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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18
RAILWAYS FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

1t looks as if there were an organ
lied effort to work UP sentiment in
favor of lending the Filipinos money
or credit with which to build rail-
roads. The bill which passed the Sem
ate on Friday provides that the Phil
ippine government may guarantee an
income of per cent. on investments
in railroads to the extent of $50, 900 per
mile. No pretense is made that the
proposed roads would earn that
amount. 1t is estimated, however, that
the roads that would likely be built
could earn. under the right kind of
management, about per cent. in
come net. The insular government,
therefore, would have to pay the per
cent. on the amount invested up to
$4,000 per mile. 1t is proposed to in
vest not less than $5O,OOOOOO That
would increase the burdens Of the peo-
pie $1,OOO,O0O annually. 1t is claimed
by those who have given the islands
very thorough study that the people
find il difficult now to meet the bur-
den of supporting the insular govern
ment. And they are at no expense of
supporting the military establishment.
The United States bear that expense.
But the bill that has passed the SEN
ate is only a feeler. The real pur-
pose is to have the United States guar
the islands. Some of the newspapers
are already saying that the United
States should lend the Philippines $780,
100000 either in credit or cash, for the
construction of railroads. The expert
ence of our government with the Pa
cific roads ought to be sufficient to
cause Congress to steer clear of the
Philippine railroad programme.
1t wouldn't be surprising if there
were syndicates of spectators behind
this railroad movement. Their concern
isn't for the Philippines. 1t is to get
their hands into the United States
treasury. If they can get the money
or the bonds for building the railroads
It will be long time before the gov
eminent win get its money again.
There would be another tie binding the
Philippines to this country, a tie that
it would be hard to break IL the time
should come when we thought it advis-
able to let the Filipinos try self-gov-
eminent.
If the American people are wise they
will not encourage Congress to throw
away their money on railroads in the
Philippines. Let the rich syndicates
that have lands and timber in the is
lands which they want to bring into
touch with markets build their own
! railroads.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18
The Future Hypnotic Household.

From the Chicago Tribune.
[Dr. Quackenbos urges the establish
ment of an institute of hypnotism
saying the general practice of the
science would be beneficial to ALL
Don't snap your fingers near my ma;
You'd change her smile into a frown-
She has been hypnotized by pa,
And thinks she's got a brand new
gown.
Don't snap them, either, where pa is.
or else therell be an awful clash
Ma now controls those thoughts Of his
And makes him give her all the
cash.
The parlors dark; pa went in there
And hypnotized my sisters beau
Until he said: well, I declare,
It's getting late and I must CO."
My sister-she got angry then;
Pa made her anger disappear
He made a pass or two again
And now she thinks her beaus stlll
here.
Pas went around all smiles to-day.
Last night a bill collector came
Pa hypnotlzed him right away
And the collector signed his name
And gave pa the receipted bill.
You see. the other man obeyed
MY pas intense hypnotic will
And thought at once the bin was
paid.
lead my class AZ our school
Pa simply makes a pass or two
And then J know each word ana rule
And an the sums I have 10 DO.
Don't snap your fingers N YOU 20
Into che kifchfn-InGke no fuss
Pas hypnotiEe1 the cook. ana 80
Hhen niey another week With un.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18

The emptiness of the performance of
the King Of France, who with 10000
men. marched up the hill and then
marched down again, is hardly to be
mentioned in the same breath with the
emptiness of the meeting between Mr..
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston and
Col. Greene, the bad man from some
where out West, who was going to
eat him alive for his assault on the
stock market. Col. Greene utilized
a number of half-pages of newspaper
space in a denunciation Of Mr.. Law
son, calling him all sorts of hard
names and finally winding up by in
forming Mr.. Lawson that he would
call on him personally the next day.
Readers of the advertisement had
mental visions of pistols, coffee, cof-
fins, cadavers, hearses, and all that
sort of thing. There was no conclu-
sion to be drawn but that when Law
son and Greene came together there
would be something doing" of very
serious nature. But they met, smiled,
office and held a conference lasting
several hours. Lawson the bear and
Greene the bull, spent a most charm
ing afternoon together. What they
discussed and what arrangements they
made with respect to the lambs, may
or may not be developed during the
next few days.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18
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Personal.

-Therese Humbert. who is confined
in the prison at Rennes, has developed
such a mania for writing abusive, in
coherent letters to officials concerning
the supposed dissipation of the Craw-
ford millions that the authorities are
considering her transfer to an asylum
for the insane.
Rev. Henry Marsh Warren has be-
gun the holding of religious services
in New York hotels every Sunday and
is meeting with great success. He uses
the dining rooms, which on all such
occasions are crowded. Having shown
that his idea is feasible and popular.
he is about to arrange a regular
schedule of services among the no.
tells. Mr.. Warren at one time was
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18
INTERSTATE RAILROAD RATES.


In an interview Wednesday Mr.. Nor
ton. the Secretary Of the Navy, said
that the administration considered the
question of interstate railroad rates the
most important now pending before
the American people. The evidence
that the President considers It such is
found in his last message to Congress.
When the Interstate Commerce Com
mission was created il was thought
it had been given authority to fix
reasonable rate in cases where 1t found
an unreasonable one. The Supreme
Court has decided it has no such au-
thority. The cry from all parts of the
country is that interstate rates are in
equitable-that there are discrimina-
lions which favor the strong shippers
and destroy the weak ones-that ruin
some communities and build up Others.
1t is also claimed that there are rates
which are too high-rates that are out
of proportion to the service rendered.
1t looks as if something were going
to be done by Congress in the near
future to remedy this condition of
AFFAIRS, to insure equal and just rates.
The Interstate Commerce Committees
of the House and the Senate have the
matter under consideration. They are
hearing the complaints of shippers, and
it is regarded as certain that they
will report in favor of legislation that
will give the government greater au-
thority in the matter of rates.
For years we have held the opinion
that both the railroads and the people
would be benefited if the government
We're given authority to supervise in
terstate rates and the railroads were
permitted to pool their earnings. That
arrangement would insure equitable
rates, and would prevent cut-throat
competition. The railroads have been
trying for years to prevent such COM
petition, not only because it is ruinous
TO their revenues. but also because it
is productive of unequal and unstable
rates. If there is thing the shipper
dislikes more than discriminating and
unfair rates it is unstable rates. Gov
eminent supervision with power to fix
a maximum rate and pooling would do
away with all grounds for complaint
In the course of his interview Secre-
tary Morton, who, by the way, has
been a railroad man pretty nearly
all of his life, said: without govern
ment supervision of rates pooling can
never be legalized but with such su-
pervision every objection to pooling
disappears. Shippers say they don't
care how railroads divide up their
money so long as they earn it fairly
LOCALIZED pooling would permit the
railroads to stop rate wars and disas-
trous competition. 1t would secure sta
bility of rates. which are as desirable
to the shipping public as to the rail-
roads,"
We don't know exactly the reasons
the roads have for opposing this plan,
if any. Whatever they are, they will
be made known in the next few
months, for it is evident that this ques-
tion of government supervision of in
terstate rates is going to be the lead
ing one in Congress before the end
of fha Orasant session
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18
LAWsnN Din MoNEY.
From the New York American.

From the New York American.
Boston, Dec. 1A-rhomas w. Lawson
lost the combination Of the safe I'm his
state street office, and The expert who
opened Il was so long az II that his
employers took him 10 task. why, /
was busy talking the stun out" was
his reply
Then he explained that the strong
box Ia the gafo la which Mr.. Lawson
keeps what be- calls the pin money for
his wife and family ~ divided into slr
compartment. and that these are gon-
orally kept full The safe expert esti-
mated that there waA $500, 900 in the
safe, al IN double eagles.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18
The Result.

1t is Christmas morning In the
home of GittousBi Kickkemoff in st.
Petersburg, says Judge. From the
children arise loud walls of anguish
and disappointment.
Papaski rushes to the nursery
What is the matter childreno-
vitch?" he asks.
I'VE have no presentski," they wall.
mo presentski?'
mo. Ivan. to show his patriotism,
asked Santaski Clausoffski to give him
a japanese toy regimentsk and Santa
ski Gid, and the japanese regimentski
captured all our other gifts and
marched away with them
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18

The impeachment OF Judge swayne
must be before the full Senate, and
It will require a two-thirds vote TO
convict him. The penalty In the event
Of conviction, according TO the consti-
tuition, shall not extend further than
removal from Office. and disquall-
hcation 10 hold and enjoy any Office
OF honor. trust or profit under the
United States" II IL the understand
ing. however, that conviction at
the bar Of the Senate might be fol-
lowed by prosecution In the criminal
courts. But the fact that Judge
swayne has been impeached does not
mean that be- has been convicted. Re
b. 10 b. presumed innocent until found
guilty by court ~ competent luris-
diciion-iD this Instance the senate.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18
Chicago Soup Plates AccOmpnni-
ment.

Two New Workers were lunching to-
gether at the Bellevue-Stratford, says
the Philadelphia Ledger.
zone hears strange stories about
Chicago" said the woman in the chin
chilla tricorne, but 1 never believed
half of them until I went there a
while ago on a visit. Will you believe,
my dear, that l went to a dinner
where there was a little silver trum-
pet beside each soup plate?'
What We're they for?" inquired the
girl with the violets.
II didn't know at first, but I found
out later that they were called soup
coolers and were used for blowing
the soup!" said the Travelled one.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18

A young woman, alleging Georgia
as her home, is in trouble in New
York. She was arrested on charge
of larceny, the specification being that
she had unlawfully appropriated to
her own use certain jewelry of a
friend. When confronted with the
charge the young woman became in
dignant. why" she said, Il don't
have to steal. l own a bank at --,
Ga" The name of the town she gave
does not appear on any map of Geor-
gia, nor does the postal guide give
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18

The New York papers of Friday con-
tanned sensational stories-some of
them under headlines five inches down
the COMMUNICATING how Max Hart,
a postal clerk, had found 100000 worth
of bonds of the Douglasville (Ga.)
Electric Lighting and Water Company
concealed in an old trunk that he had
bought for a song. Max must have
had dreams Of yachts, and automobiles,
and trips abroad, and other delightful
things. He must have anticipated the
pleasures of wealth, and pictured to
himself the great things he would do
when he clipped his coupons and col
lected the interest on his bonds. But
how must Max have felt the morning
after, when he read in the papers that
his bonds were not worth more than
the paper they were printed on, be-
cause they had never been negotiated
and were absolutely without value!
Several New York brokers are alleged
to have "esta blished their value with
out question: but the weight of evil
dence seems to be that the prettily
printed pieces of paper will be of more
service in covering a bare place in the
wall than anything else.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18

A degenerate who claims the dlstinc-
ton OF being the worlds Oldest
thief' was arrested IN Washington the
other day lie gave his name as
George A. Walker, and claimed 10 be
the brother Of DR. Mary Walker. the
eccentric woman's rights advocate
Walker said De Was 100 years Did. and
had spent good portion ~ hln NE
behind prison bars.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18

The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Fiorida, for to-day are Tor
fair weather with west - northwest
winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-14
PASTOR DISCUSSED
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

Recognizes but One Cause as
Grounds for Granting Divorce.
Marriage" was the subject of the
night sermon as the South Side Bap-
tist Church. last night and the pas
tor, Rev. d. S. Edenaeld, discussed
this question, which has been agltat-
ing the religious world Of late in de-
tail. All statements were based on the
Scriptures and the discourse was con-
servative In it's nature. In brief the
sermon may be summarized as follows:
Marriage is of God. and therefore,
BECAUSE OF divine origin, should not
be tempered with nor treated lightly.
God himself has stated that man and
wife become of one flesh fGen. ii:2h,
when he says, They shall be Of one
flesh
Had this not been enough the fact
that Christ, the Son of God, sanctioned
the marriage is additional proof that
II is OF divine origin. Christ sane
toned marriage by attending the mar
riage ceremony (John ii:9. And both
Jesus was called, and his disciples, to
the marriage ceremony In the sec
ond place Christ sanctioned marriage
by using 1t as the basis of one OF the
parallels through which he taught one
of his great lessons to humanity, Matt.
xxii:2l. The kingdom of heaven Is
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-14

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
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The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-14
like unto a certain king, which made

like unto a certain king, which made
a marriage for his SON.
LASTLY the Apostle Paul approved of
marriage, when he says (Heb. 1870
Marriage is honorable in ALL That
1t is especially of God is shown in the
words of Jesus Himself, Matt. 1876,
Wherefore they are no more twain,
but one flesh This can mean but that
they are not only one in heart, mind,
and spirit, but even as one in the
flesh.
Webster recognizes this when he
defines marriages as The union of a
man with a woman for life.' The state
recognizes it when they put in the
marriage license, Holy state of matri-
mony.' All, therefore, recognize it as
of divine origin and as for life.
shall a man then be divorced. God
recognizes but one cause. infldelity,
Matt. xix:9). Paul also recognizes
but the one cause, though he makes
distinction between separation and
divorce, Il Cor. 7:1O. Thus with all
ideas converging, we have but one
course open. to turn to the Bible as
the ultimate source of decision, and
the final judge of whether divorce be
right for other than the one course.
Under its laws infidelity is the one
cause. To the true Christian, no other
cause can be just"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-14
MODERN SLAVERY I'M
THE CONGO FREE STATE
Rev. L. c. vass, Missionary. Discusses AnomaI-
Gus Conditions

The naturally indolent native, of
course, rebels, and to keep him up to
work there is an organized force OF
over 10000 men with modern rifles
who compel the bringing in of the full
amount demanded.
with one of these chartered COM
panies having full police power in its
hands, an armed cannibal soldiery at
its back, with agents whose salary Is
controlled by the amount of rubber
they ship. and often no one near to
tell tales, you can imagine the fearful
crimes that will be committed by these
agents to quickly gain wealth.
Burned and Plundered villages.
81 have myself witnessed dozens of
burned and plundered villages, and
scores of murdered and half-eaten ma
tives whose only crime was that they
were unable to meet the excessive de-
mands of tribute by the government
official.
II have seen natives driven from
their homes, but finally caught in the
forests, carried away with ropes
around their necks to serve the gov
eminent as forced laborers.
AT Leopoldville there are about 81
900 laborers in the government works,
about 1000 of them are slaves caught
in various raids by government Off
Gals. There are millions of natives
who are to-day working on the planta-
tons of the state and in their rubber
producing districts, whose only reward
for their labor is the privilege Of en-
riching the already overlooking Golfers
Of the great philanthropic sovereign OF
the Congo Free State.
Mission Work Hnmpered.
esAft1of<a :
with the closing OF the doors To free
trade. The American Presbyterian
! Congo Mission has asked recently for
four different land grants at various
villages that school work and preach
ing might be begun. All were refused
and at one point where work had been
begun we were notified to close the
station and move away. The English
missions and the American Baptists
have been similarly treated,
The Berlin treaty, which is the
Congo's accepted Magma Charter, pro-
vided in case Of abuse or failure To
carry out stipulations that the powers
could again meet to further consider
these matters. England has already
asked for such an Investigation by dis
interested parties. The United States
has already had the matter presented
by Senator Morgan in a memorial To
Congress. But Leopold dares not have
his work brought officially to light. He
also refuses The Hague tribunal as a
mediator between himself and his op.
pressed slaves, saying: Il am abso-
lutte" Thus with whip and gun in
hand he stands defantly before the
world the largest and richest slave
holder OF modern ages.
May an outraged world arise in
righteous Indignation TO wipe out this
blot from Central Africa"
In describing the sinking OF the
steamer Lapsley In the Congo river
a year ago Mr.. Vass gave graphic
account Of the accident In which one
missionary and thirty natives lost. their
lives.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-14
WOULD GET AWAY
OR Die TRYING
WROTE POLICE PRISONER.
NEGRO WANTED on BURGLARY
CHARGES PLANNED ESCAPE.

Note Written to Woman Intercepted
by Detective Davis and Prisoner
Ia Now Kept Under Close Guard.
Had Scrubbed IL on Margin of
Newspaper, Asking That Weapon
Be Struggled Him Through Win
dow of Cell.
BY the interception of a note, the
police yesterday discovered an attempt
that was going to be made by Lucius
Harvey, a negro wanted on several
burglary charges in Macon, to escape
The note was to Cherrie Johnson,
negro woman, who was already under
arrest for completely in some OF the
burglaries, though Harvey, of course,
did not know the woman was in Gus
tody. He wrote asking the woman to
bring him a weapon and he would
get away or die"
Very Bad Negro.
Harvey is a very bad negro. There are
five indictments against him in Macon,
charging him with burglary, and he
is believed to be the man who burglar
ICED the store of Max Sutker several
nights ago. A pistol found in his pos
session has been identified as one of the
weapons stolen. None of the other
pistols have been recovered, however.
The note was scrubbed on the margin
of a newspaper and he tried to get one
of the TRUSTEES at the station to de-
liver it for him. The trusty refused TO
take it and Detective Nose Davis
who arrested Harvey. searched MN
and found the note.
Get Away or Die.
The note is as follows:
"If l get what you got, l will get
away or die. Tell Sug to come through
the cemetery and bring it. Tell Doc
to take that thing what you had and
bring 1t tonight. They are going TO
send me to Macon tonight or to-mor-
row. Tell him to bring Il to the back
and Jump over the fence and whistle,
and l will open the winder and get 1t.
well, l close, dear. / ask you to
do 1t if he don't. You and Sng come.
Sug knows how to get in the back by
the cemetery. Tell Sug to come to the
side winder and bring me that thing
and tell him not to be afraid and stay
and see what they are going to do with
me-
Under Careful Watch.
Since the discovery of the note, the
prisoner has been kept under careful
guard 1t has not yet been decided
when he will be sent to Macon, il at
all.
1t is thought, though, he will be
turned over to the authorities there,
as they have a number of cases against
him and the Savannah department has
only one.
The Johnson woman, who is also
locked up, is believed to know where
the rest of the stolen pistols are. She
refuses to give the police any informa-
ton at all, and claims to know moth
ing whatever of the Sutker robbery.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-14
NOTICE.
SALE oT srAII.s I'M rHE MARKET

City Marshal's once, Savannah, Ca,
Nov. 10, 19O4.--The stalls in the
market building will be offered for
rent at public outcry on WEDNES-
DAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF DE.
GENDER, 1904, at 10 o'clock. a. m.
Parties desiring to retain their
stalls and renting by the year will
have the preferences, but must be on
hand and respond promptly.
BY order Committee on Market.
HENRY Z. DREESON,
City Marshal.