davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26

Otto Mears is known in Colorado as
the Pathfinder Of the San Juan" be-
cause of stage and toll roads he built
through the mountains. One of his
stage lines was over Marshall Pass,
says the New York Tribune. He was
constantly eensuring his drivers for be-
ing slow. The result was that every
man was anxious to get him alone in
a stage and demonstrate that they
could go fast enough to please him.
One morning he waited at the sum-
init of Marshall Pass for the stage
driven by Henry Burns, a reckless
driver, to leave for the foot. He was
dressed in black suit that was mold
ed to him, and on his head was a new
silk hat, and his linen was spotlessly
white. He was the only passenger.
I'm give him the ride of his life"
remarked Burns to the station men.
Four of the best horses on the line
were hooked up. Mears stepped into
the stage with a fresh cigar in his
mouth, and Burns clambered on the
box. He cracked his whip with a vol
ley of curses, and the leaders nearly
jumped out of the harness. He sent
the four down the serDentine road in
record time, the stage banging against
the side of the mountain, grazing the
NNS~o - PACNApANCOS NlllLlIllS dIOullQ
sharp curves on two wheels, and
bounding over rocks with jars that
raised the heavy vehicle three feet and
lunged 1t forward with a bump that
started every bolt and nail. The horses
were white with lather, but still Burns
urged them on.
At the foot of the pass Burns pulled
up his foamlng and well-nigh spent
horses, and Mears climbed out. His
silk hat was a battered wreck his
clothes were torn in dozens of places,
and his hands and face were scratched
and bleeding, for he had been tossed
about in the stage like pea in a can;
but his cigar was still gripped in his
teeth. He said nothing, however until
the stage was driven up to continue
on its way, when he remarked to
Burns:
'Henery, I think I will ride on tie
outside nit you. 1 vas so lonesome in
side / couldn't keep awake
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Canton Forest City, No.
IL. o. o. F.; Clinton Lodge, No. 81.
F. and A. M
Special Notices-Blds Wanted for
Erection of Brick Church. F. F. Sta
Ger; Bids Wanted for Feed and Sup
plies, George NJ. Gadsden; Crew No
tice, w. Maginnis, Master; Crew No
tice, Charles Crane, Master; Crew No
tice, ]. F. Minis & Co, Agents; Han
ley's Ready-Mixed Paint; Ship Notice,
j. F. Minis & Co., Agents; Notice.
to Superior Court Jurors; Crew Notice,
Strachan & Co. Consignees.
Business Notices-Dayton Bicycles
Walter F. Higgins; Small Dinner Par
ties, Sommers' Cafe.
Empty Barrels-A. Ehrlich & Bro.
These Early Mornings Are Cool-Sa-
vannah Gas Co
A Patent Leather Shoe-Byck Bros.
Good and Black-Connor & Sullivan.
Club Cocktails-Henry Solomon &
Son.
Dutch Bulbs. T. Shuptrine.
FOOuS-fNOydl DdhlIlS IOWueIs
Finely Laundered Shirts-E. B w.
Laundry
The Carib Cigar-J. S. Pinkussohn
Cigar Co.
Ginettes Safety Razor-Livingston
Pharmacy.
The Smoker Smiles-Pete Daley.
Tooth Brushes-Rowlinski, Druggist.
Stoves and Ranges-At Lattimores.
Observation-Disclosures Pharmacy.
New Arrivals-The Delmonico Co.
Chappy Weather-Masonic Temple
Pharmacy.
Is 1t the Clothing That Attracts
Leopold Adler.
Savannah Theater-Wed Nov.
2, Ghosts" To-day. Matinee and
Night, AN English Daisy" Thursday
Night, 1.-THE Sultan of Sulu."
American Club Ginger Ale-The Ka-
lola Co.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
celIaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
Y Rays Told.

The late Postmaster General Henry
c. Payne had a friend in Milwaukee
who is a physician and owns an x
ray machine, relates the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
THE DOCTOR" said the late Postmas-
ter General, in relating the story, was
interrupted one day by the hurried en-
trance of young man. Doctor said
he, I have swallowed my diamond pin.
L wish an examination made
The doctor was not enthusiastic. for
the young man already owed a large
Dill. However, the examination was
made, but it revealed no sign of the
diamond.
am sure that 1 swallowed it,
protested the youth, haughtily.
AS a plausible explanation the doc
tor suggested innocently: The rays
reveal only solids; perhaps the dia-
mond was paste
1 did not come here to be insult
ed retorted the youth.
Likely you came to pay that lit
tie bill encouraged the physician.
I'd pay you now if had the money
with me- said the caller.
Beg pardon, observed the doctor.
suavely, the X-rays located a. coin in
your vest pocket, which will at least
pay for this examination
The bills which encircled the sill
yer dollar We're sufficient to wipe out
the entire debt, and the young man
left, cursing the advance made in med
ical science"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
JAPAN,s CARE or SICK TROOPS.

The more we hear of Japanese thor
oughness and careful attention to de-
tails in connection with the army, the
more we are compelled to admire the
remarkable little people of the Empire
of the Rising Sun. And among no
class is the admiration more outspoken
than by the surgeons of the United
States army who have had an oppor-
tunity to observe Japanese methods.
Several American medical officers have
been with the Japanese in the field and
the hospitals, and without exception
they speak only in words of warmest
praise of what they saw and learned.
Maj. l.. l.. Seaman of New York, who
spent a part of last summer in Man
churia and Japan with the army, read
a paper before the meeting of mill
tary and naval surgeons in st. Louis
the other day, giving a report of his
Investigations and observations.
1t was Napoleon who said, truly IL
not quite elegantly, that IAN army
fights on its belly" Maj. Seaman says
NAlt SdPdICSC are uOlllB NDlS WIFI lDc
very highest degree of success. The
soldiers have been trained to be good
to their stomachs, and now their stom-
achs are being good to them. Ninety
per cent. of the Japanese soldiers
taken to the hospitals are suffering
from bullet wounds. and only a few
of the remaining 10 per cent. are af-
fiicted with stomach troubles. Ty-
phoid is practically unknown, and it is
rare thing 10 find case of dysen-
terry. Hospitals have been provided
for patients suffering with stomach
troubles, but their cots are nearly all
unoccupied. And in the treatment of
the few patients that have come in
from the field with stomach troubles.
Maj. Seaman says the Japanese sur
geons have achieved a most remark
able record. Not more than per cent.
Of such patients have died, whereas the
loss OF American soldier patients, suf-
fering from stomach troubles during
the Spanish American War, was in the
neighborhood of 20 per cent. Mai.
ScoihoAi bVhSNN9 eHS AhNVllBcHCe OF the
japanese soldiers in taking care of
their bodies and stomachs, and the
scientific excellence OF the army ration,
are largely responsible for this. Help
ing to the same end, however, is the
activity Of the medical corps. In the
Japanese army the medical men are
TO be found everywhere. They are
with the scouts and engineers, as well
as IN the rear with the STAFF. When
a new position Is 70 be occupied the
medical men are there ahead OF the
army, with their microscopes and test
tubes. examining the water and LABEL
ing wells and reservoirs 70 that the
men may be warned not 10 drink in
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
FLAT LIFE ron HORSES.
From an Exchange.


Ground space is so valuable in the
city of New York that, like many
other buildings there, stables have
long been built upward in many sto-
ries, with stalls for the horses on
floors above the ground, so that there
are now in the city thousands of horses
that may be said to live in flats.
Stables of six stories are no longer
considered remarkable. and in many
of these horses are now stalled on
three floors, three upper stories being
reached by runways.
All of these tall modern stables have
an elevator big enough and strong
enough to carry to the upper floors any
vehicle. and in at least one down
town boarding place for horses the
elevator is used for the animals also.
Out of $50 horses kept in this stable
there are perhaps a score that are
more or less often hoisted to their
rooms, or stalls, at night, and they
also bring down some horses in the
same way. The horses like it and
stand steady on the elevator plat
form and are hoisted without trouble
In fact they have one fine horse that
will not travel from the ground floor
to it's stall in any other way. When
this horse comes in and is unlocked
at night it walks straight over to the
elevator and waits to be hoisted UP:
and when it is cast loose in it's stall
in the morning it makes straight for
the elevator again.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Galveston Daily News CDem)
says There is another rumor cur
rent down on the isthmus that a
large body of armed Colombians has
been concentrated near Culebra with
the intention of making an attack
there on Nov. 3, the first anniversary
OF the secession of Panama from Co.
lombia. Business is probably dull
down there, and few more regiments
ana small squadrons from the United
states are need to revive it,"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: when the great past empires
Of the world began to unduly expand
tney soon became unwieldy and crum-
Dled OF their own weight. Rottenness
at the center supervened upon weak
ness at the extremes. Steam and cleo
tricity have made it possible to better
hold together widely separated terri
tories in the later centuries; but. as
we now see in the contest between
Russia and Japan, these agencies also
aid in the process of disintegration.
Russia Is at disadvantage in her
quarrel with her weaker, but compact
and distant, antagonist by reason of
her vast expansion. The lessons of
the past and the present ought not to
be lost upon the people of the United
States"
The Baltimore Sun Dem.) says:
For Mr.. Root to say that he does
not know the cause of the panic of
1893 is to assert that he is not a we'll
informed and resourceful debater. 1t
is common knowledge that he has at
tained high rank as a publicist. law
yer aud administrator. A man of his
intellectual caliber can afford to be
fair and honest In his dealings with
political opponents. The widespread
disaster, the closing of mills and mill
lions OF men out OF employment were
the consequences OF Republican legis-
lation. The Sherman silver purchase
act destroyed the confidence of the
American people in their monetary
system. IL was left 10 President Cleve-
land to undo the legislative folly, to
preserve the gold standard and to re-
store public confidence In the nations
financial system. Mr.. Root knows well
enough that a tariff bill passed In 1894
would not cause mills TO shut down
In 1898. He knows that the Sherman
silver act was at the bottom OF all
the trouble IN 1893. To make a con-
tfary assertion. az he did az Buffalo,
Is 10 reflect upon the Intelligence Of
his hearers. Mr. Root may rest as
sured that the people have too much
sense 10 be caught by the chan which
he dealt 90 his Buffalo hudiance."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26


A candidate is an American citizen
frenziedly anxious to neglect his own
business for a chance to neglect that
of the nation. He is as full of prom
ise as an early spring is of blossoms;
he wears a smile as wide as a. pasture
and as genuine as a Chez Foo dis
patch; he shakes a hand on the street
with men he shakes a head at in the
bank, and he raises his hat to women
his wife raises her nose and eyebrows
to. He is solicitous about the health
of babies he never saw, and babies he
wishes he couldn't see, and while he
amazes the righteous by the sudden
fervor of his faith. he earns a reputa-
ton as dead-game sport in regions
where religion grows more slowly than
Rockefellers hair.
AS good citizen and unyielding re-
former he abhors corruption. but as
an honest merchant he is willing to
pay for all goods that are delivered,
be they steel billets or stolen ballots.
member of the church. he shoulders
at the twin curses of civilization-rum
and tobacco-but as a citizen, merely
in politics for his health, he subsidies
the drinking of that health early and
often, and he knows no better plan
of smoking out the enemy than out
smoking him. Moreover, no good
American, industry. can deliberately
discourage two widespread agencies of
wealth and expect to be accepted as a
patriot.
As election day approaches his views
on geography, ethnology and human
brotherhood broaden and deepen. The
woes of ireland touch his heart deep
ly In one portion of his district: he
boasts of his Anglo Saxon origin in
another. He grasps the sinewy hand
of sturdy Scandinavia on Monday; he
acknowledges the republics debt to
Germany on Tuesday: he believes the
full glory of the nation will come on
Wednesday only when the genius of
Italy tingles in the veins of the stern
puritan. and at a union meeting in a
secluded vestry on Friday he warns
his Methodist and Baptist brethren
against the scum which European emf
grafton is casting upon our sacred soil
and revered institutions.
Deserving charities begin to touch
him acutely; he develops a passion for
labor picnics and dubious dances; he
is fearless in stating that the battle
SCARED saviors of the union have been
treated with scant generosity by the
nation, and he wants it distinctly I'M
derStood that he stands firmly for high
wages, high tariffs, high ideals, white
mans government and unhampered
suffrage for the colored man. peace, a
strong navy, cheap beef and cheap
coal, no trusts and no government
meddling with business and no matrl-
monial expansion in Utah.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
COIIJNsVuLE LIME

Beginning at sos a. M. cars leave
Waters road and Estill avenue every
20 minutes until las D. M. after
which cars leave every Is minutes
commencing at 2:07 p. m, until 1907
midnight.
Beginning at sos a. M. cars leave
City Market for Waters road and Es~
til avenue every 20 minutes until 1.4E
p. m, after which Thunderbolt 70 re-
leave every 10 minutes, conmencine
at 200 p. M, connecting with Collins,
vile cars at Bolton and OFT streets
Last car leaves Market at 11:45 D. m.
WEST END LINE Lincoln ParhI
Car leaves west side Of City Market for r..
coin Park 500 a. m. and every al rnfr,tas
thereafter until i1:45 o. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Marlxet a. 9oa ~
and every 4Ominutes thereafter until 12 O cloeL
midnight - 0A0SA
FREIGHT AND PARCFI, car
Leaves east side of City Market for Thnrder
boiS, Cattle Park. Sand1y Isle OF Hona ana ali
p. m. -" -''' ," n''''"
Leaves Isle of Hope for Sandav earn. p.-,,
ThunderDolt ana all intermediate points-6.0a
q. m, ll:O0 a. M. 300 p. m ~
Freight car leaves Montgomeryakh50 a In.
and 2;oo p M, connecting at Sandiy with reg
ular parcel car foi city. "-'-
Parcel car from the city carries Freight "a
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation OF passengers
Any further information regarding passenr
ger schedule or freight service can be had By
applying TO L. R. NASH. Manager
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26

Soon after Congressman Robert G..
Cousins advent at Washington he was
invited to function of very stately
formality, relates Harper's Weekly.
Everything was new to him then, even
to the evening dress just from the fur
nisher's.
AS he left the hotel to enter a watt
ing carriage he was spied by Thomas
B. Reed, who took him all in at a
glance.
Hello, Bob" drawled the irrepres-
sible Reed, what ails your
II feel like an ass in lions skim"
said Mr.. Cousins.
'You look as though you had a bee
in your bonnet"
WAL" said Mr.. Cousins, who also
has peculiarly resonant drawl, "it
isn't a presidential bee."
And for once Mr.. Reed was at a
loss for a reply.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
Need a Rehearsal.

says Chauncey M. Depew:
we all wondered during the Span
ish-American War why it was that
when the feet at Santiago was about
equal to ours. that it was sunk in
twenty minutes. while ours received
only one shot. and we all wondered
that while the fleet at Manila was
about equal to ours it was sunk in
nineteen minutes and we received no
shot.
people all over the world could not
explain it. and the naval people at
Washington had difficulty in finding
out how it could have occurred. But
coming on from Washington at the
close of the last great victory I had
as my fellow-companion that delight
full wit and most charming man and
actor, old Joe Jefferson, and said to
him:
7 have been in Washington and
the naval experts cannot tell why it
is that Cervera's fleet should have been
lost in twenty minutes and not a shot
hit our feet. and the same thing hap
pened at Manila bay"
And Mr.. Jefferson said to me: AS
an actor Of fifty years experience I
can tell you-the Spaniards had not
Fehearsed >"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
THE MORNING NEWS is published

luOlhNlNNI NEW Is
every day in the year, and served to
subscribers in the city, or sent by mail
one week, is cents; one month, "a
cents; three months, $500; six months,
$500; one year, $500
THE MORNING NEWS by mail,
six time a week without Sunday
issue). one month, 50 cents; three
months, $3.50; six months, $500; one
year. $780,
THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a
week monday and Thursday, by
mail, one year, $1.OO.
Subscriptions payable in advance.
Remit by money order, check or reg
istered letter. Currency sent by mail
at risk of sender.
Transient advertisements, other than
local or reading notices, amusements
and classified column. 10 cents line.
Fourteen lines of agate type-equal
to one inch in Depths the standard
of measurement. Classified column adj
vertisements, cent word each inser~
ton. Every word and figure counted
No advertisement accepted for less
than Is cents week days, % cents
Sundays. Contract rates and discounts
made known on application at bust
ness office.
Orders for delivery of the Morning
News to either residence or place of
business can be made by mail or by
telephone No. 21O. Any irregularity in
delivery should be Immediately re-
ported.
Letters and kilograms should be ad-
dressed "MORNING NEWS" Savan-
nah. Ga.
EASTERN OFFICE, % Park Row,
New York City, H. C. Faulkner, Man
Ager
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
DEAD SHOTS ARE DEAF.
From the New York Sun.


Il see yen are a rifle shot" re-
marked Philosopher Simeon Ford to
a man who after a good deal of spar
ring for place at last sat down in the
hotel corridor by the side of New
York's landlord orator.
How do you make that out ?" ask
ed Mr.. Ford's companion.
"Oh, easy enough. You are deaf in
your left ear. All rifle shots are deaf
in their left ears. All the Creedmoor
experts are that way. 1 am deaf in
my left ear myself and got 1t shoot
ing rifles met Gildersleeve once and
1 was backing and filling and lodging
to get a position where my right ear
would bear on him and he was ma
neuvering at the same time for an
opening where he could rake me with
his right ear. Then Gildersleeve said
to me, as 1 have just said to you, that
he observed was rife shot. 1t was
the first time I had heard that all
rife shots were deaf in their left
ears, but have noticed it ever since
and know that it is true.
'The reason Of it is that all the
conclusion of the rifle explosion comes
on the left ear drum. The right ear is
partly turned away and partly pro-
tected by the gunstock being brought
up to the cheek when the gun is fired"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
Personal.

DIR. Henry c. Rowland, the au-
thor, has located for the winter on a
little tract of land about two miles
across Hampton Roads from Old Point
Comfort. His only means of commu-
nication is by boat.
The Crown Prince of Sweden is not
ohiy Keen motorist, but he is a first
rate mechanical engineer. and II ie
even said in Stockholm that he has
suggested several good improvements
20 existent French automobilists.
After walking from Terre. Haute
Ind, to Knoxville. Tenn, and despair
ing of success. T. E. Leroy, a tramp,
was offered and accepted $164,O0O for
a. one-tourth interest in patent to
tie the ends of steel rails together
The New York Central Railroad is the
purchaser.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
MEASURING HUMAN LIFE.
From the New York Press.


Actuaries employed by insurance
companies adopt a standard method OF
computing prospective ages of risks.
To ascertain how many years a person
of given age is ordinarily expected TO
live, the present age is deducted from
so, and two-thirds Of the remainder
viii indicate the likely future span OF
life. Actuarial schedules are a unit In
this system Of calculation. In illus
tratton of the above statement: Age
30 deducted from 80 years shows that
40 twelvemonths are the allotment,
while age 80 from so. leaving balance
OF 20, represents THAI ID years and 3
months should. In favorable routine,
elapec before the insured individuals
life n classified IN the past-tsnse col
umn. Thus Y will b. observed that
insurance corporations 80 the Biblical
allowances OF "thneesc0re and ten" ten
years better.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26

George II. Fahrbach. who was one Of
the leading lights and officeholders In
Tammany Hall before he started in
business as a wine agent, says the
New York Times, was entertaining
some friends in the pagoda at the Grand
Union Hotel in Saratoga, during the
recent Democratic State Convention.
Here, have something to drink
said Fahrbach to Senator Riordan.
mo" said the Senator. This * on
ly afternoon, and 1 never drink before
night"
Huh" retorted Fahrbach. whats
the matter? Afraid to get lit before
dark?"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
MIRAGEs REPoRT SHIPS.
Victoria (B. Co. Cor. New York Amer

Victoria CB. Co. Cor. New York Ameri'
can.
Victoria pilots have made an inter
esting discovery in connection with the
mirage that fiutters almost daily over
the horizon off Cape Fbattery, Capt
Cutler Of the pilot tug Lorne declar-
ing ii reliable as a herald of incoming
shipping. The Lorne was at the cape
a day or so ago on the lookout for
new arrivals, when the faithful mirage
depicted a full-rigged ship, reversed
seemingly deep-laden. The Lorne made
for the shimmePing vision, which APP
peared to be but about twenty miles
distant. She steamed for several hours
at full speed. BY that time the pic
ture had faded away.
Capt. Cutler was not satisfied To
confess himself beaten. and held his
course, with the result that the Brit
ish ship Falklandbank was picked UP,
exactly realizing in every minute de-
tail the picture that had sent the tow
boat on her quest. The experience rs
not by any means an isolated one. The
mirage more than anything else assists
the Straits of San Juan de Fuca tow
boat fleet in discovering the presence
OF inbound shipping requiring their Of
fees
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
BRIGHT BITS.

The Pessimist-'Tt costs a great
deal more to live nowadays than it us
ed to-" The Optimist-"Well it's worth
H."-Puck.
He is considered a clever finan-
cier, is ne not?" why, where did you
get that idea?" He never beat anybody
out of anything in his life! "-Cleve-
land Leader.
-Chauffeur-"Is there an ordinance
limiting the speed of autos in this
town. Native-"No; they can't get
through too quickly to suit u.s.
Brooklyn Life.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-26
A New Version.

Jennie was telling her parents OF her
first days experiences in school, says
Harper's Weekly.
Were you interested in what your
teacher told your" asked her mother.
'Oh. yes" replied the young scholar:
teacher gave us such nice proverbs
to learn"
What were they? Can you remem-
Der anv?"
Jennie thought a moment. "I'm
afraid I can only remember one," she
said finally
And what was that?"
Teacher says that God always pro-
vides the wind for the shorn lamb"