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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19

he met a publisher and the two were
soon fast friends. Bachelor told the
publisher about his novel: told him
also how he had so far failed to make
il go with the literary advisers.
The publisher was interested and ask
ed about the plot. Bachelor outlined
it. Change it so and So" said the
publisher, "and I'll bring it out. >"
Bachelor had faith enough in the story
to give up everything else for the time
being and devote himself wholly to re-
writing it. 1t was the hit of the sea-
son. next to David Harum" and one
other book, it has had the largest sale
enjoyed by any American book.
That exception is the Rev. Mr. Shell
don's religio-social novel, In Ills
Steps" Three or four years ago it had
sold more copies than any other book
ever printed in English. except the BIZ
BILE, and. possibly. Pilgrims Progress"
and I am informed that sales are still
going merrily on. Yet not one of the
literary advisers of the leading pub
fishing houses, am sure, would have
dreamed of accepting I'm His Steps"
had the manuscript been submitted to
them.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19


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caused from uterine Irregularities,
which brought on pelvic catarrh. 1
suffered untold agony from sick head
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
McNALLY
On Naming the Baby
BY Lawrence Porcher Hext.

me nayber- hood," remarked O'Rlynn.
is quite a busy place;
McCarthys wife has started up baby
namin' race
TIL wimmin folks is crowdin' in Nc
Carthy's little fiat,
To criticise his baoy. an to help thin
name tn brat"
"McCarthy's plight" responded Mack.
lis pitiful an sad;
Onless 1t is a pair av twins, they's
nawthin' half as bad:
FIR though tn pride av father-hood
has set his head awhirl,
1 have me doubts if he could tell IL
it's boy or girl.
He roams about tn crowded fiat, an
sadly strokes his chin;
He vainly tries to dodge this eyes aX
Mis- McCarthy's kin;
He meets some folks he niver saw be-
fore tn baby came,
An knows that ivry woman there has
brought tn kid a name.
9TH wimmin galy shake his hand, an
pat him on tn back,
An poor Mccarthy smiles as though
he'd stepped upon a tack;
He hardly dares to speak a word, f'r
fear his nayber's wife
VIII take advantage av tn chance to
name his kid FIR life.
can though he holds a silent tongue,
tbs hardly amy good;
He hears his baby talked about be all
tn nayber-hood;
He has to listen to tn names they
want tn brat to wear,
An try to make tn naybers think its
phwat ne loves to hear.
''An' so it goes; Mccarthy is surround
ed be his kin.
An all his loose relations take a pride
in buttin' in:
He hears his cousin an his aunts dis
cussin' proper names,
An urgin' him to listen to tn rights
that kinship claims.
HE has a dretful time av 1.-THE don't
know phwat to do
He has to hear SUGGESTIONS from his
wifes relations, too;
An whin she raises up her voice, to
help her female kin,
McCarthys nerve forsakes him, an his
head begins to spin.
AN whin tn baby's old enough to
make it's dresses fit,
Tn naybers gather at tn church to
help thin christen it,
An whin, at last. they take tn brat
an stand before tn priest,
Mccarthy is tn FLETCHER av a wild an
hunted beast
HE does not care phwat kind av name
tn baby has to take;
He'd let ii go at anything, FIR peace
an comforts sake,
An though he tells tn priest phwaA
name to give tn kid f'r life,
twas more than apt SELECTED be his
naybers an his wife"
we've spoke tn TRUTH" replied O'F1ynn
I've childher av me own,
An whin it comes to namin' them, I
leave me wife alone"
IT'S jist as WELL" responded Mack.
to let her name thin ALL
Ye give thin amy name yer please.
whin they begin to squall"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
Books Turned Down.

Examples OF books turned down re-
peatedly, only to make big hits at last
might be multiplied almost ad inflni-
tum, and the list thereof would include
some of the classics in the language as
well as some of the big sellers" which
have no other merit than STABILITY.
The point of it all is that, more than
almost any other, the publishing busl-
ness is a matter of guesswork. Any
way this is true: Not one in FIVE of
the books issued to-day by any of the
big publishers more than pays for IT.
self. many of them are actually pub
lished at a loss. and not more than
one in hundred makes u striking sue
cess Duane.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
MELONS MOVING
TO THE MARKETS.
The Beginning of Georgia Melon
Shipping 2S Years Ago.

The Beginning of Georgia Melon
Shipping IS Years Ago.
Valdosta, Ga, June 1S.-The ship
ment of watermelons and cantaloupes
began in earnest this week. Several
cars of cantaloupes were loaded at sta
tions in this county. Watermelons are
a little backward on account of the
market quotations and the size of the
melons. The opening of the melon sea-
son recalls the beginning of the indus
try twenty eight years ago, when the
first watermelons were shipped from
this section.
OusIey Station, ten miles west Of
here, was the place which first started
melon shipments on large scale. w.
r. Talley. a farmer. raised so many
watermelons that he mashed them up
in a cotton press and made good
quality of syrup from the juice. The
next year he shipped a lot of melons to
Savannah, and the year following a
good business was done with Savannah,
Atlanta and other Southern cities.
Capt. Georgia R. McRee shipped the
first carload to New York and, though
it took two weeks for it to reach it's
destination. the returns were such rs
to encourage the industry. In the next
year or so the industry grew until the
shipments from Ousley reached thirty
or forty cars a day. The crop was
profitable, but finally the market broke
and the growers lost nearly all that
they had made.
The freight on melons then was about
twice what it Is now, and the growers
had to charter cars for the season. The
cars were returned to them and they
were loaded again. The cantaloupe
Industry is of much later development.
Fast freights and refrigerator cars has
made 1t possible to reach all Of the inn
portant cities in short time, and che
melon industry is a profitable one to
those who engage in it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE
CRUSADE IN VALD0STA.
cards Posted All over the Town
Quoting the sunday Law.

Cards Posted All Over the Town
Quoting the Sunday Law.
Valdosta, Ca, June 1S.-Cards are
posted all over Valdosta to-day, calling
attention to the law in regard to SAP
bath observance. The Georgia law is
printed on the cards and people are
warned that they are liable to be pros
ecuted unless the law is observed. Many
OF the cards are posted at the depots
and the attention of haclmen and
draymen has been called TO the law.
They have applied TO the court officials
70 know II hacks and drays are in
cluded IN the restriction, and II may be
that walking viii become popular here
on Sundays In the future. The laws
regulating Sunday Observance are 20
be enforced, the cards say. II Is nm
derstood that some of the ministers are
behind the movement. Soda water
stands are special objects 20 be attack
"a unless they close.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19

Conventions Have No TerrOrs.
The nearby Republican National Con-
vention seemingly has no terrors for
Wall street, and the stock market is
actually holding up its head as it APP
proaches contact with the event. The
street is also becoming reconciled to
the Democratic Convention in st. Louis
next month, feeling sure that the coun-
try will emerge therefrom safe and
sound. 1t is the hope of those in Wall
street who wish for Democratic sue
cess next fall, that a safe man may
be nominated at ST. Louis on a con-
sentative platform, and that after the
conventions the country may be spared
the infection of a roaring campaign
Many of the wisest among the Demo-
cratic leaders are of the opinion that
the best chance for Democratic sue
cess lies in the conduct of as quiet a
campaign as possible, after having
given the people a guarantee of i'm
munity from dangerous business agi-
tation in the event of triumph at the
polls. If their counsels prevail brass
bands and oratory will be at discount
during the next four months. Rather
in confirmation of this idea, Wall street
hears from Republican sources that
many in that camp fear it will be
hard to work up enthusiasm for the
party in power. These, however, are
mere advance opinions, and are sub
Ject to revision as the fight
thickens.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
BosToN's BARBER REGULATIONS
Board of Health Orders Sterilization
OF All That BARRIERS Use
on Customers
A special dispatch from Boston May

special dispatch from Boston May
5, 1900, to the N. Y. Sun gives new
regulations of the Boston Board of
Health as to barber shops: Mugs,
shaving brushes and razors shall be
sterilized after ench separate use
thereof A separate, clean towel shall
be used for each person. Material to
stop the flow of blood shall be used
only in powdered form, and applied
on a towel. Powder puffs are pro-
hibited." Wher1ssr Newbro's Herpi-
eide is used for face or scalp after
shaving or hair cutting, there is no
danger of infection. as IL is antlseptic,
and kills the dandruff germ. Sold by
leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps
for sample to f1re Herpicide Co., De-
troit, Mich.
Livingstons Pharmacy. Special
Agent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19

There's another reason, say the Tit
erary advisers" and that is the fact
that the writer's offer practically moth
ing that is not commonplace. Probably
there is truth i'm both contentious, but
it remains that many of the greatest
sellers" among the books issued in the
last ten years were turned down re-
peatedly by the literary advisers be-
fore finally finding their way to the
public between covers. Richard Claw
ering Gunther, for instance, was not
able to sell the manuscripts Of 'Mr.
Barnes Of New York" Mr.. Potter of
Texas" or any other of his books. and
money to publish on his own account
his stories never would have been
brought out
DR.. Weir Mitchells Hugh wynne"
lay around the Century Companys Of
flee for months before publication, be-
cause the literary advisers" couldn't
make up their minds to its intrinsic
value. The manuscript of David Ha-
rum went begging for year or more
among the publishers. Irving Bach
eller's "Eben Holden" was turned
down in one form or another several
times before it was taken up, and then
1t was through a publisher personally,
and not through a literary adviser
that it was accepted. It's acceptance,
by the way, was rather curious.
BncheIIer and His Publisher.
Some little time before it's publica-
ton the author was employed on one
of the big New York papers. One day
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
A story of Imagination.

Largely the creation of an unbridlad
imagination is the sensational story CT
$1,000, 600 900 mining trust under the
control and guidance of Standard OIL
interests. According to this romance
the trust will include every branch of
metal production and will embrace
within its territorial limits, not only
the whole of the United States, but
Mexico and the Dominion of Canada as
well, with arms extending down
through the isthmus along the back
bone of the South American continent.
There is just enough in the story,
however, to carry it and give it a GER
tain standing. Great capitalists in the
Standard Oil group are already largely
identified with copper mining, lead min
ing, gold and silver mining and the
smelling, refining and sale of metal
products. They are in control of Anal
gamated Copper and allied companies,
and are in trust with Senator Clark
and others to regulate the output of
that metal. They have a very large
minority interest in the American
Smelling and Refining Company, which
has virtual control of the reduction of
gold and silver. They are the dominat-
ing power in the new lead trust which
is now about completed, and which
takes in the National Lead Company,
the largest outside interest. They are
important stockholders in the various
metal selling companies, organized as
wheels within wheels to carry and
market the products of the smelters
and refineries. They own great blocks
of the securities of the United States
Steel Corporation, and are in major
ity control of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. 1t would appear, there
fore, that their investments in the met
al industries and metal production are
of sufficient magnitude to entitle them
to very large voice in that line Of
business. This is an entirely different
proposition, however, from attempting
the control of the entire production.
AS well undertake to corner" the air
or the water in the sea, or the produc-
ton of corn or wheat. or cotton as to
try to apply trust methods to the min
ing of gold. Gold is commodity OF
universal sale, and an ounce of it is
worth as much to prospector or placer
miner as to Rockefeller or Rogers.
Bituminous coal is also another mineral
impossible of trust control, although
not so thoroughly so as gold.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
standard OILS Mining Ventures.

The Standard Oil people have ur-
questionably found their ventures in
mining profitable on the whole, conse-
quently they are encouraged to IN
crease their investments. Their in
fiuence in the money market gives
them an opportunity for profits at both
ends of the game-in the production
and sale of securities as well as in the
mining of the product. They are alto
gether likely to keep on with their ex-
ploitation and to be in the market for
good mineral things whenever pre-
scented.
The widest stories that have been
told of the wealth of the Standard OIL
magnates have not been exaggera-
lions, and the half has not been told.
There are individual members of the
group almost unknown to the public at
large, whose fortunes are colossal
There is excellent authority for the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
The Literary Advisers job.

The literary advisers of the leading
publishers" by the way, have about as
difficult a path to tread as anybody
Gin all the various ramifications of the
puzZling task of furnishing the people
with stuff to read"
Like the editors of the daily papers
and the monthly publications, they UNI
derstand full well that their value TO
their employers and. consequently, their
tenure of Office. depends entirely upon
their ability to select the sort of mat
ter for publication that will please both
the employers. who pay salaries, and
the public which furnishes the money
for the salaries by buying what is pub
lished. Consequently, the advisers all
are both eager and conservative all the
time ana. as a rule, correspondingly
unhappy. While they know that the
acceptance of one good, big strong
novelty which should yield a big profit
to the publisher would everlastingly
make their reputation and insure GER
tainty of income, the acceptance OF
something odd and out of the beaten
track that should cost a good deal Of
money without bringing in correspond
ing profits would make a brief end alike
to their ambitions and their present
employment. Undoubtedly this is one
of the reasons so few books not utterly
commonplace are now being brought
out.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
PuIitzer's Personality.

Here's a little yarn apropos Of this
statement. Not long ago a young man
was engaged temporarily to do some
editorial writing on The World be-
cause of brief absence from his post
of a writer of long standing.
One day when listening to the read
ing of The Worlds editorial pages.
as is his daily custom, Mr.. Pulitzer
was specially interested in a certain
paragraph.
I'd like to talk with whoever wrote
that paragraph" said the editor, and
the next day the young man confront
ed him, to be informed a little later
that he was hardly the sort of man
The World wanted to have write
for it's columns.
This decision was not reached so
much because Mr.. Pulitzer was dis
SATISFIED with the young mans writ
ing as because the latter failed per-
sonally to stand the test Of a meeting
with The Worlds owner. Descrih.
ing the meeting later to a friend the
young writer declared it to be most
terrifying.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19

--scribbles--'T think I'll write q SON
net 20 Mise Loyey." Crlttick-~"Do DO
II. n may turn her against YOU"
scribblfs-"f thought she liked poe
try" crittick-gesn sha doea."--phii-
adelphia Prev
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
MilIionaires Selling Their Homes.

In proof of the theory that the bust
ness contraction has hit the rich hard
er than any other class, may be cited
the fact that within a radius of fifty
miles from New York great numbers
of country estates of millionaires are
offered for sale. They are being press
ed on the market and great bargains
can be had By those who have money
to invest in that kind of luxury. For
three or four years it was quite the
fashion for the new rich to buy farms
on Long Island, over In Connecticut,
in New Jersey, in the Adirondacks or
up the Hudson and build thereon pail
aces which were fitted up luxuriously
In many cases these country places
can be had for 25 to 40 per cent of
their original cost. A country place
is about as useless an asset to realize
on in hard times as a stock of cast
iron lions for lawn decoration.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
Wealth of S. o. NIugnates.

Weutn OF 81 u NluSnaIeSs
Something like fifteen years ago a
Mr.. Hardness of Cleveland, one of
John D. Rockefeller's early partners,
died, leaving an estate of about $780,
900 900 to three children. Two of these
were boys and they are now living
quietly in New York. Most of the
holdings are in common and they are
worth together more than 100000, 900.
One of the brothers only a few weeks
ago sent a check for 100000 to the
Western Reserve College of Ohio, the
institution at which he received his
education. He had previously given
more than $1,000,000 to the same col
lege. The Hardness boys" as they
are called, give away large sums, yet
their names are never included in the
published lists of philanthropists. A
gentleman not beyond middle age, who
has for years been the leading chem
list of the Standard Oil Company and
whose work resulted in the production
of three or four hundred by-products
of petroleum has fortune of over $780,
00O,0
The wealth of John D. Rockefeller
is certainly not less than a round 81,
900, 00O,0 900. Then there is Henry M.
Flagler, worth more than 800, 900, 900.
oliver Payne, son of the late Sena-
tor Henry Payne, has fortune of at
least SIS, 900, 900 founded on his fathers
investments in association with John
d. Rockefeller. Then follow the
O'Days, the Wheelers and a long list
of others. The combined wealth of
the Standard Oil party, by which is
meant the men revolving intimately
around the Standard Oil axis, can hard
ly be less than $4,000, 100000. 1t is more
likely to be above than below that
figure,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
Conventions Have No TerrOrs.

ter at home and abroad and are reaping
the benefit of their conservatism.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
MILL-HAvEN LINE.
0ot,aSula

Effective July -, 1908.
Cars run east on Bay street to Whit
aker, south to Broughton, west to
West Broad, south to Margaret.
Cars leave Whitaker and Bay street
for Mill-Haven 1920 a. m. $40, 100,
7:20, 500. etc, and every 40 minutes
thereafter until $40 .. m.
Cars leave Mill Haven for city sB:40
a. m, 700, 1920, TAO, $40, 900 ana
every 40 minutes thereafter until $40
D. m. then at 1905. $50. 1900. 7:4o. $50
and 900 D. m.
Last car leaves MiIl-Haven SEQ ..
m.
sExtra. daily excent Sunday.
T. r. NASH. Manager.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
Has Been curing kidney
troub1e for thirty years. Get
a bottle. At aft druggists.

statement that William Rockefeller's
wealth exceeds that of Andrew Carne-
gle, who is admittedly worth nearly
$500, 00o, 900. John Archbold is not so
very far behind William Rockefeller.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
Damn, GodIsin and PuIitner.

This conception Of the difference be-
tween the Danas and the Godkins and
the Pulitzers has a basis of truth, but
it would be nearer the truth to say that
there are more real similarities than
differences between them. 1t is true
that when Mr.. Pulitzer came to New
York and took over The World, he re-
lied more upon the features" of his
paper than upon its editorials for sue
cess, and that in measure it was
and is managed from the counting
room. But it is also true that he had
and still has quite as definite an idea
Of influencing the thought of the peo-
pie through the columns of his paper
as ever Mr.. Dana or Mr. Godkin had.
1t is likewise the fact that all
through the early, climbing days of
his World ownership, Mr.. Pulitzer's
personality was the one essential thing
in the conduct of the paper, and to
that extent, though never much of a
writer himself, Mr.. Pulitzer has been
as truly an editor of the strong old
school type as Mr.. Dana was. Further,
it may be said that Mr. Pulitzer still
Is the essence of the World, blinded
and suffering from many infirmities as
he is, Notwithstanding.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.

Effective Sunday. June IL.
ISLE OF HOPE LINE,
Between Isle of Hope and Fortieth ST