invented for army pur-
poses, more powerful than the Krag,
as well as lighter and easier handled.
One great advantage claimed for 1t is
that it is short enough to be employed
by all branches of the service-infan-
try cavalry. marines and blue jackets
alike. That will make all small-arm
ammunition Interchangeable throughout
the service, an advantage in actual
war that amounts to great deal. Dur
ing the Spanish-American war, when
several sorts and calibres Of ammuni-
ton were needed for as many varying
sorts of arms in use, the confusion
and errors that resulted were annoy
ing and may have resulted seriously.