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6 “KATONAH” IN CLUETT BRAND QUARTER SIZES. 2S CENTS EACH CLUETT, PEABODY A CO., MAKERS Of CLUETT AND MONAACH SHIRTS MERCHANTS FAVOR ANOTHER FAIR BENEFITS _FROM_ LAST ONE SUFFICIENT TO JUSTIFY HOLDING ANOTHER. THIS YEAH. All Will Do Wliat They Can to Help the Movement—Cirenlt Finn Sng. grated Shortly After I.*t Fair Closed Meet* With Fa vor—Would Tend to Pnt All ftrorgia Fairs on Better Footing—Some Have Sug gested Making an Attempt to Bring State Fair Here— Meeting of Direetors Not Y et Called. Although the matter has not yet been taken up by the directors of the Savannah Racing Association, it seems likely that Savannah will have a fair during the present year. Nearly all of the merchants say that they were benefited by the last fair and favor the holding of another. A number of the merchants were seen yesterday and expressed them selves as being in favor of holding an other fair. With changes in the date and bettering of one or two minor de tails they thought it could be even more of a success than last year. With but few exceptions the mer chants said they had been directly benefited by the fair, as it attracted many to the city who would not have come for any other reason. "Bulloch County Day was the most conspicuous example of this." said one merchant. “To each of the tickets sold at the reduced rate a coupon was attached which admitted the holder to the fair grounds. If these coupons were not presented at the gate they were taken up by the conductors and by them turned over to the Racing Association. "On Bulloch County Day there were about 3,000 coupons taken from rail road tickets, yet scarcely one-third of them were secured at the fair gates. These figures show that the majority of the visitors stayed in Savannah and visited the stores, making purchases which they were unable to do at their home towns. What held good for Bul loch County Day was noticeable on other days, though the number of visitors was never so large as on that special day,” Merchants Want Another Fair. Mr. Sig Gardner, secretary of the Retail Merchants Association, said, while he hud not asked any of the merchants about the matter, he had heard nothing which would lead him to believe that they are not ready to support another fair, and do what they ran to make it a success even greater than last year's. "Immediately after the fair closed they were all in favor of another one. and 1 believe they still hold that opinion.” said Mr. Gard ner. “Personally I want to see an other fair and believe that such pro jects are good things for the city in every wav.” "I am in favor of holding a fair here, and will do what I can to help the management along,” said a promi nent Broughton street merchant. "The fair last year benefited me in many ways and my cash sales were greatly Increased. This was due to the small army of people, who came to the city, attracted by the cheap rates on the railroads, and desire, for a gala day and plenty of amusement. By all SAVANNAH'S FUR TRADE INCREASING Over $75,000 Worth of Furs Shipped From Here Abroad Annually. Few people probably are aware that the fur trade of Savannah approxi mates between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO an nually and that It is Increasing In mag nitude. The principal furs sold in this market are raccoon, otter, mink and opossum. The mink is caught in South Carolina and Georgia. During December and January the racoon is brought in. These skins are shipped from Georgia, Ala bama and Tennessee. The otter, which is caught in the Savannah river and in the rivers of Florida and South Caro lina, but Florida produces the finest specimens. The ’possum is caught almost any where, while fox skins come princi pally from Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. A peculiar feature of the South Car olina fox skins is that they are head Blood Troubles Blood troubles £l# Bad blood is the source of numerous aches and pains jw and the cause of nearly all stubborn, long-continued dis- Rfe-, eases. When the blood gets out of order, disease germs and poisons of various kinds find their way into the cir culation and some serious trouble is the result. Rheu- : '' J| mutism, Malaria, Old Sores and Ulcers, Scrofula. Amemia, and many pustular or scaly skin eruptions, like Eczema’ ftfWJrIPiKSFf Salt Rheum and Tetter, have their beginning in bad blood, bl . oo< *'' M bad, as evidenced by and only a remedy that enters o ft£ into the circulation and de- knowing it to be highly spoken of. After using a stroysthe germs and poisons, number of bottles—my blood was thoroughly puri tan have any pennanent good nnMiifeststfons'ofimpure blood' effect upon a disease of this S . 8. 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No charge for medical advice THE SW/FT SPECIFIC CO., A TLANTA, CA. means have another fair this year, but it would be best to start planning for It earlier, and to correct certain er rors which were unavoidably made." Other merchants who were asked seemed inclined to Indorse the project and were confident it could be made a paying one in every sense of the word. Several plans were suggested by which different ones thought the fair could be made more of a suc cess, and none wished to do or say anything which might be construed as Intended to hurt the project. Favor a Circuit Plan. Shortly after the close of the last fair Mr. A. J. Garfunkel stated that he be lieved that greater crowds could be brought to the fair—lf another was held—if arrangements were made with other cities to avoid conflicting dates. The plan suggested by Mr. Garfunkal was to hold a meeting of the represen tatives of those towns which hold fairs annually and arrange a schedule of dates, so that there would not be two or three fairs going on at the s-'ame time. This would put them on a kind of cir cuit and avoid conflicts of all kinds. This plan has met with the hearty indorsement of all to whom it has been presented, and many see in it the way to overcome certain difficulties which last year seemed insurmountable. When the nfatter of holding another fair is taken up by the directors of the Sa vannah Racing Association, the plans will probably be formally presented by one of their number. Another plan which has received some support is to make an attempt to bring the State Fair here this year. The majority of the merchants seen appear to be in favor of a local fair. BULLETS MET IN MIDAIR. One Missile Pierced tlie Other With Great Apparent Ease. From the Newark, N. J., News. While on duty at the butts at the rifle range at Sea Girt a short time ago Capt. Andrew B. Byram, a bat talion adjutant of the First Regiment, picked up two bullets, one of which had pierced the other and remained in it. Capt. Byram says he has picked up many freak results of the shooting at the range, but never one as curious as this. He gave it to Capt. Albert C. Gasser, Mayor Doremus' private secretary, who keeps it one his desk in the City Hall to show to visitors. The bullets were fired from Spring field rifles, and, according to the the ory of Capt. Byram, met in midair. Capt. Byram believed that one ball must have been shot from the 500-yard range straight at the target and the other from a gun in the hands of a soldier practicing on the skirmish line, the fire from which crossed that from the 500-yard range diagonally. Shot from rifles at the same instant the two bullets sped on. coming together in the air. The force of one must have been somewhat greater than the oth er, he thinks, and this one pierced and stuck in the slower-going piece of lead. There must have been some queer pranks when the contact was made, Capt. Byram thinks, and the two bul lets. fused together, probably whirled around in the air until their combined force was spent. Neither of the bullets reached the target at which it was aimed, for Capt. Byrain picked them up in the sand some distance short of the butts. They had struck on a stone in falling, or per haps had darted downward forcibly into the earth, which accounts for the battered condition of the pierced bul let. One ball struck the other about in the middle and a little above a line passing through the long axis. It pierced It completely, going a little more than half way through and then lodging. Persons familiar with the Sea Girt range say they never remem ber seeing or hearing of such a freak there. Where such shooting is going on and where lines of fire cross it is not uncommon, it is said, to have bul-; lets meet above the earth. But in nearly all cases they are fused into an irregular muss, one forming part of the other, so that the two carjnot be distinguished. - Turning Gray. From the New York Press. Tall yarns are told from time to time about people turning gray in q. night from fright or excessive nervous ten sion, or possibly reaction from shock. The only instance of rapid hair bleach ing from internal excitement that ever came under my observation was of a youngish man who lost $5,000 In Wall street on a bad tip. He had pinched for fifteen years to save that money, and when it went in an hour some thing in his blood corpuscles changed. On Monday his hair was dark brown; on Saturday it was as white as snow. less, as the state pays a royalty of 25 cents for each fox head shipped to Co lumbia. Several years ago the Legislature passed a law putting a bounty on the fox's head in order to exterminate, so far as possible, the species. Skunk furs of the variety contiguous to this section, are not of much value, as they are striped, and only solid black skins are In demand for the ex port trade. Squirrel and rabbit skins have no commercial value. Savannah is a growing market for all of these furs. In the last three years the price of furs has been abnormally high, which has discouraged buying both in Eng land and America. Just now the mar ket is from 10 to 25 per cent. off. The prices of the leading skins sold here are as follows: Otter, $lO each; fox, 20c to 75c; mink. 75c to $1.50; raccoon, 10c to 26c. Nearly all of these furs sold here are shipped to London and I the continent. aA VANN AH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1904 NOW BUILD YOURSELF UP. Your Blood is Poor and Thin, Your Nerves Weak, You Are Run Down in Health, Take Dr. Greene’s Nervura, Best of AH Medicines, Most Wonderful Restorative and Strengthener Known to Science Makes Pure Blood, Strong Nerves, Vigorous Bodies. This season finds you with thin, poor, impoverished blood, weak, relaxed, and unstrung nerves. You are without your usual strength, energy, and vim; you feel that you are out of order, without being exactly sick. The cold wind seems to blow clear through you, a storm chills your marrow, and you . have rheumatism, . neu “ Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy has made my burden lighter by building up my run down system. The ailment of greatest hindrance to me was kidney trouble, which, as those who suffer from it know, absolutely unfits a man for business, espe cially if he is of a nervous temperament. Dr. Greene’s Nervura has built me up so that I can safely pronounce it the superior of any proprietary medicine I ever used. I recommend it to all.” Take Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy now for your medicine. This grand remedy has the confidence of the people as no other remedy has because it is the prescription of a regular physician, Dr. Greene, 101 Fifth Avenue, New York City, who has the largest practice and makes the most cures of any physician in the world, and who can he eonsnlted without charge by anybody, personally, or by writing about your case. Your druggist recom* mends and sells Dr. Greene’s Nervura. SOUTH MUST SUPPLY WORLD’S COTTON NEEDS. Cotton Men Say Every Available Acre Will Be Used This Year. “The present high price of cotton, and the general tide of prosperity that it has brought to all sections of the South," said Mr. Gardner E. Dicken son yesterday, “is the most certain in fluence toward the use of every avail able acre of cotton land next year. The only obstacle that confronts the Southern planter is that of labor. With favorable weather, and a sufficient number of hands in the fields there is every reason to believe that the new crop will be the largest ever produced in the South. “That the world's annual product will have to reach higher figures than ever before in order to meet the next years normal increase in consumption is also agreed on every hand. “Already,” continued Mr. Dickenson, "England's King has thrown down the gauntlet and in this speech from the throne yesterday has urged the culti vation of the staple in all parts of his Kingdom, giving as his reason the insufficiency of the supply of raw ma terial. India’s cotton belt is already grid ironed with railways. West Africa is now being experimented on by the Brit ish government, and a similar pro cess perhaps awaits the upper Nile basin now. “The recent developments in the cot ton market," he said, “have emphasiz- SALUTATION “KUNGHI!” ON CHINESE NEW YEAR. Devotions to Omito Fab, Yuh-Hnniig Sliangtl, and Tau in Savannah. This is the day when the devout Oriental who has not become impreg nated with the scepticism of the Occi dent, prostrates himself before the an cestral shrine or does obeisance before the sanctuaries of Omito Fuh, Yuh hwang Shangti, and Tau. ■ All debts are settled and all accounts with heaven are balanced, and the salu tation, “Kunghi!* Kunghi!’ will be heard everywhere. For it is New Year in China, and the faithful of the Celes tlul Kingdom in Savannah will let their minds wander back to the Orient and will bless each other and praise the deeds and liv-s of their ancestors. In the different laundry shops, little tables will be prepared on which Will be placed small slips of red and gilt paper. And the visitor or customer should sit at the table and write some appropriate words upon it, even though it be only the word “fuh,” the word which means happiness, and which car ries with It good wish. On the doorposts and lintels of the dwellings and shops of the devout will be pasted the little slips containing the prayers, that the five great bless ings of the world may descend upon the proprietor. The five blessings are longevity, riches, health, love of vir tue. and a natural death. • It is the birthday of the entire nation and meet that good wishes should start each man on the new year. Over all the doors of the faithful, whether followers of Omito Fuh, Yuh hwang Shangti, or Tau, will be pasted the prayers that the soul may be made cleun, and thut it may come at last to dwell with the spirits of the de parted ancestors whose deeds brought them eternal happiness. All of the prayers are written upon re i pa* *r. ed many facts independently of the magnitude of the season’s crop. It is agreed on every hand that under no circumstances can cotton enough be produced this season to provide for consumption equal to that o- a year ago.” The revised Ellison estimate of the season 1902-1903 figured out 10,830,000 bales of American cotton used in the world’s manufacture of that season. This was slightly more than the act ual yield of the season, and much more than any accredited estimate assigns for the yield of the present season. Whether the ginners’ report will show 9,500,000 or 10,700,000 bales is it admit ted that not enough cotton was grown this year to provide for consumption of the scale of a year ago. Up to 1897 the largest amount of cotton ever consumed by the manufac turing world was-figured at 11,800,000 bales, which included all cotton grown in the world. Last year the estimate was 14,339.000 bales. That thej great American boom which began with 1897 has been a leading influence with the subsequent production of cotton the figures clearly indicate. Out of the 2,500,000 bales in crease in the world’s annual use of cot ton since the middle of that year 1,300,- 000 bales must be credited to the in creased American consumption. Mr. Dickinson further said: ‘The world needs more cotton and an ever increasing population demands it, and the real increase of cotton supplies in the near future will almost certainly come from the United States.” edged with gilt, for it Is meet that all should know the piety which is within. But If death has come to the household during the year, then a blue slip will be pasted amongst the red, that the spirit of the dead may see it and know that it is not for gotten. But no Savannah Chinaman has died during the year. In Savannah the Celestial will not hold any elaborate services. He will give gifts to his most favored custom ers, and will paste his prayers over his doorposts and lintels. But the fire crackers will be banished, and the gods will be propitiated quietly within the home, each man saying his own prayer to his own god. They will salute each other with "Kunghi,” which means “I wish you well.” Debts will be settled and quarrels made up. But all will be done quietly and unostentatiously, that the “foreigners” may not "smile! and make sport of the gods." The Henllhf.il Fp-HIU Walk. From the Medical Brief. The best way to get oxygen into the blood is to walk a mile up-hill two or three times a day, keeping the mouth closed and expanding the nostrils. This beats all other methods. During such a walk every drop of blood in the body will make the circuit of the lungs, and stream, red and pure, back to its ap pointed work of cleansing and repair ing worn-out tissues. Health boards, we are glad to see, are beginning to take up common-sense me.thods of caring for the health and preventing sickness. Recreation piers are coming into use at seaports and people are being advised to use bal conies and fire-escapes in the fresh-alr treatment of consumption. The up-hill walk, as a prophylactic and curative measure in many chronic ailments de pendent upon a weak condition of the heart, lungs and blood vessels, would prove Invaluable. —"You doubtless expect to marry for love?” "Oh, now and then!” ex claimed the young girl, romantically.— M'e ROAD WORK FOR COMING YEAR BUDGET BEING PREPARED. TWO IMPORTANT THOROUGHFARES TO RECEIVE ATTENTION. Tile Newly Acquired White Blult Road, Now Wylly Avenue, Will Be Widened, Straightened and Put in Condition—The Finishing Touches Will Also Be Put on Lathrop Ave nue and to Complete This Work It Will Require Nearly the Entire Time of the C'haingang—Good Roads Scheme Heartily Indorsed. In the annual budget, which will be made up by the special committee appointed at the last meeting of the County Commissioners the allowance to be set apart for road work during the coming year will be confined, to the paving of the recently acquired White Bluff road called Wylly avenue, and the surfacing of Lathrop avenue. It is believed by the commissioners that with this work to be looked after, and the amount of reparing that will be necessary on other roads, the chain gang will have all the work it can do. The work to be done on Wylly aven ue will take nearly the entire time of all the prisoners on the county gang for twelve months. The avenue will be throughly repaired, widened and resurfaced. It will also be straight ened and ditches dug along the sides. This road is seven miles long, and with fair weather it is estimat ed that it will take 300 working days to put it in shape. On Latprop avenue there is much to be done. This road is only partly surfaced, and allowances will be made in the budget for 1904 to complete this work and put the avenue in good condition. The Good Ronds Scheme. Chairman Lathrop said yesterday that he thought the scheme re cently suggested at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce an excellent one, and if all of the adjoining counties could be persuaded to take the matter up Chatham county is readv to do her part. "In this county there would be very little to do, as nearly all of our prin cipal roads leading out of the county are paved to within four miles of the county line, and if the other counties will agree to meet us in this matter I have but little doubt the other mem bers of the board would be glad to have the present roads extended to meet those of the neighboring coun ties.” It is hardly probable that the mat ter will be taken up at the next meet ing of the commissioners, which will be held next Thursday, as there will be many other matters to occupy the at tention of the board. One member of the board said he did not think the matter could be properly taken up unless there is organized movement among the other counties to complete their roads as near the county lines as Chatham have already done. "If the other counties will show their good faith by com pleting their roads within as near the county lines as we have done,” said the commissioner, “we can then take the matter up and go ahead and Join them. “The Louisville and Augusta roads are paved ten miles out of Savannah, which is within four miles of th“ county lines, and if Effingham will ex tend its part of the continuation of these roads up to the county line, suit ably paved, we will join them. I be lieve, however, that this is a matter that should first be handled by the Chamber of Commerce.” The annual budget for 1904 will be submitted to the grand jury during the March session. NEW THEORY’OF EARTH’S ORIGIN. Prof. Chamberlain, of Chicago, Re pudiates the Nebular Hypothesis. From the Philadelphia Press. Chicago, Jan. 25.—New theories of the origin, formation and growth of the earth, of thermal distribution, and of the formation and action of vol canoes are advanced in anew book on geology, written by Prof. Thomas C. Chumberlain, head of the department of geology at the University of Chi cago, and Prof. Rollin D. Salisbury, of the same department. Dr. Chamberlain repudiates what is known as the “nebular hypothesis” of the earth's origin and advances in its stead anew hypothesis, startlingly different from the first, which might be termed the “accretion hypothesis.” According to 'the nebular hypothesis, the earth was once in a gaseous state, passed thence into a liquid, and later, cooling off. became solid. According to the view held by Prof. Chamberlain the earth started a mere speck in space, and was built up grad ually by the infall of matter, bit by bit, at such a rate “that though each little mass became hot as a result of its fall, it cooled off before others fell on the same spot. Under this view the inter nal heat of the earth arose chiefly from compression due to the earth’s grav ity. “The incoming bodies must probably be assumed to have fallen in promis cuous order, and hence to have been indiscriminately mingled in the grow ing earth. As they became buried deeper and deeper and their tempera tures and pressures were raised much recombination, chemical and physical, may be presumed to have followed. "The accretion hypothesis i*sumes that the internal heat was gradually developed from the center outward as the earth grew and the internal compression was progressively devel oped. The heat, therefore, continued MmS annual sale-ten million boxes i MSSpr Greatest in the World A MILLION HAPPY AMERICAN CHILDREN are kept healthy with CABCAR BTS Candy Cathartic. Good words spoken by their mamas for CABCARETB to Othsr mamas have made CASCARETB successful until the sale now is over A MILLION BOXES A MONTH. 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Phillips, Deputy Coronet, Win nebago Cos., from Menasha, Wis., writes; “I have been troubled with a very serious case of catarrh of the head and throat for a number of years, and l tried many prescriptions from good physicians hut in the end I found myself no better. On the ad vice of a friend who had used Peruna with good results I purchased a bot tle, and the effects from that one bot tle were so encouraging that I con tinned its use and I think I used about six bottles in all which I am glad to say cured me completely of this troubli'soinc disease. “I can, therefore, conscientiously recommend it and am a firm believer in the power of Peruna to effectually cure catarrh in all its forms.”—E. T. Phillips. A GREAT many remedies to temporarily relieve catarrh have been devised from time to time, such as sprays, snuffs, creams and other local applications, but, as a rule, the medical pro/ession has lit tle or no enthusiasm in the treat ment of catarrh. It is generally pronounced by them to be incurable. It therefore created a great sensa tion in medical circles when Dr. Hart man announced that he had devised a compound which would cure catarrh permanently. The remedy was named Peruna, and in a short time became known to thousands of catarrh sufferers North, South, East and West. Letters testifying to the fact that Peruna is a radical cure for catarrh began to pour in from all directions. Thousands of letters similar to the following are on file in the office of The Peruna Medicine Company. Rev. E. Stubenvoll, Pella, Wis., writes: “I feel obliged to extend you to rise at the center as long as com pression continued.” In a chapter on volcanoes the au thors advance anew theory to explain the existence of volcanoes. According to the old view, volcanoes were but pipes leading down to a molten mass within, or outlets for reservoirs of mol ten matter. The new theory ussigns the outflow of deep-seated heat as the cause of volcanoes. "By hypothesis,” says the book, “the interior of the earth is composed of various kinds of matter mixed as they happened to fall in. Hence, as temperature rises, the fusion points of some of <theSe constituents will be reached before those ot others. The gases and volatile constituents in the mixed material would naturally enter largely Into the liquefied portion. As the liquefied parts rose by fusing or fluxing their way, the pressure upon them became less and less, and hence the temperature necessary for llque fleation gradually fell, leaving them a constantly renewed margin of temper ature available for melting their way through the upper horizons. The in dependence of the liquid threads that worked their way to the surface.” SNOW CRYSTALS, How These Wonderful Shapes Are Formed. From the National Geographic Maga zine. The wonderfully beautiful and intri cate designs of snow crystals have long excited admiration. Various stu dents have made detailed investiga tions of their extraordinary form and have published drawings of what they look like when magnified, but the most remarkable collection of actual photo graphs of those crystals (technically. my personal thanks for my complete! restoration. All through the winter I suffered with throat and lung trouble, but recovered my entire health by the use of your excellent remedy, Peru na.”—Rev. E. Stubenvoll. The following letter from a promi nent gentleman of Los Angeles is a case in point: “Mr. J. W. Fuller, President of the Jewelers’ Association of Los Angeles, Cal., has been in the business In that city for seventeen years out of the forty-five that he has been engaged in business. Concerning his experience with Peruna he says: “I was troubled with catarrh of the head for many years. It affected my sense of smell, hearing and sight. I spent lots of money with doctors and the use of local applications to re lieve me, but to no purpose, until my attention was called to the wonder ful effects of Peruna. "I must say that I met with most surprising and satisfactory results. Peruna took hold of the complaint and drove it entirely out of my sys tem. “Although well along toward the allotted span of man’s life I am pleas ed as a child over the results, and feel like a young man again.”—J. W. Fuller. Such letters as the above are not used for publication except by the written permission of the writer. A pamphlet filled with such letters will be sent to any address free. This book should be read by all who doubt the curability of catarrh. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hart man, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to givs you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President ot The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O, photomicrographs) is In the possession of Wilson A. Bentley of Jericho, Vt. Mr. Bentley has been making a special study of snow crystals during twenty years. He has photographed many hundreds of them, and has now in his collection more than 1,000 photomicro graphs, no two of which are alike. The forms vary according to the wind, the hight of the clouds, the de gree of cold, the amount of water in the air, etc. Crystals formed in cold weather or in high clouds are usually columnar. Those formed in moderate weather and light winds or In low clouds are apt to have frail branches and to be of a feathery type; mixed forms grow partly in low and partly In high clouds. High winds give broken and irregular forms, and much mois ture the very granular crystals. Heavy granular covered crystals ara peculiarly a product of the lower or intermediate cloud strata, and espe cially of moist snow storms. In intense cold they are rare, while the columnar and solid tubular then become com mon. About four-fifths of the perfect forms occur within the west and nprth quadrants of great storms. The most common forms outlined within the nuclear or central portions of the crystals are a simple star of six rays, a solid hexagon and a circle. The subsequent additions assume a bewildering variety of shapes, each of which usually differs widely from the one that preceded it and from the primitive nuclear form at its center. By bearing in mind the fact that crys tals evolved within the upper clouds tend toward solidity and the crystals formed in lower clouds tend toward open branches and feathery forms, it is possible to trace the history and travels of a great many of the cry tals.