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The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Baltimore Sun (Dem) says:
'Tn one Of. his numerous eulogies of
the President Senator Lodge pro-
nounces him many-sided man. This
seems to indorse the Democratic view
that Mr.. Roosevelt has the bad habit
OF looking in too many directions at
one time.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)-
says; Judge Parker also spoke in
graceful and vigorous language of the
contrasting expansion policies of the
two parties. Nearly all the additions
to the public domain have been made
by the Democratic party, but its ex-
pansion policy was the acquisition of
practically unoccupied regions, to be
peopled by our own citizens. For the
first time in our history the Republi-
cans have embarked the country upon
a process of expansion that consists
in the conquest of remote peoples, and
OF holding them subject TO a wretched
compromise between autocratic and
representative government that pos
sesses the vice of both and the virtues
of neither"
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem.) says:
1.-THE call for an international peace
conference at this time by Mr.. Roose-
welt Is so obviously a bit of political
fiubdub that II Is sickening. He Ia
fond of accusing his opponents OF in
sincerity. The mote In his brothers
eye he sees clearly, whether II Is there
or not, but the beam In his own eye
does not disturb him at all. The case
rests with the voters. Some OF them
like Bombastes Furioso, and some OF
them do mott but we do not see how
any OF them can like Bombastes Fu-
rioso in the garb Of n Quaker"
The Galveston Daily News (Dem)
says: "Of all the eulogies that have
been passed upon the President by all
the members OF his cabinet and by
others who owe 20 him their Offices
and honors, none can eclipse the re-
markable tribute laid a. the feet OF
Mr.. Roosevelt by his first secretary,
Mr. Hay. He cOmmcnds everything
the Strenuous Man has ever done. and
IN Tor blg-stickery ana the hot-nir poll
icy with All his soul n the nattery
~ MT Hav falls 10 make Mr. Itooae-
welt sicE then nobody seeds 10 b.
nFfonishcd ~ the latter should pro-
claim himself n god"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
A Question of knowledge.

Two men in Kansas City were hav-
ing a heated argument concerning the
location of a certain theater in New
York city, says the Chicago Record
Herald. The one insisted that the
house stood on lower Broadway, while
the other was equally confident that it
was up town.
Finally the first man, becoming an
cry, exclaimed. perhaps you think
you know more about New York than
l do? How often have you been there?"
"Once," was the epigrammatic re-
ply.
WELL" exclaimed the other, in
triumph, "I've been there five differ
ent times, and 1 ought to know more
about it than you do"
The vanquished one was silent for
a moment. Presently he spoke with
a smile on his face: 'How long did
you stay in New York on each of the
five visits you nfade?" 49, T.
The other scratched his head a mo-
ment before replying, and said well,
each time 1 was there for two or three
days. How long did you stay on the
only visit you made?"
Seventeen years." was the calm re-
ply. That ended the conversation.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
HOW coNvIcTs TELEGRAPH.
From Spare Moments.


Every prison has it's secret "tele-
graph" for it was not to be expected
that cunning offenders could be long
confined together, even on the sep
arate cell'' system, without discover
ing a method of secret intercommuni-
cation. Prisoners rap their mes
sages" to each other, and experience
has shown that an attentive ear may
receive and understand a communica-
tion thus made through the thickest
prison wall.
The raps correspond regularly with
the letters of the alphabet, which is
arranged for the purpose into six rows,
the first beginning with "a and the
last beginning and ending the series
with e." The first rapping indicates
the row In which the letter is to be
found, one for first, two for second,
and so on; the subsequent raps given
after a slight pause, show the number
of the letter in the row. At first the
table must be kept in mind, but after
little practice the prisoner is en-
abled to dispense with all conscious
reference to it, the message being
really received, as in the Morse teleg
raphy, in the form of symbols stand
ing in place of letters.
In Russia the clew is not so much
in the system itself as in the nihilistic
method of manipulating language with
a view to concealment. This is clear
from what happened recently in one
of the central prisons. Kord had gone
round to protest, not only against an
excess of heavy work, but against the
bad quality of food supplied to the
prisoners, and the protest was to take
the form of a refusal to perform the
usual tasks on the men being called
together after breakfast. Somehow or
other the Governor obtained the mes
sage as it had been raped through
all the walls, but he took it literally
as plot to break prison by the whole
of the convicts, so he armed the whole
of the warders to the teeth, taking eff
fective measures to prevent the assem-
bly, on the morrow. This blunder had
highly beneficial effect upon the
discipline of the prison, for the con-
Victs obtained not only immediate inn
munity from the heavy tasks to which
they had been accustomed, but after
ward enjoyed better food and more
humane treatment.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
INDLA ~ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Neutrality-suspicious. Lodge, No. AZ
F. & A. NJ; Stockholders, Savannah
and Statesboro Railway Co.
Special Notices-Dr. Julian S. CHS
holm Has Returned; To My Friends
and the Public, Emmett Moncreiffe;
Crew Notice, Williamson & Rauers,
Agents; Choice Meats. Roos' Market;
oysters and Fish, M. S. Gardner;
Crew Notice, C. H. Laing, Master.
Business Netices-Private Dining
Rooms, Sommers' Cafe.
Our Great Waist Sale-Estate Daniel
Hogan.
Friday Special sale-Estate Daniel
Hogan
All sOats-w. D. Simkins & Co.
New Subscribers-Georgia Telephone
Co.
Brown Back Ground-Connor & sull-
van.
Foods-Postum Food Coffee.
lie Panic Cigars-Henry Solomon &
Son. - hs
Sportsmen's. Sppplies-At Lattimore's.
Compound Tincture Sweet Gum
RoWllnSkl, DRUGGIST.
Wiley's Candy-Knight's Pharmacy.
For the Nursery-Tetterine Soap.
Kodaks, Films and Supplies-Livings-
TOMS Pharmacy.
Tryst-The Solomons Co. a.sa
Savannah Theater-To-d day, Matinee
and Night, 1.-THE Royal Slave;" Satur-
day, Matinee and Night, Shepard,s
Moving Pictures.
Old Fashioned Rye whisky-Henry
Solomon & Son.
A High Opinion-The Delmonico Co.
For Men of Brains--Cortez Cigars.
Medical-Pinkham Remedy.
Cheap Column Advertisements-HeI
Wanted; Employment Wanted: For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; PERSONAL; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
personal.

DIR. X. M. Pelkonen. distin-
guished physician of Finland for
merly chief surgeon of the big hos
pital in Helsingfors,s and now travel
ing in the United Estates, believes that
happier times are in store for his af-
hicted country The new governor, he
says, has given the Finnish people 10
understand that the attempti to Rus
sianize them is to be abandoned.
AT one time King Peter of Servia
was redhot socialist. That was while
he was living a. comparatively obscure
life in France. He. is believed to be
the first socialist to mount a throne.
King Peter is usually pictured in sone's
imagination as heavy-jowled, beetle
browed rufflani but, photographs taken
at his coronation show pleasant, in
looking man, greatly over
Swallowed by perfectly monstrous
crown, almost as high as a stenogra-
piers pompadour.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
PIPED MUSIC.
From Portland. (ore.), Cor. New York
Herald.

From Portland, (Ore.), Cor. New York
Herald.
Music out of pipe, to be turned
on or off like gas, is the plan of a
company which has asked for con-
cession from the Lewis and Clark Tx
position. The company is represented
by N. o. Abbott, a Seattle attorney,
who is now in Baltimore, Md, and his
proposition is being seriously consld-
cred
According to the story told the ex-
position officials by Mr.. Abbott, the
inventor, whose identity remains un-
known, plans to place an orchestra in
a central station. Tubes fitted with the
inventors secret apparatus will run
from the station to the offices, stores
or residences of customers.
An arranged programme is to be car
ried out daily. A customer notes that
at a certain time his favorite music
will be played. He turns a key and
music from reed and string instruments
fills the room. II is believed the mus
ic may be served TO customers as far
distant from the central station as are
the customers OF a central steam heat
ing plant which supplies an entire
city by underground pipes.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
Out of Order.

P. ]. Carbon, a well-known young
New York lawyer. tells this story
about Senator Albert Beveridge, in the
New York Times. Several years ago
the ladies belonging to a certain club
in Indianapolis held a meeting at which
the speakers were all to be women.
Mrs Beveridge was one of those who
occupied seats upon the platform. Dur
ing the afternoon Mr.. Beverage enter
ed the hall and was given a seat next
to his wife. At the conclusion of the
address Of one of the ladies Mr.. Bever-
idge arose, approached the front of the
platform, and began talking to the
audience, without having been invited
or introduced.
The chairman of the occasion was
William Deacon, now managing editor
of the Indianapolis News, and he did
not like Beveridge, anyway. Through
out the talk of the Senator-t97be
Deacon. sat with his head resting in
his hands. never once lifting his eyes.
When the finish came, he drawled
out, without looking up: The lady
who has just spoken is out of order.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
Something Lacking.

Mayor Mcclellan admires the Aquari-
UNI and thinks it is a beneficial and
pleasing municipal adjunct, but he is
not above telling a story about it, says
the New York Tribune. According to
the Mayor, a fond father once prom
Used to take his little girl to the watery
show at the Battery, saying: I'VE will
see the fishes in their native element"
In due time the Aquarium was Wis
tied and its finny wonders were in.
spected. AS father and daughter were
leaving, the former noticed that the
latter seemed disappointed.
Whats the matter? Didn't you like
it," he asked.
ooh, yes, / liked it," replied the
child; "but I don't think we saw 1t all.
Where's the fishes in their native ele-
phant?"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
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The Real Article.

Oliver HEREFORD tells of the meeting
between a little girl of his acquaint-
ance in New York, aged 8 years, and
the Earl of Yarmouth. who married
Miss Thaw of Pittsburg, says the Bos-
ton Post. .a -rt'.<
According to Mr.. HEREFORD. the young
ster in question had earnestly sought
an opportunity to gaze upon a real
specimen of the nobility, so when her
father, the host at dinner given the
Earl, finally allowed her to enter the
dining room her wish was gratified.
The child looked at Yarmouth long
and searchingly.
"And are you really an English lord,
sir?" she finally asked.
Eyes" responded the Earl, laughing
ly. Really and truly an Earl"
'Well, you see" continued the little
girl, 81 had never seen lord, and 1
always wanted to so much"
$50 1 understand" answered Var
mouth, land 1 am glad that l have
been able to crafty your wish.
suppose now you are quite satished?''
mo, not satisfied" replied the
youngster, sadly; I'm disappointed" y
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
The odor of the MothbnII.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
The coal is in the cdalbin and the bill
is nice and big,
The corn is In the corncrib and the
fat Is on the pig,
The turkeys in the barnyard and the
ak is in the shed,
And everyone is anxious that the tur-
key be well fed;
The leaves are gently falling, here and
there and everywhere,
And the odor of the mothball's in the
air.
The open ears have vanished and the
crowded ones are back;
The ancient ones. the chilly ones that
bump along the track,
To get aboard a man must fight and
with a dozen scrap,
And when aboard he's In great luck IL
he can get a strap.
And with the ladies' present there ne
never dares 10 swear
While the odor Of the mothbal's in the
air.
The frost Is on the sidewalk and the
side walks on the bum,
You slip and fall the jar you get will
make the cuss words come;
The apples in the orchard, the or
chards on the farm.
The grip is I'm the atmosphere, the sore
r. on your arm,
And all the folks are busted who are
coming from the fair. va
While the odor Of the mothbalrs In the
air.
The tang IL In the slider and the sugar
cane ~ ripe,
The hunter and the hobo now shoot the
festive snlpe.
The minoemeats in the pantry and the
pumpkin pie n brown.
And the scent H. IN the oyercoat, the
jacket and the gown,
And that ~ why we smell Il here and
there and everywhere
Just the odOr 0f the mothball Ia the
niD
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
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BRIGHT BITS.

Hoax: My wife went out to shop
to-day and lost a pocketbook contain
ing $40. .t
Joax: Did she lose 1t going to the
stores or coming back?
Hoax: Going; 1 said there was money
in it, didn't I?-Philadelphia Record.
The Poor Missionary.-"Now, my
child" said the cannibal mother to her
youngest hopeful, II want you to be
on your good behavior and not make
a pig of yourself"
what for?" demanded the young
savage.
Because we're going to have that
new minister for dinner. "-Philadel-
phia Press.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
THE THINGS THAT GURGLE.
From the New York Sun.

I'm SAAS 4NCW Olh AoNtlAs
Brandy is mostly a French or Cali
fornia product, but, with exceptions, it
is Enghshmen who drink it in New
York-brandy and soda being a re-
cognized English drink, most popular
with tourists. If it were not for New
Englanders, there would be little call
for rum, except by West Indians and
sailors. Rum New Englanders, when
they drink, drink Medford when visit
ing New York: others drink st. Croix.
In hotels or saloons near a railroad
or ferry there is a demand for cider.
folk when in town. New York cider
deserves its high reputation and it's
popularity among upstate visitors,
and has withstood the competition of
fancy drinks, beer and highballs. In
the few neighborhoods where Hol-
landers or Swiss residents are num-
erous there is call for gin; rhine
wine," either from Rhineland, Ohio or
Missouri, is a drink of Germans. Irish
visitors are the chief patrons of old
and new ale (mixed ale), the divider
and disturber of many an otherwise
friendly and neighborly party of the
Welldisposed. The popularity of high
balls has surpassed much of the de-
nland for brandy and mixed drinks in
New York. Yarmouth has largely
superseded brandy as an appetizer.
The tradition which ascribes to South
erners and to Virginians a monopoly
of mint juleps is tradition and moth
ing else. Martial strangers from Ten
nessee and Kentucky retain their pre-
ference for corn whisky. Hungarians
dring slivovitz. and the few Mexicans
hereabouts disregard their own
national drink, pulque, for something
or anything more distinctively Ameri-
can.
Preceptibly the amount of liquor inn
bibed in New York city declines, but
recent disclosures do not indicate that
as the quantity consumed declines the
quality improves.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04

An Indiana mans heart stopped
beating for three hours and
then started in again. The man feels
no i'll effects from the cessation of
pulsation. II the thing occurs too
often he will have to get out an In
junction to restrain his heart from
stopping during working hours or his
earning capacity will be so greatly de-
creased that he will starve to death
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04

When Theodore Roosevelt was a
Civil Service Commissioner he made all
manner Of threats against the Harri-
son administration IL the Civil Service
laws were not upheld in both the letter
and the spirit. He religiously kept up
the cry for reform in this department
through the following administrations.
Yet Mr.. Cleveland violated the laws
but five times, Mr.. Mckinley but six
times, while Mr.. Roosevelt, in the three
years that he has been President. has
sixty-three violations to his credit.
"oh, what q fall was there. my coun-
trymen"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04

The dream Of DR.. Edward Everett
Hale of "The Man Without coun-
try has been verified. An Ohio man
applied 10 the courts FOR naturallza-
ton papers but didn't know IN vwhat
country he had been born. His mother
brought him TO America when he
was but a few weeks old and died
while he was yet an infant. A. re-
suit he y not citizen Of this ooun-
try and cannot prove that be n a cit
isen OF another. His only consolation
~. the knowledge that he was born
npewherel
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
COILTNSVIIILE LINE .

Beginning at sos a. m. cars leave
Waters road and Estill avenue every
20 minutes until 1905 midnight.
Beginning at sos a. m. cars leave
City Market for Waters road and
Estill avenue every 20 minutes until
1905 midnight. :.
Through cars are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via, Collins
Vile and Dale avenue as follows:
Lv. Market Ly. Thunderholt
GAS A. M. 7.3O a M
GAS p M. 7.2O D M
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
HOMCIDEs In sonTH oAnn11x.

M
The Charleston News and Courier
devoted practically a page of its
space last Sunday to a summary of
the crimes Of violence committed in
the state during the past ten months.
Each separate case was recorded in
the brief space Of three to ten lines.
yet it required seven columns of small
print to contain them ALL There are
forty-one counties in the state. The
report, covering thirty-two of the for
ty-one counties, showed that in the
ten months there had been 100 homi-
cides, an average Of five honicides for
each of the counties covered. and
about one homicide for each two days
during the year.
A feature of the reports, carefully
made from the official records, is that
in practically eight cases out of ten
the homicide was committed by a
negro, and in majority of the. cases
both slain and slayer were negroes,
When one remarks the amount of
lawlessness in South Carolina. 1t Is
we'll enough to keep. in mind which
race it is that fills the Jail and keeps
the courts busy. That, by the way, is
not meant to convey the impression
that the whites have not been guilty
of crimes of violence. The reverse is
true. And the records show that no
white man was convicted of murder
and sentenced to death, though twenl
ty-four of them were tried. OF this
number eight were convicted of man
slaughter and sixteen were acquitted.
During the period two negroes were
convicted of murder and sentenced To
be hanged, and twenty were convict
ed Of manslaughter and sentenced to
the penitentiary. During the r. ten
months period there were four lynch
ings in the state, the victims being
three negroes and one white man.
Commenting on the showing made by
the reports, the News and Courier
says: 1.-THE people of the state are
utterly condemned by the record. The
few plain, bald facts we have given
speak out against us and our civiliza-
ton. The state is smeared with blood
We must wash it out in the name OF
justice and humanity"
We wish it were possible for us to
extend sympathy to our sister state
and at the same time point to oul
own record as showing how brethren
should dwell together in peace and
unity and how the laws should be
enforced. But. unfortunately, in this
matter Georgia is in the same boat
with South Carolina. The ever-readN
pistol is just as nimble in this stat,
as 1t is on the other side of the Sa.
vannah river, and it is just as hard e
get murderer convicted here-partic.
ularly II his skin is white-as IL 1,
there. The jury system is regarded
as one of the foundation stones OF oul
system Of justice, but when some o,
the verdicts OF juries are contemplat.
ed, especially in murder cases, an hon,
est opinion forces the admission tina
justice fails as often as it wins b,
the jury box. We need sterner ant
stronger public sentiment with respec
to crimes OF violence.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04
REFUSING TO AsrANp PAT.D.

In an address from the platform of
his special car at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
Judge Parker scored the Republican
cry of stand pat" 1.-The whole of
modern progress" he said, has come
largely from the refusal of the world
to stand pat Each successive gener-
alton has recognized the virtues and
accepted the labors of its predecessors,
but in doing so none has ever declined
or refused to recognize new demands
or to correct old abuses"
By those few words. the Democratic
candidate makes a ringing appeal for
progress. He does not take the ground
of the radical who scorns all that has
about it the touch of age and de-
spises that which a former generation
has found of value. Neither does he
take the ground of extreme conserva-
tive that sees danger in everything
that has not been tried and who would
rather drown in the fiat boat of his
ancestors than safely outride the food
in a modern vessel. He has struck
the golden mean that runs between
the two extremes. He takes the ground
of the student, the philosopher, and
the judge, in preference to the caprice
of the adventurer" or the mustiness of
the antiquary lost in contemplation of
the. past.
1t is to men who have held like
opinions that the progress of the world
is due. Had Caesar stood pat" on
the Seven Hills of Rome there would
have been no Roman empire. Had
the barons of England stood pat" on
the past there would have BEEN no
Magma Charta. Had thirteen col
onies stood pat" on the British pol
icy there would have been no United
States. The progress of the world is,
as Judge Parker so concisely puts it,
largely due to the refusal of the world
to stand pat "
In few short sentences the New
York man has riddled the catch-cry
of the Republicans. He has knocked
the foundations from the principal ar
gument of his political opponents. Yet
at the same time comes his guarantee
OF safety in the promise to only "recog-
nize new demands and correct old
abuses" He puts himself on record
as pledged to what is for the best
interests of the nation of to-day in
stead of what is working it's people
injury In two sentences he sums up
the issues of the campaign and asks
the voters to choose between progress
and fatal stagnation-to vote for the
protection of the trusts or for the bet
tering of themselves.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-04

Republicans have been claiming
that they had a working majority in
Illinois of $4,000. With $4,000 work
men thrown out of employment be-
cause of a strike caused by a reduc-
ton in wages that working majority
has been greatly cut down. The coal
trust cut the wages and it is not
probably that the losers, the working
men, will vote to sustain the party
that protects the trusts. Suicides do
not occur by the thousand!