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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

From the New York Evening Post.
1t is reported that the Russian mil
itary transport authorities estimate the
through carrying capacity of the ST.
berian Railway for the next six
months at about $4,000 men and the
The estimate given by them in the
early summer varied from $4,000 to
27000 and the former rate seems to
have been maintained. Thanks to va
rious improvements and to the COM
pletion of the Circum Baikal line,
an increase of 40 per cent. is now
looked for. On that calculation Russia
will be able by April l next to detrain
in Manchuria the last contigents of
10000 men from European Russia, or
of 200, 900 men If the transport of gem
eral supplies could be temporarily re-
duced. Nothing short Of a duplca-
ton of the main line from Samara to
Hardin is expected to do much toward
solving Russia's transport difficulties,
as the number of trains dispatched
westward with sick and wounded and
with empty trucks keep on increasing
as the campaign grows older. In the
meantime the railway system in
Southern Russia has been most seri-
ously disorganized by the war. The
bulk of the available locomotives, vans,
and trucks have been diverted for war
traffic, and the daily deliveries of
grain at Odessa have been small and
irregular at a time when the export
trade ought to be at it's hight.
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she spoIIea His case.

Wayne MacVeagh, at a banquet of
lawyers, said of forensic speaking. ac-
eording to the Baltimore Herald.
''Venal barristers, to move the court
and to attain their ends, will some
times depart a little from the truth.
To do this is often profitable, it is
never pardoTiable, and now and then
1t is disastrous.
There was a Philadelphia lawyer
who had charge of an important case.
Postponement in this case was the
tactics that the man had thought best
to adopt, and three postponements in
three months had already been obtain
ed by him. Now the case was up
again and another postponement was
most necessary. But how to get it
Was the question.
For a long, long time the lawyer
cast about for a good ground for a
postponement. All real grounds had
long since been exhausted, and it was
necessary for him now to employ a
fictitious one. He found a fictitious
one finally, and when his case was call
ed he rose with a grave face to lay
it before the court.
]" Your honor he said. I have just
heard sad news. A dispatch informs
me of the dangerous illness of my
venerable mother. l left her in Wig
orous health last week. The thought
that she should now be lying at the
point of death humans me-
Here the lawyer drew his handker-
chief across his eyes.
May it please the court he said,
to grant me a postponement in this
case? My feelings are so powerfully
agitated by the thought of my rever-
ed parents danger that-that'-
Grief overcome the man and he
sat down.
THE jurors, the opposing counsel,
and the spectators cast glances full of
sympathy at the venal lawyer. Their
hearts were touched, and the judge
voiced their thoughts when he said
Your emotion, sir does credit to
your filial feelings. In circumstances
such as these the court is only too
glad to grant you
But at this point an aged and, stern
woman with white hair arose in the
back of the room. She was the law
yers mother, come UP to town unex-
pectedly in order to hear her son plead.
Now, pointing her finger at the wretch
ed man, she said in loud, stern
voice:
I" Albert, Albert, how often have 1
chastised you for lying?' -
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
QUEEN BEES WORTH MONEY.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Just as there are valuable strains
in horses, cattle and other stock, so
there are varieties of queen bees
which are worth many hundred times
their weight in gold. The most valu-
able strain is the italian, and many
Italian bee farmers demand and re-
ceive without question prices ranging
from $50 to 5000 for a single queen bee
of certain kind. Such bees are sent
all over the world. The owner of a
bee farm near Ottawa, Canada, goes
to Europe annually and brings back
with him bees of an aggregate value
of thousands of pounds. He is en-
abled through the agency of an italian
firm to effect an insurance upon the
most valuable of his queens.
This bee farmer has many strange
experiences in connection with the as
sistants he is obliged to engage. Of
course all beekeepers must submit to
a certain amount of singing. But in
some cases, the poison in the sting
acts directly upon the assistants and
makes them alarmingly ILL., Others
are immune, though stung hundreds
Of times. Bee farmers are often APP
piled to by persons suffering from
rheumatism, who wish to place them
selves in the way of being stung. And.
strange as it may seem, the virus of
the bee sting does often act as a cure
to persons suffering from serious at
tacks of rheumatism.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
PERSONAL.

Sir Seymour King, member of Par
Lament from Hull, says that the
claims Of the persons damaged by the
attack upon the Hull fleet would
amount to nearly 100000.
Mrs. F. NJ. Norton. a prominent
member of the Social Economics Club
of Chicago, believes that a pension
system should be devised by which the
state should give fixed sum to the
mother on the birth of each child.
Sir Ernest Cassell, the Anglo-Ger-
man financier, is coming to America.
He is of German birth, but a naturalized
Englishman, and is the man who
furnished the monetary backing for
the construction of the Nile dams at
Assouan and Assiout.
Prof. Uchimura has established the
first gymnasium for the practice of the
Japanese art of self-defense, known as
jiu-j itsu, in the country, at Cam
bridge, Mass. 1t is under the patron
age of Mrs. Ole Bull and in a building
on her estate formerly used as an art
gallery.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
LATEST ocELEBRATED CASE"
From the philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record
At the Court of Assizes in Turin five
persons are undergoing trial charged
with completely in the murder OF Count
Bonmartini, at Bologna, two years ago.
Immense sensation has been created
throughout Italy by the crime.
Count Bonmartini married a daugh-
ter of Professor Murri, the famous
physician, and a Senator. of Bologna
University. Their welded life proved
to be most unhappy, and at the end
they were completely estranged. On
September 2, 1902. the dead body of the
Count was found in his apartments in
Bologna All the circumstances in
Dictated that he had been foully muir
dered, but for some time there was no
clue, and the police were baffled.
Professor Murri ultimately denounc-
ed hts own son. TulIio Murri, who is
an advocate at the Bar, as the muir
derer. His arrest was followed by that
MurrD, the widow, Professor Secchi,
who is said to be her lover: DR.. Naldi,
and a woman named Rosina Benefit,
the Countess maidservant.
No fewer than twenty-one counsel
are engaged in the case, and there are
1888 witnesses to be called, among them
ministers, senators, deputies, bishops,
officers of the army, noblemen, physi-
clans, professors of the university,
artists, nuns and walters. 1t is expect
ed that the trial will last three months.
Count Bonmartini. the murdered
man, was a large land owner in Italy,
and member of an old family set
tied at Bologna.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
A Quick Witted Indian.

The late Clement Scott, the English
dramatic critic, took profound in
terest in the American Indian, says
the New York Tribune. He had at
his tongues tip a hundred incidents
wherewith to illustrate odd phases of
the Indians character
There was a farmer in the West, -
he once said "who was hard put to
it for help upon his farm. Indians were
plentiful in the neighborhood, but they
were poor workmen. Always tired,
they would put down the hoe or the
rake as soon as the masters back was
turned, and, selecting a cool spot they
would lie down on the grass and sleep
the day away.
But one morning a very tall, ro-
bust Indian asked the farmer to give
him work.
" NO. said the white man: YOU
will get tired. You Indians are al
ways getting tired
oh, no. said the other. This
lnjun never get tired. This Injun
not like the rest
Well, I'll try you said the farmer,
and he engaged the man. He put
nm to work in a wheat field; then
he went away for an hour or two.
When he returned, he found the In
dian asleep under a tree.
Here, wake up here he cried
You told me you never got tired
Ugh, said the other, yawning. this
lnJun don't. But if he not lie down
often, he would get tired, just the
same as the rest
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
His MetrfcnI Pass.

When the late William P. White was
traffic manager of the Santa Fe Rail-
road he received a letter from Kan
sas politician returning an annual pass
of the year before, relates the Boston
Post. For some reason another pass
had not been sent to the politician,
who sent the following verse with the
expired pass:
Alas, it is said no more I'll deadhead
My way DER the glistening rail,
Unless Mr.. White will consider IL right
To.send me a pass by the mail"
This communication pleased White.
He took the expired pass and made
an Endorsement across the face in red
ink, and then added his signature. a
complicated series OF scratches familiar
to every Santa Fe conductor. This was
the inscriptions
THE conductor will pass the bundle of
gas
From March till the middle of Lent.
Like any deadhead without a red,
Let him ride to his hearts content. /"
The pass was used by the politician,
and was accepted unquestionably by
conductors
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
BRIGHT BITS.

"A Young Financier.-Gerald-
Mamma, can you change fifteen
cents for me?" Mother-"How do YOU
wish it changed, dear7" Gerald-"Into
a quarter. Puck.
Mrs. Jenkins-"Your sons engaged
to be married, 1 hear. saw a young
lady with him to-day. Was that"
Mrs. O'Bull-''Yes, that was his fias-
o."-Philadelphia Ledger.
Shelf hope you succeeded in
retaining your composure when your
auto capsized." He-"Didn't retain
the first thing; everything was dump
ed into the gutter. Boston Tran
script.
SENATOR" asked the fair girl,
would you give a man money for his
vote?" II would not" the statesman
decisively replied. II regard such
practices not only as criminal, but as
destructive to the very foundations up
on whMh our government is based If
I could not secure a mans vote by
giving him postoffice I would scorn
it as a thing not worth having. Chi
cago Record Herald.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
Why He Lost Her.

'How did lose her? My dear boy
as easily as tumbling off log-by
sending her a box of rare flowers, he
explained, according to a contempor-
airy. You are astonished that this
could lead to an estrangement? Wait
till you hear what happened. 1 was
in Florida, and she was in Chicago,
and I thought I'd clinch the thing by
sending box of orchids for her birth
day celebration. This is what / wrote
on the card accompanying the flowers:
Sweets to the sweets. To one as
fresh and sweet and blooming as these
flowers, which are only the type Of
her own beauty" Poetical, wasn't it?
Unfortunately, though, the box mis-
carried, and didn't reach her in three
weeks. BY that time the orchids
were as dry and shriveled up as last
years leaves.
And 1 had written "To one as fresh
and sweet and blooming as these flow
ers!" 1 don't know what she said
about me when she opened the box;
but I do know that that was the last
of me as far as she was concerned"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
IAUE1 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Insurance, w. T..
Hopkins.
Business Notices-Bicycle Sundries,
G. w. Thomas; More Popular Every
Day. Sommers' Cafe.
Hides, Beeswax, etc.-A, Ehrlich &
Bro.
Well Laundered shirts-E. & w.
Laundry.
Framed Pictures-Lindsay & Nor
gan.
Those Who Wear Eyeglasses-Dr. NJ.
schwab's Son.
Stop Suffering-J. T. Shuptrine.
Syrup of White Pine-Rowlinski,
Druggist.
Green River whisky-IIenry Solo
mon & Son.
Rubber Goods-Knight's Pharmacy.
lie Panic Cigars-IIenry Solomon &
Son.
Just Try 1.-THE Delmonico Co.
Warmers-At Lattimore's.
Savannah Theater-To-n might, Iris"
Tuesday, Night, Under Southern
Skies"
Legal Notices-In the Matter of l..
NJ Harden of Tattnall, Bankrupt.
Cheap Column Adyertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
A MAN-PROPELLED TORPEDO.
From Everybody's Magazine.

The Herreshoffs OF Yacht-building
fame have invented a torpedo convey
ing and propelling system which, If
successful, does away with the tor
pedo-boat. and reduces the submarine
in its possibilities. The business Of the
torpedo-boat Is to convey the torpedo
within striking distance of the battle
ship or cruiser and TO discharge the
torpedo The Herreshoffs propose to
construct a larger torpedo than the
present standardized Whitehead, and
to use IL just as a small whaleback
boat would be employed. Two men
wearing life-preservers set out with Il
from shore. or from large vessels, and
navigate II within striking distance
Of the enemys craft, point Il. lock the
steering-gear. slip off into the water
and wait to be picked up. The torpedo
thus launched with far better aim
than from a tube, and with a longer
carrying range. could scarcely fail 70
sink It's victim. As Il r. now. the per-
centase OF tOrpedoes that ARRIVE" Is
but one IN twelve. II man can cross
the North Atlantic IN slxtcen-foot
dory, as has been done more than
once, two men should be able 10 navl-
gate "a pncumatioaliy sustained Herr
eshoff torpedo r. some very rough
weather"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

The New York Evening Post (Ind. }
says: "And even if the soliciting and
acceptance of campaign contributions
from trusts could be truthfully denied,
the charge that the fat has been fried
out of the protected manufacturers
could not be. AS long as that has to be
admitted. the worst has to be admitted.
The President had to recant his former
views, and stand pat on the tariff. as an
inducement to the protected interests
to stand pat on their campaign checks
Till that can be denied, nothing is de-
MED"
The Philadelphia Record Dem
says: Secretary Taft replies to the
charge Of militarism on the part of the
administration by referring to the de-
fenseless condition the country would
have been in had Mr.. Olney's action
in the Venezuela matter resulted in
war A finer contrast between DEM
ooratic and Republican policies could
not be found than this which Mr.. Taft
draws. With an army of $4,000 men
and a very moderate navy, the Ceve-
land administration asserted the Mon
roe doctrine and II was respected. The
Roosevelt administration. having no
faith in the right or in moral forces,
thinks the Monroe doctrine cannot be
maintained without a considerable
army and one OF the biggest navies in
the world"
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says; "var-
ious reasons have been given why the
United States should hold on 20 the
Philippine Islands and conquer its peo-
pie. one is that II we do not, some
other nation will. IL is not anticipate
ed that any other nation will take
Cuba after the United States has TAX
en- that island under its protection. 1t
IL also said that we need the islands
for coaling stations and a naval base.
We reserved those things IN Cuba with
out taking possession OF the whole land
II h said that the Filipinos are not
capable o. aelf-govenment. and II we
withdraw our troops the natives Will
ny ut each others thrOats. There are
many tribes in Central Africa who are
constantly cutting each others thrOats
and we have never considered it our
DUTY 70 help them, nor 10 prevent
Chem"
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whip IL out of Him.

In the schools of a Connecticut town.
says the Baltimore Herald, measures
were recently taken to test the chill
dren's eyesight AS the doctor fin
ished each school he gave the prin-
cipal a list Of the pupils whose eyes
needed attention. and requested him
to notify the children's parents to
that effect.
One night. soon after the opening
of the fall term. little boy came
home and gave his father the follow
ing note. duly signed by the princi-
pal:
"Mr. -: Dear Sir-It becomes
my duty to inform you that your son
shows decided indications OF astig-
matism. and his case is one that
should be attended to without delay"
The next day the father sent the
following answer:
Dear Sir: Whip IL out Of him.
Yours truly, -"
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FOOLS HIS HENS.

From the st. Paul Pioneer Press
Timothy varney, who lives three
miles east of lie Sueur and keeps about
200 hens. has been greatly troubled, as
have most people who keep hens, by
the persistent desire manifested by
the fowls to set, in season and out, on
eggs, stones or doorknobs, or anything
else that comes handy. But he has
got hold of a plan now which he has
quietly tried this season with perfect
success, and which he warrants will
cure the worst Light Brahma cluck
that ever vexed the heart of man of
all desire to sit, and all in less than
three hours
The cure consists of cheap
watch, with a. loud and clear tick to
it, inclosed in a case that is white
and shaped like an egg. When hen
manifests a desire to set out of sea-
son be gently places this bogus egg
under her sheltering breast and the
egg does the rest. 1t ticks cheer
fully away and soon the hen begins
to show signs of uneasiness, and stirs
the noisy egg around with her bill,
thinking, perhaps, that it is already
time for it to hatch, and there is
chicken in it wanting to get out. She
grows more and more nervous as the
noise keeps up, and soon jumps off
the nest and runs around awhile to
cool off, but returns again to her self
imposed duty. 1t gets worse and worse
with her, and she wiggles about and
cackles, rutfles her feathers and looks
wild, until at last. with a frenzied
squawk, she abandons the nest for
good and all. That incubating fever
is broken up completely.
Mr.. Varney finds use for half doz-
en- of these noisy eggs, and claims
that they pay for their cost over and
over during the year by keeping tbs
hens at the business OF laying and not
permitting them to waste the golden
hours in useless incubating.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY NOVEMBER 4 1904

An unprejudiced view of these facts
seems to force upon a thinking man
the truth that the empire spirit is in
creasing rapidly. If the voters of
this country by the reelection of the
present imperialistic President seem
ingly indorse this spirit. who can say
to what lengths it will not lead him.
The course of safety demands the
election of Judge Parker, as yet I'M
swayed from respect of the constitu-
ton by dreams of empire.n
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07
THE DILEMMA OF THE GEAR.

Since the beginning of the Russo
Japanese war there has been a series
of remarkable changes in the attitude
OF the Russian government toward it's
people. An ukase abolished corporal
punishment for many offenses. Great
er freedom has been promised the press
and the conduct of the government in
the Gomel trial of the anti-Jewish riot
ers seems to confirm the earlier earn
est. Lastly the, assurance is given
that the passports of American Jews
will be honored To the Russians and
the outside world these changes are
tidings of the victory of civilization
and enlightenment in the contest with
despotism and darkness. To the Gar
they are sinister messages. In their
deepest sense they seem the efforts of
tyranny to compromise with liberty,
the pitiful proppings that seek to stay
the lettering rule of q dynasty that
draws its strength from condemning
it subjects to ignorance and servitude.
The plight of the Car is anything
but an enviable one. In the Far East
bitter defeat has come to his generals
and his armies have been beaten back,
shattered and discouraged. His navy
has been broken and scattered by the
ships of Togo. His Baltic fleet awaits
the verdict of an international tribu-
nal. At home the situation is little
better. Riots are common. Discon-
tent reigns in the masses and the nihi-
lists daily become more daring and
more open in their threats. Plots are
Matched against him and his ministers
and even his nobility are charged with
wavering in their loyalty. The I'M
successful, distant, war is draining the
resources of his empire and the muir
murings of his dissatisfied subjects in
crease in volumn.
From the Far East comes the news
that the fall of Port Arthur is but a
matter of a very short time. a few
weeks at most. Will that end the war?
The prevailing opinion is that it will
not, but that rather the blindness of
pride and vaulting ambition will cause
It's prolongation. When will it end?
The Car alone can answer. He must
choose between humbling his pride in
acknowledging defeat. of pushing for
ward hopeless war until the discon-
tent of his people bursts all bonds and
revolution clears the ground for a bet
ter rule. The outlook for Russia is a
gloomy one. Its standing as a great
world power IS already weakened by
the reverses in Manchuria. Nicholas
must choose between calling off the
war dogs and continuing his policy of
according more liberty and enlighten-
ment to his subjects. or cllnging to
that "Thriftless ambition that wilt
ravin uD his own life's means" It is
a dilemma Of which either horn is
bitter choice.
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An Angel Child.

The Rev. DR.. Burrell tells this story.
says the New York Times: One Of the
members OF his congregation has
bright little daughter, aged 4. One
cold Sunday morning last winter she
stood at the window watching the
throngs OF people (the ladies' wrapped
IN furs) on their way TO church. Turn
ing 10 her mother, she said.
Mamma. ! wlsht I was old enough
20 be a Christian and go 70 church"
Why" inquired the mother, pleased
M this piOue wish
SOS ] could have n nun an boa, ."
replied the angel child.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-07

A New York man gave his wife $500
to go out and purchase him one can
of beer. When she didn't return he
began a search for her and found her
with $4s4 40 in her hand and fifty-five
GROWERS" tucked under her belt. But
he forgave her, saying that if she was
as dry as he was no one could blame
her for spending $3.50 for the golden
brew. Evidently his misery had gem
Grated the proper sympathy for his
wife