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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
THE BANKERs, CONVENTION.

The American Bankers Association
is striving to make its convention,
which convenes in New York to-mor-
row, of unusual interest. The first
convention of the association was held
just thirty years ago. There have been
very remarkable changes in banking
since that convention was held. and
IL is probable that in some Of the pa
pers that win be read these changes
will be referred TO I'm an entertaining
and instructive manner.
The conventions OF the association
combine business with pleasure Tho
papers that are read are the produc-
lions OF the ablcst men IN the banking
business. and their discussions OF the
problems with which the banks have
20 deal cannot bs otherwise than in-
structiye. While the newspapers
ought not 90 expect the bankers 20 DO
their Work for them-the work that
grows out or me conyentlon-ihe bank.
eiH would contribute greatly towards
getting their ldeaa before the country
~ they would haFe their addresses
edited down little closer before slp-
Inc them f0 fhe press "a ls ~ course
lmpoaa.b'e for fhe neWapapfn fo print
fhe addresses Oh rom. together aIfh fho
proceeding eparo wouldn't permit
a. hstda. ths reading public doesn't
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
Hob.on p. a Hun,ori.t.

Capt. r. P. Hobson was a student
after his graduation from Annapolis, at
the noted Ecole d'Application du Genie
Maritime of Paris. A friend said of
him the other day:
"Hobson made a brief walking tour
through England with me. One cold
night on this tour we put up at a
small hotel in Blackwell. We nearly
froZe here, for there was not fire
anywhere. We had to go to bed i'm
mediately after dinner to keep warm,
and even then we were not comforta-
BILE, for our blankets were thin and
scanty.
Toward midnight Hobson entered
my room.
=" I can't sleep he said. I am too
cold. What do you think of a land
lord who keeps his house like this?'
" Think of him?' said l. L think he
ought to be rawhided.'
Wei, said Hobson, I am going to
punish him a bit. 1t won't make us
warmer, but it will be a pleasant thing
to tell our friends about
Then he threw open the door, and
at the top of his lungs he shouted:
:" Fire! Fire! FIRE.
Walters, maids and finally the land
lord, all in white night attire, came
scampering toward Hobson through
the hall. They surrounded him.
-" Where is the fire?' the landlord
cried. What is it,?
THAT is what I want to ask you,
said Hobson. I'm nearly frozen.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
Edison's Lucky Accident.

An accident-a cut on the finger
caused Edison to invent the phono-
graph or talking machine, says the
Kansas City Journal. Mr. Edison told
the story of this invention to a visitor
recently. At the time, he said, he was
singing into a telephone, and in the
telephones mouthpiece he had placed
for safekeeping a fine steel point. Sud
denly this point cut his finger. He
found, to his surprise, that it had been
moving here and there and roundabout,
guided by the vibrations of his voice.
He placed strip of yellow paper I'M
der the steel point, replaced it in the
mouthpiece, and said the alphabet
The steel, while he spoke, ran over the
paper and for each letter of the al
phabet it made a different mark.
This was what Mr. Edison had hoped
for. He now held the steel point STILL
and drew the paper scratches slowly
over it. There was given forth, very
family, the alphabet as he had re
peated it,
Thus the principle of the photograph
the registering and reproduction of
the voices vibrations-was discovered
through the cutting of a finger. It was
Edison's finger, though, that was cut
Smiths or Browns might have been
quite hacked off, and no monograph
would have resulted.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
ACCIDENTS ON TIE cENTRAL.

There seems to be abundant grounds
for the belief that the Central Rail
roads two derailments, at Rocky Ford
and Ogeechee, on Friday and Satur-
day. were caused by some malicious
person or persons who deliberately
planned and executed the wrecking of
the trains. The switch locks were
found broken and the switches open,
indicating Enthusiastically the pernicious
activity of some one of evil mind. A
large reward has been offered for the
apprehension of the guilty party or
parties, and it is to be hoped the
search will be effective. 1t is hard to
conceive of a more dastardly crime
than the wrecking of a passenger
train. The man who attempts it is
a murderer at heart--a wholesale
murderer-and deserves nothing bet
ter than the extreme penalty of the
law. He is even a more terrible GRIM
inal than the man who secretes him
self behind a tree and shoots an un-
suspecting traveller, because the train
wrecIer stands a chance of causing
the loss of not only one life, but
dozen or a hundred. The safety of
travel demands that train wreckers
shall be dealt with by the law in so
swift and fearful a manner that the
crime will be promptly stamped out.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
His Fears We're Realized.

A Georgia statesman says that while
he was in the shop of an optician in
Atlanta he once heard an amusing
conversation betwene the proprietor of
the establishment and an aged darby,
who was just leaving the place with
a pair of new spectacles, says the
Youths Companion.
AS the old chap neared the door his
eye lighted upon a most extraordinary
looking instrument conspicuously
placed upon a counter. The venerable
negro paused for several moments to
gaze in open mouthed wonder at this
thing, the like of which he had never
seen before. After a long struggle
with his curiosity he was vanquished.
Turning to the optician, he asked:
What is it, boss %
That is an ophthalmometer," replied
the optician, in his gravest manner.
"Sho!" muttered the old man to him
self as he backed out of the door, his
eyes still fastened upon the curious
looking thing on the counter. "Sho,
OATS what | was afeard it vast"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
BRIGHT BITS.

--Artist-"This mermaid is my mas
terpiece." Mrs. Gushly-"Dear me!
how did you ever get a model to pose
in the water all that time without NOV
ng?"-Detroit Free Press.
--Hicks-"S Sussex seems TO be in a
highly prosperous condition, and yet
you told me he was only going on from
hand to mouth" Wicks-"Thats right.
He's a dentist, you now."-Boston
Transcript.
"A man who is addicted to the to-
bacco habit" remarked the moralizer,
will do anything for a smoke"
YES" rejoined the demoralizer. "he
will even travel in a smoking car
Chicago Daily News.
-Tess-"What's the celebration at
Bess's house this evening"" Jess-She's
keeping her birthday" Tess-"Well,
it will be a great success if she only
Keeps it as we'll as she keeps the date
of her birth. "-Philadelphia Press.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Ancient Landmark Lodge,
No. 2S1 F. & A. NJ.
Special Notices-Mantels and Tiling
Andrew Hanley Co.; Dr. J. Weichsel-
baum Has Returned.
Business Observation-Disclosures of De-
tail. Casino Restaurant; Bicycle Re-
pair Work, G. w. Thomas; When You
Dine Out Sommers' Cafe; French
Prunes. A. NJ. & c. w. West.
The Best-E. & w. Laundry.
In the Lodge Room-Pete Daley.
Headquarters For Rice-Henry Solo
mon & Son.
Foods-Grape-N Nuts.
Imperial Pilsener Beer James
o'Keefe. Distributor.
Seed Rye-W. D. Simkins & Co.
Don't Deprive Yourself and Family
-Lattimore's.
A Course of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Druggist.
Garden Seeds-J. T. Shuptrine.
Pocketbooks and Purses-The Solo
mons Co.
Financial Statement of the Condi-
ton Of the Merchants National Bank
of Savannah.
Ring up the Good One-Savannah-
Georgia Laundry.
Choice Salmon-The Delmonico Co.
Medical-Pinkham Remedy.
Cheap Column Advertisements-He
Wanted Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
FLouNpER A QUEER FISH.
From Mature and Science" in Sep
TENDER st. Nicholas.

From Mature and Science" in Sep
TENDER st. Nicholas.
The expression "as fat as a fioun-
der" has become proverbial, but it
does not apply to very young founders,
which differ so much from the adult
ones that they can hardly be recog-
nized as belonging to the same family
as their parents. Most boys and girls
are familiar with full-grown founders,
but very few of them, and few older
people know anything about the APP
pearance of young founders and the
wonderful TRANSITIONAL tionS they under
go. In spring and summer it is possi-
BILE for young nature students to Sc
cure specimens of newly Matched
founders by dragging fine mesh net
on sunny days when the water is
smooth. Such specimens may easily
be kept alive in dishes of salt water.
and examined from time to time with
a low-power miscroscope.
The founders begin life as do ordi-
nary fishes. When they first emerge
from the egg they swim vertically, with
the head turned upward. Their bodies
are symmetrical, and their eyes are on
opposite sides of the head. Gradually
the position of the body chances from
vertical to horizontal, and the fish re-
IudlH luuS LOT SOIIlG llIIlt, SWlHlIHlIS
like ordinary fishes; but while still
very small there is foreshadowing of
the bottom life they are destined for,
and they enter upon a series of re-
markable changes. The most striking
of these changes is in the position of
the eye. The eye of one side or the
other slowly but steadily moves over
to the opposite side of the head and
talks a place beside the other eye. In
some founders the eye moves around
the front of the head; in others it
moves directly through the head.
This shifting of the eyes position is
accompanied by change in the posi-
ton of the body, which ceases to be
upright and becomes more and more
oblique. The side of the body from
which the eye is moving gradually
becomes inferior to the other. until by
the time the change of the eye is COM
plete the fish swms with its blind side
underneath, and this position is ever
after maintained. The founder then
ceases its free swimming habit and
sinks to the bottom.
Some species of founders are right
sided and others are left-sided. In the
right-sided forms the left eye moves
to the right side, and the left side be-
comes undermost. In the left-sided
species the opposite conditions prevail.
1t rarely happens that right-sided
species have left-sided individuals, and
vice versa. In few species both
right-sided and left-sided fish occur
in about equal numbers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
Snrinus Of Children.

The dessert was floating island, says
the Philadelphia Ledger. When it APP
peared with it's yellow showing through
its foaming whiteness mother asked
"Win YOU have some, Edna?"
please, none of the yellow, mother
but I'd just love a whole lot of the
ruching," replied Edna.
Three ear-old Robert was given a
tiny pill OF homeopathic medicine by
his aunt. and liked it very much. He
leased for more. but his aunt said: IF
gave it to you it would make you
sick"
What do you take it for, them" ask
ed the logical Robert.
Il take it to make me WELL" answer
ed his aunt.
Robert met this argument by saying:
I'll tell you what you can do. auntie.
S'pose you give me half the bottle to
make me sick, and then the other half
to make me well.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13

want the full addresses. But it does
want the kernels of the addresses.
Therefore if only a brief synopsis of
each address were sent to the news
papers more of the ideas of the bank
ers would get into them than is the
case at present. In the hurry of most
newspaper offices there isn't time to
read the addresses carefully and find
what in them is best for publication.
1t is noticeable that the South in re-
cent years is taking d great deal more
interest and a larger part in the bank
ers' convention than was the case a
few years go. That is due to the grow
ing wealth of the South. 1t hasn't
been so very long since there were
comparatively few banks in the coun-
try districts in the South Now there
are hundreds of them. and they are
exercising an excellent influence in the
business and industrial world of their
section. 1t is gratifying to know that
it is the opinion of bankers that there
are no signs of panicky or hard times.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
At suburban station there entered
two men of the submerged tenth.
diagnosed one as being the genus navy.
and his compatriot as in some way
connected with the building industry.
One of my visitors was endeavoring to
explain to his fellow traveller that ow-
ing to misdirection on the part of a
porter he had missed the previous
quicker train. Would you believe 1t
tina 1.-THE poor fellow, to make this
small incident clear to his companion,
had to employ as auxiliaries:
Seventeen adjectives of a lurid hue.
Five appeals to the Almighty.
Two invocations that his own eye
sight might be destroyed.
Three invocations to the eyes of the
official.
Seven iterations of the name of the
Internal regions.
One side issue, necessitating the
name of the Messiah
Seventeen adjectives of simple OBJ
scenitv.
Four expletives of an unclassfed ma
ture
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13

There is still ground for the hope
that an international yacht race will
be held off Sandy Hook this year, after
all. Sir Thomas Upton is anxious to
make another effort to lift the
bloomin mug" and will do so if he
can find satisfactory designer. Both
Watson and Fife, who designed all Of
the recent challengers. have declined
to try to make a new one that will out
sail the Americans under the old rules
of measurement. The terms of the
deed OF gift prescribe that the chal-
lenger must cross the ocean on her
own bottom. They do not provide
however, that the defender shall be a
vessel capable of accomplishing
similar voyage. Watson and Fife hold
that that condition makes it impossible
to construct in Great Britain, and sail
her across the ocean, a vessel as light
as one constructed in the United States
to be sailed only a few times within
a few score miles of her shipyard. Be-
cause of what they regard as hope
less handicap. the two famous British
designers have pronounced against
another attempt under the old rules.
And it is regarded as doubtful if the
New York Yacht Club would
consent to make a change in the
rules for the accommodation
of Messrs. Watson and Fife.
1t is intimated, however, that King
Edward, who takes a great deal of in
terest in Americas cup contests, may
signs. In that event, of course, there
would be nothing for Mr. Watson to do
but get out his lead pencil and draw
ing paper. and go to work.
Meanwhile there is talk of Sir
Thomas taking up a new designer,
one relatively unknown on this side Of
the water. He is Alfred Mylne, a
young man formerly a pupil of Wat
son, who has constructed several boats
that have beaten those Of both Wat
son and Fife. Mylne. however. has
never attempted anything larger than
a 52-footer. But in that class the fast
est craft in British waters are Of his
designing Many English yachtsmen
look on Myine as "a conner" and are
predicting that IL he is given a chance
he will show both Watson and Fife as
well as the Yankees something that
viii make them open their eyes. And
Il is regarded as not improbable that
Sir Thomas will be brought around TO
the belief that II would be a good idea
TO give the young man his coveted OPP
portunity.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
THRAsHED ny 4 WOMAN OF 70.
From The PhiladeIphia Record

rum the Fnliddelpnla RECORD.
Pottstown, Pa, Sept. 10.-What is
possibly the first suit of the kind in
Pennsylvania-one based on the aIlcea-
tion Of a woman IS years old thrash
ed a man of IS years-has just been
instituted by Samuel Biever. of Obey.
Berks county, against Mrs. Mary Reid
er, Of the same township.
The trouble was caused by Mr.. Biever
removing some rails that were an oh
struction 20 wagon loaded with wheat.
Mrs. Reider, II is alleged used a stout
stick or cane so vigorously on Biever
that he was stunned. greatly hurt
bruised and wounded. and became SICK.
sore. lame and disordered IN conse-
quence."
MT biever claims $1,000 damages.
and also has "A criminal suit pendlne
against the tail and muscular Mrs.
Reider
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
wIDENER JEWEL FOUND.
From the New york Tribune.


Newport, r. l., Sept. 10.-Mrs. Joseph
E. Widener was made happy to-day
by the return of diamond heart which
she lost on the evening of the ball
given by Mrs. Steuyvestant Fish last
Tuesday. There is a mystery connect
ed with the case somewhere, although
the police say that the jewel was found
in Bellevue ave. by a public waiter,
who returned it to-day to the chief of
police and received a reward of 500.
The jewel is valued at $1,000 and is an
inch and a half long.
1t cannot be seen how such a piece
of jewelry could be lost on the ball
room floor, or even on the street, with
out being seen, and why it was not
returned before is not known, as a. re-
ward was offered the day after it was
lost, and Mrs Fish offered a reward
on the night of the ball as soon as
the jewel was missed. The man who
returned the heart says that he found
1t in Bellevue-av., and from this II
has to be assumed that Mrs Widen
er lost it on the way to Mrs. Fish's
villa
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
THE CANDIDATE OF THE TRUSTS.

| THE CANDIDATE OF THE TRUSTS.
The presidential campaign has pro-
crossed far enough to determine which
| OF the presidential candidates the
trust magnates are supporting. It will
| be recalled that when Mr.. Belmont was
spoken Of as chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee the Republic
can organs declared that he was a trust
magnate and that the Democratic
colors by considering the question OF
making him its campaign manager.
1t may be that Mr.. Belmont has
some connection with trusts. though
we have not noticed that his name has
been mentioned in connection with any
of them. He is a New York banker
and is the reputed agent of the Roth
childs. but that fact doesn't make him
trust magnate. However, he isn't
the manager of the Democratic cam
paign, and therefore it doesn't make
any difference now whether he is a
trust magnate or not
But is It not a fact that all Of the
trust magnates, the heads of all of
the trusts which have been attracting
the attention of the country during the
past few years, are supporting the
Republican ticket? 1t will be re-
called that the New York Sun, which
has the reputation of being an organ of
the trusts. was rather unkind in some
of its remarks about Mr.. Roosevelt,
and the impression was quite general
that it wouldn't support him, but soon
after the Democratic ticket was nomi-
mated it came out squarely for the Re
publican ticket. Mr. Morgan, the
trust promoter, is a supporter of Mr..
Roosevelt, and all of the industrial
trusts are behind the latter. doing their
best to give him a boost.
1t is a safe statement that the
trusts are doing all they can for his
election. and, if the truth were known,
it would doubtless appear that every
one Of them has contributed literally
to his campaign fund.
How could it be otherwise than that
the trusts should support the Re
publican ticket? Didn't the head of the
sugar trust say that the protective
tariff system was the mother of trusts?
That being the case it is to be expected
that every trust will support the Re-
publican party because that party is
the upholder of the protective system.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
CURRENT COMMENT.

The New York World Dem.) says:
Former Senator Marion Butler says
half the Populists will vote for Roose-
welt and half for Watson. Both Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr.. Watson are distin-
guished authors. Is it the literary
character that appeals so strongly to
the Popuistic mind?"
The Albany On. " Argus (Dem }
says: THE most interesting recent
announcement, politically, is that ex-
Gov. John w Griggs, Of New Jersey.
is opposed to Roosevelt, and will take
no part in the Republican campaign.
Mr.. Griggs was Attorney General in
the Mckinley cabinet. Like many an
other follower of Mckinley and Of
Harrison, he perceives the utter I'M
safeness of Roosevelt. and declines to
trust either the republic, or the Re-
publican party, to his guidance"
The Nashville American (Dem) says:
THE population of Japan is estimated
at 44OOO.O0O The empire now has in
its army and navy almost if not quite
as many men as the Confederacy had
in its four years. and every person
familiar with Civil War history knows
what a long and bloody war the South
fought. That Japan can put a good
many more hundreds Of thousands OF
men In the field goes without saying
The statement therefore, that be-
cause Russia has les. 900 people IL
can whip Japan, does not carry
conviction 10 the minds OF thinking
mem
The Philadelphia Record (Dem) says:
Although conditions IN the cotton
goods industry during the crop year
ls03-l90i were unfavorable for profit
able operations. particularly by North
crn mills as consequence ~ the
speculative imitation ~ values ~ the
raw staple and diHproport i0nate SELL
ing prices FOR ita products, the con-
sumption ~ raw cotton in the United
states WAS only 5000 bales less than
boo the previous geir The actual COM
sumption. North Hud south, was g.
0gf $50 bales. against flh3.3sg bales in
l1ni.111l iu spite Of murh-f1lked-nf
mnI HoUpaReH Goa accounf IN dul trade
ana HffiffH tno reduction Dob spinnerf
output appears 90 have been very in-
cousiderablf
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-13
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