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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
Swell Hotel Prices.

81 see," said the Cigar store Man,
according to the Baltimore Herald.
that a portion of spinach in the feed
section of the new Hotel St. Regis in
New York costs $1.98."
But there is nothing in the revised
statutes to bunch you over to New
York to eat at the st. Regis when you
get an appetite for spinach" remarked
the Man Higher Up. "In your pie
beian way you have put an estimate
on spinach wherein it is classed in val
ue with secondhand whiskers. You
are of the opinion that the best spin
ach that money could buy should cost
about Is cents a trough. But the pa
irons of the new St. Regis are willing
to loosen for spinach as though it
grew in a gold mine, and the more
they can make their people of wealth
loosen up the better 1t will be for New
York.
For my part. I'd like to see them
open hotel here in Baltimore where
the cost of a couple of ft-boiled eggs
and a gold plate of toast would be
81 50. I'd like to see a beanery started
for our millionaires with a proprietor
nervy enough to charge $12. so for a
modest order of beefsteak and fried po-
tatoes. Instead of condemning the
people who look with smiling maps
upon a bill of S. for an order of roast
turkey. let us rather congratulate our
selves that there are people with so
much money that they hate it.
at is a plain. undeniable fact that
a majority of the wealthy people of
this city weep bitter tears every time
they break a $40 bill. The great mass
of money that is exercised in this town
is turned loose by the people of mod
crate means. Our rich are notorious
tightwads in the main. When it comes
to purchasing they make a farmer s
wife negotiating a rooster for a calico
dress look like a spendthrift.
Let us hope for an epidemic of st.
Regises as long as the supply of we'll
upholstered millionaires willing to
spend holds out. The proprietor of the
st. Regis is a public benefactor in
that he is teaching the rich to separate
themselves from their money without
the aid of ether. The more money is
spent the more is afloat and the more
chance the outsider gets to grab a per-
centage."
ut looks foolish" complained the
Cigar Store Man.
"Of course. it does" agreed the Man
Higher Up, but think what a shine
town this would be if we were all SEN
sible."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
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PER SONAL.

-"Uncle" Will Galloway of Carl
Junction has voted in every presiden-
tial election since 1856, except three,
and never has he cast his ballot for
the winning candidate.
The London Lancet congratulates
the University of oxford in obtaining
so brilliant an exponent of science as
Professor Osler, formerly of Johns
Hopkins university, and the medical
profession of London are looking for
ward to his coming with considerable
interest.
Gen. Baden-Powell has long been
able to write and draw with either
hand with equal facility. During some
maneuvers which took place, when
his right arm was useless, owing to
the bite of a dog. he wrote and illus
trated his daily reports entirely with
his left hand.
DIR. Charles V. Herdliska of Cincin-
natl, who has held numerous govern
ment positions of trust and honor, has
been selected as general secretary of
the American congress to represent
the United States at the twelfth inter
parliamentary congress to be held in
st. Louis in September.
Nicola Tesla, the student of electri-
city, is an unusually tall man. with the
Tightly look of a genius in eyes, face
and manner Although his inventions
have made him rich, he is a tireless
worker in his chosen profession. He
looks to be about 81 years old, which
is just ten years less than the reality.
His father was a priest of the Greek
church.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
Charities Parents.

While waiting one evening at my
friends house for him, says a writer
in the Albany Journal. 1 was pleas
antly entertained in the drawing room
by his wife. Our conversation drift
ed to the use and abuse of tobacco,
when Mrs. A. said:
Il am. sorry to say that Charles
smokes. and cigarettes, too. / can
smell il on his clothes. I wouldn't
have his father know it for anything
He hates tobacco in all it's forms"
Shortly after Charlie and his faith
er. having come in to dinner, / MOTTO
ed Mrs. A. get up and carefully re-
move her sons coat to a peg on the
hall rack quite distant from his
fathers. After dinner Mr.. A. ard I
went to keep an engagement with a
third friend. On our way home who
should we pass but Charles, smok-
ing a cigarette.
My friend said: Il am so afraid
that boys mother will get on to- the
fact that he smokes. She dislikes to-
bacco so, especially cigarettes. know
dt would break her heart. Don't men,
ton it, for goodness sake"
Like a wise diplomat, l concluded
not to interfere.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
RussIA,s BALTIC FLEET.

After many delays, Russias Baltic
fleet has sailed, ostensiby for the Far
East, to engage in the war there. Will
it ever reach it's supposed destination?
Was it ever seriously intended that it
should do any such thing? There are
military experts who regard the move
ment as merely a feint, intended only
to have a moral effect upon the stu
alton.
The Baltic fleet is Russia's biggest
and best aggregation of warships-on
paper. Nearly all of the battleships are
new and untried in actual service. This
fleet has been depended upon to pre-
serve the equilibrium of power of Rus
STA with other European maritime ma
tons in European waters. To with
drew the feet and send it thousands of
miles away would be to assume that
Russia had nothing to fear from ag-
gression by sea during several months
at least. With the Baltic fleet away
from its customary station, Russian
home interests by sea would be virtu-
ally unprotected except by the land
Notifications. Is it reasonable to sup
pose that Russia has suddenly acquired
such confidence in her neighbors that
she is willing to leave herself without
an arm of naval defense at home? The
sailing of this fleet practically strips
the Russian Baltic coast of every effec-
tive warship.
It is something like $4,000 miles from
Cronstadt to Port Arthur. and fur
Their to Vladivostok. Under the most
favorable circumstances it would re-
quire two months for the fleet to reach
either port. Much of the distance
would have TO be sailed through
tropical seas, in which the bottoms of
ships are quickly fouled. If the ships
were to make the run direct, and in
the shortest possible time, they would
arrive in the Yellow sea with bottoms
covered with barnacles and marine
growths and need to go into dock be-
fore they would be fit to fight the Jap
anese. But there would be open no
friendly port in which the ships could
be locked and cleaned and necessary
AVpdHo rAlCA 0O iOli6 d rum NUT
is it likely that the ships could get in
at either Vladivostok or Port Arthur
Two months hence the former will be
ice-bound, and it is practically certain
that the latter will be in the hands of
the Japanese, even if 1t costs an army
of men to take it. Thus the Baltic
fleet would, in all likelihood, be cut off
from friendly cooperation and from
base of supplies and repairs. In
view of all the circumstances. it is re-
garded as highly improbable that the
Baltic fleet will sail a great many miles
from home. If it were off Port Arthur
now 1t might be able to turn the tide
of war against Japan. But it isn't
there, and conditions will be very diff
ferent by the time it could possibly get
there. If the fleet proceeds further
than the Mediterranean there are a
number of expert military observers
who will be much surprised.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
TRANSPORTATION RATES.

! The Railroad Commission has made
a sweeping reduction in transportation
rates on some articles from Atlanta to
a number of cities, but it doesn't seem
| TO have taken into account the ques-
| ton of how other cites would be af-
fected by its action. 1t seems the COM
| mission in making the reduction had
only Atlanta in mind.
But even if the reduction was made
because Atlanta kicked it doesn't fol-
| low that other cities should be made
| to suffer. In our local columns this
! morning we call attention to statements
| of manufacturers and business men
that their businesses will be injured by
the commissions order. These mer-
chants and manufacturers ship goods
to Macon, Augusta and other towns
mentioned in the order. If Atlanta had
no particular advantage over Savannah
before the change was made she has a
very decided advantage now because
a big reduction has been made in the
rates from Atlanta and none has been
made in the rates from Savannah. Does
the commission purpose letting the
matter stand that way?
1t would seem to be only just. when
changes are made on the complaint of
one city, that care should be taken that
other cities are not injured by them.
There should be such an adjustment
of rates all around that the complain
ing city wouldn't have an advantage
over other cities.
If we are rightly informed the change
in the rates that has been made for the
benefit of Atlanta Injuries Savannah.
That being the case the commission
should at once make reductions in the
rates from Savannah to the cities
named similar to those which have been
made from Atlanta to those cities.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
BRIGHT BITS.

-"Bullion's country estate is costing
him dearly. He keeps twenty servants
and forty horses on it," But he
might have gone in deeper-he might
have tried to raise crops on it,
Judge.
City Friend Visiting in Scottish ru-
raj town)-"And tell me, Andrew. are
you wi the Wee Kirkers, or the Unit
ed Frees?" Andrew-"Man, I'm gi'en
up releegion a'thegither an jinin the
Aud Kirk."-Punch.
Miss Gabble-''It's strange that q
girl who used TO wear her hair so neat
ly is so careless about it now. She
has to keep brushing stray locks back
with her hand" Miss Chellus-"That's
not strange. She's got an engage
ment ring. "-Philadelphia Press.
The managing editor: Eyes, we
want you to take a good rest. You need
it badly. Go somewhere where you
will have absolutely no cares and
nothing to do" The faithful attache:
'All right. Make me your war cor
respondent in the Far East."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
did you never take money ia
which you We're not entitled?" asked
the close and critical friend. mo"
answered Senator Sorghum. 1.-The
sums to which you refer were no more
than a reasonable compensation for
the wear and tear on my conscience. -
Washington Star.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
CURRENT COMMENTS.

The Columbia Is. c. State (Dem.)
says: I'm the second year of Cleve-
lands administration 1t cost $4.22 per
capita to run the government; i'm the
second year Of Roosevelt's government
II cost STA to keep the wheels turning.
Yet the Republicans say we don't
know what we are talking about when
We call them extravaganza"
The Buffalo Courier (Dem.) SAYS:
VERY little comment is found in the
Republican press on the matter Of the
lynching of a negro in the Republican
state Of Wyoming. But President
Roosevelt has written that lynching
may be beneficial TO communities
therefore denunciation Of mob law
should be withheld-unless the demon
STATIONS are in the South"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: Applying the Maine test 10 the
country at large-an increase Of Z per
cent. in the Republican vote, as COM
pared with the tally in 1900. and an in
crease Of as per cent. IN the Demo-
cratic vote. also compared with the
vote Of l900-where does Il leave the
Grand Old Party? The problem Is in
teresting and Il is sure 10 set the
hustleiA Of both parties 20 hustling."
The New York Post Qnd) says;
Among the curlositles OF presidential
literature IL Mr., Roosevelt's reference
10 what the Democratic leaders say
privately about the tariff OF course.
they have not said 10 10 him hence he
but retails IN hin letter the gossip
which has been carried 10 him But
private remarks were 90 botray
HIM Can the most reckless faiker who
ever EAT in the White House an0rd
fQ invite such comparisons between
public utfefancea and CONFIDENTIAL cay
inHsf Mr hooEeyelf'a iovinl eplfhefs
f0f lHadinH Ropub1rans. ne neornful
rhnfa FORMATIONS N mfn who think
themselves deep in hls c0ansfia he'd
much better enjoy ne righi ~ privacy
co. f'FH pfeee ~ mindAand his'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
Fishermen,s stories.

George FEEDERS conscience got a
dreadful jolt the other day, says a
writer in the Brooklyn Eagle. He and
his brother-in-law had been fishing off
the Jersey coast and were returning
home with their catch in a covered
basket, when somebody in another
boat called out:
'Any luck?"
Yes" Fielder answered; pretty
good luck"
"Snappers?"
Yes" 80
How many?" ~
Thirty"
Gee! That is good"
When they were out of hearing of the
other boat the brother in-laW said:
George, what is the use of lying
for five or six paltry fish? I'm sure we
haven't more than twenty-four, or
twenty-five at the most"
T know Fielder answered, but
everybody discounts a fish story. If
had said twenty-five he would have
thought we had about twenty"
Still, you would have been conscious
of having told the truth" the brother
in-law insisted.
That's where you are mistaken, -
the keen lawyer rejoined, and proceed
ed to argue the case. "Falsehood is
not determined by the mere words we
employ, but by the impression we Gre
ate. For instance, if a man has ten
dollars in his pocket and says he has
between five and six hundred, his
words are literally true, but the i'm
preston he conveys-that he has be-
tween five hundred and six hundred
is false. So, paradoxical as it may
seem, man can tell the exact truth
and yet be lying like a whitehead
Now, it is so customary for fisher
man to add a few to the number of
his catch that when he fails to do so
he deceives his hearers, and therefore
really lies to them"
Il never looked at it that way" said
the brother-in-law, "but there's some
thing in it, sure enough"
So, when other people in other boats
and on the wharf and along the road
home asked the inevitable question,
neither Fielder nor his brother-in-la
hesitated to say they had caught
thirty fish.
When they reached home and set the
basket down, Fielder said:
Lets count up. I really lost track
of the exact number"
80 did l." the brother-in- con-
fessed, but I'm sure it can't be
above twenty-five"
Dear reader, l ask your sympathy
for my poor Inundated friend, Field
err. After all the pains he had taken
to create a perfectly truthful impress
sion up and down that Jersey coast,
he found that they really had thirty
one fish in the basket
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
BRYAN'S REASON.

The reason Mr.. Bryan, in his Denver
speech. gave for supporting Judge
Parker is a very good one, though
there are Others equally as good. He
said You ask nce. a believer in free
silver, how / can bring myself to sup
port a man who favors the gold stand
ard. l say that love peace and the
gospel of peace infinitely more than
i love either gold or silver" Mr. Bryan
makes II clear that he regards Mr..
Roosevelt as a man unfit to be Presi-
dent, not because of q lack of integrity
but because of lack of judgment. Mr..
Bryan knows what Mr.. Roosevelt's
characteristics are, and he is satisfied
that those characteristics would be
more pronounced if he were to be elect
ed President than they are as an ac-
cidental President.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Roose-
welt, If elected President would like
nothing better than to have. as a part
of the record of his administration, a
successful war with a great Power.
He wouldn't probably go to work de-
liberately to make an opportunity for
a war. but il is pretty certain that he
wouldn't avoid one even IL he could do
so without any loss Of honor to the
country. Indeed, he would be tempted
all the time to do things that would
make peace impossible IL complications
with another nation should arise Mr..
Roosevelt's whole career shows this
view of his characteristics doesn't do
him an injustice.
Mr.. Bryan ought not TO find any
difficulty in supporting Judge Parker
because the latter is gold standard
man. The silver question will not
come to the front again in Mr.. Bryan's
time, II ever. Nobody wants free sill
Yer coinage now. The outlook Is that
the gold supply will become so great
that it will present troublesome prob
lens.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
oFF wIrH rHEIR. HEADS.
From the washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
An awful question now arises: What
will the Secretary of Agriculture do
to the wicked persons who, on Sept.
2. anticipated the government cotton
report, actually proclaiming the exact
figures thirty minutes before the de-
partment oracle groaned and rumbled
from its caves? Mr.. Wilson has just
received from Savannah, where the
sacrilege occurred, the following re-
spectful, not to say submissive, state
ment:
Il am directed by the Committee on
Information and Statistics of the Sa-
vannah Cotton Exchange to say that
at 12:45 o. M, on Sept. 2, Messrs. Hey
ward, Wick & Co., who have an Oh
flee in this city, received the follow
ing telegram: Government looks like
SAL signed Bache, which was posted
in their office for the information OF
the public generally. I am informed
by Messrs. Hayward, Wick & Co. that
Messrs. j. S. Bache & Co., of New
York, are their correspondents, and
author of the above telegram. The
writer, together with several others,
saw the telegram in question"
This is not the first time the De-
partment of Agriculture has been treat
ed with irreverence by mere citizens.
Two or three years ago, about, cot
ton firm in New Orleans gave deep
offense by challenging the accuracy
or perhaps it was the methods, of
the government computers, and. ac-
cording to our recollection, the mem
bers thereof were threatened with dire
punishment in consequence. Now,
what shall be the fate of these latter
day offenders? If it was wicked in the
New Orleans men to say afterward
that the department experts We're
wrong, shall or shall it not be regard
ed as criminal on the part of the New
York and Savannah men to say be-
forehand that the same experts are
right? This is not a trivial matter, as
some thoughtless persons may suppose.
Much hangs upon it. Unless the de-
partment be willing to abandon the as
sumption that it can make no mis-
takes, and that no outsider can posi-
bly, avoid them, this last sin is as
grevious as the first, and must be ex-
plated accordingly.
We await with an anxiety which
it were insincere to describe as
manageable, the action of Secretary
Wilson.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17

Are we all going crazy? Several
Chicago experts declare that the ten.
dency is IN that direction. One of them
says that of the present population OF
Chicago one person in every $50 is in
sane and one in every Ave predisposed
to insanity. All Of these experts agree
that insanity has increased at a re-
markable rate during the past ten
years, all over the civilized world. DR.,
James P. Lynch says: "At the pres
ent rate of the development of insan-
ity, and with present conditions OF
work and living unaltered, half Of the
civilized world will be more or less in
sane 500 years from now, and in an
other ESQ years from that time. under
the same conditions. most Of the eau
casian race will be mentally deranged
and civilization wiped off the face OF
the earth by the multitudes OF Goths
and Vandals of Asia" This is a dark
and forbdding outlook But let us
hope that the conditions will be Inn
proved. civilization, through all the
ages. has managed 20 steadily improve
conditions for the betterment Of man
kind. Notwithstanding the discourag-
ing data that the experts sometimes
dig up.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Dr. Turner has Re-
turned Public School Notice, Otis Ash
more, Supt. Fruits, Etc, NJ. S. Gard
ner; To-day's Menu. Jas. J. Joyce;
Ship Notice, j. L. Crossley, Master;
Bids for Lease of Convicts of Glynn
County. - 4
Business Notices-Talk to Us, G. w,
Thomas; Soft Shell Crabs, Sommers'
Cafe; New Arrivals, A. NJ. & C. w.
West.
1t Will Cost You Nothing-Savannah
Blow Pipe and Exhaust Company.
All Good Ones-At Lattimore's.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Druggist.
Reliable Seeds-J. T. Shuptrine.
Foods-Grape-N Nuts.
Have Stood The Test of Time-Wal-
than Watches.
Vinegar-Henry Solomon & Son.
in the Reading Room-Pete Daley.
We Have Low Rates-E. & W. Laun-
dry.
Mascerated wheat-The Delmonico
Co.
Special To-day-Jas G. Nelson.
The Place to Spend Your Money
New York Cash Grocery.
Savannah Theater-Monday Matinee
and Night, 1.-THE Watch on the Rhine
NATURALIZATION Medicine Co.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost. Personal, Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
WIDOW WOMAN.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Recently the Journal poked bit of
fun at a Kansas editor who spoke of
young 15-year-old girl, the daugh-
ter of a widow woman" Now we are
in receipt of a defense for the editor
from a scholarly reader, who proves
by the Bible and other ancient refer
ences that fun-pokng of this kind Is
entirely without point. We quote:
Widow woman Is a good Bible ex-
preston. See II Samuel xiv, 2, and
l Kings, xvii. $40 Widow is an ad-
jective that may be connected with
any suitable noun. and widow man
would not be wrong, though it is not
used. In German, widow man and
widow woman are employed not only
by common people, but also by authors
of good repute.
Il believe that Alfred Ayers CDR. T.
e. Osmand) was the first to raise the
cry against widow woman. He allows
widowed women, although there is no
reason why a participle should be sub
stituted for an old adjective that still
does good service for millions of edu-
Gated people in America and England"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-17
A CHINAMAN ON THE YELLOW
PERIL.
Chang Vow Tong in the Review of
Reviews,

Why is it that England and America
do not see the yellow Peril?" Be
cause they know that the invasion of
Europe and America will never come.
Because England and America have
so shaped their courses in their Asiatic
possessions that the natives cannot
and will not be driven to think of
revolt, much less invasion. The lib
erty freedom, fair play. and privileges
granted by England and America to
their colonies insure contentment and
stability among the natives. Any one
who compares the condition of the
Straits settlements and AMMAN will
be immediately convinced of their re-
spective conditions and corresponding
prosperity. The troubles in German
Africa are the outcome of cruelty; the
1ourishing condition of the Sandwich
islands is the fruit of impartiality.
The yellow Peril" of the Mongols
under Genghis Khan is a thing of the
past,-dead six centuries ago. Asia
then suffered far more than Europe,
only the eastern border of which was
visited by the Tartars. Nearly every
nation on the Asiatic mainland was
conquered, and the Chinese suffered
most terribly from their invasion.
The yellow Peril" will never come
dSdlll. IL II COIueS at all II VIII De
at the time when European civilization
has refrigerated and Europeans return
to condition of savagery far below
that of their ancestors before the days
of Caesar. The yellow Peril" is
only possible when the Asiatics are
superior to the Europeans in culture,
science, art, and general civilization,
just as the Europeans, superior to the
Astatics in these respects, now domi-
nate Asia. 1t will come when Eu-
rope and America, weakened by inces-
SAINT wars, are so helpless that not
only the Asiatics, but even the Eskin1os
and Laplanders, will be able to dictate
terms. When the Asiatics are able to
overrun Europe and America, it will
not he the day of yellow Peril" but
the day of a golden era" If that
day ever comes, it will mean that the
Asatics are so superior that they de-
serve the conquest of the world.