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AS FRANCE SEES ALExElEFF.
vfceroy of Far East Would FIND
Paris Papers Good Reading.

vsc.rox of Far East Would Find
Paris Papers Good Reading.
ghould Admiral Alexeieff have any
leisure or inclination to read the French
Journals he will not find their frank
ness very agreeable.
One OF them sums him up p theee
terms: ut Id ofhciaily announced that
the ANIMAL not admiral-has neo =
vladivostok, just as he ned from Pen
Arthur. This monument OF incapacity'
this imperial favorite, whose impuniy
makes favoritism crime, precfpitated
the war when he knew that nothing
was ready by land or sea, and when ne
had not the candor to reveal to his SOY
ereign the real state Of affairs VIII
RECKLESS callousness he continues to
play at being viceroy In the midst 81
disasters which have brought brave
mep to ruin and death. Makaron,
Rennenkampf, Keller and a hundred
others may pay with their lives for bus
accursed folly. but he is not even de
posed. 1t is left to the Japanese e
chase him out OF Manchuria. he vii
20 on, prospecting and fattening, where
no bullet can reach him. Bazaine'
never die on the field Of battle"
1t would be interesting to know VIVA
the admiral thinks of the Franco Rus
sian alliance.
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rh. oy.ter,n welcome.

Don't you tell me of tn pumpkin, with
tn frost upon Its brow,
Or tn shock OF rustlin' fodder that SO
shortly makes Its bow;
Don't go slngin' Of tn struttin' or the
kyouckin OF tn turk,
Or tn other things you read OF In j.
Whstcomb Riley's work.
We're alvin In a country that has got
'em beat a mile,
For tn Marylanders meen-yu makes
wooden Indian smile
THERE'S a sure foretaste O. heaven In the
fry an roast an stew
When the r is IN the date line and In In
the oyster too.
Spring an summer has their dainties In
the Anne Arannsi 'mefs,
In tn berries an th' other unok-wt
drain IN Joy cups drege,
But M fall time an IN winter when IN
garden crops IL done,
An they amt much heat 4 speak or ~
hi shlnin' Of th' sun
Then's th dlne We start & reyel iD a.
fruit We love fh best,
When w sfecr th aettin biyalye from
rs wei an muddy nest
An from now ull long 40 April He WI
Eor 81 u d 10 ~ apte Ilne ene lrs %
no oyster 100
A. a 90 une MaI}lap4V vel aionf
fQWnfd e|HniyrffYtu
WHAT Npule he hle ofhplfop ~ q fooe
udeNRiJ feAten.
NNellg ia npla ni ff'H tHtt7 tf'i,ltN7
1hesd M follap'W p eit Nl'n fQpn4 M
qhfyd lN fnne hlourN aniaiqnNf HN
HHIII II|NIN|N IIIIN
} Az l1 m eINl lan' nesp NNfNF p
~ Mlf Nlf' NI VIZ. .,,.' Al A.
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MORE DRILLING NEEDED.
General Wheeler Says We Mast Fol-
low Europe In Training Soldiers.

General Wheeler Says We Must Fol-
low Europe In Training Soldiers.
Brigadier General Joseph Wheeler,
retired, who attended the military ma
neuvers at Manassas, recently ex.
pressed the opinion that the maneuvers
must not only be continued, but con-
Quoted on a larger and more scientific
scale, says q Washington special dis
patch to the New York Times.
'sThe old school of the army" said
General Wheeler, was the training Of
the pioneers in the forests Of the south
and the mountains and plains Of the
west Having lost our old school, we
must start new one, and we are fol-
lowing Europe to that extent.
"The American, because of the de-
struction of his vast forests, is no Ion
ger the rifleman he was in the days'of
Washington, Jackson and up to the
civil war. He must learn again. We
are approaching the condition Of Eu
rope, where every man has to be taught
the use of firearms by the authorities
Maneuvers are necessary. They are
the best sort of schooling for officer
and men alike.
at is time the United States educat
ed its troops regularly IN the mos
modern tactics Of warfare, and be
lieve the best way to do this b to drill
them in maneuvers. We must have ed
ucated soldiers as wen AZ officers t
keep pace with other nations.
ain almost every case where tn
commanders had had time In the civ
war to maneuver their troops befor
their battles they won victories TIL
defeat at Shiloh was due to the VI
drilled condition of the troops th
wagon trains and columns beeomin
irretrievably tangled
'sThc recent maneuvers have bee
the greatest military school the Unite
States has had since the war wit
Spain, and / hope that next year the
4 will be held on even larger scale"
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Malay Peninsula Diet

~Probably the most varied diet In
fine world" said q traveller who had
lust returned from the Malay PENN
suIa. lis that OF the Jakuns OF the Sea-
or orang Lauts, who are the real Ma.
Iay pirates. These people have about
ali that there is TO eat and they en'
everything az Il comes along Az
though they have all kinds Of pne
fruits. az certain times OF the year uley
al yam Which ~ 30 poisonous that
they lave 70 grate u and mia u VIA
slal1ed Lime before fhey oars seslive
n. Iu tle way Of assb thsy col plop
Keys, deer Wild pig, BIRDS, psp' pey,p
Dimes, lizards, squirrels, rats pliee pp'
snakes. And tlley eeeig " tpip ffVn
Venisoa 10 raf or from WIG Nv y
snake VIII equal appetite
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DAVIS ROBUST APPETITE.
what the Democrats Candidate II
said to Have Eaten For Breakfnst.

what the Democratic Candidate II
said to Have Eaten For Breakfnst.
At the Riggs House In Washington
the other day, where group Of Demo
cratic and Republican representatives
were exchanging political opinions ma
yored with an occasional good story
some reference was made to the ad-
vanced age Of cousin Henry Gassa'
way Davis and his remarkable sell
control in his everyday life, says the
New York Telegram. The regular hab-
its of the Democratic nominee for the
vice presidency were reviewed, and his
sunny nature and well conserved con;
stitution were attributed in large de-
gree to an almost perfect digestion.
One of the members of the party
who recently returned from New York
| playfully remarked that If Cousin
| Henry" is at all anxious about the out
| come Of the coming campaign 1t has
not affected his unusually robust appe
tite. To sustain this assertion the
speaker related an incident In hote
where cousin Henry" was a patron
few days ago.
1t was about 8 o'clock when Mr.. Da
Wis and his friend entered the dining
room and proceeded to order thei
breakfast. cousin Henry started OF
with two halves Of good sized melon
Next he disposed of two helpings o
oatmeal, followed by an order Of blue
fish. In the meantime his friend ha
} been mincing with half of a small me
on. With smile of supreme satisfa'
ton upon his face Mr.. Davis leane
back in his chair after pushing asid
the fish plate and said to the waiter;
Now you may bring on the breal
D fast"
D His breakfast consisted of sma
= beefsteak, fried eggs, with bacon, d
e nestle fried potatoes, rolls and tw
), cups of coffee, topped off with hea
4 ing plate of griddle cakes.
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ROYAL MAITRE Du BALLET.
Emperor william shows BeriaS
Chorus Girls How to Dance.

Emperor william shows Berlfn
Chorus Girls How to Dance.
Emperor William supervised the re-
hearsal of the ballet Cophelia, now be-
ing produced at the opera house In
Berlin. The feature Of the ballet was o
slavonic dance, which presented ex-
ceptional difficulties. The emperor
watched the attempts for little while.
then mounted the stage and coached
the ballet girls himself. he showed
them what movements should be made
and how to make them. He displayed
remarkable agility and perfect knowl
edge of stage routine.
His majesty also instructed the or
chestra how to play the accompani-
ment for the dance. He took the con-
ductor's baton and assumed the direc-
tion of the forty bandsmen. The stage
company gazed In establishment at the
emperor, who finally exclaimed:
Eyes, yes. You may stare, but you
know my Interpretation is correctP
The stage experts admitted that this
ballet was being performed according
| to the emperors ideas.
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The school board Of Erackvile Pa,
had not recently selected successor
TO Professor 1. G. Miller, who resigned
after he was alleged to have Rugged
the larger girls Of his school, says tne
Philadelphia Record. Though the sal
ary is but 5000 a year there have been
received between sixty and seventy APP
plications for the vacancy. A number
of the applicants have sent strong
guarantees that they viii show no
ardent feeling toward the young LADY
pupils, one Of them stating mat ne
swill not let his arm 30 TO waSa
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A Patients Experience With the New
Annestheric.

Annestheric.
In order to test personally the new
anmsthetic known as the blue light
system, by which tooth extraction is
rendered painless, the Geneva CORE
spondent of the London Daily Mail
recently underwent an operation for
the removal of a troublesome moiar
at the hands Of DR.. Camille Redard,
the Swiss discoverer Of the method.
Having placed his patient in a re-
rumbent position, the doctor impressed
upon him the great importance Of
faith in the new process, and then
commanded him to gaze steadily at an
ordinary sixteen candle power electric
light with a blue glass bulb, fixed
within eighteen inches of his eyes.
Behind the lamp was reflector.
After covering up his patient with a
large blue cloth the doctor left the
room.
81 found myself gazing at the dag
! cling blue light, which gradually SEEM
ed to penetrate my eyes and pass out
of the back OF my bead" writes the
correspondent.
"At first felt slight burning sen
sation, which in turn gave way e
one of GOODNESS around the eyebalis.
"This feeling passed, and felt moth
ing out of the ordinary except that
sensation of rest came over me, anc
my hands, which were trembling
slightly before, were perfectly SUI
now. My senses never left me, ana 4
plainly heard the doctor entering IN
room.
"He took away the cloth rapidly
placed the blue electric light fartne
I, away, tilted the chair up slightly an
., signed to me with the instrument {
open my mouth. :.
1T felt the instrument grasp tn
tooth and watched the doctor pui
The next instant saw the molar p'
= fore me, not having felt the slisntes
i, | pain.r
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France than elsewhere, the RECOGNITION

France than else where, the recognition |
Of them is cect,inly more outspoken.
and the effort toward regeneration
more resolute and far reaching"
Israel Zangwill:
"a country may be in decadence ma.
terially or spiritually. Materially, II
cannot believe that fertile land with
such hard working and intelligent pop
uiation as France, and the most ca
pable women in the world. can be on
the down grade. For~foreiguers, how
ever, the greatness of France has al
ways lain In the spiritual realm. She
has fed the world with ideas and ideals
1t has been bitter blow to the hopes
of the human race that precisely the
country of liberty, equality and fra
ternity' should have produced Drey.
sss;::s case. Here in Avignon, when ]
read on the walls Death to the Jews,
it is not only as a Jew that feel that
France has plunged back into the dark
ages. l was In America when the Drey-
fms trial was taking place at Rennes-
II Frenchmen could only understand
the horror that shook all America at the
verdict they would be able to gauge
how much they have lost In the opinion
/ Of mankind-they who. however dis
tanced in material progress, might still
aspire to the spiritual hegemony Of thu
peoples. The license of the Frencl
stage and of French literature is an
other argument for decadence. Nom
but French playwright would be per
mitted to place on the stage the carica
ture of living parsonage, though d.
Nordau may console himself by tn
remembrance that Aristophanes Ian
pooned Socrates. Moreover, the es
ploitation of the sex theme is pushe
In France to tho limits OF Stiffness
Will Frenchmen never get tired {
reading the same joke and seeing til
same pictures? There is total al
sence of perspective and total lac
of humor in their feverish interest
this subject. One would say a matte
Of schoolboys gloating over their fir
discovery Of sex The serious study
life by q Flaubert or lola is quite a
| ether affair.
! "Still France is too great to be d
SPARED of and too necessary for cir
lization, and IL she produced Dreyf
1 case, she produced also a Dreyfusa
q party and men like Colonel Piccar
y able to sacrifice all for honor. 1t
such elements that Will ever preser
J. France from decadence."
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gD ule past sunday nps Deem plsu ,
mud nc any oileg day ip Madrid
NOW royal dooreo hRs been published
changing ihe old order NJ ullpkfi fAff
M Wcaiollnslag NaTeiie. tfery fhf
tory apd workslQp must elQse pll apy
nnd 6rdInuy shops Hlll nQi le AllQnfl
fo r0maln lDeD hfloF u Vflnnh IA llf
nlluu0o VINO llf nnl|0nAl ln'lNHl'
N NJ IN pelmlliei 4nlY Qp lelf fpso'Hl
A0halluB lhQNNaNaH N uNIs'F ~
l1ln f4Rllde1 ~ M R0lllpNnlN
hh|l0 n1tNlH "a elW a All il4llN
IlI0O0o IIh Nflll'NfNl WY ~ fl
Nlul'l4f Nl'H
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os.rxfa Girls Band Together 70 '''
bfbft ejaculation.

o~.~~,a Girls Band Together 9" r''
bfbft ejaculation.
Recently half a dozen pretty Georgia
.srls discussed kissing from various
stsndnoints-hygienicalIy, financially,
ste- and decided that IL is silly ana
uasanitary practice, says Lexington ''~
&C. d,snatcb 70 the New York WORD
AeeordIpeIy they organized as the AN
tt,.,ssing club ana adopted eonsupu.
ZION which provides, among '''''
things; - .,a follow
,,Eaeh member shall sign tas tyn '',ee
ina oledee with her OVID piooo' S'''N
~ pledge myself % Reyef 'ls 49,, ''Ss
49,. eycenf father, mother pfP"''''
eisters husband and eplla,ep. 4,
~ pledge myself fafll .,, seeo,a N
never klss ~ betfou'e' w"
~ fifl fan ~ leep fhla p'eesP II
nay d ano VI s25 ppe a'N ~ WV
tsfs .,y name flom l''e lYNf ,... o.
",,on IN nlalfIagp NJ nNf ~'t'' xxx n
a.l.,lol iu good alaNllNf tN'N PA.
i NJ, .106 paj a y lilo l,''.0ls'
shall nIo8Nal ll'e NNNHF I" Y ~"
lio' anouns reg p d,
pfN g,Sp on bog pN Pr @7 !
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RIFLE SHOOTING FEAT.
Indiana Farmer Made 1904 Hits,
Missing None.

Indiana Farmer Made z,Oz9 HUE
Missing None.
Charles l. Baker, young farmer
living near Richmond, Ind, has be-
come wonderfully expert with rifle
says special dispatch from Indian
apolis. In recent contest at targets
he made the unequalled record of 2,024
shots without miss. Charles IL.
Clawson, Richard Estelle and three
other Richmond men who witnessed
the exhibition jointly made afiidayit
to the conditions OF the tests and the
results.
Baker used a rifle Of p caliber and
the cartridges were charged witt
smokeIess powder The targets were
disks OF wood three and one-qnartei
inches Ia diameter aud three-qparter'
OF an inch In thickness. stalidlni
twenty FIVE feet from the point a.
which the disks were thrown INTO tn'
air Baker punetured 1000 There ~si'
no more wooden disks, aud green wal
nuts gathered near the range wen
substituted. lie missed only afls
twenty four galnuis bad been Dr.
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The major deneunsss
Vnele David

der the suspicion of murder for nve
weeks is one which not only the law
has right to punish, but which all so
c,etv will condemn. Henceforth you
will find yourself under ban, MT.
Moorep Time amply verified TINS
prophecy. Mr.. Moore is living IN greas
style in the Moore house ana orl'e =
horses which are conspicuous even N
washington, but no one accepts ns
invita- tons, and he is as much OF re,
cIuse in his present mansion as ne ever ,sl
was in the humble cottage In wnicn nis
days of penury We're spent.
NV story ends here. The matter nes
or came before the grand jury. SUICIDE
had been proved, and there the anal
rested.
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thing had dropped to the bare door.
We shall never know what it was. but
l have no doubt that it was the pistol,
and that the marks of dust to be found
on the connecting ribbon were made
by her own fingers in taking it again in |
her hand. (You will remember that
these same fingers had but few min.
utes previous CROPPED their way along
the walls.) For her voice soon took
different tone, and such unintelligble
phrases as these could be heard issu-
ing from her partly paralyzed lips:
L mustl 1 can never meet his eye
again alive. He would despise- Brave
enough to-to-another's blood = cow
ard-when-own. Oh, God, forgiven
Then another silence, during which |
almost made up my mind to interfere,
then a loud report and fash so star
thing and unexpected that / recoiled,
during which the room leaped into
sudden view-she, too, Veronica, with
baby face drawn and set like q wom-
an's-then darkness again and heavy
fall which shook the floor, If not my
hard old heart. The fash and that
fall enlightened me. l had just wit
messed the suicide OF the last Moore
saving myself, suicide for which
was totally unprepared and one which
do not yet understand.
II did not go over to her. She was
as dead when she fell as she ever
would be. In the flash which lit ev.
erything / had seen where her pistol
was pointed. Why disturb her, then
Nor did l return upstairs. l had small
interest now in anything but my OWL
escape from a situation more or less
compromising. Do you blame me foI
this? l was her heir, and was wher'
l had no legal right to be. Do yo'
think that was called upon to pub
lish my shame and tell how fingered
there while my own niece shot hersel
before my eyes? That shot made me
millionaire. This certainly was ex
element enough for one day. Beside:
, | did not leave her there neglected.
: notified you later after | had got m
t breath and had found some excuse
: | That wasn't enough? All, l see tina
: you are all models Of courage an
magnanimity. You would have lai
, yourselves open to every reproach rat
3 er than let little necessary perjur
t pass your lips. But | am no mode
D am simply an old man who has bee
j too hardly dealt with for seventy lor
years to possess every virtue mat
s / q mistake-I see it now-trusted a d'
t when I shouldn't-but If Ridge ne
b not seen ghosts-well, what nowr
= We had, one ard all, with an inv'
l. untary Impulse turned our backs up'
e him.
y what are you doingT" he hotly Q
q manded.
,e "Only what all Washington will
ia tomorrow and afterward the who
IS world" gravely returned the maj
n Then, as an ejaculation escaped the
tonished millionaire, he impressive
T. added: "a perjury which allows an
ia nocent man and woman to remain
The major deneunesa
ie VAels David
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nWnaf people pre Always fpit ~
analug tle llReeai esp hfpF N'fV
co0sly
N3lYe a ppN . a.,
r1lo Fn9||qpl hleANef N'if f'N T"
Vaya npa Nelfa .,, ..,.,..n
4No y04 tfu0|l Nai Noni n.y. l'if
llah aHp naf hff '''iN'17 f'''
p''llf
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ANTIKIssINe CLUB.

THE END.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-27
$4,000 HENNERY.

ally assured to them.
The Belmonts are very generally ia
millar as the prominent sons of a
prominent man, but only one of them.
August, has shown great initiative and
force. James Gordon Bennett of the
New York Herald, is one of the few
great newspaper mems son who have
carried along their fathers life work
with credit. This he has done GER
tainly. His paper was great in the
elder Benefits time, and 1t still holds
its place.
Sons of Governors, CIergymen and
Scientists.
Many Governors of states have left
behind them sons who are as great as
their sires, though not many of them
have chosen politics for their field.
Richard Yates. son Of the great War
Governor" of Illinois, is an exception.
He also served Illinois as Governor,
his Inauguration coming some thirty
years later than his fathers. The
Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix. rector OF Trim
ity Church, in New York, who might
have been a bishop over and over, is
the son of that New York Governor,
John A. Dix, who said: IF any man
attempts to haul down the American
flag shoot him on the spot"
Bishop Potter, of New York. is the
son of one bishop and the nephew of
another. DR.. Lyman Abbott editor
and divine, is the son of Jacob Abbott,
the historian and member of New
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brigadier-general and later was presi-
dent of the Union Pacific Railroad
Sons of Van Buren, and w. IL. Harri-
son.
There are some who would object
to the admission of John Van Buren's
name to the list of Presidents sons
who have made good, and it is not
so many years since his career was
the subject of frequent newspaper dis
cussion. 1t is true that he was bon
Vivant and something of man about
town. Also, he was somewhat swept
off his feet by the adulation he re-
ceived as his fathers son, long being
known derisively as prince john"
But later he entered upon a serious
political career, and, being a highly eff
fective speaker, soon made himself
power in New York. Had he not been
suddenly cut off while at sea he would
surely have made himself felt in ma
tional politics.
John Scott Harrison served two
terms in Congress, but the one cir
cumstance that made his name best
known to the country at large oc-
CURED after his death. Soon after his
burial, his son, Benjamin Harrison,
later to be President of the United
States, went to Cincinnati to search
the premises of "a medical college there
for the body of a neighbor that had
been stolen from a cemetery at North
Bend. AT Mr.. Harrison's demand the
janitor showed the cadavers awaiting
dissection. The first one raised from
the we'll was the corpse Of his
father. John Scott Harrison, his naked
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Island and applied for a job as clerk
In one Of the banks. He had some diff
Guilty in reaching the president of the
institution, but persisted, and was
finally led into his presence, After
listening to the application the banker
asked the lads name.
Cornelius Vanderbilt" was the re-
ply.
Possibly related to Commodore
Vanderbilt" questioned the banker
somewhat quiZzically, whereupon the
boy said he was a grandson of the ia
nous railroad king, but explained that
he wanted to be employed, if at ALL
on his own merits, and not because
he had a grandfather. He was taken
on and made good as a bank clerk.
Later when his grandfather heard
about II and asked the young man
to accept a minor place in the offices
of the New York and Harlem Railroad
at $4,000 a year, he made good there,
too
William X. Vanderbilt and his son,
willie X" also the sons of Corne-
Illus the Second, are all prominently
before the world, but only Cornelius
the Second made good on his own in
iative though the abilities of William
K.-both initiative and executive-are
of a very high order.
Cornelius the Third, whose inven-
ton of an improved locomotive fire.
box, made some stir in the railroad
world a few years ago. is the only
member of the fourth generation of