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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27

His life insurance premiums will jump with a mighty jump. No insurance com pany will fail to take account of the new risks. If the Average Person doesn't fall out of an air ship himself, somebody else will, and the somebody else will, of course, drop on him as he walks re- specially on the street. If there is col lision overhead, the Average Person on the sidewalk will be the target for the pieces. If two freight ships smash into each other somewhere out of sight over head, the Average Person will find 1t out very quickly, though too late for 1t to do him any real good, by being buried under the tumblinG freight.
 He will rave brand new injuries and diseases, of course. Medical and surgical specialists unimaginable now, will arise to do for him. There will be wiery com plaints, due to the expansion of the good old vital organs when they are hauled into the rarefied air. Ear drums will burst, arteries and veins will have blow outs," there will be diseases of noses and eyes, with Latin names foot long, Everybody will have mountain sickness The aerial ambulance service Will nave vasts emergency cases when Whoie ships complement of passengers IS stricken suddenly blind because the ar ship happens to swoop out of cloud into the lull SldTe OL lilc Sih III tAAS S.A.4a e-@ three miles high.
 The Average Person will, of course, get soaked" just as hard on air ships then, as he is now on the water. If snip catches fire, no doubt the hose will be rotten and burst. And, by the way, the fire boat of the air will be problem, too it certainly will not be able to carry enough water around with 1t to put out fires. Will it tap a cloud? What would happen on clear days when there isn't a cloud in sight? Maybe they will learn to harness a cloud by that time and tow it along for usa in case of need
 Of course, it is too much to expect that human ingenuity and generosity both will have arrived at so high pitch by the time air ships fly, as to have produced real life preserver It is to be expected that the life preserving parachutes of 1850 will be made of canvas dated 1890, or that they will be thoughtfully though unostentatiously loaded with iron Still, by that time people may have learned to swim in the air so that they can founder around in the thin fluid three or four miles above the earth till they are plckeo up or, perhaps, picked down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
BY JULIUS w. MILLER.

In spite of the thousands of inventors who are working at the problem there will no doubt be air ships that can really fly almost as well in the air as they do now in the patent office romances Even the most brilliant mechanical geniuses will be unable in the long run to prevent the final aeidental production of a real Ship of the atmosphere.
 On the day that this first ship actually flies to anywhere and back again without the aid of an undertaken and a coroner, The whole system of the world will be turned topsy-turvey.
 About the only human institution that won't be affected by it will be that won derful. specimen of perfect and illimit- abie elasticity, the American constitution. 1t will swallow the new empire of the air without 8 gasp; and the stars and stripes will be floating over the clouds to greet the first ship that gets there.
 But everything else will have to be re- modelled-municipal. state, federal and international laws must be made to cover the unknown. Every making body in the world, from the tiniest board of supervisors of the tiniest settlement to the biggest makers of international law. will have to meet in hot hurry to tackle the host of new problems that will arise when the first winged thing steers into the blue
 The very first question to come is that of Jurisdiction. At present every mari time country exercises sovereignty by international agreement over the sea for s distance of three nautical miles from it's shores That is beautifully effective now with ships that can't do anything except to swim. But what will happen when ships fly?
 Shall the zone be tilted upright and be made to extend three miles overhead?
 Plainly that will not cover the case for ships will, no doubt, be made ultimately to fly four and more miles high and these could pass serenely back and forth above the three-mile zone of soverelgnity Ieav- ing the power underneath to gnash its national teeth in unavaling rage.
 Aerial Imperialism.
 So the first great change to come over the earth with the first real air ships will be vasts assumption of new territory by all the nations. They will all become aerial imperialists and expansionists claiming sovereignty over the air over head clear to the limit of atmospheric pressure, forty miles more.
 The czar and the shah-in-shah with similar great potentates, including, per haps, the kaiser. may claim dominion clear to the sky, to make sure
 They will have fine squabbles over It. There may be wars before the thing is settled. An unlimited vertical zone of jurisdiction would suit some nations beau tifully. and it wouldn't suit others at all. British air sailor, for instance would not see the use of air ships if he couldn't make short cut straight across Eu- rope instead of Tapping his way labori- ously from London around to Gibraltar and then down the Mediterranean and through the super-heated air of the Red sea in order to get to India. He might justly complain in that case that he could go as well in a water ship
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27

keep the courts and the lawyers fat for generations. Men will catch air ships that have been abandoned in a storm, and, tying them up to their front door stoops, will hold them for neavy salvage. Of course the marine insurance swindler will scuttle air ships as he does water ships; he will simply seuttle the gas res ervoirs or the motor instead of the hull.
 The question of collecting port charges and customs duties will set the whole world by the ears. The temptation for air ships to evade payment by sneaking in at night over lonely parts of the boun daires of different countries Is too great to be resisted by any except the su premely virtuous. There will be fine chases in the air when aerial tonnage gets large At any moment the un- fortunate Average Person on the street may expect to get his share of modern progress by being hit with the hurting fragments of a ship that has been blown into smithereens by a vessel of the reve- nue airline three miles above.
 Short-sighted persons have said that the air ship would surely bring universal peace becauses it would render all present great land and naval armaments useless. They point cut that an air ship could how CT over a feet army camp or city at height so great that cannon could hardly reach it with any chance for a hit, and drop terrific explosives to destroy every thing in a great radius.
 That is true. But these reasoners forget that the ot1er fellow could do the same. And, furthermore even inland nations can own ais ship fleets. they will add just so much more to the armaments of the earth. In addition, air ships will not be nearly so dear as seeel armor battle ships, and fourth and fifth rate powers will enter the great game of world-poker wherein every player takes care to be well heeled."
 A Temptation to War.
 Therefore the air ship will be a constant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
Guarding Against It.
,e Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The two visiting Bostonians were talk ing their first ride in the New York sub way.
 One of them was carrying a brown paper parcel.
 'What have you there?" asked the other.
 A small codfish." was the reply. T have heard reports that the air in here is fetid and unwholesome.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
Miss as Good as a Mile,

From Success Magazine.
 Rudyard nipling. so the story goes was spending an informal evening with neigh where he has his home. A young lady recited one of his poems. As she bowed and retired she accidently trod on the foot of the author, much to her confu- sion.
 Don't apologize, 2 whispered MT. Kip ling: you trod four toes away from a corn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
A Temptation to War.

Therefore the air ship will be constant temptation to pugnacious or ayariclous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27

1 surf beats in his path. No channels daunt him. He can dump his freight in | prairie or in suburb-even on the roofs of houses in the heart of the city.
 The staid and honorable merchant air ship will make trouble enough. If liner of the Flying Cloud line arrives off the borders of the United States with infec- tious disease aboard, where Is she to be quarantined? They can't establish an aerial anchorage over the land, for, no matter how high up the unlucky vessel might lie. the people on the ground would have good reason to kick againsts possible shower of germs Yet how could she be quarantined over the sea? What kind of moorings could be made for her?
 The matter of morings presents an in- teresting phase. Of course the big un- wieldy air ships will need particularly snug berths when they are not under way If it were merely a question of tying them fast to something, 1t would be simple enough to erect immense steel skeletons or towers. But something more is needed, so that they won't roll in heavy ground swell' of wind. This opens delightful prospect for the owners of suitable roofs The time may come when every roof in city will be laid out with a slip or dock for air ships and the happy proprietor can rake in wharfage duties in the very heart of the town.
 Shpwrecks Right at Home.
 Of course the whole country will get nautical, or rather, aero-nautical. and everybody will watch wind and weather with the knowing squint of the old salt of today. Atany moment a blow may set in and drive air ships at a mans front door.
 The householder may awake at night to hear trampling on the top of his preml- ses, to find that air schooner driven out of her course, has struck on his frowning chimney, and that the survivors are dashed to his good tin roof, stamping melancholy holes into it they shout for succor.
 The marine courts will become airline courts, to sit on the new admiralty cases, such as the amount of damages to be awarded to the master of an air ship be- cause his vessel struck. a house whose owner had failed to display the proper riding lights Or a house owner may sue because a skipper has permitted his yes se to go a6ift and smash his windows. There will be fine salvage cases that will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27

Yet on the other hand, Germany and France certainly could never bear to look up Into their own native air at every hour of the day and night and see the red British ensign or the stars and stripes futtering all over their skies, as their rivals in commerce and war go careering happily about their business of grabbing the trade of the world.
 The inland nations will be in a dilemma to delight the lawyers of the world, and give them food for subtle reasoning for years. If they don't demand an unlimited vertical zone of sovereignty. they might as well go out of business, for they will be only convenlenees and way stations once the merchant fleets of all nations begin to fly over them. They couldn't maintain their diplomatic positions any more, for they would hold no balance of power. Any nation could transport it's sailors and soldiers across their territory, as long as t did so at a sufficient height
 Yet, if these inland fellows do demand an unlimited vertical zone of air, what use will airships ever be for them except for purely domestic purposes? If they have the unlimited vertical zone, all the rest will have 1t. And then they couldn't send out a single air ship of their own without humbly asking permission from their neighbors.
 However. it will be merely a matter of time, intrigue and mutual swindling be- fore the nations agree on a zone. And then the real practical difficulties would only just begin
 Declaration of the zone is one thing Enforcement is-different
 The sailor of the sea can approach coasts only in certain ways. He cannot run into any part of the shore. He needs channels and lighthouses and har- bors. Therefore, the present port, navi- gation and commercial marine laws are enforced easily enough by establishing custom houses and quarantine and immi- grafton stations at the various ports of entry Even the smuggler can be practi- cally suppressed that way, for surf, rocks and other dangers of the seacoast limit him, too, to certain localities for landing his cargoes
 Troubles of Revenue Airline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
Troubles of Revenue Airline.

Consequently, the revenue marine of to- day has well defined beats But the revenue airline of the future will have a vastly different problem. The flying smuggler can swoop over the borders of any country at any point at any time. No
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
SPECIAL NOTICE.

The Remington STANDARD Typewriter
IL still the standard. Durability. ease
Of operation. simplicity, and the fact
that you can put 4 IN your inventory
are its chief merits, Bee thu latest
models before buying q machine.
", "A. Hull.
Sole Dealer Tor eayannah.
~ Drayion -, ff0Ndent nuiidlBa.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY.
So Thinks at Least One Travelling
Man.

So Thinks at Least One Travelling
Man.
1 would as soon think of starting
out without my mileage books and
grip as TO start out on a trip without
box of Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets in
my valise, said a travelling man who
represents a st. Louis hardware
house. Why? Because | have to
put up at all kinds of hotels and
boarding houses. have to eat good,
bad and Indifferent food at all hours
of the day and night and / don't be-
lieVe any mans stomach will stand
that sort of thing without protest.
anyway l know mine won't. 1t has to
have something to break the fall, and
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the
crutch I fall back on.
My friends often Josh" me about
it, tell me I'm an easy mark for pat
ent medicine fakirs, that advertised
medicines are humbugs, ETC., but / no
tice that they are nearly always COM
planning of their aches and pains and
poor digestion, while / can stand most
any Did kind of fare and feel good
and ready for my work when it needs
me, and believe / owe my good di-
gestion and sound health to the daily
regular use of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets, year in and year out. and all
the 'joshing" in the world will never
used to have heartburn about
three times day and a headache
about three or four times a week and
after standing for this for four or
five years I began to look around for
a crutch and found it when my doctor
told me the best investment 1 could
make would be a fifty cent box of
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, and I have
invested about fifty cents a month for
them ever since, and when I stop to
think that that is what l spend every
day for cigars, feel like shaking
hands with myself for can keep my
stomach and digestion in first class or
der for fifty cents a month. I don't
care for any better life insurance.
My druggist tells me they are the
most popular of all stomach medicines
and that they have maintained their
popularity and success because they
do as advertised. They bring results
and results are what count in patent
medicines as much as in selling barb
wire.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18

South African Manager Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Assn. Cured of
a Severe Cold by Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy.
During my trip in the Transvaal l
contracted a heavy cold. 1 am pleas
ed to state that Chambekain's Cough
Remedy gave me prompt relief and
after continuing its use for a few days
was entirely rid of the distressing in
disposition" says Mr.. Albert T.
Stiasny. manager of the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Association, Cape
Town. South Africa This remedy has
a worldwide reputation for it's cures
of colds, and can always be depended
upon. For sale by all druggists.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
PEACH RECORD
WILL Be BROKEN
HALE SAYS CROP IS SAFE.
EVEN 70 DEGREES ABOVE ZERO
COULD NOT RUIN 1T.

Extensive Grower of Peaches Talks
About the Fruit Prospects - He
Looks for a Yield of 1000 ia
5000 Cars in GeOrgia-He Has
Noted striking Abundance oi
BIossOms-The Trees Bid Fair 10
Be Heavily Laden.
Atlanta. March III. c. Hale of
Fort Valley and of South Glaston-
bury. Conn, one of the most extensive
fruit growers in two states, while here
to-day on his way to his Connecticut
orchards, said the Georgia peach crop
this year is now out of danger and
will be the largest crop Georgia has
ever known. This viii make it a rec
ord-breaker for the world.
II am satisfied the peach crop is now
out of danger" Mr.. Hale said. For
even a drop in temperature to 25 de-
grees above zero would not destroy
sufficient number of the buds and
blooms to materially affect the crop.
In my section and others l have seen
around Fort Valley, there are twenty
four good, healthy blossoms on each
lineal foot of limb, and we never al
low them to grow to maturity closer
together than four inches. Buds,
blossoms and small peaches are now
TO be found in all the various stages,
so that no change in the weather that
might come at this time of the year
could destroy the crop.
In 1898 Georgia made the greatest
crop of peaches known up to that
time and $500 cars We're shipped from
the state to Northern and Eastern mar
kets, and this year the shipments will
run to 1000 or 5000 cars, according to
present prospects. In 1898 l shipped
154 cars, and / expect to ship 225 this
year. There are 100000 more trees
in Georgia this year ready to bear
besides which the old trees are coming
forward with a good crop"
Mr.. Hale has more than 100000 bear
ing trees in Houston county, and is,
perhaps, as familiar with the peach
crop and its progress as any man in
the United States.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinne Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. K. w. Groves sigma
ture is on each box. 25c.-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
DROPPED OFF AGAIN.
Cotton Could Not Withstand the
HammerfnE of the Bears.

Cotton Could Not Withstand the
HammerinE of the Bears.
New York, March 17.-Ruling active
and excited, the cotton market to-day
opened 16 to rs points higher on the
old crop months in response to firm
cables, but almost at once turned
sensationally weak under heavy sell
ling. May, which had opened at 1890
and sold at 1896 on the call, was de-
pressed to 1923, while July was driven
back to 1890.
At the low point the active months
showed a net decline of 1882 from the
high point of the morning and this
attracted some covering, and the
market just before midday rallied
about 20 points from the lowest in
about ten minutes. The slightly stead
Ter tone was short lived, and in spite
of the small interior receipts and
larger exports the bears continued
hammering the market and soon had
prices down again to about the low
est level.
The market closed weak at a net de-
cline of 26@52 points, Sales were esti-
mated at $4,000 bales.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
THE WEATHER.

Morning News barometer, March
II, ll:SO p. m ....... .............. 1910
Morning News thermometer, March
Il, 1880 p. m ..................... Sc
Washington, March 17.-Forecast for
Friday and Saturday:
Georgia-Rain Friday, warmer on the
coast. Saturday fair and colder;
brisk south winds, becoming north
westerly.
South Carolina-Rain Friday, warm
er on the coast. Saturday fair and
colder; brisk southeast to south winds,
becoming westerly.
Eastern Florida--Rain Friday. Sat
urday fair, colder in north and CEN
trail portions; fresh east to southeast
winds.
Western Florida-Showers Friday.
Saturday fair; fresh northwest winds.
Yesterdays Weather at Savannah
Maximum temperature, 200
p. m .r..-................... 65 degrees
Minimum temperature 800
a. m ........................ 43 degrees
Mean temperature .......... 81 degrees
Normal temperature ..... 5S degrees
Deficiency OF temperature. degrees
Accumulated excess since
March .................... 26 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. .....................1S 1884 degrees
Ralnfall ..................,... 90 inch
normal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .13 inch
deficiency since March 1.....L 27 inches
Deficiency Sinpa Ian irchac
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18

DShSiShCy since Jan. 1s..... lVS lncneS
River Report-The hight of the Sa-
Yannah river at Augusta at 8 a. M,
10Th meridian time, yesterday, was 81
feet, fall of 0.3 foot during the pre-
ceding twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same mo-
ment of time, March H. 1904, 8 p. m.
18th meridian time.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
TRUSTEES SALE OF DRY GOODS.
Stock of Metzger & Brunson.

Sealed bids are invited for the
stock of Dry Goods, Notions, ETC., also
Store Furniture and Fixtures, and
Iron Safe, contained in the store No.
20 West Broughton street, Savannah,
Ga. said bids to be delivered to the
trustee at the above address on or
before IL O'Clock noon, March "a,
1904, and to be opened on the same
date by the Hon. A. H. MacDonell,
Referee in Bankruptcy, at 1880 p. M,
at his office, No. East Bryan street,
in the presence of bidders. An in
ventory may be seen upon application
to the trustee at No. 20 West Brough-
ton street, where the privilege of in
specting the stock will be granted.
The right to reject any or all bids.
is reserved.
GEO. S. HAINES,
Trustee Estate of Metzger & Brunson,
Bankrupts
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
TOBACCO COMPANY
HAS A STRIKE ON NOW.

Richmond, Va. March 17.-Ahout 800
non-union employees of the American
Tobacco Company struck to-day for
an increase in pay. The employees
are all stemmers and ask for an in
crease of one-half cent per pound
They say they have very fine tobacco
to handle and are paid $3.50 a hun
dred pounds for stems. They claim
that an extra fast hand can make
about 81 a day, but that the slower
workers cannot make nearly so much.
The strikers are all negroes
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18

THE OCEAN WAY 30 NEW YORK
ANn TIIE EANT.

y va me Savannah line. Low rates
lnpipfe4 efrvicei Evening dinners
nen shipai Pull Information. ~ Bail
hAf""', tsefnanla Bank building -ad
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
FINE ASSORTMENT OF ROSE
PLANTS.

Also Cut Flowers. Roses, Hyaointha.
Sweet Peas. Freesias and Carnations.
A. q OELsCHIG.
Both phones Ae6.
J. Gardner Agent rs bropghton
street east
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
Administration Endorsed.

Bristol, Tenn, March 1.-THE Re-
publicans of the First Tennessee Sen
atorial district, in convention at john
son City, to-day nominated Joseph A
Wilson for senator and w. T. ellis
for "floater." Resolutions indorsing
the administration, the Panama canal
treaty and Congressman w. p
Brownlow were passed, as was also
a resolution condemning the Tennes-
see election laws as unfair and UNI
American.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
CROFT NOMINATED TO
SUCCEED HIS FATHER,

Augusta, March 17.-Theodore G.
Croft has been nominated by the peo-
pie of Aiken, S. c., for the unexpired
term in Congress of his father, recent.
ly deceased. Mr.. Croft has accepted.
and will begin the canvass of the dis
trict right away. James H. Tillman
and several others of the candidates
who had announced have withdrawn,
and will throw their influence to Mr..
Croft
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
SPECIAL NOTICES.
DIssoLUTION NOTTCE.

Savannah. Ca. March IL, 1904. The
partnership heretofore existing under
the firm name OF Livingston & Israel.
conducting business as Livingstone
Pharmacy Company, is this day dis
solved by mutual consent, Mr.. Henry
II. Livingston having purchased the
interest of Mr.. Isadore Israel therein,
takes all of the assets OF the said Arm.
and assumes all OF the liabilities, and
is alone authorized 10 collect or re-
ceipt for any of the outstanding debts
due to the said firm.
HENRY II. LIVINGSTON.
r-AlAIl y. YS.rl A ~
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-18
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
GOING TO JAMESTOWN.

Washington, March 1.-THE adjourn
ment of the House from tomorrow UNI
til Monday was taken to enable mem.
bers OF the House to visit jamestown
and Old Point Comfort, Va, as guests
of the jamestown Exposition Company.
The party will leave this city to-mor-
row at 4 o'clock. returning Sunday
morning.