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The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

move, for, of course, persons with only
a partial face cannot.
To make matters worse, particu-
larly interesting combat for her hand
was about to be waged under her VIM
dow between a Red Knight from Bos-
MIA and Black Knight from Bes-
sarabia, and she wanted to see IT,
But she couldn't. Neither could you
The Red Knight and the Black
Knight fought and fought, and in be-
tween the fighting they would squint
up to the windows to see If My Lady
Peachblow was looking. But all they
could see was a page boy who yawned
in an insulting manner and a sculllon
who dropped potato peelings on tneir
heads whenever they got particularly
feverish.
The Black Knight got so mad that
he hit the Red Knight with the butt
end of his lance. which is against the
rules. And the Red Knight pulled the
Black Knight from his horse and the
two rolled around on the ground, pull
ing each others hair. This was con-
sidered extremely vulgar for knights
in those days, and the other knights
shooed them both away from the cas-
tie.
Combats soon ceased entirely be-
cause My Lady Peachblow couldn't see
them: and at last the papers began
to complain of the dull times. Finally
no one visited the castle at all, and
the men-at-arms ran away in search of
excitement. Only one person remained
faithful. He was the page boy of Ny
Lady.
He consulted a Good Wizard who
told him that the missing strip was
hidden somewhere in the room. you
must cut it out whole" he said. Take
it out in one piece when you find it
and You will be able to fit it into the
blank space"
The page boy searched and search
ed and searched. And all at once he
found the strip. In a trice he had
fitted it into place and there were the
room and My Lady Peachblow as good
as new!
OF course, the page boy married her.
And they lived a gay life for many
years.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

1t was true enough that Hans and
Yuly had at last arrived in pygmy
land and two more surprised and as
tonished children it would have been
hard to find.
The land in which they had arrived
was a strange one to their eyes. All
the trees and bushes were very small.
They could see houses, but they were
hardly larger than beehives.
They could see horses and cattle
feeding on the green grass, but the
animals were hardly larger than New
foundland dogs. AS for the little peo-
pie around them, none of them were
larger than the smallest dwarf you
ever saw on exhibition.
While the children slept, their boat
had fioated down through the tunnel
into pygmy land, and had been caught
and made fast to posts on shore. The
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

| houses, and none of the little cabins
are big enough for us to crawl into"
The king and all others saw this at
once, and there was much merriment
over it, After a bit the visitors sat
down on the grass, and people at
once hurried away to bring them food
and drink.
There was meat of some kind, and
there was some kind of bread to-
gether with such fruits as they had
never tasted before. There was also
a sort of beer or wine.
Good graciousl" said Hans as he
looked down at the breakfast spread
on a clean cloth on the grass, but l
could eat three times as much as this
and still be hungry.
When it is gone they may bring
more" answered Yuly. yet us do
our best to be friends with them. Oh,
Hans, while we had to run away from
home and undergo dangers. I am glad
that we came. This is pygmy land, in
deed. People laughed at us and said
there was no such place, but here we
| are with the cute little people before
us. See how thy crowd around us and
smile in our faces. They take us for
| giants, and we must look as funny to
them as they do to u.s.
The children had the breakfast eat
en- in half a dozen mouthfuls, but the
| king had seen that it would be so and
he kept a dozen of his people busy
bringing food until no more was want
ed.
When the meal had been finished he
made signs to his visitors that he
would like to show them around the
city, and they rose up and followed
| him.
AS before, many Of the little people
| wanted to ride puss-back and Hans
and Yuly were pretty we'll loaded
down when they started out.
M L1
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

they responded with a cupful weighing
12,000,000 pounds from the,British West
Indies to a tiny spoonful of thirty
pounds that was sent up by China.
OF course. Uncle Sam had to have a
good dessert. So during that one year
feast he got pretty nearly every nation
that has a tree or a bush of any kind,
to send him at least a bite. He ate
100000 pounds of dates, 5000, 900
pounds of figs, 6S,0OO,00 pounds of or
anges, 100000 pounds of raisins, and
100000 pounds oil almonds.
Then, to make sure that he would
have a remedy at hand in case the din
ner should give him a pain. he asked
China, Japan, England, Canada and
France to be good enough to help him
to the ginger. He took one hundred
and fifty tons of it and felt better.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

all sent him some. and he gobbled it
up. and it hardly made enough for him
to taste. so he got $4,000 gallons from
Mexico and 1900 gallons from Cuba to
holp out.
He likes chocolate, too; and he trou-
bled China and British Guiana and
Hayti and lots of other little fellows to
pass him n few tri1es in that way to
help out the big heaping platefuls that
his large neighbors placed before him.
The way he reached out for cocoa to
make drinks to wash all this down was
a caution. 1t would take a mighty
good geographer to follow Uncle Sam
off-hand in his grabs up and down the
big table. Little Samoa, and still timer
they arrived on the scene just in time.
islands in the South Pacific; China, and
the Dutch East Indies, and Argentina,
and Turkey, and Alden, and all the big
tropical countries were asked: 'Will
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20
solution of the Picture Puzzle of
the Message from Far Japan.

This is the invitation that was SPELL
ed by the queer sign that was put up
in front of the Samurais palace by the
old priest who could remember only
a little English. The only words he
could remember were six: "A cup of
tea for you" These were not very
striking words to use for warning
American sailors that a Prince was
about to be executed by a wicked Sa-
mural but they served the purpose,
for the sailors couldn't resist the temp
tation 10 20 after that cup of tea; so
you send up the cocoa. pleaseY" And
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

It will please you to hear that short
ly afterward Moogle was making a pat
ent charm and it exploded and blew
him UP and he never came back.
The old warder remained a wooden
pump and to this day groans dismally
when anybody pumps water through
him.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

any other country. Most American
seamen have begun their careers in the
Cape Cod fisheries; at least the Amer
lean merchant marine is so well re-
cruited from there that demand for
entirely green boys is small. 1t is
certainly not great enough to warrant
a skipper in risking trouble with the
law in shipping minors without the
consent of their parents.
English ships rarely ship boys here,
for the reason that their boys go
aboard in England and remain until
the vessel returns.
English ships often carry appren-
tices, who are boys whose parents
pay a premium to the owners that
they may stay four years aboard that
company's vessels to learn seaman
ship. When owners can get boys on
such terms it is not likely they will
pay for services.
On the whole it Is easier for boys
to find employment on steamers as
mess stewards, or, to be more plain,
as walters to the officers. But there
is nothing to learn of seamanship
here. 1t is not really going to sea"
to do that.
Thus it may be seen that the boy
who wishes to go to sea would bet
ter get the consent of his parents
Without that, his chances of finding
employment are small indeed. And
this applies to every American port.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20

Tell me-" she asked. after she had
accepted him, "am 1 really your first
and only love?" "Well-er-no, dear"
replied the drug clerk, "but you are
something just as good. ."-Philadelphia
Press.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
Kansas for Roosevelt.

Wichita, Kas.. March s.-The ad-
vance guard of delegates and visitors
to the Republican state convention has
arrived and the hotel registers are
rapidly filing with the names OF the
party leaders of the Sunfower State.
The convention will be called to order
tomorrow morning. Candidates for
the state Offices to be filled at the cleo
tion next fall will be nominated and
delegates at-large will be chosen to
the national convention at Chicago.
The opponents of the state machine,
so-calied, which is headed by Cyrus
Leland, are assured of the complete
control of the convention and antici-
pate 40 difficulty in naming E. W.
Hoch. of Marion, their candidate for
Governor. Strong resolutions indors-
ing President Roosevelt and his ad-
ministration will be adopted and the
delegation to Chicago will be instruct
ed to vote for his denomination.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
MAYORS COURT.

BENZ. H. Leo, white, who claims to
come from Florida, was before che May
or's Court Saturday morning to answer
to the charge OF drunk and disorderly
conduct. The specifications were that
yesterday afternoon while, intoxicated,
he went into a number OF houses and
frightened the inmates by his bolster
ous conduct. At one place he forced
his way into the parlor and seating
himself at the piano proceeded to give
drunkard's 8 concert. His only defense
was that he was drunk and did not
know what be was doing. He asked
to be permitted to leave town, having
been SO treated in Darlington where he
created a similar disturbance a few
days ago, bat the Mayor was not dis
nosed to send him OH to some other
town to repeat his disorderly perfor-
nance. so be imposed sentence OF III
days on the chain gang.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
EDWARD ON THE war.
An Alleged interview Expressing
His Views.

Paris, March THE Mathis Lon-
don correspondent sends to his paper
the report of conversation had last
evening with a parsonage intimate
with King Edward who had just left
the palace. This parsonage said the
king spoke upon the subject of the
war in the far east and be repeated
his majesty's words as follows: 81 am
much distressed at the Russo -Japa-
nese war, which | consider most de-
plorable event. On the other hand l
consider that our good understanding
with France has never been more use
full than it is at present and believe
that it is likely to become more and
more useful. not only in the interest
of France and Great Britain, but in
the higher interest Of general peace.
Should complications arise despite all
efforts to prevent them the union be-
tween France and England will render
the greatest service. That union must
be closely maintained for the good of
all whatever may happen. | hope the
press of all countries, the English in
cluded, will strive to alternate diff
culties rather than to aggravate them. y
The correspondent adds that the in
terlocutor not only authorized repe-
tion of the kings words, but read
from the correspondents dispatch
affirming that his majesty's remarks
were correctly rendered.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
MAO DOG SCARE IN CHARLESTON.
The Situation Such That the Mayor
issues a Proclamation -vigor-
Gus Steps Being Taken.

Charleston, March 4.-The mad dog
which bit DR.. Edward Rutledge on
Wednesday afternoon was killed last
night. not, however until it had bitten
a number of persons and dogs and as
a result, there is great mad dog
scare in Charleston. Mayor Rhett
issued proclamation this afternoon,
forbidding dogs on the streets without
a muzzle for the next ten days, and all
dogs which are found on the streets
will be arrested and impounded and
after 3 days will be executed unless
reclaimed and a fine paid. Women
are especially fearful of the dogs and
there is marked diminution in the
number of children to be seen on the
streets and parks as result of the
scare. The dogs which are known to
have been bitten by the mad canine
will be shot by order of the mayor
without regard to the wish of the
owners, and every possible safeguard
will be put into practice according to
the city official for the protection of
the public One dog was shot this
morning in Battery bone and this
afternoon a large New Foundland dog
which was bitten yesterday, although
the owners deny that it was. was taken
up and the order will doubtless be
given to kill it. Tie public approves
Of the vigorous measures for abating
the dog nuisance
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
TRE OKLAHOMA PRAIRIE Fire.
Three Lives and Half a Million Dol
lars Worth of Property Lost.

Oklahoma City, Okla, March A
Three persons perished in "Wednesday
nights prairie fire and the financial
loss by the fire and gale is estimated
at $500. 600. The dead:
W. 81. Meyer, near Walter; overcome
while fighting fire..
Dr.. Harmon, near Iawton, burned
to death in his stable.
Unknown boy, near Lawton: body
found on prairie burned to crisp.
Farther reports of property loss by
both FIRE and wind indicate that the
first estimate was too low. TIE dam
age by wind extends over seven coun-
ties in the southwest. The total losses
from fire and storm can as yet only be
estimated, but it is the general opin-
ion that they will reach $500, coo.
Hastings, Olustee, Walter, Lsger,
Granite, Elk City, Cache. Temple,
Snyder, Willow. Bloomington, Sayer
and Mountain Park all report damage
both in town and surrounding country
by wind.
Scores of people are suffering from
burns and broken limbs.
The area from which reports of dam
age by wind come covers 100 miles
square, and means Of communication
over the district are meagre. This
difficulty is increased by the fact that
coles are burned aud wires blown
down.
The little town OF Francis, west of
Mangum, was destroyed by FIRE, but
no particulars are obtainable.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09

Opelika, Ala, March &c. II;
Sparks, negro murderer, was hanged
here today under exciting circumstan,
ces Before being taken from his cell
Sparks assaulted and severely wound
ed one of the guards with knife;
Sparks was then pinned to the wal!
with pitchforks and the sheriff and
deputies overpowered and handcutted
him, after which he was led to the
.,catFold. The first drop was unsuccess-
full ON account of the rope being too
long, and it was necessary for the muI-
derer to mount the scaffold again. The
rope was shortened and this time his
neck WIS broken.
This is expressing it te,sely, but
there is a heap of truth in it's s1gges-
tions. The Pee Dee Educator, negro
paper, says: The negro question
will never he settled as long as the
north wants him to vote, but won't lei
him work, and the south wants him tc
work, bat won't let him vote. Flor,
ence Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
Dunn's Trade Review.

New York, March Ar. G. Dun Il
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade to-
morrow will say: Business continues
to improve despite the difficulty of low
temperature and high prices. Weather
conditions have been singularly unpro-
pitious, deep snow retarding distribu-
tion of merchandise and excessive cold
delaying the opening of the spring
trade and structural work. Yet re-
tailers are making extensive prepara-
tions and plans are submitting for
numerous building operations. Pros
poets have improved on tie Pacific
coast, where much needed rain has
fallen and reports from the south indi-
cate exceptional prosperity. Buyers
continue to arrive at the leading mar
kets, but the volume of trade is re-
stricted to high prices, particularly
for cotton goods.
Railway earnings for February were
.22 er p cent less than last year, bad
weather restricting traffic.
An abundance of buyers in the dry
goods market failed to produce any
large volume of business, although
there is disposition to advance bids.
Recovery in the raw material cor
rected whatever tendency there was
last week to make concessions on for
ward business and the average of cot
ton goods is at the highest point Of
the season. This naturally checks
operations for the future, particularly
in export trade, which is very dull
Failures this week in the United
States are 236, against 229 the CORES
ponding weke last year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
NES7ER's COTTON STATEMENT.

New Orleans, March 4.-Secretary
Hester's weekly cotton statement
issued today shows for the four days
Of March decrease under last year OF
"a, GOO and decrease under the same
period year before last of 1000.
Of the 186 days of the season that
have elapsed the aggregate is behind
the same days of last year 1855, coo, and
behind the same days year before last
90, 900.
The amount brought into sight du-
ring the past week has been l37, 1877
bales, against l76, 9S9 for the samez sew
en- days ending this date last year,
156, l21 year before last.
The movement since Sept. shows
receipts at all United States ports to
eb 6,476, 8S1 against 6, 626, 518 last year.
Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio
and Potomac rivers to northern mills
and Canada 1856, PIP against 865, 595 last
year interior stocks in excess Of those
held at the close of the commercial
year, 296, 115 against 225, 742 last year
southern mills takings 1,244, 600
against 1921, 35S last year.
is 8, 773, 20S against s, 939. 213 last year.
Foreign exports for the week have
been 101, 301 against 161, 434 last year,
making the total thus far for the sea-
son 1894, 514 against 5,213, 951 last
year.
The total takings of American mills,
north and south aud Canada. thus far
for the season have been 3,014, 4SO
against 2, 8s4, 1888 last year.
Stocks at the seaboard and the %
southern interior centres have decreas
ed during the week 1926 bales
against decrease during the CORES
ponding period last season of 1880.
Including stocks left over at ports
and interior towns from the last crop
and the number of bales brought into
sight thus far from the new crop. the
supply to date is 8, 941.0 against g.
l54, 2S7 for the same period last year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
a CORNER IN QulHIHE.
According to Dutch indies Papers
the Intention of the Prospec-
tive Trust is to Erect More
Quinine Factories in
lava.

Probably no drug is So universally
used for medicine a quinine, and
therefore it is not surprising to hear
that movement is on foot to form a
Quinine Trust It is more surprising,
in these days of great combinations,
that such trust has not been created
before.
Nevertheless, the forming of
monopoly On such household remedy
as quinine is an unfavorable sign of
the times. With the control of this
drug in the hands of single corpora
tion, it can be imagined that the price,
now so moderate, might be put up to
such figure as to make it practically
prohibitive to the poor, just as the
Anti-Toxln Trust boosted the price of
that remedy.
The greater part of the worlds
quinine comes from Java. It has
been estimated that Is per cent. of the
Peruvian bark used is secured On that
island. Only eighty planters are en-
gagged in cultivating trees, and,
according to Dutch Indies papers, the
intention of the prospective trust is
to erect more qulnine factories in Java,
and it is believed that at least one
half the yearly output of bark will be
manufactured into the drug at the
Java plants. 1t is planned, according
to these same reports, to interest the
owners of other quinine factories
throughout Europe in the new COM
bination, so that it will be in position
to dictate the price to the world.
Whatever the ultimate injurious
effect of quinine may be, there can be
no doubt that, in the present stage of
medical science, it forms one of the
most valuable and necessary. articles
in the pharmacopoeia. Many doctors
pronounce it a most harmful thing to
take into the system, but the multi
tude of sufferers from that commonest
of maladies. cold, would find it quite
as difficult to give up as tobacco or
coffee. Yet it may be that the Qui-
nine Tust will have the effect of great
ly reducing the consumption of the
remedy, and it may be that the strut,
IN curbing the excessive use of quinine,
will confer something of favor On the
world, besides filing its own pocket.
Chicago Journal
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
Prospects Of G Coal Famine

Altoona. Pa, March 6.-Sub Dis
trict No. /, of District No. 2, United
Mine Workers, of the central Pen nsyl-
vania bituminous field, has unanimous
ly adopted resolution insisting on the
continuation of 66 cents ton for pick
mining, SO cents a ton for machine
mining, an increase of 40 per cent over
the old rate, and an increase for drivers
and day laborers. The annual Dis
trict Convention will be held here next
week. The delegates have been in
structed to resist any reduction, even
to the point Of striking. The central
Pennsylvania delegates led the fight
for no reduction at the Indianapolis
Convention.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09

Jackson, Miss, March, --2.-An in
junction was granted today IN the
United States Court here against the
State revenue agent, restraining him
from taking further steps toward
assessing the Union Tank Line and
the Kentucky Distilling Company on
cars used in this State. The injunc,
tion was made returnable May 4. The
State agent some weeks ago assessed
the leading distilling, brewing, pack.
ing and oil companies of the United
States on their cars used in this State,
which, it was alleged, we're not assess
ed by the railroad companies. 1t is
stated that other companies that have
been assessed will apply for injunc.
tions.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-03-09
BLossORlNG OF HURT PLANTS.
DR.. de Saussure Records an In
stance After a Charleston
Cyclone.

The recent report in these pages,
says The Literary Digest, of observa-
tions by a French botanist, M. e.
Apert, going to show that trees that
have already blossomed and have
grown buds ready for the next season,
may be caused to blossom again in
the autumn by removing the leaves
or otherwise wounding them, has
elected confrmat.ry testimony from
several correspondents. Dr.. p. G. de
Saussure, of Charleston. S. c.,
writes:
"In August, 1893, a fearful cyclone
visited Charleston. The force of the
wind was such as to blow nearly
every leaf of of two peach trees in
my yard. Now, these trees had borne
fruit-one in June, the other in
July (l693). In October the trees
both went into blossom again, not
one or two flowers, but whole branch
es, and in few days afterward fresh
green leaves appeared. Iii other
words, the trees behaved just as if it
were spring; the fruit was apparently
maturing, when frost came in No
vember or the early part of Decem-
ber.'
A similar experience is related by
Mr.. G. Treanof, of Savannah, Ca,
who writes:
"In August. 1881, twenty
day, On the coast of Georgia, we had
one of the severest storms known
here. I was then trucking on an
island ten miles below Savannah. On
the night of the 9th the storm swept
most everything standing. a.so every
leaf and twig from trees which did not
90 down before it's fury to such an ex-
tent that next day the woods looked
like midwinter, so completely were
they denuded of their foliage. In
about two weeks they commenced to
bud forth afresh, and in months
time were in full bloom again. In
the case of mulberry-t they put
OF a second crop and we're ripe before
frost, which usually comes III this
latitude about November Il. Null
berry-trees in this section usually
ripen their fruit about the last week
in March or the first of April. Wild
plums and peaches also bloomed and
put on fruit, but did not ripen, as
frost caught the second crop. Tie
effect on most of the trees noted wss
disastrous, as the strain seemed to Re
most too much for their vitality.
The next spring many of them did not
put forth any sign of life, being dead:
others showed no bad effect from their
unusual exertion of two crops in one
season.